Zhou Qingfeng asked Wang Kai for a boat, and Wang Kai gave it very happily.

The two-hundred-pound one-masted flat-bottomed ship can only be transported offshore, or sail along the coast in the calm bathtub of Liaodong Bay. The crew consisted of twelve people, led by a thin black man in his thirties, named Wu Bao'er. Because of the perennial struggle in the wind and waves, Wu Bao'er and these people look extremely capable, calm, and honest, there is still a bit of cunning and cruelty.

Wu Baoer was originally in Shenyang. Zhou Qingfeng ordered to see him, so he led people to drive the boat to the outside of Fushun City and stopped at a ferry on the bank of the Hunhe River. When he led people ashore, he saw Wang Kai leading a number of gorgeously dressed and imposing people over, and hurriedly knelt on the side of the road and kowtowed.

"Wu Bao'er, this is the Zhou Baihu Master Zhou who has recently shocked Liaodong and is the first in the world. In the future, you will climb to the top of the world, and you will be mixed with the masters of a hundred households. Wang Kaiyuan smiled, led Wu Bao'er and introduced him to Zhou Qingfeng: "My lord, this is Wu Bao'er, a native of Dengzhou, an old fur dog who went to sea in his teens. Liaodong Bay can break through with your eyes closed. If you want to go to sea, you can't go to him right. ”

Wu Bao'er raised her head slightly and called 'master'. He glanced slightly, and what caught his attention the most was not the leading boy, but the two women beside the boy who were the most seductive. A man with short shoulder-length hair, a cold face, and a bulging chest like a hill. She dresses very differently from ordinary women, wearing pants instead of skirts.

Wu Bao'er thought to herself: If this woman can be sold into the dormitory, she can get at least eighty taels. Be sure to enjoy it before you sell. He looked at the other woman again, looking younger than the previous one, dressed as the eldest lady of the current rich and noble family. Its body is tall and delicate. I don't know what it's like to hold such a woman under me?

Wu Baoer lowered her head after seeing it, but she was thinking about all kinds of wonders in her heart. He only thought that what he thought in his heart could not be detected by outsiders, but he saw a pair of leather shoes appear in front of him, followed by a muffled snort. The brain was in sharp pain, as if it was exploding, Wu Bao'er's waist and legs were weak, and the whole person lay on the ground and howled.

The sailors who followed Wu Baoer ashore were all unruly. Seeing that their boss was in trouble, they took out the short knives and daggers they carried with them and were about to pounce on them to protect them. And when they exploded in anger, the opposite side did not show weakness, and more than a dozen spears appeared whirring, approaching in groups of two and a few steps. The leader of a big man with an axe grinned and was about to kill.

"Master spare your life, spare your life!" Wu Bao'er lay on the ground and begged for mercy, secretly scolding Wang Kai in his heart, he didn't even say that he wanted to see this Zhou Baihu today is a monk - he is a veteran soldier who doesn't believe in ghosts and gods on the sea, and he doesn't believe in heaven or fate in the wind and waves, let alone the name of the world's first, and he won't be soft if he doesn't experience it himself.

Zhou Qingfeng kicked Wu Bao'er with his foot, "Don't pretend to be dead, I can see your thoughts, and I know that you are still unconvinced." Tell me what bad things you've done in the past. Let me see for a long time. ”

Wu Bao'er tasted the bad, and even said 'don't dare', rolling in the mud like a scoundrel, trying to beg for mercy in this posture. The rules on the sea have always been to bend and stretch, and no matter how strong a man is, he will not fight hard with the wind and waves. Today's softness is just a preparation for the backlash in the future. Benevolence, righteousness, morality, and even face are not a matter at all.

On the sea, spears, etc., and simply do not work well. The sailors who came with Wu Bao'er only had short weapons on them, and when they saw that the situation was not good, they quickly relented, and as soon as they threw their knives, they fell to the ground. As for their boss's performance of rolling on the ground, they have long been accustomed to it and should not take it seriously.

Xu Bing stood up from behind Zhou Qingfeng and shouted to Wu Bao'er: "Get up, otherwise you will never get up." ”

Wu Bao'er hurriedly got up, nodded and kept shouting 'Master', 'Madam', 'Miss', full of servility. It's just that Xu Bing saw a lot of all kinds of criminals when he was a criminal policeman, and he knew that the people who ran the sea in ancient times were simply lawless, and there was no moral law on the sea to restrain them, and the only thing that could make them obedient was their own power.

Zhou Qingfeng and Xu Bing asked Wu Bao'er to explain his past, with the intention of understanding the situation on this waterway and sea. Otherwise, the team of people and horses will walk on the waterway with black eyes, and when they get on the boat and reach the sea where they can't land, they can't help themselves if they want to eat bandao noodles or wonton noodles - no matter how strong the 'road tyrant' is, the ship will die if it sinks.

Wu Baoer habitually wanted to beg for mercy to show weakness and make a low profile to cover up the past. Guo Jiao, who was standing behind, was impatient, and said, 'Let me come', and tore a talisman seal in her hand and slapped Wu Bao'er on the forehead.

Wu Bao'er, who was crying that she had never done anything bad, immediately kept her eyes on her eyes, and her knees were weak and she knelt down. Guo Jiao snorted twice and said proudly: "You ask." This guy is clearly a hob meat, but no matter how firm his mind is, he has fallen into my soul loss technique, and he will ask what to say within two hours. ”

Xu Bing wanted to show his interrogation skills, but he was broken by Guo Jiao's unreasonable talisman. The sailor lying on the ground originally didn't care about watching his boss's performance, and only after discovering that his opponent was unusually able to use a talisman did he know that this matter had been kicked to the iron plate today.

Zhou Qingfeng, who wanted to be prestigious, was also bored, waved his hand to let a scribe come behind him, and Xu Bing began to interrogate the record. Xu Bing started with his surname, asked about Wu Baoer's background, and gradually revealed the secret of this sea running boat transportation.

In the early years of Hongwu, the Ming army crossed the sea from Shandong to recover Liaodong, and deliberately set up naval divisions in Denglai, Shandong. But in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the Denglai Sea Road was quickly abandoned. The ships of the Dengzhou Navy Division were ruined, and the sailors who were so poor that they could only rely on the sea to eat the sea, and they were both soldiers and bandits.

Like Wu Baoer, these people run and transport for merchants from all walks of life in the open, and secretly kill people and rob goods. Unless it is a big merchant like Wang Kai who can suppress them, if the ordinary trader easily gets on the ship, he will be unable to help himself when he reaches the sea. If it is light, it will cost several times more money, and at worst, it will lose all people and goods. If there are merchants' ladies and dependents, they will be sold to the bandits' private squatters after playing with them.

However, Wu Baoer is indeed experienced, according to his confession, Zhou Qingfeng has a clear understanding of the water transportation situation of the Hunhe River, the Taizi River, and the Liao River in the Liaoshen area - the shipping of these rivers is seasonal, and the dry and frozen period in autumn and winter cannot enter at all, and the channel is shallow and narrow, and only in spring and summer is used to run and transport in flat-bottomed boats.

It is about 600 miles from the Hunhe River ferry in Fushun to Liaodong Bay, and it can go to sea from the Daliao River in Yingkou in three days with the wind and water. But if you want to come back, it will be difficult, because the river is narrow and difficult to borrow wind, you must rely on manpower to pull the fiber. This speed is very busy, and if you can come back in half a month, you have to burn high incense.

This is only to the sea, and it is not easy to go to Lushun if you go to sea. Lushun belongs to Jinzhouwei, it is not a small place, but it still has a master. Among the four guards in Liaodong, Jinzhouwei is the most populous and powerful guard. Lushun has its own sailors, although they are all broken boats, but Zhou Qingfeng doesn't even have broken boats.

From Yingkou to the sea to Lushun, you have to be careful of all kinds of pirates along the way. Fishermen on the sea, officers and soldiers of the guards, and even traders who run the sea can be transformed into pirates to rob at any time. When people finished robbing it, they ran away, and the corpse was thrown into the sea, and there was nowhere to check if you wanted to. Many of the islands along the way were extremely barren, and robbery became the only way for the islanders to survive.

From Wu Bao'er's mouth, he learned that there were hundreds of maritime forces in Liaodong Bay. The small one is a fishing boat, and the big one is simply the Ming army sailors who came out to rob it. This road used to be very convenient in terms of transportation, but it was not easy to walk in terms of land occupation.

"Why do you have to go to Lushun?" Guo Jiao came instead of her father, and Guo Budo doesn't cultivate his daughter as a flower in the greenhouse now, and lets her out to entertain various characters and handle practical things. Zhou Qingfeng wants to move, and Guo Budo also wants to move. It's just that he is an authentic monk and wants to move to the direction of Jingshi. "You might as well go to the capital with my father, or go to Jiangnan."

"Because Lushun is easy to defend and difficult to attack." Zhou Qingfeng didn't say it very carefully, but he knew the geography of Lushun very well. With the Isthmus of Jinzhou, it is difficult for Lushun to be surrounded from land. In addition, due to the extension of the Liaodong Fold Geological Belt on the Liaodong Peninsula, the enemy in the north could only enter from the east and west coasts of the peninsula.

If Nurhachi wants to fight Lushun, he will either come from the direction of Dandong in the east or from the direction of Gaizhou in the west. These two roads are not easy to walk, as long as Zhou Qingfeng resists in the front and then intercepts the water division flank, Jiannu will not be able to carry out a large-scale maneuver, and will be blocked alive in the interior of the Liaodong Peninsula.

"We will find a way to transport people and materials to Yingkou where the Liao River enters the sea first, and then collect enough ships to ship to Lushun." Zhou Qingfeng planned to take two steps, first easy and then difficult, and then escape from Fushun.

"But we need a lot of ships to leave Fushun now. If it comes in from the sea, half a month of fiber pulling time for each ship is too long, and the capacity will be seriously insufficient. Xu Bing asked.

Zhou Qingfeng said: "The Hunhe River and the Liao River are gentle, and you don't need too high driving skills to pass. He remembered how he had escaped from Ehe Cullen and said, "We can build some large rafts, which can be guaranteed to be used once." It doesn't take much labor, it doesn't cost much, and it's fast to go down the river. The disadvantage is that a raft is transported in a relatively small volume, so the number should be large.

In addition, we need to build a camp in the direction of Yingkou, and the scale of this camp should not be too small. In the event of a war in Liaodong, there will be a lot of refugees fleeing, and this camp is likely to be prepared to contain tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people. We will organize these people to enter the Liaodong Peninsula as much as possible, so that these people can be our human resources and the object of our rule in the future. ”

"Hundreds of thousands? What do you feed on? Guo Jiao was quite surprised.

"I don't know. Let's take it one step at a time. Zhou Qingfeng shook his head and could only sigh. According to historical records, after Nurhachi began to attack the Ming Dynasty, the Liaodong region was extremely seriously damaged as the main battlefield. Millions of people have died here. He can't afford to carry such a large burden of population, and he can't manage it at all.

In times of war, death is inevitable.

After sighing, Zhou Qingfeng slapped his palm on Wu Bao'er's head. Restore this seemingly honest but murderous creature from the state of Lost Soul. He said to the Wumen behind him: "Quarantine this guy and his men, from now on he and his ship will be ours." Give him some food, this is the seed of our sailor. Keep an eye on it, too, it's a white-eyed wolf. ”