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Bai Huanjuan bowed slightly to Liu Zhibang and said, "I heard that the patriarch is back, I am late to greet you, please forgive me!"

Liu Zhibang shook his hand and said: "Mrs. Bai is too polite, Aya has your help, it's much easier, and you are more experienced than her in management, thank you for your hard work!" ”

Bai Huanjuan smiled modestly and continued: "Thanks to the trust of the patriarch, oh, by the way, let me report to you on the situation in the clan, Mu Tong has come back yesterday, all the goods have been sold, and he has also brought back a lot of urgently needed materials in the clan, he is still busy on the dock, if you don't call him back?" ”

Liu Zhibang was happy when he heard this: "Ah, so fast, Shopkeeper Mu is very efficient, don't call him, let's go, let's go to the dock!" ”

Fire Dance City is not far from the sea, and it is not far from the sea to a newly built wharf, not far from the wharf is several huge docks, where huge sailing ships are being made day and night, the dock is full of people, constantly carrying all kinds of goods from the three cargo ships, Mu Tong stands on the bow of the ship under the scorching sun and loudly directs people to carry it.

Bai Huanjuan shouted loudly to Mu Tong on the boat, Mu Tong looked up and saw his lover standing with Liu Zhibang, Mu Tong explained a few words to his subordinates, and ran to Liu Zhibang.

"Patriarch, you're back!"

Liu Zhibang hugged Mu Tong and said happily: "Brother Mu, I really didn't expect that you would return in just ten days, and you brought so many things!" ”

Mu Tong said happily: "Patriarch, we have made a lot of money this time, our white paper, porcelain, clothing, tools, especially weapons, were snapped up at a high price as soon as we landed, and we also received a large order, urging us to ship it quickly!" ”

Liu Zhibang nodded and asked, "Then how much money did we make?" ”

Mu Tong replied: "After all the three ships were sold, I purchased cotton yarn, cloth, medicine, sulfur, and seeds to fill the three ships, and I had 50,000 gold coins left......

Liu Zhibang was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and said with a smile: "Shopkeeper Mu, are you going to grab money, you have made so much money in one trip back and forth, how high a price have you marked our goods!" ”

Mu Tong smiled and said: "Who called our goods unique, this is called strange goods, but I am just a wholesaler, if I live there, I can earn several times more and come back......"

Liu Zhibang nodded and said, "Then we can plan to open the Oriental Company to Huzhou County, and leave this matter to you and Yang Biao to prepare together!" ”

Mu Tong nodded and said: "There are two more things to report, one is that when we were in Huzhou County, Qin Lu, the county lord of Huzhou, sent someone to send me a letter, I opened it and read it, and I couldn't make up my mind, so I said that I would come back and report, and wait for my lord to decide!" With that, Mu Tong handed a letter to Liu Zhibang.

Liu Zhibang opened a piece of white silk and looked at it, and said: "He wants to form an alliance with us to share the world, presumably he has been disobedient for a long time, but I don't know if he can stop the crusade of the Qingyun Empire's court, but whether the content of this letter is true or not can not be determined, if he has different intentions, he just wants to use this method to get close to us and help the Qingyun Empire's court, we can't be unguarded, I will think about this matter first, don't rush to make a conclusion, and wait a few days to sail again before deciding later." What is the other thing you just said? ”

Mu Tong listened and continued: "This time we set sail to Huzhou County, and we found a strange thing along the way......

"What is it?"

Mu Tongdao: "When we sailed back, because the wind direction was deflected, the fleet deviated to the depths of the sea for two days, and found a huge rock next to an uninhabited desert island, which is not like a rock, because the thing is one hundred and ten people high when it is exposed to the water, and the whole body is dark, similar to the color of our ironware, but it is smoother, and there are dozens of people high. I had to order someone to draw a picture, you can look at it......"

Liu Zhibang took a piece of white paper, unfolded it to take a closer look, and there was a storm in his heart, and his hands couldn't help but tremble slightly.

Bai Huanjuan saw it on the side, and glanced at Mu Tong in surprise, and countless questions arose in the eyes of both of them, what was so strange about this hand-drawn sketch with simple lines that made Liu Zhibang so excited.

Liu Zhibang stared at the huge object on the sketch that was half exposed on the sea, it was clearly the stern part of a spaceship, and the stern of the ship was actually written in block Chinese characters "Blue Gull", Liu Zhibang couldn't help but shed tears, tears dripped on the sketch, blurring a lot of pen and ink.

"Patriarch, you...... What's wrong with you! ”

Liu Zhibang slowly raised his head, didn't care about wiping away the tears from the corners of his eyes, and grabbed Mu Tongdao: "Brother Mu, where is this ship?" ”

Mu Tong was grabbed by Liu Zhibang's shoulder, Liu Zhibang's fingers were too hard, Mu Tong was in pain, but he still replied patiently: "Just here where we sailed east for three days, we drew a chart, and it is not difficult to find ......"

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The waves hit the hull of the ship, crashing into a white foam, and the four galleons were juxtaposed on the sea surface with the slight undulation of the waves, Liu Zhibang stood up and looked at the stern of the "Blue Gull" spaceship that was nearly 100 meters above the sea in front of him, and his heart was also undulating.

Everyone was whispering, not understanding why Liu Zhibang mobilized the crowd to come to this sea area, and how this huge iron lump actually made the god-like Patriarch Liu concerned.

Aya approached Liu Zhibang and said softly, "Abang, is this your 'Blue Gull' exploration spaceship?" As huge as Xu Bing's 'Julang', now that this spaceship is inserted into the bottom of the sea, how can we get it out? ”

Liu Zhibang turned his head to look at Aya, and replied: "I'm waiting for the low tide, waiting until the sea level drops to the lowest, and then using ropes to connect the spacecraft with the four big ships, and then waiting for the high tide to use buoyancy to pull the spacecraft up from the bottom of the sea......"

After waiting for about three hours, the sea level had dropped to the lowest place, Liu Zhibang immediately ordered all the crew to operate, dozens of sailors with ropes as thick as children's arms into the sea, diving down as hard as possible, sailors with dozens of thick ropes firmly connected the spaceship and the four galleons.

After all the sailors got on board, Liu Zhibang ordered to start the winch on the ship to tighten the rope, and the four big ships approached the spacecraft little by little, and finally completely attached to the hull of the spacecraft, as the winch continued to rotate, the rope became tighter and tighter, and the four big ships could turn over at any time, and Liu Zhibang ordered to stop.

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