This time Zhang Qian did not go to the forest city, the capital of the forest state, but took the city of Haijing as the end of the voyage, under the urging of Mu Sheng, the lord of the city of Haijing, Zhang Qian brought eleven ships of military materials were quickly received by the military of the state of Lin and then transported to the front line, and Zhang Qian himself only rested in the city of Haijing for seven days, and then returned with a fleet full of goods.

"Lieban, your task is to collect information on the feudal lords in the coastal areas of the forest country, the more detailed the better, the Qianhu Office in the southeast area of Jinyi Weihe will cooperate with your actions, of course, you can also contact them directly, the funds I left behind are almost enough for you to dredge... The boat will come back in three months, and if you have something to gain by then, you can go back with them, and I won't be here until five months at the earliest... In short, I wish you success!"

As the first deacon of the Hedong Division, he has almost been determined to be the first future stationmaster of the Lin State Commercial Station, or the governor of the concession, or the consul in Lin, so this time his task is different from Zhang Qian, and he will not immediately follow Zhang Qian back, and he needs to start adapting to life in Lin Guo.

Moreover, it is also his job to find suitable partners for Huaxia in Lin Guo.

"Don't worry, when you come back next time, I will definitely give you a satisfactory answer. Lieban said confidently.

"That's very good!" Zhang Qian didn't say more, and immediately ordered to set off.

The fleet smoothly passed through the storm sea and arrived at the west exit of the Kuril Strait, at this time, from the entrance of the strait ushered in a warship with a five-star red flag, this warship is the Fei-7 that escorted Wu Bingjian's fleet before, it will be stationed here with the Fei-2 in Zhang Qian's fleet, forming the West Gate Detachment of the Strait Fleet, guarding the western gateway of the Qiandao Strait, and the anchor point is on the small island where Zhang Qian left more than a dozen people as sentry posts, well, the archipelago where this small island is located has now been named the Ximen Islands.

The reason why it is named "Ximen Islands" is definitely not to commemorate the Ximen officials, nor to commemorate the famous minister Ximen Leopard of the Warring States, people are now doing a good job as the mayor of Xuanling Town, just because it is the west gate of the strait and is named, it is the first place not named after a person in addition to the capital Xin'an Town.

"Zhang Zheng, enter the Kuril Strait, your enemy is only God, let's break up here. Lieutenant Commander Zhou Tai, the captain of the Fei-2 and the commander of the Ximen Detachment, said with a smile.

"There is Lao Zhou in charge along the way. Zhang Qian said goodbye politely, and then plunged into the Kuril Strait with a fleet of pure merchant ships.

Seven days later, the fleet met the exploration ship sent by Deng Zilong in the middle of the strait, and the two sides merged and sailed towards Dingyuan Port.

Half a month later, the fleet arrived safely at the Dingyuan Port under construction at the cost of minor injuries.

"After more than a month, let's meet again..."Zhang Qian just got off the boat, and heard Yu Tonghai's loud voice from a distance.

"Admiral Yu, why are you so vicissitudes?" Zhang Qian said in surprise, is this decadent uncle with a scumbag in front of him still the high-spirited and well-dressed deputy admiral of the fleet before?

"Hey, it's hard to put into words..."Yu Tonghai greeted Zhang Qian, and the two walked towards the simple barracks that had been set up together, "Not long after you left, we received an attack from the local indigenous savages... What's even more disgusting is that these wild people can't communicate at all, and they still eat people!"

"What about our casualties?" Zhang Qian was shocked and hurriedly asked.

"The casualties were not big, but at the beginning there was a surprise attack, two brothers were killed, eight were wounded, and one was dragged away... Once we had taken precautions, the wildlings never got their hands on them again. Yu Tonghai waved his hand.

"That's good," Zhang Qian said with a relieved smile.

"Hehe, we sent troops to chase after us, and when we arrived, the brother who was dragged away had already been scorched..."Suddenly, Yu Tonghai stopped and said in a calm tone, "And there is a group of damn savages around, they are having lunch..."

"Ed..." Zhang Qian was sick to his stomach for a while, and his face suddenly turned white, "Then, then you..."

"Not a single one left!" Yu Tonghai said lightly, "And Admiral Deng has already issued an order to kill the natives, and he will no longer consider dividing and co-opting..."

"This, is this a bit inappropriate, we can't be sure that the natives here are all cannibals, if there are mild personalities among them, they could have taken it for their own use, isn't it completely pushed to the enemy now?" Zhang Qian frowned, he knew the feelings of these people, but in line with the principle of serving the public, he still chose to remind, "'Don't be angry and raise troops, you can't be angry and cause war', it's a taboo for soldiers to act rashly!"

"Zhang Cheng..."Yu Tonghai looked at Zhang Qian and said, "Although reason is important, but the emotions of the people below must also be taken care of, as a deeply civilized person, he can't accept dancing with cannibals no matter what, we know that it's not useless, and the warriors who see the indigenous cannibals won't believe it... Even if the indigenous tribe we bumped into was an accident, the only cannibal in this land, but so what? Preconceived notions are hard to change for a moment. ”

Zhang Qian was silent.

"Let's go, the indigenous affairs are not the most annoying, at most they are a disease of ringworm and scabies... Water is the trouble of the heart!" Yu Tonghai took another step and walked forward.

"Water source?" Zhang Qian looked confused, looked around, this place is lush with vegetation, even if there is no surface water nearby, you can dig a well.

"This place is really evil, the water that comes out of it is all salty water, and it can't be drunk at all!" Yu Tonghai directly relieved the doubts in Zhang Qian's heart, "Every time I get water, I have to go a long way." ”

"How is this possible? If the groundwater is all salt water, these..."Zhang Qian pointed around, "How do these plants grow?"

"That's why I said the evil sect!" Yu Tonghai said with a constipated face.

"Eh, what about here?" Zhang Qian didn't know what to say for a while, and he couldn't reason with anyone or tell God, the reason was set by others, what happened to the salty water?

"There's such a big flaw here, it can't be the base of the Governor of the Straits anyway... Let's make a temporary transition and move out as soon as we find a suitable place. Yu Tonghaidao, "It's here, Admiral Deng is not in the camp now, and I don't know when I'll be back, you guys take a rest here first." ”

"Okay, Admiral Yu doesn't have to worry about us, you can get busy first!" Zhang Qian said politely.