"Captain, a merchant ship has been spotted in front of you!" The sailors standing on the platform above the mast announced loudly.

“？” Sitting on the wooden barrel on the lower deck, Gan Ning, who was holding his concubine to pass the time, raised his head and waved his hand to the adjutant, "Handle it according to the rules." ”

"Yes, Captain!" The adjutant replied with a bow, turned around and conveyed the order to the escort ships and cargo ships in the form of flags, "keep the current course unchanged, the artillery is in position, and if the other party dares to approach, fire a warning shot, and if the warning fails, the captain will decide whether to open the cannon and sink or start a broadside battle" to the escort ships and cargo ships.

Gan Ning, the captain, can play with women at leisure, but the sailors still have to be loyal, and the pirates are much freer than the army, but there is still a difference in rank.

Sun Shangxiang, who was lying on the railing of the upper deck and watching all this coldly, turned his head and said depressedly: "It's so boring, what about the smashing and robbing that you said?" ”

"Rabbits don't eat the grass next to the nest, although I don't think they can compete with our artillery, but there is no need to turn a country like Funan into an enemy country, and Dawu can't increase the number of enemies now." Lyle, who was writing a logbook, explained casually.

During the Western Han Dynasty, there was already a 'Maritime Silk Road', but the number of merchants who took these two trade routes was very small, and not many people in the entire Han Dynasty could enjoy the goods of maritime trade. In the war-torn Eastern Han Dynasty, there were still merchants who made a fortune on this road, and the sailors' sailors' seafaring experience and foreign experiences on these merchant ships were one of the key learning contents of Lyle's main learning, so he knew the knowledge of the outside world.

Funan, a country that is geographically close to the Han Dynasty, has not had a military conflict with the Han Dynasty for various reasons, but it does not mean that people are just a group of wastes who can only wave branches and scream, and they will wave their troops to the east if they are in a hurry.

In order to avoid causing trouble to Soochow and thus halting his own sailing plans, the 'short voyage' in Lyle's mouth has nothing to do with these neighbors, but is directly the Indian Peninsula at the end of the 'Maritime Silk Road'.

Even if the Baicheng Dynasty is in a hurry, it is impossible for the Baicheng Dynasty to attack Dawu by land, and according to the concept of "whoever goes to the opponent's territory first, whose sea power is stronger" proposed by Lyle before, the Baicheng Dynasty will at most rely on the numerical advantage in its own sea area to drive them away, and dare not run to the territory of Dawu to seek revenge.

"I know that...... We are the Imperial Pirates, and we can't cause trouble to Dawu in any of our actions. Sun Shangxiang rolled her eyes, she was just suffocated.

Even though the speed of the fleet has increased by a few notches from hard to soft sails and from square sails to spinnakers, the sailboats are still sailboats, with the Indian Peninsula as the destination, and the voyage needs to be measured in months, making it frustrating to be irritated by long periods of idleness.

"Wait a minute." Sun Shangxiang blinked, and suddenly tasted a certain word in his father-in-law's words, "Xianggong, do you mean 'can't yet'?" ”

The seventeen-year-old Lyle is no longer the child who was rewarded for his miraculous achievements, but a young hero praised by Sun Wu Qunchen, and Sun Quan will tell Lyle some things, but he will not tell Sun Shangxiang, a woman.

Lyle didn't hide it either, and expressed his opinion: "If Dawu destroys Cao Wei and develops the scale of the navy, relying on the power of artillery, I think any country can attack, and the civil power consumed in the war will be borne by the loser." ”

"So, the closer you get to Dawu, the more you should fight down?" It is logical to conclude that expanding the territory is more attractive than establishing a colony.

"So to speak, but ......" Lyle paused with the brush in his hand, as if considering whether to express his speculation, and continued for a while, "The lord is still young now, as long as the return is high enough, he will definitely support the invasion everywhere, but the ministers who grew up reading Confucianism are probably going to block it, right?" ”

Lyle has reason to suspect that his own father will also be a member of the blocking of foreign colonization, and the sentence "the people should be restored now" is enough to postpone the glorious future of the entire nation for ten years, and ten years later, Sun Quan loses his enterprising spirit and concentrates on playing the game of kings and ministers, and then puts it on hold until his death, and if the successor is a waste, then there will be no 'then'.

"So what to do?" Sun Shangxiang hurriedly asked.

"I don't know, don't ask me." Lyle lowered his head and continued to take nautical notes, "As long as I can grab the goods of a few cargo ships on this trip, and catch a few hundred slaves to return to the errand, the lord will definitely support me to continue sailing, and the rest of the matter has nothing to do with me." ”

Sun Shangxiang glared, "Hey, pay attention to your wife's identity." ”

"Pay attention to your ambitions." Lyle didn't care.

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The Pirates consist of a flagship, cargo ships, and frigates. Under normal circumstances, the speed of the flagship is used as the standard sailing, and in case of windy weather, the sails are folded and suspended, supplemented by the rapid assembly and disassembly structure designed by Lyle to connect the ships, increase the ability to resist wind and waves, and avoid losing the ship.

The crew consisted of the regimental commander - Lyle, the flagship captain - Gan Ning, the captain of the escort ship and the cargo ship - the sailor of the sailor, the first class sailor - the Jiangdong sailor, the second class sailor - the prisoner who was politically linked, and unrelated persons - female dependents. Some of the second-class sailors are women, engaged in technical work and chores, but the combination of men and women is not tired, and their presence is important to increase the enthusiasm of male sailors, and Lyle does not prevent the development of love between sailors.

So far, the voyage has been safe and sound, even if they meet their peers, people will automatically avoid it after seeing the number of ships and the size of the flagship, and no one will take the initiative to rush over to find death. Originally, Lyle didn't mind eating black, but in the waters close to his allies, he couldn't tell which ones were his peers and which were merchant ships, so he could only keep the river water from the well.

On some nights, Lyle would have the fleet stop to connect the ships in a structure that would meet the wind and waves, inspect the personnel of the other ships, and eliminate as much potential internal disputes as possible; Others get the opportunity to move around, and although there is little entertainment, it can relieve some stress by going to other boats to talk to strangers; At this time, Gan Ning will organize people to cast nets to fish, but the intention is not to reduce food consumption, the food and water they carry seem to be very sufficient at present, and they don't even need to dock at the docks of other countries for replenishment, mainly to change the taste.

Including Sun Shangxiang, most of the people on the ship have spent some time at sea, except for the maids brought by Sun Shangxiang and Gan Ning's concubine...... They showed symptoms of discomfort within a few days of going to sea, but were recuperated by several doses of Chinese medicine by the only ship doctor in the fleet, Lyle.

The boring and long voyage came to an end with the arrival of the Indian peninsula.