Seagulls circled in the sky, the blue sky and the blue water were connected, and on the horizon, eleven large ships broke through the waves, and the gray cloth sails were filled with the sea breeze, speeding towards the other end of the sea.

Zhu Jun held on to the side of the boat and let the sea breeze blow across his face, the salty sea breeze was still a little unaccustomed at first, and imperceptibly, Zhu Jun didn't think so.

This trip to sea led to a big debate in the entire small court, on the one hand, most of the officials headed by Mu Tianbo, on the other hand, Zhou Mubai and several of his lackeys, the two sides argued, Honglu Temple almost hit the wall, Zhu Jun had to go out in person, talking about the Russian Empire in the north Peter the Great went to sea to study on the continent of Europa for seven years when he was young, and as a result, people now earn a boss's family business, and the territory alone is more than twice as large as when the Ming Dynasty was at its peak.

The opposing side rolled its eyes and didn't believe Zhu Jun's words. Several Shangshu united a group of officials to collectively resign, and finally Zhu Jun was on fire, and he was ready to let them all get out, but at this time Mu Tianbo stood up, he saw that Zhu Jun's mind could not be reversed, and he didn't want things to be out of control, so he had to agree to Zhu Jun's request after discussing with the ministers. It's just that there are quite a few conditions proposed.

First of all, Zhu Jun must bring more than 500 guards, and secondly, the convoy led by Zhu Jun must sail along the coast in case of wind and waves on the way.

After choosing a good day and auspicious day, Zhu Jun finally got his wish and set sail under a large number of escorts, the whole fleet was divided into two parts, one was still led by Liu Er, the commander of the sailors, and Zhang Youde, the commander of the Shenyong battalion, assisted by Zhang Youde, pretending to be a pirate and continuing to plunder near Luzon. On the other hand, headed by Zhu Jun, Mu Jianming, the commander of the Shenji Battalion, took a white fifty soldiers of the Shenji Battalion and three hundred soldiers of the Shenyong Battalion to accompany him, plus the scale of nearly 1,000 sailors, these large merchant ships were all loaded with goods and were ready to be shipped to Luzon for sale, and the draft of the ship was very deep, so the speed was not fast.

Zhu Jun estimated the time, I am afraid that it will be at least half a month before Luzon, after the initial excitement, I feel bored, and as far as the eye can see, there is a blue patch all around, the sea is wet and salty, and occasionally a few islands and reefs pop up, and then disappear after the waves.

"Go and bring the Chinese-speaking priest who was captured last time on deck." Zhu Jun turned his head and instructed Mu Jianming, who was guarding on the side.

Mu Jianming's face turned slightly pale, obviously not used to sailing on the sea, he nodded, and his steps swayed.

After a short time, the priest was taken to the deck, and Zhu Jun saw that the priest was full of blue nose and swollen face, obviously suffering a lot, he frowned, and pretended to reprimand Mu Jianming: "What's going on? How can you do this to my guests? ”

Mu Jianming only said yes, but he thought disapprovingly in his heart, isn't this the emperor's order to make them suffer some hardships?

Since the priest was captured, no one had given him a good face, and he was beaten at the worst, and the lightest was also given countless white eyes, and then he felt that Zhu Jun's face was not as hateful as the others, so he hurriedly said in broken Chinese: "My dear lord, I am a clergyman, and you cannot beat and abuse me at will." ”

Zhu Jun glanced at his lips and asked him directly: "I need information about Luzon, whether it is political, economic, or troop deployment, and even your Spanish strongholds, the more detailed the better." You now have two choices, either be thrown into the sea to feed the fish, or tell me everything you know. ”

The priest trembled and argued: "Your Excellency, you can't do this, I am a messenger of God, a clergyman independent of politics. ”

Zhu Jun raised his hand expressionlessly, and Mu Jianming on the side shouted, and several Spanish soldiers were escorted to the deck.

"Stay away from me when the execution is carried out, I can't stand the blood." Zhu Jun instructed the soldiers who were escorting.

The escorting soldiers shouted and drove several Spanish prisoners to the stern of the ship, and before the Spanish prisoners knew what was happening, they saw the escorting Oriental soldiers draw their knives fiercely......

There was a burst of screams at the stern of the boat, and then fell into a deathly silence, and a small flag of execution came over with a long knife dripping blood, and said to Zhu Jun: "Your Majesty, you killed a total of four, and all the corpses were pushed down into the sea." ”

As if he hadn't heard it, Zhu Jun turned his face sideways and asked the Spanish pastor, "Can you say it now?" ”

The savage Oriental, the priest thought with disdain, but more from the bottom of his heart, and he barely held on to the side of the ship with his hand, and replied with a short breath: "Yes, I am willing to serve you, and I will tell everything I know." ”

"It's windy here, let's go to the cabin." Zhu Jun made a gesture of invitation to the pastor with satisfaction.

"We have nine large strongholds in Luzon and have established a rule in Manila, and the current governor is named Frankin, a Catholic, who served in the Third Fleet and was finally transferred to the Far East ......"

"Please choose the important one and say, I want to do business in Luzon."

"Spain advocates freedom of trade, under normal circumstances, as long as it does not violate some laws promulgated by the governor, it does not matter, most of the officials in the ports are local natives, they are very greedy, as long as you are willing to spend a sum of money, even if you kill someone, it doesn't matter, many big businessmen do this, but you should avoid some Spanish officers stationed in the local area, although they rarely interfere in government affairs, but they are the real power of the local people, even if it is the local port governor, see a small lieutenant to salute, which is the rule of our Spaniards. In addition, the tax collector at the port is a Spaniard, so you can deal with him, otherwise he won't let you enter the port, even if it's a legitimate business, they have a bigger appetite than the local officials, and they ask for more goods...... "The priest is sincerely serving Zhu Jun this time, and he talks about many things, many of which a priest should not understand, which makes Zhu Jun almost think that this guy is a businessman pretending to be a priest at all, otherwise where would the unspoken rules of so many curves and curves be understood so clearly."

At that time, Spain had entered a period of capitalist accumulation, and almost all Spaniards were more hungry for money than ever before, which also led to countless adventurers going to sea to plunder, and priests usually hoped to join the ranks of these robbers and divide the spoils under the banner of religion.

"Luzon has a total of 17,000 army men, 6,000 navy men, and at least 4,000 combat personnel in addition to sailors and some maintenance personnel, who have ten large warships, more than forty medium warships and transports......"

The priest began to talk about the disposition of the Spaniards in Luzon again, and finally mysteriously approached Zhu Jun, and said with a cruel smile: "Your lord, as far as I know, the captive Captain Bramlant always carried a detailed chart of the Far East in his pocket, and he boasted to me that he had bought it from the black market for seven gold coins, and there was nothing more detailed than the map hanging in the governor's office of Luzon. The priest rubbed his hands together slyly and continued, "I can get it for you, but I want you to release me, I don't do you any harm." ”

Zhu Jun looked at this disgusting face silently, and his heart moved: "You are not harmful to me. ”

The priest's face showed joy: "So did you promise to release me?" ”

"No, not only are you harmless to me, but you are also very good, why did I let you go?" Zhu Jun replied very seriously.