Just when Wang Yong and the others were chatting excitedly about this autumn's harvest, they suddenly heard someone outside the hall shouting: "The commander is not good, there is an accident on the merchant ship going to Liaodong!" ”

As he spoke, he saw a group of people coming in in in a commotion outside, and it was Jiang Chuan, the officer on duty tonight, who was talking just now, holding a person in his hand, but it was Zhou Tong, who led the team to Liaodong this time, with scars on his body and a lot of blood.

As soon as Zhou Tong saw Wang Yong, he knelt on the ground with a "poof" and cried non-stop, "Great Commander, I want to avenge my brothers, the Long Island Haikou robbed our ship and killed many of our brothers!" ”

It turned out that since the beginning of the year, Zhou Tong and He Liang led the team together to open up the trade route with Liaodong, the fleet has bypassed Long Island and sailed directly to North Long Island, and then rested for one night at Zheng Kui, the third master of Long Island Haikou, and then went north to Dangji Island.

When I came back, I also transferred from Dangji Island to Beichang Island, and then sailed directly to Muping Cottage Tuntian.

There, this summer, a wharf was renovated that could dock more than 20 ships of 2,000 stones, and according to Wang Ze's meaning, more berths of more than 10 ships of 5,000 stones were to be repaired.

This time, because He Liang was left to help due to the lack of manpower in the cottage, and Zhou Tong felt that he had been there a few times before, and he was familiar with the 'door', so he volunteered to lead the team north alone.

When I went to Liaodong, it was also smooth, first I bought and sold some goods in the newly established Yingzhou of Northern Qi, and then I contacted the Khitan Li who fled north, and 'traded' 200 cattle, thousands of sheep and a large number of rare skins and 'hair' in exchange for a large number of northern savages.

Zhou Tong even 'traded' some high-grade ginseng, deer antler velvet and other precious 'medicine' materials this time, and finally Li Bu actually took out more than a dozen amazingly 'gorgeous' Dongzhu, all of which are the size of pigeon eggs, full and round, which can be called treasures.

It seems that in winter, the Khitan was really beaten by Gao Yang so badly that even such treasures were taken out and sold. Although Zhou Tong said that he was a rough man, there were people on the ship who knew the goods, and after seeing and confirming that it was genuine, Zhou Tong immediately bought it.

When the fleet returned to the voyage, the fleet rested at Zheng Kui on Beichang Island as usual, and Zhou Tong was still relatively good at life, and brought ten cattle and two hundred sheep to Zheng Kui from the Khitan.

Seeing the fleet returning, Zheng Kui was also very happy to set up a banquet as usual.

To be honest, Zheng Kui felt that since the fleet of his childhood friend Wang Yong passed by him from time to time at the beginning of this year, the life of Beichangdao has begun to be better, not only to eat well, but also to have cattle and sheep to sacrifice from time to time.

Although the Long Island Haikou is integrated with the outside world, it is also divided into three systems internally: the big boss Gou Runtian, known as the young and strong more than 2,000 people under the Haijiao, and more than 80 large and small sea ships; The second leader is unknown, but he is called Hai Dog, and there are more than 1,500 young and strong people.

And Zheng Kui's subordinates only have more than 800 young men, and a considerable part of them are 'private' soldiers in Zheng Kui's family when he was young, so his combat effectiveness is very strong, and there are basically no big ships, only dozens of small boats.

Zheng Kui fled to the island with hundreds of soldiers after suffering a disaster at home when he was young, and Gou Runtian had just become a big boss and urgently needed to win over people, so he accepted Zheng Kui, and then worshiped as the third master.

However, a few years later, because he was afraid of the combat effectiveness of Zheng Kui's subordinates, he sent Zheng Kui to Beichangdao in case of the name of the Goguryeo Naval Division.

That night, when Zheng Kui held a banquet to entertain Zhou Tong and others, a subordinate suddenly announced, saying that the big boss and the second boss of Nanchang Island suddenly visited.

At that time, Zheng Kui felt strange, the sea Jiao and the sea seals never came to their own broken island, they were all on Nanchang Island near Changguang County, where the island area was larger and part of the cultivated land was cultivated; What's more, it's much closer to the coast than North Long Island, so it's easy to go ashore and plunder.

As soon as Haijiao came in, he sneered and said to Zheng Kui: "Haha, the third brother has a good life here to kill sheep and cattle, but it makes my brother envious!" ”

The sea dog next to him was also sneering: "Big brother, someone doesn't think of you taking in Da En, and 'privately' 'handover' to outsiders, I'm afraid that I will take revenge!" ”

Zheng Kui only felt that he was so angry that his eyes were 'blinded', and he was indeed taken in by the two of them back then and was able to survive. But isn't it true that Haijiao is also using the strong soldiers in his hands to eliminate dissidents and secure the position of the big boss?

Besides, when the two of them ran out of themselves, they were afraid of the strong combat power of Zheng Kui's soldiers, so they only took the title of the third master and sent themselves to Beichangdao.

Usually, there is not enough food to eat on North Long Island, so it is all supplemented by fishing. Now think about the nearly 500 family soldiers who went to the island with him back then, and now there are only more than 300 people left.

Thinking of this, Zheng Kui felt more and more cold in his heart.

The sea dog didn't care about Zheng Kui, and spoke there by himself: "Third brother, you can't eat alone in everything, and you have to think about the brothers who are living a hard life!" "The skin on the face is smiling, and the 'meat' is not smiling.

Zheng Kui explained here that it was his friend Wang Yong's fleet.

Hao Haijiao smiled coldly: "Wang Yong is indeed a good man, last year, in order to save his beloved son, he killed the county guard and went up the mountain. But he's just a tiger on land, but he's no match for me, a dragon on the sea! The ships in the harbor are all his, right? I'm not going to laugh at it! ”

Regardless of Zheng Kui's obstruction and forced order to rob the ship, there were more than 1,000 people who came with Haijiao and Hai Gouzi, and Zheng Kui's subordinates did not dare to stop Zheng Kui when they saw that Zheng Kui did not give an order.

And most of the ships are sailors who 'operate' the ship, and they can't be stopped by surprise, and there are dozens of sea ships on the sea outside, and there is nowhere to escape.

Zhou Tong saw that the situation was not good, and he returned to the ship early, and led his 100 men to try to stop it, even if they were wounded, they did not retreat, and finally they were entangled in the fishing nets thrown by the pirates and captured, and at least 20 of the nearly 100 guards under him were killed.

Originally, Haijiao wanted to kill Zhou Tong, but because he took the lead in resisting, at least 40 people died in Haikou. However, this time Zheng Kui's attitude is very clear, if it is a troublemaker, as long as the cattle and sheep can be, but if you want to kill Zhou Tong, the two sides will have to fight together.

Seeing Zheng Kui's extremely resolute attitude, the two sides all lit up with swords. The Haijiao side was afraid of the combat effectiveness of Zheng Kui's subordinates, plus a lot of cattle and sheep property, so he went down the slope and ordered the release of Zhou Tong and others, but they took all the ships away.

Before leaving, he also tried to make up for the relationship with Zheng Kui: "I heard that there are people in the old land of Muping in the southeast who are cultivating land to grow grain, and this year alone, tens of thousands of acres of 'spring' wheat and corn have been cultivated. In a few days, the third brother might as well go to loot with us, this time in order to make up for the third brother, we will divide the stolen food equally! ”

After listening to Zhou Tong tell the truth of the matter, Cheng Chong's lungs were about to explode, kicked away the chair next to him, and scolded: "Damn, what kind of bullshit is Haijiao, it actually provoked Lao Tzu's heads!" Big brother give the order! Avenge the brethren! ”

Zhu Rui next to him was not calm, and also said to Wang Yong: "Big brother, we must react to this matter, and we must avenge the brothers!" ”

Lu Wen, the military advisor next to him, thought about it and said to the two: "The two leaders must not be in a hurry, this matter needs to be discussed a lot!" ”

Cheng Chong was anxious, slapped the table and shouted at Lu Wen: "Discuss and discuss, can you discuss, can you discuss?" ”

Wang Yong stopped Cheng Chong with a drink, "Second brother, Hugh has to be rude to Mr. Lu!" Then he said to Lu Wen with a smile: "The second brother is 'sexual' reckless, Mr. Lu is not strange, I don't know what Mr. has to say?" ”

Lu Wen has also known Cheng Chong and others for more than ten years, and he has long understood that this is a brave and scheming fool, so he had to shake his head helplessly and smile bitterly, and then said to Wang Yong: "Lang Jun, don't panic, I already knew about the troublesome Haijiao a few years ago." He turned out to be a scoundrel in Linzi City, and later because of blackmailing a rich family, he was arrested by the rich family's relatives, that is, the county lieutenant of Naqi County, and the others were cut off their heads, only he escaped when he saw that the situation was not good. ”

Lu Wen shook his head and introduced to everyone, "Later, he fled to the sea, and because of his good looks, he was recruited as a 'daughter' son-in-law by the big boss at that time. A few years later, the big boss died of illness, and the rest of the troops fought back and forth to be unconvinced, and finally elected him to the top 'handover' chair. Later, through the Zheng Kui brothers' department, they cleaned up the dissidents and sat in a secure position. ”

Cheng Chong said impatiently at this time: "Mr. Lu, don't sell it, tell me what you have in mind!" ”

Lu Wen saw that Zhu Rui and Wang Yong both had expressions that you were about to say, so he had to get straight to the point: "Lang Jun, this person who makes trouble in the sea is pretentious, he thinks he is a hero, and he is greedy for money, and Long Island has always been short of food. Since he already knew that the corn and wheat in Muping Tunzhai were ripe, and a large number of cattle and sheep were here, he would inevitably lead most of the Haikou to seize it. ”

Speaking of this, Lu Wen paused, and said with a smile to Wang Yong: "To plan a big thing, you must act confidentially, how to deal with the troubled sea Jiao, I think you need to explain it to you and the two leaders separately." ”

Wang Ze has been busy teaching students how to draw a map these days, what the contour line is, what is the altitude, the wind rose map, the longitude and latitude of the earth, etc., and he is busy with the dark, preparing to draw the map of the Shanzhai and Muping Tuntian area first.

It's easy to be a little free on this day, and I came out to breathe, but I found that the atmosphere of the cottage suddenly became a lot more tense. ran to his father Wang Yong to ask, only to know that something big had happened.

Wang Yong said to him: "I have already arranged this matter, you must remember to wait in the cottage peacefully, do not move around, if you don't listen to me and walk around, I will punish you heavily!" ”

Looking at Wang Yong's black face, Wang Ze nodded helplessly in agreement, and said in his heart, "If you want to fight in a group, what can I do with this small body?" Why don't you stay here and see if you can help the craftsmen of the cottage improve their skills! ’

Speaking of which, we can't help but make an evaluation of Wang Ze, Wang Ze may be the most humiliating of all the people who have crossed over.

In terms of ironmaking, Cao's blacksmith level is much stronger than him; In terms of agriculture, the agricultural college led by He Bo is making rapid progress; Wang Ze was amazed by the house models made by the carpenters of the Civil Engineering College, and the poems were embarrassed to plagiarize, most of the ancient Chinese and traditional characters can now be understood, but the other golden seals are not understood.

However, Wang Ze has an advantage that none of them have, that is, Wang Ze is a traverser, and he may not know what is going on with a thing, but at least he knows that there is such a thing.

Sometimes the progress of technology is not necessarily not about how advanced your technology is, but about piercing that layer of window paper.

Thinking of this, Wang Ze turned around and went to the ironworks, and Blacksmith Cao was busy sweating profusely. Seeing Wang Ze coming, he took a break and said to Wang Ze: "Xiao Langjun doesn't know what happened, the old man has to make a lot of knives and guns these days, but he has no time to entertain Xiao Langjun." ”

It turned out that in the past few months, the iron-smelting workshop had started to make quyuan plows from the time of reclamation in the 'spring', and most of the iron materials smelted in the summer were sold to Xiao Jing.

Immediately afterwards, he began to prepare for the autumn harvest of farm tools, only the craftsmanship of Cao Blacksmith and his son to build farm tools was too bad, so he simply let him slowly make weapons and iron armor, and as a result, he accumulated more than 80 pieces of iron armor over time, and more than 100 'fine' horizontal knives.

Only Wang Yong and other first batch of guards in the cottage were equipped with these knives, and the other guards only had some inferior spears and broadswords made at the beginning.

And the 2,000 village guards composed of homeless people in the village only have some hardwood sticks with sharpened heads, and every time they '', they look very pitiful.

This time, the Long Island Haikou wanted to come to plunder, and one bad thing was a disaster, so Wang Yongjia sent hundreds of amateur blacksmiths to the iron-smelting workshop to make weapons.

These blacksmiths are some of the homeless people with ordinary skills, usually farming, and only open the furnace to beat farm tools when they have work, but because of the urgency of time, they had to be sent to Cao Blacksmith.

Blacksmith Cao said to Wang Ze distressedly: "These guys are so stupid that they can't learn how many times they say it." The tip of the spear is very easy to break, and it is extremely slow! ”

Wang Ze listened to Blacksmith Cao's words, and a good idea suddenly popped up in his heart.