Since the departure of Jiaozhou Port to the present nearly ten days of sailing, the weather on the sea has been very good all the way, not to mention the common storms in summer, and even the stronger winds and waves have not been encountered.

The current wind speed is just right for sailing on the sea, and the white canvas soaked in tung oil is puffed forward by the wind, and the sunlight on the canvas is a little unaccustomed even to the sailors who are accustomed to strong sunlight.

However, the clear and cloudless sky is becoming more and more blue, and the endless sea is also particularly blue under the reflection of the sky, if there is a great poet who is there, he will probably come to a poem such as "the water and the sky are colorful", but now there is no poet, only the sea cut by the fleet when it is driving leaves a long scratch.

The sailors were busy one by one, and some soldiers on several boats threw down their nets, and soon a large number of fresh fish were fished up, which was not too easy for these fishermen-born sailors.

This time, Wang Ze still rode more than 10 warships under Gu Bin with more than 2,000 people led by Cao An, the ironclad battalion led by Liu Wancheng and the wolf teeth led by Gao Shi, and the remaining 10,000 people led by Yang Honghang and Meng Xian took ordinary merchant ships.

In addition, there are more than 10,000 immigrants transported to Qinjin and other places, and a fleet of nearly 30,000 people is carrying hundreds of sea boats, and the scale is becoming more and more spectacular.

Jiang Chuan's fleet was two or three days behind Wang Ze's fleet, and in addition to more than 10,000 soldiers, nearly 20,000 people in their fleet went to Qinjin by boat, and now immigrants from all parts of the East China Sea, including Jumu Island, Tanegashima Island, and the Ryukyu Islands, are transiting in Qinjin.

It was still the 5,000-stone level of the sea ship, and in the cabin, Wang Ze, Liu Wancheng, Gao Shi, Cao An and others sat steadily in a circle on a huge coffee table.

Zhu Qingqing and Cheng Xueyan are showing their newly learned tea art, and the best tea leaves shipped from Fujian and Zhejiang have been brewed and exude bursts of tea fragrance. However, all their hard work was performed for the blind man, and Wang Ze was stunned with a cup of tea in his hand.

To be honest, this time Wang Ze really had a lot of worries about leaving his parents, and now the Northern Qi has thrown most of its 'essence' into Wang Yong, although Wang Yong has also made full preparations for nearly a year, but it is too difficult to fight against the entire huge Northern Qi with a few states.

In order to distract the attention of the Northern Qi, Wang Ze tried his best to incite the rebellion of the Zhangwu Righteous Army, occupying Zhangwu, Gaoyang, and Yingzhou, and originally wanted to incite the Southern Dynasty to take the opportunity to continue the Northern Expedition.

But now that the Southern Dynasty and the Northern Zhou are pinching each other fiercely, it would be very good to be able to maintain the offensive of the two armies of Wu Mingzhu and Hou Andu against the Northern Qi. Because of the strong offensive of the Northern Zhou army, Cheng Lingxi's army had been recalled by Chen Baxian, who was seriously ill.

"Little Hou Ye, the brothers rescued a man who fell into the water from the sea!" Just when Wang Ze was thinking about these things, Gu Bin, the captain of the naval academy, suddenly broke in from outside the cabin.

Wang Ze, who had been in a daze, was suddenly woken up by Gu Bin, and when he heard Gu Bin say that he had rescued a man, he was immediately interested, so he greeted Zhu Qingqing, the second 'woman' and Cao An and others in the cabin: "Let's go, let's all go and have a look, it can be regarded as a distraction!" ”

Wang Ze was quite suspicious of the man rescued by the sailors, the sea has been calm for the past ten days, and it is impossible for any merchant ship to be destroyed by the wind and waves, so it seems that this man is not a merchant ship who was plundered by pirates, but a pirate himself.

When Wang Ze rushed to the deck, there were already sailors who rescued the man, but the action of the sailors killing pigs and sheep made Wang Ze shake his head. The sailors first hung the man upside down with two feet on a rope, and then squeezed the sea water out of his stomach with their hands, so that from time to time there was a strange smell on the deck.

While the sailors were treating this man, Wang Ze looked at this person carefully, and it didn't look like a foreigner but the same as the Han people of the Southern Dynasties, most of the clothes on his body had been washed away by the sea, only the middle clothes on his body were still there, and he knew that it was the best Wuxingjun silk by looking at the material.

Zhu Qingqing had already been familiar with all kinds of hardships at sea, and the previous symptoms of seasickness had already become much lighter, but it was the first time for Cheng Xueyan to see such a scene, and she was immediately helped aside by Zhu Qingqing and vomited.

Wang Ze couldn't care about the man's affairs anymore, and hurriedly ran over to appease him, and finally asked Zhu Qingqing to help Cheng Xueyan to his cabin to rest.

"Wake up, wake up!" As soon as Zhu Qingqing and Cheng Xueyan were sent away, Wang Ze listened to a cry of surprise, it seems that people have been saved, no matter how many people have been killed, these sailors still have some of the most primitive good thoughts in their hearts.

Not long after, Wang Ze saw the man who had recovered a little in the cabin, and at this time he had changed into a simple suit and was lying on the soft couch, although he was still a little sluggish, but after all, he had regained some 'essence' and was able to speak.

"Huiji Maritime Merchant Han Zheng, thank you Lang Jun for saving your life!" As soon as Wang Ze walked into the cabin where this person was resting, he suddenly saw a person lying on the floor, but this person's body threw himself on the ground, which made Wang Ze still a little uncomfortable, and he hurriedly stepped forward to help this person: "Sir, why do you need to make this big gift!" ”

Wang Ze didn't know that Han Zheng just wanted to get up and give Wang Ze a blow, but who knew that his body was weak and he fell off the soft couch at once, as if kneeling down, Wang Ze thought that someone else had made such a big salute.

In fact, when Wang Ze helped Han Zheng up, he also understood what was going on, so he said to Guo Erlang, who was following him: "Erlang, you tell the ship's galley, let them make some supplements for Mr. Han!" ”

"Lang Jun is so life-saving and gracious, so Han Zheng doesn't know how to repay it!" Han Zheng's eyes were full of tears, and Wang Ze smiled lightly: "Mr. is polite, I don't know why Mr. suffered a big disaster this time?" During this time, the sea is calm and calm! ”

As soon as Han Zheng heard it, he knew that people were doubting his identity, and if he went to sea, he would be wary of a stranger caught in the sea, so he told his identity in detail.

Speaking of which, the Han Zheng family is also a wealthy businessman in Huiji County of the Southern Dynasty, Han Zheng ranks third in the family, and has always been because of the low status of the businessman, Han Zheng's father let him study hard, and fortunately, he will find a third-grade home 'door' for the Han family in the future.

However, at this time, it was very difficult for scholars from the Han'men family to enter the court as officials, either they could be officials with grades or even above the middle three grades in the nine-rank Zhongzheng system, or they had a very high reputation in the state and county.

So at that time, there were a series of miraculous events such as drowning the big tree in tears for the filial piety of the parents, and using the body to warm up the one-foot-thick ice to catch fish in winter.

In this case, Han Zheng studied until he was thirty-five or sixteen years old, and he was still an old man who relied on his parents, and when Han Zheng's parents died five years ago, his brothers separated, and his brother and brother would certainly not continue to raise idlers, so Han Zheng was forced to set foot in the merchant industry.

Fortunately, Han Zheng had the blood of a businessman in his blood after all, and it didn't take long for him to quickly grasp the business assigned to him, and the family business gradually prospered.

But after all, Han Zheng is too short in business, and he doesn't understand the world, since the history of the dynasty, business has been closely related to the government, and he can't do anything without the care of the government.

In this way, although Han Zheng's business is getting better and better, but he ignores the contacts with the government, which greatly sweeps the face of some people, so last year Han Zheng's only son in the family was suddenly blackmailed, and then the government announced a huge amount of compensation, and the family property was even more lost, not to mention the huge debts, Han Zheng gritted his teeth and embarked on the team of going to sea for his family, although it was dangerous to go to sea, but the benefits were also more lucrative.

To say that in ancient times, the profits of the trade at sea were far beyond people's imagination, and this time Han Zheng only brought some ordinary goods such as silk, porcelain, tea and some ironware produced in the Southern Dynasties.

However, Han Zheng relied on these ordinary goods to sell in Baekje and Silla at a price far beyond his imagination, which was the result of Wang Ze's Donghae Commercial Bank selling Central Plains goods here and lowering the price a lot, you must know that when Qu Liulang and Sun Xing led their teams to trade in the East China Sea for the first time, the profit obtained was nearly ten times that of now.

But even the current profit margin made Han Zheng excited, and he relied on the eyes of a businessman to 'trade' ginseng, mulberry paper and many other local specialties that are not yet famous but of very high quality, as long as these goods are transported to the Southern Dynasty, they can get nearly ten times the profit, and at this time, Han Zheng, who was excited, did not know that he had been targeted.

Since Wang Ze completely defeated the Japanese naval army last year, occupied Tsukushi Island and Naga'mon, which originally belonged to the Japanese state, and occupied the Oki Islands and the Iwami region of Honshu, and the outlying islands such as Tsushima and Goto on the outer islands, completely closing the passage from the Japanese kingdom to Baekje and Silla.

It turned out that the largest pirate exporter in the East China Sea was the Wa Kingdom, and now the Wa Kingdom has lost the passage to here, and the remaining pirates in other places on the sea either changed careers or changed places or reported to the Dragon King after Qu Liulang led the naval army to sweep it over, and for a time the civil trade in the East China Sea became more and more prosperous.

At that time, in order to stimulate the economic development of the newly occupied Jeju Island and Qinjin and other places, Wang Ze did not charge any protection fees for the merchant ships of other countries, and the merchant ships in the East China Sea increased day by day, and Jeju Island and Qinjin, which were important shipping routes in the East China Sea, also became more and more prosperous.

If Jeju Island was still the original Tamna Island, it would definitely attract a lot of coveters, but at that time, there were many troops stationed on Jeju Island, and there were tens of thousands of troops such as Jiang Chuan and Zhang Hang on Qinjin not far away, which deterred all kinds of people with bad intentions.

However, since Wang Ze urgently ordered the troops of the East China Sea to rush to Qizhou in March this year, the minds of some countries and some people have become lively, so from time to time in the waters around Jeju Island have heard the news of some merchant ships being plundered.

In this case, Han Zheng was not too worried, at least the life safety of the big guy was still guaranteed, and he was not a one-man ship to go to sea, and there were four or five sea ships with him to return to Nanchen together.

Since the last replenishment was made in Jeju Island New Town, Han Zheng and the fleet went west to prepare for a direct voyage to the mouth of the Yangtze River, but what they never expected was that at this time, the warships of the brigade appeared in front of everyone.

It turned out that the pirates who had been plundering around Jeju Island turned out to be such a powerful naval army, and under the obstruction of these more than ten warships, these merchant ships of their own side would definitely not be able to escape, and they could only honestly accept the robbery of others, anyway, they would rob half of it at most.

This pirate spoke in the Baekje language, which made Han Zheng and others think that these pirates were Baekje people, after all, Baekje has been a maritime power in the East China Sea for the past two hundred years, but what Han Zheng didn't expect was to meet an acquaintance from a few years ago on the ship of this navy, a fellow villager who had been a captain in the Xiaoliang navy.

Originally, Han Zheng thought that if he met a fellow villager in a distant overseas country, he could escape this catastrophe with his face, but Han Zheng's first reaction when he saw him was not joy, but a strong killing intent after being surprised.

Just when Han Zheng and several other ships were about to honestly 'hand' over the general goods and go home, the plundering sailors started to kill people, and the sailors and merchants on the ship jumped into the sea one after another to escape, and Han Zheng also jumped in an emergency.

He didn't understand why he suddenly encountered this situation, why the countryman who turned out to be Xiao Liang's water army suddenly appeared in the East China Sea, and why he killed the killer after discovering himself, but Wang Ze finally understood.

It seems that Xiao Yu, who went to the East China Sea last year to lead the rest of Xiao Liang's naval division to take refuge in Baekje, is finally not willing to be lonely, and it seems that the pirates who have been attacking merchant ships near Jeju Island during this time have done it.

It's just that Wang Ze doesn't believe that Xiao Yu has done these things, and Baekje has not gotten any rumors, and it seems that Baekje's attitude towards himself has also changed with the increasing strength of his own side in the East China Sea.

"It's not easy to handle!" Wang Ze looked helpless and 'rubbed' his head, if he could wait another two or three years for himself to completely defeat and disperse all the land strength of the Wa Kingdom, then he would be able to sit firmly in Diaoyutai and not be afraid of changes in various parts of the East China Sea.

Now, although the strength of the Japanese army has been lost, there are still about 300,000 young people in the country, in case of red eyes, summoning the young and strong soldiers of the country to fight hard with themselves, although they can't pose too much threat to themselves, but after all, they will contain a considerable number of their own troops.

Moreover, the relationship between Silla, Baekje, and Wa has always been complicated, sometimes allied, sometimes beaten by each other, and often intermarried, but in the final analysis, they are still related to each other.

If Baekje suddenly joined forces with Silla to attack him, and the Wa Kingdom came to attack him, it would be a big problem.

Just when Wang Ze was very worried, Gu Bin came again, but this guy's eyes flashed with excitement and said loudly to Wang Ze: "Little Hou Ye, there is a large group of unidentified ships blocking the way not far ahead!" ”