Chapter 372: The Man Who Returned from a Long Voyage
When Sun Xing happily got off the boat, he was very depressed to learn that the big guy did not come to greet him, and Wang Ze on the shore just now looked at the suddenly arrived fleet with a telescope and felt that something was wrong, and immediately asked Zhao Qin to check.
If it weren't for Zhao Qin's action in the past, he sent the sea fox boat he was on to report back to the shore as soon as possible, I am afraid that Sun Xing would have to lose a big face in front of the soldiers under his command, thinking of this, Sun Xing couldn't help but secretly thank Zhao Qin.
Although there were not many things to do on the bumps on the sea this way, Sun Xing was already in his fifties after all, and after such a bumpy journey, his energy was a little unable to keep up, and he felt a little tired, but when he knew that the crowd on the shore was going to greet Chen Duan's fleet returning from Fusang in the east, he suddenly reluctantly mustered up his spirit and prepared to wait with Wang Ze.
There is still no shadow of any ships on the sea in the distance, if it weren't for the warm weather today, I'm afraid there wouldn't be so many people in the port, Sun Xing looked at the berths in the port that were crowded with ships from his own fleet, and none of the berths were empty.
Seeing this, Sun Xing hurriedly smiled at Wang Ze and said, "Your Majesty, since Chen Dao's fleet is coming back in a while, I will let the soldiers land quickly, so as to make room for Chen Daochang's fleet!" ”
Sun Xing was stationed in the land of Sanqi for a long time at the beginning, so he was not too familiar with Chen Duan and others, but he also knew how much Wang Ze attached importance to this long-distance fleet, so the posture that should be done still had to be done.
Of course, Wang Ze also knew some of Sun Xing's mentality, he looked at Sun Xing and said with a smile: "When Daoist Chen's fleet sailed to Whale Island before, Ling Cheng sent soldiers to send a message that there were only four ships in the fleet, and it would be good to vacate a few places in a while, but General Sun, you are running all the way, why don't you go and have a good rest first!" I'll be ready for you in the evening! ”
Although Sun Xing, who was no longer young, felt a little tired after several months of rushing along the way, he was still unwilling to miss today's opportunity, thinking of this, Sun Xing also decided to wait here with Wang Ze.
He said to Wang Ze with a straight face: "Your Majesty, Daochang Chen's voyage this time turned out to be three years, and now that he has finally come back, how can I leave just because I am unwell!" After speaking, he felt that someone was looking at him again, and Sun Xing turned his head just in time to see Zhou Chengzheng nodding to himself with a smile.
Taking advantage of the time that everyone was waiting, Sun Xing asked Zhong Likai, Pu Hong and others to hurry up to unload the goods, not only to make room for the voyage fleet of Chen Duan and others, but also to take this opportunity to show the trophies of their expeditionary force this time.
At the beginning, the ship was transported down some precious wood such as red sandalwood, horn sandalwood, agarwood, etc., but these things were originally transported by He Liang from the South China Sea and Western countries, and now these things are not cherished by Wang Ze, Liu Xin, Yang Ku and others in the East China Sea.
These things can also attract the ordinary people of Xia Kingdom, for these people, they are now not worried about food and clothing, and some people have begun to pursue these high-quality wood furniture, utensils and so on.
But when the boxes of gold, silver, precious stones, ambergris, orbs, and a large number of precious cultural relics and antiques were carefully loaded onto the gantry crane by the soldiers on the ship, and then gently transported to the carriage on the dock, the crowd on the shore began to boil.
I have to say that this time the harvest of Sun Xing's expeditionary army was very rich, in addition to the most of the loot contributed by Nan Tianzhu, the other small part was contributed by the death of Sri Buddha, these two important countries on the throat of the east-west sea route are very thick.
In particular, Nantianzhu, because the national strength far exceeds that of Sri Buddha, and the local belief in Shiva, Brahmanism and other monasteries have a large number of statues made of pure gold, and a large number of jewels are inlaid on them, so when these statues are shipped out, it is even more sensational.
Everyone on the shore saw this box of property transported down, whether it was officials or the people, they all looked straight at it, especially Liu Xin and Yang Ku, who have been responsible for the main government affairs over the years, looking at these belongings with a smile on their faces, Xia Guo has never done a loss-making business since he sent troops to fight.
The people on the shore had not seen so much money brought by the Xia army after the expedition for many years, and they looked at the boxes of goods and learned that a third of them would become the trophies of the soldiers, and suddenly a large number of teenagers who had not yet reached the age of joining the army were full of desire to join the army.
Compared with these excited crowds, Wang Ze was most interested in the hundreds of Persian BMWs brought by Sun Xing, but because Sun Xing was afraid that Zhenhai's extreme low temperature would freeze these hard-won BMWs on the way, he put them in the breeding base of Jeju Island on the way.
There are now thousands of high-quality horses, most of which are bred with the very beginning of the sweat and blood BMW and the Western Regions BMW, but because of these years of cross-breeding, if there is no foreign bloodline integration, it is easy to cause inbreeding between these BMWs, so these hundreds of Persian BMWs with very close blood to the Western Regions BMW came at the right time. fate
Originally, Wang Ze wanted to see how these BMWs brought by Sun Xing, but after hearing that these BMWs had been sent to the Jeju Island Racecourse, the article also extinguished this thought, Wang Ze had not been to Jeju Island for a long time, and he was thinking about when he would go to see it again.
In order to ensure the safety of the booty, each ship was loaded with a part of gold and silver jewelry, in case some ships hit the rocks, most of the ships could return safely, so hundreds of warships took turns to dock and unload.
It is also a loss that Zhenhai is the capital of the Xia Kingdom, the port not only has enough berths, but also the gantry cranes set up are also very dense, plus these fleets except for a few transport ships, most of them are warships, and the things carried on the ships are small in size, but more valuable property, and they have all been unloaded by the time they are not in the afternoon.
After all the booty on the fleet was unloaded, not only all the sailors of Sun Xing's department disembarked, but even the soldiers of the second and third battalions of the Yizhou garrison division who followed the fleet to Zhenhai also disembarked under the leadership of Shang Shengmao, and the 'Viper' troops who had made meritorious contributions in the defense of Surabaya City also rushed back together.
But when Wang Ze came to these soldiers, he suddenly found that many soldiers in the army were coughing and sneezing, and there was a large-scale flu.
It was not easy for these soldiers to travel all the way, because they suddenly came to Zhenhai from the hot Nanyang and the bitter cold wind, and they did not stop in the middle to get used to it, so even if many soldiers had cotton clothes and leather clothes to protect them from the cold, they were still infected with wind chill and cold.
This is terrible, in case there were not too many people killed during the war, but after coming back, there were a large number of non-combat attrition due to illness, which is not good, Wang Ze quickly ordered Zhao Yong to vacate a large-scale Zhonghu army camp for these troops, and then found many doctors for them to treat this to put their minds at ease.
In order to prevent the expeditionary army from bringing unknown diseases, these soldiers may have to stay in the barracks for the next few days, just to appease the emotions of the soldiers, Wang Ze strictly ordered these soldiers to be treated well, and they were entertained with good wine and meat.
The soldiers of the expeditionary force were sent over for treatment, and of course the Great Qin envoys and merchants such as Belsalika and Fernesk were no exception, and they were all sent over with them, and Wang Ze was ready to let them go for a while, and then come to meet them when he had time.
After these messy things were dealt with, I suddenly heard several soldiers who had been in charge of observing the sea shouting loudly: "It's coming, it's the fleet of the voyage!" ”
When Wang Ze heard the shouts of these soldiers, he immediately took out his telescope and looked at the sea, this telescope was no longer the telescope that Wang Ze made with the jade of the East China Sea, but the high-quality transparent glass lens newly produced by the glaze workshop in Xia County last winter.
Because of the progress of technology, the newly produced glass in the East China Sea is becoming more and more transparent, and the polished lenses can also look farther, so when Wang Ze picked up this telescope and looked over, even if the returning fleet was still ten miles away from the coast, Wang Ze could still clearly see the big flag hanging on the ship.
The big flag is still the big flag of the Xia Kingdom that was hung at the beginning, and the big flag of the Haotian Dao Gate, there are a few Taoist priests wearing Taoist robes standing on the bow of the boat, I think it should be Chen Duan and others, and I don't know what they have done on the American continent in the past three years.
But when the ship in the distance gradually approached, and gradually could see the faces of those people on the bow of the boat, Wang Ze's face became heavier and heavier, the people on the ship turned out to be unknown to him, there was no Chen Duan on it, and there was no Mi Ke, and the few Taoist priests wearing Taoist robes just now were just a few young Taoist priests who looked a little familiar but didn't know each other.
What the hell is going on? Could it be that Chen Duan and they encountered some accidents? The soldier who sent the letter from Ling Cheng before also replied very roughly, just saying that the original voyage fleet came back with four ships, and the others were not clear, and they did not know the specific situation of the voyage fleet.
Thinking of this, Wang Ze's heart became more and more nervous, because he was interested in Mayan culture before, he vaguely knew that at this time, Fusang, that is, Mexico City in later generations, once appeared a relatively powerful country, which was regarded as the earliest civilization in the Americas at that time.
Although they still don't have metal weapons, they can build a large city that can accommodate nearly 200,000 people, you must know that there are not many cities as big as Europe at the same time, and many poisons unique to the Americas can easily put down Chen Duan and others.
"With the blessing of Haotian God's divine radiance, I think the junior brother will be fine!" Wang Ze looked back and saw that it was his cheap brother-in-law, that is, Chen Duan's second senior brother Zhou Cheng was comforting himself, but although Zhou Cheng said so, Wang Ze looked at his face tightly, and it seemed that he was also very tight.