Chapter IX: Sumatra

That's pretty much it, and it's already getting bright. Seeing that Zhu Youzhen had no other arrangements, everyone was ready to go their separate ways, and at this time, only Sun Chengzong deliberately stayed at the end.

Only then did he ask sincerely:

"Your Majesty, can you really have the kind of thing that can transmit sound for thousands of miles?"

The old man has now also discovered that if some things can really break through, what kind of anti-heaven existence will it be for Da Ming. Now all the advantages lie in the information asymmetry, and all the disadvantages do not also come from the information asymmetry. It wasn't until he encountered something that he discovered his ignorance and shallowness.

Zhu Youzhen shook his head with a smile and said:

"Inspector, before the invention of the monocular, I told you that people could see things ten miles away, do you believe it?"

"Before the invention of the steam engine, a craftsman could only lift a hammer of dozens of pounds at most. I told the Inspector that there was a strong man who could lift a thousand pounds, but did the Inspector believe it? ”

"With the rifle, the supervisor also saw that the battlefield was no longer the battlefield of the Qin, Han and Tang dynasties. Could it all be that I made it up myself? ”

Zhu Youzhen asked rhetorically.

"I believe me, if there are too many of these things, it really won't work. But now, it's really a matter of thousands of miles. ”

"Your Majesty............"

Zhu Youzhen waved his hand disappreciatively, turned around and walked into the inner house. What's the use of saying this now, it's a project that costs money and takes a long time. It can't save the current thing at all. It's talking too much, and it's not helpful at all except to make everyone feel guilty.

Old Port, Sumatra.

The general of the general sat on the deck, tied up the ten Kunlun slaves who were about to escape, tied their hands, and threw them directly from the side of the ship like fishing, so that half of the Kunlun slaves' bodies were soaked in the seawater.

Then he took a basin of water from the sailor next to him, and rushed straight down from his head.

"Tell me."

Bai Daohui, who was next to him, stood in the shadow of the huge sails, looking at the scenery in the distance of the port.

"We've already knocked down the old port, why can't we go ashore? If it goes on like this, no one can stand it. Besides, this is what our brothers brought down. Although it is said that the strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, but how to say that the head snake must also have a little self-knowledge. We're just hanging on the boat, isn't it a bit of a? ”

"Wait." Marco stretched his body and lit the cigarette on his lips.

"These old thieves don't believe anyone but themselves. Admiral Cao has his own ideas, and people like us listen to it, what do we want to do so much. ”

"So what do we do? Just sit here and watch? "Chief soldier Bai Daohui came to run a boat when he came home, and he is very familiar with boating. But for the Ming Army, it is a raw egg that has just joined for more than half a year.

"Alright, you might as well go sleep if you have this time."

While the two were talking, Admiral Cao Bianjiao walked over.

"Won't our two battleships, Weiyang and Changle, be repaired too?" In a year, Cao Bianjiao directly turned into a swarthy bald man. He stretched out his hand and asked Ma Ke for a cigarette, but he didn't dislike it, and put it directly on his mouth.

"The Weiyang number is okay, but the Changle number is basically gone."

The Weiyang and the Changle were both ships they had captured from the Arabs as pirates. In the eyes of the Weiyang that was damaged when it was first captured, there was a hole in the bilge of the Changle caused by the explosion. Immediately afterwards, the two ships took part in the mission of a sneak attack on the old port. The Changle was burned to the ground as a black ship.

"Then it's all sinking." Cao Bianjiao said with a gloomy face.

On land, they don't think so, but since they went to sea, they have discovered that the ship is of course important, but more important than the ship is the people. No one, even with more ships is a burden.

"Gather our people on other ships, Kunlun Nu and the mercenaries are cleaning up again, and the loyal ones can be left."

"Admiral! This will not work, in case the other Dutch warships rush over, with our ships, it will not be enough to see. Chief soldier Bai Daohui said.

"I still don't know? But even if we put them into the fleet, do you think they will obey our command when it matters most? In the past, our ships were small, and most of the time we had to dress up as merchants and rob the supplies on the routes. But today is different from the past, we are also famous, and the next time we will not be looking for those pirates and pirates. ”

"Then isn't it even more like we are weakening ourselves by cleaning Kunlun Nu." Bai Daohui, the chief soldier, still couldn't figure it out.

"The academy has taught us that loyalty and purity are the soul of an army. Do what I say, it's okay to spend money to hire, but if you don't work after taking the money, or if you're still half-hearted, then don't blame us for being black. I'll tell you, instead of being big and complicated, it's better to make a small and fine one. ”

At this time, although Bai Daohui still didn't understand, he also knew that this was the order of the supreme commander of this fleet, and he had to carry it out.

Looking at Bai Daohui who was leaving in a daze, Cao Bianjiao said to the chief soldier Ma Ke:

"If we can settle down this time, you can go back first, and we can ask for as many students as we want from the academy. That is, I don't know if Xiong Wencan's Naval Academy is doing a good job. ”

Poof, he spat a mouthful of smoke into the ocean.

"If your heart is not aligned, you can only fight with the wind, which is not good."

Marco and he had been in the academy for a whole year, and they had a good relationship and knew each other, and the two of them were soon able to agree on this opinion.

"You still don't know about people? Besides, it has been almost a month and a half since the letter written on the night of the victory alone. Marco said.

"The sea of this dog day always feels swaying, not solid at all, and I don't know what happened to the court."

Cao Bianjiao doesn't care.

"To be honest, I still love the sea on this dog's day. Besides, how can it be so fast at sea, let's send the letter to Lord Xiong as soon as possible according to the rules, Lord Xiong is good, but the officials are better. It's not a rough embryo like you and me. I will definitely report this matter to Your Majesty, you think about sex, how can the imperial court have a reply without three or four months. ”

As he spoke, he slapped his hand heavily on the railing.

"We're still on our own! Let's survive first. It's a lot better than I thought earlier. ”

"And when are we going to go ashore? The sailors' side is okay, but the army's side can't stand it. Thousands of people were crammed into the ship, and their bodies were almost rancid. ”

"Wait, wait." Cao Bianjiao patted him on the shoulder.

"Don't worry, I know this matter in my heart. It's still the same old saying, if you don't go ashore, there is a reason not to go ashore, and there is a reason to go ashore. ”

With that, he pulled out a delicate brass pocket watch from his chest.

"It's noon. You go, get everyone moving. ”

The Admiral has the power of Jinyiwei in his hands, and this is overseas, and Cao Bianjiao still has the power of Dongchang in his hands. The general soldier is not good, so Cao Bianjiao didn't explain many things to Ma Ke too clearly.

"Didi...... DiDi ...... Drip ......"

With the whistle of a poignant emergency assembly. The Shikai and its sister ships seemed to wake up from their sleep all at once. Countless non-commissioned officers ran onto the deck from the bilge, stepped on the dock pedals, and began to rush to the dock shirtless, starting the midday training.

The captains with long whips stood at the side of the group like demons, shouting at the soldier and telling them to speed up their pace. It's better to move forward on the dock, but when you get to the beach, you really put these soldiers in a dilemma. Stepping on the soft sand, one foot deep and one foot shallow, makes it more difficult and hard to move forward.

Finally, we reached the assembly point, and the second order came again.

"Rush, rush! Rush! ”

The three teams of soldiers began to rush to the sea, scrambling to swim past the buoy in the distance, and a new round of Capture the Flag began. The rest of the ship will not be able to live in peace. A group of sailors, rags in one hand and buckets in the other, began to wipe the deck of the Four Seas clean and shiny from top to bottom.

Cao Bianjiao stayed at the railing of the deck, watching the team's training enter the regular form, and there were no soldiers and no instructors being lazy. Only then did he return to his room on the Four Seas.

Even the Admiral of the entire fleet, his room can basically say nothing.

The bed, table, chair, wardrobe are all fixed to the floor. Above the bed was a thin military blanket, neatly standing at the head of the bed. There were almost no personal items in the closet except for some military uniforms issued by the military.

He was just about to sit back and relax.

"Report!" A loud call for pilgrimage sounded outside the door.

"Come in." Cao Bianjiao tidied up his clothes.

What came in was the hundred households of the East Factory above the fleet.