In "Sail to the World", the mermaid is a "prop", using this prop to string together the contradictions between the side represented by Wang Hou and the side represented by Chen Xiong, starting from the legend of the mermaid in chapter 205 to the end of uncovering the truth of the mermaid incident in chapter 225, which occupies almost 60,000 words.

1. The legend of the mermaid. In Chapter 205, the Siamese envoy first told Zheng He that someone in Manraka (now Malacca, Malaysia) had found a mermaid, and told the relevant legend of the mermaid through the mouth of Nanhai Gong: the mermaid is not a mascot, its appearance will bring strong winds, Nanhai Gong himself was young, once went to the sea to fish, and saw a person floating naked on the sea from a distance, it was a fair-skinned woman, and suddenly she turned over, jumped out of the water, revealing a long tail, and then disappeared. The next day, a seventeen-day typhoon razed many houses.

Then Zheng He also said that he consulted some ancient books, the earliest is the record of mermaids in the Book of Mountains and Seas, and Sima Qian's "Historical Records" also mentioned that Qin Shi Huang used mermaid paste as a lamp, which burned for several months without extinguishing. And the "Taiping Guangji" records even more magical: the mermaid of the sea, there are in the East China Sea, the big one is five or six feet long, like a beautiful woman, the skin and flesh are as white as jade, and the widows near the sea are many to obtain, and they are raised in the pond and marsh, and when they are intertwined, they are no different from people, and they do not hurt people. These are indeed found in the historical records.

2. Mermaid tears. The legendary mermaid's tears can turn into pearls, and this is officially explained in Chapter 209. When everyone was eating and drinking, the prince of Guli, who was called the strange prince by Liu Hanyan, asked loudly: "Prince Mahalla, we heard ten days ago that there is a mermaid here, can you take this opportunity to tell you what is going on?" ”

The prince of Manraka stood up and arched his hand: "It turns out that Prince Froze is also concerned about the mermaid...... Not bad! We first received news of the mermaid on the morning of February 16, when we sent a horse to the fishing bay twenty miles away, where the mermaid appeared, but we found nothing, so we thought that perhaps someone was dazzled and did not take it to heart......

It wasn't until a month later, on the morning of March 16, that Prince Mahalla again received the news that a mermaid had been found in the fishing bay, so he sent someone there. The people who sent it reported that they had indeed seen a mermaid! As he spoke, Prince Mahalla took out a white round object from his pocket, the size of a grape, pinched it between his fingers, and held it high: "Ladies and gentlemen, this is the pearl that our people found on the rocks on the shore, such a large pearl is really rare, especially precious, could it be that it is really the tears of a mermaid?" It attracted the emotion of the audience.

In chapter 210, because Wang Hou asked Zheng He about the confusion in his heart: "Chief soldier, what is the purpose of Prince Mahala showing the pearl last night, which attracted everyone's suspicion?" Zheng He said the reason: Manraka was originally a subsidiary of Siam, after independence, the two sides often fought, this time it was Emperor Zhu Di who mediated the war, but the war was still in a state of imminent outbreak, Manraka guessed that the mermaid would be an excuse for Siam to stir up trouble, so he told the envoys about the pearl, so that the envoys would rush to the place where the mermaid appeared, no matter how ready Siam was ready to move, it was impossible to do anything wrong in front of the envoys of various countries, so the matter would be much simpler.

Of course, the development of things later was not so simple.

3. The truth about mermaids. Chapter 225 explains the ins and outs of the whole thing: the mermaid was originally a hoax, and the purpose was to make people believe that there was a mermaid. Three months ago, Chen Xiong set off to occupy the city, which triggered the incident of Chen Xiong and the Flying Sect Master that Wang Hou met in Zhancheng in "Sailing the World".

So before Chen Xiong set off for Zhancheng, he judged that the fleet would dock at Manraka for a longer time, and arranged for his men to bury bamboo whistles on the shore of Manraka's fishing bay, which can make a kind of chirp similar to that of small dolphins under the erosion of the sea, although the sound is so weak that people can't hear it at all, but the dolphin's sense of hearing can recognize the sound hundreds of miles away, and at the same time, it is also cleverly arranged, using the rising sea water to make the bamboo whistle sound regularly and attract dolphins.

Because of Wang Hou, Chen Xiong immediately left Champa and rushed to Siam from the land, and the two sides hit it off and jointly planned the mermaid incident, wanting to secretly capture the envoys of various countries, stir up the contradictions between the relevant countries and Manchuria, and create chaos, and then Siam sent troops to recover Manaea, so Zhu Di is not easy to say.

In fact, Chen Xiong is not short of manpower, but he just pulled Siam into it, so that he could act with more protection and a way out. Chen Xiong's plan was very successful, the mermaid was hyped up, the so-called mermaid tears are pearls, but Chen Xiong asked his subordinates to sprinkle some real pearls on the coast, and then deliberately made a noise, because there are only a dozen households in the fishing bay, the location is remote, and Chen Xiong's actions are difficult to be recognized.

After everyone knew the truth of the matter, they all felt that Chen Xiong was terrible: he used the "mermaid" tears to be pearls, creating an ingenious deception to attract the attention of the world, and he came up with strange tricks from it, colluding with Siam and secretly applying foreign poison. It's just that he didn't calculate it, and because Wang Hou's plan failed again, it's really better to be counted as man.

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