"Hehe, Your Highness and Zhang Xiannan don't dislike it, just eat vegetables and eat vegetables."

Qu Tushou heard Li Chengqian say this, which was enough to give him face, and he was naturally more active at this time.

For the dishes on the table, Zhang Zheng just tasted it.

I tasted everything, which can be regarded as giving this Tongguan guard a face, as for the taste, it can only be said that it is hehe.

It's not that Zhang Zheng dislikes it, it's really that his mouth was raised too much by those rich dishes in later generations.

These dishes of Datang are either boiled or grilled, and it is difficult to impress Zhang Zheng's taste buds.

In the words of a non-mainstream phrase in later generations: "It's not that you're not good enough, it's that my vision is too high." ”

The three of them watched the scenery of the river turning eastward, eating and drinking, and the atmosphere was quite warm.

After a while, a sergeant came to report that the boat to cross the river was ready.

Zhang Zheng and Li Chengqian glanced at each other, and at the same time put down the chopsticks in their hands.

Li Chengqian took the lead in getting up and said to Qu Tushou: "I'm tired of Jiang Guogong's hospitality, now that I'm full of wine and food, it's time for Lone to set off for the north."

The people of Jinyang are waiting to be fed, and they are really relieved in their lonely hearts, so let's leave it at that. ”

Qu Tushou stood up and saluted: "Your Royal Highness has the emperor's order, and the last general will not dare to delay His Highness's trip, so the last will send it to His Highness." ”

The three of them got up and took Chang Yan and Chen Yu down the city tower.

The soldiers of the prince's personal guard had also eaten at Tongguan, and at this time they were already arrayed on the edge of the ferry of the big river.

The river is turbulent, and it is not easy to sail.

Therefore, the sailors of the Tang Dynasty are now entrenched in the big river, and there are no sailor warships in the big river.

What Qu Tushou prepared for Li Chengqian, Zhang Zheng and others was a cargo ship used by the river to transport.

The waves of the great river are fast, and the boats that sail the river are different from the boats in the great river.

Boats on large rivers have wider and flatter bottoms and deeper drafts.

The boat in the river is much larger than the bottom, and the bottom is as sharp as a shuttle.

At this moment, dozens of large ships are moored at the Kanzen Ferry.

Most of the sailors who are at the helm of the boat are veterans who have been running on the river all year round, so there is no need for Li Chengqian and Zhang Zheng to worry about crossing the river.

The sailors on the ship put on the pedals, and with Li Chengqian's order, the prince's personal guards divided into groups of ten and stepped onto the big boat.

After the soldiers got on the boat, it was the baggage carried by the team, as well as the carriage and other miscellaneous items.

Li Chengqian and Zhang Zheng said goodbye to Qu Tushou, agreed to meet in Chang'an in the coming day, and stepped on the deck of the big ship.

The big ship that Li Chengqian and Zhang Zheng were riding on was the largest of all the ships.

It can accommodate tens of thousands of stone of goods and can carry more than 200 people.

The ship was divided into three levels, the lowest of which was the cargo hold and the control room with the sailor and boatman at the helm.

The second floor is where people live.

The third level is the deck, on which there are also tables and cushions for sightseeing.

When the two of them were on board, the captain shouted a trumpet, and the sailor withdrew the anchor from which the ship had been stopped.

The big ship left the dock and entered the center of the big river, and a sailor informed Zhang Zheng and Li Chengqian:

"It takes about half an hour to cross the river, and the two nobles can enjoy the view of the river from the deck.

Just be careful not to go to the edge of the deck and beware of falling overboard. ”

"Half an hour, does it take that long?"

Li Chengqian was surprised, and couldn't help but ask out loud.

No matter how wide the river is, it is only a hundred zhang away, how can it take so long.

The sailor didn't know Li Chengqian's identity, he only thought he was a nobleman in Tongguan.

Anyone who crosses the river for the first time will have such doubts, and sailors have seen many such people.

Then he explained: "I want to teach the nobles to know that this crossing of the river is not as simple as crossing from one bank of the river to the other side of the river.

Rather, it has to go downstream with the current. The Fenglingdu in Puzhou on the opposite side is not on the other side of Tongguan, and it is still thirty miles downstream. ”

"To put it simply, we don't go in a straight line, we go diagonally." Zhang Zheng next to him couldn't help but explain to Li Chengqian.

"Hehe, yes, that's what this noble man said, if you don't go in a straight line, the river is too fast, and we can't go in a straight line."

When the sailor heard Zhang Zheng say this, he smiled and replied.

Li Chengqian also understood what Zhang Zheng meant, and said with a smile: "I didn't expect that there was such a level of exquisiteness, I didn't take a big boat before I got off, but it was a joke." Hehe, little second brother is not strange. ”

When the sailor saw that the two nobles were so kind, he laughed innocently and said:

"Where did the noble man say, the villain took his leave, otherwise the boss of the ship would scold me in a while, and the noble man could shout if he had something, and I would be below deck.

By the way, don't go to the edge of the deck, beware of falling overboard. ”

"Okay, we know, little second brother, you go and get busy with you."

Li Chengqian finished talking with the sailors, walked to the deck with the common saying, found a cushion and sat down.

Looking at the waves of the river, my mouth was amazed.

"Brother Zheng'er, you said that the big river looks like this, what will the sea look like if it is wider than the big river?"

Zhang Zheng also found a cushion to sit down.

He had been on a bigger ship than this in his previous life, let alone a small boat like this.

Zhang Zheng went to travel in the summer vacation of college in his previous life, and took the golden cruise ship on the Yangtze River from the White Emperor City to the Three Gorges.

That's what makes it majestic.

Although the big river is a little more primitive than the Yangtze River, it is still a little worse in terms of beautiful scenery.

Hearing Li Chengqian's question, Zhang Zheng also pondered.

Mainly, in his previous life, the place where he was was also an inland area.

Therefore, Zhang Zheng has never seen the sea with his own eyes.

Not to mention in this life, the farthest place to go out is the big boat that sits under the ass now.

But what man doesn't have a great sailing dream in his heart?

Who wouldn't want to say to the wide sea, "I'm the man who wants to be the king of the pirates."

In Zhang Zheng's plan, Datang will inevitably open the era of exploration in the future.

It just so happened that Li Chengqian asked this, so he instilled some seafaring thinking in Li Chengqian and planted a seed in advance.

"The sea, the sea is vast and boundless, full of unknowns and opportunities.

There are also countless lands overseas, which are inhabited by wild people like monkeys.

They don't have to grow food, it grows out of the land on its own.

The river flows with golden sand, and the precious spice trees in the Tang Dynasty grow all over the mountain.

There are also potatoes, corn, peppers......

The copper that Datang lacks the most, in the sea thousands of miles south of Datang, there is a big island called Luzon, and the entire island is thousands of miles in circumference, which is a whole piece of copper.

And then there is the Wa kingdom, they have a mountain, which is formed of silver.

Farther south in Luzon, there is a continent on which there is a jumping and walking squirrel, taller than a man, with a bag on its belly.

There is also a continent full of Kunlun slaves......"

Zhang Zheng said as he spoke, and his thoughts seemed to return to another time and space.

Li Chengqian, on the other hand, widened his eyes when he heard this, and his breathing began to become heavy.