The sudden barking of a dog interrupted Mao Wenlong's conversation about the plan to resist the Jurchens.

In the night, a man on a horse on the beach, with a small dog running in front of him, moved quickly.

The man arrived, turned over and dismounted, and accused Mao Wenlong again and again: "General, the villain is late." I didn't dare to light the lantern, for fear that the guards on the side of Fang Cheng would come out and see it. ”

Mao Wenlong obviously knew him, and he spoke very politely: "The huge tidal flats are all fishy, and it always takes some time for dogs to smell horses." Hard brother, let's get on the boat.

"All right, the general and the brethren come with me."

The old man picked up the puppy, mounted his horse and galloped to lead the way.

After rounding a few more reefs, the eyes suddenly opened up. Under the moonlight, a flat-bottomed sand ship is on the beach.

Seeing the movement, the two sailors on the boat jumped off the boat one after another and came over to salute Mao Wenlong respectfully.

Mao Wenlong turned his head and said to Xu San, the entourage who was joking about accepting him as a son-in-law just now: "You and Xiao Qi stay, take the horses and follow Brother Li, and let the horses recuperate in his village for a few days." Don't go out to mess around, this is still the boundary of Songjiang, be careful when you run into that Huang or something. ”

Xu San responded respectfully, and the Liaodong soldier named Xiao Qi collected the reins, and the old man who led the way, one person and three horses, drove the small group of horses and walked away.

Mao Wenlong led the rest of the people and got on the sand boat.

There are four kinds of common sea ships in the Ming Dynasty: sand boats, wide boats, bird boats, and lucky boats.

The first place of life that Zheng Haizhu crossed over was Longxi County, Zhangzhou, Fujian.

She had already seen all kinds of sea ships there, so she knew that of the four types of ships of the Ming Dynasty, only the flat-bottomed sand boats could not sail in the deep sea.

At the moment, the sand boat is straight away from the shoreline, which means that they may soon have to change ships.

Sure enough, the sand boat had sailed and sailed towards the crescent moon for less than two sticks of incense, and then circled a small island and approached its companion: a sizable bird boat.

The bottom of the bird boat is like a blade, and the boat is tall, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, and can sail through the rough open sea.

Unlike a wide ship with a pointed bottom and a deck as wide as the wings of a bat, the bird ship has a long and narrow deck and the side of the ship is pulled inward, which is safer than that of a wide ship and is less likely to lose balance in strong winds.

Zheng Haizhu can recognize the shape of this ship at a glance in the dark night, mainly because the bow of the ship is sharpened and warped, like a sharp bird's beak. The people in Zhejiang believed that it was the Emperor of Heaven who ordered the blue bird to bring seeds, so that their ancestors began to plant rice, live and reproduce, so they made the sea ship into a bird's head.

With a "bang", the sailors of the bird boat lowered a plank from the gap where the side of the ship was opened, and joined the side of the sand boat that was a short section away.

Mao Wenlong grabbed Zheng Haizhu, carried it on his shoulders like a sack, stepped on the trembling connecting plank, walked on the ground, and stepped into the deck of the bird ship calmly.

There were several large torches erected on the bird boat, which lit up the deck.

When the shirtless sailors put away the springboard, a sturdy and capable young man in a ramie short coat walked over from under the mast, stared at Zheng Haizhu, who was put down by Mao Wenlong, and said coldly: "General Mao, how can this be a girl?" It has been a rule at sea since ancient times, that women cannot get on ships. ”

Mao Wenlong raised his eyebrows and said: "There is a rule on the sea since ancient times, eunuchs cannot get on the ship. When Grandpa Qi fought the Japanese invaders, the first emperor also sent his attendants to supervise the army several times, but Lao Tzu did not hear that Grandpa Qi kicked the nobles off the boat. ”

Although the young man Luo Yi was entrusted to pick up Mao Wenlong, because of the little personal grudge he had in the past, he didn't want to give this old Qiu Ba a good face from Liaodong, so he said more and more harshly: "Does the general think that our island is a kiln, and he still sends powder to it?" ”

Mao Wenlong squinted his eyes, turned his smile and said, "Brother Li, this little girl is not a prostitute, she has another background." When you meet your eldest brother on the island, you will know. Let's take a boat. ”

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In the darkness, the undulations of the bird boat were noticeably stronger.

Even louder than the snoring of the men in the boat was the sound of the waves crashing against the hull.

Zheng Haizhu curled up in a palm-sized cabin, estimating that the bird boat had sailed into the vast East China Sea.

After the boat started, Mao Wenlong seemed to do his best to separate her from the boatload of rough men, and asked the leader surnamed Li to arrange a separate resting corner for Zheng Haizhu, and did not forget to inspect her bound wrists, and after confirming that her ten fingers could move, he told her to pull the latch from the inside.

The various details of Mao Wenlong's behavior made Zheng Haizhu more and more sure that whether it was his life or his dignity as a woman, he was temporarily safe.

Fortunately, the body of this ancient person on the coast of Fujian Province kept her from getting seasick.

So, after not closing her eyes for two days and two nights, she finally fell asleep after letting down her vigilance.

When I woke up, the cracks in the deck sifted through wisps of light.

Zheng Haizhu opened the hatch, straightened up, let his eyes adjust to the daylight for a while, and then staggered up the ladder and climbed onto the deck.

The magnificent scene of the vast smoke and waves, the water and the sky, is coming.

Unlike the turbid East China Sea at the mouth of the Yangtze River in later generations, the sea water in front of you is a highly saturated blue-green, like the finest glutinous and bright brocade in the Sujia Lake area.

The sparkling waves swept by the wind are like fine and elegant silver lines on the brocade, shining and bewitching.

If you turn your head to look to the other side, the view is even more fantastic. When the morning sun rises in the east, it burrows into the clouds and becomes a subtle magician, not only changing the sky in various colors such as golden, grenade, pink, purple, and indigo, but also generously offering thousands of rays of light, pouring down on the surface of the sea, weaving a glittering grand world.

Ocean!

This is the fact that even if all the dangers are gathered, it cannot stop brave humans from exploring it, crossing it, and developing its oceans!

And now, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the whole world has already entered the Age of Discovery.

At this moment, Zheng Haizhu, who was still in the state of half a prisoner, even felt a pleasant kindness.

Only in the vast ocean of blue waters, the government offices, streets, houses, bridges, and carriages with the marks of the times will be cleared from view.

The sky and the sea seem to have once again brought this tiny time-traveler into a space-time tunnel and returned to the world five hundred years later.

A tall figure blocked the sunlight, Zheng Haizhu's greedy gaze finally retracted, and said to the tower-like figure: "General Mao, this ship is going to Zhoushan Islands?" ”

Mao Wenlong was no longer as surprised as when he heard Zheng Haizhu say the name of Nanhuizui last night, and said lightly: "Since you are familiar with my map of the eastern line of the Ming Dynasty, it is not difficult to guess. ”

"So, General Mao can tell me who he wants to take me to see now, right?"

A meaningful smile appeared at the corner of Mao Wenlong's mouth: "Go see your fellow countryman, continue the front edge, and be his wife." Miss Zheng, do you remember the name Yan Siqi? ”

Zhangzhou, Yan Siqi......

After Zheng Haizhu confirmed that she had heard correctly, her jaw dropped in shock.