137. Camouflage Large Merchant Ship [2/3]
Since Yi Yun promised An Qian to stay in Chongqing Oasis for one night, he naturally began to think about a safe way. If, as now, you drive five building ships to the wharf of Chongqing Oasis to anchor with great fanfare, I am afraid that it will spread throughout the entire Chongqing Oasis in a blink of an eye, and then the people of Yuwangfu will get the news to see you, it will be very bad.
He wanted to avoid Zhu Yun's relatives as much as possible, so as not to be suspicious of his identity, so he had to keep a low profile and keep a low profile when he returned to Chongqing Oasis for one night this time. Well, these five building ships must be dealt with, and now they are like this, and anyone knows that they are warships, and they must be modified to not look like warships.
As soon as the fleet entered the Jialing River, Yi Yun ordered: "Come on, fold all the Fran cannons on the decks of these five buildings." ”
"Ah, what does this mean, my lord?" the sailors on board were taken aback.
Yi Yun snorted, "I don't think this cannon is pleasing to the eye, it is across the bow of the boat, blocking me from fishing." ”
Sailors sweat profusely, my lord, didn't you catch a good fishing just now? How can this cannon stop you? It seems that General Li Chengyu won't let you play with artillery, so you are angry with the cannon.
A group of sailors did not dare to talk nonsense with the prince, so they quickly ran to the bow and stern of the ship, and used iron rods to pry the base of the cannon, and then dozens of sailors worked together to lift the cannon and move it to the bilge, where it was stacked together with cannonballs, gunpowder and other goods, temporarily acting as ballast stones.
The warship without cannons looks like a toothless tiger, cowardly! Yi Yun was still not satisfied, and said loudly: "Cut off all these uneven lattices on the side of the ship." ”
"Lord Wang, this is called the battle grid, when we are fighting with the enemy, we can shoot arrows from the grid, it is an important facility to protect us, this thing can't be cut. "The sailors sweat profusely.
"Cut, do you need to fight with people on the way to escort this king this time?" Yi Yun said in a strange manner: "Could it be that you colluded with the bandits to come and put on a show under my nose and cheat me of my reward?"
"This ......" The sailors drooped their heads, obediently picked up knives and axes, and remodeled them on the side of the ship, and after a while of ping-pong, the original mighty and domineering, like the side of the city wall, has now become smooth and straight, and there is no trace of the battle grid at all.
However, Yi Yun was still not satisfied, and reached out to the three-story shipbuilding standing on the deck, and said loudly, "Fold this thing for me." ”
Sailors: "......"
"Lord Wang, I can't fold it. The sailors wept and said, "The reason why this ship is called a building ship is because there are three floors on the ship, if these three floors are broken, what is the name of this ship?"
"I call it anything, I say fold, fold. "Yi Yun is not actually messing around, but he really wants to be low-key, he can't be low-key in this kind of building ship, he has to transform the ship into an ordinary cargo ship. He had seen several cargo ships on the docks of the Suining Oasis, and they had one thing in common: the decks were flat, piled with cargo, and then covered with thick canvas.
So to make the ship look like a cargo ship, you have to remove the building and flatten the deck.
The sailors said with a bitter face: "Lord Wang, it is not difficult to take out the cannon and return again." If you cut off the grid, you can nail it back in the future, but if you tear down the shipbuilding, it's a big project, and you can't rebuild it in a short time, so where will you live next? You can't huddle in the dark bilge with us, right?"
Yo, that's a problem, Yi Yun tilted his head and thought for a while, and snorted, "This king decided to set up a tent on the deck, so he lived in a tent!"
Sailors: "......"
Well, the prince has said so, what can we think of those of us who are big soldiers? The sailors had no choice but to obey the order, picked up the axe and slashed at the shipbuilding, crackling, and the huge three-story shipbuilding trembled under the chopping of the big axe.........
A group of women rushed out of the building, and Soft Muxing ran in the front, shouting urgently: "What happened?
"The enemy is attacking you!" Yi Yunbian said: "It's this king who is folding the house." ”
"Why do you have to fold?" Soft Muxing was puzzled.
Of course, Iyun wouldn't tell her the real reason, but just casually said, "Dude is studying architecture." ”
"Cheap pig study?" Soft Muxing was shocked: "You stinky rascal! What strange things do you study all day long?"
Evan: "......"
The poor female assassin Lu Xi followed behind Soft Muxing, she didn't ask why she wanted to fold the building, but just looked at the shipbuilding where the sawdust was flying in the axe, felt infinite regret, and sighed: "What a good shipbuilding, what a good wood, what a beautiful paint...... How much silver do you have to lose to cut it down like this?"
A sailor swung an axe and replied casually: "It is not easy to build such a ship, wood, paint, labor, cannons, shells, gunpowder, sails, and equipment in the shipyard...... All of them add up, and it costs fifty thousand taels of silver to build one. ”
"What? 50,000 taels?" Lu Xi counted with his hand, one ship, fifty thousand taels, five ships, two hundred and fifty thousand...... Oops my mom, I'm so dizzy. So much money, just chop it with an ax?
The poor poor girl exclaimed, "Shame on wasting! How good it is for me to give me this money!" and fainted straight, which was heart-wrenching.
The other girls were much calmer, Shui Miao held Xiao Ziyue on the side and watched, and did not interject, because she was from a relatively low background, she rarely spoke in front of other girls, and she was even more low-key in front of Yi Yun, a soft and obedient look, but Yi Yun knew that there was a touch of indescribable strength in her weakness, and he didn't want to find a reason to fool around like a fool sailor, so he walked over with a smile and whispered in her ear: " I want to pass through the Chongqing Oasis in a low-key way, so I want to disguise our ship as a cargo ship, and grieve you for not having a ship to live in for a few days. ”
Shui Miao smiled softly: "It's okay if you don't have a building to live in, I'm a child of a poor family, and I can live in any kind of environment." ”
Xiao Ziyue shook her little bald head, clapped her hands and smiled: "Me too, I have even lived in the belly of a fish!"
You didn't live in it voluntarily, you were swallowed by a fish, if I hadn't saved you, now you're finished, Yi Yun didn't want to spit out a little nun's trough, so he had to press this sentence back into his stomach.
The girls carried their luggage and got out of the shipbuilding, watching the sailors fly with big axes, chopping the three-story shipbuilding into pieces, throwing all the wood chips and planks into the sand river, and the beautiful building boat began to become extremely ugly, Yi Yun ordered a group of sailors to hang ropes from the side of the ship and turn out, scratch the outside of the side of the ship with knives, and scrape off all the beautiful paint, from the outside, these five big ships all became tattered.
"Well, it looks so much prettier this way!" Yi Yun clapped his hands and smiled, "This is the effect I want." ”
The little demon was so depressed that he pouted beside him: "Your aesthetic is really different from ordinary people!"
The shipbuilding was cut down, and everyone had to set up tents on the deck, and in half a day, several beautiful little tents were erected, but Yi Yun thought these tents were too good-looking, so he smeared them with plaster, and made the tents dusty, which was very ugly.
A few smart girls began to feel that Yi Yun was planning something, so they closed their mouths and stopped spitting out his grooves, but a few stupid girls were still chattering in their mouths, saying things like the little prince's brain was abnormal.
Yi Yun didn't have time to care about what these little girls were thinking, and then he ordered that all sailors were no longer allowed to stay on the deck, and they all went into the bilge, leaving only the sailor in charge of the helm, and this sailor was not allowed to wear a military uniform, but had to change into a coarse cloth suit, disguised as an ordinary river sailor. The people who stayed on the deck of the ship were all replaced by the girls of the Moe Girl Brigade, these girls were originally from a merchant family, so they had a merchant spirit, and it was perfect to disguise them as caravans to transport goods. ...,
After some tossing, the five building ships successfully turned into five large cargo ships, and the originally murderous warships have now become unpretentious, and the imposing sailors on board have all become soft girls. It's low-key enough, isn't it?
The five big boats continued to drift down the Shahe River, and two days later they passed the Beipei Oasis, and two or three days later, finally returned to the long-lost Chongqing Oasis.
The last time Yi Yun first came to Guijing, he only stayed in the Chongqing oasis for a short half a day, and he passed by in a hurry, without looking at this oasis carefully, and this time he came here again, and he felt more calm and calm in his heart, and he could take a serious look at the city.
Chongqing Oasis is the southwest town of Dameng country, second only to Chengdu Oasis in importance in Sichuan Province, it is located at the confluence of the Yangtze River and Jialing River, the two Dasha rivers, if you talk about the convenience of transportation, even more important than Chengdu Oasis, is one of the famous transportation hubs of Dameng country.
At the confluence of the Yangtze River and the Jialing River, there is a famous wharf, called "Chaotianmen Wharf", there is a tall and majestic city gate standing by the wharf, called "Chaotianmen", the door is inscribed with four big characters: "Guyu Xiongguan", it is one of the seventeen ancient city gates of Gujiangzhou.
But the gates are never closed!
It is said that Emperor Sun, the founder of the Great Meng Kingdom, once came here, when this city gate was lacked maintenance because of the stinginess of the Jiangzhou guards, and it was rusted to death and could not be closed, so Emperor Sun easily captured Jiangzhou, and the subjects of the Great Meng Kingdom would never close the Chaotian Gate in order to commemorate this story.
The wharf under Chaotianmen is very large, and there are hundreds of ships of all kinds moored at any time, including the warships of the imperial court and the merchant ships of merchants.
There are many steps leading up from the pier to the Chaotian Gate...... It is said that there are a total of 999 steps of these steps, and I don't know if they are true or false, anyway, there are no people, countless merchants and hawkers, shoulder-to-shoulder, dragging all kinds of goods up and down the steps, creating the first wharf in the southwest that is extremely prosperous.
Yi Yun's five big ships, at dusk, in the midst of the flow of merchant ships and people coming and going, slowly leaned to the edge of Chaotianmen Wharf...... The remnant sun was like blood, An Qian looked at the long steps, her heart was extremely excited, and she couldn't help but whisper in a voice that she could only hear: "I...... Finally home......"
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