In the vast sea, three 167 zhang length of the five-masted thousand material sea ships lined up to the southwest, today the southeast wind rose, the direction is not right, the main sail in the center has fallen, only a few side sails are left before and after, the big oars on the ship all poke out, manpower paddling the water.

Normally, the big ship should anchor and wait for the wind direction, after all, sailing at sea can easily travel thousands of miles, and manpower can only assist.

Not right now.

Because it's already nearshore.

This is the turtle and turtle ocean off the sea of Qingyuan Mansion, only sixty or seventy miles away from Dinghai County, before passing Daishan Island, looking south at Zhoushan Island, so food, fresh water do not need to be cautious, at noon the fleet up and down let go of a full stomach, in order to get to the shore as soon as possible, even the account keeper ran to help rock.

As the head of this fleet, Shen Tong was not so easy.

When they set off from Qingyuan in June last year, Western Wu had already captured Huaidong, and Zhu also issued the "Pingzhou Bang", and the army could press Pingjiang at any time. The head of the family had no choice but to let them turn to Qingyuan to go to sea, and made an appointment to return to Qingyuan, and gave Fang Guozhen a big gift for this.

In the months that I stayed in Nagasaki, there were merchant ships arriving one after another, saying that Eastern Wu had been defeated, and the Fang clan was still supporting, but thinking about the prosperity of the Western Wu soldiers, how long the Fang clan could support it, and what was Qingyuan at the moment, Shen Tong was bottomless in his heart.

More than ...... What happened to the Shen family, he didn't dare to think about it.

If it weren't for the fact that his parents, wife and children needed him as a pillar, Shen Tong occasionally thought about it, and wanted to stay in a foreign land for a long time and never return.

What a troubled time!

After lunch, Shen Tong went to the incense room on the ship to offer incense to the gods, prayed sincerely, and hoped that the Shen family would also return smoothly and safely as he went to sea this time, and then returned to his cabin.

Flipping through an account book, and just combing through the income of this round trip for a while, suddenly a boatman staggered in, trembling and said, "Bow of the ship, what ...... North, there are ships...... Fleet ......"

Seeing the boatman like this, Shen Tong chuckled in his heart, stood up suddenly, and forcibly calmed himself down.

I don't know what the situation is, how can I mess with myself.

After reprimanding the boatman a few words, Shen Tong got out of the cabin and went straight to the mainmast, on the way, he saw many boatmen gathered on the north side of the ship, pointing, not even caring about the rocking oar, and some people screamed in a panic: "The army, ......"

Didn't bother to pay attention to everyone, Shen Tong climbed the mast cable and went up to the main mast, and when he arrived at the lookout, he realized that he was in his thirties and had not climbed for many years, but he still had such potential.

There was already a dark-skinned thin man standing on the lookout, named Pu Wu, because that pair of eyes could see far away, and there was a nickname of 'Pu Harrier', the fleet almost hit the pirates several times along the way, all of which were Pu Wu's early warnings.

Shen Tong glanced at the huge fleet that was getting closer and closer, and raised his hand and slapped it fiercely on Pu Wu's head: "Rammed goods, it's so close, why don't you warn?" ”

Pu Wu didn't care about Shen Tong's anger, his head was crooked, he straightened up again, looked at the north blankly, and said with a crying voice: "Bow of the boat, let's ...... I couldn't run away, so I picked up the sail, and I could only be blown up by the wind. ”

If it is far sea, if it is just a few pirate ships, even if they encounter it head-on, they can move and dodge, and even if they encounter, their own side is not powerless to fight back.

Present......

There are more than 20 large and small ships, most of which are larger than their thousands of ships, not to mention, looking at the flags on that ship, it is obviously still a navy, plus the wind direction today, how can it run? !

After being stunned for a moment, Pu Wu said again: "Captain, I think...... The big boat in the middle seems to be a throne boat. ”

Shen Tong heard him say this, and felt that his legs were even softer.

Zhang Shicheng has been defeated, what else is King Zhang there, it must be that the Western Wu Navy is not bad.

Forced to exhale to calm himself down, Shen Tong motioned to Pu Wu: "Look at the flag ......" said that he also squinted his eyes, but unfortunately he could only faintly see a flag fluttering, and he couldn't even distinguish the color, and asked: "The largest flag, look at it, what color is it, but the dragon flag?" ”

In any case, the identity of the other party must be determined first.

Pu Wu looked at it for a moment and shook his head: "Yellow, no dragon, there are words." ”

Shen Tong was so anxious that he wanted to hammer this rammer again, so he couldn't say more by himself, so he could only ask again: "What word?" ”

Pu Wuyi grinned, as if crying and laughing: "Bow boy, I can't read." ”

Shen Tong didn't bother to train again, so he spread out his palms and said, "Follow the strokes on my hands." ”

Pu Wu squinted slightly, looked at it for a while, and began to use his fingers to draw cats and tigers in Shen Tong's palm.

Shen Tong quickly recognized the line of words: Yu, Ling, Hua, Gao, Hai, Jun, Du, and Governor.

Then he sat down in the basket of the observation deck.

Governor of the Navy, Shen Tong has never heard of it, but he can understand the meaning of the words on the surface. The key is still Huagao...... He happened to know that this person was a general of the navy under the name of the Zhu family.

Pu Wu saw Shen Tong sitting down, he also wanted to fall down, but his body was so stiff that he couldn't move, so he could only look at it again, and saw that two clippers were separated from the mighty fleet, coming this way, and he argued, and said in a hissing voice: "The bow, two eight-boat clippers, are coming towards us, and they also waved flags, as if to stop the boat." ”

As he spoke, two more bright lights burst out from the two ships and exploded in the sky.

In a moment, the sound of an explosion was heard.

Pu Wu said mechanically again: "They ...... There are firearms, this is a warning to us. ”

Shen Tong breathed a sigh of relief again, finally stood up, and looked at the fleet that was getting closer and more under pressure, not only the central giant boat, but most of the other ships were also big ships of one or two thousand materials, and then looked at the fast-approaching eight-oar clipper, muttered a few words, and finally said to Pu Wu: "Shout out, lower the sails, and ...... the anchorage."

These ships don't care about the goods, and the ships don't matter, let's save the lives of more than 100 people in the fleet first. Not only that, Shen Tong has already considered that in order to avoid this group of officials and soldiers from directly killing people and robbing goods, he must also report the name of the Shen family, and then send a generous gift to Na Huagao afterwards.

Shen Tong believed that even if the head of the family was here, he would definitely make the same choice.

In matters of maritime trade, people are more important than ships.

If the ship is gone, it can be rebuilt, and if there are no people who are proficient in navigation, there will be no training for several years.

Pu Wu also understood that there was no other way, and the result of trying to escape at this time might be worse, and shouted at the top of his voice: "There is an order at the bow of the ship, lower the sails, lower the sails, lower the sails, lower the anchors, lower the anchors......"

The other side.

On the top deck of the Zhu Yuanzao boat, a group of people were also looking at the three boats.

Hua Gao held a recently made monocular, grinning and laughing while looking at it, revealing his true nature: "Three fat fish, they must have come back from the Japanese people, this time and again, they are all good things." ”

Today is the 10th day of the second month.

Stinged.

The temperature at sea is even warmer, Zhu Yuan is still wearing a thick white fox fur, standing in the wind, without any appearance of a beautiful son, too small and thin, and with his hands on his sleeves, more like the stupid son of the landlord's family who has been sick and weak for a long time, and there is a small sack next to the stupid son, one is more imposing than the other.

Ignoring the words of Huada people who may have recalled the 'eventful years' in the past, Zhu Yuan said to Zhao Xu: "Just ordered, no one is allowed to board the ship without permission?" ”

Zhao Xu nodded.

Zhu Yuan turned to Liu Lian: "Pick a team of people, arrive in Dingyuan, and carefully list all the goods on the ship in a form." ”

Liu Lian didn't agree immediately, glanced at Hua Gao next to him, and arched his hand: "Hanlin, it's not easy to survive at sea, nine deaths and one life, Lian asks Hanlin Mo to embarrass them." ”

After getting along in just a few days, Liu Lian has already understood that Zhu Yuan is not the kind of minister he once imagined...... It's not aimed at Zhu Yuan, but because of Hua Gao's mouth just now, pointing to the east and the west.

Zhu Yuan also understood, and said with a smile: "I don't plan to embarrass them, in the future, the matter of maritime trade will be under the jurisdiction of our Camp Maritime Division, these three ships happen to be a standard case, or the kind that has not been concealed and tampered with, so that we can clearly understand the details of maritime trade." ”

After speaking, he turned to Zhao Xu: "After arriving at the port, board the ship, and send a few soldiers to look at each other, and no one is allowed to stretch out their hands." Thinking about it, the freehand brother Qiao An, who showed surprise to surround him: "Wait a minute, you can follow and remember my words." ”

Qiao An, who had been bumpy for a few days, was no longer seasick, and when she heard the words, she clenched her fists meticulously and bowed: "Mark the order." ”

Joan has become a hundred households again.

It is not among the two thousand people of Zhao Xu and Zuo Qi, but belongs to Mingzhou Wei's subordinates.

After all, he is not familiar with life, Zhu Yuan always has to have a relatively close person, he told Lao Zhu before, and asked Qiao An to compete with Zhao Xu and Zuo Qi, this Shandong big man pressed Zhao Xu two to fight, and Zhao Xu was in a hurry to compare bows and arrows, but unfortunately he still didn't compare.

Zhu Yuan understood at that time that he had found a treasure.

In short, it is more than enough to grant one hundred households.

Zhu Yuan ordered, did not continue to stay on the top deck to watch the excitement, turned around and walked to the gangway.

A group of people around him followed, and a certain sack girl took the initiative to reach out to help, and her strength was still a little strong, and she felt like she was going to hold Zhu Yuan up. Zhu Yuan recently coined a new term called 'sack carrying the ding'.

I'm going to go ashore and find a Ding to try.

Regarding the little girl named Lin Xiaoyu next to her, Zhu Yuan originally disagreed with her following, what it looked like, but it must have been a lobbying by Nanzi Liubai, and I don't know what she said, from Huagao to Zhao Xu, they all agreed soon.

Hua Gao also came to persuade him in person, and said the wrong thing, and said, 'Hanlin, look, Xiao Nier, this little nod, ...... with you'.

It was blasted out at the time.

Returning to the cabin on the first floor, pondering for a while a simple star map made by a group of girls in the past few days under the existing information and real-time observations, pondering sleepy, and was about to make up for a while, someone came to report that the bow of the fleet had just been brought over, and asked Zhu Yuan if he wanted to see him.

Zhu Yuan got up again and came to the conference hall on the second floor.

Entering the door, he sat down on Hua Gao's right hand, and soon several people were brought in, led by a short-bearded man in his thirties with slightly dark skin but politeness, wearing a black robe, without a hat, and his expression was full of embarrassment and panic.

The man approached and knelt down with several attendants behind him: "Shen Tong, the bow of the Shen clan caravan in Changzhou, has seen two adults. ”

Hua Gao casually held a cup of tea, looked at Shen Tong Shili, and said to Zhu Yuan: "Hanlin, you come and ask." ”

Zhu Yuan let a few people get up first, and said curiously: "Where is Changzhou?" ”

Shen Tong saw that it was a young man who spoke, and no one told them about the other party's official position, but he didn't dare to slack off at all, and said respectfully: "Pingjiang Road belongs to Changzhou County. ”

Zhu Yuan understood.

It is now a county under the Suzhou Prefecture.

But...... Well...... Suzhou, Shen's, this ......

So he tempted: "Zhou Zhuang, Shen Wansan?" ”

Shen Tong almost knelt down again, and said deeply: "My lord, 'Wansan' is just a folk rumor, and Shen Xiu, the head of the ancestral family, really can't be called so." ”

Zhu Yuan understood why Shen Tong was panicking.

It's not a good thing to be told all day long about how rich you are.

But the corners of his mouth curled.

What a coincidence.

It's really 'Shen Wansan'.