Liu Yifeng glanced at the birds, and obediently followed the crew and got off the boat. He remained silent and listened to the shocked and angry discussions of the crew, and slowly cleared his mind:

The Ming Dynasty is not allowed to transport bird guns to North America?

Why?

There are Indians in North America, aren't they afraid of Indians attacking the colonies? Or did the Ming colonies in North America not penetrate deep enough to reach the Indians? And it seems like it would be a great sin to transport arquebuses to North America.

It's a pity that his series of questions are destined to not be answered by these crew members.

"My lord! The villain really didn't know it was a bird, they told the villain that it was just some ordinary goods! ”

Without the crew, the captain, the navigator and several other high-ranking officials on the ship knelt down and began to explain and intercede frantically. Because transporting the bird gun to Dongshan Prefecture is really a matter of losing my head.

"Shut up! Explain the matter of the bird to the steward yourself. Come on, press them all! ”

Don't talk about the captain and others who keep complaining, this Maritime Safety Bureau official now has a terrible headache. He knew that he had done something wrong, and the steward would definitely be very angry.

In fact, as the number one henchman of the Maritime Safety Bureau of the Ghost City, he is very aware that occasionally some treasure ships smuggle goods with bird guns. But this thing is like the belly button of the yellow flower girl, everyone knows but no one can see it, as long as the filial piety is in place, everyone will be the big girl without a "belly button".

But now in front of dozens of crew members and the grassroots officials of the Maritime Safety Bureau, the bird gun has been exposed, and he can only do business.

"My lord, what should you do with these people?"

This is not only the headache, but it is also difficult for these people to deal with.

The Maritime Safety Bureau's annual transportation of people to Dongshan Prefecture is the most important thing in the first half of the year, and it must not be delayed. If this treasure ship is an ordinary cargo ship, the goods will be temporarily held in the port, and another treasure ship will be sent away from the mainland, but these more than 200 people must be transported to Dudongshan Prefecture.

Now all the people in charge of the entire treasure ship, including the two hired masters, have also been implicated by the captain and temporarily imprisoned, and these people are completely unmanaged.

"Gather them first, don't let them run around, one less I only ask!"

"My lord, they didn't run around."

This is not quite like the Minfu in the minds of the officials of the Maritime Safety Administration, and every year there are Minfu in the Minfu fleet who try to escape by various methods when they dock, and do not want to go to Dongshan Prefecture. Now that these people have been driven to the port, they still haven't escaped?

He walked to the side of the boat and watched a young man shouting at him, and the people had gathered in a certain order. Even the dozens of female slaves were gathered together by a few people arranged by the young man.

"Go and ask who that is?"

A quarter of an hour later, the officials of the Maritime Safety Bureau stood in front of Liu Yifeng and the rest of the crew: "You said that you are just a people's husband, but you are a part-time cook on the ship?" ”

"Yes, sir."

It was the first time that the officials of the Maritime Administration had seen this situation and looked at the crew.

"My lord, Liu Yifeng is indeed a cook."

"The food he cooks is very delicious, and the fish soup is much more delicious."

"I want to eat braised pork again, Liu Yifeng, can I eat braised pork today?"

"Shut up!" The official of the Maritime Safety Administration looked at Liu Yifeng, who was neither humble nor arrogant, and he really opened his eyes.

Let's not talk about how there is a part-time chef for Baochuan Ship, with Liu Yifeng's height, he is not humble or arrogant in the face of himself, and he can see that this is an extraordinary person. If he is the elite of the crew, he is more convinced.

"Heads of you, come out and speak."

Crew, you look at me, I look at you, and in the end, no one moved.

In the end, one of the crew members said cautiously: "Your Excellency, the captain, the captain of the sea, and several crew captains have all been taken away by you. ”

The hierarchy of the treasure ship is simple and straightforward, the captain is the largest, the navigator is second, and then the rest of the crew is divided into several large groups, the leader of each group is the captain, and all the crew members are of equal rank. There are also two independent systems, namely the master and the cook.

The relationship between the crews is not very harmonious, because the cruising phase is carried out in groups. The power of the crew chief is based on his own crew, and there is competition between several crew members, so most of the ordinary crew members of other groups of crew members are just familiar with each other.

In many cases, there are still conflicts between the crews of the various groups, especially because this treasure ship has a Japanese slave girl as a reward, and the contradictions between their groups are even worse.

As a result, the officials of the Maritime Safety Administration could not ask for the leader of the crew at all, and no one among the crew members was convinced.

The officials of the Maritime Safety Bureau had a growing headache and could only retreat: "Find someone who can know all of you to come out!" ”

Then something happened that stunned him: Liu Yifeng was pushed out again.

"Aren't you a folk husband?"

"Well, I'm also a part-time cook on the ship, but there is a cook on the ship, so I called him out."

The cook on the ship was already frightened when he saw that the captain was smuggling birds. He is a person with a very soft personality, otherwise he would not have been simply trained by Liu Yifeng as a cook, and the officials of the Maritime Safety Bureau saw that he couldn't take care of things at all, and the crew didn't obey him, so they could only look at Liu Yifeng again.

"You, come here." He pressed Liu Yifeng's shoulder and asked the crew: "You all know him?" ”

"Acquaintance."

"Liu Yifeng, chef."

"I can also do arithmetic, faster than my master's calculations."

"The best mahjong player on board."

"And backgammon."

"Do you have braised pork to eat today?"

"Alright, shut up!" The official of the Maritime Safety Administration looked at Liu Yifeng with a smile and asked, "Who are you?" ”

"My lord, I'm a man of the people."

"I've been an official in the Maritime Safety Bureau for 8 years, and I've been sending a people's fleet for 5 years, and I've never seen a people's head like you!"

Liu Yifeng smiled awkwardly and asked, "My lord, what do you want me to do for you, you might as well say it, I'll see if I can help." ”

The official of the Maritime Safety Bureau was also tormented by the current situation, and he had to deal with the matter of the bird gun in a hurry, but the affairs of the people were also very important, and he really couldn't find a person who could control the crew and the people, so he could only be a dead horse as a live horse doctor.

"Your Excellency, you mean that you want me to temporarily manage all the crew and men on the ship until the captain and them return?"

"Yes."

Liu Yifeng thought for a few seconds and said, "This is not difficult, as long as you grant me permission in front of everyone." ”

Then he roughly said what permissions he wanted, because he said it in front of the crew, and these permissions are essentially fighting for the welfare of the crew, such as 20 places a day for the crew to go to the city to relax, and the cost of the maritime bureau will pay for it.

The MSA's invitation to guests was directly rejected without any hesitation, and the 20 places were too many and asked for halving, but Liu Yifeng originally proposed these two points to be vetoed and bargained. So the final agreement was 10 places, at your own expense.

It was better for these crew members to go to the city than to go with the Japanese slave girls, and it was not long before the 10 places for today were decided.

"Brothers, get down to business first. Captain, they always have to come back, and even if they don't come back, someone will always take us to Dongshan Prefecture. After Liu Yifeng confirmed his authority, he immediately jumped out to take charge of things, and struck while the iron was hot to prove his ability to the officials of the Maritime Safety Bureau:

"Brother Liu, Brother Cui, the two of you take the people in your group to the boat and park the boat."

There are also a lot of details to be done when the ship is parked at the port, and there is nothing wrong with dividing people to manage this, and the two people selected by Liu Yifeng are also the more vocal people in their group.

"Brother Chen, Brother Wang, Brother Sun, Brother He, Brother Qin, you are in charge of a trading house in a group, and you will bring the minfu and the female slave girl to the warehouse first. The female slaves are kept in solitary confinement, and I will arrange for the female slave guards in a moment. ”

Liu Yifeng's neat order was quickly executed, and the officials of the Maritime Safety Bureau were stunned, he really suspected that this person was a very prestigious crew member on the ship pretending to be the head of the people.

"My lord, we need food, bedding, stoves and fuel for 300 people, and we don't have them on such a cold day. In addition, in terms of food, what do you think will be arranged? Do we go back to the boat and make it ourselves, or do you take care of the food, or do you give me permission to go and find a place to make the ingredients ourselves? ”

It is impossible to return to the ship, and the Maritime Safety Bureau is not capable of taking care of the food of 300 people, let alone taking this responsibility, without any accidents, the official of the Maritime Safety Bureau chose to give him the authority to choose the ingredients to go to the kitchen to make it himself.

After the people from the Maritime Safety Bureau left, Liu Yifeng first asked the crew to draw lots, decided on today's 10 lucky winners, and sent them away after informing them that they could not participate in the lottery tomorrow and the next two days.

Then he told some of the frustrated crew members to eat well tonight, and took more than two dozen people and crew members to pick up ingredients. The crew, who were immersed in the excitement of eating something good, didn't realize that Liu Yifeng picked a bit too many ingredients, and he counted the people into it.

The Maritime Safety Bureau found out, but they all knew that Lord Song needed a treasure ship. As the last battle before going to Dongshan Prefecture, the local environment is relatively poor, and the habitual reserve of materials, more than 200 people's supplies are also a drop in the bucket, and they will let them go.

Liugui Prefecture is located in a bitter cold land, and the most reserves here are dried meat and sauerkraut. He thought about it and decided to make Northeast cuisine.