021 Pirates
On the way, the two officials were each stuffed with dozens of copper plates, and Liang En roughly inquired about what was going on.
It turned out that just last night, a three-masted galleys suddenly broke into the mouth of the Yangtze River, and was pursued by the Yangtze River Inspection Department all the way upstream, and finally ran aground near Fushan Town in the jurisdiction of Gusu Prefecture after escaping from the pursuit.
After running aground, a group of natives, led by two chainmail-wearing, scarcarf-wearing men, rushed out of the boat and attempted to attack the illuminated town of Fukuyama not far away.
When this group of people made this decision, they didn't know that Fushan Town, as the core support point along the river in the north of Gusu Prefecture, had been completely fortressed, and was garrisoned by a regular army like Fushan Qianhu.
Even if many of the troops of the Thousand Households were scattered across many islands and towns, the troops in the town still had a full three hundred households, and there was even a cavalry general banner, with an armor rate of up to sixty percent.
In addition, this army was able to obtain the support of the town's officials, hunters, and fishermen, and under normal circumstances, it was even able to withstand a full-scale attack by tens of thousands of pirates in a short period of time.
Therefore, they discovered the group of bandits early on and secretly prepared for them, and kept it secret until they approached the city to launch a surprise attack.
In the face of the surprise attack of the regular army, the rabble of the robbers were naturally no opponent, they were completely dispersed by the cavalry, and then completely wiped out by the infantry and militia behind.
When the pirates were eliminated, another part of the army succeeded in capturing the already empty ships and freeing more than 100 rowing slaves from above.
"You don't know that those people with lust actually dared to kidnap our Song people and fishermen as slaves at sea." Speaking of this, Li Zhutou showed a kind of anger from the heart.
"There is no doubt that all of these pirates will be cut in half, and the slaves on board will be freed. And we invite you now because there are some strange people among the captives. ”
"Strange Eyed Man? Isn't that group of pirates the same race? Liang En asked a little puzzled?
"It's different, those pirates are Persians among the Semu people, and we can still find Persian-speaking interpreters to help translate, but these captives are different."
Li Zhutou shook his head, and then briefly introduced.
"We examined their bodies and found that they were much stronger than normal people, and they had some calluses on their hands and inner thighs, so we suspected that they were probably nobles among the Semu people."
Soon, Liang En followed the two arresters into the county office. And when he just passed through the gate, he clearly felt that there was a powerful suppressive force in the county government.
"Sure enough, sure enough, it makes sense that the government in this world can control the order." Feeling some kind of power that shrouded the entire yamen, Liang En could be regarded as solving a mystery in his heart.
"It turns out that the government of this world has the power of luck and Shinto, so it's no wonder that it can guarantee the rule of the entire country in this world with gods and ghosts."
He also finally understood the reason why he had successfully paid for naturalization after answering a few questions in front of the Yashen shrine behind the county government, thinking that he had been recognized by the gods without knowing it.
It's just that he didn't cultivate in the past, so he couldn't feel this. And now that you have cultivation, you can clearly feel the extraordinary power that suppresses everything in the county government.
Fortunately, Liang En was not an enemy, so this power was only fleeting in him.
Following the two catchers into the back hall, Liang En found that the county magistrate had left at this time, leaving only the old county magistrate in his 50s still sitting on the side chair, and opposite him were three Caucasian people standing there respectfully.
"Dong Xiancheng." Liang En stepped forward and bowed to the county.
"Liang Gongzi, you're finally here." After seeing Liang En, Dong Xiancheng showed a smile, and then pointed to the helplessness on the faces of the three white men.
"We also asked the temple chief of the City God Temple to come over and read the translation symbol before, but because we have never seen this kind of person, the translation symbol in the City God Temple here can't be used."
"As for the enemy who was captured by us in this method of soul searching, it is no problem, but it is not polite to use it against innocent people, so after thinking about it for a long time, I can only call you to try."
"I'll do my best." Liang En nodded, and then watched as the Caucasian tried out the foreign language they knew.
“Hello? Bonjour? Hallo - "Because of studying abroad, Liang En learned the greeting languages of many countries with many international students, but unfortunately every sentence was not answered.
"It shouldn't be, judging from the previous information, the two worlds should be about the same, how could it be-"
After changing seven or eight greetings in a row, Liang En's heart began to mumble, but just as he was thinking, he suddenly realized that he had made a huge mistake.
He ignored the changes in human language over the course of hundreds of years, so there was a high probability that his language would not be understood by the three people in front of him after hundreds of years.
As for the characters, it goes without saying that unlike the Chinese characters, most of the characters in the west are pinyin characters, so the spelling will naturally be different when the pronunciation is different.
"This is a problem." Liang En subconsciously wiped his face, and then suddenly thought of a kind of text.
“Salve?”
After trying to say the Latin phrase he had learned in his professional class, the big man standing in the middle with a scar in his eye had a sharp light in his eyes, and then he muttered a lot.
"What is this man of color talking about?"
After looking at the big guy in front of him and muttering a lot, Dong Xiancheng immediately looked at Liang En and asked.
"Please wait a minute, I'm not familiar with this language yet, so I need a little time to remember what my teacher taught me back then."
"Unfamiliar?"
"Yes, this is the language of an ancient empire of the Tessians, but this language has been abandoned for seven or eight hundred years, and there should be only a small number of scholars, nobles, and cultivators who understand this language now."
While explaining in a whisper, Liang En quickly connected to the copper tripod in his soul, and then gave the order.
"Strengthen my Latin skills!"
A drop of silver liquid disappeared, and then the poor Latin knowledge in his mind quickly swelled, and a large amount of knowledge quickly grew with the original knowledge as seeds, and was absorbed by Liang En's sea of consciousness.
And when he opened his eyes again, he found that what he said to the middle-aged man had suddenly changed from being able to understand only a few words to being completely comprehensible.
"—Your Excellency, I was sent by the Council of Elders of Florence as a messenger to the East in search of a trading partner, but I was captured by the damned pirates, and my retinue was almost completely dead and wounded. But my seal ring and letter of state should still be on the ship. Please be sure to tell this official of the Song Kingdom to verify my identity. ”
"Florence?" Thinking that it was about 14XX years now, Liang En immediately asked subconsciously. "Do you represent the Florentine Presbyterian Church, or the Medici?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the man who called himself the messenger widened his eyes in surprise and opened his mouth slightly.
"God—O God! It's amazing that you know to know our city-state! ”