Chapter 70: The Canal
Even if Zhu Jixi committed the great crime of rebellion, the fact that his surname is Zhu cannot be changed.
So there should still be a row.
It is also reasonable to transfer a few warships to escort it.
Chen Kan and his entourage came to Dinghuai Gate, and the Yangtze River wharf had already been emptied by the sailors.
Three treasure ships of 2,000 materials and dozens of cruising fortune ships were quietly parked on the edge of the dock.
A treasure ship can accommodate 450 sergeants, plus men, sailors, helmsmen, rockers, etc., the maximum shipboard size can reach 600 people.
A cruising ship can accommodate more than 60 sergeants, and the maximum size of the ship can reach 100 people.
Because Zhu Jixi was escorted by Jinyiwei throughout the whole process, the sailor only sent more than 100 sergeants to escort him, and the rest were all sailors, so these three treasure ships plus more than ten lucky ships transported more than 1,000 people from Chen Kan, which was more than enough.
As the prisoner car escorting Zhu Jixi slowly drove to the dock, the sailors and soldiers also slowly lowered the suspension of the treasure ship.
Chen Kan walked to the treasure ship, shook the tooth card in his hand, and said: "This official Beizhen Fu Siwei Zhen Fu Chen Kan was ordered to escort the abolished Jin King to Taiyuan Mansion. ”
A sergeant dressed as a general jumped off the deck, came to Chen Kan and arched his hand: "Xiaguan Daming Sailor Guanhaiwei Qianhu Song Qing, I have seen my lord, and the sailor warship to escort the abolished Jin King is ready, please review it." ”
After the handover, the officers and soldiers of Jinyiwei escorted Zhu Jixi's prisoner car onto the warship.
After all the soldiers of the Jinyi Guard were lined up on each warship, Song Qing nodded to the sailor on the leading treasure ship, and the sailor took out the command flag and ran to the command platform of the treasure ship and waved it.
After a few moments, the treasure ship slowly sailed away from the dock and into the center of the river, which could not be seen as far as the eye could see.
"My lord, the distance from Beijing to Yangzhou is only two hundred miles, and at the speed of my Daming Sailor Treasure Ship, it will not take a day to arrive, and please enter the cabin for a while."
Chen Kan can be said to be as good as a stream, as the so-called worship of what Buddha you enter the temple.
On the ship of the naval division, everything is naturally subject to the arrangement of the naval generals.
The room on the treasure ship is not large, so there will be room for a bed and a small table.
The bed and table, as well as the stools on both sides of the table, are tightly fastened to the floor with mortise and tenon joints to prevent things from running around in the room when the wind and waves are strong.
It's the biggest and best room on board.
The water surface of the river is wide, the current is gentle, and the volume of the treasure ship is very large, so the room is quite stable, Chen Kan sat down against the window and carefully enjoyed the scenery along the coast.
In the middle of summer, the weeping willows on both sides of the river are so green that the water network in the south of the Yangtze River is so dense that it is sometimes difficult to tell which is the main river.
There are countless ships coming and going on the river, fishing boats, merchant ships, cargo ships, coming and going, it is really a scene of hundreds of cars competing for thousands of sails.
As the fleet of sailors led by the treasure boat sailed into the center of the river, the ships gradually diverted to both sides, leaving a river channel hundreds of meters wide for the fleet of sailors.
The scenery along the coast is constantly passing behind your head, making it difficult to tell whether people are moving or the scenery along the coast is moving.
In the afternoon, as the water surface became more and more open, a majestic city also jumped into everyone's eyes.
"My lord, do you need to take a break in Yangzhou City?"
After looking at the scenery for an afternoon, Chen Kan was a little drowsy.
Song Qing's voice sounded, and Chen Kan suddenly woke up.
Rubbing his eyes and walking out of the room, Chen Kan asked, "Can I sail at night?" ”
"Lord Hui, if you turn into the canal, you can sail at night, but you can't go into the Huai River."
"Then let's go into the canal before it's dark."
Chen Kan yawned, anyway, there is no car and horse fatigue on the boat, so try to hurry up if you can get to Taiyuan as soon as possible, and he has to come back for the exam.
The county exam is only once a year, and if you miss it, you have to wait for next year, and Chen Kan is now eighteen years old.
Time is money!
"Yes."
Song Qing bowed in response,
Then Chen Kan only felt a strong sense of weightlessness coming, and the treasure ship turned around and sailed into the canal, which was much narrower and smoother than the river.
There are three elements in the canal that can sail at night, one is that the river is straight enough, one is that the current is gentle enough, and the last one is naturally that the sailor warship is fearless.
If you change to an ordinary merchant ship or a cargo ship, you are looking for death when you sail at night.
At the moment when the treasure ship turned a corner, a group of sailors and soldiers scattered a large fishing net at the confluence of the canal and the river.
Not only were the sailors' soldiers doing this, but Chen Kan also noticed that other passing ships were also casting their nets.
Seeing that Chen Kan was curious, Song Qing took the initiative to explain: "My lord, there are the most big fish at the intersection of the river and the canal, and the taste of the fish is also the most delicious. ”
Jiangnan people love to eat fish, especially yusheng.
Freshly caught big fish, cut off the internal organs and sliced, accompanied by wasabi sauce, the taste is incomparably delicious, Jiangnan people, has made the fish sheng into one of the freshest in the world.
"Then I'm going to have a good taste!"
Chen Kan came to the edge of the deck with great interest, and watched the soldiers stretch their fishing nets like big pockets, dragging the fishing nets from the river to the canal with the drag force of the hull, and slowly reel in the nets.
A moment later, the nets were slowly pulled up to the deck.
There are not many fish caught in the net, but they are really large, and Chen Kan found that there is even a three-foot-long sturgeon among them, not to mention eating this thing in later generations, it is illegal to even touch it.
But in this era of primitive ecology, fish like this is just an ordinary dish in the homes of fishermen along the Yangtze River.
"Send this fish to the kitchen, make half of it into a soup and make half of it, and steam the belly for me."
Chen Kan pointed to the largest sturgeon, I don't know if it was out of revenge against the society or the psychology of curiosity, he always felt that it was not worth walking on this river without eating this fish.
Watching a sailor soldier bring the freshly fresh big fish into the kitchen, Chen Kan returned to the room to prepare for the meal.
In less than a stick of incense, a plate of extremely delicately placed yusheng was sent to Chen Kan's room by the captain of Jinyi, looking at the crystal clear and thin sashimi like cicada wings, Chen Kan's index finger moved, and after a while, a large plate of yusheng was less than half.
Thinking that there would be fish soup and steamed fish belly later, Chen Kan couldn't get enough of letting the captain of Jinyi who was guarding the door remove the sashimi.
While waiting for the sturgeon soup, Chen Kan looked out the window in a daze.
This is the canal.
Unfortunately, most of the Yongji Canal to Beijing has been silted, and only a few rivers can be navigated.
The Tongji Canal that Chen Kan took was also because his grandfather planned to move the capital to Kaifeng during his reign, so he recruited people and craftsmen to dredge most of the river.
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