After stepping on the treasure ship, Allah was like a turtle who had never seen the world, and even had to tinker with the rope and anchor.

Whenever I find something new, I can't help but jump to my feet and exclaim.

Chen Kan smiled and didn't say anything, just let him watch.

This time, Chen Kan came to Nanyang, in addition to rescuing Zheng He and replanning Nanyang, he also had the purpose of exhibiting and selling the warships of the Ming Dynasty.

The Jiangnan Shipyard is currently working on a new generation of treasure ships, which are said to be more than 60 zhang long in length and nearly 30 zhang in width.

It is one-third larger than the existing treasure ships of the Ming Dynasty, and uses the latest human-powered propeller power.

It costs money to study a big ship.

There are so many warships in the Ming Dynasty that are about to be eliminated, and they always have to find a place to go.

Compared with directly pulling it to the shipyard for scrapping, it is undoubtedly a very cost-effective thing to sell to these small countries in Nanyang.

This time, Allah also went to Daming with the purpose of buying a sea vessel, he wanted to see it, then he would be optimistic.

After Chen Kan gave the order, the fleet, which had shrunk by more than half, sailed towards the east.

Under the bright sun, Chen Kan could finally take off his armor.

In the past few days since he entered Sumatra, Chen Kan has basically been in armor, and he has covered his body with large patches of hot prickly heat.

The accompanying military doctor poured a slimy liquid on Chen Kan's body and wiped it evenly, looking disgusting, but it was cool on his body.

Chen Kan was wearing only a pair of four-legged pants and lying comfortably on the recliner.

A huge parasol shades the sunlight, and a small table is placed next to it.

On the table are all kinds of snacks and, of course, alcohol.

A sip of snacks and a sip of wine, Chen Kan can only be described in two words - comfortable.

Most of Chen Kan's guards are from Jiangnan, and they are all very good in water.

Many people stripped naked, and a fierce man plunged into the sea, swimming in the sea for a while, and always able to catch up many strange gadgets for Chen Kan.

What kind of fiery red sea fish, a conch longer than Chen Kan's wrist, and even a bunch of sea urchins.

As a result, Chen Kan's dinner had an extra dish of raw and submerged sea urchin.

The sea of this era was outrageously abundant.

A wooden knife and a small spoon are Chen Kan's tools for opening sea urchins and eating sea urchins.

Of course, this kind of thing is full of thorns on the outside and not much meat on the inside, so Chen Kan just eats it fresh.

What really fills your stomach has to be a giant conch.

Just put it in fresh water and spit out the sand for an afternoon, and the giant snail shell is just right for cooking.

The men in the army had absolute authority over how to cook these precious seafoods.

A basin of charcoal, a barbed wire, put the conch on it and roast it, until the snail meat is tightened, then take it out and cut off the internal organs.

Then continue to put the white snail meat back, and pour the liquor brought by Daming into it to cook the soup.

The snail meat is full of wine, green onions, ginger and garlic are chopped, and the sauce made of old vinegar from Shanxi and soy sauce from Shaanxi is poured into it one by one.

Seal it with tin foil, put it back in a carbon basin, and bake it over low heat for a stick of incense.

With a shell of fragrant snail meat, Chen Kan cooked three bowls of rice.

"Hiccup~"

After picking up the last bite of rice in the bowl, Chen Kan couldn't help but burp.

The journey back was much easier than when I came, and even the cook's skills improved a lot.

After deciding to eat fried squid with green onions tomorrow, Chen Kan put down the dishes and chopsticks.

The weather at night was still a little stuffy, and after eating a full stomach, Chen Kan walked to the edge of the deck and the sea breeze blew.

On the sea, the distribution of starlight makes it a little difficult to tell whether it is the stars in the sky or the firelight on the ship.

At this time, more than ten points of light lit up from the other side of the sea, and quickly came in the direction where Chen Kan was.

Chen Kan asked the guards for the first time to come over the clairvoyant mirror.

When I saw the format of the ship, I couldn't help but grin.

The ship is a naval warship of the Ming Dynasty, and there is no doubt that it should be Song Qing.

After a short time, the two fleets merged, and Song Qing climbed the deck along the ladder and trotted quickly in front of Chen Kan.

"Master Hou, it's all done."

Chen Kan naturally knew what Song Qing meant when he said it.

From now on, the world will only know that the envoys of the Japanese Kingdom disappeared after entering the sea, and no one will ever connect this matter with the Ming Dynasty.

As long as Daming's reputation is preserved, it will not be in vain for Chen Kan to personally calculate such a little woman as Masako Matsu.

"Well done."

praised Song Qing, and Chen Kan didn't say much, after all, it was not a glorious thing.

"Master Hou, on the other side of the Wa Kingdom, will our Ming really sit idly by?"

Hearing Song Qing's question, Chen Kan could only say that Song Qing's baby was true and sincere, and until now he still thinks that his marquis did something to the envoys of the Japanese Kingdom, but he simply doesn't want to save the Japanese Kingdom.

Chen Kan smiled mysteriously, shook his head and said: "Of course not, the Wa State is also a vassal state of my Ming Dynasty, and the Jurchen savages dare to invade the Wa State, and the Ming Dynasty naturally wants to send troops to ask for the guilt, but not now." ”

Considering that Song Qing was also his confidant, and he also intended to promote Song Qing as the envoy of Fujian Town, Chen Kan revealed some news to him without a trace.

Of course, it's impossible to get it through.

How much Song Qing can realize, that's his own business.

Without waiting for Song Qing to ask again, Chen Kan waved his hand and drove away: "Okay, you've been busy for so long, let's go down and have a good rest first." ”

Song Qing was stunned for a moment, clenched his fists and said, "Then, the last general will retire." ”

Chen Kan snorted and took the lead towards his room.

It was late at night, and the flotilla gradually fell silent.

Chen Kan fell asleep, and together with Chen Kan, more than half of the soldiers on the fleet fell asleep.

The rest are all people on night cruises.

The night watch is to guard against enemies at sea, and the patrol is to find out if there are reefs in the channel ahead of the fleet.

Generally speaking, reefs are basically impossible for established shipping lanes.

But the sea is uncontrollable, and no one knows what is going on at the bottom of the sea, and it is possible that an earthquake or the eruption of an undersea volcano can destroy a mature shipping lane.

......

......

When the fleet left the strait and passed through the Lion Country, Chen Kan deliberately let the fleet stop in the port in front of the Lion City for a day.

Originally, I wanted to repay the favor and support the Lion Country.

But after learning that the king of the Lion Country had been replaced, Chen Kan had to endure the pain to prepare a generous gift to the current king of the Lion Country, the former prime minister.

Although Liu Ye's gift to Zhu Di was more generous, he couldn't stand the gift given by Chen Kan privately and couldn't go to the public account.

I really can't help but feel pain.

A day later, Chen Kan said goodbye to Liu Ye, who was reluctant to give up on Daming, and continued on the road with the fleet.

It was just a short distance away when I heard a report from the cruising warship in front of me that the fleet was about to enter the thunderstorm area, and the thunderstorm area was accompanied by a hurricane.

Chen Kan didn't expect to encounter thunderstorms and hurricanes so soon, so he had to order the fleet to move closer to the land and reduce the speed of sailing.

The fleet gradually entered the thunderstorm area, and huge winds and waves rushed in the face, and even the treasure ship that Chen Kan was riding was jolting like a rootless duckweed.

All the ships had their masts and sails folded.

Chen Kan found that the emergency plan he had set in advance to deal with the thunderstorm did not work at all, and everyone had to huddle into the cabin.

"Dashuai, the wind and waves are too strong, drop anchor."

Song Qing's roar came, Chen Kan gritted his teeth, and his hands clung to the pillar in the cabin.

"No, the order goes down, all ships, go through the thunderstorm area at full speed."

The best way to deal with a thunderstorm at sea is not to enter the thunderstorm zone and wait until the thunderstorm has passed before continuing to sail.

Chen Kan misestimated the power of this thunderstorm and rushed into it with the fleet.

The sun was obscured by dark clouds, and Zhu's lightning was like a dense crack in time and space.

Chen Kan knows very well that anchoring now is definitely not the best choice.

Once anchored, it means that life is handed over to God, although Chen Kan can bet that the thunder will not be able to hit the fleet, but he is not afraid of 10,000 in case.

It is also difficult to move on, and even more dangerous in a sense, because no one knows how wide the thunderstorm is.

What awaits them ahead is likely to be a bigger storm, but it is also possible that the wind and waves are calm.

The boat swayed more and more, and Chen Kan's face became more and more ugly.

He really wants to scold his mother now, who can tell him why there is such a big thunderstorm over the sea?

Aren't thunderstorms usually only found in the depths of the ocean?

At this time, the communication equipment between ships and ships has basically become an ornament, and neither the drums of war nor the horns can compare with the deafening thunder.

The only one who could transmit a signal to the fleet was Chen Kan's huge treasure ship.

As long as the treasure ship is advancing, the other ships will not stop.

"Master Hou, you can't continue sailing, the wind and waves ahead will only get bigger and bigger, drop anchor."

Zhang Dong was also a little anxious.

The treasure ships are rocking more and more, which is enough to show that they have not yet entered the real core of the thunderstorm area.

"Can't stop, keep going!"

Chen Kan would never choose to anchor here.

He believes that the area of thunderstorms offshore will never be too extensive.

If there is a large-scale thunderstorm area near the sea, there is no reason why Zheng He's nautical chart will not record it.

Moreover, there have been no large-scale thunderstorms in the offshore waters in later generations.

So, he had to keep going.

Otherwise, under the ravages of thunder and lightning, I am afraid that many of these 15,000 people will die under the thunder and lightning.

The waves are getting bigger and bigger, and gradually small cruisers are being overturned by the huge waves.

At this time, the emergency plan set by Chen Kan and the others who took the lead finally had some effect.

The soldiers who were overturned in the sea immediately grabbed the hemp ropes hanging from the battleships.

There is a great risk in such a thing as an iron lock boat, especially when encountering an enemy, it is easy to be burned by a fire, but when it is used to save people, it can play a good role.

The rope that was blown off became a lifesaver for the Ming soldiers who were overturned by the huge waves.

Grasping the ropes, they were able to climb onto the nearest boat and save their lives.

As for the ships that have been overturned by the waves, they will definitely not be able to be saved, and everyone can only watch as those warships that can be sold for sky-high prices gradually sink into the sea.

The ship of the Ming Dynasty is quite sturdy, although it will be overturned by the waves, but at least it will not be smashed into pieces by the waves.

Chen Kan withstood all the pressure and ordered all the ships to move forward at full speed.

In the end, it turned out that he was right.

After three days of walking through the thunderstorm area, everyone finally saw the sun that they had not seen for a long time.

Walking out of the treasure ship that had stabilized again, Chen Kan couldn't help but burst into tears with excitement.

He knows, he knows.

He knew that there could be no thunderstorm zone that was too large offshore.

Although his ships had been in the thunderstorm zone for three full days, they had only traveled a hundred miles.

"Pass the order, count the battle damage, and determine the course."

As soon as we got out of the thunderstorm area, the whole fleet was busy.

They need to know how many men and how many ships they have lost from this thunderstorm.

As the battleships on each battleship gradually converged, the expression on Chen Kan's face became more and more ugly.

In the evening, Chen Kan held the first military meeting after leaving the strait on the treasure ship.

In the conference room, the expressions on the faces of Song Qing, Tan Cong, Dou Xing, and the three major sailor commanders were the same as Chen Kan.

Chen Kan conveyed the summarized data to a cadre of generals with a heavy face.

"This thunderstorm has caused us to lose six cruise warships, a total of one hundred and twenty-six brothers are missing, including two hundred households, a general flag and four small flags, if there is no miracle, they will most likely have no chance of survival."

Chen Kan's words fell, and a group of generals were suddenly mourned.

This trip to the South Seas was unprecedentedly small.

Only Song Qing led the 3,000 people to kill about 500 people, and the other was to kill the dozens of unlucky people in the rainforest.

But now, a thunderstorm has caused them to lose more than 100 elite brothers, how can they be in a good mood.

Seeing everyone's expressions like this, Chen Kan's heart was also very uncomfortable.

Throwing the list of those soldiers whose whereabouts are unknown on the table, Chen Kan said with a sad face: "This matter is at fault with Ben Shuai, Ben Shuai thought that there could be no thunderstorm in the near sea, and the plan he made was a little hasty. ”

Chen Kan began to do self-examination, and a group of generals heard the words and began to comfort Chen Kan in a few words.

"The commander doesn't have to blame himself, the thunderstorm is a natural disaster, no one can guarantee when and where he will appear, as for the more than 100 missing brothers, they can only say that their lives are not good."

As soon as Song Qing opened his mouth, he immediately provoked a burst of echo: "Yes, Dashuai, what does this matter have to do with you, the brothers are all soldiers who eat food, and what they do is to pin their heads to the waistband of their trousers, and this matter is not to blame Dashuai in any case." ”

"People die and birds face the sky, and they will not die for thousands of years, and we will fight against natural disasters, which can be regarded as a war, and the brothers will die as they deserve......."

As Chen Kan's self-examination began, the style of painting in the big tent gradually deviated.

Chen Kan took a deep breath and suddenly said: "Ben Shuai wants to let the fleet dock and stop, and after the thunderstorm stops, go to find the corpses of the brothers, after all, they were brought out by Ben Shuai, if they are buried in the belly of the fish like this, Ben Shuai can't bear it, what do you think?" ”

As soon as these words came out, the generals suddenly lost their voices.

A group of generals, you look at me, I look at you, looking at each other, they all see embarrassment in each other's eyes.

Chen Kan frowned and said, "What, don't you want to?" ”

Song Qing, Dou Xing, Tan Cong, the three highest military commanders except for Chen Kan glanced at each other, and in the end, it was Song Qing who took the lead in speaking.

He glanced at Chen Kan with some embarrassment, and said in a low voice: "Hui Dashuai, it's not that the brothers are unwilling, but the supplies on our ship are already limited, and now we have lost six boats, if we stop in such a deserted place for too long, I am afraid that the materials will not be able to keep up, after all, none of us know when the thunderstorm will stop." ”

With Song Qing opening his mouth, Tan Cong understood and added the second sentence: "Yes, Dashuai, it's not that we don't want to take the brothers home, the main thing is that there are not only more than 100 brothers under our command, but also more than 10,000 living people." ”

Chen Kan didn't know this, but if he wanted to lead the fleet north immediately, he really had a bad conscience.

After a moment of silence, Chen Kan stretched out three fingers and said with difficulty: "Three days, the fleet stays here for three days, and if the thunderstorm stops after three days, they will go to look for the missing brothers, if the thunderstorm does not stop, it will be too late to return, what do you think?" ”

Listening to Chen Kan's almost pleading-like tone, the generals opened their mouths, and finally agreed to Chen Kan's request.

After waiting in place for three days, the ship's supplies were barely enough to support.

Song Qing sighed, nodded, and said, "So, the last general will go and order the fleet to sail into the shallow sea?" ”

"Okay."

Chen Kan agreed to Song Qing's request to pass the order.

There is no dock in this vicinity, and the so-called stop of the fleet in the shallow sea naturally makes it impossible to really drive the ship to the shore.

After all, the sea has high and low tides.

If the water is too shallow at the anchor site, it will be difficult to run aground.

After all, warships are not small fishing boats, and they can be towed into the sea by manpower.

Ordinary soldiers had no opinion on Chen Kan's order, not only did they have no opinion, but there was even no lack of praise.

After all, what soldier doesn't want to meet a benevolent commander?

They also hope that when they die in battle, someone will bring their bones back to their hometown for burial.

Not to mention that this coach is not only benevolent, but also can lead them to win battles and make military achievements.

The flotilla was not far from a mangrove forest, and many of the soldiers, although they were used to being on board, saw the land and inevitably went up to explore it.

Chen Kan didn't get off the boat, but just asked Allah to take his men with him to take a look.

What are the dangers or benefits of the rainforest, no one knows better than the natives of the South Seas under the command of Allah.

Besides, the envoys didn't know if they were lucky or what, and this time there was nothing to lose.

This made Chen Kan a little unhappy.

Why did he lose so many men under his command, Allah could not lose anything.

Since you are so lucky, let's go and be a bodyguard for the Ming army.

Seeing the cruisers transporting squads to log in, Chen Kan turned back to his room.

In the past three days of crossing the thunderstorm area, he didn't dare to close his eyes, of course, under the surging waves, he couldn't sleep even if he wanted to.

He didn't have the same good energy as the soldiers under his command, and he was still in the mood to explore unknown places after three days of sleep.

It's just that Chen Kan just fell asleep not long before he was woken up by a noisy sound.

Listen to the voice, it seems to be Allah.

Angrily getting up from the bed and walking out of the deck, Chen Kan suddenly found that the soldiers on the treasure ship were all excited.

"What's going on?"

Chen Kan's voice sounded, which immediately attracted everyone's attention.

Allah came up excitedly, pointed to the mangrove forest in the distance and said, "Master Hou, that... It's a spice island, and it's full of spices, and it's the season when it's time to pick them. ”

Chen Kan glared at Allah dissatisfied.

He thought it was a big deal, and that's it?

There are many things about the spice islands in the South Seas, which is not a secret at all, and Chen Kan knows about it in his past and present lives.

Allah was a little confused, and asked cautiously: "Master Hou, that's the spice of an island, aren't you tempted?" ”

Chen Kan looked around at the people on the deck and saw that everyone was excited.

I had to sigh and say, "Yes, it's a spice island, and the spices from one island are transported back to Daming, and everyone can make a fortune, but there is no place for us to transport them on the ship." ”

It's not that Chen Kan has to pour cold water on them, he just told the facts.

Sure enough, as Chen Kan's words fell, a group of soldiers suddenly looked like frosted eggplants.

yes, discovered the Spice Island, got rich, and then what?

Allah's face was a little anxious: "We can build a ship, the villain looked, there are many Babel trees on the island, which are good materials for building big ships." ”

It's a pity that the people who were poured a basin of cold water by Chen Kan have completely come to their senses at this moment.

Shipbuilding, easy to say.

There are so many supplies on the ship, where can they support them to build a ship.

Spices are different from gold and silver, which can be transported on rafts, because gold and silver do not affect their actual value if they are touched by water.

If the spice is stained with seawater, it doesn't even need to be stained with seawater, as long as it is wet, it is waste, and waste is worthless.

Seeing that no one paid attention to him, Allah walked quickly in front of Chen Kan and said anxiously: "Master Hou, you have something to say." ”

Chen Kan yawned, squinted his eyes and said: "What to say, don't think about it, instead of going to meaningless picking spices, it is better to write down the coordinates and come next time." ”

After speaking, Chen Kan yawned and walked back to his room.

Allah looked at Chen Kan's back with some unwillingness, turned his head to look at the island not far away, and the unwillingness in his eyes was even stronger.

It's a pity that he only has more than a thousand people, and he can't build a ship without the help of the Ming army.

In the end, I had to give up.

Time came to the third day, and in the past three days, Chen Kan sent people countless times to find out whether the thunderstorm area had dissipated.

But every time the soldiers who went to inquire about the news brought back the information, Chen Kan couldn't help but feel tired.

For three days, the thunderstorm area not only has no intention of dissipating, but has a great sense of intensification.

Chen Kan's mood was gloomy to the extreme, and even the other people on the boat couldn't be happy.

However, Chen Kan is different from the reason why others are in a bad mood, Chen Kan is because the thunderstorm does not stop, and the others are unwilling to take away the Spice Island.

At noon, facing the scorching sun, Chen Kan couldn't help but sigh.

"Dashuai, let's go."

Song Qing opened his mouth to urge, but Chen Kan was still looking at the sea in the distance, hoping that the next wave of messengers would bring him good news.