The merchant ships followed the warships of the Great Song Dynasty Naval Division, and soon arrived at the port of Dazhai of the Coastal Control Division, and anchored at the cargo port of Ligang outside Dazhai, where the sailors needed to remove the goods at the port and take the inland cargo ship to Lin'an Mansion through the Zhedong Canal.

The port is full of ships, and merchant ships are full of goods and are preparing to leave the port and enter the port. The Great Song Dynasty above talked and laughed freely with merchants from all over the world, directing the loading and unloading of goods, bustling and lively.

Eyes swept to the mouth of the Qiantang River, the willows fluttered, the river was mighty, Pu Shougeng was about to express a few words of "rolling Yangtze River east passing water, waves sweeping away heroes" pride, the next person suddenly pointed to the water, loudly exclaimed.

"Childe, what's that? Is the ship on fire? ”

Pu Shougeng looked at it fixedly and was also taken aback.

"This ship is on fire! Why is there no one to put out the fire? ”

"Why is there no one to put out the fire? In a moment the ship burned down! ”

The servant was warm-hearted and cried out anxiously.

Pu Shougeng's master and servant's reaction was in his eyes, and the people next to him all shook their heads and smiled, and a young man said with a smile:

"You're big food merchants, don't panic! The ship was a steamship, it was burning coal, it was emitting black smoke, and the ship was not on fire. ”

"Steamship?"

Pu Shougeng's master and servant were shocked, and their eyes widened.

Steamboats, what's that?

"Yes, steamship!"

The young man who spoke continued, a layer of arrogance on his face.

"The steamship is a new thing created by the imperial court, and the ship is equipped with a steam engine, so there is no need for people to row the boat, and it relies on the water vapor produced by boiling water. I heard that the Jinling Machinery Manufacturing Division has tried many times, and it often explodes, and people have died. Now it doesn't seem to be a big problem, and I've just started testing it on a ship. ”

"Steam engines? Water vapour? ”

Pu Shougeng's master and servant looked at each other and looked towards the steamship, and sure enough, there was a big belly in the middle of the ship, which replaced the floor on the ship, and black smoke was emitting.

Pu Shougeng was ignorant, and said it with fascination.

"Childe, if you don't need someone to row this, you can go to sea all year round!"

Pu Shougeng nodded emphatically.

If this steamship can really succeed, the future sea trade will be much easier.

"Is this steamship for sale?"

Pu Shougeng immediately asked.

If you can buy a steamboat, no matter how expensive it is, you will have to buy a few of them. With this guy, are you still worried that your business is not booming? From the Great Song Dynasty to Africa, there were stations of the Great Song Dynasty sailors all along the coast, which should be able to supply coal. The trade routes in Europe have not yet been connected, so you can try it.

Thinking in his heart, Pu Shougeng's eyes swept to the steamship on the sea, and he had already turned around and went in the direction of Lin'an City.

"I heard that it hasn't been tried yet, but looking at it like this, I guess it's about the same. Whether the steamship will be sold or not, you have to ask the government. ”

The young man walked away, and Pu Shougeng was still shocked.

The Great Song Dynasty is thriving, changing with each passing day, and it has only been more than half a year since Linancheng came, and such a big change has taken place here.

"Isn't that the official Li who occupies the city?"

The subordinate pointed to the black and thin merchant who was chatting happily with a few merchants on the port, and said in surprise.

Pu Shougeng was stunned, and hurriedly walked over and saluted Li Shao.

"Li Daguan, you're here too!"

"Pu Daguan, I am fortunate to be happy!"

Li Shao smiled and saluted Pu Shougeng.

Over the years, the big food merchants almost monopolized the spice trade in the Great Song Dynasty and made a lot of money. However, with the Great Song Dynasty raising tariffs on "luxury goods" such as spices, their situation has not been as good as before.

"Li Daguan, are these your ships? Where is this going to go? ”

Pu Shougeng looked at the dozen or so sea ships with a deep draft and asked in surprise.

These dozen ships may have nearly 100,000 stone of grain. According to the market price, it is 300,000 guan.

This Li Shao, as soon as he shot, is 300,000 yuan, what a big deal!

"I won't hide it from you, Pu Daguan, a total of 30 sea ships, 200,000 stones. Last month, half of it had already gone to Yangzhou, and this is the remaining half, which will be shipped by ship later. Compared with your Pu officials, my brother and I are a little witch! ”

Li Shao said with a smile, a little proud.

The big food merchant is no longer in the limelight, and he is a little gloating in his heart.

"30 sea vessels! 200,000 stone grain! Brother, is this going to war? ”

Pu Shougeng was taken aback.

Yangzhou is already the front line of Huainan, and 200,000 stone of grain is imported at once, which is enough for 100,000 troops for several months. Isn't this going to be a soldier?

"Brother, I don't know. However, Jiangxi in the Great Song Dynasty was flooded, and Li Quan in Chuzhou also made a lot of trouble. In my opinion, the Great Song Dynasty is probably going to use troops against Li Quan. ”

Li Shaoshen said mysteriously, shook his head contemptuously, and said in a low voice:

"Li Quan, a fool who doesn't know the height of the sky, what does he think he is? Going against the officials and soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty, isn't this looking for death? ”

In the past few years, he has witnessed the increasing prosperity of the official army of the Great Song Dynasty. Li Quan didn't measure his strength to fight with the Great Song Dynasty, and he really overestimated himself.

"Of course, how could Li Quan's loyal army be the opponent of my Great Song Dynasty?"

Pu Shougeng thinks that he is a Song person, and his face is bright.

Li Shao said goodbye and left, and Pu Shougeng watched the merchant ships leave, his eyes gloomy.

If it weren't for the frequent wars in the Great Song Dynasty, where would Li Shao go to sell grain to make money?

In Xia Pu Shou Geng, a merchant of the Great Song Dynasty, his father Pu Kaizong, once served as the chief secretary of Anxi County, and was awarded the "Chengjie Lang" by the imperial court because of his meritorious trade. Thank you to the general for saving his life. ”

After going to Mingzhou City to handle the taxes, he saw the young sailor officer who saved him, Pu Shougeng hurriedly stepped forward to thank him.

This kid is tough and tough, which makes the young women in the port look at him frequently, which makes people really envious and jealous.

I am young and rich, and I am personable, why are few people looking at me?

"Are you my Great Song merchant? How do you look different from my Song people. My name is Liu Quan, and I am an officer of the Coastal Control Division of the Navy Dazhai. Come to me if you have anything in the future. ”

The young officer smiled and was about to leave.

During the Song Dynasty, overseas trade flourished, and the merchants of the Great Food were particularly wealthy. They lived in Quanzhou, Fuzhou, and Guangzhou on the coast for a generation, and almost monopolized the overseas spice business, and their strength should not be underestimated.

However, the Great Song Dynasty sailors ruled the world, and he did not regard these great seafood merchants as a threat. After all, the Great Song merchant ships on the sea accounted for the majority.

"General, I am really the people of the Great Song Dynasty. This is the basis for the next one, and we will never dare to deceive. ”

Pu Shougeng showed Liu Cheng his certificate of origin, took out a money bag from his arms and stuffed it.

"General, be a little careful, General, please smile."

His father was an official of the Great Song Dynasty and settled in Quanzhou, and he was also the second generation of officials of the Great Song Dynasty.

Pu Shougeng was full of smiles, and Liu Cheng subconsciously took a few steps back and looked around nervously.

"You are a citizen of the Great Song Dynasty, and you should know that the imperial court is fighting corruption and corruption. Put your money away! ”

If other sailors saw this, he couldn't tell it all over his mouth.

"General, this is not a bribe, this is a thank you for saving your life. You and your brothers can go down for a meal and have a cup of tea, right? ”

Liu Cheng's humility was in his eyes, and Pu Shougeng thought that he was just prevaricating on the surface, so he hurriedly continued.

Are there any officials in the world who are not bribed?

"I repeat! Put your stuff away! If I am seen, my future is over! ”

Liu straightened his face and was serious.

"As a soldier of the Great Song Dynasty, it is our duty to save you, and we don't need your thanks, we have our own imperial court. Erfeng Erlu, the people's fat and people's ointment. When the martial arts hall was taught in Jinling, the instructors repeatedly explained that they were not allowed to accept bribes, and those who violated them would be prosecuted. Hurry up and put away your things, or don't blame me for turning my face! ”

Liu Quan's face was full of seriousness, Pu Shougeng was stunned, and he had to take back the money bag.

It turned out to be an officer of the Jinling Lecture Hall. These people are all protégés of the emperor's son of heaven, and they have their own faction, and no one dares to underestimate them.

It is said that the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty reorganized his armaments and trained a new army. Now it seems that it is indeed a new look.

If Zhao Hong was here, he would definitely sigh with emotion. In history, the meeting of the two "Song traitors" who perished in the Southern Song Dynasty is really a coincidence?

Pu Shougeng, a wealthy merchant in Quanzhou, served as the envoy of Fujian to pacify the coastal capital in the late Southern Song Dynasty and promoted the Quanzhou City Bo Division, slaughtered thousands of people in the Southern Song Dynasty, and then surrendered to the Yuan Dynasty.

As for Liu Quan, after surrendering to the Yuan Dynasty, he put forward the key strategy of "wanting to destroy the Southern Song Dynasty and taking Xiangyang first"; Formed a powerful naval army for the Yuan Dynasty, broke Xiangyang, and made great contributions to the Yuan army's destruction of the Song Dynasty.

When the two "Song traitors" met in this way, they were both proud of the Song people, and their situation was turned upside down, which was embarrassing.

"Liu Quan, I'm going to send troops!"

An officer shouted in the distance.

"General, do you still have military orders?"

Pu Shougeng asked curiously.

"The pirate leader Zhu Qing is trapped in Meicen Mountain, so let's go over and completely destroy them. After that, the sea will be quiet, and you can come and go with confidence! ”

After Liu Cheng finished speaking, he waved his hand and strode away.

In the past few years, the pirates on the sea surface of the South China Sea have been exterminated by the Great Song Dynasty sailors, and they can't imagine that these remnants of the scumbags dare to come out and loot openly. This time, these guys will be wiped out in one fell swoop, once and for all.

"The Great Song Dynasty Wangshi, this is not what it used to be!"

Pu Shougeng shook his head and let out a sigh.

"Big official, the goods have been loaded and you can go."

The next person came over and reported to Pu Shou Geng.

"How about you say that I should apply for the Jinling Lecture Martial Arts Hall, or the Great Song Shui Shi Academy?"

Pu Shougeng looked at the Great Song Navy who was boarding the ship, and suddenly asked.

"Great official, I've heard that the Shui Shi Academy and the Jinling Martial Arts Hall are very bitter, can you stand it?"

Pampered and accustomed to arrogance and lasciviousness, can they stand the bitterness and boredom?

"Tell you, you're serious!"

Sure enough, Pu Shougeng shook his head, and there was a trace of loss in his heart.

Jinling talks about martial arts, and I am afraid that I will not have a chance in this life.

Halfway up the Meicen Mountain, on the wall of the cottage, the pirate leader Zhu Qing looked at the Song army climbing on the mountain road, and his brows were tightened.

After fighting with the Song army of the Coastal Control Division for so many years, Zhu Qing found that the Song army was becoming more and more difficult to deal with.

The key is the firearms of the Song army, which are fierce and brutal, and they can't fight at all.

"Big brother, the second brother hasn't come back yet, I'm afraid it's more than lucky."

The pirate leader was cautious, for fear that the big brother would go berserk.

Unexpectedly, Zhu Qing didn't get angry, just nodded slightly.

encountered the Song army at sea, the other side had many ships and fast ships, coupled with the ferocity of firearms, the second boss was afraid that he had already lost it.

"Tell the brothers, they are all ready for Lao Tzu, and they have repelled the officers and soldiers, and there will be a lot of rewards!"

Zhu Qing gave a military order.

Everyone else might be able to be recruited, but he couldn't. He committed many crimes, burned, killed and looted, and was definitely going to be beheaded.

Fortunately, the wall is high enough and dangerous, there are enough brothers, and there are all kinds of guys, enough to confront the official army. After a few days of siege, there was a shortage of food and grass, and the officers and soldiers naturally withdrew.

"Artillery!"

Seeing the artillery erected in front of the cottage, and the pirates on and behind the wall, Zhu Qing was also shocked.

It's this damn artillery again!

"Steady! Afraid of a ball! If the cottage is breached, no one will ......"

Zhu Qing was halfway through his words, the muffled thunder suddenly sounded, and the pirates watched in surprise, sawdust flew on the wall, the gate was shattered, and the pirates behind the wall fell down, screaming one after another, the pirates flew flesh and blood, and a ghost cried wolf.

The smoke of gunpowder was filled, and there were bursts of piercing artillery sounds, and the pirates on the wall were knocked down, and the gate of the wall fell with a bang, splashing dust on the ground.

The sound of artillery continued, and Zhu Qing was knocked down by the artillery on the wall, half of his body was dyed red, and he kept convulsing.

There was blood everywhere, mutilated limbs everywhere, and the pirates were wriggling and screaming.

No pirates resisted any longer, and they either fled into the wall, or threw away their weapons and surrendered to the Song army.

"Enter the village! If there are those who resist, they will be killed! ”

In the artillery position of the Song army, Wu Qian looked at the broken walled walls and gates, and coldly passed the military order.

Countless Song troops rushed into the pirate's stockade, the sound of artillery, earth-shattering thunder explosions, the sound of spears breaking bodies, and screams one after another, after a period of not fierce fighting, the village finally returned to calm.

"When I went back to report to Zhao Xianggong, I said that Zhu Qingbu had been exterminated."

Wu Qian stood on the mountainside, his eyes removed from the blood and corpses all over the mountain, and he looked at the sparkling sea.

The remnants of the pirates were destroyed. The sea surface of Zhejiang, the sea surface of the southeast coast, is quiet

The emperor said that the coastal control division of the navy army is of great use, four or five years have passed, the pirates have also been eliminated, and Africa has also colonized a lot in the South Ocean, the Indian Ocean, but the emperor seems to have been indecisive about the northward movement.

Taking Yanjing directly by sea won't be an empty talk, right? Life is short, the emperor is not in a hurry, he can't wait.

A warship rowed in the water and did not stop until the mouth of the water village at the bottom of the mountain. The sergeant on the ship landed on the shore and walked all the way, and did not stop until Wu sneaked in.

"Wu Shuai, Zhao Xianggong asked you to go back to the headquarters of Shuizhai quickly, the emperor's decree has arrived, let you go to Jinling to lecture on martial arts quickly!"

The sergeant stepped forward to report, and Wu Qian's heart fluttered.

Yangzhou transferred hundreds of thousands of stones, grains and grass, and now the emperor summoned him to Jinling to preach martial arts hall and face the saint. It seems that Huaidong is in the east of the country, and I am afraid that the war will break out again.