The tone of the two widows was calm, neither humble nor arrogant, which surprised Gu Chongwen.

He nodded, then got up and motioned for the two to follow, this is not a good place after all, and the two sides went to the study in the courtyard.

Using the drawings of warships to trade with the Japanese people, in the eyes of outsiders, there is always a suspicion of betraying the interests of the Wu State, so there are many people who have to leave the front yard.

Along the way, Gu Chongwen maintained the majesty of the prime minister of a big country, and said a few words to the envoy of the island country who followed behind him, and from time to time, he would also ask about the current situation on the island over there.

"Who is Date Somasa? Your general? ”

"Haiyi, Date Somasa is Dr. Zuojing, His Majesty's humerus."

"Your Majesty? You also have an emperor on your island? ”

"Prime Minister Wu, please don't use insulting words."

Gu Chongwen sneered, but he didn't get angry, because he didn't pay attention to it at all, the land included in the archipelago was not big, even if there was really an emperor, all of them together would only be as big as a state in Wu State.

In such a question-and-answer conversation, Gu Chongwen took the two into the study, still keeping polite, and asked the maid to pour tea for them.

The widow named Changsan Benzhong looked at the tall maid serving tea to them, and couldn't help but reach out and touch the back of the woman's hand, so shocked that the maid shrank back with a disgusted face, and after saluting Gu Chongwen, she left in a hurry.

Here, Gu Chongwen looked at the unscrupulous and vulgar performance of the Japanese man on the other side just now, which made him feel extremely uncomfortable.

He opened his mouth, got down to business directly, and sent them away after finalizing the matter as soon as possible.

"You want the blueprints of the warship of the Wu Kingdom, I have thought about it for a long time, and this time I agreed, but don't be in a hurry to be happy!" The old man sat down behind the bookcase and raised his hand to interrupt the salute of the two Japanese envoys, "I need your help patrolling the coast." ”

"It's so simple?"

"Encounter the warships of the Xia Kingdom and sink them!"

Xia warship?

Changsam Benzhong wore a bald bun, and looked straight at Gu Chongwen behind the bookcase, he was not a fool, the reason why he came to the Wu country in the south to do business was because of the Feiyungang side in the north, which put an end to trade on the islands.

Moreover, the Venats who had colluded with him before, after being captured by the other party, did not dare to go to the northern waters again.

Now that they are actually taking the initiative to go to war with the Xia people, isn't this pushing them into the fire?

He buried these thoughts, so that Prime Minister Wu Guo could not see their cowardice, but obviously he didn't dare to agree rashly, and was about to open his mouth to refuse, when the deputy envoy next to him gently tugged at his sleeve and shook his head.

Changsam Benzhong knew what he wanted, and stood up and saluted respectfully: "We will be honored to be able to do things for the kingdom of Shang, and the country of the rising sun will definitely help the kingdom of Shangguo to stop the warship of the Xia Kingdom!" However, Shang must sign a peace treaty with us, hoping that our people will be able to enter and leave the Minggang area of Meng Kang at will. ”

"Peace?"

Gu Chongwen frowned, obviously the other party took this condition in exchange, so he had to be cautious, but thinking that Xia Guo might come from the sea, he needed to transfer the battlefield at sea to the Huaijiang River to cut off the supply of Xia Guo's army.

It's a big deal, to repel the Xia army in the future, and then tear up the peace treaty.

Ponder for a moment.

The old man asked people to grind the ink, and wrote down the content about letting the Ship Division open the Sunrise Islanders to enter and exit the boundary of Minggang, and then, let the other party look at it, and then sent someone to send it to the Zhongshu Provincial Seal and send it to the Ship Division.

After the business was done, the long shirt Benzhong did not linger any longer, took another handwritten letter from Prime Minister Wu Guocheng, and respectfully said goodbye and left.

Gu Chongwen returned to the middle hall of the front yard, he didn't care about the country name of Sunrise Island at all, for him, it was just a piece of paper.

"However, it will save a lot of trouble to have these islanders who are better at naval warfare to entangle the warships of the Xia people."

……

The long-dressed Benzhong and the deputy envoy who came out of the mansion of Gu Chongwen, the prime minister of Wu Guocheng, rode through the bustling bazaar in a carriage, their eyes were full of envy and greed.

He had been going back and forth to Wu for a year, and had seen the endless city walls; I have seen high-rise warships; I have seen the nobles of the noble family surrounded by the attendants; I have seen vast fields, countless silks and porcelain.

"It's a land of abundance."

He spoke to the deputy envoy on the side in the words of the island, and he was not afraid of the driver who was driving the car to hear it.

"The country of Wu is already so big, I heard that their Central Plains, there are even more vast grasslands in the north...... But just one Wu country, the army is so strong. ”

"Hehe, we have a peace treaty, no matter whether Wu Guo is here or not, they must abide by the peace treaty!"

Changsan Benzhong looked around until he left the East City Gate, and he continued: "I admire Your Majesty's ambition, and setting your eyes on such a large land is something we once dared not imagine. ”

"It's like the emperor of the Xia Kingdom, who suddenly unified several countries. Our Majesty, we will not lose to him! The deputy envoy knelt on the cushion, which was the sitting posture taught by His Majesty and the generals under his command, and the thought that one day, they could also become the masters of this land, and their hearts could not help but ignite their pride.

"As long as we are not afraid of death, we will definitely be able to accomplish this goal!"

With this in mind, the two of them gathered their fellow islanders scattered near the ferry, set up a warship about the size of an ordinary merchant ship, and slowly sailed away from the dock and headed for the northeast of the sea.

The warship, flying the flag of the islanders, sailed for two hours, correcting the rudder and changing the direction of the voyage by taking advantage of the familiar shipping route, and it was already afternoon.

When it comes to the sea, even near the near sea, there are endless waves.

When out of the Shengkang range, above the vast sea area, on the parallel line where the sea and the sky intersect, there was a faint figure of a boat, and the first islander to be found was wearing linen clothes and linen pants, looking into the distance, and shouting: "There are ships passing by, coming from the north." ”

"Don't bother, it could be a merchant ship, we'll go ours!" Changsan Benzhong checked the handwriting of Prime Minister Wu Guo in the cabin, and he didn't care that there was a ship coming outside.

After all, it is a maritime route, and it is not uncommon to encounter merchant ships.

As they continued to correct the rudder and change direction, there was only one ship coming from the north, but it was unusually tall, and it tore through the crashing waves like the wind and waves.

On the big ship, the figure in brocade clothes, because of the humid and hot weather at sea, took off his iron helmet, and only wrapped his forehead guard around his head, he looked at a boat to the south that was changing direction, and frowned slightly.

"Turn around when you see us? There must be a ghost, waving the flag, asking the governor behind him if he would take the ship. ”

The herald stood on the ship's tower, waving a small flag at a ship in the rear, and after a while, the order was returned.

"The Metropolitan Governor has an order, this time I will go to Shengkang, and no news will be leaked along the way!"

Gan Ning raised his hand, "Hang up my brocade sail and kill it." ”

On both sides of the swollen sails, two more sails suddenly rose, but they were made of spliced silk brocade, which were made of brocade cloth taken from the other party's cabin all the way south, sweeping the merchant ships.

As soon as the brocade sail was raised here, the islanders' boats over there naturally saw it, first showing puzzlement, and then seeing the other party rushing straight towards them, they immediately panicked.

Hearing the news, Changsan Benzhong hurriedly walked out of the cabin, thinking that he had encountered pirates, but when the other party got closer, he saw the Xia Guo flag fluttering on the opponent's warship, and immediately panicked: "Turn the rudder!" ”

However, the speed of the single-pole boat was not comparable to that of the three-sail ship, and it was still like a ship and crashed into them.

The islanders above shouted in panic, their eyes reflecting the huge bow getting closer and closer, and they could almost see algae crawling on the baffle in front of the bow.

Cheongsam Benzhong screamed: "Hold on to the guardrail!" ”

"Hahaha!"

On the sprinting three-sail warship, Gan Ning pulled out the ring head knife and laughed loudly: "Bump into it!" ”

Rumble!

The Xia warship directly hit the side of the islander's single-pole boat, the whole hull tilted violently, the islanders on it whined and screamed, and many people danced and fell into the sea by the impact force.

The long shirt Benzhong pulled out the slender knife at his waist, and the moment he clenched the handle of the knife with both hands, above his head, a figure fell from the sky, landed on the deck of the ship, and rushed directly into the pile of islanders who could stand firmly, holding the knife and slashing and slashing.

The blade swung extremely fast, Gan Ning's knife was like flowing water, like a whirlpool, and the brush and brush drew out countless blood lines in the air, and the brocade clothes and leather armor on his body were stained with the flesh and blood of these dwarf monkeys, looking like a tiger out of the gate fluttering wantonly in the flock.

Around him, the pro-soldiers who jumped over with ropes blocked the left and right, and three directions, and began to kill on the deck.

"Go up, go up!"

The long shirt was loyal to the deputy envoy with a thin knife, and the other four subordinates who had stabilized together killed the figure of the seemingly general on the opposite side.

The rushing subordinates were blocked by the opponent's own soldiers, and with his short and agile body, he rolled into the battle group from under the knife edge of the opponent's own soldiers, kicked his feet, and killed the back of the opponent's soldiers, holding the knife in both hands and slashing fiercely.

"General be careful!" A wounded soldier shouted, clasping his arms.

Over there, Gan Ning turned around and swung a knife horizontally, fighting with the edge of the knife, he suddenly let go of the handle of the knife, twisted his foot and turned around, and grabbed the ring head knife that was about to fall with his left hand.

The blade thrust into the air, red as blood.

Changsan Benzhong was stunned by the other party's sudden change of move, and he didn't have time to retract the knife to block, and the knife that Gan Ning pulled out in his hand went up like flowing water.

The returning cheongsam Benzhong, with a poof, was split in two and fell on the deck, filling the sky with bloody gas.

"This knife is kind of interesting."

Gan Ning picked up the weapon left by the other party in the air with a toe pick, grabbed it, waved it twice, felt quite comfortable, and immediately held a knife in each hand, and slaughtered again excitedly.

……

Shengkang, it's nightfall.

After the two people on the island were sent away, Gu Chongwen recalled the conversation he had with the other party before, and invited Taiwei and Zhongshu Shilang to have a banquet.

In the Gu Mansion, the families of the three families had a meal together, quite lively and warm, the children ate two bites at will, and then played games together outside the middle hall, chasing and fighting, full of children's laughter.

In the middle hall, the ladies talked and laughed, eating with vegetables, and talking about the shortcomings of the parents.

At the other table, Gu Chongwen, Fan Li, and Xiao Zhiyi were drinking and talking about things, and no one dared to come over to disturb them.

The banquet was staggered, and occasionally there were some poems and writings, and things about trading, but more often than not, it was the war on the side of Yaozhou, and the two Japanese people on the East China Sea Islands who came today.

"I don't think there are too many problems, as long as the Japanese fulfill their promise and entangle the Xia warship."

"A piece of waste paper, let the Japanese and the Xia fleet fight fiercely at sea, causing heavy casualties on both sides, it can be seen that the prime minister is resourceful!"

Zhongshu Shilang slapped a sycophant without hesitation, which made Gu Chongwen very useful, stroking his beard and chuckling, quite with the demeanor of a strategist with a pearl of wisdom in his hand.

The old men are happy, and the ladies are naturally talking and laughing.

A servant came from outside, and the steward at the door saw it, and walked silently, exchanged a little with the servant, and then came back with his things.

Gu Chongwen, who was talking to Fan Li and Xiao Zhiyi, glanced at it, frowned slightly, stopped talking, and the steward outside the door hurriedly came in and handed the letter he had just received to the master's house.

Gu Chongwen looked at the signature, it was from the Ship Division, and said with a smile: "I just used the seal today, and I think it was an official letter to reply to me." ”

As he spoke, he opened the letter, unfolded the paper in his hand, and glanced at it.

The smile on the old man's face just now disappeared on his face in an instant, and Fan Li and Xiao Zhiyi, who were talking on both sides, noticed the change in his expression, stopped chatting, and turned his head to ask: "Prime Minister, what's wrong?" ”

In the center of the front of the banquet, Gu Chongwen's expression was empty and indifferent, and when he stood up slowly, his expression just now turned into horror, and the letter paper he was holding in his left hand was pressed on the table, and from the shaking of his cuffs, he could see that the old man was trembling slightly.

The middle hall, which was full of laughter just now, was quiet for a while, Fan Li glanced at his wife over there, and the ladies left the table silently, and also took the children playing outside and went to the side compartment.

"Prime Minister......" Xiao Zhiyi tried to take the letter from him, but he couldn't pull it, and then he listened to Gu Chongwen of Mu Ne say: "It's here!" ”

"What's coming?"

Gu Chongwen's body shook, sat on the chair dejectedly, he squirmed his mouth, had a trembling voice, and said: "The Japanese who went out today met the Xia State warship...... Gone at sea. ”

In the past, he didn't face the soldiers of the Xia State directly, but just sat in the capital to command and give orders, but now he indirectly faces the soldiers of the Xia State from the Japanese people, and it is a completely different feeling.

A huge trembling sensation instantly enveloped his body.

The two people at the table also looked pale, and like Gu Chongwen, they gradually trembled, sat on the stool, staring at the letter paper in his hand, and couldn't stop shaking.

"How could it be...... Is it fake...... Ship Division...... Probably mistaken. ”

Xiao Zhiyi swallowed his saliva, and there was already fear in his eyes.

(End of chapter)