For a long time to come, this bird boat was the home of the fugitives, and Chongwen silently recorded the appearance of this boat.

At the highest point on the second floor of the stern is the captain's cabin, which is also the most spacious and comfortable place in the whole ship, with a bed, a table and a chair. On the right side of the captain's cabin is the compass cabin, where the fire captain points the way for the whole ship, and the compass cabin is connected to the helm room, and two stout helmsmen pull the rudder lever to steer the ship.

If the helm cabin is the heart of the whole ship, then the other side of the helm cabin is the soul of the ship, which is the sacred cabin dedicated to Mazu Niangniang, and the incense is constantly burning in front of the shrine.

The first floor of the stern is a straight warehouse, and a part of it is an arsenal, including 24 fire ropes, 60 cigarette cans, 20 fire bricks, 100 rockets, 150 pounds of thick **, 40 pounds of bird guns, 4 crossbows, 100 crossbow arrows, 1 bottle of crossbow medicine, 160 pounds of large and small lead bullets, 4 hooks and sickles, 4 machetes, 8 nail guns for crossing ships, 40 javelins, and 30 ash cans.

It also includes 1 large flag, 1 canopy, 1 small canopy, 8 awnings, 2 large oars, 2 rudder doors, 2 coffins, 20 pennies, 4 large ropes, 2 small ropes, 1 rudder cable, 30 catties of nails, 30 catties of oil, 30 catties of hemp, 2 quintals of ash and helmet tops, and a number of waist knives.

The other part is the rice tank, which stores enough brown rice, fat, bacon, salt, vegetables, tempeh, etc., enough for 50 people to eat for a month. There is also a small treasurer's cabin on the first floor of the stern, where the treasurer lives and sits and sits and manages the ship's material books, sending and receiving.

There are wooden staircases on both sides of the stern, and the soldiers can go up to the aft terrace at any time to fight at the highest point of the ship.

The amidships are three-decked, with bilges below the waterline and heavy ballast stones. On the second deck amidships are water tanks to store precious fresh water, on the other side are the bunks and sail ropes, and on both sides there are water doors for the crew to get on and off from the two strings. There are anchor compartments in the bow and stern of the ship, which are tied with iron anchors and iron chains, and the anchorers and anchors are completed in these parts. On both sides of the stern are the oars, and in the windless sea conditions, the warship can still sail with four large oars.

The top floor is the crew cabin, the so-called sleeping couch, but it is just a bunk with a width of a foot, which can only lie on the side. It's a bit difficult to get into a larger one, but there is a palm-wide cord on one side of the bunk that can hold you to the couch so that no matter how bumpy the boat is, it won't fall off. The pillow in the bunk is a small wooden box in which personal belongings can be stored. Space is tight, and not an inch of space can be wasted.

Aban and each captain have their own separate cabins, which are much wider than bunks, but not as comfortable as a pigeon, just a pigeon cage. And in general, this is also where the crew gathers to gamble, so there are always 4 chairs.

It was a small warship, with a strong smell of rot and sea in its cabin, and swarms of rats running around, their families passed down from generation to generation, living in harmony with the sailors. The best air was on the upper deck, where the sails were to be carried and the battle was fought, and though it was much more spacious than the cabins below, the sails were branched and forked, and the sailors walked on the ground as if they were on the ground, and the unfamiliar ones could hardly walk an inch.

Chongwen sat quietly behind the bookcase in the captain's cabin, and he imagined the cramped space, but the smell of the sea and the smell of the human body on the boat, coupled with the smell of rotten food, made him almost suffocate. After the catfish boy served the tea, he quietly stepped aside, Chongwen picked up the tea cup, and found that it was actually a wooden cup, he smiled bitterly and shook his head, life at sea starts from now on.

After a while, the catfish boy led the chief soldier to the cabin, and the old guy bowed down and saluted, saying: "Sun Daguan, let's inject incense into Mazu Niangniang, bless us with a smooth and smooth journey, no disasters and no difficulties." ”

Chongwen stood up, straightened his clothes, walked to the god cabin, and stood respectfully in front of the god of Mazu Niangniang. The catfish boy handed over three sticks of incense, and Emperor Chongwen saluted with both hands of incense, and then offered the incense candle on the incense table.

The war drums of Zhenhaiwei's flagship were beaten, and the sailors and armorers on the ship stood solemnly on the upper deck. Chongwen silently watched the upper deck of the flagship in the cockpit of the stern ship, and the strong man led a black-haired yak bull, and another wrestler stabbed into the neck of the yak, the yak fell to the ground with a sad scream, and the cow's blood spurted out, and Zhenhaiwei commanded Liu Mingshan to put on his helmet and smear the ox's blood on Zhenhaiwei's banner. The whole army cheered, the sound shook the sea and land, and the so-called sacrifice of flags and drums was also.

The second drum sounded, the battle flag slowly rose to the top of the mainmast, fluttering in the sassy sea breeze, and hundreds of large and small warships shouted like a tsunami, and the captain Liu Guan shouted: "Raise the flag!" Aban Baijie and another sailor raised the battle flag of their ship.

The third drum sounded, Liu Guan waved his arm: "Raise the anchor, raise the sail!" The soldiers on the dock shouted, untied the mooring line, and the sailors immediately got busy on the deck, raising the sails with their hands, and the oars shook the big oars, and the chief soldier of the fire commander commanded the helmsman to control the rudder steadily, and the bow of the ship began to turn slowly. More than dozens of bird ships were the vanguard of the entire fleet, and under the command of Qianhu Officer, they sailed out of the port in neat rows and headed for the mouth of the Yangtze River.

The fort of Wusong Qianhu made an earth-shattering cannon sound, saluting the army. The general soldier sang in the wind: "The sky is high and the emperor is far away, the people are few and the public is more, fight three times a day, how to treat it if you don't do it... "The voice is hoarse, indescribably rough and heroic.

Emperor Chongwen silently watched the army of sailors, the sails were like forests, and the battle flags were like clouds, and he felt extremely small. However, he was not nervous, but he was slightly curious, what kind of magic was there in the ocean outside, and so many men were vying to die first.

The fleet drove southeast along the coastline, and he squinted his eyes in the cold sea breeze, and the city of Baoshan was getting closer and farther away, and Shanghai County was rushing again. In the afternoon, after the Chuansha Castle, in the evening in Nanhuizui Houhou stationed, there is no commanding order, no one is allowed to abandon the boat to land, the ship lights in the harbor have been spread to the open sea, and the stars in the sky are united.

Emperor Chongwen listened to the waves of the sea, and there was a sound from the compass cabin on the side, it was the captain Liu Guan and the chief soldier of the fire who were chatting in a low voice under the dim light, and the whispers seemed mysterious under the quiet sea and sky, and it seemed to be the sound of fish and shrimp from the bottom of the sea to the dark, with a strange magic.

Liu Guan muttered in a low voice: "8 Weijia Coastal Inspection Division, 50,000 troops, 2,000 warships to kill a few pirates, every year there is such a big battle, this is not a god-killing labor and loss of money, if there are no internal migration islanders, where did so many pirates come from." ”

The chief soldier said leisurely: "If there is no Haikou, I don't know if there will be another Xianqu Gong? How many islands of all sizes are there in the East China Sea? I am afraid that there are hundreds of them in the Shengsi Ocean alone, and most of them still have water and fields, so how many people can be fed? The islanders do not accept the king, and once the male lord is born, the foundation of Dakang will be truly shaken. The Son of Shenwu would rather Jinghai every year, but also ban the guy who is the king overseas, and the one who enters the mother is really far-sighted, and our minds cannot be compared. ”

Liu Guan was silent for a long time before he whispered: "I heard that there are four treasures in the East China Sea, and if you get one of them, you can dominate one side, and if you get four of them, you can dominate the world, and it is useless to ban the sea." But Ah Shun, what kind of treasure is the mother, I have never heard anyone talk about it. ”

The chief soldier chuckled: "There has always been such a saying on the sea, there are water basins, well fish bones, purple snail bowls, and mirage gourds in the East China Sea, which can drive away gods and ghosts. But that's all nonsense, the first Qu Gong has been crisscrossing the East China Sea for 30 years, and he hasn't seen any rare treasures, and he still doesn't know what these four things are. ”

Liu Guan chuckled and said: "Entering the mother, the sea is boundless, I would rather believe that there is such a thing." ”

Chief Bingshun suddenly lowered his voice and asked: "If my expectations are good, in the eyes of the young grandfather, Sun Daguan is a treasure, so the young grandfather has to hold it in his hand even if he risks his life, Brother Guan, tell me the truth, who is he?"

Liu Guan said in a low voice: "When you should know, you will naturally know, what I can tell you is... I don't know if he's a baby or a disaster. ”

At night, the harbor is silent, except for the sound of gold and iron on the bow of the ship as the waves rise and fall. This is because the dragon is good at the wind, and likes dangerous places, no one knows if there is a mocking wind hidden on the reef, in case there is such a guy, the sound of gold and iron can appease him when the boat passes, so that he forgets to harass the boat.

Chongwen, who has been worshiping ghosts and gods since he was a child, feels funny, maybe because he hasn't really felt the horror of the sea, in the face of the wrath of the sea, any ridiculous pacification is necessary, who knows which is useful and which is useless?

After daybreak, the west wind rose, and the fleet pulled anchor and headed for the Suzhou Ocean.

Suzhou Yangyang has hundreds of islands and reefs, Shenwu belonged to Changguo County in the early years, is a county with a population of more than 10,000 households, and the islanders are also farmers and fishers. It is also the main sea communication route for goods from the south to the north and the east to the country, and the sea trade is prosperous. In the 26th year of Shenwu, the emperor of Shenwu issued an edict to ban the sea, and the islanders all moved inward, abolished Changguo County, and placed two thousand households in the middle and left of the center, which belonged to the jurisdiction of Jinshanwei, and Suzhou Yang no longer saw the weather of fishing boats.

The fleet sailed for 2 days and reached anchor in the middle left. At sunset, a strange red glow appeared in the western sky, and the sea was restless, and Zhenhaiwei commanded the envoy to send a small boat to pick up Liu Guan, the captain of the ship, to the flagship for discussion.

Liu Mingshan interviewed his brother alone, and the commander of the navy said worriedly: "According to the report of the sentinel ship, Hainingwei and a thousand households in Chenqian Mountain blocked our Shengshan Ocean in the east, the Jinshan Weishui Division patrolled the sea near Daqushan Mountain in the south to Dongtuo Island, and the Jiaomen Inspection Division of Dinghai County in the west cut off the Hengshui Ocean, and the situation is not good. ”

Liu Guan was taken aback: "What is Yongji going to do? Surround us on three sides, are you going to do something to us?"

Liu Mingshan shook his head: "He knows that his ships can't trap me, he doesn't want to go to war, he is just preventing a ship from escaping from the sea, and only leaving us a passage back to Zhenhaiwei." ”

Liu Guan: "Join the mother, fight with them, you give me a few boats, I can fight a bloody way." ”

Liu Mingshan slapped the book case and shouted: "Bastard thief and bird, you are trying to cover it up! The reason why Yongji didn't do it was because he couldn't be sure that Chongwen was in our hands, and if you worked hard with them, wouldn't it be tantamount to admitting it to him!

"What should I do then?" Liu Guan was a little breathless.

Liu Mingshan said: "Tomorrow, I will enter the Shengsi sea area in three ways and clear the island by island. There is a small island called Zhang Qishan in the east 50 miles of the center left, there is a small group of pirates on the island, headed by Weng Snot and Yang Lazui, I will send 200 troops to the island, and you will be mixed in the officers and soldiers to garrison the island, and wait for the surrounding guards to relax, and then look for an opportunity to go to sea. ”

Liu Guan asked, "When will it be?"

Liu Mingshan shook his head and said, "I don't know, I can only compete with them for patience now." This is the sea, it is impossible to monitor every inch of the sea at all times, there is always a time when they slack off. It is also impossible for a large army to be at sea forever, and the supplies brought by the ships are limited, and the troops will have to be withdrawn in a month at most. If you can't get out, you can retreat to Zhenhaiwei and make sense. ”

Liu Guan said: "The sunset is carmine, and if there is no rain, it is the wind." Looking at the sky in the evening, the weather will change tomorrow, and I still want to try my luck in the east. ”

Liu Mingshan said impatiently: "No, your life belongs to the Liu family, did I let you lose it." ”

Liu Guan wanted to say something more, but Liu Mingshan waved his hand to stop him and said, "That's it, you go back first, everything is up to me, don't act rashly." ”

Liu Guan had no choice but to agree, turned around and retreated. Liu Mingshan shouted behind him: "Wait!" Liu Guan had to turn around again, Liu Mingshan untied a pair of short guns from his body, and gave Liu Guan a leather belt on his body, and said: "Say goodbye today, I don't know what year and month we can meet, you can defend yourself with this pair of mandarin duck short guns." This is a flint fire, although it is possible not to fire, it is better not to use a fire rope, it is convenient to hold the fire... No matter how difficult it is in the future, you have to live as a mother, understand?"

Liu Guan nodded silently, Liu Mingshan waved his hand and said, "Get out." ”