Ocean voyage is really not an easy task, at least now Zhao Bufan feels that his love for the sea has faded infinitely, and it is even hard to imagine how he used to stand in the seaside house of Dongxian Harbor to blow the wind, and the blue sea really doesn't know what to see.

If you return to the Great Song Dynasty, you will definitely have to demolish the seaside house.

At this time, the ocean voyage was really too hard, not much easier than fighting, not only physical exhaustion, but also facing all kinds of dangers and complications all the time, sudden storms, shocking waves, unknown seas, strange countries, eating fish that wanted to vomit, and endless wind.

The hardest thing to endure is loneliness.

None of the people in this fleet knew the Great Song language, and at the beginning he could not communicate with the people on the ship at all, he could not understand anything, and he was ridiculed by the mercenaries, and they also joined forces to fix him, for example, he did not call him when he ate, and let him stand alone on the watchtower and starve for a day.

Sometimes they get together and curse crookedly, Zhao Bufan can't understand their bird language, he can only tell from their looks that he is laughing at himself, but the problem is that he can't understand anything, and he can't find a reason to have a seizure.

The most dangerous time was when there was an unknown island in the south of the Chola Kingdom, everyone rested on the island for the night, obtained fresh water and fruits separately, and agreed on the departure time, but Zhao Bufan didn't understand what it meant, plus no one was willing to follow him all the way, and finally almost left alone on the isolated island.

Fortunately, the merchant of the Republic of Venice, that is, Viscount Charles, remembered him before he set out, and quickly asked everyone to look for him, which allowed him to save his life, and at this time he did not know that he had been closed in the ghost gate.

Viscount Charles decided that this was not the way to go, and decided to teach him the language of the ancient Roman Empire.

Zhao Bufan endured all the hardships, and his heart was very lonely, of course he would not refuse, and tried his best to study.

The potential of people is amazing, under the pressure of survival, learning a language has really become a very simple thing, not to mention that the people around him still communicate in this language, so he learns very quickly, and even Viscount Charlie is amazed.

Once he was able to communicate with people, no one on the ship teased him anymore.

Because although he was poisoned by insects and couldn't play his peerless martial arts, his martial arts attainments were still there after all, and the foundation was still there, and he couldn't beat it with his external skills, and those who loved to tease him were all beaten one by one, so they were naturally quiet.

Although there are also many warriors on the ship who he feels he can't beat, these people don't seem to be so boring, they just want to escort the fleet to their destination safely, and they don't make any excessive moves, and as Zhao Bufan is able to communicate normally, his relationship with other people has also improved rapidly, and common dangers can always unite people, no matter who they are, let alone people who are running around at sea.

By the time the fleet had successfully entered the Red Sea, he had already mingled with other people, and in his free time he would play cards, drink, scold a few foul words, say some meat jokes, and even panic and directly find fault with him.

Life at sea is too bitter and boring, and if you don't, you will become numb to each other, and you won't even feel like you're alive, so you can only keep finding various reasons to interact and keep your spirit in a healthy state.

Viscount Charles was also pleased with him, and felt that he not only had a lot of knowledge, but also could quickly get along with other mercenaries, so he increased his salary, and gave him an additional allowance of ten dirhams and two hundred fars in addition to his salary of one dinar per month.

This is a widely circulated currency, the dirham is the silver coin, the farr is the copper coin, and it was used in both the Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire.

During the arduous voyage, the salary seemed to be a meaningless thing, but in fact it was very important to the crew, except for playing cards and entertainment during the daily boring time, and for the crew to spend as much as they wanted, and the only requirement was that they were not allowed to buy goods on board.

Because the ship belonged to Viscount Charles, only he had the right to trade, and no one else could occupy its cargo space, and if he wanted to buy souvenirs, it must also be agreed by him, otherwise it would be regarded as a unilateral tearing up of the contract, which is a very serious crime charge.

Zhao Bufan saved several dinars, and originally planned to keep them for emergencies, but those crew members and mercenaries all laughed at his approach, and let him survive, but after passing through a few more ports, he himself collapsed.

He then began to splurge like the sailors and mercenaries whenever he landed in a prosperous port, and the beautiful women, the good wine, and the delicious food became spiritual solace, and then the stories of the events became the talk of the rest of the journey.

For example, Thor, who has the best relationship with him, always likes to brag about his infinite charm, which can always make countless beautiful women throw him into his arms, accompany him through a wonderful night, and become a good memory, when in fact he is always the poorest one, and basically everyone knows that he often has to pay twice the price to get the so-called beautiful women to give him a hug.

Until one time, he accidentally discovered that Zhao Bufan was the real master of encounters, so he no longer bragged, flattering in front of Zhao Bufan all day long, expecting him to quietly teach a few tricks, and the final result was that Zhao Bufan had an extra oil bottle every time he went ashore, which made him extremely distressed.

After more than half a year of wandering at sea, the fleet finally entered the Red Sea from the southern tip of the Abel Empire, and was very close to its destination, the Gulf of Aqaba.

Zhao Bufan obviously felt that Viscount Charlie's mood had become very excited, and every morning he would stand at the bow of the ship and chant poetry, and then he would carefully wipe his medal that symbolized his noble status, and seemed to be extremely proud.

Soon after, the fleet landed at the port of Aba, and Viscount Charles handed over all the ships to a nobleman of the Abel Empire, and then gave him half of the cargo, and took only some of the precious goods and gold and silver money with him to the north.

At this time, Zhao Bufan knew that this trade was a cooperative trade, and the specific conditions were not very clear, but it was certain that the ships and half of the manpower were provided by the nobles of the Abel Empire, and it was also a very successful cooperation.

After that, Sir Charles happily went north with his own property, and Zhao Bufan also followed the team as a mercenary.

But what I never dreamed of was that two days later, at night, when everyone was camping and sleeping, the camp was suddenly attacked by a large number of elite soldiers, and the roar woke up the sleeping Zhao Bufan, who quickly got up, grabbed the two-handed sword next to him and rushed to the front.

However, there was no battle yet, and the opposite side was already on the back side, and a man wearing chain mail came out of front of him, judging from the robe and noble pattern on his body, he should be a nobleman, but he was dressed very specially, with a turban on his head and a scimitar hanging from his waist.

He looked at the crowd and cried out, in Roman fluent language, "Where are you merchants, and why don't you pass through my territory and don't come to get permission to enter?"

Viscount Charles looked very nervous at this time, and replied eagerly: "I am Viscount Charles of the Republic of Venice, I have just returned from the far east, I don't know that this has become Your Excellency's territory, and I hope that Your Excellency will abide by the great trade treaty and let us go, and we are willing to pay a reasonable toll tax." ”

The nobleman over there instantly became angry: "It turned out to be a Venetian person, in order to show my support for the trade behavior within the territory, I can forgive you and your people, but you, as a merchant of the Republic of Venice, should pay the price for your stupidity and leave all your goods and wealth." ”

"You can't do this, we in the Republic of Venice have terms of friendly trade with you Fatima, and you should respect me!" Viscount Charlie looked calm, but his trembling voice betrayed the horror in his heart.

Zhao Bufan couldn't help but turn his head to look at him.

The Fatimid nobleman looked very indifferent, and by the light of the torches, he stared straight at Viscount Charles.

"That was before, when you Venice suddenly launched a war with us in May of this year, and when our Fatimid navy blockaded the Crusader kingdom of Jelu, you suddenly sent a large fleet to attack us and launched the Battle of Jaffa, do you still expect me to entertain you with fine wine?"

"No!no!no!no!This can't be!!"

Viscount Charles was shocked, and his heart sank.

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