In the early morning, a dilapidated and huge fortune ship tilted into Penglai Military Port.
This is the headquarters of the Denglai Navy.
The soldiers standing guard on the towers of the port have not yet woken up. They were all leaning on the railings and half sleeping on the floor. All five slept like dead pigs.
Now the Ming Dynasty's army, whether it is the garrison, the camp, or the navy, is all finished. Training is lax, discipline is lax, and sleeping at night is even more trivial.
Early in the morning is also the time when people are most sleepy, and the latest people who check the posts are around three o'clock. They won't come at this time. As soon as the people who check the posts leave, everyone secretly takes the opportunity to get some sleep.
This big ship sailed into the harbor and almost no one noticed it.
"Lower the anchor and stop the ship." Seeing that the position was almost there, Zhuzhu ordered.
The big ship firmly blocked the center of the channel.
Against the background of the huge, red sun that had just emerged, the ship began to tilt as soon as it entered the channel.
In the bottom warehouse, Zhuzhu commanded the crew to cut open the side of the ship and let water into the bottom warehouse.
As the seawater surged in, the boat began to tilt slowly. Zhuzi looked at the effect and found that the water was entering very quickly. After a while, the water was submerged up to his waist.
"Let's get on the boat and leave quickly," Zhuzi said.
If you don't leave, the boat will capsize and you won't be able to get out.
The people around had been extremely nervous for a long time, but Zhuzi didn't say anything, and they didn't dare to move. Suddenly, as if they were being amnesty, they swarmed up to the upper level.
A group of people got on the boat and quickly cut the rope with an axe.
After cutting the rope, everyone immediately rowed backwards and quickly escaped from the ship.
From a distance, I saw that this broken ship had sunk on the waterway, and the pillar showed his signature sneer.
"Set up the sails and let's go back to Beitang."
The cabin is filled with weathered sandstone. Once it is soaked in water, it will be impossible to salvage it at that time. If it is tied with a rope, under the water pressure, it will break into several pieces as long as it is pulled.
Zhuzi was very satisfied with the effect. He had just been praised by the master last time, and the master was very satisfied with his work. Zhuzi always manages things very thoroughly.
Since he followed the master, the master has been constantly mobilizing his work. He knew in his heart that the master wanted to cultivate him and make him more knowledgeable and capable.
This ship is very big. It was built in the 13th year of Wanli Dynasty. It has a total of 3,500 materials. It is now riddled with holes and dilapidated. It has been abandoned on the shore of the shipyard. No one dares to use it to go to sea.
A month ago, a mysterious businessman bought this boat for basically the price of wood for firewood. Then, he spent some money to replace the broken ship planks, briefly reinforced the keel, and then found someone to caulk the seams again.
It won't work without twisting. Normally, a ship has to be re-caulked every three years, otherwise it will leak.
This dilapidated boat has not been launched in the water for twenty years, and many gaps can be seen outside.
After finishing it, we drove away.
The people at the shipyard shook their heads. If they save money this way, the ship will probably be scrapped after just one trip to Busan. If it encounters strong winds and waves, it may be in danger of disintegrating.
But if the shipowner is willing, we can’t say anything wrong.
After the boat sailed away, a small boat was tied behind it, and it drove to a quarry near the seaside and loaded it with many large stones weighing four to five hundred kilograms each.
The pillars told the quarry that they were used as ballast stones.
However, this ballast stone is loaded with too much, and there is basically no dead tonnage left.
Although he was a little confused, the shopkeeper of the quarry was knowledgeable and did not ask any more questions.
This is a good business. We haven't had such a big customer for a long time. Nowadays, all industries in the Ming Dynasty are in recession, there are fewer and fewer people building houses, and the stone is not easy to sell.
It is rare to have such a good customer, who specializes in buying the least valuable and most ugly unsalable stones, which are all sandstone stones. These stones are all mined from the surface, because the bluestone is underneath, and these are actually waste materials.
Many of them were picked by his grandfather when he was young. They have become crispy in the wind and sun, so he still wants to buy these.
Good people, good people.
The buyer was a silly boy with a silly grin. He was so cute.
This time, all these waste materials and rocks were cleared out at once.
Yang Fan's timing was very accurate. It happened to be that after transporting supplies to the Lushun Guards, all the ships returned to the port last night.
Of course, this would not be possible without the support of the intelligence system brought by Lin Yueru. I have to say that the network announced by Wei Du is still very powerful.
Among the officials, businessmen and people of the Ming Dynasty, they were almost pervasive.
Even if a few people were bragging, spanking, or calling him an old man at home, he would immediately take them out before the party was over and chop them into pieces in front of him.
Naturally, there are lurking people in the navy. But it has always been a secret, and only Lin Yueru and other senior officials know the list.
Now that Wei Gong has fallen, they find that the disaster has not come yet. Instead, the salary doubled.
The superior is still the same superior, nothing has changed.
Gu Laosan has been lurking here for ten years. The navy of the Ming Dynasty was indeed much stronger than the military.
Because they have other ways to make money, that is, smuggling and part-time piracy.
However, most of them are occupied by officers, and those who serve as soldiers can barely support their families in Hukou.
Because Gu Laosan had a second job, he supported five children.
Not one starved to death.
But he has always been careful. Once exposed, the consequences would be disastrous.
He carefully recorded the entry and exit records of the navy's warships. And report it to the traffic officer.
In the morning, he was sleeping on the big bunk when he was suddenly woken up by a burst of noise.
Then the door was kicked open and Xiaoqi rushed in and roared.
"You damn pigs, why don't you hurry up and get out of here. Something happened."
More than a dozen people jumped up, quickly got dressed, and ran outside to stand in line.
The alarm gong kept ringing outside, and soldiers were running around everywhere.
"Boss, what's going on?" Gu Laosan usually flatters someone a lot. For him, flattering someone doesn't waste money or food. This is a good thing that comes at no cost.
"His mother's hair, it was just dawn. A broken ship of two thousand or three thousand materials, loaded with several thousand kilograms of large rocks, sailed into the outbound channel and sank. All the ships were blocked in the harbor." Qi yelled angrily.
Now it's better, we won't have to clear the channel in a month or two. The smuggling work can only be stopped. At his level, he will lose five taels of silver a month.
Gu Laosan was shocked and quickly pretended to be angry and cursed a few times.
Dongchang's old superiors haven't given him a task for a long time.
When he came to see him this time, he had a premonition that something big was going to happen.
Sure enough, within three days, Denglai Navy was blocked at the door of his home.
At the same time, a fleet of fifty ships sailed through the Changshan Islands in the wind and waves.
"Madam, the navy has not shown up. It seems that Yang Jun has succeeded." Elder Shiina said.
"When I got here, I felt relieved and asked everyone to withdraw the gunpowder. The wind and waves were strong so as not to get wet." Sakurai Momo said, patting her chest.
Just now, each ship loaded the Tiger Crouching Cannon on the pirate ship to prevent sudden encounters with the incoming navy.
"How long does it take to get to Dagokou?"
Shiina looked at the position of the sun. Said: "It should be time to apply in the afternoon."
Sakurai Tao said: "Everyone is prepared. If Yang Jun does not arrange the time with us, we will take over the Dagukou Pier ourselves. We cannot count on Yang Jun."
When sailing at sea, time cannot be accurately estimated. It is normal for both parties to have problems in connecting time.
