"Chief, it's getting late, we should set off!" In the sand boat, beside the shore guns, and on the trestle, everyone who was fed a belly of dog food looked at the sun that was gradually rising above their heads. For a moment, they didn't know what to say. , in the end, Wu Fang couldn't stand it any longer, so he reminded his leader in a low voice, and then the passionate seed, spare tire king, and leader of the Five Good Men of the Ming Dynasty, Kang Lin Kangda, ended his personal love show and walked slowly up. The sand boat was already ready for travel.
Afterwards, the personal guards dressed in black shorts and dressed as businessmen's guards also began to board the ship in twos and threes. In order to hide their identities, they did not carry long-barreled weapons such as matchlocks or flintlock guns. They only inserted a flintlock pistol and a two-foot-long stainless steel dagger into their waists as self-defense weapons. But if you think that If the guards lack heavy firepower, that would be a big mistake! In the cargo hold of the sand ship, these guys also prepared a lot of explosives such as explosive cartridges and wine bottle bombs as their last resort! Their commander Yang Qi is not stupid. He knows that this trip is risky, so he specially applied for a large number of explosive cartridges and wine bottle bombs from Yan Xiaosong. At this moment, a member of the logistics team is picking them up on the ship!
Moreover, Master Qi is busy with more things than that! In addition to commanding the personal guards to board the ship and the porters to transport the bombs, he also urged the laborers to carry all the leader's living utensils onto the ship. As the so-called "food and beautiful utensils" are, the leader of Kangda can now use them in a suitable place to live and maintain good health. There are wooden bowls, pottery basins and even earthen jars on the ship. He uses Yixing purple clay teapots to drink tea and dishes made from official kilns to eat. Therefore, in order to allow his leader to focus on important things, he knows how to To be a qualified dog-legger Yang Qi, you need to get things done without leaving any trace! For this reason, this guy didn't even have time to look at his wife Liu who was also waiting eagerly on the shore! As for his two capable men, Luo Liang and Luo Guang, because they were ordinary soldiers, they were not as busy as him. This was the first time for them to follow their leader to the vast oceans, to the legendary Ming Dynasty. As a result, they were excited and felt that everything they saw was new. No, before they even went to sea, two idiots were facing each other. This strange-looking sand ship aroused strong interest.
"Brother, look at this ship. It's different from our general ship. It has three masts that can hang sails. It must be very fast, right?"
"Donkey Ball, what do you know? In terms of majesty, speed, and firepower, it must be our general ship. The mast is useful, and more people are needed to serve it..."
"Brother, I said the boat is fast and powerful!"
"Nonsense, in my opinion, the cannon is still powerful!"
"What are you two doing? Come up here quickly. Do you want to be whipped?" The sound of the two gangsters arguing happily came to his ears. When Yang Qi looked back, he couldn't help but have black lines on his face. Seeing that his leader had already entered the cabin, his old face sank involuntarily, and he finally asked them to stop their silly behavior. In the midst of his roar, the two gangsters stepped on the springboard that was about to be pulled away, quickly boarded the boat, then held on to the guardrail of the sand boat, and began to wave to the non-existent relatives and friends on the shore! Of course, their stunt not only succeeded in arousing kind smiles from the farewell personnel, but also made the boss's already as long black face as black as ink! Master Qi, who was itching with hatred, had secretly made up his mind that when this happened, he would ask Uncle Fan, the team leader, to pass on the training method and train these two bastards to such an extent that they would be unable to take care of themselves for the rest of their lives. !
"Aim to the southwest, raise your hands to adjust the sails, the helmsman holds the rudder, and let's set off!" With no time to pay attention to the dumbfounding duo, and the gnashing teeth of the guard team leader, Wu Fang, the general manager of the sand ship, raised the copper in his hand. Make a monocular telescope and cast your sights into the blue distance! Soon, under his command, the entire sand boat had enough wind power to plow through the waves like a swimming fish, and arrived at the depths of the sea. When he turned back, the green mountains and green waters of the island were already there. Being left far behind! Next, with the powerful thrust brought by the three masts and four sails, their sand boat always maintained a good speed. Everything did not change until dozens of miles away from the island! The wind direction that was originally smooth suddenly changed quietly. In order to maintain a faster speed, this sand boat with a square head and square stern lowered four large oars from the portholes and began to add extra power to the ship!
"Master, according to the chart, Shaihuo Island is about 200 miles away from the East China Sea Acropolis by water. If we go all out and don't rest on the island on the way, we can probably arrive before noon tomorrow!" Feeling the strong force of the wooden sailboat under my feet Feeling the swaying feeling, Kang Lin forced down the nausea in his throat and sat upright on the squat to listen to his ally Qiao's talk. According to what the big shopkeeper said, his current location is not far from Donghai City. As long as he works harder, he can reach there by this time tomorrow! Therefore, the question that the Chiyang fleet needs to consider now is no longer when it will arrive in the East China Sea, but in what capacity it will face the Ming Dynasty forces in this time and space after arriving in the East China Sea! As we all know, people in Chiyang do not have government-issued household registrations. They can be regarded as out-and-out black households in this world. Once they get close to the coastal areas, they will be captured and exterminated by the Coast Guard as Japanese pirates, and they will have no chance to board the sea. Land, let alone across the state and county, to find a famous doctor to treat Liu Laoliu's injury...
Therefore, the role of a strong ally is now revealed! Kang Lin, Zheng Nansheng and others have heard Qiao Si's white-headed man Yu Shan boast more than once about how powerful their chamber of commerce is in Northeast Shandong and how powerful their cards are. Thinking about it, it is not too difficult to help them and others forge some identities. Let’s do it!
"It's just that Donghai is a Banner Guards City, so the defense must be tight. You don't have any identification, so it's a difficult problem to enter the city! Why don't Qiao go back to the Chamber of Commerce first and help you mobilize a group of household registration cards? I'll take care of you. Let's see..." To the surprise of Kang Lin and others, shopkeeper Qiao Siqiao, who had made up his mind to cooperate with Chiyang Fleet, did not shirk after hearing this, but agreed to the matter! Because in his opinion, Chiyang is a big gang at sea, with hundreds of brothers under his command all year round, and five or six ships to drive, and his strength is really not weak. If his chamber of commerce can use 2,500 taels of silver, half a ship of goods, and It would be a very cost-effective deal to make good friends with a batch of Hu Tie Ya cards that they urgently needed, and then take them for their own use.
As for how to get so many household registration cards in such a hurry, come on, the Donghai Chamber of Commerce is a well-known large chamber of commerce in Shandong. Not to mention its strength, it can take both black and white, but such trivial matters still cannot trouble them, who have a lot of connections, and others Not to mention, Qiao Si himself can also hold the proprietor's film and find the clerks in Weili to get the matter done, not to mention that the Chamber of Commerce still maintains a group of down-and-out literati all year round, idle in the market, when the time comes As long as he, the shopkeeper Qiao, keeps talking, he can immediately collect ten or eight yuan of dental cards for emergency use. As for whether the gatekeeper flag army will make it difficult for Chiyang's people because the tooth tags do not match, that is not a problem. Not to mention that the descriptions on the tooth tags are very simple. Most of them are fat, small-eyed, and bearded. There is no way to judge whether the person holding the tooth tag is the real person based on the words. Even if there is no tooth tag, he, the shopkeeper Qiao, can let them enter the city smoothly based on his relationship with the city gate flag officer. The reason why I mentioned this before was simply to make Kang Lin, the leader of Chiyang Fleet, feel that he owed him a favor, and to pave the way for him to win over them in the future.
"Okay, then Brother Lao Qiao can help!" Without too many worries, Kang Lin quickly agreed to Qiao Si's proposal, and in order to make him work harder to help him, the guy decided to help him with the burning firewood piles everywhere. Adding another torch, "As long as you can let us enter the city, then the three-handled jade Ruyi from the Taiping Gang will be yours. And if you can help Uncle Liu find a miracle doctor to heal his injuries on this basis, that statue will work." You can also take away the fine jade Buddha..."
"Uh..." As soon as Kang Lin said this, Qiao Si felt a little moved in his heart. After all, he knew how exquisite the workmanship of those jades was. If he got it, and took it as a gift in shopping malls or official circles, he would probably be able to use it as a gift. Helped the Chamber of Commerce solve many problems that were difficult to solve before. So he looked solemn, raised his hands and saluted Kang Lin, "Master, if you can hand over the Jade Buddha and Jade Ruyi to me, Qiao will not only allow you to enter and exit the Acropolis freely, but I will also give you a surprise. , a real surprise!”
Without asking what the surprise was, Kang Lin promptly ended the conversation with Qiao Si and came outside the cabin. There, Wu Fang, the chief sailing officer of the sand ship, had been waiting for a long time. After all, only Qiao Si knew the route to the mainland. Without him on the deck to point out the route, the ship could only maintain a low speed and move forward to avoid going astray. Route, missed the trip. This made Wu Fang, who was the general manager for the first time, very unhappy, but there was no way to solve it. No, when he saw Qiao Si coming out of the cabin, he, the general manager of Wu, rushed to greet him!
Five hours later, outside the East China Sea Acropolis Shuicheng.
After ten hours of non-stop sailing, the three-masted and four-sailed sand boat had arrived at the waters of the "Futuo Island" that Qiao Si called "Futuo Island" without any danger. Here, Wu Fang, who has the best eyesight among sailors, can clearly see the outline of the water city miles away from the bow of the ship without even using a telescope! And according to the speed of the sand boat, they will successfully reach the final destination of their trip - Donghai City in half an hour!
Lucky boats, bird boats, sand boats, sampans, fishing boats, centipede boats, wooden house boats, Siamese boats, Ryukyu boats, Southeast Asian galleys... The closer to Donghai City, Kang Lin, who was sitting on the terrace of the stern of the sand boat, He felt that the more ships he encountered, and the shapes became larger and larger, he couldn't help but fall into deep thought! Isn't it true that the Ming Dynasty had great restrictions on ocean-going ships? How come every ship I encountered on the road was a large ship that was ten feet long and more than nine feet wide! Looking at these painted wooden merchant ships, the leader of the Kanglin family was drooling. He thought that if he had time, he should go back immediately to recruit people to grab one!
