Hongwu Survival Guide

Chapter 50 Shen Wansan

On the vast sea, three five-masted sea-going ships with a length of sixteen to seventy feet lined up and headed southwest. Today, a southeast wind blew up, and the direction was wrong. The central mainsail had fallen, leaving only the front and rear auxiliary sails. All the big sculls on the boat were stretched out, and people were paddling the water.

Normally, with such a headwind, the big ship should be anchored and wait for the wind direction. After all, the sea voyage travels tens of thousands of miles, and manpower can only be assisted.

Not now.

Because it's close to shore.

This is the Turtle Ocean off the coast of Qingyuan Prefecture. It is only sixty or seventy miles away from Dinghai County. I passed Daishan Island before, and I can see Zhoushan Island when I look south. Therefore, there is no need to be cautious about food and fresh water. The fleet goes up and down at noon. Let go of a full meal, and in order to get to the shore as soon as possible, even the accountant ran to help row the oars.

As the leader of this fleet, Shen Tong did not have that easy time.

When departing from Qingyuan in June last year, Western Wu had already captured Huaidong, and the Zhu family also printed and distributed the "Ping Zhou Bang", and the army might press down on Pingjiang at any time.The Patriarch had no choice but to let them turn to Qingyuan to go to sea, and made an appointment to go to Qingyuan on the return journey, and gave Fang Guozhen a big gift for this.

During the few months of staying in Nagasaki, merchant ships arrived one after another, saying that the Eastern Wu had been defeated, and the Fang family was still supporting it, but thinking about how long the Fang family could last with the prosperity of the Western Wu army, and how Qingyuan is now, Shen Tong didn't know what to do in his heart.

What's more... He didn't even dare to think about what happened to the Shen family.

If it weren't for his parents, wife and children who needed him as a pillar, Shen Tong thought about it occasionally, and wanted to stay in a foreign land for a long time and never return.

This troubled world!

After lunch, Shen Tong went to the incense room on the boat to offer incense offerings to the gods, and prayed devoutly. He only hoped that the entire Shen family would be like him going out to sea this time. Go back to your cabin.

Opening an account book, just sorting out the income of this round trip, a boatman suddenly staggered in and said tremblingly: "The bow, there... north, there are ships... a fleet..."

Seeing the boatman's appearance, Shen Tong's heart skipped a beat, he stood up abruptly, and forced himself to calm down.

I don't know what the situation is, how I can mess up.

After reprimanding the boatman, Shen Tong left the cabin and went straight to the mainmast. On the way, many boatmen gathered on the north side of the ship's side, pointing and pointing, even ignoring the oars, and some people screamed in panic: " Army..."

Not in the mood to pay attention to the crowd, Shen Tong climbed the mast cable and climbed up to the mainmast. When he arrived at the observation deck, he realized that he was in his 30s and hadn't climbed for many years, yet he still had such potential.

There was already a dark-skinned thin man standing on the observation deck. His name was Pu Wu. Because his eyes could see far, he was also nicknamed "Pu Kite". It was Pu Wu who gave the early warning. It can be said that this trip was able to go back and forth smoothly, and this Wangshao contributed a lot.

Shen Tong glanced at the huge fleet that was getting closer, raised his hand and slapped Pu Wu hard on the head: "It's so close, why didn't you call the police?"

Pu Wu didn't care about Shen Tong's anger, his head was knocked to one side, and he straightened up again, staring blankly at the north, crying: "Boat, we... can't run away, set up the sails, just It can be blown and hit by the wind."

If it's in the far sea, if it's just a few pirate ships, even if they encounter them head-on, they can still move and dodge. Even if they encounter them, their own side is not helpless to fight back.

now...

There were more than [-] large and mighty ships, most of them were larger than their thousands of ships, not to mention, looking at the flags on the ships, they were obviously sailors, and with the wind direction today, how could they escape? !

After being dazed for a moment, Pu Wu said again: "The bow of the boat, I think...the big boat in the middle seems to be a king's boat."

Hearing what he said, Shen Tong felt his legs became softer.

Zhang Shicheng was defeated, if there is any king Zhang there, it must be the Western Wu navy.

He forced himself to calm down, Shen Tong motioned to Pu Wu: "Look at the flag..." He squinted his eyes as he spoke, but unfortunately he could only faintly see flags flying, and he couldn't even distinguish the colors, and asked: "The biggest flag, look at it, what color is it, but the dragon flag?"

In any case, the identity of the other party must be determined first.

Pu Wu looked at it for a moment, then shook his head: "Yellow, without dragons, but with characters."

Shen Tong was so anxious that he wanted to ram the goods again, so he couldn't say more by himself, so he could only ask again: "What word?"

Pu Wuyi grinned, half crying and half laughing: "Boat, I can't read."

Shen Tong didn't bother to train any more, so he spread his palms and said, "Trace on my hand."

Pu Wu squinted his eyes slightly and looked again, and began to use his fingers to take pictures of cats and tigers in Shen Tong's palm.

Shen Tong quickly recognized the line of characters: Yu, Ling, Hua, Gao, Hai, Jun, Du, Du.

Then completely limp and sat down in the basket on the observation deck.

Shen Tong had never heard of Navy Commander, but he could understand the meaning of the words on the surface.The key is Hua Gao...he just happened to know that this person is a naval general under the name of the Zhu family.

Seeing Shen Tong sitting down, Pu Wu wanted to fall down too, but his body was too stiff to move, so he could only stare blankly again, and saw two fast boats separated from the mighty fleet, coming towards this side, After arguing, he said with a hoarse voice: "At the bow of the ship, two fast boats with eight sculls are coming towards us, and they even raised their flags, as if they want us to stop the boat."

Just as he was talking, two bright lights shot out from the two ships and exploded in the sky.

After a while, there was an explosion.

Pu Wu mechanically said again: "They...have firearms, this is to warn us."

Shen Tong took a deep breath again, and finally stood up, and looked at the fleet that was getting more and more pressured, not only the central giant boat, but most of the other ships were also one or two thousand boats. Looking at the fast-approaching eight-scull clipper, he murmured a few words, and finally said to Pu Wu: "Shout out, lower the sails, lower the anchor..."

It doesn't matter these few ships of goods and goods, and it doesn't matter about the ships. Let's save the lives of more than 100 people in the fleet first.Not only that, but Shen Tong had already considered that in order to avoid these officers and soldiers directly killing people and robbing goods, he had to report the name of the Shen family, and then send a generous gift to Na Huagao afterwards.

Shen Tong believed that even if the Patriarch was here, he would definitely make the same choice.

In matters of maritime trade, people are more important than ships.

Ships can be rebuilt when they are gone, and people who are proficient in sailing are gone, and no one can be trained in a few years.

Pu Wu also understood that there was no other way, and the result of trying to escape at this time might be even worse, so he shouted at the top of his voice: "There is an order from the bow, lower the sail, lower the anchor, lower the sail, lower the anchor..."

the other side.

On the top deck of Zhu Yuan's boat, a group of people were also looking at the three boats.

Huagao was holding a recently made binoculars, grinning while watching and smiling, revealing his true nature: "Three fat fish must have come back from the Japanese people. They come back and forth, cut them apart, and they are all gone." It's a good thing."

Today is the tenth day of February.

Shocked.

The temperature at sea is even warmer, Zhu Yuan is still wearing a thick white fox fur, standing against the wind, he does not look like a handsome young man, too small and too thin, with his sleeves on his hands, more like a landlord who has been ill for a long time. Son, there are small sacks next to the silly son, each of which is less imposing than the other.

Ignoring Mr. Hua's hilarity, perhaps because he recalled the "excellent years" in the past, Zhu Yuan said to Zhao Xu: "Just ordered, no one is allowed to board the ship without authorization?"

Zhao Xu nodded.

Zhu Yuan turned to Liu Lian: "Choose a team, arrive at Dinghai, and carefully list all the goods on board."

Liu Lian didn't agree immediately, glanced at Huagao beside him, cupped his hands and said, "Hanlin, it's not easy to survive at sea, and you're close to death, Lian asked Hanlin not to embarrass them."

After getting along with each other in just a few days, Liu Lian already understood that Zhu Yuan was not the kind of courtier he had imagined. What he said at the moment... was not aimed at Zhu Yuan, but because of Hua Gao's mouth just now, pointing east and west.

Zhu Yuan also understood, and said with a smile: "I didn't intend to embarrass them. In the future, maritime trade matters will be under the jurisdiction of our Yinghai Division. These three ships happen to be a standard case, and they are the ones that have not undergone any hidden tampering, so that we can clearly understand them. Learn about the details of maritime trade."

After speaking, he turned to Zhao Xu: "After arriving at the port, board the ship, and send a few soldiers together to look at each other, and no one is allowed to stretch out their hands." After thinking about it, he motioned to Qiao An, the brother of Xieyi who was on the periphery: "You will follow after a while. , mark my words."

Qiao An, who had been bumpy for a few days, was no longer seasick. Hearing this, he folded his fists and bowed meticulously: "I am under the command."

Joan has become a hundred households again.

They were not among the 2000 people of Zhao Xu and Zuo Qi, but belonged to Mingzhou Wei's subordinates.

After all, he is unfamiliar with the place of life, Zhu Yuan always needs someone who is relatively trusted. He told Lao Zhu before, and asked Qiao An to compete with Zhao Xu and Zuo Qi. A fight, when Zhao Xu was in a hurry, it was better than a bow and arrow, but unfortunately it still didn't compare.

Zhu Yuan understood at that time that he had found a treasure.

In short, it is more than enough to grant one hundred households.

Zhu Yuan gave orders, and instead of staying on the top deck to watch the fun, he turned and walked towards the gangway.

A group of people around him followed, and a certain girl with a sack stretched out her hand to help, with a little strength, as if she wanted to lift Zhu Yuan up.Zhu Yuan recently coined a new term for this, called "sack carrying tripod".

I plan to go ashore and find a tripod to try.

Regarding the little girl named Lin Xiaoyu next to her, Zhu Yuan originally disagreed with what she looked like, but she must have been lobbying by Liu Bai, and she didn't know what she said. When it came to Zhao Xu, everyone quickly agreed.

Hua Gao even came to persuade him in person, and said something wrong, saying, "Hanlin, look, Xiao Nier nodded, and you...".

He was kicked out at that time.

Going back to the cabin on the first floor, I pondered for a while a simple star map made by a group of girls based on the existing data and real-time observations in recent days. The bow of the team was brought over and asked Zhu Yuan if he wanted to meet.

Zhu Yuan got up again and came to the meeting room on the second floor.

Enter the door and sit down on the right side of Huagao, and soon several people are brought in, the leader is a man with short beard in his 30s with slightly dark skin but gentle manner, wearing a black robe, without a hood, with a look of embarrassment in his expression and panic.

The man came closer and knelt down with several followers behind him: "Shen Tong, the head of the Shen's caravan in Changzhou, has seen two adults."

Hua Gao casually held a cup of tea, looked at Shen Tong saluting, and said to Zhu Yuan: "Han Lin you come and ask."

Zhu Yuan asked the others to get up first, and asked curiously, "Where is Changzhou?"

Shen Tong saw that it was a young boy who spoke, and no one told them about the other party's official position, but he didn't dare to neglect him at all, and said respectfully: "Pingjiang Road belongs to Changzhou County."

Zhu Yuan understood.

It is now a county under Suzhou Prefecture.

But...well...Suzhou, Mrs. Shen, this...

So he probed: "Zhouzhuang, Shen Wansan?"

Shen Tong almost knelt down again, and said with a deep bow: "My lord, 'Wan San' is just a rumor among the people, and Shen Xiu, the head of the previous family, really shouldn't be called that."

Zhu Yuan understood why Shen Tong was terrified.

These days, it's not a good thing to be told how rich you are all day long.

But the corners of his mouth curled up.

What a coincidence.

It's really 'Shen Wansan'.

(End of this chapter)