open sea

Chapter 108 Centipede
When Li Dan bowed, Fu Yuan laughed along with him. Chen Mu didn't understand why he was so happy at first, and he realized it after a while.

He and his subordinate Fu Baihu also got married.

A dry relative is not the same as an adopted child. There is no right of inheritance, no need to change the surname, and no need to go through official procedures. It is basically the same as the dry relative of later generations.

"I have recognized my god-in-law, from now on Dan'er will follow me in Qianhu's yamen." Chen Mu was in the midst of employing people, and then asked Li Dan, "Can you speak Mandarin?"

"Go back to the adoptive father, the children will be a little better." The 19-year-old adopted son made Chen Mu a little disobedient, but Li Dan was very natural, clasping his fists and said: "I learned from the Frangji people on the boat, Frangji, Japanese, Manchu I can speak a little bit of Sanga, and Japanese is the best."

Chen Mu nodded in agreement. Li Dan was very versatile. With his physique and calloused hands, he expected that swordsmanship and swimming would not be a problem. Even without him, let alone Chen Mu's help, as long as they don't die unexpectedly, they will be able to make a name for themselves in the future.

"I need your people in Haojingao to do something. Help me find a barbarian. He abducted women in Haojingao. He should be planning to sell them to Malacca." Chen Mu said: "To find this person, you are few. There is no need to confront him, find out how many men, how many guns, and how many ships he has."

Li Dan nodded, turned his head to look at the young man who was held by him before, and said to Chen Mu, "Father, don't worry, Hua Yu will go back to do this matter, and after checking it out, do you want the boy to rescue him?"

"Now saving people to scare the snakes, the Xiangshan order said that the barbarian merchant had hundreds of followers, you may not be able to rescue him, but you surprised him." Chen Mu waved his hands and said: "Come close to his boat at night, chisel the bottom of the boat, don't Make it sink, let him spend two or three months in Haojing for repair."

"Can it be done?"

The young man next to him was named Hua Yu, and he was also a powerful person. He nodded and clasped his fists and said, "Don't worry, the villain will do his best!"

Hua Yu left, Chen Mu asked Fu Yuan to give him a waist card of Baihusuo, Die Niang and Li Dan stayed in the Qianhu Yamen, Li Dan stayed in the wing room to practice with the soldiers, and occasionally taught him some dialects with Chen Mu on weekdays; The mother didn't live in the wing room.

She lived with Fu Yuan, and the two of them didn't talk about organizing weddings and other ceremonies, they just lived together without a name, a distinction, and no shame.

Li Dan still thought it was quite normal. He said that Fu Baihu had a good temper and had nothing wrong with him except gambling.

Chen Mu thought about it carefully, and it was indeed the case. Of the hundreds of households under his command, only Fu Yuan and Shi Qi were of the same age as Die Niang. Joyful and willing to live under others, she can bear the temperament raised in Die Niang's pirate's nest.

Good!

For Li Dan, who came by accident, Chen Mu naturally would not drive him at will like the foster father of this era. On the contrary, he gave Li Dan the Yongle Tong Baodao, which he cherished very much among his trophies, and asked him to carry it with him.

The matter of identities was not difficult for Chen Qianhu, but within a few days, he retrieved the account cards of Li Dan and Die Niang from Xiangshan County, and found a local extinct family of duty, and the two people from Quanzhou, Fujian became successful. He was a native of Xiangshan, Guangdong, and then enrolled in the military.

So far clean.

Chen Mu has always adhered to the principle that people around him should not be barefoot, and barefoot people are the most terrifying.

As long as you put on your shoes, you have a lot more control.

Li Dan's skills in observing people's words and demeanor are first-rate, and other skills are also good. He is very respected among the soldiers who practiced with him. The more than 100 banner troops usually practice some martial arts battle formations and explain some water warfare incidents.

The flag army left behind by Qianhu in the past is unusable, Chen Mu is too lazy to practice, and he has no other purpose in handing it over to Li Dan, who has a bright eye, but to let him win over the hearts of these people, not expecting them to achieve great things, just Pray that there will be no bad things in the future.

In late May, good news came one after another.

First, Deng Zilong and Sun Ao took more than 500 Dan people down the river in hundreds of boats, and then Huayu in Haojingao found out the barbarian merchant who deceived women. People in Haojing called him Mai Yatu. There were two The big boat and the three small boats have traveled back and forth between Haojing and Mansica for many years of human trafficking, which is his most proud business.

Huayu is looking for an opportunity to sabotage his big ship.

Mai Yatu's boat was drawn by Huayu and sent to Qianhusuo. His big boat was called "centipede boat" in the Ming Dynasty. It was nearly eleven feet long, and there were thirty or forty large sculls on both sides that could be operated by at least two people. , erected with double masts and hung soft sails, is a warship used by the Portuguese to open up sea routes. On both sides of the ship, there can be 34 franc guns, and a single ship can carry up to [-] troops.

It has the advantages of strong firepower, large number of troops, and fast speed.

As early as the 12th year of Zhengde, the governor of Manchuria in Portugal, Woya, sent Andara to lead four such warships to occupy Tuen Mun. Later, at the beginning of Emperor Jiajing's accession to the throne, he sent the then Guangdong inspector Wang Hung to lead the army to expel Francois. Opportunities, the Portuguese boats were strong and the guns were strong, and the Ming army was defeated in the first battle.

Later, Wang Hung changed his strategy and defeated the Portuguese in Tuen Mun with the tactics of small boats and wolves. He captured the warship and the Franji, and played it for Emperor Jiajing to imitate it. Later, there were such boats along the coast of the Ming Dynasty.

Not to mention two such big ships, even one, Chen Mu took all six of his men's ships, and Mai Yatu's centipede ships were not enough to bombard them in naval battles.

With one side string gun and seventeen Francophones, two salvos fired at him almost sank his lucky boat.

Outside the Thousand Households, thanks to the fact that the Danmin have their own clan elders, they are able to select prestigious descendants of the clan as the three hundred households to help stabilize the Danmin.

Otherwise, there will be more than 500 households and more than 2000 people in Kinki, and there will be chaos.

Even with the help of the elders of the same clan and hundreds of households to help settle down, there was still a scene of chaos outside the Thousand Households. The original more than 400 new and old banner troops stopped their drills and were transferred to maintain order.

Hundreds of small fishing boats of different shapes were parked at the ferry, so the nine-rank inspector of the Dalan Patrol Division on the opposite side of the river, who was maintaining law and order, brought the yamen servants and asked with trepidation what happened to the Xiangshan Qianhu Station.

Qianhu yamen front hall.

Deng Zilong, Sun Ao, Long Junxiong, Li Dan and others gathered around the ship map sent by Huayu to settle down.

"The small boat brought fire equipment to attack and set fire to the sails, and the small flag and arrows were set on the boat." Deng Zilong showed a fierce look, and said according to the picture scroll: "Tell him to destroy the boat and kill everyone!"

Chen Mu nodded and turned to look at the others. Long Junxiong had no better idea. Sun Ao felt that what Deng Zilong said was very true. Only Li Dan, who hadn't planned to let him participate in the discussion, was silent, "If you have any ideas, Speak out and listen."

"Father Deng, what Deng Qianhu said is right. You need to have this kind of courage to win whether you are on the sea or on the ground. The boy just thinks that these two ships are very good. It is a pity that they sink. What's more, he is a trafficker. If there are people in the ship, they will be burned." The boat is not beautiful."

Li Dan said that he got Chen Mu to put aside the map of Haojing he sent earlier, and pointed to it: "If the bottom of the ship is damaged, the ship will enter the port. The captain of the centipede ship has more guns and the ship is faster, and the battle of the Portuguese and barbarians is no more than a gun." They are far behind in close combat. As long as it enters the port for repairs, lures the barbarian merchants out, and tricks the sailors to disembark, the officers and soldiers can capture them on the shore.”

"My boy led someone to snatch these two centipedes and honor my adoptive father!"

(End of this chapter)