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 port tower had not yet woken up. They were leaning on the railings and half lying on the floor sleeping. All five of them slept like dead pigs.
Now the Ming Dynasty's army is completely ruined, whether it is the guards, the battalions, or the navy. The training is lax, the discipline is loose, 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." Zhu Zhu saw that the position was almost there and 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 compartment, Zhuzhu commanded the crew to cut open the side of the ship and let water into the bottom compartment.
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 the waist.
"Let's go, get on the boat, and leave quickly," Zhu Zhu said.
If you don't leave, the boat will capsize and you won't be able to get out even if you want to.
The people around had been extremely nervous for a long time, but Zhuzhu didn't say anything, and they didn't dare to move. Now, as if they were granted 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 paddled backwards and quickly escaped from the ship.
From a distance, I saw that this broken ship had sunk on the waterway, and the pillars showed their signature sneers.
"Set up the sails and let's go back to Beitang."
The cabin is filled with weathered sandstone. Once soaked in water, it will be impossible to salvage it. If it is tied with a rope, it will break into several pieces if it is pulled under the water pressure.
Zhu Zhu was very satisfied with the results. He had just been praised by his master last time, and he was very satisfied with his work. Zhu Zhu could always do 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 large. 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 merchant bought this boat for basically the price of wood for burning firewood. Then, he spent some money to replace the broken ship plates, briefly reinforced the keel, and then rebuilt it.
Find someone to caulk.
It won't work without twisting. Normally, a ship needs 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 were saving so much money, the ship would probably be scrapped after just one trip to Busan. If it encountered strong winds and waves, it would probably be in danger of disintegrating.
But if the shipowner is happy with it, 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, where it loaded many large stones weighing four to five hundred kilograms each.
The pillars are used as ballast stones for the quarry.
However, this ballast stone is loaded with too much, and there is basically no dead tonnage left.
Although he was a little confused, the quarry shopkeeper didn't 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 materials are not easy to sell.
It is rare to have such a good customer, who specializes in buying the least valuable and 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.
Now all these waste wood and stones were cleared away.
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 is inseparable from the support of the intelligence system brought by Lin Yueru. It must be said that the network announced by Wei Du is still very powerful.
Among the officials, businessmen and common people of the Ming Dynasty, he was almost omnipresent.
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 Deng Lai Navy. However, it has always been secret. Only Lin Yueru and other senior officials know the list.
Now that Wei Gong has fallen, they find that the disaster has not come. Instead, their salary has 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 is indeed much stronger than the army.
Because they have other ways of making money, which 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 of naval warships and reported them to the traffic officer.
In the morning, he was sleeping on the big bunk when he was suddenly woken up by a loud noise.
Then the door was kicked open and Xiaoqi rushed in and roared.
"You damn pigs, why don't you get out of here quickly? Something's happened."
More than a dozen people jumped up, quickly put on their clothes, 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 him a lot. For him, flattering doesn't waste money or food. It's a good thing that comes without any expense.
"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 stones, sank on the outbound channel. All the ships were blocked in the harbor."
Qi yelled angrily.
Now it's better. We won't have to clear the waterway 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 I approached him this time, he had a premonition that something big was going to happen.
Sure enough, within three days, Denglai Marine was blocked at the door of his house.
At the same time, a fleet of fifty ships sailed through the Changshan Islands in the wind and waves.
"Madam, the incoming navy did not show up. It seems that Yang Jun has succeeded." Elder Shiina said.
"When we got here, I felt relieved and asked everyone to get out the gunpowder. The wind and waves are strong so that they won't 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 incoming naval forces.
"How long does it take to get to Dagokou?"
Shiina looked at the position of the sun and said, "It should be the afternoon sun."
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 all 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.
