The waves on the blue sea were originally a very beautiful scene, but now there are a lot of debris on the sea, including wooden boards, rags, ropes, etc., which look like a pile of garbage poured into the sea water.

"Mr. Marquis, a ship must have been killed in front of him!" Commander Hu also stared at the sea and said.

"Diet? The storm just now was not very heavy, how could a ship die?" Li Zhang said in surprise when he heard this. He even immediately thought of pirates. He heard that some pirates robbed merchant ships, and for reasons such as destruction of corpses, they would sank the merchant ships and let the ships sink to the bottom of the sea with the merchant ships. Could it be that there would be pirates in front of them?

"This is the route to Hangzhou, and it is very close to Hangzhou. No pirates dare to approach it easily. The only explanation is that a ship was killed in the storm just now." Commander Hu seemed to have seen Li Zhang's thoughts at this time and explained immediately.

They have been away from Quanzhou for a while, and further forward is Hangzhou. Compared with Quanzhou and Guangzhou, although Hangzhou is a little worse in ports, it is a transportation hub between sea and land, so the coastal defense is still very strict, and few pirates dare to approach.

"The wind and rain just now are so small, and a boat will die?" Li Zhang asked again in disbelief when he heard this. Although the wind and rain just now made the boat very bumpy, it was still within the range he could bear, and he didn't even have to tie himself to the pillar.

"The Marquis doesn't know that not everyone can be as stable as our warships, especially in some small overseas countries. Their ships are small and broken. The gust of wind and rain just now is nothing to us, but they are fatal to some small boats." Commander Hu explained patiently at this time.

As soon as Commander Hu finished speaking, he seemed to be proving his words. Some floating corpses finally appeared on the sea in front of him. Li Zhang immediately picked up his telescope and looked into the distance. He found that the floating corpses looked very familiar, and they turned out to be Japanese people he had seen before.

"It turns out it's a Japanese, what a pity!" At this time, Commander Hu also saw the floating corpse on the sea through the telescope, and actually showed a regretful expression and sighed.

"Why are there so many women?" Li Zhang also identified at this time that there were quite a few women among the floating corpses. Ordinary sea boats prohibit women from boarding the boat, and even if there are, there are very few. However, nearly half of the floating corpses on the sea are those short Japanese women he had seen.

"Have you heard of borrowing seeds?" Commander Hu suddenly smiled dirtyly at this time.

When Li Zhang heard this, he immediately realized that when he first met the Japanese, many Japanese girls followed the Japanese mission to the capital to borrow seeds. He also heard that he had specially borrowed seeds from the Imperial College. Someone even gave him a Japanese girl, but was finally driven out by himself.

"These Japanese people are really shameless. Do they often go to the coastal areas to borrow seeds?" Li Zhang asked with a frown.

"It's not often. The Japanese shipbuilding skills are too poor. Their boats can only float over by the ocean currents, so at most once or twice a year." Commander Hu replied again, but as soon as he finished speaking, he heard a cry for help from the sea, which made Commander Hu slapped his thigh and shouted, "There are some living!"

Li Zhang also heard the sound at this time, but he saw a lot of wooden boards and beams floating on the sea in the distance. Some people were waving to this side while waving the floating objects, and the voice was filled with unconcealed ecstasy. After all, nothing can be more surprising than the survival of the disaster.

Commander Hu immediately ordered people to rescue people. There were not many living people, about a dozen, and most of them were women. When Commander Hu saw the surviving women, his eyes were almost green. After all, they all knew what these women did.

When Li Zhang saw this, he shook his head secretly. Although the situation of the Hangzhou Navy is a little better than that of the Quanzhou, Guangzhou and other places, it is also very limited. It seems that when he returns to the capital, he must promote drastic reforms to the Navy.

Encountering this group of Japanese people who died was just a small episode on the road. Soon their ship arrived in Hangzhou. Li Zhang stayed in Hangzhou for a few more days. It was mainly because when he passed by here before, he was in a hurry to go, so he did not conduct a detailed investigation of Hangzhou. So while he was not in a hurry, Li Zhang also had a detailed understanding of the sea trade and naval situation in Hangzhou.

However, just when Li Zhang was about to leave Hangzhou, someone suddenly sent a message from the capital. The news was specially sent to him by Zhao Zhen, and it was also news about Yelu Zong, the Liao Kingdom.

Last time, Yelu Zongzhen suffered a big defeat in Gubei. After he fled back to Zhongjing, the situation in Liao Kingdom was unstable. What's worse is that Yelu Zongzhen, a narrow-minded guy, actually got seriously ill because of this, which made people in Liao even more panic. If Yelu Zongzhen died of illness due to this, his son would be too young. Even if he succeeded to the throne, there would definitely be another turmoil.

Fortunately, Yelu Zong was really lucky. After being sick for several months, he gradually recovered. Then he began to rectify the situation of the Liao Kingdom. However, many of the nobles of the Liao Kingdom were somewhat different at this time. No one opposed the will issued by Yelu Zongzhen, but they could not implement it at all.

It can be said that Yelu Zongzhen was facing a dilemma of not leaving Zhongjing at that time. What's worse was that the Jurchens in the north also rebelled this spring. Compared with previous years, the Jurchens rebelled this time. The defenders in the north were many because they were drawn by Yelu Zongzhen. At this time, they could not stop the Jurchens' offensive and retreated step by step for a while.

Under such circumstances, Yelu Zongzhen, who had just recovered from a serious illness, could only order Yelu Renxian to lead his troops to the expedition. After experiencing a great defeat, Yelu Zongzhen did not have much force to use, and other nobles of the Liao Kingdom were unwilling to obey Yelu Zongzhen's dispatch of troops. As a result, when Yelu Renxian went to the expedition, he had only a mere 5,000 troops to use.

However, Yelu Renxian is worthy of being a famous minister of the Liao Kingdom. After leading his troops to the front line, he didn't know what method he used to convince some of the mature Jurchens. The so-called mature Jurchens are actually the Jurchens who defected to the Liao Kingdom before. The Liao Kingdom used these Jurchens to manage other Jurchens. This time the rebellion was mainly about giving birth to Jurchens. The Jurchens did not participate, but the relationship between the Jurchens and the Jurchens was complicated and not completely opposite. So although he did not participate this time, he was also watching coldly.

However, as soon as Yelu Ren arrived first, he immediately made the mature Jurchen use it for him. With the help of the mature Jurchen, the rebellion of the Jurchens was quickly suppressed. It was precisely through this great victory that the prestige of Yelu Zongzhen was further stabilized.

As the saying goes, good fortune and misfortune depend on each other. The rebellion of the Jurchens was a bad thing, but as the rebellion was suppressed, Yelu Zongzhen's prestige stabilized. With Yelu Renxian's help, Yelu Zongzhen also began to rectify the chaos in the country. As a result, over the past six months, the situation of the Liao Kingdom gradually stabilized. If this trend continues, it may take less than a few years to fully master the Liao Kingdom.

Of course, it is basically impossible for the Liao Kingdom to restore the situation before the Gubeikou War. After all, the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun were the richest land in the Liao Kingdom. If they lost it, they would lose most of the granaries, and the number of people was greatly reduced, which directly related to the number of soldiers.

In addition, after the last major defeat, the Liao people were already scared of the Song Dynasty. Some time ago, Yelu Zongzhen, at the suggestion of Yelu Renxian, took the initiative to send envoys to the Song Dynasty to ease the hostile relations between the two countries. Zhao Zhen also needed to stabilize Yan Yun's rule and did not want to have another conflict with the Liao Kingdom for the time being. So he also emptied and rebuked the other party and temporarily resumed commercial exchanges with the Liao Kingdom. As for the annual currency, no one mentioned it at all, as if there was never such a thing between the two countries.
Chapter completed!