At noon on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, a huge fleet composed of five Jinhai-class ships and eight Jiyun-class ships set sail from Guanyin Tanwu Port and headed eastward along the light yellow and slightly turbid river current to go out to sea.
Lin Fu was dressed in a green shirt, dressed like a Confucian scholar, standing on the deck and looking far and near at the brown soil of Baichuan.
Seeing his wife Gu Junxun coming out of the cabin, Zhao Hu, Sun Wenbing, and Ge Yuan who were standing on the dock all saluted her respectfully; Gu Junxun bowed and returned the salute.
Lin Fu saw Xunniang coming out for some air and asked, "It's your first time going to sea. Are you still used to the wind and waves?"
"Fortunately, it's not as serious as I thought before." Gu Junxun said.
The severe cold season has not passed yet, and the blue sea is like a river. It is the best time to go sailing. However, when entering the black water ocean, even if there is no wind, the waves are rolling. I don’t know if Gu Junxun can bear it. He can pull her to his side and watch the magnificent scenery together. Haitian.
The death of Tang Haoxin was a heavy blow to Gu Junxun. Lin Fu went north secretly on this trip, and there was not much danger, so he took her with him, hoping that this long trip to the sea would relieve her grief.
Zhao Hu is now the commander of the Guards Battalion. In addition to the 200 soldiers from the Guards Battalion led by Zhao Hu to accompany him for escort, he also brought 600 elite soldiers from the Jinghai Second Water Camp to accompany him, led by Ge Cunxin's sons Ge Changgen and Ge Yuan. Sun Wenbing After following Lin Fu to the south, he took charge of the affairs of Jiyun Society outside Jiangning. In more than half a year, he personally traveled the Blackwater Ocean Route three times. For Lin Fu's trip north this time, he selected a group of the best. Experienced, loyal and reliable shipwrights and sailors.
The northwest wind was strong, and we set sail to sail westward. Shortly after nightfall, we saw Changshan Island floating in the sea and the moon. The bright moon was in the sky, and there was a star disk in the vast sea to discern the direction. We did not stop at Changshan Island and continued westward... …
When Gu Junxun woke up, he felt that the ship was bumping a lot, but he didn't feel any discomfort at all. He opened the porthole, and bright light came through. It was already dawn. He didn't know how far the fleet had sailed at night. When he went out to sea, the water was turbid and yellow. , the sea water at this time is as blue as beautiful, and it is truly a black water ocean.
When we first went out to sea, the waves moved with the wind. The wind was still blowing from the northwest, but the seawater continued to flow northward, as if a mysterious hand was moving the seawater northward in this boundless and unfathomable sea. Gu Junxun's chin was knocked. From the porthole, she was fascinated by the sea current rushing northward.
Lin Fu turned over and woke up, and saw Xunniang looking out the window in a daze. He looked around and saw that there was nothing but the vast ocean current. He took Xunniang into his arms and asked, "What's there to see?"
"The wind is blowing from the north, but the current is rushing north and remains unchanged all year round. How can the situation in front of me make sense?" Gu Junxun asked. Going to sea for the first time opened her eyes to all kinds of strange things. All kinds of doubts and all kinds of magnificence piled up in her heart, making her temporarily forget the grief of losing her grandfather.
Lin Fu smiled. Junior high school geography textbooks talked about the knowledge of warm currents, but people in the world didn't even know the details of these natural phenomena. It's no wonder that they attribute everything to strange forces and chaos.
"We don't know yet what causes the ocean currents to move north all year round, so we have to study it, but we shouldn't attribute things we can't understand to ghosts and gods," Lin Fu said with a smile.
"Should we continue to go east? Isn't Jinhai in the north?" Gu Junxun looked at the diagonal cut between the bow of the ship and the direction of the current, but it was heading northeast, instead going north along the current.
"It's rare that I have free time. What are you going to do in Jinhai in a hurry..." Lin Fu said, "If the direction is correct, we will be able to see the coast of Koryo in the afternoon tomorrow."
"Goryeo?" Gu Junxun stared at Lin Fu's face in surprise, "Is it the Goryeo country that takes two to three months to reach Yanjing via Liaodong and wading through mountains and rivers?"
"Of course, how many Korean countries do you think there are in the world?" Lin Fu asked with a smile.
For more than two hundred years since the founding of the Yue Dynasty, Liaodong has been a tribute land from Goryeo to Yanjing. After Suhu, the Marquis of Jingbei, was beheaded, Liaodong was taken away by the Donghu people, and Goryeo lost contact with the Central Plains. However, this
In just thirteen or four years, the world was no stranger to Korea.
What everyone in the court didn't know was that after the battle of Chentangyi, the Donghu people were able to free their hands to conquer Goryeo in the south. From then on, Goryeo became a vassal state of Donghu and an accomplice of Donghu's cavalry in ravaging the Central Plains. Last year, Donghu invaded the border and invaded.
There were some Koreans among them.
Gu Junxun still didn't believe that Goryeo, which took two or three months to reach via Liaodong, could be reached in just two days and two nights by sea from Chongzhou. He stared at Lin Fu with his black and white eyes, pursed his lips and asked: "
You really didn’t lie to me?”
"I will lie to you for the rest of my life, and I will stupidly tell you a lie that will be exposed tomorrow?" Lin Fu smiled angrily, knowing that although Xun Niang knew poetry and books, she still needed to have an accurate geographical concept in her mind.
It was really hard for her. He went barefoot to the desk and took out the map, spread it out on the mattress and showed it to her, "To be precise, we will first arrive at Danluo Kingdom, which is in the southeast of Goryeo. Although Danluo is called a country, it is actually just a country.
There is an island three times the size of Xisha Island. From Jiangkou to Danluo, the sea route is actually only about a thousand miles, which is far less far than you think..."
"So close?" Gu Junxun felt very surprised. It was not like she had never traveled far away. When she went to work with her father, she traveled south from Yanjing to Jiangning and walked more than two thousand miles. Suddenly she realized that Goryeo, which she thought was far away, was
The countries of Danluo are actually more than a thousand miles away from Chongzhou. This new geographical understanding has a great impact on her. Although she no longer doubts Lin Fu's words, she is also eager to see the Danluo Island.
The moment comes sooner.
Danluo is Jeju Island, which is only a thousand miles away from Chongzhou. As early as hundreds of years ago, there were occasional maritime trade exchanges between Danluo, Kyushu, Goryeo and Jiangdong. After the rise of the East China Sea bandits, maritime trade in the East China Sea disappeared.
However, there are also occasional bandits from the East China Sea who go to areas such as Danluo to plunder.
Especially since the She family penetrated into the East China Sea, some East China Sea bandit forces were unwilling to be controlled and unable to compete with the forces supported by the She family in the East China Sea, so they crossed the ocean eastward and moved along the coasts of Danluo, Kyushu, and Goryeo.
Danluo (Jeju) Island is not large in area and has few settlements, but it has been an independent country for a long time. However, in the eighth year of Qingyu, Goryeo soldiers invaded Danluo and took Prince Danluo as a hostage. From then on, Danluo became the territory of Goryeo.
Subject country.
Although the Goryeo Kingdom is weak, it has a vast territory with a population of one to two million people, and Lin Fu does not have the strength to deal with it for the time being.
Danluo became a vassal state of Goryeo for only more than 20 years. The Danluo people were full of resentment towards Goryeo, especially when Goryeo surrendered to Donglu in the seventh year of Chongguan. Although there were only more than 30,000 Danluo people,
Lin Fu was about to make a move, intending to break away from the Koreans' control - Lin Fu was naturally very willing to give them a push.
After Goryeo adopted Danluo as a vassal state, they used Danluo as a horse breeding land. As early as last autumn, Sun Wenbing exchanged the ironware, cotton cloth, and sugarcane grain produced in Chongzhou with the Danluo people for war horses.
Although Lin Fu had no plans to build a large cavalry camp, wartime scouts, communications, and a small number of cavalry teams organized into reserves or to cover the flanks were all very necessary.
With Danluo Island as a cheap source of horses, a piece of cotton cloth could be exchanged for a war horse, which was much more cost-effective than going to the north to exchange forty or fifty pieces of cloth for a war horse.
On the other hand, in Danluo Island, which does not produce cotton and uses kudzu as its main source of fabrics, the soft and soft cotton all over the body must be considered high-end fabrics, so the price cannot be lower than that in Kodong County, where cotton is almost universal.
It’s just that the Danluo people mainly raised horses to pay tribute to the Koryo people. They kept nearly 3,000 high-quality horses in the pastures in the south of the island all year round. However, before the Danluo people got rid of the control of the Koryo people, the number of horses that could be secretly traded was very large.
limited.
Although the number of horses exchanged was not large, it could barely make up for the loss of horses in the riding camp, which was already very rare.
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When the sun set slightly on the 17th, the fleet saw the west coast of Danluo Island and saw the majestic Sunrise Peak in the center of the island in the distance, which is also the highest peak in South Korea. Gu Junxun saw Mount Tai on his way from Yanjing to Jiangning.
, I felt that Sunrise Peak was not lower than Mount Tai.
Lin Fu and Gu Junxun stayed in Danluo for two days as they became the distinguished guests of the Danluo royal court as the governor of Jinghai.
Before leaving, Lin Fu generously presented more than two hundred sets of armor, more than a hundred mulberry wood bows, and a Jiyun-class warship to King Danluo. He also agreed to send people to help the Danluo people train a thousand-man army.
Elite weapons were prepared to fight against the revenge of the Koreans after Danluo declared independence.
The condition in exchange is to carve out a small piece of flat land of less than four to five hundred acres on the west coast of Danluo Island, so that the Jinghai Metropolitan Supervisory Envoy can build a docking port fortress here and station two cloud-collecting warships.
A water camp force of two hundred troops.
Regarding the small amount of fighting force left, Lin Fu naturally said that it was to help the Danluo people fight against the Koreans.
Nowadays, Dai Viet is fighting fiercely with the Donghu people, and the Koryo people are a vassal state of the Donghu people. Helping the Danluo people to contain the Koryo people can weaken the power of the Donglu people.
This detour was a bit too far-fetched and unconvincing. Lin Fu also emphasized that the garrison could also combat pirates fleeing from the East China Sea, and more importantly, maintain trade between Danluo and Jiangdong County.
The Danluo people were not wary of the Dai Viet Dynasty beyond the vast sea, and they were eager to get help against the Koreans. Even though they hesitated at first, they quickly gave up their worries and agreed to give Lin Fu a small piece of land from the west coast.
The Danluo people mainly communicate with Goryeo in the north and Kyushu Island in the east, and the coastal resources on the west coast are idle there.
Lin Fu had been eyeing Danluo Island for more than a day or two. He immediately carved out a small area from the southwest foot of Sunrise Mountain and the west coast directly opposite Changshan Island across the sea.
Towards the narrow strip of land in the southern plain of Danluo Island.
Although this piece of land is only four to five hundred acres in size, it has a flat base and a promontory that protects the waves outside, forming a natural harbor. It requires little investment to berth a medium-sized fleet. Moreover, in
There is also a large coastline on the south side that can be extended and expanded.
Lin Fu directly named this place Jeju Port; considering that even if the Koreans discovered the existence of Jeju Fortress, they would be less likely to attack without warning, Lin Fu sent Ge Cunxin's eldest son Ge Changgen to lead a sentry water camp with two Jiyun-class battleships.
The main force of the ship will be stationed here to operate the place; the expansion of the garrison will have to wait until the dock is built.