Chapter 331 Meeting an old friend again

Snow fell to the ground one by one, and you could hear the slight sound of snow flakes hitting the branches. Wearing a thick green satin cotton jacket, Lu Feng put his hands into his sleeves a little bleakly, and murmured: "It's not a good feeling this time. I have done a lot of things that are harmful to the sky, but this time I feel a little strange! Old Water Monster, is it my retribution coming?" He twitched his mouth and hummed: "But although I, Lu Feng, is it not as good as I am, yet I am not as full of evil as I am, right?"

Shui Yuanzi was wearing a marten cloak, two layers of silk coats, and three thick jackets. She was dressed as round as a bear in the winter. Hearing Lu Feng’s question, he grabbed the hat made of fire fox fur from his head with a little difficulty, and the heat in his head floated out. "Oh, no, God wants to chop you, you have to give me face, right? No matter how much I say I have to wait until I walk away from you before I can chop you? Otherwise, I will be unlucky with you? Oh, the weather this year is so strange. It’s already snowing, why is it still so hot? It’s so hot!"

Huo Jia, Huo Yi, Huo Bing and Huo Ding, who were following Lu Feng, looked at Shui Yuanzi foolishly. He is wearing too much, right? It would be strange if you are not hot.

When he sniffed, Shui Yuanzi rubbed his nose hard with his three-layer leather gloves, and sighed: "I'm just for the reality of acting, right? Ordinary people wear cotton jackets in this kind of weather, so grandpa, I will wear several more pieces of him, and no one suspects that Grandpa, I am a Taoist practitioner, right? Haha, Shui Yuanzi is indeed extremely smart." After saying that, he wiped sweat from his forehead and muttered: "It's really hot!"

Lu Feng couldn't bear to watch it anymore. He bent over from the horse and attached it to Shui Yuanzi's ear and shouted in a low voice: "Don't you have to do this? Don't say that you have worn a few leather jackets, even if you bake you with a stove, you won't be so hot? Old Monster Shui, what do you want to do? Don't pretend to be like this. Those Fusang envoys will not see your original identity. They have just practiced a little bit of witchcraft or that kind of witchcraft that is not as good as it is. What are you afraid of?"

Shui Yuanzi's mouth flattened, and a large mouthful of heat came out of his mouth. He said helplessly: "I don't want to do it either, but you just took one, and it was easy to digest it. But I took five pills in one breath. Those five pills were transforming my body, making me unable to control it if I wanted to use my skills! Fortunately, I was trained by those guys last time with the outside world's sky fire, and all the impurities in my body were refined. Otherwise, you would see the flowing water coming out of my body this time! Grandma's, it's so uncomfortable!"

Lu Feng was stunned. It seemed that he could not eat too much of the divine elixir. With Shui Yuanzi's cultivation level, eating five pills in one bite became like this. Then what would it look like if he ate five pills himself?

Shaking his head, the sweat beads on Shui Yuanzi's nose were flying around. He was a little complacent, blinking his eyes and looking at Lu Feng with a smile: "Congratulations, after these few days, my innate water spirit body will truly be transformed into a demigod body. Although his skill will not increase too much, some things I was afraid of before will no longer do anything to me." He laughed strangely: "Damn, the purple flower sky fire in the heavenly world used to burn me, but after these few days, I am not afraid of anything!"

He squinted his eyes and smiled: "At that time, when you have nothing to do, you will sneak into the fairy world and go to their elixir furnace to steal medicine or magic weapons. Hehe, their fire will no longer do anything to me." After twisting his body on the saddle, Shui Yuanzi said with a ferocious look on his face: "Those bastard immortals, I secretly entered the fairy world once eight thousand years ago, and almost melted by their fire. Next time I go, if I don't take their elixir magic weapons, I'm not Shui Yuanzi."

He slapped his forehead heavily, and Lu Feng flattened his mouth in an indescribable tone and bowed to Shui Yuanzi: "So that's it, Old Monster Shui, congratulations, really congratulations... The benefits are evenly divided, you three and I seven, hehe! Don't look at me like this, have I given you a lot of benefits? Is it? I have many subordinates, right? You also know that I just lack these basic things now, right? What kind of friendship do we have? You get 30% and I 70% of them, it's very reasonable!"

Shui Yuanzi cursed and kept bargaining with Lu Feng. "No, you 40% of the time, I 60% of the time. No matter how you say it is, grandpa, I went to get things, how can you share more than me? It doesn't matter if you have more people, our relationship is indeed good, but what if I say, I will give you a little more after I get 60%. This is my face to give you! I will give you 70% of the time. Wouldn't I, Shui Yuanzi, not even if I want to do favors?"

Lu Feng laughed: "Then the relationship is good. You get 60% and then give me 30% so that I can accept your love, okay? Well, that's it. We won't be too long-winded, so we'll hurt our feelings!"

During the unscrupulous conversation between the two, the large group of people slowly followed the Yangtze River to the southeast. The horse's hooves were deeply lost in the snow about a tiny inch of snow. The people on the horse's back were three thousand elite soldiers selected by Lu Feng from the imperial guards. Behind the horse's team, there were more than two hundred and thirty long carriages, and there were envoys from the Saito family and some goods. The last one behind the temple was a thousand elite infantry, who were tightly surrounded by the carriages. Even if the Saito family's envoys went to the roadside, there would be a large group of people following them.

Three days ago, Zhu Di met Saito and said a few friendly and polite words to each other, and invited Saito to a banquet, promising him that as long as he could transport Saito's specialties to the Central Plains, trade was not something that could not be negotiated.

When Saito took the opportunity to propose to sell them arms and weapons. When they were willing to trade them with a large amount of gold and silver, Zhu Di hesitated a little. However, at the instructions of Lu Feng and the Minister of War, Zhu Di immediately agreed to the request happily. In order to reflect the generousness and fairness of the Ming Dynasty, thousands of weapons, armor, bows and crossbows that were about to be destroyed were handed over to Saito and others, and Saito was so grateful that he couldn't speak.

Lu Feng still remembers what Zhu Di said: "The envoy came from afar, but was also frightened. After staying for a long time, the money on this body must be insufficient. For the sake of friendship between the two families, I don't force you to pay the money now. Well, Lu Feng, you will take someone to escort Mr. Saito, his subordinates and these armies to the port, load the ship and transport these things back to Fusang. Well, by the way, see what good things are in Fusang. If there are rare goods, you can trade a batch and make the people of the Saito family richer."

How well said this, it was just about everything for the Saito family. Look, you don’t have much gold and silver on you anymore. I know that you have been blackmailed by the Jinyiwei, so you don’t have to pay the bill now. You don’t have enough staff, there are hundreds of people and thousands of sets of weapons to take back. I also sent someone to escort you to the port. Knowing that the people of your Saito family are living in a difficult situation, I also sent a fleet to trade with you. If you make some furs, seafood, etc., we will buy them with gold and silver. Look, it’s so good!

The Saito family was overjoyed and hurriedly bowed and thanked Zhu Di, sincerely praised Zhu Di, and called him one of the rare great monarchs in the world. Zhu Di also took his flattery and said with a smile: "If the Saito family can unify Fusang, then we can strengthen our exchanges in the future! But, after all, Fusang has an emperor, general and others, and we have too many interactions with your Saito family in private in the Ming Dynasty, but it is not in line with the national system, so..."

Naru Tasu narrowed his eyes and took a step forward to add Zhu Di's words: "If the Saito family could become the owner of important positions such as General or Guan Bai, our Ming Dynasty would be willing to trade with you. But now, the Saito family only owns two countries on the Four Islands of Fusang. Even if they trade with our Ming Dynasty, there would be no profit to make, so please ask Mr. Saito to discuss with your head after he goes back!"

During the banquet, Lu Feng even made the topic clear: "We give you so many weapons and armor items, hehe, ah, you understand this meaning, you should understand it. Your Saito family let go of burning, killing, looting, and fighting for power and profit. Ah, don't be afraid that he is not a general. Even the emperor can still pull him off and let you be the emperor. When you unify Fusang, your family has a strong foundation and we trade with each other, so there is a profit to be profitable."

Saito's face was very awkward: "Hey, this general can be overthrown, but this emperor cannot be moved. Lord Lu is afraid that he doesn't know the situation in Fusang. The general's family has changed several families, but no one has touched him for thousands of years... As long as the Ming Dynasty supports, our Saito family is confident to compete with the general's family. If we start to fight in the future, your country will take care of you more."

Saito looked at Lu Feng, feeling puzzled: "The Emperor of Ming and those ministers seem to have a great understanding of the situation in our country in Fusang, but why is this Lu Feng just a fool? Why doesn't even know that no one in our Emperor family dares to move?... Alas, it's a pity that he is the only one in the Ming Dynasty. If there are more... Hum!" He thought again: "Well, but this time it's really good. Although he was a little scared, he actually got so many excellent weapons and armor. Our family's military strength should be increased by more than ten times."

This is what happened before Lu Feng and his friends escorted the Saito family envoys out of Beijing. The Saito family envoys left Yingtian Prefecture with satisfaction. Lu Feng and Shui Yuanzi also hoped to bring a large number of good men out of Beijing. Except for the seven people including Zai Guosheng Lei who were all in a daze, all of them were in a good mood. Even the 4,000 soldiers who accompanied them were happy. This time, they were on a business trip, and the court paid for them to go to a foreign country for leisure. I heard that the women in Fusang never wore underwear and were extremely hot and enthusiastic. I heard that the bathhouses there were all men and women bathing...

The wind and snow were falling, and Lu Feng and his team were getting farther and farther away, but they were getting closer and closer to Yangzhou. By the time the first firecrackers sounded at the end of the year, Lu Feng and his team had already stepped into the Yangzhou territory.

The first one to meet was not Ma He's subordinate. Li Zhu led more than a dozen hall masters of the Golden Dragon Gang and dozens of helmsmen to attract Lu Feng to Qingyun Town beside Yangzhou. The two brothers didn't say much. Lu Feng handed over a batch of newly refined elixirs and flying swords to Li Zhu. Li Zhu introduced several disciples of the newly acquired sect with good qualifications to Lu Feng, and the two said goodbye. Although Li Zhu had the reputation of the Jinyiwei, he was a top-notch tyrant after all. Lu Feng and he could not have more public relations, otherwise they would be included in a book by the censor sooner or later.

In the largest shipyard outside Yangzhou City, Lu Feng saw the horse and tall horses who had not seen for a long time. The face was full of frost, but the complexion was very good. He brought several subordinates to smile and welcomed Lu Feng and the others into the shipyard. You can also see that in the huge shipyard, there were about thirty keels that had been laid, and most of them had been nailed with shipboard boards and other objects, and it was about to be completed. On the water outside the shipyard, there were dozens of huge ships moored, and the largest ones were probably thirty or fifty feet long.

Saito and the others were already stunned, staring at the huge warship in a daze, so surprised that they could not speak. The faces of Ryusanro and other generals were not only surprised but also full of fear. They could not understand how such a huge ship was built, and they dared not imagine how terrifying combat power such a ship could be exerted on the sea.

Ma He smiled and held Lu Feng's hand and pointed and said, "There are three newly created extra-large treasure ships, forty-five zhang long; fifteen big treasure ships, forth thirty zhang long; and thirty large warships, forth twenty zhang long. There are two extra-large treasure ships, ten big treasure ships, and twenty large warships on the platform. The shipyards in Hangzhou and Quanzhou built other ships in the fleet, such as watercraft, cargo ships, warships, etc.."

Looking at the fleet in front of him, Ma He took a long breath and said proudly: "Look at such a fleet, when can they lead their cloaks to break through the waves and go straight to the West, it is also a great pleasure in life." It can be seen that he was full of emotions for these warships and passionate about the blue ocean represented by the warships.

Lu Feng was not very particular about going to sea and voyage. He smiled and said, "This relationship is good. Depending on your Majesty's intention, you might have to let me go to sea with Brother Ma. Then there will be fun! However, this time, I came here, and borrowed several large ships from Brother Ma, and we carried some cargo and other things to Fusang to do business. Brother Ma should have received this secret order. I won't talk about it here." After saying that, Lu Feng took a quick look at Saito.

Ma He knew it. He glanced at Saito who was surrounded by a treasure boat and looked at the dragon bones, nodded and said, "All things are ready. Shanhaiguan and Juyongguan have caught two thousand three hundred barbarians. I have sent people to guard them tightly. Give them half of the normal ration every day to avoid fattening them. They will cause trouble... Well, if you want to go to Fusang, you will just drive out all the fleets you have on hand now, and I will take the opportunity to train my subordinates' sailors and soldiers."

He laughed and said, "But you have to exercise well. Don't go out to sea and you will be embarrassed if you go out to sea and you will be embarrassed." He patted Lu Feng's shoulder and laughed, and suddenly asked, "However, going out to sea in winter is not very good. Although the strong winds on the sea in winter are not as good as the hurricanes at the turn of spring and summer, if the wind blows, the power will be scary. No matter how big your sea boat is, it is rare to resist. Brother Lu, you will not go out to sea at this time?"

Shui Yuanzi swayed, walking over like a ball, and bragging proudly: "What are you afraid of? What are you afraid of? With Grandpa Shui, I am here, and you can see how wind and waves can overturn your ship. Ha, isn't it just a wave? Grandpa Shui, I am the innate body of water spirit. As long as I enter the sea, the sea water in this area of ​​a thousand miles must obediently listen to my grandfather's orders. What are you afraid of? Don't talk about winter, even if your biggest waves rush in summer, I will give you no problem."

After saying that, Shui Yuanzi wiped his head hard again and shook his hands full of sweat. His face suddenly flashed, and a trace of silver light faintly emerged from the crystal clear and almost transparent skin color, and then turned to normal. Ma He looked at Shui Yuanzi's sweaty face blankly and asked in surprise: "Senior Shui, what's wrong with you?"

Shui Yuanzi waved his hand and laughed, too lazy to answer. Lu Feng hummed, "What else can I do? I took the wrong medicine and was sick. Don't worry about him!" Lu Feng ordered several Jinyiwei to come over and asked them to take Shui Yuanzi to the barracks for food and drink. After thinking for a while, he said, "I have 4,000 soldiers and 300 masters guarding, plus less than 200 envoys from Fusang, a total of 4,500 people. Well, those who captured 2,300 barbarians, that is 6,800. Brother Ma, do you think this boat can hold so many people?"
Chapter completed!