The Haibo was very fast. After Hong Tao finished talking, it stopped a three-masted sand ship and the two ships sailed back together.↗, Wei Langzhong also took the small boat back with the result of the negotiations with Hong Tao. He was just a negotiator and couldn't make any decisions and had to go back to report. Wen Nan followed him back to report without regard to Hong Tao's dissuasion. He said that the official family was kind and righteous, and he could not judge it with a villain's heart. It must have a beginning and an end. These words made Hong Tao feel cheeky and furious. If he was willing to go back, he would go back. The standards of being a human being were different, and he could not keep it even if he forced himself to stay.

Hong Tao's first official contact with the senior officials of the Southern Song Dynasty was like this. When Zheng Qingzhi boarded the sand boat, Hong Tao's thief was still turning his mind. He doubted whether the old man had practiced iron sand palms or something, and planned to come over and give him a palm and then captured him alive. So he just got up and bowed from the air, and sat behind the table temporarily added on the deck, with all his strength tense all over, ready to jump up and run away at any time.

"My nephew is fine, so good... It's been more than three years since Lin'an left. I didn't expect that you have achieved hegemony at sea. You are so terrifying!" Zheng Qingzhi's dress today is very casual, with round neck clothes, jade belts, hard hair, and black short boots. His expression is as casual as his clothes. Even if Hong Tao is not polite, he doesn't care and still smiles and speaks first.

"Mr. Zheng Xiang has a lot. I am just a foreigner who makes a living on the sea. There are also thousands of young and old people around me. If something happens, they will go hungry, so they have to be more cautious. At this point, I am not as good as Zheng Xiang. I will apologize here first. I hope that Prime Minister Zheng Xiang can hold a boat in his stomach. Go over this article. Langya and bring the things up... This is a little gift from me, not a precious item, it is all handmade products from me. But if there is one, Zheng Xiang will send someone to send him back.

Go to the official family to use it. This is called a telescope. If the official family holds it in his hand, you can see clearly what you and me are like. So that he will worry about it over time." What Hong Tao said was indeed the words in his heart. He asked a prime minister to go to a boat to talk to him about things, and he was also guarding others like guarding against thieves. People with narrow minds would definitely not be happy. On this point, Hong Tao really felt ashamed of himself. Without this mind, no matter who the other party was, even if the six-winged angel descended to earth, he had to guard against it like guarding against thieves.

"Typescope? What's the use?" Zheng Qingzhi watched Langya put gifts on the table from a large box, and there were a lot of them. He was a little confused. Da Song didn't have this etiquette, and before he finished a sentence, he just put on some real things. However, he was well educated and didn't get angry when he saw Hong Tao's busy work. The main reason was that he had never seen most things, such as this telescope.

"Pull it open like this and look far in the distance on your eyes... If you don't know, you can turn left and right until you see clearly!" After Hong Tao was mixed up, the deck, which was originally tense, suddenly relaxed. He held up a telescope to help Zheng Qingzhi adjust the focal length, and let the left prime minister of the Southern Song Dynasty look at the scene on the boat in the distance. Langya and Zheng Qingzhi's entourage stared at each other with big eyes and other unexpected actions.

"Hiss... This is a magical thing! You can see Qiao Xiang's beard... No, you can see this kind of rudeness in my emperor, so it's better to give it to the official family." Zheng Qingzhi, under Hong Tao's professor, quickly mastered the usage of the telescope. He was quite addicted to seeing it. After a long time of revolving, he realized his identity and mission, so he hurriedly put away the telescope and handed it to a follower, asking him to row a boat to send it to the official family.

"This is my homemade rum. Zheng Xiang tastes it and some snacks. How about we chat while drinking?" Hong Tao is not used to talking about serious things face to face. With wine as an intermediary, it can be much more comfortable. After getting Zheng Qingzhi's approval, Langya began to serve food boxes from the box, and half a table was placed one by one, which was nothing more than fruit shops, jerky meat, dried seafood and fish from Nanyang. The most eye-catching thing is the light rum in green glass bottles. The amber color is very attractive, but unfortunately, this bottle and wine glass are not produced by Jinhewan themselves, but returned from Arabs. It is quite expensive. It is a gift given to Hong Tao by a maritime merchant.

"... So strong! Good wine! Sweet and mellow in the mouth, rich in the throat, strong in the belly!" Zheng Qingzhi really took it aside. Seeing Hong Tao filling him with a glass of wine, he brought it up and drank it. Then he stared at him and then put the cup down, his face turned red.

"Hehehe, this is made of sugarcane residue, which is stronger than the wine from the Song Dynasty, and it is also a specialty from my place. Our wine from the Song Dynasty cannot be sold randomly, but can only be sold to countries in the South China Sea. There are still a few bottles in the box. Zheng Xiang took it away for the official to taste it. It is my wish." Hong Tao also dried the wine from his wine cup, and while giving it to Zheng Qingzhiman, he was talking nonsense.

"My nephew is not eccentric and very likable. Why don't he want to go to Lin'an to see me and be so careful?" Zheng Qingzhi was not as idle as Hong Tao, so he could talk nonsense for a day without any haste, so he had to take the lead in turning the topic to the main topic.

"No, be careful! I won't talk about the past things. Since Zheng Xiang has come, I have nothing to complain about. You are here to see me in a busy manner. I have won this love. There is also the official on the boat and the wind and sun are on the sun. It is not appropriate for a long time. If Zheng Xiang doesn't blame me for speaking too directly, then I will talk about my thoughts first. Do you think?" After getting the initiative, Hong Tao immediately turned into a defense and offensive. He didn't want to drink and chat with Zheng Qingzhi here. If he wants to have a chance in the future, he will first discuss serious things, so it will be easier to talk about them.

"But it's okay, I must listen carefully!" Zheng Qingzhi was generous. He didn't fight for the initiative, and he completely gave it to Hong Tao.

"I'll tell you that I'll let Zheng Xiang see something before, and then talk about it, and it'll be easier to understand. But this thing is a bit scary. I wonder if it will scare the officials? Can you say hello to the officials in advance and ask the officials to watch it together?" Hong Tao wanted to show the power of artillery to the emperor and minister of the Southern Song Dynasty. This is one of his capital for negotiations. Although he has obtained the initiative, you still have to have good goods and pretty goods, otherwise it would be useless to just talk with your mouth.

"Your nephew, it's okay to try. The official family can see me with your telescope. There will be no misunderstandings. I just don't know what things will be so scary?" Zheng Qingzhi was more calm than Hong Tao, and he didn't even move his butt.

"Send a signal!" Since Zheng Qingzhi said it was okay, Hong Tao just pretended it was okay. If something happened, it would be your problem and had nothing to do with me. He nodded immediately. Langya immediately took out two small flags from his arms, stood on the side of the boat, and waved at the Jinhe roster in the distance.

After getting the flag, the Jinhe River immediately put down two lifeboats and rowed northwards. On the channel, a sloop sand boat that came out of the Qiantang River was blocked. After a while, the sand boat descended, and the crew members on it boarded the boat and rowed back to the Jinhe River. The ship was anchored alone in the distance, almost a mile away from the Jinhe River.

"Boom...boom...boom...boom..." Before the boat could row back, the port side of the Jinhe suddenly opened two small windows, and soon two rows of large and thick pipes emerged from the window. Before Wen Nan and Zheng Qingzhi could explain what these pipes were, a loud thunder-like sound came over. Looking at the Jinhe, the port side and most of the hull were already shrouded in smoke, and there were balls of fire flashing, which were the naval guns that had not been fired yet were firing one after another.

In the few seconds of the shelling, Zheng Qingzhi was just curiously watching the Jinhe performing like fireworks, but soon he realized that this was not a performance, because a cloud of smoke broke out from the sloop sand ship in the distance, but it was not that rich. Soon a shell hit the bottom of the mast of the sand ship. The whole mast was like a toothpick. It turned around in the air before falling into the water. When the roar stopped, the sand ship had already begun to sink and the entire tent was smashed into pieces. Since it stopped shooting from anchors and shot fixed targets in a bay with very small surges, the hit rate was at least 50%. This small wooden ship with a displacement of dozens of tons would basically be rescued as long as it was hit by two shells on the hull.

"What does this mean by nephew? Is there something wrong with Mr. Zheng or the court is slow to take it!" At this time, the expression on Zheng Qingzhi's face was not so light and he also showed a strong sense of anxiety and dissatisfaction in his words. He understood that if the things that were fighting the sand-sinking ship came for this ship, he would definitely not be able to escape.

"Don't blame Zheng Xiang, I said it just now, it's a bit scary. This is a demonstration, and there is no malice. I want to let Zheng Xiang understand my abilities completely. This will be very beneficial to our subsequent conversations. There are many things that you don't need to try to explain. This thing is called a cannon. It can hit five miles away. Such a thick wooden board can penetrate it in one shot. I have sixty doors on this boat, and there are more than thirty doors on those small boats. If I have malicious intentions, all the boats on the west cannot escape, and at most two hours, they will all change.
Chapter completed!