Among these sailors, there are veterans who retired from the Ding Navy, as well as villagers who Wang Erbai returned to Wandu Village in Haizhou to recruit after he started his career. The villagers are related to each other, and an older man, even Wang Erbai,
Hundreds of elders.
At that moment, the elder said: "My dear nephew, you are still alive! Could it be that the remaining poison has taken over and you are talking nonsense?"
He reached out and touched Wang Erbai's forehead: "Isn't it hot?"
Wang Erbai took a short knife from the hands of others and put it in his arms: "I have thought about it. There is a problem with the fleet's needle path, there is a problem with the route through Heishuigou, and there is a problem with the private port where it will be anchored.
, it just happened to happen, there is a problem! This is all settled! We were deliberately led here! Some people want me dead, maybe they want everyone on this ship to die too!"
He curled up in the hammock and rolled his eyes several times: "So, I will die first. If you stop the boat and cry a few times, it is best to make a fuss on the deck, quarrel and curse each other, and pretend to disagree.
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"Then what?" the subordinates asked.
"Since these people have a plan, they must have left people at the mouth of the river to secretly monitor our movements. Just wait and see. If any ship comes out of the Zhuo River to catch up, the people on that ship are planning something evil... They think
If I'm dead, I'll pretend to be on the boat to investigate, and I'll take the opportunity to take control of the whole boat. You should be prepared, wait for them to get on the boat, and kill them all!"
The poison attached to the raw short spear was not trivial. Even if the ship's doctor dealt with it in time, Wang Erbai still felt dizzy and nauseated for a while. He cheered up and said this, his whole body was weak, and he could only wave his hand: "You go and prepare yourself.
Hurry!"
There have always been many cases of murder and robbery at sea, and the sailors have seen blood before. No one suggested fleeing with the wind, or similar suggestions. At that moment, everyone laughed ferociously: "Just do it!"
"Go for it!"
In the blink of an eye, everyone on the lucky boat got ready.
Last spring, the Duke of Zhou in the north, who is now the Emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Guo Ning, secretly joined hands with Shi Miyuan, the right prime minister of the Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty, to establish a maritime trading company. With the establishment of the trading company, the original main direction was the Southeast Asian countries.
The maritime trade of the Song Dynasty on the islands was connected with the Zhou Dynasty and Goryeo in the north to form a whole, and both the trade volume and profits doubled.
Not to mention the high-ranking officials and wealthy merchants in the south who are making huge profits, the more than 300 Tongzhou-style ships in the north are completely inadequate for use. Not to mention, most of those ships have been used since the reign of King Hailing and are almost sixty years old.
Already.
In order to maintain the north-south balance within the Shanghai Bank, on the one hand, the Shipyard was set up in Tianjin, Fuzhou, and Dengzhou to hire shipwrights from the Southern Dynasties with large sums of money to restore the shipbuilding industry; on the other hand, Zhou Keshan established the shipbuilding industry through Qing Dynasty.
Zhang Kai, a wealthy merchant in the Yuan Dynasty, ordered two batches of forty sea-going ships in Fujian.
What everyone is moving now is one of the two batches of sea-going ships.
These two batches of lucky ships were made of four hundred materials, so in the Southern Dynasties, they were really inconspicuous.
In the last years of Shaoxing, the East Zhejiang Appeasement Division added its main warships for the last time, and used sixty empty names as funding to build forty warships, each with official specifications of one thousand materials. The top forty thousand-material warships
, there are also larger 2,000-material and 5,000-material warships, which are still rampant on the sea today.
Despite the severe losses during the Kaixi Northern Expedition, which was reported by various places as lacking armaments and military and political ruins, the number of large and small ships directly under the jurisdiction of the Coastal Construction Department of the Song Dynasty still remained at more than a thousand.
The number of ships kept by the people of the Song Dynasty is even greater and cannot be counted. Two years ago, Zhang Kai's family fell into decline and he claimed to be impoverished. He still had a ship with a thousand materials to rely on for traveling on the sea. According to the folk data, a thousand materials were converted into official officials.
The material is five hundred materials, which is a bit larger than the ship Wang Erbai is in.
But this batch of new ships is much better than the Tongzhou-like ships of the Northern Navy. Regardless of the comparison of load capacity, speed, sturdiness, and wind and wave resistance, the Northern Navy and maritime merchants can be stunned and worshiped.
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At this time, the ship manpower placed by Ding Haijun in the trading company was gradually stripping away the influence of the old people, and mostly using new talents trained by Ding Haijun themselves. For example, Wang Erbai's boss Zhao Bin is currently assisting in the preparation of the Bohai Sea System
The navy was under the command of Zhisi, and Wang Erbai became the bow of a large ship.
After Wang Erbai and his party took over this lucky ship, it was their second trip to Guangzhou. Because the crew members were far less familiar with star-pulling techniques, water depth detection methods and many needle paths than the sailors from the south, and
The Heishui ditch between Fujian and Liuqiu is famous for its strong currents, so the superiors arranged for them to follow two lucky ships that were used to traveling by sea.
Who would have thought that they would accidentally run into a black water ditch and fall into a trap?
"Bow, what you said is absolutely correct. Someone really set off a firework signal in the fjord!"
"I saw it, it's Wang Ziqing's boat! They have been waiting at the mouth of Zhuoxi River, and they rushed out! Brothers, don't show your whereabouts, keep making noise when it's time to make trouble!"
"They are approaching and are signaling us to stop the boat!"
Wang Erbai raised his voice and said: "As we agreed, let them board the ship!"
After saying that, his whole body went stiff, and except for the weak rise and fall of his chest, he never moved at all.
Wang Ziqing is a powerful leader and private businessman in Quanzhou. He has strongholds in Nanxiao Mountain and Nanni Village near the junction of Fuzhou and Xinghua armies. He has a reputation as a ferocious barbarian. Many people know that he also
He was also a powerful pirate. He once set fire to and killed people in Zhangzhou, Quanzhou and other places.
Last winter, Hu Ju, a close confidant of Prime Minister Shi Miyuan, went south to serve as the prefect of Fuzhou and worked hard to recruit people from the sea. Wang Ziqing followed Hu Ju's path and won the title of Zhengjiu Baoyilang. As a minor envoy, Wang Ziqing
Running around Shanghai.
There is nothing to say about the skills he has developed at sea. In less than a year of serving, no one from Denglai in the north to Shitang Qianli in the south did not praise him.
At this time, the two ships were approaching, both had their sails lowered, and were sailing side by side several feet apart.
Wang Ziqing's ship was a full-sized eight-hundred-year-old ship. There were more than 60 sailors on board. He left his deputies on his ship and selected more than ten fierce men armed with swords to take two small boats.
, paddling across the sea; then climbing the rope ladder and stepping onto the ship.
After a brief glance, he saw Wang Erbai's body stretched out on the hammock. Looking at it carefully, Wang Erbai's face was gloomy. Wasn't he dead?
Wang Ziqing was overjoyed, but there was a sad look on his face: "My dear nephew! What happened to my dear nephew?"
He jumped off the side of the ship and walked a few steps towards the hammock on the bow of the ship, wanting to confirm the life and death of this man. Only two or three steps away, a sailor suddenly stopped in front and said in a cold tone: "We are about to bury the bow of the ship.
The body is so inconvenient for outsiders to disturb it!"
"Why am I an outsider? His surname is Wang, my surname is Wang, and I am his uncle!" Wang Ziqing sneered twice, stretched out his thick and hairy arms, and wanted to force the sailor away and check his breathing.
When he reached halfway with his arm, he smelled a very faint smell from the ship, mixed with the fishy smell of the sea breeze. It was clearly the snake venom commonly used by Liu Qiu Sheng Fan, as well as the strong smell of blood!
The boy Wang Erbai was indeed hit by a poisonous spear. The poisonous spear was so powerful, he was dead!
The process of this job is a bit complicated. Those students were all stupid. They put on such a big show but failed to finish the job on the spot. Fortunately, Wang Erbai will not escape this disaster after all. I will handle the matter properly and I will definitely make it happen.
The boss was satisfied. Taking the opportunity to capture the ship at this time would also be beneficial to his own pocket, haha!
Thinking of this, Wang Ziqing was in a good mood. He released some of his strength from his hands and slapped the sailor's cheek humiliatingly, making the sailor stumble away.
There was no obstacle in front of him, so he was not in a hurry to see Wang Erbai's body. Instead, he turned around and shouted at the other sailors who were still making trouble on the board: "Stop making a fuss! Tell me, what are you making a fuss about? It's because of the boat.
Your head is dead, don’t you know who to listen to next?”
All the sailors looked at each other, and Wang Ziqing shouted again: "No need to argue! This ship belongs to me now! If anything happens, I will make the decision for you! Now, all of you, please kneel down!"
Following his shout, more than a dozen of his subordinates drew out their daggers and sharp swords at the same time and advanced quickly, the blades only making shadows in front of the sailors' eyebrows.
There was a sailor who was about fifty years old and had a weathered face. Not only did he hold his neck and refused to kneel down, he even shouted loudly: "This is not your ship! It's not your turn to speak on this ship!"
Wang Ziqing's face darkened. He recognized that this old man was a veteran of the Northern Ding Navy, and he had some vague supervisory functions on the ship. He wanted to intimidate, so he immediately flicked his chin, snorted through his nose, and signaled that he should go ahead.
Kill this key figure.
Unexpectedly, several subordinates who were holding swords and pointing at the old soldier suddenly stared at Wang Ziqing's position, and they were all dumbfounded.
What are you doing? Are you afraid? Don’t dare to do anything?
Wang Ziqing's face darkened again, and he shouted: "Do it! Kill him!"
The reaction of several subordinates was obviously slow, but the expressions on their faces changed from surprise to horror. Only then did Wang Ziqing think of a possibility, and he hurried forward, but it was already too late.
His back hurt, and then the cold and hot touch penetrated the skin and bones of his back, penetrated deep into his organs, and then passed through the bones and flesh of his chest. He lowered his eyes and saw a sharp blade emerging from the gap between his ribs.
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Wang Ziqing opened his mouth to curse, and blood gushed out of his throat like a fountain. When he wanted to breathe, blood poured into his trachea along the blood vessels in his throat and chest, causing him to choke violently. He raised his hand to grab it.
Holding the blade, he wanted to tear out his own throat, but his hand had no strength.
In his sight, the sailors gathered on the deck burst into revolt at the same time.
It turned out that each of them had hidden a sword, and half of them were wearing armor. It turned out that each of these people had undergone rigorous fighting training, and they must have been on the battlefield.
The dozen or so people who followed Wang Ziqing aboard the ship faced a fierce siege by multiple sailors and were instantly defeated. Only three or five people jumped into the sea to escape, and the rest died cleanly in a matter of seconds. The blood they shed pooled in the depression in the middle of the deck.
, a small area called the official hall became a pool of blood.
The prince's eyes were all cracked, but he couldn't fight or move. If it weren't for the knife on his back supporting him, his legs would become weak and he would have fallen down long ago.
His vision gradually blurred, his breathing gradually became weak, and he heard someone behind him giving an order: "Lower the sails! Turn the rudder!"
Damn, that’s Wang Erbai’s voice! This bastard is not dead!
Following Wang Erbai's order, the sailing speed of the entire ship suddenly dropped. The ship's hull tilted sharply to one side, leaning towards Wang Ziqing's Thousand Materials Fortune Ship.
The distance between the two ships was only a few feet. After they suddenly came closer, the water flow between the two ships accelerated, as if a huge suction force was generated, causing the two ships to approach faster and faster, like a sideways collision.
Wang Erbai's subordinates all stood on the side of the ship, shouting and gesticulating. There seemed to be ghosts crying and wolves howling on the Qianliu ship.
"The bow of the ship! This collision will break half of our ship's side!" Someone shouted at Wang Erbai.
"No, I'll find something to put on it." Wang Erbai replied calmly.
After all, his thigh was seriously injured, and the toxins could not be removed. He had just killed someone with a knife, which had consumed a lot of energy, so his movements were inevitably a little slower now. Fortunately, he sweated a lot, and finally managed to get the prince who was bleeding from the mouth and nose before the collision.
Qing threw it over the side of the boat and accurately got stuck into the gap where the two boats were in contact.
The next moment, there were subtle cracks of heavy planks deforming and muffled sounds of shattering bones and flesh. The impact of the two ships coming together crushed Wang Ziqing's torso like tissue paper, and the pieces fell into the sea one after another.
Wang Erbai nodded with satisfaction: "I said the side of the ship will not be broken! Everything is fine!"