China is indeed a vast land and a wealth of materials. When I came back from Jiangnan, I immediately felt a chill on the sea. After a long journey to Jiangnan, I actually spared it again.

Fortunately, I went completely near the sea. You should know that the accident happened to be the aorta of the Ming Empire, Hangzhou, and Dezhou, the starting point of the Grand Canal of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the military ration transported to the south and the grain transported to the south and the north, which filled the Grand Canal. I really admire these great masters of the imperial court. The same batch of grain must first go to the Ministry of Revenue in the capital to travel to the north and then go back. During this period, the rotten and consumed countless of them.

However, this cannot be changed. There are countless illegal hands in the imperial court to make money. Even though they know it is a bad policy, no censor dares to cause trouble on the canal. The interest groups they offended were too big.

This is also the tragedy of a late dynasty. As time accumulates, these dark unspoken rules have become increasingly close. Top-down reforms often face huge resistance and are extremely easy to repeat. Just like Zhang Juzheng's new policy, once a person dies, the policy will be immediately abolished, and there are more and more problems.

This seems to be a curse of Chinese history. Whenever he falls into this vicious circle, Mao Jue and Dongjiang are also struggling in this difficult apocalypse.

After finishing the East China Sea pirates, Mao Jue rushed north as soon as possible. He did not stop replenishing supplies at all on the coast of Xuzhou, and rushed directly to Shandong. This was the sixth day of going north.

"This should be in the Shandong sea!"

The sea was covered with fog early in the morning. This ancient sailing was really difficult. Without GPS, I didn't know where I was floating along with the current. Holding a telescope, Mao Jue held his small cannon barrel and watched from side to side with anxiety. Unfortunately, even if there was this thing, he couldn't see dozens of meters away. He could only see the Hongtu sail battleship in front of him.

Putting down the telescope, Mao Jue said anxiously.

"Don't panic, our location should have entered the Shandong sea area."

Fortunately, I borrowed many old ship workers from Pi Island. A chart is the GPS of this era. There is a compass on it and the flags are still calculating the speed. For other large sailboats, the captains record their itineraries every day, and only the Black Pearl is the first mate to calculate.

Looking at the chart, the eldest lieutenant who was in his fifties who had participated in the Wanli Korean War under Deng Zilong, the general general of the Ming army naval army, said confidently.

Looking at the picture, it is indeed not far from the top of the Shandong Peninsula, but even so, Mao Jue was still anxious and had already obtained the news before leaving that Dongjiang had gone to war. On the one hand, he didn't know what his Tieyi Army had lost. On the other hand, these Liao people were still their reserve troops. Once there were too many casualties, he would feel uncomfortable. The one who felt the least distressed was Sun Yuanhua, but this old official was still a talented person. If he disappeared, Dongjiang would feel even more uncomfortable.

While thinking, the warship in front suddenly stopped, and the flag-spoken soldiers on the bird's nest waved their flags desperately. This was a signal of unknown ships in front of them, and immediately the sailors of the Black Pearl became busy.

"Salt down! Hurry up! You idiot! Go ahead, untie the third cable, turn right on the front spinnaker..."

Holding the rudder with both hands, the eldest mate cursed with the rudeness of the sailor. As his shouting, the second and third mates also successfully carried the giant figure and turned the bow of the ship in a violent creaking sound. Seven giant ships were spread in the shape of herringbone in the front, protecting the big blessing ships, Guangbo ships, and the purchased Guan ships, Cangshan ships and so on behind them.

Three out of ten Hangzhou City's wealth is in this large fleet, and even if you sink a Mao Jue, you will feel distressed.

However, I really didn't look at the almanac when I went out. In the vigilance, the outlines of the three giants slowly appeared in the thick fog. The dark bow was several meters high, the slanted triangular front sail, and the huge main mast were more than ten meters high.

Although this is the sea of ​​the Ming Dynasty, it is also the scope of activities of the Japanese pirates. Last time, they pulled out Nagasaki Castle in the Tokugawa Shogunate, but they have not seen any reaction from the Japanese pirates. They also have contact with Westerners. The drawings of the Liaodong battleship were also collected from the one who placed his family in the King of Korea. I don’t know which descendant of Daming, and Mao Jue is not sure if the Japanese could build such Western battleships.

The main ship is located in the second position on the left side of the ship town. Seeing the warship opposite begin to slowly turn around the hull, while instructing the same tactical action, Mao Jue also frowned and shouted.

"Take a flag and tell the other party that it was the Iron Army of the Dongjiang River of the Ming Dynasty! Ask them if they dare to go against my Ming Dynasty?"

"Abide by the order!"

After bowing, Maolu ran out with the flag himself, waving at the bird's nest on the bow mast, and the observation whistle above also hurriedly whispered the flag. However, after a moment, Maolu had a strange face and ran back quickly.

"Jiang Ye, they said they were also the Tieyi Army of Dongjiang Town, Daming..."

"Well……"

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It was so big that the flood almost washed away the Dragon King Temple. These three are the latest first-class sail battleships launched in Dongjiang, the White Horse, the Tieshan and the Yizhou. In addition to these three, there are seven second-class battleships that are smaller, about fifty meters, and more than ten supply ships that are smaller than thirty meters.

In fact, a perfect fleet does not have to be all giants. The cooperation of large and large ships is the king. When the first-class battleships have developed to ten, Mao Jue plans to stop, and the remaining ones are second-level and third-level smaller. This time, he really took out all the wealth of Mao Jue. The fleet led by Shen Rong has a regiment with more than 1,200 sailors, and eliminated the lucky ships that did not have many gun positions before. The wide ship type, and the smallest one has a row of side gun cabins.

This is the fleet of dreams.

With Shen Rong leading the team, Mao Jue rushed out of the fog and saw the coastline, which was probably the location of Qingdao in the later generations, and was docked in a temporary military port here.

On the shore, a very neat military camp leaned against the port. In the Battle of Hangzhou, the Ming army claimed to be 100,000, but the tents were less than 1,000. Here, Mao Jue's Iron Rebellion Army had only five regiments coming to see the regiment flag. In addition, there were less than 10,000 auxiliary soldiers behind, so the number of tents was more than 2,000.

One tent lives in a person and the other tent lives in a horse. If you have money, you are so willful!

It is estimated that Shen Rong sent a small boat back to report that the generals of the tenth in the dock were waiting there. Not to mention, they were really well-known. Wen Meng, Kong Youde, Zhao brothers, Tian Tao, and generals of Tieyi are all here.

And there are actually more new people here.

Zhao Tiehan!

The first Liaodong man Mao Jue met in Dengzhou.

"Master General!"

After not seeing each other for a few months, these guys are quite conscientious. They all came forward with fists and bowed intimately. Especially Zhao Tiehan, they were obviously much more excited. The man, who was more than 1.8 meters tall, had a little red eyes.

"All up! It's been a long time since we met! Don't say that the iron man has become much stronger, but you are a lot fatter, my uncle! It seems that you should be sent to Rongsu opposite the Yalu River!"

In the past few months of intrigue, the bunch of rough men in front of me are the most intimate. After sighing, my fist hit Wen Meng's shoulder again, and Mao Jue also joked.

"You are the same as Mr. Jiang. I haven't even had a letter for several months. Could it be that I was fascinated by the girls in Jiangnan and forgot about our rude bunch, right?"

Wen Meng laughed out loud, but the thick face of the sea quickly gave a look.

"Old Wen, don't talk nonsense!"

This trip to Jiangnan was indeed a bit unsuccessful. For the sake of the honorific, Pang Dahai was afraid of causing Mao Jue's unhappiness. However, he obviously thought Mao Jue's energy was reduced, so he reached out and waved Pang Dahai. Mao Jue nodded to Wen Meng, who was a little stunned.

"Something happened this time, let's talk about it later when we go back!"

"Jiang Ye is right, let's accompany Jiang Ye back! The wine is ready, and the wine is said at the table!"

For fear that others would not know that they were a big wine bag, Kong Youde shouted loudly on the side, and then he resumed the joy. The generals hugged Mao Jue and entered the central army.

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However, I had no intention of drinking the wine. I just sat down and didn't even pick up the dishes. Mao Jue couldn't help but drop the chopsticks to the ground and shouted incredibly.
Chapter completed!