Changfeng Thousands of Miles End Han Song

Chapter 337 Dengzhou Maritime 【Subscription】

Dengzhou City was silent at night.

Downstairs from the famous Eight Immortals, Ruan Xiaoer was seen with his hair disheveled, wearing a tattered sweatshirt, holding a stick in his right hand, and a bowl in his left hand. He looked like a beggar, huddled in a corner of the wall.

In fact, he was just begging downstairs for two full days.

He saw the whole Dengzhou City in his eyes, and he also took in all the strange changes in that city.

What changes?
That is, there seem to be more and more rich and powerful people in the city.They are rich and powerful, not ordinary wealthy gentry.The former are all prominent families in the state capitals, local wealthy families.

When Liang Shanbo had already taken Laizhou, and when Ma Zheng had lost all the main force of the army, and even lost his son's life in Qingzhou.Shouldn't the wealthy families who had gathered in Dengzhou City escape early?It was like this a few days ago, and many wealthy gentry and wealthy households fled south.But according to Du Xing's reaction, there are still many of those officials, rich and wealthy people who are still motionless.

This is weird.Ruan Xiaoer then went to the city for a visit. Needless to say, it was really like this.

Take the Eight Immortals Tower behind him, this is one of the most luxurious places in the capital city of Dengzhou, and it is already full of people. It can be said that all of them are rich and powerful from the land of Qilu, and every family is famous.So much so that there are dozens of beggars surrounding the building all day long. This is the number after a process of 'survival of the fittest'.

Ruan Xiaoer knows how greedy and fearful those rich and powerful people are, and the 'frightened bird' and 'fleeing at wind' are the portrayals prepared for them.Now Liangshan Park is close at hand, but these people are still leisurely and calm.If there is no weirdness in it, how is it possible?

Ruan Xiaoer blended in among the beggars without being intrusive at all, his bronzed skin, in the eyes of today's wealthy people, is a sign of an inferior person, and the public servants in the city often come and go in the Eight Immortals Tower, and no one sees him through of.

Although Lidi Taisui was tall and healthy, the old Zhao family didn't stipulate that people with strong physiques could not be beggars. Look at those beggar heads, who is emaciated?Without a good physique, how can you be competitive among beggars?
Dodging the night watchman Bingyong, Ruan Xiaoer quickly ran towards the Liuhe Temple not far to his left.There is a six-storey Liuhe Pagoda in this temple. It is the highest point on the left and right, and it is also the easiest to climb to the top without disturbing others.

Ruan Xiaoer would spend most of the night here to watch the changes in Dengzhou City at night.There are so many people and so many eyes during the day, so there is no guarantee that there will be any special harvest at night.

But what he saw was still the night watch team in the city, and the vital points where the fire was lit in the dark night, and even the fire outside the city.

Since Ma Zheng fled back to Dengzhou from Qingzhou, he has been training his troops like crazy and preparing the army. Even the Dengzhou navy has been transferred ashore from Daoyu Village.

Now, Lu Qian will send troops to Dengzhou soon.He had sent an order early on, telling the Ruan family brothers to be careful, and stop letting the big fish escape on the sea road.It is not normal for the top wealthy figures to gather in Dengzhou City.But he and Du Xing couldn't find anything wrong.

You know, the Ruan family brothers have been active on the sea for many days, intercepted and captured many sea ships, and deliberately released a few small sea ships to let the whole Dengzhou know that the pirates are ferocious. None of the ships dared to go to sea.

In this case, it would be normal for those rich and powerful people to flee to Jiaozhou Bay.Why are you still here?The reason for this troubled the Ruan brothers and the local Liangshanbo leader Du Xing were worried.

After much deliberation, the Ruan family brothers believed that the biggest possibility was the Dengzhou navy in Daoyu Village.

If they are escorted along the way...the so-called threat of pirates is not a problem.

The combat strength of the team led by Er Ruan is not considered weak, but it depends on who they are fighting with.

It's just that the highest military officer in Dengzhou is Ma Zheng, whose son died just now, and a large number of Dengzhou sailors in Daoyu Village were transferred into the city by him.Judging from the posture, he wants to fight Liang Shanbo to the death.In Dengzhou City, even the prefect Wang Shizhong cannot be the master of the house, so who can serve the Dengzhou Navy?
The Ruan family brothers had several contacts with Du Xing, who was staying in Dengzhou, but they had no clue about each other.As a result, Ruan Xiaoer personally came to Dengzhou City, and Ruan Xiaowu was to lead the fleet at sea.

There is not a single colorful cloud in the clear sky above, and there are three or five sparse stars in the distance from the moon.Ruan Xiao used the railing, looking around, the night covered the land in the distance, surrounded by dark shadows, indistinct, there were only three or five brightly lit places, but they were fodder fields, grain depots, barracks, etc., all of which had not changed much.

There are five fiery snakes in the city, and they circle repeatedly along the main street and wide road, but there is no change.

Ruan Xiaoer was very depressed. It had been two days, but he didn't see what he expected.

But at this moment, a bright light suddenly appeared in the large residential area on the right hand in front. The roof was scaled, and the shadow was heavy. The whole city was sleeping, but this light was very eye-catching, and it was not far from Liuhe Temple. Far.Ruan Xiaoer was curious, for the first time in two days and nights, he saw fire lights in the residential area around Liuhe Temple at night.

"Among the common people in Dengzhou, there are some brave ones." Ruan Xiaoer thought so.

The lights of this house flickered by themselves.In this way, from the fourth watch to the fifth watch, it was weird, and it made Ruan Xiaoer feel a little bit of visiting.But before he could get down the tower, the light suddenly turned into a cluster of flames, and then the whole house burned.And no one ever came out.

Ruan Xiaoer hurriedly descended the pagoda, the monks in the province were startled and saw him.Turning over the high wall of the temple, you can hear the loud cries of the residents.The sea breeze was blowing, and the fire burned half of the alley.After the fire was extinguished, the number of casualties was counted, and there were 17 people who were buried in the sea of ​​fire.None of the six members of the family at the source of the fire survived.

Ruan Xiaoer, who knew more, was more inclined to believe that the family of six had been silenced long before the fourth watch.Looking at it this way, there is no peace in Dengzhou City.

Ruan Xiaoer changed his clothes at a safe point that day and left Dengzhou City.I found my brother Ruan Xiaowu at the beach.

There are four large ships moored on the sea, one four-masted ship, two three-masted ships, and one two-masted ship.

The masts of Chinese-style sea-going ships are far less tall than those of later Western sailing ships, so we cannot compare the current three-masted and four-masted ships with the three-masted and four-masted ships of the 78th century. These four ships are tied together. The cargo capacity may not be as good as a Western-style three-masted sailing ship hundreds of years later.

But in this era, such a fleet cannot be underestimated, especially in the northern waters.

The two-masted ship named Beihai No. 1 was the first ship Liang Shanbo acquired, with a load of 3 materials, or 250 shi.If it is converted into metric tons for later generations, it is less than one hundred tons.Calculated according to the estimated load-to-displacement ratio of [-]:[-], the displacement of this two-masted ship is between [-] tons and [-] tons.Approximate estimate.

However, such a ship is already very impressive.You must know that when Magellan made his first round-the-world voyage, the largest ship was the 120-ton San Antonio, and the smallest was the 75-ton San Diego.The entire fleet is added together, and the five ships are not as huge as the tonnage of the tallest four-masted sea-going ship in front of you.

The two-masted sea-going ship has a load of [-] materials, but the two three-masted ships only have a load of [-] materials. When it comes to the four-masted sea-going ship, the load increases dramatically, and the load is [-] materials.But this is not the biggest one. Not long ago, the Song Dynasty ordered the shipyard to manufacture two giant ships because it wanted to send a mission to visit Korea. One was named "Dingxin Lishe Huaiyuan Kangji Shenzhou" and the other was named " Follow the flow and ease the Shenzhou."At the same time, he entrusted the supervisors of Fujian and Zhejiang provinces with six boats to accompany them.The passenger boat is more than ten feet long, three feet deep, two and five feet wide, and can carry two thousand dendrobium millet.Two thousand dendrobium is equal to two thousand materials.

The "Kangji" and "Tongji" are three times larger than the passenger boats in terms of length, width, and height, as well as the use of utensils and the number of people.In other words, the loading capacity of a Shenzhou is at least 120 materials.Two thousand materials are 360 metric tons. In other words, the load of "Kangji" and "Tongji" can reach [-] tons, and the displacement is definitely in the thousand-ton class.No wonder people in the Song Dynasty described the two Shenzhous as majestic as mountains, floating on the waves, with golden sails and bowed heads, and subdued dragons.There was a big blow.

The four sea-going ships in Dengzhou should not be underestimated. It is a serious commercial port on the Jiaodong Peninsula--Banqiao Town in Jiaozhou Bay. This is also a powerful force.Is Dengzhou Port a military port? The later Jiaozhou Bay is a serious commercial port.

Not to mention that there are seven or eight hundred young and strong men on the four sea ships, at least 300 of them are from Liangshanbo.

"Dengzhou City is full of rich and noble people, and the city is not peaceful. Our Liangshan Army is approaching day by day. In the past few days, they are about to take action." These people are rich gentry from various prefectures in Shandong. Wealthy, numerous families.Which family is not rich?Running away with a ship may mean losing hundreds of thousands of guns.Ruan Xiaoer's heart aches when he thinks about it.

Ruan Xiaowu twitched his lips, "Second brother, there are [-] or [-] large and small seagoing ships in Dengzhou port, and many foot boats and cargo ships. If a group of them rush forward, how can we intercept them? I missed it. In my opinion, people dived in and burned it clean. No matter what the hell they planned, they just burned the boat. Without the sea boat, could they still swim across the sea? That's right. The warships in Daoyu Village were also burnt down as early as possible."

It may cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to release a ship. With money, how many warships cannot be built?Why bother about this.

The plan of burning the Daoyu village was formulated by the two brothers at the beginning, but Ruan Xiaoer saw that Ma Zheng took most of the soldiers from the Daoyu village to Dengzhou City, and the warships stayed in the Daoyu village. In the village, it is as straight as a decoration.He thought about it.

——Ruan Xiaoer really felt sorry for those warships.This is a ready-made warship.Both the workmanship and the materials used are top-notch.Because the Dengzhou Navy faced directly the threat of the Liao army.

At the beginning of their establishment, the combat target was the Liao Kingdom in the north.

It's easy to burn them down, but hard to rebuild them.Time is one thing, and wood is another.Ruan Xiaoer knew Lu Qian's next move.

Japan, Sado Island.It's hard to believe that there is so much gold and silver on a small overseas desert island. Is there really gold and silver in that place?
As a rough man who has never seen Shandong before, he was surprised and at a loss when he was asked to suddenly look up at Dongying overseas.Ruan Xiaoer knew nothing about Japan or Sado Island, but he believed in Lu Qian.that's enough.

From this point of view, Ruan Xiaoer hoped that he could save the warships in Daoyu Village, even the sea-going ships in Dengzhou Port.

……

The sea breeze was blowing, and the waves were hit on the reef, splashing white water.

(End of this chapter)