Daming Junior Scholar

He Jiaan smiled and shook his head: "It's true that I'm going back to Paju first, but it's just passing by."

"Eh? Then where are we going?" Lin Shuying asked curiously.

He Jiaan looked up at the gloomy sky, and complained: "The winter in Jiangnan is really too cold, and there is no way to live in the house, so I plan to use a big boat to bring everyone with me. Let's go to Guangzhou to celebrate the New Year." go."

"Going to Guangzhou?" Tang Yu's eyes lit up immediately. He had heard about the prosperity of Guangzhou, so he asked curiously: "I heard people say that you can often see red-haired ghosts with blond hair and blue eyes in Guangzhou. Is it true?" fake?"

"What kind of red-haired ghost, they have names." He Jiaan reluctantly popularized the basic knowledge of geography to a few people, but they didn't understand it, but everyone now understands a truth, That is, He Jiaan intends to take everyone out to sea for a while.

There are really not many such opportunities. Long-distance travel is not something that you can leave whenever you want. Take Tang Yu as an example, you can meet robbers whenever you go back to your hometown, let alone travel such a long distance , so when I heard that there was such a good opportunity, I was naturally thrilled.

After discussing, He Jiaan finally left Suzhou with his daughters, and the big ship sailed directly to the newly built water village in Shanghai. After changing to a sea boat, he sailed to Paju.

After floating for a few days, the ship finally stopped at the pier in Paju. After receiving the news, Chen Yueying immediately led everyone out to greet her.

In the blink of an eye, they hadn't seen each other for several months, and the girls' longing was beyond words. After returning to the mansion, He Jia'an's three children and ten wives sat in a living room. The eyes of all the girls looked at He Jiaan's direction like stars holding the moon, and began to talk about their thoughts after parting.

After finishing what should be said, He Jiaan finally mentioned to the girls about going to Guangzhou to celebrate the New Year. Chen Yueying was stunned when she heard it, and she was a little worried: "My husband has just returned to Paju, and a lot of business affairs have already been accumulated here. If If you don’t deal with it at all and go to Guangzhou, will it cause other people to gossip?”

He Jiaan thought for a while, but also nodded: "There must be some gossip, but it doesn't matter, the people in the yamen are all ready, and then you can distribute the errands. As for the shipyard and gun factory, it is easier. This time, we will go to Guangzhou and bring all the warships of the navy with us, and it will be easier to go all the way under the name of patrolling the sea."

Hearing what He Jiaan meant, I'm afraid Chen Yueying had already made up her mind, and Chen Yueying didn't intend to stop her, and not only her, but all the girls were also very curious about what the city of Guangzhou would look like. I had heard Tang Lin say there The weather here is very hot, and even in winter, you can walk around in the street wearing silk shirts, and all the girls can't help feeling a little hopeful.

Master He returned to Paju.

Master He is leaving Paju again.

When they heard the news, the people in Pazhou City were also quite shocked. These officials in the government office were almost called by He Jiaan one by one to give instructions. He is full of confidence, and he doesn't know what wish He Jiaan has made for them, but it makes them all become more motivated.

There is only one month left before the 13th year of Zhengde, but the warships parked in Paju are ready to leave the port. Boxes and boxes of supplies have been loaded on the battleships. Everyone regards this cruise as a A trip for fun, together with the four newly built warships, the ten warships were divided into two and set out to port, sailing southward along the sea wind.

The mysterious East attracts batch after batch of adventurers from Franz. When the former returned to Europe with large sums of gold, silver, spices, tea, and porcelain, they immediately caused a huge commotion. Compared with the risks on the road, the unequal profits attract more adventurers to the mysterious East.

Among them, some are planning to start business, while others are planning to use strong ships and powerful ships to knock on the door of the East. In their eyes, why buy things that can be snatched.

Unlike Fettero, who is obsessed with doing business with Ming, Melo Godinho is a typical European adventurer, and he has also earned a lot of wealth from his years of adventure. Owning a fleet of nearly 20 ships, he travels everywhere every year, so that he can obtain wealth unimaginable by ordinary people without moving.

However, with more and more disputes at sea these years, business is not as easy as before, so Melo Godinho set his sights on the far east.

But today, I am going to entertain a friend who has been to the East in my castle, and his name is Feitero.

In order to show that he attaches great importance to Fettero, Godinho had people clean up the most important room in the castle early on, and sent the most beautiful maid in his family to follow him to the gate of the castle to meet Fetero.

When Feitero's carriage finally appeared in front of the castle gate, Godinho walked over with a smile, and stretched out his hand to Feitero early, smiling: "Welcome here my friend."

Chapter 1472 Gold everywhere

Chapter 1472 Gold everywhere

In Phetero's description, the East is simply a treasure land full of gold, where there are countless wealth, tea, porcelain, silk and other luxury goods that have gradually flourished in Europe are nothing but extremely common things there. The riches of the East could be brought back to Europe if only they could escape the perilous storms of the sea.

Of course, before obtaining these wealth, you still have to pay a small price.

After listening to Fettero's description, Melo Godinho's heart became uncontrollably excited. To be on the safe side, he did not send all the warships under his command at once, but chose six of them. Each ship is equipped with nearly [-] pieces of the most advanced Franco cannons, and he personally leads them to the mysterious east.

After nearly two months of wind and waves, Melo Godinho's fleet finally arrived at the Western countries described by Fettero. These countries are all weak and weak, and they can be defeated only by the power of their own ship's artillery. Yield, but in these countries, Melo Godinho did not find the wealth that Fetro told himself. It was not until he asked the local aborigines that Melo Godinho knew that it turned out that in There is a bigger country in the east, and its name is Daming.

During this long journey, He Jiaan's fleet is not just moving forward boringly, it is practicing various formations and semaphore almost every day, polishing the skills of the soldiers.

For Xue Yi, the appearance of such a fleet is absolutely unprecedented. Although there are many tactics used by naval forces in the past, none of them can be used in this navy, and he has enough confidence. In the previous fleet, no matter how many ships the opponent had, they would definitely not be able to get close to them before their shells were exhausted.

Therefore, after discussing with He Jia'an, I came up with many formations for contacting the enemy. Of course, the effect of these formations still needs to be tested carefully.

Listening to the roar of the giant cannon along the way, it is not so lonely. After walking on the sea for almost ten days, the fleet has come to the sea near Fujian. Last night, the fleet was moored at the pier of Xinghua Prefecture. However, Mr. Lu was very entertaining. If He Jiaan refused because of his official duties, he might not be able to get away from there at all.

Even so, my head still hurts the next day. Not long after waking up, Chen Yueying brought over the hangover soup, and said in a funny and good manner: "Msanggong is drinking the hangover soup, look at you, obviously you can't drink, but If you want to be brave, it’s okay now, the one who suffers is yourself.”

He Jiaan smiled wryly and said: "It's not that the lady has not seen Master Lu's enthusiasm, thanks to staying here for only one day, otherwise, I am afraid that half of this life will be lost."

He Jiaan took the hangover soup casually, and put it in his mouth. Just when he was about to drink it, he suddenly heard a low horn sound in his ear. It rang.

"Something happened." The hangover soup was still in his hand, but the drunkenness on He Jia'an's face suddenly disappeared. The sound of the horn was a signal that the enemy had already been encountered. Doesn't this mean that the vanguard ship found the enemy ship on the sea? , and then the horn sounded.

Hastily handing the hangover soup back to Chen Yueying, He Jiaan ordered in a low voice: "Go back to Xia Xia and the others right away, and let them fix their bodies to the chairs as they usually do, and the war is about to begin."

As soon as Chen Yueying heard about the war, Chen Yueying's heart suddenly rose, and she was afraid of disturbing He Jia'an, so she could only tell: "Don't worry, Mr. Xiang, I will take good care of everyone, and you have to be careful."

"Don't worry, we are so powerful, nothing will happen."

After He Jiaan gave Chen Yueying a comforting smile, he hurried to the command cabin on the top floor of the battleship.

"How is it, have you seen the enemy?" He Jiaan asked impatiently all the way to the command cabin.

Xue Yi nodded, pointed to the distance and said, "Look quickly, my lord, there are four enemy ships coming over there, most of them seem to be Japanese pirate ships."

"Japanese pirates?" He Jia'an was stunned. Since more and more forts were built along the coast, the scope of Japanese pirates' activities has been reduced sharply. As soon as he entered the government, he encountered a Japanese pirate ship.

However, there are only four ships on the other side, and they probably regard their own fleet as merchant ships, so they want to rob them.

Even if you are unlucky, when you meet yourself, He Jiaan is not polite, and quickly ordered: "Send a flag, let the whole army pay attention, don't fire first, bring the enemy closer."

The semaphore here has been sent out, and the fleet continued to move forward as if they hadn't noticed the Japanese pirates' ship. Seeing that the distance between the two fleets was rapidly narrowing, the fleet's artillery fire was also ready, and they just waited for another time. If you get closer, you can shoot and sink the opponent.

At this moment, the ships in front suddenly sounded their horns again. After listening carefully for a few times, Xue Yi frowned suddenly, and asked in puzzlement, "My lord, there are still people behind these ships?" other ships."

There are other ships?Could it be that these ships are bait?

He Jia'an looked puzzled for a moment, looked at the ships that were gradually approaching, but began to hesitate, what's going on?

Soon, the warship of the Japanese pirates had already entered the range of the voyage, the ship planks blocking the muzzle had been lifted, all the guns in the black hole were pushed out, and the torches in their hands had been raised. Fire the cannon and sink the warship of the Japanese pirates.

After staring at it for a while, He Jiaan finally made up his mind that no matter what the ships behind were doing, he must sink these ships as soon as possible. That's too late.

Ten against four, it was a one-sided battle from the very beginning. When countless fires lit up, gorgeous fireworks lit up on the four pirate warships. After a while, the four warships were sunk by artillery fire It fell, and soon sank to the bottom of the sea.

After sinking the four warships, He Jiaan didn't have much joy on his face, because he knew that the battle was just beginning, these were just bait, and the next battle was the most dangerous.

In the line of sight, the speed of the fleet has slowed down. When the fleet started to maneuver in S shape, He Jiaan seemed to have thought of something, and looked at the warship in the distance in surprise. After a while, I was surprised and said: "No, this is not the Japanese pirates' reinforcements."

"Eh?" Xue Yi was taken aback for a moment, and asked in puzzlement, "My lord, what is this fleet...?"

"This is the warship of the Francobot. Immediately send an order that all ships be ready for battle."

Chapter 1473 Hidden Murder

Chapter 1473 Hidden Murder

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