Guangzhou Mansion, Haojing.

As the period of heavy and barbaric growth of the imperial court was over, the small island of Haojing inevitably fell into the mundane affairs of receiving officials at all levels.

Most of the powerful generals of the various departments in Nanyang have their homes and mansions here, or return home or turn along the way, and the outlying islands and ports are all warship armies, and the magistrates are not allowed to serve well, some are happy to serve, some are unhappy to serve, and which one is not allowed to ponder carefully?

In the past, this is a lot of boats, less Ming ships, from the imperial court to take the Lion Country of Malacca, there is an additional customs, most of the ships only dock in Malacca, where they have to pay a tax, to Haojing and pay a tax, not to mention that the price of Haojing was pressed by a large number of Ming merchants to and froze early not so high profits in the early years, in addition to rare objects, ordinary such as cotton and other things from Malacca to Haojing transportation has been in the hands of Ming merchants.

When Yin Zhengmao was just promoted to the Minister of the West, there were also Guangcheng officials who wanted to play the imperial court to promote Haojing to the county, and the people of the time laughed that Haojing did not need to be placed in the county at all, only a customs office, and even the yamen was not needed.

For this matter, in fact, the generals of the South and Western Seas have been impeached, and Gao Gong took the lead in writing a book to defend - the southernmost part of the traditional border is in Haojing, where can the generals still be in Haojing if they don't put their homes in Haojing?

On the south side of the island, a warship with a carved bow of the Kunpeng going to sea is close to the Haojing, the hard sails are full of hair, and the hull stretches out from top to bottom with two rows of barrels of different thicknesses and specifications, the battleship has no bow tower but has a stern, and there are two smooth grooves on both sides of the stern that are much higher, and there are four wooden frames on the grooves from the hull of the ship, and two long dinghys on the left and right are supported by wooden frames and ropes.

At this time, as the battleship slowly docked on the coast, the wooden frame was withdrawn into the ship, the four small boats were lowered one after another, and the sailors and the grain and horse ships with a shallower draft leaned to the shore, and the sailors who landed first led the horse ashore from the shallow water, stepped on the huge stone steps and ran straight to the commercial market, waving a small flag to stop the guard of honor that had played half of the 'evasion and silence card' in the yamen of the square.

Not far from the landing port, the Hundred Households Banner Army belonging to Haojing was standing in a formation with guns, and they knew the ship.

This ship is one of the few warships of the Nanyang Military Government that can be clearly named, and since the ship was launched, it has been the ship of Shao Tingda, the commander of Luzon, and has participated in the large and small naval battles since the establishment of the Nanyang Military Government, and has basically achieved that it will be damaged in every battle and the enemy will be created in every battle.

Three times it was hauled back to port from an abandoned state by the soldiers, and each time it took more wood and man-hours to restore than a new ship.

For the first time, the ship changed from a 400-material shark ship to a 500-material shark ship; The second repair changed from 500 materials to 800 materials, known as a thousand materials battleship; Wait until the third repair, and it will really become a thousand material six armor ships.

The ship's guns were heavier and thicker each time, and the names, places of origin, biographies, and portraits of the fallen sailors were ceremoniously etched on thin steel plates forged by Suzhou Iron and Steel hammer and inlaid on both sides of the ship's gunsoft windows.

Shao Tingda was greatly influenced by Chen Mu, and often tried to look at the things of this era condescendingly from the long river of history, although he did not have the ability of a prophet like Chen Mu, but he stubbornly hoped that future generations would have the opportunity to know that they had fought bloody battles on the sea in the world, so even if the keel of the Baigu battle ship was broken when it landed, he did not abandon this ship.

He would rather dismantle the old ship and make up for the new materials, in fact, this ship is no longer the same ship as it was at the beginning, and it has almost been changed from the inside out, but he must make this ship the same ship.

So far, there have been thirty-four pieces of spirit armor on this ship, and in Luzon Sanwei, all fleets under his influence have agreed and begun to use this method to commemorate the death of the robe, whenever a new sailor boards the ship, he will also swear with the captain to cut off two strands of hair, even if the body is buried in the belly of the fisherman after death, a strand of broken hair is returned to the countryside for burial, and a strand of broken hair is forged into steel, and the soul is used as a dry oar, giving the robe the last shelter.

Dressed in a bear-print cuirass, the adopted son of the general, sick Yang'er, with a handcuff and a short sword at his waist and a long-handled anchor axe, led a team of pro-troops to stand tall on the unique black sand beach of Haojing, and received his father-in-law from the dinghy to land.

Last year, Chen Mude's son Chen Hailong, Shao Tingda asked Shi Qi, a storyteller, to give his adopted son a name, because the sick Yang'er had risen to thousands of households with military merits, and he couldn't even have a name, so he named Jiao Jiao, encouraging him to enter the sea and turn into a dragon to make a big show.

This time, they are really going into the sea, the largest sea in the world.

Shao Tingda, who was wearing a silver-scaled collar helmet, was dressed in a crimson lion official robe, covered with a painted lion breastplate, a hand with gold scales and arms, and a scaly armor skirt under the robe, and a pair of short soap boots with cowhide soles, and an iron greaves with a lion's head and cloud pattern on the periphery of the calves.

He still remembered that these stones were originally wanted to build a temple by a monk, and his brother brought them to make a stepping stone for this black sand beach.

At the end of the boulder road, Lou Qimai, known as the Iron General by Nanyang, Guangdong, was walking towards him, and although he was wearing a sandalwood mask that covered his face, Shao Tingda could still recognize it at a glance.

There are a lot of people in the Nanyang Army who wear iron mask armor, but most of them are used in battle, and the only one who wears a sandalwood mask on weekdays and does not show his face is this iron general who destroyed his face with fire guns in the early years.

Not to mention the fierce face, he is often assigned some scaring work, but in fact, his heart is not evil.

From afar, Lou Qimai stood up and arched his hand, the cheekbones and flesh behind the mask pulled slightly upward, showing a smile, but through the mask, he spoke in an urn and said: "In the future, there will be no such thing as a tiger and a storyteller in this Nanyang!" ”

"The storyteller hasn't come back yet, he picks up the ship west of Malacca to transport rice, and I will wait for him for a few days and set off together. But speaking of which, you've been expecting the two of us to leave, right? Shao Tingda waved his hand to let the sick Yang'er change Jiao follow Lou Qimai's entourage Wu Ben, and he walked slowly side by side with Lou Qimai, and took a step back as he spoke, arching his hand and said: "With our order, your General Tie and Lao Huang will be promoted to the top of the government in a blink of an eye, and they will be assigned to the Minguang Division, Lou Dudu!" ”

"I'm the commander of Guangdong, the chief officer of the Guangdong Guard, and I'm just at the same level; Lao Huang is the green clouds, the Xia family in Fuzhou rushed to attack the Fujian affair, he used to be the commander of the same knowledge, from the second grade, how majestic! But we're content! ”

Lou Qimai said Shao Tingda raised a finger and said slowly: "The most right thing Lou has ever done in his life is to be honest when he is Han, and honestly release that gun!" Otherwise, now command the servants? Heh, I don't know where to bury a flag army. ”

Shao Tingda knew that Lou Qimai was referring to the blow up of his own face, the situation against the widows was critical, a few of the guns fled, did not obey the order of Chong, rushed by the widows jumped into the battle and slashed, and those who escaped were punished by military law, and only Lou Qimai survived, so later Chen Mu had a share of the five small banners under his command.

Naturally, because of that blow, there is today's command surnamed Lou.

Without waiting for Shao Tingda to say anything, Lou Qimai waved his hand and said: "It just so happens that you are coming back this day, you come from Shenglong, those few who have returned from Baigu, Luzon, and Lao Fu who has been in Guangzhou, it is rare to get together, I will have a banquet before leaving...... I really want to go with you! ”