Chen Lan didn't speak, he understood why the white commander who got off the boat to fetch the letter had an expression of eating flies.

He turned his head to look at the sea, turned around and frowned and wanted to ask Li Dan something, but he opened his mouth but didn't speak, stood up and paced on the deck of the ship, kicked the tail of the ship's gunwales, and the armor leaves trembled all over his body, turned his head and pointed at Li Dan and said, "Get some wine, there is a bar on the ship?" ”

Li Dan turned his head and ran to the cabin, he was very familiar with his godfather's ship, he hadn't been in Guangdong for long after returning from Luzon, but he had already been on the boat three times. Although Lao Bai didn't let people drive Chen Mu's boat, for Li Dan, such a big ship was already very enjoyable just walking around on the deck.

There is not only wine on the ship, but also the grain that Lao Bai asked people to exchange for a month, and everything is equipped.

Li Dan took the wine, Chen Lan took two sips, saw Bai Yuanjie boarding the boat, and asked, "What is written in the letter?" ”

"It's nothing, the imperial court wants to set up more than 200 new warships in Liangguang, Fujian, and Zhejiang, all of which are made in the shape of shark ships, and Erlang asked Bai to transfer some shipwrights to Nanjing to support Zhang Butang of the Ministry of Engineering, and help him get some silver."

Bai Yuanjie shook his head with a smile and said, "The imperial court asked Guangdong to pay the shipping fee, but Guangdong did not, Nanyangwei did." ”

"That's more than 800, no, Guangxi is not near the sea, that's more than 600." Chen Ling was bored in his heart, took two more sips, and said with a wry smile: "This time, Chen should be able to lead a large fleet." ”

"It is true that he can lead a large fleet, in General Zhenshuo's recital to the imperial court, in the future, he will not call the navy if he does not call the sailor, and the deputy chief soldier must lead a fleet and seventy-two warships." Bai Yuanjie said and handed the note sent by the court to Chen Lan.

Chen Lan swept over the ten lines at a glance and said: "The grain ship is useless, even if it cruises the sea for three days, it can turn around, not to mention that it can be replenished along the coast." ”

"When Chen Erlang becomes Chen Shuai and returns to the South Seas from the north, the grain ship will be useful."

Syllable!

Chen Lan smashed his fist on the wine case, and the wine jug was overturned to the ground, "Chen has served the imperial court for eight or nine years, and has fought many battles, and after several lives and deaths, the people can bask in the sun happily, and there is no war. I really don't understand...... How many days has Guangdong lived? ”

"It is said that the Luzon Yi people want to attack the Ming Dynasty, and the dozens of people in the letter have landed from Haojing, not to mention that they are also discussing this matter, but they are really here - even the three hundred households of Haojing can't be defeated, why should he start a war again!"

Bai Yuanjie is actually tired of being crooked, if he really wants to denounce Chen Mu, neither he nor Chen Lan can do such a thing; It can lead to attack the Ming Dynasty, no matter whether the intentions are good or bad, it is even more impossible.

Chen Lan frowned and looked at Li Dan, "Your stepfather is obsessed, so you won't persuade him to restrain him from the precipice?" ”

It's really unimaginable that General Zhenshuo, who guarded the northern frontier of the Ming Dynasty, sent people to the south to find friends from the old department to collude with foreign enemies to attack the Ming Dynasty?

"My nephew persuaded me a few words, after all, this matter is too big, but to tempt the Spaniards to attack first." Li Dan spread his hands, "It's a good thing." ”

Chen Luan sneered as if he heard a big joke: "Nonsense, how can this be a good thing." ”

Li Dan rolled up his sleeves to reveal his scars, raised his hand and pointed to the big birds flying in the sea and air in the distance, and said: "Those birds, I didn't have them when I was a child, they came with the ships of the Westerners, more and more over the years, especially Luzon, the voyage is full of sky; In Luzon, there were tens of thousands of settled Ming merchants and people who called me Kapitan and begged me to help them decide their affairs, and the Westerners who enslaved them said that their country was called Spain. ”

"Their country is thousands of miles away, but Malacca, Luzon, and the vassals of the Ming Dynasty were attacked one by one, without restraint, robbing everything they saw, and enslaving the rest."

"Westerners are different from us, not only in the color of their eyes, skin, and hair." Li Dan pointed to his heart, "Everyone seems to know how to count, they are good at guns, trade and navigation, they are intelligent but shameless and do not know what is right, and they will do whatever they want and do not think it is wrong." ”

"Sounds ......" Chen Lan took another sip of wine, wrinkled his nose, and said, "You seem to be talking about General Zhenshuo." ”

Li Dan paused for a moment, and after thinking about it, Chen Mu was indeed very similar to what he said.

Bai Yuanjie, who was leaning on the side of the ship, laughed out loud, walked over and picked up the wine jug from the deck and shook it, took a sip and said to Li Dan: "Go on, don't listen to him." ”

Li Dan shook his head, "The father-in-law is different from them, the father-in-law is not shameless, he knows etiquette and righteousness, and besides, the father-in-law's unscrupulous means are the right thing for him to do." ”

"What's the difference? Is it true to collude with the town to lure the enemy to invade, and to collude with the Japanese to sell guns? Chen didn't know what he wanted to do, he knew that if this matter went a little wrong, it would be a catastrophe! ”

"There is no catastrophe, the Spaniards entrenched in Luzon are pitifully few, arrogant and barbaric, their big ships are only a dozen or so, they will not be the opponent of Nanyangwei at all, as long as they seize the fleeting warplane, they can capture Luzon! This is the work of expanding the territory, and even the risk is worth it, not to mention that there is no risk at all. ”

Chen Lan was silent for a long time, raised his hand to find Bai Yuanjie to ask for a wine jug, took the wine jug but found that it was empty, shook it a few times and threw it into the sea, turned his head to Li Dan and asked, "Are you sure they only have a dozen big ships?" ”

"There is only one ship of this size, sometimes there is and sometimes it is not, and the other ships of four hundred to a thousand materials are the majority, amounting to more than a dozen; The rest were all small boats, and their ships were convenient for artillery battles, but the main purpose was to jump into battle, and the large ships were like camps on the sea, with ramming angles in the bow and high bow towers, which were higher than the Fu ships, so that their sailors could easily board other ships in the event of a collision. ”

"But the artillery is not stronger than the Nanyang Sailor Shark Boat, Lin Feng and I have fought at sea with their thousand-material gunboats, and the Little Shark Ship can take advantage of them as long as they don't engage in battle, and the lucky ships suffer a lot.

I don't know which sentence in Li Dan's words Chen Lan was moved, and he seemed to have some meaning of acceptance, and asked: "Tell me your thoughts, how to lure them to attack Nanyangwei, except for Nanyangwei, all parts of Guangdong can't withstand the attack of more than a dozen big ships." ”

"This is easy, buy some pirates and pirates, the sailor only needs to play a scene with Lin Feng to turn against each other, find some scrap ships to bombard each other at sea, let the pirates see it, and show that my sailor's combat strength is weak and the battle is defeated, and the sailor retreats into the Lingding Ocean, they will spread the news, not to mention that I am adding fuel to the fire."

"I will go to Luzon to continue to be my Kapitan, and once the war starts, I will lead the fleet to come with them, and turn against them in the middle of the way."

When he returned, his father-in-law said that he had been staring at Luzon and Malacca for many years, and that he was well prepared and calculating, and that even the most mediocre general would not lose this naval battle in the first place. He said that he wanted revenge, and I don't know who he was avenging for, but the father-in-law didn't elaborate, maybe it was for the past tributary country - the father-in-law said that when he came back, he would use a cannon to open the door of the Westerners. ”