Chapter 14: Centipedes

Li Dan bowed, Fu Yuan laughed beside him, Chen Mu didn't understand what he was happy about at first, and only reacted after a while.

He and his subordinate Fu Baihu also became relatives.

Dry relatives are different from adopted sons, they have no inheritance rights, no need to change their surnames, and no need to go through the official procedures, which are basically similar to the godrelatives of later generations.

"After recognizing my godfather, Dan'er will follow me in the Qianhu Yamen in the future." Chen Mu was now employing people, and then asked Li Dan: "Can you speak?" ”

"Back to my father-in-law, the children will have some." The nineteen-year-old righteous son made Chen Mu a little disobedient, but Li Dan was very natural, and hugged his fists and said: "I learned from the Francois on the ship, and the Franco, the Japanese, and the Manchurian can all speak some Chinese, and the Japanese language is the best." ”

Chen Mu should be the first to respond, Li Dan is very versatile, with his physique and calluses on his hands, it is expected that swordsmanship and swimming are not a problem, his own job is a seaman, and he can drive a boat, and he can speak at least four languages, such a person, not to mention Chen Mu's help, even without him, as long as he does not die, he will be able to break into the hall of fame in the future.

"I need your people in Ho Kiang O to do something, help me find a Yi man, he is abducting women in Ho Kiang O, he should be planning to sell them to Malacca." Chen Mu said: "Find this person, you have few people, you don't have to conflict with him, find out how many men, how many guns, and how many boats he has." ”

Li Dan nodded, turned his head to look at the young man who was held by him before, and said to Chen Mu with a fist: "Don't worry, father-in-law, Hua Yu will go back to do this, and after finding out, do you want the child to rescue people?" ”

"Now save people and startle snakes, Xiangshan Ling said that there are hundreds of Yi merchants, you may not be able to rescue people, but they shocked him." Chen Mu waved his hand and said: "Take advantage of the night to approach his boat, chisel the bottom of the boat, don't sink it, and let him repair it in Haojing for two or three months." ”

"Can it be done?"

The young man next to him was named Hua Yu, who was also a powerful person, nodded and hugged his fists and said: "Qianhu rest assured, the villain will do his best!" ”

Hua Yu left, Chen Mu asked Fu Yuan to give him a waist card of a hundred households, Dieniang and Li Dan stayed in the Qianhu Yamen, Li Dan lived in the wing room and practiced together, and followed Chen Mu to occasionally teach him some words on weekdays; Dieniang didn't live in the wing.

She and Fu Yuan lived together, and the two of them didn't talk about holding ceremonies such as happy events, so they lived together without a name, a name, a shame, and a shame.

Li Dan still thinks it's normal, he said that Fu Baihu has a good temperament, except for good gambling money, there is nothing else wrong with it, and it is good to have such a person who knows how hot and cold to accompany his mother.

Chen Mu thought about it carefully, it was indeed the case, the hundreds of households under him, and the same age as Dieniang were Fu Yuan and Shiqi, Shiqi's family had changes in his early years, and he left a gloomy and depressed temperament, but Fu Yuan was happy and willing to live under the people, and he could stand the temperament raised in Dieniang's pirate nest.

Very good!

For Li Dan, an unexpected god, Chen Mu naturally would not drive him at will like his father-in-law in this era, on the contrary, he gave Li Dan the Yongle Tong Treasure Knife, which he cherished very much in his trophies, and asked him to wear it with him.

The identity is not difficult for Chen Qianhu to get, but in a few days, he retrieved Li Dan and Dieniang's household posts from Xiangshan County, and found the local family of the out-of-the-box family to settle down, and the two people from Quanzhou, Fujian became the people of Xiangshan, Guangdong, and then incorporated into the army.

So far, it has been completely clean.

Chen Mu has always adhered to the principle that he can't let the people around him be barefoot, and barefoot people are the most terrible.

As long as you put on your shoes, you can control it a lot.

Li Dan's kung fu is first-class, and his other skills are also good, and he is very respected among the family soldiers who practice together, Chen Mu saw his advantage, and simply gave him the identity of the general flag, and let him practice some martial arts battle formations and explain some water warfare matters in the original more than 100 banner troops brought by Qianhu.

The flag army left by thousands of households in the past was overwhelmed, Chen Mu was too lazy to practice, and handed it over to Li Dan, who had a lively vision, for no other purpose, that is, to let him envelop the hearts of these people, not expecting them to become big things, but only hoping that they would not do bad things in the future.

In late May, good news came one after another.

First of all, Deng Zilong and Sun Ao took more than 500 families of Tanmin down the river in hundreds of boats, and then Huayu of Haojing Ao found out the Yishang who lured women, and the people in Haojing called him Mai Yatu, there were two big boats and three small boats, and he trafficked people back and forth between Haojing and Manjingjia for many years, which was his most proud business.

Huayu is looking for an opportunity to sabotage its big ship.

Mai Yatu's ship was painted by Hua Yu and sent to the Thousand Households, his big ship was called 'centipede ship' in the Ming Dynasty, nearly eleven zhang long, on both sides of the big oars that at least two people can operate, thirty or forty large oars, erect twin masts to hang soft sails, it is the Portuguese to open up the sea route, the sides of the ship can be placed with 34 doors of the Franco, a single ship can carry as many as 300 soldiers.

It has the advantages of strong firepower, large number of troops, and fast speed.

As early as the twelfth year of Zhengde, the Portuguese governor of Manchurian Khaga sent Andala to lead four such warships to occupy Tuen Mun, and then at the beginning of Emperor Jiajing's accession to the throne, he sent Wang Hong, the then Guangdong envoy, to lead the army to expel the Franco, the Portuguese ships were strong, and the Ming army was defeated in the first battle.

Later, Wang Feng changed his strategy and defeated the Portuguese in Tuen Mun with the tactics of small boat wolf packs, and captured the warship and the Franco, which was imitated by Emperor Jiajing, and later there were such ships along the coast of the Ming Dynasty.

Not to mention two such big ships, even if it is one, Chen Mu will take all six of his boats, and it will not be enough for Mai Yatu's centipede ship to bombard in the naval battle.

Seventeen Francos of one-sided side-chord guns, and two salleys of his fortune ship sank almost as much as it sank.

Outside the Thousand Households, thanks to the fact that the Tan people have their own clan elders, they can elect the prestige descendants of the clan to serve as three hundred households to help stabilize the Tan people.

Otherwise, more than 500 households and more than 2,000 people will pour into the vicinity of 1,000 households, and there will be chaos.

Even if there were the elders of his clan and hundreds of households to help settle down, it would also make the scene of chaos outside the thousands of households, and the original more than 400 new and old banner troops all stopped training and were transferred to maintain order.

Hundreds of small fishing boats of different shapes stopped at the ferry, and the Jiupin Inspectorate of the Dalan Patrol Division, who maintained law and order on the other side of the riverbank, brought his officials over and asked with trepidation what had happened to the Xiangshan Thousand Households.

The front hall of the yamen of a thousand households.

It took a lot of chickens, flying dogs, and jumping to settle down Deng Zilong, Sun Ao, Long Junxiong, Li Dan and others who had newly recruited the flag army, and secretly smacked their tongues around the boat map sent by Huayu.

"The boats with firearms set fire to the sails, and the small flags and arrows were put on the boats." Deng Zilong's eyes showed a fierce light, and he said according to the picture: "Let him destroy the ship and kill people!" ”

Chen Mu nodded, turned his head to look at the others, Long Junxiong didn't have a better idea, Sun Ao felt that what Deng Zilong said was extremely true, only Li Dan, who had not planned to let him participate in the discussion, was silent, "If you have any ideas, say them and listen to them." ”

"Father-in-law, Deng Qianhu is right, no matter at sea or underground, you must have this kind of courage to win, the child just thinks that these two ships are very good, and it is a pity that they sank. Moreover, if there are people in the ship, it is not beautiful to burn the ship. ”

Li Dan said and found Chen Mu to put aside the Haojing map he had sent earlier, and pointed: "If the bottom of the ship is chiseled, the ship will enter the port, the chief of the centipede ship is nothing more than a cannon and a fast ship, and the Portuguese are only a cannon gun, and they are far from being close to them." As long as it enters the harbor to repair it, lures the merchants out, and tricks the sailors into disembarking, the officers and soldiers can capture them on the shore. ”

"The child led someone to snatch these two centipedes and honor his father-in-law!"