At the same time, Meng Heng also sent people to send a letter to Cheng Donglin and Ma Ye, telling them that he had made peace with Yang Yan with the scriptures, and this time he joined forces with Meng Lanjun and the government, and was ready to send more than 300 warships and more than 20,000 people to attack Mingshan Island, and Xu Hai must be completely defeated.

After the failure of the attack on Guangzhou and returned to Mingshan Island, Xu Hai, Cheng Donglin, and Ma Ye all learned that Meng Heng and Meng Lanjun had failed miserably and returned with heavy losses, but they were not injured at all, so they were all secretly happy, and even a little gloating, but they didn't know that Meng Heng thought that they were informants to the Song army and betrayed themselves, and they had already had a happy heart to get rid of them.

Recently, Meng Heng and Yang Yan communicated with each other about peace, Yang Yan did not deliberately conceal it, but deliberately spread it everywhere, and sent people to spread a lot of rumors, so the two of them and Xu Hai both knew, but Xu Hai thought that Meng Heng would never sincerely surrender to the Great Song Dynasty, even if it was to make peace with Yang Yan, it was just an expedient measure, so he didn't care, just ran his secret base on Huangyan Island, and constantly transferred property and materials to Huangyan Island.

However, although Xu Hai tried his best to hide this matter from Cheng Donglin and Ma Ye, it must be a group of people, and after a long time, the two of them will know that Xu Hai actually did such a major thing alone, obviously when it came to Guan Jian, he planned to throw away these two people and fled by himself, although the two of them did not say anything about it, but they were dissatisfied with Xu Hai in their hearts.

But now Cheng Donglin and Ma Ye were also frightened when they saw Meng Heng's letter, it turned out that the rumors were not wrong, Meng Heng really had to make peace with Yang Yan, this time it was Meng Heng, Meng Lanjun, and the three major forces of the government to attack Mingshan Island, and the two of them and Xu Hai combined only had ten boats, how could this be resisted.

As soon as the two discussed, they immediately decided to throw away Xu Hai and surrender to Meng Heng. However, the two were also afraid that Meng Heng was deceiving themselves, so they also had an extra mind and sent someone to reply to Meng Heng, although the two were willing to surrender to Meng Heng, but out of the righteousness of the rivers and lakes, they could not make a move to Xu Hai, so when Meng Heng attacked Mingshan Island, the two did not send troops to help the war, but just did not move. In fact, it is to look at the success or failure of both sides before making a decision. However, they told Meng Heng about Xu Hai's construction of a secret base on Huangyan Island.

After Meng Heng received the reply from the two, he just "hummed" and ignored it. But in his heart, he was thinking, as long as these two people didn't help Xu Hai, it would be fine, and after Xu Hai was destroyed this time, he would come back and collect these two wall grasses.

Yang Yan and Zhao Qianru stood side by side at the dock, watching the ships leave the port one by one and sail towards the depths of the sea. Another fleet went to sea.

Although Meng Heng has publicly promised never to rob any merchant ships again, but the merchants in Guangzhou who went to sea did not dare to easily believe Meng Heng's promise, and still asked the government to still escort the merchant ships, Yang Yan also did not dare to be careless, this time he still dispatched eighty warships to protect a total of one hundred and twenty-seven merchant ships to go to sea, this time it was Zhang Yuan who led the fleet, and his voyage this time, another important task, is to attack Huangyan Island.

It turned out that Meng Peng came to Guangzhou and brought Meng Heng's letter to Yang Yan, and Meng Heng agreed to Yang Yan's conditions, saying that now he would gather manpower and would send troops to attack Mingshan Island in the near future. He also told Yang Yan that Xu Hai was setting up a new settlement on Huangyan Island. Huangyan Island is at the southernmost tip of Changsha, close to Mayi, and it is a ten-day boat ride from them. However, it was only a three- or four-day boat ride from Gulang Island, so Meng Heng wanted to ask the government to send troops to destroy Huangyan Island and cut off Xu Hai's back road.

After Yang Yan learned the news, he didn't expect Xu Hai to leave such a hand, and immediately ordered Zhang Yuan, who led the team to sea this time, to send the merchant ship to Gulang Island, and immediately led the fleet to destroy Huangyan Island.

And today is the day when the fleet is out, and Yang Yan also came to see off the fleet as usual. However, due to the limited number of merchant ships escorted by the Song army at any time, after the fleet goes to sea, many merchant ships will follow the Song army's fleet to go out together, and Yang Yan cannot stop this, but there is no need to consider their safety.

Moreover, since Meng Heng made a promise not to rob any merchant ships again, although the merchant ships of the Great Song Dynasty did not dare to believe his promise, there were also many bold foreign merchant ships who seemed to see this time and formed a small fleet and went to sea alone. Therefore, during this period of time, the number of merchant ships entering and leaving the port of Guangzhou has gradually increased, and the various wharves have gradually recovered a bit of the lively atmosphere of the past. It seems that it is not far from being completely restored to the heyday of the past.

At the same time as the Song army's fleet was offshore, two more merchant ships from Da Shi arrived at the dock, and one ship was unloading. Yang Yan saw that he was fine for the time being, and it was rare for him to come out with Zhao Qianru, so he accompanied Zhao Qianru to walk on the dock and watch the merchant ship from Dashi unload. They only had Tie Chenglin, Gu Xueping and seven or eight guards by their side. However, since Meng Heng's unsuccessful attack on Guangzhou, Yang Yan did not dare to be careless, anyway, except for the navy, the other armies were also idle, so they sent heavy troops to guard each wharf in case of accidents. Therefore, it is relatively safe to get on the pier.

Suddenly, someone shouted, "Lord Yang, Lord Yang." ”

Yang Yan followed the sound and saw that there was a person on a ship with a white scarf wrapped around his head and a gold ring in his ear, waving to him, it was the green-clothed cannibal Ali under Xie Yuanqing. So he waved at him as well.

At this time, Ali led another big cannibal down the caravan and came to Yang Yan and Zhao Qianru, bowed to Yang Yan first, and said, "Lord Yang, it has always been good. Then he said to Zhao Qianru: "Your Royal Highness the beautiful princess, I am deeply honored to see you again." ”

Zhao Qianru smiled and returned the salute. Yang Yan said: "Ali, why did you come to this boat, is there nothing wrong with Brother Xie?" ”

Ali said: "My contract with Xie Dongjia has expired, and now I am a free man and can do what I want." The captain of this ship is my fellow countryman, he told me before that he was coming to Da Song, and today I came to the dock to meet him, in your words, this is a foreign country to meet an old man. ”

Then he pointed at Yang Yan, and then said to the big cannibal next to him, probably the language of the big eater, probably to introduce the identities of Yang Yan and Zhao Qianru to that person. After hearing this, the man immediately stood in awe, came to Yang Yan, bowed as well, and said, "Your Excellency Lord Yang Yuma, Her Royal Highness Princess Yongning, the great cannibal Abdullah, Said, Abraham, Hussein, and Amindri greet you. ”

This big cannibal is slightly taller than Ali, also thin and dark, also has a concave nose, and a beard under the chin, but it is not obvious how old he is. Although his Chinese is very stiff and far less fluent than Ali, he can understand it, but Yang Yan is dizzy to hear it, how can the name of the big cannibal be so long and weird. Fortunately, Ali smiled and said, "Lord Yang, our name is very long according to your habits, so you can call him Ah Ming." He came to the Great Song Dynasty to do business this time, and please be more accommodating in some checkpoint procedures. ”

Yang Yan nodded and said, "Ali, your friend is my friend, as long as it is not a matter of selfishness, it is easy to say anything else." ”

Ali was overjoyed, he had been in the Great Song Dynasty for a few years, and he knew that foreign merchant ships, since they were new foreign merchant ships, the procedures at the customs were very complicated, and it was absolutely impossible to accommodate them without 1,800 yuan, and he also knew that now Yang Yan was the biggest official here, and if Yang Yan agreed to help, things would be much easier. And in this way, he has also saved enough face in front of his fellow villagers, whether it is a Song person or a big cannibal, it is no exception. So he grunted to Amin again.

When Ah Ming heard this, he couldn't help but be happy, and said thank you to Yang Yan repeatedly.

Yang Yan smiled: "But what kind of cargo is on this ship of Ah Ming?" ”

Ah Ming said: "Mainly spices, medicines, agarwood and other goods. In addition, there are 200 horses that eat well. ”

Yang Yan was stunned, he didn't care about anything else, only when he heard the word "good horse", he immediately came to Xingyue, because since the Tang Dynasty, the big horses are all famous good horses, and he immediately asked: "Are they all big horses?"

Ah Ming is really a businessman, very shrewd, as soon as he saw Yang Yan's expression, he immediately said: "Your Excellency, this time I brought all the good horses with big food, are you interested in coming to the boat with me to have a look?" ”

Yang Yan nodded, because Ah Ming had been to the Great Song Dynasty once, and there were no arrival procedures, so all the goods could not be disembarked from the ship now, so he could only go to the ship to see his horse.

Amin led them to the ship, which was on the lower deck of his ship, which was divided into stables and ventilated all around, and was obviously specially designed to transport horses, and was estimated to fit more than two hundred horses. There are also a dozen or so people feeding, brushing, and rinsing the horses in the various stables.