Even though it's a warm winter, the waters in February are still freezing cold. Dazai Jin Yi, who was standing on the dock of Langya Port, was blown by the north wind, and his legs trembled a little, and then he saw Su Wuzhu and Zhu An jumping into the water barefoot, and the roots of his teeth couldn't help but be sore, and finally his whole person trembled twice, and the chill in his heart dissipated a lot.

"If you go up and don't return...... the rudder saw Jin Yi's trembling, he wanted to laugh at this Chu man, but at this moment he really didn't have the mood to laugh at others.

"The Yue people are strong headhunters, and they are as worried as you are about going and not returning?" Jin Yi did not have the slightest conspiracy to succeed, and he was also worried that the king of Zhuyue would go and not return. "My Chu people sing: I can't go in and out, I can't go back, and I don't punish my first body and heart. Is it better to be more people? ”

In the eyes of the Central Plains, the Chu people have always been stupid, and they made up a lot of idioms and allusions for this; Similarly, the Yue people in the eyes of the Central Plains people are also extremely stupid. After some research and investigation, the very smart Qi people really discovered the reason for the stupidity of the Yue people: 'The water of Yue is heavy and turbid, so its people are extremely stupid and dirty. However, it is such a stupid Yue people that makes Qi people more and more afraid of tigers.

The Chu people, who had gradually fallen in love with Wen Fu, may be able to accept being accused of being brave, but the Yue people, who are extremely stupid because of the 'turbidity of the water of Yue', cannot accept such accusations at all. Jin Yi's question could not be refuted, especially in front of many Yue people. If he admits in public that the Yue people are not as brave as the Chu people, he will definitely be ridiculed by all the Yue people in the future.

He could only look at Jin Yi, and Jin Yi also looked at him. When the two looked at each other, the drums sounded on the dock, and the war boat that Su Wuzhu was riding was the first to rush out, and Su Zhuan followed closely, and the war boat under the feet of the Gong Shi and Fu Shan, who accompanied the race, also rowed quickly. They also have to make an effort to make an appearance, and if they lose, they must always give an account to their people. The war boat was only responsible for sending them outside Zhifu Harbor, and the rest was a battle between the four of them.

The rudder and Jin Yi looked at each other for a long time, until a new Suzaku-class sea boat unexpectedly appeared nearby. After hearing everyone's surprise, Jin Yi said: "The sea boat is from Huaiyin, and there is a sea boat, and the king is fine." ”

Haizhou was called by Jin Yi in order to protect the safety of the king of Zhuyue. From the standpoint of the state of Chu, it is better for Zhuyue to compete in an orderly manner than in disorder, and disorderly competition will damage the strength of Zhuyue; Including the Wuzhu, it is better for the Lord of Zhuyue to live than to die. The throne is unstable, and the Yue people are not stable, and the unstable Yue people are difficult to exert their strength to fight against the Qin people.

At this time, the rudder was somewhat convinced that Jin Yi was not playing a plot and that Haizhou had come to protect rather than kill. He no longer looked at Jin Yi beside him, but stood side by side with him on the dock, looking at the warboat rowing farther and farther away.

The Chu people's ability to operate the boat was no longer allowed to the Yue people, and the new Suzaku-class sea boat sailed from the southeast, and if the course did not change, it would rush directly to the shore where the white waves were surging. This stretch of coast runs northeast-southwest. When the bow scrat was about to hit the shore with more than 20 paces, the rudder and sail on the deck suddenly turned sharply, and the whole sea boat turned more than 200 degrees counterclockwise with the northeast wind, and finally sailed to the northeast side by side with the four warships.

The 35-meter-long sea boat has a mainmast nearly 30 meters high. Such a sea boat with sails full of sails makes a more flexible rotation than a large-winged war boat, which can't help but make people stunned. The Vietnamese soldiers on the deck of the war boat were not as shocked as the people on the dock, and they cheered in Vietnamese for the sea boat traveling with them, and shouted 'leak, leak...'. The sailors on the boat soon threw down a pile of cans of wine, and the more people cheered, pouring wine and singing a song with the sailors on the boat, they would also sing a song of Chu that they would like:"

crossed the river Liang Xi crossed the river beam, raised troops to attack the king of Qin;

There is a lot of snow and frost in winter and October, and the cold road is difficult.

The Chen soldiers did not surrender to the Qin army, and the princes were terrified.

……”

The warboat and the sea boat were getting farther and farther away, and the cheerful singing was also broken by the north wind one after another, and then the people on the dock could no longer hear the singing, and could only see the towering sails of the sea boat getting shorter and lower, until finally it was swallowed up by the waves.

In the sea outside Langya Harbor, when the boat was getting farther and farther in the cold wind, in Zhufang Harbor, hundreds of miles away, Shen Yinshang was looking at the schoolhouse boys who boarded the boat in an orderly manner. Looking at their immature faces, he was worried about whether these boys would be able to withstand the wind and waves of the sea.

When evacuating, it was decided not to sail along the coast, which was the decision of the Great Sima Mansion after consideration. There are mainly two considerations, one is that the Qi people betray the alliance and pro-Qin, and the result of the Qi people pro-Qin is that the Qin army boat division can easily and practically use the wharf along the coast of the Qi country.

The coastal route is to go north to Langya Port after leaving the Yangtze River and Huaishui, and sail along the Jiaodong Peninsula to Chengshanjiao, the easternmost point of Qi State, where it crosses the Yellow Sea. After that, the voyage is very simple, follow the Korean Peninsula all the way south, cross the Tsushima Strait to reach Pengrai.

This was actually a route that was only opened up during the Northern and Southern Dynasties after the Qin Dynasty, and the pre-Qin ships, including the Han Dynasty ships, were not yet able to cross the Yellow Sea due to their lack of maritime positioning technology. But to take this route, the support of the Qi State is necessary, but the Qi State does not support it, but leads the Qin people to the south, so it is natural to give up this safer route.

The second is the round-trip time. A direct voyage is bound to take a shorter time than a coastal voyage, and a shorter voyage will transport more people. The real plan of the Great Sima Mansion is only one year, and the second and third years are only standby plans. Direct flights are fast, so direct flights.

Of course, the direct flight is not really a direct flight, and the whole voyage is divided into several sections. The first section is not long, starting from Zhu Fang and heading to Lighthouse Island (Sheshan Island) outside the mouth of the Yangtze River. Although Chongming Island did not exist in this era, the lighthouse island east of Chongming Island was 71 meters above the sea level. The whole journey is only more than 600 miles, and most of them are coastal courses, so the difficulty is very small.

The second paragraph is the longest and the most dangerous. That is, from Lighthouse Island to Yangma Island in the northwest direction, the voyage is 1,000 miles. After the direct shipping was confirmed, a few months ago, the feudal people in the Chu State urgently mobilized to Lighthouse Island to build wharves, houses, warehouses, and reservoirs on this rocky island to allow passing boats to anchor. The boat that sailed here from Zhu Fang had to take a break and wait for the right weather to cross the East China Sea.

If you are rowing at a speed of five knots and rowing for eight hours a day, it will take you five and a half days to row to Yangma Island, which is 1,000 miles away. If there is a hurricane at sea within five days, these boats cannot be avoided. March, April, September and October are not necessarily free of wind and waves, but there is a less chance of encountering wind and waves than in winter and summer.

The third section is Yangma Island to Penglai Island. If you plan to the southwest, you can reach the Goto Islands on the west side of Pengrai Island in two and a half days, but if you make a detour, you will go straight from the easternmost point of Yangma Island to Iki Island at the northern tip of Penglai Island, and then pass through the strait between Penglai Island and Hojo Island (Kanmon Strait) from Iki Island to enter the inland sea of Hojo Island.

Entering the Inland Sea is a simple matter. As long as the boat keeps rowing east, it can reach the city that is still on the drawings of the Great Sima Mansion but has been named by the Zheng Dynasty: Xinying.

The voyage was planned in this way, from the departure of Zhu Fang to the arrival of Xinying, the whole journey was 3,800 miles. No one knows whether the children in the school house can withstand the storms of the sea; In the second leg of the voyage, no one knows whether to rest at night, and the boat has been maintaining a speed of about three or four knots, in order to reach Yangma Island within three or four days; Then there is how much tonnage a schoolchild occupies. No one knows how much tonnage will allow them to complete the voyage more comfortably.

What no one knows can only be tried, and this is what the king taught. Therefore, even though it was February, the Grand Sima Mansion still organized a sea trial. Sea boats, big boats, big boats, old and new war boats, fishing boats, Qinghan boats, painting boats, ......etc., anyway, as long as the boats of the Chu State have to be tested to compare the performance of the boats, and the trial voyages are mostly school boys.

"I've seen Zuo Sima, I've seen and seen Ao Hou......" Shen Yinshang looked at the boy who boarded the boat in an orderly manner, and someone not far away met Zuo Sima Lu Yangjun, and what was even more surprising was that someone met the queen.

Shen Yinshang turned around in surprise, and soon saw Queen Mi Xuan surrounded by people. Dressed in a white blouse, she smiled at the person saluting in front of her. When she approached, with some stammering, Shen Yinshang also said, "I've seen it, Ao Hou." ”

"No courtesy." When the fragrant wind hit, Shen Yin still didn't feel any comfort, and his whole body was as tight as an enemy attack. At this time, Mi Xuan was already talking to everyone. "Today's sea trials are about big plans, and Da Ao is very worried. After the boy in the boat is a lieutenant general in the army, the public should be conscientious and conscientious in order to be foolproof......"

Similar words Xiong Jing, Nao Cunning, and Lu Yangjun have said many times, and there is nothing new in Qi Xuan's words. However, the elegant words that come out of her mouth have a completely different effect from the rigid and serious words that come out of the man's mouth. Listening to this crisp voice, Shen Yinshang's tense body gradually relaxed, as if he felt that he was soaking in the warm spring water.

"The ministers will be ordered by Da Ao to work diligently to protect the lieutenant general of the boat." After Mi Xuan finished speaking, the ministers hurriedly saluted and obeyed, and soon dispersed in a hurry, and Shen Yinshang also boarded the deck of the Three-legged Golden Crow.

"Is it auspicious today?" Only Lu Yangjun was still standing beside Mi Xuan, and she asked about the fierce luck.

"Empress Yuao: Jiya today." Zhu said busily. He married Mi Ling, and he was Mi Xuan's brother-in-law.

"When will it set sail?" Some of the boats were already filled with schoolhouse boys, and they all looked at them with curiosity.

"Breakfast will set sail." Lu Yangjun told each other. "Set sail and sail down the river to Lighthouse Island in four days."

"Four days?" Mi Xuan knew the specific voyage. "Qinghanzhou is the slowest, and Qinghanzhou can also arrive in four days?"

There are still a small number of boats, and the Qinghan boat is a folk boat, which has a lot of them, and the speed is slow, which does not match the speed of many boats, which is one of the problems of avoidance. Lu Yangjun said: "This is a trial voyage, each boat has ambulance, and the boy also has floating clothes." If the sea trial does not arrive in four days, the rest of the boats will go first. When evacuating, Qinghanzhou can only ...... first"

Lu Yangjun was still answering, and Mi Xuan had already ordered an order that shocked Lu Yangjun: "Pass the order, Wang Zhou will sail together." ”

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