Chapter 349: Jianzhen Smuggling
A bowl of ginger soup with brown sugar was poured into his stomach, Zhen Qian was shaking everything now, his situation was good, Wang Tianxing looked very much like a duck when he walked on the boat, and it was very ridiculous to sway left and right.
Qingyan just got on the boat and was very normal, came over at night, his face was already a little pale, and told Zhen Qian that he felt that everything around him was shaking, and he didn't know how many sheep he counted last night, and finally listened to Zhen Qian, he really couldn't sleep, so he drank some spirits, and as a result, a jar of two catties of spirits was drunk by the singer, and he barely slept for the first night, and Qingyan was very suspicious, if he went on like this, he had not yet arrived in the Wa Kingdom, and the singer around him would definitely become a drunkard.
Zhen Qian brought a lot of wine, and the other maritime merchants brought silk, ceramics, and spices to the Wa Kingdom, and he brought a lot of wine, and only these spirits could help the sailors to keep out the cold at night.
In the past two days, Zhen Qian decided not to do anything else, only one thing, that is, to let the crew who had never lived on the water stay on the river every day, and he took the lead in setting an example to let his body adapt to the feeling of turbulence on the water.
Man is a very strange creature, very adaptable, and this must first eliminate fear. People are lazy, they will be lazy, they will instinctively find a place that suits them, rather than letting themselves accommodate the place, it is easy to enter luxury, it is difficult to be thrifty, no one likes to put themselves in a dangerous and difficult place, as long as there is an opportunity, they will choose to hide.
Zhen Qian rented three smaller cargo ships, sent all the people on board who did not know life on the water to the cargo ship, and then sailed to the middle of the river, which was called adaptive training.
This really tossed those people miserable, the first thing I couldn't stand was those delicate singers, one by one, the flowers were discolored, and before the afternoon, they were already paralyzed in the cabin, and the little gruel they ate in the morning had already been vomited out, and then they were retching, and they didn't know that they thought they were pregnant.
The situation of those officials sent by the government is also very bad, I really don't know what the government thinks, Zhen Qian said to the Yangzhou government, there is no wind and waves on the sea, and the officials on the ship had better have experience in taking a boat, don't stuff themselves with a group of landlubbers, the result is very bad, most of the people who can be stuffed in are not very good family backgrounds, these people have no background, and those who have a background are not willing to go to the country at all.
Zhen Qian's situation is also not very good, this Fu has never been a boat, and he can swim completely in his previous life, but it does not mean that he can adapt to life on the water.
There is no seasickness medicine in later generations, but people who have been begging for a life on the water for a long time still have many ways, with a piece of ginger in their mouths, they chew their saliva frequently, and after the ginger taste is light, they can change another piece and continue to hold it in their mouths. Or put mint leaves or vinegar on a mask or handkerchief and put it under your nostrils to smell it, which can also reduce some of the symptoms of seasickness.
At this time, Zhen Qian didn't vomit what he ate and vomited, probably because he knew a little bit of water, but when he watched other people vomit, he couldn't eat anything.
These people all think that they will die on the sea, and they have no choice but to close their eyes and move forward, the singer can't escape, the officials dare not escape, Zhen Qian very much hopes that the officials will run away, so that they can be replaced by their own people.
In the evening, when these people got on the big boat docked by the river, they were carried back to the cabin, and then some people poured some rice porridge with fish and meat into their mouths. Zhen Qian didn't have any good intentions, just because he heard Ke Ming say that when he arrived at sea, his usual meals were mainly sea fish, vegetables were very expensive, and even fresh water was distributed according to rations, unless he threw away all the goods that could not be eaten on the ship, there was room for more ingredients.
In this era, the voyage is different from later generations, he doesn't want to interfere with Ke Ming's power, and even what he does must be constrained by Ke Ming, this is the rule of begging for a life at sea.
Zhen Qian did not complain, the maritime steward on the same ship knew that it was right to do this, and no one objected, and his own people followed when they saw Zhen Qian doing this, but those officials thought that they had not left the Tang Dynasty, so they let themselves suffer very angry, and just said a few words and the whip immediately hit the body, without a word of discussion, this is also the rule of the sea.
The rules can't be seen or touched, but I can personally feel that Zhen Qian took the lead in abiding by the rules and helping Ke Ming establish authority, if he took the lead in breaking the rules, the whole ship would not have to go to sea. What he did in exchange for Ke Ming's natural eyes, there is nothing to say, one day on the boat, everyone, including himself, has to listen to Ke Ming, a sea ship is a whole, if anyone wants to make the tenon of the head, knock it off and throw it into the sea.
Zhen Qian is waiting for someone, to be precise, a monk, that is, Jianzhen.
The Tang Dynasty sent Fujiwara Qinghe, Kibi Zhenbei, Abe Nakamaro and others to Yangzhou and once again implored Jianzhen to cross east with them. Li Longji believed in Taoism and wanted to send Taoist priests to the Wa Kingdom together, but was rejected by the Tang envoys, so he was not allowed to go to sea.
In order to avoid the eyes and ears of the government, Jianzhen secretly took a boat to Huangsipu, Suzhou, that is, the city of Zhangjiagang in later generations, and prepared to send Tang envoys there.
Fujiwara Shuxiong told Zhen Qian about this matter, Li Longji was unwilling to go to the Japanese kingdom and was very strict with the Japanese people, including Abe Zhongmaro. Hearing that Jianzhen was going to get on his own ship, Zhen Qian thought for a while and agreed, this is the last time Jianzhen went to the Wa Kingdom, the first five times in history have failed, and even his eyes are blind, such a person makes Zhen Qian admire from the bottom of his heart, since Jian Zhen wants to go to the Wa Kingdom to preach, he thinks it is necessary to help him achieve his grand wish.
Agreeing to Fujiwara's request, Zhen Qian informed Abe Zhongmaro, how to say that he also sent Tang to welcome and send the envoy, and this face was to be given.
Abe Zhongmalu knew what Zhen Qian was going to do, so he asked Zhen Qian to set sail in advance to make a front stop for the fleet, and the people from the inspection department went on the ship to check it, although they didn't say anything when they saw the extra maritime steward on the ship, the money had already been scattered, and it was still necessary to pretend to be a monk, and after turning around and not finding a monk, they let Zhen Qian set sail.
Runzhou is three hundred miles away from Huangsipu waterway, Chongming Island has appeared in the Tang Dynasty, but at this time it is only a very small Jiangxin Island, so small that people can not live on it, as for the big Shanghai in later generations, it is still a low-lying land by the sea, many places are in the sea, Huangsipu is already regarded as the mouth of the Yangtze River, is the last port.
Going down the river is not sailing, the speed of the ship is not slow, and there are 80 pulppers, a group of 40 people, less than three days have arrived in Suzhou Huangsipu, now in Datang, every port can be replenished with food, this opportunity is not much, leaving Huangsipu will rely on the food stored on the ship for more than a month, during this time, fishing for fish in the sea is the only supplement.