Zhou Li lay naked on the ground, touching the ground with his forehead, not daring to make a sound. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Qin Feng raised his chin, and the Le Gong Guild behind him stepped forward intentionally, shook off a robe, and lightly draped it over Zhou Li's naked body.

"What is the most important thing between a monarch and a courtier? Mutual trust, of course. Qin Feng said slowly: "If there is no trust as a foundation, then how can I rest assured that I will hand over an army to you?" Especially for a unit like the Sailor, Zhou Li, once you sail on the sea and cut off from the land, what can you and I do to protect each other except trust? But when you came to Daming, you hid too much from me, which made me very disappointed. Thankfully, you took your chance, and it's not too late. ”

"The last general will know that he is wrong." Zhou Li said in a trembling voice: "The last general was originally innocent, but later he couldn't stand the temptation of galloping the sea, but he became a pirate, and he was proud but also deeply ashamed, for fear that His Majesty would not look down on people like the last general, so he didn't dare to tell the truth." ”

"Since ancient times, heroes don't ask where they come from." Qin Feng said: "There is nothing to say about this, Zhou Li, you get up, Le Gong, move him a seat, I want to listen carefully to the situation at sea, the last time you told me, there are many untruths in it, or, you are hiding a lot of things, right?" ”

"The last general, I am inexplicably afraid, Your Majesty forgives me!" Zhou Li, who stood up, still couldn't help but tremble a little.

"Let's get dressed first!" Looking at the other party's appearance, Qin Feng was a little funny, "This appearance is really a little unsightly." ”

After getting dressed, sitting on the stool, holding the ginger tea boiled by Grandpa Le, Zhou Li's expression finally calmed down, drank a bowl of ginger tea in one go, put the bowl on the table, sat up straight, put his hands flat on his knees, and waited for Qin Feng to ask.

"Let's talk about your relationship with the Ning clan in Quanzhou first!" Qin Feng said: "You are from Quanzhou, I think, what you do must have nothing to do with them, right?" ”

"Your Majesty has seen a thousand miles! The end will admire the landless. Zhou Li said: "Actually, it's not so much that the last general is a pirate, but that he is working for the Ning clan." ”

Qin Feng, who had expected it, nodded.

At the end of that year, he was not welcomed among the sailors of the Chu State, and was ostracized everywhere, so he resigned and returned to his hometown in a fit of anger, thinking that even if he went to be a fisherman, he would not starve to death. But later it turned out that the last general really thought about things in this world too simply. Zhou Li said with some emotion. The name of the last general, there is still a little fame in this industry, and soon after returning to his hometown, the Ning family came to the door. ”

However, the last general more or less knew some of the details of the Ning family, so he naturally refused to fall willingly, and after that, the Chen family encountered a great predicament in Quanzhou. Later, Xiao'er was caught in a murder lawsuit and couldn't get out, at this time Ning came to the door again, claiming that as long as I joined the Ning fleet and became the head of their fleet's guards, Xiao'er would not have a little thing, and in desperation, the last general could only agree to them, and since then he has started his own pirate career, which is nearly ten years! ”

"Isn't it the chief of the guard? How did you become a pirate? Qin Feng asked with a smile.

"Your Majesty doesn't know." Zhou Lidao: "In the Chu State, the Ning clan does business in a proper manner, but as long as the fleet goes to sea, it will be different, the sea is far from being understood by people living on land. There, it is a place where there is no royal law, and whoever has a hard fist will have a great reason. So as soon as the fleet goes to sea, it does both legal business and illegal things. Let's say robbery. ”

"The four countries of the mainland, the Qin State has no outlet to the sea, don't talk about him, the Ming Dynasty only has Baoqing now, and it was also abandoned in the pre-Yue period, and the policy of banning the sea between Qi and Chu is quite strict, who are you robbing?" Qin Feng was a little puzzled.

"Your Majesty, although we are forbidden to the sea here, but other places do not prohibit the sea, on the contrary, those countries outside, the sea trade is quite prosperous, when the Tang Dynasty was in the heyday of all countries to come to the court, although it is a bit exaggerated, but hundreds of small countries always have. More than a thousand years have passed, these countries have been divided and merged, some have perished, some have continued, and some have even merged into some quite large countries. Sometimes, we also rob the Guo Guo's. ”

Qin Feng nodded, "How many overseas countries do you know?" How big is their fleet? Do you have what it takes to attack us? ”

What Zhou Li said made Qin Feng a little worried.

"Your Majesty, the Ning fleet led by the last general did not go too far, according to the minister's understanding of these countries, the largest is only equivalent to the size of the Ming Dynasty, they still seem to have a great fear of us here, this may be related to the shadow left by the Tang army in the Tang Dynasty, the people in power there have no plans to march to us. Even guarding against us, even if they do business with us, they are cautious. ”

"In your observation, what is the military strength of these countries?" Qin Feng continued to ask.

"They don't know much about their land forces, but if they only count the sea fleet, it is impossible for any of the two countries of Qi and Chu to be their opponents. Fortunately, they don't know the details, otherwise the sea realm of our continent will only be rumored to be heard. Zhou Lidao.

"I see!" Qin Feng's mood became a little heavy.

"Yes, we do business here, we are very regular, only when we get to the sea, we will turn around and become pirates, rob merchant ships in that sea, and even occasionally go ashore to rob some small island countries." Zhou Lidao: "The sea life is full of crises, like us, which is both a regular business and a pirate fleet, there are still some bottom lines, generally speaking, only seeking money, but there are some pure pirates, it is quite brutal, if you meet them at sea, it is a never-ending battle, and the scars of the minister are obtained in the battle with these pirates." ”

"Have you ever lost?"

"The worst thing is that the entire fleet was almost wiped out, and the last general fled alone." Zhou Li said ashamedly.

"You've had such embarrassing moments?" Qin Feng laughed.

Zhou Li raised his head: "Your Majesty, it's not that the minister is useless, but the fleet led by the minister, most of which are merchant ships, and there are actually very few warships that are really used for battle." And those pirates are all warships, that warlord is very unlucky, Ning's fleet has been on this route for many years, and has been targeted by pirates in that area, several small pirate gangs have joined forces to deal with the last general, and the last general is really powerless. ”

"In this way, you actually only walk a small part of the sea, and you don't know anything about the farther places." Qin Feng said thoughtfully.

"Yes, the sea area that the minister knows is all in the book that the minister dedicated to His Majesty, and the farther it is not clear to the minister, but there is one thing that Your Majesty may be interested in." Zhou Lidao.

"What's the matter?"

"Three years ago, dozens of countries in the sea area where the minister often went to do business, no matter how big or small, once organized a joint fleet, and even all the pirates received an invitation at that time, I heard that it was to deal with the invasion from the farther west, but unfortunately, the minister was in Quanzhou at that time, and the Ning clan seemed to have heard the rumors, and during that period of time, they just did not go to sea."

"What's the end?" Qin Feng pricked up his ears suddenly.

"A year later, when Chen Caidu arrived in that sea area, he saw a bleak scene, that battle, I heard that there were thousands of warships fighting fiercely in the vast sea area, and listening to it made Chen's blood boil, and in the end they won, but it was also a tragic victory." Zhou Lidao: "That distant country is quite terrifying, under the premise of an expedition without any logistical support, it actually supported it for nearly a year, and it also caused great losses to the combined fleet in that sea area. ”

Qin Feng took a deep breath: "It's really terrifying, after that war, I haven't heard any news of that distant country, but there are many more pirates in this sea area." One of them was the remnants of the defeat of the fleet of this distant nation. When we go to sea, they are the ones we worry about the most. Because they're so brutal. Fortunately, they are the public enemies of this sea, and in a few years, their strength has almost been exhausted. In fact, in Chen's opinion, fortunately, this time the fleet from a distant country was stopped, otherwise if they were allowed to win, with the wolf nature they showed, we are afraid that it will never be peaceful here. ”

"You're right." Qin Feng nodded: "Now that we are here, the sea is relaxed, no matter Qi Chu, it is the same, and our Da Ming is just starting, if such a powerful fleet finds that we are vulnerable here, it will be really miserable, fortunately, now we are already on the road." Zhou Li, this is your task in the future, we need a strong water division. ”

"Your Majesty won't hold the ministers accountable?" Zhou asked sneeringly.

"Did you have any problems before, and did it have anything to do with my Da Ming? And when you become a pirate, you are only overseas, in fact, the plan you came up with first is not to let me become a pirate as well? I'm quite interested in that. Zhou Li, now that we only have two real warships, do you think we can go out and grab one? ”

"Your Majesty, although we only have two warships, these two warships are much stronger than the ships of the pirates, as long as we don't encounter those pirates who move dozens of warships and the regular sailors of the country in that sea area, we are invincible." Zhou Li said loudly.

"Great!" Qin Feng applauded and said, "I have decided, I will go to the sea with you to enjoy the style of the sea." ”