Donglai is located in the northeast of Qingzhou.

Cao Shuo got half of Qingzhou, Xuzhou and other places poured in a large amount of grain and grass materials.

The grain and grass materials that poured into Qingzhou were evenly distributed to all places.

When you get to Donglai, there is not much left.

The order was issued, and the Donglai government hurriedly sent all the tools and cloth they could transfer.

Seeing the cloth and tools being carried onto the ship, Fu Zhi instructed one of the guards to go to Beihai and asked Cao Shuo to allocate another batch of supplies to Donglai, while he himself took the guards aboard the warship.

On the ship, the officers and men of the navy were carrying boxes of cloth and tools into the cargo hold.

Fu Zhu asked a naval sergeant accompanying him, "How long does it take to get from here to Penglai?" ”

Pointing to the edge of the coastline in the distance, the soldier said: "Please look at it, that is Penglai, and from here, you will be able to land on the island at night at most." ”

"So close?" Frustrated.

He also thought that Penglai was far from the coast, but he didn't expect it to be in a place that could be seen from afar on the shore of Donglai.

"It's so close, and no fishermen have landed on the island before?" He asked in surprise.

Glancing at the shore, the soldier clenched his fists and bowed to Fu Zhu and said: "Don't dare to deceive the Fu Gong, so no one has landed on Penglai Island, just because General Guo does not allow fishermen to land on the island." ”

"Don't you?" Frustrated frowning slightly: "Why not?" ”

"General Guo said that the landing of fishermen on the island will only make the natives on the island no longer be kind." The soldier replied: "The natives are no longer generous, and we will go to Penglai in the future, whether we want fresh water or anything else, it will not be as convenient as before." ”

"I've heard General Guo say that in the past, when you landed on the island, you would exchange farm tools with the natives for a lot of things." Frustrated, he said: "Isn't General Guo afraid that the natives have learned their skills from him, and they will no longer be honest in the future?" ”

"Swap with the natives with farm tools?" The soldier was stunned for a moment, then said, "We have never exchanged anything with the natives with farm tools. ”

"And what do you use?" Frustrated asked.

"It's just some thinly polished pieces of iron." The soldier replied: "General Guo told the Turen that these pieces of iron are particularly useful for cutting grass roots, and that they can be exchanged for a lot of water and food from the Turen every time. ”

Frustrated with black lines.

The farm tools that Guo Zu said are the pieces of iron in the soldiers' mouths.

If the natives on Penglai Island were still slash-and-burn, the iron pieces were indeed sharper than the tools they used.

By exchanging pieces of iron for food and water with them, the natives who suffered a loss would think that they had gained a great advantage.

"Since you can go to Penglai at night, it's good to transport the cloth into the warehouse, and the farm tools are not afraid of wind and waves, so you don't need to move them in." He gave an order to the soldiers on the deck.

The order was given, and the soldiers stopped.

It didn't take long for all the cloth to be delivered to the hold, while the cages containing the farm tools were still on the deck.

The warship set sail.

Guo Zu, who was standing on the coast, looked at the distant warship, and a shallow smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Holding on to the side of the ship, watching the warship leave the harbor and sail towards Penglai Island in the distance, I couldn't tell what kind of feeling I felt in my heart.

Penglai, which is only a day's voyage away from Donglai, has actually escaped the warships for many years, making this a place that has not been affected by the war.

However, because it has become a place outside the world, the natives on the island cannot communicate with the people in the interior, and they still live a life of slash-and-burn farming......

Logging in to Penglai, can you really turn this place into a seaport for the navy under Cao Shuo?

Frustration wasn't entirely sure.

Coming here, he was just trying his luck.

More than a dozen warships from Xuzhou used sails designed by Cao Shuo himself, and their speed was much faster than that of the big ships when Guo Zu was a pirate.

Standing on the deck, listening to the sound of the wind in his ears, the soldier behind him said, "Fu Gong, if we follow this speed, it is estimated that the sun has not yet set, and we will be able to reach Penglai." ”

"Didn't you say it was going to be night?" Frustrated asked.

"That's the big ship of yesteryear." The soldier replied, "At that speed, it would be absolutely impossible to reach Penglai before dark." ”

"Your old ships were so slow?" Fu asked with some skepticism.

Pointing to the sails, the soldier said, "Please see, the sails of this warship can change according to the direction of the wind, and the sails of our previous big ships are all dead." ”

Looking in the direction of the soldier's finger, he saw that the sails of the warship could turn in the direction of the wind.

Every time the wind direction changes, the soldiers on board will adjust in time, so the ship always sails at the fastest speed.

"How many years have you been at sea?" He asked the soldier.

"On board since the age of thirteen." The soldier replied, "It's been eleven or twelve years now. ”

"You have been following General Guo for eleven or twelve years?" Frustrated asked.

"Nope." The soldier replied: "I have only followed General Guo for three or four years, and I used to follow other generals. ”

"Are there other pirates in the East China Sea?" Frustrated with a frown.

"There were a lot of them before, but now only General Guo and Guan Cheng are left." The soldier said, "The sea and the land are actually similar, and all kinds of men and horses are fighting each other. Those with few people are annexed by many people, and those with few ships are annexed by many ships. Many forces back then have now become General Guo or Guan Cheng's subordinates. ”

"If General Guo and Guan Cheng fight, who do you think has a better chance of winning?" Fu Zhu asked suddenly.

The soldier thought for a moment and said, "If there were no warships given by Gongzi, I think Guan Cheng would have a better chance of winning. ”

Since meeting Guo Zu, the information that Fu Zhu has learned from him is that there are few people in charge, and he is not his opponent at all.

But the soldier's statement was very different from Guo Zu's.

Although Cao Shuo has a fire dance that is good at listening to news.

However, Huo Wu was on land, and the investigation news was fast and accurate, but Guo Zu and Guan Cheng were both at sea after all.

Fire Dance, who knows almost nothing about the sea, of course, can't know which of the two is stronger.

"You mean, Guan Cheng's power is greater than General Guo's?" He asked the soldier.

"Exactly." The soldier replied: "The coastal area, Xuzhou to the south, is richer, and the fishermen earn a lot more than Qingzhou. General Guo and Guan Cheng fought for the south of Xuzhou, but it was precisely because they were defeated that they retreated to the front line of Qingzhou. ”

Frustrated.

From the beginning, he was fooled by Guo Zu.

Obviously, his soldiers and horses are not as good as Guan Cheng, but Guo Zu exaggerated the facts, just to get more benefits from serving Cao Shuo.

Now that he had it, he felt that it was impossible for Guan Cheng to agree to his request for an appointment.

Let the more powerful Guan Cheng be Guo Zu's deputy......

After being a pirate for many years, how could he agree?

(End of chapter)