The huge hull of the Taiping gently rowed across the slightly undulating sea, and the waves splashed up, hitting the hull, shattering into countless water droplets with a bang, and spilling on the water surface one after another. In the distance www.biquge.info countless cooking smokes rise, and under the cooking smoke, a city appears in front of everyone's eyes. The sailors on the ship cheered, and after many days at sea, they finally arrived at the destination of their trip, Quanzhou.

Min Ruoxi stood on the top floor of the ship, dressed in a thick white coat, staring at the city that was getting closer and closer, this is Quanzhou, this is the Chu country, this was once her homeland.

"Niangniang, that's Quanzhou in front." Zhou Li pointed to the city in the distance and introduced it to Min Ruoxi.

Min Ruoxi nodded and took a deep breath, after many days of sailing at sea, they had long been cut off from the land, and they didn't know that the battle between Chu Qi and Chu Qi had developed to that point.

"Mother, there are two ships ahead." Aunt Ying on the side said in a low voice.

"It was a vessel of the Quanzhou Tax Inspection Department, which was responsible for collecting taxes on ships entering and leaving the port of Quanzhou." Zhou Li was quite familiar with this place, only glanced at it, and then smiled. "Of course, it's also responsible for anti-smuggling. It's armed ships. ”

"Responsible for smuggling?" The corners of Min Ruoxi's mouth were slightly upturned, the biggest pirate in Chu State, the base camp of the smuggling leader Ning Clan, was in Quanzhou.

Understanding what Min Ruoxi meant, Zhou Li smiled: "Of course, they can only be responsible for fighting mosquitoes and flies, and there is no way to do anything about tigers, on the contrary, they are still the watchdogs of tigers and lions." There are some things, when it is inconvenient for tigers and lions to make a move, it is their turn to show their skills. ”

"A family of officials and bandits!" Min Ruoxi sneered, whether it is the princess of Dachu or the queen of Daming, she always doesn't want to see such things. "General Zhou Li, you can deal with them."

"Yes, please go back to the cabin for a while. It doesn't take long for me to believe that the county guards of Quanzhou and the leading figures of Quanzhou will gather at the port to greet you. Zhou Li bowed slightly.

Min Ruoxi nodded, she will not be obscure when she comes back this time, but will make a big splash.

Min Ruoxi left with Aunt Ying and Father-in-law Le, Zhou Li straightened up, turned around, and looked at the ships of the Quanzhou Tax Inspection Department that were getting closer and closer, and his eyes slowly narrowed.

After two years of absence, he Zhou Li came back again.

The two ships of the Tax Inspection Department quickly sailed towards the Taiping ship in the distance. On the ship at the head, Li Kang's eyes widened, looking at the ship that was getting bigger and bigger in front of him, his face full of horror.

His face was flushed, of course, it was not that he was born with a red face, but before leaving the ship, he was drinking with a few of his men, and on the first day of the new year, it was natural to gather together and celebrate. He is the deputy of the tax inspection department here, born in Quanzhou water division, in order to be transferred from the water division to the tax inspection department, he took out almost all the savings of the first half of his life to succeed.

Of course, all the efforts are worth it, more than two years to the tax inspection department, he has not only already recovered the capital invested before, but also a lot of gains, the tax inspection department, how can it be compared with the dilapidated yamen of the water division.

The Quanzhou Tax Inspection Department is a rich yamen, as long as it is a ship entering this port, that one should not stammer him and act according to his face? Of course, there are also people who don't like him, but these people are naturally something he can't afford to mess with. But in Quanzhou, such people are only the Ning family.

He can be the deputy of this tax inspection department, but it is Ning's promotion.

Originally, I heard that a ship was coming to Quanzhou Port, and Li Kang, who was half-drunk, was full of interest, and he could make a lot of money again. My subordinates said that there was a big ship, and the ship was big, so of course there was more oil and water.

But now, he is a little cold in his heart, is this fucking big? Where is this ordinary civilian merchant ship, this is a warship, a standard warship. Li Kang was born as a sailor, and he still knew very well about warships and merchant ships, and when the sea breeze blew, he was frightened again, and his drunken spirit had long since disappeared.

Of course, he knew that in Quanzhou, there was only one person who had such a huge warship, and that was the Ning clan, but Ning's warships would never dock at Quanzhou Port because they were too dazzling. Even if Quanzhou is now the Ning family's Yiyantang, this kind of thing is still taboo, and the Ning family will not sail the battleship into the port with such fanfare.

Who else besides the Ning family? Li Kang's mind was a little confused for a while. But no matter who it is, the person who can have such a warship is afraid that it is not something that a small tax inspector can afford to provoke.

The sailors on board the tax inspection department began to wave flags at the opposite warship, asking the opposite warship to stop and accept the inspection, Li Kang was a little worried that the other party would not pay attention to them at all but directly run over them, and with the size of the other party, he could easily press his two ships of 300 materials into the water.

To his relief, the battleship on the opposite side actually replied to the flag, and he felt relaxed when he saw the huge iron anchor falling from the ship into the deep water.

At least not the enemy. He is not a brave person, in the tax inspection department for two years, and the life is extremely nourishing, naturally he does not want anything dangerous to appear to him, just now he has already made up his mind, if the other side ignores his banner, he will immediately order to escape.

A battleship that doesn't know where it came from, it's no joke. Besides, he is a tax collector, not a war.

The ship of the tax inspectorate approached slowly, and all the tax collectors looked up at the huge ship one by one, and everyone's mouth was wide open.

What a big ship.

Li Kang naturally sees it differently from them. The first thing his gaze swept over was the entire hull, not the three-story battleships of the Ning clan, the style was very different. The second glance was the sailors on the ship, except for those who operated the boat, the sailors on the ship were all wearing swarthy armor, standing with their swords one by one, from the bow to the stern of the ship, such soldiers were afraid that there were not hundreds of people, standing neatly and unmoving, as if they were not seen.

Li Kang had been a soldier, and he was very different from ordinary tax collectors, just at a glance, he could almost smell the strong murderous and evil aura on those people, this kind of smell, he had smelled it on the personal soldiers of the general of the navy, and he had also smelled it on those people in the Ning fleet.

He couldn't help but cry out secretly. Dare to fight such a naked person in armor here with open fire, it is not something he can afford to provoke.

The people of Great Chu forbade bows and crossbows and forbade knives and guns, but armor was also forbidden, but these people, not only were they wearing armor, but they also had a crossbow hanging from their waists, and those things covered with felt cloth on the ship, he didn't believe that it was a commercial product, it could only be the weapons of the warship.

There was some bitterness in his mouth. Damn, why is he on duty today, not the fat-headed, big-eared guy in the tax inspection department? Oh, by the way, that fat-headed and big-eared guy is a distant relative of the Ning family, also surnamed Ning, and he has to go to Ning's house to pay New Year's greetings these days, so this tax inspection department can only guard it by himself.

He stood at the bow of the boat, looking at the guards armed to the teeth, and for a moment he didn't know what to do, but he was stunned.

"Boss, boss!" The tax collectors behind him gently poked him, the so-called ignorant people are fearless, compared to him, these tax collectors are more calm.

was stabbed by the tax collector, he reflected it, coughed lightly, clenched his fists with both hands, and said loudly: "Li Kang, Quanzhou Tax Inspection Department, I don't know who the owner is, Li Kang asks to see him." ”

Hearing Li Kang shouting like this, the tax collectors behind him were all in a daze. They didn't know how bitter he was in his heart now, and at this time he felt that it would be better if he had drunk a few more glasses before, and would have fallen down in the yamen when he was drunk.

On the huge battleship, a person appeared in Li Kang's field of vision, like those soldiers, wearing armor and armor, but more powerful, standing above with his hands behind his back and looking down at Li Kang.

"Li Kang? It's you, do you still recognize me? ”

Hearing this somewhat familiar voice, Li Kang's eyes widened immediately, and he tried hard to identify the person above, the one-eyed dragon! He finally got a good look at the man on the boat.

"General Zhou Li, why are you?"

When he was a small officer in the Quanzhou Water Division, Zhou Li was the deputy general of the Quanzhou Water Division, and later Zhou Li went to work, he never heard of Zhou Li again, and later he gave up his belongings to climb up to He Ying, the uncle of the second young master of the Ning family, and was transferred from the Water Division to the Tax Inspection Department. However, at that time, Zhou Li had already decided to leave the Ning family.

Two years later, he saw Zhou Li again, but under such a scene.

Seeing Zhou Li appear, Li Kang breathed a sigh of relief, since he is an old man, then there will be no danger today, General Zhou Li has a very good relationship with the Ning family, of course he will not come here to make trouble.

"A certain family is now a general of the Ming Dynasty's sailors." Zhou Li looked at Li Kang and said proudly: "This time, General Ben was ordered to escort Empress Daming and Princess Zhaohua of Dachu back to Chu State, what, do you want to come up and check it?" ”

Listening to Zhou Li's report, Li Kang blinked his eyes and didn't react for a while.

Empress Daming, Princess Zhaohua of Dachu. He suddenly had an agitation, this is not two people, this is one person.

"Queen Mother, Princess Zhaohua?" His tongue was curled a little.

"Li Kang, when I was in the sailor, I would have seen that you were still a talent, why did you become like this after so many years?" On the warship, Zhou Li looked at him with some disdain, "Forget it, it is not difficult for you to leave a boat to guide us, you, go back immediately and tell Hu Yicai, the county guard of Quanzhou, and ask him to come to the dock to meet Her Royal Highness Princess Zhaohua." ”

"Xia Guan understands, Xia Guan will do it immediately!" was drunk by Zhou Li, and Li Kang's three souls and six spirits finally returned to the trick.