"Shopkeeper Xu, help me see, is that a sail?" The Han people are not insatiable, and the price of five brocades is already good, but he didn't hear Xu Liangzhi's words, and his attention was all attracted by a white thing on the sea. Since it is a sailor, the news about the sailor is indispensable, a few years ago, after the port of Dengzhou was burned by a sea ship that did not know where to come, the news quickly spread to Jinzhou, and it was impossible to hide it. Dengzhou, Jinzhou, and Shishikou have always had ships to and from the sea to transport grain back and forth on a regular basis, and the specific circumstances did not need to wait for the military to report, and the shipwrights in Dengzhou Port at that time were able to talk about the last hour in a vivid voice. In particular, the tall sails on those ships are the most distinctive, and for the officers and men of the naval division, the characteristics of the ships are of course the most clearly remembered.

"It looks like, but what ship has such a high mast? It looks like it should still be more than ten miles away, it won't be clouds......" Xu Liangzhi looked in the direction of the fingers of the Han people, and also felt that it was a sail, but at such a distance, if the ship was small, it would be impossible to hang so many sails, and if the ship was large, it should be able to see the hull, how could you just see a sail and not see the boat?

"Hell yes! Enemy attack! Enemy attack! Ring the bell ......" Listening to Xu Liangzhi's words, the Han people suddenly jumped up on the spot as if they had been bitten by something, shouted and rushed to the dock, shouting and shouting at the same time.

The people on the yard were still a little stunned at first, but as the alarm bell sounded, everyone realized that there was going to be a war here, and began to run around. The shopkeepers were busy closing their doors and closing their doors, the porters threw down the goods on their shoulders and found a place to hide, and the officers and men of the sailors came out from everywhere and were busy rowing small boats from the docks to their own sailors' camps under the command of the commander to prepare to meet the enemy. It was a mess for a while.

"Daddy! Our boat is still on the pier. The goods are fully loaded. Those are all things that are afraid of fire, what should I do? Xu Liangzhi's eldest son also panicked, it had nothing to do with him to fight or anything, if it weren't for the cargo on the ship, he would have dragged his father and younger brother on the horse and ran to Jinzhou. The soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, and there are sailors, so they are not needed as merchants.

"yes, or we'll get the boat out. Go to the Golden State! As soon as he heard his brother's words, Xu Liangzhi's second son also had an idea.

"It's too late...... I didn't expect that our father and son had been mixed at sea for most of their lives, and they could really see such a fast ship! As he spoke, the hull of the ship was already visible under the shadow of the sail on the sea. Xu Liangzhi has followed his grandfather and father to the sea since he was a child, and without any instruments, he can see the size, shape and speed of the ship with these eyes alone.

"Dad, what should I do?" The eldest son was a little confused. My father has never been a chronic child, why did he suddenly start chattering. When is it, and the idle ship that cares about other people's ships is not happy.

"Dick! You get on the horse and go home! Take the family with you, just take the soft and go to your uncle's house in the countryside immediately, don't delay for a second. If your brother and I don't return within ten years, you will be the pillar of the family in the future. Don't talk, listen to Daddy! Regardless of how your brother and I didn't have them, remember, be sure to inquire where these ships came from. Then take our family and your uncle's family, take everything you can and take a boat to find it, go to their port to do business, don't be here, remember what I said! Xu Liangzhi's face suddenly became ugly, grabbed his second son's neck, dragged him to him, almost bit his ear, and said something in the most stern tone. Then he asked the second son to repeat it, and then he didn't even give a chance to explain, and pushed the second son to the horse behind him, and he didn't pull the boss to walk briskly towards the dock.

"Dad, what's going on? You, the ships you know? The second son frightened his father, neither dared to chase it, nor did he dare to get on the horse and leave immediately, he was still confused in his mind, how could his father be fine just now, and now he suddenly left his last words. The boss was even more puzzled, and while being dragged by his father to trot towards the docks, he was still asking what was going on. He also saw those boats on the sea, it was nothing more than a bigger one, and he couldn't see the specifics clearly, so why did he scare his father like this.

"Get out! You're going to be mad at me! Xu Liangzhi didn't answer the eldest son's question, turned his head and glanced back, and saw that the second son was still standing in place, and immediately let out a roar, and even the green tendons on his neck popped out.

"Boss, this time we are going to the ghost gate. How many times have I told you, when you get to Mingzhou, don't think about going to play in the Qinglou Washe, and make more friends with the maritime merchants in the south, but you just don't listen, if you don't have your father and me with me today, the two of you and these two ships will be gone! Listen to Dad, when you get to the ship, go under your dad's cabin bed and find a locked box. I didn't have time to find the key, so I smashed it open, and there were two flags with copper coins painted on it, and I quickly took them, and then one of the ships was hung on top of the mast, and then I hurried to sail. Leave the damned sailors alone, rush out of the harbor, and when you touch those big ships, you can lower the sails and let everyone kneel on the deck, and maybe you can get your life back! Fast! Dad is old and can't run anymore, it's up to you whether we live or die. Xu Liangzhi is also in his fifties, and he is usually pampered, and he has not yet run 200 meters, and he is already wheezing. Seeing that there were still three or five hundred meters away from his own boat on the dock, the old man was really anxious, and after telling his eldest son in one breath, he was already out of breath, holding his knees with his hands and sticking out his tongue.

Fortunately, his eldest son was quite strong, and when he heard what his father said so seriously, he also realized that it was without further ado, so he strode away and ran to his own boat, and he didn't bother to pick up one of his shoes. When he took out the flag in the box according to Xu Liangzhi's words, and asked the boatman to climb the mast and hang it, Xu Liangzhi rubbed to the side of the ship with a pale face and was pulled up by the sailors on the ship. The two boats immediately left the shore and hoisted their sails as they rowed and sailed, heading out of the harbor.

"Whew...... Call...... Tired old man, water, water ......" After Xu Liangzhi got on the boat, he sat on the deck of the stern, and his eldest son was busy with his work, so he could bring him a bowl of water.

"Dad, what the hell is going on! Tell me that even if you die, you have to let me die! Our boat is full of our own family, and it's not that we haven't encountered bandits, so why do we have to kneel and wait for death if we carry a knife to cut it when it's a big deal? After completing all the things that his father explained, the eldest son had the time to ask Xu Liangzhi. People who run the sea all year round are not timid, maritime merchants and pirates are actually the same thing, it is not their character to be restrained, even if they can't fight, they have to fight first before they are willing.

"Kid, isn't this a sea bandit...... They are called the Strait Company, which is much more powerful than the bandits, and has always been active in the South Seas. The Zhao family and the Gao family who bought the goods on our ship in Mingzhou are all Guangzhou maritime merchants, and they are the shareholders of the Strait Company, and these two flags were bought by your father and me for 500 yuan, do you know what this flag is for? Xu Liangzhi evened out his breath, pulled his eldest son to sit on the deck together, and pointed to the copper coin flag on the top of the mast and asked.

"I haven't seen it, what strait company?" The eldest son looked closely at the strange flag again, he had never seen anyone rust a huge copper coin on it.

"Hanging this flag, you can go unimpeded in the South Seas, and it is said that you can run all the way to the Great Food Country! You know the Big Food Country, right? The year before last, we exchanged those glass wine utensils from the big food country, thousands of miles away. Originally, I also wanted to find an opportunity to discuss with the Zhao family, so that you and the second child can go to Guangzhou to set up a shop and buy a boat, and the business over there is easy to do. Who would have thought that we hadn't gone yet, they came first, just to see if they could survive this hurdle! Xu Liangzhi is old, and he talked for a long time, but he still didn't explain who it was, and his son stared at him in a hurry.

"Have you heard about Dengzhou Port? I told the Zhao family about this in Mingzhou, guess what people said after hearing it? He said that it was the security fleet of the Straits Company, and that such a ship had no semicolon except them. People also said that a Dengzhou port is a fart, this security fleet killed thousands of people in the Great Food Country and Tianzhu Country, burned dozens of cities alone, and killed hundreds of ships of the Great Cannibals and Javanese people in Semarang, and there are still hanged corpses hanging on the port over there. But they are very good to their own people, as long as they hang this copper coin flag, whoever dares to touch it again will be chased and killed to the end, and even birds dare not fall to the boat along the way, the evil spirit is too heavy! By the way, speaking of this copper coin flag, there is another flag that cannot be provoked, which is a big rat's head. The reason why the Strait Company is so powerful is because of its chairman, whose surname is Hong, who is two feet tall and has a tiger's back and a bear's waist, and is from extreme South Australia, which is the place where Taishang Laojun alchemy. As long as he stretches out his hand, no matter how big your boat is or how fast it runs, there will be five thunderbolts immediately...... "Seeing that his son was really anxious, Xu Liangzhi told him what he knew about the strait company, and then he talked about Hong Tao, which is still mythical, just like a commentary.

"Daddy...... Let's see if those ships are flying the rat flag you said you said! They're really big......" At this time, the two cargo ships of the Xu family had already sailed outside the port, and the fleet in the distance was really fast, and just now I could only vaguely see a shadow, but now it is almost in front of me. The eldest son of the Xu family had good eyes, and he looked at the pergola with his hand, and even saw the flag on the top of the mast clearly. (To be continued.) )