The days passed in a flash, fast can shake you out, Zhang Wuregret will shake a little can't turn a corner, in the blink of an eye, he became an official, in the blink of an eye, he returned to his hometown in fine clothes, in the blink of an eye, he forced his parents to marry, in the blink of an eye, the marriage was finalized, in the blink of an eye, it was a flash marriage, in the blink of an eye, the daughter-in-law was pregnant, the whole process did not exceed two months, Zhang Wuregret, who was working intensively in Yangzhou, got the news that his daughter-in-law was pregnant for a month from his hometown, and immediately gave Zhang Wuregret to Lei Dewai Jiao Inside.

I have to say that my father and mother's vision of people is still quite accurate, at least Zhang Wuregret is not disgusted with this delicate daughter-in-law, she is small and exquisite, not tall, but her figure is unexpectedly material, according to what her parents said, it is easy to give birth to and raise, especially good to give birth to and raise, no, the wisdom of the old man has been confirmed, and he has not had a few shots, and his daughter-in-law is pregnant, this is sour, I can't believe it.

But having said that, their work still can't be left behind, before leaving, Hou Ye deliberately called himself to the Hou Mansion and talked about it seriously for a while, and finalized the details of the future work, and then let himself go, after coming to Yangzhou, with a hundred blood flowers as the backbone of the organization of the general framework of the vertical and horizontal audit department, and then took out the emperor's will, determined the absolute leadership of the audit department of the city and the absolute authority of the maritime tax management.

But now it's all virtual, none of the maritime merchants have come back, and I don't know if they can come back, which is a bit early, but it is not a trouble to drive the skeleton first, and the main thing is to wait for the maritime merchants to come back in droves after the tax collection and management problems. and the next round of maritime issues.

Since Hou Ye is so concerned about this matter, it is enough to prove that what he has done is valuable, Zhang Wuregret did not feel relaxed because he had no formal business for the time being, in fact, after coming to Yangzhou, whether it was a task on the surface or a task in secret, Zhang Wuregret did not have the slightest slackness, the main matter involved was too big, and he had to deal with it carefully and personally.

However, the intense arrangement was interrupted by one thing.

Zhang Wuregret couldn't remember what day it was, but he knew that it was a sunny day, when he had just gotten up, had breakfast, and walked in the yard. Yangzhou Thorn Shi hurried over.

As a close confidant of Lord Hou. As the person in charge of the entire maritime trade, Zhang Wuregret's position here is very special, Yangzhou Assassin Shi is a four-grade official, or a local high-ranking official on the fourth grade. But Zhang Wuregret, an official from the fifth grade, was still cautious in front of him. The main reason is that the backer behind Zhang Wuregret is very hard. The authority is also quite large, so generally there are things that Yangzhou Assassin Shi personally sent people to report, and the local county government can't interfere.

But it was the second time I came in person. The first time was the day he just took office, a state dominated the government affairs and was busy, and it was definitely not for a small thing to come to his house in person, so Zhang Wuregret soon met with Xu He, the assassin of Yangzhou, Xu He is an elegant man in his forties, he looks polite, and even a little weak, but Zhang Wuregret knows that this guy is a decisive iron-fisted official, otherwise he would not have been transferred here by Li Er Xi à to do Yangzhou assassin history.

Don't dare to underestimate, don't dare to delay, the two sides immediately started talks, as soon as they met, Xu He arched his hand as a meeting etiquette, and hurriedly said: "Zhang Yuanwailang, something happened on the beach, report to me all the way below, I think this matter is not trivial, it needs Zhang Yuanwailang's ruling, I am afraid that it is not good to be the master, and I can't be the master." ”

Zhang Wuregret was shocked and asked, "What's the matter?" How important is it? ”

Xu He said: "In the early hours of this morning, fishermen who went out to sea to fish found two people floating on the planks on the sea, they were from the Tang Dynasty, or the two guards who went to sea with the fleet of the three princes' mansions before, ragged, extremely weak, unconscious, the doctor said that they had not eaten or drunk water for several days, and it was a miracle to be able to survive here, they woke up earlier, and they opened their mouths to ask for help!" ”

Zhang Wuregret was stunned: "Help? Is it possible? ”

Xu He nodded, and said with a stern face: "That's it, after sailing for several months with the fleet of the three princes who set out from Yangzhou to try to cross the ocean, they encountered the sea storm that Su Hou Ye said, and it was hopeless to continue sailing, and suffered heavy losses.

In desperation, they sent a hundred guards to sail in small boats to the way they came, trying to rush back for help, but during the voyage they encountered another storm, the boat disintegrated, and only the two of the hundred guards survived by clinging to the planks.

Fortunately, they were met by fishermen who went out to sea to fish, otherwise they would have to die, and after the two woke up, they also said that thanks to the sea chart given by Su Hou and Sinan, they found the right direction, otherwise where would they be able to identify the direction in the vast sea? But now that the situation is urgent, what does Zhang Yuanwailang think it should be? ”

Zhang Wuregret really felt that the matter was not trivial, so he immediately said: "Let's go and see the two guards first, verify whether what they said is true, if it is true, then we must immediately report it to the Jingshi and let His Majesty decide, if the fleet is really trapped on the island, then we must rescue them, otherwise we must not be trapped in life and death?" Let's go see them right away! ”

Xu He agreed, so Zhang Wuregret immediately ordered to prepare the horses, get ready, and the two of them galloped all the way to the shelter of the two rescued crew members on the beach, and asked through guò, as well as the token that was saved by one of them, Zhang Wuregret confirmed that what they said was true, indeed, they were indeed the crew of the fleet, or the guard, or the guard on the prince's mansion, there is no need to question the identity, so what to do next is obvious.

"Xu Tingshi, I thought that we could report to His Majesty, the situation is no longer something we can decide, and this may require the use of the navy. Without the navy, we would not have a ship to cross the sea to rescue those people, at least there are tens of thousands of people, all trapped there, they are also fateful, lost the ship, people are still alive! Zhang Wuregret said with a frown.

Zhang Wuregret felt that Hou Ye seemed to have miscalculated, he didn't get anything, but was lost the ship and the people, and the two guards said that they couldn't reach their destination. So basically nothing was gained. I caught a lot of seafood along the way, and it tasted good, but it was used to satisfy hunger, so it was basically a loss-making transaction. Didn't make any money.

But the flotilla didn't get anything. It doesn't mean that the other fleet didn't get anything. A total of three fleets of Datang have set off, and the middle road is the most dangerous, but the harvest will be the greatest. And the easiest and biggest harvest must be the southern route, only the southern route can easily reach the spice producing areas of Southeast Asia, which can be regarded as gold everywhere, as Suning predicted before, the northern fleet is not so easy to come back, they go along the coastline, they can go far, as long as they don't freeze to death.

The Middle Route has the highest mortality failure rate, and is it so easy to cross the ocean to the Americas? If it was that easy, Zheng He would have succeeded a long time ago, okay? Is the Pacific Ocean so easy to cross? Therefore, the middle route is very likely to encounter a storm and return home or even wipe out the whole army, but if you are lucky, you may be able to make a fortune, the easiest to make a fortune is the south route, the islands of Southeast Asia, that is all money!

Sure enough, just when Zhang Wuregret's news about the failure of the middle route and the urgent need for naval support was conveyed to Li Erma's hands for only an hour, when Suning had not yet arrived in the palace, the news of the great success of the southern route came, and Li Erma was stunned for a moment, according to the report, the southern route encountered a large number of islands and a large number of people, and the islands were very similar to those described by Su Houye, and you could see expensive spices in the Central Plains everywhere, and some were even burned by the locals as firewood.

However, the locals were not friendly, and welcomed the Datang crew's large-scale purchase of those spices at first, but they were reluctant to sell them when the quantity was too large, and even the Datang people were unwilling to buy the idea of land, but raised the price, so that they wanted to use force to threaten, and the ordinary people who went to sea could not bear it, not to mention the Three Kings fleet? Under the order of the director, thousands of Tang warriors armed with elite weapons swept away those aborigines all the way, and won a complete victory, and the captured loot was not satisfied even if all the ships were vacated, everyone was crazy with happiness, and this time they would definitely make a profit when they went back.

That is to say, now not only all the spices are in hand, but even the islands have been occupied by dozens of them, and the warriors of the Three Kings fleet occupy the islands in a big way, and according to the requirements of the accompanying military attaché and civil officials, tens of thousands of captive aborigines, and the spices are transported back to the Tang Dynasty, as for those islands have been occupied by the soldiers and have become the boundaries of the Tang Dynasty, the spices are temporarily available to everyone, and in the future, I have to ask the emperor to adjudicate.

Li Erma was embarrassed, and when Suning came, Suning felt that this was normal, and he had already told those princes that the middle route was the most dangerous, and the southern route was the easiest, but if the middle route was successful, the harvest would be the greatest, the southern route would mainly get spices and population, and the north route would mainly get precious metals and population, which was not as good as the middle route, and the things that could be obtained on the American continent far exceeded those in Southeast Asia and the northern ice and snow land.

Now this stark polarization, the three kings of the South Road can be said to be making a lot of money, even with those people should also make money, but the middle route is a little miserable, there is nothing, but the navy is still needed to rescue them, according to their description, Suning concluded that they were about to arrive at the location of Midway Island in four months, but a big storm drove them back to the location of the Ryukyus, and they encountered a storm there again, and lost the ability to come back, In desperation, he had no choice but to stop in the Ryukyu Islands and wait for rescue.

But they also had to come back, even if they tried their best to hold on to Midway, it would only be worse, it was the territory of the swarms of albatrosses, although they could survive by eating seabirds and fish and seafood, but there was not enough wood for the fleet to reshape, and if they really stopped at Midway, it was estimated that they would really be wiped out, and they would not even be able to send a message for help, and it would be difficult for the navy to reach Midway, and it would really be a world tragedy at that time.

However, this attempt to cross the ocean has provided Suning with very valuable experience and lessons, Suning has basically determined the limit of Datang's current navigation ability, which is still to provide them with a nautical chart, compass and how to slow down the erosion of seawater, according to Datang's current navigation level, it seems that it does not have the ability to cross the ocean.

After the improvement and upgrading of sea ships, they may have the ability to sail so far, but they still do not have the ability to resist storms at sea, and the distance from Datang to the land of the Americas is too far, and there are too few places to anchor and rest on the way, one Ryukyu Islands, one Midway, and then the Hawaiian Islands, there is no more, the distance in the middle is also very long, and the midway supply stations that can be established are even rarer.

With such a long distance, if there is no supply station on the way, according to Datang's current ability, even if it can pass, it is estimated that it will not be able to come back, and how to solve it is a very strict problem. (To be continued......)