In the early morning of the 15th day of the first lunar month, a huge fleet of five Jinhai-class ships and eight Jiyun-class ships set sail from Guanyintan Dock Port and sailed eastward along the light yellow and slightly turbid river.

Lin Jian was dressed in a green shirt and a Confucian student, standing on the deck and looking out at the brown soil of Baichuan near and far.

Seeing Mrs. Gu Junxun coming out of the cabin, Zhao Hu, Sun Wenbing, and Ge Yuan, who were standing on the dock, all saluted her respectfully; Gu Junxun returned the salute.

Lin Jian saw Xun Niang come out to breathe, and asked, "When you go to sea for the first time, are you still used to this wind and waves?" ”

"It's okay, it's not as serious as I thought before." Gu Junxun said.

The cold season has not yet passed, the blue sea is like a domain, it is the best time to go to sea and sail, but when you enter the black water ocean, even if there is no wind, the waves are churning, I don't know if Gu Junxun can hold it, pull her to her side, and watch the magnificent sea and sky together.

Tang Haoxin's death hit Gu Junxun hard, Lin Lian secretly went north on this trip, and there was not much danger, so he took her with him, hoping that this trip to the sea could relieve the grief in her heart.

Zhao Hu is now the commander of the personal guard battalion, and this time, in addition to Zhao Hu leading the personal guard battalion with 200 soldiers to accompany the guard, he received 600 elite soldiers from the second water battalion of Jinghai to accompany him, led by Ge Cunxin's sons Ge Changgen and Ge Yuan. After Sun Wenbing went south with Lin Tie, he was in charge of the affairs of the Jiyun Society outside Jiangning, and for most of the year, he personally ran three times on the Black Water Ocean route, and he selected a group of the most experienced and loyal and reliable boatmen and sailors for Lin Tie to go north this time.

The northwest wind is in full swing, sail westward, soon after nightfall, I see Changshan Island floating between the sea and the moon, the bright moon is in the sky, there is a leading astrolabe in the vast sea to discern the direction, and it does not stop at Changshan Island, continue to go west......

Gu Junxun woke up, quite felt that the boat was a lot bumpy, but there was no discomfort, pushed open the porthole, the light came through, and the sky was already bright. I don't know how far the fleet sailed at night, when it went out to sea, the sea water was turbid yellow, but at this time the sea water was as blue as beautiful, and it was really a veritable black ocean.

When I first went out to sea, the waves moved with the wind, and at this time it was still a northwest wind, but the sea water was constantly rushing to the north, like a hand of the underworld in this boundless and unsearchable sea to stir the sea water north, Gu Junxun's chin slammed on the porthole, and the current rushing north made her stupid.

Lin Jian turned over and woke up, saw Xun Niang looking out of the porthole in a daze, looked out, there was nothing but the vast ocean current, took Xun Niang into his arms, and asked, "What's there to see?" ”

"The wind blows from the north, but the current rushes to the north, and it does not change all year round, and the child is silent and confused, how can the current situation make sense?" Gu Junxun asked, her first trip to sea opened her eyes, and all kinds of incomprehension, all kinds of doubts and all kinds of beauty were piled up in her heart, making her temporarily forget the grief of losing her grandfather.

Lin Jian smiled, the junior high school geography textbook has the knowledge of warm currents, but for the world when the details of these natural phenomena have not even touched, it is no wonder that everything is attributed to strange forces.

"We don't know for the time being what causes the currents to move north all year round, so we need to study them, but we shouldn't attribute all the things we can't understand to ghosts and gods." Lin Jian said with a smile.

"Are we going to keep going east? Isn't Tsukai on the north side? Gu Junxun looked at the bow of the ship and the direction of the current, but he was heading northeast, but going north along the current.

"It's rare to have free time, what are you doing in a hurry to go to Jinhai......," Lin Jian said, "If the direction is not bad, you will be able to see the coast of Goryeo tomorrow afternoon." ”

"Goryeo?" Gu Junxun stared at Lin Lian's face in surprise, "Is it the Goryeo Kingdom that came through the mountains and rivers of Liaodong and took two or three months to reach Yanjing?" ”

"Of course, do you think there are still a few Goryeo kingdoms in the world?" Lin Jian asked with a smile.

For more than 200 years since the founding of the Yue Dynasty, Liaodong has always been a tribute place from Goryeo to Yanjing, after Jingbei Hou Suhu was beheaded, Liaodong land was taken away by the Donghu people, and Goryeo cut off contact with the Central Plains, but it was only thirteen or fourteen years, and the world was no stranger to Goryeo.

What the princes of the imperial court did not know was that after the battle of Chentangyi, the Donghu people were able to withdraw their hands to conquer Goryeo in the south. Since then, Goryeo has become a vassal state of Donghu and an accomplice to the Dongyu Iron Cavalry to ravage the Central Plains. Last year, when the Dongyu broke through the border and entered the prison, some Koreans were mixed in.

Gu Junxun still didn't believe that it would take two or three months to reach Goryeo from Liaodong, and it would only take two days and two nights to reach it from Chongzhou, staring at Lin Jian with black and white eyes, and asked with a small mouth: "You really didn't lie to me?" ”

"If you lie to you, I will lie for a lifetime, and I will be stupid to tell you a lie that will be exposed tomorrow?" Lin Jian smiled angrily, knowing that although Xun Niang knew poetry and books, it was really difficult for her to have an accurate geographical concept in her mind, so she went barefoot to the desk and took out the map, spread out the mattress and showed her, "To be precise, we will arrive first in the Danluo country in the southeast of Goryeo, although Danluo is called a country, it is actually only an island about three times the size of Xisha Island, from Jiangkou to Danluo, the sea route is actually only about a thousand miles, far less than you think......

"So close?" Gu Junxun felt very surprised, she didn't go far away, when she went to work with her father, she went south from Yanjing to Jiangning, and walked more than 2,000 miles, and suddenly knew that the countries of Goryeo and Danluo, which were far away in the sky, were actually more than 1,000 miles away from Chongzhou, this kind of geographical re-recognition had a very big impact on her, although she no longer doubted Lin Bin's words, but she was also eager to look forward to seeing Danluo Island as soon as possible.

Danluo is Jeju Island, located in Chongju only a thousand miles away, as early as hundreds of years ago, there were occasional maritime merchants between Danluo, Kyushu, Goryeo and Gangdong, after the rise of the East China Sea Kou, the East China Sea maritime merchants disappeared, but there were also occasional East Sea Kou to Danluo these areas to plunder.

In particular, since the infiltration of the luxury family into the East China Sea, some of the East China Sea Kou forces were unwilling to be controlled, and they were unable to compete with the forces supported by the luxury family in the East China Sea, so they crossed the ocean and carried out activities along the coasts of Danluo, Kyushu, and Goryeo.

Danluo (Jeju) Island is not large in area and there are not many Dingkou, but it has long been an independent country, but in the eighth year of Gyeongyu, Goryeo soldiers invaded Danluo and took the Danluo prince hostage, and Danla has since become a vassal state of Goryeo.

Although the country of Goryeo is weak, it has a wide area and a county with one or two million dingkou, and Lin Jian has no spare strength to deal with it for the time being.

Danluo has only been a vassal state of Goryeo for more than 20 years, and the Danluo people are full of resentment towards Goryeo, especially when Goryeo was declared a vassal to the Dongyu in the seventh year of Chongguan, although there are only more than 30,000 Dingkou, the Danluo people are also ready to move, intending to break free from the control of the Goryeo people - Lin Jian is naturally very willing to push them.

As early as last autumn, Sun Wenbing exchanged the ironware, cotton cloth, and cane grain produced in Chongzhou for war horses with the Danluo people.

Although Lin Jian did not have a plan to build a large cavalry battalion, it was necessary to organize scouts, communications, and a small number of cavalry into reserve or cover the flanks during wartime.

With Danluo Island, a cheap source of horses, a piece of cotton cloth can be exchanged for a war horse, which is much more cost-effective than going to the north to exchange forty or fifty pieces of cloth for a war horse.

On the other hand, Danluo Island, which does not produce cotton and uses kudzu as the main source of fabric, the soft cotton cloth is definitely a high-end fabric, and the price is naturally not lower than that of Koto County, which has almost popularized cotton cloth.

It's just that the Danluo people mainly raise horses to pay tribute to the Goryeo, and the pastures in the south of the island keep about 3,000 high-quality horses all year round, but before the Danluo people get rid of the control of the Goryeo, the number of horses that can be secretly traded is very limited.

Although the number of horses exchanged is not large, it is barely enough to supplement the loss of war horses in the cavalry camp, which is already very rare.

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When the sun was slightly falling on the 17th, the fleet saw the west coast of Danluo Island, and in the distance saw the towering Sunrise Peak in the center of the island, which is also the highest peak in South Goryeo. On the way from Yanjing to Jiangning, Gu Junxun saw Mount Tai and felt that Sunrise Peak did not seem to be lower than Mount Tai.

As the envoy of Jinghai Metropolitan Governor, he became the guest of honor of the Danluo royal court, and Lin Jian and Gu Junxun stayed in Danluo for two days.

Before leaving, Lin Jian generously presented more than 200 sets of armor, more than 100 mulberry bows and a Jiyun-class warship to the King of Danluo, and agreed to send people to help the Danluo people train an elite army of 1,000 people, so as to retaliate against the Goryeo after Danluo declared independence.

In exchange, the condition was to set aside a small piece of flat land of less than four or five hundred acres on the west coast of Danluo Island, so that the Jinghai Metropolitan Envoy could build a dock port fortress here and station a water battalion with two cloud warships and 200 troops.

As for the small amount of combat strength to be retained, Lin Lian's statement is naturally to help the Danluo people fight against the Koreans.

Now that Da Yue is fighting fiercely with the Donghu people, and the Goryeo people are the subject state of the Donghu people, helping the Danluo people to contain the Goryeo people can weaken the power of the Donghu people.

This bend was a little far away and lacked convincing, and Lin Jian emphasized that the garrison could also fight the pirate forces fleeing from the East China Sea, and more importantly, maintain trade between Danluo and Jiangdong County.

The Danluo people were unwary of the Da Viet Dynasty beyond the vast sea, and were desperate for help against the Koreans, and even if they were hesitant at first, they quickly dispelled their concerns and agreed to give Lin Jian a small piece of land from the west coast.

The Dan Luo people mainly communicate with Goryeo in the north and Kyushu Island in the east, and the coastal resources on the west coast are idle there.

It was not a day or two for Lin to set his sights on Danluo Island, and at that moment he rowed away a small piece of narrow land leading to the southern plain of Danluo Island from the southwest foot of Sunrise Mountain, which is also directly opposite Changshan Island across the sea.

Although this land is only four or five hundred acres in size, the base bank is straight, and there is a promontory with a wave-protecting promontory, forming a natural bay harbor, which can be berthed into a medium-sized fleet with little investment. On the south side, there is also a large coastline that can be extended and expanded.

Lim Jian directly named this place Jeju Port; Considering that even if the Goryeo people discovered the existence of Jeju Sai, it was less likely that they would take the initiative to attack without greeting, so Lin Jian made Ge Cunxin's eldest son, Ge Changgen, lead a sentry water battalion to station two Jiyun-class warships as the main force and run this place; The expansion of the garrison will also have to wait for the completion of this dock fort.