Zhou Qingfeng asked Wang Kai for a boat, and Wang Kai readily gave it to him.
A two-hundred-ton flat-bottomed boat could only be used for transportation in the coastal waters, or to sail along the coast in the calm bathtub of Liaodong Bay. There were twelve crew members, led by a thin, dark-skinned man in his thirties called Wu Baoer. Due to years of fighting for their lives in the wind and waves, Wu Baoer and the others looked very capable, calm, and honest, with a bit of cunning and cruelty hidden within.
Wu Baoer was originally in Shenyang. When Zhou Qingfeng gave the order to see him, he took his men and sailed the boat to the outskirts of Fushun City, stopping at a ferry on the bank of the Hun River. When he brought his men ashore, he saw Wang Kai leading a number of gorgeously dressed men with extraordinary auras. He quickly knelt on the side of the road, bowed his head and kowtowed.
"Wu Baoer, this is the number one Baihu Zhou, who has recently shaken Liaodong. In the future, you will climb up the ladder of riches and honor, so you can mingle with Baihu Laoye. " Wang Kai chuckled and led Wu Baoer to introduce him to Zhou Qingfeng, saying, "Daren, this is Wu Baoer, a native of Dengzhou, an old sea dog who went to sea in his teens. You can go to Liaodong Bay with your eyes closed. If you want to go to sea, you can find him. "
Wu Baoer raised his head slightly and called out, "Laoye." He glanced at them, but what attracted his attention the most was not the young man in the lead, but the two women by his side who were the most attractive. One of them had shoulder-length hair, a cold face, pretty eyes, and a bulging chest like a small mountain. She was dressed very differently from ordinary women, not wearing a skirt but pants.
Wu Baoer thought to himself, 'If I can sell this woman to the brothel, I can get at least eighty taels. Before I sell her, I must enjoy her. ' He looked at the other woman, who looked a bit younger than the first one, dressed like a young lady from a rich family. She was tall and slender, as beautiful as a delicate flower. He wondered what it would feel like to press such a woman under his body.
After Wu Baoer saw her, he lowered his head, but in his heart, he was thinking of all kinds of wonderful things. He pretended that no one knew what he was thinking, but suddenly he saw a pair of leather shoes appear in front of him, followed by a muffled groan. Wu Baoer felt a sharp pain in her head, as if her head was about to explode. Her waist and legs went limp, and she fell to the ground, howling in pain.
The sailors who followed Wu Baoer ashore were all rebellious. Seeing their boss in trouble, they all took out daggers and daggers and rushed forward. When they exploded in anger, the other side did not show any signs of weakness. With a whoosh, more than ten long spears appeared, and the two of them took a few steps closer. The leader, a man with a knife, said with a smile.
The Laoye, Shou said, "Laoye, Laoye!" Wu Bao'er lay on the ground and begged for mercy. In his heart, he cursed Wang Kai for not telling him that the Baihu Zhou he was supposed to meet today was a cultivator — he was a seasoned veteran of the sea who didn't believe in ghosts and gods. He didn't believe in God or fate in the stormy seas, and he didn't believe in the title of the world's number one either. He wouldn't give in until he experienced it for himself.
Wu. "Zhou". "." Wu, "Qingfeng", "Zhou", ", and don don don." don don don don don. "Bao". "Wu" Wu Bao Feng said. "Wu" what. "Wu" "Get up and tell me, what bad things have you done in the past? Let me see. "
Wu Baoer got a taste of his power. "I don't dare." He rolled around in the mud like a hoodlum, trying to beg for mercy. The rule of the sea was to be flexible. No matter how strong a man was, he would not fight against the wind and the waves. Today, he was just preparing for his future betrayal. Benevolence, righteousness, morality, and even face were not important.
On the sea, spears were useless. The sailors who came with Wu Baoer only had short weapons. Seeing that the situation was not good, they quickly gave in, throwing away their knives and lying on the ground. As for their boss rolling around on the ground, they were used to it and did not take it seriously.
Xu Bing came out from behind Zhou Qingfeng and shouted at Wu Baoer, "Get up, or you'll never get up again."
Wu Baoer hurriedly got up, nodded and bowed, and kept calling out 'Master', 'Madam', and 'Miss', completely servile. However, Xu Bing had seen all kinds of criminals when she was a criminal police officer. She knew that people who ran the sea in ancient times were lawless. There was no morality or law that could restrain them. The only thing that could make them obey was their own family's power.
Zhou Qingfeng and Xu Bing wanted Wu Baoer to tell them about her past. Their intention was to understand the situation on the sea. Otherwise, if a large group of people took the waterway in the dark and boarded the ship to the sea, they would not be able to decide whether they wanted to eat bandao noodles or wonton noodles. No matter how strong the 'road robbers' were, they would still die if the ship sank.
Wu Baoer, on the other hand, wanted to beg for mercy and pretend to be weak. Guo Jiao, who was standing behind, was impatient. She said, "Let me do it." She tore a talisman in her hand and slapped it on Wu Baoer's forehead.
Wu Baoer, who was crying that he had never done anything bad, was immediately stunned. His knees went weak and he knelt down. Guo Jiao snorted and said proudly, "Ask away. This guy is obviously a pain in the neck. However, no matter how strong his mind is, he will tell me everything within four hours after being hit by my Soulless Spell. "
Xu Bing wanted to show her interrogation skills, but she was defeated by Guo Jiao's unreasonable talisman. The sailor who was lying on the ground was watching his boss's performance indifferently. When he found out that his opponent was unusual in using talismans, he knew that he had kicked an iron plate today.
Zhou Qingfeng, who wanted to show off, was also rejected. He waved his hand to ask a scribe to come up from behind, and Xu Bing began to ask questions and record. Xu Bing began to ask about Wu Baoer's surname and family background. She gradually revealed the secret of shipping on the sea.
In the early years of Hongwu, the Ming Army crossed the sea from Shandong to recover Liaodong. They specially set up navy in Shandong and Denglai. But in the middle period of Daming, the sea route of Denglai was quickly abandoned. The Dengzhou navy's ships were broken and the soldiers were broken. The poor navy could only rely on the sea to survive. They were both soldiers and bandits.
People like Wu Baoer ran transportation for various merchants on the surface, but secretly killed people and robbed goods. Only a great merchant like Wang Kai would be able to control them. If an ordinary merchant were to easily board a ship, they would be helpless when they were out at sea. If it was light, they would have to pay several times more money. If it was heavy, they would lose all the people and goods. If there were female merchants traveling with them, they would be sold to the private houses of the pirates after they were violated.
But Wu Baoer was really experienced. According to his confession, Zhou Qingfeng was very clear about the water transportation situation of the Hun River, Taizi River, and Liao River in the Liaoshen area. These rivers had seasonal shipping. During the dry season of autumn and winter, it was impossible to enter. The waterways were shallow and narrow. They could only use flat-bottomed boats to transport goods in the spring and summer.
The Hun River ferry in Fushun was about six hundred miles from Liaodong Bay. If the wind and the water went smoothly, they could go to the sea from Yingkou's Great Liao River in three days. But it was difficult to go back. Because the river was narrow, it was difficult to borrow the wind. They had to rely on manpower to pull the rope. This speed was very slow. If they could come back in half a month, they would have to burn incense.
This was only at the mouth of the sea. It was not easy to go to Lüshun after leaving the sea. Lüshun belonged to the Jinzhou Guards. It was not a small place. It had a master. Among the four guards of Liaodong, the Jinzhou Guards had the largest population and the strongest power. Lüshun had its own navy. Although they were all broken ships, Zhou Qingfeng did not even have a broken ship.
From Yingkou to Lüshun, they had to be careful of all kinds of pirates along the way. The fishermen on the sea, the officers and soldiers of the guards, and even the peddlers on the sea could be turned into pirates at any time to rob. After robbing, they would run away and throw the corpses into the sea. There was no place to investigate. Many of the islands along the way were extremely barren. Robbing became the only way for the islanders to survive.
From Wu Bao 'er, he found out that there were hundreds of forces on the sea in Liaodong Bay. The small ones were a fishing boat. The big ones were simply the Ming Army's navy that came out to rob. From the perspective of transportation, the road was very convenient. But from the perspective of occupying territory, it was not easy.
"Why do you have to go to Lüshun?" Guo Jiao came on her father's behalf. Guo Buyi no longer raised his daughter like a flower in a greenhouse. He let her go out to socialize with all kinds of people and handle affairs. Zhou Qingfeng wanted to move. Guo Buyi also wanted to move. But he was a great cultivator. He wanted to move to the direction of the capital. "Why don't you follow my father to the capital or to Jiangnan?"
"Because Lüshun is easy to defend and hard to attack." Zhou Qingfeng did not explain in detail. But he was very clear about the geographical environment of Lüshun. With the Jinzhou Isthmus, it was difficult to surround Lüshun by land. Moreover, because of the extension of the Liaodong Fold Geological Belt in the Liaodong Peninsula, the enemy from the north could only attack from the east and west of the peninsula along the coast.
If Nurhachi wanted to attack Lüshun, he would either come from the east direction of Dandong or from the west direction of Gaizhou. These two routes were not easy to take. As long as Zhou Qingfeng resisted from the front and used the navy to intercept from the back, Kennu would not be able to carry out large-scale movements. They would be blocked inside the Liaodong Peninsula.
"We will think of a way to transport people and supplies to the camp entrance of the Liao River. Then we will collect enough ships to transport to Lüshun." Zhou Qingfeng's plan was divided into two steps. It was easy at first and difficult at the end.
"But we will need a lot of ships to leave Fushun now. If we come from the sea against the current, it will take half a month for each ship to pull the fiber. We will be seriously short of capacity. "Xu Bing asked.
Zhou Qingfeng said, "The Hun River and the Liao River are flat. We don't need too much driving skills to cross them." He thought of the way he escaped from Kulun and said, "We can build some large rafts that can be used once. It won't require much manpower, and it won't cost much. It will also be fast going down the river. The disadvantage is that the capacity of a raft is relatively small, so we need a lot of them.
Also, we need to build a camp in the direction of the camp entrance. This camp can't be too small. Once there is a war in Liaodong, there will be a lot of refugees fleeing. This camp may be prepared to accommodate tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people. We will try to organize these people to enter the Liaodong Peninsula. In the future, these people can be our human resources and objects of domination. "
"Hundreds of thousands of people? How will you feed them? "Guo Jiao was quite surprised.
"I don't know. Let's take one step at a time. "Zhou Qingfeng shook his head and could only sigh. According to historical records, after Nurhachi began to attack Daming, the Liaodong region, as the main battlefield, suffered extremely serious damage. More than a million people had died here. He didn't have the ability to bear the burden of such a large population, and he couldn't manage it well.
In a chaotic world of war, death was inevitable.
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