Lu Ming

In the formerly barren Yingzui Bay, there are now seven large and small Chinese ships moored.Among them are two lucky boats that originally belonged to the Xie family, four sand fleets from the crossing forces, and the last one is of course the Debang.

After the Debon robbed the lucky boat that day, on March 31, the 100 sailors on board were divided into three groups. First, they threw the corpses into the sea hastily, and then the fleet sailed back to Yingzui Bay.After resting in Yingzui Bay for half a month, the Zhatian gangsters waited until the sand boat transport team came to join.

"Second Master, it's easy to grab, it's not bad, it's hard work!" Wang Xiaohui, the chubby fleet commander in blue training uniform, is standing on the bow of the Debang at the moment, vigorously patting the second master on the shoulder, and using the time traveler Unique gestures express joy.

... These two blessing boats can be said to be a timely gift to the transmigration forces that are rushing to transport people.Wang Xiaohui's fleet returned this time, and the cabin was full of people, and there was no place to put groceries in.The raw silk, silk and satin in the blessing boat, as well as many Suzhou and Hangzhou groceries, are the trade materials urgently needed by the officials.

"My lord, thank you. This battle is all due to the ingenuity of the magic weapon of the upper realm. The brothers contributed their efforts. Chen Er dare not take credit for it."

"Haha, you're still modest, Second Master, isn't this your style?" Wang Xiaohui joked about Chen Second Master with a smile.To say that among the Ming people who traveled through the world, Chen Erye can be regarded as one of the most popular aborigines: with exaggerated appearance, bold personality, and straightforward behavior, Erye really fits the expectations of ancient times in many people's minds. The impression of a hero in the rivers and lakes can be called the spokesperson of a generation of heroes.

This is also the reason why the second master is so popular, and now the honorary title of "second master" has even become a simple nickname among the cross-travelers.

However, Erye changed his style today, and seemed determined to be humble: Comrade Ma Liu was pushed to the fore in time.After introducing the merits of a certain donkey-faced comrade, the second master asked Ma Liu to carry the bullet casings and go to Commander Wang to change the magazines.

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Handover action is very fast.The sand fleet arrived at Yingzui Bay in the evening, and the Debon had already transferred some coarse salt from the Fuchuan before that. In addition, all the two Fuchuan, including the cargo, have now been handed over to the Shachuan The team took over.

The Debon not only handed over the lucky boat, but also took some of its own staff: a dozen young people who passed the examination were sent to the sandship. These people will receive training in the future and become sailors, workers, or navy.

Night fell quickly, and in Yingzui Bay, except for the two blessing boats and people carrying oil lamps to check the condition of the boats, the rest of the boats were quiet.

On the largest sand ship in the harbor, Chen Huoding was sitting in the stern cabin full of instruments, chatting with Wang Xiaohui after dinner.

"Here, I'll fill it up for you." In the cabin glowing with bright white solar lights, Wang Xiaohui picked his teeth and put a Wahaha bottle in front of Chen Huoding: "Save it up. The production of peppers is small now. In the second half of the year, there will be a bottle of Wahaha." Should be better."

"Thank you, Brother Wang!" Second Master Chen was a little embarrassed at this moment.

"Brothers of the same system, thank you for what? Don't forget, the Debang is now under the joint management of the Navy and the Intelligence Bureau, and you are also a member of our navy." Wang Xiaohui took out a box of Hei Lanzhou at this time, feeling a little heartbroken. The second master gave way, seeing the second master waved his hand, he quickly put away the cigarette case, only lit one for himself, and smoked beautifully.

"Are there any difficulties recently? If you have any, just tell me."

"All good, all good."

"Huh? Why do you feel like you're sluggish today?" Wang Xiaohui finally found out that the second master's attitude was wrong today: from the moment we met, he didn't speak loudly, nor clamored to play with guns and knives. Instead, he was as shy as a little girl. Woke up?

"Just... just want to watch some more movies." Chen Huoding said with a smile at this moment.

"Movie? Hehe, I wanted to watch a movie. I told you earlier, it was so mysterious." At this point, Wang Xiaohui got up and opened the notebook on the table. After clicking the mouse, he turned to the notebook screen: "Well, It’s all what you like, play ten discs in a row, watch it slowly.”

After finishing speaking, Wang Xiaohui patted Chen Erye on the shoulder, turned around and left the hatch.

Chen Huoding began to concentrate on watching the video.

...Although it is not the first time to watch a "movie", every time he sits in front of the screen, the images transmitted by the advanced electronic audio-visual technology of later generations still deeply shock this 17th-century man.

A row of steel battleships as huge as a city were sailing on the turbulent sea, and soldiers in white jackets were like ants on the steel city.Immediately afterwards, the cannonballs were fired from the thick barrel, the flames gushed out from the muzzle, and the camera flew out following the cannonballs. The distant city quickly zoomed in on the screen. The next moment, the cannonballs exploded, with flames, roars, and flying houses... The huge crater left after the smoke cleared.

Chen Huoding knew that everything on the screen was true: this was a war between the kingdoms of Kunlun Immortal Palace.

He also knew that all the time-traversing people, including Wang Xiaohui, came from these vassal states. They were selected by the immortals and sent to the lower realm to assist Daoist Cao.

The screen changed, and this time it was a land battle.Countless cannons glowing blue were roaring, and densely packed soldiers began to charge while shouting.The heavy machine guns that Chen Huoding had coveted for a long time, but had never been able to fire a single bullet, filled the entire screen at this moment, and they spewed out long tongues of flame, sweeping down the brave soldiers in pieces.

Although he knew the ending a long time ago, whenever he saw this scene, he still held his palm tightly.

The screen turned again.

This time it's not a war, but a parade: parade exercises in the upper realm.

The second master has rich experience in reading and practicing.

As a hereditary military household of Dinghaiwei, Chen Erye has been a member of the "army" of the guard since he was 15 years old.That is to say, during the days when Erye was in the guards, he still had to practice every now and then. Occasionally, when he encountered a Shangguan reviewing exercises, Erye would go to the school grounds with a spear and axe, and a group of soldiers who were also dressed in rags Let the households stand together for an hour so that they can receive a few rewards afterwards.

However, the reading exercises in the fairy world completely subverted the concept of the second master.

Soldiers in beautiful clothes and shiny leather boots lined up neatly like knives, with silvery spear stabs slashing down, and the phalanx walked through the screen one by one majesticly...

The second master knows that all the things he saw on the screen will eventually appear in Daming one by one in the future: Cao Zhenren and those heavenly and earth demons who assist him in the lower realm are copying them bit by bit from the tiny place of Dayuan Island Terrible weapons and soldiers, when everything is ready one day, troops will be sent to rob the country.

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Chen Huoding watched the film that night until dawn.

Chapter 175

In the early morning of the next day, the sand fleet that had rested overnight in Yingzui Bay hurriedly set sail.In this queue, there are two more lucky boats.

After the Deppon parted ways with the fleet, a person who watched the film all night just said in a muffled voice: "Go back to the port." Then he went back to the cabin and went to sleep.

The rest raised their sails and anchored, and headed west along Zhoushan.The Debang, which had put away the flag of the pirates, was just a very inconspicuous sand ship. At noon the next day, the wooden ship quietly slipped into Hangzhou Bay.

Naturally, it is impossible for a pirate ship to stop at the gate of Tangzhuang without any scruples, so the Debon's berth is a private port in Haining County.This private port is only twenty or thirty miles away from Tangzhuang by water, and it is the usual landing place of the Debang.

After stopping the boat and settling down, half of the people went to Haining County to do health care as soon as they were rewarded with money.And Chen Huoding and Ma Liu went to Moyun Temple in a small boat. After finding Master Lu, the two sides immediately delivered the black wooden box, and then the second master left Ma Liu to report to the leader alone. Youyou wandered around, and accidentally wandered to Tangzhuang.

Turning around in Tangzhuang, dawdling until the market was off work, the second master slowly boarded an awning boat, and arrived at Wuxian Temple outside Hangzhou in the evening.

Hearing that his second younger brother had arrived, Zhou Tong was overjoyed, and hurried out from the apse to greet him, grabbed the hand of Second Master Chen, who had an obviously different expression, and laughed loudly: "Killing chickens, cutting meat, today you and my brother are going to get drunk." Fang Xiu!"

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By the time the food and wine were prepared, the sky was already dark.At this time, Zhou Tong had already realized that something was wrong with someone, so he waved away the accompanying guest, and after closing the door, the leader asked in a harmonious voice: "Second brother, what's on your mind?"

Chen Huoding's face was full of confusion, and his tiger eyes were full of apology. Hearing the elder brother's question, the second master could no longer hide it. After a "plop", the second master knelt down in front of Zhou Tong: "Brother, Chen Huoding is unfaithful and unrighteous, he will abandon his eldest brother today!"

"Huo Ding, what are you doing?" Zhou Tong was shocked when he heard this.

"Brother, Huo Ding wants to go to the army to join the army, and fight for wealth with one knife and one gun!"

"Oh!" Zhou Tong slapped his thigh when he heard this: "I knew it would be today!"

"You are born with an uneasy temper, who doesn't know?" Zhou Tong squatted down and took Chen Huoding's arm: "Good brother, it's a good thing that you quit the team and quit. How can big brother hinder your future?"

"Brother, it's always better to be a pig than a dog!"

"Well, Pingfengzhai has been scattered since the day we went down the mountain. Fortunately, brothers now have a way out, Huo Ding, you go to fight for the future, big brother only has joy in his heart, don't act like a child again !"

Having said this, Zhou Tong helped Chen Huoding up, then thought for a while and said: "Nowadays, it's no different than in the past. We follow the rules of the upper realm in every move, and we must not make it public."

"Well, just follow me to kowtow in front of the old village master's spiritual seat. Huo Ding, you were taken in by the old man back then, so you have to say hello anyway."

When Chen Huoding heard this, he couldn't help crying.

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Early the next morning, a large number of Beggar Clan experts escorted Zhou Tong and Chen Huoding to Moyun Temple.

After seeing Master Lu, Zhou Tong explained the whole story to Master Lu, and then solemnly testified to Master: Chen Huoding officially resigned from the Shanzhai labor service company last night. contractual dispute.

Now, let the master take over this product.

After Lu Cheng listened to it, he was surprised at first, but he didn't understand the cause and effect until he questioned Chen Er in detail.

Well, Master Lu is in the same boat this time, he has already decided to cut off his retreat, and resigned from the original company. Naturally, the Time Travel Group can't reject talents, can it? What was the most expensive in the 17th century? ...Talent!

So Chen Erye stayed in Moyun Temple for the time being.As for your identity, you have changed from an externally hired senior captain to the lowest-ranking receptionist in the company's reception room—no way, who told you to change jobs, everyone is equal in the new company, let's start from scratch...

And Comrade Ma Liu with a donkey face, after this incident, also took over the throne of the captain of the Debang as he wished.

As for Chen Erye's final destination... After referring to his own opinions, Lu Cheng sent a telegram to the senior officials and told Chen Huoding a few days later: Considering Comrade Chen Huoding's achievements in the past, the military He has agreed to accept Chen Huoding to participate in recruit training, and has given the second master a privilege: he can freely choose the type of arms.

There is no such thing as free registration in the current mode of joining the army for senior officers: all people who enter the army will be forced to be placed in a certain job according to the files established when they were in Moyunguan.Unless this person shows some specialties in the future, he will not change the type of work.

As for the special talent like Chen Erye, while telling him the good news, Master Lu also implicitly recommended the Marine Corps to Chen Erye: a small administrative hint.

... The big office has been sparing no effort to support his son since the day the Marine Corps was established, and Lu Cheng's intelligence system, as the number one dogleg department under the big office, will naturally do some things in places that are inconvenient to explain clearly. Some "little" extra work.

In this way, Chen Huoding entered the military and political system of the traversing forces and became an ignorant pawn.After that, the second master stayed in Moyunguan. In order to express his "rebirth", the second master also shaved off his long hair and beard. The vicissitudes of the past concealed the second master's real age. Until this moment, he revealed his true face. Only then did people realize that Chen Huoding was only a 25-year-old young man.

Not long after, Chen Huoding boarded the sand boat fleet going to Dayuan on a dark night.

After drifting at sea for more than half a month, Chen Huoding arrived at the legendary Dayuan Island on May 1628, 5.

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As soon as Pu entered the Dayuan channel, he passed by the fleet and the "Haidilao No. [-]" which was dredging with a large shovel, shocked the second master.

Fortunately, Second Master is also a man who has watched movies all night, and he is somewhat immune to large machinery, which makes the former copycat boys who stood aside early and waited to see Second Master's jokes not proud...

After several months of dredging, the current navigation conditions of the Dayuan Channel have been greatly improved: the water depth of the South Channel, which was originally used for ships to enter and exit, has reached 5.5 meters. This depth can guarantee the passage of large Fuchuan and medium-sized Galen ships fully loaded.

Now Haidilao-[-] is clearing the sandbar between the north and south waterways. After completion, the waterway can be changed from a single lane to a double lane.

Er Ye greedily looked at the scenery of Dayuan Island along the way: the huge pier made of red bricks, the red castle under construction in the distance, and some streamlined boats with white soft sails flying from the boat like sharp arrows. The team passed by.

The fleet goes deep into the Taijiang River, and you can see that in the Chikan New District on the opposite bank, patches of red walls are getting closer and closer, exposing rows of bamboo and wood roofs in the community.Camphor trees as thick as washbasins are standing beside the road. These transplanted plants have passed the adaptation period and are continuously extending along the road of the community.

The fleet quickly sailed across the Taijiang River, which is only 5 kilometers wide.

With the maturity of the concrete technology, the first concrete gravity wharf on the Taijiang River has just been put into use in the Chikan wharf area not long ago.

Due to the lack of raw materials, all of Dayuan’s wharves were wooden pile structures with low bearing capacity, fragile components, and difficult to repair after damage.

After enough soil and cement was produced in the kiln area, a gravity wharf equipped with wood gas cranes and specially used to dock cargo ships officially started.A large number of workers have been busy for two full months on the banks of the Taijiang River: First, dig out the cofferdam, then arrange the foundation, then use concrete to build a thick outer wall inside the cofferdam, and finally fill the inner space with boulders—due to the lack of steel reinforcement , so the entire pier is filled with concrete and stones.

No cargo ships came to Chikan today, so the trapezoidal wharf, which is a full 100 meters deep into the Taijiang River, easily accommodated four sandships.

The port administration and reception personnel from various communities, who had long been proficient in immigration work, had already gathered at the dock in large numbers, waiting for the newcomers to disembark.

When the wobbly and dejected immigrants climbed out of the cabin, they were first greeted by the scorching sun of the subtropical island, followed by the bustling Chikan Pier; There are also waterfowls perched on the truss above their heads... Occasionally, a small fish from the Taijiang River will fall out of their mouths, and most of the time, they will drop a fish and land on people's heads...

More than 1000 newcomers stepped on the stone steps to the pier one after another.They had already learned to line up in Moyunguan, and soon they walked towards the community group by group, led by a person holding a short stick and blowing a whistle.They will receive rest and adjustment there, and according to their physical recovery, generally speaking, after 3-7 days, all of them will start working in their new positions.

Naturally, Chen Huoding would not go to the community with this group of people to wait for distribution. His receiving unit was different from this group of people - the new barracks in the Dayuan Commercial Hall.

More than an hour later, the most important "cargo" on the four sand ships had been unloaded, and Chen Huoding finally boarded a small boat, crossed the Taijiang River again, and came to the large red pier he had just seen carefully. on the island.

On the wooden pier of Dayuan Island, several old friends were already waiting for Second Master.

The most familiar to the second master is the wild abbot Wei Yuan, who is 1 meters tall, a mercenary, and once Moyunguan.You know, Wei Yuan was detained in the back garden of Tangzhuang and was not allowed to go out in the days when he just crossed, and during those boring days, Wei Yuan could only play with guns every day and also be the firearms instructor of the time travelers. .

It was at that time that Chen Erye stayed in Tangzhuang every day - he was beaten and scolded every day, in order to learn how to make a three-point line, in order to shoot a pistol bullet, the dwarf Erye didn't know how many times he was pushed by the giant, so he said it all tears...

Chapter 176 The Great Enemy Zheng Zhilong

Those who came to pick up people at the pier were not only Wei Yuan who belonged to the army, but also Du Dewei, the deputy commander of the Marine Corps.

Du Dewei, the remnant of the South American guerrillas, traveled relatively late, so he didn't know Chen Huoding.But it doesn't matter, Du Dewei, who already has a certainty in his heart, just shook hands with Chen Erye with a smile on his face, and finished with a few introductions.

Chen Erye is confused about the division of arms within the army.Fortunately, before he set off from Hangzhou, he had been hinted and suggested by Lu Cheng, so now he probably knows that Du Dewei is in charge of the elite leaders of "Testing horses, not accepting them at night", and is the leader of the army.

The helpless Chen Erye can only take one step at a time.It was not his wish to be forced to participate in these internal factional struggles before he became a leader.Naturally, there was a recruiting training camp that no one could escape: Er Ye, who was picking up the boards, was quickly assigned to the newly built barracks on Dayuan Island, where he silently packed up his bed, surrounded by recruit instructors who read out the regulations aloud—— An old man from Pingfengzhai, Er Ye's current immediate boss.

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Those who went to Dayuan Wharf to pick up the ship that day also included two navy personnel.Of course, with so many soldiers coming to the pier, it couldn't be because of Chen Huoding, a new recruit... The second master was just a pistachio for everyone to see and make fun of.The real intention of these people coming to the pier was to meet Wang Xiaohui: Three days ago, when this gentleman was still floating at sea, he had already been appointed as the naval representative of the "Zhengfeng" project.

So, today's occasion is a little bit depressing. In fact, the atmosphere on Dayuan Island has been quite tense recently.Of course, Chen Erye, an outsider who came to Dayuan for the first time, couldn't feel it.

It is now May of 1628.The most important foreign work of the time-traveling forces this year: the elimination of Zheng Zhilong's gang is already in the formal implementation stage.

Since Xiong Wencan entered Fujian, the cross-country people who have been paying close attention to the situation in the Fujian Sea have held two enlarged meetings and one special meeting based on the information sent back by expatriates.This number is unique in the short history of the time-traveling forces.

The current situation is: the representative of Dayuandao stationed in Fuzhou has successfully interviewed Xiong Wencan many times.In addition to presenting a large number of treasures, the representative expressed the urgency of the Huawai people to serve the country loyally.

The above actions, together with the "consultant plan" of a popular praise painting "out of public interest" in the governor's yamen, have successfully made Xiong Wencan make a strategic judgment: give priority to interviewing the leader of the gang: Cao Chuan.If everything goes well after that, Xiong Wencan plans to formally appease the big officials and give support to Cao Chuan's government to suppress all pirates including Zheng Zhilong.

Although the old bear is still in a wait-and-see state and has not completely turned to the big staff, but this result is enough to make everyone in the big office excited-this is normal, and the old bear has no choice in history. Now that there is one more senior member to help, the old bear will naturally be up for grabs.

You know, Xiong Wencan in history left Beijing with the acquiescence of the court to appease Zheng Zhilong.Not long after Lao Xiong arrived in Fujian, he started to appease Zheng Zhilong. The process went smoothly, and there were no necessary items for the government to appease bandits: repeated coming and going, bargaining, ambush and trapping—here you can get a glimpse of Lao Xiong Sincerity, and the weakness of the Ming Empire under the powerful appearance.

It is not easy for the transmigration forces to obtain such a slot priority, which is the result of foresight + long-term layout.

Xiong Wencan's news was sent from the radio station of the Fuzhou Intelligence Station three days before Chen Huoding arrived as a port officer.

After getting the news, Xia Xianze immediately called an emergency meeting.

The first thing that was decided at the meeting was the official establishment of the implementation team of the "Zhengfeng" plan aimed at eliminating Zheng Zhilong.The team leader was Dai Yun, director of the Intelligence Bureau, and people including the navy, army and marines were sent to participate.

The second thing that was decided at the meeting was to quickly respond to Lao Xiong's proposition: in the near future, "Mr. Cao" will be sent to Fuzhou to meet with Lao Xiong, and strive to be formally recruited as soon as possible.

At the end of the meeting, the big office ordered the newly released "Zhengfeng" team to come up with a specific plan to eliminate Zheng Zhilong as soon as possible based on the previous plan and the latest information.

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As early as the moment when Xiong Wencan stopped by Hangzhou and Xiong Dao approached him to surrender, the officials had deduced the current situation.

The best result that the crossing forces hope to achieve is: Xiong Wencan recruits a member of the crossing forces to launch a "violent general" and confers on this person the official position of a guerrilla general. Pirate power.

This model is conducive to the future when a certain force wins the world and throws the blame: it is XX who is recruited, not Cao Chuan who is recruited... Although this is deceitful, but at least it can be a little smeared in the history books.

Everyone has already planned for the result of the next file: Lao Xiong ignored the so-called fierce brother's suggestion, but went straight to the point, and wanted to recruit Cao Chuan, the leader of the pirates.