Chapter 122 Voyage
At the end of September, Yizhou is lukewarm and very comfortable. Children are not as colorful as adults, Wen Hao, Wen Zhe and Wen Qing play together in a few days. A piece of grass was opened in the backyard of Wen's house, and the three children were chasing a balloon with great enthusiasm.
Yelu Nanxian sat on the grass, looking at the playful children, and couldn't help but think about what happened these days, thinking: "As the royal family of the Great Liao Dynasty, I have seen the world. However, after I came here, I even found the wrong place even if I urinated. It's really a shame."
"Sister, what do you want to eat at noon?" Wang Xiu came out of the house and asked.
"Uh, whatever you want. By the way, will the national master come back to eat too?" Yelu Nanxian responded carefully, afraid of making a fool of himself again.
"I said sister, you don't want to be a national teacher, but the national teacher's name is called. You should call me husband now. He is busy, so we don't have to worry about him, we can eat our own." Wang Xiu laughed.
Yelu Nanxian was stunned and smiled and said, "What the girl said is that it may be difficult for me to correct it. By the way, is my husband very busy?"
"That's not. Sometimes there are no people in the past few months, but you don't have to worry about him. My husband is very capable."
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After more than a month of training, the Dingyuan was finally able to go out to sea. On this day, Liu Xianghai, Li Deqing and others stood at the dock, watching the huge Dingyuan gradually disappear from sight.
"Uncle Liu, the ship you built is really big. I have never seen such a big ship before." Liu Deqing worshiped.
Liu Xianghai laughed and changed the topic: "Deqing, you are not bad either. You can be in charge of a workshop at a young age and produce some strange things. Just now, you asked the boss to buy more sulfur. What is the sulfur used for?"
"It can be used to produce sulfuric acid, and this sulfuric acid is of great use. Textile factories, steel factories and many other places need this thing." Li Deqing looked at Liu Xianghai's confused eyes, "Okay, I won't say it anymore, I don't know if I say it. It's the boss's right thing, it's like a mountain."
On the Dingyuan, Wen Shen and several generals were drinking beer and eating pickled chicken feet. After learning that Wen Shen was about to go to sea, Wang Chao and others insisted on following him. The ship was so big, and there were people stationed in Yizhou. In the end, Wang Chao and Ma Han each brought fifty people to the sea with Wen Shen. In addition, the original one hundred soldiers and fifty sailors, a total of two hundred and fifty people were 250 people.
"Commission, where are we going this time?" Wang Chao took a sip of beer and said excitedly.
"This time we are targeting Japan."
"I have heard of Japan. During the Tang Dynasty, people were often sent to Central Plains to study. Nowadays, many merchant ships went to Japan to do business, and it is said that they made a lot of money." Ma Han showed off.
"That's right, there are more than a dozen merchant ships behind us, and we are also planning to go to Japan to do business." The Dynasty continued.
"Okay, let's not talk about this first, let's drink."
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After half a month of sailing, a large island appeared in front of me. Through the map, I learned that this island was the famous Jeju Island in later generations. On the deck, Wenshen looked at the island through a telescope, and praised in his heart: "I used to know that Jeju Island has the best pasture in Asia. Now, it is true that it is well-known."
"National Master, this island was originally the Danluo Kingdom. It was occupied by the Goryeo Kingdom a few years ago. There are good pastures on the island, and the horses in the Goryeo Kingdom are now raised here." An old sailor thought Wenshen didn't know about this island, so he introduced.
"Good place. I think this place can be used as a transfer station for us." Wenshen said intentionally or unintentionally.
The Dynasty turned his eyes and said loudly: "It's so unauthentic to Goryeo occupy other countries for no reason. I think we should help the people of Tara rebuild their homes."
"Yes, I believe that as the Supreme Kingdom of the Celestial Empire, we must uphold justice for the Danluo people. I think we will go to the island now and destroy the Goryeo army." Ma Han said in accordance with the instructions.
"Well, you are very reasonable. Break up and go to the island." Wenshen smiled knowingly and said loudly.
Half an hour later, Wenshen brought all 200 soldiers armed to the island. Several Goryeo officials who received the news came to the distance not far ahead of everyone, with more than 100 soldiers riding horses.
One of the thin and long bearded officials shouted loudly in Song dialect: "This is the Goryeo territory, who are you?"
The main reason why this person uses Song dialect is that Song dialect was the common language in East Asia in this era, which is better than the current English. At this time, Liao, Goryeo, and Japan basically had no own writings, and they all used Chinese characters.
"This is the national teacher of the Song Dynasty." After introducing Wen Shen, the Dynasty then said sternly: "Isn't this Danluo Kingdom? When will it become your Goryeo territory? From now on, the Song Dynasty will be accepted by this island and rebuild the Danluo Kingdom."
As soon as the words were finished, several Goryeo officials in the lead were in a commotion. After a long time of silence, the previous official shouted: "When you are wearing strange clothes, you must not be the army of the Song Dynasty. Tell me what it is. If you don't say a word, don't blame me for being ruthless."
Hearing the Goryeo official say this, Wang Chao was so angry that he smoked his five orifices and shouted, "I think you are seeking death." Then he turned to look at Wen Shen, "Class, do you want to destroy them?"
Before Wenshen could speak, he saw the Goryeo army holding a long sword and rushing towards him. He suddenly felt annoyed and said coldly: "Destroy them."
"Dadada..."
After a burst of shooting, more than a hundred Koreans were shot to the ground without any suspense.
Several of the Goryeo officials in the rear were also hit by stray bullets, fell off the horse, twitched a few times, and then remained motionless. In the end, only two people were left lucky to fall off the horse's back, not hit by stray bullets, but just held their heads and lay on the ground trembling. When Wenshen and others came to their side, they did not notice it.
The dynasty stepped forward and kicked one of them over to the ground. The man realized that he had become a prisoner. When he saw the tragic situation of flesh and blood flying in the distance, he hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed to mercy: "Teacher, please spare me, please spare me..."
"Apart from you, are there any other Korean troops on the island? In addition, let's briefly introduce the situation on the island."
"There are more than 60,000 people on the island and more than 1,000 troops. They mainly make a living by fishing and picking beads, and some raise horses for Goryeo." The man told everything he knew about like beans.
Under the guidance of this person, Wenshen and others blocked the Goryeo troops in the only city on the island. After a round of shelling with mortars, they opened the door and surrendered.
In order to facilitate management, I found a prince of the Danluo Kingdom. Although the Danluo Kingdom had been destroyed by Goryeo for more than ten years, the prince still had a certain influence in the past. Finally, with Wenshen's strong support, he organized a team of 2,000 people. In addition to seizing the Goryeo army, Wenshen gave him another 500 steel knives.
Before leaving, Wen Shenyu said earnestly: "Luo Lizheng, I will hand over this island to you for management now. If any mistake occurs, the consequences will be very serious."
Luo Lizheng was the prince of Danluo. When he remembered the shelling scene that day, he trembled all over and leaned down and replied: "The young one must live up to the love of the national teacher."
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The Dingyuan continued to sail eastward and then headed northward. In less than half a month, it arrived at Osaka, the most important port city of Japan. At this time, there were two or three hundred ships of all sizes parked at the port, most of which were Dasong ships. When the Dingyuan slowly entered the port, its huge hull still caused a commotion. The merchants around were watching and guessing the origin of the ship.
After the ship stopped, Wenshen and others got ashore. Some of the merchants recognized that the person was the Yizhou National Division Corps swept across the northwest, so they stepped forward one after another to pay tribute.
Wen Shen looked at the businessman who was not breathing in front of him and smiled: "Everyone is from the Song Dynasty, so you don't have to be so polite when you are outside."
Seeing that Wen Shen was so easy to talk, the atmosphere immediately became much more relaxed. A businessman in his forties, with a white and fat look in his white clothes, bowed and said, "What's better than the so-called national teacher coming from afar? I've been doing business in Japan for some time, so I might be able to help you."
"There are two purposes this time. The first is to acquire a mineral. I call it sulfur, but I don't know what it is called in Japan." As he said that, he took out a piece of sulfur from there and handed it to the fat white merchant. "It's this kind of thing. I heard that there are quite a lot of it in Japan."
The fat white merchant took the sulfur and looked carefully, and said in surprise: "I have seen this thing. There are such things near many hot springs. It is also called sulfur here. I wonder what price the national teacher plans to buy it?"
"One penny per pound." Wen Shen thought for a while and replied.
"Really?" Seven or eight businessmen spoke in unison, thinking in their minds: "This thing is everywhere in many places, and it's too easy to buy more than 100,000 kilograms a day."
"If you can exercise Yizhou, the price can double." Wenshen continued to stimulate.
"Okay, okay, okay... we did this business." The fat white businessman shouted hurriedly, thinking: "Whoever doesn't do such a good thing is a fool."
It turned out that at this time, the merchants of the Song Dynasty usually came to Japan with silk porcelain and then carried gold and silver back to the Song Dynasty. It was not that the merchants did not want to buy goods in Japan and sell them, but that Japan really had nothing to do. In order to stabilize the ship, they had to load more than 100,000 kilograms of stone to press the ship. If they could carry sulfur and sell them now, it would basically be pure profit.
Wen Shen smiled and continued: "My second purpose is to see how the ship is sailing. It looks pretty good after driving during this period."
The fat white businessman smiled and said, "I'm not boasting. There are not ten thousand ships I've seen but one thousand, but this is the first time I've seen such a big ship. I wonder which manufacturer made this ship?"
Chapter completed!