Danyang had been martial law for three days. During these three days, a large number of suspicious elements were sent to prison. Most of these people were indeed Xiling's secret spies and spies, but there were also slippers who usually committed crimes but did not have clear evidence. In these three days, the bell tower started construction again. After being tossed like this, the originally semi-open construction site finally began to be strictly managed. Although it was not easy to build a circle of simple walls outside the construction site to isolate the crowd in this era, because there were basically no light construction materials. However, a circle of rammed earth walls were still built.

After the construction site resumed work, Ye Tao was finally able to take leave from Danyang and go to Yicheng. This time, in addition to Dai Qiuyan and Sophie, the ones who were passing by him unexpectedly added Tan Weiran and Tan Weishi. The prince and the princess dressed up as ordinary rich children and mixed in the convoy. Naturally, in this situation, a large number of guards were indispensable to leaving Danyang. Ye Tao, who was originally preparing to take a light car, had to follow a string of tails, and a team of more than 300 people set out towards Yicheng.

Ye Tao never expected that the change brought to Yicheng by the bell tower was so great. After a period of steady and slow operation, the Qihai Tower had become the standard for the living rules of the people in Yicheng.

Every morning, the bells awaken the city, and many people start a new day with the ringing of the bells in the morning. The docks start loading and unloading, and many people start to go to the streets to buy, start working in the merchants and workshops they work in, and the branches start to work in the military camps in various parts of Yicheng.

At noon, when everyone hears the bell, they will put down their work, have lunch, and have some rest during the most sleepy time of the day.

When an hour passes, the bell will naturally remind everyone. There are still a few hours of work to do this day.

At dusk, the ringing bell was a signal for the officials working in various yamen to get off work. At the same time, as the officials finished their day's work, the loading and unloading and counting on the dock also stopped. Except for those particularly urgent goods that were still loading and unloading, the minor officials who worked overtime were yawning while recording on the notebook in their hands.

At night, the bell will remind some people who are going to work tomorrow that they should have a rest. Each one is the backbone of a family landlord. And everyone's rest will bring the whole family into silence...

On the day he arrived in Yicheng, Ye Tao and his group realized this. Living in a comfortable and pleasant house in Chun Nuan, Tan Weishi and Tan Weiran both understood why Tan Weixin was obsessed with this not-so-gorgeous place.

But they did not stay in Yicheng for too long. Qi Zhentao's men came to inform them that day that Mr. Qi was not in Yicheng, but on Crescent Island, a day voyage from Yicheng.

Crescent Island was the place where Mr. Qi once regarded as his old nest as a pirate before he became a maritime merchant. Although he was surprised that this place was re-activated. Ye Tao could understand it somewhat. He was determined to fight the maritime merchants in Chunnan to the end, and he would inevitably organize a combat-capable fleet. This fleet was placed in Yichenggang? Obviously it was impossible.

For Ye Tao, this is just an extra two-day journey to travel together, but for Tan Weishi and Tan Weiran who came to Yicheng to play, they were not as good as Ye Tao as the old man in the Qi family.

After receiving the news, Ye Tao was busy packing his luggage. Because he had too many things on the ground, Tan Weiran and Tan Weishi had not even had time to take off their packages.

"I'm so embarrassed. I promised Mr. Qi to help him. If you think it's inconvenient, just visit Yicheng? Governor Peng will definitely be happy to entertain you..." Ye Tao said to Tan Weishi and Tan Weiran embarrassedly.

Tan Weishiheng glanced at him and said, "Just kidding, if we don't go with you, then what should we do to Yicheng?"

Tan Weiran laughed, patted Ye Tao's shoulder, and said enthusiastically: "Brother-in-law, I haven't made a sea boat yet. Is it fun?"

Ye Tao smiled and said, "I don't know if you are seasick. If you are not seasick, it will be fun. If you are seasick... then I don't know. However, when you go to Crescent Island, you can't bring so many things, and you can't bring so many people."

Tan Weiran nodded understandingly and said, "No problem, I'll have someone to arrange this."

Although Tan Weiran is careless, he can handle these daily things. He is really skillful. In less than two hours, he selected twenty-four people from the two guards, plus six people serving their daily lives. He streamlined thirty people from the huge team, and followed them closely on the land ship arranged by Mr. Qi early tomorrow morning to join Ye Tao and others. As for the others, as Tan Weiran's identity, he could easily borrow two warships from Min Yue, the governor of the Yicheng Navy. When Min Yue heard that the prince and the prince were sailing to Crescent Island with Ye Tao, he was very interested in seeing what Qi Zhentao had done his original lair to manage. Sending two warships to escort was simply simple.

As for the things that Tan Weishi and Tan Weiran brought, except for the daily use and useless things, they were all left in Chun Nuanju. On the day they stayed in Yicheng, they both fell in love with Chun Nuanju, just like Tan Weixin at the time, especially the suite built on a tranquil room on a huge rock and the self-contained unit on the top of the mountain to see all kinds of scenery.

For those who took a boat to the sea for the first time, excitement cannot prevent them from seasickness. Ye Tao had been following Mr. Qi's boat many times, and he was used to it. The closest activity of the prince and the princess to water was to raft in a lake near Danyang and blow the wind. When the boat was still sailing near Yichenggang and could still see the ground, the prince and the princess could still excitedly point out the flying seagulls, comment on the endless sea view, and have breakfast with the rippling light. By the time the land had already run out of sight, the ocean currents and sea breezes still made this era count

When the ship of the giant ship was rising and falling, Tan Weiran was still fine. She lay generously on the side of the ship and vomited cleanly, then she continued to blow the sea breeze, trying to familiarize herself with this feeling. Tan Weishi was different. The little girl was thin-skinned and refused to spit it out in front of others, hid in the cabin and hugged the wooden barrel and vomited. The smell of vomit made her unable to reply for a while. Later, she lay on the bed with almost tears, cursing and "liking" Ye Tao who was "living" them on the boat. Ye Tao helped wipe Tan Weishi's mouth with a wet cloth, while smiling awkwardly and not talking.

Because they set sail when the sun had just climbed out of the sea level, just after dusk, they had already arrived at Crescent Island. Although Mr. Qi had been a "serious" maritime merchant for decades, Crescent Island had not been abandoned. Although the port facilities were simple, they were always well maintained. For a period of time, they were renovated in Yicheng Port and did not have the ability to accommodate a large number of large merchant ships. However, during the difficult years when they had to share the same wharf with the navy, they were once used to moor Qijia's fleet to buffer the pressure of a large number of ships entering Yicheng Port. During those years, even Qi Zhentao could only determine two berths in Yicheng Port.

Crescent Island survived like this. Now, a large number of people came to Crescent Island and began to build ports on Crescent Island to renovate houses and other facilities. Looking at this, it seems that Mr. Qi is very interested in developing Crescent Island into a permanent base. Of course, one of the reasons why he can do this is that Crescent Island is not small, and there is plenty of fresh water on Crescent Island.

What is surprising is that among the rows of ships parked in the port of Crescent Island, in addition to some large cargo ships that transport construction materials and supplies to Crescent Island, there are four warships... and that seem to be the "Lanshui Ship".

"Old man, why did you get those big guys?" When he jumped off the boat and saw Qi Zhentao smilingly waiting on the dock, Ye Tao hurriedly came over and asked in a low voice.

"Don't worry." Qi Zhentao smiled and pulled Ye Tao and walked towards the building with a light on the island.

Ye Tao quickly stopped and reminded: "Old man, there are still people on the boat. They are the son and lady of the Tan family..."

Qi Zhentao was not scared, but looked at Ye Tao with great interest and said, "I wonder how could you ask Min Yue to send two Cangshui ships to escort my ship. It turns out that there are big people. Why don't you come down? Seasick?"

Ye Tao nodded awkwardly. Qi Zhentao suddenly said, "Then don't worry. Look at them like that. It's even more embarrassing to meet now. Let's talk about it again." Qi Zhentao turned his head and shouted loudly to an old man on the dock: "Old Zhao. There are the young masters and ladies of the Tan family on the boat. He is very happy to take them to the North Courtyard."

As a family member who has been following Qi Zhentao for many years, Lao Zhao immediately understood that the two people on the boat were not simple. Even if you look at the servants and guards who followed these two Tan family members on the boat, you will know. Although most of them vomited, the guards were still vigorously and looked around carefully. They were also very careful about the sailors who were obviously very bandit-like in the dock. Ordinary families would never afford such guards. Moreover, on Crescent Island, the North Courtyard is the most comprehensive courtyard in the island's building complex. Usually Qi Zhentao lives by himself. Now he gave it to these two "Tan Family" people, which obviously shows how important these two people are.

"Old man, that boat..." Ye Tao asked relentlessly.

"It's okay," Qi Zhentao said openly: "Min Yue and I agreed. Now I have the drawings of the Lan Watercraft and the Cang Watercraft in my hand, but I don't have time to wait for the ship to build it. Min Yue lent me these four ships without sailors, without the God-arm bow and catapult cart. In three months, I will return the four Lan Watercraft to him, a brand new land. I also have to give the navy another 100,000 taels of silver. No matter how he counts, he won't lose."

Ye Tao was stunned. Qi Zhentao had already used a lot of money to use such a strong relationship to fight the time difference. So how far has the struggle between Qihai Trading Company and Chunnan's Haishang Group developed?

"Old man, what's going on now?" Ye Tao asked anxiously.
Chapter completed!