Chapter 131 The treasure ship sets

This Goryeo woman named Wang Shunji wore an ordinary blue cloth short jacket, a crimson skirt underneath, and her hair was combed into a maid, which was no different from an ordinary servant girl in the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, she spoke very well in Chinese. If it weren't for Li Wei's meeting her in the afternoon, she would never have thought that she would be Goryeo.

Wang Shunji lowered her eyebrows and placed a cup of tea in front of Li Wei, bowed to Qianqian again, and slowly retreated, but just as she walked to the door, Li Wei was glimpsing her secretly looking at him, with a begging expression in her eyes.

When she walked out of the room, Li Wei asked Qianqian quietly, "Who is she?"

"I forgot to tell my elder brother that I went to buy vegetables in the afternoon. When I came back, I found her sitting alone at our door. She said she was from Goryeo, named Wang Shunji. Her parents died in the civil strife of Goryeo. The clan uncle took her to escape to the Ming Dynasty. As a result, her uncle thought she was a burden and threw her away. She didn't know what to do. I saw two men begging her next to her, so I brought her back."

Qianqian thought of her own life experience again, her eyes turned red, and she asked Li Weizheng in a low voice: "Brother, I really feel sorry for her. Can I keep her?"

Li Weizheng sneered secretly. This Goryeo woman is very smart and basically told the truth. She knew that she could not hide it from her, but she told lies in the key areas. Thirty-three of them were discharged from the officers and soldiers. How could they leave just by saying that they would leave? Her goal was to stay by her side, so she targeted Qianqian and took advantage of Qianqian's sympathy.

Thinking of this, Li Weizheng said to Qianqian softly: "I have seen this woman in the afternoon. Her uncle said he wanted to give her to me, but I flatly rejected her. It can be seen that she is here to find you, so you should not be fooled by her."

"But this doesn't mean anything. Maybe she just wants to come and join us. Brother, do you think the Goryeo may deal with you?"

Li Wei was thinking and silent. Of course, the Goryeo people didn't want to deal with him, but this matter would leave a handle for those who were interested. However, he also had some questions. Among the two Goryeo people who missed, who else was besides this Wang Shunji? How did they be missed? And why did this Wang Shunji always want to surrender to him, and what was his intention?

"Qianqian, go and call Wang Shunji, I have something to ask her."

Soon, Wang Shunji was called into the room, and Qianqian left tactfully. The Goryeo woman lowered her head and placed her hands in front of her, with an extremely respectful attitude. Li Weizheng looked at her coldly, and then asked for a while: "As far as I know, two Goryeo people have missed the net, one is you, and the other should be your uncle Wang Zhongcheng!"

"Yes!" Wang Shunji replied in a low voice.

"Very good, how did you miss the net?" Li Weizheng continued to ask.

"My uncle used fifty taels of gold to bribe the hundreds of households who sent us into the city. He let us go halfway. Uncle did not take me away, but asked me to come to you by myself."

So far, the woman should have answered the truth. She is very smart and knows that these things cannot be hidden, so she answers Li Weizheng's question very well.

"You answered very well, but these things are not important. The key is that I need to know why you want to surrender to me. What if I send you to the capital again? Wouldn't it be useless to ask your uncle to escape? Also, since he spent a lot of money to escape, he got rid of you again. Isn't this a bit unnecessary? So, I know you must have the intention, and I think you should be honest."

Li Weizheng asked a very sharp question, and every sentence was hitting the key points. Wang Shunji slowly raised her head and slowly showed a charming smile on her face. However, this slightly seductive smile was very inconsistent with her beautiful face, making people feel that she was pretending to be charming. Then she took off her top and hung her short jacket around her waist. Her upper body was no longer inches, revealing her snow-white and crystal skin. Her curves were extremely beautiful. Her hands suddenly dropped from her chest, and the trembling meat hills jumped up and down. At this moment, her charming smile was gone. She slowly closed her eyes, and her body seemed to be trembling slightly.

With a loud bang, Li Wei was slamming the table hard and shouting loudly: "Come here!"

The sound of rapid footsteps immediately came to the door, and Wang Shunji was so scared that she shivered all over. She pulled up her clothes in panic and blocked her chest. The door was pushed open with a 'huh!'. Several personal soldiers rushed in and bowed and said, "Please give me the order!"

Li Weizheng pointed at Wang Shunji and said viciously: "This woman is a Goryeo spy. I'll drag her down and use the most ruthless means of the Jinyiwei to question her confession. There is no slight affection."

"Yes!" Two personal soldiers stepped forward and wanted to capture Wang Shunji. Wang Shunji "punch!" knelt in front of Li Weizheng, lying on the ground, unable to help crying loudly. At this time, Qianqian also heard Li Weizheng's angry shout and rushed in. She saw Wang Shunji lying on the ground, her clothes were messy, and her back was still half naked. She suddenly raised her head and stared at Li Weizheng angrily, her eyes filled with a kind of pain and disappointment that she had never experienced before. She slowly shook her head and silently took out a piece of her outer dress from the cabinet and put it on Wang Shunji.

"Don't be afraid, go to another room with me. If he dares to bully you again, I will take you back to the capital."

"No!" Wang Shunji refused to stand up and said in a crying voice: "Thank you Miss Qian, it's not what you thought, it's because I didn't tell the truth."

Li Weizheng suddenly waved his hand and said to several personal soldiers: "You all go on for the time being."

He said to Qianqian again: "You can go ahead for the time being."

Qianqian looked at Li Weizheng deeply. She left the room without saying a word and then gently brought the door with her.

Li Weizheng obviously did not notice Qianqian's emotional changes. His whole mind was on Wang Shunji. He walked to Wang Shunji with his hands behind his back and sneered: "You underestimate me too much. Do you think using your body can make me change my mind? If I can't resist this temptation, can I still climb to the position of the commander of Weihai Guard? Tell me! Tell me the truth, who are you? And what is your uncle's real name, where did he go?"

After a while, Wang Shunji stood up, wiped her tears, put on her clothes, and then whispered: "My real name is indeed Wang Shunji, but everyone usually calls me Princess Changping, and no one knows that I am correcting my name. My father is the King of Goryeo who was killed by Li Chenggui's evil thief in October last year. Li Chenggui established Wang Yao as a puppet and massacred the Wang family in Kaijing. I escaped because I was not in Kaijing at that time and was hidden by Uncle Cui, the old minister of the father. Because the wind was too tight, Uncle Cui decided to take me to escape from Goryeo. But he encountered Japanese pirates on the sea, and was rescued by you General Lai."

Li Weizheng nodded slowly. It turned out that she was a princess of Goryeo. No wonder she could speak fluent Chinese. In fact, Li Weizheng doubted her true identity because she could speak fluent Chinese. Ordinary Goryeo people might be able to speak a few Chinese, but there were a few as fluent as her. Besides, she was a woman, which only meant that her identity was unusual.

"So where did he go to that Wang Zhongcheng's surname is Cui?"

Wang Shunji shook her head, "I don't know where he has gone. He just said to find someone who can help us restore our country."

Li Wei was staring into her eyes and judging that she was not lying, she continued to ask: "Since he has protected you all the way, why should he send you to me?"

Wang Shunji sighed. Some things she wanted to hide were not hidden. Since her identity had been leaked, she could only leave it to fate. She never concealed it at all. She frankly said: "Because I must not enter the capital. I have lived in the capital of Daming for five years. Many people, including your Emperor of Daming, have seen me. If I go to the capital, once I am recognized, I will be sent back to Goryeo. As for giving me to you, it is actually my own intention, because... because."

Speaking of this, Wang Shunji blushed and she couldn't continue.

Li Weizheng smiled and said to her: "Because I am young and I look quite pleasant, but more importantly, I am the commander of Weihaiwei. I am closest to Goryeo. Maybe I can help you restore your country in the future. Is that true?"

Wang Shunji nodded silently. She had the idea that she had made. In order to kill Li Chenggui, the evil thief, and to restore the country, she would do whatever she could.

Li Wei was not speaking. He looked at the dim lights with his hands behind his back and pondered. Now Wang Shunji treats him as if Chu, the grandson of the King of Qin, was a rare treasure to Lu Buwei. Of course, if she hides her, there will be risks. The key is to weigh the pros and cons.

After pondering for a while, Li Weizheng suddenly asked again: "Apart from Uncle Cui, who escaped, who else among the other Koreans knows your true identity?"

Wang Shunji shook her head gently and said, "They don't even know Uncle Cui's identity, let alone my identity. Now no one knows it except you."

"Okay!" Li Weizheng finally made the final decision, "You just follow me and be my personal maid, and from now on, forget your identity as a princess."

Just as dawn the next day, Li Weizheng told the prefect Zhao that he had officially decided to settle his home in Penglai County, so he used the official house left by the former Weihai Guard commander. The prefect Zhao was overjoyed and hurriedly sent the yamen runners to clean the house. Li Weizheng left several personal soldiers to help Qianqian arrange the residence, and he went to Penglai Water City to see the new office.

The treasure ship "Weizheng" has been parked on the side of the waterway of the outer city according to Li Weizheng's order. It can be disembarked directly from the city wall by a spiral ladder. Although I had seen the treasure ship many times yesterday, when I saw this huge ship, Li Weizheng couldn't help but feel excited. He knew that this treasure ship was the largest ship in the world at that time, just like an aircraft carrier in later generations. He boarded the treasure ship along the gangway. Lai Vice Qianhu had been waiting for him on the ship for a long time.

Last night, Lai Yongguo had almost been sleeping all night. Li Wei's intention to attack Danluo Island was excited when interrogating two Japanese. Lai Yongguo had been in the army in Shandong Navy since thirteen years ago. Unlike ordinary soldiers, he had a strong desire to expand abroad. He longed to plant the dragon flag of the Ming Dynasty on every island he passed by for more than ten years. He even dreamed that one day the Ming army would occupy Goryeo and land on Japan, but these would always be his dreams. The ruthless reality of forbidden sea only made him depressed and disappointed again and again.

He knew that Japanese Japanese pirates were actually the plunder of the Ming coast by local Japanese warlords, but the court's attitude was passive defense, and he never launched an attack to wipe out the Japanese pirates' nests, leaving groups of mob Japanese clowns without worries. They were becoming increasingly rampant and rampant on the sea. Thousands of people were able to restrain hundreds of thousands of troops defending the entire Ming coast.

There is also the capricious villain Goryeo, who took advantage of the vanity of the Central Plains dynasty to plunder the territory of the Yuan Dynasty and even the Ming Dynasty again and again. A hundred years ago, the Goryeo Dynasty took advantage of the vanity of Yuan Chengzong's new ascension to the throne and bowed down to Emperor Yuan ascend the throne, and begged Danluo Island to return to his own country. Yuan Chengzong generously stated that this was a trivial matter, so he gave Danluo Island to Goryeo.

More than 20 years ago, the Goryeo Dynasty took advantage of the war between the Ming and Yuan dynasties to invade northward, expand its territory, kill the border soldiers and civilians, and even established the Ming Dynasty. They regarded the Ming Dynasty as the new lord, but did not forget the former lord of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, and tried to please both ends, doing their humble affairs, trying to make the Ming land they occupied a reality.

These things in the Ming Dynasty were not concerned about the respect of a great country, and because defense against the Northern Yuan was the first priority, he had no time to look east, which made the two clowns of Japan and Goryeo increasingly arrogant.

As a coastal defense officer of the Ming Dynasty, Lai Yongguo was heartbroken but helpless. However, Li Weizheng's arrival gave him hope. The highest military commander in charge of the northern part of the Shandong Peninsula actually showed his intention to take the opportunity to retake Danluo Island. In addition, in his appointment letter, he had the right to make decisions at sea, which shows that the emperor's thoughts have also begun to change from defense to active attack. How could he not be extremely excited?

At this moment, when he saw that Li Wei had already boarded the treasure ship, he hurriedly stepped forward and greeted him: "Sir, you want to work on the treasure ship. This is probably the first person in the Ming Dynasty."

Li Weizheng smiled and said, "There is no way to do this. I am the commander of two places and I have to patrol the Qishan, Jinshan and other thousand households. It is very inconvenient to take the land route, so it is just right to work on the ship."

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At this moment, a long horn sound came from the waterway, and then there was a horn sound on the Water City Viewing Tower. Li Wei was climbing the forecastle terrace. He saw about ten warships from each of the two teams sailing out of the inner city and heading towards the outer sea. "What are you doing?" He pointed to the warship and asked.

Lai Yongguo quickly bowed and said, "Report to the Lord, this is a coastal patrol boat. One goes east to the Qishansou waters and returns in about ten days. The other one goes to Changshan Island and Hei Island to send supplies. I will return tonight."

Li Weizheng's heart moved. He hurriedly looked at the seven-star companion moon wind mark at the bow of the boat. He saw the flag floating eastward, and the wind direction changed from yesterday's northwest wind to west wind, which means that the treasure ship can go out to sea.

He immediately ordered: "The patrol boats to Changshan Island and Black Island will be suspended and wait for me to go with you."

A signal was immediately issued on the top of the city. A patrol fleet that had just left the waterway stopped slowly and moored in the outer city to wait for orders. The Penglai Navy immediately mobilized, and five hundred navy troops quickly boarded the treasure ship, each taking their place, and Lai Yongguo personally commanded it.

The sails hung up, facing northeastward. With the sound of the masts and cables of "squeaking", the sails were slightly blown up by the wind, and the thousand-pound iron anchors slowly pulled out to sea. The treasure ship began to turn around, as if a giant on the sea, shaking the waves north under the escort of dozens of warships.

The waterway from Penglai Water City to Changshan Island is about twenty miles away. Hei Island is located ten miles northwest of Changshan Island, and there is also a small island in the middle. If it is a good wind in summer, it will take only one hour to reach Changshan Island. However, today it is a west wind, and the ship is not fast, so it will take about one and a half hours to arrive.

The treasure ship was traveling extremely smoothly on the sea. Li Weizheng had already returned to his cabin, which was the new office room. The office room consisted of four cabins. The outermost one was the documentary room, which was used for tidying up documents. In the middle was the meeting, which was the place to convene the officials for meetings, and the inner one was his office room. There were windows in the room that could overlook the sea. A lounge alongside the office room. If he didn't want to go home at night, he could spend the night here. This was the cabin just arranged yesterday, and it was cleaned very clean. There were maps and several calligraphy and paintings hanging on the bulkheads.

The clerk room was filled with various documents accumulated over several months. Some important documents needed to be reviewed before he could go to Weihaiwei. A clerk is currently helping him organize the documents. This clerk is Zhou Ming, a scholar who translator yesterday. He was attracted by Li Weizheng because he was proficient in Japanese, so he hired him as his staff member, five stones of rice and ten taels of silver per month.

Of course, Zhou Ming was extremely happy. Having money and food to support his father is second to him. The key is that he got a promising job. He failed the exam twice. He was worried about his future bleakness, but he was suddenly attracted by the commander and was attracted as an aide. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. However, Zhou Ming also knew very well that only the judges had the opportunity to be a high-ranking official and aide. A scholar like him could only be a minor official in the county. He could become a commander's aide entirely because he was proficient in Japanese.

"Sir, these are all urgent documents. You need to sign and send them to the Commander-in-Chief Department immediately."

Zhou Ming put a stack of sorted documents on Li Weizheng's table and slowly stepped down, but was stopped by Li Weizheng, "Wait a minute, I have something to ask you."

"Sir, please tell me!"

Li Wei was walking a few steps in the room with his hands behind his back, and then asked, "I heard from you yesterday that you have been on Kyushu Island, Japan for nearly ten years. Do you know the Ouchi family?"

Zhou Ming thought for a while and said, "Reporting to the Lord, the villain was taken to Japan by the slaves of the Ouchi family. He followed his father to translate some scriptures in a temple in Kitakyushu. He came into contact with some inside stories about the Ouchi family. It is said that the head of the Ouchi family was once a Japanese official and later became a warlord of Kyushu. He made a fortune by trading with Goryeo and had a large number of troops. He was the third largest force in Japan except for the Northern and Southern Dynasties. However, from my contact, many Japanese pirates had close relationships with the Ouchi family."

Li Wei was standing in front of the window and looking at the vast sea for a long time. After learning yesterday that Kikuchi Fengya appeared in the Ouchi family, he knew that this family would sooner or later become a disaster for the Ming Dynasty. But after all, they were in Japan, and he rashly went to attack. Not to mention whether they could win, even if they won, it would inevitably cause serious political consequences. He had to think twice before doing this. However, the second son of the Ouchi family occupied Danluo Island, which gave him an extremely rare opportunity. If he didn't seize the time and was successfully counterattacked Danluo Island by Li Chenggui of Goryeo, this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity would be lost in vain.

Just as Li Wei was thinking, the sound of a musket of "bang!bang!" suddenly came from the deck of the treasure ship.
Chapter completed!