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Chapter 268 Is it the king’s land in the whole world 4
Less than two months after arriving in Guangzhou by boat, Li Rumei left Guangzhou by boat.After hearing the briefing on the situation, hundreds of naval households stationed in Guangzhou said that marching by land to Haifeng County was both easy to leak the news in advance and difficult, so it was better to land on a naval warship at Changsha Port.

It is only more than 20 miles from Changsha Port to the county seat, and only 30 miles to Chenjia Village. It is even closer to Haifeng Thousand Household Residence Hall, just over 10 miles away. It can be handled independently or divided into three groups to attack together.

After hearing such constructive and detailed data suggestions, Li Rumei had no reason to disagree.First I went to say hello to Yuan Yingtai, and then I took only a dozen generals and three Guangzhou Jinyi guards with me, changed into casual clothes, and left the city by boat to go straight to Boliao Island.

"Your Majesty, Huang Nanping from Haijun Qianhu, I have met Du Si!" The person who came out to greet him was a short Haijun Qianhu.

"Huang Qianhu is not from Jiangnan, right?" Li Rumei knew something about the navy because she had spent some time at the Haihe Shipyard.Just by looking at the skin color, you can tell that this person has had a lot of contact with the sea. Exposure to the sun alone can only make people darker. Only strong sea breeze polishing them all year round can make the skin shiny.

Yuan Keli's main team has three major groups, which almost monopolize more than [-]% of the official positions in the navy.

The first group is the backbone selected and trained from more than [-] Caoding when he was the Governor of Canal Transport. Most of the members came from the capital, Shandong, South Zhili and other provinces close to the canal.

The second group is the orphans selected from the Zihuangzhuang in Nanhai, the capital. Since the establishment of the bandit suppression admiral's office, dozens of people will be sent every six months, usually no more than sixteen or seventeen years old.After several months of training, those who pass the test stay.

Since they were born as orphans, many people don't even remember their parents, and they don't know where their hometown is.He spoke with a Capital accent, and it was impossible to tell where he was from.

The third part is more complicated. It is called recruiting sailors to the outside world, but in fact they are all pirates who take the initiative to surrender.Most of these people come from the southeastern coastal areas. They speak with a strong hometown accent and are very easy to identify. Their skin color is very similar to that of Huang Qianhu.

"My ancestral home is Chaozhou Prefecture, so I was selected by the governor to be stationed here. It can be regarded as an honorable return to my hometown." Despite his dark complexion, Huang Nanping has a set of neat white teeth and likes to grin, as if he is deliberately irritating. .

"Oh... is it a family tradition to sail a boat into the sea?" When she heard that her ancestral home was Chaozhou, Li Rumei became even more certain that this person was most likely a pirate.

"Du Si's brother also asked me this question, so to speak. Huang has been wandering around the sea with his father since he was a child. Fortunately, he was favored by the governor and was entrusted with an important task." Huang Nanping must have sensed Li Rumei's thoughts, and said casually with a smile. Li Ruzhang’s name.

"...Is my brother okay?" At this time, Li Rumei had to pause the interrogation and turned to care about her brother's safety.

"Huang stopped by the Marine Corps when he returned to Tianjin Guard last month and had a little chat. The commander is training on the island non-stop. He looks good, but a little darker."

"Alas... I am also going to the Marine Corps, but His Majesty has other arrangements." Li Rumei couldn't help but yearn for it when she heard that her brother was training on the island.As a general, he hopes to lead his troops into battle, but is not used to being a court official, even if he is of a higher rank.

"Since we are all a family, you are welcome to Mr. Huang. The ship is no better than the land. If you make a slight mistake, you will be buried in the belly of the fish. There are more rules. I hope Du Si will bear with me." Seeing that there are already people on the warship anchored at the anchorage. While climbing the mast, Huang Nanping pointed to the boat to indicate that it was time to leave.

"Thousands of households want to go together?" Li Rumei just took two steps but felt something was wrong. As the top commander of the water village, shouldn't he sit in Bo Liao Continent and send his men to go on an expedition? "Xiaguan is the commander of these two warships. Wherever the ship goes, the people will go. Don't worry here, even if no one is guarding, nothing will happen." Huang Nanping blinked his innocent eyes and smiled brighter.

"It is said that all the pirates along the way from Guangzhou to Fuzhou were cleared. Is this true?" At this time, Li Rumei suddenly remembered the origin of the black sailboat that Suzaku said, and couldn't help but want to verify it with the person involved.

"Hahaha...I'm afraid it's not just Fuzhou. From Guangzhou to Tianjin Wei, I can't say that there are no pirates in the sea along the way, but I can't see any serious ones anymore. The remaining ones are nothing more than temporary ideas of nearby fishermen. As long as there is still time to starve. There will be no end to the killing of people!”

First there was a burst of hearty laughter, and then the tone gradually became lonely.Huang Nanping stood upright on the deck, with his arms folded across his chest and staring into the distance. His feet felt like they were nailed to death. Even if the waves threw the boat up and down, it would not move at all.

"In that case, I really need to look carefully!" After hearing such a domineering answer, Li Rumei still didn't believe it.

Thinking back to the time when the Japanese pirates were so serious in the southeastern coastal areas, the imperial court dispatched wave after wave of troops to encircle and suppress the pirates, and the fighting still took decades to subside.With just a few warships, it took less than three years to wipe out all the bandits along the coast, which is not consistent with common sense.

Black sailboat!Although I have seen naval warships with black sails in the Haihe Shipyard, this is the first time I have actually set foot on them.Li Rumei's eyes had not been idle since she boarded the ship. After looking here and there, she even had to touch the cables as thick as her forearms.

"Are these artillery pieces?" After visiting the deck, Li Rumei got permission to get under the deck and saw the legendary naval weapon as she wished.

"Governor Yuan said that the emperor gave the name to naval guns. There are 10 3-inch guns on each side, and there are 10 1-inch guns on the deck, a total of 30 guns." In order to let the guests see more clearly, Huang Nanping reached out and unscrewed a gun. Open a small door and let the sunlight in.

"How are they compared to the bronze cannons on the Fulang robot ship?" Although there are quite a lot of them, they are slender and slender than expected, with a gray-black metallic luster all over their bodies. They are obviously not made of copper, and they are not as good as the Buddhas on the frontier army's fort. The rough shape of Lang's machine gun made Li Rumei feel a little guilty.

"Fight farther, be more powerful, and launch faster! If the two battleships of Xiaguan encounter ten Franco-Ji merchant ships on the sea, they have a [-]% chance of winning and remain unscathed. If they encounter a Franco-Ji warship You can also fight one against three, and you will never suffer a loss."

Patting the cold metal body of the gun, Huang Nanping looked out through the gun door, as if taking aim.Li Rumei's questions were like mumbling to himself in his ears, both familiar and ridiculous, much like someone from two years ago.

At that time, he was still in Shuangyu Port, relying on the support of his father's old subordinates to become the leader of the Lin family's fleet.He planned to slowly accumulate strength and one day return to Nanyang to take revenge on the Spanish and the imperial court.

Unfortunately, the arrival of two large ships with black sails used rumbling cannons and high-speed flying iron balls to blow their own ship to pieces together with the dream, and they all sank to the bottom of the sea.

(End of this chapter)