My God, I am the emperor, the lord of mankind.

Chapter 441 Fishermen

The Qin law was harsh, and even missing the deadline was a crime of beheading.

What's more, the entire fleet was wiped out, and there was no trace of the elixir.

Whether it is Xu Fu or the fleet officers, there is only a dead end waiting for them when they go back.

Pretending that the entire fleet was wiped out and all the personnel died in the shipwreck, maybe Da Qin's family members could be lucky enough to survive.

However, if the old man Wang Heng mentioned is really a pre-Qin alchemist...

Let’s not talk about how he survived from the Qin Dynasty to the present and escaped the death of the Five Declines of Heaven and Man.

Now that the Qin Dynasty has been destroyed for more than a thousand years, why does it still dare not return to the land of China?

I'm afraid there's something fishy besides being afraid of Qin Ting's power.

"Alchemist of the Qin Dynasty?"

And for some reason, I heard that name from Wang Heng's mouth.

Next to him, Kamo Nagato seemed to have been scratched in a painful spot, and his eyes widened in surprise.

"When you said that, I remembered something."

"When I left His Majesty the Emperor's Imperial Palace, a foreign guest who claimed to be a great alchemist from the Qin Dynasty came over and took the initiative to give me a fortune telling, predicting that I would suffer a bloody disaster that day. Now that I see it, the prediction is really accurate!"

Kamo Changcai slapped his thigh and regretted it.

He should have listened to the old man and not gone to sea but found a place to hide first.

Otherwise, we wouldn’t have to suffer this kind of crime.

Zhu Houcong looked at the onmyoji with a regretful look in front of him and fell into deep thought.

How does this thing survive in Japan?

Wang Heng was shocked when he heard what Kamo Nagacai said.

he asked quickly.

"Is he an old man with long hair, wearing a black Taoist robe, holding a Taoist priest who broke into two sections and stood back together?"

"Exactly, how do you know? Could it be that you have ever -"

Having said this, Kamo Nagana's heart couldn't help but tremble, and he also realized that things seemed not as simple as he thought.

Zhu Houcong obviously wanted to know more.

"Tell me more about the information about the alchemists of Qin——"

……

The Ming Dynasty ships had strong guns and powerful guns, although the pirates had the help of sea beasts and could sail against the wind.

But once the sea beast used to cut through the wind and waves died, it completely lost its formation in the headwind. The ship was either overturned or sunk by the Ming army's artillery.

The small boat that Zhu Houcong was on also slowly approached the Mingting fleet under the leadership of Zhang Fawei and others as the war ended.

Li Shunmin looked at the huge corpses of sea beasts floating on the sea and couldn't help but secretly sighed.

Although from time to time there would be news among the fishermen that someone encountered a shipwreck and saw a huge sea monster.

But this was the first time for Li Shunmin to see with his own eyes those terrifying things that were completely different from ordinary beasts.

Zhang Fawei asked them to wait here, although Mingting's fleet was currently on the same road as Zhu Houcong and his party.

But after visiting Ryukyu, Ming Ting's fleet will head north to Japan to trade with various daimyo along the coast.

As for the main trading products, they are Japan's high-quality iron ore and finished swords.

Liu Qingyuan was ordered by the imperial court to bring millions of Ming Dynasty treasures this time, which was enough to bring anything that could be called a weapon in Japan back to the Ming Dynasty.

As for why he took the initiative to go to Japan instead of letting the Japanese mission take him to Daming. "The political situation of the Japanese is currently unstable. Today it is Satsuma Nagashima, and tomorrow some generals and aides will pay tribute in the name of Japan. After meeting each other, they attack and kill each other in the Ming court. The court does not know who should be stronger, and Japan The ships are small and few, and they may not be able to meet the needs of the imperial court to attack Yuanting in the north, so Commander Qiu and I were specially ordered to go to Japan to purchase iron ore and transport it to the Ming Dynasty——"

Liu Qingyuan introduced his work to Zhang Fawei in front of him.

Qiu Luan stood with Gao Lin, both of them looking a little embarrassed.

If it were Guo Xun or another noble person from the capital, Qiu Luan would definitely be able to have a pleasant conversation with him.

It's a pity that Gao Lin is just a son of a general in Liaodong.

It was still a local armed force that was incorporated after Ming Taizu's Northern Expedition.

Although Qiu Luan's family started only a few decades ago, his grandfather was just an ordinary local general during the reign of Emperor Xiaozong. Later, he was named Marquis of Xianning because of his merits in suppressing the rebellion.

But this is not the reason why he and Gao Lin are too close.

Especially now that there is a looming split in the Forbidden Army.

There are nobles in the capital and local wealthy families who rose to power through military examinations, as well as simply poor children from military families.

Although these warriors who originally came from different classes were dispersed and sent to various places to guard and exterminate demons with the arguments, many conflicts that should have occurred were eliminated invisible in the battle of life and death, blood and fire.

But some things cannot be completely eliminated overnight. It will take decades or hundreds of years to see the results.

"Where did these sea beasts come from?"

"Who knows? The royal court of the sharks has been unwilling to accept our conditions. The Imperial Guards are still pulling out their nests along the coast all the way south. I heard that the big ship of the Ministry of Rites is patrolling Luzon, showing off the power of heaven. Those shark nobles The tone was a little loose——"

Qiu Luan said.

In the long process of waiting for the Emperor's return, the two finally found a rare topic of conversation to end this damn embarrassment.

"Presumably the sharks have also realized that they can no longer rely on those isolated overseas islands to resist the imperial power of heaven."

Gao Lin looked at the big ship under his feet.

The whole body is made of the best wood from the southwest and will last for hundreds of years.

It is not difficult to ride the wind and waves.

Gao Lin saw that in addition to the warriors of the Jianghuai generation, the sailors serving on the ship also had many Korean and Franji people.

Although the imperial court still has many large ships that have not been completed in the dock.

But the first thing the court faced was the shortage of sailors.

Perhaps after the sharks completely surrender, the various guard posts along the coast can be disbanded and incorporated into the imperial navy, and then the pressure on the imperial court will be much less.

"It's a pity that even beasts like the sharks can understand that the power of heaven is irreversible, but the northern captives still dare to take advantage of my army to move south and repeatedly invade the border."

Gao Lin added.

Speaking of their former great enemy, his tone was now full of disdain.

Compared with Zhu Houcong, who was still worried about the fragments of destiny held by the Mongols and wanted to complete his victory before making that uncertain breakthrough, these nine-sided military generals were full of confidence in sending troops northward.

Although the court has not publicly stated their plans.

But looking at the mobilization of the Ming army from Shanhaiguan in the east to Yumen Hetao in the west.

Millions of civilians were mobilized and deployed across thousands of kilometers of front lines to transport supplies from the interior to newly excavated fortresses, fortresses and military depots on the front lines.

As long as these senior generals of the Nine Borders Ming Army are not stupid, they can understand the imperial court's intentions.

The cabinet must have made up its mind to completely solve this northern scourge within a few years.

(End of this chapter)