Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 545
Li Tai and the others boarded the ship very smoothly. Moreover, Li Yuanjing's proposal was approved by the captain. Any idiot will agree!

What's more, Sun Xiangfu asked Zhang Ke to arrange this boat. If they don't get on board, there will be no drama to sing.

Through the matter of paying the ship's fare with brocade robes, it can also be seen how inconsistent the values ​​of these princes are with the current society. If they are allowed to live in society by themselves, they will be a group of prodigal sons.

After the boatman confirmed that they would arrive in Yangzhou in two days, Li Tai and the others found a comfortable place to rest in the assigned cabin.

Not long after, the sky turned pale, and in the kitchen of the cabin, a few boatmen were cooking, and the aroma immediately attracted all the foodie princes to sneak a peek.

There is no way, half-children are growing their bodies, eating a lot, hungry quickly, food is very tempting to them.

However, the situation also came at this time.

"Boss, those boys who boarded the boat earlier were either rich or expensive, and they all carried brocade robes worth more than a dozen guan, they are all fat fish!"

"What? Do you have an idea?"

The little boy who cut vegetables giggled and said, "Before we set off on the ship, we did a lot of business of killing people and stealing goods. They boarded the ship in the middle of the night, and the ghost knew it was our ship. We did them. Theirs." The brocade robes and those bulging bags belong to us, maybe they are filled with gold and silver, after doing this once, we will only be able to enjoy life in peace for the rest of our lives."

"That's what you said. They boarded the boat when they were in the dark. No one knew they were on our boat. Just make them, chop them up and throw them in the river. The big fish in the river will leave nothing left of them. No one knows that we did it. However, it’s not good today, it’s already dawn, and it’s not good to be seen by people running boats on the river, and we have to wait until tomorrow night.”

"Yes, let's do it tomorrow night..."

Smelling the smell, Li Tai and Li Yuanchang, who wanted to come over for some food, almost heard all their conversations through the door. These people turned out to be on a thief ship.

"Walk."

Li Tai booed a few people, moved lightly, and retreated to their assigned cabin first. Li Yuanchang and the others also knew that these young boys like himself were no match for the dozens of adult boatmen on the ship. They all followed Li Tai back to the cabin lightly.

After a while, they told everyone about their current situation, and a feeling of panic began to spread.

"Brother Liuhuang is all to blame, what a bad idea to sneak away, it's okay now, we are about to be chopped up and thrown into the river to feed the fish..."

"I, I don't want to be chopped up to feed the fish, you, you guys hurry up and find a way..."

All kinds of complaints and fearful voices came from the cabin, and the two people dressed as boatmen who were hiding in the next cabin and eavesdropped giggled, nodded at each other, and then continued to listen with their ears.

"Everyone, calm down, the top priority is, we have to find a way to get out of trouble." Li Ke was the first to react.

"Yes, yes, they said just now that they dare not do anything during the day, so we have to find a way to disembark during the day."

Li Tai is not stupid, as soon as Li Ke reminded him, he immediately thought of this detail.

"We have to let them dock at the pier before we go ashore, and we must not make them suspicious." Li Ke pondered.

After all, they are northerners. Although they have learned simple swimming in the village in the past few months, they think they have no ability to jump into the river to escape. If they really jumped into the river, at least half of them would drown. First of all, Li Tai's little chubby paper doesn't have the physical strength to swim to the shore. They are all princes, and they can't take risks unless it is absolutely necessary.

"Why don't we reveal our identities to them?" Li Yuanjing is the oldest, but unfortunately his IQ is not online. What he has is just some little cleverness, and usually the kind of little cleverness who doesn't care about his head.

Hearing what he said, Li Ke shook his head and said, "It's okay not to reveal your identity, but once you reveal your identity, I'm afraid you're forcing them to die, because just the intention of killing people and stealing goods is enough to give them a severe sentence." If we let them know that it is the prince that they want to murder, they will probably think that they are doomed, and they will insist on attacking us instead."

"Then what should we do? We can't just wait to die on the boat like this!" Li Yuanchang, who had no idea what to do, said anxiously.

"Let's think about it calmly."

Li Ke comforted the people who were emotionally unstable, but Li Tai was silent, running his mind quickly. After a while, he really came up with a way and motioned everyone to be quiet, "We want to go ashore, just I have to think of an excuse that they won't suspect. I think it's okay to eat. If they invite us to eat the meal on the boat later, we must not eat it. Maybe there will be something like sweat medicine. We have to pretend to be used to it. It looks like they can't eat the simple food on their boat.

Then, aren't there many big piers on the Yangtze River waterway?We just said that we want to go ashore to eat and drink in restaurants, at most, we will put our remaining brocade robes on this boat to dissuade them from their vigilance, as long as we go ashore, it will be easy to talk about. "

"Yes, this method may be feasible."

Li Ke was the first to express his approval of Li Tai's strategy, and after a while, a boatman knocked on their cabin door and called them to eat.

"Just pretend like nothing happened."

Li Tai whispered something to everyone, then opened the hatch and greeted the boatman.

"Guest officers, we have made breakfast on board. If you are hungry, you can go to the rear cabin to eat."

"Hehe, no, I'm used to living a life of rich clothes and fine food. We are not used to the rough food on the ship. In this way, when you arrive at the pier in the next town, you dock the boat. After eating, get on the boat and set off. Don't worry, we won't let you wait in vain. We will give you Shu brocade robes as a gift for the boat. Moreover, some of our parcels and other belongings will be placed on the boat. Please take care of them. "

Li Tai's strategy was quite smooth. He felt that since these people were greedy for their own property, their attention must be on their property. As long as he gave up his money, he should be able to save his life.

Sure enough, after hearing Li Tai's words, the boatman showed hesitation, and finally agreed, saying, "Well, but the next bustling wharf is Jiangling City's wharf, and it will take more than an hour to arrive. ..."

"It's okay, we're not hungry right now, you go eat and drink yourself!"

Li Tai interrupted the boatman to continue persuading them to eat to fill their stomachs, then retreated into the cabin, closed the cabin door, and wiped the sweat from his brow. Before, he didn't think acting skills were so important. Yes, it's only now that I realize that people are drifting in the rivers and lakes without acting skills, so they can't get along. It's a pity that he doesn't have Li Chengqian's acting talent.

"Everyone have a full stomach first. After an hour, we will all go to the deck and approach Jiangling City. There will definitely be a lot of boats on the river. At that time, they will not dare to do anything to us. As long as we don't carry burdens, they will definitely Will let us ashore."

Li Tai felt that the strategy was successful, so he hurriedly unwrapped his bag of water chestnuts, greeted everyone, filled their stomachs, and escaped ashore. However, the water chestnuts in his mouth seemed to taste a bit wrong.

In the hot summer, the water chestnut cooked in the afternoon of the previous day has actually started to change its taste the next morning. If you wait another hour or two until noon, it will be completely inedible. Li Tai feels that the taste is not right. , Now I realize that people like myself have prepared so many water chestnuts to eat on the road. They are simply stupid. They didn’t even consider the problem that cooked things are easy to spoil in summer, and they still expect these water chestnuts to be edible. In two or three days, I have been eating until Yangzhou!It is estimated that he will have diarrhea and die halfway.

But there is no way, not to eat!Last night, they were exhausted all night. Wait, all these burdens have to be left on the boat. If they don't eat more, they will be starving when they arrive at the dock of Jiangling City.

Moreover, without their burdens, even if they disembark at the Jiangling pier, they still won't be able to get food for a while, after all, they are running away now!If there is too much commotion, Sun Xiangfu will definitely send someone to arrest him.

"It should be fine if the taste changes a little bit. If we don't eat it now, we won't be able to eat it anymore."

Li Tai comforted the princes and himself in the cabin in this way, and suddenly, there was a sound of knocking water chestnuts in the cabin.

In the lower cabin, the captain and several management-level boatmen have gathered together. Among them, the boatman in charge of looking out said, "Lieutenant Zhang's boat has followed, and their boat is fast. After we pass the news over with semaphore , Slowing down a little bit will allow him to arrive at Jiangling City Wharf half an hour earlier."

"Well, leave the burdens of the nobles and let them go ashore, and our task will be completed. This time we have done so well, Mr. Sun will definitely let us join Mr. Zhao's overseas exploration fleet."

The speaker was none other than Lin Bao, the water bandit whom Sun Xiangfu went to Dongting Lake to recruit in person. He played the water bandit in his true colors, so Li Tai couldn't help being intimidated by him.

However, his real ideal is not to pull some goods on the Yangtze River and earn hard money.Instead, go overseas to see a wider world.

Now, Zhao Long is the head of the Navigation and Exploration Department. Ever since Samurai Xun served as the general manager of Overseas Exploration Investment Co., Ltd., and Li Shimin added the official title of Shangshu of the Ministry of Commerce, all the heads of state-owned enterprises in Datang have increased according to their scale. However, this kind of official position has only grades and no administrative power, which is similar to the leaders of enterprises and institutions in later generations.

The five chief ministers of Overseas Investment Exploration Co., Ltd. are only one level lower than the general manager of Samurai Xun. Therefore, Zhao Long is now a regular fourth-rank official. In the future, he will manage thousands of large ships. 10,000+ boatmen and sailors, since he returned from sailing in the sea with a steel structure keel boat, he has become the idol of all boatmen and sailors who sail on water.

(End of this chapter)