open sea

Chapter 298
Chen Lin didn't speak, he understood why Commander Bai, who got off the boat to get the memorials and letters, had the expression of eating flies.

He turned his head to look at the sea, turned around and frowned, trying to ask Li Dan something, but he opened his mouth but did not speak. He stood up and paced on the deck of the ship, kicked the tail of the ship's broadside, and the leaves of his armor were shaking. , turned his head and pointed at Li Dan and said, "Get some wine, is there a bar on board?"

Li Dan turned his head and ran to the cabin. He was very familiar with his godfather's boat. He hadn't been in Guangdong for long after returning from Luzon, but he had already boarded the boat three times.Although Lao Bai didn't allow anyone to drive Chen Mu's boat, for Li Dan, just walking around on the deck of such a big boat was already very enjoyable.

There is not only wine on board, but also Laobai's stored food that people change every three months, and all the equipment is complete.

Li Dan brought the wine, Chen Lin drank a couple of sips, saw Bai Yuanjie boarding the boat, and asked, "What was written in the letter?"

"It's nothing. The imperial court wants to set up more than [-] new warships in Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, and Zhejiang. They are all in the shape of shark boats. Erlang asked Bai to send some shipwrights to Zhang Butang, the support department of Nanjing, and help him get some more. silver."

Bai Yuanjie shook his head with a smile, and said: "The imperial court asked Guangdong to pay the boat fare. Guangdong does not have it, but Nanyangwei does."

"That's more than 800, no, Guangxi doesn't rely on the sea, that's more than 600." Chen Lin was feeling depressed, took another two sips, and said with a wry smile: "This time Chen should be able to lead the big fleet."

"It is indeed possible to lead a large fleet. In General Zhenshuo's memorial to the court, in the future, instead of calling the navy, we will call the navy, and the deputy commander will command a fleet with 72 warships." Bai Yuanjie said the memorial sent by the court. Pass it to Chen Lin.

Chen Lin glanced at the ten lines and said: "The grain ship is useless. Even if it patrols the sea for three days, it can make a circle, not to mention that all the coasts can be replenished."

"When Chen Erlang becomes Chen Shuai and returns to Nanyang from the north, the grain ship will be useful."

Bang!
Chen Lin hit the wine case with a fist, and the wine pot was overturned to the ground, "Chen has served the court for eight or nine years, fought countless battles, and lived and died so that the common people can bask in the sun happily, and there is no war. Now My righteous brother came back with a letter to attract people's attention. I really don't understand... Guangdong has only had a good life for a few days?"

"It is said that the barbarians from Lusong want to attack Daming, and the dozens of people in the letter landed from Haojing, not to mention that they are also discussing this matter, even if they really came-even the three hundred households in Haojing can't beat them. Why start a war again!"

In fact, Bai Yuanjie was also tired of being crooked. If he wanted to tell the truth about Chen Mu, neither he nor Chen Lin would be able to do such a thing; but it was even more impossible to lure foreigners to attack Daming, no matter whether they had good intentions or bad intentions.

Chen Lin frowned and turned to Li Dan, "Your adoptive father is obsessed with ghosts, so why don't you persuade him to rein in the precipice?"

This is really unimaginable. General Zhenshuo, who guarded the northern border of the Ming Dynasty, sent people to the south to find old friends to collude with foreign enemies to attack Daming?
"My nephew said a few words of advice. After all, this matter has too much to do with it, but I still want to lure the Spaniards to attack first." Li Dan spread his hands, "It's a good thing."

Chen Lin seemed to hear a big joke, and said with a sneer, "It's nonsense, how can this be a good thing."

Li Dan rolled up his sleeves to reveal the scar, raised his finger and pointed at the big birds flying in the sea and sky in the distance, and said: "Those birds didn't exist when I was young, they came with the ships of the Westerners, and there are more and more of them over the years. Especially in Luzon, the airway is full of sky; in Luzon, there are tens of thousands of Ming merchants and people who settled here call me Jiapidan, and ask me to help them decide their affairs. Those Westerners who enslaved them, my foster father said Their country is called Spain."

"Their countries are thousands of miles away, but Malacca, Luzon, and Ming's vassal states were attacked and plundered one by one. They didn't talk about restraints. They robbed everything they saw and enslaved the rest."

"Westerners are different from us, not only in the color of eyes, skin, and hair." Li Dan pointed to his heart, "Everyone seems to know how to count, and they are good at guns, trade, and navigation. They are intelligent but shameless and impolite. Righteousness, do whatever it takes to get what you want and don’t think it’s wrong.”

"It sounds like..." Chen Lin took another sip of wine, wrinkled his nose, and said, "You seem to be talking about General Zhenshuo."

Li Dan was stunned for a moment, and after thinking about it carefully, Chen Mu was indeed very similar to what he said.

Bai Yuanjie, who was leaning on the side of the boat, laughed out loud, walked over, picked up the jug from the deck, shook it, took a sip and said to Li Dan, "Go on, don't listen to him interrupting."

Li Dan shook his head, "The adoptive father is different from them. The adoptive father is not shameless. He knows propriety, righteousness and reason. Besides, the adoptive father's unscrupulous methods are because he firmly believes that it is right to do so."

"What's the difference? Colluding with the town generals to lure the enemy to invade is loyalty, and colluding with Japanese pirates to sell guns is righteousness? Chen has no idea what he wants to do, but he knows that if this matter goes wrong, it will be ruined!"

"There is no danger. There are very few Spaniards entrenched in Luzon. They are arrogant and barbaric. They only have a dozen large ships. They will not be the opponents of Nanyang Wei. As long as they seize the fleeting opportunity, they will be able to capture them. Luzon! This is the achievement of expanding the territory, even if it is worth taking risks, let alone there is no risk at all."

Chen Lin was silent for a long time, raised his hand to ask Bai Yuanjie for the wine jug, took it but found it was empty, shook it a few times and threw it into the sea forcefully, then turned to Li Dan and asked, "Are you sure, they only have a dozen big ships? "

"There is only one such a big ship, sometimes it is there, sometimes it is not there, and the other four hundred to one thousand warships are mostly a dozen or so; the rest are small boats. Their ships are convenient for artillery battles, but their main purpose is to jump. Battle, the big ship is like a camp on the sea, with a ramming angle at the bow and a high forecastle, higher than Fuchuan, once the collision occurs, their sailors can easily board other warships."

"But the artillery is not stronger than the shark boats of the Nanyang Navy. Lin Feng and I have fought against their thousand gun boats at sea. As long as the small shark boats don't fight against them, they can take advantage of them. The Fuchuan suffers a lot. , the Japanese people on their boats are versatile, brave and simple, and they are the most fierce in jumping battles."

I don't know which sentence Chen Lin was moved by Li Dan's words, but he seemed to accept it, and asked: "Talk about your ideas, how to lure them to attack Nanyangwei, except for Nanyangwei, no place in Guangdong can hold more than a dozen ships." The attack of the big ship."

"It's easy. To buy some Japanese pirates and pirates, the navy only needs to act out a scene of enemies with Lin Feng, find some hulks and bombard them on the sea, let the pirates see it, and show that our navy is weak and defeated. Looking injured, the navy has retreated into Lingdingyang, they will spread the news, not to mention me helping the flames."

"I will go to Luzon to continue to be my Kapitan. Once the war starts, I will lead the fleet to come with them and turn against them halfway to prevent accidents."

"When I came back, my adoptive father said that he had been staring at Luzon and Malacca for many years. He was well prepared and had no intention of doing mental calculations. Even the most mediocre generals would not lose this naval battle at the beginning. He said he wanted revenge. I don’t know who it is for revenge, but the adoptive father didn’t elaborate, maybe it was for the past tributary country—the adoptive father said that when he comes back, he will use cannons to open the gates of the Westerners.”

(End of this chapter)