The Three Kingdoms Voyage

Chapter 206 The Pirate Empire Fishing Boats Off Qinhuangdao

"He's awake?" Sun Shao hid comfortably on the recliner, swaying for a while, his expression was extremely lazy, and his image was even worse. Swollen pecs and six-pack abs.

Xia Houhui didn't say a word, she was still thinking about Cao Zhang's tangled expression at that time, and she didn't notice that her eyes fell on Sun Shao's chest at all.Sun Shao waited for a long time without reply, turned his head to follow her gaze, raised his hand and tapped her forehead: "What are you looking at, little girl? It's useless to look again."

Xia Houhui blushed, covered his forehead, and turned away shyly.Although she has been with Sun Shao for nearly half a year, she still can't adapt to Sun Shao's outspokenness.She vaguely knew from Guan Feng's mouth why Sun Shao still treats her as a child, not a concubine, but she can't understand Sun Shao's aesthetic standards. Does not include this one.She had heard the nurse at home say that a woman's buttocks can be fertile, but she had never heard of such things as straight forward and backward.

But she said she couldn't win Sun Shao, in Sun Shao's eyes, she was not so much a concubine as a younger sister, the more serious she said, the more fun Sun Shao felt, and he didn't take it seriously at all.

"Okay, take it easy." Guan Feng pushed Xia Houhui's hand away distressedly, examined her forehead carefully, and said angrily, "Do you know how heavy your hand is?"

Sun Shao rolled his eyes, thinking that this woman is really kind enough, it is a tragedy to be deceived by a child like Xia Houhui.

"Thank you sister, I'm fine." Xia Houhui held Guan Feng's hand and smiled innocently.

"Stay away from him." Guan Feng rubbed Xia Houhui's head and said with a smile: "He's fine when he's happy, but it's scary enough when he's crazy. Kicked to death, even I was terrified."

"Hee hee, without those two legs, how can you be so stable now?" Xiahou Hui pouted at Sun Deng and others who were walking on the beach in the distance with a smile: "Can you be a princess now?"

"Alas—" Guan Feng sighed, let go of Xia Houhui's hand, sat on the beach, hugged his legs, and rested his chin on his knees, God looked at the distant waves: "Sometimes I would rather not do it." This princess doesn't even have to lose sight of her son."

Sun Shao was silent, the smile on his face disappeared, and his eyes became a little sinister.Xia Houhui also sighed, put his hand lightly on Guan Feng's shoulder, and comforted him: "Don't worry, sister, he will be fine with his mother taking care of him."

Guan Feng lowered his head and remained silent.At that time, she was still a little annoyed at taking care of the child at home every day. The most painful thing was that she couldn't sleep peacefully. I still can't sleep well, and often wake up in the middle of the night with tears in my pillow towel.

Xia Houhui saw that Sun Shao's face was not good, so he didn't dare to say more, so he comforted Guan Feng silently. None of the three people spoke. When we are together, we always laugh constantly, why don’t we talk today?
"Your Majesty, Cao Zhang, Governor of Youzhou, asks to see you."

"Oh, let him come here." Sun Shao waved his hands listlessly, still sitting on the recliner and didn't get up.Guan Feng didn't want Cao Zhang to see the family affairs, so he dragged Xia Houhui away first.Not long after, Cao Zhang strode over, Sun Shao had recovered his usual smile, and before Cao Zhang saluted, he waved his hands and said, "Okay, I don't look like a king no matter what, so don't be too polite Shi Bao, bring a horse tie to Mr. Cao."

"Here." Shi Bao sent a horse over.Cao Zhang took the Mazar, looked at it awkwardly, and felt that it was not good for such a big man to squat beside Sun Shao, so he simply put the Mazar aside and sat down on the beach.

"Is it okay?" Sun Shao didn't mind, turned his head to look at him, and shook comfortably again.

"It's okay." Cao Zhang said still a little unconvinced: "The king's navy is all over the world, and it really lives up to its reputation."

Sun Shao couldn't help laughing: "Are you trying to say that except for water battles, you can have the upper hand?"

Cao Zhang curled his lips and remained silent.Sun Shao smiled: "If you still don't accept it, I can give you another chance. You choose a hundred songs, and I will also choose a hundred officials. Let's fight again, how about it?"

"Why doesn't Your Majesty compete with riding?"

"Riding and fighting, I don't have a horse, so I can't compare." Sun Shao sat up and looked at Cao Zhang: "It's okay, you wait until I go to Liaodong to buy a horse, and then give me two months, we each have a horse. Two thousand fine cavalry, attack Xianbei together, and see who can gain more."

Cao Zhang looked at Sun Shao suspiciously, and Sun Shao's confidence made him feel uncertain.Two thousand fine riders can be trained in two months?He wouldn't be using the name of competition to buy horses, right?This is not possible, Cao Pi has already reported back that Sun Shao bought horses mainly to sell to Sun Quan.Although it is said that even if Sun Quan has cavalry, he cannot be stronger than them, but of course he must maintain this advantage for one more day.

"Still don't believe it, right?" Sun Shao didn't explain, lay down again, sighed suddenly, and said with a lack of interest: "Don't talk about this, what do you want to come to me?"

"May I ask where your Majesty will end his inspection tour of the sea?"

Sun Shao thought for a moment: "What do you think?"

"My lord, Youzhou is no better than Qingxu or Jizhou. People's livelihood in Youzhou is difficult and the population is small. I'm afraid...it's not easy to supply the king's [-] sailors." Cao Zhang carefully chose his words and controlled his tone. , not only to make myself appear very sincere, to prevent Sun Shao from seeing the flaws, but also to express my own meaning clearly, so as to prevent Sun Shao from continuing to go north. "At your majesty's speed, we will have to go back two or three months ahead, otherwise... I'm afraid we will celebrate the New Year in the ice and snow. It will snow in northern Xinjiang in August and September, and the wind will be fierce. Very soon, they are cutting people like knives, and I am worried that the king's navy is mainly composed of southerners, and I am afraid that they cannot stand this kind of weather."

"Hu Tian will be snowing in August." Sun Shao nodded, and said with deep sympathy: "You have reminded me that it is reasonable to prepare winter clothes earlier."

Just as Cao Zhang showed a little smile, he was stopped by Sun Shao's words behind him, preparing winter clothes?It seems that Sun Shao has long wanted to spend the winter in Youzhou.He scratched his head, thought for a while, and said, "What needs to be prepared is not only winter clothes, but also a lot of food. Twenty thousand sailors will consume forty thousand shi of food every month, which is not a small amount. Furthermore, After being away from home for a long time, the feeling of homesickness must be heavy, isn't Your Majesty worried that the hearts of his subordinates will not be stable?"

Sun Shao rubbed his nose and nodded frequently, but he didn't say whether he was going back or going forward.Cao Zhang couldn’t figure out his details, so he couldn’t force him to persuade him. Anyway, he’s said the ugly things first. If you imagine Qingzhou and Xuzhou, it’s impossible to ask for local supply of military rations. I won’t sell you rations, so don’t Say I don't give face.If you don’t want to go hungry, please give up your idea of ​​going to Youzhou and Liaodong. Liaodong belongs to me, so don’t have any ideas.

"Did your Majesty really buy horses when he went to Liaodong?" Cao Zhang asked again unwillingly.

"I want to buy a horse." Sun Shaopi grinned without a smile on his face. He could roughly guess the reason why Cao Zhang discouraged him from going north, but he was not someone who could be easily intimidated.If he can't even finish a small Bohai Bay, then he still wants to go to the Atlantic Ocean and go to Rome?However, he has no objection to making this Cao Zhang nervous.

"If the king doesn't ask too much, I can buy some war horses for the king." Cao Zhang gritted his teeth, and finally threw out a very tempting condition.Rather than letting Sun Shao go to Liaodong to buy horses by himself, it is better to be a middleman by himself, earning a price difference is still second, the most important thing is that this can control the quantity and quality of war horses, and indirectly control the growth of Jiangdong's strength.

"You also want to do business?" Sun Shao smiled, the corners of his mouth twitched, thinking it was very funny.

"I am very honored to be able to serve the king." Cao Zhang patted his chest, forced a smile and said, "I still have some connections among the barbarians, and the war horses I can buy will be cheaper than the ones bought by the king. If you don't worry, you might as well Leave this matter to me, so that those barbarians won't deceive the king."

"How much can you get?" Sun Shao became interested and looked up at Cao Zhang: "I want a lot, at least two thousand horses."

"Two thousand horses?" Cao Zhang was taken aback. Sun Shao's ambition is not small, and he said two thousand horses as soon as he said it.Cao Cao has been in business for so many years and only a few thousand cavalry?Not counting the scattered cavalry in the hands of the generals, there are no more than [-] cavalry in the real formation, including Cao Cao's personal guard tiger and leopard cavalry. The maximum number of cavalry deployed on the Jianghuai line is [-]. Does Sun Shao want to help Sun Quan form an army? A cavalry that can compete with the Wei army on the Jianghuai defense line?He rolled his eyes, then smiled calmly and said, "Does Your Majesty know the price of war horses?"

"I know a little bit." Sun Shao said not too sure: "The best horse is about 50 yuan, and the ordinary war horse is less than [-] yuan. This market should be correct, right?"

Cao Zhang smiled and shook his head: "It sounds right, but in fact there is a big gap."

"I would like to hear the details." Sun Shao became interested, sat up straight, and signaled Cao Zhang to take melons and fruits to quench his thirst.Cao Zhang talked eloquently, and talked about the market of war horses in northern Xinjiang in a fictitious manner, to the effect that what you know about the market, King Yue, is not completely accurate. The best war horses are not sold by barbarians, and they are not stupid. , will not sell you the best war horse, and secondly, even if they are willing to sell it, the price will be sky-high.The horses they traded were usually ordinary war horses, some of which could not go to the battlefield at all, especially for people who did not know how to do it. These horses looked fat and strong, but they could not run at all, and they could hardly be used to pull carts.

Sun Shao nodded repeatedly after hearing this, and Cao Zhang secretly breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that he had finally been persuaded.Unexpectedly, Sun Shao finally said something that almost made him lose his temper: "It seems that the Hu people are not honest. To do business with them, it is better to grab them directly."

Cao Zhang choked for a long time before he smiled wryly and said, "My lord, do you want to use the navy to chase barbarians?"

Sun Shao laughed, changed the topic, and threw the biggest question to Cao Zhang.In terms of business and nonsense, even Cao Pi is not Sun Shao's opponent, let alone Cao Zhang. After being talked about by Sun Shao for a while, Cao Zhang still didn't understand how Sun Shao wanted to rob the barbarian, and finally he could only identify him Just to say it casually, it is simply impossible.

But Cao Zhang didn't come in vain, Sun Shao readily agreed to sell him three hundred new swords.After the battle with Cui Qian, he was very envious of the sharpness of the Yue Kingdom's sword. The bear-shaped ring-shaped sword in his hand was not ordinary. Meteorite is mixed in the middle, and the ordinary [-]-refined and [-]-refined first swords are not opponents at all.At first Cao Zhang thought that it was a general like Cui Qian who had such a sharp saber. Later, he learned from Xia Houhui that this kind of saber was the standard configuration of the Yue State's Destroying Front Camp. However, it will all be replaced soon.

Cao Zhang was delighted to see this sharp sword. If all his men were equipped with such weapons, it would be easier to deal with the barbarians.He made a request to Sun Shao, and Sun Shao readily agreed, but there was only one thing. He sold [-] mouths to Zang Ba before, and then Sun Guan asked for another [-] mouths, and your brother Cao Pi bought another [-] mouths. , The thousand mouths brought out this time only have three hundred left, and I will sell them all to you. If you still want it, you can pay a part of the deposit first, and I will let the merchant ship deliver it to you within half a year.

For a while, Cao Zhang was not quite used to this transaction method of paying a deposit. He only bought [-] pieces of existing swords, which already gave him a toothache. Cao Zhang’s high-quality knives are ten times higher. Cao Zhang’s flesh hurts, but Sun Shao doesn’t take it seriously. He said very arrogantly, don’t bargain, if it’s not because you are using it to beat barbarians, I still don’t want to Sell ​​it to you.

Cao Zhang, who was fed up with sea water by Cui Qian for two times, had no choice but to bargain with Sun Shao, and finally moved his wife, Sun.Sun Shao was so entangled by him that he couldn't help it, and finally said, the price cannot be lowered. If you lower the price for you, others will have opinions. How about this, I will give you ten mouthfuls personally, no money will be charged.However, since we are relatives, if you want to help me buy horses, I don't want you to pay, as long as you let me go ashore to trade.

Cao Zhang agreed, and to be honest, he was also curious about how Sun Shao planned to rob the barbarians.But he also put his ugly words up front. I can help you with buying horses, and you can handle the food yourself. Youzhou has been supported by Jizhou for the past few years, and there is no surplus food to sell to you.Sun Shao agreed without hesitation, which made Cao Zhang even more curious and scratching his heart. 2 people are not 200 people. If he doesn't buy food from the land nearby, how can he supply the army?If it is transported from Yangzhou by boat, how much manpower and material resources will it take?Qingxu is close, but it is difficult for Xuzhou to supply itself. Although Qingzhou is better, but the control of Yecheng is relatively strict, and the number that Sun Guan can use is limited.

After much deliberation, Cao Zhang, Tian Yu and others still couldn't figure out how Sun Shao would solve his military ration problem.

The more Cao Zhang was curious, the more Sun Shao kept it a secret, and he wouldn't say anything even if he was killed.In the end, Cao Zhang could only go on the road full of doubts. He traveled by land, and Sun Shao traveled north by sea.At the beginning of August, Sun Shao arrived in the sea area of ​​Liaoxi County, stopped at a place called Qinhuangdao, and did not leave.When Cao Zhang received the news, he was very curious. He thought that Sun Shao had decided to give up going north because of food, so he rushed to Qinhuangdao with his people.When he arrived at Qinhuangdao, he felt that his guess was correct, Sun Shao's navy was fishing.

Yes, for fishing, Sun Shao set up camp on Qinhuangdao, and then sent a fleet out to sea every day for fishing. He went out every morning and returned with hundreds of big fish every night.When Cao Zhang heard the report, he didn't believe it at all. He rushed to the island to check it himself. When he saw those giant fish that were much bigger than cows and horses, his jaw almost dropped in amazement.

"So big?"

"What is this? It's average in the sea." Faced with Cao Zhang's surprise, Sun Shao, who was patrolling the crowd packing up the spoils, didn't take it seriously. He pointed at the large and small sea fish and said: "The small ones Tens of catties (one Han catty is equivalent to half a catty today), and the big ones are one or two thousand catties. Just these fish can supply half of my navy’s daily rations. I'm also going to ask them to do more. In fact, if you want me to say, it's better to eat fish. Eating fish will not only make you fat, but also make you smarter. By the way..." Sun Shao seemed to think of something suddenly, and slapped his head : "Did Mr. Cao feel flustered and depressed recently?"

"Yes." Cao Zhang was confused by Sun Shao's leaping thinking. This is talking about military rations, why is it talking about his father's body?
"I got some good things two days ago, and I specially left them for Cao Gong." Sun Shao pulled Cao Zhang back to the big tent, asked Xia Houhui to take out a closed crystal bottle and handed it to Cao Zhang, and said proudly: "This is a good thing. It's the best for Mr. Cao's age."

"What is this?" Cao Zhang looked at the pale yellow liquid in the crystal bottle, not knowing why.He looked at Sun Shao suspiciously, not because he was worried that Sun Shao would harm Cao Cao—if he wanted to harm Cao Cao, he would not offer Zhui Feng San—he really didn't understand the use of it.

"This is the oil extracted from the body of sea fish, which is good for the old man's body." Xia Houhui said with a smile: "This is the gold extracted from the sea. It is Ge Xianweng's secret skill, and most people can't buy it even if they want to buy it."

"Ge Xianweng? Is it Zuo Ci's disciple Ge Xuan?" Zuo Ci was Cao Cao's attendant. Cao Zhang also knew a little about his disciple Ge Xuan, but he didn't expect this person to be in Sun Shao's residence.

"It's him, you should believe it, right? If you still don't believe it, you can give this to Zuo Ci to try first." Sun Shao said with a smile: "However, I don't guarantee that I will give you this next time." , and there is no guarantee that Zuo Ci will return it to you after he has tried it."

"So good?" Cao Zhang didn't believe it at all, he felt that Sun Shao was fooling him again.

"It's true." Xia Houhui said with a smile: "Ge Xianweng himself eats a little every day, and now he feels refreshed and rejuvenated."

"Believe it or not." Sun Shao shrugged his shoulders habitually: "You Cao Ziwen is really nothing if you treat yourself like a donkey with good intentions."

Cao Zhang was really dubious. Sun Shao gave him too many surprises. Using fishing to solve the military ration problem was a solution that Cao Zhang had never thought of before, but Sun Shao did it.Although it can only solve half of the ration problem at present, this is already very shocking. Among other things, those unheard of big fish have already surprised Cao Zhang.

"You call it sitting in a well and looking at the sky." Sun Shao said with a sarcasm: "You are used to seeing small fish and shrimps in the pond, you would not have thought that there are such big fish in the sea? Let me tell you, the sea is bigger than this fish." Much bigger is that there are fish bigger than my boat, believe it or not?"

"And—" Even though Cao Zhang already admired Sun Shao, he still elongated his voice to express his disdain when he heard this sentence.A fish bigger than a boat, is this still a fish?You can simply say that it is the Kun mentioned in Zhuangzi's Happy Journey.

"I knew you would have this expression. The chick knows the great ambitions, and I am talking about people like you. A pair of eyes always stare at that square inch, but turn a blind eye to the bigger world. Apart from fighting in the nest, you will also What are you doing?" Sun Shao's face was full of sorrow for his misfortune, hating him for not fighting, just like a parent's heartache when seeing an unfilial son or grandson. "I originally thought that you, Cao Ziwen, were someone who took the task of conquering the Hu people. I didn't expect that you, like those people, were also a short-sighted person. It was a waste of my hard work."

Cao Zhang was left speechless by Sun Shao's words. In fact, he very much hoped to run across Mobei and sweep Kuanghu as Sun Shao said. His greatest wish was to become a famous general like Wei Qing and Huo Qubing, and build his achievements in Kaijiang On top of the soil.He has never valued Sun Shao like others, because he thinks that Sun Shao's battle to conquer Zhuya sounds nice, but it is not worth mentioning: Is Cui Qian a foreigner?He is also a Han Chinese, and he is now Sun Shao's subordinate. What he said to expand the territory is at best to regain the lost land.But he was different. He defeated the Karasuma people and made the fierce Karasuma people submit to the Han people again. This is the real foreigner.

However, no matter whether he looked at Sun Shao or not, he really felt guilty now, he was really guarding against Sun Shao, trying every means to prevent Sun Shao from going north, and Sun Shao did not take any action against him from the beginning to the end.Sun Shao patrolled the sea, which was clearly written in the edict of the Son of Heaven. Ten miles away from the coast was the territory of his Yue Kingdom. As the king of Yue, it was justifiable for him to visit.

However, even though Cao Zhang himself was ashamed, he was unwilling to be reprimanded by Sun Shao. He sneered: "Your Highness, everyone will say that your territory is in the sea. Except for some pirates, there is nothing worth fighting for in the sea." Foreigners? If you really have such ambitions, you can go on an expedition to Goguryeo and Buyeo. Although I, Cao Zhang, am not talented, I am willing to cooperate with Your Highness to advance both land and sea to expand the territory."

"Are you telling the truth or not?" Sun Shao turned his head and looked him up and down: "If you tell the truth, let's sit down and discuss it. If it's out of anger, I'm not interested. I'm very busy. , I don’t have time to fight with you.”

Cao Zhang was stunned, he was really angry, but from what Sun Shao said, he seemed to really have this plan?
(End of this chapter)