Wu Haogu is seasick!

He was dizzy when he went to sea for the first time, vomited and vomited. His stomach felt so uncomfortable that he felt so soft that he had to slapped Origa's increasingly thick thighs, which looked as miserable as he looked.

Oliga was not faint at all. She sold it to China on ships from the Middle East. If she wanted to be seasick, she might die.

So along the way, she was telling stories to Wu Haogu, who was so dizzy, distracted his attention. She told Bible stories, such as Genesis, Great Flood, and Exodus... Wu Haogu didn't believe these at all. If I heard her say this, I would have taught me a lesson, but now I don't have the strength to remember Oliga's "crime" in my heart and punished him severely when I got ashore!

Thinking about punishing Oliga, Wu Haogu was actually a little dizzy. At this time, the ship seemed to be shaking so hard, and I don’t know if it was about to get to the place.

Just as he thought of this, Ximen Qing came in from outside the cabin. Sister Ximen was not seasick like Oliga. After coming in, she saw Wu Haogu looking half-dead, so she shook her head and smiled: "Master, the boat has already entered the harbor, but if you want to get up and walk around?"

"Okay." Wu Haogu responded. He heard that the ship had arrived and knew that he would step on the solid earth immediately. He became much more energetic. With Oliga's support, he stood up and walked outside.

There were two ships carrying Wu Haogu and his entourage to Shamen Island, one was the "Jinbao" and the other was a temporary rental merchant ship, which was a circle smaller than the "Jinbao" and about 2,000 materials. The ship was loaded with food and was used to feed the hungry prisoners on Shamen Island.

According to the criminal law of the Song Dynasty, the degree of disposition from heavy to light: the heavy is the fortress of Shaman Island; secondly, the ridge table; secondly, three thousand miles to neighboring states; secondly, the detention of the township; secondly, the detention of Shaman Island is the most severe level! Those who are detained on the island are criminals who were originally sentenced to death and received lenient sentences.

However, the Song Dynasty court was sometimes very hypocritical. On the one hand, it liked to pardon the death row prisoners to show their kindness; on the other hand, it did not want these death row prisoners to return to society and continue to do evil in the future. So it was a rated ration, and only gave 300 people (referring to criminals). However, there were more than 300 criminals exiled to the island. Almost every year, this number of prisoners went to the island, so there was no enough food.

In order to solve the problem of insufficient food, the village that manages Shaman Island can only let the prisoners on the island fight each other and eliminate the excess population. Therefore, most of the prisoners sent to Shaman Island will starve to death or be beaten to death, which is worse than beheading directly!

However, these criminals despised by the Song Dynasty court were rare wealth in Wu Haogu's eyes, so they could not all starve to death.

With the help of Oliga, Wu Haogu was already standing on the back deck of the "Jinbao", and Shaman Island was revealed in front of him.

This is a small island with strange rocks. It is surrounded by high and dangerous walls and is very steep. On the east, north and west sides of the island, there are also some large and small islands. They form a semicircle and form a vast sea Tangwan. The pondwan is often calm and quiet, called Shamentang, and it is a rare shelter.

Among the islands that form Shamen Tang around Shamen Island, there are several larger than Shamen Island and seem to be flattering. It seems that there are arable land villages, hamlets and wharfs, which are like a place to garrison troops on the sea!

"It's not bad!"

Wu Haogu looked at the seawalls around him and his spirits suddenly improved.

"It's a good shelter." Hua Mancang, the bow of the Jinbao boat, took over the topic. "Maritime merchants who run to Khitan and Goryeo know this treasure land. When there are big storms, they will have to live as long as they find Shamentang."

"It's not just about being away from the wind?" Wu Haogu smiled, "This is a sea foundation, and it is also the starting point for our future voyages!"

"Basic business? Starting point?" Ximen Qing asked, "It's hard to be Jiehe Commercial City?"

"The Jiehe River is frozen in winter, how can it be a stronghold for the fleet?" Wu Haogu smiled, "Although we only have one ship now, it will definitely grow bigger in the future, and there will be hundreds of large ships. There must be a stable mooring and repair place. The seawall here is indeed very ideal."

Shouldn't the fleet go south in winter?

Wu Haogu's words are a bit "outsider". Ximen Qing, who knows a little about sailing, and Hua Mancang, the old boat head, both looked at each other, but they did not point it out.

In fact, they didn’t know that what Wu Haogu was preparing to build was not a merchant fleet, but a fleet used to control maritime hegemony in Northeast Asia!

Of course, the fleet cannot stay on the frozen boundary river in winter, and cannot go south to do business. It must have a reliable home port. Originally, Wu Haogu wanted to find a suitable mudflat outside the mouth of the Haihe River to transform, but the cost of doing so was too high. Now that he found the Shamen Island seawall, the problem has been solved.

...

The island's zhizhai is named Hu Yanqing, and it is very famous in later storytelling! However, in real history, he was a lower-level officer of the Pinghai Army stationed on the coast of Dengzhou. He is only in his twenties this year. This year, he was drawn to the Shamen Island Zhizhai, which is the most troublesome general of the Pinghai Army. The Shamen Island Zhizhai is similar to the executioner. Moreover, the executioner was ordered to kill people, while the Shamen Island Zhizhai had to kill people, and there was no order... So the officers of the Pinghai Army didn't want to be the Shamen Island Zhizhai, so they had to draw lots. Hu Yanqing was not lucky and drew a Zhizhai.

However, just when he thought he had to be such a bad guy for no reason, he got incredible news from his superiors. The superior of the Shaman Island Zhizhai was replaced by the envoy of the Five Islands, and Wu Haogu, from the Jiehe Shibo Department, served as the general.

This is really a bit inexplicable! The envoys of the Five Islands are military officials who are in charge of several small islands located between the Anfu Army and Dengzhou, Suzhou, Liao Dynasty. Their official positions are very small, but they have always been military officers from the Pinghai Army organized by the navy. How can they be appointed to a businessman now?

Although I was a little dissatisfied, the rules in the officialdom were to kill people with one level! Now Wu Haogu is not a level of official position, but a level of twenty! Wu Haogu's martial arts official was a seventh-rank gutter, and he was a middle- and high-ranking military officer in the Song Dynasty.

Hu Yanqing is just a rankless military officer. He ranks forty levels among the 52-level Song Dynasty military officer ranks, and the rank of the rank of Wu Haogu is more than twenty levels smaller than that of Wu Haogu. If you are promoted step by step, Wu Haogu's current supply and reserve custody, Hu Yanqing will never think about it in his next life.

So when he came down to report that he saw the sea boat with the word Wu into the pond, Hu Yanqing dared not be negligent, so he immediately took a group of subordinates to greet him at the pier outside the village of Shamen Island.

There are also several small boats on the pier of Shaman Island, with slender hulls and sails. Wu Haogu, who already knows a little about naval forces and shipbuilding, knows that they are "swordfish boats", which are small warships used to anti-smuggle and hunt thieves. They are more common in inland rivers and near seas, but they are not allowed to sail far away.

"Wu Xuanzan, Xiaguan Shamen Village, Hu Yanqing, has seen Xuanzan."

He is an old and handsome man, with a majestic figure, but a little ugly appearance, with a curly beard curled up, and a cold light shot out from his slightly slender eyes, which looks like a powerful general.

"Your name is Hu Yanqing?" Wu Haogu, who had already stepped onto the dock, was surprised when he heard the man's self-reported name, and then looked at him carefully. He had heard of this name in later generations, as if he was a famous general in storytelling.

"Low... it's Hu Yanqing." Hu Yanqing narrowed his eyes and looked at the age in front of him, who was about the same as himself, looked gentle and kind, like a scholar-like military general Shangguan.

"Okay, okay." Wu Haogu smiled, "Can the military commander of Dengzhou transfer documents to you?"

"I have received the transfer certificate and know that Xuanzan has also served as the envoy of the Five Islands of Tijuan." Hu Yanqing said, "The envoy of the Five Islands of Tijuan is not on Shaman Island, but on the opposite side of Da Xie Shu.

The officials have sent a swordfish boat to Da Xieshu to receive Zhou's recommendations."

Da Xie Shu was the Nanchangshan Island in later generations. There was originally a garrison camp on the island, which was called Da Xie Shu, so it was named after this.

Because Da Xieshu is far larger than Shamen Island, the envoys in the Five Islands were placed in Da Xieshu. The current person named Zhou had already received the letter and was waiting for the handover.

"No, no hurry." Wu Haogu smiled and waved his hand, and said to Hua Mancang behind him, "Bow of Hua Shun, unload the goods!"

"Here!"

Hua Mancang responded, but Hu Yanqing was stunned. What goods should be unloaded?

Wu Haogu smiled and said, "Huyanzhizhai, I ask you, how many soldiers and prisoners are there on the island?"

"Report to Xuanzan," Hu Yanqing hurriedly said, "There are a total of 155 soldiers on the island, five military academies, and a total of 362 prisoners."

Wu Haogu nodded, "I didn't come empty-handed, I brought some rewards and food to everyone... I'm sorry to Huyanzhizhai gathered everyone, and I gave them rewards and food to them."

Hu Yanqing was a little unbelievable about his ears. What kind of way did the Jiehe Market come from? Is there a reward? Is it going to fight? Is there food for prisoners? Is the court not going to starve them to death?

Seeing Hu Yanqing's face was confused, Wu Haogu smiled and said, "Hu Yanzhizhai, this is not a place to talk, let's change the place. I will talk to you slowly... This time, you, the soldiers and prisoners on the island, are all lucky. The official family has a major issue of opening up the territory, so we have to leave it to us!"
Chapter completed!