Mei Kan was happy when she spoke, but saw Lin Yanchao not speaking. He immediately observed his words and looked at him and restrained his spirit: "This time our Mei family can become an imperial merchant, and we rely entirely on the guidance of Master Jingli. This kindness of our Mei family will never forget it for the rest of our life."

Hearing this, Lin Yanchao couldn't help but say, "When we introduced you brothers as the Imperial Shang Dynasty, we did not for ourselves, but for our guidance to the Mei family to serve the court. Do you still remember what I said to you brothers?"

Mei Kan immediately lowered his head and said, "Mr. Jingluo's words, we brothers will remember every word and sentence in our hearts. Master Jingluo's instruction that the officials and businessmen in this dynasty did not contact each other, so that those who are in the dynasty should not care about business affairs, and those who are in the dynasty should not raise national affairs. We are businessmen, we should not only care about personal gains and losses, but should be in mind the whole world!"

Lin Yanchao smiled and said, "It's right, that's the truth. So this time you transported 500,000 stones of grain to North Korea, which is a great help to the court. The emperor knows that your Mei family has made contributions to the country."

Mei Kan said: "It all depends on the support of Master Jianli."

Lin Yanchao said: "Okay, don't speak so conservatively. The court has already allowed banning any saltpeter from various provinces from going to sea. In this way, I have fulfilled my promise to your brother."

Mei Kan was overjoyed when she heard this. The ban on expelling stones would inevitably rise sharply. In the future, foreign countries would have to pass through the Mei family. How dare the government investigate the ships of the imperial merchants!

Lin Yanchao asked the Mei family to transport 50 stones of grain to North Korea in one sentence. Even if he was the backer of the Mei family, he could not just ask others to do things for nothing based on the slogan of caring about the world, but he would also give them convenience from the court.

"Will it cause trouble for adults if it is sold to Japan?"

Lin Yanchao smiled and said, "Good question, but if you don't do this business, some people will take risks. It's better to blackmail the Japanese high prices!"

"Then the villain will keep it secret! Let the people below be more polite."

"Security is to keep secrets, but I will let the people in the palace report this to the emperor!"

"Then the emperor?"

Lin Yanchao smiled and said, "The emperor is a wise king. As ministers, we need to serve it with sincerity."

The Mei family's fleet was moored in Dengzhou for two days, and 500,000 stones of grain were unloaded 150,000 stones, and transported the troops from Tianjin back to Tianjin, which was also the meaning of the court.

And 350,000 shi of military rations is enough to be more than half a year for the military personnel.

In fact, the Tianjin Transportation Army warships were disrepaired and were unwilling to arrive in North Korea through a long sea route before returning to Tianjin. At this moment, they were eager to return to Tianjin.

The two sides were delivered in Dengzhou, and then the Mei family fleet sold some "entrapment" in Shandong and purchased some "entrapment". On the third day, it carried 350,000 shi of military rations with Liu Shi's officers and soldiers on the sea route to North Korea.

The southeast wind happened to hit this day, which was smooth sailing.

Lin Yanchao boarded Mei Kan's big ship in a small boat.

This large ship with a thousand materials is a Guangzhou ship, as the name suggests, a ship built in Guangdong. The Guangzhou ship looks similar to the Fu Ship, and they are all pointed sea ships.

The difference is that in addition to the structure, the materials are used. Fu Ship is generally fir or pine, and a few use nanmu. If HNA is considered, it is very unfriendly to such cork-shelled sea boats. Because cork hulls are easily corroded by sea water and adhesion.

Using fir as a blessing boat can last at most five or seven years on the sea, while pine wood has a shorter service life.

This has to be said of the advantages of the West. During the voyage, Western sailing ships are mostly made of teak and oak. The lifespan of the ship can reach decades and are more resistant to wind and waves.

This is also the reason why China does not have an Age of Discovery from a broad historical perspective.

This thousand-material Guangzhou ship uses iron pear wood, which is better than fir and pine on the ship, and is more sturdy. Qi Jiguang once said that if the Guangzhou ship collides with the lucky ship, the lucky ship will inevitably fall apart. Of course, the price of the Guangzhou ship is definitely much more expensive than the Fu ship.

Lin Yanchao looked carefully at the Qianqian Guanghuo ship, with a banner with the word "联".

The military font on this ship is made of military fonts, the civil fonts are made of civil fonts, and the transportation fonts are made of Tijuan.

The Ming Dynasty did not allow the people to build large ships with more than 1,000 materials without permission. If the large ship with a civilian size was hung on it, Mei Kan would have been detained long ago.

The treasure ships Zheng He voyage to the West were said to be two thousand large ships, which is incredible.

In addition to the thousand-quality broad ships, most of the other ones were the four hundred-quality wind-drilling sea ships that transported the army and the people. Compared with the Japanese pirates, the four hundred-quality sea ships were equivalent to their Anzhai ships, and as for the thousand-quality large ships, it was equivalent to the Dazhai ships.

Of course, this material does not refer to the load, but the wood used for shipbuilding.

As for the thousand-stuffed boats in the total number of materials, we use 302 fir trees, two chestnut trees, twenty mixed trees, the rest, tung oil, ship hemp, etc.

The four hundred materials used to drill the wind and sea boats, two fir trees, two iron woods (iron plow wood), sixty-seven mixed woods, and other attachments.

The four hundred materials are nearly thirty meters long, which is already a huge monster in Lin Yanchao's opinion. The Japanese people even have to be called Anzhai, and they call it Dazhai over fifty meters. However, Zheng He's treasure ship voyage to the West is said to be more than 150 meters long. I don't know how they are feeling at that time.

Now the dense sea boats in Penglai Water City are sailing out to sea through the Water Gate.

The bow of the boat can be said to be flags waving, and the southeast wind makes people feel more comfortable.

The sky was extremely clear. At first glance, the sea was clear and the waves were calm. Under the sunlight, thousands of golden lights bloomed on the sea surface. Lin Yanchao, who was sitting on the Qianlihua Boat, felt as comfortable as walking on the flat ground.

Four hundred sea boats can carry more than a thousand stones, each with fifteen or sixteen sailors. In addition, there are also Dengzhou navy escorts. Hundreds of large and medium-sized ships sailed from Dengzhou to the ocean. This scene is so majestic that there is no word to describe.

Even Lin Yanchao was in a state of excitement when he looked at this.

At this moment, he led this huge fleet to North Korea to deliver the food and grass that the Ming army in the Japanese were most urgently needed.

Lin Yanchao's sea route to the North Korea was the historically paid the salary for the Dengzhou town of Dongjiang. At that time, Mao Wenlong set up a town of Dongjiang, and the court asked Mao Wenlong not only to raise soldiers but also to support the Liao people who joined him.

So Mao Wenlong proposed to the court to attract investment, begged for the sea ban, and agreed to the merchants in Denglai to come to Pidao to trade with North Korea.

In the third year of the Tianqi period, the court agreed to open a market in Dongjiang Town, so Dongjiang Town became a maritime trade center at that time, feeding hundreds of thousands of people.

However, Dongjiang Town was not well-managed and owed merchants hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

When I went to sea from Dengzhou and arrived at Pi Island, the Ming army's grain ship fleet took only three days to go smoothly.

From the expressions of the soldiers under Liu Jing's subordinates, we can see how incredible this is.

Pidao is not crowded now, but its location is extremely important. It is located deep in the north. It is the capital of Dingliao Guard. If you sail for more than ten miles, you can reach Xuanchuan and Tieshan County in North Ping'an Road, North Korea. There are many Han people in these two counties. Mao Wenlong vigorously cultivated farms and raised troops here. For the Ming army, it has a good mass base.

North Korea, Ming army camp.

Since the Battle of Bitiguan, the Ming army retreated for 400 miles and stationed here.

The Ming army is in a very difficult situation at this moment.

Li Rusong looked out of the tent and asked left and right, "Have North Korea's food and fodder not been sent yet?"

His brother Li Rubai said: "Not yet, I have sent someone to urge me. The people below tied up local North Korean officials on trees and beat them up, but even so they couldn't ask for food."

"Brother, the soldiers below are infected with countless diseases. Hundreds of war horses die every day without food. If this continues, all our people will be left here."

Li Rusong said: "What else can I do? If you retreat, we will simply retreat across the river and go back to Liaodong and eat. What would the court think like this?"

"We have been a great victory before, and now we are going to go back in a mess? Where is the face of the court like this? The court will not spare us, and the emperor will not forgive our Li family."

Li Rubai couldn't help but sighed to the sky: "If there is enough food and supplies, we will not be able to do this anymore. We simply turned around and fought with the Japanese army at Seoul. Even if we lost, we would be worthy of the emperor."

Li Rusong said annoyedly: "The morale is so low now. What do you ask the soldiers to fight against the Japanese? This will last forever. What's more, the people in the Southern Army and the platform intend to make things difficult for us!"

Li Rusong and Li Rubai looked at each other and sighed.

"What is a dilemma? I understand today!" After Li Rusong said that, he punched the desk hard.

The two of them immediately calmed down, and Li Rusong said, "Actually, I have never told you about something. Lord Cao from the capital secretly sent someone to tell me that Yuan Fu had decided on peace. The Minister of War Shi Dasima now agrees with peace talks. As for the governor, he also thinks the same."

"Then the court wants to negotiate peace, is it necessary for us?"

Li Rusong nodded and said, "The court may have this meaning."

"But before the court, Sima Shida and Yuanfu both advocated suppressing the Korean Japanese pirates in one fell swoop."

"I heard that this time it was Lin Houguan, the Minister of Rites, who persuaded Yuanfu and Shida Sima. He always advocated tribute, so the court had the plan to stop when he saw it, and sent him as the Japanese preparatory strategy to preside over the peace talks against the Japanese."

Li Rubai said angrily: "Why should we discuss peace? If we have food and grass, we cannot defeat the Japanese. These civil officials are greedy for life and fear of death, and the country's affairs are corrupted in the hands of these people."

Li Rusong sighed after hearing this. He remembered that he had seen Lin Yanchao when he was in the Forbidden City. At that time, he felt that the two of them had a chance to meet again.

Now that the other party is really sent to North Korea, North Korea will not be allowed to listen to him from top to bottom.

If Lin Yanchao presided over the matter of peace and tribute, then Li Rusong would attack rashly, and he would be defeated if he wins.

Not only is he ineffective, but he has made mistakes! As a dignified manager, Lin Yanchao is not allowed to sue him.

This is what makes Li Rusong even more difficult. As a military general, he can only go to the battlefield to kill the enemy, but he just has to listen to these civil officials' fingers.

The imperial court's use of literature to control military affairs is really nonsense!

ps: There will be updates tomorrow!
Chapter completed!