"Sister Yu, can you really let your husband go out like this?" Li Nian asked Chai Yu, who was also sitting in the carriage, on the way to the dock.

"You don't know our husband. Even if I really stop him from going, do you think it will work? Outsiders are both good-faithed and married a good husband. The husband is not only kind to us, but also very afraid of the inner world. He usually agrees to what we say. I admit that we have married a good husband, but are our husbands so afraid of the inner world? I think you and I know what we say."

After listening to Chai Yu's words, Li Nian carefully recalled Chai Yu's words and found that it was indeed as Chai Yu said. Zhao Weiji was quite afraid of it. Basically, he would not object to what his wife said in small matters in family matters.

But that is just a small matter at home. He always has his own set of ideas when encountering big things. These are not something that can be effective by opposing them.

So Chai Yu was very good at this, that is, he got angry just to increase Zhao Weiji's sense of guilt, but he would not really stop him from doing what he was willing to do, but instead used this sense of guilt to restrain Zhao Weiji from going out for too long.

This is why the couple has been married for more than ten years, and even if Zhao Weiji married the second wife, she still loved Chai Yu.

As he spoke, the carriage had arrived at the dock. In order to express his gratitude to his wife, Zhao Weiji personally came over and lifted the curtain of the carriage, and then helped the two wives out of the carriage one by one.

After Chai Yu and Li Nian got off the carriage, they immediately saw a completely different new ship, and this ship was the Black Pearl, the car of Zhao Weiji's upcoming pirate career.

"Husband, is this the ship you are going to drive out as a pirate?" Because this ship is so strange, Li Nian couldn't help but feel a little unbelievable that this is the ship that Zhao Weiji was going to drive out.

The reason why this ship is said to be strange is that although the Black Pearl was renovated from the old ship, it was completely different from the Sea God after it was formed.

The Black Pearl is the second steamship owned by Xinhua City. The first one is naturally the Sea God. However, unlike the Sea God, since the Black Pearl is a ship that Zhao Weiji is planning to use as a pirate ship, the design has more considerations for combat functions.

First of all, the hull is covered with artillery on both sides, with two layers of artillery windows on each side, with about ten windows on each floor, and a cannon is placed in each window. Just like those warships in the 17th century.

The reason for this design is that Zhao Weiji does not have the ability to build warships as a whole, so the later iron-clad ship cannons could not be completed. He could only use the design of the distribution of artillery on both sides of the 178th century.

However, in order to make up for the shortcomings of artillery on both sides, Zhao Weiji installed two mortars at each end of the hull, which were used as attack weapons when the ship could not use the side cannon to attack the enemy.

Moreover, since the production technology is not at the level of large-scale industrial construction, the Black Pearl, like the Sea God, is mainly made of wooden structure, and steel is only used to wrap the lower part of the hull, and also a chimney used as a smoke from the steam engine.

However, in addition to the weapons covered, the Black Pearl also has a huge difference from the Sea God. In order to arrange artillery on both sides, the Black Pearl canceled the design of huge rollers on both sides of the hull, and replaced it with a huge propeller at the rear of the hull.

Although due to steam power, the propeller may not be able to generate greater power than the huge rollers, Zhao Weiji did not expect the propeller's thrust to become the main power of the ship, because the main power of the ship is still wind power. The Black Pearl, like the Sea God, still retains the sails and masts.

It’s not that Zhao Weiji doesn’t want to build a fully steam-powered ship, but that the steam-power cannot deliver such a huge boost, and that the energy is not enough.

To maintain the operation of the steam engine of the ship, it is naturally not enough to use firewood as fuel. At this stage, only coal can do it.

However, Xinhua City does not have so many coal mine resources, and most of the time it is necessary to import coal mines from the Central Plains. The reason why Wang Bin was sponsored for two steam engines for free was also for this purpose.

However, even if there are coal mines imported from the Central Plains, they have to be used in other places in Xinhua City, such as steel plants, so not many of them can be used on ships.

This also causes the real power source or wind power of the two steamships, whether it is the Sea God or the Black Pearl, to be used as an auxiliary function.

But even so, the Black Pearl can still surpass the sea ships of this era in speed. After all, the Black Pearl's sailing technology will be hundreds of years later.

"Yes, let's go up and take a look." After saying that, Zhao Weiji pulled his two wives to board the Black Pearl.

After getting on the ship, Chai Yu and Li Nian discovered that the ship was even more exaggerated and huge than looking below. Zhao Weiji made full use of all the space that could be used, so that although the ship was full of cannons, there was still enough space for 200 passengers to ride, and there was no sense of space suppression.

"How is it?" Zhao Weiji asked his two wives complacently.

At this time, Li Nian could no longer speak because it was too shocking. This ship can be said to be the most advanced and practical sea ship of this era.

Chai Yu held it in for a long time and said, "Husband, are you sure you are going to be a pirate, not to destroy any small sea country?"

Indeed, with this ship, Zhao Weiji only needs to think about destroying several island countries on the sea. Chai Yu's previous concerns about whether Zhao Weiji's pirate behavior would be dangerous has now disappeared. Such a ship, combined with those cannons, and with the muskets of the ship, will definitely be brought on the ship. Any other pirate who encounters such a monster can only beg for mercy.

So Chai Yu completely stopped opposing Zhao Weiji going to sea. Since his wife agreed, the journey to sea was quickly raised.

A month later, Zhao Weiji, who was ready, brought Wang Dayuan, the former "pirate" Yang Hua, who was unwilling to be lonely, and more than 100 sailors. He brought enough guns and ammunition, all the equipment and food he used at sea, and went out to sea to sail towards Baghdad.

However, just five hours after going to sea, Zhao Weiji found two uninvited guests on the boat.

And at the same time, the royal palace in Xinhua City.

"Xiao Nian, have you seen Ling'er and Teng'er?" Chai Yu was a little anxious.

"No."

At this moment, Zhao Xueer suddenly appeared in front of Chai Yu, handed a piece of paper with words to Chai Yu, and then said, "Big Mom, at this time, the eldest sister and second brother asked me to hand it over to you."

Chai Yu opened the letter and saw it immediately fainted.

Li Nian was shocked when she saw Chai Yu fainting, so she immediately took the letter Chai Yu still held in her hand and read it. After reading it, she almost fainted.

Because the letter was written by Zhao Ling'er, it said that she and Zhao Teng sneaked to the Black Pearl and went to Baghdad with their father Zhao Weiji.

How could Chai Yu, who had never left her child since she was born to such an old age, accept such a thing? What's more, they ran to the boat to go to sea to such a faraway place in Baghdad.

At this time, Chai Yu could only hope that Zhao Weiji could find out that these two naughty children had slipped onto the boat as soon as possible.

At this time, Zhao Weiji had already discovered these two naughty children, and they were hiding under the captain of Zhao Weiji.

However, when Zhao Weiji discovered these two naughty children, the ship had already sailed out of the harbor for five hours, and it was too late to turn around at this moment, so she had to bring these two naughty children. Fortunately, there were a lot of carrier pigeons on the boat, so Zhao Weiji immediately wrote a letter to take the carrier pigeons back to Xinhua City to tell Chai Yu about the news that the naughty children could reassure her.

After receiving Zhao Weiji's letter, Chai Yu finally breathed a sigh of relief, but she also secretly swore that she would definitely look good when these two naughty children come back.

Just after Zhao Weiji sent the letter, he immediately began to interrogate the naughty child.

"Tell me, how did you two slip up?"

"We both got on the boat with a swagger two hours before departure, and no one stopped us."

Zhao Teng's statement almost made Zhao Weiji so angry. It was so easy. But it was no wonder that the two of them were the daughters and sons of the prince's family. This boat was the prince's about to go out to sea, so no one was surprised when they were on the boat to visit.

And at that time, there were still a lot of supplies being transported onto the ship, so when the two of them came up, no one was paying attention to them, so they did not get off the ship and naturally no one noticed it.

"So why do you two slip up? Do you know how worried your mother will be if you do this?"

"We have left a note for my mom, and we know that once you find out, you will also send a letter to my mom."

Zhao Weiji was not too angry about the attitude of the two children, because he knew what the two children were afraid of, so he continued: "I think no matter how much I scold you now, you probably don't want to admit your mistakes, but it doesn't matter that our ship will come to Xinhua City sooner or later. Then see how your mother dealt with you."

As soon as Zhao Weiji finished speaking, the two naughty children's faces turned pale, because they just thought about going out and forgot that the ship would eventually return. It would be strange if their mother didn't suck their muscles.

Seeing the reactions of the two naughty children, Zhao Weiji nodded with satisfaction, and then patted Zhao Teng on the shoulder and said, "Anyway, I can't go back now, so you can do whatever the sailors do from tomorrow, just treat it as a punishment for you."

After saying that, Zhao Weiji left the captain's room and went to get food for the two naughty children.

The two naughty children who remained in the cabin could only look at each other. They did not expect that the bitter days would start from now on.
Chapter completed!