In the late autumn of the 19th year of Zhenguan, the cold wind had swept across the Central Plains before the autumn began. The villagers walking on the road locked their necks and tightened their pace. Gu Qing, Wu Mei, and Xiao Yizi sat on the edge of the kang with high collars.

"It's so cold outside." Li Zhi shrank his neck and walked into the door, blocking the cold wind outside.

"Come and try!" Gu Qing handed a high-collared collar to Li Zhi.

"What is this?" Li Zhi looked at it strangely.

Gu Qing put the high collar around Li Zhi's neck and buttoned it around his neck, "This way it won't be cold."

"It's really much more comfortable." Li Zhi stretched out his neck, "It's just so uncomfortable."

"Just get used to it." Xiao Yizi also said, "Brother, this kang is so comfortable."

Li Zhi sat on the kang and said, "Gu Qing, I just heard the news that Goguryeo had retreated step by step after attacking Japan. His father wanted to give Goguryeo food and weapons again. Fortunately, Nanzhao sent enough food, otherwise someone in the court would make peace."

"This thug from Goguryeo is really not good." Gu Qing felt the warmth of the family and his second child was about to be born. The old man said that it was only half a month, and it would not be much different.

The servants in the family put all their focus on Wu Mei.

Li Zhi said in confusion: "Hit?"

"Yes, thugs." Gu Qing said to Li Zhi, "Goguryeo is our thugs. They need the resources of Japan to strengthen themselves. We also need Goguryeo to attack Japan and then reach a consensus! After the event is completed, Goguryeo and the Tang Dynasty sit on the ground to share the spoils on this cake in Japan!"

"It's indeed a bad guy!" Li Zhi looked at Gu Qing.

"Your Highness King Jin, I am a good person." Gu Qing nodded seriously.

Wu Mei said while knitting needles and thread, "I already know how to do it, so how can men do needlework?"

"I am idle." Gu Qing said, and said to Li Zhi again, "Does there any discussion about the matter in the East China Sea?"

"Why do I feel like you are using me?" Li Zhi ate a piece of dried meat, looking dissatisfied.

This kid has grown up and become more and more energetic! It’s not as easy as before, Gu Qing sighed sadly, “Your Highness, King Jin, I miss you so much when you were crying and eating your own rabbit.”

Li Zhi bit off a piece of jerky again and chewed hard.

On the coastline of the East China Sea of ​​Datang, Shangguan Yi stood on the sea boat. In front of him was a vast ocean. The three sea boats had tested more than ten times, and one or two accidents occurred, but none of them were big problems. They were sailing very steadily at the moment.

The northwest wind was getting stronger and stronger. Shangguan Yi, who returned to the shore, also saw Li Junxian who was with him this time.

Wu Laoqi is now alone and has never brought his brothers when he comes to the East China Sea. Although he has made friends with many civilians, he just makes friends at will and doesn’t know if it will be helpful to him in the future. He is very afraid of Li Junxian and the three thousand elite soldiers. He has always been born in a rampant manner and is instinctively repulsive of such corpses.

Li Junxian said very little, and he was stationed by the side with his soldiers, and he kept waiting to go out to sea without doing anything.

Shangguan Yi began to prepare food and water sources. Water sources and dry food on the sea are very important. After three days, everything is ready. Li Junxian looked at the three frames of plums and was curious, "What are you doing with these things?"

"The general doesn't know anything." Shangguan Yi explained, "This is a very sour plum. After several tests, many people will feel dizzy after being on the boat for a long time, and these plums will be much better in the future."

Li Junxian also pulled out a lot of baggage and a lot of weapons, enough for everyone to take a handful of them.

Wu Laoqi skillfully danced the horizontal knife in his hand and felt that the weight was very good. He still looked at the thirty artillery pieces mounted on three large ships.

Shangguan Yi looked at the big ship, "I don't know how Gu Qing made it. He seemed to have experience in going out to sea. This kind of sea ship is very suitable for both naval battles and long-distance voyages."

"Can you set out?" Li Junxian said.

Shangguan Yi took out his compass and compared the chart to compare the wind direction and said, "You can go."

"Okay!" Li Junxian took three thousand elite soldiers to board the ship first.

Shangguan Yi advised several sailors who had been trained and boarded the boat. There were not many people who went out to sea for an expedition, and ten thousand civilians took them. Anyway, the boat was large enough, so some students from the academy were left to guard the port.

Standing on the deck of the sea boat, Shangguan Yi was very excited. This was the first group of people who went out to sea for expedition in the Tang Dynasty. He shouted loudly, "Put down the sails! Put down the anchor and set sail."

Under the howling northwest wind, dozens of students from academies watched three large ships sailing away from the port.

Near this port, many people were watching the three large ships leave the embankment and move faster and faster in the sea.

A few hours later, Shangguan Yi looked back again and saw that the original port was only the size of sesame and mung beans. Looking at Dongfang again, he felt excited and nervous.

Looking at the compass and the chart, Shangguan Yi shouted again, "Switch the rudder three times! March at full speed!"

"Switch the rudder three times and move forward at full speed!" The two sea boats next door also heard shouts.

The three large ships all turned toward the northeast by fifteen degrees and headed towards Japan.

As Gu Qing said, in the sea, as long as the vast sea water has no reference objects and no sense of direction, it is difficult to find the direction only with the compass in your hand.

Li Junxian was sitting on the deck and was about to drink a sip of water when the civilian on the side said, "This general drinks less, water is very precious at sea."

Shangguan Yi also said to Li Junxian who was a little confused, "General Li, we may have to wander on the sea for a long time, so it's better to save some money."

As he heard this, Li Junxian put down the water bag again.

The canvas roared in the wind, and after leaving the sea, the wind became stronger and stronger, and it was still very cold and it was untenable on the deck. This time I went to Japan and waited for the next time I came back to the spring monsoon that was blown by the warm wind in the southeast.

It took three months to go on the war at one time, but Shangguan Yi was looking forward to it and felt that this trip was worth it. There were not many sea boats that had arrived in the Tang Dynasty over the years, but most of them were in the South China Sea, and there were only a few. Moreover, the structure of sea boats was not as good as the ships under his feet now.

Chang'an

Gu Qing's ship finally went out to sea, and the news was rushed into Chang'an. I don't know what it was about this news, and the appearance of Gu Qing's port was also drawn, including such a weird ship.

Cheng Yaojin was very happy to be walking in Chang'an City with a big black dog, a typical big black backed pastoral dog, with pure blood.

The people passing by Zhuque Street were bypassing, afraid that it was not this big black dog, but the owner of the big black dog.
Chapter completed!