Lin'an Never Night

Chapter 538: The Angry Him (Additional chapter for the leader of "Speaking Frankly")
Wang Shuai's Goryeo fleet sailed out of the Tumen River estuary and headed south.

The fleet did not stop after entering the Goryeo waters, and only decided to dock when it reached the Samcheok waters in Yeongdong Province.

There is still enough food and supplies on the boat, mainly to replenish fresh water, and then we can go all the way to Quanzhou without stopping.

Yingge, A'man, Alihu and Ata, four daughters, are now waiting at the Jin family in Quanzhou.

When they were still more than 20 nautical miles away from Samcheok Port, a Goryeo naval fleet suddenly came towards them.

The navy, flying the flags of the Goryeo Kingdom's Lingdongdao Bingma Jiedushi and Samcheok Gwangwan, ordered the fleet to stop from a distance with flags.

When the news reached Wang Shuai, he was very angry.

He strode to the bow of the ship. The sun was shining brightly and visibility on the sea was very high.

He saw that the Goryeo navy's ships were slowly dispersing, forming a semi-encirclement of his merchant ships.

The ships of the Goryeo navy were not large, far less huge than those of the merchant fleet, but they were more maneuverable.

They surrounded slowly and cautiously like a pack of wolves hunting a zebra.

General Wang immediately ordered his sailors to signal the other side's flagship with flags, and then sailed his own ship closer. He wanted to negotiate with the other side.

The opponent's flagship also sailed out of the array, and the two ships slowly approached each other on the sea, bow to bow.

Jin Yuzhen was teaching Yang Yuan how to play Go in the cabin. When she heard the news, she couldn't help but raise her eyebrows and said in surprise: "The Samcheok navy? Who gave them the courage to intercept our caravan?"

She and her subordinates were speaking Korean, and Yang Yuan couldn't understand, so he asked with a smile, "Madam, is there anything wrong?"

"Oh, there is a small matter. I will go and take care of it. Please take a rest first. I will play chess with you later."

Mrs. Jin stood up and said with a smile, "The scholar's chess skills are improving rapidly."

Just a little inconvenience?
Yang Yuan looked at Mrs. Jin's back as she hurriedly left, picked up a few chess pieces and thought for a moment, then suddenly let go and dropped the pieces on the chessboard.

He stood up, took his sword from the bulkhead, hung it around his waist, and walked out.

At the bow, General Wang was slapping the side of the ship angrily, spitting and roaring at the naval commander on the opposite ship.

Bastard, go to hell, who the hell do you think you are? He cursed with spit flying everywhere.

A general of the Samcheok navy stood on the opposite bow and said with a stern face: "I have every reason to suspect that you, Master Wang Shuai, are doing something that will harm our Goryeo Kingdom.

I will send someone to board the ship for inspection. I ask you to take a small boat to my ship immediately for interrogation. You'd better obey the instructions, otherwise, I will have to attack you! "

"Ah! What a bastard! You are so brave..." Wang Shuai slapped the side of the boat and cursed.

"What happened?" Jin Yuzhen walked to the bow, glanced at the warships that were slowly approaching, and asked in confusion.

Wang Shuai said angrily, "These bastards are so bold that they said they would send sailors to board our ship for inspection, saying that we were smuggling contraband. They also wanted me to board their ship for questioning. How dare they do that?"

Jin Yuzhen's expression turned cold after hearing this.

Are they smuggling?

Strictly speaking, it was smuggled.

However, Goryeo did not have a formal overseas trade management agency like the Song Dynasty, and their overseas trade management was quite loose.

Basically, as long as you can get through to the big clans that control the coastal ports, or have powerful strength that surpasses them, no one will care at all.

Now, the Samcheok navy clearly saw the flag of the Gyeongju Kim family hanging on the bow of the ship, but they still made such a big fuss. It was obvious that they came prepared.

Jin Yuzhen hesitated for a moment and said, "Then let's go over there and negotiate with them. If necessary, you can give them some benefits. Don't delay too long."

Wang Shuai was shocked and asked, "Are you crazy? They are warships! They already know my identity but don't care. You still let me go. What if they go crazy and want to kill me?"

Jin Yuzhen said angrily, "You are crazy if you have such an idea! What reason do they have to kill you? Scholar Yang is on our ship. He believes that the Wang family and the Jin family can solve the problems encountered in the Goryeo Sea, so he gave this big business to us. Do you want him to laugh at us?"

"You want to go?"

Wang Shuai rolled his eyes and said, "I'm just a cover. Your Jin family takes the lion's share."

Jin Yuzhen was furious: "Idiot, now is the time when you are needed to show up as a cover."

Wang Shuai sneered, "They know my identity, but they don't give me any face at all. It's obvious that they are here with bad intentions! What's the use of my cover?"

General Wang pointed to the flag on the bow of the other ship and said, "Look, that's the flag of the Samcheok navy, they are under the Lingdong Road Military Commission.

And Li Mu, the military governor of Lingdong Road, is your childhood sweetheart, why don't you go?"

The old man of the Jin family is a cunning old man, and the Jin family indeed accounts for the majority of this maritime trade business.

But considering such a large fleet, it is impossible to conceal it for too long. In order to avoid making the Jin family the target of public criticism, he also pulled in the family behind Wang Shuai and let Wang Shuai take the lead.

As a result, not only the Jurchens now believe that General Wang is the host of this sea trade route, but people in Goryeo also hold the same view.

Of course, the Wang family was willing to agree to such conditions because they did not need to pay anything practical. They only needed to pay a title and a commander-in-chief.

Jin Yuzhen was furious: "Asshole! Are you still a man?"

"Yes I am! But do men deserve to take risks?"

Wang Shuai straightened his chest and silently replied in his heart: "I won't risk my life for a woman who is not my woman. Do you think I'm stupid?"

Jin Yuzhen really wanted to punch him hard, but if they continued to quarrel in front of so many subordinates, it would only make people laugh.

"Okay, I'll go! Lower the boat and the gangway!" Jin Yuzhen said hatefully.

Yang Yuan had already come out at this time. He was calmly observing the movements of the Samcheok Navy from the side of the ship.

This was thanks to the fact that he had personally experienced a naval battle when he was chasing the Arab merchant Pu Yama at sea last time.

So he could tell at a glance that these Goryeo navy troops were in a very practical attack formation, and they were really planning to launch an attack if they disagreed. Yang Yuan immediately realized that something was wrong. Could it be that something had happened in Goryeo?

Yang Yuan was just about to walk to the bow to ask something when he saw a small boat being lowered from the other side of the ship.

Just as Jin Yuzhen was about to go down the gangway and board the boat, two sailors had already climbed down to stabilize the boat.

"Mrs. Jin?" Yang Yuan called out and walked towards her.

"Ah, Master Yang."

Jin Yuzhen looked back and smiled, her expression somewhat reluctantly: "We may have encountered a little trouble, but it's okay. I will go over to negotiate and it will be fine soon."

She nodded to Yang Yuan, supported herself on the side of the boat with one hand, lifted her skirt and stepped on the back of a sailor who was lying on the ground with his hands on the ground, climbed over the side of the boat, put her feet on the ladder, and slowly climbed down to the bottom of the boat.

Yang Yuan asked General Wang who was walking over, "Master Wang, is this your country's navy?"

General Wang replied uneasily, "Yes! These guys are the Samcheok navy, and they are under the command of the Lingdong Road Military Governor. The Lingdong Road Military Governor Li Mu married the princess, and he doesn't take me seriously."

The Li family is already powerful and is now the most powerful family in Goryeo, not to mention that Wang Shuai's family is only a branch of the royal family.

Yang Yuan asked: "Despite this, under normal circumstances, they would not fight each other, right?"

"Yes!"

Wang Shuai frowned and said, "This is exactly what puzzles me."

Yang Yuan narrowed his eyes and suddenly turned around and walked away.

He reached the side of the boat and looked down. Jin Yuzhen had already got on the small boat and was about to ask someone to row the boat over.

Yang Yuan shouted, "Mrs. Jin, please wait a moment!"

Jin Yuzhen looked up in surprise.

Yang Yuan stretched out his hand to push against the side of the boat, then jumped out of the boat and fell down.

Jin Yuzhen screamed in surprise, thinking that Yang Yuan had slipped and fallen off the boat.

That’s the height of two and a half floors. Jin Yuzhen subconsciously opened her arms to catch it.

Yang Yuan dropped a height, then reached out and placed his hand on the ladder, and his body suddenly paused.

After continuing to fall a body's length, he placed his hand on the ladder again.

After just a few moves, he stood steadily on the boat, cleanly and neatly.

The flagship of the opposing navy could not see the situation on this side, but the sailors on the merchant ship and the people on the navy warships that were surrounding them in an attack formation on the flanks could see it clearly and couldn't help but cheer in unison.

They had never heard of such a cool way of getting off the ship.

"Ah! Master Yang! You..."

Jin Yuzhen's hands were still slightly open, looking at Yang Yuan who dropped from the sky. The usually elegant and dignified lady now looked a little bit at a loss and dazed.

Yang Yuan smiled at her and said, "I'll go with you, Madam."

"Ah, ah, good!"

Jin Yuzhen blushed a little. She brushed her hair unnaturally and ordered, "Start the boat!"

……

"Has that kid General Wang arrived?" In the cabin of the Samcheok Navy's flagship, a young man asked leisurely while sitting with his legs crossed and drinking tea.

"Sir, a woman got off their boat, and Marshal Wang is still at the bow?"

"What? Woman, who? Can you negotiate with us on behalf of Wang Shuai?"

"It's Miss Yuzhen from the Jin family!"

The young man put down his teacup, stood up, and said happily: "Ah? That girl is also on the boat? Wang Shuai is such a piece of shit, actually letting a woman stand in front of him, what a piece of shit!"

He wanted to rush out of the cabin, but changed his mind and stopped, saying with a smile: "Go and tell Chen Weikuan to wait until Yuzhen enters the cabin before launching the attack.

I don't want to scare her, that girl has a bad temper and will get angry at me."

Jin Yuzhen climbed up the navy's flagship along the ladder, panting slightly as she straightened her clothes.
She always paid attention to her appearance in front of others. As a noble, she could not lose her composure in front of the common people and untouchables below the royal family and the yangban (literati).

Chen Weikuan, the commander of the Samcheok navy, came forward to meet him. At that time, the messenger sent by the noble boy in the cabin had not yet reached him.

Yang Yuan climbed to the side of the boat, stretched out his hand to hold the side, and jumped onto the deck.

Chen Weikuan glanced at him and didn't take him seriously, thinking that he was just a guard brought by the woman in front of him.

Chen Weikuan laughed teasingly and said, "Oh, Master Wang Shuai is actually a man who can only hide under a woman's skirt and show off his power? I wonder who this beautiful lady is?"

"boom!"

Yang Yuan gave a "forward kick" and Chen Weikuan was kicked in the chest. He flew up into the air, drew a parabola in the air, and fell heavily on the deck. He slid across the nearly two-meter-wide deck with a "whoosh" and hit the side of the ship on the other side with a "bang".

For a moment, I felt dizzy and my eyes rolled back.

Jin Yuzhen didn't expect Yang Yuan to start fighting without saying a word, and her mouth opened into an O shape in surprise.

Is Scholar Xiao Yang... so irritable?
Yang Yuan rushed to Chen Weikuan in just three steps, stepped on his chest, pressed his long knife against his throat, looked around with disdain, and shouted in a defiant manner: "You bunch of bastards, who gave you the courage to block my way!"

Dumb, silent, silent...

After a moment, Yang Yuan coughed and said weakly, "Madam, please help me translate!"

(End of this chapter)