Seeing that the hot air balloon had fallen down, the two Jinyiwei quickly pulled the cable and pulled the hot air balloon back to the deck.

Chen Xinyuan jumped off the hot air balloon and said, "The storm is coming soon. It's not very far from us. Go and call people!"

After saying that, Chen Xinyuan hurried back to the cabin and headed straight to the stern suite where Zhao Peng and Zheng Sen lived.

The cabin door was not locked, Chen Xinyuan rushed into the cabin directly, headed straight to Zhao Peng's bed, and gently shook his arm: "Entertainment father, get up quickly! The storm is coming!"

Zhao Peng did not sleep deeply because of the habit he developed in his previous life, and would wake up once there was movement. He woke up as early as when Chen Xinyuan broke into his cabin. Hearing the words "The storm is coming", he quickly got up, put on his clothes quickly, followed Chen Xinyuan and rushed out of the cabin.

"Wait for me!" Zheng Sen, who was awakened, chased after him from behind.

The three of them went up the deck along the stairs, and Zhao Peng said, "Xinyuan, let's go up and take a look!"

After igniting the stove, the hot air balloon slowly rose. As the sky rose, Zhao Peng picked up the thousand-mile mirror and looked in the direction Chen Xinyuan said. He saw that there was no star above the sea in the distance. The original position of the star seemed to be covered with dark clouds, blocking the stars.

Although it was impossible to tell whether it was a typhoon or an ordinary cumulonimbus cloud, Zhao Peng decided to come down quickly and let Zheng Sen immediately take the fleet to the shore and find a safe place to hide from the possible typhoons.

After the hot air balloon fell from the air, Zhao Peng said to Zheng Sen: "Damu, there may be a typhoon coming! Although it is not possible to tell whether it is a typhoon or an ordinary cumulonimbus cloud at present, we have to be on the safe side and go to the shore to hide as soon as possible, right?"

Zheng Sen nodded: "Yes, it's better to believe that it has than to believe that it has!"

Then Zheng Sen ordered the messengers to send Deng Yu signals to the ships, ordering the fleet to quickly approach the shore and prepare to find a place to hide from the possible typhoons.

The sky gradually became brighter, and the wind on the sea became much stronger. The boats were shaking in the waves. Standing on the deck, you could see dark clouds in the sky to the south and the wind on the sea was very strong. Look at this, it was really a typhoon coming soon.

"Where is the sea area here?" Zheng Sen asked.

An officer from the Zheng family army opened the chart and compared the chart and the terrain on the shore, saying: "This is the waters near Chaozhou. If you walk east for more than 40 miles, you can find a river to enter. Let's enter the river to avoid the wind and waves."

Zhao Peng looked at the shore and saw that the sea areas in this area were bare, not even an island to shelter from the wind. Only then did he remember the Guangdong coastal map in his memory. After passing through the Shenzhen waters near the Pearl River Estuary, all the way to the Shantou waters, the sea areas in the Hailufeng area in the middle were bare and there was no safe haven at all.

There is a small river flowing into the sea near Lufeng, but the river is too small, and large ships in the Zheng family's fleet cannot enter the river at all. Fortunately, it is almost at the Shantou waters. As long as you enter Rongjiang, you can avoid the deadly typhoons.

The fleet enters Rongjiang, which is not a big problem. Rongjiang can enter ships of 3,000 to 5,000 tons. The largest ships of this era are not that big. All the Zheng family fleets enter Rongjiang to shelter the wind without any pressure.

The wind and waves on the sea surface were getting stronger, but the ship was also faster. After less than an hour of sailing, a wide river estuary appeared on the sea surface ahead. The fleet then turned, sailing from the original northeast to the northwest.

The fleet entered the Rongjiangkou, and the wind and waves became much smaller. The originally bumpy ship became stable. Zhao Peng stood at the stern of the boat and looked at the strong winds on the sea behind, causing huge waves. He couldn't help but secretly said: The luck of the Qing Dynasty was so good! It was possible that the typhoon could kill me! Fortunately, I used science and avoided the typhoon. It seems that science can still defeat the luck of the Qing Dynasty!

The power of science is of course powerful. Once humans can enter the secondary civilization, then let alone the natural disasters on the earth can be easily resolved. Humans who can create Dyson's balls can even pull away the sun's helium, extend the sun's lifespan, and prevent the sun from becoming a red giant. Even if they cannot, wandering earth is not a problem for secondary civilization.

However, that is all after entering a high-level civilization. Even humans in the 21st century still have only a level 0.7 civilization. With such a level of civilization, of course, they cannot fight against nature.

"Continue sailing upstream!" Zheng Sen gave the order.

"Lord, where are we going? Are we going to Chaozhou?" asked a soldier.

Zheng Sen said: "There is no need to go to Chaozhou. It's too far away. We just stop at a narrower place in front of the river."

The fleet slowly moved up the Rongjiang River and sailed about fifteen miles, and the river surface in front gradually became narrower.

This is Pengzhou Qianhu House. Shantou, one of the four famous special economic zones in later generations, has no such place. There is only one Qianhu House of the Ming Dynasty.

The so-called Thousand Houses are a dilapidated barracks by the river, as well as dilapidated houses and scattered salt fields. At this time, these Thousand Houses by the seaside have actually become salt people, and the original Thousand Houses and other officers have become salt merchants.

Because the land on the beach is not suitable for farming, the military households did not become tenants of the officers, but they became even more miserable than the tenants, namely the salt people.

Most of the sea salt in those days was relied on the stoves to dry the sea water one by one. The salt made from the refined one was generally not made by sun drying, because the salt obtained from the sun drying method was bitter and difficult to swallow, and the coarse salt with extremely high sand content. That was because I didn’t know how to filter sea water first and then dry salt, so the salt obtained by sun drying method was all coarse salt that could not be sold at all.

The fleet with the Zheng family army was moored on the shore next to Qianhu Station, and Zhao Peng decided to take the Jinyiwei to the ashore for a walk.

A group of Jinyiwei wearing flying fish suits and wingless black hats went ashore and walked towards Qianhusou. Along the way, they encountered military households in ragged clothes, dark skin and dull eyes. These people really fought, their combat effectiveness was not as good as that of farmers. If they were military households in the early Ming Dynasty, they would have beaten the Mongols and now they have become so festered.

The military households had no response to the arrival of the Jinyiwei, and most of them did not know the Jinyiwei. The officers in the Qianhu Station were worried when they saw the Jinyiwei coming, thinking that some bad things they had done had been exposed.

It can be said that none of the officers of Thousand Houses are clean. Thousand Houses by the sea have long become salt farms for producing salt. In addition to selling official salt to officials and businessmen, the officers of Thousand Houses also sell private salt privately. In fact, let alone the officers of Thousand Houses, even those officials and businessmen with salt at hand often sell private salt.

Officials sell private salt, but they are selling private salt openly. Who dares to stop them? After all, the price of salt ignition is too expensive. If they all honestly go to collect salt ignition and sell official salt, how much money can the small salt merchants here in Guangdong make in a year?

At that time, the salt merchants in Guangdong were incomparable to the salt merchants in Lianghuai. The big salt merchants in the Ming Dynasty were all in Lianghuai, and the salt merchants in other places were all small salt merchants who were making small fuss.

Seeing those sluggish and ragged military households, Zhao Peng had an idea in his mind for a moment: Should he teach them how to extract refined salt from sun salt and seawater? In fact, it is very simple. If you want to get sun salt with slightly better quality, just build a filter pool, filter the seawater first, and then dry it, and you will get coarse salt of good quality; resolving the coarse salt in water, filtering it again, hanging it, and then boiling it in a pot, you can get refined salt with a quality that is not inferior to well salt.
Chapter completed!