Flying Clouds in Another World

Chapter 390: The betrothal gift must be shipped by sea (Part )

"The Earl and his wife will certainly not mistreat those who risked their lives for the Liu family!"

Sun Ou smiled with relief.

Liu Feiyun had known for a long time that the Liu family owned a fleet, but he didn't know how big the fleet was.

Because the Liu family's fleet is divided into two parts, the light and the dark, namely the merchant fleet and the pirate fleet.

In fact, it is not just the Liu family that does this. Almost all forces that have the ability to form a fleet will do so.

Merchant fleets are used to conduct legitimate business, while pirates are used to attack competitors and do shady business.

Therefore, Liu Feiyun originally knew the general situation of the merchant fleet, that is, the approximate number of merchant ships.

As for the pirate fleet, he knew nothing about it because it was top secret. In the entire Liu family, only his father Liu Shihao knew the details, and his mother was only responsible for transporting money and materials in the early stages, but did not ask about anything else.

And this Sun Ou, ostensibly the commander-in-chief of the Liu family's merchant fleet, but secretly, he is also the chief leader of several pirate gangs controlled by the Liu family.

This time Liu Feiyun was about to get married, and in order to transport the betrothal gifts, he transferred most of the ships in the merchant fleet.

When Liu Feiyun first saw this fleet consisting of four large ships of ten thousand shi, nine medium ships of several thousand shi, and nearly twenty so-called small ships of one thousand shi at the mouth of Linshui River, he was also shocked.

He originally thought that a so-called big ship could weigh about 180 tons when fully loaded, which would be good enough for one or two thousand shi.

But this huge ship was fully loaded with as much as 10,000 dan, or 2,000 tons.

According to legend, the treasure ships that sailed to the West in another time and space were probably no more than this!

The reason why so many ships were used to deliver the Liu family's betrothal gift was because the Liu family's betrothal gift was not gold or silver, but food and weapons.

"Eighty thousand weapons! Eight hundred thousand arrows! Eight thousand sets of iron armor! Eight thousand sets of leather armor! Eighty sets of spiritual armor, crystals worth eight hundred thousand taels of silver! Eight thousand war horses! Eighty thousand shi of grain!"

Liu Feiyun murmured to himself:

"This betrothal gift should satisfy my father-in-law, right?"

Not long after, when He Shicheng and his son saw the list of betrothal gifts, they were extremely shocked and delighted.

"This... this... this Liu family is really a timely help!"

Even though He Shicheng was just a scholar and didn't know much about military affairs, he understood that in today's chaotic world, the weapons and horses sent by the Liu family were extremely valuable and important.

He Jieming was even more excited:

"Father! With these weapons and horses sent by my brother-in-law, it won't be long before we can truly raise an army of nearly 100,000 people instead of a group of unarmed rabble."

"As long as we have a real army, it will be just a matter of time before we take over the entire Yanluo County!"

"And those crystal stones can better unite the hearts of those warriors!"

"This is really a timely help!"

"I have to entertain my good brother-in-law well later!"

Not long after, Liu Feiyun finally met He Jieming for the first time.

The two of them naturally had a great conversation.

During this period, He Jieming stated more than once that before his elder sister got married, he must take over the county seat of Yuanluo County, Yanluo City, so as to prepare a generous dowry for his elder sister.

Liu Feiyun couldn't help but frown after hearing this, thinking to himself:

Yanluo City is a big city with a population of more than 400,000. What occupies Yanluo City now is a powerful rebel army with tens of thousands of soldiers, which is definitely a tough nut to crack.

It would be better to sweep the surrounding counties first and then tackle this tough problem.

So he gave a slight reminder, but He Jieming obviously didn't listen, and said that they had many martial arts masters in their family, and they had a large amount of weapons and armor sent by your brother-in-law, so it would be easy to take over Yanluo City.

Seeing that his reminder was ignored, Liu Feiyun did not continue to persuade him. He simply talked about the matter of sending the bride back to the family and reminded them again that someone might come to cause trouble, so he asked the He family to make preparations early.

Unexpectedly, He Jieming attached great importance to this matter and immediately stated that his He family would also make necessary countermeasures.

Finally, Liu Feiyun gave He Jiming a list of people who might attend his wedding so that the He family could be prepared.

After the betrothal gifts were presented, Liu Feiyun and her mother, Madam Chu, returned to Anya County, while Cheng Xuyuan stayed behind to complete the marriage proposal ceremony.

After settling Cheng Xuyuan, He Jieming came to find He Shicheng with the list that Liu Feiyun had deceived him.

"Father! What is the purpose of my brother-in-law handing me a list? Who from his family is coming to the ceremony to celebrate? What does it have to do with our family?"

He Jieming handed the list to his father and asked in confusion.