At the wharf in Tianjin, there is a steam wooden boat with a displacement of about 500 tons, and the hull has three Chinese characters "Huang Swallow".

In the era when wooden sailing ships transitioned to steam iron ships, wooden ships were not directly eliminated. It took decades to hundreds of years to complete the iteration, and wooden ships using steam engines also appeared in the middle.

After the emergence of steamships, wooden sailboats have been used for at least a hundred years. Now, the total tonnage of wooden sailboats in various countries accounts for at least half of the civilian merchant ships.

The Huanghu is a wooden sailboat that uses a marine steam engine. It is on the surface a merchant ship of the Ming Dynasty, but in fact it is a secret ship of the Jinyiwei. Unless it has the token of the Jinyiwei, it cannot be used up.

Chu Qi brought the Ming guerrilla general Feng Yuruo to the "Huanghu" steamship. He had seen this ship when he was in Yokohama. At that time, the "Huanghu" brought Robert Li of the Yugoslavia to conduct preliminary negotiations.

"Mr. Qianhu, it is our honor to see you again. The ship is full of our own people and the background is innocent." When the captain of the Huanghu steamer saw Chu Qi, he knew that he was Qianhu, so he directly called him his position.

The captain of the Huanghu is the general flag of the Jinyiwei. He is also a big official, but when he sees Qianhu, he still has to be respectful.

"You Jinyiwei is really hiding in the darkness. This ship looks no different from an ordinary merchant ship. If I hadn't come with me to carry out the mission, I really wouldn't have known that this is the asset of your Jinyiwei."

Feng Yuruo from the Ming Dynasty girl was amazed at the hands of the Yellow Swallows who were all Jinyiwei.

Who would have thought that as an intelligence agency, the Jinyiwei directly owns heavy assets such as ships?

The existence of a ship like the Yellow Swallow shows that the Jinyiwei may have other merchant ships, and the funds are more sufficient than expected.

"This girl from the Ministry of War, the Huanghu is not an ordinary ship." The captain of the steamship said meaningfully.

Chu Qi knew what he meant unusually.

The Yellow Swallow pretended to be a merchant ship in the Ming Dynasty and secretly transported more than 1,000 tons of materials to southern North America in the past five years, mainly strategic materials such as steel, muskets, refined gunpowder.

“It’s time for us to set off.”

The captain shouted the furnace to start the steam engine and ordered the sailor to pull the rope.

The Yellow Swan Map set off in the rising and falling waves, and Chu Qi could clearly feel the shaking of the Yellow Swan Map.

He was riding on the "Chongzhen" iron-clad ship with a displacement of 10,000 tons, which was relatively stable in the wind and waves. This time he rode on the 500 tons of Huangshou, which made the shaking feeling even more violent.

He is about to take this steam wooden boat that is not big or small across the Pacific Ocean.

The range across the Pacific Ocean also has considerable risks. Fortunately, the Huanghu has had many experiences across the Pacific Ocean, and the risk of shipwrecks should be very low.

If the weather is smooth, Chu Qi can foresee that he will soon arrive on the west coast of North America.

What Chu Qi didn't expect was that the voyage soon experienced twists and turns.

The female official Feng Yuruo, who originally looked cold, suddenly felt seasick and her face turned pale.

"Are you okay? Don't force it." Chu Qi saw that Feng Yuruo was a little seasick and vomited at the stern of the boat, and couldn't help but worry about her condition.

After all, this is the person from Zhang Zhier's mother. Including the seniority, it should be Zhang Zhier's cousin. If Zhang Zhier really becomes her wife, she still has to establish a good relationship with the Feng family.

I have to say that the interpersonal relationships in the East are relatively complicated.

Feng Yuruo looked quite stubborn: "I'm fine, you don't have to worry about me, vomit..."

There seems to be no effective medicine in this era to relieve the pain caused by seasickness, and Chu Qi can do nothing.

The captain asked to send tea: "Why is the Ministry of War sending a land duck? She is so uncomfortable now that she will suffer from crossing the Pacific Ocean. She usually has to lie down and eat lightly."

"You don't have to care about me, as long as you can't die."

"Don't do it randomly. There is no problem with seasickness. It would be bad if other sailing diseases occur at the same time. This is not a day or two to go to sea, but a month. Captain, if her condition is serious, then when she arrives at Yokohama Port, let her get off the ship and return to the Imperial City, and let the Ministry of War send a more suitable person."

The Yellow Swan that Chu Qi and the others took were not going directly to San Francisco, but to arrive at Yokohama Port in the Oriental Shogunate for the final supply, and then start the journey across the Atlantic Ocean from Yokohama.

"Do you look down on me? I can complete the voyage." Feng Yuruo stubbornly insisted on the voyage despite his pale face.

This girl is really stubborn.

Chu Qi felt helpless, but as long as Feng Yu did not suffer from other navigation diseases at the same time, she should not be in danger of life, and suffering will definitely be inevitable.

The Yellow Swallow sailed in the local waters and encountered no dangers. The ship arrived at Yokohama Port successfully.

Not long ago, when Chu Qi protected the Ming envoys to visit the Dongyang shogunate, he also came to Yokohama Port, where a team of Ming troops were stationed, and the Ming Dynasty steam warships occasionally came here for supply and vacation.

The route from the East to North America is undoubtedly the closest.

Feng Yuruo went ashore to rest during the period when the Huanghu Hu was temporarily anchored in Yokohama Port, and Chu Qi, as her brother on the surface, also accompanied him to the shore.

After she got ashore, her face turned a little rosy, and she temporarily said goodbye to the troubles caused by seasickness.

"You're really okay?"

"It's okay, isn't it just seasickness? As Ming soldiers, our lives on the battlefield are even harder than this."

"It seems like you've been on the battlefield."

"I...we usually practice."

Feng Yuruo has never participated in any battle at this age.

In the past two hundred years, wars broke out every once in a while. There is no shortage of experienced old soldiers who can quickly form combat effectiveness. However, there has been no large-scale war in the past ten years, so it would not have been possible to send Feng Yuruo and his younger generation to the battlefield so quickly.

"It is really worrying that the guerrilla general who only has experience in drilling and has not participated in actual combat." Chu Qi was testing Feng Yuruo.

But Feng Yuruo did not rush to refute, but agreed with Chu Qi's view: "I am a young officer from the Royal Army Academy of the Ming Dynasty, and I have no experience in fighting life and death, and I am far from the old officer. But I believe that as long as my soldiers have experienced the baptism of one or two wars, they will become stronger and stronger as they fight, and they have sufficient technical reserves and passion."

Chu Qi talked with her and secretly admired her. If he had no ability and had a relationship, he would not have been so openly admitted by Chu Qi's sarcasm.
Chapter completed!