Hundreds of households in Liaodong, covering the light with one hand

Chapter 269 Zheng Zhilong, Quanzhou, Fujian

The sea breeze carried a salty smell. Standing on the deck, Wang Qi looked into the distance, as if thinking about something.

Not far behind him, Wang Shouxin, Ding Fu and others were there.

Since returning to Huzhou Prefecture, Wang Qi has taken dozens of his men out to sea through the Yangtze River and headed north. In three days, they have almost left the East China Sea and arrived at the Shandong border.

Zhucheng, Shandong Province, is Wang Qi's hometown. Wang Qi has never returned to his hometown since he traveled across time.

"Sir, it's windy on the sea, please go back to the cabin?" Wang Shouxin stepped forward and reminded: "I heard from the shipowner that pirates have been rampant in the East China Sea recently, so it's better to be careful."

Pirates?

Wang Qi withdrew his gaze and nodded slightly.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court's control over the coast had reached its lowest point. Lin Daoqian, Song Suqing, Wang Zhi, Li Dan and others rose up one after another to cause trouble in the coastal area.

Although there was Hu Zongxian before him and Qi Jiguang after him, as the imperial court's energy and financial resources shifted to Liaodong, the coastal areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang have now been corrupted beyond control.

"Where is the trip?" Wang Qi asked.

"According to the speed of the boat, we can reach Lingshanwei tomorrow. After landing, we will cross the dense water and travel hundreds of miles west to reach Zhucheng County." Wang Shouxin grew up with Wang Qi in Zhucheng, so he was quite familiar with it.

As soon as Wang Shouxin finished speaking, a loud noise suddenly came from the side and rear of the hull.

boom!
  Accompanied by violent shaking, bursts of shouts, curses and calls for help came from a distance.

"Go and have a look," Wang Qi looked back, his brows already furrowed.

Wang Shouxin and others responded and took the people away.

At this moment, four small boats were already lying across behind the hull. At the same time, more than thirty strong men with long knives and dark skin had climbed up. More than ten people controlled the deck, and the remaining people had gone to the front and rear of the hull, clearing the entire ship. Merchant ships are under control.

"Everyone gather on the deck! Anyone who dares to disobey will die!"

Following the leader's loud shout, most of the merchants and sailors inside the cabin were driven to the deck one after another. The leader of the escort had been tied up and thrown on the deck like a dead fish. It seemed that he had been After repairs were made, the man who looked like the captain was kneeling on the ground, begging the pirate leader to help and save everyone on the ship a way out.

"Hey, we always seek money and never take human lives," the pirate leader said with a ferocious smile, looking around, his eyes unusually cold: "But if you don't cooperate well, then I can't guarantee that you will be safe. port of arrival”

"Let's cooperate, cooperate," a chubby wealthy businessman wearing gold and silver quickly picked up the gold and silver jewelry and baggage in his hands and presented them with great respect.

On the other side, when the others saw someone taking the lead, they naturally began to hand over their belongings, gold and silver and other items.

"This is all our belongings. Please leave us some way to survive!" A rickety man with gray hair held the package tightly in his arms and begged the bandits to leave them some belongings and a way to survive.

"You're fucking seeking death!" When the majestic man saw this, his eyes became fierce. With a move of his wrist, the long knife in his hand had already been drawn.

Puff.

With blood splattering everywhere, the man's head had sprung up from his neck.

The bone fell to the ground, bringing blood all over the ground.

The boss's eyes were wide open, and he was obviously determined to die.

Kill the chicken and the monkey!
  When other people on the boat saw this scene, they no longer dared to resist, and handed over their wealth, gold and silver, from their arms and bodies. Hey!
  A bunch of idiots who won’t shed tears until they see the coffin!
  A sneer appeared on the pirate leader's face. People like them would not allow anyone to survive under the knife, so no one on this ship could survive in the end.

all to die!
  Plop!
  When the pirate leader was thinking about it, the sound of falling water suddenly came to his ears, and at the same time, swords collided, and there were waves of shouts of harmony.

"Huh? Is anyone still resisting?"

Everyone heard the news and looked.

I saw a group of well-dressed men escorting a powerful and powerful man approaching from the direction of the bow.

The pirate leader only glanced at it and said something bad: he had encountered a tough problem.

The man holding the knife at the head looked like a real warrior crawling out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood.

It is not something that ordinary thieves can provoke.

despair!
  Wang Qi stood still, looked at the pirate leader not far away, and said with a half-smile, "Which bandit family are you from?"

"I'll scare you when I say it! The boss's name is Li Dan, and you can't mess with him." The pirate leader knew that Wang Qi and his group were not easy to mess with, so he held his hands and said, "But I think you are still part of the team, as long as you don't interfere. I won’t embarrass you about this matter. I’ll send you to wait for a small boat, so you can take the first step.”

The pirate leader waved, and one of his men threw out a cable and threw it in front of Wang Qi and others.

"Li Dan?" Wang Qi raised his brows, quite surprised: "But even if Li Dan himself is here, he would not dare to speak to me like this. Furthermore, my Ming Dynasty has thousands of miles of sea territory, and you are so rampant that I met you today. If you get there, you can’t just sit back and watch.”

"So, you really want to meddle in other people's business?" The pirate leader's face darkened: "You are so shameless, but don't blame me when you get to the underworld!"

As soon as he finished speaking, all the pirates were already surrounding him with long knives in hand.

"We're all united, let's go together! With the strength of the people, we will definitely take down these pirates!" Among the merchants, a young man jumped out upon seeing this, holding a short sword for self-defense, and shouted to command the crowd. Fight together.

"If you lose, you will die. Why not give it a try? Kill all these pirates!"

"kill!"

"Fight them!"

As the merchants were incited to resist, the pirates were clearly at a disadvantage.

Pirates always come and go in a hurry. If they are not at the end of their rope, they are not willing to fight to the death with others, and this is obviously not the time to fight to the death.

"Damn it, we are unlucky today!" The pirate leader cursed in his heart. Seeing that the situation had turned, he greeted: "The days are long, we will retreat first!"

With the sound of falling into the water, a group of pirates climbed over from the deck, jumped into the water, and hurriedly escaped on the sailboard.

Within a quarter of an hour since Wang Qi appeared, the pirates had escaped.

On the deck, everyone gathered around and cheered when they saw this, feeling like they were surviving after a disaster.

"Zheng Zhilong from Quanzhou, Fujian, meet your lord!" The young man who had just jumped out to greet everyone to resist the pirates came to Wang Qi and bowed his hands.

"Zheng Zhilong? Not bad." Wang Qi looked at the heroic young man in front of him with admiration. It turned out that in the late Ming Dynasty, Dahai was still a young man who had just shed his childishness, but he had already begun to show his potential. He returned the greeting: "Zhucheng in Shandong, Wang Qi."

(End of this chapter)