Late Tang

Li Jing waved his hand excitedly: "Go, go to the pier now and see what we have gained."

When Wang Zhong and other generals heard the good news, they didn't even bother to change the bloody clothes on their bodies, so they all excitedly raised their weapons and wanted to follow to the pier.Liu Shouqian, Zhang Chengzong, Li Shugen and the others quickly assembled two servant teams to accompany them.Zhang Hong saw Li Jing and others running towards the pier from a distance, and it was probably the fleet's business. He ran up quickly and asked the eighteen sea ships that had captured the pirates. He was so excited that he was tripped by the dirt on the roadside. somersault.

With excitement, everyone quickly rushed to the pier.From a distance, one could see the pirate crew members squatting on the pier, all bound behind their hands and guarded by dozens of town soldiers.On the sea outside the pier, there is a long row of seagoing ships docked.

"One, two, three, four", Zhang Hong counted one by one excitedly, his eyes lit up. "General, eighteen ships, a total of eighteen ships."

Looking at the white sails, Li Jing couldn't help being excited.

"Wrong, it's nineteen ships, and our Ning Hai is also behind." Lin Wei reminded with a smile.While speaking, he waved to the guards guarding the pirate crew, and they immediately brought someone over. "General, this is a big boss of Cyclopedic Jiao's subordinates, who is responsible for guarding the fleet."

The pirate leader was extremely embarrassed, his body was tied up with cowhide ropes, like a rice dumpling.After squatting on the pier for half the night, my face turned blue from the cold.There was also a wound on the forehead, and the blood flowed half of the face and could not be wiped off.As soon as he saw that Lin Wei, who had defeated him earlier, brought a group of people over, and he was standing behind one of the young generals, he immediately understood that this person was probably Li Jing, the general of Shamen Town.They came here covered in blood, it is estimated that Zheng Balang and others are already in danger.Shocked at the moment, he hurriedly shouted to Lin Wei: "General Lin, as agreed, I will bring my brothers to surrender to you and dedicate the fleet to you. You will save our lives and let us leave."

Lin Wu stepped forward and kicked him down, rolling him on the ground like a ball, staining his clothes with ashes. "Damn thieves, do you really surrender? If I hadn't arrived with my brothers, and the Ninghai and Qiu team leaders touched your ship from behind, would you have surrendered? ***, you killed our brothers before Why didn't you show mercy when you were here?"

At this time, the pirate leader has completely lost the slightest ferocity, and only fear is left on his face.He shouted loudly: "General Lin, we agreed, but you have to be trustworthy. The boat is already yours. We only want a way to survive."

Li Jing stopped Lin Wu who was about to go forward, and shouted: "What did you do before, how can you be a thief?"

The pirate leader looked at Li Jing with some fear, "I used to be the team leader of the Dengzhou Navy, but I was recruited by Zheng Balang, so I followed him."

"Since you used to be an officer in the navy, why did you become a thief?"

The pirate leader looked at Li Jing, and suddenly laughed loudly: "What is an official army and what is a bandit? Is there any difference between the two? The crows in the world are just black. The official army is no different from the bandit. The only difference That is to say, the officers in the army don’t treat their brothers as human beings, but when they are thieves, in addition to freedom, all brothers eat meat in large chunks, drink in large bowls, do not deduct food and pay, and do not bully superiors!"

Li Jing shouted: "It's ridiculous, don't think that what you see is all. Do you have to follow the thief just because the superior is oppressing you? Why did my Shamen town bully you, and you want to bring people to attack my Shamen town?"

"This is the way of the world, the big fish eat the small fish, and the small fish eat dried shrimps." The pirate leader said weakly.

Li Jing glanced at him coldly, "According to your wishes, now that you are in my hands, life and death are up to me."

The pirate leader also understood that Li Jing was unwilling to let him go, so he finally kept his last bit of arrogance and stopped begging for mercy.Li Jing shouted: "Pull out all the pirate leaders, behead them all, throw their bodies into the sea, and keep the heads."

Wang Zhong immediately summoned more than a dozen people to come forward, sorted out the list according to the interrogation of the family members, pulled out all the big and small pirate bosses, pushed them to the pier, cut off their heads one by one, and put the headless corpses pushed into the sea.

There were more than 400 crew members left by the pirates, more than 300 were killed in the battle, and nearly [-] of the remaining surrendered and were captured.Just after a round of cleaning, [-]% of the leaders were beheaded, leaving more than [-] pale-faced crew members.

"General, what should we do with these people, let's kill them together." Wang Zhong went up to kill the big pirate leader himself just now, his body was still stained with fresh blood.Li Jing looked at the pirates who were obviously frightened. These people were no different from the pirates who fought in the castle before, and they were mostly teenagers, old men and some disabled.He shook his head, the effect of killing chickens and monkeys just now was good, and it greatly deterred these bandits.But he didn't intend to kill all these people, people are also precious resources, not to mention, although Salmon Island won the battle this time, it lost a lot of people.

"Take them all back to Shamen Town, and make them all slaves. Killing them is just taking advantage of them!" Li Jing said coldly.

Li Jing already knew that the pirates who participated in the attack on Shamen Town were colluded by Wang Jin. In addition to the pirate One-Eyed Jiao leading 200 ships, Wang Jin also sent the general Wang Fu and [-] guards to participate in the battle. , the [-] people with the best equipment were the royal guards.For Wang Jin, Li Jing's anger can be imagined.At the pier, he did not board the ship first, but ordered that the exposed secret shops and warehouses of the Wang family be sealed up immediately.

The Wang family has been secretly operating the Shimen Wharf in Shamen Town, with many shops and warehouses.Lin Wei had already controlled the entire pier when he captured the fleet.Under Li Jing's order, several stewards of the Wang family led the way, and Li Jing quickly led the people to the largest warehouse of the Wang family on the pier.

Li Jing shouted the order to knock on the door, everyone entered the warehouse, they couldn't help being surprised.I saw that the huge warehouse was filled with countless sacks, layered on top of each other, piled up like a mountain.Liu Shouqian stepped forward and tore off a sack and opened it to see that it was covered with rice.Pull the steward up and ask, the warehouse is actually full of rice, a total of [-] shi.

"What is the Wang family hoarding so much rice here for?" Li Jing asked.

The weather was so cold, but the sweat on the face was flowing like a waterfall, and the whole face was as white as paper. Just now, the town soldiers beheaded dozens of pirate leaders, and they were all forced to watch the whole process. The human heads are still flying in front of my eyes.I was afraid that if I couldn't say a word well, I would be beheaded by the town soldiers.

"Returning to the general, these are all rice shipped from Silla, and they are stored here instead of Dengju, because the goods are taxed when they enter Dengju pier. And unloading on Shamen Island can exempt commercial tax. Silla shipped The incoming rice is first unloaded in the warehouse on Shamen Island, and then transported back to Dengzhou by small boat. When you disembark from the small pier in the private port, you don’t have to pay taxes. The batch of rice in the warehouse has just arrived and has not yet arrived. and shipped back to Dengzhou."

Li Jing and the others all laughed, great harvest, [-] shi of rice, he accepted it.Since it belongs to the Wang family, it will not be accepted for nothing.Even if he accepts it, what the Wang family can do is call another group of pirates to beat him.Now that his face had been torn apart, Li Jing didn't intend to be polite.

"The Wang family has other warehouses and shops. What else is there?"

Several stewards stood there hesitated, Li Jing nodded to Liu Shouqian, Liu Shouqian immediately pulled out one of the stewards who was older and had a higher status.After a while, there was a scream outside, and then Liu Shouqian came back with a bloody copper mace.The faces of the several stewards turned even paler, and they all rushed to stammer and report to Li Jing immediately.

This time, Li Jing's harvest was very rich, so rich that he was a little surprised.Not only did they find out more than 3000 stones of grain in a granary, but they also found a cloth warehouse, which stored more than 1 bolts of linen and more than 3000 bolts of valuable silk fabrics such as silk lingluo.In addition, they also found a raw material warehouse, which stored tens of thousands of catties of iron.

What surprised Li Jing and the others even more was that a steward told a secret that no other steward knew.The Wang family actually has a huge underground workshop under a warehouse that has been vacant in the dock area.

When the steward brought Li Jing and others into the underground workshop, not only Wang Zhong and the others were surprised, but Li Jing was also surprised from ear to ear, and even the other stewards of the Wang family were stunned.

It was a huge underground workshop, hidden more than ten feet deep underground in the empty warehouse, with only one extremely secret entrance.There is usually a team of well-equipped guards guarding the gate, but at this time those guards were transferred to attack the castle and never returned. There were only eight guards left at the entrance of the cave, and they were easily captured by Li Jing's family team.

When Li Jing and others went down to the workshop, the workshop was still busy, and it was full of excitement.There are 300 people who are busy.

Li Jing noticed that there was a temporary cargo storage point at the entrance, where boxes of goods were stacked.The steward said on the side: "This is the place where the finished products are stacked and sent. Every night after work is stopped, they will be transported to the above-ground warehouse."

"There are so many people in the workshop, what do they build?" Li Jing asked.

"The workshops are divided into weapons workshops and armor workshops, and the weapons workshops are divided into horizontal knife workshops, spear workshops, bow and arrow workshops, and crossbow workshops. Armor workshops are divided into iron armor workshops, leather armor workshops, vest workshops, and helmet workshops. Peng Paifang. In addition, bow and arrow workshops are divided into longbow workshops and horn bow workshops. The feather arrows produced are also divided into five categories: Shejia, Shengbi, Longduo, Crossbow Nails, and Iron Crossbow Arrows. The shields made by Peng Paifang are also divided into five categories: There are six types of knee row, group card row, paint row, wooden row, joint wooden row, and leather row." The steward replied cautiously, not daring to hide anything.

(To be continued)