Mingshi

Chapter 997 Defeated

Joseph smiled wryly and said, "Why didn't you encounter it? Besides, the Daming City Shipping Department raised the price of the goods to the previous price."

Tom's face changed in horror: "How could this happen? Wouldn't we lose to death?"

"There is no way, but the Daming Navy promised to escort us."

Tom's face softened a little. The leader of the navy at the side learned about the number and location of the pirate ships in detail, and then let Tom and the others leave, escorting the caravan to the depths of the sea.

After driving for about an hour, they saw dozens of sea ships ahead of them stopping them and encircling them.The leader of the Daming Water Army drew out his long sword and shouted:

"Fight!"

Soon, the fleets of the two sides approached, and the Daming Navy had already bent their bows and set their arrows and made preparations. They just waited for the distance to get closer and within the range of the bows and arrows.

"what is that?"

Then I saw that on the big pirate ship, the planks were opened one by one, revealing holes one by one, and then the gun barrels protruded out one by one.

"Boom boom boom..."

There was a thunderous roar and gunpowder smoke everywhere, two of Da Ming's ships were smashed immediately, and four other ships caught fire, and the Da Ming navy was in a panic.

"Boom boom boom..."

There was another roar.

"Bang bang bang..."

Intensive musket shots sounded, and the soldiers of Ming Dynasty began to fall, wailing.

Hot weapons met cold weapons, and in less than a quarter of an hour, the Daming navy was defeated and fled to the coast of Daming in a panic.The soldiers on the two smashed ships fell into the water, but the pirates didn't attack them, they allowed them to climb onto other ships, and allowed the Daming navy to flee.

Those merchant ships also turned around and ran away, they dared not stay.Undoubtedly, those pirates would think that the Daming Navy was invited by them. If such a thing happened, would the pirates only want half of their goods?
Will definitely kill them all.

Therefore, these vassal merchants also ran towards the coast of Daming.While running, I was worried that the pirates would catch up.However, what reassured them was that the pirates did not pursue them, and seemed to be afraid of getting too close to the coast of Daming.

These fleeing ships caught up with Tom's ship. When Tom heard that they had been defeated by the pirates, he hurriedly accelerated, and more than 100 ships fled towards the coast of Daming.

Hangzhou.

In the Dengxiange restaurant, the two sons of the Xu family were still celebrating. Together with them, there were some small and medium-sized businessmen from the southeast who provided goods for the Xu family.They surrounded the two sons of the Xu family one by one, flattering them flatteringly.

"Second Young Master, Third Young Master, from now on, the southeast will be the world of the two Young Masters."

"That's right, the two young masters, what are the five great families, they are already out of date."

"From now on, we will follow the two sons."

"First suppress the price, kick out the five great aristocratic families, and then raise the price. The two young masters are really Zhuge reborn. I admire you."

"admire!"

"admire!"

"Hahaha..." The two sons of the Xu family laughed triumphantly.

"Don't worry, everyone, follow me. In the future, there will no longer be five great families in the southeast, and the future families will be you."

"Thank you two sons!"

"Dengdengdeng..."

There was a sound of hurried footsteps, and a person ran up panting.

"Second son..."

Xu Kun smiled and turned his head, his expression froze: "Housekeeper, didn't you go out to sea with the boat?"

"Something happened! Something big!"

Xu Kun's expression changed immediately: "What happened?"

"Pirates, pirates..."

"boom……"

The crowd became confused. Although there had been no pirates in the past two years, it was only two years. The memory of the pirates' rampage was still deeply in their minds.As soon as they heard the pirates, some people had already panicked and climbed down the stairs, while those who were a little calmer ran to the window and looked out the window, Xu Kun's legs were also trembling.The butler saw the chaos around him, but he was too tired to speak, so he waved his hands again and again, which meant that the pirates didn't come.

However, at this moment, how could anyone care about him?
A group of people ran out of the gate rumblingly, and then they were taken aback, and the people who were looking out from the upstairs windows were also taken aback.

There is a peaceful scene outside, bustling with people, where is the half shadow of pirates?
But at this moment, the butler took a few deep breaths, calmed down a bit, and hurriedly said:
"Pirates appear at sea!"

"call……"

Both Xu Kun and Xu Ying let out a long breath, only to appear in the sea, and then their hearts tightened again.He grabbed the butler by the shoulder and said:
"How about the caravan? Did the navy drive the pirates away?"

"Defeated, defeated..."

"How did you lose? Who lost?"

"The navy was defeated, and now the navy and the merchants of the feudal kingdom have come back. Those merchants of the feudal kingdom are clamoring for you to compensate their losses, and to lower the price again, which is even lower than the previous price. And there are also a group of merchants from the feudal kingdom They also came to Daming, and they united to suppress the price."

Xu Kun staggered back and sat down on the chair.

Day two.

Brothers Zhang Juzheng, Xu Shixing and Xu Kun hurried to Hu Zongxian's residence.Hu Zongxian was getting angry. He didn't expect that the navy he had raised with a lot of money would be so vulnerable.He didn't believe it, absolutely didn't believe it.Seeing Zhang Juzheng and others coming in, he waved his hand and said:

"Don't be impatient, I will immediately dispatch the entire navy to destroy those pirates."

The two brothers Zhang Juzheng, Xu Shixing and Xu Kun all looked overjoyed, and they all cupped their hands and said, "My lord is heroic."

City ship division.

Xu Shixing sat in the middle, Xu Kun and Xu Ying sat on the left, and the businessman from the feudal kingdom sat on the right.

Xu Shixing blushed and said to the businessmen of the vassal state: "Don't worry, everyone, just today, our Daming navy has sent all the troops to sea, and we will definitely wipe out all the pirates. You stay in Daming for the time being and wait for the good news."

The merchants of the feudal kingdom discussed in a low voice, and finally Joseph stood up and said:

"Master Xu, if the Daming Navy loses, we ask for a further reduction, because we have to use money to buy a way with the pirates."

"The Great Ming Navy will not be defeated!" Xu Shixing shouted in a concentrated voice.

"If!" Joseph insisted: "I said that if we lose, we insist on lowering the price. Otherwise, we can't trade with Daming."

"Then come and talk to me after you see my Daming Navy's triumphant return."

this afternoon.

Zhang Juzheng, Xu Shixing, the brothers of the Xu family, all the merchants from the vassal state, and countless civilians of the Ming Dynasty fled back in embarrassment when they saw the Daming Navy.

The complexions of Zhang Juzheng, Xu Shixing and the Xu family brothers all turned purple, and their expressions were full of uneasiness.And the face of the businessman in the vassal state is also very ugly.

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