Warring States Eagle

The boat moved slowly, as if the sky moved with it. () At this moment, Zheng Liang stood quietly on the bow of the boat, looking at the sea in the distance.

The sea breeze blows towards the face, soaking into the bottom of my heart, it is cool, with the fishy smell of the sea.The sea breeze is relatively strong today, and I can see layers of waves rolling up in the sea in the distance.

It had been two days since that night, and Zheng Liang was already standing on the bow of the return journey.

The results of that night were quite embarrassing.

From the information provided by the fat man, Zheng Liang got some results.

Zhang Tuiguan's batch of goods was robbed by the original bandits in the cottage occupied by Zheng Liang, and finally Zheng Liang got the batch of goods.After losing the goods, Zhang Tuiguan was unable to trade with the Japanese pirates, so he had to temporarily take away the firearms in the warehouse of Ningbo Mansion. As the foreman of the workshop, the fat man had the right to manage the warehouse, and he happened to be an internal response.

Unexpectedly, when picking up the goods, several craftsmen who were on duty in the workshop were alarmed. In order to kill them, these craftsmen were sent to the prison by the people sent by Zhang Tuiguan without even a chance of redress. Ri was killed, and was made into a false appearance that he was thrown into the warehouse, was caught, and finally committed suicide in fear of crime.And these craftsmen who died unjustly were the craftsmen's families in Zhang Qian's yard.

And the fat man is Shitou's second uncle, the second uncle who pretended to help the two Shitou brothers and sisters while they were lonely, and ended up robbing the Shitou brothers and sisters of their family business.What is even more embarrassing is that before his death, the fat man told an amazing fact that Shitou's mother was killed.Shitou's mother was working as a servant in Zhang Tuiguan's mansion before she died, but she was attracted by Huahua Taishuai because of her beauty.That day.Huahua came back drunk and met Shitou's mother who had just finished washing clothes in the yard, but she became seductive, and after drinking away the other servants, she rushed towards Shitou's mother.Shitou's mother ran away in panic.He stumbled and fell into the well in the yard and died.

And the fat man was just sent by Zhang Tuiguan to deal with the mess, and finally seized the remaining family business of the two Shitou brothers and sisters on a temporary basis.

In the end, the fat man died, and was killed by Zheng Liang.Even if he was allowed to go back to get the antidote for the gangster, and even became a thorn in Zhang Tuiguan's heart, it still couldn't change his evil nature.It is better to get rid of such people as soon as possible.

As for Shitou, after hearing the truth of his mother's death with his own ears, he was also filled with grief and indignation.Zhengliang had no choice but to persuade him.After all, Fatty, the accomplice, is dead, and Huahua Taishuai, the real murderer, will die soon. The only thing left is Zhang Tuiguan.But neither Shitou nor Zhengliang has the strength to deal with each other now, and they can only wait until they have enough strength in the future.Let's do the math again.

For this reason, Zhengliang made a promise with Shitou that Shitou can learn art from Zhengliang, and after he succeeds in his studies, he can come back to avenge his mother and eradicate the last enemy.

Except for these embarrassing things.Zheng Liang also took care of the gains and losses of this trip to the Ming Dynasty.

First of all, a commercial route from Daming to Japan was successfully laid.This trade route includes the Luo family represented by Zheng Liang, the maritime smugglers represented by Wang Hai, and the local wealthy merchants represented by Zhu Zining. These three constitute a complete maritime trade route.At the same time, by the way, he also embarked on a road of salt smuggling at sea.The salt lord You Jianxia will cooperate with the Luo family to sell illegal salt.

Secondly, more than a dozen orphans of Brother Ming and dozens of refugees from the Ming country were obtained.What's more important is to get more than a dozen Ming craftsmen.These dozens of craftsmen and their families will officially become the leaders of the Luo family, providing basic weapon technical support for the Luo family.at the same time.Zhengliang also recruited two capable retainers.Liu Le, as an out-and-out Ming native, can handle matters related to Ming immigrants for Zheng Liang.And the Jurchen Aguda is not only a fierce general in mountain warfare, but also a falconer with two sea dongqings.With these two Costins, it is like putting two eyes on the sky for Zheng Liang, and will definitely help Zheng Liang on the battlefield in the future.

In the end, a lot of supplies were harvested.The most important thing is to get a total of 30 fire systems, plus the fire system donated by Wang Hai last time in the territory, there are already 31 fire systems in the territory, plus that small Frang cannon, it is completely possible Assemble a fire team.Although it is still unable to become the main force in the war, as a surprise attack force, it can completely catch the opponent by surprise.In addition, more than 400 taels of silver and 500 taels of gold were harvested.Silver was used as funds for emigrating in the future, and Zheng Liang stayed in the cottage.As for the gold, after giving 100 taels to You Jianxia and Wang Hai respectively, Zheng Liang had 300 taels left.It is indeed a lot of money.

"Ding ding ding..." Just as Zheng Liang was thinking about the fate of this trip to the Ming Dynasty, the sound of metal knocking came from the sea ahead.

"What's going on?" Zheng Liang looked forward, but he couldn't see anything except a piece of blue water.

"My lord, what I heard just now was the sound of the pirates gathering before they launched an attack. There must be a sea battle in the sea ahead, and one of the parties must be the pirates." At this moment, a sailor ran over and said loudly.

"What?" Zheng Liang was taken aback.After parting from You Jianxia that night, Zheng Liang led the crowd to the Hangzhou Bay where the boat had docked without stopping.At this time, Wang Hai had already led the supplies of the Luo family and the new leaders to sea three days ago.Zheng Liang boarded the boat that Wang Hai intentionally left behind and went to sea overnight. He has been sailing at sea for two days now and is about to leave the coast of the Ming Kingdom.But why did we encounter a naval battle at this time?

You know, there are only thirteen people on the boat that Zheng Liang is on, plus the five subordinates left by Wang Hai in charge of rowing, and the weapons are only a few long knives and three bows and arrows.Although there are still ten fire systems and five boxes of gunpowder on board, no one knows how to use fire systems.According to Zhengliang's idea, after returning to the territory, select personnel to teach how to use the fire system by a few fire system craftsmen who defected this time, but now they encountered such a thing.

"Quickly, turn around and try to avoid the sea ahead," Zheng Liang ordered decisively.Naval battles are like a whirlpool, as long as you touch it, you will be pulled into it if you are not careful, so Zheng Liang decided to avoid it as much as possible.

Under Zhengliang's order, the ship decisively began to turn, preparing to sail upwards.

"Boom" Suddenly, a wave of water rose on the distant sea behind the ship.

When everyone heard the words, they immediately turned their heads and looked back.

"Ah? It's the lucky boat! It's the navy of the Ming Dynasty!" a sailor exclaimed.Due to the extremely fast speed of the Fuchuan, the sailor who was in charge of watching the wind just now did not see the shadow of the other party at all. When everyone was busy preparing to turn the ship, the Fuchuan just caught up and finally appeared in everyone's sight.

This... What the hell is going on here?Zheng Liang exclaimed inwardly.In the line of sight, Zheng Liang saw three lucky boats sailing fast towards this side.Is it for the naval battle ahead?Zheng Liang couldn't help guessing.

Of course, Zheng Liang didn't know why these lucky boats appeared here.Normally, these sailors would not be bothered to sail to such a long distance, but because the Shangguan suddenly issued an order to sweep up smuggling ships and pirates along the coast in the past two days.In desperation, these ships had no choice but to go to sea to carry out the order.After cruising for a long time, they couldn't find a single smuggled boat. Just when the lucky boats were about to give up, they spotted Zhengliang's boat and chased after it.

In fact, the entire coast of Ningbo Prefecture has not been peaceful in the past two days.The navy of the Ming army was dispatched on a large scale and began the so-called raid on pirates.In fact, most sailors are just bullying those small fishermen who violate the sea ban and go fishing. As for the pirates, as long as they don't come out to cause trouble, they are often too lazy to use force.

Why all of a sudden?The culprit is still Zhengliang and others.

Before returning Huahua Taishuai and others to Zhang Tuiguan, Zheng Liang put a poison in their meals.According to You Jianxia who found these poisons, these poisons usually only lurk in the human body, but as long as they drink alcohol, they will immediately die from the poison, which can be described as extremely vicious.If You Jianxia hadn't been a member of the rivers and lakes, he wouldn't have been able to find such a poison.

It was also the first time Zheng Liang heard of such a poison, and even he who came from later generations was amazed by its strange effect.However, Zheng Liang was not intimidated by its viciousness. Instead, he immediately entrusted You Jianxia to find several more bottles of this poison. Such a rare product may come in handy in the future.

You Jianxia was originally an open-minded person, seeing that Zheng Liang was keen on such sinister things, he couldn't help but persuade him.Of course, knowing the dangers of the world, he just persuaded Zhengliang to use this thing for the right way, and not to do such things that hurt nature and reason.Of course Zhengliang agreed.

On the day when Zhengliang went to sea, the news of four evils in Ningbo Mansion suddenly died within one day, and the whole Ningbo Mansion suddenly boiled.Those families who had been harmed by the Four Plagues of Ningbo and the people at the bottom applauded at home one after another.The few parties headed by Zhang Tuiguan were gloomy, and Zhang Tuiguan even crippled his scarred face in a rage.This is his only son, he was still fine when he was rescued yesterday, why did he suddenly disappear?

When Zhang Tuiguan learned that the other three people who were rescued also died suddenly one after another, he finally knew that it was the kidnapper who did it last time.In a fit of rage, he immediately ransacked the city, and he was still not relieved, and even got the sailors out through his connections.Dayou searched the land and sea to find out those people.

Of course, this time he managed to find a few people, especially the Japanese pirates who had sneaked into the Ming Dynasty.In a rage, Zhang Tuiguan directly clicked them off, and became the scapegoat for Zheng Liang and others.Affected by this incident, Zhang Tuiguan not only cut off the trade of Japanese pirates, but even became the main driving force behind the raid on coastal pirates in the future.Of course, this is all for later.

Now Zhengliang is really in danger.Three lucky boats were sailing quickly towards his ship.

"Quick, don't turn around, just rush forward." Zheng Liang had an idea and shouted.

All the people on board immediately picked up the oars and rowed vigorously. (to be continued..)

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