The Han culture is spreading strongly in Southeast Asia

Chapter 17: Brothers working together can break through metal

Ou Zibu rushed back to the Wei family in a hurry. His original intention was to find Wei Haikun, the second master of Wei, to stop him from going to complain to Master Luo, and see if there was any room for maneuver.

But who knew that Wei Haikun was so worried about the safety of his brother Wei Rikun that he went out almost at the same time as Ou Zibu at dawn.

This is a bit troublesome. If Grandpa Luo shows up, it will be difficult to turn things around.

At this moment, Chen Guangyao, who had gone to see Grandpa Chen, came back with a happy look on his face. He shouted at Ou Zibu from a distance:

"Boss, great news! The Hue regular army from the north of the city has left. Grandpa Luo had Grandpa Ye come personally with over a thousand men armed with Western guns and cannons to escort them out of the country."

Ou Zibu was also very happy. At least it showed that Grandpa Luo and the entire Hoi An Mingxiang people still supported their compatriots and were willing to use force for this.

Of course, he also proved indirectly that the autonomy of Hoi An City was guaranteed, and the greatest power of Guangnan Kingdom over Hoi An was the annual tax of 50,000 strings of cash.

Well, the situation in the north has been changing for hundreds of years, and Annan in the south is still inheriting the legacy left to them by the Tang Dynasty.

Including the Bafu system, the Fubing system, and the Jiedushi system, one thousand coins were still called one Guan of coins instead of being converted into one tael of silver.

Hearing Chen Guangyao's shouting, the three Pei family members also started running, with joy on their faces.

After Hoi An withstood the pressure from Guangnan Kingdom, mainly from Zhang Fuluan, they could safely go to Siam with Ou Zibu and no longer have to hide from place to place.

Ou Zibu fell into deep thought again. Although he said Manuel Bonn was worthless, that was just a means.

Manuel Bonn, his more than one hundred sailors and the two warships were of great use to Ou Zibu.

At least he could use these two soft sailing ships, especially the Fortune, a fifth-class cruiser, and the corresponding officers and sailors as training ships and training officers for the navy in the future.

Ou Zibu didn't expect them to have much combat effectiveness, but it was still possible to use them for training.

If Manuel Bonn had not fallen on hard times, it would have cost a fortune for Ou Zibu to get such a regular warship and old sailor.

The current situation is that he must break free from the trap set by the Wei family and Manuel Bonn before he can get Manuel Bonn to work for him.

He even needed to pull some capable sailors and supplies from Hoi An or somewhere else to complete the task of rescuing the captured French artillery from the Konbaung Dynasty of Burma.

To accomplish all this, it is far from enough to just prevent the Wei family from reporting the matter to Grandpa Luo.

That means we have to take risks. Ou Zibu cast his eyes to the distant sea. Just as he analyzed, the pirates who occupied Weijia Champa Island were very suspicious. They did not seek wealth or plunder. There must be a reason.

If he could go to Champa Island and rescue Wei Rikun, the grandfather of the Wei family, he would definitely become famous and have the capital to coordinate with all parties, unlike now when he is just an empty shell.

He could even test the strength of these pirates and find out what they were trying to do.
As for the danger, haha!

Ou Zibu gave a bitter smile. Now that things had come to this, there was nothing left to worry about!

If he succeeds, it will prove that he is a son favored by heaven and will definitely accomplish great things and pull this country and nation out of the abyss hundreds of years in advance.

If I fail, I'll die and that's all.

If you don’t die now, go to Siam or return to Ha Tien and live a miserable life!

Ou Zibu turned his head and looked at the four people. He didn't even ask Chen Guangyao, as he knew he would definitely go with him. But he still had to ask the three people from the Pei family, as they were going there to risk their lives.

Then Ou Zibu explained the matter to the three of them, and finally said: "Mr. Pei and his virtuous brothers and sisters saved my life, and I have a heart to repay them.

If you don't want to take the risk, I will immediately go to ask Master Luo to arrange for the three of you to go to Ha Tien. You didn't kill Zhang Fuluan's son, so Ha Tien can still provide you with protection."

Chen Guangyao was very touched. He felt that the fact that Ou Zibu didn't even ask him whether he would follow him or not was the greatest recognition of his loyalty and righteousness. So he stood behind Ou Zibu without hesitation.

Father Pei and Brother Pei hesitated. They were skilled fighters, but they didn't want to risk their lives at any moment. Besides the treasure they had already given to Hong Ahan, they also had a couple of hundred strings of cash in their home in Guiren. Adding to the Wei family's promise, they could live comfortably, though not become extremely wealthy.

However, Father Pei had also studied Ou Zibu carefully. He always felt that there was an unseen mystery about Ou Zibu, and he couldn't help but wonder whether he could really become rich by following Ou Zibu.

Don't be fooled by Old Man Pei's gray hair and the fact that he has two children, one son and one daughter. His eldest son is already eighteen years old, but he is actually only thirty-five years old. In later generations, there are still many people who have been single since birth at this age.

So Old Man Pei is not that old, and his ambition to live a good life has not completely disappeared.

Here, Old Man Pei was still hesitating, but Pei Shichun kept looking at Chen Guangyao behind Ou Zibu.

Although the man was short, only as tall as his shoulders, and was very dull, he didn't say much to Pei Shichun.

But inexplicably, this 15-year-old strong girl felt comfortable seeing Chen Guangyao, as if they were naturally the same kind of people as Pei Shichun.

Old Man Pei was about to speak when he suddenly felt something was missing beside him, as if a figure was floating past. He looked up.

His daughter Pei Shichun had moved behind Ou Zibu with her characteristic soft footsteps, standing side by side with Chen Guangyao, and she would peek at him shyly from time to time.

Brother Pei, who is always taciturn and has a somewhat irritable and simple personality, widened his eyes and looked at his sister in surprise. His sister was no different from a man, even more manly than a man, and she had such a feminine expression on her face.

Father Pei raised his head to the sky and sighed, "Girls can't be kept at home when they grow up!"

However, having said that, Father Pei still did not make the final decision.

Because family affairs are known only to family members, given his daughter Pei Shichun's physique, it is estimated that no man with a little ability would be willing to marry her.

Now that things have come to this, he wants a precise promise.

Ou Zibu looked back at Chen Guangyao, but he didn't say anything because this matter still had to be decided by Chen Guangyao himself.

Although he really wanted Chen Guangyao to agree, he couldn't hurt Chen Guangyao's feelings.

Not to mention their close relationship in childhood, even now, Chen Guangyao's position in his heart far surpasses that of the three Pei family members.

Chen Guangyao looked at Pei Shichun, whose cheeks were beginning to turn red and who was standing next to him like a giant bear, and suddenly turned around to look at Ou Zibu.

The look in his eyes was the same as that night when he killed Nguyen Thi Yuan's maid without hesitation and then went to gamble his life with Ngoc Thuy Bu.

"I am willing to follow the boss, through mountains of swords and seas of fire!"

The corners of Ou Zibu's eyes became slightly moist, and scenes from his childhood came flooding into his mind.

The silent and thin Chen Guangyao was clinging to the gate of the Zou family's back house, and looked anxiously at his mother who kept bending over to express her gratitude with a string of money in her hand. He bit his lips tightly and looked very uncomfortable.

Chen Guangyao also recalled that often at this time, a tall figure would run out from the backyard of the Zun family.

"Ayao, there are a lot of lard cakes in the kitchen. I'll take you there to eat."

For a moment, the two people's brain waves seemed to be connected, and they both recalled every detail of their childhood.

Ou Zibu lifted Chen Guangyao's hand and said softly, "Brothers, let's be united!"

Then he lifted Pei Shichun's sleeve without any hesitation and put their hands together.

"Its sharpness can cut through metal!" said Chen Guangyao.

(End of this chapter)