The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 229 Surrender to avoid death
After Shang Muming translated, the prisoners began to discuss, and a prisoner who could speak Chinese weakly said: "My lord, the Ming army is too great, we can't beat it, can you spare your life?"

Huang Dongshan said with a smile: "My Ming army is a division of benevolence and righteousness. I didn't plan to kill them all. As long as they put down their weapons and surrender, they will be spared death. No matter how many people have been killed before, they will be pardoned."

The Japanese pirate who could speak Chinese didn’t wait for Shang Muming to translate, he murmured and told his companions, and the captives chattered for a while, and the Japanese pirate said: “Master General, what do you want us to do to keep everyone alive?”
"You go in groups of three to find the idiot who is still holding weapons and preparing to compete with the Ming army. I will give you two moments for all those who are about to surrender to raise their hands and gather in the open space in front of the pier. After two minutes, our warships will be gone Start firing cannons, and it will be too late to surrender at that time, the Ming army will not keep a single one, and they will all be wiped out!"

"Your Excellency, the inside is very big. Please allow half an hour. We will run and come back quickly."

"Yes, if your companions don't surrender, you can come back to save you from death. You can also choose to take up arms and fight side by side with those companions who are ready to fight against the army of the Celestial Dynasty."

"We sure don't dare, we're coming back soon and many of our loved ones are sure to be too!"

"Go, remember! You only have half an hour. And from this moment on, you are not allowed to kill any Han people inside, understand?"

"Understood, I dare not kill. Let's go quickly." The 27 pirates really rushed to find someone separately.

Since the leader is dead, the ronin who can fight in the pirate's lair usually go out on the warship to rob, and there are not many left behind in the home port. There are not many pirates left.

Everyone saw dozens of Ming warships and thousands of Ming troops coming, and they successfully occupied the pier. The people here are at a loss, what should they do?

At this time, familiar companions came. From their mouths, they learned that the Ming army was coming, and they would be killed if they did not surrender. They also set a time to gather with their hands raised.

There are too many troops in the Shang Kingdom of the Ming Dynasty, and Japanese people have heard of it. The Korean Imchen Japanese Invasion in the Wanli Year, Japanese history is called the Battle of Wenlu*Qingcho, and the Japanese people still remember it. Little Japan in this era has never thought about it. Contend with Yangyang Huaxia!

Under the strong military deterrence of the Ming army, the national characteristics of the islanders who bullied the weak and feared the hard have emerged. They were indeed disciplined, and they still lined up when they came out to surrender.

Many Han people also ran over with their hands raised, and they shouted loudly in Chinese: "We are not pirates, we are Han people captured by pirates!"

Huang Dongshan led a group of heavy infantry forward and shouted: "Han people go to stand on the left hand side of this official, Japanese people go to the right hand side and kneel with their hands raised high, and the rest wait and kneel right in front of this official!"

At this time, all the 27 pirates who persuaded them to surrender came back, and the Chinese-speaking man reported, "Report to Your Excellency, all of them may have come, and those who didn't know may not have come."

At this time a Han man spoke, and he said: "My lord, the student is a scholar of the Ming Dynasty. He was captured here by pirates seven years ago. Every plant and tree here and all the students are well aware of it."

There was also a scholar, which was a little unexpected. At this time, Huang Sheng, who came to the scene under the protection of a light steel round shield from the guards, heard it, and said to the man: "You are a scholar of the Ming Dynasty, why are you a thief?"

Huang Sheng was wearing a fifth-rank official uniform at this time. The scholar who was standing and talking to Huang Dongshan just now knew the official uniform of the Ming Dynasty, and knew that the civil official came, and his rank was much higher than that of his county official.

Hastily stepped forward and knelt down and said: "My lord, the student is the name of a person from Shaoxing Prefecture, because he failed to find a job as a accountant after repeated attempts, and was arrested in Japan seven years ago with a boss from Ningbo Prefecture. The pirate leader here, Ban Dao Jin Huan, robbed the ship, because the student was able to write and he was killed by Ban Dao Jin Huan, and he has been lingering here until now."

Huang Sheng looked at Bian Zhiming with a few glances and shouted: "It's nonsense, your clothes and complexion don't look like you are dying? You are obviously an accomplice of pirates, and you haven't really recruited them."

"My lord, the student has been taking care of Sakashima's accounts on this island for seven years, and he has settled down here, but he didn't suffer, but the student is a scholar. Killing people, there are quite a few Han people here who escaped from the pirates' knives only after students begged for mercy!"

Huang Dongshan next to him immediately said to the Han people: "It is indeed the name of Mr. Accountant who rescued a few of them."

Immediately, five or six Han people ran over and knelt down and said, "My lord has clearly seen that Mr. Bian has indeed saved the lives of grassroots people. He has never done anything evil!"

Huang Sheng looked at his words and saw that these people's words did not seem to be lying, and there were so many Han people who did not raise objections in disorder, so this scholar must not be a bad person.

He said: "Although you work for the Japanese pirates, I think you have no choice but to avoid the crime of turning into a thief. Get up! Now I want to completely take over the people and all the materials here, so you can help do things."

Bian Zhiming was a little agitated, he had never imagined that the imperial navy would come all the way to Japan to attack this island lair, he got up tremblingly and followed Huang Dongshan.

There were less than 200 pirates captured even when the warship was captured, and there were more than 800 men and women slaves on the island, including seven to eight hundred pirate women and children.

There are less than 200 Han Chinese, a dozen blond and blue-eyed Westerners, more than 100 Nanyang people, and the rest are Japanese.

No matter what race they are, according to the law of piracy, everyone here is the spoils of the Huang family. They are all slaves of the victor, and they can be sold and arranged to work.

Bian Zhiming actually had a roster of residents on this island. He knew that there were still some people who did not come out to surrender, but hid.

The orderly relocation started again. The wealth of this pirate den surpassed that of the entire Fuzhou City. The value of the goods exceeded 30 taels of silver, and [-] dans of Japanese rice were seized.

There are more than 1 catties of gunpowder in the warehouse, seven six-pound copper-core iron guns, twelve four-pound copper-core iron guns, and many armors and cold weapons. More than 100 Japanese arquebus guns were seized intact.

Bian Zhiming told Huang Dongshan that this group of pirates has been operating for more than ten years, and they are cautious. Every time they rob, they adopt the method of dealing with single merchant ships, and they also adopt the tactics of gang fights against their peers. Therefore, they fight each other every year. Increase strength.

They had contacts with several Japanese daimyos, and those people not only helped them sell their stolen goods, but also provided them with information on the shipping business. As for how they would share the money after they got it, Bian Zhiming didn't know.

Of course Huang Sheng understands such behavior, as long as the bandits have been banned repeatedly, they must have colluded with government officials, no matter what era it is.

The Huang family was familiar with the relocation, and there were more than 1000 free laborers to drive, and the moving distance was very short, which was relatively easy.

There are a lot of poultry and livestock on the island. Everyone can drink and eat meat. Of course, those captives and slaves who work hard are not treated badly.The most difficult part of the work is to move the three red cannons on the small mountain bag fort.

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