"Wood!" Zheng Tai said as he looked at Wang Tieniu's puzzled eyes.

"Huh?" Wang Tieniu exclaimed in surprise.

"Most of the wood used by these pirates for shipbuilding is taken nearby, but there are few stout big trees on the southeast coast, of course, this is not the main problem, after all, the pirates are originally robbed, and more importantly, these guys have no time, you know, pirates are very busy, especially Wang Hai, a man who aspires to become a pirate king. ”

Zheng Tai was serious but with obvious ridicule, and said: " So they don't have much time to wait, but a tree from cutting down to be suitable for making boats, especially sea ships, has to go through many processes in the middle, take Hongzhou Shipyard as an example, the wood on the smallest type of sea ship needs to go through more than half a year of preparation, and the large sea ship needs to take longer, but the damage of the pirate ships is very fast, which requires a large number of new ships as a supplement, but the time is too late, and they do not have the quick method taught by the eldest brother, so they have to shorten the preparation time of the wood, but the sea ship made of such wood is very brittle！”

"The hull of the ship is brittle everywhere! Usually it is fine, but once it encounters a heavy impact, it will be broken like glass, and the pirates use such ships to rob, and once they encounter a big wind and waves, they will be washed to pieces, which will speed up the speed of their new ships, so these people can only use this way to quench their thirst, and they will be broken and replaced at the same time. ”

"I guess this guy thought that he would come inland anyway and wouldn't encounter strong winds and waves, so he drove a few big ships to pull the wind, but I didn't expect our weapons to be too sharp. ”

Wang Tieniu looked at Zheng Tai, who was talking eloquently, speechless for a while, and asked out loud after a long time: "These are all things that you have accidentally found out these days when you went to sea?"

Zheng Tai held his head high and said as a matter of course: "That's right!"

Wang Tieniu looked at him suspiciously, and after a long time, Zheng Taisheng couldn't stand it and said stupidly: "Okay, it's all the eldest brother who asked me to check!"

"Big brother, why did you ask you to check this?" asked Wang Tieniu curiously.

Zheng Tai shrugged, spread his hands, and replied: "I don't know, before leaving, my eldest brother asked me to go to the coast when I went to sea this time, to see the coastal terrain, to find out if there is a suitable place to stay, and whether there are any pirates nearby, etc." ”

When Wang Tieniu heard this, he lowered his head and pondered for a moment, but he didn't think about the meaning of what his eldest brother did, so he didn't think about it anymore, raised his head, and said to Zheng Tai: "Okay, the matter of Yangzhou City is over, let's go to Jiangning next." The flying pigeon will arrive in Yuzhang a day later, and in a few days the official document of the Yangzhou City Bosi will spread, and the fourth side must start in Yizhou in a few days, and now this plan is also coming to an end. ”

Zheng Tai bowed slightly, and silently commanded the fleet to sail east......

Days have passed since that night's fighting.

That night, after the teenagers used a fierce offensive to send the pirates of Shuangyu Island brought by the one-eyed man to the river to feed Wang Ba, the next followers of the seven sects and five surnames mentioned by the middle-aged man surnamed Yang also rushed to the field.

It turned out to be a team of soldiers, to be precise, it should be the government army of Yangzhou Zhichong Mansion. After more than half a month of turmoil in Yangzhou, the military, which is responsible for protecting the territory and the people, has finally arrived belatedly.

The arrival of the military naturally carried a righteous name, after all, the division is famous! When the government army came to the scene under the banner of mediation, they found that the current situation was completely different from what they had previously expected.

The Zhenhai Gang and the others, who should have been killed and injured, stood quietly on the side intact at this moment, in a daze, while the master of the Yang family was also standing on the side, and at a glance, the two sides looked at the river not far away with shocked eyes.

So, the government soldiers also looked up, only to see a small mound by the canal, and below the mound was a corpse, among which the big boss of the Qinglong Gang was lying to the ground with wide eyes, and there were several big holes in his chest.

However, the most shocking picture is not here, not far away on the water surface of the canal, floating full of broken wooden blocks of various shapes, mixed with a lot of corpses, blood has dyed a whole section of the river red, there are several long pillars on the river surface, it looks like the mast of a big ship, there is a black flag floating on it, on it is a white two-headed snake, the government soldiers know, this is the famous pirate den in the southeast sea, the flag of Shuangyu Island.

As a result, they were even more shocked, because what happened in reality was really different from what they imagined before, the person who should have died was safe and sound, but the party who planned to kill died cleanly, and the huge contrast made them unable to come back to their senses for a while.

However, the other five strange boats on the canal, covered with black cloth, drew their eyes back.

The teenagers on the boat looked at them indifferently, and then pulled up the wooden walls on both sides of the boat, and then swaggered away from the scene, after all, they only came to kill, not to rebel, and killing the government army was naturally equivalent to rebellion, so the teenagers left, walked calmly, and walked calmly.

Seeing this scene, the middle-aged man surnamed Yang breathed a sigh of relief, and the lieutenant of Zhichong Mansion who had just come also breathed a sigh of relief, this lieutenant of Zhichong Mansion was not a stupid person, looking at the eyes of the middle-aged man surnamed Yang and Ye Kai, he could naturally guess that the abnormalities in the field were related to those young people.

Now that death is gone, they will naturally breathe a sigh of relief.

So, next, Ye Kai led the people of the Zhenhai Gang to rush back, but the Commander of Zhichong looked at this qiē without any reaction, and could only react at all! For this Captain Zhichong, the dead Zhenhai Gang naturally didn't care about and couldn't care about what they did, but now, the living Ye Kai was not what he wanted or he could deal with, so he could only watch silently.

So, this long-planned battle ended so abruptly, because a group of teenagers saw a little girl who was lucky enough to not die crying sadly, so the teenagers decided to kill some people, so the teenagers really killed some people, so the teenagers broke a plan of the seven clans and five surnames.

The next thing is a little complicated, but it is also very simple, because there are too many forces involved, and there are all kinds of interest exchanges everywhere, but the simplicity is because of the simplicity of the result.

The amazing combat power displayed by the teenagers outside the city shocked all the people in Yangzhou City who heard about it later, but only Huaqing was really afraid.

So, Huaqing, a celebrity who is now guarding the mansion, rushed to the place where the teenagers settled that night, Wang Tieniu was not surprised by his arrival, if the other party couldn't even find their location, it wouldn't be worth them doing so much.

Yes, the teenagers killed tonight not only to discourage, but also to knock on the mountain and shock the tiger, and this tiger is Huaqing!

Although Huaqing's current status and power are not worth mentioning, Wang Tieniu still attaches great importance to it, and for such a smart person, it is also worth the teenagers' painstaking efforts.

So, then another scene of "taking the guilt of Jing Petition" was staged, and finally, after Wang Tieniu beat Huaqing, he put it back again.

And after going back, Huaqing seemed to have really "changed his mind", and meticulously completed the plan agreed with Wang Tieniu in advance.

However, although Huaqing is smart, it does not have the strength to let the people in Yangzhou City stop fighting, and the person who really ended the Yangzhou Rebellion is a person, a person who came from Chang'an, this person is the member of the household department, the founder of the City Ship Division, and now the direct superior of the City Ship Division, Zou Run.

After more than ten years away from his hometown, when Zou Run set foot on his homeland again, what he saw was full of devastation, dilapidated buildings, deserted streets, and even corpses that had fallen to the side everywhere on both sides of the street.

Zou Run had thought about the situation of his hometown many times in his mind before, and there were all kinds of them, but he never imagined that the legendary hometown full of flowers would become what it is today.

So, Zou Run was shocked, and then angry, so he went straight to the Taishou Mansion to find Tong Yu, regardless of his grade being one level lower than the other party, and questioned him loudly.

But Tong Yu just listened to his question calmly, and then said indifferently: "The qiē you see now is all because of the city. ”

Then, Tong Yu then recounted to Zou Run in a flat tone about a recent incident in Yangzhou City.

The more Zou Run listened, the more cold his heart became, Tong Yu's tone was very flat without any evaluation, but it was those bland tones that made him feel more and more sad, and then fell into deep self-blame.

"Your original intention is right, it's just that these wealthy families are too greedy and their blood is too cold!" Tong Yu didn't know what kind of emotion he had, and after seeing Zou Run's grief-stricken expression, he actually said such a thing, maybe he saw his own shadow in the other party.

Zou Run didn't know how he left the Taishou Yamen, wandering on the deserted streets, Zou Run gradually walked out of self-blame, and became firm again: "I have to do something for my hometown, even if it's just to atone for my sins!"

After the decision was made, Zou Run took action.

The next day, in the name of the city's shipper, he invited the two forces that were fighting in Yangzhou City, the seven clans and the five surnames, as well as the southeast maritime merchants, to gather together to discuss the future of Yangzhou.

Zou Run saw very clearly that the key to what happened now was whether the two sides of the battle could compromise, so he simply gathered everyone together and tried to end this qiē by negotiation.

Scholarly thinking made Zou Run think about a qiē problem very simply, so the solution he found was also very straightforward.

However, it just so happened that this time, for the problem of Yangzhou City, his simplest and most direct solution was the most suitable and the best way.

Because, the two sides in Yangzhou City are really tired from fighting so far! Not physically or mentally, but after fighting for a long time, the two sides actually found that they were helpless against each other.

The people of the seven sects and five surnames are menacing, but after all, they are outsiders, not as good as the southeast maritime merchants who have been operating in Yangzhou for hundreds of years, and they are deep-rooted, they are fighting away, and they did not take the lead at the beginning, although later under the command of Lu Zongbao, they kept using their strength to slowly gain the upper hand, and after getting Tong Yu's refuge, they even came up with a way to defeat the other party with one blow, and finally through the traitors in the Zhenhai Gang, Ye Kai, the veteran of the Southeast Maritime Business, was successfully lured into the trap.

Originally, the fight was to kill Ye Kai and control the idea of the Zhenhai Gang, once the Zhenhai Gang was successfully taken, the seven sects and five surnames would be equivalent to controlling half of the southeast maritime merchants, after all, once they had a fleet and experienced sailors and captains, then their first purpose of getting involved in maritime trade was successfully achieved, as for the remaining local families, they didn't want to destroy the family, what else to fight for if the goal was achieved?

But they were completely defeated by the teenagers who suddenly appeared, and now Ye Kai has eliminated the rebels in the Zhenhai Gang, and where will Ye Kai be fooled if he is on guard?

Therefore, the people of the Seven Clans and the Five Surnames really have no way to deal with the current situation.

And the Southeast Maritime Business Group is not struggling to support, in the face of the ferocious northern millennium family, their new forces are already a little lacking, after all, in the court of Chang'an, their strength is far inferior to these Central Plains families, if it is not for the advantage of fighting at home, it is difficult to imagine whether they can hold on.

So, I had to work hard to support it.

However, until now, the two sides of the battle have found that their battle has begun to shake the foundation of Yangzhou City!

After the great rebellion, the merchants of Yangzhou City became fewer and fewer, and the most famous commercial city of the Tang Dynasty was rapidly declining at a visible rate.

After the destruction of Yangzhou City, the people who will suffer the most will undoubtedly be those who have almost bought Yangzhou City.

As a result, after holding each other for a long time but not being able to eliminate the other party, negotiation has become something that both sides want to do, but there has never been this opportunity.

And Zou Run's arrival undoubtedly gave them the best opportunity!

So, they came! After receiving Zou Run's notice, they soon came!

Negotiations began without any incident.

As usual, it is a trick to ask for money on the spot, although both sides understand that there is no point in doing so, but the negotiation is a meaningless thing, most of the things have been decided behind the negotiation, the bottom line of both sides, each has a know-it-all, the above scene is just a warm-up.

So, after the warm-up, the two sides began to put forward their own requirements, and it was naturally impossible for the land that the seven sects and five surnames had eaten to spit out, which the southeast maritime merchants also knew in their hearts, but the seat of the Yamen of the City Ship Division was re-chosen.

Mu Feng is dead, the Qinglong Gang has been destroyed, and the people of the Seven Sects and the Five Surnames naturally don't care about the original Jianyadi anymore, so they simply agreed to the other party.

Then there is the most critical place, for the seven clans and five surnames, although the battle of Yangzhou was huge, and almost half of Yangzhou City was successfully captured, but the initial purpose of getting involved in maritime trade was not achieved. Because as soon as Mu Feng died, the Qinglong Gang collapsed, although they spent a lot of money to win over some sailors and captains, but the number was far from enough for them to sail on a large scale, and the loss of maritime trade personnel was too great, to put it mildly, this person was not enough to die!

However, the rest of the sea gangs have long been strictly guarded by the southeast sea merchants, making it difficult for them to recruit more people, so the purpose of going to the sea to do business has still not been achieved.

And for the southeast maritime merchants, this time the loss is undoubtedly greater, not to mention the loss of nearly half of Yangzhou City, these days patronizing the battle, abandoning the business, I don't know how much I lost. Overseas goods can't be shipped back, domestic things can't be sold, and the goods of the maritime merchants in the domestic and overseas cargo points are piled up, and what is even more serious is that the overseas savages have not been able to get the exquisite artifacts from the Middle Earth Datang for so long, and now they have spilled their anger on the shopkeepers and men sent out by the maritime merchants to station in the overseas cargo points.

Now, the overseas sites that these maritime merchants have worked so hard to build are facing a catastrophe, and if the local people can no longer send people to solve the problem, the hard work of the years will be in vain, and the foundation of the maritime merchants will also be dealt a heavy blow.

Therefore, both anti-dumpers are desperate to return to normal as soon as possible, and at the same time, it is best to come up with a way to make up for the losses they have suffered.

Therefore, in such an atmosphere, Yangzhou Taishou Tong Yu, who had been sitting quietly on the side, put forward such a method: "Why don't you expand the jurisdiction of the city's shipping division? Don't keep staring at Yangzhou City! There are still many places in the south where there are maritime merchants!"

As soon as these words came out, the hall was silent!

Lu Zongbao and the others already knew that they would naturally not say anything, Tong Yu's method was undoubtedly to his taste, whether it was from the foothold of the Seven Sects and Five Surnames meddling in the maritime trade, or from the purpose of their original plan to attack the Yuzhang Hao clan, expanding the jurisdiction of the City Ship Division was what they wanted to do and would definitely do.

After discussing in a low voice for a while, the Southeast Maritime Merchants on the opposite side also had bright eyes! The Southeast Maritime Merchants Group seems to have a very wide scope, but in fact it is also the case, and the business branches of the various maritime merchants within this Maritime Group are almost all over the entire southeast coast of Datang. However, it cannot be said that there is only a group of maritime merchants on the southeast coast, but precisely the so-called southeast maritime merchant group is actually an economic entity based on maritime trade that has developed mainly on Yangzhou City and Yangzhou as a base. In other words, there are maritime groups that have developed on the basis of other cities, but Yangzhou people occupy Yangzhou City, the largest city in the south, and their strength is much higher than others.

However, the strength of other people is not weak! In Yangzhou City, it is still necessary to take care of the feelings of the country, and it is not easy to be ruthless, but when you go to other places, you don't need to be soft-hearted when you buy land, or you can rob it! It is just used to make up for your own losses.

As a result, the maritime merchants in Yangzhou quickly agreed on their opinions.

It's just that there is one person present who will never agree to this article, and that is the convener of this negotiation, Zou Run.

"No! No way!" Zou Run immediately shouted when he heard Tong Yu finish speaking.

It's not enough for you cold-blooded wealthy families to rob Yangzhou City, you also want to harm other cities, don't even think about it!

It's just that as soon as Tong Yu's words came out, these cold-blooded and ruthless people present immediately made up their minds and made up their minds to rob again!

So, they ignored Zou Run's shouts and looked at him with indifferent eyes.

So, Zou Run knew that he couldn't convince this group of people who were already crazy, so he pinned his hopes on the court in Chang'an, so the high-ranking officials in Chang'an once again reflected their same cold-bloodedness.

As a result, an official document on the expansion of the jurisdiction of the city was quickly distributed to all places.

And among them, there happens to be Yuzhang City......