By the way, Wu Yizhou's plan to attack the island succeeded only one. It was the iron-backed dragon's lair that was ransacked by him. The other two islands were heavily defended and could not be touched at all. Even so, Wu Yizhou plundered more than 3,000 taels of gold and more than 200,000 taels of silver from the island, and filled the fleet to the brim.

Afterwards, just as Liu Pei guessed, Li Dan did not send anyone to blame and attack Liu Pei. After all, mergers and fights between events are also common. And Liu Pei is still the party who counterattacks after being attacked. The most important thing is that Liu Pei did not take the opportunity to occupy the old lair of the iron-backed dragon, which triggered a confrontation between several pirate gangs. So everyone couldn't bother with Liu Pei for a while.

At the same time, the pirates also understood that the three of them did not take down the new island, which showed that Liu Pei was indeed not easy to get along with. Although the ironback dragon has several friends, there is no true friendship between pirates. Everyone can call the ironback dragon a brother and sister when he is alive, but now that he is dead, it is too late to rob his family, how can he have the heart to avenge him! So everyone naturally stopped thinking about dealing with Liu Pei.

On the contrary, after this battle, Liu Pei's strength was fully demonstrated. Liu Pei's title of red-eyed dragon king was completely launched among pirates. Although people have never seen what this red-eyed dragon king looks like, defeating the three combined pirate teams has already proved his strength.

So he showed his banner and said that he was Liu Dahai's caravan protected by the Red-eyed Dragon King, and he was taken care of like never before. When he was in the south, he could get a good discount, and when he sold in Japan, he didn't have much to lower the price. And according to Liu Pei's instructions, Liu Dahai also went to visit Li Dan with heavy gifts. Although Li Dan didn't see him, he accepted the gift. This shows that Li Dan did not want to embarrass Liu Pei. So Liu Dahai's business is even more prosperous!

Moreover, two of the five ships seized in Xindao were allocated to Liu Dahai, bringing the size of his fleet to four. Three more ships were dialed to the Donggang town and the North Korean route. The Jiyuan returned to Wu Yizhou's command, and the three ships of the Zhenyuan collected taxes and robbed at sea. The form is great for a while!

The time is about to reach the end of the year, but Liu Pei does not plan to bring it back to the New Year this year. Because he has a couple of important things to take care of. In Liu Pei's memory, there are two major events to happen next year. One is the relocation of Nurhachi's capital to Shenyang. Another thing was that the Spaniards invaded Taiwan and began to build the city of San Salvador. They will be Liu Pei's main opponents in the future.

This time, Liu Pei rushed to Jinan City with Fang Degang. He was going to talk in detail about his future plans with the three of Hua Shufeng. Future plans need a lot of money to back them up. It is inseparable from the support of Huashufeng. At the same time, he also has a plan that needs to be operated by Hua Shufeng himself.

During this time, Fang Degang completely took over all civil affairs on Liu Pei's ground. Not only was Tuntian in charge of him, but even all the workshops were taken over one by one. This man is indeed talented. Not only the output of the workshop has increased, but the quality is stable. Even the most complicated agricultural tasks are handled in an orderly manner. This made Liu Peisheng want to continue to delegate power. However, when he wanted to take over the firearms workshop, he was blocked by Liu Pei. He also wanted to manage the Bloody Hand Gang, and Liu Pei didn't agree.

Everyone rushed to Hua Shufeng's mansion, and Hua Shufeng went out to greet him. As a result, Liu Pei found that Hua Shufeng had actually lost a lot of weight! Liu Pei said in surprise: "Brother, I haven't seen you for half a year, why have you lost so much weight?" ”

Hua Shufeng glared at Liu Pei, and said secretly in his heart, it's not like you're a thief to be scared and scared! But he could not say anything about it, so he beckoned everyone into the mansion.

After the three of them finished eating, they drank tea in the study of Huashufeng. Liu Pei raised the question when they first met. Hua Shufeng said with a sad face: "Isn't the virtuous brother not knowing the real reason? ”

Liu Pei smiled: "I can guess!" Probably scared, right? ”

Hua Shufeng sighed and said, "That's right. In the past six months or so, I can't eat or sleep well, and I'm scared all day long! I still have nightmares in the middle of the night! I was always dragged to the Dharma field in a dream to cut off my head. ”

Liu Pei and Fang Degang laughed when they heard this. As a result, he was glared at viciously by Hua Shufeng. Meaning you two are going too far! Liu Pei patted Hua Shufeng's arm and said, "Brother, don't worry, I'm here today to reassure my brother!" ”

Hearing this, Hua Shufeng perked up and said in a low voice: "Brother Xian, aren't you thinking about rebellion anymore?" How good it is, how good it is for us to do business with Brother Fool in the future! ”

This sentence caused the two of them to laugh wildly. Liu Pei said: "Listen to me explain slowly to my brother." ”

Hua Shufeng immediately put on a look of deafness. Liu Pei restrained his expression and said seriously: "Now my strength is almost accumulated. So I'm ready to do it next year! But brother don't worry, I'm not going to make a move in the Ming Dynasty. I still say the same thing, the number of Ming Qi is not exhausted, and it is estimated that there will be at least ten years left. ”

Hua Shufeng was visibly relieved when he heard this. Liu Pei smiled secretly in his heart, but he didn't show it. "My plan is broadly going in two directions," he said. One sea, one road. The strategy at sea is expansion. The two brothers should know that in the last years of the dynasty, there were many natural and man-made disasters, thieves swarmed, and displaced people everywhere. In order to settle these displaced people, I had to expand overseas. So I'm ready to seize the Ryukyu Islands next year. At that time, the Ryukyu Islands will be the main base of the navy, where we will reclaim land, recruit displaced people, and accumulate strength. Then take the island of Taiwan. ”

At this time, Taiwan already had the name Taiwan. In the pre-Qin period, Taiwan was called "Yingzhou". Later, Qin destroyed Hanxing and called Taiwan "Dongying". When it came to the Three Kingdoms, it also called Taiwan "Yizhou". From the Sui and Tang dynasties to the Song dynasty, Taiwan was called "Liuqiu". During the Yuan Dynasty, Taiwan was also called "Ryukyu".

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Taiwan was called "Dongfan". At that time, when merchant ships crossed the strait, it was customary to mark the direction with the high mountains in northern Taiwan, and it was also called "chicken coop" because the mountains were like a cage covering chickens. Fishermen often repaired ships and nets in Taiwan's western ports, calling the port "Yuwan", which later referred to Taiwan in general.

In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Taiwan was also known as "Dawan", "Dayuan" and "Taiwanese". The coastal people of Fujian also call it "burying grievances". Because in the process of developing Taiwan, many mainland people were either buried in the belly of a fish in the face of wind and waves, or died in a foreign land if they did not accept the water and soil, "the situation is so miserable, so it is called 'burying grievances'" -- see Shi Hongbao's "Fujian Miscellaneous Records" in the Qing Dynasty. The above four names have the same pronunciation as the local language "Taiwan" in southern Fujian, so they are called.

In the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, because Taiwan's "terrain is like a curved bow, and the floating sea is like a platform", it was called "Taiwan", and it has been used to this day.

Fang Degang frowned and asked, "Where is this Taiwan?" Is it worth developing? ”

Hua Shufeng is well-informed in business, so he said: "It's a big man,"

Liu Pei nodded and said, "Brother is right, it's a big man!" It's just that the cost of the initial development is relatively large, which requires the help of my brother to raise! ”

Hua Shufeng breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this. As long as Liu Pei doesn't make trouble inside Daming, most of his worries have been put down. patted his chest at the moment and said, "Brother Xian, just rest assured!" I must try my best to raise money for my brother, and don't bother my brother! However, the initial development needs a lot of materials, and I will start to stock up on some now. ”

Fang Degang said: "My lord, will the shipyards in Jiaozhou Bay be moved to Ryukyu?" ”

Liu Pei shook his head and said, "No!" Jiaozhou Bay is where my foundation is, and I can't put it overseas. But in the future, when I calm down the sea, I can consider dividing some of it. ”

Fang Degang nodded in approval and said, "The lord wants to seize Ryukyu, but we don't know anything about Ryukyu, so it's probably not appropriate to rashly raise troops, so it's better to send someone to investigate carefully." ”

Liu Pei said: "I have asked Liu Jiang to send people to pretend to be merchants to collect intelligence between Ryukyu and the Japanese Kingdom. And Liu Dahai is also doing the same thing. ”

Fang Degang nodded and said, "The lord has arranged it cleverly!" When marching and fighting, it is always good to know oneself and know one's opponent. But I wonder if the lord has ever heard any specific news? ”

Liu Pei said: "It didn't take long for the people to be sent out. Not much has come back yet. After a while, there will be detailed news. I'll report to my brother when the time comes. What I want to talk to my two brothers today is about plans on land. ”