Rewind the clock to March of this year.

At that time, the only remaining pirate Liu Xiang group, under pressure from the north, had to move south from the Chaoshan area, and finally entrenched in the Pearl River estuary.

This incident was actually planned by the Crossing Public. The purpose of letting Liu Xiang go south was to bring disaster to the south, forcing the Guangzhou officialdom to react under pressure and inviting the Cao family to join the Guangdong Ping thieves.

So during this period of time, what did the Guangzhou officialdom suffer that made it rush to issue an official document to borrow the teacher's help?

Regarding this matter, it is inseparable from Liu Xiang's own efforts and the strong support of the traversal.

Different from history, Liu Xiang Group is entrenched in the Pearl River Estuary this time, and both the depth and breadth of the plundering are far greater than in the past.

In history, Liu Xiang and Zheng Zhilong, who had been recruited after Zhao'an, turned against each other, and the two sides were always hostile along the coast of Fujian and Guangdong. It wasn't until seven years later that Zheng Zhilong eliminated the other bandits and finally freed up his hands to kill the last pirate Liu Xiang.

In this process, Guangdong, as Liu Xiang's rear, did not have too strong feelings. Liu Xiang usually retreated to the Chaoshan area during the recuperation period, and at this time he would divide his troops to go to the mouth of the Pearl River to plunder some ships, and collect some tolls by the way.

However, these harassing behaviors in Guangzhou are not as strong as Liu Xiang's invasion of Fujian and his rush into Zheng Zhilong's hometown of Min'an County to loot, resulting in "burning, looting, looting, and killing, scattering the townspeople, and shaking the provincial capital".

Because Liu Xiang's strategic focus was always on Fujian: fighting for control of trade with Japan, attacking Zheng Zhilong's trading ships, and plundering the coastal towns of Fujian, which led to a conflict between the government and Zheng Zhilong...... It's all about the trade routes.

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And in the plane of the traversal, history has been completely changed.

This time, Liu Xiang said that the good thing was that he was forced to go south under pressure, and the bad thing was that he was driven to the mouth of the Pearl River like a lost dog.

From the moment Chaoshan left, Liu Xiang never had a chance to return to his old nest - the small gunboats with white sails had already included the surrounding area of Nanao Island into the scope of exploration, and they would walk around Shantou Port from time to time, and the smell of provocation and suppression was very strong.

In this case, it is naturally impossible for Liu Da to think about any bullshit trade with Japan, and what is in front of him is another very real problem: how to survive?

Although the area around the Pearl River Estuary is a maritime trade hub and a place where wealth flows, Lu Xun said it well: you can't catch a sheep. If a large group of pirates have been entrenched in the Pearl River estuary for a long time to extort merchant ships and plunder ashore, then other forces will naturally react to this and respond.

This includes not only the Guangdong garrison, the regimental training of the local guards, but also the Portuguese in Macao and the rest of the forces that eat sea trade. In addition, the business travelers are not stupid, knowing that there are car bandits and road rage and still going to die, so the sea trade that has been hit has also begun to shrink, and the forces behind the business travelers have begun to be resentful.

Therefore, the longer Liu Xiang is entrenched in a certain place, the lower the marginal effect will be, and he will be hit by other forces in the future.

Under normal circumstances, he Liu Xiang and Uncle Liu patted his ass and left after a few votes, and the above situation would not occur. Historically, he traveled to Fujian, Zhejiang, and Guangdong, and it took a year to grab a lap along the way.

But now he is sitting on the line: the north of Chaoshan has been cast by a certain force in the fog of war, and there is no way to go again.

And what about going south? Going south is also a dead end: Vietnam, Khmer, Siam, Luzon, Java...... Just look at these names, the Outer Lands where the Wild Man is entrenched.

Even though it was on the verge of collapse, the Ming Continent in the seventeenth century was still the birthplace of wealth and a real paradise for products. Merchants from all over the world are trying to get goods from the Ming Kingdom, raw silk, porcelain, daily necessities, only what you can't get, nothing you can't sell.

On the other hand, there is the little brother of the periphery, including those tributary liars in Japan and South Asia. In all these small countries, the market for daily necessities has been dominated by Ming goods for a long time, not to mention the new cities of Manila and Batavia, can you expect the wild men who were still hanging a few decades ago to produce iron nails and gold-painted fans?

Therefore, for a large pirate group like Liu Xiang, going to South Asia, which is barren, is equivalent to being hit by dimensionality reduction.

In the Ming Kingdom, Liu Xiang went to shore and was able to grab silver, daily necessities, silk and porcelain in the weakly defended township areas; In South Asia, in addition to coconut and sago, the Malay pirates can grab every day, and the brown-skinned female savage with the milk bucket hanging down on the stomach is a good product.

As big a plate there is, there are as many strong parasites as there are. The wealthy coastal areas of the Ming Kingdom were not only able to feed Liu Xiang, but also supported more pirate gangs in history.

And in South Asia, except for those few cities, the rest of the places are not good, even if those savage tribes do not resist, it is not enough to let Liu shopkeeper rob it. As for the cities...... Blocking Manila Bay is to grab merchant ships, but in addition to merchant ships and Spanish fleets in the bay, Shopkeeper Liu probably doesn't think his life is long.

The most important issue is the channel. The pirate group seems to come and go like the wind, but it still needs logistical support. The "nest owners" who spread all over the coast of the Ming Kingdom helped the pirates sell their stolen goods while providing supplies and intelligence to the pirates; Without these nest owners, the pirate group will become deaf and blind, and in addition, Shopkeeper Liu can't let his subordinates fill their stomachs with porcelain? ...... And such nest owners do not exist in South Asia.

All in all, in short, as the decision-maker in charge of the 10,000-strong gang, Liu Xiang is actually in a dilemma for the future strategy after entrenching himself at the mouth of the Pearl River: if he goes north, he will be taught to be a man, and if he goes south, not to mention that he can't take so many people, even if he can take it away, these people will be consumed like sand in the archipelagos, savages and diseases in South Asia, and there will never be such a comfortable life as Daming.

So soon after settling in Guangdong, Liu Xiang immediately made a series of decisions: first of all, layoffs. A large number of small peripheral shopkeepers were immediately let go and fended for themselves. This kind of gathering and dispersion between pirates was normal, so soon more than half of the men and horses scattered in all directions, and went their separate ways.

Liu Xiang then contacted the Portuguese. In addition to hoping for some military support, Liu Xiang also tried to get some commercial cooperation from the Portuguese.

In addition, Liu Xiang also considered a way out: the Portuguese and the Spaniards, who also believed in Catholicism, had always had a close relationship, and Liu Xiang believed that if there were more contacts with Spain and Portugal through the bridge of Macao, if the day really came when he had to choose, then he would at least have one more way to go to Manila to work for the Spaniards, instead of having to surrender to those thieves.

Of course, while looking for a way out, Liu Xiang is still carrying out his main business: looting.

It is not possible not to loot. Even if more than half of the peripheral pirates were released, Liu Xiang's men still had 4,000 people and 200 ships. The daily sustenance consumed by these ships is an astronomical amount, and if they don't do business, they will soon be empty.

In addition, the thousands of people who were released will not disappear out of thin air, and most of these people will still form scattered gangs to "trade" in the vicinity. Therefore, for the prefectures and counties in Guangdong, it is equivalent to a sudden increase in a gang of 10,000 people in a short period of time on the basis of the original banditry, and the situation is suddenly very bad.

Soon, the snowflakes of the report and documents flew into the yamen of the governor of Liangguang and the political envoy, according to the inspection envoy, the general army yamen. These documents include reports from local government and county officials, as well as letters of complaint from maritime merchants and the big threshold people behind the maritime merchants, and the content of them is surprisingly consistent: Liu Xiang violated the prefecture and county, and also set up cards on the sea road to pump water, causing the people in various places to suffer, and the business travelers complained bitterly, hoping that the bigwigs in the rankings would quickly come up with a way to deal with it.

However, the bigwigs have a fart solution. In addition to strictly ordering the guards in various places to strengthen the garrison and increase the number of beacon lookouts, the Yamen of the Governor of Liangguang did not come up with any good ideas.

As for Liu Xiang's card pumping in foreign countries...... Let him go, anyway, there is no Liu Xiang and Wang Xiang and Ma Xiang at the mouth of the Pearl River, and the strength of the imperial court is still better to "watch its self-defeat".

However, this time Liu Xiang could not "defeat himself", because the road to the north had been blocked by thieves, and the Liu gang leader did not want to go south, and the Liu Xiang group, which could not even stay in the Chaoshan area of Laochao, soon brought looting incidents far beyond the same period in history to the Guangdong side.

Of course, there is a vicious regime in the middle: Liu Xiang's gang only brought scale effects to the actions of the Pearl River Estuary, but to make Guangdong officialdom feel the word "pain", it depends on the romantic figures.

...... The "Debang" special pirate detachment, which was originally fighting on the hostile trade routes of the Jingentry along the coastal area of Zhejiang, was transferred to the Pearl River area by the Intelligence Bureau before this. Due to the generous meeting gifts, the team successfully joined the big gang as soon as Gang Leader Liu came to Guangdong.

At the beginning, the pirate squad with Chen Erye as the shopkeeper, now except for Comrade Ma Liu, who is still the shopkeeper, the rest of the sailors and ships have already been updated several times, and the strength of the small fleet can be said to be reborn.

After the order was placed under the command of Liu Da's shopkeeper, the Debang squad began a precision strike full of scientific and technological content - the agents of the Guangzhou station would notify the squad of the travel information of some specific sea vessels by telegram, and then these sea ships would be accurately intercepted, day and night, regardless of location, and even before leaving the Pearl River.

Naturally, the hijacked ship did not end well. It is certain that the goods will be robbed, the ships will be pulled away or scuttled, and the vicious "pirates under the command of Liu Xiang" will not even cut two maritime merchants to drink.

After that, the rest of the unlucky ones will be released. Soon the shopkeeper of the firm will get the news, and then the major shareholders of the firm will also get the bad news—these major shareholders are all officials and gentry in the city of Canton, unsurprisingly.

It is impossible to gather the goods on a sea ship without tens of thousands of taels of silver, so whenever the team easily makes a sale, there will always be a certain "powerful person" in the city of Guangzhou.

Therefore, when the large-scale operation of the Liu gang leader and the precise attack of the squad were carried out at the same time, Comrade Wang Zunde, "the governor of Liangguang military affairs, and the management of food and salary, the management of salt law, and the governor of the Guangdong Military Department, the right attendant of the Guangdong Military Department and the right servant of the Imperial Palace", finally could not sit still under the pressure of many officials under his command and the gentry in the city. Take a hundred plating on the latest chapter of "Luming Claw Book House" to read it for free for the first time.