The small wooden boat is not big, the length is only six or seven meters at most, and the width is not even two meters, it is a flat-bottomed boat, and the weight is only a few hundred catties, and ten people can easily lift it.

The pirate leader and a dozen of his men quietly lifted the small wooden boat between the cliffs and walked towards the beach, intending to take the small wooden boat and secretly leave the island and run to the adjacent island to avoid this catastrophe.

Six wooden oars were prepared on the small wooden boat, enough for a dozen of them to leave the island quickly, and the target of the small wooden boat was relatively small, and under normal circumstances, it was difficult to be detected.

"Row, paddle, get out of here."

The pirate leader no longer wanted to confront the Tang Army, and running away became the only thought in his heart, after all, he was not a fool, after a few rounds of shelling, he already understood the strong combat effectiveness of the Tang Army, and he would continue to confront the Tang Army unless his brain was in water.

However, it is not so easy to escape, in the open sea level, even if it is a small wooden boat, it cannot escape the eyes of the Datang officers and soldiers, because the Datang steam gunboat is equipped with a variety of specifications of telescopes, as long as there is a floating object in the sea, you can observe it more carefully, so as to be able to judge what it is.

At this moment, the two steam gunboats of the Tang Army's naval division were deployed on both sides of the island, forming a three-sided encirclement with the main fleet in front of the pirates.

Therefore, no matter which direction the pirates fled from, it was difficult to escape the monitoring of the Tang Army's officers and soldiers, and it could be said that it was difficult to escape.

In fact, night is a good time to escape, after all, the Tang Army sailors have not yet been equipped with night vision equipment, and the possibility of them escaping is the greatest, however, these pirates can't wait, the island is such a big place, the Tang Army soldiers are searching in ten ways, they feel that it is dangerous to stay for one more minute and one more minute, and there is a possibility of being discovered by the Tang Army search team at any time, and immediately evacuating the island is the best way out.

The shoals are difficult for ordinary ships to approach, because the water is too shallow, and ships with a slightly larger draft will be in danger of running aground, but the ships used by pirates to escape are small boats on flat ground, and they are not bulky, and they can be rowed away directly by carrying them to the beach.

Driven by the desire to survive, these pirates rowed fast enough to catch up with dragon boat races, but the more they did, the more suspicious they became.

A Tang Army steam gunboat, which was blocked in the distance, discovered the abnormal situation on the sea surface, and immediately made precise observations, and after discovering that the other party was a pirate trying to escape, it immediately opened fire to intercept it, making it difficult for the pirate's small wooden boat to move an inch.

One shell after another landed on the pirate's escape road, setting off huge columns of water, which blocked the pirate's hope of escaping, and they had no choice but to return, but the way back was quickly blocked by artillery fire.

There were huge columns of water in front of them, and the pirates were completely confused, not knowing what to do, and it seemed that they were really desperate.

The soldiers of the Tang Army were obviously teasing the pirates, deliberately using the method of attacking from all sides, so that the pirates had no way out, and used binoculars to observe the pirates' panicked appearance.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

After playing for a while, the Tang soldiers felt a little tired, so they all aimed at the pirate's small wooden boat, and came with a fierce salvo, and annihilated all the pirates on the small wooden boat.

The poor pirate was wiped out, and probably perished before he even figured out who the other party was.

The good news was quickly transmitted back and reported to Ang Lee.

"Great, the steam gunboat on the right wing annihilated more than a dozen pirates in one go, including the pirate leader, so that there are not many pirates on the island, it is estimated that there are still twenty or thirty people left, and it is no longer a powerful force, His Royal Highness can rest assured."

Li An said happily.

Of course, King Sri Buddha was very happy, nodded, and said softly: "This is all thanks to Li Shilang and the warriors of the Tang Dynasty, the remaining pirates are no longer enough, if I can't annihilate the remaining pirates tomorrow, I will leave a hundred warriors stationed here until the remnants of the pirates here are completely wiped out." ”

Li An nodded and said, "Okay, we'll leave here early tomorrow morning, but in another day, the Japanese officials will go to Heling Kingdom." ”

"Li Shilang, the country of Heling is just east of our Sri Buddha's death, and the piracy situation is also relatively serious, and the Tang Dynasty soldiers can show their skills again."

King Sri Buddha said.

Li An then inquired about the specific situation of the Heling Kingdom, so that when he arrived in the Heling Kingdom the day after tomorrow, he could make adequate preparations.

By the end of the night, a few surfboards had been ready, but it was too dark to test them, so we had to wait until dawn tomorrow to do so.

Li Ang personally inspected these surfboards, and then according to his impression of the surfboards, he preliminarily determined that these surfboards are qualified and fully qualified for the requirements of surfing, but whether they can really be qualified will not be known until after dawn tomorrow.

During the night, the troops and horses of the Tang army stopped tracking the island and withdrew to a position close to the harbor, so as not to be attacked by the remnants of the pirates in the unfamiliar jungle, which would be more than worth the loss, and in addition, all the soldiers and horses were deployed on the beach, which was also conducive to the protection of Ang Lee and King Sri Buddha.

Early the next morning, Li An got up early and received a lot of good news, the first was that at night, there were remnants of pirates who secretly came to find food, and were found by the patrolling soldiers and killed.

The second is that Zhang Batian sent people to bring good news, saying that a number of businessmen have decided to invest and build factories in Nanyang countries, and the third good news comes from the exploration team, they have discovered a strategic resource oil near Wenguo, and have reported it to the Tang Dynasty.

In his impression, there are oil deposits in the Nanyang area, but he is not very clear about the location, so he asked the exploration team to explore the Nanyang to discover this important strategic resource in the Nanyang with his impression.

In addition to oil, coal, iron ore and other rare resources have also found a lot of mineral deposits in the Nanyang area, which is enough to support the entire industrial system of the Tang Empire.

Therefore, as long as all these resources of the Nanyang countries are exploited, it can provide very convenient and affordable supplies for the Tang Dynasty overseas, so that the Nanyang can become the supply station of the Tang Maritime Silk Road, and facilitate the Tang Empire to continue to move further.

The Tang Dynasty merchants are willing to come to Nanyang to mine resources, which is also a very important good thing, only the Tang Dynasty merchants come to mine resources, build workshops in the Nanyang countries, Nanyang can become the supply station of the Tang Dynasty, if there is no participation of the Tang Dynasty merchants, the countries along the way can only supply food and fresh water for the Tang caravans, and the rest can not do anything.

With the rise of Datang's ocean-going trade and the prosperity of the shipbuilding industry, in the future, there will be more and more ships shuttling through the South Seas, and even many distant countries will choose to buy Datang's advanced ships, and these advanced ships need coal and stone as power energy.

If coal and oil cannot be mined in the Nanyang countries as soon as possible, it will be too cost-effective to rely only on the coal and oil transported from the Tang Dynasty, and if the transportation cost is too large, the cost of ship refueling will also become very large, which will greatly harm the ocean trade of the Tang Empire and all the merchants engaged in ocean trade.

In addition, the labor cost of the Nanyang countries is lower, as long as it is properly managed, the mining cost in these small countries will be much lower than that of the Tang Dynasty, and the price of refueling will be much lower than that of the Tang Empire, thus greatly promoting the maritime Silk Road created by the Tang Empire, so that this maritime trade route has truly become a road to prosperity.

Of course, in addition to providing supplies for ocean-going ships, Datang merchants invested in Nanyang countries, which in itself was a process of using the resources of various countries to make Datang rich, and it was a very good behavior.

There is also the fact that after the Tang merchants gain a foothold in the countries, they will inevitably bring their families with them, so as to play the role of immigrants, and after these immigrants are more, these countries along the way will gradually be assimilated by the Tang Empire, so as to become vassals of the Tang Empire forever.

As for the situation that after the Tang merchants became rich, the people of the countries along the way would hate the rich, Li An also took into account that the people of the Chinese Empire in later generations were better mixed in Nanyang, and almost all of them were wealthy, but because the number of people was not the main body, they were hated by the local main ethnic groups, and even massacre on a large scale.

This massacre caused great losses to the Chinese Empire, and also made the Chinese Empire lose face, and even, some of the people of the Chinese Empire did not dare to call themselves Chinese, and some citizens even took it as glory to join the nationality of other countries, feeling that they had finally gotten rid of the identity of the Chinese people, and even called their compatriots maggots, which was simply terrible.

Of course, this kind of thing can only happen in the poor and weak Chinese Empire in later generations, and now the Tang Empire is extremely powerful, with huge interests overseas, and there are also many garrisons, if these small countries dare to be presumptuous, the elite soldiers and horses of the Tang Empire will soon come to the city and kill all the unfriendly people.

The interests of the people of the Tang Dynasty overseas cannot be violated, this is the bottom line of the Tang Empire, and it is necessary for all countries along the way to abide by it, and the Tang Empire has the strength to make the countries along the way obedient, so in this era of the Tang Dynasty, there is no need to worry about the hatred of the people of the countries along the way and the expulsion of the people of the Tang Dynasty, unless, these people along the way are impatient, then they will be killed as pirates.

As for killing a few pirates during the night, it didn't make Ang Lee too excited, this achievement was too small, and it couldn't be compared with the merchant's opening of factories and the discovery of strategic resources, it could only be said to be a small joy.

Of course, happy things must be shared with others, so that people can be happier and happier.

After receiving the good news, Ang Lee immediately told King Sri Buddha about his death, and pointed out that there were several important resources in the country where Sri Buddha had passed away, and it was necessary to exploit them.

"Oh, this is really good news, but it's a pity that it's near the country of Wen, not in my Sri Buddha's death, and now, in the country where my Sri Buddha died, the only things that can be mined by the Tang Dynasty merchants are iron ore and coal."

King Sri Buddha said.

Li An smiled: "There are already a lot of iron ore and coal, oil will be found sooner or later, in addition, you Sri Buddha has a lot of trees, all of which can be developed, and it is estimated that there is no problem in building 10,000 workshops." ”

Being able to build workshops can greatly promote the economic development of Sri Buddha's death, which is of great benefit to Sri Buddha's death, but building 10,000 workshops is a bit exaggerated, and the population of Sri Buddha's death is not very large, 10,000 workshops, where to recruit so many manpower? However, it is more realistic to start a hundred workshops.

"Li Shilang rest assured, as long as the merchants of your country are willing to come to our Sri Buddha to open a workshop, Xiao Wang will definitely give his full support, and will definitely not embarrass them, and will give them some preferential treatment."

King Sri Buddha said with a smile, this is simply attracting investment!

Li An nodded and said: "Okay, okay, it's such a happy decision, I believe that soon there will be many merchants from the Tang Dynasty who will go to your Sri Buddha to open a workshop, you just wait to get rich!" ”

The interests of the big head have been taken away by the Datang businessmen, but Li An didn't blush at all when he said this, after all, all the technology is on the Datang side, and the locals are a type of people who are extremely incompetent, and they can only drink soup without technology, and the meat is prepared for people with skills.

"By the way, Li Shilang, how is the surfboard you said yesterday, can you let Xiao Wang take a look?"

King Sri Buddha asked curiously.

At this moment, he was most interested not in the fact that Datang merchants would come to his country to set up workshops, nor when his country would discover oil deposits, but that he wanted to see the surfboard that Li An said with his own eyes to satisfy his inner curiosity.

Li An said with a smile: "The surfboard was already sitting last night, but it was getting late, so there was no test, but early this morning, the official had already asked people to test, I don't know how the practice is now." ”

When he first got up early in the morning, after selecting a few soldiers with good water quality, Li Ang asked them to go to the beach to practice surfing skills according to his own explanation. It's too dangerous, just let ordinary soldiers go and experiment.

"Li Shilang, let's go over and have a look!"

King Sri Buddha said with a smile.

Li An nodded and said, "Okay, let's go over and have a look." Let's go! ”

The two traveled together and soon came to the beach and saw several Tang soldiers practicing surfing.

The soldiers had their armor off and wore life jackets on their upper bodies to prevent drowning accidents.