Chapter 35: The First Battle on the Sea

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Most of the domestic pirates at this time were a large gang, with dozens or even hundreds of ships.

On the way north, Li Peiting and Zuo Tianpeng encountered this situation. However, it was the ship of the Inspection Division, and before their small boat was lowered from the big ship, the side of the carriage was bombarded by a row, causing the ships of the Inspection Division to sway in the clusters of water columns, and then, Zuo Tianpeng's several clippers quickly rushed over from the official ship of the Inspection Division by taking advantage of their speed.

However, when passing by the officials of the Inspection Division, I had to shout a few times, "Something is here, hurry up!" I hope you will forgive me! Then, he threw down a few wooden basins on the sea, and placed a hundred and ten taels of silver in the basins to make wine money for the officials.

However, when you encounter pirates, you don't have to be polite, everyone is out to mix. It depends on whose fist is hard!

Just look at the sailors' ability to drive and control the ships along the way, the gunners' level of artillery shooting, and the soldiers' naval combat skills for the weapons in their hands.

Soon, armed smuggling fleets rushed into the pirate fleet.

"One word! One word! Zuo Tianpeng roared loudly, the signalman on the mast waved the small flag in his hand and played the flag, and the five scissor warships formed a formation according to his instructions.

The advantage of scissor warships over these two-masted seagoing ships is speed and the number of guns. Even more insidious were the two rear main guns hidden in the stern.

The five warships rushed into the pirate fleet like five evil tigers on the sea, charging all the way, constantly erupting with cannon fire, and soon, the pirates' weak formation was broken, and in the process of impacting, several ships were damaged or even sunk.

"Change formation!" When his own palace ship also came out of the formation, Zuo Tianpeng roared wildly, and the flag soldier issued a new order, and five warships came out side by side, like five sharp arrows into the pirate's fleet.

"General Zuo, this, this, okay?" Li Peiting's trembling voice came out in the cabin, he was a gentleman, negotiating with the two gangs of Yancao, drinking and fighting, eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, naturally it was not a problem, but such a scene of artillery fire in the sky had never been seen in this life.

"Second Master Li, don't worry! Such a little thief dares to rob our ship?! ”

Zuo Tianpeng's ship was in the center, two warships were guarding his ship, and two other ships were on the two flanks of the pirate fleet.

The poor pirate's more than 40 ships had to face the eight-sided artillery fire of Zuo Tianpeng's fleet, and the incessant attack of more than 100 artillery pieces.

Soon, seven or eight ships were sunk and went to meet the Dragon King of the South Sea.

More ships, intent on turning the rudder and escaping, we can't afford to mess with you, can we afford to hide?!

However, the artillery fire is sharp and the speed is fast, which is the specialty of the scissor warship, and when you see the opponent want to escape, where to escape? The two guerrilla warships on the flanks immediately pounced, and a heavy artillery bombardment caused the ships that wanted to escape to drop their sails, hang their heads in despair, and wait for the victor to fall.

In this battle, a total of 37 two-masted ships and more than 200 guns were captured. More than 2,000 pirates were captured, and a total amount of property was seized.

Get rich!

This is a thought that keeps haunting the minds of Li Shouhan and everyone.

Looking at the large bags of tea, raw silk, and various patterns of silk on his warship, and boxes of fine porcelain, Shouhan patted Li Peiting's shoulder very excitedly, and kept patting hard, patting Li Peiting grinning vigorously.

"Brother Peiting, he is really a good businessman! Economic genius! I actually thought of exchanging our salt, salt gang, and cao gang for raw silk, tea, silk, and porcelain! ”

"I can't afford to be early!" Li Peiting deliberately showed a greedy face, "This time I went back, I brought back dozens of catties of good tea, Lu'an melon slices, West Lake Longjing, Kui Longzhu, and rock sugar, halva candied fruit and other things that my little sister likes to eat." In addition, the boss of the Cao Gang, gave me four cooks, made a good Huaiyang dish, the specialty dishes are fried tofu, fried chicken, ten kinds of pig's head, mixed sturgeon, pear shredded fried meat, the Sima gang leader of the salt gang, sent three dim sum masters, specializing in Weiyang fine points, what wakame noodles, bridge noodles, crab noodles, snowflake crisps, bad steamed buns, horseshoe rolls, amber cakes, bamboo leaf cakes, loquat cakes, grape cakes, Ai Xiang Xiang dumplings, fairy rich cakes, ......"

Shouhan deliberately made a drooling expression, "These things, the cook will be deducted from your bonus!" ”

After the two finished speaking, they couldn't help laughing.

In today's world, China's raw silk and silk, as well as what is the price of tea, Shouhan has some impressions in his mind, which is why he is willing to work and eat silver for farmers to engage in the construction of mulberry fish ponds, just kidding, an acre of mulberry trees, a year can produce 1,600 catties of mulberry leaves, can produce 10 catties of raw silk, sold to Japan, is a load of raw silk 600 taels of silver! If you pay in gold in Japan, it will be 150 taels of gold, but when you return to Japan, this gold can be exchanged for at least 1,200 taels of silver!

At this moment, in the mainland, the price of raw silk is about 70 taels of silver per quintal, but Li Peiting bought it at a 6% discount from the market price. That is, about forty taels per load, shipped to Japan, or it is sold on the spot, at least ten times more profit!

What's more, there are so many silks and teas and porcelain.

and more than 100,000 taels of silver to cover the price of salt.

A rough calculation of the accounts, the cost of refined salt processing is only five cents per catty, and the transportation cost is only twenty cents. What's more, he still has the purpose of training sailors in his trip north this time, and the two sides are offset and the cost is lower. Sold to the Salt Gang for 80 Wen, the same retail price as here. It seems that he has suffered a loss, but he has exchanged more than 800,000 taels of raw silk, silk, tea and other things with salt.

Looking at the mast on the sea like a forest, Li Shouhan was also full of interest.

Although these boats are a little slower than the scissor sailing boats and schooners currently used in Hejing, they are still good for carrying people or goods.

"More than 200,000 taels of silver seized from the pirates, according to the rules, sixty percent will be put into the warehouse, and four percent will be rewarded to the sailors, gunners, and soldiers who went north this time!"

As soon as these words came out, the dock suddenly thundered with joy.

The six boats heading north had no more than 1,000 people on board. Forty percent of the seizures are more than 80,000 pieces of silver, and even if they are evenly divided, each person can have nearly 100 taels of silver into the purse! What's more, there is also the silver of the water feet that go to sea!

Some of the sailors had already begun to figure out whether to repair their house after they got the money, so that they could marry the little goblin in the town as a second house, or should they add some shares to the shops on the street. Damn it! Jiangnan's money is also too easy to make! The next time I go to sea, I must bring some goods to the brothers of the two gangs.

"My lord, what should you do with these people?"

Zuo Tianpeng asked Li Shouhan for instructions in a low voice.

On one side of the wharf, in a large open space as a freight yard, more than 2,000 pirates were squatting or sitting, receiving the sun's warm greetings in the midday sun.

From the morning to Hongji Port, after the sails were lowered, anchored, and the ship stopped, they were escorted to the shore in groups. At first, the sailors looked at the river in the distance, a bustling scene, and some people habitually thought, "Damn! If I had known that Ha Jing was so prosperous, I would have come to grab a ticket a long time ago! ”

However, the overseering soldiers quickly brought everyone back to reality. Now everyone is a captive of the Ha Jing people. Life and death are all in the thought of Hejing people.

A few hours passed, and I saw that Hejing people were checking their goods and carrying boxes of heavy silver boxes, but no one came to dispose of them.

Soon, the buzz turned into a cacophony.

Hearing this sound like a bazaar, Li Shouhan frowned.

"Let them be quiet! What's the noise?! ”

A platoon of guards rushed forward and raised the firearms in their hands, "Bang bang!" Bang bang! The projectile passed over the pirates' heads, and the crowd fell silent.

"Drink water! To eat! A voice came from the depths of the crowd, and soon someone chimed in, and it immediately turned into a neat wave.

"Drink water! To eat! ”

"My lord, you want to send them on the road, and you want them to eat enough before they go on the road." Zuo Tianpeng whispered beside Shouhan.

"Chen Tianhua! Bao Zhongchen! ”

"Mark it in!"

At present, Chen Tianhua, who is in charge of the camp office, and Bao Zhongchen, who is in charge of the military justice department, are separated from the crowd.

"Organize the captives to eat and drink, and at the same time, Zhongchen, screen the captives, distinguish between ordinary pirates and leaders, those who know skills, gunners, boatmen, etc., and also distinguish them!"

The two took the order and left.

"It's time for us to go see the red-haired people, too. Xiaopeng, are you sure they are businessmen? ”

"On the way home, I interrogated several thieves on the Spaniard's ship, and they confessed that they had intercepted them before they ambushed us, and that they were loaded with silver and some foreign goods. There are about one million taels of silver, and it is said that they were going to Haojing to sell goods. ”

As a victim of piracy, naturally you will not be treated the same as pirates.

Although Jose and the others were also escorted to Hongji Port, they were taken to Ha Tinh City after confirming that they had no weapons on them.

Looking at the clean and neat streets, the flow of people coming and going, the shops on both sides of the streets, and the vendors selling all kinds of items, the Spaniards are a little surprised!

See! The muslin robes of the savages! And the books in the hands of those children! Look at the jewelry on those Chinese! And the food that looks good!

Smelling the food, the Spaniards confirmed that they were safe and out of the clutches of pirates.

After enjoying a meal in the General's Mansion that they will remember for a lifetime, the Spaniards met Li Shouhan.

Looking at the Spaniard in front of him who was struggling to tidy up his wig and crumpled woolen robe, Shouhan was a little funny, it seems that the love of face is a common characteristic of human beings, not a specialty of Chinese.

"Your Excellency the Governor! A faithful servant of Emperor Philip IV of Spain, his lord, Lieutenant Commander José, salutes you! Thank you and your brave and chivalrous men for freeing us from the clutches of those sea bandits. ”

Fortunately, at this time, the status of Chinese and Spanish in the world is incomparable to that of other languages, and there are many people who understand these two languages. After the translation of the general affairs, Shouhan knew the identities of the so-called Spanish nobles in front of him. One lieutenant colonel, one major, two captains. The rest of the people are probably similar characters to Sancho, and they belong to the dragon set to lead the boxed lunch.

However, that Alfonso was not quite the same as the four.

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