Wang Zhi was really a little confused, how did this Hong Tiezhu use more than ten ships to beat away more than fifty ships of the other party?

It doesn't make sense!

As soon as Hong Tiezhu's fleet approached, he ordered his handsome ship to dock on Hong Tiezhu's flagship, and then, he jumped on Hong Tiezhu's warship with a few cronies, and as soon as he saw Hong Tiezhu, he stepped forward and patted the shoulder of the person and said in surprise: "Brother, how did you beat away the more than fifty pirate ships?" ”

Wang Zhi will know this question sooner or later.

Hong Tiezhu smiled innocently, and then said embarrassedly: "My lordship forgives me, in fact, the governor has equipped his subordinates with some muskets and thunderbolts, but in order to conceal the news and prevent other pirates and pirates from noticing, his subordinates did not tell your lord in advance, and I hope that your lord Haihan." ”

So that's what happened.

Wang Zhi also knew that it was impossible for Yang Cong to equip him with those advanced firearms "made" by the imperial court, because once he was equipped with those advanced muskets, artillery and thunderbolts, his strength would skyrocket, and at that time, the sailors of any province of the imperial court might not be his opponent.

The Governor will definitely try to avoid this situation, and he doesn't even have to think about the musket and thunder that Hong Tiezhu said.

He snorted and laughed: "What forgiveness is not forgiven, it's good to be able to defeat the enemy, to be honest, I'm really worried that you will not return, just now in that situation, I have no way to order you to go to the aftermath, I hope you can be considerate." ”

Hong Tiezhu still smiled and said: "My lord is joking, how dare my subordinates have objections to my lord's orders, my lord can trust my subordinates, and it is an honor for my subordinates to intercept the more than 50 pirate ships, and it is too late for my subordinates to be happy." ”

When Wang Zhi heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned, Hong Tiezhu seemed to have no intention, but he felt the strong confidence in his words.

To be honest, before this, he was a little disagreeable with Yang Cong's profit distribution method, because when he cooperated with maritime giants in the past, he basically took the goods at about twice or three times the price of Daming, that is to say, he could earn about two million taels in one trip.

He has tens of thousands of subordinates to raise, and the more he takes, the more his subordinates will naturally take, everyone knows that he makes a lot of money, and there are naturally more and more people who come to him, which is why he has slowly developed into the "strongest force" on the sea.

However, at this time, Yang Cong only gave him a thirty percent gross profit, which was equivalent to about one million taels per trip, and the income of him and his subordinates was reduced by about fifty percent because of this.

This guy, if he makes less money, the team will not be easy to lead, not to mention expansion at this time, it will be a bit difficult to even maintain the existing forces.

He originally wanted to discuss with Yang Cong after two trips and try to get as much share as possible, but he didn't think so at this time, because Hong Tiezhu's self-confidence inadvertently sounded a wake-up call for him.

Yang Cong's little guard leader can have such strength, and Yang Cong's strength can be imagined.

He really didn't dare to provoke Yang Cong, just kidding, if he angered others, he wouldn't have to bother to clean him up.

Moreover, the Governor has long had the intention of expanding the fleet, and when the time comes, the gross profit of 30% will naturally rise with the tide, and it is believed that it is only a matter of time before it rises to about 2 million taels, so why should he risk provoking the Governor.

Thinking of this, he patted Hong Tiezhu on the shoulder again, praised him well, and then returned to his handsome ship, commanding his subordinates to count the battle losses and pack up the spoils.

This time he made a lot of money, he won more than ten ships alone, and he also won hundreds of pirate and pirate heads, these are all money, I heard that a head is worth a hundred taels.

After he cleaned up the battlefield, he ordered Yizi Mao Lie to drive the fastest Cangshan ship under his hand to turn around and return to Nanzhili to report his merits, while he himself led the fleet to continue to set off and rushed to Dongying, after all, the east wind is not always there, if he doesn't take advantage of the east wind to hurry up to Dongying, this distance of more than 1,000 miles will not know how much time it will take.

In other words, why did Lu Qi and Shen Jiu entangle so many pirates to block Wang Zhi's fleet?

The reason is very simple, because pirates, pirates, maritime tycoons and Yan Song's party are unwilling!

They used to be able to earn tens of millions of taels a year with this maritime business, but Yang Cong suppressed it, and they basically couldn't get anything.

This year, what is the concept of tens of millions of taels of income a year, which is more than twice the annual tax of the Ming Dynasty!

With such huge interests, who is willing to let go, whether it is pirates and pirates, or maritime tycoons and Yan Song's party, they are not willing to let go.

They originally wanted to fool Jiajing and use the power of the imperial court to clean up Yang Cong, but the problem is that Yang Cong has the support of the Yangming lineage and the Lu family, the Zhang family, and even the prince and the nobles in the court, Yan Song's party and the maritime tycoons have failed to deal with the people after several impeachments, and they also folded the two maritime merchant giants of Longxi Chen and Zhangpu Lin, this road seems to be unworkable, what should I do?

Just when they had nothing to do, the pirates and the pirates came with a surprising news that Wang Zhi, who had recently returned to the imperial court, actually led a fleet to send a batch of goods to Dongying, that is, Wang Zhi was still doing business with Dongying!

This guy is simply "treacherous", he is obviously obedient to the imperial court, and he is still secretly fornicating with the Japanese cowards!

Well done!

The cunning Yan Song quickly came up with a poisonous plan, that is, to organize people to block Wang Zhi's fleet, give this guy a personal stolen goods, and then "frame" Yang Cong and Wang Zhi for colluding to do business with the Japanese Bandits.

This strategy is indeed a bit poisonous, if Wang Zhi's fleet is intercepted, then Yang Cong will be speechless.

Didn't Yang Cong say that he recruited Wang Zhi to help him clean up pirates and pirates, and he secretly colluded with Wang Zhi for a long time, wanting to dictate the business of Daming and Dongying and make huge profits, this is simply using power for personal gain, guarding and stealing!

Yan Song's strategy was indeed good, but he didn't expect that Wang Zhi was sent by Yang Cong to do business, Yang Cong just wanted to dictate the business of Daming and Dongying, and Yang Cong also expected that Wang Zhi's fleet might be in danger, so he specially equipped Hong Tiezhu with more than 200 skilled musketeers and a large number of thunderbolts.

This time, Yan Song miscalculated again, he and the pirates Lu Qi and Shen Jiu sent by the maritime tycoons not only failed to take down Wang Zhi, but instead sent more than ten sea ships and hundreds of heads to others.

When Yang Cong received the news, his mouth was about to smile crookedly.

These guys are just a godsend, and he just needs this feat.

Because he has been in the southeast for a long time, although he made a good start at the beginning, and served the more than 20,000 people gathered by the pirate Li Guangtou, but since then, he has not had any merits.

Jiajing's temperament is very clear to him, although he didn't urge him, but the acute problem can't be changed, it's been so long, if he doesn't show some merit, it is estimated that Jiajing should be suspicious again.

These hundreds of heads came too timely, and he did not hesitate to play, declaring that he had begun to clear the sea of pirates and pirates, and these hundreds of heads were captured in the first major operation!

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