Gangnam, Songjiang Province.

The Hou family shipyard where Zhu Sihai had stayed for two or three years seemed to be just a shipbuilding workshop for a squire, but in fact it was a nest of a group of robbers selling stolen goods.

The porcelain, glass, and spices that could not be sold for a while could not be piled up on the ship all the time, so they needed to be handed over to the Wo family to sell the stolen goods.

Master Hou will buy these hard goods at a suitable price, and sell them through his connections in Songjiang Mansion to get a lot of profit from the difference.

The southeast coastal city has extremely strict control over the entry and exit of the people, just to prevent the Japanese from entering the city, and to take the city together with the outside world.

As a nest family, Master Hou also had to provide a certain amount of protection for the Japanese invaders, escorting the wounded of the Japanese into the city to treat their injuries as a squire, and buying supplies such as wine, food, vegetables and vegetables for the Japanese invaders.

There are also some widows who are suffocated at sea all the year round, and they go to the city to have fun, and Master Hou also has to use his identity as a squire to give some help.

In return, Master Hou, as a merchant ship at sea, will not be robbed by this gang of robbers, and will also be protected to a certain extent.

Today, it happened to be the day when the Japanese invaded the city through the nest family of Master Hou, who first took people to count the hard goods transported by the Japanese invaders, and then personally took the Japanese to the county seat of Shanghai County.

Zhu Sihai sent a letter to his brother at the end of the year, saying that he had annexed a shipyard, and he was talking about this shipyard.

Zhu Sihai, who has the blood of a frontier veteran in his body, usually looks quite honest, but in fact, he is extremely murderous in his bones.

The solution to annexing this shipyard was simple.

One word, kill.

The juniors of the Zhu family have slowly grown up, and the sixth Zhu Tie is already the head of the seventh grade through his military exploits, and he is still the heart of Cao Wenzhao, and he will not let it go to the supervisor Yuan Chonghuan if he holds it in his hand.

The eldest Zhu Yu has also become the actual controller of Wang Gongju, with a humble and powerful position, and he also passed the township test this year and became a showman.

Zhu Sihai is an outsider and a white person, and if he wants to destroy a local squire, he can only rely on officers and soldiers.

Officers and soldiers cannot be local officers and soldiers, Zhu Sihai used silver to buy off the officers and soldiers with the front foot, and the back foot will be immediately sold by the local officers and soldiers.

The relationship between the squires in the local area is not something that can be moved by having money and power, and every time the magistrate of Shanghai County takes office, he has to visit the local squires one by one, hoping that they will give them support, not to mention a white Ding Zhu Sihai.

This has fallen into an insoluble deadlock, only the officers and soldiers have the strength to break through the Hou family, which has raised many families and nursing homes, but it is impossible for local officers and soldiers to deal with the local squire, and it is even more impossible for officers and soldiers from other places to leave the county.

There seems to be no way out.

Zhu Sihai thought about it, so he sent a letter to his sixth brother Zhu Tie to see if he had any way.

Zhu Tie received a letter from his second brother and went to find Cao Wenzhao overnight, Cao Wenzhao was worried about how to keep this baby bump, and saw Zhu Tie come to him for help.

slapped his thigh violently, and the opportunity was not sent to the door by himself.

Cao Wenzhao, who was far away in Liaodong, really had a way to call a sergeant who was enough to destroy the local squires without the help of local officers and soldiers.

Zheng Zhilong, who dominates the southeast coast.

Cao Wenzhao didn't know Zheng Zhilong, but he knew Shi Daxuan, one of Zheng Zhilong's eighteen Zhilong.

Shi Daxuan, a Haikou who had just been recruited, usually had no way to talk to Cao Wenzhao, and after receiving Cao Wenzhao's letter, he immediately personally led an elite water warrior of 500 people to Shanghai County.

Shi Daxuan met Zhu Sihai in a dilapidated tavern, but what he didn't expect was that Zhu Sihai, who was so black-hearted that he was about to kill a squire and dyed hundreds of lives.

So young.

Zhu Sihai didn't expect that Shi Daxuan, one of the eighteen Zhi members who dominated the southeast coast, would be so mediocre.

is like an ordinary fisherman, without the slightest ferocious aura of a sea bandit, if it weren't for the other party holding Cao Wenzhao's letter, Zhu Sihai would have doubted whether he was a fake.

Zhu Sihai only asked one sentence: "Are there all the people?" ”

Shi Daxuan glanced at Zhu Sihai with interest, wanting to see how ruthless this person was, and he had to carry hundreds of lives at a young age.

Aren't you afraid that when you sleep at night, there will be evil spirits standing at the window?

However, this kid was quite interested in Shi Daxuan's appetite, and nodded: "Since it was Brother Cao who spoke personally." ”

"Little brother, don't worry, you will destroy the Hou family at night, and you will definitely not let the little brother be contaminated with half of his life."

Zhu Sihai said something unbelievable, and Shi Daxuan began to wonder if this kid was playing tricks on him.

"Go now."

Go now?

Shi Daxuan had heard a little about this nest family in Shanghai County, and when he came over, he found a gang leader and learned about the situation of the Hou family in detail.

This is also Shi Daxuan's way of survival, according to a sentence he often likes to say, know himself and know his opponent.

There are a total of thirty-seven people in the Hou family, all of whom are strong households, and there are more than 300 guns and birds of various kinds.

Among them, there are also seven Franc machine guns that make Shi Daxuan's heart tremble, saying that they are carrying guns, but they are actually light artillery.

Each of the Franc machine guns weighed about 15 to 16 catties, which was more than double the weight of ordinary bird guns.

Because it is too heavy, the two hands cannot be held for a long time, and a bracket should be placed underneath as a support, all called lifting the gun.

The weight of the Franc machine gun has increased so much, and the power of the gun has naturally increased dramatically, and each time it is loaded with 2.5 ounces of gunpowder, it can penetrate the plate armor of Western knights at a distance of 100 paces.

Shi Daxuan had seen the Franc machine man wearing that kind of plate armor, which was simply an iron shell, and ordinary swords could not cut it.

The Franc machine gun can actually shoot through, or a distance of about 100 steps, which shows the power of the Franc machine gun.

What Shi Daxuan didn't expect the most was that the Hou family was so bold that they secretly hid four Franc machine guns at home, with a range of nearly two miles.

Shi Daxuan estimated that this stunned young man didn't know the strength of the Hou family, and even regarded the war as a back and forth in the play, and the master would end it with a few casual strokes.

It's that simple.

Shi Daxuan brought five hundred elite pirates, all of whom were villains who had been on the sea all year round, and they really didn't blink an eye.

Coupled with the night attack, the 37 relatives and followers were wiped out, and at least about 20 people were lost.

Go now?

It's daylight!

What's the matter, don't take the life of his Shi Daxuan brother seriously?

Thinking that this kid's face was so big that Cao Wenzhao could write a letter by hand, Shi Daxuan resisted the urge to divide this kid's body, and explained impatiently: "Do you know the strength of the Hou family.......

As soon as Shi Daxuan's words came out, Zhu Sihai seemed to have seen through his thoughts, and only said two words to shut him up.

"I can guarantee that your brother will not die."

"A pension of three hundred taels of silver will be given to the dead one, and a pension of five hundred taels of silver will be given to the remaining one."

The main thing that made Shi Daxuan shut up was the last sentence, as for the first half of the sentence, Shi Daxuan would only listen to this stunned crazy talk when he was crazy.

Shi Daxuan looks mediocre, and his status on the southeast coast is one of the undisputed overlords.

After Shi Daxuan followed his eldest brother Zheng Zhilong to recruit An, the righteous brothers of Eighteen Zhi, died and fled, and there were only five or six people left.

It is these five or six people, but they control the maritime trade on the southeast coast, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are the emperors of the soil on the southeast coast.

With Shi Daxuan's status, it is enough to send a shopkeeper over, and if he can come in person, it will be to save Cao Wenzhao's face.

It's just that Shi Daxuan didn't expect that Cao Wenzhao's nephew, who was still a little uncle, was stupid to attack the Hou family, which had seven guns and four Franc cannons, during the day.

However, this kid is quite generous, worthy of being a second ancestor, fifty or sixty taels is enough for the pension, which is directly raised to three hundred taels and five hundred taels.

Shi Daxuan, these Haikou licking blood on the knife edge, isn't it just for the silver, for the sake of so much silver, they can also fall into the favor of Cao Wenzhao.

Shi Daxuan sacrificed his life to accompany the second ancestor this time.

In order to reduce the casualties of the brothers under his command, he asked the brothers to go to the Hou family's house in batches in three or five, hoping to play a role in sneak attack.

However, Shi Daxuan still underestimated the intertwined relationship between the bureaucracy and the gentry in the local area, and more than ten unfamiliar faces appeared on the country roads, which immediately aroused the vigilance of the villagers.

A large number of villagers went to report to the Hou family and some other bureaucrats and squires, and when Zhu Sihai and Shi Daxuan came to the Hou family's house, they had already made preparations with their families.

The Hou family's house is said to be a house, but it is actually a dock fort made of bricks and stones.

Zhu Sihai didn't hide, just stood in the flat open space three or four hundred steps away from the Hou family's house, observing this dock fort.

It occupies a large area on the outside of the dock fort, which is a circle of stone walls, about one zhang and three feet high.

At the four corners of the stone wall, and the piers like beacon towers, four Franc cannons are placed, and the muzzles of the black holes face the flat wilderness around them.

The wilderness outside the fort was all flat fields, and the woods and bushes for the Tibetans were cleaned up.

The surroundings of the dock fort are unobstructed.

On the stone wall stood a sturdy man who had seen the enemy's position, and seven guns were loaded with gunpowder and placed on a wooden support, facing the west.

There are also all kinds of earthen spears and birds.

The chief housekeeper of the Hou family saw Zhu Sihai standing in the open space in front of the dock fort without fear, followed by the black and oppressive Haikou, and thought that he was the leader of the Haikou: "This lord, the Hou family is willing to borrow grain, don't do it." ”

Zhu Sihai glanced at Shi Daxuan, let a few trustworthy craftsman friends bring over, and opened the donkey cart.

Shi Daxuan's brows were almost twisted together, and he was worried about how to storm this dock fort at the lowest cost.

Sensing that Zhu Sihai glanced at him, he temporarily put down his thoughts and looked at the few donkey carts that Zhu Sihai walked over.

Lifting the tarpaulin on it, there was a bunch of strange things tied to the donkey cart, all cylindrical things made of black iron sheets.

The head also exhibits a strange tapered shape.

I don't know what the hell it is.

Zhu Sihai has made three trustworthy friends in the past few years, and he is also very righteous, and when he heard that he was going to attack the squire who usually didn't dare to look at him directly, he agreed without any hesitation.

Zhu Sihai and his three friends took down the launch frame and placed it first.

Facing Houjiawu Fort, lined up.

Then put the thirteen rockets on the launch stand, and connect the leads one by one with a fast-burning fire rope.

Zhu Sihai walked over with a torch in his right hand and picked up the arquebus in his left hand.

The eldest brother sent him a lot of books, especially a book called What is it, and told him to study it carefully.

In the past few years, Zhu Sihai has flipped through it several times, and there are many places that he has not understood.

But there is one sentence that has always been deeply imprinted in my mind.

Revolutions are bloody.

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