Early the next morning, Li Jing gathered his men and horses to attack the cottage again, at this time, after yesterday's bombardment, the wall of the fortress has almost collapsed, everyone opened two columns, pushing six-pounder guns and Furlong machine guns, slowly moving forward, seeing the pirate outcropping with a burst of shotguns. The pirates' muskets and several tiger cannons were knocked out one by one, and in the end, they had to hide in the house with knives and guns, ready for street fighting.

Li Jing considered that there would be unnecessary casualties in the street fighting, so people shouted, those who disarmed and surrendered should not be killed, otherwise they would set fire to the cottage.

Wu Lao Liu pulled the broken gong and shouted: "Listen to the old and young masters inside, our leader has an order, be merciful, disarm and surrender without killing, resist stubbornly, burn the village, and burn the jade, so you can't say anything." ”

He was greeted by a few flying feathered arrows. The gang of bandits continued to shoot arrows at Li Jing's side, with no intention of surrendering. Li Jing sees that this can't be done, and he can't keep spending like this, since these pirates are right, they have to deal with whatever they say, otherwise there will be troubles in the future.

"Dismantle the Flying Thunder Cannon and bombard it with gunpowder." Li Jing instructed Boss Zhang.

Two Flying Thunder cannons were erected, gunpowder packs were installed, and projectiles began.

One by one, gunpowder bags fell in the cottage, and the explosion sounded, iron slag flew everywhere, a large number of people around were swept down, and the wooden houses were also on fire. Many people in the fire were on fire and running around. There seem to be a lot of women and children. Li Jing motioned to stop shooting.

After a while, a dozen pirates shouted for negotiations.

"Let them come out and talk about the main thing now," Li Jing said to Zhang Laodao. Boss Zhang nodded and sent someone to contact the pirates. After a while, an old man with a goatee came out with a few people.

"This leader, we Qingyangzhai admit it this time, since we eat this bowl of rice on the sea, we have the ability to eat others, and we don't have the ability to be eaten, which is justified. Over the years, some belongings have been accumulated in the village, and we have handed them all over, and please spare our wives and children. ”

"I let you go, where can you women and children go, do you dare to go ashore, the government is not vegetarian, or is it swallowed up by other pirates."

"What do you mean, Chief?" Goatee saw that Li Jing didn't mean to kill them all, and he couldn't help but feel relieved. And these people are obviously big merchants on the coast, not real pirates.

"All the men are captured, you need to dig up guano for me for five years, and after five years I may release you, or I may recruit you to be the sailors of my fleet, and your robbery of me will be cancelled. I'm going to take your family away. One is that our weaving workshop needs manpower, and the other is that I can control you to work well for me, and I can give you a month off every year to reunite with your family. ”

The pirates discussed in a low voice, and the old man said, "I ask the chief to give us a day of leniency, and we will give you an answer before dark." ”

As expected, there is a way to live, and no one wants to end there. At night, the pirates bound themselves and surrendered. Li Jing led people into the village to count the number of people, and found that there were more than 500 pirates who surrendered, but there were more than 1,000 women and children in the village. The extra is estimated to be the families of the pirates who died this time.

The pirates had a lot of possessions, 150,000 taels of silver, and 300 kilograms of gold and gold jewelry. Other kinds of cloth, silk and other materials were also piled up. There are more than 300,000 stone of grain. Ten pirate ships were seized.

Li Jing discussed with Boss Zhang, with so many people, it was difficult to control the situation. The pirates who had the ability to resist were put in chains and shackles and put in custody, and they were given some porridge every day, so as not to starve to death, so as not to have the strength to resist. Women and children were gathered in the stockade, and barbed wire was drawn on all sides. Sailors armed with muskets set up sentry posts.

"Young master, I think there are so many people, we can't handle it, it's best to ask the second master to preside over the situation."

"Yes, I wrote a letter to my second uncle and sent someone to send them over by pirate's fast boat, and these women and children were sent to the Taohuawu Dongshan Pass weaving workshop to work as workers. Children over the age of 12 can be apprentices, and the remaining children can set up a kindergarten and send a few maids to take care of them, so that these women can work without worries. ”

"Does the young master want to take these people for his own use?"

"I mean this, we lack experienced sailors, these pirates have to be carefully interrogated and identified, the most vicious, big and small leaders, old bandits are difficult to reform, all go to dig up guano. The rest of the pirates who live for a living, if they don't have too much sin, can be absorbed into our fleet. But there must be a family. Otherwise, it is difficult to control. ”

"Let the second master come over this time, it's better to use this place as a supply base, I took a look, this island has fresh water, and it can also shelter from the wind. It's better to build a dock fort here, and our family's ship can replenish and rest here in the future. The family left some people to be stationed for a long time. ”

"Well, this is a good idea, our products are first transported out of the Hanjiang River by small boat, and then changed to a big ship on Nanao Island, all the way north, just to supply here, and you can also shelter from the wind. Then go north to the mouth of the Yangtze River, to Nanjing and Wuchang. ”

Li Jing thought for a while and said: "This time I have encountered accidents in a row, I can't delay here for too long, the Spring Festival is coming soon, and I want to sell the oil before the year." I will leave you two hundred guns, fifty people, and you wait for the second uncle here. I loaded the vegetable oil and the gold and silver seized here onto the Phoenix, and went to Nanjing first. ”

"What to do with the ship and food, and will these people be handed over to the second master to deal with?"

"Yes, I will leave you a letter, you pass it on to the second master, he will deal with it, you just listen to him, I will bring you and these more than 100 sailors from home, and follow me in the future."

Boss Zhang hurriedly bowed down and saluted, "I am willing to follow the eldest prince to the soup and fight the fire, and I will never give up"

Li Jing nodded, stretched out his hand to help, and said, "Tell the brothers that as long as you work hard, everyone has a future."

Ten days later, the second uncle came to this small island with more than 300 sailors from his family and more than 1,000 sailors who had been temporarily recruited, and transported the surrendered pirates to the southern island to dig guano. There is no fresh water on Nanxiao Island, which needs to be transported by boat from Treasure Island, and it is surrounded by the sea on all sides, and it is not the main channel, so there are very few ships passing by, and there is no fear that these people will escape. Food and fresh water are rationed daily. These people had no choice but to dig up guano honestly.

The seized grain was also handed over to the second uncle to maintain the food supply of Nan Xiaodao. Ten boats were handed over to the second uncle to operate, and two boats were set aside to transport guano. Before spring ploughing, transport the guano back to Taohuawu for fertilization. More than 1,000 women and children were transported back to Taohuawu to work as textile workers, and the Li family set up a kindergarten in a small courtyard according to Li Jing's idea. Send some maids to take care of it.

In addition, the letter to the second uncle mentioned that in the name of Li Jing, he bought the flat piece in the middle of Nanao Island, which was about 15,000 acres of barren rocky beach. How much money does it cost, and there will be a bill of exchange in the future. In addition, it is suggested that the second uncle donate a Nanao town group training ambassador, and the money will also be paid by Li Jing. Take advantage of the fact that no one is paying attention to Nanao Island now, and occupy it first. It is best to recruit some untouchable people from the southeast coast in advance, shantytowns in the mountainous areas of Jiangxi, Zhejiang and Fujian (escaped farmers with household registration, hiding from taxes in the mountains), these areas are close to the eastern Guangdong region, and after recruiting, they will enter the eastern part of Guangdong by land and concentrate on boarding the ship to go to the northernmost dock fort on Dayuan Island to reclaim paddy fields. Li Jing also gave it a name, called Chicken Coop City. Later, Li Jing's grandfather felt that this chicken coop was a god horse thing, and changed its name to Keelung City.

Before Li Jing left, he persuaded the two sisters to wait for the second uncle here, and it is estimated that the anger has disappeared after such a long time. Boss Zhang also came to persuade him, so it was difficult for him to explain to the second master. The second daughter refused, so she had to go to Jinling to play. Li Jing had no choice but to take the two of them to sail away again.