Zhang Siqi came from a Han merchant family in Manila, a native of Zhangzhou, a hundred years ago their family established a trading house here, at the beginning they only sent people here to guard the goods and do business, and then in the next few years, it was too troublesome to go back and forth, and some people lived here directly for ten or twenty years.

Later, some people gradually stayed down completely, married women who were also descendants of Zhangzhou or Fuzhou here, spread out their branches, established ancestral halls, and gradually became overseas immigrants who lived here.

Unlike many Fujianese or Cantonese who stay overseas in this way, the destitute immigrants make up their minds that they will never go back when they leave.

The islands are warm and muggy, but they are very suitable for crops, and the natives are lazier and dumber than the monkeys, and they would rather wait under the banana trees for the fruit to fall off than climb the trees to pick the fruit when they are hungry.

The Han people will have a unique advantage in both business and farming, and the merchant families will soon accumulate a huge amount of wealth, and the ordinary destitute people, the landless bankrupt peasants in Guangzhou and Fujian, will soon be able to accumulate wealth after arriving in these places, and at least reach a well-off standard of living.

There are too many people in Dawei, and the competition is too fierce, whether it is a businessman or a bankrupt farmer, they will find their own world here.

Zhang Siqi's family ran a tea business in Zhangzhou, and after arriving in Luzon, they dabbled in cotton, raw silk, porcelain, study utensils, tea and so on.

Within a hundred years, this small family spread out in Luzon, and because the business was quite successful, the family also developed into a large Han merchant family in Luzon.

Even in a place where there are groups of pirates, Zhang Siqi is faintly followed by a dozen or so guards, secretly scattered to observe the situation here, faintly has his own nobility, even if it is some pirates passing by drunkly, after glancing at Zhang Siqi, he felt that this Han young man was not an ordinary person, and he bypassed it from afar.

Zhang Siqi was followed by a few people, most of them were the children of the big families in Luzon, the pirates raised troops in a big way, of course, it attracted the attention of the Han merchant family in Luzon, the old people in those families would not come here, and they went to the dangerous place lightly, and the children of these families also volunteered, this time the action was indeed quite dangerous, but as long as they succeeded, their status in the family would also rise.

"Brother Zhang, I heard that Luo Fangbo of Lanfang has given a lot of assistance to the Eastern Domain." A young Han businessman said to Zhang Siqi: "As it is now, Luo Fangbo is afraid that he has misanticipated the overall situation. ”

"Yes." Zhang Siqi recognized Luo Fangbo, the Han merchant family will have dealings with each other, although the Luo family is the head of Lanfang's family, it is essentially a Han merchant family, and they have been in contact with each other for more than a hundred years.

Zhang Siqi nodded and said: "I met Luo Fangbo once, Luo Fangbo praised me that Nan'an Hou is a rare handsome man among the princes of the Great Wei, originally I planned to go to the Eastern Domain once this year to discuss the cotton cloth trade with them. Later, I learned that they mainly sold to the Japanese country this year, but it was okay to sign a contract first and pay a part of the deposit, which was a small matter. It would also be good for us if Nan Anhou managed the Eastern Domain well and built a stronger sailor, with his tough attitude towards pirates. ”

"That's what Brother Zhang said." Another young man from a big family quickly answered, and his round face was full of anger: "I heard the old man in the family say that a few decades ago, when the Great Wei Navy was still strong, he met pirates at sea and killed them, and there were no pirates who could develop and grow at all. Where did you get this king and that king? Over the past few decades, Da Wei has spent too much money on the Donghu people, and he has no strength to maintain the water division, which makes this generation of clowns proud for a while. If Nan Anhou really intends to come to Jinghai again, my family will feel worth it even if it costs hundreds of thousands. ”

"It's not just us Han merchants in Luzon who think so." Zhang Siqi made a small hand gesture, and then led everyone to another hidden place on the beach, and then continued: "The three Buddhas, Lan Fang, Siam, Champang, Zhenla, Ceylon, and the Han merchant families in Manthorn are connected to each other, and everyone has the same idea, and it is not a good thing for us for pirates to grow stronger, or people from heaven to come." It doesn't matter if the Celestial Sect or something, but the Celestial People will squeeze our profits, and will bring in their own merchants, who are as shrewd as us, and their capital is stronger than ours, and fighting with them is much more difficult to deal with than the natives of other countries. Moreover, the Celestial People will definitely slaughter on a large scale, and each of our families will encounter risks. Pirates, too murderous, disorderly, and difficult to control. Over the years, Lan Fang and Srivijaya have fought with Pu Xingfeng, and each of our families has contributed to it, otherwise how can these two countries resist Pu Xingfeng and full thorns? If the Eastern Domain can be added in a few years, not to mention how much power the Marquis of Nan'an has, just the appeal of the Great Wei Clan, the Marquis of the Great Wei Dynasty, is not comparable to our people......"

Many of the businessmen's children nodded their heads in agreement.

It is true that there are now millions of Han people in more than a dozen countries, each holding the economic lifeline of each country, but except for Lanfang and a few small countries, the Han people have no intention and strength to establish a country.

Quite a few people, even the people of the big family of Lan Fangguo, still recognize themselves as Great Wei people, at least Chinese.

In this respect, the Han Chinese are quite similar to the Jews.

The key point is that the core of Chinese civilization is to respect the heavens and the ancestors, and trace the origins of the ancestors. Even if people who immigrate overseas still regard themselves as Chinese people, do not forget their ancestors, and worship their ancestors at the same time, it means that they cannot break their roots, even if they move for hundreds of years, the mother country is still Chinese, and the core of the family is still to follow the Chinese tradition and still have a heart for China.

During the Anti-Japanese War in another time and space, many Chinese families who have emigrated to Nanyang for hundreds of years have children who have returned to China to serve as soldiers, and there are also many families who raise funds for their mother country and even do whatever it takes.

This kind of cohesion and centripetal force is really not possessed by ordinary peoples, and at this point, only the Jews, who have wandered for thousands of years and have always been united, can be compared with the Chinese people, which is also the most similar place between the two nations, which is the core of the two civilizations.

Whether it is Luzon, or Siam, Champang, Srivijaya, or Lanfang, which founded the country, they have been overseas for more than a hundred years, but deep down they always think that they are Chinese people, and of course they are also concerned about the changes in the Great Wei, hoping that the Great Wei can become stronger.

There are many people who really went to sea to make a living because they couldn't survive in the Great Wei, but no matter whether they were successful businessmen or destitute Wei people who went to sea, no one complained and hated their home country.

Great Wei has always been a civilized country, even if the heavy taxes and miscellaneous taxes are now so heavy that thieves are everywhere, but people's subconscious will never think that they should be wary of and hate Great Wei.

If the Great Wei was destroyed by the Eastern Hu, or if the southern part of the country was occupied by the Celestials, this would be an unacceptable result.

If these foreign places are destroyed by the heavens, the successful families can at least return to the Great Wei, which is their retreat and spiritual home, if the Great Wei is also finished, then everything is really over.

Zhang Siqi had obvious worry on his face, and he said to everyone: "According to Luo Fangbo, Nan'an Hou is an ambitious, skillful, and capable prince. Such a person is a dragon and a phoenix among people, and he will soar one day in the future. However, now his strength is still too weak, there are only thousands of soldiers and horses on the Eastern Domain, and 20,000 or 30,000 pirates have invaded the shore, even if he can escape for a while, but the foundation is ruined, and he is afraid that he will not be able to recover for a while. ”

A young man said on the side: "This time, the clan elders of the family just called down to see if it was a pirate who came out of the nest." They also want to see how the Eastern Domain will fight. ”

Another said: "As long as Nan'anhou can resist, or even slightly counteract, the lower clan will support Nan'anhou, at least raw silk, tea, porcelain, these easy-to-sell goods, you can call Nan'anhou there to do it." ”

These big families in the countries of the South Seas basically have quite a lot of first-hand goods channels, and even some families let their children take root in foreign lands because they want to set up trading houses in foreign countries.

They also have their own trading houses and purchase channels in the country, and they don't need to change hands at all.

Let Nan Anhou change his hand, of course, Nan Anhou Mansion will earn a part of the profit, but this is much better than giving money directly. One is that these families can get more sources of goods channels, and the other is that Nan'an Hou Mansion can continue to obtain profits and can develop further, which is much better than giving a sum of money directly.

Luo Fangbo also provides shipbuilding technology, personnel, and crew, and only gives a small amount of cash, although Lan Fang's national strength is limited, and he is deeply involved in the war against Pu Xingfeng and cannot get out, but also based on this consideration, if the money is purely given, these Nanyang families will be worried that it is just a temporary illusory prosperity, not that the Nan'an Hou Mansion really has strength.

"Let's see." Zhang Siqi looked at the sea quite worriedly, the warships had raised their white sails, turned to the south, driven by the wind and currents, split the blue water, the pirates were still piled up on the deck, where the dazzling light of weapons was reflected, they were in groups, arrogant and fierce, fierce and brave, in the face of the coming war, the pirates did not have the slightest fear.

For them, this was a hunting operation to the Eastern Domain, 30,000 people to crusade against a desert island, and for many pirates, the fear was not failure, but futile and unable to grab anything.

Of course, before leaving, the two pirates had already announced that this time the guarantee was also hundreds of thousands, and this news was gradually conveyed to the ships, causing the pirates to cheer.

They are a relatively loose alliance, and of course they have to carry out the will of the chief, but if there is no benefit, low morale is inevitable.

The benefits of hundreds of thousands of yuan, although the big and small bosses have to take a lot, but on average, each person will have more than ten benefits, plus they can grab some in the Eastern Domain, which makes the pirates still full of eagerness.

There are also a lot of bloodthirsty pirates who are not very interested in looting, and who prefer killing to wealth.

They like to see the desperate look on people's faces, they like to rape each other's relatives, mothers, wives, daughters, sisters, and they feel extremely happy when they can make the insulted person miserable.

They take pleasure in killing, killing men, old people, women, children, they feel extremely happy if they can make others suffer, in the face of the trip to the Eastern Domain, they are more eager to kill on the island, most of these people are the natives of the Nanyang area, can kill the Wei people, watch those shrewd, hard-working, and have a higher civilization Wei people die under their own swords, before they die, they abuse, insult, and then be killed, enjoy the helplessness and despair of those Wei people, which makes these pirates even happier.

They can also recall the situation during the battle of Zhangzhou, the five thieves broke through Zhangzhou, killed more than 100,000 people before and after, and wreaked havoc in Zhangzhou for half a month, and they also planned to conquer Fuzhou and Quanzhou, where they were richer and more prosperous, with a larger population, not only to grab more wealth, but also to enable them to kill more people.

But then the main force of the forbidden army of the Great Wei arrived, although there were less than 20,000 people, but the armor was thick, the weapons were excellent, and the army was strong, which gave the pirates considerable pressure and impact, after several small-scale battles, the pirates have been suffering, at sea they are not afraid of anyone, but then they gradually understand that they are not the opponent of the regular army.

On this trip to the Eastern Domain, they knew that there was no Great Wei forbidden army on the island, which made them even more emboldened, as for the fact that Xu Zi, the Marquis of Nan'an, was good at fighting and annihilating many pirates, it was not worth mentioning in the eyes of these pirates.

Chen Yutai is just a small character entrenched on a small island, how can he be compared to a real pirate who crisscrosses the sea?

A group of sons and daughters of the Han merchant family, standing silently high on the coast, watched the murderous warships leave the harbor one after another, the pirates shouted, noisy, and said some murderous words that boosted morale, their black faces were full of murderous aura and desire to kill, and finally these people gradually moved away and sailed into the distance.

"Will there be a miracle?" Zhang Siqi looked around and knew that everyone was as heavy as him.

The giant thieves are becoming more and more arrogant, once Pu Xingfeng and the Manchu Thorns plus people destroy the Three Buddhas, Lan Fang, and the countries of the South Seas, what will be the situation?