"A ship, that's the Fu No. 1." A middle-aged man was half-kneeling at the bottom of the steps, a white-haired old man was sitting cross-legged in the room, looking like he was in his sixties, but his back was still straight, the old man was fishing through the window, the middle-aged man was kneeling at the bottom of the steps to report the matter, he knelt very uncomfortable, there was a lot of gravel under his knees, but this middle-aged man didn't even dare to show a little uncomfortable expression.

This is a bay in Chikuzen Province, and there are also ports and docks, and there are not many ships, but they are obviously warships.

Many sailors and soldiers, dressed in all sorts of robes, looked rather careless, and they walked up and down the beach, the harbor, the izakayas, and the ships, drinking and laughing, and they were all fierce-eyed, fierce and light, and each of them carried a variety of weapons, and even when they were playing, they always pressed the hilt of their swords in their hands.

Their eyes were defiant, and their bodies were full of scars inside the loose robes, and most of them had bronzed skin, some dressed as Wei people, some of them were dressed as natives of Nanyang countries, and there were also Japanese people with bald heads and hair buns.

"Fu One?" The old man put away his rod, and though he had no gain, he did not show any signs of dismay, for it was evident that fishing was for him a pastime of boredom, and if he wished, the men with fierce faces and swords would swarm and leap into the sea to catch the fish with their bare hands, and put them on the hooks...... As long as he wants.

"Yes, Fu One." The middle-aged man said softly: "It is about twenty-seven meters long, more than five meters wide, and more than two hundred tons, it is a medium-sized lucky ship." The ship is old, it should be at least twenty or thirty years. ”

"The family background of Nan'an Hou Mansion is not rich." The old man smiled, the wrinkles on his face were all stirred up by the smile, and he looked really kind.

The kneeling middle-aged man lowered his head, the one in front of him was one of the five great thieves at sea, even if he had a bottom line in doing things like Wang Zhi, but in the end, he was born as a big pirate, he killed people and goods when he was young, and he didn't know how many lives there were in his hands. Even now, everyone's life is between their minds, and in a single thought, they can make tens of millions of people live or die, and when it comes to real power and power at sea, the great general of the Wa Kingdom is far inferior to Kang Tianqi.

If Kang Tianqi is willing, he can attack the homeland of the Japanese people at any time, and the Japanese people can only gather all the daimyo to resist, even if they win on land, the sailors who fight the Japanese people at sea are definitely not Kang Tianqi's opponents.

In fact, the process of the rise of the five pirates at sea is also the process of the decline of the Great Wei Navy.

Half a century ago, when the pressure of the Donghu people on the Great Wei was not great, the Great Wei could still afford the expenses of millions of sailors a year.

At that time, there were more than 100,000 sailors and more than 1,000 warships in the Great Wei Dynasty, which was the most powerful maritime force in many places from the coast of the Great Wei to the Wa Kingdom, Luzon, Lanfang, Manchu, and Srivijaya Qi.

At that time, the Japanese people were in awe of Dawei and were very respectful.

There were quite a few small groups of pirates, but when they saw the banner of the Great Wei sailors appear on the sea level, the pirates would flee in despair.

The emergence of Wang Zhi, Kang Tianqi and others is inseparable from the decline of the Great Wei Water Division.

Until now, even if the Great Wei Sailor reappears back then, if the five thieves join forces, they will be able to open the capital of five or five, and the pirates will still have the strength to fight.

But there are often ups and downs, and now Yan Qi and Liu Dan are in decline, they are confined and can only rob in the form of killing chickens and eggs, making their territory shrink more and more.

There are fewer coins to grab, and fewer loyal subordinates are available.

Pirates exist in the form of fleets, and once the mastermind's prestige declines, many pirate leaders will leave with their ships.

Wang Zhi left one-third of his subordinates in the process of attaching Zhao'an, and most of them went to the Wa Kingdom to defect to Kang Tianqi.

Many of Wang Zhi's subordinates, like the chief, want to live a stable life, which is the psychology of having grabbed enough money and just want to retire for the elderly.

But there are also many who have not had enough of it at all, and it may be that these people want to live an unfettered life at sea.

Kang Tianqi has many sons, and has been trained on many ships, Kang Mao is his eldest son, who has been at sea for nearly forty years, and controls Kang Tianqi's most elite core subordinates, so Kang Tianqi does not have the problem of retreat and pension like Wang Zhi. Here in the Wa Kingdom, Kang Tianqi and other daimyo can live as long as he wants, and when he is too old to serve, Kang Mao will lead his subordinates and serve his father.

Therefore, Kang Tianqi understood Wang Zhi and cooperated with the other party to recruit An, but both the Great Wei Court and Kang Tianqi himself understood that if there was no obvious change, he would never recruit An, and there was no such possibility.

"There's a little Langjun," the middle-aged man continued: "The surname is Chen Ming Daojian, we have inquired about this person, he is indeed a close confidant of Nan'anhou's side, and his identity as a member has always been by Nan'anhou's side. ”

"Are they going to weave silk too?" Kang Tianqi showed an interested look in his eyes, and said slowly: "This is good news...... I know that Xu Zixian is a very serious and delicate little guy, he wants to really raise silkworms and weave silk, and we have a good seller for this piece of raw silk. ”

The middle-aged man said respectfully: "But Nan'anhou's side has not yet sent someone to contact us." ”

"It's coming." Kang Tianqi smiled and said: "Nan Anhou is an informed and interesting person, he can send someone to find the Ouchi family because of the cotton, and he will also come to me, even if the raw silk is not given to me, it will give a considerable share, and I will not eat it all, we must count each other, and we can't do too much." ”

There were still a few people in the room, and when they heard this, they all chuckled.

"I'm afraid it's not easy to negotiate." The middle-aged man said boldly: "This time, the one who is full of thorns, what Aikayusuf, took more than 100 people to Chikuzen Country, saying that he wanted to negotiate an alliance with the Japanese people, I see that he is arrogant, and the Japanese people are desperately flattering......"

"It can't be helped." Kang Tianqi said: "Behind that Aika is Manthorn Jia, Manthorn Jia has hundreds of boats, 100,000 soldiers, and behind them there are Mughal countries, as well as Tianfang Kingdom, plus Pu Xingfeng them, the Japanese people know that they can't be provoked." ”

"Based on the villain's opinion of the Japanese people, they are very disgusted with the heavens, and they don't like to associate with them, but the Tianfang people are becoming more and more powerful, and the villain is afraid that the Japanese people will sooner or later throw themselves into the heavens and Pu Xingfeng."

"You don't understand." Kang Tianqi waved his hand and ordered this subordinate to retreat.

In a corner of the house, there were two big men, one was in his forties, similar in appearance to Kang Tianqi, obviously Kang Maocai, and the other was in his thirties, although he was kneeling and sitting, he did not hide his martial courage, his face was full of beards, and he looked very brave.

"The villain doesn't understand either." The man in his thirties prayed to Kang Tian: "Before coming here, the villain was also worried that the Japanese people would repeat, and the winner would be divided within a year or two. I'm afraid that a series of them will fall, and when the time comes, Pu Xingfeng and the full thorn plus people will come together, what should we do? In terms of national strength, of course, the Great Wei is far from the Manchurian Thorn Plus, but it is slightly inferior to the heavens, and there is also the trouble of the Donghu people, and it is impossible to invest too much national strength in the southern border troubles. If Tianfang and Pu Xingfeng start to fight the idea of the south of Great Wei, what should we do? ”

"You can't go with the heavens." The man in his forties had a resolute face, and said in a deep voice: "When the time comes, if we don't help each other, we will settle down here in the Wa Kingdom." ”

"What if the Heavenly People even attack Great Wei?"

"That's impossible."

"Brother Maocai is determined, and he admires him."

It was Deng Qi who spoke, of course he was ordered to come, Wang Zhi and Kang Tianqi have always been in contact, and the two sides have to negotiate with each other on many things.

Deng Qi didn't think that the Heavenly People could take down the Great Wei, he would rather have a better chance of being a Donghu Beiyu.

After all, the Celestial Kingdom has to deal with crises in many directions, and although the Celestial Realm has many allies and even client states, it is not its direct power.

In the Celestial Territory, the caliphate's power was not consolidated, and the Turks were an emerging power in its territory that surpassed the Celestials, and it was common for the caliphs to be bullied, or even more easily caliphate.

In Tianfang, there have been many large-scale civil wars, from white-clothed food to black-clothed food, and then to green-clothed food, and its national strength has actually been declining.

In addition, in the face of the attack of the Taixi countries, its domestic forces are quite scattered, after the Manchu Thorn Plus was taken, its national strength did not increase much, with more than 100,000 people plus Pu Xingfeng, at most it was to harass the south of the Great Wei, and if you want to attack all the way to the north, you have to ask the million Xiang army and the 600,000 forbidden army of the Great Wei if they can agree.

"You don't know much about the habits of the Japanese people." Kang Tianqi said slowly: "Fear but not virtue, whoever shows the strength that can really destroy his country, he will really obey you." No matter how strong the Heavenly Man is, as long as he does not have the ability to destroy his kingdom, the Japanese people will not really obey him and respect him. What the Japanese people are really afraid of and wary of is Pu Xingfeng, and in this matter, they have to look at our thoughts, so they will hang the Tianfang people, waiting for us to make a clear difference between us and the Tianfang people...... The Nan'an Hou Mansion is a stir-maker in this matter, and this matter is not something they can participate in in the final analysis. ”

Kang Tianqi is a thief who crosses the seven seas, and with a few words, he can clearly analyze the things in front of him, and everyone knows that what this old pirate leader said is not bad at all.

The room fell silent for a while, and some words, in front of Wang Zhi's henchman Deng Qi, Kang Tianqi and his son were also inconvenient to say.

and Pu Xingfeng, Liu Dan, Yan Qi, and Wang Zhi, these five thieves once met and divided the territory, but they all understood in each other's hearts that two of the five thieves were from the Great Wei, Kang Tianqi and Wang Zhi. Yan Qi is a native of Luzon and is said to have Han Chinese ancestry, but his way of thinking and daily interactions are mostly Luzon and the natives of Nanyang countries, and he is not too close to the Wei people.

Liu Dan is a mixture of Luzon and Siam, living in Luzon, and has merged with Yan Qi.

Pu Xingfeng is a thorough Tianfang person, with deep eyes and high nose, green eyes, tall body, fair skin, in terms of race, Tianfang and Taixi people do belong to a race, and there is not much difference between the two sides.

Among the pirate kings of the Wei people, Kang Tianqi and Wang Zhi had a similar style, although in their early years they were inevitably brave and ruthless, burning and looting, but when their power was formed, they were more of a monopoly on trade and imposed maritime trade taxes to maintain a large fleet.

And Liu Dan and Yan Qi and Pu Xingfeng are more willing to rob directly, among which Pu Xingfeng does his own thing, Yan Qi and Liu Dan have the least power, and they have been declining in recent years, so the two simply formed an alliance and cooperated.

Between Kang Tianqi and Pu Xingfeng, it can be regarded as a confrontation between the two strong men, and Kang Tianqi's direct subordinates plus the power in the Wa Kingdom can also raise an army of 100,000 people, which is not much different from Pu Xingfeng's power in Manchurian.

One of the two believes in Buddhism, the other is a Tianfang Sect, and they have cooperated with each other, but more of them are potential confrontations.

Kang Tianqi is not bad, the people of the Japanese country are just waiting for a decision, and the Nan'an Hou Mansion is coming over at this time, and if it is the official identity of half of the Great Wei, the situation of the entire Gongqian Kingdom will become more complicated.