In a hurry, a large amount of silver was too late to be weighed, and Xu Shiyang just ordered it to be transported back to his Dengying Island first.

Then I went to check the money bag and the box, which contained some soybean-sized gold grains, estimated to be dozens of taels, and the box contained pearls of different sizes.

These are naturally all good things, all of which add up, to say the least, they are worth one or two thousand.

Things are not heavy, and a little less is enough to make people feel distressed, so Xu Shiyang simply took it directly to himself.

Then again, not to mention the soldiers from Wubao or homeless people, Xu Shiyang, who has always belonged to a poor dog since he came to this world, is also the first time to carry so many valuables with him.

"Find a way to get this ship overhauled, we'll have to tow it into port." Xu Shiyang instructed Luo Haigou: "This boat itself is also a good trophy. ”

There are still many important cargoes on board, and they cannot be transferred to the Dengyingzhou at sea, so it is absolutely impossible for Xu Shiyang to abandon this ship.

"Then we can't go directly into the estuary and enter the port of Hangzhou." Luo Haigou pondered and replied: "No matter how unbearable the sailors of Da Zhou are, Lin'an Xing is still living in the surroundings, let's drag a ship to send Zhou, this is too conspicuous." ”

"So where are we going? Tell me your opinion. ”

"Zhoushan, there are many islands there, there are many private harbors, and there are often a large number of maritime merchants - of course, there are also pirates and pirates anchored, as long as you pay some water diversion fees, and then the young master can transfer to a small boat to Lin'an."

"Zhoushan?" Xu Shiyang smiled: "Zhoushan is not near Lin'an? ”

Luo Haidog glanced at him quietly and explained in a low voice: "The ports of Zhoushan all belong to the Li family of the 'King of the Pure Sea'. ”

The so-called King of the Pure Sea, of course, is not really a prince canonized by the Great Zhou, it is just the self-title of a huge pirate family.

However, since the Li family dared to call themselves the King of the Pure Sea, they did have the strength to be worthy of this arrogant name.

According to Luo Haigou, the Li family, headed by the boss Li Feilong, has 13 large cabinets and 300 small cabinets, 2 or 3,000 ships of various sizes, and tens of thousands of Ding Zhuang, and is the unshakable maritime hegemon in the entire eastern seas.

The Li family controls dozens of private ports from Zhejiang Province to Guangdong Province, and even Fusang, Jiaozhi, and Nanyang, almost more than half of the Great Zhou's foreign shipping trade.

The trade tentacles of the Li family's fleet have extended to Tianzhu and Pars in the west, unless they sail directly into Lin'an, all merchant ships from various countries to and from the Great Zhou must pay taxes to the Li family - of course, the Li family can have such a huge power, it is related to the support of many Jiangnan wealthy families behind it, according to unreliable sources, these families' ships can obtain tax-free status.

"Oh, this Pure Sea King is so strong?" Xu Shiyang smiled and said, "Then will we be hacked and eaten black?" ”

"Don't worry, young master, absolutely not."

Luo Haigou explains:

As long as the tax is paid, no matter who it is, even pirates who have not dealt with the Li family and even robbed the Li family's ships can dock safely in his family's private port, and the Li family will even pay to buy back the stolen goods."

"It was not uncommon for the imperial court's sailor ships to dock together in those ports."

"Wow! Courageous. Xu Shiyang commented: "This is really for the freedom of navigation at all costs." ”

Xu Shiyang guessed that the Li family's practice was likely to have something to do with the "300 small cabinets" in their influence.

Most of the pirates in this era are alliances of individual forces, and the Li family is naturally no exception.

The Li family is powerful, and all the small and medium-sized pirates around naturally come over and pull the Li family's tiger skin as a banner.

But the pirate group that also belongs to the Li family may have a grudge before joining, these people rob each other, and the Li family does not have a particularly good management method, so they simply leave it alone, and only gather soldiers and horses in the name of the alliance leader when needed.

Just like the Sending Zhou boat that Xu Shiyang just grabbed and the lucky boat that escaped, the two families must be connected with the wealthy families in the south of the Yangtze River, and theoretically they must have a certain relationship with the Li family, but as soon as the Zhou boat found an opportunity, he still did not hesitate to launch an attack and wanted to swallow the lucky boat.

It seems that this situation is more like the feudal relations in the West, except that the pirates come and go more freely.

Having said that, if Xu Shiyang had a strong core armament, he would never let other members of the alliance do this for the sake of some dog "freedom".

This Li family can do so much for the sake of freedom of navigation, and there is indeed something extraordinary in temperament.

"Okay, you're an expert in this area, let's go to Zhoushan." Xu Shiyang nodded and agreed: "However, we can't relax our vigilance, we can rob others, and I don't know if others will beat our idea." What's more, our family is not a small cabinet under the Li family. ”

"Young master, we have to draw some sailors from Dengying Island."

"Well, you can do it."

After speaking, Xu Shiyang was ready to step on the pedal and return to his boat.

As soon as one foot touched the pedal, he turned his head and commanded:

"My rules can't be broken, the one named Black Vine will be left for me, the other captives will choose five to kill one, and let the rest let them go to the boat, send someone to watch them, if my copper and sulfur are the slightest mistake, I will chop them all up and feed them to the fish!"

……

In the following days, Xu Shiyang never found a chance to make a cameo appearance as a pirate.

He had encountered a few boats, but two of them were lucky boats belonging to the Han people in Jiangnan, and Xu Shiyang was still reluctant to take the initiative to attack them.

There were also two brisk foreign boats, but when they saw the tattered ship behind Dengyingzhou, they quickly realized that this side was not easy to mess with, so they turned around and ran away.

Deng Yingzhou has no special motivation, and if the other party doesn't want to fight, it will be difficult to catch up, so he has to give up.

There was only one suitable target, a Pars triangular boat with two huge triangular soft sails, this guy obviously had some ill intentions towards Xu Shiyang as well, and as soon as the two sides saw their opponents clearly, it began to approach Deng Yingzhou.

However, it is a pity that when they saw this ship, Deng Yingzhou was already very close to the destination: Shuangyu Port in the Zhoushan Islands, and the start of the attack at this time was undoubtedly a provocation to the Li family's sea power, and no matter how much they wanted to protect freedom of navigation, they would not allow this kind of thing to happen under their noses.

In the process of the two sides approaching each other dangerously, several lucky ships belonging to the Li family appeared in sight, and they puffed up their sails and quickly approached this side.

As a result, the robbers who both wanted to try each other's catties could only stop and lower their sails to show that they had no ill will towards the Li family's private port.

Half an hour later, a fortune ship approached Dengyingzhou, and a few cables were thrown on the opposite side, and Luo Haigu immediately ordered the sailors to cooperate to let the two ships come together.

Before she could set up the pedals, a sturdy female pirate jumped directly onto the deck of Deng Ying Chau.