The destruction of this armed merchant ship put an end to the naval battle between officials and bandits.

The main thing is that Yang Huan's reinforcements have arrived.

This area is regarded as the heavy defense of the Ming army, Hutoumen Village, Baisha Inspection Division, and Gap Inspection Division, all of which are concentrated here, and they must come out after hearing the sound of artillery, and the remaining six armed merchant ships immediately turned to the northwest after determining that it was impossible to kill Yang Huan, and entered the vast sea south of Shawan. These guys who are familiar with this area, and even have countless collaborators on the shore, have a place to hide, and after repairing the damage, they will come out as legal merchant ships, and Yang Xin is not capable of controlling the long coastline of hundreds of kilometers around the Pearl River estuary.

Yang Huan didn't dare to pursue.

In fact, Zhiyuan and Jingyuan also suffered a lot of losses.

Although they were able to survive a siege by three times the weight of the enemy's heavy planks and thick guns, they were only two frigates in the strict sense of the word, and there was no essential difference in size from their opponents, and even the destroyed armed merchant ship was really larger in tonnage, and in the end the battle caused ......

"Thirty-two people were killed and ninety-six wounded."

Yang Dudu said with emotion.

Two scarred battleships in front of him docked.

As the onlookers on the shore watched, the corpses of fallen soldiers were carried down.

After the battle, Yang Huan immediately took advantage of the high tide to return to Guangzhou, as for the matter of copying Li Juesi's house, a few Jinyi guards with the soldiers of Humen Village went over, although the Li family is a local tyrant, but it is impossible to have the courage to rebel for this, compared with the raid, this matter is obviously more important. It's not that Zhang Pu escaped, but that the smugglers actually dared to attack Yang Xin's warships, which means that with the arrival of the trade season, the smugglers have become unbearable with this fleet.

This is a red flag.

If you don't get it right, you will have to face an all-out counterattack by smugglers.

They're the ones who are really tough to deal with.

This battle confirmed their combat effectiveness, these guys who have been on the sea for many years really have the ability to fight with Yang Dudu, at least at sea they are not inferior to Yang Xin.

It's even stronger.

After all, these are only seven armed merchant ships.

And from the Wa Kingdom to Malacca, all the merchants of the South Fujian Sea combined, can put together hundreds of such large armed merchant ships, and most of their trade starting points are here, and Yang Dudu's blocking fees have already aroused public anger. All the smugglers have had their fill and are forming a wave of rebellion, and by this time they must have merged with the Portuguese, and in any case the greed of the governor of Yang has turned him into a public enemy of the sea.

"Uncle, our cannon is still too small."

Yang Huan said cautiously.

Except for the special circumstances, which were largely ambushed, the nine-pound cannons and four-and-a-half-pound cannons could not quickly sink the enemy, especially the latter, which was the largest in number, and was almost meaningless for such a ten-zhang class ship. It is estimated that even if people do not return fire and let the bombardment continue, if they want to sink such a ship, it will take a long time, especially since these Chinese-style merchant ships actually have watertight cabins, even if they take one or two shells on the waterline, it doesn't matter.

It's not hard to hit.

But it is difficult to sink such a target.

"Our ship is strong enough, these pirate cannonballs cannonball cannons can't hit our ship at all unless they are within fifty zhang, but our cannons are too small, although they are much larger than pirates, but it is still difficult to sink them, we need a cannon that can quickly sink them."

He continued.

"This is already there, let's change the heavy artillery when we return to Macau."

Yang Dudu said.

This is already there.

The cannon foundry in Macau, which he had taken over, was casting a 32-pound cannon for him.

And his cruiser is enough to withstand this level of artillery, the British in the later period to install a small cruiser with a short 32-pound gun, he can still install two of these guns, but you need to set up a separate matching slide gun mount, the weight and caliber of this kind of thing is too big, if you don't use the slide rail gun mount, you can break the rope when you fire, and even fly upside down by recoil.

This power is enough.

Not to mention these Chinese-style armed merchant ships, even the European warships also have the power to fight.

Anyway, the European-style warships that can come here are essentially armed merchant ships, and the armed merchant ships that the Dutch gave them are equipped with twelve-pound guns, and even nine pounds and six pounds are the mainstream, and the real strength is not much stronger than his cruisers, so later Zheng Zhilong's flagship with more than 30 guns, plus a gunboat like Yang Xin, forced the Dutch to pay him protection money.

However, these armed merchant ships could not carry 32-pound guns, and even short and heavy guns were heavy damage at a distance of two or three hundred meters, and two 32-pound short and heavy guns of a cruiser were enough.

"This is a captive?"

Yang Xin looked at the few people escorted out of the cabin and said.

"Back to my uncle, a total of twelve people were captured, but four of them were too seriously injured on the way, and my nephew simply threw them back into the sea."

Yang Huan hurriedly said.

"Did they say whose person it was?"

Yang Xin asked.

"No, and all of them are very hard-mouthed, do you want to go to Macau to find a few brothers to identify?"

Yang Huan said.

"No, you don't."

Yang Xin said.

This problem is easy to solve.

"Governor Cheng, I think you can let them say everything they need to say."

He said to Cheng Guangyang in the back.

"Yang Dudu said and laughed, the lower officials are those means, which can be compared to Jinyiwei."

Cheng Guangyang said with a dry smile.

"If the prefect of Cheng can't, then Yang needs to launch a large-scale search among the Fujian merchants, Zhang Pu was rescued by a Zhangzhou merchant ship, this Zhangzhou merchant ship traded with a number of Zhangquan merchants in Guangzhou, then Yang has reason to suspect that these merchants are involved. Therefore, it is necessary to arrest and interrogate the merchants of Zhangquan in the city, and even in order to avoid accidents, the port must be temporarily blocked, and any Zhangquan merchant ships must be prohibited from leaving the port, as for how long the blockade will be difficult to say. ”

Yang Xin said with a smile.

"Governor, Governor, they are Li Dan's people."

A merchant on the shore shouted without hesitation.

"So is there anything more? That's not enough, even if I guess, I can guess that they are Li Dan's people. ”

Yang Xin said.

"Back to the capital, the little one only knows that they arrived in Xiangshan five days ago, they should have gone to Guangzhou today, and made an appointment to load the goods, they are Li Dan's ship, every winter to the south until the big day to load spices, spring and summer with spices back to sell to us, in Macao or Xiangshan and other places to load sugar, cloth, porcelain and the like back to the country. In the past, it was all smuggling, but this year, it was only after the Governor of Yazheng that he was able to trade openly, but for some reason he lost his heart and attacked the Governor's warship. However, Li Dan may not know about this matter, these people came back from Nanyang, they should have been waiting for the wind in Hoi An before, and they should not have discussed this with Li Dan. ”

Another merchant came over and said tremblingly as he lay on the ground.

"Do you know Li Dan?"

Yang Xin said.

"Well, a little bit of a relationship."

The man said.

"Cut off their heads, and then find a box to put it in, are there any merchant ships here that go to the Japanese Kingdom? Don't be afraid, Pontus himself has a few ships running along the line of the Wa Kingdom, and I am not opposed to others trading with the Wa Kingdom, in fact, as long as I can bring silver, I am not against it. ”

Yang Xin said.

"Governor, the little one is going to the Wa Kingdom."

One of the shipowners said cautiously.

"Bring these heads to Li Dan, and tell him for me that I admire people like him, whether he is willing to be friends with me or enemies, he chooses by himself, and if he is a friend, he will send Zhang Pu back to me, and being an enemy is nothing more than that I have time to go to him to ask for someone. But whether he is a friend or an enemy, as long as he comes here to do business, then this tax must be paid, but if a friend, I will give him a chance to give advice, and if he thinks there is something wrong with the tax, he can come to me to talk. ”

Yang Xin said.

He was not interested in falling out with Li Dan.

This person is not bad for him, there are currently tens of thousands of Chinese in Hirado, they all listen to Li Dan, and if they operate well, they can be colonized.

In addition, his taxes are indeed not reasonable.

As the largest maritime merchant at present, Li Dan's opinions also need to be heard, the current tax rate is only Yang Xin's head, for example, porcelain, porcelain exported to the Japanese country and porcelain exported to Europe, certainly not the same tax rate.

There was also porcelain in the Wa Kingdom at this time.

During their previous invasion of Korea, they captured a Korean craftsman named Li Shenping, who made the first batch of porcelain for the Wa Kingdom, and before that, there is a legend that the Wa people went to Jingdezhen as merchants and stole the porcelain crafts. But this person did not make porcelain after that, and it is difficult to say whether this person really existed, because for more than 90 years after him, the Wa Kingdom never made porcelain by itself, and this person could not live to be more than 100 years old, right?

And the real and clear manufacture of porcelain in the Wa Kingdom was through this Li Shenping.

A few years ago, he fired the first batch of porcelain in Arita of the Hizen Domain, and then set a 50 percent tax rate on porcelain exports to the Wakoku, which obviously promoted the development of Wakoku porcelain.

The tax rate on porcelain that goes to the Wa Kingdom must be reduced.

But it can't be reduced to the point where it's profitable for these guys to change hands, in which case the Europeans will buy from them.

Or......

It's not bad to kill Li Shenping.

This guy was only burned five years ago, and his subordinates must not have cultivated a few talents, if they are all killed at once, they can continue to maintain the control of Daming porcelain over the Wa Kingdom.

But this will take some time.

After all, this kind of thing has to be done by Yang Dudu himself.

In short, Yang Dudu is willing to negotiate with Li Dan, such Chinese in this era are not easy to find, but the premise is that Li Dan is sensible, if Li Dan is not sensible, then Yang Dudu has to help him understand, in the end, Yang Dudu is not difficult to go to Pinghu, Li Dan's lair is there, just teach him how to behave.