After Xu Hai was destroyed, in the following days, Li Nan led the fleet to kill the remnants of pirates and pirates, in addition to the hanging double dragon flag on the Sea King, there was a blood-red flag, and the domineering words of "those who follow the law prosper, and those who go against it die"!

When it comes to saying that it can't be done, it's a lie, but when it comes to being able to do it, it's iron-blooded.

Relying on more and more zombie sailors and a skyrocketing number of various ships, Li Nan's power has increased several times in a short period of time, and he has become the number one pirate group in the Daming Sea.

Li Nan's invincible armada began to conquer from Kyushu Island and Jeju Island in the north to the south, whether it was pirates hiding on small islands such as Zhoushan and Matsu, or pirates who fled to Luzon, in the face of Li Nan's huge fleet, they had only two ways to choose, either surrender or die!

Within a few months, in addition to Li Nan having some more raw materials that could make zombies, many seas also joined Li Nan's maritime empire in order to survive.

Among them, Li Nan values the pirate Wang Shi Lanqing, who is entrenched on Hong Kong Island and is known as Mrs. Qing.

In the Daming Sea, if pirates want to build a base, the best options are Taiwan Island, Hong Kong Island and Luzon Island.

Taiwan Island is not suitable for navigation because of the chaotic monsoon, and Luzon Island is too far away from Daming, so the most suitable place is Hong Kong Island.

This Qing lady is a legendary figure, and soon after she married Wu Ren, the pirate king who controlled the South China Sea, her husband was killed in a typhoon while going to sea, and Shi Lanqing took over the burden left by her husband.

After Lady Qing became the pirate king of the South China Seas, she immediately established her authority by strengthening the organizational discipline of the fleet.

To this end, she issued a very severe decree, stipulating that anyone who dared to arbitrarily exercise authority or disobey the orders of his superiors would be punished immediately; Anyone who steals public property or steals from the villagers is also punished with death; No one is allowed to conceal booty that has not been examined. Other offenders will also be severely punished. Anyone who deserts or fails to arrive without permission will be punished with his ears cut off, and then he will be shown to the public before his brothers. Anyone who rapes a woman will be put to death; For example, if a man or a woman fornicates, the man is beheaded, and the woman's legs are tied to a heavy object and sunk into the sea.

With these military disciplines, which were even stricter than those of the Ming army, Mrs. Qing also took Lantau Island in Hong Kong as her main base, had a camp on Hong Kong Island, and a shipyard, and her scope of activity stretched from the mouth of the Pearl River to the Qiongzhou Strait.

In addition, Mrs. Qing did not rest on her laurels, she was very good at borrowing advanced technology from the West, and she commanded three to five hundred large and small ships, and the weapons used by the 10,000 or 20,000 people were all foreign goods obtained from the Francophone in every possible way.

When Li Nan led the fleet to Hong Kong Island, the Spanish little beauty Angelica was also stunned when she saw the fleet of Mrs. Qing, because the opponent's artillery was even better than her own.

Mrs. Qing had the same idea as Li Nan, she also made a living from ocean trade, and she never went ashore to plunder on weekdays, so the two sides did not have much hatred.

Although Li Nan's fleet firepower was slightly inferior, but the number of ships, coupled with the terrifying zombie sailors, after some negotiations, the Qing lady weighed the pros and cons, and finally decided to surrender.

At this point, Li Nan's pirate group established a complete and powerful defense line in the Chinese seas from the Japanese island of Kyushu in the north and Jeju Island in Korea, including Hong Kong Island and Taiwan Island, and as far south as Luzon and Brunei.

Just as Li Nan said to Yu Dayou and Qi Jiguang, the Ming Dynasty of the Zhu family could not forbid the sea at all, and when the pirates and pirates completely disappeared, a large number of profit-seeking merchants all came to Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong and other places to contact Zheng Wen, the agent of the maritime empire.

In general, ocean trade is about sixty times more profitable, and some goods are worth more.

Chinese silk, porcelain and tea are all precious goods needed by various countries, and spices from Southeast Asia and Western countries, rare birds and animals, jewelry and spices, glassware, etc., are very marketable in Daming.

Marx said in Capital: If there is a 20% profit, capital will be ready to move; If there is a fifty percent profit, capital will take risks; If there is a 100% profit, capital dares to risk hanging its head; If there is a profit of 300 percent, capital will dare to trample on all the laws of the world.

It was in the face of such huge interests that the Ming Dynasty would have officials, merchants, and common people who were in the same league as the pirates, and whether it was the Spaniards, the Portuguese, the Luzon and the islanders, they would also take great risks and go to the ocean to seek profits.

Just as Li Nan said to Yu Dayou and Qi Jiguang, the Ming Dynasty and the Zhu Dynasty could not completely ban the sea, and when the pirates and pirates completely disappeared, a large number of profit-seeking merchants and Ming officials in the coastal state capitals all came to Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong and other places to contact Zheng Wen, the agent of the maritime empire.

With the current means of navigation, not only Orientals but also Westerners, few ships could only cross the vast Pacific Ocean.

Generally, Western fleets sail from the Atlantic Ocean, go south around Africa, reach India, and then enter the Indian Ocean, and pass through the Strait of Malacca to China.

Li Nan, who had known this for a long time, established a base in Singapore, a key point in the Strait of Malacca, and stationed a large number of warships and troops here to guard this very important sea passage between the east and the west.

Li Nan's blockade of the Strait of Malacca and its use as a transit point for ocean-going trade between the East and the West did not hurt the Chinese maritime merchants much, but it was intolerable to the arrogant Spaniards and Portuguese.

Located at the northwest tip of Sumatra, on the south bank of the Aceh River and on the west coast of the north mouth of the Strait of Malacca, the Kingdom of Banda Aceh has a long history and a very important geographical location, and now it has become a colony of European countries.

The royal family in Banda Aceh, where the royal family had long been driven out, has now become the territory of Europeans, and a grand banquet is being held at the moment.

The Portuguese and the Spaniards had been fighting openly and secretly for maritime interests, and the two navies were quick to deal with pirates, but today the generals and pirates of the two Royal Navies gathered together to deal with a common enemy.

In this era, the food of Europeans was terrible, in fact, even the European food of later generations was not very good.

The long dining table was either bread, or rough things such as barbecued meat and grilled fish, which made the guys who had tasted Chinese food secretly frown.

Noticing the faces of the crowd, Simão, the commander of the Portuguese fleet, stood up and said to everyone present with a smile: "Gentlemen, I am glad that you have been able to give up your past and come to my banquet. ”

"Smack!" Salgado, the Spanish pirate captain, patted the table and said dissatisfiedly: "Mr. Commander, we are not here to eat, so you have something to say, don't come to this hypocritical thing!" ”