Chartley's brain was not as good as Shen Xi's, and he didn't understand what was going on for a while, why did the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty use the "wanted warrant" that had already been drawn to find out the wanted criminals against the images?

Could it be that these people were wanted by the Ming government in the first place?

The Franc machine man is entrenched in Kamikawashima, and there is a serious shortage of manpower. In order to expand their strength, they bought a group of outlaws, and in addition, pirates came to the island to do business on a regular basis, and Chartley had a ghost in his heart, so he couldn't even say anything to argue.www.biquge.info

"If the people are taken, the ships will be detained, and they will be interrogated in detail after returning to Guangzhou Mansion!" Shen Xi ordered.

A merchant who was held was aggrieved: "My lord, we are just merchants who came from Nanyang to buy goods...... I heard that there was a ****** here for passing ships to berth, and it was very windy last night, so they entered the harbor to take shelter from the wind and waves, why did they detain our ships? ”

Shen Xi replied coldly: "For the time being, I don't know which ones are pirates and which ones are businessmen, so I can only bring them back to Guangzhou Mansion for screening, and if there are any grievances, I will wait until the Governor's Yamen!" ”

Even if Shangchuan Island is only a transit port, due to the strong wind and waves off the mouth of the Pearl River, there are more than 40 merchant ships berthed in the harbor, plus the large ships and small boats of the Francophone people, the total number of ships is close to 100.

The 4,000 officers and men tied up the island's residents and passing guests with ropes and escorted them to the ship in batches, and it took about three days to return to Canton from Shangchuan Island, but if it was a starry night, it would only take one day and one night.

There are a lot of goods on the island, and there are even tea, ceramics and cloth that Shen Xi sold to the Francophone people before.

The things sold were blocked by Shen Xi this time, and he was ready to transport all the goods back to Guangzhou Mansion as a bargaining chip with Almeida.

There are not many livestock on the island, and there are very few old and weak women and children, so it can be seen that the people of Franc Ji knew that they were at a loss and did not plan to settle here for a long time, but only operated the port of Shangchuan Island as a general trading port, and if the momentum was not right, they could evacuate at any time.

Ma Jiu came over and asked, "My lord, do you want to send someone to stay behind?" ”

Shen Xi shook his head: "Even if we stay, we shouldn't be responsible, this place is only twenty miles away from Guanghaiwei, but it is entrenched by outsiders, which is really ridiculous." Leave an empty island for the Francophone people, and when they come back, they will know what happened, and they will naturally come to Guangzhou Mansion to find me for a theory. ”

Ma Jiu asked again: "The camp on the island ......?"

"Let's leave the camp and the house, and say that it may not be useful in the future."

Shen Xi smiled deeply, and had a plan in his heart, that is, to use Shangchuan Island as a sea supply station for the Ming Dynasty, and the Governor Yamen sent troops and horses to garrison it, and then go to the ships to avoid the wind and waves, or to trade on the island, and need to pay a certain fee to generate income for the Ming Dynasty.

Anyway, most of the merchant ships come and go between the Ming Dynasty and the South China Seas, and most of them are foreign ships.

There were more than 1,800 inhabitants on Shangchuan Island alone, and the amount of goods and goods was even larger, because the previous seizure of the island had filled the holds of the fleet, and now it was extremely reluctant to load people and goods. According to statistics, even if all the merchant ships captured before are counted, it is still impossible to transport people and goods back to Guangzhou Mansion in one trip, and now Shenxi is in trouble.

Jing Yue suggested: "My lord, if you don't divide the goods and goods, let the soldiers take it themselves, a little bit per person, and you can always bring it back to Guangzhou Mansion." ”

If you can't load the ship and transport it, you can carry it and load it back on the ship, what kind of bullshit logic is this?

Shen Xi shook his head: "First transport some of the goods to Guanghaiwei, and then I will find a way to requisition the carriage and transport it back to Guangzhou Mansion...... The way is what people think, and people can't be suffocated to death by urine! ”

The reason why the seizure is so large is mainly because the Franc machine people are too greedy, they use cheap salt, plus spices and medicinal materials from the South Seas, as well as inferior gold and silver coins made by themselves, and exchanged a large number of goods with the Ming Dynasty.

Shen Xi had a hunch that once Almeida knew that the Ming goods they had worked so hard to get were being wiped out, they would inevitably be furious, and maybe they would take a risk and invade the Ming Sea Frontier.

Shen Xi felt that it was necessary to send orders to the coastal guards to strengthen their vigilance, and once the fleet of the Franc machine man docked, he would resolutely meet the attack and never give it an opportunity.

He wanted to issue an official document to tell the Ming soldiers that in fact, the Franc machine man was just a paper tiger, and the only threat was the Franc machine gun, and in the context of the forbidden sea, there was no people on the coast for the Franc machine man to plunder, and the advantage of the Franc machine gun could not be brought into play on land.

After all, Daming is too far away from the Kingdom of Portugal, and it takes a year to go back and forth.

In fact, Shen Xi is still a little confused, didn't he say that it was not until the Zhengde period that the Francophile would contact the Ming Dynasty? In my memory, in the last years of Zhengde, it seems that Daming also broke out a sea battle with the Francophile, and finally ended in a complete victory for Daming! Could it be that the butterfly effect of one's own rebirth is so great that it has affected even Europe?

Unlike the previous departure of Shen Xi with the first fleet after the First World War on Jinzhou Island, this time Shen Xi chose to stay on Shangchuan Island, on the one hand, he commanded the ships left behind to deliver the goods on the island to Guanghaiwei, believing that as long as Hui Niang received the letter sent by him, he would send people to pick up the goods; On the other hand, Shen Xi also had to consider that if the Francophone fleet arrived, he would have his own town, so that there would be no chaos.

Finally, Shen Xi was also ready to survey the topography of the island.

If the political envoy and the local guard office are not prepared to bring Shangchuan Island and Xiachuan Island under their control, will there be any way to use the power of the Chamber of Commerce to take on the heavy responsibility of development on their own, after all, Shangchuan Island and Jinzhou Island are both good places to build salt fields, and with the support of the Governor Yamen, it is very easy to develop.

After a bloodless victory, the officers and men did not celebrate at all, for fear of a surprise attack by the Franco. In this era of backward communications and closed information, the whereabouts of a fleet at sea are not so easy to grasp, perhaps the Francophile is preparing to transport a batch of goods to Shangchuan Island, and it may be that they will land on the island the next day.

Jing Yue came over and asked, "My lord, the brothers have seized some sweet wine on the island, it is too cold, can you let the brothers drink a few sips to warm up their bodies?" ”

Wine can make mistakes, there are strict rules in the Ming army, and you must not touch wine when marching and fighting, but at this moment, Jing Yue and the others all looked at Shen Xi with blank eyes, and even Ma Jiu and Zhu Hong pursed their lips while roasting the fire, and it was already very cold in front of the bonfire, not to mention the officers and soldiers who were on duty in the dark.

Shen Xi groaned slightly, and nodded slightly: "Divide the wine among the officers and soldiers, one person can't exceed two taels!" ”

Jing Yue had always felt that Shen Xi was not very easy to speak, so he didn't have much hope when he came to ask for instructions, but he didn't expect Shen Xi to agree. He said excitedly: "Whatever the adults say, those rabbit cubs dare to drink more, I will not spare them!" ”

Although Jing Yue is only a hundred households, he was born in a family of military generals, his father and brother are in the nine sides, and his father is the commander of the Datong town guard, and he himself has been admitted to the martial arts people, and now he is put in Guangdong to perform his duties, unlike those hereditary thousand households and deputy thousand households, he will be requisitioned to the northern border at any time in the future, and he has always been valued by Li Che.

The six hundred households assigned to Shen Xi by the Dusi Yamen, including the hundred households under the command of Jing Yue, because he was deeply appreciated by Shen Xi, he took him wherever he went, and Jing Yue regarded himself as the captain of Shen Xi's personal guard.

Although there was no official appointment, Jing Yue's speech was more effective than those deputy thousand households, and he belonged to the microphone for Shen Xi to communicate with the army generals.

On weekdays, in addition to socializing, Shen Xi rarely drinks alcohol, but in this night, when the temperature is only five or six degrees, but because the air is unusually humid and it is particularly cold, he also has to drink two sips of wine to keep warm.

As soon as he got in, he saw a pair of bright eyes looking at him, and he didn't need to look to know that it was Liuya who had come to his tent. Shen Xi frowned and asked, "Didn't you come if you weren't invited?" ”

"Cold."

Liuya's answer was very simple.

Shen Xi said: "It's not okay to be cold, men and women don't kiss, there is nothing in the army now, if it is in the place, it will be spurned by the world." Go back to your tent now, remember to cover yourself with more blankets, and when you get all the goods to land tomorrow, we'll leave for Guangzhou!" ”

Liuya pouted, stood up sullenly, and when she passed by Shen Xi's side, she stretched out her little hand and slapped Shen Xi's leg twice with her fist.

She is not big and very afraid of life, but after she is familiar with it, she will also show her pungent side, which makes Shen Xi cry and laugh. (To be continued.) )