However, Yang Wenqing's pride was soon shattered.

"You ordered the ship to ram us?"

A stout officer greeted him, and before Yang Wenqing could come to his senses, he slapped him in the face.

"Smack!" A heavy palm was thrown on Yang Wenqing's face, and he staggered back two steps and sat on the board of the boat, blood flowing down the corners of his mouth, and half of his face was already swollen.

"Bastard, do you know who I am?" Yang Wenqing was suddenly angry, how could he have suffered such a big loss since he was a child for so many years.

"Throw him into the sea and feed the fish!" The officer ignored him and ordered casually.

"Yes, General Ma!" Several officers and soldiers smiled and stepped forward to drag Yang Wenqing.

"Official, official, anger and anger, it's all a misunderstanding." Guo Linfeng is an old man who is used to running the sea, and he does not have the arrogance of Yang Wenqing from a big family, so he naturally knows when to bow his head.

"Or listen to what you say, okay, don't throw it into the sea yet." Ma Chuang nodded with satisfaction.

"You're the captain of fire, right, order your men to change the sails and follow us in the boat."

Under the coercion of the 100 officers and soldiers on board, Guo Linfeng and the crew did not dare to disobey, and quickly took off the sail with a big hole and replaced it with a spare sail. Then he turned around and headed towards Zhoushan.

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"Two three-masted sailing ships were captured at once, but I didn't expect that in less than half a month, the navy would have such combat power, and Fu Bozhu made great contributions."

The two three-masted ships were escorted back to Zhoushan Island, and Chen Yue personally welcomed them to the harbor wharf and said to Fu Chun, who had disembarked.

"Grandpa Guo's subordinates already have soldiers who are familiar with water warfare, and with the bed crossbow designed by the Ordnance Department, which is specially used to deal with sails, his subordinates don't dare to take credit." Fu Chun said humbly.

"I naturally know what my gang is like, they are sailing in the calm inland rivers on weekdays, and they haven't experienced much wind and waves at all, if it weren't for the hard training of Master Fu, they wouldn't have progressed so fast." Chen Yue shook his head and said. Sailing on the sea is completely different from the inland rivers of the Yangtze River, where the wind and waves are too strong for ordinary people to stand on the boat, and if they do not go through long-term systematic training, they will not be able to do it at all.

"Master Fu has worked hard, go back to rest first, and Dinghai has sent news that there are ships going out to sea from Yongjiang every morning." Chen Yue said with a smile.

"Grandpa Guo, are we going to stop all the sea ships passing through Zhoushan?" Fu Chun asked worriedly.

"Only intercept those going to sea from Zhejiang, and ignore the merchant ships passing through Fujian." Chen Yue said.

Fu Chun nodded and left with some concern. For Fu Chun, the Ningbo Yang family is already a behemoth that cannot be provoked, and the meaning of Qi Guogong is clearly to attack many maritime merchants, which offends countless people, Fu Chun knows that the background of these maritime merchants is bigger than the other, and they are not easy to mess with. But now it seems that Qi Guogong is quite sensible, and he did not attack the Fujian sea ships, if he offends the Zheng family in Fujian again, it will be a dead end. Although Fu Chun and Zheng Zhilong had a grudge, when Zhoushan's forces were still weak, he didn't want Chen Yue to make a hasty move against Zheng Zhilong.

Chen Yue naturally wouldn't provoke Zheng Zhilong, he didn't have that much appetite yet.

But considering the urgency of time, the little silver in his hand became less and less, and he had to do something desperate. Since it is too late to buy ships for maritime trade this year, he simply started with these maritime merchants, which is the fastest way for Chen Yue to come up with to make money.

As for offending these maritime merchants, it was a matter of time before they were done. Since he came to Zhoushan, he must hold all the maritime trade in Zhejiang in his own hands and completely control the coastal areas of Zhejiang, so that he can have the strength to compete with the Zheng family in Fujian. And looting maritime merchants is the fastest way to accumulate strength.

Behind each of these maritime merchants is a big family in Zhejiang, and the smugglers who have no power have long been bankrupt by their collusion with the official army, such as Fu Chun, who could only go to the sea to be pirates. It's not that you have ships to trade at sea, because you also have to have supplies, and the bulk of them are in the hands of these gentry families.

Through Lu Tai, he mastered the accurate time and port of the maritime merchants' ships going to sea, and then sent a naval army to ambush and intercept them at the right location, which was the strategy formulated by Chen Yue. Otherwise, the sea is boundless, and a sea ship sails on the sea, where is it so easy to intercept. Of course, the geographical location of Zhoushan also gave Chen Yue great convenience, whether it is a sea ship in Zhejiang or Fujian, if you want to go to the Wa Kingdom, you need to pass through the Zhoushan Seaway.

Checking the stolen sea ship loaded with goods, Chen Yue couldn't close his mouth with a smile. 600 quintals of raw silk, tens of thousands of sets of various porcelain, thousands of pieces of iron ware such as needles and iron pots, as well as mercury and medicinal materials. The most unexpected thing for Chen Yue was that there were tens of thousands of copper coins in the bilge of one of the ships. Later, Fu Chun explained, saying that although there were a lot of copper and silver mines in the Wa Kingdom, the main currency of the people was copper coins, and the copper coins made in the Ming Dynasty were used, and the Wa Kingdom itself did not know how to make money. In fact, in the entire East Asian region, the copper coins of the Ming Dynasty are all circulating currency. In the Ming Dynasty, one tael of silver was exchanged for about 1,200 copper coins, but in the Wa Kingdom, one tael of silver could only be exchanged for five or six hundred wen. Therefore, the profit of transporting copper coins to the Japanese country can be doubled.

According to the estimation of Zhang Chenglei, who has done maritime trade, these two ships of goods are all sold in the Japanese country, which is enough to exchange for four or five hundred thousand taels of silver, which shows the huge profits of maritime trade. But Chen Yue's plan was to intercept all the Zhejiang sea ships passing through Zhoushan, not just these two, but at least twenty or thirty.

Then twenty or thirty sea ships all sailed to the Wa Kingdom to trade, and the silver earned back could reach millions of taels, which was enough to support Chen Yue's expansion of territory.

Of course, it is also very risky to do so, first of all, it will offend the gentry in Ningbo, and then offend the officials of the Ming court. How much gain you have to bear, how much risk you have to bear, this Chen Yue naturally has an experience.

But at least for a long time, Zhoushan will be safe, because Chen Yue has ordered a strict lockdown to prevent news from leaking.

The arrested Yang Wenqing and his cronies were secretly detained on an isolated island by Chen Yue's order, and there are such deserted islands near Zhoushan. As for the original crew members on the ship, they were all employed by the Yang family, Chen Yue did not embarrass them, but promised that as long as they came back from the sea for trade, the remuneration they should be given would be a lot of money.

For the next half a month, Fu Chun and Wu Ping led the fleet to set out every day, and each time they were able to capture a sea ship. In order not to leak the news, Chen Yue placed these ships in ports far away from the mainland, and personally led heavy troops to guard them.