Chapter 318: Shijiu Port Monopoly Guarantee

There were almost no fishing boats in Shijiu Port, and the Ming Dynasty had a fleet stationed here, and later when the armament was relaxed, this fleet gradually disappeared, and then some fishing boats were anchored here, and after the imperial court began to ban the sea, the fishing boats also disappeared.

Later, it began to prosper again, and a large number of merchant ships loaded and unloaded goods here, which led to the vigorous development of the smuggling trade, and now the port of Shijiu is even more lively.

A large number of refugees crowded around the port waiting to board the ship, although there are also big ships at this time, but they will definitely not appear in this port, the largest ship that the Jingshi merchant group can mobilize, the largest is according to the Dengzhou shipyard said 200 tons of merchant ships, people with money or power in their hands, are fleeing to other provinces.

Only these civilians or paupers, who seemed to be duckweed, stayed where they were, were either killed or starved to death, and had to try their luck at the seashore.

In the place where the ships in the harbor are moored, there are Liu Shisan and the soldiers who smell the knife are closely guarded, and every person who gets on the ship is counted and registered, because for every person who is pulled away, the Jingshi merchant group will have to pay one or two silver or seven hundred Wen, of course, if these people can live to the reclamation manor in the northeast, after a year's work, the money earned for the manor will be several times greater.

On the dock, it can really be said that there are all kinds of things in the world, the people at all levels of the Jingshi merchant group are selecting these refugees at the checkpoint of the dock as if they are selecting livestock, and the young woman is teased from time to time, but she also has to please each other with a smile, even if it is dedication, it is nothing, after all, life is at stake now.

Someone over there knelt down with a grunt, crying and begging:

"Master, let me take my mother away, if I leave it here, her old man will starve to death here, you can do it, you can do it!"

The people sitting behind the table are used to seeing this kind of scene of life and death these days, and they don't pay attention to it at all, and the people who come here to board the boat are poor ghosts who don't have much oil and water, if it is a benefit, that is, the steward who is responsible for screening the population on the boat suddenly saw the wife of the man who pleaded with him, and she still looks a little good, and the steward sighed twice, and was about to speak, but was interrupted by the cry of the old lady below

"Son, you don't have to worry about your mother, take your daughter-in-law and children on the boat and go!"

The steward interjected with a smile and said obscenely:

"Brother, there are a lot of people who have left my mother on the port and taken a boat in the past few days, those old people are either throwing themselves into the sea or finding a secluded place to die, you are so filial, it is better to ......"

The next sentence was originally to say, why don't I make it convenient for you, and then you give me my wife to sleep with, but a sharp whistling interrupted his words, and after the sharp whistling, followed by a panicked shout, the people on the dock suddenly shouted and ran towards the land.

The steward didn't react, he was already knocked to the ground by the crowd behind him, and there were four or five hundred rebel soldiers on the dock, but now they were all panicked.

Wen Dao and Liu Shisan's elite descendants are naturally placed by their side, but it is not possible to arrange the management of henchmen on such a large amount of money, Liu Shisan's so-called descendants have all seen the firearms of the Dengzhou camp, heard the screaming sound, and immediately ran towards the back with his subordinates. Although Wen Dao's subordinates did not know much about firearms, they were not stupid, and when they saw Liu Thirteen running, they were not slow.

It's just that the people who were placed on the dock by the Jingshi merchant group have suffered, and now there are more than a dozen ships moored on the pier, and the crew of the outermost ship standing on the ship was smashed to pieces by a six-pounder cannonball, and the planks of such ships could not withstand the bombardment of the shells at all, and suddenly it was a big hole.

Anyway, the first shot was also a test firing, and the position was relatively high, and if the hole was located below, the ship would have sunk if it was not done well.

At this time, they saw that there were already six ships on the water, and three of them were actually larger than the largest ships that appeared in Shijiu Harbor or the beginning of human trafficking—such ships were only above average in Dengzhou.

The sailors, refugees and the guards on the ship of the Jingshi merchant group all ran towards the shore without their lives, but fortunately, the boats with the upper and lower populations were parked on the edge of the pier, and the slopes had not yet been removed, although there were also crowded and overboard, but most of them ran to the shore.

The six ships slowly changed their formation, slowly surrounding the port in an arc, and several ships on the periphery of the dock still have a distance to go ashore, but there is also a problem with jumping into the water, and now it is freezing cold, and jumping into the water is afraid that it will be frozen out of the problem.

While they were still hesitating, they saw a signal from the ship opposite, and an old sailor looked at it carefully, and was suddenly startled, and shouted in fear:

"They're going to sink this ship, let's get out of here!"

At this time, no one is afraid of any freezing of the seawater, or holding a plank, or pushing the boat's dinghy down regardless of it, and rushing towards the dinghy.

Before these people could leave the ship too far, the whistling shells were fired, and below this distance, there was no artillery accuracy at all, only a rough judgment, so several ships near the target also suffered from the pond fish, but the continuous fire did not last too long.

Because the planks were too thin, in a short time, the two ships with many holes sank into the sea, and six ships began to approach the dock, and the rebel soldiers on the shore did not know what to do.

Or rather, the refugees on the shore were even more panicked, but they were reluctant to leave this escape channel, although they automatically dispersed in circles, but they did not flee too far.

Only the stewards and guards of the Jingshi merchant group and the captains were quite embarrassed and resentful there, and it was not a good thing for the ship and the refugees to ask their own masters for the crime, but seeing the situation on the other side, was it to go up and fight?

The tiger head flag was slowly raised on the mast of the largest ship, and the stewards of these Jingshi merchant groups immediately recognized it, and whispered there:

"It's Dengzhou's tiger head flag, Dengzhou's!"

Four hundred soldiers came out of the six boats and walked down the docks, and since they were from Dengzhou, the stewards of these merchant groups were emboldened, but we paid for it, and always put ourselves in the position of employers. Four hundred Dengzhou soldiers with gloomy faces walked down the dock.

The steward of the merchant group who fell to the ground stepped on the ground several times, stood up dizzily, looked up and just wanted to find the good-looking mother-in-law, but the family didn't know where to run, and an evil fire came out of their stomachs, thinking that didn't you Dengzhou take the money of our Jingshi merchant group to do things, why are you still so rampant, and suddenly rushed to the officer led by the Dengzhou soldiers in a few steps.

Raising his finger and just about to scold something, the officer who led the team, Yan Jing, glared, and the big knife on his waist was unsheathed!

Blood rushed to the sky, the steward was directly cut into two sections, the people on the shore were all gasping, in the crowd there were five or six hundred rebels staring outside, the most powerful in the current rebels is Wen Dao and Liu Shisan's soldiers and horses, although they are cousins, but the soldiers and horses and all kinds of departments involving actual interests are in charge of the two people, and the same is true for the matter of coming to Shijiu Port to collect money.

The little officer sent by Wen Dao whispered there:

"Brother Zhang, those soldiers outside have gone ashore, I don't see more people than us, let's go up and eat them, anyway, the artillery doesn't dare to open randomly!"

Liu Shisan's officer was taking out a tin wine jug to drink, which is also a common rule in Dengzhou, there is a portable metal wine jug on his body, hearing this, he was immediately choked, coughed, and glared viciously at the person sent by Wen Dao, most of the officers who Wen Dao were surnamed Liu, and he also had such and such a kinship with Liu Shisan, and he didn't dare to offend him, but he scolded in a low voice:

"You fucking want to die, but I don't go, that's a veteran of the Dengzhou battalion, God, this is four hundred veterans, how many people are there!"

Hearing this, all the people in Liu Shisan's Laiwu camp shivered in the past, these people were more than a dozen, and when they were in the Laiwu camp, they regarded Jiangfeng's 2,000 families as the goal of their efforts, and 2,000 veterans could defeat the Ming army of 20,000, this is their opinion in their hearts!

However, the rest of the people didn't have any intuitive ideas, but the officer who smelled the knife had seen this scene under the city of Rongyang, Chen Deaf 10,000 can be regarded as a young man with some combat effectiveness, and in front of the other party's two thousand soldiers, it seemed to be ice and snow under the sun, and it disappeared without a trace in an instant, and it was defeated.

Thinking of this, he also shuddered, turned around and lowered his voice and said to the clan soldiers under him who were a little impatient:

"Let's be honest, these Dengzhou soldiers are tigers, let's not move, let's see what reason they find to eat us!"

Everyone also understands in their hearts that if Dengzhou is here to suppress the rebellion, it is definitely not such a manpower and ships, and they have vaguely heard about Dengzhou's recruitment of refugees, and it is estimated that they are going to attack this. Only now did the people of the Jingshi Business Group react, and a companion who looked a little older leaned over with a smile, and said in a continuous voice:

"Misunderstandings, all misunderstandings......"

Before the words were finished, the Dengzhou officer led by him waved his hand, and the four spears had already stabbed over, directly picking the person in mid-air, and Shijiu Harbor fell into silence, and even the baby stopped crying.

"Fill every boat and follow our boat to Dengzhou!"