Chapter 296: Jeju Island Zhao Sanshui

The location of Jeju Island at sea is not important, the route from China to Kyushu and other ports in Japan does not pass through here at all, there is no trade at sea, and it is an island where birds do not lay eggs, and Zhao Sanshui has three armed gunboats and 400 soldiers. Jiang Feng also promised when he left, don't worry about supplies, everything will be helped, for the fleet led by Monk Li.

Every month, when you return from Kyushu, it is also convenient to replenish supplies to Jeju Island, and the boat can travel for two more days. However, since Zhao Sanshui was sent out this time, he couldn't help but have some ambitions in his heart. If you rely on the help on the road to eat and drink, you always feel a little unproductive.

There were about 600 soldiers and about 3,000 Koreans on the island, and these people cultivated crops on the barren land of the island on weekdays, and their main income was to rely on the women to go to the sea to catch pearls and seafood to go to the mainland to exchange for money and food.

Since the more than 200 Japanese pirates came to the island, the life of the people on the island has become even more miserable, because the ability of these Japanese pirates is to go to the land to plunder, and the coast of North Korea has been robbed by the Japanese and their own pirates, there is no oil and water to fish, and the Japanese can only make a fuss about the residents of the island, but what can people do about this, that is, how much oil can be squeezed out of the stone.

The miserable Jeju islanders did not expect that the army of the Ming Dynasty would actually come to the island, and the DPRK has always regarded the Ming Dynasty as a superior country, thinking that this is looking forward to a savior, is it to drive away the Japanese and solve us?

When Zhao Sanshui left Dengzhou, Jiang Feng told him a principle, about the principle of how to treat foreign countries, except for the Ming Dynasty and the people in the Dengzhou camp, no one else is a person, and the reason why the scope of the Dengzhou camp should be divided separately is because there are more than a hundred white people near Yantai Mountain in Dengzhou.

By Jiang Feng's side, Zhao Sanshui has long been accustomed to seeing blood, and has never been a compassionate character, except for a simple fishing port on Jeju Island, there is no decent port at all, and the location of the three armed merchant ships is still a natural harbor, but there are also such and such shortcomings.

It was necessary to build a port and fortifications, and Zhao Sanshui gave an order, and 200 desperate Japanese prisoners and more than 3,000 Korean islanders on the island were driven to the shore to start various civil works, which were carried out on the first day because the soldiers used gunpowder to blow up stones were not handled properly, and ten people died. These more than 3,000 people did not dare to do anything superfluous, and the broadswords and spears in the hands of the 500 Ming soldiers who were overseers on the shore, and the swarthy muzzles of the armed gunboats in the sea, made these naturally weak people feel frightened in their hearts.

I don't know from what era the Korean Peninsula became a bath slipper in Northeast Asia, and anyone could jump on his territory for a while, but they couldn't. After so many years of being a weakling, these people have long understood the truth of being submissive, especially under swords and guns.

When he was in Shandong, the Dengzhou camp had to hire local people, all of whom were paid according to the public price, and it was slightly higher, which was also considered to buy people's hearts, as for Jeju Island, Zhao Sanshui didn't think so much, the reward for building a port leveling road? What still wants money, the only reward is that you can live until tomorrow.

On such an isolated island surrounded by the sea, it is also necessary to guard against dangers at sea, and in addition to monitoring the work of the coolies here every day, the 400 soldiers are also on guard in shifts, regularly patrolling the island. As for the three armed gunboats, they went to sea in shifts.

Zhao Sanshui often went out on the boat, and Jeju Island was about two hundred miles away from the mainland of North Korea, but this was not what they were worried about, and Wu Shen's rhetorical question of 'Are there any officers and soldiers in North Korea' some time ago dispelled his uneasiness.

However, Zhao Sanshui found one thing, that is, a gunboat like himself is almost unique at sea, not to say the style of this gunboat, but that the ships that come and go do not have a cannon at all, which shows that the fist on this sea is the biggest of him Zhao Sanshui.

Although there are not many ships coming and going on this sea, Zhao Sanshui doesn't want to leave the three gunboats left for him to be moored in the harbor as a tool for self-protection.

The armed merchant ships in Dengzhou, because of the existence of soft sails and keels and various technical details of improvement, have a higher utilization rate of the wind, and more simply, the speed is faster.

As long as it is a ship passing by the sea of Jeju Island, there is really nothing that cannot be caught up, but this route is really a route that those ships coming from the north of Tsushima must take, the first time, Zhao Sanshui just went to sea with a gunboat, and as a result, a fleet of five ships passed by.

The other party obviously didn't expect that there was such a ship on the sea here, and Zhao Sanshui and the sailors on the armed merchant ship also didn't think of what they should do when they met the merchant ship, and the two sides passed by at a very close distance, and the crews on both sides stared at the side of the ship.

After driving over, Zhao Sanshui reacted and shouted at the top of his voice:

"This sea is Lao Tzu's territory, and you have to pay the silver to buy the road, pay the money, pay the money!"

After all, he was born as an officer on land, and he was quite unfamiliar with the flags and lights on the sea, but fortunately, the sailors on the armed merchant ship reacted quickly, and immediately conveyed the past in a way that the other party on the opposite ship understood, and the current Chinese is the common language on the East Asian sea.

The various working habits and methods of the Ming Dynasty at sea were the rules of the sea, and although the five ships were Japanese ships, they could understand the meaning of Zhao Sanshui.

Stopping the ship is absolutely impossible, the boats running on the sea are all aware of it, and after being boarded by the other party, they just let the other party do whatever they want for the five ships and don't listen, but instead raise the sails and prepare to speed up and escape, Zhao Sanshui was suddenly furious, and the captain on the armed merchant ship sneered and said:

"We can't run, we'll catch up."

There have already been sailors who skillfully pushed the one-pound Franc cannon to the right position, the weight of this small cannon is not large, and moving on the deck is not a problem, Zhao Sanshui looked at it and thought to himself: Familiar hands, familiar hands, it seems that this sea trade is not the first time.

It was the Xia family who was in charge of Jiang Feng's fleet at the beginning, and later Monk Li, and Captain Ajaya of the Rooster, all of whom injected their own management characteristics into Jiang Feng's fleet, and no matter what they did in the past, they all had one thing in common, that is, they had all been pirates at sea.

Therefore, even when Jiang Feng's ships are doing business at sea, they have to rob when they encounter a suitable object, after all, the guns on the armed merchant ships are not a joke, speaking of which, the troops in Dengzhou, more than 10,000 army, more than 2,000 sailors, and the combat experience of the navy army is too rich.

The armed merchant ships of the Jiang Jiajun were full of sails, and the speed was obviously much faster than the Japanese ships in front, and when the two sides closed to the firing range, two one-pound Franc cannons opened fire at the same time, one shell missed, and the other shell hit the hull.

This kind of small cannon is not very powerful, the main role is to kill the sailors on the ship, if you fight against the big ship that has just been launched in Dengzhou, these shells will not even leave any scars, and the defense of the thick wooden plank against solid shells is still quite strong.

However, the Japanese sea ships had not even popularized nails at this time, and the planks were all thin and pitiful, and a pound of shells from the Francos hit the hull, and it was suddenly a hole.

The merchants and sailors on the merchant ships suddenly exclaimed, and after the two cannons were fired, they could see that the inexplicable Ming Dynasty merchant ship was getting closer to their own fleet, and when they had not decided whether to continue running or stop the ship, two more guns smashed over.

There was a sailor on the deck who was immediately caught off guard, and was hit by a cannonball, and a bloody hole was suddenly opened in his chest, and the ships at sea rarely saw the power of artillery, although in various ports in Japan, Portuguese and Spanish merchants also had fire on their ships, but the Japanese pirates would not provoke them, and as for the Japanese pirates and pirates, it was impossible to equip them with this kind of firearms that were still advanced at that time.

The two ships stopped, and the remaining three ships continued to escape, Zhao Sanshui didn't care about the rest of the ships, and directly ordered the armed merchant ships to approach, and there were thirty soldiers on the ship, ready to get on the ship, and when the sailors of the two merchant ships saw that the other party turned out to be soldiers in armor, they finally gave up the last hope of resistance, what is the equivalent of the soldiers in armor in Japan, and many of the flag warriors of the princes and daimyo have no armor.

However, Zhao Sanshui did not slaughter the ship and grab the goods, but only took away 40% of the 10% of the goods on the ship, and also took away the three cannonballs left on the ship. When Zhao Sanshui was in Tianjin Wei in the past, he often went to set up stalls to do some small business, and he knew the truth of repeat customers.

He made a solemn wish, but his face was smiling, and he couldn't see a solemn look:

"The next time you pass by the sea near Jeju Island, you only need to pay 10% of the goods on board, which is absolutely fair, and Tong Su is not bullied."

The merchants can understand Chinese, but they are scolding in their hearts, this is nearly 300 miles away from Jeju Island, what is the nearby sea, but they can only accompany the smiling face to let the other party take the goods, and let their sailors help.

On the dock in Dengzhou, everyone looked at Jiang Feng in the middle with expectant eyes, and said one after another:

"This giant ship, of course, I have to ask Lord Jiang to name it!"

"Hmm...... Let's call it the Tailwind! ”

At the time, it was a lot of applause, but many people thought in their hearts, 'This is too cheesy.'"