Chapter 332: There is always ambition

Zhejiang's Damen Island is particularly close to nearby Yueqing, and the residents here have never regarded Damen Island as overseas, and it is also very convenient to come and go.

In recent years, Liuheng Island and Shuangyu have become more and more prosperous, so the large and small islands outside Zhejiang are entrenched by bandits and merchants, on these islands they themselves are the emperors of the soil, making laws, and there are more or less armies in them, and then relying on the geographical location here.

Dafa trade or more precisely the source of smuggling, a year ago, the fishermen near Yueqing knew that there was a group of Fujian pirates on Damen Island, and there were a lot of pirates on the island, but after a long time, I also knew that these pirates and pirates did something outside, but on Damen Island, rabbits did not eat the grass by the nest, and never did anything illegal.

Since these pirates do not harass the locality, then the local officers and soldiers are too lazy to manage, so why bother to provoke, and whether they can fight is also a question.

After Xia Qingjiao and Zhejuzhong of Fujian colluded, they knew that if they were targeted by the government in the inland of Fujian, they would definitely be wiped out, and in order to avoid such a big risk, it was more realistic to occupy a base overseas. Fujian was originally the hardest hit area by the Japanese invaders.

The large and small islands there have long been occupied by pirates and pirates, Zhejiang has a lot of empty islands, the area of Damen Island is not small, it is very close to Fujian, so it has naturally become their first choice.

After coming to the island, there were more than 2,000 people under Orii Tadaju, half of whom were Shinwa, and they were all samurai who had been exiled in Kyushu and Shikoku, and they were quite combative. The Xia family also has about the same number of soldiers who dare to fight, and the two sides are on this island.

However, I know that the power of Deng Fang and Xu Qi in Shuangyu of Liuheng Island in Zhejiang is already quite huge, and the son-in-law of Liu Shunhua, the political envoy of Zhejiang, is Jiang Feng, and such forces are offended there, so they are divided into two groups, one group of people do business in a proper manner, and the other group of people rob and steal in Fujian, Guangdong, and the sea of Nanyang.

Although it is said that the current pirate force has been formed, the combination of a naval family like the Xia family and a Japanese Warring States samurai like Orii Tadashou is still very powerful. Xia Qingjiao has some political skills and means, and he also knows the importance of it, so when he was still a sketch at the beginning, he didn't use knives and guns with other big forces, but just made some small deals without showing up.

After a year, Xia Qingjiao estimated that his power had swelled a lot, and he could have some say on the sea, and there were two powers recognized on the sea, one was Jiangfeng's navy, because the ships were strong, the force was strong, and the methods were ruthless. There is also the Shuangyu of Liuheng Island, Deng Fang and Xu Qi have been entrenched in this place for many years, and it has developed into a climate, which they can't afford to offend.

These two can be said to control the pricing of routes and goods, in fact, they have formed a system similar to Jiang Feng's private salt in Shandong, everyone is a wife to make money, but to take out part of the money earned to the protector as a protection fee, and at the same time accept guidance on the price.

The sea is not on land, there is no government, whoever has the big fist has the right to speak, Xia Qingjiao and the reluctant Taoguang of Zhongshou raised the obscurity, there are more than 1,000 more people under his hands, and the number of ships is almost doubled, and they finally want to win the power of speech on the sea.

If they provoke trouble, they will inevitably start chaos first, and Xiangshan will naturally become their first target, and after going ashore, they will loot the rich merchants living there.

The businessmen on the route near Jeju Island were full of resentment about Zhao Sanshui's card fees, and naturally a few of them really couldn't stand it and contacted Deng Fang and Xu Qi, and asked to give a message, but at that time, Jiang Feng was still stationed in Dengzhou, and Deng Fang of Shuangyu knew that Jiang Feng could not afford to offend, and the other party's maritime forces did not talk about him first, and Liu Shunhua, the political envoy of Zhejiang, had to weigh it himself, but no one agreed to the requirements of these businessmen.

On the contrary, Xia Qingjiao didn't know how to get this news, and the ransacking of Xiangshan and attacking the coast of Zhejiang did not serve any purpose of disrupting the order, and now this kind of incident was needed to make Jiang Feng's face plummet, so he and Zhiju Zhongshou took the initiative to come to the door and said that they could solve the problem of Jiang Jiajun's collection of money once and for all, of course, the two fake merchant ships, ships and some sailors he sent were provided by certain merchants, and they also provided merchants who led the way.

A living example is in front of him, after Monk Li was driven out of Liuheng Island by Deng Fang, he was already ruined to the point of bankruptcy, but attached to Jiang Feng, the current business is booming, and the business is not known to be much bigger than before.

In order to do so well, it is not that we have hugged Jiang Feng's thigh, and now we are investing in this risky action of the Xia family, and the worst result is to continue to pay money, if it succeeds, it will be developed.

However, after nearly 100 people from the Xia family and the Japanese invaded the waters near Jeju Island on two merchant ships, there was no news, but the merchants passing by this sea area found that the armed warship of Jiang Feng, who was arrogant and collecting money on the sea, never appeared again.

What does this situation mean, everyone understands in their hearts, the news spread quickly, and the maritime merchants who originally took the initiative to pay for a safe life are swaggering through Jeju Island, and they don't have to worry about someone coming behind to collect the money.

At the same time, on the sea everywhere, the pirates who had been living for a while suddenly became rampant again, and many merchants usually spent money to buy a peace from Jiang Feng and Deng Fang, but it was not easy to use at this time, and these pirates and pirates did not recognize the money to buy the road at all.

Deng Fang of Shuangyu on Liuheng Island sent a fleet out to fight with the pirates, and the soldiers on both sides were killed and wounded by each other, but the Deng family's sailors have been sitting on the ground on Liuheng Island for a long time to collect money, and Dafan This soldier has been comfortable for a long time, don't say anything about combat effectiveness, unless it is Jiang Feng's pervert who is more regular than the regular army.

The Xia family and the Japanese robbed at sea, and they have never relaxed their hands and feet, the fight between the two sides, the Xia family naturally has the upper hand, after this battle, the wind of the shipowners will immediately turn around, and many people began to take the initiative to contact the Xia family, saying that the sea is not very peaceful during this period of time, and people like the Xia family need to come out to maintain peace.

And in the future business, consider doing some business with the Xia family's fleet, and these people said this to Jiang Feng and Shuangyu that day.

The location of Daemun Island is thousands of miles away from Incheon, and the current Jiangfeng belongs to exile overseas, after a while of what happened on Jeju Island, Incheon actually did not make any reaction, which is already a cowardice that people think of Jiang Feng, and they already think that Jiang Feng is now focusing on running North Korea, at least in the short term, and is unable to dispatch.

Now many people have the idea of Linjia Island, you must know that although Jiang Feng has left Dengzhou, the outer island of Laizhou is still under the control of Jiang Feng.

In the ruins of the Thousand Households in Yantai Mountain, Dengzhou, the imperial court has rebuilt the lookout on Yantai Mountain, and arranged manpower here, but it is generally believed that there is no need to place too many manpower here, so in the past, it was arranged for a thousand households, and now it is only a hundred households and dozens of people.

This is considered to be the emperor far away, the officers and soldiers here are much easier than their predecessors, anyway, the Ming Dynasty is also forbidden to the sea, whether there is any movement on the sea they can't control at all, Shandong is now full of troops, presumably there will not be anything that does not come to cause trouble.

It is already early autumn, the weather is already quite cold, on the lookout, several soldiers nest in a sheltered place to nap, a soldier should come out of convenience, he directly stood on the edge of the lookout to solve on the spot, walked on the platform in a daze, and suddenly gasped.

Although it was night, there were still shadows on the sea, and some black shadows that looked quite huge passed by silently.

The soldier rarely did not scream, but just watched there with his breath, for fear that he would make a noise here and cause accidents, and at this distance he could vaguely see the lights flickering, but the soldier who looked at the distance from the lookout never wanted to think that what he saw was a boat.

Because in his concept, there has never been such a large ship, maybe the fishing boats of the coastal fishermen are the sea ships in his concept. He preferred to believe that what he saw was a monster on the sea, and that the lights on those ships were the eyes of a sea monster.

At this time, he suddenly felt that his lower body was cold, it turned out that he had not stuffed it back after taking it out, and after a period of scramble, the soldier looked at those black shadows and did not mean to land, hesitated, turned around and went back to nap, whatever, as long as he did not land, it would be treated as if nothing had happened.

In the early morning of the next day, the sun was very good, looking at the sea from the lookout, the boundless blue waves, and there were no ships on the sea, and the soldier who got up at night was also scratching his head, wondering if he had a dream last night, and no one took it to heart.

The merchants of the Jingshi merchant group are worried about the manpower of next year at this time, and now the land outside the gate is almost unlimited for their manpower, especially when the mineral deposits are discovered, more manpower is needed to open the mine, but North Korea Jiangfeng only gives a fixed share every year, which is far from enough.

However, all of a sudden, the Jingshi merchant group received news from Jiang Feng, saying that a group of people would sell ...... in the near future