Although the harassment of the pirates was temporarily alleviated, Changlin soon found out in horror that Zhou Lang was more troublesome than any pirate, because Zhou Lang once again colluded with the Yi people to attract a large number of Yi people to come to Xiamen to trade, this situation has been reported to the emperor by Kui Lun, and Qianlong issued an order to reprimand.

"It seems that this is unscrupulous, gathering more and more every day, and there are islands to hide, wouldn't it lead to the former Ming Dynasty? The relationship is not small! ”

Qianlong's attention made Changlin feel a lot of pressure, because he was really unable to fight with Chen Zhouquan at the same time, to strike at Zhou Lang, but his worries soon ended, because Chen Zhouquan gave him a heavy blow, and recaptured Lukang recovered by the Qing army, a large number of Qing troops were defeated and retreated to Penghu, Changlin wrote a letter to ask for guilt, Qianlong dismissed him, recalled the Beijing division to listen to the staff, and temporarily put the post of governor of Fujian and Zhejiang to Kui Lun.

Although he was convicted, Changlin breathed a sigh of relief, because he had finally gotten rid of these troubles, and it was time for Kui Lun to have a headache in the future.

Zhou Lang was in Xiamen at this time, and he felt that everything that needed to be done was done, and he had already begun to prepare to leave Jinxia.

The final finishing touches were on the placement of female pirates.

Zhou Lang was surprised to learn that these women were female pirates and not pirate dependents, because according to his knowledge, coastal fishermen were very taboo about women on ships.

So when he learned that there were women on the ship that defected to the pirates, Zhou Lang naturally thought that these people were the families of the pirates, and of course he didn't want there to be women in his navy, he was not taboo, but worried about affecting the morale of the military. Therefore, he attaches great importance to the placement of these women, and he also has an unspeakable thought, that is, the proper placement of pirate families will help increase the loyalty of pirates, and it will be easy for them to convert from pirate status to regular naval soldiers.

Who knew that these women were not family members, but serious pirates, bandits who killed people with knives like men.

After learning about it, I realized how special the culture of the pirate group is.

I don't know for what reason, there are quite a few women in the pirate groups in the waters of Fujian and Guangdong. And all pirate organizations invariably group female pirates separately. These female pirates are not the women's battalions in the ancient army, the so-called women's battalions, to put it bluntly, are the camp prostitutes for the soldiers to release, Zhu Yuanzhang's Ming army, there are women's battalions, which are filled by the female dependents of criminal officials. On the contrary, the women's battalion in Li Zicheng's rebel army at the end of the Ming Dynasty was composed of peasant soldiers' families, and soldiers were not allowed to invade at will.

The identities of these female pirates are not only not prostitutes, but they are strictly isolated from male pirates, led by a single female pirate leader, and the Chinese female pirate in the Pirates of the Caribbean movie is actually based on this.

The pirate ship strictly prohibits male pirates from abusing female pirates, so how to solve men's physiological problems? The answer is very tight, men and women are popular among pirates, and many new pirates who are captured are often devastated by lonely and lonely old pirates, but once they move female pirates, they are often executed.

Zhou Lang also gossiped about the reason, and the pirates answered a variety of answers, some said that they were the leaders of the female pirates, who were often the wives of big bosses, and those who dared to violate women would be executed without exception, so no one dared to commit it. But the formation of this culture is by no means determined by one person, Zhou Lang guessed, because of the adaptive rules formed by the long-term activities of pirates, because once the male pirates begin to bully female pirates unrestrained, then the discipline of the pirate group will be gone, and even the phenomenon of fighting for female resources will occur, in order to prevent this kind of trouble caused by a certain worm's brain, this kind of rule can only appear.

The specific reason for the investigation is only gossip, but a summary of the information on the identity and enthronement of the female pirate can still draw some useful conclusions.

For example, Zhou Lang found that most of the female pirates were born from those special ethnic groups, such as the Hakka group with less restrictions on women, as well as the Tan people, the Hakka people and the Tan people belong to the minority groups in the southeast, especially the Tan people, who have been discriminated against by the mainstream group for a long time, and the reason is not actually ethnic prejudice, but because they are poor.

Even in the official correspondence of the government, the people of Tan were called poor.

The result of poverty is that it is impossible to be so particular, the women of the landlord's family can bind their feet, they can be a hug lady, how to toss how to toss, because people toss, the poor Hakka people who live in the mountains even can't support men, and those who don't even have mountains, can only live on the water all the year round, let them pay attention to these, it is not realistic at all, culture is born and life after all.

Therefore, these poor ethnic groups, in a long and difficult life, not only did they not develop bad habits such as foot binding, but women generally had to accept the same labor as men, and there was no custom among the people that women did not go on the boat, because the boat was their home, they were born on the ship, married on the ship, and died on the ship, regardless of men and women, it was easy not to get off the boat for a lifetime, but it was impossible not to get on the boat.

It is precisely because these women work just like men, and occasionally they join pirate groups to earn a living, just like men, that a considerable number of female pirates have emerged.

The number of female pirates in Zhou Lang's reception is as high as 3,000, although it is still not comparable to male pirates, but it is already very impressive.

Since these female pirates are not family dependents, there is a problem in placing them, if they are the family members of pirates, then it is simple, naturally their men will support them, and the military salary provided by Zhou Lang is enough for them to live a relaxed life. But now that they are pirates themselves, Zhou Lang doesn't want them, so what should they do? Survival is a problem!

In fact, the problem is also very easy to solve, and the recruitment of female soldiers is not over.

When Zhou Lang was in Fengshan County, he even regretted that he couldn't find female soldiers, because even the crude medical soldiers he established were all male soldiers, not even a female nurse, and without the warmth of a lady, how to soothe the fragile heart of the wounded.

It's okay now, there are 3,000 more women who don't even care about being pirates, so being a nurse is naturally not a problem.

So after refusing to let them get on the boat, he immediately turned them into medics.

Some of them will be reorganized into military hospitals, and some will be assigned back to Taiwan to work in army hospitals.

Just when the work was about to be completed and Zhou Lang was ready to return to Taiwan to reunite with his family, the news of Changlin's ouster suddenly came.

The one who brought the news back was Wei Lianli, who was full of fart, and sure enough, it was the prophet of Chunjiang Plumbing Duck, and Wei Lianli, who was on the front line of contact with the enemy, was the most sensitive to these problems.

Wei Lianli cried bitterly, saying that it was extremely thrilling, as if he was one step late, and he would be caught by the government.

But in reality he was not in any danger at all.

Changlin was convicted and dismissed, but before the Fujian government could pay attention to the group of merchants, Wei Lianli ran away.

The reason why he ran was because he felt that it was no longer safe for him to stay in Fuzhou, and the reason why he dared to stay in Fuzhou was because he was sure that Changlin would protect him, and he knew very well that Changlin was his umbrella, and although Fuzhou was not as good as Guangzhou, it was much stronger than Xiamen.

He knew that his umbrella was down, he was no longer safe, and as for whether the Qing army would really kill him, he didn't want to bet, he had to run away first to be at ease.

Wei Lianli's channel for getting the news was, of course, the Fuzhou government, and even confirmed with Changlin's personal entourage that while enjoying happiness in Fuzhou, he also established contacts in Fuzhou Yamen and brought back a lot of inside information.

Changlin was replaced, Zhou Lang could think of it, because although Zhou Lang did not know the movements of the Manchu Qing high-level, he knew the result of the defeat of the Qing army in Taiwan. Wu Lana couldn't suppress the bandits, and was finally arrested and killed, Changlin's identity is more noble than that of Bu Wu Lana, even if he is not killed, it is conceivable that he will be removed from his post and investigated.

Zhou Lang was more concerned about the impact of the political changes in Fujian on him after Changlin's dismissal. The tacit understanding between him and Changlin before was completely private, without any written communication, and not many people knew about it. Whether this successor, Kui Lun, will continue to maintain this tacit understanding, Zhou Lang has no confidence.

And in Xiamen, it is impossible not to know that Kui Lun is in the prison of Xing, Fujian, judging from this person's methods and his past reputation, this person is more honest than other officials, except for the prescribed income, such as etiquette and etiquette, he does not take the initiative to extort, at least he has not heard of this news.

Moreover, Kui Lun is unscrupulous and reckless in arresting people in Fujian, and his personality belongs to the type that is not easy to compromise, and this kind of person is not easy to deal with.

When he was a general in Fuzhou, he dared to confront the civilian clique headed by the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang all the year round.

Zhou Lang can threaten Changlin to attack Zhang and Quanzhou, but it may not be easy to threaten Kuilun, but it is easy to force the other party to be anxious.

So Zhou Lang decided to use the soft, continue to maintain a tacit understanding with the Fujian government, his situation has just opened, the first harvest season has not yet arrived, only a stubble of summer tea and autumn tea, the real harvest of spring tea has not yet arrived, if it is destroyed, it is a pity.

Therefore, Zhou Lang hoped to take the initiative to show favor to Kui Lun, expressing his willingness to continue to communicate with the well water of the Fujian government without violating the river water, this arduous communication task, of course, is none other than Wei Lianli.

So Wei Lianli, who was crying and sad, had to do what he was most unwilling to do again.

Wei Lianli is better than Zhou Lang in terms of human feelings, Zhou Lang can analyze that Kui Lun is a difficult person to deal with, how can Wei Lianli not know.

Therefore, in order to prevent the tragedy of being caught and beheaded when he met directly, Wei Lianli quietly entered Fuzhou, and did not contact the governor directly, but started with Kui Lun's closeness.

He spent a lot of money to contact Kuilun's master through some connections in the Fujian government, and then showed his identity in a safe place and talked to the master first.

The result of the negotiation was very bad, because Zhou Lang was hindered by Kui Lun's character, and did not threaten Kui Lun like he threatened Changlin, but he was threatened by Kui Lun.

Kui Lun asked Zhou Lang to surrender immediately, Fujian was willing to accept him, give him a chance to make meritorious contributions, and if he was obsessed, he threatened to send troops to clean up!

Zhou Lang, who received the reply, had to sigh, people who are too upright really can't play politics.

The current situation is clearly that Zhou Lang has the advantage, and if he doesn't threaten Kuilun, he is already very conscientious, but the other party threatens Zhou Lang, which makes Zhou Lang think that Kuilun has not yet recognized the situation.

"Then let him clean up one and try it!"

Zhou Lang wanted to see how Kui Lun planned to gnaw down the rock-solid Jinxia defense he had already managed.