Wang Chong led the Jinyi guards south along the coastline, all the way to Fuzhou, and the treasurers of the pirate group's strongholds fled when they heard the news.

After coming to Fuzhou, Wang Chong went to meet with Pang Shangpeng, the governor of Fujian, and asked the local government to help hunt down the pirates.

When Wang Chong returned to the capital, Liu Shouyou began to make trouble. Prior to this, because Guo Yi was not only the righteous daughter of the old prince of Chengguo, but her mother died in the war against the Japanese invaders, and was named the lady of the imperial court, no one dared to find fault easily, and now it is just the right time to take this opportunity to separate the two of them first.

Two years ago, Guo Yi also took the initiative to ask Ying to go to Japan to assist her uncle Guo Guoqiang, in fact, her real intention was to kill Oda Nobunaga with her own hands to avenge her father's hatred, but because the old prince of Chengguo felt sorry for his goddaughter, he did not agree, Liu Shouyou knew this situation.

Under the pretext that Lu Yunlong's coffin is still in a foreign country, regarding the case of Xu Kun's disappearance, the case of Huang Bingwen that happened in Nanjing not long ago, and the case of Ningbo businessman Chen Yuanhua becoming a Japanese bandit, Liu Shouyou believes that it is all because the pirates stranded in Japan are still continuing to collude with the Japanese and sneak into the territory to kidnap innocent people, so he ordered Guo Yi to return to Japan and continue to suppress the bandits with Guo Guoqiang; Xu Ling'er was sent to Fuzhou to assist Fujian Governor Pang Shangpeng in handling Lin Feng's case.

As for the gold and silver that Yan Shifan and Luo Wenlong shipped overseas, Liu Shouyou did not force Guo Yi to recover it, everyone understands that such a large sum of money, even if Lin Feng can cooperate, it is not easy to transport it back safely, and once it falls into the hands of the Japanese Kou, it is not beautiful. Therefore, it is important to catch Lin Feng and his wife, and when the time is ripe in the future, they will find a way, this is the strategy formulated by the old prince of Chengguo back then.

Guo Yi knew that her husband was a loyal and honest person, as the commander of Jinyi Weibei Zhenfusi, Liu Shouyou was his top boss, in order not to embarrass her husband, he agreed without making any defense, and took his son and Xu Linger to set off together, their mother and son returned to Japan from Ningbo, and Xu Linger went to Fuzhou alone.

During the dismissal of Pang Shangpeng, the governor of Fujian, he had done money business in Nanjing, and had a very close relationship with Hai Rui, and this book will be explained in detail in the second volume of "Jinling Golden Dream", so he and Xu Ling'er were no strangers, and they warmly received Xu Ling'er in the governor's yamen.

After the Spring Festival, Pang Shangpeng received a report from the prefects of Zhangzhou, Quanzhou, and other places, and they found that unidentified refugees had suddenly appeared in the territory, and there was a great tendency to stir up trouble.

After Xu Ling'er arrived, he launched a detailed investigation and found that there were many members of the Lin Feng Pirate Group, who were all assembling in the Chaoshan area of Guangdong, but did not make trouble in Fujian.

Therefore, Pang Shangpeng played this sudden situation to the imperial court, under the auspices of Zhang Juzheng, a scholar of the first auxiliary university, the five armies of the capital of the palace and the Jinyi Wei jointly held a military meeting, according to the existing intelligence, everyone agreed that Lin Feng's gang was very likely to escape to the Chaoshan area, and took over Lin Daoqian's old department, therefore, the imperial court ordered the mobilization of Yin Zhengmao, the governor of Liangguang, to encircle and suppress.

At this time, Lin Feng was very embarrassed, in order to survive, he followed Ma Zhishan's advice, divided the team of thousands of people into zero, and first ordered Zhuang Gong and others to go to Ryukyu to find the old shopkeeper of the winery and Ma Wu to ask for money; He also sent Xiao Ke to lead a team to the sea to rob merchant ships; let Ma Zhishan lurk in Beigang, Taiwan with a group of people and take over many industries left by Lin Daoqian; The shopkeepers who fled from various strongholds were scattered to various ports along the coast of Guangdong and Fujian, and he himself led a group of elite soldiers to entrench themselves on Nanao Island.

When the army of Yin Zhengmao, the governor of Liangguang, arrived, he found that the group of people gathered in Chaozhou had suddenly disappeared, and during the investigation, it was learned that most of them were "merchant leaders" from Guangdong and Fujian, and the purpose of the meeting was to unite and compete with the merchants of Franc Ji in the maritime trade.

Yin Zhengmao was well aware of the situation of maritime merchants in Guangdong, so he did not delve into it further.

After Lin Feng's gang entered Nanao Island, they merged with the original pirates here, set up camp here, and sent Zhuang Gong, Xiao Ke and others to lead pirate ships out to rob, and soon raised a batch of materials and military funds, which frightened the merchant ships passing in the South China Sea.

He sent Zhuang Gong to Ryukyu to invite Ma Wu's merchant group, and brought a large amount of silver with the ship, and they began to build a large number of warships on the island, and even prepared to build warships.

Ma Wu thought that Lin Feng was long gone, over the years, they have been engaged in legitimate maritime trade, although they are always facing unpredictable risks, and it is very hard to make money, but they are happy to have a peace of mind, at least their conscience is not condemned, and suddenly heard that Lin Feng is back in the mountains, trying to make a comeback on Nanao Island, to be honest, if it were not for Ah Ping, he would never come with Zhuang Gong.

After arriving in South Australia, with a bumpy and uneasy mood, Ma Wu went to see Lin Feng, and Lin Feng only said one word to him: When he settles down, he and Ah Ping will get married.

Ma Wu went to see her sister Luo Amin again, and learned that she did not agree with Lin Feng's approach, and was very disgusted by what the pirates did, after all, Nanao Island was too close to the mainland, and there was a danger of being exterminated by officers and soldiers at any time, so she discussed with Ma Wu and prepared to use the Ryukyu regiment to train the brothers and put Lin Feng under house arrest.

This idea shocked Ma Wuxi, after all, he was the adopted son of the Lin family, and the old shopkeeper of the wine shop and Lin Feng had been kind to him, and he was silent for a long time, and he didn't dare to agree, so the matter was temporarily shelved.

Xiao Ke and others robbed merchant ships at sea, which attracted the attention of the Guangdong government, and at the same time, Yin Zhengmao also got the news that an inexplicable armed force suddenly appeared on Nanao Island, so he decided to visit the island in person.

Lin Feng was not afraid that the Governor of Liangguang was about to visit the island, he was very cunning, and ordered Zhuang Gong and Xiao Ke and others to drive the pirate ship and hide outside for some time, and Ma Wu was responsible for receiving Yin Zhengmao and others in the name of the Ryukyu merchant group.

The warships of the two Guangxi admirals arrived on Nanao Island, and Ma Wu came forward to receive Yin Zhengmao and his party.

Knowing that they were from the Ryukyus, Yin Zhengmao was ready to drive them away, so Ma Wu took out a note from the Ryukyu Kingdom and a ship guide issued by the Fuzhou City Shipping Division, informing the Governor of Liangguang that they were going to open a shochu shop here and sell it to all parts of Nanyang, and the tax to be handed over to the government in the future would be no less than 50,000 taels of silver per year.

Yin Zhengmao sent officers and soldiers to search the island, but neither found the pirate ship nor caught the legendary pirate, tasted one of their jars of soju, felt like a merchant organization, and heard that there were still 50,000 taels of silver every year, so he did not pursue them again.

Before leaving, Yin Zhengmao admonished Ma Wu and the others, and got a boatload of soju.

After the officers and soldiers left, Luo Amin came to Ma Wu again to discuss, thinking that this would only fool him for a while, and sooner or later he would have to do something, saying that he could no longer be a pirate.

Ma Wu did not dare to easily become an enemy of Lin Feng, through his observations these days, and his understanding of Lin Feng's subordinates, he believed that only by killing Xiao Ke and Zhuang Gong, the two would-be robbers, could Lin Feng be forced to change his ways.

Luo Amin thought so, for the fate of the whole family, he had to secretly play with Lin Feng, and gave Ma Wu an idea, asking him to lead his brothers to go to sea every day in the name of patrolling, and go to the open sea to find Zhuang Gong, Xiao Ke and other pirates, and try to kill them all.

For more than half a year, during the period when Xu Ling'er assisted in handling the case, in addition to the cases of robbery of merchant ships in the South China Sea, Fujian and Guangdong were very calm, and the Lin Feng pirate gang did not make trouble in the mainland, and it was no longer meaningful for him to continue to stay here, and because he was concerned about Guo Yi, who took her son back to Japan, and her father was still in the hands of the monkey Hideyoshi, she took the initiative to ask Ying to go to Japan on an errand.

After receiving approval, the governor Yamen helped her contact a merchant ship, owned by Lin Shaoqi, a veteran and well-respected merchant from Zhangzhou, who had traveled back and forth between Fuzhou, Ryukyu and Satsuma Tsubo for many years, and had never had any incident.

Xu Linger took a merchant ship to Satsuma, just sailed through the Taiwan Strait, and was chatting with the shipowner Lin Shaoqi on the deck, when he suddenly found that something was wrong, I don't know if he had made a mistake, the two had just arrived at the door of the needle room, and the bright scimitar had been on their necks.

Lin Shaoqi was paralyzed on the spot, and at this time, some pirates brandished steel knives, and some rushed into the cabin with arquebuses, ordering everyone to hold their heads in their hands.

In order to find out the origin of this group of pirates, Xu Ling'er did not resist easily, gave up the opportunity to escape, and squatted in the cabin with her head held like an ordinary businessman.

"Everyone, don't be afraid, let's go to South Australia now, how about taking you to drink a wedding wine?" Zhuang Gong asked loudly.

Everyone knew that when they encountered pirates, no one dared to say a word, and watched as the merchant ship bypassed the island of Taiwan and sailed towards the waters of the South China Sea.

Ma Wu led the brothers to search for this group of pirates, and many days passed, and I don't know where they had gone.

On this day, Ma Wu, who was patrolling the eastern waters of South Australia, suddenly noticed a big ship coming in the distance, so he hurriedly drove a speedboat to meet it, and on the deck, they saw Zhuang Gong.

Needless to say, this was a merchant ship held hostage by the pirates, and Ma Wu hurriedly ordered his brothers to prepare and instigate the merchants to resist together before landing on the island, and take the opportunity to kill these pirates.

Zhuang Gong, who was standing on the bow of the boat, suddenly noticed that several patrol boats had come, and he thought that they were here to deliver a letter, so he asked loudly: "Brother Ma, can we dock?" ”

"The government has been monitoring us recently, so we can't land on the island for the time being, so let's talk about it in the evening." Ma Wu replied.

Zhuang Gongxin believed that it was true, so he ordered the merchant ship to sail to the southern waters of Nanao Island, and Ma Wu's patrol ship also followed.

Due to the large number of pirates, Ma Wu and the others did not dare to act rashly after they got on the ship, and when they entered the cabin, Xu Ling'er immediately recognized Ma Wu and immediately understood the origin of this group of pirates.

Ma Wu took his men around the cabin for a long time, and while the pirates were not paying attention, they began to rob the merchants' belongings, trying to create a chaotic scene, and taking the opportunity to kill Zhuang Gong and Xiao Ke and others, but the merchants on the ship were too honest, and they all squatted there with their heads in their hands, allowing Ma Wu and others to take everything they had, and no one dared to resist.

When Ma Wu arrived in front of Xu Ling'er, he was immediately stunned, no matter what, he didn't expect that his fiancée's friend would be on this boat, so he squatted down, pretended to check Xu Ling'er's package, and whispered: "Xu Qianhu, I'm really sorry!" I didn't expect you to be here, please cooperate with us to create a riot and take the opportunity to kill those two pirate leaders, and the others don't have to worry. ”

Xu Ling'er nodded, and was just about to get up to cooperate with Ma Wu's actions, but Lin Shaoqi behind her dragged her tightly.

Ma Wu didn't know Lin Shaoqi, but because Lin Shaoqi often went to Shuri Castle to do business, and he also went to the Lin family's soju shop to pull shochu to sell in Japan, so he knew this group leader.

Hearing the conversation between the two of them, Lin Shaoqi immediately climbed up to Ma Wu's approach, hugged his thigh, and pleaded in a low voice: "The young owner of the winery, such a trouble, I, I am the target of everyone, I, I don't want to die on the boat, spare me." ”

At this time, Xiao Ke, who was in charge of monitoring the cabin, walked over with a scimitar in his hand and asked loudly, "What are you talking about?" ”

Ma Wu knew that this plan might be ruined, so he raised his hand and gave Xiao Ke a slap in the face, scolding: "Things that don't have long eyes!" actually hijacked the old customers of our Lin family's shochu shop. ”

At this time, the pirates all pointed their arquebuses at Ma Wu, Xiao Ke grinned, knowing that this was Lin Feng's brother-in-law, he didn't dare to make a mistake, and waved his hand at his subordinates, signaling them not to act rashly.

Lin Shaoqi knew a little about the history of the Lin family's shochu shop, and cried: "Young owner, please, after arriving in Nanao, all the things on the ship will belong to you, let us go." ”

Ma Wu thought to himself, how could Lin Feng let you go easily? There was no answer.

The merchant ships continued to float on the sea, and Ma Wu also expected to meet the warships of the officers and soldiers, and waited until it was dark, and did not wait for the officers and soldiers to come.

At this time, Zhuang Gong asked Ma Wu if he could land on the island, and Ma Wu had no choice but to agree.

The merchant ship docked at the Houjiangwan Wharf in South Australia, and while the pirates drove away those merchants, Ma Wu escorted Xu Ling'er off the ship and quietly sent her to Luo Aping's residence......