In the turbulent waves and tides, the icy waves slapped heavily on the swaying hull of the huge sea ship with the biting wind, shaking the people and reluctant objects that ran to and fro, and it was difficult to gain a firm foothold for a long time.

"Damn old fur seals......"

"Zong Rulin, you can't die well......"

The wails and curses of death, and the cries and cries of cries, mixed with the roar of volleys and cannons, rippled across the islands between the wind and the waves.

"Fought with them......"

"Dora a few back-backed ......"

There are also voices that are unwilling to accept fate, and then they are extinguished in the ensemble of more guns and cannons.

The stubborn figure in the corner, along with the blade in his hand, and the mountains, rocks, grass and trees behind him, were beaten to shreds. The few survivors who used the corpses of their companions to cover themselves and survived had not had time to reflexively rush out, but they were thrown by the firearms thrown and exploded in flames and smoke.

"Report, there are a few remnants of pirates climbing upwards......"

At this time, in the lingering smoke of gunpowder, a voice came

"I've fled into a cave crevasse high up......"

"Divide into combat squads and search ......"

A captain of the Marine Corps in charge of the command said in a loud voice

"Strive to eradicate evil and do everything possible ......"

"Let them bring fire oil bombs and explosive bombs......"

Zong Ze couldn't help but open his mouth and added.

"Just use the ...... as long as there is a stir in the wind"

"We don't need any more ......"

"There is no need for more casualties in vain......"

"Ordered ......"

The lieutenant bowed slightly.

As the commander of this navy, Li Wenxian, the commander-in-chief, still had some palpitating expressions.

In this coastal sea trial of the patrol camp, seven warships of all sizes were dispatched, almost half of the family in the old port of Banqiao Town.

And after many days of wandering at sea, the new deputy inspector and head of the naval army, Zong Ze, was able to come in handy.

Moreover, he himself did not shy away from his experience and vision as a former sea thief, so he could easily judge whether the islands and terrain were suitable or unsuitable for human activities; Those are elements that can be moored or long-term stays.

And for this newcomer patrol army, save a lot of time and effort. This tedious repetitive landing and search activity didn't change in some way until yesterday.

If it weren't for what he saw with his own eyes, who would have thought that on such a nameless island off the coast, a dilapidated fishing village that seems to be a gathering of exiled people, would actually be an important den and hiding place for pirates.

Among them, there are thousands of young men with their own weapons.

If it weren't for the sea lord Zongze, who was nicknamed "Sea Dog", he would have taken some clues at the scene. was almost concealed on the spot by the other party, with the good, harmless and pitiful disguise shown by some old people, women, children and children.

Unexpectedly, the remnants of the bandits who had fled on land had gathered here, ready to lie dormant for a while before making plans.

This doesn't make people a little scared and frightened, if these bandits are allowed to hide, it will be a great dereliction of duty and trouble.

Moreover, the sources of these bandits are many and miscellaneous, and if they are unintentionally let go, they will be scattered, and if they want to encircle and clean up again in the future, it will be even more troublesome and troublesome.

Originally, he just held an attitude of believing in it, pretending to retreat but went around the other side of the island to kill the carbine, even if he guessed wrong, it was not a false alarm, and it was just a drill.

But unexpectedly, this time the horse pistol was like a hornet's nest, and suddenly from the reefs, mountains and forests near the fishing village, many men with open fire and sticks were disturbed.

Although most of the men and horses patrolling the sea battalion are novices in naval battles, they are veterans of several battles in land battles.

Although there was only one group of soldiers and gunners who went ashore first, they stood on the shallow shore with no feet in the water, like a solid embankment, which firmly blocked the enemy attack several times their own on the narrow beach.

And under the cover of more companions came ashore one after another.

Then Zong Ze personally led another boat of soldiers who were good at water, wading in small boats to dive into the reef areas where large ships were not suitable for docking, and suddenly killed from behind the flanks of those bandits, and immediately killed these bandits who had gathered together in a hurry.

It was only when they pursued the victory to the back hill of the fishing village that they encountered a little obstacle, and the most stubborn old pirates, who were defending the terrain here, condescendingly caused some casualties again.

Then, with the brief confrontation, the gun wagons that were carried ashore, even the smallest caliber sampan guns, easily crushed these, and the condescending old pirates who threw stones and pushed wood, the last resistance and fighting spirit.

The only episode is that Zong Ze met the old "old acquaintance", who had worked together and had a competitive relationship, and finally pursued his gang because of the bounty, another pirate leader nicknamed "Old Yellow Sheep".

Of course, whether it is reminiscing or taking revenge, there is no reason to let the other party go.

One of the farthest away was actually from the Fuso Domain, and it is said that the predecessor was the defeated navy of a daimyo in a certain place in Shikoku.

In addition, I also got a vague news from this group of people that there were big donors in the open sea who offered bounties and solicited them among the pirates, summoning them to intercept and attack the exiled pirates, and those Dengzhou remnants who were preparing to move back to their hometowns.

Yizhou, Qingduiji,

Li Fugui, a farmer, leaned over, carrying a large bundle of firewood and grass, walked to the grass shed next to his house and stacked it, and then walked into the house under the nagging of the woman who came out to greet him with a scoop of hot water.

He drank the hot water and looked at his furnishings, wondering if he needed to add something urgent.

The small adobe wall and plaster floor enclose the outer room of the house, and there are a few simple household items such as unpainted, tables, cabinets, etc., but they are relatively new, with rough edges and rough rubbish.

The coarse briquettes on the side of the rammed earth stove, the pickles in the jar, the cranberries, persimmons, dried peppers, and garlic skewers hanging on the beams, the few grain bags piled up in the corner, and the jicama in the communal warehouse outside, all make people feel very reassured.

If it was placed in the past, I could only work hard all year round to dig food from the fields, and it was easy to look at the sky and open my eyes, and when I encountered a normal year, I carefully tended to the crops and was able to pull more grain.

However, they have to pay all kinds of imperial grain taxes one by one, and the government supports them at all levels, and the local households, village heads, and apportionments in the township. In the end, what fell into his hand was still a little bit of chaff and bran,

Then you have to hope that you will not get sick all year round, and there will be no other accidents, so that you can save a little bit of leftover from between your teeth, and replace a few catties of mixed noodles in the days of the New Year, so that the whole family can eat two hot dry cakes.

And for this goal, on weekdays, I only bitterly cook a pot of clear soup and little water wild vegetable porridge to deal with, men are the pillars and main laborers, and they have to remove the thick ones, while women and children can only scrape the soup residues at the bottom of the pot to cheat their stomachs.

If you accidentally have a headache and brain fever, and you really can't get through it, then you can only find a way to borrow money from the village chief, the mayor, and the guarantor in the village.

Then, in the profits that could not be counted year after year, and the profits that could not be repaid were finally taken away from the family heirlooms, or the barren mountainous land that had been cultivated with hard work, and even the children and daughters were sold, and finally the whole family became someone else's private contract slave and tenant.

Then you can only eat chaff and drink diluted to pay off the indescribable debts and interests with your own life, or even generations of children and grandchildren. It was a deep despair and sorrow that would never come out.

This is not counting those, and whoever is referred to will be the official who will break the family. In this case, even if it is a well-to-do family and a rich family in the local area, there are few who are not bankrupt, and as for the ordinary poor family, there is only one way to flee and beg for food.

Now, even those single-person households who are crowded in collective dormitories and earn work share are as long as they are diligent and hardworking, eating dry when they are busy and drinking thin when they are free, but they are rarely hungry.

As for the resettlement households with families, as long as the grain grown on the share of the collective grange is 50% of the grain handed over to the public and 10% of the collective, the rest is their own. It is also possible to rotate the use of ready-made farm implements and cattle from the cooperative, with very little depreciation and forage money.

Moreover, in their spare time, adults and children have the opportunity to go to the public middle school to do some odd jobs, earn some physical subsidies for the family, and save the day's meals by the way. Although the remuneration is very limited, it is also an income.

And the young people in the family, if they sign up for the station training in the tunzhuang and join the patrol team, they can also be exempted from the daily three days of public high school labor every month, as well as the collective labor recruitment during the agricultural slack.

After such a busy and tiring work all year round, the effect is also quite significant.

Therefore, before the heavy snow fell, the rations of the whole family, in addition to the daily jicama, could also leave 100 catties of sun-dried raw wheat and 30 catties of dried beans and so on.

Therefore, it can be used to calculate the use of the New Year, such as pulling a few feet of strong and wear-resistant coarse cloth, cutting two catties of fat, weighing some liver and lungs and other cheap water, or a whole salted fish, you can have a relatively prosperous good year.

Therefore, as Li Fugui, a foreigner in the prime of life, and a local young woman with an oil bottle, there is still something to look forward to and hope for to form a new family with typical Huaidong characteristics.

But to say that under the rule of Huaidong, not counting those military masters and officials; The best people in normal life are the old fishermen and boat owners who belong to the labor camps, fishing crews and inshore trading vessels in the coastal states;

Although there is a risk of tidal waves, on the days when they go out to sea, they are almost free of (fish) meat and happy, and they also have a fixed ration of soju to drink (to ward off cold and dehumidify).

The second is the salt works near the sea, those households in the construction site, although the labor is hard and the environment is also bad, but they can directly exchange their work for salt, through bartering with the locality, it can be said that most of the year in the four seasons, all kinds of dried and fresh seafood change patterns to eat.

Then there are the official workshops and public farms and granges that have been converted from various labor camps along the branches of several large rivers in the interior. It is mainly composed of the first few groups of "old" immigrants and their dependents who entered Huaidong reclamation. In the intense and busy collective work and work activities, at least we can ensure that the accompaniment of salted fish, salted vegetables, and soybean sauce is constantly cooked, and there are large barrels of "substitute meat" to open oil meat every three or five days.

Taken together, the site where they are located also provides almost more than half of the grain and agricultural and sideline products output from the rear. Therefore, it is easy to accumulate a little bit of daily demand, and then achieve a limited level of mutual benefit and self-sufficiency through small-scale exchanges such as irregular wild markets and small markets outside the supply and marketing cooperatives.

Moreover, because of the advantages of water and land ports, it is also the place where those foreign maritime merchants who go deep into Huaidong must pass through and transit, so it has the advantage of being naturally close to the water in terms of daily circulation. Therefore, many people with flexible minds in the neighborhood will make a small living to improve their lives.

Next, the large industrial and mining farms in the remote mountain valleys, and the collective households in the major pastures and plantations, are doing the hardest work, but they are also full of soup cakes, wheat rice, green onions, and pickles.

Because it is far away from the city and lacks a lot of convenience in transportation and logistics, all daily supplies can only rely on the regular mobile carts of the supply and marketing cooperatives and the merchants and hawkers who visit from time to time, but at least they can reunite with their families here, and near the work place there is a small-scale settlement system of supporting the nature of life, from being washed by the pulp and washing to the cultivation of melons and vegetables.

In addition, it is close to the frontier states, and the newly settled tunpu recruits people or flees people. After half a year of screening and quarantine. According to the original military management system, they were handled according to the separate battalions of men, women, and children, and they had to abide by strict entry and rest schedules and a limited range of daily activities.

Only those who have undergone three to five years of observation and follow-up screening and who have performed well in their daily lives will be given the most basic qualifications for primary household registration and selected for the factory mines with great demand for heavy physical work.

Although there is no New Year's holiday and no work and welfare, at least all kinds of melons and beans can be eaten to a full, and there is a large bunk that can shelter from the wind and rain and keep warm for the winter as a temporary shelter.

In all these contrasts,

The bottom position in the worst situation is, of course, those mountain people who are not yet counted in the local household registration, and the families of individual households, who only occasionally sell local mountain goods in exchange for some daily use, will appear outside the towns and towns near the road, and more often than not, out of some kind of self-sustaining and hidden state.

In addition, there are some special groups of people, who are prisoners of war of various origins, about tens of thousands of people, etc., who are not counted in the regular household registration, and naturally have no corresponding treatment and security.

More often than not, it is treated as a chronic consumable that can be used sustainably. Most of the work is done that requires urgent work at any cost, while maintaining a considerable degree of mortality.

And Li Fugui happens to be in the lower reaches of the third group of people, although he owes a small loan that needs to be repaid for several years, it can be regarded as a kind of comfortable and comfortable type.