Zhang San has been robbing for two days, and then a fire burned all the things that the shipyard could not take, and then swaggered out of Hangzhou Bay, this time from the vicinity of Zhangjia Shipyard to grab more than 50,000 people, except for more than 10,000 shipbuilders, the rest are the families of workers.

This time, if it weren't for the repaired Zhang family's ship, Zhang San really couldn't transport so many people, and after all the people were evacuated to Sea Shark Island, Zhang San transported these shipwrights to Ryukyu in batches to enrich the Tamsui shipyard.

Zhang San, on the other hand, demanded that the fleet begin to rob all ships leaving Hangzhou Bay, and that each ship should be paid for a load of ten stones, and that a flag would be issued to ensure the safety of the ships until they reached the port of Quanzhou. Those who don't pay will be robbed of them all.

The sixteen boats were divided into five three-ship plundering teams, which were based on Sea Shark Island, Jiushan Island, Nanxun Island, Dongyin Island, and Penghu Island, and the remaining one was the flagship of 5,000 stones, which was used as Zhang San's ship.

In the next month, the East China Sea was completely incorporated into Zhang San's rule, whether it was a small merchant with one or two boats, or a large fleet of more than ten ships, all of them were robbed, and with the lesson of the Zhang family, the other maritime merchants were much more obedient.

Of course, there are also those who don't open their eyes, Zhang San fired a few fire oil bombs, and they all obediently complied, and the Hangzhou Maritime Federation also tried to prevent the manpower from being cleared, but there were few responders, after all, everyone was rushing to make money, and not to fight hard.

What's more, this brotherhood is still relatively reliable, ten stones are consistent, a sea ship of five thousand stones is only five hundred yuan, this is really not much, it is really not worth risking the destruction of the ship for the sake of these five hundred yuan.

Moreover, the order flag issued by the pirates can ensure the safety of the entire route from Hangzhou to Quanzhou, and the pirates along the way have been almost cleaned up, and the road is safer, and as long as the order flag is held, the pirates of the Brotherhood will help when they encounter other pirate robberies.

Therefore, the money paid by these maritime merchants is completely cost-effective, so the road of pirate robbery of the Brotherhood is very smooth, and even the Weiyuan Dart Game, which once tied with him, will obediently pay the money, so that everyone's hearts are much more balanced.

Even in land transportation, the Weiyuan Dart Bureau will pay the thieves in various mountains to buy the road, so everyone does not feel that there is anything wrong with the matter of the Weiyuan Dart Bureau paying the pirates to buy the road.

As for the first loss of Zhangjiadao in Zhangjiadao, then the second time in the Battle of Jiushan, and finally the third loss in the destruction of the shipyard, the Zhang family was also broken after three times, especially the third time, which was all the money pieced together by various branches.

The first question to face is whether or not to engage in ocean trade, and the branches that are mainly based on fields and shops are not so supportive of continuing to do ocean trade, after all, their main income is land rent and shop management.

Maybe when they have spare money, it's not bad for them to invest a little money and share shares, but the last operation to rebuild the fleet in the shipyard has consumed a lot of their liquidity, and now if they want to participate in the shares, they have to sell or sell the shop, which is obviously not willing for them to do it.

The most supportive of continuing to engage in maritime trade are those related workshop owners, such as porcelain workshops, silk workshops, and shipbuilding-related tung oil workshops, these people rely on maritime trade to survive, and without the Zhang family's maritime trade, they will sell their goods to others at low prices.

The more neutral ones are the literati branch who use poetry and books to pass on their families, as long as the family can continue to provide them with money and food, as for whether they engage in sea trade or not, they only care about where their money and food will come from in the future.

As for the head of the family, after three losses, his prestige is no longer what it used to be, and he wants to suppress the voices of dissent, but now no one wants to listen to them, and the Zhang family is now on the verge of splitting.

In any case, if the Zhang family wants to engage in sea trade, then the Weiyuan Dart Bureau and the Brotherhood are unavoidable hurdles, first the Zhang family took the initiative to attack the Weiyuan Dart Bureau and made a feud with Weiyuan, and then the brothers attacked them inexplicably, and now they are equal to the largest escort organization and the largest pirate organization at the same time.

If the official forces were still in the Zhang family before, they would not be afraid, but now because they are on the wrong team, the officialdom and shopping malls of the Zhang family have been suppressed, and after these losses, more people are eyeing the Zhang family.

In the past, even if the Zhang family had no power in the government, but his huge fleet of sea vessels, a team of thousands of people, ordinary people really didn't dare to touch them, but now that the family is gone, the fleet is gone, and the Zhang family has changed from a hegemon to a fat in everyone's eyes.

In the end, there was no unanimity, and the group that opened the workshop began to order seagoing vessels from other shipyards for their own benefit, and then several agreed to join the fleet of the Maritime Association.

At this point, the head of the Zhang family no longer has the kind of power that responds to every call, and the Zhang family also exists in name only, and each branch sees that it does not get any benefits from the main family, and they also begin to sweep the snow in front of their own doors.

A month later, Zhang San was thinking about whether to return to Beijing for the Chinese New Year on Sea Shark Island, after all, when he came out, he came out in the name of building newspapers and branches in various places, and if he didn't go back, someone would really sue him.

Zhang San was planning to go back to Ryukyu Island first to arrange and then return to Tokyo, Ryukyu did send a clipper to inform Zhang San that he had found a copper-gold associated mine in Ryukyu, Zhang San was immediately happy, this mine was finally found, and after thinking about it, he immediately arranged for Gongsun Sheng to go to Tongling to engage a group of copper smelting craftsmen, and he would immediately meet Ryukyu.

After returning to the Ryukyus, a group of slaves were hired to do the preparatory work for mining mining, and the only dozens of people with mining experience on the island were sent to be overseers, and Zhang San ordered the marines to continue to catch slaves and prepare to use slaves to open mines.

The shipwrights and pirate families of the Zhang family on the island were sent one after another, and the population of the island finally exceeded 200,000, but 30,000 of these 200,000 people were engaged in shipbuilding-related work, plus their families were 100,000, and more than 20,000 were soldiers on ships or in the Marine Corps.

The soldiers had tax-free fields, so the increase in population did not allow Zhang San to increase much income from the field endowment, but fortunately, Zhang San also divided some fields for the families of these shipwrights, so that they could work with peace of mind and obtain a certain amount of land endowment.

For the people, there is nothing more reassuring than giving him two acres of land, and after dividing the land, the boatwrights who robbed from the Zhang family are obviously more motivated to work, and the people have settled down.

This is also the case with the families of the pirates, after getting the land, most of them will cultivate honestly, and as for those who are unwilling to farm, Zhang San has no obligation to support them.