"Master Hou, fortunately, it is not yet April, and the sea breeze has not yet been oriented, if we wait until May enters the summer, we can only rely on the flywheel if we want to travel southeast. [No pop-up novel network]"

The ship became eleven at once, and the four brothers of the Lu family also dispersed to become captains, and the Black Pearl was the flagship and had to play the role of pilot, so the captain of this ship was also served by the most shrewd Lu Renyi.

"That's why you have to rush to work, if you can only go against the wind, then it won't take a month or two on the road?" Xie Hong smiled.

"Brother Xie, after talking for so long, you haven't told so-and-so, where are we going? Do you have any marks on this chart? ”

When he set off, he was very excited, but after floating on the sea for a few days, Scarface felt a little bored, and he was idle to either practice martial arts, or to pass the time by watching Xie Hong's charts, and sometimes pestering Ma Ang to tell stories. At this time, he took the map to study it again, and when he heard the conversation between Lu Renyi and Xie Hong, he also interjected.

"There are marks on it, but this map is not a nautical chart, the scale is not accurate, and there is no route, at most it is just a schematic map." It's hard to say far away, but Xie Hong can still remember the general geography of China's coastal waters, especially the East China Sea, and the general situation of the map he drew is still in line, he pointed to the map and explained:

"Let's go southeast first, and when we reach North Korea, we turn south along the coastline...... Finally, arrive here as a transit. As he spoke, he pointed to a small island in the southernmost part of the Korean Peninsula.

"Jeju Island?" Jiang Bin and the others had not heard of this famous place in later generations, but Xie Hong indicated it on the map. Jiang Bin scratched his head and asked, "Is there anything good on this?" ”

"I don't know what there is, but the location of this island is very good, since it is the territory of the North Koreans, it is estimated that the guards will not be very strong, let's directly defeat them and occupy this place first."

He only knew that the northeast of this island was Tsushima Island, the east was the Kyushu Island of the Japanese Kingdom, and the north was the Korean Peninsula.

"With this foothold, we can continue to develop eastward and occupy this place as a base camp." Xie Hong pointed to the map again.

"Goto Islands?" No one has ever heard of Jeju Island, and no one knows about the Godo Islands.

"Well, actually......" Xie Hong nodded, pointed to the map, and began to talk about his strategy in the East China Sea.

He couldn't remember the specific information clearly, but Xie Hong remembered that there was such a poem in the Song Dynasty: The north wind sails to the south, and the distant things come to the merchant Jia Le, which is about maritime trade.

In summer and winter, the monsoon over the sea is directional, with strong northeasterly winds blowing from November onwards and southeasterly winds in May and June. In the poem, it is said that it is a route to the South Seas, east to Xia Hui; And those who went to the Wa Kingdom were just the opposite, Xia went to the east.

Because of the monopoly of the sea trade with the Japanese state, Jiangnan has a situation where the world is rich, and what Xie Hong wants to do is not to compete with them for the benefits of sea trade, but to act as a pirate and completely cut off the route from Jiangnan to the Japanese country. Therefore, he had to set sail before May, and if he could not reach the Japanese kingdom as soon as possible, Zhengde's two-year operation would have failed.

As far as Xie Hong knows, there are two routes from Jiangnan to Wakoku, one is to the north through the Ryukyus to South Kyushu Island, this route is similar to the route to Jeju Island planned by Xie Hong, there are many stops on the way, the risk is small, and the voyage is also long.

Because of these drawbacks, with the improvement of navigation technology and the profit-seeking of capital, another route came into being. Compared to the one that passes through the Ryukyu Islands, this route is much more daring, and it is a direct route across the ocean, starting from the Zhoushan Islands outside Hangzhou Bay and ending at the Goto Islands in Kitakyushu.

Xie Hong was actually not sure what the name of the Goto Islands at this time was, and many later sources said that the Goto Islands were named after the later great pirate Wang Zhi, and the nickname of this great pirate who roamed the East China Sea was 'Wufeng Island Master', and his base was also the Goto Islands.

As long as the route from Wudao to Zhoushan is cut off, then at least this year, Jiangnan's maritime trade will suffer a major setback.

As for whether they will turn to the original Ryukyu route next year, Xie Hong doesn't care, anyway, the other party is doing trade, he is a pirate, and the initiative is in his own hands. Besides, Kyushu Island is not small, and with this year's accumulation, the size of the fleet will be further expanded next year, so why is it difficult to cover the entire East China Sea at that time?

Jeju Island was the first foothold he had in mind, and the Goto Islands was the second.

"Uh, Brother Xie, do you mean that we are building ports and ships in Lushun, not to open up sea trade, but to continue to rob at sea?" Maang asked hesitantly. Well, isn't that what it means to cut off the route? Someone robbed him, and after a long time, no one dared to pass.

"Yes, Lushun is a military port, and there is nothing worth trading in Liaodong ...... on a large scale."

Liaodong is rich in products, but it has not yet entered the industrial age, there is no market for iron ore, coal and oil, and the profit margin of ginseng and fur is far less than that of silk and tea.

What's more, the Jiangnan people have been in business for so long, and the channels in the Wa Kingdom must have been opened up very well, so why should Xie Hong compete with them? Then there is the possibility that the other side may also carry out sabotage.

Wang Zhi's starting history Xie Hong is not clear, but he can be sure that the so-called pirates in this era were originally thugs raised by large families in the south of the Yangtze River.

Xie Hong was honest in Liaodong's farming, but as a result, the scholars and doctors adopted an embargo on Liaodong, if he did his duty to do trade, then what was the surprise of the swarming of pirates?

Therefore, Xie Hong simply went straight to the point in one step, he started as a pirate himself, and then slowly cleared his name when he defeated the maritime trade in Jiangnan.

"Therefore, Lushun only needs to build warships, and then our task is to be pirates, grab money, ships, and islands, and completely control the East China Sea." Xie Hong waved his hand and directly summarized the strategic goals into slogans, and shouted loudly.

"Oh! Grab money, grab ships, grab islands, and dominate the East China Sea! Ma Ang has a psychological barrier to robbery, but Scarface and the others, as well as the Lu family brothers, are all characters who are afraid that the world will not be chaotic, and when they heard this slogan, they all roared loudly with enthusiasm.

"Brothers, put up our flag!" Xie Hong waved his hand again, and then shouted proudly: "Sing with me, we are pirates, fierce pirates, pirates who are ordered to rob......"

"We are pirates, ferocious pirates, pirates who ransack you......"

After several days of suffocation at sea, everyone was holding their breath uncomfortably, and this catharsis was at the right time, and the rough singing spread from the Black Pearl, and finally the whole fleet sang along.

"Hand over your money, hand over your boat, and kill all those who dare to resist......" Xie Hong's improvised words, as a result, everyone roared with relish, and the faces of those who participated in the Liaodong sweep even had a look of aftertaste, obviously remembering the happy memories of the past.

"Crazy, all crazy......" Maang shook his head and sighed, as the only literate man in the fleet, he felt dizzy, and when he saw the flag hanging on the mast, he could only choke speechlessly.

What the hell is this? A skull is painted on the black flag, and underneath the skull is a crossed sword...... It seems that Brother Xie has been planning for a long time, and maybe the day he beats him out of Beijing, he will already have this idea.

…… Cheju.

It was a famous tourist area in later generations, but in the Ming Dynasty and even earlier in the Yuan Dynasty, it was a place where Joseons exiled prisoners, similar to Qiongzhou in the Song Dynasty, and I don't know if the Koreans did so according to the allusions of the Song Dynasty.

Of course, in addition to following the example of Huaxia, there are also practical reasons. That is, this place is too close to Wajima, and the inhabitants of Wajima are similar to the grassland peoples, and they also pursue the principle of grabbing if they don't have any.

And although they and their descendants did not admit it, North Korea was indeed known for its thin skin and meat, so since it could not resist the invasion of the Japanese invaders, Jeju Island had to be abandoned.

Since it was a place of exile, of course it would not be very prosperous, and there were troops stationed on it, but it was not very strong, because there were no security worries here.

The Japanese were fierce but not stupid, and preferred to cross the Tsushima Strait to the more fertile Jeolla and Gyeongsang provinces, which are the richest places in Korea and a good place to raid homes and houses, rather than the barren Jeju Island.

There are also some poor and crazy Japanese who will come to Jeju, but the number is usually not too large, and the garrison army in Jeju can handle it.

Now that it's May, the ships of the Ming Kingdom must also be heading in the direction of the Wa Kingdom, and the robbers of the Wa Kingdom have no time to spare, so how can they come to Jeju Island?

At least, that's what Choi Dae-byung, the commander of the Jeju garrison, thought so.

In this era, North Korea imitated the Ming Dynasty everywhere, and the official system was the same, for example, the six Cao in the small court were similar to the six departments of the Ming Dynasty, and the military system was the same.

Don't look at the word, it's quite big, in fact, the so-called 10,000 households are similar to the 1,000 households of the Ming Army, or 100 households. The Joseon Dynasty implemented a system of separation of soldiers and generals, with no fixed generals and no fixed soldiers, similar to a reserve army that served in turns, but a non-reserve army.

Compared with the military household system of the Ming Dynasty, the military system of North Korea has gone a step further in restricting military generals, and the result is, of course, that the combat effectiveness of the army is even lower.

Therefore, Choi Wanhu, who has no power, has always been in a bad mood when he was kicked to Jeju Island, and the work of guarding prisoners is not only oily and watery, but also risky, and it is really not done by people.

And what are you afraid of, what else is coming.

(To be continued)