After the corpses of the pirates on the deck were thrown into the sea and cleaned up, Jia Youshi and Wu Dayou also came to report in surprise. It turned out that when the pirate cabin was cleared, not only did twenty or thirty pirates be captured, but also a large number of silver ingots, as well as a lot of Korean ginseng and deer antler velvet.

Wu Dayou shouted in surprise: "My lord." In addition to a large amount of grain and water, there were also half a boatload of silver ingots and a dozen stone people involved in the antler velvet. ”

Jia Youshi was also pleasantly surprised: "It's the same with this ship here, there is a lot of silver and more than a dozen stone people involved in the antlers. ”

Wu Tianxiao was also overjoyed when he heard this, so he asked Wu Dayou to lead the way to check. When a few people arrived in the cabin, Wu Tianxiao saw that the big ship turned out to be a sealed cabin sea vessel, and his heart was first overjoyed. Then he opened the sealed cabin at the bottom of the boat to check, only to see that the cabin was full of boxes of silver, at least hundreds of boxes, Wu Tianxiao tried the weight, each box was at least one or two hundred catties, and there were more than a dozen stones of deer antler velvet and ginseng. Everyone was red when they saw it, and the silver alone was at least hundreds of thousands of taels in a boat. The smaller pirate ship, even if it was less, would not be a minority.

Wu Tianxiao saw that it was definitely not an ordinary thing to have so much silver, so he asked Wu Dayou and Jia Youshi to send people to guard the bilge of the ship, and no one was allowed to go down. Then he went to the prisoner's place. Wu Tianxiao originally wanted to interrogate the captives first to see if he could get some information. But now people are at sea, and there are a lot of supplies on all four ships, and this area is a route infested by pirates and pirates, which is very dangerous, so you can't stay at sea for a long time. After interrogating the captives, there was a small pirate leader named Shen Nanshan, and then he tied up all the 71 pirates who were captured and guarded them in four ships.

Then Wu Tianxiao asked Wu Dayou to take thirty old sailors and thirty people to control the big pirate ship. Let Chen Minxin also take thirty old sailors and thirty Minzhuang to control the small pirate ship. Jia Youshi took thirty old sailors and thirty Minzhuang to control the Zhenyuan. Wu Tianxiao himself took forty sailors and the remaining thirty or so people to control the expedition. Then the four ships were connected by ropes, the Expedition was the first, the Great Pirate was bolted to the back, then the Zhenyuan, and finally the Little Pirate Ship, each with a dozen grenades on its guard. Then one boat after another dragged each other, taking advantage of the good wind direction, and the group sailed to Dongfan Island.

It is not a good way to use ropes to pull each other on a sea boat, but there are not many experienced old sailors nowadays, so they can only do things in a hurry. Fortunately, every time Wu Tianxiao goes to sea, he chooses a beautiful day, so in the end, he still returned to Wujiazhai without danger.

After returning to Wujiazhai. After counting, the silver carried by Wang Zhi was as high as nearly one million taels. There are also eleven stones of deer antler velvet and fifteen stones of ginseng. Although there was a grenade raid in this battle, there were still casualties, mainly Jia Youshi's crew members, a total of six killed and eighteen wounded.

In order not to let the casualties affect everyone's morale, after the looted property was counted, Wu Tianxiao ordered the silver to be divided. There were a total of 150 sailors on this voyage, each of whom was divided into 200 taels for a total of 30,000 taels. There were one hundred and twenty-five people who came with them, and each of them was divided into one hundred taels for a total of 12,500 taels. Even the more than 100 shipwrights and their families who came with him, Wu Tianxiao also gave them 2,000 taels, which is based on the principle of sharing difficulties and blessings. Although the boatwright's family members are the ones who are protected, this reward can inspire solidarity in the future.

Then came the forty or so grenade soldiers, each with an additional reward of 500 taels, for a total of more than 20,000 taels, because grenade soldiers are an important force in battle. Although Wu Tianxiao was training, everyone had to train to use grenades. But when it comes to real combat, only the most skilled and psychologically qualified people are selected as grenade soldiers. Keep in mind that the grenade only has about three seconds to explode after it is ignited. Once you panic, not only will you not be able to blow up your opponent, but you will also cause great damage to yourself. Moreover, there are wind and waves at sea, and the vibration caused by the collision of ships is very large. Therefore, not everyone can be a grenade soldier when fighting pirates and pirates. Since the grenade soldier has the most merit, he also has the most rewards.

At the same time, due to the additional amount of capture, there is also an additional reward for those who hack pirates to death in the battle. A reward of 500 taels for each pirate was given for hacking to death, and more than 30,000 taels were divided. And six people died in the battle, and each of them was given a pension of 1,000 taels or 6,000 taels. Eighteen injured were compensated 100 taels each, totaling 1,800 taels. Jia Youshi divided another 2,000 taels as the leader, Wu Dayou and Chen Minxin each 1,500 taels, and Tan Lun 500 taels. In the end, the guards also shared the reward. Jiang Zhuang, Chen Minzhi, and Yang Hongju each had 1,500 taels. Two hundred guards, each of whom counted 20,000 taels for one hundred taels.

This time, there were many seizures, and there were many rewards, with a total reward of more than 100,000 taels of silver, which was also as Wu Tianxiao said at the beginning, and one-fifth of the seized will be rewarded. This kind of behavior of talking counts makes everyone admire Wu Tianxiao. After the reward, Wu Tianxiao asked Wu Dayou to lead people to build some more temporary grass sheds. Because the number of immigrants from Zhoushan will gradually increase in the future, it is necessary to resettle temporary camping places for everyone.

In this way, everyone settled down in Wujiazhai, but at this time, the number of people in Wujiazhai increased a lot, and it was a little messy. Besides, Wujiazhai is also a village built on the plain, surrounded by farmland, which can be used as a farm or village. But if you're hoarding supplies, it's not an ideal place to be safe. This made Wu Tianxiao want to find a suitable place to build a new and larger village or town.

However, at this time, Wu Tianxiao, as an outstanding special soldier in later generations, had a keen intuition that it was absolutely unusual for him to have so much silver on Wang Zhi's ship. So Wu Tianxiao took Tan Lun, Wu Dayou, and Niu Daohui to re-interrogate those prisoners.

Shen Nanshan was the highest-ranking person in this group of captives, and the others obviously didn't know as much as him, so at this time, Shen Nanshan was escorted to Wu Tianxiao. During the interrogation, Shen Nanshan expressed his willingness to surrender and made everything about Wang Zhi clear.

It turned out that Wang Zhi and fellow villagers Xu Dong, Ye Zongman, Li Guangtou, and Shen Nanshan partnered with fellow villagers Xu Dong, Ye Zongman, and Shen Nanshan to smuggle nitrate yellow and silk cotton in Guangdong, and then sold them to Fusang, so the profits were extremely high. But soon Wang Zhi became acquainted with the Fusang Ronin and colluded with the Fusang Ronin to rob passing merchant ships. and does not distinguish between good and evil, kills like hemp, from the beginning of private businessmen to both business and theft. This led to internal discord among the group.

Xu Dong, Shen Nanshan and others thought that smuggling commercial goods and selling prohibited goods could already obtain very large profits, and there was no need to kill people and intercept goods. colluding with the Fusang Ronin to become a Japanese Bandit, and even more so on the charge of colluding with Fanyi, so sorry for the ancestors and ancestors.

However, Wang Zhi believes that smuggling contraband is a capital crime, and killing people and intercepting goods is also a capital crime. One crime is dead, and ten sins are also death, so it's better to get rid of it and do a big job. In this way, there is discord among the people, and there is discord. However, because Wang Zhi colluded with the Fusang Ronin, his strength increased greatly, and Li Guangtou, Yan Laoshan and others helped him. Shen Nanshan and Xu Dong couldn't resist at all, so they had to go all the way to the dark and followed them to become pirates. And Wang Zhi also became the leader of this nest of pirates, and he was respected in everything, and everyone did not dare to object.