After selling the goods at a high price, the owner Fu Chun was extremely happy and began to announce the rewards for the crew.

In fact, the crew of the Fuchun has no salary, and the main source of their income is the profit brought by the sale of the goods they carry, and the second is in the event of a battle, for example, this time in the sea off Zhoushan, the owner Fu Chun will give a reward, everyone has a reward of silver, and those who have won it will add silver.

Because he made a lot of money, Fu Chun was in a good mood, and generously announced that each crew member would be rewarded with fifty taels of silver, and another fifty taels would be added for killing a pirate.

Ren Siqi killed two pirates with a musket in the battle, so he received a total of one hundred and fifty taels of silver, plus the money earned from selling the silk, he was surprised to find that he had a huge sum of nearly three hundred taels of silver.

Among the crew, Mao Eighteen killed the most pirates, and he killed three pirates by himself. And then there is Ren Siqi, this is what all the crew members didn't expect, with a rusty broken musket, a powerless Xiucai actually killed two pirates! However, when Ren Siqi killed the pirate, everyone saw it, and Ren Siqi had successfully won the favor of all the crew members these days, and they had already accepted him as one of their members, so no one would be jealous in their hearts.

Even Xiong Er killed a pirate, although he was not killed on the spot, but the credit was also credited to him. Counting even the reward for killing pirates, Xiong Er actually got a reward of one hundred taels of silver, which made Xiong Er happy, not to mention one hundred taels, he has not even had a tael of silver in everyone since he was a child.

After the announcement, Fu Chun called Ren Siqi to the cabin alone.

Ren Siqi looked at Fu Chun quietly, knowing that he must have something important to say to himself.

"You have a lot of credit for coming to Manila this time," Fu Chun carefully considered the words, "Since the death of the Qian Cai Vice-Chancellor in the naval battle, you have managed the cargo on the ship, and this transaction with the Spaniards is also thanks to you." Therefore I will give you three thousand taels of silver as a reward. ”

Three thousand taels of silver, Ren Siqi was stunned all of a sudden, this is a very large amount of money, but he didn't do anything, why did Fu Chun give himself so much silver?

"I, I want to know why." Ren Siqi swallowed his saliva and said with difficulty: "Although I have done some things on the ship, it is not worth so much silver. ”

Fu Chun was very satisfied to see that Ren Siqi could still stay calm in the face of such a huge amount of money, and said slowly: "Xiucai, you are a scholar and a smart person. I don't want a third person to know anything about this transaction, especially the price at which the raw silk was sold. ”

"I wouldn't tell anyone else." Ren Siqi hurriedly made a guarantee: "But I can't ask for this money." "Three thousand taels of silver, Ren Siqi feels really prickly when he holds it.

"Take it, you're a well-known scholar, unlike those rough guys out there. They're just a life in the waves, and you'll be flying one day. Fu Chun said.

"But, I still don't think what I'm doing here is worth so much money." Ren Siqi was still a little uneasy.

"It's nothing worthless, if Qian Lun is still alive, it's too little to give him so much." Fu Chun said lightly: "But there is one thing you must remember, when he returns to Hangzhou one day, anyone asks about the price of this transaction, and you tell them that the raw silk is two hundred and thirty taels of silver!" ”

Ren Siqi immediately understood that the reason why Fu Chun gave him so much silver was to block his mouth! The cargo on this ship was only forty percent of Fu Chun's, and the other sixty percent belonged to the Hangzhou prefect behind him. The average price of raw silk this time was 480 taels of silver per load, but he reported 230 taels to the prefect of Hangzhou, and the extra silver naturally fell into Fu Chun's pocket.

Qian Lun, the deputy of finance, is dead, and the only person who knows the details is himself. The three thousand taels of silver are the hush money for himself.

Fu Chun earned at least 150,000 taels of silver in this trade, so it seems that the three thousand taels allocated to himself is not too much. Ren Siqi knew that he couldn't refuse, if he didn't want the three thousand taels of silver, maybe he would get the same fate as the financial deputy Qian Lun and be wiped out!

"Thank you, owner." Ren Siqi hurriedly made a look of gratitude, "Everything is up to the owner, and he will never talk nonsense." ”

Knowing that Ren Siqi understood what he meant, Fu Chun nodded with satisfaction.

"Uncle, why did you give him so much silver? Isn't it a hundred times if I do him? A small door in the bulkhead opened, and Fu Bin walked out with a knife. If Ren Siqi didn't react right, Fu Chun would give an order, and Fu Bin would rush out of the secret door and kill Ren Siqi on the spot.

"This show is a talent, it's a pity to kill it." Fu Chun said, "What's more, it's easy to kill people, but it's difficult to block everyone's mouth, what do you think of killing him, what do you think of the other brothers on the ship?" ”

"I'm going to retire when I go ashore this time, and this ship will be handed over to you later, but can you do it alone? Without the help of these brothers, can you play alone? This show has won the hearts of the brothers on the ship, and everyone thinks of him as good, and he can't be killed. ”

"Uncle, I know, I will reuse him in the future." Fu Bin hurriedly made a guarantee.

"Reuse him?" Fu Chun smiled suddenly, "Did you surrender him?" Xiucai is an ambitious person, if you look at his eyes carefully, he will always shine brightly, such a person will not be under others for a long time, if he is on the ship for a long time, sooner or later all the brothers will face him, and he will replace you sooner or later. ”

Fu Bin was almost stunned by Fu Chun's left and right, neither killing him nor daring to use him, what should I do?

"With these three thousand taels of silver, he has the capital to start a business, you see, when he returns to the shore, he will part ways with us, so there is no future, he will not return to our ship." Fu Bin said.

"This Xiucai is still a righteous person, his starting capital is given by us, he will read our good, if you have trouble asking him in the future, he may help you."

Of course, Ren Siqi didn't know Fu Chun's uncle's calculations, and he didn't know that he almost walked around the ghost gate, and at this time he was excited, excited about the three thousand taels of silver he was about to have.

With this money, you can do a lot of things yourself, you can buy a boat, go to sea to do business on your own, and you don't have to rely on others anymore.

In a few years, the Qing soldiers will enter the customs and go south. At that time, the entire Jiangnan will become a battlefield, and the lives will be ruined.

Ren Siqi doesn't want to be a slave of the Manchu Qing Dynasty with a pig's tail on his head, in the troubled times, it is the time to make meritorious contributions, and with his own power, he can just make a vigorous male career, even if he can't drive the Manchu Qing out of China, he can also sail out to sea and be at ease!