Unfortunate things have happened to these rescued people, but now that they have been rescued by the officers and soldiers, the whole atmosphere is a little lighter. However, there are exceptions.

A woman in her early 20s, with a good posture and a tall figure, but with a numb expression, walked up to Zhu Houwei, did not salute, and asked directly in a cold voice, "Lord Wang, I don't know where I will be sent tomorrow?" ”

Zhu Houwei looked at her, and his heart was a little sour, thinking of the women who were robbed by pirates, many of them were ruined, and it was a little difficult to deal with these people. So he said to the woman, "How about sending you back to your hometown?" The woman smiled miserably, "The family is gone, is it still a home?" ”

The crowd around them quieted down, and the conversation between the woman and Zhu Houwei brought back their sad memories. The tragedy happened just a few days ago, and many people began to cry.

Zhu Houwei continued to ask, "Then do you still have relatives?" We can send you to relatives so that you can be taken care of. The woman's face was expressionless, her eyes were empty, she looked at the flat ground in front of her, and muttered, "I can't go back, I can't go back." ”

Several women around cried out loud, and the miserable cry made many people lose their minds to eat, and involuntarily put down the food in their hands and began to wipe their red eyes. Yang Xiaonu also had red eyes and sobbed quietly. Although she was not ruined, her family died at the hands of pirates, and without her family, she was homeless. Wu Yiheng held her little hand, Yang Xiaonu was about to struggle, but when he saw Wu Yiheng's warm eyes, his face was blushing and he let it go.

Zhu Houwei thought for a while and said, "Girl, it's better to be like this." I will send you to Tianjin, or the capital, and let you work in Huangzhuang, there is still a shortage of military doctors and nurses in the water and land camps, if you are interested, you can learn this. There is a monthly payment every month, and you can support yourself on your own. ”

After hearing this, the woman was incredulous at first, and smiled sadly, "Yes, if I become a military prostitute, I will make the best use of it, hehe." The soldiers behind were all anxious, and they scrambled to say, "Girl, you misunderstood." A military doctor is a military doctor, and nothing else. "Yes, girl, you don't know, the military doctors of our land and water battalion are respected." "That is, if you are injured on the battlefield, with a military doctor, you can hurry up, but without a military doctor, maybe a small injury will become a major injury, and a major injury will become a fatal injury, but you can't be careless."

Zhu Houwei didn't say anything, just looked at the woman with a smile, and the woman asked in disbelief, "Really?" Zhu Houwei nodded, "There are so many people, it is impossible to lie to you." In a few days, the military camp of the Tianjin water and land camp will come. Yes or no, you can ask for yourself. Also, if you don't want to do this, you can find something else. Huangzhuang is different from other places, and women can also work and support themselves. ”

The woman couldn't help but be a little stupid when she heard Zhu Houwei's words, she never thought that a woman could show up without being talked about, does such a life really exist?

Zhu Houwei saw that the woman was in a daze, and asked, "Girl, I don't know what to call after talking for so long." My name has just been said. ”

The woman came back to her senses, some believed Zhu Houwei, blessed a blessing, and said flatly, "Folk girl Tie Xiulian." Zhu Houwei nodded, "Iron girl, tomorrow we will send you to Changshan Island first, which is the Dengzhou Naval Division." When they got there, the Iron Maiden asked the big guy to see if anyone else was willing to go to the Imperial Village together. It is not the first time that Huangzhuang has come to Shandong to recruit workers, and I believe that many people have also heard that as long as they are willing to work hard, it is not a problem to eat and dress warmly. ”

Tie Xiulian seemed to suddenly remember something, "Huangzhuang?" Yes, the folk girls have heard it too. In that case, the maiden went and asked. ”

Wu Yiheng said to Yang Xiaonu, "Little slave, why don't you also help the Iron Maiden." Yang Xiaonu nodded with a red face and followed Tie Xiulian.

Zhu Houwei's words were heard by the people around them, and they also felt new hope. In the past two years, the reputation of Huangzhuang has become bigger and bigger, and Shandong is the place where Huangzhuang recruits the most workers, and many people have heard of it. If you enter the Huangzhuang, you can live a honey-like life, this is their inner thought. Many of them are military families along the Shandong coast, and there are a small number of civilian households, but their lives are generally poor, and it is a good choice to go to Huangzhuang.

After dinner, in a wooden house on the island, Zhu Houwei and the others were discussing the next action. Wu Yiheng said, "Now the large army of pirates is near the mouth of the Shahe River, if we can sneak up on it, the chances are very high. Zhu Yuan had a different opinion, "The sea is unobstructed, and it is very difficult to sneak attack, and when our ship arrives there, the pirates will be ready." In terms of speed, we only have one Longjiang that is relatively fast, and the other ships are basically the same as the pirates. This summer is usually a southerly wind, and when the time comes, they sail northeast, and we can leave a few after all. In the event of a night attack, kerosene lamps should be placed on the ship, otherwise we ourselves will be in danger. But there is a lamp lit in the night, and you can see it from afar. ”

After Zhu Houwei heard this, he was noncommittal, turned his head to Guo Chengzhi and said, "What did today's captive ask?" Guo Chengzhi immediately replied, "Second young master, there is a captive named Yuan Cheng who has explained a lot of things, do you want him to come and talk about it?" ”

Zhu Houwei nodded, "Okay." After a while, Lao Yuan was led into the wooden house. Around 40 years old, he looks ordinary, but he is relatively calm. Guo Chengzhi smiled and said to Lao Yuan: "This is His Royal Highness King Fu." "Old Yuan immediately knelt down" The criminal Yuan Cheng knocked to see the prince. Zhu Houwei said lightly: "Get up and speak." What is the situation with this group of pirates? Yuan Cheng stood up and spoke eloquently.

It turned out that the pirates who came this time were not one group, but two together. One of the Han people belonged to the great pirate Wang Quan. Wang Quan is a native of Zhelin, She County, Huizhou Prefecture, Nanzhili, and is in his early 40s. At sea, he is a half-merchant and half-thief. At the age of 19, he followed Hui merchant Xu Li, and Miao Siyuan's caravan went to sea, basically going back and forth between Hangzhou and Japan. When he was 25 years old, Xu Miao and his wife offended a maritime merchant in Hangzhou, first bankrupt their family through officialdom, and then sent a sea ship to plunder their sea ship. Wang Quan was already the owner of a No. 2 fortune ship, and he fled ahead of time when he saw that something was wrong.

His identity didn't attract anyone's attention, so he relied on a lucky boat to set up his own door. In order to develop his power rapidly, he not only did business, but also began to rob small boat owners, which developed rapidly. By the age of 30, he had already become a famous pirate. In Japan, because Wang Quan sold many prohibited materials, he quickly gained the attention of the daimyo Shimazu family. Carve out a clearing on Taneseed Island for him to dock and rest.

This time I went to sea to plunder the population and build a large number of buildings. Tanegashima was given by the Shimazu family to the retainer Tanegashima Mezuki, because the Shimazu family valued the fire, copper, iron and other materials brought by Wang Quan more, Tanegashima Megumi was very suppressed by Wang Quan, and some time ago a large vacant land was assigned to Wang Quan again, let Wang Quan manage it himself. Due to the small population, Wang Quan had this operation.

Wang Quan had an inside line in Liujiazhai near the mouth of the Shahe River in Dengzhou, and he heard that the prefect and others were preparing to carry out activities, so he happened to kill three birds with one stone. But Wang Quan himself knew that there had been many enemies over the years, and if he sent a large army to lose in Shandong, he would have to run away. Not to mention far away, Megumi Tanegashima, who has been forbearing, will definitely come out and destroy himself. Just in case, Yang En, who is nicknamed Wu Xiucai, was dispatched. took a small half of his own power to do business.

But this is more than 300 people, which is really not safe. What to do, so I found the first pirate who was rampant in Korea and the coast of Japan, and came to the island to Suojing.

This person has a lot of influence in Japan, and he has a base of his own, that is, the Goto Islands. There are nearly 20,000 people under his jurisdiction, and just looking at the power, he can be regarded as a foreign name. He had one of Japan's largest sea fleets, and he did business with several daimyos, robbing the coast of Korea and some coastal areas of Japan, and no one could cure him.

He has also heard of the wealth of the Ming Dynasty for a long time, and the Ming maritime merchants who were robbed and killed by him have also said it. I just know that Daming is vast and has a large population, so I have some scruples in my heart. After Wang Quan came to discuss with him, he hit it off, so he sent pirates to do this business jointly.

In Lao Yuan's mouth, he learned that all the forces of Wang Quan were 1 Dafu ship, 6 No. 2 Fu boats, and about 100 Cangshan ships and Haicang ships. It's a relatively powerful pirate.

Zhu Houwei listened and continued to ask about the origin of Lao Yuan. Lao Yuan sighed and began to talk about his past. Lao Yuan was a native of Quanzhou and a small boat owner, traveling between Fujian and Japan. When he went to Japan 6 years ago, he was robbed by Wang Quan, but Wang Quan saw that he was good and stayed. Wang Quan did not have qualified maritime merchants in his own team, and every time he did business with the Shimadzu family and Hangzhou merchants, he always felt that he had lost money. It happened that during that time, Wang Quan began to collect maritime merchants for his own use, so he left Lao Yuan. In order to cut off Lao Yuan's back road, he sent someone ashore to kidnap Lao Yuan's family and prepare to take it to Tanegashima. Unfortunately, there was a storm on the way, and the ship sank. Speaking of this, Lao Yuan couldn't help choking, and several people who listened to the story also sighed and expressed regret.

Old Yuan Qiang made a smile and asked, "I don't know what else the prince wants to ask?" Zhu Houwei smiled and said, "No, I will come to you again if I want to ask in the future, you go to rest first." After Lao Yuan left, Zhu Houwei asked Chengzhi how Lao Yuan was.

Guo Chengzhi replied with a smile: "This old Yuan is good, he didn't touch the woman he snatched this time." The pirates deliberately gave only a small amount of food to these people so that they would not resist violently. At night, Lao Yuan stole a lot of food and gave it to these people as much as he could. Several girls were almost ruined, but Lao Yuan stopped them by virtue of his qualifications and some excuses. ”

Zhu Houwei nodded: "Then what will he do?" Guo Chengzhi said with a smile: "Those of the merchants, Wang Quan's many accounts are calculated by him." He also came forward to negotiate business with businessmen. The most important thing is that he can speak Japanese, and he speaks quite slippery. Kanto dialect, Kansai dialect, and some Japanese dialects are basically possible. The real widows captured this time all relied on him as an interpreter. Speaking of which, among this group of pirates, Lao Yuan is not the only one who is clean and self-conscious, and the first true widow who surrendered is called Ono Xingji also behaved very well. He said that he was a pirate to find the head of the house named Saeki or something. He agreed with Wang Quan that as long as he found the whereabouts of the head of the family, he would immediately go to serve the head of the family, and it was quite a matter of meaning about Yun Chang and Cao Cheng's appointment in the three chapters of the law. Zhu Houwei also smiled.

There are too many scorpions on the island, and they will drill into the pile of people at night, so Zhu Houwei ordered to transfer the people to the boat to rest, and at dawn tomorrow, the people and materials will be sent to Changshan Island first.

(Ask for collections, ask for recommendations, I hope you will be able to see the officials.) ）