Taiwan Strait, Magong Island, Penghu.

The green crescent banner of the Pujia family in Quanzhou is hunting and dancing in the sea breeze.

It was a good weather with blue sky and a slight wind. The waves gently lapped against the hulls of these large and small wooden boats, splashing the sky full of white waves.

On the main channel in the southwest of the Penghu Islands, countless wooden sailing ships are slowly coming with the breeze. Most of these sailing ships are of the shape of fortune ships, but they are very different in size, the largest ones are dozens of zhang long, have three masts, and can carry thousands of goods. The small one is only more than ten zhang, only one mast, and the load of more than 1,000 materials. However, these ships were not loaded with cargo, and the decks were crowded with sailors dressed in short clothes, their skin was tanned, showing their strong muscles, and they were either carrying broadswords or crossbows in their hands. It seems that they are all good men who do no business at sea!

Pu Shougeng and Liu Xiaoyuan are standing on an Arabian-style boat. This big ship was not built in the Southern Song Dynasty, but ordered by the Pujia Trading House in Dashi. The hull is more than 30 zhang long and has three masts with spinal soft sails. None of the sailors on the ship looked like Han Chinese. Either the white fan with a high nose and sunken eyes, or the Kunlun Nu with dark skin and a tall body, as well as the Heavenly Sect warriors from the Forty Great Families of Tianzhu (the Forty Great Families of the Delhi Sultanate). These people, without exception, worship the true god, which is the foundation of the Quanzhou Pu family's domination of the sea!

In addition, on both sides of the deck of this dhow, there are sixteen three-bow bed crossbows! In addition to the three-bow bed crossbow, the ship was also equipped with a large number of divine arm bows and heavenly thunder, and in the middle of the deck, four torsion stone generators were installed in the middle of the three masts - these were all excellent weapons from the Quanzhou Metropolitan Academy!

Pu Shougeng and Liu Xiaoyuan both craned their necks to look at the pirate ship that was slowly entering the waters of Magong Island. After a long time, they all smiled with satisfaction.

"Brother Ming Jing, you can always rest assured now, right? This time, 500 boats can always be pulled, at least they are all big ships that can carry 100 people, and the heroes at sea can have 70,000 or 80,000 if they don't have 100,000! ”

Pu Shougeng patted the railing and was really infinitely proud: "And there are eighteen Pu family spinnaker warships!" This is a real warship! Each ship had sixteen three-bowed crossbows that could carry 500 warriors...... There are a total of 9,000 people, all of whom are good at fighting at sea all year round. The Pu family spends a million copper dollars a year to feed them! ”

The core of the Pu family is the 18,000 Tianfang cultists, including experienced sailors and skilled warriors, who control about 120 dhows on the Dashi-Tianzhu-Srivijaya-Quanzhou route.

The latter drove these eighteen warships to crush any opponent who dared to challenge the Pu family's trade hegemony. Whether it is the Sriwijaya that controls the Strait of Malacca, or the Chola Kingdom (one of the Indian kingdoms) that is rampant in the Indian Ocean, there is no sea power that can wipe them out, so they can only choose to share sea power with the Pu family!

And Chen Dexing, who has built 15 large galleys and has shown signs of going to the ocean, is undoubtedly the target of the Pujia Maritime Business Group.

If Chen Dexing's navy is developed step by step, the wealth on the sea will not be monopolized by the Baifan merchants led by the Pu family.

Liu Xiaoyuan smiled faintly: "Brother Haiyun, 9,000 warriors, this is the strength of 10,000 households!" Quanzhou has a population of one million, and most of the Han marquis in the north do not have as many people as they have, let alone the financial resources of Haiyun...... If you can destroy Chen Dexing, a thief, this time, Fujian is afraid that Brother Haiyun will be respected all the way! ”

Pu Shougeng sneered: "What is the use of Fujian all the way?" The southeast coast of the Great Song Dynasty is Quanzhou, Guangzhou, Mingzhou (Qingyuanfu), and Hangzhou (Lin'an). If I can take it all, the wealth of a country will be in my hands. ”

His line of thinking is somewhat similar to that of Tran, which is to collect the wealth of a country, not necessarily to occupy all the territory and create a large and difficult bureaucracy. As long as one can occupy the richest and most important trading cities, one can extract wealth from the trade circulation and handicraft production of a country. It's much easier than extracting wealth from the countryside.

In fact, most of the colonial empires in later generations also followed this development route. Control the main transportation routes and trading cities of the colonies in order to maximize the wealth of the colonies. Then step by step, it developed and infiltrated the interior to establish a full-scale colonial rule.

In colonies where there were not many indigenous peoples, the colonists also arrived at the surface first. It is rare for anyone to take full control of the situation as soon as they come up - the cost would be too great, and the time to recoup the investment would be too slow.

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"The west wind is up!"

A lucky ship has already spread its sails and is heading east on the wind and waves. Liang Chongru, who was in a green shirt and scarf, stepped into the cabin and shouted at the old man who was drinking alcohol: "The west wind is up, the son-in-law has asked the bow of the ship, and we will be able to reach Goryeo in two days at most!" ”

Zhao Kui used the sea ships of the Xupu Navy to send Lu Zhaoqi and Liang Chongru to the east. The Xupu naval army was stationed at the mouth of the Yangtze River, and there were both river and sea boats, and they would often let the boats go to Goryeo. The upper echelons of the Xupo Navy also had contacts with the figures on the Goryeo side. This time, the person in charge of sending the down-and-out son-in-law to Goryeo was a cadre named Xu Laifa, who was the person who ran the long-distance route to Goryeo. can speak fluent Goryeo, and also know Goryeo's "Hero of the Guardian Society", the general of the Sanbei Army, and the current subordinate of Kim - of course, the general of the Sanbei Army, is also in business, and the sea trade between Goryeo and the Great Song Dynasty is controlled by the warriors on both sides. Zhao Kui, the former leader of the two Huai warriors, even met with Choi Xin, the son of the Choi clan of Goryeo (the leader of the Wuchen group).

And Lu Zhaoqi is no stranger to Goryeo, the Lu family firm also did business with Goryeo earlier, and even now, the Lu family still has a shop in the capital of Goryeo.

"Goryeo ...... The old man still has a few friends surnamed Cui in Goryeo, and I don't know what happened to them now? ”

Lu Zhaoqi was naturally very depressed, the Lin'an coup was completely unexpected, if it wasn't for Jia Yidao to tell them to flee quickly, he was afraid that he would already be Chen Jiajun's sword.

But the only ones who can run out in a hurry are Lu Zhaoqi's son-in-law and Lu Zhaoqi's daughter (Liang Chongru's wife), and several sons and nephews of the Lu family. The huge family business, dozens of concubines, and the copper in the cellar of the Lu family's mansion were all lost! As for the Lu family's fields in Lin'an Mansion and Shaoxing Mansion, they were also confiscated from the government. It's such a big family, and it's completely defeated like this. Such an encounter is somewhat similar to that of a child of the Choi family in Goryeo.

"What else can be good about the Cui family?" Xu Lai sneered, "Four generations of powerful ministers, coercing the princes of the Son of Heaven, what a scene, once the matter is defeated, it will be ruined!" ”

"I don't know when it will be the turn of the Chen family!" Lu Zhaoqi hated the authentic.

"The smart surnamed Chen did not control the power alone, but Raja seemed to say that they came out to cooperate. In this way, as long as Chen Dexing's army is undefeated, the Chen family's power in Lin'an will not fall. Liang Chongru gritted his teeth, "In this way, we won't have the days to turn over!" I hope that the Koreans can give the surname Chen a little pain. ”

Inside the cabin, everyone was silent. The strength of Goryeo can be seen by looking at their achievements against Mongolia over the years. The northern part of Goryeo fell and became the Mongol Twin Cities Governorate and Dongnyeong. The capital city of Kaegyong could not be defended, so the king and the people could only be moved to Ganghwa Island for temporary refuge - this was the result of the anti-Mongolian war when the Choi clan of Goryeo was at its strongest. And now, he simply got rid of the Cui family, who resolutely resisted Mongolia, and the whole country returned to Mongolia as a vassal. With such force, how can it resist Chen Dexing's invasion?

Xu Laifa, who accompanied Lu Jiaweng's son-in-law to the east, shook his head and said, "Actually, the Koreans may not start a war with Chen Dexing......

Liang Chongru was stunned: "How can you see it?" ”

Wen Jiu said: "The Goryeo warriors are not willing to submit to the Mongols, and the people in the Sanbei army who want to fight again have always existed. If Möngke Khan is defeated and killed, and the news of the Mongolian civil strife reaches Goryeo, maybe the Goryeo warriors will have a coup d'état, and then join forces with Chen Dexing to fight against the Mongols......"

This could be ...... It is indeed a zài! Although Chen Dexing wanted to establish a foundation in Goryeo, what he wanted was not to rule the whole of Goryeo immediately - it would be too troublesome and not profitable enough. What Chen Dexing wanted was actually to gain control of Goryeo's foreign trade, and at the same time to have the Goryeo court provide rice and strong men to his army.

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And at this moment. Qingyuan Mansion, on the pier of Dinghai Port. The craftsmen, Mingjiao, and some of the people who were coerced by the Northern Expeditionary Army, as well as the exiled prisoners, were helping the old and the young, with a small amount of belongings, and under the supervision of thousands of Northern Expeditionary Army soldiers, silently boarding the ship - when these people arrived in Dinghai, there were about 27,800, and now with the addition of the craftsmen and people who were coerced in Dinghai, the total number has exceeded 70,000!

In addition, all the sea ships belonging to Arab merchants and the Great Song Dynasty in Dinghai Port were captured by the Northern Expeditionary Army with people and ships, with a total of more than 1,000 ships! There were also more than 100 merchant ships of the Huang family accompanying them -- due to the success of the coup d'état in Lin'an, the Huang family was not wanted by the imperial court, so naturally all the ships that could be mobilized could be transferred to the seaport.

In addition, Wang Zisheng also brought a lot of ship bandit pirate warships, most of which were relatively strong and seaworthiness ships, a total of 16 ships, and there were more than 3,000 sailors and pirates on board, all of whom joined the Northern Expeditionary Army and formed the Right Army of the Northern Expeditionary Navy. Wang Zisheng served as the commander of the right army of the navy.

With the addition of these 3,000 people, the number of the Northern Expeditionary Army concentrated in Dinghai has exceeded 26,000! Counting the people who were coerced, the total number of soldiers and civilians who will go to Jeju Island by sea and land has exceeded 100,000! The materials that need to be carried on the ship are piled up! Therefore, the whole boarding process is also very slow, and it takes several days and nights to complete! R1152