Wen Tianxiang and Su Liu Yi talked all night, and finally reached a consensus on educating the people of Bagan, although the current Great Song Dynasty is not a state of benevolence and righteousness, but it is a family country after all. Wen Tianxiang decided to go north to Bagan to meet his teacher Jiang Wanli, not to ask for an official, but to discuss with Jiang Wanli how to improve the relationship between Song and Ming.

And Wen Tianxiang's decision inadvertently helped Lei Batian solve a small problem, and at the same time made the dream of a slave trader of Lai Bao and Lai Fu go one step further.

"Big brother, I've hired someone, there are a total of ninety-two men, although they are a little shorter, they are all quite sturdy, and they can all fight!"

On a secluded dock in Daguang Harbor, a subordinate of Lei Batian pulled more than a hundred short men less than five feet, these short men looked a little similar to Han people, and their clothes seemed to be Han style, but they were wider, and about a third of them still had a long knife stuck in their belts, which looked very discordant compared to their small people.

"What can you hold on to if you're so short?" Lei Batian sat in a shed made of bamboo and straw mats, a big pu fan in his hand snorting, but there were still beads of sweat on his head. His face was also slightly anxious, and he just shook his head when he looked at the little man who was brought in. But he didn't send these little men away, because he was very short of manpower now!

Change is always faster than planned, and Lei Batian's plan to make a big deal has not yet been realized, and a large number of his men brought out from China have already fallen ill. Although the ship can still be driven, it is not possible to make a big deal - a lucky ship can be driven by a few sailors, but to do a big business with no capital, it needs enough thugs to kill the generals, and it is not possible to have too few people.

Therefore, Lei Batian has been trafficking in food and elephants these days, and recruiting people everywhere. However, in the areas of Daguang Port, Chittagong Port and Hebian Port, the Han people are simply a rare species. And there are still a lot of forces that want to recruit them. Six of the Eight-Nation Alliances that invaded Tianzhu also included the Great Song Kingdom, as well as the Ming Strait Governor's Mansion and the Nanyang Fleet, all of which were constantly recruiting. Compared with them, Lei Batian's grass platform team is not attractive at all. So I haven't been able to recruit enough people to do a lot of work. So much so that he once moved the idea of recruiting Nanfan and Tianzhu natives. But after thinking about it carefully, he still dispelled this idea. He can still figure out who he is - he is an invader, a colonizer, how can he trust the natives? If something happens on the ship, the consequences will be terrible.

"Big brother. They are the Japanese people. The Lei Batian's subordinate reminded.

"I know, I don't know the Japanese dwarf?" Lei Batian looked disdainful, he used to run Japanese routes, so he naturally met the Japanese. These guys are all short and small, and when coolies are too weak, who will hire them when they have enough to eat?

Lei Batian's subordinates said excitedly: "There are more than two dozen people who are samurai, and the rest are experienced sailors. ”

"Samurai? It's a ronin, right? Only then did Lei Batian put away his contemptuous expression. He knew that most of the samurai in Japan had two fights, and Japan had been fighting endless civil wars over the years - it was a civil war between a group of village chiefs who believed in Heaven and Taoism and a group of village chiefs who did not believe in Heaven and Taoism, and the scale of the fight was not large. But the frequency is extremely high, so a group of samurai who are good at fighting are trained. These people may not be useful on a serious battlefield, but they are quite powerful in melee and group fights.

Lei Batian's subordinates continued: "They came from Namba with a Han merchant surnamed Wen, and originally said that they were going to buy ivory in Daguang Port and sell it in Jiangdu. Who knew that this Han merchant met a nobleman in Daguang Port and was going to be a big official in the Great Song Dynasty. So he gave them some money and gave them a boat to sail back to Japan on their own. However, the leaders of these Japanese people are all ronins who lost their master's family in the Battle of Heavenly Dao, and they have no good prospects when they return to Japan. I saw that Daguang Mansion seemed to be easy to make money here. So I wanted to find some more work to do. But they would not be separated, and ninety-two men were to be together. And they had to buy their battered galleys, so no one would hire them. The younger brother became the master, hired them all, and bought their wrecked ship......"

Lei Batian waved his hand and interrupted his subordinates' words, "Have you tried it?" ”

The subordinate nodded. "I've tried it, and I'm pretty good."

"Good!" Lei Batian raised his fan and pointed at the Japanese, "Who is the leader, is there anyone who can speak human words?" ”

Nowadays, there are a lot of Japanese samurai who can speak Chinese, and these Japanese can be hired by Wen Tianxiang. Naturally, there are people who speak Chinese. One of them, with gray hair and tanned skin, looked a bit like a native of Nanban, stepped forward and bowed: "In Shimo-Iyokono Tsuzen, he is the son of the princess of Tongxiu, and he is the leader of the people. ”

"The Kono clan? The characters of the Iyo Water Army? Lei Batian smiled and nodded.

He knew that there was a group of samurai who were active on the water in the Seto Inland Sea in Japan, called the "Seto Pirates", also known as the "Iyo Water Army". The leader of this group of water warriors took Kono as the seedling character. Like most samurai families in Japan, Kono Ichichi has been through many internal struggles, and this guy who calls himself Kono Mitsuzen may be a loser in Kono's infighting, or he may be a fake Xibei goods. But it doesn't matter to Lei Batian, as long as these people can fight and get on the ship. With the addition of these people, he has two hundred and fifty-one men under his command. There is also a fortune boat and a Japanese galley. Fukufu boats can be used offshore, while galleys have easy access to inland waterways. Now I can finally do a big job.

"Kono, do you have the courage to follow Lao Tzu to do a business without capital?" Lei Batian asked with a smile.

"Why don't you dare?" Kono Tsuzen grinned, "I'm also known as the Seto Pirates!" ”

"Okay, then you'll mess with me from now on! Come, call all the brothers! ”

Lei Batian immediately made a decision and asked his subordinates to summon all the sailors and crew members who were resting on the ship and in the shacks near the docks. The people gathered in a short time, and the two fathers and sons, Lai Bao and Lai Fu, were among them, and the two of them were now a little used to life at sea, and they would not vomit like dead fish. I got off the boat and rested for more than ten days, and now I have fully regained my strength. Hearing the boss's call, he flew and ran over.

Running to the edge of the dock, the two fathers and sons saw that Lei Batian was already neatly dressed and wearing steel armor. With a steel helmet on his head, a large horizontal knife in both hands, and a fierce face that rarely showed a solemn expression, as if something big was coming. The crew of sailors who had already arrived seemed to sense something, and everyone held their breath and did not say a word. Just looking at Lei Batian, who was wearing armor.

The father and son of the Lai family looked at each other, and they also felt that the atmosphere was not quite right. These days, in the process of getting along with the crew and sailors, they have also noticed some signs of it. This is not a ship that does business in the rules! However, the two fathers and sons who got on the thief ship didn't think about leaving, because they didn't find Lai Toad, even if Lei Batian let them go, what good place would they go in this unfamiliar place? Although Daguang Port is recruiting people everywhere, if you look at who recruits, you will know that there is no easy money to make.

"Ladies and gentlemen. There's a big deal coming to your door! Lei Batian roared, patted his breastplate and shouted, "Lei took over a big deal in the riverside port and did things for the Strait Governor's Mansion!" ”

Surely nothing good! Lai Bao's heart was pounding.

"Go around to the western part of the Hysteria in Tianzhu, harass the coast of the Delhi Sultanate, and capture the ships of the merchants of the Heavenly Sect, even the Great Food Country and the east coast of Africa. The looted things, the ships, the slaves, are ours! Lei only takes 30%. The rest is divided among the brethren! ”

Go to robbery!? Lai Bao and Lai Fu snorted coldly. This is really a head-killing business, and it is also going to other people's territory to rob and kill people. The soldiers of the Delhi Sultanate and the maritime merchants of the Heavenly Sect are easy to mess with? Don't make a fuss about stealing chickens and rice. Put your own life into it!

"Brothers, do you want to do it?" Lei Batian asked loudly.

"!"

"Fuck it!"

Lei Batian waved his hand violently and said loudly: "This is not a robbery, it is a privateer!" Fang Yumen, the governor of the strait, issued us a certificate, allowing us to deal with Delhi and Baifan maritime merchants at sea and land! Big guy just let go of his hands and feet. This. Don't break the king's law! ”

Murder and robbery are not against the king's law! Whose truth is this? Lai Bao and Lai Fu were really a little surprised. If this Lei Batian hadn't deceived people, they would not only have gotten on the thief ship this time, but also arrived in a world of bandits!

I knew that this was the case outside, so I shouldn't have come out in the first place, and I should have farmed at home. Even if you are a tenant for others?

……

"Toad, that Tianzhu woman surnamed Kafu is a beauty, right? The eyes are big, the skin is also white, and the figure is speechless, Du Shisan can't compare with her at all! Moreover, people still have a large dowry, does Du 13 have it? ”

"Toad, don't think about Du Thirteen, you're not a villain, hurry up and marry a wife. I think this girl from the Kafu family is very good, and if you marry her, you will have a good life. ”

"Toad, don't think about Du Thirteen, it's been six years since Tiandao this year, Du Thirteen is twenty-six and twenty-seven, thirty in the blink of an eye, how can there be no man? I think that's all there is to it. A sixteen-year-old woman, at the same age, is worth at least tens of thousands of yuan in marriage, if it weren't for my brother, I already had a mother-in-law, and I would like to marry her......"

Lai Bao and Lai Fu got on the thief ship, and when they were about to rob, Lai Toad was taking peach blossom luck. The beautiful lady from the big landlord's family in Tianzhu, who was born in the Brahmin caste, posted it upside down! Of course, Lai Toad has also gone up now, but he is not the bitter tenant boy of the original. Rather, it was a British aristocrat of the Brahmin caste, who owned a fief of 1,000 acres, a manor, and 20 tenants in the Tianzhu Riverside Province (near Dhaka in later generations). Moreover, he is also the second lieutenant platoon commander in the musket team of the King of Great Britain's Guards! It's already an existence that a bunch of Tianzhu untouchables need to look up to.

And now he is persuading Lai Toad to forget Du Thirteen, and it is Popi Li who is marrying the little Brahmin lady of Tianzhu as soon as possible. Compared with Lai Toad, his official fortune can only be described as prosperous. Now he is the magistrate of Hebian County, Hebian Province! And the reason why he can pay homage to the county is quite funny to say - because his skin is relatively white!

If you look white, you can be a big official? It sounds ridiculous, but that's the rule here in Tianzhu! Because their high-caste ancestors were foreign whites, they created a caste system. Over the past few thousand years, the traditional thinking of white skin and noble and black skin has been formed. If the black-faced Bao Qingtian arrives in Tianzhu, most of them won't even be able to be an official. In order to quickly stabilize his rule, Chen Huaiqing gave people a face all day during this time, and recruited his civil and military officials to Yingdu in turn to inspect them one by one.

The black face stepped aside, and the little white face was immediately promoted and made a fortune! So Lai Toad is still a platoon leader, and Popi Li is already a county parent official.

In addition, Plopie Lee also had a wife, a woman from the Polo family, named Priyankaporo, who was very beautiful, but had no dowry. Because the Polo family has been in ruins for many years after losing their royal power, they are not as rich as the local tyrants here in Bangladesh.

And the most concerned thing for parents in this county, is naturally the marriage of the "daughters". According to Chen Huaiqing's confession, if there are no married daughters in all the Tianzhu tyrants in Hebian County, it is best to find a Great British Lord as a husband for them - only in this way can the foreign British ruling group be closely integrated with the local tyrants in Tianzhu.

And this little lady of the Kafu family is the most beautiful girl in the entire riverside county, and the Kafu family is the big landlord of the riverside county. According to the rich tradition of dowry here in Tianzhu, whoever wants to marry her can fight for 20 years less. If it weren't for the good enough relationship between Splashy Li and Lai Toad, this little lady wouldn't have been able to turn Lai Toad. But after Lai Toad heard about the little lady Kaf, her brows kept frowning, as if she was not very satisfied.

"I'm not thinking about Du Shisan, I have no fate with her...... Lai Toad shook his head and sighed, "It's a matter of the family, the old lady asked someone to write a letter and send it over, saying that the family lost money by farming." My father and Ah Fu have been out to do small business, and they haven't heard from me for a long time. ”

Splashy Li sneered: "This is also a matter?" The dowry of the little lady of Kafu is the land and tenant of a village...... What a village! There are thousands of acres of land and more than 100 tenants, and there are more than 100,000 of them! Moreover, the daughters of the rich and noble families here in Tianzhu are full of jewels when they get married, and they are as luxurious as the Kafu family, and the gold brought to the bride will not be less than ten catties. You don't have to worry about money in your life! If you miss such a good thing, you will know about it, and you must be expelled from the house! (To be continued......)