Chapter 16: Liu Xiang's Future
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Monday, October 30, 1628.
At night, the small fishing village, which had been renamed "Pearl Island", was brightly lit, and after a new day of construction work, thousands of pirates and hundreds of local pirate families were taken by the Chinese and American Army officers and soldiers to the former refugee camp at the back of the village.
The Foreign Legion, the Wehrmacht outside, several organ machine guns were pulled to the edge of the scene, and thousands of soldiers, all armed with live ammunition and bayonets, stood in a large hollow phalanx, surrounded by thousands of local pirates who thought they had just eaten a severed meal and trembled with fear.
In a short time, more than 100 tightly tied pirates were brought in, in stark contrast to the local pirates who had "surrendered" long ago, all unkempt, dejected, or red-eyed. As soon as the pirates, who had only given up resistance in the morning, the local pirate families and Ming refugees who were watching around suddenly roared, grabbed all kinds of messy things from the ground one by one, and threw them over the wall of Chinese and American officers and soldiers.
At this time, in a small corner tower next to the camp, several representatives of the Yan family were arguing fiercely with the officers of the Huamei Navy and Army led by Brigadier General Zhang Chunrui, the commander-in-chief of the expeditionary fleet, and even the seventh aunt knelt on the ground and kowtowed desperately.
"The general wants to be the master of the concubine, but the concubine's husband was given by Liu Xiang's gang of thieves...... Killed! Qigu grabbed her tears and snot, crying breathlessly, and sat with Uncle Yan with a stern expression.
"Liu Xiang's people helped to abuse, mutilated the Yan family's subordinates, and harmed the compatriots on the island, and they are unforgivable!" Luo Da, who was invited to participate in the "ventilation meeting", stood up angrily, and glanced at the eldest lady of the Yan family beside him. "What morality is there for such thieves who are inferior to beasts, why should General Zhang leave any way for these people to survive?!"
The attitude is basically the same as a few days ago, the people of the Yan family are painful to Liu Xiang's behavior of taking advantage of the fire to rob and the blood of the seventh aunt's husband on his hands, and they don't feel that there is any other choice at all.
Several people with status in the Yan family had such an attitude, but Zhang Chunrui, as the supreme commander of the expeditionary fleet, did not speak for a long time, just stared at an interrogation report on the table and slowly tapped his fingers.
"It's only a matter of minutes to shoot them all." Yan Xiaosong glanced at Yan Xianping, who was silent, and stood up with a smile to ease the atmosphere. "But that would put the rest of the pirates at risk, unless they were all shot. Even in the future, every opponent of the Yan family and every pirate in Southeast Asia will fight us to the death. We don't have that many troops, and we don't have the time and energy to carry out a clean-up campaign along the Daming coast. It's not here to make enemies on all sides. Therefore, the execution of Liu Xiang is obviously not in the interests of our Huamei. ”
Uncle Yan Qi raised his head suddenly at this time, his eyes lit up, and he looked back and forth on Yan Xiaosong's face. And Yan Xiaosong also looked back intently at this old man who was the only remaining member of the Yan family, without the slightest fear, and even with a hint of a smile.
Execute Liu Xiang. It is what the Yan family wants, it is the appeal of the Yan family, but it is not the interests of China and the United States. made Luo Da and Yan Xianping stunned. The latter slowly turned his head and looked at Sun Yang beside him, his face was a little pale, and Sun Yang just touched his nose and pretended to be stupid.
"Now the army is delayed. Liu Xiang doesn't kill it, so how do you want your country to ......" Uncle Yan Qi seemed to be much older. got up and picked up his daughter, who was already crying on the ground, and his eyes gradually became cloudy again, "If Mr. Yan and General Zhang can look at the Yan family's relationship with Huamei in the past few years and give the Yan family justice, the Yan family will definitely repay each other with death, and from now on the horse will be released to Nanshan and be a good citizen." ”
As he spoke, Uncle Yan Qi bowed deeply to Zhang Chunrui and Yan Xiaosong.
"Grandpa Seven!" Yan Xianping couldn't hold back any longer, jumped up and supported Uncle Yan Qi's body, and looked at Yan Xiaosong with red eyes with a begging look, "Brother Yan, didn't you tell my father back then, as long as there is Huamei, the Yan family will definitely not suffer any grievances in Daming!" Now, there are not many people left in the Yan family, is the promise made back then just a casual remark? ”
As soon as these words came out, the whole room fell into a dead silence, Zhang Chunrui's eyes left the table, and quietly looked at Yan Xiaosong, who was standing in the center of the room and was targeted by the Yan family.
"Ping'er, don't be presumptuous!" The seventh uncle turned around abruptly and showed a terrifying expression to his niece and granddaughter beside him, but his eyes were full of a deep self-mockery.
"Vice Minister Yan is right, if you make enemies on all sides, you will do more harm than good in future actions. But we didn't simply let Liu Xiang and these people go, otherwise everyone would be lucky, and if we walked on the front foot, the island would be messed up. Zhang Chunrui stood up at this time and ended the confrontation present. Seeing the commander-in-chief stand up, almost all the officers present stood upright, waiting for the final order.
"The worst offenders identified by the refugees on the island will be executed. Liu Xiang was temporarily detained, and when the wireless relay station was completed, the situation was sent back to China. After Zhang Chunrui finished speaking, he walked out of the room, and a room full of officers saluted.
Zhang Chunrui chose a more stable disposal plan impartially, neither spilling the cold water of the Yan family, nor letting the Yan family be too "splashed and rolling".
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In another small wooden building, led by Sergeant Yu Shan, a group of armed Foreign Legionnaires waited inside and outside the wooden building. In the wooden building, it was Lieutenant Qiao Yan who brought a soldier to bring a dinner to the imprisoned Liu Xiang.
"Damn! Didn't you say okay, my brothers and I are fine? What are you tying them up for? Talking doesn't count? It's not for me to say anything, as long as you dare to do it, the people here will make you unable to eat and walk around! ”
Liu Xiang threw away the spoon, grabbed the canned meat, and directly dug out the oily pieces of meat with his hands, gobbled them up, and grabbed the water bowl next to him and poured vegetable soup into a big gulp.
Just this morning, Liu Xiang finally accepted the surrender of the Chinese and American Army. It stands to reason that Liu Xiang successfully used his stubborn resistance to get a glimmer of life, but he still didn't think there was a big deal with these soldiers, basically they were all pressed under the mountain by themselves for a few days, and the other party seemed to have no way to take him, if it wasn't for the hasty escape and the food was about to run out, he reached a surrender condition with the other party.
In Liu Xiang's opinion, these soldiers who don't know where they came are similar to those Dutch and Franco, and it is impossible to stay here for a long time, as long as it lasts. I have to leave, and this will still be my own world at that time. As long as his old foundation is still there, he is not afraid of not being able to pull a team.
Zheng Zhilong and Yan Siqi both had a lot of Chinese military equipment and sea goods, Liu Xiang thought that his status was "marginal", Yan Siqi was too strong before, and Zheng Zhilong pressed him, so he had no chance to get ahead, and he has never obtained this kind of guy who has begun to have a reputation along the coast of Daming. Liu Xiang had long planned to smuggle piglets with the Dutch in exchange for a large amount of silver and two ordnance. Then control zhì Nanyang.
Now Zheng Zhilong is confronting the remnants of the Yan family in the "Dongfan Island", and finally released a piece of the world for himself. But the business had just begun, and the Dutch merchant ships had not yet been unloaded, so they were hit by these inexplicable soldiers.
As for why the other party found himself on this big island so accurately, Liu Xiang didn't think about it. I just plan to wait for the incident to pass, and then find a more secluded place to settle on a nearby island.
Looking at the rude pirate leader in front of him, Qiao Yan just smiled slightly, and pointed to his military hat and armband: "Liu Xiang, do you know who we are?" ”
"Look at your swagger, I'm afraid you're doing well under the Dutch red-haired men, right? Or the Franciscan? Liu Xiang burped and leaned back in her chair contentedly. picked up the only bowl of wine on the table that he had never been willing to drink, and looked at the young officer in front of him with contempt. In the impression of this pirate leader who can't read half a word, including the Francos of Luzon, there are also some Chinese children who serve in the army. It is not uncommon to see a Chinese soldier in Nanyang.
"We are the U.S. Army of China." Qiao Yan seemed to hear footsteps outside the building, so he stood up and tidied up his military uniform, "Okay, I guess someone is going to continue to interrogate you." ”
The wine bowl in Liu Xiang's hand trembled slightly. A lot of drinks came out, and they just stared blankly at the door. As if I couldn't believe what I was hearing.
At the moment when Liu Xiang was surprised, Yan Xiaosong walked in with a faint smile, just nodded slightly to the lieutenant at the door, and closed the door.
"Liu Xiang, you are younger than I thought. My name is Yan Xiaosong, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the United States of China, and the special envoy of the United States to the East. Yan Xiaosong took out a cigarette and lit it, took a deep breath, looked up and down at the young pirate who was in a daze at the dining table with a playful gaze, and threw the cigarette and matches on the table, "I've smoked this before, I can smell the smoke on your body, it should be a moose brand." ”
Liu Xiang has indeed fallen in love with this kind of seafood from distant and beautiful places in recent years, and he still found it from Zheng Zhilong. Even though in recent years more abundant and cheaper tobacco supplies have been obtained from the colony of Virginia, England, and the production efficiency has improved, the production cost of Huamei cigarettes has been reduced by at least 60% compared with the original, but the cheapest moose brand is sold to Daming for eight cents of silver (about 12 cents) a pack, and the high-end Double Happiness is more than a penny of silver, even in Macau, it is difficult to buy Double Happiness from the hands of the Franco. This kind of cigarette with a special aroma and a refined cotton filter is almost Liu Xiang's favorite after meals, and no matter how much you save smoking a pack of cigarettes, it will be gone in only three or five days.
Now that an almost complete double happiness letter is placed in front of him, Liu Xiang can't help but become addicted to smoking. Quickly took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, touched the gorgeous match, and lit it very skillfully, it seems that the frequency of use of Huamei products over the years is quite high.
"Yan ...... You are Mr. Yan, who is often mentioned in the Yan family? An official of Huamei? Liu Xiang suppressed the tremor in her heart, took a big puff of cigarette, and stared at the tall young man opposite with a pair of eyes, "It turned out to be you...... Was it invited by the Yan family...... No wonder you can get to the island so quickly! ”
"You can say that the Yan family invited us here, and it can also be understood that we haven't been free to come here before." Yan Xiaosong sat opposite Liu Xiang and pointed to the gorgeous cigarettes and matches on the table with interest, "Actually, we have always been there, but in a different way." ”
"So what? Are you still planning to stand out for the Yan family? Haha, this is the Ming Dynasty, now even the Francois in Macau were almost driven away by the imperial court, and the Luzon side didn't even dare to let out a fart, and the Dutch red hair in Nanyang was not drinking soup with him? The Yan family thinks that with your gorgeous rifles and cannons, it will be amazing? Now it's not waiting for the day when he will be exterminated by the imperial court and Zheng Zhilong! Huamei seafood is good, everyone is happy to do business, just a thousand people to go to this troubled water, I think it is better to weigh it first! ”
Liu Xiang threw away the cigarette butt, grabbed another one and lit it, and the disdain on his face became more and more intense: "You are righteous to the Yan family, give you a thumbs up!" But if it weren't for the hurry I was in the go. Something has fallen, the big guys haven't eaten in the past few days, and I can't tell who loses and who loses! ”
"I'm here now to tell you that we can not only do business and sell some goods, but also help you do a lot of things. And have the ability to get things done...... Liu Da is in charge, please! Yan Xiaosong pointed in a certain direction, and the Foreign Legion soldiers on the side hurriedly walked over and pushed open the window.
"Huh?" Liu Xiang is curious. I didn't know what the other party wanted me to see, so I slowly walked to the window with a cigarette in my mouth.
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About 100 meters away, the camp was brightly lit, and groups of Ming refugees were crying and crying around about a hundred pirates, cursing and even crying. There are also many family members of local pirates. The group of pirates who were pointed out and abused by everyone seemed to be all Liu Xiang's sworn subordinates.
And those pirates who originally belonged to the local area, because they were once Yan Siqi's vassals, responsible for smuggling trade here for a generation and collecting protection fees from passing merchant ships, and the family was also on the island, so their usual behavior was still relatively restrained, and they were not collectively blamed by the Ming refugees who were imprisoned in the camp. And Liu Xiang's pirates are different. They were essentially invaders, acting as victors on the island, and not only were the people in the refugee camps abused in all kinds of inhumane ways, but also many of the pirate families in the local fishing villages.
Liu Xiang's dead friends who were pressed in the center of the field. They have been tied up by all kinds of flowers, but they are still fiercely raising their heads and scolding, and the refugees and local pirate families who are watching around are full of anger.
"Ready!" Makarov was also smoking a cigarette at this time, and looked up at the candlelight from the windows of the wooden building in a certain direction. Seeing that the atmosphere was almost over, he waved his hand lightly.
Chinese and American Army officers and soldiers began to clear the field. The crowd surrounded by the scene was slowly driven away, and six organ machine guns were pushed into the open space more than 100 meters away from the more than 100 tied up Liu Xiang's dead friends, and behind the machine gun position, several rows of soldiers of the Foreign Legion held their rifles horizontally, blocking the angry refugees and pirate families.
The camp was surrounded by a two-man tall wooden fence, and with the exception of the organ and machine gun emplacement, the crowds from the other three directions had long since exited. Liu Xiang's dead friends, who were tied up and kneeling at the other end, seemed to feel a second, and began to make a commotion, many people were desperately struggling with the ropes on their bodies, but some of them were inexplicably looking at the six strange things in the distance that looked like cannons and guns.
"Load, aim!" A non-commissioned officer of Chinese descent standing on the outside of the machine-gun position raised his hand at this time. In a series of "clicks", the 37-round pipe organ magazine was pressed into the reloading position behind the machine gun.
"Brothers, these soldiers are going to kill us! We and the big boss were fooled! A small pirate leader finally smelled death, his eyes widened, he jerked to his feet, and began to stir up his struggling companions.
"Shoot!" Looking at a group of futile writhing figures more than 100 meters away, the Chinese non-commissioned officer in charge of the command sneered and waved his hand.
Six tongues of fire erupted suddenly, and the scorching warhead was discharged at the speed of sound, with a rate of fire of more than 200 rounds per minute, pouring a rain of bullets.
The organ machine gun carriage trembled slightly, swaying in a small arc, and at one end of the line of sight, the figures who were kneeling or struggling to get up swayed and shattered in the blood splash, and the invisible metal cutters made by countless bullets created a terrifying picture of flesh and blood flying in the dead crowd.
"Fight with them!" Another pirate leader, kneeling a little behind, stood up and rushed forward, but only two or three steps before an organ bullet burst his head, followed by more bullets through his upper body, and the flesh from the torn chest flew almost a few meters away.
A number of pirates ran to both sides in an attempt to climb over the fence, but they were all corpses hanging from the fence with missing arms and legs.
"Stop shooting!"
The Chinese non-commissioned officer raised his hand again after two minutes, and a few seconds later, the dense gunfire stopped instantly. More than 3,000 rounds of bullets were fired in just two minutes, and there was not a single intact corpse in sight on the execution ground 100 meters away, the flesh was floating on the thick surface of blood, the corpses were crooked and twisted on top of each other, and the bullets that penetrated the human body even broke a considerable length of the camp's wooden fence.
The organ machine gun was pulled out, and a platoon of Foreign Legionnaires walked up with bayonets in hand, frowning at the scene of the two-minute shooting.
Inside and outside the camp, there was silence, and the people who had been indignant and eager to bite the pirates before turned pale and looked at the Chinese American Army soldiers who were maintaining order around them in fear.
Not far from the scene of the shooting. Huang Hu'er was squatting next to a dying Chinese woman, holding a baby in her arms, staring blankly at the scene of the shooting under the bright lights, her mouth slightly open.
"Xianggong, I have avenged you...... Revenge ......" A dagger sharpened from wood was inserted into the chest of a Chinese woman, and the young woman spat blood while smiling at the gorgeous sailor who was holding her child.
"Sister-in-law......"
Seeing that the wife of a former playmate in the same village chose to commit suicide at this stall, Huang Hu'er's mind was numb.
The woman in front of her was the only villager she met in the refugee camp after she landed, and she was even the one who grew up in a village. But at this time, this fierce woman who lost her husband and was raped by pirates finally abandoned her child and committed suicide at the moment when the enemy was executed.
"Brother Huzi...... Please find a good home for the baby in the future...... My father and I will repay you again in the next life......"
The woman was out of breath, and Huang Hu'er was already in tears.
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A cool night breeze blew in the window, but Liu Xiang felt that her back was all wet with sweat.
"We need to give an account to the innocent victims, who have been identified by witnesses and sentenced by military courts. So there is no question of zài shooting prisoners. Yan Xiaosong turned his head and smiled at the pirate leader beside him, "Justice must be upheld and upheld, which is also the consistent position of our government. ”
"It's the Yan family who wants to make the first bird, and they can't complain about others...... Oh, no, it's all done by Zheng Zhilong, Dutch Fanyi and the Japanese people! Liu Xiang shuddered. It's a bit incoherent.
Perhaps this is the most efficient way to kill people he has seen since his debut, and he can't help but think of the situation a few days ago when he stubbornly resisted and took the advantage. It seems that the Chinese and American military is not incapable of solving itself. I didn't want to kill myself right now.
"Liu Xiang, you are an ambitious person and a capable person. But these low-prime subordinates can only be detrimental to your career. There is no benefit. Yan Xiaosong patted Liu Xiang's shoulder with a smile, and seemed to be very optimistic about Liu Xiang's consciousness and comprehension. Someone needs to take responsibility and maintain order in this area, and there are many people scattered on these islands who have not yet awakened, and they all need you to lead, and you have a heavy responsibility......"
"What do I get!" Liu Xiang came back to her senses, gritted her teeth, and turned her head to look at Yan Xiaosong, "You killed so many of my old brothers, didn't you give me a chance to take revenge?!" ”
"The friendship of the Chinese American Republic, the space that can not be suppressed by Zheng Zhilong, and the understanding of the Yan family." Yan Xiaosong lit a cigarette, said the last sentence, and quietly left the wooden building.
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More than 400 Liu Xiang's old pirates were shot by nearly a third, and the rest were all trembling and sleepless all night, and there was no longer any arrogant attitude. The next day, the surviving pirates were told to leave the island of Natuna, but not to do "unauthorised things" in the surrounding waters.
A number of captured pirate ships were used as "demobilization tools" and cautiously headed north under the watchful eye of the American expeditionary fleet in China. For these pirates, who had long been accustomed to robbing their homes, it was basically impossible to return to the mainland to be good citizens or beggars. They will either go back to their old jobs after a period of hibernation, or they will hug a thicker thigh, such as Zheng Zhilong, to spread some news......
A small number of Liu Xiang's henchmen who were slightly cleaner were deliberately spared their lives this time, and they will continue to follow Liu Xiang to do their old job and become Liu Xiang's helpers in reorganizing the team. Including the Natuna Islands and the nearby Anambas Islands, there are still a number of lone small pirate forces around, and Liu Xiang's future is to officially replace the Yan family, gather and recover the surrounding small pirate forces, and become the pirate leader in this area.
The island originally belonged to the local pirates who belonged to the Yan family, and hundreds of people with families were ordered to leave the pirate team, but fortunately, the island has already had preliminary development, as long as they can save their lives, they can survive the ordinary days of farming and fishing, and the rest of the people who "feed the whole family and don't go hungry" were all lost to Liu Xiang.
The meeting between Liu Xiang and the Yan family's homecoming group can be called a comedy, Liu Xiang, who pulled down his face, wore linen and filial piety, and took a group of remnants of his henchmen to kowtow in the direction of northern Macao to confess his guilt, vowing that from now on, only the Yan family would "look at the horse's head", and worship the deceased Yan Siqi as a brother, in order to show that he will support the Yan family in the future. At the ceremony to commemorate her deceased brother and husband, Qigu cried to death again.
The current identity of Liu Xiang is the "South China Sea Volunteers" supported by China and the United States behind the scenes, and this rabble currently belongs to neither the Natuna Islands controlled by China and the United States, nor does it belong to the vassal forces of other parties. But on the table, the South China Sea Volunteers are also the "guardians of maritime order" in the Natuna Islands and the Anambas Islands to the west, and will be responsible for protecting the maritime trade routes from the coast of Daming and Guangxi to the Strait of Malacca.
The small batch of 21B flintlock rifles seized from the Dutch merchants, most of the pirate ships tied to the bay, and a small number of coveted luxury goods were delivered to Liu Xiang after the memorial meeting, which made the young pirate who was only 30 very excited, and he smiled on the spot and expressed his willingness to go to sea to the surrounding islands to "collect the thieves".
However, when she heard that the Yan family's base camp in Macau was attacked more than half a year ago, the batch of arms and seafood from Huamei at the beginning of this year was hidden by Qigu's husband, Liu Xiang showed a very uncomfortable expression. I think that at the beginning, he had been rummaging through boxes and cabinets in the Yan family's Macau base for almost half a month, and in addition to finding some silver taels, he didn't even get half a gorgeous walking gun and a gorgeous seafood, so he was very entangled when he thought about it.
But then the seventh uncle of the Yan family was relieved and was willing to one day separate part of the batch of Chinese military ordnance goods from Macao that had not had time to be transported to Dayuan Island to the South China Sea Volunteers. Thinking of the kind of gorgeous cannon that even the Ming Dynasty was full of, Liu Xiang couldn't wait to lead the team into Macao to dig three feet into the ground.
The Chinese army occupying the island had even more formidable cannons and organ guns. Liu Xiang didn't dare to make any non-points. In his eyes, as long as he has weapons no less than those of the Yan family and Zheng Zhilong, no one in the South China Sea can shake his position. Besides, now working for Huameiren, as long as you do well enough, maybe one day you can get more powerful ordnance and more seafood than the above two, and the day of awesome is just around the corner.
In the future, when you are full-fledged, you will find a gorgeous beauty to take revenge? Pull it down, who came out to break in is not for money and wealth, Zheng Zhilong can follow the Ming court, why can't I, Liu Xiang, follow the Huamei who offers a higher price?
Liu Xiang's gang, who had put on their thighs and changed their faces, immediately began to straighten out the ship with all kinds of crookedness, planning to go to Daming soon to purchase all kinds of materials needed for Huamei Pearl Island. In view of the delicate situation in Macau, Liu Xiang set his destinations in Lianzhou (Beihai), Leizhou and Qiongzhou (Haikou) in Guangdong.
Yan Xiaosong, carrying Caterina and his eldest son Yan Shuming, whose belly was already slightly bulging, took the Weiyang Palace and the Prisoner Niu's flying scissors merchant ships, and flew the Portuguese flag towards Manila in the Philippines, preparing to open up the next "Oriental acupuncture point......
(To be continued)