A man wearing the uniform of a military attache of the Ming Dynasty slowly stepped on a charred door panel, which made a clicking sound, and there was a smell of burnt paste in the air.

The face of the person in the military attaché's costume was pale, and he glanced around the scene, a huge Jiang family compound had already burned into ruins at this time, and even the tall courtyard wall could not withstand the fire, and collapsed a large section, and there were still a few places in the courtyard, which were still smoking.

Several unkempt women sat on their knees outside the courtyard crying and cursing loudly.

A person who looked like a civil official, under the maintenance of several officials, walked into the courtyard, looked at the devastation, couldn't help frowning, and after seeing the person dressed as a military attache standing in the courtyard, he hugged his fists and said: "It turns out that Mr. Zhang Qian is also here!" ”

As soon as the man dressed as a military attache saw this civil official, he quickly turned around and replied with his fists: "I don't know that Sun Zhixian is coming, and I hope that Lord Sun will forgive me!" Forgiveness! ”

It turned out that this civil official was Sun Changting, the magistrate of Fu'an County, and this military attache was Zhang Datong, the general manager of Funing Town, who guarded thousands of households, and both of them heard that Jiang Baihu's house was broken by pirates, and Jiang Baihu was killed on the spot, so they rushed here one after another to investigate the situation.

In their area, Jiang Baihu is also a big person, suddenly Jiang Baihu was killed, the family property was robbed, naturally the alarm is not small, and this area is the jurisdiction of Fu'an County, naturally Sun Zhi County did not dare to slack off, to come over to see the situation, to explain this matter to the above.

And Zhang Datong Zhang Qian is the general manager of Funing Town guarding thousands of households, and he is responsible for the military affairs along the coast of Funing Prefecture, mainly to prevent and prepare for the Japanese, although these years the Japanese plague has been alleviated a lot after the attack of Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou, who were known as Yu Long and Qi Hu, but the sea has not completely calmed down, and there are still many small groups of fake Japanese and pirates, so Zhang Datong is mainly responsible for dealing with pirates in Funing Prefecture over the years.

And Ming Li Jiang Baihu is still Zhang Datong's subordinate, and Zhang Datong is still Jiang Baihu's brother-in-law in private, but what Zhang Datong didn't expect was that the pirates would suddenly sneak attack his brother-in-law Jiang Baihu's house, not to mention killing Jiang Baihu on the spot.

"Lord Zhang, can you find out who the thief who came here to kill Jiang Baihu is?" Looking at the dilapidated Jiang family compound in front of him, Sun Zhixian frowned again and again, and said in his heart that it was a pity, such a family business was ruined like this! So after a few brief glances, he asked Zhang Datong.

Zhang Datong replied with a blue face: "I have already asked!" These thieves are a group of people who lived on Xiaohuang Island earlier!

Where did he learn from the house slaves that these thieves on Xiaohuang Island secretly colluded with pirates, and were found out by Jiang Baihu, and brought the daughter of a thief on his island back for interrogation, but he didn't think about it, but he caused the thieves on Xiaohuang Island to retaliate, and attacked Jiang Baihu's house at night.

In addition, seven members of the Jiang family and three house slaves were also killed by thieves! It's really pitiful! These thieves not only killed Jiang Baihu and robbed the thief's daughter, but also looted the Jiang family's property, robbed the Jiang family's livestock, concubines, maids and other seven people, and also set fire to the Jiang family's mansion!

After hearing the police that day, Li Jiang, who was left behind in the town, immediately rushed over, and chased all the way to the sea, and rescued the two concubines of Jiang Baihu who had been robbed, but the thieves still fled to the sea by boat! It's a shame that we couldn't capture it in one fell swoop! ”

After hearing Zhang Datong's answer, Sun Zhixian nodded: "I didn't expect pirates to start to be so rampant recently, they just ransacked the Li family last month, and this month they actually broke Jiang Baihu's house, if they are not exterminated, it will be a big disaster!" Mr. Zhang Qian, as a local general, should ensure the safety of one party, this kind of thing cannot happen repeatedly, you must strengthen the coastal defense, and this official will also gather the squires from all over the coast to organize the people to defend against the Japanese!

In addition, since it is already known who the thief is, will the Shuizhai side also send troops to exterminate it? I don't want anything like this to happen again! ”

Although Sun Zhixian is only a seven-rank official, and Zhang Qian is also regarded as a six-grade martial artist, but the Ming Dynasty has always emphasized literature over martial arts, and the status of martial artists is low, so it is not surprising that Sun Zhixian spoke to Zhang Datong in a tone of instruction.

After hearing this, Zhang Datong hurriedly replied: "I will do my best to catch that thief!" Please rest assured! ”

After Sun Zhixian inspected here, he comforted the widows of the Jiang family, seeing that he had nothing to do here, and the matter of exterminating pirates was not something he could do, so he did not continue to stay here, and after chatting with a few local squires who came to see him for a while, he asked them to organize Ding Zhuang to strengthen his precautions, and received some gifts casually, and then went back to his house and returned to the Yamen of Fu'an County.

Leaving Zhang Datong here to deal with the aftermath of the Jiang family, and then recruited the local general Li general, and carefully inquired about the thieves who attacked the Jiang family, and finally made up his mind, and began to send people back to transfer ten foot archers, pikemen and sword and shield soldiers, plus more than 20 guards under the local Li general in Zhaoxianli, and ordered them to go to the Beacon Gate Water Village, transfer two boats, and go to Xiaohuangdao to find the thieves who attacked the Jiang family, and they must be wiped out in one fell swoop.

For these arrangements of the land government, Yu Xiaotian, who stayed on Dahuang Island, naturally did not know about it, and after he returned to Dahuang Island and was promoted to the helm, he began to get busy.

Although the sparrows are small, they are all in all directions, don't look at the fact that they only have more than 20 people at the moment, but they can't just have a helmsman to take care of things, even if they pull it down, after all, many things also need to be taken care of by them, so after thinking about it, Yu Xiaotian still decided that no matter what, the shelf of his group should be set up first.

Yu Xiaotian carefully measured the temperament of Liu Laoliu, Ma Face and others, and then discussed it with a few old guys, and then let Ma Face be the second master, which can be regarded as his deputy and assist him in managing this group, after all, most of them are from Xiaohuangdao, and Ma Yan has a lot of prestige in this group of people, if he is not allowed to be the second master, it is estimated that some things will not be easy to do, and at the same time, it can be regarded as a kind of appeasement to the old man of Xiaohuangdao. Immediately, he grinned and agreed.

And Liu Laoliu was appointed by Yu Xiaotian to be in charge of the punishment, that is, to be in charge of the punishment of their group, which can be regarded as a picket role, once someone violates the rules, Liu Laoliu can punish them according to the rules, this role is an indispensable role, and let Liu Laoliu do this, Yu Xiaotian is also relieved.

As for Zhao Mazi's temperament, he belongs to the kind of person who is more sleek, laughing all day long, when he was on Xiaohuang Island, everything he went to the land to procure things, and he was in charge of dealing with outsiders, and he knew many people on land, and there were more roads, and he knew some of the characters of the three religions and nine streams, and he went to the land contact to sell the goods on the Liu family's ship some time ago, although later because of the storm and Jiang Baihu went to the island to arrest Erya, this matter was delayed, but in general, In this area, the most well-connected person on the shore is Zhao Mazi.

In addition, this time Yu Xiaotian and Ma Mian and others went ashore to inquire about the situation of Erya, and it was also Ma Cheng who Zhao Mazi found to work for the Jiang family for a short time, so he inquired about the situation of the Jiang family, considering that Zhao Mazi has strengths in this area, Yu Xiaotian simply handed over the affairs of their outsourcing to him for the time being, and they will give away some goods on hand for a period of time in the future, and they will find a way to purchase some things, and replace them with other people, which will definitely not be done.

And Li Gouzi's personality is relatively weak, not suitable for doing things like fighting and killing, but he is more careful and more diligent, Yu Xiaotian paid attention to his ability in this area before, so he made him the manager, that is, responsible for the logistics management, responsible for the expenditure and consumption management of their group.

There is also a Meng madman, Yu Xiaotian has a headache, the reason why this old guy is nicknamed a madman is because he has a hot temper, he has no brains, and he likes to use knives to play with his life at every turn.

Soldier is a special profession on the pirate ship during this period, to put it bluntly, it is mainly to do the kind of thing that leads people to charge into battle, jumping gang to grab ships, although Meng Maniac is a little older, but his temper is more suitable for doing this kind of thing, this arrangement, Meng Maniac also immediately accepted it, and began to take office with a sigh of urgency, and began to arrange the weapons they had at hand, with a posture of rolling up their sleeves and doing a big job.

But just like this, Yu Xiaotian is not satisfied, because now the other descendants have not yet divided labor, they currently have two boats, a larger brig and a small dhow fishing boat, and they must divide the existing manpower.

So he then divided the labor of these young people under him, and first picked out seven or eight young people led by blackheads, who were more courageous and stronger, and let them act as soldiers on the ship, that is, the main combat personnel, whether at sea or on land, it was this group of people who took the lead, to put it bluntly, they also belonged to the so-called group of people who did rough work and dirty work on the ship.

As for the other descendants, Yu Xiaotian assigned them according to their abilities as shoushou, shangdou, piercing, and carpenter, so that they could specialize in their profession, so that both ships were equipped with sailors, and the main duties of each were clarified.

Of course, because of their limited manpower, sometimes the sailors could not do only one job, and the daily work on the ship would also overlap, and the soldiers had to work part-time when they were sailing, and they also had to help the anchors when they were berthed.

As for the most important helmsman on the ship, Liu Laoliu and Ma Mian and several other old guys are all old runners, and they can basically act as helmsmen, but Yu Xiaotian still let Liu Wang and Li Gouzi's son Li Manchu be a trainee helmsman, and let them follow Liu Laoliu and others to learn the skills of the helmsman, as an effective supplement to their reserve helmsmen in the future.

After such a distribution, a small pirate group was initially organized by Yu Xiaotian and others, but even so, they are still a little short of manpower, because as a pirate group, there are many professionals among them, and they currently do not have it, such as blacksmiths, who are indispensable personnel in a pirate group, usually responsible for building iron nails for repairing ships and other things, but also repairing and building weapons, and once the ship is damaged at sea, they also have to help the carpenter repair the ship.

But so far, there are no such people among them, so they can only vacate for the first time, and find a way to recruit people in the future.

When Yu Xiaotian had just made arrangements for the personnel, Meng Maniac, Heitou and the others immediately geared up, clamoring to go to sea and try their skills with their arms and sleeves, and find a merchant ship to do it.

But their proposal was immediately rejected by Yu Xiaotian, in Yu Xiaotian's opinion, although they have barely set up a shelf now, but with the skills of his subordinates, they want to go out to get a vote now, and they are simply going out to find death, except for a few old guys such as Liu Lao Liu's horse face, only Han Xian and Zhao Si have a little bit of experience as pirates, and the rest are all mud legs who have just entered the water, and the standard is still a group of rabble.

Let them go and do a vote now, according to Yu Xiaotian's estimate, let alone robbing other people's boats, it is estimated that it will be a blessing not to be cleaned up by others.

So he immediately stopped the impulsiveness of the fellows, and ordered them all to be honest, not to rush out to fish, and the most important thing for them at the moment was to get the two boats in order first.

Looking at Meng Maniac and the others who were full of dissatisfaction, Yu Xiaotian had to explain to them bitterly: "It's not that I don't dare to do it, it's not that I'm afraid of things!" The reason why I don't allow you to go out to fish in such a hurry is because our ancients had clouds, and if you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools!

I don't know if you've heard of this sentence! But it means that if you want to do something well, you must first prepare and sharpen the tools in your hand! Otherwise, you will only delay your work and you won't be able to get things done!

You don't want to look at what these people are capable of at the moment, can you make this boat well? What is the condition of these two boats, and is it not a joke that they are in such a hurry to go out to fish?

As I said before, if we don't do it, we won't do it, but as long as we do it, we must do the best! During this time, we have no shortage of food and drink, and we have just done the Jiang family's vote, it is estimated that the landing of the official mansion will definitely be alarmed, if it is not expected, the limelight will be very tight during this time!

If we kill a hundred households, not a common people, how can the government give up with us, and will definitely find a way to send a ship to the sea to search for us, and want to capture us!

That's all! In addition, there are a few groups of pirates around, and if they don't get it right, they will hear the rumors, and they will probably want to find us and swallow the goods we have arrived! Now you are in a hurry to get out, are you not falling into the net?

So at the moment, I think we are not in a hurry, first practice well, put these two boats in order, and wait until the limelight passes, our efforts are also solid, and it is not too late to go out to practice! But now it's definitely not going to happen! ”

After everyone listened to Yu Xiaotian's words, most of them nodded yes, thinking that Yu Xiaotian was reasonable, and the horse face even held his second-in-command shelf, and said: "Meng Madman, you old guy is still in a hurry, and the black head is muddy, and you old guy is also coaxing!"

The helmsman said that it is reasonable, you don't look at it, our boat is also broken at this time, and everyone is a novice, so if you run into the boat of the official army water village, can you run? Even if we let our counterparts on Twin Peaks Island meet, we have to catch the blind and go out to fish? I see that you should save it first!

Don't fuck it, do what the helm says, repair the ship that should repair the ship, and build the house that should build the house! In the past few days, you have forgotten your fucking last name! Get lost! Get out of here! ”

After such a stinking scolding by Ma Yan, everyone became honest, and no one raised the matter of getting a vote.

But for Xiaotian, now he can finally show his strength, he can't stand the brig that belongs to him for a long time, he didn't have the manpower to take care of the ship before, but now he finally wants to clean up as he wants.

Considering that the area of Dahuangdao is also a place where pirates haunt, although they hide in this bay, they dare not guarantee that they will not be discovered, so for the sake of insurance, they must ensure that there is a boat that can be used.

The boat had been in a dilapidated state after the typhoon, and the mast was a makeshift mast made of a slightly bent dwarf pine, which they immediately dismantled, and took a horsetail pine with a straight trunk on the island to cut it down, pulled it to the beach, peeled it off its branches, and then erected it and installed it on the ship, so that the dhow once again had a working mast.

At the same time, under the leadership of Ma Mian, everyone went into battle together to clean up the hull, shoveled away the parasitic barnacles, sea rainbows and other sea creatures attached to the bottom of the boat, and boiled glue and hemp rope quicklime, grass and wood ash to fill the gaps in the boat plank, plugged the leaking cracks, and replaced several damaged ship boards so that they could go to sea again.

It was not too difficult for these people on the island to repair this small boat, so in just three days, the newly repaired small boat was pushed into the sea again.

However, the fly in the ointment is that the mast they used is still not very suitable, this masson pine is just cut, did not have time to dry in the shade, and immediately peeled the skin to the ship, after the wind and sun, it will soon crack, so there is a chance that they still have to find a way to get a new dry fir on land to replace it, but for a temporary make-off, it can basically meet the demand!

But then, when it was time to repair the brig, everyone stood on the edge of the beach, and they all looked at the boat and began to scratch their heads, not knowing what to do, and they did not know that at this time, the small village where they used to live on the small yellow island had been turned into a sea of fire...... (Go straight to the 5,000-word chapter!) Today's child is on vacation.,Take the child out of the house to play.,Look at the situation in the afternoon.,If you come back early.,Strive to update another chapter! Thank you, brothers! ）