Nanyang?

After hearing his nephew's answer, Li Xiang suddenly fell into deep thought.

To be honest, in terms of the situation he is facing now, sending his family to Nanyang is really a good choice.

It's just that there are some puzzles in this choice that need to be solved.

First of all, the natives on the South Sea side are very murderous, and if the old and young women and children are sent there, then safety is a matter of concern.

If he, Li Xiang, can survive the confrontation with Zheng Zhilong and the future crusade of the Japanese people, then this may not be a big problem, but what if he is defeated?

This aspect has to be considered.

At the same time, if the family goes there, how to live also needs to be solved.

However, apart from Nanyang, Li Xiang really has no other choice now.

Think about it, now the coastal sailors of the Ming Dynasty and the bigwigs of the DPRK and China have all chosen Zheng Zhilong's side. And if he Li Xiang is abandoned, then it is impossible for him Li Xiang to send his family to the Ming Dynasty.

Otherwise, wouldn't he send his family into the tiger's mouth?

Once the enemy of the Ming Dynasty knows about this matter, and when the time comes, he will threaten himself with his family, then he will have to sit on wax.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty must not be chosen.

Other than that, the Japanese side can't do it.

The Japanese are brutal, and he is now likely to be a target for Kyushu.

If it is for the sake of the family, then it is absolutely impossible to let the family stay in the Japanese country.

And not on the Goryeo side.

If he is defeated in the future, then this sea area will become owned by the Zheng family group in the future.

Therefore, his family will definitely become Zheng Zhilong's henchmen, and he will definitely find out and eradicate it.

Goryeo, hum, the Goryeo people have always liked to be treacherous and give up others to protect themselves at a moment of interest.

Therefore, the Korean side can't believe it at all.

Come to think of it. There is only one way to go in Nanyang.

"Biaozi, I thought about it carefully. It seems that the way you said is right, and we can only send those old and young women and children to Nanyang to avoid our worries. ”

If you have a choice, in fact, Li Xiang doesn't even want to choose Nanyang.

However, as far as the situation he is facing now, there is only one way to go in front of him.

Therefore, he can't choose it.

If you let your family stay on Amami Island all the time, God knows when something will happen.

So, in order to avoid this situation. Now he has to start thinking about his family in advance.

Alas!

In fact, Li Xiang's original plan was to return to the Ming Dynasty and buy some land to support his family together.

But he couldn't have imagined that Zheng Zhilong suddenly rose and constantly provoked himself. At the same time, some people in the Ming Dynasty also began to gradually turn their backs on themselves.

This led to Li Xiang's rejection of the idea of returning to Daming.

Otherwise, with the wealth that Li Xiang now has, he will return to Daming to buy 100,000 acres of land, hire hundreds of domestic slaves, and captive the old brothers who are pirates together. It's still okay to be a good landlord in Daming.

It's just that God didn't even give him this hope, which made Li Xiang very frustrated.

Is it really the cycle of karma that is unpleasant, this is God punishing himself?

As the saying goes, the hound must eventually die on the mountain, and the general will inevitably die in battle.

I've been a pirate all my life. So do you have to dedicate your life to the sea, like the pirate opponent who was killed by yourself before, and become a stepping stone for the young Zheng Zhilong?

Yes, when Li Xiang was young. Very similar to Zheng Zhilong.

It was also by constantly challenging the old pirate leaders at that time that he slowly gained his current status.

But now that feng shui is turning, he has also encountered the same fate as the predecessor he provoked.

I was constantly challenged by a young guy. And gradually at a disadvantage.

This made Li Xiang can't help but start believing that in this world, it seems that there is really such a thing as fate and reincarnation in the underworld, otherwise how could this be?

The world of pirates is brutal.

When Li Xiang was young, he was much bloodier than Zheng Zhilong.

However, as Li Xiang grew older, his thoughts continued to change a lot.

In recent years, Li Xiang has even begun to eat fasting and chanting Buddha.

I don't know if Lu Dao thought about the excessive killing he had done when he was young, so he feels repentant now?

Perhaps, Li Xiang really wants to be a good person.

It's just that after Li Xiang transformed, he didn't get the things he wanted. On the contrary, many people began to feel that the once powerful Sea Dragon King was no longer sharp, so many people began to abandon him.

This is the case in the world of pirates, where the strong have always been respected.

It's like a pack of lions, the old lion king will eventually be overthrown and replaced by a new, younger and stronger lion king.

This is not only the case in lions, but even in groups of many animals.

It's just that there are more groups of carnivores, and things like this happen more often.

And although man is different from those beasts, some of his actions are no different from those of beasts.

Especially among pirates who pay attention to the law of the jungle, one strong person attracts others more.

And Li Xiang's performance in recent years obviously does not look like the work of a strong man.

He was weak, and even had a charitable heart.

Someone like him is no longer suitable for mixing pirates in the eyes of others, and continues to command everyone.

On the contrary, Zheng Zhilong, who was young and cunning, and his strength was growing, showed his strength to all the pirates of the East.

All of a sudden, everyone saw a young leader again.

Compared to a leader who is already aging, a significantly younger leader is more attractive.

Especially in the confrontation in recent years, Li Xiang has continued to lose people, while Zheng Zhilong has a good relationship with the Europeans, so he will gain their support, and at the same time, he also took refuge in the Ming Dynasty and became the governor of Fujian, so he can use the name of the imperial court to fight Li Xiang.

The power of the imperial court, plus the power of Zheng Zhilong's own pirates on the sea. There is also the strength of the united Europeans, how can these three forces be dealt with by Li Xiang combined.

I have to say that there are talents from all generations, and a new generation replaces the old.

Li Xiang is because of his outdated concept and thinks that he is a pirate and cannot be punished, so he will end up like this.

And Zheng Zhilong, because of his active brain, suddenly saw the benefits here, so he had the current situation.

Looks. In this world, it is still very realistic and cruel for young people to replace the elderly.

The flotilla swooped down the surface of the sea, and countless seabirds circled around the flotilla.

In winter, the climate in the Wakoku Sea is still very cold.

However, the farther the fleet sailed south, the warmer the temperature became.

Amami Island

This island, which was made into the nest of the Li family group, is located at the southern tip of Kyushu, between Kagoshima and Naha. It's an island you won't find if you're not careful, and it's perfect for pirates to settle in.

Amami Island is only 10 square kilometers in size and is surrounded by a large number of reefs.

If it weren't for a ship that was familiar with the topography of the nearby waters. It's impossible to break into Amami Island recklessly.

Amami Island has a natural harbor where hundreds of ships can dock at the same time.

Since Li Xiang rose to prominence and discovered this island decades ago, he has occupied this island and built it into an important base of the Li family group.

On this island. The pirates under Li Xiang's command have built their own residences here. And there are many pirate families who live here.

The population here is even at its most glorious. It reached 20,000 people.

There is even a small market on the island where people can buy and sell.

It's like. It's a small city.

Originally, the people of the Li family group living here were carefree, but with the rise of Zheng Zhilong, this situation has changed.

First of all, many of the pirates who were originally under Li Xiang's command have left the Li family group. He went to Taiwan to seek refuge with Zheng Zhilong, and with the departure of these people, the number of residents on Amami Island also declined rapidly.

At the same time, when the confrontation between Li Xiang and Zheng Zhilong continued to suffer heavy losses, the speed of this population passed even faster.

In the past few years, the population of Amami Island has plummeted from more than 20,000 in its glory days to more than 6,000. The reduction of 70% is not striking.

Especially half a month ago, Li Xiang's kowtow took away as many as 2,000 people from his brothers.

It can be said that the people who remain on Amami Island today are basically die-hard people of the Li family group.

These people are either related to the Li family, or they have no way out.

They had no other choice than to follow Li Xiang closely.

What makes Li Xiang even more troublesome is that most of these people who stay are old, weak, sick and disabled. It's either older brothers, or some dolls who are still very young.

The sturdy lads almost all followed the others.

For such a situation, Li Xiang is also very helpless and helpless.

Who made him no longer have the glory of the past, and he is already dying?

Now Li Xiang is so not much, I just hope to get through this difficulty.

But this idea is already a luxury for him.

Because Li Xiang understands Zheng Zhilong, this guy is not a kind person.

He's going to kill himself before he stops.

In addition to the fact that this is Zheng Zhilong's nature, this is also the rule of the pirate world.

In particular, Zheng Zhilong needs to use the collapse of the Li family group to demonstrate the deterrent power of his Zheng family group.

Therefore, it is necessary to use the heads and blood of the Li family group to demonstrate to others.

When Li Xiang and his nephew Yang Biao talked on deck for an hour, the fleet returned to Amami Island.

The fleet circled around the island, rounding the reefs, before entering the harbor.

When the crew returned, the shore was already full of women and girls, and when the men stepped off the boat one by one, the greetings were immediately heard.

The children threw themselves into their father's arms, and the women breathed a sigh of relief when they saw their man return.

Some of the old people greeted them with smiles and looked for their families.

Li Xiang's family didn't come, it's not that they didn't want to, but Li Xiang didn't want them to come.

"Big boss, where did these nineteen big ships come from?"

Everyone is still very curious about the nineteen sea ships that Li Xiang and the others got back.

They were all people who begged for a living on the eastern seas, so they all recognized this as a European sea ship.

For this, they have no problem.

It's just that they wonder that when their big boss left, there weren't so many European ships.

How is it that after going to Nagasaki once, there are 19 more European ships when you come back?

Because I have dealt with Europeans and fought with Europeans at sea, we still know a lot about European sea ships.

Fast speed, many cannons, and strong defense are advantages, and the big guys are very clear.

"Wow! The one who got rich and the big boss didn't rob the fleet of those southern barbarians. ”

At the moment, there are people speculating.

"Probably not, looking at the appearance of the big boss and his brothers, it seems that they have not gone through a naval battle. And the dolls who followed the big boss also came back one by one. If you rob the merchant fleet of those southern barbarians, you will have to lose a lot of manpower. ”

"But if that's not the case, then where did these ships come from? Could it still be given by those southern barbarians? Lao Tzu didn't believe in this thing, those Southern Barbarians were not a good thing, they couldn't do such a thing. ”

"Perhaps, it was the big boss in Nagasaki who took advantage of the defenselessness of those southern barbarians to get these sea ships back. Maybe that's the case. ”

"Hehe, no matter what, with these nineteen sea ships, we don't have to be afraid of that Zheng Baiyan anymore."

Before Li Xiang could answer this question, many people on the shore began to express their guesses.

It's like they came up with all sorts of speculations, but none of them were right.

They can't be blamed for that, though.

Even if Li Xiang really told the truth, everyone would not believe it.

The one who had asked the question of the nineteen ships was a burly old man in his fifties, with a wrinkled face and unkempt arms.

This old man's name is Lin Zhaodi, and he is an old brother who has been together since Li Xiang was young.

It's just because he broke an arm in a confrontation with Zheng Zhilong a few years ago, and he is not too young to be older, so he was left on the island as a steward.

It was he who saw nineteen European ships entering the harbor as soon as he opened his eyes, so he came over and asked.

"Big boss, I have one more thing to tell you, Liu Da Scar and Master Wang are back."

Lin Zhaodi didn't wait for Li Xiang to answer the question he just asked, and immediately threw out another thing.

What Brother Lin Zhaodi said after the most abrupt suddenly made Li Xiang's eyes widen, and it was incredible.

What, Liu Da Scar and Wang Fuzi are all back? (To be continued......)