Although the maritime merchant ship owners are polite, they are very perfunctory, because they are used to being free at sea, and they often don't care about the shore and land, and feel that the sea is boundless, and they are really going to fall out.

It seems that the news of the success of guarding the port and the great victory in the artillery battle is enough to convince people, Shi Manqiang knows it, and just raises his voice and says: "Your ships have been damaged in the artillery battle, and all the losses will be borne by Yunshan Xing. ”

As soon as he said this, everyone was excited, and immediately sobered up, and the smile on his face changed from polite awe to joy, and someone shouted loudly: "The fourth master is benevolent, Xuzhou is benevolent!" ”

can defeat such a strong pirate and ghost gunboat, there are so many tigers and werewolves on the shore, not to mention that this damage is also for the safety of everyone's people and goods, even if you open your mouth to let everyone share the cost of military salaries, everyone can only smile and worship, I never thought that I could pay compensation here, this is not what benevolence and righteousness are.

"I'm here to ask everyone, we built this port in Xuzhou and people have no grievances, why provoke such an enemy, what do you think, although you say, whether it's right or wrong, I Xuzhou will promise you a friendship!" Shi Manqiang said loudly.

Hearing Shi Manqiang say this, the hall became a little quiet, everyone looked at each other, and one of them said: "Don't hide it from the fourth master, this Haizhou Port is special in the ports of Daming, needless to say, the port of the official family is stationed, there are officials and military sailors stationed in it, and no one dares to go there to provoke right and wrong, and the other private ports, which are all protected by the sea lords, and no one has tossed in the past, but this Haizhou Port is not an official family, and there is no sea lord dragon to protect it, this seems to be more and more prosperous day by day, and it is difficult to ensure that no one is eyeing it." ”

After this person finished speaking, everyone in the hall echoed one after another, and some people shouted: "The official port is also closely watched by the sea lords, not to mention anything else, there is not Zhong Bin's shop in Ningbo, if you want to anchor and unload goods there, and if you want to go to the nearby ocean to carry goods safely, you have to go to the shop to buy flags and brands." ”

"That's right, Guangdong and Fujian also have such rules, this sea is the world of the sea lords, they don't want to come if there is no oil and water in the north, but this Haizhou Port and Clam Bay are becoming more and more prosperous, and some people must be greedy!"

"Those ghosts are not people who don't know the severity, how many times have the dragons on the sea fought with them, they have already let them know that they are powerful, there is a place where the sea lords and dragons are guarding, they will definitely not dare to go, I guess I know that this Haizhou Port is a void!"

When he was gossiping, someone stood up and said: "Fourth master, our Zheng family is also doing business in Haizhou Port, this group of ghosts and pirates who are not long-eyed came to offend, not only offended Xuzhou, but also couldn't get along with our Zheng family, please tell the fourth master to enter the master, and our Zheng family will definitely investigate to the end." ”

After saying this, the son of the Zheng family who stayed behind glanced at the people in the hall, and the scene immediately quieted down, Shi Manqiang nodded, and saw that no one spoke, so he raised his voice and said: "I've been waiting for you for so long, everyone has worked hard, just go back and rest, you can leave Haizhou Port tomorrow, everyone has a flag and water sign on the ship, and there must be no trouble going to sea." ”

After explaining this, Shi Manqiang greeted him politely a few times, and then led everyone out of the hall, his office near the port was not far from here, and when he got there, Ye Wenwen was already waiting in the house.

"The one left by the Zheng family is a little wrong, but it can't be said to be suspicious." Shi Manqiang muttered in a muffled voice,

After sitting down, Shi Manqiang said: "The captured foreigners and pirates have been tortured, and the foreigners said that someone gave them a commission of several thousand taels of silver, and asked them to come to Haizhou Port to rob the deposited silver, and also said that there is an iron box containing documents in the deposit, which is important, and these foreigners have heard many people say that Haizhou Port is rich, as for the other pirates, there are more than 1,000 people from Zhong Bin, and the rest are young men recruited from everywhere, but these thousands of people are not Zhong Bin's descendants. ”

He said here, Ye Shushu was recording at a rapid pace, and after he finished writing, he looked up and said: "It is clear that someone brought this wave of pirates over, and it must be inseparable from the Zheng family, because we have contained the remnants of the Li family, so we came up with this trick of borrowing a knife to kill people!" ”

"The reason is not bad, but you can't catch the evidence, whether it is a foreigner or other pirates, they can't say what they have to do with the Zheng family, they only say that they are others, and the Zheng family is not so stupid, and they will not let their own family come forward to do this." Shi Manqiang replied in a deep voice, Ye Wenwen was angry and nodded helplessly.

Shi Manqiang's face was also very gloomy, and he said in a low voice: "The family members of the fort are brave enough to kill the enemy, but the artillery of the foreigners is also sharp, we have lost nearly 100 good sons, in the past few years, the family Ding regiment has practiced the southern expedition and the northern war, when have there been so many casualties, our Huai'an North District has lost face!" ”

Ye Wenwen's face was also ugly, and he hesitated again and again before whispering: "Fourth master, you want to write a few more"

After saying this, without waiting for Shi Manqiang to speak, Ye Wenwen himself shook his head again and again and said: "Confused, confused, how dare you deceive." ”

Over there, Shi Manqiang sighed and said, "Lao Ye, what can you do if you hide it, dozens of brothers are dead, what is written." ”

Next, the ships entered and left the port normally, there was no sudden killing fleet, and no merchant ships were intercepted halfway, and they all calmed down, but the number of patrolmen and internal guards in the port was doubled, and the personnel on each ship entering and leaving the port would be strictly inspected, and the unruly people at sea did not dare to complain, and the two tattered plywood ships were moored in the port, which is the proof of the strength of Haizhou Port.

Several of the destroyed forts have already begun to be rebuilt, and new ones are being built so that there are no shelling spots inside and outside the port, which is also a deterrent.

After the news was sent to Xuzhou, there was a reply soon, and there was no leniency in the disposal of foreign prisoners, "select those who have skills and abilities for life, and the rest will be executed according to the number of dead family members, and they will be hanged by the port to deter everyone."

After getting the reply, Shi Manqiang didn't even postpone it until the next day, and started to do it on the same day, the people erected wooden frames on the seashore of the port, and the family members dragged the foreign captives up to hang them, and some people wanted to struggle and poked a few holes with knives and guns and then hung them up, the whole wharf cried and screamed, and the merchant ships in and out were trembling, and the ships that came in and out next would also see these prisoners hanging on them, and some people would tell them that this was a pirate attacking Haizhou Port.

One in ten of the captives survived, and they all knew all the skills of the ship, and they did not know why when they were tortured, and only after seeing their comrades who died tragically did they know how correct it was to learn something.

But what is even more unexpected is that on the third day of the arrival of the order to dispose of the prisoners, Zhao Jin also came to the side of Haizhou Port, although the news was kept secret from the outside world, but it still shocked the Second Brigade and Huai'an North District, this Haizhou Port from the construction to the beginning of the operation process, Zhao Jin has not come, but this time it came, is it that the death and injury of nearly 100 Ding, and the invasion of pirates are so strict?

As usual on trips, Ji Xiang led the elite of the Guards Brigade and the backbone escort of the Horse Riding Regiment, Wang Zhaojing, who would follow him in the past, is now inseparable, and there are too many things waiting for him to deal with in the center of the Zhaozi camp in Xuzhou, and another unexpected thing is that the foreigner Louis also came over, and there are some fresh faces, and after asking, I know that it is the craftsmen of the craftsman hall, what are these people doing here.

Zhao Jin visited the injured family and presided over the funeral of the sacrificed family, which was a matter of course, and then Zhao Jin looked at the fort on the mountain, chatted with every family member who participated in the battle, and asked every detail, which is also the right thing to do, but then, Zhao Jin's focus was on the two captured Galen ships.

Accompanied Zhao in to the port dock, looking at the two ships parked there, now the ship has been sprinkled with quicklime, and a general cleaning has been carried out, but it still looks old and dilapidated, far less dazzling than a few newly built Guangzhou ships and Fu ships in the port, but Zhao Jin is engrossed, Shi Manqiang rarely sees such a look on Zhao Jin's face, he vaguely remembers that Zhao Jin had such an expression when he talked about firearms, and he didn't think anything at the time, and now Shi Manqiang already knows the infinite power of firearms and artillery.

It was not enough to see on the dock, Zhao Jin still had to get on the boat to see, Shi Manqiang did not dare to be careless, arranged a few good water and sailors to follow, and specially arranged small boats around the two Galen boats, Shi Manqiang still had a fear of the sea, and he was also trembling when he followed Zhao Jin on the boat.

The foreigner Louis was familiar with the structure of this plywood ship, and specially captured two foreigner sailors who were not executed to explain, and the two foreigner sailors showed incredible expressions on their faces after seeing Louis wearing Daming clothes next to Zhao Jin.

I thought I would come down from the deck, but I never thought that Zhao Jin had to look carefully from the deck to the cabin, layer by layer, even if it was a very inconspicuous place, I had to ask clearly, in Shi Manqiang's opinion, this foreigner's plywood ship may not be much better than the Ming Dynasty's Guangchuan Fu ship, and the foreigner's ship is too high from the water, and he always feels unstable.

"What kind of ship is this kind of ship?" Zhao Jin asked.

"Back to Lord Jin's question, this is an armed merchant ship running the Middle East and Far East routes, they should be going back and forth between Tianzhu, Nanyang and Wa and Daming, that is, ordinary armed merchant ships, if it is a real warship, a ship must have forty guns." Louis replied in the Mandarin of Xuzhou, where he was fluent, though some words were expressed in French and Latin, and then interpreted in Chinese.

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