"Do pirates appear so often?" Shao Zhiqiu asked.

Lu Dong shook his head, "I can meet once or twice a year." ”

"What if you meet it?"

"Break the fortune and avoid disaster." Lu Dong said bitterly. "We people, for the bandits, are like leeks, we can't pull out the roots all at once, we can still harvest a year if we keep the roots, and this time the goods will be enough for them to spend a year or two."

"People won't have a mortal enmity if they are fine, and the sea is the home of the pirates, and our navy in the Great Zhou still can't afford to spend it with them."

Lu Dong thought for a while, and then said, "It's just that we are still far away from Da Zhou now, how can we be targeted?" ”

Jiang Qian wanted to speak on the side, but Shao Zhiqiu asked directly, "What is Mr. Jiang's opinion?" ”

Jiang Qian hesitated for a moment, and finally said respectfully, "I also heard from some people in Luzhou, saying yes, saying that being a bandit is the most stable and good errand now!" The fishing villages on the border of Luzhou were originally inhabited by fishermen, but since some fishermen committed crimes and fled to the sea, more and more fishermen have been dragged into the gang. ”

"You're saying those pirates are fishermen?" Shao Zhiqiu and Qi Wu glanced at each other in shock, and even Lu Dong was a little surprised.

Just look at his attitude, I'm afraid that he didn't know about it.

"Not all, and some of them usually go back to the fishing village to fish, and they also keep an eye on various ports, calculating the time when the merchant ships will leave the port and arrive at the port, and when they estimate that the merchant ships are coming back, they will go to sea to meet the bandits."

Shao Zhiqiu has rarely been so angry.

"Are the people of Luzhou having a bad time?"

"The people in the city live very richly, after all, there are many merchants coming and going in Luzhou, but the fishermen in the village are not necessarily, after all, the fishermen's days depend on the sea to enjoy food. But no matter what, with the light of Luzhou City, life is much more comfortable than before. ”

Then why not be satisfied!

Qi Wu gently patted Shao Zhiqiu's back, "Solve the current matter first, and the matter of the pirates can be discussed in the long run." ”

Shao Zhiqiu knew that what Qi Wu said was right, so he immediately began to ask Lu Dong how to arrange the defense.

Lu Dong pondered and said. "In the past, they didn't attack treasure ships, our ships were equipped with heavy crossbows specially approved by the imperial court, and as long as they hit their ships, they would be scrapped directly, but in the same way, they also had the means to deal with our ordinary merchant ships. So, therefore, most of the time, the caravan would leave a ship's cargo for them. ”

The implication is that there is no defense, and he is still ready to break the bank.

"And now, now that you two are on board, we can't be in danger!"

How could Lu Dong not understand what Shao Zhiqiu meant, she calmed down her emotions for a while, knowing that this was the best way now, she couldn't let these thousands of crew members take risks with her because of her momentary anger.

Seeing Shao Zhiqiu nodding with difficulty, Lu Dong finally breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time, the awe of Shao Zhiqiu in his heart became stronger and stronger.

It's not that he hasn't heard that Shao Zhiqiu once raised a knife to kill the enemy in front of the horse formation, but those are all on land and sea, they don't have any advantages, he is really afraid that Shao Zhiqiu will rush into the blood and lead them to fight a battle that has no meaning if he wins.

OK!

"Please also ask the master to move, otherwise those pirates are afraid that there will be more trouble when they see a woman on the ship."

Shao Zhiqiu didn't refute, and turned around and went back to the cabin directly.

Qi Wu waited quietly on the deck for all this to happen in front of them, a shipload of goods, saying that it was gone.

Listening to Lu Dong's polite dealings with the bandits, suffering losses but not daring to tear his face, Qi Wu suddenly felt that this was the incompetence of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

It turns out that the world is not as quiet as they see on weekdays.

After Shao Zhiqiu returned to the cabin, she did not hide what happened outside Qi Run and Qi Heng, nor did she hide her choice.

No matter how impulsive Qi Run is, she also knows that now is not the time for her to be willful.

"The Queen Mother! I must be a general in the future! We must leave no piece of armor left behind to destroy these pirates! ”

Now that it has been decided, he can't let this matter affect his mood anymore, Shao Zhiqiu patted Qi Run's back with a smile, signaling her not to be anxious and calm down.

And Qi Heng, who was angry, forgot about it in a blink of an eye because he was young. At the cost of losing a whole ship's cargo, Shao Zhiqiu, Lu Dong and others finally returned to the territory of the Great Zhou Dynasty, in the city of Luzhou.

Ignoring Lu Dong's desire to keep them, Shao Zhiqiu left Qi Wu with Qi Run and Qi Heng, while he changed his clothes and went to a fishing village near Luzhou according to the information provided by Lu Dong.

Hearing is false, seeing is believing.

If there are really people who change their clothes and become bandits, Shao Zhiqiu will definitely punish them severely.

The facts made Shao Zhiqiu very heartbroken, which also proved one thing, the imperial court was not prepared for the rapid development of Luzhou.

After Shao Zhiqiu went back to meet Qi Wu, he explained the situation to Qi Wu one by one.

Qi Wu sighed, "Maybe we won't have the life of Xianyun Wild Crane." ”

Shao Zhiqiu was also speechless in her heart.

"And what are you going to do now?"

"Anyway, let's go to the army first to see what the navy has developed in recent years, and ask why it has not been effective in suppressing bandits for so many years."

"Since I'm looking for trouble, I'm afraid it won't work to go like this, let people go to Huizhou and transfer the defenders there."

Shao Zhiqiu looked at Qi Run and Qi Heng and nodded.

Now they can only take these two children with them, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, and they don't feel at ease with anyone.

Especially now, it is not known whether the defenders of Luzhou have a problem, and who has a problem.

In October of the fourth year of Xuantong, the first Great Zhou Bao ship-class warship was born, the Great Zhou Navy was rectified, the Emperor Taishang and the Queen Mother personally led the troops into battle, along the coastline of Luzhou to inspect hundreds of nautical miles, along the way to clean up the bandits hiding on the island, this clean-up lasted for three years, until the seventh year of Xuantong, there were no more bandits on the coast of the Great Zhou, and the imperial court was ordered, but those who dared to communicate with the bandits, regardless of their identity, were decided.

Under the heavy ceremony, the people who were confused by the gold leaf gradually calmed down.

Shao Zhiqiu and Qi Wu were also relieved.

However, in the past three years, they have not only cleared out the pirates, but also continued to sail westward along the coastline, discovering many countries on the western continent that do not border the Great Zhou.

This made Shao Zhiqiu and Qi Wu excited in their hearts.

Miss Qi Run's etiquette has been at sea, in the past few years, she has been too addicted to galloping on the battlefield, although she can't gallop on the boat, but in the end, she is also fighting with real knives and guns, even if her little face is tanned, she is still full of interest.

It's just that this time she is really dead, even the pirates are gone, and her dream of being a general is over.

As for the trade with the Western Continent, Shao Zhiqiu handed it over to the local imperial merchants.