"By the way, Lin Qiang, since you have filed a case and paid taxes in the city before going to sea, you don't need to pay commercial taxes this time." Before these maritime merchants were about to leave, Mao Liangzhe said suddenly.

"Huh? Thank you, Lord Mao, thank you......" The little maritime merchant named Lin Qiang was pleasantly surprised, and he hurriedly opened his mouth to thank him. Although his business is not large, it is also a sales volume of tens of thousands of taels of silver, which saves thousands of taels at once, but it is a lot of money.

Suddenly, nearly a hundred pairs of eyes looked at Lin Qiang, and many of them were full of envy. Not to mention anything else, this Lin Qiang at least picked it out of this turmoil.

Mao Liangzhe smiled slightly, this Lin Qiang was so honest that he took the initiative to tax the city shipping department, although the tax silver did not come to the Royal Maritime Trade Firm, although most of the tax silver would be embezzled by the officials of the city shipping department, but such honest and obedient maritime merchants must be rewarded, so that more maritime merchants will pay taxes honestly.

The eleventh tax, for the sea trade that often makes several times the profits, is really nothing, take out a sum of silver to pay the tax, to avoid offending the royal maritime trade firm, to avoid offending the emperor, you can do maritime business openly, for some maritime merchants who do not have much background, it is actually very cost-effective. After all, the background of the Royal Maritime Trade Company is too big, and the Ming Emperor is behind it, and the entire Fujian army is backing, so it is really unaffordable.

Under Mao Liangzhe's gaze, these maritime representatives each left Fukue Island by boat. As for what they will do when they go back, Mao Liangzhe doesn't want to bother to guess, what the Royal Maritime Trade Company wants to do now is to kill chickens and monkeys, and take those maritime merchants who dare not come to the meeting!

"General Zheng, it's time to do it." Looking at the nearly 100 boats that had gone away, Mao Liangzhe said to Zheng Zhilong.

"Do you really want to play that big?" Zheng Zhilong was a little hesitant. Once you do it, the situation will be uncontrollable, although the Royal Maritime Trading Company has many ships and soldiers, but if those maritime merchants are united, there are many more ships, and they will definitely be able to compete with the Royal Maritime Trading Company. And what will the Wakoku shogunate do?

"Just play! First of all, take those maritime merchants who did not come to the meeting, kill chickens and monkeys, I want to see who dares to go against the royal family! Mao Liangzhe glanced at Zheng Zhilong coldly, and his tone was full of murderous aura.

"Okay, I'll take the fleet and set off!" Being glanced at coldly by Mao Liangzhe, Zheng Zhilong couldn't help but shiver, and didn't dare to hesitate at the moment.

If it is said that last year, the Royal Sea Trade Company was still very dependent on Zheng Zhilong's old brother, but after a year, many coastal fishermen were recruited to join the Praetorian Guard, and the Royal Sea Trade House already had enough crews, and only half of the seafarers who went to sea this time were Zheng Zhilong's old brothers, and the soldiers of the escort fleet were all from the Fujian Janissaries.

Therefore, although Zheng Zhilong is called the commander of the fleet, it is Mao Liangzhe who really has the right to speak. And Mao Liangzhe is the emperor's confidant, Zheng Zhilong will not dare to offend no matter what.

Zheng Zhilong personally went out and took a full twenty sea ships, including two Galen ships, and sailed towards the other islands. The details of the Daming maritime merchants who came to Nagasaki have long been investigated, and the maritime merchants who came to the meeting have all been registered, and it is clear at a glance that those people did not come.

There are about a dozen maritime merchants who did not come, half of them are real pirates, and the pirate profession is robbery, but the stolen goods also need to be stolen, and there is no more convenient place to sell stolen goods than the Japanese country. For these real pirates, they have no foundation on land, and they are naturally not afraid of being targeted by the emperor, so are they willing to pay attention to the Royal Maritime Trade Firm?

The other half of the maritime merchants who did not attend the meeting were from Fujian, from Fuzhou and other merchants. Fujian's merchant gang and the Royal Maritime Trade Company have become fire and water, and naturally they refuse to obey the call of the Royal Maritime Trade Firm. They have a large fleet, and their union is no worse than the Royal Maritime Trading Company, and they are naturally not afraid of the Royal Maritime Trading Company in this country.

In Kuga Island, Lin Fu and Wu Zheng are drinking each other. Lin Fu is the servant of Lin Rui of the Fuzhou Merchant Gang, responsible for managing the route of the Fuzhou Merchant Gang, and Wu Zheng is the cousin of Wu Huang, the leader of the Funing Merchant Gang, and is the person in charge of the route of the Funing Merchant Gang.

In this war, Fuzhou and Funing merchants each came with seven or eight three-masted ships, adding up to a total of 15 or 6 sea-going ships, and the crew members added up to more than 1,000, and they were all anchored on Kuga Island. Moreover, this is a Japanese country, and there is no need to give face to the Royal Maritime Trade Company.

"Master Wu, what did you say that the man surnamed Mao would do when he convened a meeting of various maritime merchants?" Lin Fu couldn't help but say, chatting together, it was inevitable to talk about this matter.

"What else can I do, I have inquired about the fleet of the Royal Maritime Trading Company this time, and there are less than ten sea vessels that are actually full of goods. They can't buy goods in Fujian, and seeing that they can't make money, most of them want to get some ideas from each family so that they can get more goods next year. Wu Zheng smiled.

"Alas, someone should have been sent over to take a look, so that it would be clear what the idea of the surnamed Mao and Zheng Zhilong was." Lin Fu sighed.

"If we send someone, the person surnamed Mao has made an unreasonable request to us, will we agree? It's better to ignore them like this. This is the Wa Kingdom, they don't dare to do anything to us here, if they anger the Wa Shogunate, they will probably not be allowed to trade next year. Wu Zheng said disapprerovingly.

"But Master Wu, tell me why they don't have so many goods, why there are so many ships, there are as many as twenty-five Daifuku ships, including two plywood ships. I don't think they have any bad intentions at all. Lin Fu frowned.

"Maybe it's because they're afraid that someone will rob the sea ships, they have done bad things, they robbed us so many ships last year, and this year they must be afraid that we will secretly do something to their sea ships, so they sent a large number of warships to escort them. Fu Bo, you don't have to be afraid, we won't go to these five islands, as long as the monsoon is together, let's sail away from the Japanese country immediately, I don't believe it, in the vast sea, where can they find our fleet! Wu Zheng said confidently.

"Oh no, more than a dozen sea ships have been killed from Fukue Island." Suddenly, a crew member ran over in a panic and reported.

"What?" The two of them were taken aback, jumped up like a fire burning their buttocks, and quickly ran outside to look into the sea, and saw that a few miles away, more than a dozen sea ships were sailing towards Kuga Island, all of which were three-masted sea ships, huge in size, and looking at their speed, they were clearly ill-intentioned.

"It's the ship of the Royal Maritime Trading House! Order, everyone get on board, pull anchor and set sail, and get ready for battle! Lin Fu shouted, and he saw at a glance that two of them were the Galen ships of Xiyi. Under the blow of the Royal Maritime Trading Company, the red-haired ghost Dutch who were the big members of the country this year were not able to come to the Japanese to trade, and there were only two Saiyi Galen ships around Nagasaki, all of which belonged to the Royal Maritime Trading Company.

"The surname Mao, Zheng Zhilong, is so bold that he dares to do something to us!" Wu Zheng was furious. He never thought that Mao Liangzhe and Zheng Zhilong would dare to make a move, wouldn't they be afraid of angering the Japanese shogunate?

However, no matter how angry it is, the immediate priority is to quickly enter the sea ship to meet it. The combined manpower of the Fuzhou merchant gang and the Funing gang in the Japanese state was not much worse than that of the royal maritime trading firm, at least they were evenly matched, and as long as there was a fight, the Japanese shogunate would definitely intervene.

However, the Royal Maritime Trading Company came too quickly, it was simply a sneak attack, and now it was only five or six miles away from the bay where the sea ships were moored, and it was really difficult to get all the sea ships up in such a short time.

Although there are crew members left behind on each seagoing ship, the number is too small, and now all the seagoing ships have lowered their anchors and lowered their sails, and the anchor sails are complicated to operate, and it takes time to get the ship up and running......

"Boom, boom, boom" There were still three or four miles away, the warship of the Royal Sea Trade Company opened fire, and several shells flew over, fell into the bay, splashing several huge water columns, Wu Zheng and Lin Fu were already desperate.

The time was too short, and their crew didn't have time to get the ship up at all, and the sea ships that didn't start were just targets in front of more than a dozen sea ships on the other side.

Zheng Zhilong personally led, more than ten sea ships rushed into the bay, two Galen ships were moored on the periphery, the side of the ship rushed to the bay, and began to shoot, each Galen ship was equipped with more than forty cannons, that is, Hongyi cannons, dozens of Hongyi cannons fired at the same time, the power is really amazing!

Under the frightened gaze of Wu Zheng and Lin Fu, one of his own sea ships was hit several times and sank into the sea at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The two Galen ships took turns firing and sank one of the ships, Liwei, and then fired at the pier to prevent the island's merchant crews from boarding the ship, and did not continue to bombard the ship.

After all, it is easy to sink large ships, but every large ship carries silver cargo, and it is more cost-effective to capture these sea ships.

So the two Galen ships sat outside the bay, and the other three-masted ships rushed into the bay, knocking over countless small ships that were approaching the big ship, and the merchant crew on the small ship fell into the sea with a scream before they could climb onto their own big ship. Compared to the huge three-masted ships, these small boats that transport the crew are like bathtubs.

Quickly approaching the moored merchant ship, connected by flying claws, the Praetorian Guard soldiers on the three-masted ship quickly climbed towards the merchant ship.

The crew members who stayed behind on the merchant ships were naturally unwilling to be taken away, and they took swords to cut the ropes connecting the ships on both sides, trying to prevent the other party from joining the gang, however, "bang bang bang", a round of gunshots rang out, and these merchant crew members fell in a pool of blood.

As the Praetorian Guards boarded the ship, the merchant ships were seized, and then their sails were hoisted and sailed out to sea.

If you want to board your own three-masted ship, you must take a small boat on the pier to approach the three-masted ship, and then climb up the rope ladder. After all, the dock here is very simple, and coupled with the rush of time, the three-masted fortune ship can't get close to the dock at all.

At this moment, Wu Zheng was sitting on a small sampan, and more than a dozen of his subordinates were rowing desperately, trying to send him to a nearby three-masted ship. The anchor of the three-masted ship has been pulled out of the sea, and the sails are slowly rising, as long as you can climb onto the ship not far away and set sail, there is a good chance that you will escape from the siege of the Royal Sea Trading House. As for defeating the attacking fleet of the Royal Maritime Trade Firm, Wu Zheng had no hope.

However, just as the small boat he was riding on was about to approach the three-masted fortune boat, suddenly a huge shadow covered him, Wu Zheng looked up in horror, and saw a fortune ship of the Royal Maritime Trade Company rushing over, the bow of the ship was as tall as a city tower, and it hit the small sampan sitting down, and the small sampan was as small as an ant compared to the lucky boat.

"Ah!!h Wu Zheng stood up straight, raised his head and roared at the bumped fortune boat, and then the roar stopped abruptly, and the entire sampan was forced to sink to the bottom of the sea by the fortune boat.

Lin Fu was lucky, and successfully boarded a lucky ship. However, his luck ended there, as a fortune ship from the Royal Maritime Trading House approached, and dozens of flying claws held the two ships together, and then the sound of fire rang out one after another, and the crew on the deck fell in a pool of blood.

Standing on the stern, watching the heavily armed Praetorian Guards board the ship, Lin Fu's face showed a look of despair, and finally he gritted his teeth and jumped from the stern and into the sea. The sea water in early winter was so cold, it was so cold that Lin Fu was wearing a thick cotton coat, he couldn't swim at all, and he didn't plan to swim at all, but let his body sink to the bottom of the sea. He is the son of the Lin family in Fuzhou, and is deeply trusted by the head of the family, Lin Rui, to manage the entire fleet.

From the time they rushed into the bay to the end of the battle, the battle lasted only half an hour, and the Fuzhou and Funing merchant gangs were all wiped out, except for one sunk Fu ship, all the three-masted Fu ships fell into the hands of the Royal Maritime Trading Company.

Looking at the more than ten lucky boats captured in the bay, Zheng Zhilong only felt satisfied.

"Shi Tianfu led people to land, searched the island, moved the gold and silver goods that could be found to the ship, paid attention to military discipline when searching, and anyone who dared to hide gold and silver privately would be dealt with by military law." Zheng Zhilong said in a deep voice.

"Yes!" Shi Tianfu took people away.

"Send someone to rescue the person who fell into the water, Lin Tiansheng, you take five boats to take care of the aftermath, and the other ships will follow me to Nagasaki Port!" Zheng Zhilong continued.

Twenty seagoing ships, including the Galen ship, came to Kuga Island to deal with the Fuzhou and Funing merchant gangs, and the other ten ships were led by Zheng Zhihu to deal with the pirate ships in Nagasaki Port.

Although the five islands were large, they belonged to the major powers, and the small maritime merchants and pirates were not qualified to have a residence in the five islands, so they could only stay in the port of Nagasaki, and the Wakoku shogunate gave the maritime merchants a special place to live in Nagasaki, and their ships were parked in the port of Nagasaki.

The situation of the pirate ships that did not go to Fukue Island to attend the meeting had already been figured out, and Zheng Zhihu led the fleet to attack these pirate ships. Because it was a surprise attack, it shouldn't be much of a problem to defeat these pirates.

However, the war in Nagasaki Port was bound to cause a shock on the part of the Wa Shogunate, and Zheng Zhilong had to quickly lead a fleet to support.

If the Wakoku shogunate wants to interfere, I can't say that I will have to fight with them!

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