According to the regulations, the Ming army did not intend to ask for prisoners of war, but the behavior of the red-haired ghost made Zhang Youde very incomprehensible, so the remaining fourteen Francoji soldiers and an officer plus a few priests were loaded onto the ship.

More than 9,000 merchants, sailors, and civilians were captured, including 200 Han Chinese, who were also loaded onto ships, and the rest were pushed to the beach by the vicious soldiers, who were instructed that in order to survive, they must hand over all their valuables.

Soon, countless pieces of gold and silver jewelry began to pile up on the beach into a hill that filled two small boats. The fleet of sailors began to move slowly towards the coastline, and a group of sailors and sailors began to take over the ships anchored near the dock, and all the large ships returned with the fleet, and when they returned to the base, they would be easily converted into warships or transport ships, while the medium and small ships were all scuttled, and all the goods on board were carried to the large ships and warships.

Zhang Youde looked at the crowd full of panic under the black pressure, his eyebrows were furrowed, and the military boots stepped on the beach step by step, making a creaking sound, and behind him, the eyes of the two thousand households had revealed murderous intent.

"Who else hid the gold and silver?" Zhang Youde roared loudly.

The black-pressed crowd didn't move, as if they had stopped breathing.

"Come on, search!" Zhang Youde raised his hand, and dozens of wolf-like soldiers had rushed into the crowd to search randomly, and after a while, a soldier raised a gold ingot in the crowd: "This guy has a big yellow croaker hidden on his body." ”

The man's future begging for mercy was unraveled, first beaten, and then dragged into the waves, and his head was cut off with a knife in his hand.

The corpse was swept into the sea in the ebb and flow of the waves, and the heavy blood was quickly washed away, and even so, all the onlookers could not help but shiver.

"Now if you take the initiative to hand it over, you can save a life, if you don't hand it over, you won't be so polite." Zhang Youde completely forgot that this group of Luzon people couldn't understand his words at all, but the Luzon people understood what Zhang Youde meant, and another group of people came out to take out the gold and silver hidden on their bodies.

Seeing that the time was almost up, Zhang Youde beckoned a small boat, turned back to the two thousand households and ordered: "Be clean, as usual, still leave a few live openings for them to go around to publicize our strength, and try to make the maritime merchants who come and go to Luzon dare not go to sea." ”

"The last will understand." The two Qianhu were obviously familiar with this kind of scene, and they bowed down and clasped their fists together.

A small boat carrying Zhang Youde sailed towards the battleship, and behind him came a series of wails, but they were quickly muffled by the roar of crossbow arrows, the strong impact of firearms, and the explosion of gunpowder.........

A month later, the fleet disguised as pirates returned to Kowloon Island, which was originally a lair of pirates, and the families of the pirates were placed here, and now all the families have moved to land, and the entire island has been built into a small castle by hundreds of masons, and behind the castle is dozens of stacked full cargo holds, Liu Er took the sailors and soldiers and Zhang Youde and other marines to rest on Kowloon Island for a night, and the next day, except for a part of the sailors who stayed behind, everyone carried the captured merchant ships to sail north as maritime merchants.

Zhu Jun lived in a four-in-four-out mansion, the front hall was a place to summon the ministers, next to the front hall was the office of the cabinet scholars, and then there was Zhu Jun's bedroom and the eunuchs' rooms, although it was not luxurious, but it seemed very spacious.

"Your Majesty, the latest news from Liu Er and Zhang Youde has returned." Yang Side held a secret report and said excitedly to Zhu Jun, who was sitting on the main seat drinking tea and chatting with Mu Tianbo.

Zhu Jun took a sip of tea without slowness and said, "What's the hurry, the sky hasn't fallen yet, read it." ”

In this era when there is no telephone and telegraph, communication is completely completed by means of delivering letters, and it often takes half a month to receive the news, Zhu Jun is actually very anxious, but he can't show it in front of people, he is the king of a country, and he is the backbone of everyone.

"Yes." Yang Side spread out the secret report and opened his mouth to read: "Minister Liu Er, Zhang Youde face the west and knock, my emperor ......"

"You don't have to read these welcome words, you choose the important ones to say." Zhu Jun waved his hand unhappily, this set of so-called long live my emperor, bathing in heavenly grace and the like, his ears were calloused, and he didn't know which master wrote these two big old and rough pieces for them.

"Yes, on May 20, the fleet reached its designated target and plundered more than 70 merchant ships, including seven large ships and countless small and medium-sized ships. On the eighth day of June, the fleet attacked Puerto Princesa and captured six large ships, the rest of the ships were all scuttled, and the fleet warehouses were already full of goods. Yang Side briefly stated the content.

"Your Majesty, they returned from Luzon on the eighth day of June, and now it is almost the end of the month, I am afraid that they will arrive soon, do you want to prepare some things to welcome them?" Mu Tianbo Road.

"What Mu Shoufu said is not right." Zhou Mubai on the side had already stood up and said: "The fleet is to pretend to be pirates and plunder, how can they greet it with great fanfare, the soldiers are all rough people, and they can't stand the red tape in the first place, so that their real benefits are real." ”

Mu Tianbo glanced at Zhou Mubai, he originally looked down on this halfway monk, and he didn't know how the emperor could take a fancy to him, what was even more annoying was that this person still wanted to go against himself, every time he discussed with the emperor, he had to say a word or two against himself, Mu Tianbo was not a stingy person, but this Zhou Mubai was extremely unkind to himself, and Mu Tianbo couldn't help but be angry.

Zhou Mubai met Mu Tianbo's gaze fearlessly, and said secretly in his heart: "Mu Guogong can't help it, who let you be in a high position, the more fierce I fight with you, maybe the emperor will be happier, this is called using this to control the other, to balance the strong with the weak, if the courtiers are ironclad, how can the emperor be stable." ”

Zhu Jun didn't see the contradiction between the two, among the three scholars in the cabinet, Mu Tianbo is an old man, and he can handle everything properly in his hands, and he is a talent who coordinates internally. And Yang Side has courage, is not humble or silent, and is a good hand in foreign affairs. And Zhou Mubai is good at scheming, and among the three people, he has the most ghost ideas, and he belongs to a think-tank type character. These three people will be the prototype of his future team, he hopes that everyone can work together to get things done, but he also doesn't want them to get too close, otherwise once there is an internal change, Zhu Junzong may not be able to be shocked if he has the ability to go through the sky.

"Mu Bai said very well, the soldiers do not pay attention to red tape, but pursue practical profits, I think we should improve the amount of rewards for going to sea, otherwise the soldiers will inevitably be unconvinced. If that's not the case, Mu Aiqing, you go and write a charter, take a look at it in a few days, and then promulgate it. Zhu Jun nodded, not only praised Zhou Mubai's good plan, but also relieved to hand over the matter to Mu Tianbo to handle it impartially.

"Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that the effect of deterring Luzon has appeared, and it is time to form a convoy, besides, this time we have robbed so many merchant ships in Luzon, and no maritime merchant dares to transport goods to Luzon, all kinds of sea goods in Luzon must be in short supply, and things are scarce and expensive, I am afraid that the price of sea goods in Luzon has increased several times, will we transport the plundered goods back to Luzon for dumping?" Zhou Mubai said.

Zhu Jun nodded: "This can be handed over to Yang Aiqing to do, and the intercepted sea ships will be converted into escort ships, and the seized goods will also be transported over in a few days, which can not only recruit maritime merchants, but also dump goods, so that we can earn tens of thousands of taels of silver on this trip." ”

"Your Majesty, not tens of thousands, but hundreds of thousands, the secret report says that a single fleet has robbed nearly 10,000 pieces of gold, silver and jewelry, and we have plundered nearly 20,000 pieces of goods, and now the price of sea goods in Luzon has risen sharply, if these goods are safely transported to Luzon for sale, I am afraid that at least 70,000 or 80,000 taels of silver can be sold. There is also the profit of the convoy in the future, the minister roughly calculated, if it is only Luzon, there will be thousands of maritime merchants, and every time it comes down, the convoy can earn at least fifty or sixty thousand taels of silver. Yang Side stepped forward and said.

Zhu Jun felt a little dizzy, this is all silver, 100,000 taels of silver is equivalent to a full 10,000 catties, I am afraid that the pile will be as high as a small mountain, no wonder Queen Victoria of England is so keen to provide protection to the pirates, in order to participate in the pirates' dividends, and also instigated the pirates to attack Spanish merchant ships, and even risked war with the Invincible Armada. This is a fucking profiteering industry, in other words, who wants to do it desperately.