"Lord Yarabu, please save our eldest brother!"

On a small island where Sri Buddha died, there was a large palace-like manor house on the whole island, and Barab usually lived here.

"Which is your eldest brother?" Barab frowned and looked at the man kneeling below, he had a lot of property in Sri Buddha, and there were many people who helped him take care of it.

If any cat or dog has any problems and has to save themselves, then why do you keep such subordinates?

"My eldest brother is Dong Li, this time I helped the adult's caravan go to the Tamsui port of the Ryukyu Kingdom to buy supplies, but I met a pirate, and the eldest brother was detained by them, this is a letter from the eldest brother to Lord Yarabu."

"Pirates? Where did the pirates come from? Just send someone to destroy it!"

Ba Rabu didn't accept the letter written by Dong Li at all, of course, he still had some impressions of Dong Li, and he robbed his own people in his own territory, which was also a provocation, so he planned to send a few ships to clean up those pirates.

As for whether Dong Li was dead or alive when cleaning up the pirates, he didn't care very much, this kind of thing to do for himself, how much or how much he wanted, it was not worth worrying about at all.

"Lord Barab, no, they're strong!"

"Strong? How strong can it be?" Barab smiled disdainfully: "Last year, there was already a Great Wei Navy, could it be that those pirates could be stronger than the Great Wei Navy?"

"It's not as strong as the Great Wei Navy, but it has a full sixty warships."

"Ahem, ahem......" Hachirabu coughed and asked incredulously, "How much?"

"Sixty warships."

In this era, the combat power of the fleet is mainly determined by whose ships are larger and whose ships are larger, and the number and tonnage are the key factors that determine the victory of naval battles.

"Are there really that many?" Barab sat up straight, if it was true, then this force was really not small.

After all, the other party said that they were pirates, and they were different from the Great Wei Navy.

Although the Great Wei Navy is strong, they have to do business with Sri Buddha, and they have to abide by the rules, so they will not easily do anything to Sri Buddha's merchant ships and the like.

But pirates are different, these guys are locusts on the sea, they don't have any rules to speak of, and they won't let go of anything they can grab.

If such a large-scale pirate enters his sphere of influence, if the other party is unfavorable to the merchant ships of Sri Buddha, then it will definitely bring great harm.

"Give me the letter!"

At this time, he had to see what was written in Dong Li's letter.

"Straw Hat Pirates? Captain Jack? I've never heard of them, do you know where they come from?"

The messenger nodded and said, "I inquired privately, and I heard that they turned out to be Qian Laosan and Luo Siye's people in the north."

These two people have been crisscrossing the North China Sea for more than ten years, and the pirate leader in the past, Brother Beard, is also a famous pirate, so Ba Rabu has really heard of these two people, but because they are far away, they have heard some rumors, and everyone can't even count it as entering the water without violating the river, because they can't be touched at all.

It's just that I didn't expect why the other party suddenly appeared in this sea area.

"Why did they want to talk to me?" Ba Rabu moved his fat body, the other party had such a strong lineup, and he also named him to see him in person.

He must see it, but he also has to think about his own safety.

"The little man doesn't know, but they do say they came with friendship." "Coming with friendship?" Barab's fat face grinned, "Where in this world did friendship come from for no reason?"

After saying that, he slammed the table, and the silver cutlery on the table was slapped, and there was a clang.

"Okay, since you're here with friendship, let's invite them to meet them on the island, but make it clear to each other that there are only five boats!"

In this way, the other party wants to see himself, then he must have a plan, since it is the other party who has a plan, then the initiative is in himself

of the hands.

Let the other party come to five boats, and the place is still on their own territory, Dama Island, so they are not afraid of what tricks the other party will play.

As he spoke, he called a civil servant to help him write a reply, to the effect that he had been in poor health recently, and he was recuperating on Dama Island, and if the other party wanted to see him, he could come and wait by himself.

Then he handed the letter to Dong Li's younger brother who came to deliver the letter: "Go, bring someone back to me."

"Yes!"

This little brother also knows that the other party wants to meet with Lord Barabu, and now that Barabu has agreed, he shouldn't embarrass his eldest brother.

In fact, Tang Ping didn't really embarrass Dong Li, but Tang Ping asked Dong Li if he was really strong since Dong Li called him vigorous.

In order to express himself, Dong Li personally resisted a bag of sandbags and walked around in front of Tang Ping.

Then Tang Ping clapped his hands and sent Dong Li to the construction site.

That's right, it's the construction site.

Dong Li's younger brother went to deliver the letter, according to him, it would take nearly a month to go back and forth, and Tang Ping and they couldn't just be idle here in Tamsui Port.

So Tang Ping and Shang Sixian discussed it and decided to build a wharf here in Tamsui Port that could dock large ships.

Because Datang has now opened up Dongyue, it is equivalent to having its own coastline, and the trade of sea has always made Li Shimin excited, and now that the conditions are ripe, sea trade is the focus of the next development of Datang.

The location of the Tamsui port is just at the halfway point to the South Seas, and if a wharf is built here, it can not only be used for the transit of goods, but also for replenishment, and at the same time, it can be said that it can add a huge amount of income to the Ryukyu Kingdom of Shang Sixian, which can be said to be counted in one fell swoop.

Tang Ping came out this time, bringing a lot of money, he paid money, hired people from the Ryukyu Kingdom, and then took local materials and began to build a wharf in Tamsui Port.

After completion, Datang Merchant Marine will enjoy tax exemption for 30 years, and Datang will also enjoy 50% of the income for the first 30 years.

Although the Ryukyu Kingdom did not pay for it in the early stage, they paid for the maintenance and management of this wharf, and they could enjoy all the benefits of this wharf after 30 years, but the ships of the Tang Dynasty permanently enjoyed the priority of the Tamsui Port wharf.

At first, Tang Ping also thought that it would be difficult to build a large wharf here, but after a field survey, he found that Tamsui Port was originally a natural deep-water bay, and large ships could drive in, so all they had to do was to build a good land foundation for the wharf, and then extend it to the seaside.

For the people of the Ryukyus, the climate here is unique, and it doesn't take much effort to grow food.

Therefore, in this kind of agricultural season, there are really a lot of idlers, and when I heard that someone hired people at a high price, many people came at once.

In addition, the western part of the island is relatively flat, and the central and eastern parts of the island are a large number of mountainous areas, with abundant forests, and there are as many straight trees as many people hug each other.

So the construction of the pier began very quickly.

"Brother Tang, thank you so much!" Shang Sixian looked at Tang Ping with a grateful face, not to mention that this pier can benefit the entire Ryukyu a lot in the future, but now, it can be said that one-third of the families in the entire Ryukyu Kingdom are making money from this.

After all, for such a large project, in addition to workers, there were also logistical supplies, etc., and the entire Ryukyu country was mobilized.

However, because Tang Ping said that dozens of merchant ships may pass by here every day in the future and dock here, so the Ryukyu Kingdom that eats this big cake is as happy as it gets.

This is not Tang Ping's bragging, there are a lot of good things here in Nanyang, just all kinds of spices, as well as precious wood, can be bought at a good price when transported back to Datang.

Now in Chang'an City, those special spices are worth more than gold.

As long as there is such a way to make money, there is no fear that Datang and Dongyue businessmen will rush to it.

"Brother Sixian is polite, since Ryukyu has recognized the Tang Dynasty as the suzerain, then we are our own people, you have to know that the Tang Dynasty has never treated its own people badly!"

Doing so was not a whim for Tang Ping

In addition to the special feelings for this island, it is also because Datang's future strategy is not to colonize all the surrounding countries, but to hope that the other party will regard itself as the suzerain, and then Datang will set up a military base or a form called the capital to control and influence the local area.

Therefore, it is also necessary for those countries to see that all the countries that depend on Datang have meat to eat.

It is said that there is no eternal enemy between countries, and interests are the best link among them.

"Childe, Dong Li's subordinates are back, and they also brought a reply letter from Ba Rabu, and the other party promised to meet, but put forward a few conditions."

"It's normal to have conditions." If the other side came to meet him without mentioning any conditions, it would make Tang Ping feel strange.

After opening Ba Rabu's reply, Tang Ping asked Shang Sixian after reading it, "Where is Dama Island?"

"Dama Island? It's not far southeast of the Ryukyus, and if you go out of Tamsui Port, go east, along the coast of Ryukyu Island to the southernmost point, and then go straight south, and you will be there in about a few days."

Tang Ping opened the map and looked at it, it was probably an island in the Batan Islands in the Bahrain Strait between it and the Philippines.

I didn't expect that the first time I stepped out of the border of the future China, it was in such a way.

"Okay, since the master has sent out an invitation, then we will come to the house for a visit."

"But Brother Tang, isn't it too risky to only go to five boats?"

Shang Sixian said with some worry, he didn't know that Tang Ping's fleet also had an ironclad ship, and the entire Taihao fleet had a cannon as a big killing weapon.

So if it's just five boats, it would be too risky for him.

"Don't worry, don't say only go to five, even go to one, if I want to go, they can't stop me." Tang Ping relieved Shang Sixian, and then said, "But the rest of my people will continue to harass Brother Sixian here."

"What did Brother Tang say, after you came, we felt an unprecedented sense of security, if you want me to say, I wish you were always here!"

"Hahaha, don't worry, Brother Sixian, we will come to disturb us often in the future."

It's been a few months since they came out, and Tang Ping and Wang Qingluan miss Tang Tang at home very much, so they just want to solve the matter here as soon as possible so that they can return to Chang'an.

Tang Ping said goodbye to Shang Sixian and directly ordered troops, except for the Taihao ship, Donghai No. 1 to No. 4 accompanied him, and the others stayed near Tamsui Port and continued to pretend to be pirates.