Chapter 80: Mercenaries
By the time Uruci had finished dispatching six merchant ships, it was already the evening of the next day.
Sunset
Night fell silently, and the entire port of Vigan fell silent.
Uruci and Zhao Ke were waiting on the dock early.
"Mutafi, are all the mercenaries on board?" Uruci asked.
"All boarded the ships, each ship has sent twenty mercenaries, don't worry, it's been checked, these mercenaries only know that the ship is carrying food, and the rest don't know anything." Mutafi responded.
"But there is Brother Lao Mu who personally goes out on the ship." Zhao Ke smiled at Mutafe.
Mutafi ignored Zhao Ke and just looked at the sea in the distance without saying a word.
Beside him, a group of mercenaries was guarding the docks.
At this time, there was not a single fire on the dock, and everyone was busy in the dark night by the faint moonlight.
Looking at the pitch-black Vigan harbor, Uruci faintly felt a little strange.
"This time, you went to sea in person, and as soon as you left the port, you killed those Ming people for me." After seeing that Zhao Ke was some distance away from him, Uluci looked indifferent and muttered to Mutafe.
Everything is ready, only the Zhao family's ships are owed.
Soon, with the faint moonlight projected in the sky, the silhouette of the ship gradually appeared in the distance.
Just as Uruci gradually saw the silhouette of the ship in the distance and gradually relaxed,
Ships in the distance suddenly lit up with fire.
"Are they crazy, they are actually lighting up the fire now."
More than a dozen fires appeared on the sea in a row, and Ulu Ci's heart tightened.
"Mutafy, let the brothers on the docks be smart, don't let these bright people put together." Uruci coldly watched the ship rise in the distance, and a little spark rose, and instructed.
The spark in the distance was getting closer and closer, and more than a dozen clippers sailed to the dock in a short time.
With the arrival of the ships, the sailors on deck also began to get busy.
The light of the fire on the ships that approached not far away illuminated the merchant ships,
"Are these Ming people looking for death?" On a merchant ship, a captain cursed secretly.
He stepped onto the deck with an angry look on his face, and was about to probe and curse at the outside of the ship.
Suddenly, an arrow slashed through his neck and stuck straight into the ship's mast.
"Not good," said the captain, when he felt a chill on his neck, and a hot liquid suddenly flowed down, followed by a tingling pain.
Grasping his neck, he staggered a few steps before collapsing limply on the deck.
"Wu Ye, it's not good, Mingren, Mingren," a terrible cry suddenly came from the distance.
Uluci looked dazed, turned to look at the shore,
I saw a lot of light on the wharf,
And in the distance, the neighborhood where the Vigan Chamber of Commerce was located was in flames in an instant.
A figure staggered and ran, screaming as he ran,
"What's going on?" Uruci cried out, trembling in his voice.
Uruci recognized this man as a servant of his household.
"Mingren, Mingren suddenly entered the mansion, and killed anyone he saw," the servant cried and knelt beside Uluci with red blood on his face.
"Ahh Looking at the firelight rushing from the neighborhood in the distance, Uluci was suddenly stunned,
"Zhao Ke," he shouted,
But I saw that Zhao Ke had already disappeared without a trace.
In an instant, the shouts of killing on the dock shook the sky.
More than a dozen clippers sailed to the dock in the blink of an eye,
"Captain, which is the grain ship, the people on the ship are all Ming soldiers."
Several sailors on a merchant ship screamed in terror.
In the distance, Mingjun's armor was particularly conspicuous in the firelight.
Several sailors from the Vigan Chamber of Commerce screamed and ran to the cabin.
"Mingren, it's Mingren," a sailor grabbed the mercenary on the side,
But in the next breath, he suddenly froze.
By the light of the fire, I saw that the bearded mercenary was staring at him indifferently, and the scimitar in his hand was constantly bleeding.
For some reason, there was a sudden silence on the boat.
The sailor's mouth opened wide in horror, but he couldn't make a sound.
He staggered backwards, his eyes wide open, and he looked at the mercenary who was grinning in front of him.
"It's not the Zhao family on the boat at all, it's the Ming people," an Erok shouted in panic,
Apparently, the people on the docks also sensed that something was wrong.
The merchant ships moored next to the dock were lit up at this moment, and there were bursts of mournful shouts from several merchant ships.
"Ming people and Chinese businessmen, you all deserve to die."
At this time, Uluci had long lost his previous calmness, and he roared as if he was in a demon.
"Mutafi, kill all the Ming troops on the shore for me." Looking at the shouts of killing on the shore, Uluci shouted.
"Okay, Wu Ye,"
Mutafi pulled out his scimitar and gently swiped it on Uruci's neck,
Immediately, blood gushed out and splashed directly on the servant's face.
"I'm sorry, Young Master Wu, Mingren's price is higher than yours." Looking at the fallen and dead Uruci, Mutafi said coldly.
The servant on the side was already stunned, and before he could come back to his senses, the mercenary beside him cleanly killed him.
A column of soldiers surrounded the docks.
A young man was silently looking at the merchant ships not far away,
It was not caused by the burning of the ship.
but the torches raised by the Ming soldiers who boarded the ship,
"My lord, the docks have been controlled by our army," one of the co-leaders said to the young man with his fists clenched.
"Hmm," Liu Yu nodded,
All this was naturally Liu Yu's idea.
These people from the Weigan Chamber of Commerce felt that the Ming people would not make a big move, and the Ming army also turned a blind eye to a series of secret schemes.
After all, the newcomer Ming Army Navigan Chamber of Commerce really has no choice.
However, when Uluci shelled the dock with the fleet, it completely angered the Ming army.
At the same time, it also left the Chinese businessmen with no way to live.
That's why there is this good show.
In fact, Uluci also sensed that something was wrong, after all, he had just led the fleet to bomb the Zhao family's ship.
As a result, the next day, the people of the Zhao family discussed the matter of transporting the goods, and anyone with a discerning eye would feel that something was wrong.
But the treasures of the six ships fascinated him.
Of course, for the Chamber of Commerce, even if there is fraud in this matter, the Ming people have no way to deal with them, after all, the Chamber of Commerce has a fierce mercenary army.
But Uruci forgot one thing, these mercenaries who licked blood on the knife edge were paid to do things.
He Wuluci gave the money, can't Liu Yu afford it?
Liu Yu, who owns a commercial bank from all over the world, is naturally not short of money.
Especially when the Chinese merchants had no way to retreat, they had to rely on the Ming army.
When Zhao Ke went to Uluci to discuss the transportation of grain by six merchant ships, the people of the Zhao family swaggered into the casino opened by Uluci with three hundred taels of gold.
These mercenaries usually have nothing to do, so they spend their days in casinos and brothels.
When the people of the Zhao family swaggered into the casino with three hundred taels of gold, they naturally fell into the eyes of these mercenaries.
It was not so much that the Zhao family took three hundred taels of gold to honor the Weigan Chamber of Commerce.
It is better to say that Liu Yu took the three hundred taels of gold to lure out the mercenary, the wolf who could not be fed.
The rest of the matter was as natural as it was.
After successfully bribing these money-hungry mercenaries with gold and silver,
The soldiers of the Zhengyi Association rushed to the dock controlled by the Vigan Chamber of Commerce in the night on a clipper.
If they had been left at normal times, the ships would have been smashed by the guns of the merchant ships docked at the docks as soon as they were halfway through.
However, the mercenaries who had already boarded the ship naturally solved these troubles for the Ming army.
These mercenaries who had just taken the money naturally had to behave in front of the Ming army.
It's just a quarter of an hour's work.
The mercenaries easily took down six merchant ships.