Chapter 151
The conscience of heaven and earth, this kind of thing that relatives hate enemies quickly, the generals of Shuishi Town will never dare to do it.
Although Xiao Wu, Xu Bin and others are indeed jealous of the four seas commercial firms, they are very rich.
However, at present, the expenses of the Shui Shi Shuzhen basically rely on the expenditure of the Ming court, and more than half of the salaries of the silver and the two armies are provided by the taxes paid by the Four Seas Commercial Bank.
To say that the Sailor Town sat back and watched pirates plunder the merchant ships of the four seas and thus affect the development of the Chamber of Commerce, it would be bloody.
After all, the looting of the merchant fleet of the Four Seas Commercial Bank also affected the number of towns of the Shui Division, which was not good for Lord Liu Yu because of the escort of the Shui Shi Town, and next month he also deducted the salaries of the silver and two military forces that should have been given to the Shui Shi Town, resulting in the fact that the Shui Shi Town now has to cut the salaries of officers and soldiers, which caused the soldiers to shout and scold, and provoked the anger of the heavens and people.
In this regard, Xu Bin did not have a good way.
The main reason is that the Babuyan Strait is too big, and the Ming army of the archipelago only occupies most of the islands, and many islands in the north are still entrenched in a large number of pirates, who would have thought that sporadic pirates would dare to fight guerrillas on the back of the Ming army?
Those pirates were escorted into the camp by the Ming army, and Xu Bin was about to walk forward and ask questions.
"Lord Xu Bin, Lord Xiao is invited." A deputy assistant leader ran out of the camp and said after seeing Xu Bin.
Hearing that Xiao Wu wanted to see him, Xu Bin didn't bother to interrogate these pirates.
Of course, those pirates who were captured by the Ming army were just small minions, and they must not be able to ask anything.
"My lord," Xu Bin walked into the camp, only to see Xiao Wu with his back to him, looking intently at the chart.
"Ah, Xu Bin, you've arrived." Xiao Wu nodded, but did not turn around.
"I just got the news that Li Du has taken thirteen large islands in the northern part of the Luzon Sea." Xiao Wu took out a letter and handed it to Xu Bin.
"Is the letter from the Fubo fleet?" Xu Bin asked tentatively.
Xiao Wu's face changed, and then he smiled bitterly, "I sent it from Laoag, and there is also King Lu's own handwriting on it, asking us to work with Fubo Town to exterminate the pirates in the north. ”
"I see." Xu Bin was a little disappointed.
Presumably, after Li Du took the Bataan Islands, he informed the merchant fleet of the Four Seas Merchant Company, and then the merchant fleet returned to Laoag to inform the Ming Court, and then the Ming Court conveyed it to Xiao Wu on Dayu Island.
"This Li Du is a veteran of Shuishi Town. The Batanes Islands are located in the north of the Dayu Islands, and the news should also be transmitted to Dayu Island and then sent back to Laoag. Xu Bin was a little annoyed and dissatisfied with Li Du's actions.
"The adults are not thin on him, he was seriously injured by the Tartars in the first battle of Penghu, if it weren't for the adults' insistence on bringing him into the fortune boat to go south to Luzon together, I am afraid it would have been dry bones in the grave."
"That's it." Xiao Wu waved his hand, signaling that Xu Bin didn't need to mention it again.
"The remnants of the Black Flag Gang fought guerrillas behind us, looted many ships of the Four Seas Commercial Bank, and I heard that Liu Yu'er wanted to deduct the military salary of our sailors in several towns." Xiao Wu asked.
"Back to my lord's words, in the past period of time, six merchant ships of the Four Seas Commercial Bank have been hijacked, and Lord Liu Yu thinks that it is caused by the slackness of the escort of the Shui Shi Town, so he decided to deduct half of the military salary that the Four Seas will give to the Shui Shi Town next month." Xu Bin smiled bitterly.
"Liu Yu'er, you deceive me too much." Xiao Wu's forehead was bruised, and his chest rose and fell violently.
"His uncle is just an assistant leader in my Shui Shi Town, how dare he do this to me."
Liu Quan and Li Du are both veterans of Shuishi Town, but after going south to Luzon, they are like dragons entering the sea, and they all leave Xiao Wu.
Not to mention Li Du, who commanded the water division of several towns, even Liu Quan, the co-leader of his own personal soldiers, was already the chief soldier of Weigan at this time, responsible for the border affairs around Weigan Ming City, and commanding the Ming army to resist the Franc machine people.
It seems that these people who used to be subordinates of his deputy general have all soared and risen to prominence because they went south to Luzon with themselves, but they treat themselves like this, how can Xiao Wu not be angry.
"My lord, if you don't write to Lord Liu Quan of Weigan, now he is Weigan, the chief soldier of Mingcheng, and he is Liu Yu's uncle, and he may come forward to persuade Liu Yu."
Xu Bin said and spoke, his voice became quieter and quieter, when did he actually give in like a kid in his early twenties.
At the beginning, the man was just an insignificant sailor.
Stained with his uncle's light, he barely got a familiar face, how could he actually climb on his head today, and even Shuishi Town had to rely on him to live.
"That's it, that's it." Xiao Wuqiang endured his anger, and finally had to sigh helplessly.
"The old man wrote a letter to Liu Quan, for the sake of the veteran of Shuishi Town, to intercede for Shuishi Town, not that I am afraid of him, but for the foundation of Luzon Mingting."
The generals of the Ming army present breathed a sigh of relief at this time, and just now they didn't dare to gasp, for fear of implicating themselves.
Now that Xiao Wu has softened, everything will naturally be solved, and the officers and soldiers of Shuishi Town no longer have to scold their mothers in front of the camp every day, and the chief and deputy co-chairmen under their command can continue to deduct some silver taels.
Thinking of this, each of these generals raised their eyebrows and danced, looking at Xu Bin on the side very displeased.
"My lord, what are you asking me to come to?" Xu Bin suddenly remembered that Xiao Wu invited him to come, and hurriedly asked.
"Oh, yes." Xiao Wu only remembered another thing at this time.
"Let him in."
Two Ming soldiers walked in with a shabby-dressed man.
Xu Bin was in a hurry when he came before, but he didn't notice that there was a person waiting outside the camp.
"This man is called a ghost scout, sent by Muhanvili to ask for peace." Xiao Wu said coldly.
"Ghost Scouts?" Xu Bin frowned, he seemed to remember this person, a small leader in the Black Flag Gang.
"My lord, now that the Black Flag Gang is in charge of Lord Muhanvili, Lord Muhanvili wants to make peace with Lord Xiao." The ghost scout also recognized Xu Bin, and hurriedly said what he said before.
"Since I didn't go to the Ming Court to see King Lu, I came to Dayu Island to do something." Xu Bin shouted.
"The villain originally wanted to meet Lord Xiao, and then go to Laoag to knock on King Bailu." The ghost scout is also fine, and said with a sly smile.
"It seems that the old fox Muhanvili can't sit still." Xiao Wu laughed.
"Then don't let him be captured and surrendered to Dayu Island." Xiao Wu stopped laughing and said with a cold face.
The ghost scout just smiled and looked around.
"Back to the words of the lord, Lord Muhanvili is afraid of the Daming Water Division, so he did not dare to fight with the heavenly soldiers and generals under the command of the Lord for several months, and now the Black Flag Gang only sits on a few islands, and the mercenaries are only a thousand Where is the opponent of the king, Lord Muhanvili also wanted to come to Dayu Island to ask for surrender, but ......"
"But what's ......" Xu Bin said coldly, he always felt that the ghost scout in front of him was not good.
"Lord Muhanvili said that if you come to Dayu Island and ask for a surrender, two bloody heads will be hung on the Lawag dock next month." The ghost scout whispered.
"Two heads, how can Li Tianyou's head, Muhanvili still have it." Xiao Wu sneered.
"My lord, what he said is not Li Tianyou's head." Xu Bin's face was gloomy.
Suddenly, there was silence in the camp, and the generals of the Ming army stared intently at the short native in front of them.