Later, various thieves and fugitives from other countries, as well as the leaders of the declining clans, came to defect with warships, making him extremely powerful for a time.

He led his men to plunder merchant ships across the oceans, even pirate ships or small fleets of warships!

He also robbed many merchant ships loaded with black slaves bought and sold from Africa, and reclaimed wasteland on the continent of Odalia, grazing cattle and sheep, and planting rubber......

This guy has quite a brain, and although he occupies a large area of Odalia, he has not set himself up as king, but has always regarded himself as the exiled duke of Mona.

and declared that the men from the other five nations were still loyal to their respective kings, so as to prevent them from sending troops to clean them up, which is where the name "Six-Nation Alliance" comes from.

But their wanton plundering of merchant ships angered the powerful state of England, mainly to the detriment of their interests at sea......

So he sent a combined fleet to clear it, Saladin knew how strong the other side was, and his rabble was definitely no opponent, so he immediately decided, took all the gold and silver belongings, loaded a large number of slaves as much as possible, and went straight to the far east.

As far as he knew, the sea power of the Great Zhou was extremely weak, and Yizhou Island was extremely rich, so he was about to target the place and prepare to establish a foothold here.

In fact, just as he expected, the Great Zhou Naval Division stationed in Yizhou was simply vulnerable, and it took less than a day to completely defeat it, and successfully occupied several ports that were also extremely weakly defended.

However, when advancing to the hinterland, it encountered stubborn resistance, although the Great Zhou Naval Division was weak, but the land troops had considerable combat power, and both sides suffered heavy losses in several battles, forming a situation of confrontation.

But Saladin was not worried, because this was a lone army, and as long as there was no external rescue, they would collapse sooner or later.

In addition, he was also ready to send envoys to negotiate with the Great Zhou, and use his powerful fleet to deter the Great Zhou from yielding, and voluntarily surrender Yizhou......

It's naïve.

But before he could send an envoy, he ushered in Ullman and Wu Hanming, and Saladin had no idea where this huge fleet came from.

I thought it was the English fleet that had pursued him thousands of miles away, and now he had nowhere to escape, so he had no choice but to fight to the death!

You will know what happened later, Lord Xiao Chen, if I had known that your Great Zhou Navy was so powerful, I would not have dared to come to attack no matter what, I would rather go around a little bit and go to other places.

But then again, maybe meeting Lord Xiao Chen is also God's arrangement, destined for fate, in short, from now on, I will always follow you!

It is impossible for Xiao Chen to let him follow, and it is not rare for him to be loyal, it is enough to say that he did not kill him, and this person is obviously a bane, and he must not stay.

The reason why I drank and chatted with him was actually just to learn about the situation in Odalia and the situation in the Western world.

Saladin knew everything, and said everything, and when he drank some wine, he was happy, and he talked endlessly, until he was drunk.

The next day, Xiao Chen gave him a sum of money and a boat to send him and his leaders away.

He also asked Dugulou to send someone to understand the situation of the other captives, but if anyone who has a skill is willing to stay, they will all stay, and the rest will be given some travel expenses, and they will be sent to get out of here!

But what to do with those black slaves became a problem, they had nowhere to go, and they had no home, because if they were sent back, they would have to be caught as slaves sooner or later.

And these guys have a very happy life in Yizhou these days, they eat and drink enough, and they treat those who are sick, and they don't beat or scold......

We don't want to leave, please leave us behind.

Because you are the most merciful, kind, and abusive slave owners we know, we are willing to stay and work for you, whatever you want, as long as you don't beat us, don't kill us, and feed us to our stomachs.

Xiao Chen doesn't have any bad feelings towards them, but he also doesn't have any good feelings, of course they are very miserable as slaves, but if they are given freedom, they may become a bunch of lazy and troublemakers!

It's okay if the number is small, but there are more than 20,000 people, including men and women...... There were no old or sick people, for they were all 'good' slaves that Saladin had specially selected when he ran away.

How to place this is really a problem.

They can't be sent away, and they can't continue to be slaves, and if they are given land to cultivate, they are afraid that they will directly let themselves go and become the source of chaos in Yizhou, and they don't know the Chinese language, so it is difficult to integrate with the local people.

Xu Haiming saw that they were all extremely strong, and they were all very good laborers, so he suggested that they should simply hire them as workers, and now Yizhou lacks this kind of strong labor, and they can't do fine work, can't they do rough work?

For example, working as a dock worker, a construction worker, a movers...... Xiao Chen said that you don't know them, if they can work so hard, I will just leave them all, are you still embarrassed?

We must not treat them as slaves and drive them to work with sticks and whips, but if we let them work in the form of hire......

I'm afraid that it may not be able to meet Haiming's expectations, if you don't believe it, you can try to do it with them first, if it works, it's up to you, if not, let's think of other ways.

It turned out to be a real no-brainer.

When the guys learned that they had regained their freedom and had received some money, they immediately let themselves go!

With the money, he went to the town market to buy wine and sell meat, and when he returned, he began to hold a grand party, singing, dancing and drunk, and the dozen or so camps were boiling like boiling pots, and the disturbed people could not sleep all night.

I thought that the party was only once, but unexpectedly, they had been partying for seven or eight whole days before it finally stopped, and the reason for the stop was very simple, that is, they had all spent all their money!

But they had no money and refused to work as laborers, and Xu Haiming recruited only a few hundred people from the recruitment office he set up outside their camp, and the others refused to work on all sorts of bizarre grounds.

For example, if you were injured before, you were beaten on the boat, you drank too much and vomited, and you had to take care of the food if we didn't work anyway, so why do we have to work? In addition, we have to seriously protest why we eat so poorly.

There are only coarse grains and vegetables and unpalatable soup, but those of them who are soldiers have a big meal of fish and meat?

Let's work and make money to buy it ourselves?

But why don't they have to work to eat and drink spicy food?

Anyway, if we don't work, you won't force us, will you?

We don't want to work because we're free......