Chapter 166, in the Strait Free City

John. Klein stood in place, a long trail of blood appearing on his face.

He was lucky.

It's just a shrapnel of a grenade that cuts the skin.

Cutaneous trauma.

But the European adventurers he had hired in Calcutta at great expense had fallen for blood.

More than a dozen grenades were thrown into the cabin, and the fragments of the explosion immediately filled the entire cabin with a mist of blood.

Screams, wails, moans mingled.

Although many people were not hit by the fragments, the shock from the explosion of more than a dozen grenades also made them unsteady on their feet, and they fell to the ground staggeringly.

Right now.

The group of Chinese pirates had already rushed into the cabin with a sinister grin.

John. Klein closed his eyes in pain.

Get off the wrong foot! It's not good to be a teacher!

They are pirates with a legal plundering license.

How did you come across a group of treacherous and cunning Chinese pirates?

That's not right!

Aren't the Chinese all docile businessmen?

Is it because of my bad luck, or because I don't know enough about the Chinese?

In John. Klein thought about it.

His brother David. Klein had dropped his weapon and raised his hands in the air.

The other surviving white Europeans did not dare to continue to resist and gave French military salutes.

John. Klein reluctantly dropped the musket in his hand and raised his hands.

Let's hope these Chinese will be kinder......

"Bundle them all up!"

Cai led the people into the cabin, and seeing that the other party had surrendered and did not continue the attack, he ordered all the surviving white Europeans to be tied up, and then examined the wounded who fell to the ground one by one.

The bodies and the wounded were dragged out and thrown into the sea.

The less wounded were tied up and pulled to the deck like the captives.

There is no treatment or anything like that.

Whether they can survive or not depends on their respective luck.

"Cai Tou, there is no cargo on this ship!"

"Damn, it looks like you've met someone who specializes in this business."

Cai took a sip.

Although no cargo was seized, a large plywood ship was obtained, and the trip was not a loss.

"Cai Tou, these two are the leaders, they found this on them!"

Someone staked the Klein brothers over.

"We are subjects of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and we demand the rights that prisoners of war deserve!" David. When Klein saw the leader of the fierce-looking Chinese pirates, he immediately spoke aloud.

"What is this yellow-haired ghost babbling about?" Cai asked one of his subordinates who knew English.

"He said he was British, and he wanted to be treated as a prisoner of war."

"The treatment of prisoners of war?" Cai Lian frowned.

"Go, give him two slaps to calm him down." Cai said to a pirate next to him, and then handed a privateer card with the seal of the Governor's Palace of Calcutta to the English-speaking man.

"What is this?"

"With this certificate, it is possible to attack enemy merchant ships on the high seas without being judged.... Viceroy of India, United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland. Cai Tou, this is a privateer certificate for the British! ”

"Privateer warrant?" Cai Lian frowned, "It means that the British court issued a legal robbery certificate to them?" What else can this court do? ”

"That's right, it's too unusual, why is the British government like this."

"We are all worried about being caught by Emperor Zhu's soldiers and cutting off our brains, and this British government can still issue a legal robbery certificate?"

"Is this a government or a bandit?"

"That's not true!"

A group of Chinese pirates shook their heads.

The official government of a country, the imperial court.

How can such a legal robbery certificate be issued?

Robbery, such a hurtful thing, is also capable of the imperial court?

If the Ming Dynasty ends up doing no business, how can there be any business for these pirates?

The Niu brothers also shook their heads together.

They're all pirates though.

But deep down I know it.

It's definitely not good to do this kind of business.

In the future, I will have to pay tribute to the Buddha, Mazu, Taishang Laojun, Jade Emperor, Guan Erye and other immortals, and when I go to the underworld in the future, I can get a little better treatment.

Therefore, when I saw that the British Empire had issued a "robbery certificate", it was simply a violent impact on the values of the very simple values of the farmer, Niu Zhaocai, and Niu Jinbao.

Cai Ling's eyes rolled.

"It seems that this Englishman is going to do something to our Daming, and bringing this group of yellow-haired ghosts back to the Strait Governor's Mansion may be a great achievement."

Come to think of it.

Cai Lian immediately said loudly: "Clean up this big plywood boat, throw all the useless into the sea, and we will return to Malacca!" ”

"Cai Tou, what are you doing back to Malacca?"

"Go back to the Daming Mansion to receive the reward!"

Cai Yan grinned.

Such important information.

Even if there is no reward, it can have a little to do with the Daming Strait Governor's Mansion.

It would be even better if you could buy some ordnance from the Ming Navy.

...........

Batam, Strait Free City.

Daming Strait Governor's Palace.

Luo Jiangong, the governor of the Strait of Malacca, has been troubled by the frequently reported cases of the looting of Ming merchant ships in the past few days.

Being plundered on the sea, this is what happens from time to time.

But it's really rare to see how often this time is.

And along with the looting, there are often Chinese corpses tied to the sampan and floating along the ocean current in the past few days.

The appearance of these corpses shows that this is definitely not an ordinary looting.

Most likely, it was an operation against the Ming merchant ships.

"This must be a provocation to Da Ming!"

"The Strait Governor's Mansion should immediately send a fleet to escort it!"

"No, no, no, this must have been done by the British, the Strait Governor's Mansion should be smashed directly by Huanglong, and the naval artillery bombarded Calcutta as revenge!"

In the Straits Free City Public Office.

The councillors of the public bureau are shouting and shouting and killing.

And the governor of the Strait Free City, Tian Wenkang, a son of the Lan Fangtian family, and Luo Jiangong, the governor of the Daming Strait Governor's Office, all frowned and accepted questions from the councilors in the public bureau.

If the local public bureaus in the interior are still harmonious, and it is rare to see such unceremonious situations towards local officials, then in the Free City of the Straits Strait, the voices of the public bureau members are much louder.

On the one hand.

It's because Strait Free City is a commercial city.

Therefore, unlike most cities in the interior, there are no landlords and gentry here, only maritime merchants who settled here.

Therefore, for this kind of looting against the Daming maritime merchants, the parliamentarians supported by these maritime merchants must of course speak for the financiers behind them.

On the other hand.

The Straits Free City is a very large tax collector, and among all the provincial-level administrative regions of the Ming Dynasty, it is temporarily second only to Guangdong and Hunan – which means that the Batam Free City Public Bureau has more seats in the Daming Council than most provinces in the mainland.

The Free City of Batam was served as a municipality under the Ming Dynasty.

At the administrative level, it is equivalent to the province.

Therefore, these members of the Straits Free City Public Bureau, who can elect more than a dozen members of the Council of the Strait who can go to the Diet of Heaven to discuss politics and meet the Son of Heaven, speak loudly.

Now the raids against the Ming maritime merchants are so frequent.

The Free City of the Strait and the Governor's Office of the Strait, as well as the Strait Fleet and the Ming Army stationed in the Strait, are all responsible.

Otherwise, those parliamentarians in the central committee would definitely join them and complain to the emperor.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the official has sent someone to investigate what happened recently, and once it is confirmed that it was done by the British Governor's Office of Calcutta, the Governor's Office of the Daming Strait will definitely retaliate!"

Luo Jiangong stood up and said loudly.

He, the governor of the Straits, wielded much more power than the governor of the Free City of the Straits.

Under the Governor's Palace, there is the Strait Fleet and the garrison of the Strait Islands, all of which can be mobilized by the Strait Governor's Office.

And.

Recently, the Ming Dynasty also sent the newly formed Indian Ocean Fleet south, stationed in the port of Batam.

Zhu Li, the commander of the Indian Ocean Fleet, and Li Changgeng, the deputy commander, have also arrived in Batam.

In addition, the coalition forces of the Ming Dynasty and the Indian vassal states that were preparing to land in India to fight were also secretly sent to the island of Liaonai for intensive training.

Even if this kind of looting against the Ming maritime merchants did not occur.

The Ming Dynasty was already planning to take action against the British colonies of British India.

After pacifying the parliamentarians who were shouting and shouting to kill.

Luo Jiangong and Tian Wenkang returned to the conference hall of the Governor's Palace, and in addition to the high-ranking officials of the Governor's Mansion and the Yamen of the Zhishi City, they also sent people to invite Zhu Li, the commander of the Ming Indian Ocean Fleet, and Li Changgeng, the deputy commander, who had already sent people to the big island to invite Yang Yuchun and Wu Hou Qian Dazhao, the general training hall of the Ming Indian princes' coalition army.

Zhu Lian led the crowd to take refuge after the first arrival of the Great Emperor in Nanyang and defeated the Dutch fleet.

He was originally a good man who did business without capital along the coast of Fujian.

And his deputy Li Changgeng is a 43rd year of Qianlong Wujinshi, worked in the Fujian Navy Division for several years, and was later defeated by Zhu Lian and lost his official home, and the Ming King was activated again after he arrived in Guangdong, but soon the Fujian Navy was defeated by the Ming Navy, and Li Changgeng surrendered directly when he saw that the situation was not good.

Later, he went to the Daming Army and Naval Academy in Huangpu, Guangzhou for further study, but he became a classmate of his opponent Zhu Lian.

Now the two were ordered to lead the fleet south to escort the allied forces of the Indian princes of the Ming Dynasty.

Yang Yuchun, on the other hand, went south as the chief training officer of the allied army of the Indian princes of the Ming Dynasty, and he was only in charge of training, not going directly to India - after all, he still dreamed of playing a role in the Northern Expedition to the Manchus. Read the full content on the iRead app

And Wu Hou Qian Dazhao is from Wu Yue Qian's family.

Wu Yue Qian is a big family in Zhejiang.

Qian Dazhao's soldiers and horses are second only to the British Gongsun Shiyi.

Before Sun Shiyi arrived at the strait, Qian Dazhao was the speaker of the allied forces of the Indian princes of the Ming Dynasty.

See all the people gathered.

Luo Jiangong took a deep breath: "Ladies and gentlemen, the recent intensive looting of merchant ships and the execution of sampan exiles show that this is likely to be a move against the Ming Dynasty, and the only one with this motive in this sea area is the British Governor's Palace of Calcutta!" ”

"The British have already made the first move! I don't think we should have waited any longer, when the fleet was sent to annihilate the British fleet first! Zhu Lian said immediately.

"Send troops now?" Luo Jiangong hesitated for a moment.

Right now.

There was a roll call at the door.

"British Public!"

After the endless coma, Shi Yu suddenly got up from the bed. If you want to watch the latest chapters, please download the Star Reading app and read the latest chapters for free without ads. The website has not updated the content of the latest chapters, and the Star Reading APP has updated the content of the latest chapters.

He took a big breath of fresh air, and his chest trembled.

Confused, incomprehensible, all kinds of emotions come to my heart.

Where is this?

Then, Shi Yu subconsciously looked around, and then became even more dazed.

A single dormitory?

Even if he had managed to be rescued, he would have been in the ward by now.

And their own bodies...... How could it be that there was no injury at all.

With doubts, Shi Yu's gaze quickly swept from the room, and finally his gaze stayed on a mirror at the head of the bed.

The mirror reflected his current appearance, about seventeen or eighteen years old, and his appearance was very handsome.

But the problem is, it's not him! Download the Star Reading app and read the latest chapters ad-free and free

The previous self was a handsome young man in his twenties who had been working for a while.

And now, no matter how you look at it, this appearance is only the age of a high school student......

This change made Shi Yu stunned for a long time.

Don't tell him that the operation was a success......

The body and face have changed, and this is not a question of surgery or not surgery at all, but immortal magic.

He's a different guy altogether!

Don't...... Did you cross by yourself?

In addition to the mirror at the head of the bed, which was obviously not good in feng shui, Shi Yu also found three books next to it.

Shi Yu picked it up and looked at it, and the title of the book instantly silenced him.

"Essential Animal Breeding Manual for Novice Breeders"

Postpartum Care for Pet Animals

"Alien Beast Ear Girl Evaluation Guide"

Shi Yu: ???

The names of the first two books are quite normal, but what are you doing with the last one?

"Ahem."

Shi Yu's eyes were solemn and he stretched out his hand, but his arm quickly stiffened.

Just as he was about to open the third book to see what it was, his brain stabbed violently, and a flood of memories flooded back.

Icefield City.

Pet animal breeding base.

Trainee pet breeder. The website is about to close, download the Star Reading app to provide you with the great god Mr Mu Mu Mu Ah's Qianlong: Qing Dynasty? What about my Great Qing Dynasty?

Beastmaster?