The choice of the "Cambridge" robbery was both accidental and inevitable. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

When encountering financial difficulties, or thinking about the accumulation of original capital long before that, Li Xian thought that there was only one fastest way to make money, which was robbery.

Since ancient times, there are only two ways to make money the fastest, that is, robbery and opening a bank, and the current situation of the Mixed Yuan Sect obviously can't open a bank, so there is only one robbery.

However, there is also a lot of attention to robbery, so let's talk about who to rob and how to rob.

Li Xian had originally seriously considered whether it was better to rob the rich people along the coast of Leizhou Bay or to rob passing ships.

In this era, the people along the coast of Leizhou were very poor, and occasionally there was a rich person, that is, the level of several thousand taels of silver, and what was even more worrying was that most of these people's money was real estate such as houses and fields, which was not easy to realize.

Moreover, how to explain to the team members how to lead the escort to rob the rich people along the coast is also a problem, after all, the purpose of the escort team in the early days was to fight pirates, not to be pirates themselves.

Li Xian was most worried that once he started robbing the locals, the hearts of the guards would immediately disperse, at least half of them would run away, and the rest would only be outlaws who only recognized money and did not have any moral framework, which did not meet the needs of long-term development.

In this case, Li Xian turned his attention to foreign merchant ships, and then felt that this time was unique.

In the case of the war between China and Britain, Li Xian wanted to rob several European or American merchant ships, and none of the escorts would oppose it, and even felt that it was a rare patriotic act, so they enthusiastically participated.

If it was before or after the war, the robbery of foreign merchants would have been cracked down on and restricted by the Qing government, but during this period, the government would do everything possible to support it, which was a godsend.

Moreover, foreign merchant ships have money.

These foreign merchant ships are usually ocean-going merchant ships of more than 1,000 tons, and the value of the ships alone is more than 30,000 yuan of oceans, and the goods carried on them are usually worth 80,000 to 150,000 US dollars.

According to the shipbuilding price in Britain in this era, according to the displacement of the ship, the shipbuilding cost is about ten pounds per ton, that is, the new ship of 1,000 tons is worth about 10,000 pounds, that is, about 50,000 US dollars, but now the ocean-going merchant ships in Guangdong are all old ships that have been used for more than ten years or even decades, and the depreciation cost is only 50% to 60% of the price of the new ship.

Relatively speaking, the price of the 500-ton merchant ships of the Qing Kingdom was only about 10,000 taels of silver, which was much cheaper than the ocean-going merchant ships in Europe.

Southeast Asia timber is cheap, shipbuilding costs are even lower, and some sources record that Chinese merchants built large ships in Malaysia, and the cost was only eight yuan per ton, which is a bit incredible.

However, this is only an example, and normally even in the South Seas, the cost of shipbuilding per ton is fifteen yuan of silver.

In any case, ocean-going merchant ships are expensive good things, plus the goods on board, grabbing an ocean-going merchant ship at random is enough for the Mixed Yuan Sect to digest for a long time.

It is not unreasonable that Britain became rich and powerful when it began to be a pirate.

Li Xian initially considered attacking British merchant ships, but then thought that there were too many British merchant ships in this area, and once the other party was in a hurry, it might not be a good thing to send warships and a large number of merchant ships to conquer him.

Therefore, Li Xian ordered the second treasurer of Qian Dafu, who had been in Macao for a long time, to pay close attention to the movements of non-British merchant ships sailing between Macao and Hong Kong, that is, French or American merchant ships.

Recently, after discovering that the Cambridge had been repaired in Macao, it was carrying a large amount of cash and goods to Hong Kong, and it happened that there were no other foreign merchant ships operating on this route on this day, so Li Xian took the Cambridge as his first target.

As a result, the plan to let some of his men go to a 400-ton merchant ship bought from Macao and wear foreign clothes to attract the attention of the Cambridge crew, and even let two Chinese ships carrying soldiers to catch the Cambridge from the other side of Lantau Strait was born.

China's inland transportation largely relied on the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and many of the ships that were transported on the canal had masts that could be folded down 90 degrees in order to cross bridges on the canal, etc., so this technique was not new to Chinese shipbuilders.

Li Xian simply asked the shipbuilders to do some treatment on the masts on their ships, so that the masts could be tilted down to the local ships, so that he and his men could run to the enemy ships through the masts and engage in broadside battles.

Against the Cambridge, Li Xian still has two trump cards, that is, he and Zuo Shaoqing are both third-order combat power, and it is easy to suppress dozens of sailors on a narrow ship.

At the beginning, Zuo Lingchen blocked Li Xian on the whaling ship, and relied on the strength of one person to suppress dozens of brave guards and fishermen, forcing Li Xian to let his subordinates retreat first, and that scene impressed Li Xian deeply.

According to the strength of Li Xian and Zuo Shaoqing, as long as they can get to the Cambridge, with the martial arts of the two of them alone, they can suppress the entire ship of sailors with appropriate weapons, not to mention that there are hundreds of subordinates behind them who will continue to support.

Li Xian and Zuo Shaoqing also did many simulation exercises during this time, at this time, holding an iron-clad shield in one hand and an air gun in the other, they performed light skills and quickly jumped from the mast to the Cambridge.

Li Xian had always relied on sharp Western weapons to deal with powerful martial artists before, but this time he wanted to suppress ordinary people with firearms with strong martial arts, and he felt that this matter was countless times easier.

The shield held by the two of them can resist rifled gun fire at close range after being wrapped in iron sheets, the disadvantage is that it is too heavy, and ordinary people have to hold it with both hands, but the physical strength of the two of them is far beyond that of ordinary people, and it is easy to take this shield.

Ordinary Grandmaster Realm masters can use their talisman to resist bullets, although the two of them can't do this, but relying on amazing reflexes and physical strength, it is not difficult to use a shield to defend against bullets, you must know that Zuo Shaoqing can block bullets with a long sword alone, and it is easier with a shield.

In addition to using shields for defense, the two of them also brought two air pistols and revolvers, as well as swords or something, which can be described as suitable for both near and far.

Li Xian and Zuo Shaoqing have had a lot of discord with each other, but they have also had a lot of cooperation, and they have a very tacit understanding together.

A sailor with a hideous expression rushed over with a sailor knife and tried to slash at Li Xian, but Li Xian just waved his shield and knocked the sailor with a knife out seven or eight meters away, so that he didn't fall into the sea.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zuo Shaoqing had already stood firm, picked up the air pistol and pulled the trigger one after another, and easily shot several sailors who tried to aim with the gun.

Zuo Shaoqing suffered under Li Xian's firearms several times, and during this time, he worked firearms, and learned very seriously from pistols to spears, far from the original Wuxia Ameng.

After all, Zuo Shaoqing is a master at the peak of the second order, his physique and eyesight are far beyond ordinary people, and he has learned bows and arrows before, although he has not learned guns for a long time, he can also rank within the top ten in the escort team.

Several sailors rushed over, wanting to disturb Zuo Shaoqing's shooting at close range, but Li Xian was not a fuel-efficient lamp, he waved wildly from side to side with his shield, and from time to time he kicked out, and all the sailors who were close to the two of them were beaten up by him.

Li Xian's martial arts method is different from Zuo Shaoqing's, he pays more attention to strength, using the increase of the Seven Wounds Fist, the simple attack power has reached about nine, close to the masters of the peak of the grandmaster, these ordinary sailors are not even able to resist a move.

A few clever sailors saw that something was wrong, and turned the guns on the ship upside down, wanting to use the cannons to deal with these two terrible enemies who appeared out of nowhere, but Li Xian saw it in advance, and with a wave of the air gun in his right hand, he easily shot those sailors to the ground.

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