1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 3 Pirates, a promising career
"Hey..." Qi Dahai suggested to Cao Xiong to slap his fourth brother. He hesitated for a while, thinking about asking him to take care of the younger brothers before his parents died, but he and his second brother Qi Dajiang brought two A younger brother was displaced and became a pirate.

Among the several brothers, I took over my father's small banner position in the Dengzhou Guard, barely making ends meet.Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming caused chaos in Shandong, broke up Dengzhou City, and captured Sun Yuanhua, garrison Song Guanglan, sub-road inspector Wang Mei and other officials alive.The general Zhang Keda held on to Shuicheng for several days, but finally, due to being outnumbered, Shuicheng fell. Zhang Keda killed his wife and concubines and committed suicide in Taipinglou.He was also kidnapped by the rebels along with Shangguan.

The imperial army besieged and suppressed, and the rebels forced the strong men in the city to resist with the army, and the third brother was engulfed in the army.When the rebels were defeated and prepared to flee to the open sea, they immediately boarded the boat with their 14-year-old younger brother and fled Shandong with Fuhai.

Qi Dahai gritted his teeth, waved his huge palm, and was about to slap the boy in front of him.

"Don't hit!...I'm fine." The boy tilted his head and stretched out his hands to protect his face.

"Ah! Fourth brother, are you really... alright?" Qi Dahai lowered his arm, held the boy's hand with his right hand, and stretched out his left hand to touch the boy's head, "Tell me what's uncomfortable. Don't scare me!"

The boy didn't seem to like others touching his head, so he shrank back in Qi Dahai's palm, "I'm really fine. It's just... just... just a little uncomfortable."

"What are you not used to?" Cao Xiong said in a deep voice from behind, "It has been more than a year since I have been at sea, in order to survive, we have to get used to it if we are not used to it! Alas, Xiaotian, when you grow up Everything will be fine. In this world, we have to fight for our lives!"

The third child, Qi Dalu, sat beside the young man with a smile, "Little Tian, ​​there is nothing you are not used to. Although we are at sea, although it is a bit bitter, it is better than when we were hungry in Dengzhou.

Qi Tian looked blankly at Qi Dalu next to him, didn't say anything, but stepped aside and put some distance away from him, "I'm fine,...but I forgot something." He concealed the expression on his face. unnatural.

"Since the fourth child is fine, everyone can do their own thing! Qi Da, you go back to your boat and tidy up the boat. If there is no way, Liu Xiang will change his temper and go directly to Nanyang." Cao Xiong saw that Qi Tian had no idea. No problem, he ordered.

Qi Dahai walked up to Qi Tian and patted him on the shoulder, "Fourth brother, you are weak, so you are better off staying on the boat." Then, he turned his head and looked at Qi Dajiang again, "Second brother, you are on the boat, you have to take care of him. Good fourth, and third."

"I'm nineteen, and I don't need my second brother to take care of me." Qi Dalu yelled.

Qi Dahai stared, Qi Dalu immediately stopped talking.Usually, the eldest brother looks amiable, but when he lectures others, it still makes people feel frightened.

Qi Dajiang also walked up to Qi Tian, ​​"Fourth, you have a good rest. A man is a man, bumps and bumps are inevitable.... Gouzi also wanted to save you, so he threw a wooden barrel at you. Don't blame me he!"

Everyone comforted Qi Tian again, and left the cabin one after another, the small cabin suddenly fell silent. "

"Fourth uncle,... do you drink water?" After a while, a boy's voice suddenly came from behind.Qi Tian looked sideways, and saw a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy with a simple and honest round face, with a tiger head and a tiger brain, looking at him with concern.

"Fourth Uncle, I really didn't mean to hit you with a wooden barrel....Seeing you fell into the water, I was anxious and wanted to save you, so I threw the wooden barrel to you, but I didn't expect that...the wooden barrel would just hit you head."

"Your name is Gouzi?" Qi Tian tried hard to find the name in his mind.

"You... still don't remember me?" The young man asked tentatively, "My name is Qi Ergou, and they all call me Gouzi. But my cousin (Cao Xiong) said that in the future, I will find someone who is knowledgeable, and I will be another Give me a big size."

"You threw the barrel and knocked me out?" Qi Tian asked.

"I... didn't do it on purpose." The boy said anxiously.

"But this time you hit me here!" Qi Tian murmured.

Qi Tian, ​​or it should be Sun Li, accidentally fell into the sea, and when he regained consciousness again, he turned into a young man from 400 years ago, a Ming who just joined the pirates with his brothers.

"I...didn't I hit you with a wooden barrel on purpose?" Gouzi wanted to cry aggrievedly, "I really wanted to save you!"

"But you still threw me back..." Qi Tian said in a daze.

"...,..." Gouzi.

"Gouzi,... you are called Gouzi." Qi Tian said softly, "I... am a little confused. Tell me about our past, okay?"

"..." Gouzi stared at Qi Tian for a long time before he realized, "Fourth Uncle, you... were really fooled by me?"

"I'm not stupid?" Qi Tian smiled wryly, "I..., I just can't remember some things clearly."

"Oh..." Gouzi stared blankly at Qi Tian, ​​feeling more guilty in his heart. "My name is Gouzi, and my father is your cousin. We used to live in Dengzhou... In Wanli year, my family still had five acres of land, but for some reason, it was taken away by Li Laocai from the village. Go. Li Laocai has a black heart, the land was taken away, and finally our house was also taken away. We have no choice but to go to the city and do odd jobs for others, but we still can’t get enough to eat.”

"...the goddamn Geng Zhongming let the rebels in, and the city was in chaos... Later, when the officers and soldiers came to kill the thieves, my father went to the top of the city... and didn't come back.... Later, the third uncle ( Cao Xiong) took us out to sea by boat, and first followed the rebels to Liaohai... Later, we voted for Liu Xiang..."

Qi Tian stared fixedly at this distant nephew who called himself a "dog" and was about the same age as himself, and babbled about how he didn't have enough to eat in Dengzhou, how he was bullied by the rich and small officials, and how he left Shandong. , under the care of the third uncle, he became a little pirate in a homeless world.

"Gouzi, being a pirate...are you afraid?" Qi Tian asked softly.

"Ah?" Gouzi, or the boy named Gouzi, was taken aback for a moment, "What are you afraid of?"

"Being a pirate is to fight people with a knife. You will either be killed, or you will be thrown into the water like me, and you may... be drowned."

"...I'm not afraid!" Gouzi said nonchalantly, "Anyway, if you stay in Dengzhou, you will starve to death sooner or later, or you may be killed by the rebels!... Unless you rebel and chop off the heads of those dog officials and rich dogs, Only then can we have something to eat...It seems that in the end, we will still be beheaded by the emperor!... Hee hee, the third uncle said, we poor people have a bad life, and we have to earn our own lives.... At least, I Now I can eat enough!"

After hearing this, Qi Tian was silent.In the late Ming Dynasty, as ordinary people, there was indeed only one life left.At this time, Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and other peasant armies are estimated to have grown to a certain scale, stirring up the heartland of Ming Dynasty such as Shanxi, Shaanxi and Henan.The Eight Banners of Manchuria outside the customs are also continuously bleeding the wind and rain of Ming Dynasty.Ten years later, Li Chuang broke through Beijing, and then the Eight Banners of Manchuria entered the customs, and then swept across North China, marched to the Central Plains, took Shanshan, and finally pacified Jiangnan and unified the mainland.

"Gouzi, have you ever killed someone?" Qi Tian looked at Gouzi's immature face, and really couldn't connect this simple and honest boy with the vicious pirate.

"..." Gouzi was stunned for a moment, "I haven't killed anyone yet... My cousin said that my fourth uncle and I are still young and weak, so we can't fight against people. And..., and, we just It’s been more than a year, and I haven’t had a chance to go to battle to kill people... At noon, the big ship that lost its way was knocked down by a cannon, and it was accidentally blown by the wind, and it hit us The boat... I still hold the big gun, thinking that I can see the battle." As he said, his eyes actually jumped a little.

After hearing this, Qi Tian immediately understood that in order to take care of their two younger brothers, uncle Cao Xiong and the three elder brothers tried to arrange them at the rear of the fleet to avoid encountering the enemy.

"Do you like being a pirate?" Qi Tian asked.

"...I like it. When I first boarded the boat, I was still a little dizzy. Now, I think it's quite free at sea. There is no bullying by dog ​​officials and black government servants, and there is no beating and scolding by Li Laocai's dog legs. You can still eat " Gouzi said seriously.

"It turns out that being a pirate is still a promising career in this period!" Qi Tian smiled wryly.

No bullying, no beating and scolding, and being able to eat, what a simple request.But in this dark late Ming period, it was a luxury, a hope.Oh god, why did you send me to this time and space.

Because, Qi Tian knows.Their group of pirates headed by Liu Xiang will eventually be wiped out at sea by Zheng Zhilong, yes, the father of Zheng Chenggong, who is called a national hero in the book, and briefly unified China's sea power, and even forced the sea power Netherlands When the East India Company traded between China and Japan, each ship was forced to pay 3000 to [-] taels of silver for the purchase of the road.

Even if Qi Tian can escape Zheng Zhilong's suppression in Liu Xiang Group, where can he escape?After the period, the Manchu Qing conquered the mainland and set off massacres one after another. Well, even if they escaped the massacres, could they just be the servants of the Banner Man honestly?
Or escape to Japan or Southeast Asia?But Japan should be under the rule of the shogunate at this time, and even the life of ordinary samurai is miserable. You, a little pirate who fled the Ming Dynasty, can live happily in Japan?
As for Southeast Asia, it seems to be the territory of the Netherlands and Spain.The Netherlands controls the entire East Indies, and Spain controls the Philippines. It seems that they are not very friendly to the Chinese, and both have a history of slaughtering the Chinese.

"Where is the road?" Qi Tian murmured.

"Ah?" Gouzi thought for a while, "The third uncle said, let's go to Zhangpu. Liu Xiang and the others thought they would go ashore for two days, destroy a few villages, take some people and property away, and then go to the one in the south... Bah... Bhaya's place."

"Batavia." Qi Tian had been to Jakarta, Indonesia in his previous life, and knew that this city was called Batavia during the 17th-19th centuries.

"Yes, it's Batavia of the red-haired ghost." Gouzi said, "I haven't been there yet!"

(End of this chapter)