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Chapter 376 Joyful Fighting Big Big Wolf
In the evening, Ningbo, the study room of the Liu Family Mansion.

A somewhat thin old man with a long beard was sitting on the chair. This person was the head of the Liu family, Liu Jiamao. He looked at the Liu family's children standing next and asked, "How much money did the Shi family bring this time?" ?”

"The three big ships are all worth a thousand taels of silver, and the goods are worth more than 5 taels of silver." The Liu family boy stood there respectfully and said.

"What goods are you going to buy?"

"Raw silk, grain, tea, etc."

"Okay, you go out."

Liu Jiamao sighed after dismissing the family's children. Recently, Fujian has become more and more involved in maritime trade, which has somewhat affected the maritime merchants in the south of the Yangtze River.

During the Ming Dynasty, most of the so-called maritime trade referred to the trade with Japan and North Korea.

Wa Kingdom, a small island country, is rich in silver. Iwami Yinshan alone can produce a million taels of silver annually. The entire Wa Kingdom has an annual output of more than 800 million taels of silver, and the currency that circulates in Wa Kingdom is the copper coins of Ming Dynasty. , the silver mined every year basically flowed into the Ming Dynasty through these maritime merchants.

In this era, the Ming Dynasty produced only hundreds of thousands of silver vehicles per year. Before the American silver flowed into China on a large scale, most of the silver circulating in the country came from Japan.

By the end of the Ming Dynasty, European colonists had just expanded their colonies to Southeast Asia, and the sea trade in Fujian and Guangdong was still underdeveloped. At present, only the Portuguese had the largest trading volume, followed by Spain and the Dutch, who gradually came into contact with the Ming Dynasty. .

Although the trading volume of the European colonists is still far lower than that of the Japanese country, anyone with a discerning eye can find that the trading volume with these red-haired ghosts is increasing day by day.

Some emerging maritime merchants and small merchants in the south of the Yangtze River have set their sights on these red-haired ghosts, and the Liu family is one of them. For more than ten years, they have been able to earn a large amount of gold and silver from the Portuguese every year. Since last year, Fujian maritime merchants, which suddenly emerged, have seized a large amount of trade from them.

This led to a sharp drop in their income last year.

This year, not far from the arrival of the Portuguese caravan, the Shi family purchased so much tea and raw silk from Ningbo again. From this, it can be seen that their family's trade with Portugal may suffer a huge loss this year.

Last year he was defenseless, but this year, his Liu family will never allow this kind of thing to happen again.

The next day, several maritime merchant families who were mainly engaged in Southeast Asian sea routes gathered in Liu's family to discuss the major issue of dealing with this Fujian maritime merchant.

"Patriarch Liu, what did you find us this time?"

Liu Jiamao glanced at the other four people present, "Everyone, it's time to trade with those red-haired ghosts once a year again, what do you think of this trade?"

The four people present looked at each other in dismay and exchanged glances, and roughly understood the meaning of Master Liu's summoning everyone.

"It's fine if it's the previous year. I'll wait for the several families to discuss the share of each family and it will be almost the same, but last year..." A Patriarch sighed slightly.

"Last year, each of our stores had a lot of stock left. It's really unexpected that these damned Fujianese intervened."

"There's no way these guys are going to be involved again this year."

"Of course, we developed this sea route bit by bit. How could it be possible for these Fujianese to pick peaches halfway?"

"Patriarch Liu, tell me what we should do."

Finally, a group of people discussed and turned their attention to Liu Jiamao again.

"Old rules, there is nothing to say. It's not impossible to get a share of this road, but we still have to weigh their weight. Let's talk about how many people each family can send."

The imperial court absolutely forbids the sea, and no one can borrow the power of the imperial court. That is to say, the sea is a lawless place. If you want to make money on it, you must have enough force, whether it is to deal with pirates that appear along the way, Or other competitors, all of which require sufficient force support.

How big Haimao can grow depends on each company's own strength. Blocking people's money is like killing their parents. Since these Fujianese want to steal business from them, don't blame them for being cruel.

In this era, any maritime merchant does not have an armed force of hundreds of people, among other things, just those sailors who go to sea, running on the sea all year round, fighting with pirates, almost all of them have such a force in their hands. One or two lives.

There are no less than 500 sailors in each fleet, plus spare manpower, pirates raised by each family, housekeepers on the shore, deterrent tenants, and manpower to guard the mines. I dare not say that there are too many people. There are thousands of armed forces.

It costs tens of thousands of taels of silver a year just to feed these people. Fortunately, the annual income is more abundant, so these investments are nothing.

"My grandson's family has 300 people, five warships, and a thousand taels of silver."

"My Zhao family has 400 people, six warships, and a thousand taels of silver."

Each patriarch paid people and money according to the proportion of the red-haired ghost's sea trade that they occupied. Overall, they sent a total of 2000 troops, 30 warships, and more than 6000 taels of silver.

The reason why so many manned ships are not aimed at the Shi family, but to severely attack those emerging maritime merchants in Fujian, and to cause a Japanese pirate rebellion in the entire Gulf Strait and along the coast of Fujian, we must completely dispel these Hokkien guys from going to sea careful thinking.

This time, not only the ship and important people are needed, but also a wave of real Japanese pirates at sea should be invited for the silver taels from each family. After all, they are under the banner of Japanese pirates, so there are still some Japanese pirates, even if there are fewer.

In fact, the wave of Japanese pirates that Liu, Sun, and Zhao are planning to find is not bad at all. The leader is named Okamura Tashita, and there are as many as a thousand people, a small part of which are composed of Japanese ronin. Part is sailor and ashigaru.

The so-called Japanese wanderers refer to those down-and-out warriors who lost their titles and left their masters to wander around.

In Japan, those who can be called samurai are not ordinary people. The so-called samurai is already a member of the low-level nobles.

After the era of the Kamakura shogunate, the Wa Kingdom entered the Warring States Period. Of course, this Warring States Period is said in their own history books. During this long period of time, the small Wa Kingdom has hundreds of countries, and the land of a county can be enough. It is called a country, so it is called the Warring States Period.

But in Wang Xuan's view, it is more appropriate to call it the 'Yangcun Era'.

Compared with the Warring States Period of China, the national war of the Wa Kingdom is not much different from the Pleasant Goat vs. Big Big Wolf. It is only a game.

Of course, to be precise, it would be more appropriate to call it a war between Chengxian County and the county. It is nothing more than a fight between hundreds of people and thousands of people, which is similar to two villages fighting for water.

The samurai are the absolute main force of this small-scale battle. When a daimyo is destroyed, these samurai will become ronin after losing their loyal master.

This group of pirates can stand on the sea for a long time, and their strength is indeed not to be underestimated. In terms of combat effectiveness alone, it may not be inferior to the joint fleet formed by several companies.

……

Five days later, the Shi family settled the deal in Ningbo and made a fortune again. They set sail with three ships full of goods. Starting from Ningbo, passing the Zhoushan Islands and then going around to Xiangshan County, they can go along the coastline. All the way back directly to Fuzhou Port.

It's just that they didn't know that they had been targeted a few days ago.

Liu's five families did not use all their strength to target Shi's family, they just allocated a team of people, six boats with 400 people blocking the mountain in front of them, and the other people, including those Japanese people, had already come all the way to the sea off Fujian.

Just at noon, the lookouts of the Shi Family Fleet were bored with binoculars and casually looking at each other. Suddenly, they saw six boats coming towards this side outside the mountain pass. They couldn’t see clearly from a distance. , I just thought it was some merchant ships and didn't pay much attention to it. When I got closer, I found that the opponent's ship was obviously different from ordinary merchant ships. The hull was narrower and longer, and the speed was faster than ordinary merchant ships with belly.

A bad thought crossed Wang Wang's mind, and he immediately picked up the drum hammer and rang the gong beside him.

Hearing the alarm, the boatswain rushed out immediately and looked up at the watchman, and heard the other party pulling his neck and shouting: "There are six ships coming straight to us. They don't look like merchant ships. They don't seem to be With good intentions!"

The bosun was startled immediately, and while ordering someone to ring the alarm bell to get everyone ready, he turned around and ran towards the captain's cabin.

At this time, the person in charge of the Shi family caravan who heard the warning sound, the fourth son of the Shi family also came out, "What's going on?"

"Fourth Master, there are six boats approaching us, they don't look like merchant ships, I'm afraid..."

He didn't say anything later, and the fourth master of the Shi family understood what he meant.

Shi Laosi snatched a binoculars from the people around him, and ran to the bow of the boat to look at the opposite side. From the binoculars, he could clearly see that the opposite boat was a dual-purpose sailing and paddling boat.

At this time, two rows of oars stretched out around the hull, paddling the water crazily, and the boat approached at high speed.

This kind of sailing boat has high explosive power and fast speed. Although it has low wind and wave resistance, it is not suitable for sailing in high seas, and its battery life is relatively weak. However, it is very suitable as a pirate ship in coastal and offshore areas.

Shi Laosi put down the binoculars with a livid face, these guys who came straight to him must be pirates!
If it is in the open sea, there will be three feet of waves even if there is no wind, but in this offshore area, no matter what the boat is, it will not be able to run across the opposite side. In addition, it is now in a strait, even if you want to run to the open sea, it is impossible.

Now there is only one way in front of Shi Laosi, do it!to the end!Live if you win, die if you fail!

Taking a deep breath, Boss Shi yelled, "Everyone is ready, the speed of the boat will be the highest for me, and I will sink them and hit the bow of the ship!"

There are six ships on the opposite side, and they are all pirates. The combat power must be much stronger than our own side. The only advantage of our side is that the ship is big enough. Ships, in Wang Xuan's words, don't even have a displacement of 200 tons, so they can sink them in one hit!
As for surrender, he didn't even think about it. He wasn't stupid. The opponent had obviously planned to attack him, and it was unlikely that he would survive. Otherwise, he wouldn't have attacked him so accurately and with such sufficient strength.

Rather than praying for the enemy to survive, it is better to take a risk!
Shi Laosi gave the order, and the big boat immediately rushed towards the other party at full speed. These crew members were all tenants or children of the Shi family. It is not an exaggeration to say that a family is loyal, and their loyalty is still extremely high.

Seconds passed, and the two fleets faced each other, and soon they met each other. Standing at the bow of the ship, Shi Laosi could clearly see the ferocious face of the pirate on the other side, snorted coldly, and pulled a rope Quickly tied himself to the side of the boat.

The pirate leader of the Zhao family on the opposite side was a little wondering what Shi Laosi was going to do, but the fish on the chopping board was on the opposite side, so he didn't think much about it, so he yelled, "I will stop the boat for robbery. If you dare to resist, all members Kill without mercy!"

According to the usual practice, I usually threatened a few words, and I didn't expect the other party to surrender directly, but it felt wrong as soon as I finished shouting.

If it was normal for the opponent to come towards him without knowing that he was a pirate before, then now that he has signed up, but the opponent neither runs nor stops, just rushing towards him at full speed, is this...?
Wait, if you don't turn around, you're about to crash!
"Quick, turn the rudder quickly!" The voice of the pirate leader of the Zhao family was distorted, and he lost the high-spirited spirit just now. This is meeting a lunatic!

The pirate ship, which was aggressive just now, hastily steered to the left to avoid it, but the first mate on the Shi family ship also gritted his teeth and turned right to chase after it. The distance between the two sides was too close, and the Zhao family did not expect that the other party’s will to collide with the ship was so strong. You know, even if a big ship collides with a small boat, the opponent's damage will not be small, and if it goes wrong, it will sink!
However, the pirate ship turned the rudder ahead of time, showing its fragile flanks, and was slammed into it by the fully loaded Shi family ship!

In the exclamation of the pirates, "Boom!"

There was a loud noise, and the two boats were violent. The Zhao family's dual-purpose sailing and paddle boat had a relatively low side, but it was crushed by the Shi family's big boat with a load of nearly [-] tons.

The first thing that erupted was a stream of plasma, which was the sailor who couldn't dodge was directly crushed into powder!
The Shi family's boat stopped suddenly, and pushed the other party to move sideways for more than ten meters. A wave of seven or eight meters high surged towards the two sides. rode up.

The total displacement of the pirate ship was only 200 tons. How could a 500-ton ship ride on it bear it? Almost all of the hull was pressed into the sea, and there was only a crackling sound from the keel.

"Crack!" came from the bottom of the water, and the whole pirate ship was crushed into two sections at once. At that time, he desperately started to swim towards the distance.

But the vortex caused by the sinking of the ship held these people tightly, and they could only scream and be sucked into the water surface little by little. After the big ship rolled over, they could not see anything on the water surface except for some broken wood. .

However, the big ship of the Shi family passing by was not easy. After all, it was an ordinary merchant ship rather than a warship. The thickness of the ship's side was low, and there were three damages and two cracks. It was known without inspection, and the keel must have suffered a lot. After all, that is the stress point of the whole ship, which is equivalent to a human spine. I don't know how long it can last after this one.

"Boom! Boom!"

There were two more loud bangs, and it didn't take much thinking to know that the boat behind had also crashed into it.

Shi Laosi gritted his teeth hard. Even though he tied himself to the side of the boat just now, his viscera were still trembling with pain. Now he tried his best to untie the rope. This battle is not over yet.

Although it hit the opposite side and sank, he was also seriously injured, and even if he didn't sink, he was basically useless.

Moreover, there are at least three intact ships on the opposite side!
The watertight compartment in front began to flood, and the speed of the ship slowed down a little. The pirate ship that passed by was turning around to kill it. Shi Laosi wiped the corners of his mouth, and staggered towards the back. Come on, fight with these pirates, kill one to make money, kill two to earn one, today either we die or they die!"

"In this vast sea, everyone, don't even think about the possibility of surrender. Let's fight to the last person!"

Shi Laosi pulled his neck and blushed to boost his morale. The sailors under his command saw that the Shi family's fourth master was starting to work hard, so there was nothing to hesitate!

The pirate ship leaned up, and immediately hooked its flying claws to the side of the ship with bang bang bang. At the same time, there was a whistling sound, and the pirates took out their bows and arrows and started shooting.

When a wave of arrows rained down, the sound of arrows plunging into the flesh sounded like "Puff puff", and the screams of "Ah ah" were endless.

The Shi family immediately suffered heavy losses as soon as they met each other. After all, unlike the pirates on the other side who had rich fighting experience, they were all relying on the blood in their hearts. They never expected that the other side would shoot arrows. Most of them were also wiped out.

The hook board was set up, and the pirate raised by the Zhao family screamed, danced the waist knife in his hand, and rushed over frantically. His bloodthirsty and ferocious face and rich combat experience could not be resisted by a passion.

After all, the Shi family has not been trained as a saint fighter, so they will not explode into a small universe.

As soon as the two sides came into contact, it was almost a one-sided battle. In a short period of time, more than sixty sailors on the Shi family's big ship were beheaded and killed.

"Master, go, go!"

One of the personal guards pulled Shi Lao Si back, slashed back with a knife, slashed away from the opposite pirate, kicked him down, turned his head and shouted eagerly at Shi Lao Si: "Fourth Lord, jump into the sea!" , Grab a plank and jump into the sea, you will definitely die if you go on like this, if you still have a hope of jumping into the sea and rushing to the shore, this is not far from the shore!"

"As long as Fourth Master can go back, he can avenge us! Otherwise, we will die in vain!"

As long as Shi Lao Si can go back alive, the guard's death will not be in vain, and the family's wife, children and mother will be taken care of by Shi Lao Si. It's no wonder that he went crazy and tried his best to stop the pirates on the other side.

Shi Lao Si watched his family members being beheaded one by one on the spot, and watched his personal guard stop five pirates to protect him, and from time to time, he would get such a bloody cut because he couldn't dodge in time, and he was still fighting endlessly with blood dripping , took a deep breath, swept a group of pirates fiercely, engraved the appearance of these guys in his mind, and then turned around resolutely, grabbed a board and jumped into the sea.

'boom'

The water splashed, and Shi Laosi disappeared into the vast sea.

(End of this chapter)