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Chapter 378 What If Wang Xuan Died?
He appeared on the pirate's bed in a blink of an eye, and in the astonishment of the pirates, Wang Xuan swept the Qinglong Yanyue Saber in his hand, and the blade brought up an afterimage and passed over the eight oncoming pirates.

Standing with their knives aside, the eight pirates raised their steel knives in unison to slash at Wang Xuan, but with just such a movement of raising their hands, their upper body suddenly fell off, and blood gushed out from their broken waist like a volcanic eruption. The eight people swallowed their breath without even uttering a single cry.

It's just that the eight people didn't feel any pain until the moment before they died. Wang Xuan's knife was too fast!

The scene where the upper body broke suddenly stunned the pirates behind. More than 70 pirates looked at Wang Xuan who was as indifferent as a demon king in horror, and all took a step back!
The corners of Wang Xuan's mouth curled up, revealing a captivating smile. He swung the Qinglong Yanyue Knife backwards in his hand, and stepped on his feet, leaving a phantom in everyone's retinas. He had already arrived in front of the pirates. The light of the knife suddenly appeared in everyone's eyes. After the light of the knife passed, more than a dozen heads flew into the sky, and the plasma jumped more than half a meter high. The headless corpse was still standing on the deck until the head fell It hit the neck, and the body fell to the ground again.

With one blow, there is no living person within a radius of eight meters!
Compared to something like a long sword, stabbing once and for all, this is the real killer on the battlefield!
Killing people is as easy as chopping melons and vegetables!
I don't know if "House of Flying Daggers" completely aroused the violent emotions in Wang Xuan's heart, or it was his nature. After this knife, Wang Xuan followed Qu Yang's passionate tune and followed the singer:
Man, be violent.Things and benevolence are inseparable.

When a man kills, he kills without mercy.The immortal karma of Qianqiu is all in murder.

In the past, there was a handsome man with a strong sense of loyalty.Yazi kills people, and his body is lighter than a feather.

There are heroes and tyrants, killing people like hemp, galloping around the world, only bragging about swords and guns.

……

One sentence, one knife, one splash of blood, one step, ten people, can't be done.

Wherever the figure passed, all the pirates were stabbed in half, leaving only endless gushes of blood staining the entire deck!
The world is vast and the sea is raging. With a long roar, Wang Xuan jumped out of the pirate ship, holding the Qinglong Yanyue Saber, and walked on the water. A water dragon rose from the sea and jumped onto another pirate ship again.

At this time, the battlefield was almost in a dead silence, except for Qu Yang's "House of Flying Daggers", everyone else was staring blankly at Wang Xuan's every move.

When Wang Xuan jumped on a pirate ship again,

When the light of the knife streaked across the sky like a thunderbolt again,
When the dying screams echoed in my ears again,

All the pirates collapsed, screaming and throwing away the weapons in their hands, lying on the deck, including the soldiers of the thousand special forces, kneeling on one knee, looking at Wang Xuan standing with a knife in reverence.

The young master of the Dong family stared at the only figure standing on the battlefield in the distance, his eyes were full of admiration and longing.

Before that, Young Master Dong had a lot of respect and fear for Wang Xuan. After all, it was Wang Xuan's powerful reputation in Fujian, his ruthless methods, and his unscrupulous courage.

But at this moment, Young Master Dong discovered that hidden under the vicious name and ruthlessness is the heroism and pride of fighting for a hero on the battlefield. This is the reason why Wang Xuan was able to get to this point in a short time.

Originally, Wang Xuan was going to slaughter all these pirates. After all, these people are killers raised by those sea merchants. Not to mention it is very difficult to recruit and surrender, and their loyalty cannot be guaranteed. But now, these pirates are all intimidated. After surrendering, Wang Xuan didn't bother to kill people.

"Collect the captives!"

Wang Xuan didn't care after giving the order. Naturally, he had his men to do the work. He stepped on the sea again and jumped back onto the big ship. After seeing the blood splattered on his body, Wang Xuan went back to the captain's room and changed his clothes before coming out again. .

At this time, the people on the boat had already finished interrogating Liu Heizi, the head of the Liu family that Wang Xuan threw back just now.

Even though Liu Heizi is the son of the Liu family, he is usually a tough guy who is not afraid of death, but in the hands of these torture masters under Wang Xuan, death is an extravagant hope. Within minutes, just as Liu Heizi pulled the skin off his hands in front of Liu Heizi's eyes, the kid confessed to everything.

Holding the confession, Wang Xuan glanced at it casually, from who are the several families that have united this time, how many people have been sent by each family, who are stationed there, and the situation of the real Japanese pirates is clearly written on it. ,clear and direct.

It can be said that with such a piece of information, it is easy to completely smash the plan of Ningbo Maritime Merchants this time.

Normally speaking, Ningbo Maritime Merchant has a lot of people dispatched this time. There are more than 3000 real and fake Japanese pirates, and more than 50 large and small warships. I dare not say that there are too many. problem.

After all, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the military system of the guards was corrupt. In a prefecture and county, not to mention the manpower capable of fighting, even the total number of weapons that could be used was not 3000. Take Fuzhou Prefecture as an example. Before Wang Xuan intervened, Fuzhou Even when the guards were reviewing, they couldn't gather 2000 people. This is the largest government in Fujian, which shows how the military strength of the entire Fujian is.

After all, these Ningbo people did not understand the specific situation, especially Wang Xuan did not participate in the maritime trade. Even if it was the rebellion of the Tang king, Wang Xuan dispatched only 500 people, and most of them were hidden in the dark. Not many people were used on the surface.

The only time when a large army was dispatched was when Wuhumen was wiped out. Although there were tens of thousands of people, everyone knew the exact strength of the army.

As a result, many rich families in Fujian did not understand how powerful Wang Xuan was, let alone those maritime merchant families in Ningbo.

In this era, information exchange is entirely dependent on manpower. It is an era that basically relies on shouting. There is no network or telephone. Ningbo Maritimes also follows the usual practice in evaluating the strength of opponents.

What is a convention?

Take the top gentry family in a prefecture as an example. There are no less than [-] mu of fertile land, no less than [-] green tenants, and no less than [-] people under control. In addition, guarding mines and some businesses and housekeeping are used by a wealthy family. Three hundred servants is normal.

Otherwise, you might encounter bandits.

After all, it is impossible to count on the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, and those people will not be better than the tenants who cultivate the land.

Therefore, in the view of the maritime merchants headed by the Liu family, these three thousand years of combat power are enough to deal a heavy blow to these emerging maritime merchants in Fujian.

The battle here ended quickly, and Qi Xuefeng and others who came up from behind didn't win a fight at all. When he was feeling depressed, Wang Xuan sent someone to call them over with a banner.

Coming in a small boat, Qi Xuefeng hurriedly came to Wang Xuan and bowed his hands, "I've seen you, sir, just now I heard that you were able to frighten hundreds of pirates with his supernatural power, which really opened the eyes of my subordinates."

"Okay, let's sit down and talk." As he said, Wang Xuan asked someone to hand over the confession.

After Qi Xuefeng picked it up and looked at it carefully, he immediately showed joy, "Sir, with this information, it will be easy to wipe out these pirates!"

To say that the most troublesome thing about these pirates is not how much combat power they have, but more about their elusive whereabouts. If you can't catch anyone, so what if you can fight?It's not that there is nowhere to use the strength.

But now, just follow the map and find out.

"Sir, I promise to wipe out these damned pirates in one fell swoop." Qi Xuefeng also knew about Wang Xuan's arrangement of memorials from various prefectures and counties saying that there were pirates in Fujian, so he naturally volunteered for such a good opportunity.

Wang Xuan nodded slightly, "The extermination of pirates this time is also a good opportunity for military training. There are still three pirates that need to be exterminated. I will leave these to you. Try to let the soldiers see blood. The elite cannot be trained. It’s still about actual combat.”

"Your subordinate understands!" Qi Xuefeng stood up and gave a military salute, then turned around and walked out.

Young Master Dong had also read that information just now, and now that Qi Xuefeng had left, he couldn't help but ask, "Sir, what about the real pirates with a thousand people?"

"Haha!" Wang Xuan narrowed his eyes, and the murderous intent in his eyes shot out, making the whole cabin seem to be hung with a cold wind, "It's not easy to meet these real Japanese pirates, I will naturally go to see them for myself, compared to beheading To kill these pirates of the Ming Dynasty, I prefer to use these Japanese pirates to practice knives, to see how hard their bones are, and whether they are particularly crisp when killing them!"

Young Master Dong thought of Wang Xuan's demeanor just now, not only was he not frightened by the blood, but he felt a sense of excitement, "Then let me accompany Mr. to go there and see for myself, these things that once ravaged my Daming Sea Do Japanese pirates have three heads and six arms!"

In the final analysis, although he is also a scholar, he is also a man, and his personality is different from that kind of rotten scholar. In this era, those who dare to go to the sea to fight for the battle are not the ones who keep their own way.

After all, Young Master Dong did not enter the officialdom, so the thought of being noble and martial is not that big of an influence on him. Moreover, living in a frontier, where the Emperor Tianguang is far away, the law and order cannot be as good as the land of the Central Plains and the rich and prosperous Jiangnan. Therefore, relatively, force is still more important.

The fleet was divided into three again. After the captives were disarmed, they were tied up on one ship and taken away. The rest of the ships were divided into two teams. One team was led by Qi Xuefeng with 2000 sailors to destroy the three maritime merchants, and the other team was Dong Dong. Several merchant ships of the family headed straight for the Japanese pirates stationed in Zhangzhou Prefecture.

Based on the current voyage, there are still about six or seven days before Wang Xuan and his party can arrive near their destination.

……

Quanzhou Mansion, Quanzhou City, Lin Family Mansion, backyard.

In the evening, the backyard gate was opened six times in a row, and six very ordinary-looking carriages entered the Lin family's mansion quietly without anyone being alarmed.

There was no one within more than ten meters outside the study room. The head of the Lin family ordered his servants to guard the outside, and no one was allowed to step within ten meters.

At this moment, the big study room was brightly lit, and seven middle-aged people about 50 to [-] years old were sitting together.

Sitting in the first seat is Patriarch Lin. If you are knowledgeable, you will find that the other six are also the leading family heads in Fujian Province.

These seven families are all from Xinghua, Zhangzhou, and Quanzhou, and control the mines, salt, iron and other businesses in the three places.

Not only that, each family controls no less than 30 mu of land in the local area. If counting some married families and dependent families, each family can affect no less than [-] mu of cultivated land.

During the Ming Dynasty, the country’s arable land area was about 8.5 million mu. Due to geological reasons, there was a saying in Fujian that nine parts of the landscape and one part of the field. The arable land mask was only over 800 million mu, and most of the 800 million mu of arable land was concentrated. On the four major plains of Fujian.

These four plains are Fuzhou Plain, Xinghua Plain, Zhangzhou Plain and Quanzhou Plain.

And these seven families are the largest seven families entrenched on the three major plains. The land directly controlled by the seven families is close to one million mu, reaching one eighth of the entire Fujian. If the land that can be affected is counted, it can reach the entire A quarter of Fujian.

This is not counting industries such as mines that are in their hands.

It can be said that in the feudal society dominated by agriculture in the Ming Dynasty, these seven major families were the handful of people at the top of Fujian, which could effectively affect the economic and social stability of Fujian as a whole.

Of course, this is before the rise of Wang Xuan, right now, the richest and most influential person in the whole of Fujian is Mr. Wang Xuan.

Wang Xuan has gone beyond the normal category, standing at the top of everyone, and below are the former big families.

After all, the benefits that land can produce cannot be compared with industry at all.

Among other things, the annual profits generated by those two iron mines and steel factories alone are almost comparable to the profits generated by the seven major families with millions of acres of land.

What's more, Wang Xuan also controls the largest port city in Fujian.

Of course, Wang Xuan has never underestimated these big families. After all, the arable land under his control is too large, and the annual grain production needs to feed one-eighth of the whole population. Even he is not willing to easily provoke the members of these seven big families. .

Therefore, when the 'Ocean Business Association' was established, Wang Xuan deliberately bypassed them and chose a few families that were a little worse than them.

Otherwise, with their own background, once these seven companies join the salt industry and maritime trade, it will inevitably explode quickly. Wang Xuan doesn't want to cultivate a few behemoths to cause trouble for himself.

It can be said that Wang Xuan has always been wary of the big families. Of course, the big families themselves can feel the hostility. After all, Wang Xuan hardly takes them to play in all of his business. Isn't that obvious enough? ?
Moreover, some of the families supported by Wang Xuan have already intended to catch up with them in the past two years. After all, they are rich!

"Cough cough." Patriarch Lin coughed lightly to attract everyone's attention, and then said slowly: "I called everyone here today, and I think everyone knows the reason. Recently, we in Fujian have been troubled by Japanese pirates."

"Huh!" Patriarch Wang snorted coldly, the fat on his face trembling a few times, "Isn't it the right intention to make trouble with Japanese pirates? I really thought we didn't know how profitable the sea trade is, but those families in Jiangnan are good friends. Yes, the imperial court has nothing to do with them, this group of guys rushed out as soon as Wang Xuan encouraged them, it would be strange if they didn't make trouble with Japanese pirates!"

"Tell me, who wins and who loses this time?"

"It must be those big merchants in Ningbo. After all, these families have a profound background, and these newcomers cannot resist. Besides, the news that came back recently, these guys can't bear the heavy losses."

"I don't think so. As far as I know, these guys went to find that Wang Xuan together, and they are going to ask Wang Xuan to deal with those Zhejiang people."

After saying this, the room immediately fell into silence. A group of people frowned and stopped talking. Although they didn't know how powerful Wang Xuan was, they wouldn't believe that Wang Xuan was not as powerful as those sea merchants.

Just the two mines and the steel factory alone employ tens of thousands of green soldiers. These days, green talent is equivalent to combat power to a certain extent. After all, they can easily form an army by pulling them out for training.

This is not counting the Fuzhou Guard under the control of Wang Xuan. Although they don't know the strength of the battle, they know that the army is at full strength, 600 people!
Of course, compared to Wang Xuan's industry, this is not much. After all, it takes a large number of people to look after the mines and steel factories to maintain law and order, let alone manage the port city.

And Wang Xuan's products also need the help of these sea merchants to digest, so it is almost certain that Wang Xuan will make a move!

"Hey, if he makes a move, it's really hard to say."

"Damn it, who knows why such an evildoer suddenly appeared. He is so bold that even the majestic King Tang would dare to frame him."

"On this matter, there is no sound from the court?" A Patriarch said with some displeasure.

"There's a sound of fart, the raw rice is cooked into mature rice, besides, who dares to reverse the case for the king of Tang, this is the case of the vassal king's conspiracy, it is too late for everyone to avoid it, and there is no interest in it, whoever is full has the intention to reach out Touch it, and if you are targeted and framed by your opponent, you can't afford it and walk away."

"Yeah, it's a pile of dog shit, no one wants to step on it, and besides, it took back so much land for the imperial court, hehe, the emperor might not be so happy in private!"

"Dangdangdang."

Patriarch Lin knocked on the table with a dark face, asking everyone to come to discuss whether it is necessary for everyone to participate in this trouble of Japanese pirates, but chatting and chatting, the building is crooked...

"The matter of King Tang is over, everyone should stop discussing it, let's talk about the Japanese pirates."

"The Japanese pirates are making trouble with them. It has nothing to do with our seven families. Whether it's good or bad, it won't affect us."

"That's not necessarily the case!" Patriarch Lin tapped his fingers on the table, "Don't you think about it, what if Wang Xuan loses this time? What's more, if Wang Xuan dies, what will happen? Everyone has thought about it. ?"

Patriarch Lin's words immediately made everyone's faces look shocked, and then everyone frowned in thought, their faces changing uncertainly.

(End of this chapter)