Chapter 650. The Age of Pirates
This is the most spectacular scene in the Age of Discovery. On the vast ocean, four magnificent human war machines were entangled together. The cannons were blazing with a blazing breath of death from hell. The water columns jumped up several meters high in the flapping shells. The rippling waves made the boat bump like toys in a bathtub.
During the Battle of Taiwan in Zheng Chenggong, sixty Zheng army large green ships besieged several Dutch ships. In order to sink a main battleship, the Zheng army was almost sunk thirty ships, killing thousands of people. In the end, the goddess of luck favored Zheng Chenggong. The Hector was hit by a gunpowder companion and exploded with a bang.
He didn't know his original fate at all, but he didn't delay Zheng Sen's excited expression at this time. The vibration of the cannon made the ship tremble. Facing the smoke of the gun, he excitedly patted the ship deck.
"It's still the firepower of this thing is decent! The Qingtou boat used to be simply garbage!"
"Press up!"
The spread of artillery fire continued to force the position, causing the Dutch merchant ship in the trap to turn left and right, and the three bright boats and sharks gradually surrounded it and surrounded it.
The Dutch captain with a panic, red curly haired red cap waving his command knife and grinning, "A Dutchman can fight twenty-five Ming people! They will collapse after a few rows of guns! Go into battle and fight on the board!"
With his roar, a group of Dutch sailors who looked like mountain beasts, mixed with a dozen Japanese warriors screaming and jumped out with a melee and arrayed fiercely on the deck. The sailors looked at the port side with a ferocious expression, and their eyes were red and looked at the Ming pirates getting closer and closer.
The next second, their expressions froze, and a sound sounded. What they were in front of them was not the beggar Daming pirates who were always wearing tattered clothes, holding axes and screaming with knifes, and showing their rotten teeth. The first thing that caught their eyes was the black muzzle.
On the deck, the neat bayonet flintlock pointed forward with pride, condescending, twice as many as the number. There was also a bare-handed, revealing a muscle of a shirtless man, and two dragons with a big bearded man in his chest, stepping on a thick cannon with one foot, biting the same thick cigar in his mouth, glanced at them contemptuously, and vomited a smoke ring out.
This is fucking embarrassing!
The convex was hissing, and sweat beads were also flowing down on his forehead. With a bang, the first mate with a beard raised up threw the convex gun directly. Then, a group of Dutch sailors threw the gun all over the floor, and then squatted to the side like nothing was wrong and threw the knife. The captain pointed and shouted in a standard Nanjing accent.
"Master! We are all following the people, and we all understand the rules. These little bastards insist on resisting!"
Turning back in shock, a group of Japanese mercenaries who were still holding a melee gun and grinning and yelling were stunned.
…………
Bang~
"Oh~"
The Dongjiang ship has complete facilities, including the prison. No matter whether you follow the people or not, you will be rewarded with one person on the butt. Thirty-eight Dutch sailor captains were kicked in. The iron railing prison was too small and had to be stacked up in size. The Japanese who came in later were lucky and rode to the Dutch's neck. Then the big iron door was locked. No matter how those people wailed, the pirate master patted his butt and walked out.
However, these Dutch people are not innocent. There are no real honest people in the Age of Discovery. Maritime merchants basically work part-time pirates. These guys are much more comfortable than the unlucky maritime merchants in other countries that they threw off the boat to feed sharks or the indigenous peoples who were massacred by them.
As for the Dutch merchant ship that had been shot two guns, it was tied to the butt by Zheng Sen's two second-level sailboats, dragged it behind and pulled it to the north.
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Penghu.
Dozens of men roared with all their might, and blue veins stormed on their foreheads. In their drag, another heavy sailboat was dragged to the beach. Next to this new victim, there were already a large row of captured sea boats arranged in densely, with a large portion of them losing to the Western three-masted Galen ships, and a portion of Southeast Asia's long-dried boats. In the past few months, the pirates of the Ming Dynasty have completely opened up. In the name of war, no matter whose ship is, as long as it is not from the Ming Dynasty, they will be dragged back, and all the property on them will be "confiscated". As for the sailors, they are locked up.
Among them, the Dutch went a little further and were only restricted from moving. They should give food and drink, and wait for the Dutch East India Company to redeem it. However, the Luzon Spaniards were not so lucky. The people who just killed 20,000 to 30,000 people in Manila were regarded as blood feud by the Ming Dynasty. The captain and mate were hung on the mast after the ship fell, and the remaining crew members were beaten as slaves and transported to the north.
Recently, the Beiming Dynasty has been engaged in infrastructure construction, and domestic railways have been spread everywhere, so that the demand for coal has increased significantly. Recently, Mao Jueke and Shanxi merchants have cooperated with Shanxi coal bosses, and the front-line coal miners are indispensable.
On the beach, after being pulled onto the boat, the Ming army soldiers were busy unloading the goods again, while several clerks were swaying on the side in big slippers, holding account books and brushes and following Sasha to record.
"Franc aircraft sixteen, four gunpowder, twelve barrels of gunpowder, three thousand deer skin, two hundred boxes of sugar, two boxes of pearls, two boxes of fish skin, nine Japanese strong, and thirty-two Dutch strong..."
The brush directly penetrated two pages of rice paper. After recording, the clerk took out the seal and stamped the red seal twice. Then he pulled down the page behind and handed it out, and said professionally.
"30% belongs to the Ming Dynasty, and once it becomes the East India Company's handling fee, the auction results are based on the announcement of the town entrance, and you go to Hangzhou to get the silver!"
"I'm going to drive my brother. I'm so worried about loading the ship! Take this for a drink!"
A heavy ingot of silver was stuffed into his hand. After weighing it, the clerk's stern face also showed a smile, nodding and humming.
"Don't worry, Master Zheng's goods, how dare I not worry about it? I know that boat, I will take the goods for Master first!"
There are too many ships robbed recently, and Southeast Asian goods have gone from shortage to a little saturated. Now the sooner the Ming Dynasty, the more you can sell it at a high price. After getting this promise, Shi Daxuan also showed excitement on his generous old face. He greeted the clerk again, and the man in his forties ran back happily.
Stepping on a sea reef and carrying the samurai sword, Zheng Sen was still watching the pirate ship returning from the sea in a daze. It was really good at this time. Many people drove to the waters near Relanzha City, Tainan to squat. After squatting for a whole month, they returned empty-handed. Some of them didn't get robbed, but instead they beat them up and ran back with a hole exposed.
However, there are losers, there are successful ones, such as Zheng Zhilong's eldest son Zheng Sen, and the next one. Just as Zheng Sen was looking around, another fleet landed into the bay, and the He-like flag was hung high at the bow, just like Zheng Sen. Three captured Spanish ships were hung at the stern, and there was a messy noise. A large group of Ming soldiers rushed up again, pulling the rope tied to the Western ship, and tugging towards the shore excitedly.
The Spanish sold slaves to the New World, treating black men and yellow men as tools that are not humans. However, they did not expect that they would have one day. The iron chains were clattering, and more than seventy hairs were messy and smelly. But the Spanish conquerors who were strong like animals were driven down dejectedly. Following him, a guy wearing a big marten cloak and a gem melon veil hat, came down proudly like a playboy who was more than a scattered man than a pirate. Seeing Zheng Sen looking around, the guy smiled and gestured his fist, and then he had to shout with a long voice.
"Come on! I will count it for Mr. He too!"
"Grandmaster!"
Seeing the East India Company busy carrying things under the ship that He Bin snatched back, Zheng Sen hummed from his nostrils. During this time, Shi Daxuan, the general of the Zheng family who went to contact the East India Company to count, came back happily and bowed heavily behind Zheng Sen.
"Young Master! Another 300 yellow croaker! I cut seven boats in a month and a half, and more than 300,000 taels were earned! You really have the style of an old leader back then!"
"Old head?"
"If he had my ruthlessness, the South China Sea would no longer be Mao!"
When talking about this, Zheng Sen couldn't help but sneer and shook his head slightly, but Shi Daxuan couldn't help but grow up. Even if he voted for the Regent now, Zheng Zhilong is still a legendary pirate in the South China Sea. Everyone's minds as the number one brother in the South China Sea. Zheng Sen's evaluation of his father in this way does not talk about the issue of filial piety or not. This arrogance alone makes him amazed.
However, the later national hero who regained Taiwan has completely gone to another fork on this historical line. A legendary pirate who was enough to surpass Zheng Zhilong glanced at the subordinates of He Bin who were unloading goods with disdain. He knocked the knife contemptuously.
"Let Cheng Dahu and his group of wastes get yellow soup quickly, and go out to sea early tomorrow morning!"
“Also go out to sea?”
Once again, Shi Daxuan couldn't help but scream. The more than 200 warships occupied by Mao Jue were not strictly disciplined Royal Navy. At this time, more than 40 had already returned to Hangzhou with the robbed silver. After all, he was desperately trying to enjoy it. Like Zheng Sen, he and He Bin were the only ones who were still next to each other.
But He Bin is different. He is a local pirate and maritime merchant with roots in Taiwan. Now he is fighting against the Dutch people riding on Taiwan. He also has the motivation to fight desperately, but Zheng Sen is completely different. Now the entire thief group has saved at least 300,000 taels of silver in Hangzhou. More than 500 people from three ships can be divided into a big fortune that can be squandered for a few years. Just like Emperor Alexander the Great who fought in the east, they no longer want to fight!
Chapter completed!