A pirate leader had a waist knife in his mouth, climbed up along the rope with both hands. When he reached the side of the ship, he pushed his hands hard and stepped onto the deck with one leg. At this time, he found that hundreds of Tang soldiers with helmets and armors standing on the deck, holding a sharp sword, were looking at him and laughing mockingly.

These people are the officers and soldiers of the Marine Corps.

When the pirate leader saw so many Tang troops on the ship, he was just supplying all the pirate ships around the ship, which was a fraction of the others.

The little pirate leader was also agile. He immediately took his legs down and walked down the rope. Before he could go down, he suddenly found that the rope was lifted upwards. He looked up and saw two burly men pulling the rope upwards.

The little pirate leader was anxious and simply let go and jumped into the sea.

Then, the officers and soldiers of the Marine Corps picked up crossbows and shot at the surrounding pirate ships.

The pirates on the pirate ship were seriously injured. Seeing that there were so many Tang soldiers on the Tang army's supply ship, they knew that they would give it to them for free, so they scattered all over the place.

At this time, the third-class sail battleship that was escorting the supply ship behind had already leaned forward and soon sent the two pirate ships to the bottom of the sea.

The battle lasted for about 40 minutes, and the pirate ships had lost more than 0, while the Tang army's sail battleship was not damaged.

The young pirate watching the battle in the distance said to the Tiger Head General: "Things are not good, please withdraw."

General Hutou had long seen that something was wrong, but without the orders of this young man, he did not dare to order a retreat. He immediately ordered a signal to hang on the mast.

When Liu Rengui found that the pirate was about to run away, he immediately ordered the fourth- and fifth-level sail battleships to spread out from both wings to encircle them.

At this time, on the beach, the pirates were boarding the ship. The pirate ship responsible for picking them up saw that the brigade had run away. They didn't care that half of the pirates had not boarded the ship, so they pulled up the sails and ran away.

A fifth-level sail battleship responded to the Marine Corps approaching the shore, and put down their sampans to chase the pirates on the shore who had no time to get on the boat. This led to the scene where the pirates fled back to Qingshui Town.

Liu Rengui commanded the fleet to chase after him for a while, destroyed several pirate ships, and the rest of the pirates fled in scattered. Liu Rengui was not familiar with this generation of sea affairs and was worried that the sailing battleship would run into the reefs, so he ordered the pursuit to stop.

Although this naval battle was an encounter, there was basically no suspense, and it was a one-sided victory. In this battle, the Tang army destroyed four pirate ships of all sizes, captured four pirate ships, captured 27 pirates alive, and the rest of the killed pirates could not be counted.

Not long after, Liu Rengui led the advance fleet to the Dengzhou Navy Port.

Chang'an City, Qi's Mansion.

Li You was about to set off and received a good news from Liu Rengui. Behind the good news, Liu Rengui provided a message: the pirates who invaded the coastal areas this year should not be ordinary pirates, but political forces with huge forces as backgrounds. Liu Rengui interrogated the pirates, but they did not know who was instructing them. Only a few people in the upper class of the pirate gang knew the inside story.

This year's pirates are different from the past. They do not kill too much like before, but instead kidnapped young and middle-aged men and women wherever they go, especially those with skilled skills. There are pirates who confessed, and most of these people were sent to Jiuzhou Island. As for what to do on the island or whether they were transferred from there, these pirates are not sure.

Li You felt very bad when he saw this, so he immediately sent Tian Min to the Secretariat and asked Changsun Wuji to get the memorials on pirates and reports on missing people over the past few months.

After seeing this, he discovered the serious problem inside: in the past six months, many craftsmen, doctors, teachers and other skilled people have been missing everywhere.

Among them is a report from Donghao County:

Zhou Ming is the second son of the county magistrate of Donghao County (now Dalian). He is a famous talent in Liaodong. He is skilled in piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, and studying things. He is 2 years old this year. Because he was going to marry the little lady from a wealthy family in the county the next day, he drank with two good friends on the same day. When the three of them were drinking, they left the tavern half drunk and walked on the street with each other. At this time, it was already dark and there were no pedestrians on the street.

???? Suddenly, seven or eight people dressed in ruffians rushed out of the alley on the street. They came up and knocked the three of them unconscious with wooden sticks, put them in a cloth bag and carried them away. When they arrived at a river fork, they carried them onto a small boat, rowed to the beach, and after bargaining, they sold the three to people on a sea boat.

????The next day, the county magistrate found that his son was missing. He usually didn't go home at night, but today is his wedding day. It would be a bit abnormal if he was not at home at this time. At this time, parents from the other two families also came to ask if their son was at his house.

???? The county magistrate recalled that people reported the crimes in recent days and said that there were people missing, and he was shocked!

?The magistrate of Donghao County recently received several reports of missing populations, because most of the missing were men, not the usual cases of missing women and children. He believed that it might be because they fought with their families or had temporarily left for other reasons, and it did not attract attention.

??Today, it was his son's turn that he really took it seriously. While reporting to the governor's office, he organized the county's forces to conduct an investigation. After investigation, he found that someone was engaged in a population transaction.

The governor's office has recently received reports from several counties under its jurisdiction, and similar phenomena have emerged.

Similar reports are also reported in Xinzhou, Chuzhou and Haizhou.

Li You particularly noticed the word population trading, and this problem is very serious.

Combined with Liu Rengui's report, he found that an international human trafficking organization appeared here. This is the source of rampant pirates.

The slogan of the public service advertisement for protecting wild animals by the basketball male god Yao Ming is too true: there is no killing without buying or selling.

The international trafficking organization from Kyushu Island, the Wanu Kingdom, has a huge market.

Driven by huge interests, a large number of pirates appeared in coastal areas of the mainland, from slave owners, nobles, army to civilians, and original pirates. As long as those with conditions have joined the population transaction, these people are the main body of the new pirates.

Among them, there are also troops directly involved in the pirates' operations in the name of pirates.

???? After all, pirates were not familiar with the things in the mainland, so they bribed local gangsters and gang forces. Taking advantage of their familiarity with the local situation, they bought "goods" from them and became second-hand dealers.

???? Gang forces and gangsters acted very positively when they saw the huge profits of population trading. Some people who usually had personal grudges also seized this opportunity to retaliate. Anyway, if something happened, they would push them to the pirates. What's more, even some officials and military personnel of the Tang Dynasty joined the ranks of kidnappers. They kidnapped scholars and famous scholars everywhere, and craftsmen with skill. It doesn't matter if they tied them wrongly, so they sold them at the price of ordinary slaves.

?????In a short time, a large number of traitors appeared, and the social atmosphere deteriorated sharply.

????This situation has occurred not only in Liaodong, but almost all coastal areas.

Because the report comes from different times and places and is very scattered, the Shangshu Province did not notice the hidden problem.
Chapter completed!