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Chapter 18 Restart the Pirates

Zhu Cijiu was so angry that he died after falling into a big fight in Shenglong City, but he also learned a lot of experience and lessons. Now his strategy for Nanyang has been completely changed. He no longer just acts recklessly. He will have to pay the price to do whatever he doesn't obey. Annan alone will destroy a first-class legion, which is too expensive.

Like the Ruan tribe in Guangnan, he did not choose to send troops directly to fight, but asked Li Shenzong to surrender first. If the surrender failed, he would also try all the methods such as coercion and inducement. In short, if the literary ones are not good, he would come to martial ones again. It would be a bit too stupid to greet him with his fists as soon as he went up.

In the Netherlands, he also planned to use secret tricks to re-activate pirates and destroy their trade routes, first let them not make money, and then slowly deal with them.

However, all this needs Zheng Zhilong to implement, so he cannot go on the battlefield in person. After waiting for this guy for many days, this guy finally came over happily. Zhu Cijiu immediately recruited him to the temporary study room to discuss secretly.

After the monarch and his ministers greeted each other, Zhu Cijing asked seriously: "Do you still remember how to be a pirate?"

Zheng Zhilong was stunned when he heard this. Pirates, it was such a distant thing. To be honest, he almost forgot that he was once a pirate. However, seeing that the emperor seemed a little unhappy, he had to reply carefully: "This, Wei Chen still remembers a little bit."

Zhu Cijiong was unhappy, and he said angrily: "This time the Dutch lost 30,000 elite troops, and the entire Tianxiong Army was crippled. This revenge must be avenged."

Zheng Zhilong quickly echoed: "Yes, go and seek revenge for the Dutch."

Zhu Cijing shook his head and said, "There is an anti-Habsburg alliance behind the Dutch. I cannot tell them for the time being. You are the only one who comes back. You can re-operate the pirate business and teach the Dutch a lesson."

When Zheng Zhilong heard this, he missed and fell to the ground. He has not been a pirate for many years. Where can he organize so many people to deal with the Dutch!

He thought for a while and tentatively said, "Your Majesty, why don't Zheng Xing, Zheng Ming and others pretend to be pirates?"

Zhu Cijiong rolled his eyes and reminded: "Do you still use pretending? Don't Shi Daxuan have 20,000 to 30,000 pirates under his command?"

Shi Daxuan is now doing good deeds. They are doing business between Dongfan and Japan. Of course, Zheng Zhilong dared not refute the emperor. He just said in embarrassment: "Your Majesty, the few people under Shi Daxuan's hands are probably not enough."

Zhu Cijing said angrily: "If you don't have enough, just recruit it. It's hard to recruit regular troops. Is it hard to recruit pirates? There are everywhere in the southeastern waters. Anyway, he has all kinds of countries under his command. Let them call on friends. Weapons and warships can be used to fulcrum the Navy Reserve Legion first. Wouldn't it develop after robbing the Netherlands a few more times."

The emperor said this, so Zheng Zhilong naturally did not dare to be hesitant. He thought for a while and suggested: "Emperor, why not let the First Legion of the Expeditionary Force and the Second Legion of the Expeditionary Force build a secret port near Ceylon and Goa. The Dutch's business is mainly in the Donghu, Persia and the Mughal Empire, and there will be no good place to hide there for a while."

This guy is indeed professional enough. Before he got over, he thought about how to hide. Zhu Cijiu, playing pirate, naturally, could not catch up with Zheng Zhilong. He nodded and said, "You can do this, as long as the Dutch can't do business."

Zheng Zhilong started out as a pirate, and was naturally very proficient in the "business" of pirates. Soon he thought of another "business". He said a little intoxicatedly: "Your Majesty, it seems that there are quite a lot of British merchant ships. Do you want to rob them together?"

Britain is now in the same group as the Netherlands, so of course it cannot be let go. Zhu Cijiu said fiercely: "Of course, it is best to make them unable to do business."

Speaking of this business, Zheng Zhilong asked for instructions: "How to deal with the robbed things? Should we sell them to Portugal or Spain, or should we sell them ourselves?"

Zhu Cijing thought for a while and analyzed: "There are too many people and it may be revealed if they sell it to Portugal and Spain. It would be better to modify it and sell it to the Ming Dynasty Royal Xinglong Store."

Speaking of this, Zheng Zhilong seemed to have a good idea again. He smiled sinisterly: "Prince, why don't Zhihu and the others detain the Dutch merchant ship, let's call for robbers to catch them, which will make them completely confused."

This is what others say, but Zhu Cijiu is confused about it first. He asked: "Oh, what do you say?"

Zheng Zhilong explained like a treasure: "It is to stop their merchant ships, find an excuse to search, and then carry some dirty things for them, slander them for raising pirates and robbing them, so that they will be suspicious and suspicious of each other, and they will never think that the pirates are our people."

Zhu Cijing said with some doubts: "Is this possible?"

Zheng Zhilong patted his chest and promised: "Your Majesty, don't worry, the empress dowagers know what they have done. Maybe they don't need to frame them, and they can find the stolen goods directly. Are these people doing less to raise pirates and loot merchant ships?"

Zhu Cijiu really didn't know the twists and turns here, and he was too lazy to think so much, so he made a decision: "Just be the governor of the South China Sea first, the First Legion of the Expeditionary Force, the Second Legion of the Expeditionary Force, the Nanyang Navy and the South China Sea Fleet are temporarily under your jurisdiction. If you want to do anything, just give orders directly, and you don't have to ask me again."

Zheng Zhilong thought about it and said that the most important question was the money. However, it was a bit difficult to talk about the stolen goods with the emperor, but the people under his command also wanted to make money. Who would be willing to go for free? In the end, he mustered up the courage and asked hesitantly: "Your Majesty, then how do you calculate this profit?"

Zhu Cijing asked inexplicably: "Profit? What profit?"

Zheng Zhilong explained a little embarrassedly: "It's just how to share the money after the snatched things are sold."

Zhu Cijing had no experience either, so he asked directly: "So how did you calculate before?"

Speaking of this, Zheng Zhilong was excited again. He said with great knowledge: "This is divided into two algorithms. If you get the goods and give money, then the buyer will pay half of the cost price. If you give money after selling it, you will have to pay half of the selling price."

This is a big difference. The former is that the buyer takes risks. After all, the stolen things are likely to not be sold. The latter is that the pirates bear the losses and only pays them after selling them. If they are bad, they can only be considered as the pirates' own.

There is naturally no situation where the Ming Dynasty Royal Xinglong Business Company cannot be sold, so Zhu Cijiu said decisively: "Then follow the previous one, give money when you get the goods, so that you can get the money quickly and I can make more money!"

Even if the discussion was done, Zheng Zhilong received Zhu Cijiong's imperial edict and ran to Xingchenggang base, asking Zheng Zhihu to build a Nanyang Governor's Office for him, and then began to gather old subordinates and prepare for business.

Neither the Dutch nor the British knew that a super terrible pirate leader had already set his sights on them. Their business in Southeast Asia and even in the entire Far East might not be able to be done!
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