The speed of the pirate ship was not fast at all, and it followed the monsoon and no more than ten knots. Zhu Haitao also let go of his guard and gradually became familiar with the pirates on the ship. It was just because of the tyranny of the few people named Niu Banghua, and the others did not dare to disobey his orders. The communication with Zhu Haitao was only a short sentence or two.

From the pirates' words, Zhu Haitao learned their origins. Most of them came from the coastal areas of Guangdong and Guangxi, and lived in poverty, which was not easy, but they had to pay royal grain and national taxes. In addition, they had to go into the sea to become pirates.

They originally belonged to the pirate group in the Pearl River Estuary area, but they only left the mainland after an internal pirate fight and came to the vast ocean to take root.

In fact, during the Ming Dynasty, there were a large number of pirate groups along the coast of China. After hundreds of years of development, by the end of the Ming Dynasty, giant pirate groups like Zheng Zhilong appeared. When they were spread to Zheng Chenggong, they could even have a profound impact on the situation in China at that time.

However, during the Qing Dynasty, due to the implementation of the sea relocation order and the implementation of the national policy of closing the country, it was deserted for dozens of miles along the coast, and the maritime merchant group was also severely hit. Kangxi regained Taiwan and captured the last Han family pure land, and the Zheng family group also declined.

Some of the Zheng family sea merchants were unwilling to fail and fell into the Pearl River Estuary area, and merged with the four pirates in Zheng, Shi, Ma and Xu, which were present in the late Ming Dynasty. During the Qianlong and Jiaqing period, they evolved into six major gangs: Red, Yellow, Blue, White, Black and Purple.

Their family originally belonged to the Hongqi Gang. The leader of this gang was Zheng Yi. Zheng Yi is a descendant of the Zheng family army. He has great ambitions. For many years, he has been committed to unifying the pirates from the Pearl River Estuary with him as the core to recreate the power of the Zheng family back then. His wife Zheng Yisao is also a virtuous person. The couple worked together to finally form the Pirate Alliance five years ago.

Unfortunately, the New Year is not over. The contract was just signed. Zheng Yi fell into the sea and died because of a strong typhoon. He was only forty-two years old. Zheng Yisao was ordered to lead the Red Flag Gang at this time. However, at this time, Guo Po, the leader of the Black Flag Gang in the alliance, was not satisfied with Zheng Yisao's leadership, so he was ready to assassinate her. Zheng Yisao discovered her in advance. The two sides fought for several rounds. As a result, Guo Po suffered heavy losses and had to surrender to the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. The Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi made him a governor (the seventh-rank military position). Zheng Yisao was a woman after all, and her years of murder and robbery also made her want to attract peace. She asked someone to recruit peace from the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi five years ago.

This decision made some people in the Hongqi Gang very dissatisfied, because in history, the Hongqi Gang, as the largest gang in the Pearl River Estuary, had formed mortal enemies with the government and foreigners, and many of them died at the hands of the government.

Now the master of these pirates is called Li Junmei, and her father Li Baijun is one of the dissatisfied people. Seeing that Zheng Yisao was determined to attract peace, they also took some of the ships away from the Pearl River Estuary to conquer the world in order to take care of her face for many years, after many attempts failed, they took some ships away from the Pearl River Estuary and prepared to go to Nanyang to conquer the world.

After Zheng Yisao found out, she did not order the pursuit, but instead gave them a way out for many years of face. However, now Zheng Yisao's husband Zhang Baozai could not see his power being damaged, so she secretly ordered the pursuit of these pirates who left without permission, and also led a unit with his enemy Guo Po for many years. After that group of pirates were caught up, they fought a great battle, and they had suffered heavy losses than Li Baijun and others. Fortunately, Li Baijun was experienced and took the lead in breaking out of the siege and led hundreds of his own people to Nanyang to conquer the world.

The pirate who told Zhu Haitao all this was named Tieniu, and he was also a poor family. He has worked with Li Baijun since he was a child. He is only twenty-one years old now, but he has been fighting on the sea for dozens of rounds and his body is covered with scars.

He also told Zhu Haitao that after escaping, Li Baijun led more than 30 ships and hundreds of people under his command to an island called Taohuayuan. Li Baijun led everyone to develop production here, and usually brought people out to be pirates. Just when everyone thought that a new world had been opened, the disaster came again. More than two years ago, in the process of hijacking the gold of the Spanish fleet, Li Baijun was hit by the Spanish artillery, and his whole person was blown to pieces, and he did not even have a complete body.

For the stability of the entire pirate group, Li Baijun's eldest daughter Li Junmei stood up and became the leader. Even now she is only twenty years old. Fortunately, Li Baijun's father has no dog daughter, Li Junmei, who grew up on the sea since childhood, is not good at being a female hero in this era, but she is very proficient in killing the enemy and command and cooperation. She successfully let the team come out of the predicament in a very short time. Other pirates who were originally a little careful accepted Li Junmei's leadership when they saw that Li Junmei was so capable.

Li Junmei has three younger sisters: Li Junlan, Li Junzhu, Li Junju, and the pirates all call them eldest sister, second sister, third sister, and fourth sister. When everyone saw that Li Junmei was so capable, they gave her the title of Li Baijun.

As for the pirate who wanted to murder Zhu Haitao, he was named Niu Banghua, who was also Li Baijun's assistant. He was very capable at a young age and had a high prestige among pirates.

After wandering on the sea for three days and three nights, Zhu Haitao followed the pirates to a remote coast and shored.

"Mr. Zhu, this is Luzon Island. If you go shore and walk northeast, you can see a small city with many Chinese people. Then you will be safe. However, I hope you don't think about not revealing any news about us, otherwise even if you escape to the ends of the world, we will tear you into pieces!" Li Junmei took Zhu Haitao to the shore and said with a stern look, expressionless and very majestic tone.

Zhu Haitao’s only backer now is them. He lives in the 21st century urban forest, where he has received such outdoor training? If he keeps walking aimlessly, if he is killed by natives or wild beasts on the road, then his ability will be in vain?

Why not join them? At least they are living among the crowds, not just eating raw meat and drinking blood, and they can survive no matter how they are.

"Boss, I have a merciless request now. I am now penniless and have lost my memory. I am not familiar with the place here. I don't know if my elder sister can take me in and let me join you." Zhu Haitao pleaded.

"The surname of Zhu, you said you are not a spy. Why did you want to join us so deliberately? Get out of here, otherwise I will kill you!" Niu Banghua saw that Zhu Haitao didn't want to leave, and immediately drew his sword again.

Zhu Haitao was puzzled. Why did this guy go against him again and again? He has no grudges and grudges with him?

"Brother Banghua, what are you doing?" Li Junmei waved at him, and Niu Banghua put down the knife unwillingly.

"Mr. Zhu, we pirates lick blood on the tip of the knife, and we do business of putting our heads on the belt. Can you bear such a big hardship?" Li Junmei did not object, but kicked the ball to Zhu Haitao.

"Hmph, the little white face is tender and tender. Can you take the knife? Can you kill people? You want to be a pirate like this, and you don't urinate and look at yourself!" Niu Banghua laughed happily. The other pirates were also confused by Zhu Haitao's thoughts. He looked like he looked like a fool, thinking of such a handsome business, and why did he fight with them if he had nothing to do?

Zhu Haitao smiled at Niu Banghua contemptuously and said, "If you don't try, how do you know that I can't use a knife? Not only that, I can also use a musket!" He was angry. This boy was really arrogant. It seemed that if he didn't show off some unique skills, these pirates really looked down on him.

"Tie Niu, go get a musket!" Li Junmei looked at Zhu Haitao for a moment and said.

"Yes, sister!" Tie Niu responded, ran into the cabin, and soon took out a musket.

Zhu Haitao took it and couldn't help but curl his lips. This is the original flintlock rifle, or the British Army's standard equipment brown bass musket, or the navy-type short-barrel brown bass. Zhu Haitao's home has a brown bass, but it was in a later age. He should have not yet produced this year.

The brown bass musket had a high status in Britain. It was born in the early 18th century. This weapon with mediocre craftsmanship had almost no substantial improvements and was used until the mid-19th century. It was first obtained from an arms development contract signed by the Royal Ordnance Agency on September 15, 1714. It was not until 1839 that Britain stopped the production of all flintlocks. In 1854, the flintlock weapon with brown bass as the platform ushered in the end of its military career. In the years that followed, no weapon could dominate the war history of mankind for more than two hundred years like a flintlock.

Zhu Haitao skillfully tore open the paper pocket that the iron cow gave him with his mouth, sprinkled some gunpowder on the bolt, then poured the remaining gunpowder into the muzzle, stuffed all the remaining bags into the muzzle, and stabbed the paper bag to the bottom with a small iron stick under the barrel, and then pointed it at the seabirds that were foraging by the seaside not far away.

A gunshot sounded, and the seabird, about thirty meters away from them, fell down.

I remember that during the military training, the officer gave each of them five bullets, and the others were better off as seven or eight rings, but he was able to linger around nine or ten rings.

The pirates all widened their eyes. Some of them didn't know how to use muskets at all, and they were in a hurry. They didn't expect that Zhu Haitao would be so skillful.

"Sister, how about it?" Zhu Haitao held the musket with a happy expression.

"Yeah, very good." The elder sister smiled, which made Zhu Haitao feel good, but she changed the subject and said, "Tie Niu, take my sword that I snatched from the foreigners and let Mr. Zhu compete with Brother Banghua."
Chapter completed!