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Chapter 15 The Sea

Grab the ship, you are worthy of being a pirate god!

Chen Qianhu also thought so, with only one goal, to grab these two big ships!

He wanted these two ships so much, not only the ship, but also the cannons on the ship, two centipede ships, and sixty-eight Franchise machine cannons. He had to get them no matter what the method was!

"Do you have anything to do with the thief in Huangliangdu?"

It was late at night and the backyard of Qianhu House, Chen Mu and Li Dan drank.

While drinking, Li Dan said, "It's not related, but I've heard of them attacking Xinhui with the pirate coalition."

"What do you know about them? Let's hear it."

"Actually nothing. There are not many Japanese pirates in Haojing who are willing to deal with them. There are many small boats and people, and they are not good at doing things." Li Dan shook his head, and said with a lot of contempt in his words, and said with a smile: "They only have dozens of boats, small fishing boats like the New Flag Army. The real good guys are just following Xu Laoyao to hide in the thirty or fifty mountains in Lao'an Mountain, and the others are close to the people."

"When something happens, I shout out and go back and continue fishing clams. I have no ambition." Li Dan put down the wine bottle and raised his fingers and pressed it on the stone table, saying, "If you want to take them, just one point. Don't fight on the sea. Two hundred households on land can take them all by attacking the mountain."

"It will be difficult if it is at sea. There are many people and they are all seamen. They have some skills in swimming." Li Dan thought for a while, and leaned down on the stone table and said, "As long as you kill the thief leader and capture the local people in Huangliangdu who are hiding in the mountains, it will be difficult for the local people in Huangliangdu to gather together. Leave a few survivors to ask questions. Those seamen who are in the Japanese will be trained as soon as possible, which is no worse than the 300 households placed in Xiangshan County."

Chen Mu nodded. Li Dan's mind was very quick and he was sensible. He valued it very much. After drinking a glass of wine, he asked, "Where are you?"

"Um?"

Chen Mu asked, "You said that people in Huangliangdu have no ambitions, what about you, what ambitions do you have?"

"I?"

Li Dan was stunned for a moment, but he looked at Chen Mu very carefully. Seeing that Chen Mu was interested and encouraged, he said carefully: "The child grew up in Haojing. He did not understand etiquette or education. If he was inappropriate, he would like to ask his adoptive father not to blame him for his incorrect words."

Chen Mu smiled and said, "You said."

"Since my childhood, my mother took me to worship Mazu. The Fanyi on the island said that it was my father's old friend. The elders around me said that he collected taxes from Fanyi on Shuangyu, and said that he had a large three-masted ship that he stole, dozens of cannons in the flagship, and said that no one at the sea was his opponent."

"Talk Wu Ping, Xu Hai, and Wang Zhi, talk about those heroes who are much better than him, who sell east and west with hundreds of boats, brave men, guns, and ships. They set up their own orders in places other than the law, and those who do not abide by them will not survive."

"No one of them died at the sea. Wu Ping was beaten to death by General Qi, Xu Hai was executed by Zhao'an, Wang Zhi died in prison. My father, hehe, and his Shuangyu disappeared."

"Entertainment Father, what do you think will happen to the sea in the future?"

Chen Mu seemed to have been split into two pieces, and two sets of values ​​were in his heart. As a person of this era, he could see the impact of pirates on the coast and even the deeper harm to the Ming Dynasty regime.

There was no wasteland in Qingyuan, but in Xiangshan, no one reclaimed the eight thousand acres of wasteland. People were keen on going into the sea to plunder or smuggle and traffic. In order to quell the Japanese pirates in two years, the government army and the people died countless times, and the same was true for the Japanese pirates, and more died.

This is an internal friction.

He gave the South, East and West to the barbarians from the West, and finally gave the Beiyang to the barbarians.

"Others are plundering the world, and we are always complacent."

Chen Mu shook his head and did not continue to talk about this topic. In fact, like Li Dan, he did not understand what he could and could not say about the court.

"What the adoptive father said was that when he was a child, there were not many strange things on Haojingao. Hundreds of Franchise men built several forts and set up several arrow towers, and more of them were us. At that time, they said that they came from the distant West. Later, they heard that they occupied a large area of ​​land west of the Ming Dynasty and bordered the Mongol countries, saying that the sea was called the Indian Ocean."

"Now there are thousands of Franji people living in Haojing, and there are Japanese people and other non-straits, with nearly 10,000 people. Our ships are getting fewer and fewer. If we want to survive on the sea, we need to have big ships and big guns. Franji people set up gun casting factories in Haojing and sold them to us at a very high price. In order to get money, more Japanese pirates will plunder the sea. Merchants can only buy ships and build cannons to go out to sea, and finally become new Japanese pirates."

"Enjoyed Father, why can't the Ming Dynasty be its own artillery factory and sell the artillery and ships to us?"

It was only then that Chen Mu realized that the "we" mentioned by Li Dan was not about them, but about the Japanese pirates in a broad sense, and the son of the Ming Dynasty who was wandering on the sea.

Facing the court, both of them were outsiders, and the difference was nothing more than the deep integration of Chen Mu and the shallow integration of Li Dan.

Perhaps everyone has different ideas in this era. For second-generation pirates like Li Dan, their thoughts will be fundamentally different from those of the first generation. The Ming Dynasty was already a root rather than a home for him.

He said a lot, without mentioning ambition, but Chen Mu only had one ambition in his ears - he didn't want to die on the land of the Ming Dynasty.

"The adoptive father, the child has no other ambitions and does not want to die on the land."

Chen Mu did not respond directly to Li Dan's words, drank the wine in the glass, changed to a more comfortable sitting position, and asked with interest: "Do you know how big the country of Franchise is?"

"Half Guangdong is so big." Li Dan's eyes were suspicious, and Chen Mu didn't explain, but continued to smile: "They are far away from the Ming Dynasty and are surrounded by another country. The Francos should be called Portugal, and the country surrounding them is called Spain. The two countries have strong maritime power. Catholicism is their common belief. The Pope drew a line on the world map, giving Spain to Spain on the left and Portugal on the right, so that the Francos can plunder the whole world."

"There are also the Netherlands, which we often call red-haired fan; Britain and Westerners; their maritime power is strong, and they call their Japanese pirates explorers, and they are funded by their royal family to form fleets to conquer the world. Their methods are the same, and they are colonized."

"The so-called colonization is to use their ships and guns to go to a backward country, defeat the army, enslave the people, transport the useful things away, and exploit them year after year. Over time, the rise and fall of the other, and small countries like them become stronger by sucking blood in other countries."

"The Ming Dynasty is a great power, but it is no longer the Celestial Kingdom of the past. One day, it will lose its maritime power. The Westerners' cannon ships will bombard our city walls, and will be defeated and enslaved."

"The world has changed!"

"I have no other ambitions."

Chen Mu picked up the wine pot and tilted it up. A raging fire ignited in his chest, and waved his hand to throw it out and broke it all over the floor.
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