The sea breeze blows, the sky is blue, and the ocean surface is full of the smell of water vapor after the storm. This thing is called negative oxygen ions in later generations. It is an ion that sub-healthy people in the city need to spend money to absorb.

Time: Morning of July 10, 1628. Coordinates: Zhongzuosuo Pier outside the city in the southwest corner of Xiamen Island.

Du Dewei, who is wearing a short green robe and a short sword across his waist. He has a strong body and thick eyebrows. He is standing on the bow of a slowly moving ship with his hands on his hands. His hairband is still being blown by the sea breeze, but his face is expressionless.

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Du Dewei is 27 years old this year and is a native of Xianyou, Fujian. The Du family is a small maritime businessman. His father's family business was not bad when he was a seafarer in his early years, so Du Dewei was able to attend an elementary school run by a local academy when he was young.

However, when he was 15 years old, his father died in a shipwreck, and the Du family fell into decline. Du Dewei was forced to follow his father's old path: running to sea.

After working hard on the ocean for more than 10 years, Du Dewei has now worked hard to pull together a small team of 20 boats, and he has become the shopkeeper. The place he is going to take the boat today is outside the center left.

Chinese army tent.

Ever since Shopkeeper Zheng Da defeated the official army and Hongyi, and captured Tongshan and Zhongzuo, a large number of small groups of pirates from Fujian and Guangdong have come to invest, and their momentum has been unprecedented. Shopkeeper Du Dewei and Du are naturally not exempt from this custom: gathering, separation, separation and cooperation.

This is the normal behavior of pirates. The powerful ones raise the flag, while the weak ones follow suit. After the transaction is completed, everyone goes their separate ways. This is normal.

Not long after joining the crowd, Du Dewei suddenly heard a rumor: Master Zheng was recruiting again.

To be honest, he himself is still full of longing for this old joke about recruiting soldiers: From the first day he became a pirate 10 years ago, he has had a dream of recruiting soldiers. Du Dewei, who has attended private schools since he was a child and is proficient in writing, has never forgotten it.

He came from a decent family background. If it weren't for the business of killing people and robbing goods for the sake of his widowed mother and his siblings, he would have been unwilling to do it from the bottom of his heart.

To his surprise, the rumors this time were actually true: one day not long ago, young Zheng Dalongtou summoned all the shopkeepers in the Zhongjun tent and announced in public that he was going to Fuzhou to meet with the government officials about a major event.

The master is meeting to discuss the matter.

Not to mention the fuss made by various shopkeepers afterwards, as far as Du Dewei himself was concerned, this was indeed good news. So, two days later in the morning, he made a special trip to see the big shopkeeper off by boat.

Unexpectedly, the big shopkeeper just left and never came back.

From the day when the spies lurking in Fuzhou from various shopkeepers came, the pirate camp near the Zhongzuo Station began to become chaotic.

Tianli took a boat from Fuzhou Pier back to Zhongzuo Institute.

The straight-line distance between Fuzhou and Xiamen is only 200 kilometers, which translates to more than 100 nautical miles. Even the slowest fleet can crawl back in 3 days. However, until the spies who set off later came back one after another, no one saw them.

Traces of the Zheng family fleet.

After July 5th, all kinds of rumors could no longer be suppressed because a large number of people who were madly spread by the shopkeepers went out to explore again. After sneaking back from Fuzhou City, there was still no trace of the Zheng family fleet.

Pirates have no concept of information control, so when a large number of spies came back this time, the public opinion market immediately began to boil, and all kinds of true and false news began to spread.

It is said that Xiong Wencan took advantage of the farewell moment to seal off the inner and outer cities of Fuzhou, secretly mobilized Fubiao elites, and surrounded and killed Zheng Zhilong and his gang outside Fuzhou City. The sound of killing was loud and blood flowed on the south dock of the city.

It is also said that the big shopkeeper was first introduced to the commander-in-chief's house by Xiong Wencan, and then Xiong threw a cup as a sign. The big shopkeeper was immediately tied up by the ambush soldiers who rushed out from both sides. After that, Xiong Wencan first publicly announced the number of Zheng Ni's crimes, and then invited the emperor to come out.

The Shang Fang sword was given to him and he beheaded the big shopkeeper on the spot.

The storytellers were vivid and vivid, and the people listening to the story were absorbed in the story, as if they were there in person.

The rumor that is closest to the truth is that the Zheng family's fleet was ambushed by a large force of government troops offshore, and the entire army was wiped out.

However, this rumor has the least market among the top pirates. You must know that the shopkeepers who can hold a top position in the Chinese military account nowadays are all leaders of large gangs with more than a hundred ships. These people are well-informed, smart and capable.

, so I will never believe such rumors.

The shopkeepers who have first-hand and most authentic information now generally tend to give the most prosaic answer: the Zheng family fleet encountered a strong wind in the outer sea and was completely wiped out.

Zhu said that after all the impossible answers are eliminated, the remaining one is the truth, no matter how incredible it is.

The shopkeepers thought so too. Although it seemed a bit low-probability that the strong wind would blow away all 5 big fortune ships with 800 people and horses, this ending, in their opinion, was the only reasonable answer at the moment.

Because they know that Xiong Wencan is innocent: the shopkeepers are very clear about the scene when Xiong Dafutai left the city to bid farewell to Zhilong. Again, Xiong Wencan did not take action in the city of Fuzhou where he had the advantage, so there is a possibility of taking action on the ocean.

Sex is zero. With so few officers and soldiers, if you have this ability, why would you still need to recruit Zheng Zhilong?

Therefore, the logic is very clear to the shopkeepers who have first-hand information: the Zheng family fleet was shipwrecked, and there is no explanation other than that.

Time passed day by day, and while there was still no news about the Zheng family fleet, the situation became clear: Zheng Zhilong was dead, and most people had already confirmed the matter. At this time, if the shopkeepers who were still gathered in the Zhongzuo Institute

If you don't know how to find a way out for your brothers, you are mentally retarded.

As a result, the Chinese military tent, which originally symbolized majesty, became a vegetable market from the beginning of July, and shopkeepers from all walks of life quarreled endlessly every day. As time went by, when Zheng Dalongtou's hope of survival was completely extinguished,

In recent days, the showdown time has come and people have completely lost their patience.

"Huh!" Thinking of this, Du Dewei, who was standing on the bow of the ship heading towards the Chinese military tent, couldn't help but let out a long sigh. The death of Zheng Zhilong once again shattered the dream of Du Dewei, a small pirate leader, to go public through a backdoor, which really made him sad.

Before Zheng Zhilong accepted the recruitment, Xiamen Island in the 17th century was just an ordinary island. As usual, there were some fishermen and guard slaves living on the island, and it was not prosperous.

Historically, after Zheng Zhilong became a coastal defense guerrilla, he occupied Zhongzuo Suo City, attacked the import and export trade of Yuegang, and forced merchant ships to trade here. In a short period of time, Xiamen Island became the center of Fujian's foreign trade. At that time, Xiamen

The island began to flourish.

Today's Xiamen Island is much more desolate than usual: the successive battles between officials and bandits some time ago caused the remaining residents of the island to escape. And the Zhongzuo Acropolis located in the southwest corner of Xiamen

, it has long been abandoned at this moment, and it just stands there with the door half open.

Before this, many pirates lived directly in the city after the war. However, before Zheng Zhilong set out for Fuzhou, in order to show some humility, he ordered all the pirates in the city to be driven out, causing a government to return

The scene of not losing the city can be regarded as saving some face for the officials.

Of course, with Zheng Zhilong's accident, his previous ban gradually ceased to work. However, the situation changed again at this time: since the shopkeepers were quarrelsome with each other in the Chinese military tent every day, naturally their subordinates could no longer run away and leave.

We are stationed at the Guard City a few miles away from the pier. The tens of thousands of pirates currently entrenched outside the Zhongzuo Suo pier are all spending the night on their own ships. This is called combat readiness duty.

The boat Du Dewei was riding was slowly heading towards the dock. Passing by along the way were large numbers of Fu boats, Guang boats, bird boats, fishing boats and other miscellaneous boats. Many of these boats were making breakfast.

So there was smoke from cooking fires along the way. A large number of pirates in rags were fighting and making noise over a bowl of food. Some of them who had already eaten were sitting on the bow of the boat, showing their dirty chests and roaring some local tune.

It didn't take long for the small boat Du Dewei was riding in to arrive at the pier. After nimbly jumping onto the pier, Du Dewei took only one of his confidants and walked to the Chinese army's tent not far from the pier.

At this moment, there were many shopkeepers from all walks of life outside the Zhongjun tent. Du Dewei walked all the way with a smile on his face. While greeting his brothers, he went straight to the door of the big cowhide tent filled with flags of various shops.

, opened the leather curtain and walked in.

A small shopkeeper like Du Dewei, who only has 20 ships, does not have a seat in the Chinese military tent. Because pirates are not an army, most gangs do not have many main ships that can go into battle. Most of them are fishing boats and the like.

Make up the supplies.

The people who really hold a high position in the Chinese military tent are the big shopkeepers who can pull out hundreds of large ships at any time.

After Du Dewei entered the tent, his vision went dark as usual. Then he clasped his fists and bowed around him, then walked to a corner with an apologetic smile. At this moment, he was sitting on two rows of chairs in the middle of the tent.

No one paid any attention to him.

"How? Is there any result?" After Du Dewei stood where he should be, he turned to a tall, fat man with a stubble on his face and asked in a low voice.

This man's name is Hu Ba, and he is also the leader of a group of gangsters. This man has a similar identity to Du Dewei, and they talk to each other the same way. From the day they met, they have looked at each other and look after each other on weekdays.

"I'm already thinking about the grain platform." Seeing that he was an old friend, Hu Ba lowered his head, with a sneer on his face, and whispered to Du Dewei: "I'm afraid it's going to end today, so you and I brothers should be careful.

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Before Hu Ba finished speaking, a voice with a Cantonese accent came from the top of the chair: "Now that I am here, my sons and gentlemen are still sitting on nothing. It is not convenient to put silver rice on the daily ration table these days, I'm afraid it will

There is no telling what crazy thoughts some people have. It would be better if we leave early. When Mr. Zheng comes back the next day, it would be a good idea for the brothers to get together again."

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