Huang Chen lay on the small rope-suspended bed and fell asleep for half an hour. He could have slept for a little while longer, but the noise around him was too loud and woke him up. He opened his sleepy eyes and looked at the source of the sound, only to see a group of people.
Men with bare chests and arms gathered in a circle, watching the people inside playing a gambling game called "Yi Zi Xi". Hearing the names of "Chuang", "Xian", "Da Shun" and other cards, Huang Chen glanced at them
Feeling unhappy, he secretly laughed and said, "Is this going to be a rogue convention?"
It is said that the Ming Dynasty is currently suffering from Houjin's troubles in the northeast and the She'an Rebellion in the southwest, but large-scale peasant uprisings have not yet broken out in the country. Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong are conscientiously serving as low-level civil servants in the Ming Dynasty. They never dreamed that they would be in the future.
There will be a day when we will become an emperor and build a country. If we kill them all now, will it change history? Huang Chen's mind was wandering and he was thinking wildly.
"Hey, boy from the Huang family, do you have any money on you? Lend me some first, and I will return it to you another day." The person who spoke was about forty years old, wearing a short khaki shirt, with his chest open, revealing his thick black hair.
Mao's chest, his face is long and narrow, and there is a ferocious scar at the end of his left eye. From his wide open mouth, you can easily see a mouth full of yellow teeth. The image is quite unsightly. This person's name is Zhang San. He has very bad luck today and loses all his money.
After losing the capital, he borrowed money from many people but was still unable to repay it, so he had no choice but to turn the idea on Huang Chen.
"No." Huang Chen ignored the other party's earnest gaze and replied calmly. The two of them met after getting on the boat. It didn't take more than two hours, and it was just a one-time acquaintance. Not to mention that Huang Chen didn't have money in his pocket, and he wouldn't lend it to him if he had money.
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Upon hearing this, Zhang San immediately changed his color and cursed loudly: "Little bastard! I don't believe you have no money, so tell me to look in your pockets."
The person sitting opposite him sneered: "Zhang Laosan, you are really getting better and better at bullying a child."
Zhang San retorted: "Fart! Who bullied him? I borrowed it from him and will pay him back with interest in the future. I will never short him a penny."
Huang Chen secretly thought that it was bad luck, he could encounter any kind of scum. He glanced sideways at Zhang San and said coldly: "Keep your mouth clean, be careful that trouble comes from your mouth." Yan He stood up and walked out.
"Little bastard! I want to see how trouble comes out of mouth." Zhang San laughed angrily, threw the cards in his hand, pushed aside the crowd, blocked Huang Chen's path, and put his hand on his shoulder.
"You're looking for death!" A stern look flashed in Huang Chen's eyes, and he suddenly raised his left arm to open Zhang San's hand, and followed up with a heart-wrenching blow with his right fist. There was only a "dong" sound, and Zhang San couldn't hold back his strength, staggered back, and then
His back hit the bulkhead.
Huang Chen's purpose was to either not take action, or to make the opponent completely lose the ability to counterattack if he takes action, so as not to overturn the boat and regret it. He took three steps at a time and bullied him, raised his two iron fists, and struck like a violent storm.
His face, chest, abdomen and other vital parts of his upper body were hit with a heart-wrenching "bang bang" sound. Zhang Sanli was severely injured, with bleeding from his mouth and nose, and his eyes turned white. He endured more than a dozen punches in the lightning flash, and Zhang Sanli had both knees.
He knelt on the ground limply, leaning against the bulkhead to barely keep his body from falling.
Huang Chen struck fast and hard, and by the time the people around him reacted, Zhang San was already completely finished. Everyone looked at each other, secretly shocked. They had known Zhang San for a long time, and everyone knew clearly how strong the latter was.
After all, he was a long-standing pirate with several lives in his hands. He was easily knocked down in the blink of an eye. This Huang Chen was so powerful.
Huang Chen leaned down, patted Zhang San's bruised and bleeding face with his right hand, and said with a smile: "This is when disaster comes from the mouth, remember." After saying that, he wiped his hand back and forth on Zhang San's clothes to wipe away the blood.
, finally Shi Shiran left, and there was a dead silence in the cabin.
When they got to the deck, Zhao Hongyi saw blood on his body and couldn't help but feel speechless. The last time he came to his house, Huang Chen's clothes were stained with blood. Cowardly and timid? This rumor is too wrong. According to him, causing trouble is just the same. When Zhao
When Hongyi learned that he had knocked down Zhang San, he was so shocked that he almost dislocated his jaw. Huang Chen had indeed said at his house that his martial arts skills were not inferior to those of accustomed pirates. He thought that the other party was deliberately boasting about his martial arts skills to persuade him to accept him as his companion, but he was not convinced.
What's going on, I didn't expect this person to actually have such extraordinary abilities...
Zhao Hongyi was afraid that if he continued to act like this, he would one day kick the iron plate and hurt himself, so he advised him not to act out of anger, to tolerate things if he could, and to avoid them if he couldn't, and in short, try to avoid conflicts with his accomplices.
Huang Chen looked sincere and listened to the instructions. No matter what he thought in his heart, at least he did a good job on the surface.
The food on the ship was no different from that at home. Fish boiled in plain water was bland and tasteless. Moreover, Huang Chen lost his appetite even more as he was among a group of dirty men who exuded a fishy smell. He soaked rice in soup and ate some simple food to fill his stomach.
On the deck of the ship, stand on the bow and watch the sea view.
In the endless blue sea and blue sky, several fishing boats of different sizes came into view one after another. When the fishermen saw the pirate ships, they neither panicked nor escaped by boat. They fished as if no one was around and felt so comfortable that Huang Chen was greatly surprised.
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After the meal, everyone returned one after another. Huang Chen couldn't help but ask Zhao Hongyi: "Uncle Zhao, why are the fishing boats not afraid of us?"
Zhao Hongyi pointed to a boat and explained: "Did you see the flag on the fishing pole? This boat is protected by Mr. Zhou Zhou. Unless there is no one around, or you are sure to kill everyone who sees it, you should not touch it.
, because touching it is tantamount to provoking Zhou Lao." Zhao Hongyi then talked about Zhou Lao. He, like Yimu Lao and Hu Erlao, are from Fujian. The difference is that Yimu Lao and Hu Erlao ran away after they couldn't survive in Fujian.
When he came to Zhejiang to make a living, Mr. Zhou Zhou had power across Fujian and Zhejiang, and he could be called a maritime hegemon.
"So majestic!" Huang Chen exclaimed.
Zhao Hongyi nodded and said: "The other ships are also guarded by big bandits, so they cannot be plundered easily."
Huang Chen asked curiously: "Are there any fishing boats under our protection?"
"Last year there were more, but this year it has been reduced by more than half," Zhao Hongyi said. Then he talked about Zhejiang having a big fishing flood every year, which first started in Yangshan, Suzhou in May. During every flood, fish flooded southward into Zhejiang like mountains and seas.
It is one of the places where fishing gathers. At that time, fishermen from Ning, Taiwan, and Wenzhou in Zhejiang will take their boats out to sea and come to catch fish. The big owl giant bandit in Dachen Mountain will print fish tickets based on the size of the fish boat.
The amount of silver transferred varies from fifty taels, thirty taels, or twenty taels. If the goods are not issued with a check, it is called "paying water"; after the goods are sold, the silver is collected, which is called "paying the check"; not a few cents.
, it’s normal to have bad days.
This is a large-scale transaction involving more than ten thousand taels of silver. Every time the fish season comes, in order to get a piece of the pie, Dachen Mountain will always start a bloody storm. Yimu Lao and Hu Erlao are the fish news last year.
He failed to compete with others, suffered a brutal blow, and almost perished. Fortunately, Wang Feng turned the tide with force and finally escaped. Now that he has been training for a full year, he has only regained half of his strength.
"..." Although Huang Chen had never experienced it personally, Huang Chen could still hear the strong smell of tragic blood from Zhao Hongyi's mouth.
"The sea is relatively calm at the moment, but the real danger will come in a month." Zhao Hongyi said calmly. In another month, the southwest monsoon will be strong, and people in Fuzhou, Funing, and Xinghua in Fujian will be swarming with ants.
The pirates' internal competition will suddenly intensify. Moreover, the people of Zhejiang are generally relatively wealthy, so it is relatively easy to tax them, but it is difficult to collect taxes from the poor Fujian people.
It was a difficult task. Not only did the pirates kill themselves, but they also had to break the hard core of the Fujian people. The latter was no easier than the former. Every year, many pirates fell into the hands of the Fujian people.
As he spoke, the big bird boat seemed to enter the fishing ground, and the fishing boats appeared one by one, scattered on the sea. Just a rough calculation, there are no less than a hundred boats. The blue sky and blue sea, dotted fishing sails, gulls and clouds flying together, the scenery
It is so picturesque and beautiful. However, Huang Chen knows very well in his heart that it is not as quiet and peaceful as it seems. On the contrary, it contains fatal dangers.
When Mr. Hu came to the deck, everyone stood up and started working. In fact, there was not much work. Even a layman like Huang Chen could easily see that most of the people were pretending to be busy to prove to the leader that they were busy.
Work seriously. Huang Chen scolded everyone in his heart for being hypocritical, and then he quickly joined in, busy hypocritically...
There are not only many fishing boats here, but also pirate ships that escort the fishing boats. When two pirate ships meet, unless the two sides have a grudge, they will generally not start a fight. At most, they will glare at each other, laugh and curse.
The Big Bird boat continued to sail deeper into the fishing ground, and soon bad news came. A fishing boat they were sheltering was attacked by pirates, killing dozens of people. The boat was also towed away. The survivors hid on an island not far ahead.
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After hearing this, Hu Erlao became furious and ordered Qianshou to march towards the island.
This matter is no small matter. If the fishing boat cannot be recaptured quickly, other boat owners will be panicked when they learn the news. Once a fight breaks out, what little reputation they have left will be consumed. There is no other choice, just two words - start a war!
There was a tense atmosphere on the ship, and everyone was mobilized. Four bronze guns weighing hundreds of kilograms were mounted on a four-wheeled gun cart and pushed to the bow and left and right sides of the ship.
The cannons were also moved out one after another and placed on both sides.
Bundles of weapons were piled randomly on the deck, and in an instant, people were surrounded one after another. Huang Chen saw Zhao Hongyi shouting at him, and then his whole aura changed, and he squeezed into the crowd like a hungry tiger pounced on food. Where was he?
If he dared to hesitate, he hurriedly followed. The people around him were either big and round, or lean and strong. It took him a lot of effort to get in.
Facing the dazzling array of weapons at his feet, Huang Chen was stunned and was speechless for a long time. Swords, guns, swords and axes were okay, at least they were classified as weapons, but why were there things like iron forks and iron rakes, and they were also considered weapons?
What was even more difficult for him to accept was that he saw a wooden stick and a wooden rake. If these things hit a person on the head, would the head be damaged or the wood broken?
Zhao Hongyi found him standing there in a daze, and quickly picked up a seven-foot wooden stick gun and put it in his hand.
Huang Chen knew that he had made a big mistake. I was afraid that when he came to his senses and made a choice, it would be difficult to find a strong weapon, let alone a long soldier. Zhao Hongyi's move was equivalent to saving most of his life. Holding a wooden stick gun in his hand,
Huang Chen said sincerely: "Uncle Zhao, thank you..." When he looked up, his throat immediately became knotted, and he saw that Zhao Hongyi was holding a bamboo gun measuring 16 to 7 feet long, which was longer than his wooden stick gun.
More than twice as much. How afraid of death is he that he would use such a long weapon that doesn't look easy to use?
The island and reef were not far away, and the big bird boat was moving at full speed, arriving in an instant. The seven or eight surviving fishermen stood on the island and reef. When they saw the big bird boat coming towards them, they waved their arms vigorously, cried shrilly, and shouted repeatedly.
Help, it's so miserable.
The waters around the islands and reefs were shallow and large ships could not approach them. Hu Erlao ordered his men to put down their boats and row oars to pick up the fishermen.
After a lot of twists and turns, the owner of the fishing boat finally boarded the big bird boat. He quickly rushed to Hu Erlao and cried out the whole story of the attack. The person who attacked him was the pirate Taipan Lao. He led two ships of more than eight feet long and took his
The fishing boat snatched it away.
Hu Er's wrinkled old face was gloomy. He had guessed right in advance. It was indeed Taipan Lao. He thought to himself: "This bastard! You just sunk my big ship. I haven't come to trouble you yet, so you should come to the door first."
Come on, this is too much!"
The old hatred has not been resolved, but a new one has been added! When Mr. Hu heard that the other party had left not long ago, he immediately pursued him north.
When the fishing boat was robbed, the fishing boat resisted fiercely, causing damage to the mast. It had to be towed by two boats in front. The speed was very slow. Within an hour, it was overtaken by Mr. Hu from behind. Mr. Taipan discovered that Mr. Hu was alone.
The ship came and ordered to turn around and fight.
A war between the two sides is about to break out.