"This is not enough." Hong Tiaoyuan shook his head and said: "Whether it is pirates or Ganlusi people, they all know that Penghu is the only place where they can get supplies nearby. Destroying this place is equivalent to destroying themselves.
There is no way to survive, so things like burning, killing and looting have never happened. However, sometimes it is inevitable to go crazy after drinking too much without paying for things. Sometimes we also do this.
I just tolerated it.”
In fact, there was another layer of meaning in his words that he didn't say, and they had to endure it even if they couldn't bear it.
Before Ding Yunyi and the others arrived, there were only twelve soldiers in Penghu, including the old man and Lao Ji. How could they compete with pirates and foreigners?
Ding Yunyi suddenly said: "It's a shame to rob them!"
With one sentence, everyone stopped what they were doing and turned their attention to Ding Yunyi.
"Rob? Rob what?" Hong Tiaoyuan asked as if he hadn't heard clearly.
"Rob the pirates and the Westerners!" Ding Yunyi said viciously.
"You're crazy, we are officers and soldiers!" Hong Tiaoyuan was stunned when he heard this.
Ding Yunyi followed his third brother in society in another era. These things are commonplace to him, and he doesn't care about his current status: "Boss, brothers, why are pirates and foreigners so popular?
We have to live a hard life as fishermen on this island? Pirates and foreigners can rob, so can we!"
"Brother, brother." Hong Tiaoyuan was frightened and interrupted him hastily: "Pirates are pirates, and officers and soldiers are officers and soldiers. If this matter is exposed, it will be a crime of losing one's head!"
"Losing your head?" Ding Yunyi didn't care at all: "If we rob them, who will report them? You? You? Or will the pirates report it to the officials themselves? It will be in vain if they rob them! Boss, you listen to me this time, otherwise this will happen
Sooner or later, there will be no one on the island. We only rob pirates and foreigners, and their stuff is not clean anyway!"
Hong Tiaoyuan's head was in confusion. Why did the superiors send him such an inspection? His mentor Ding Yuanzhao had been honest and upright for most of his life, so how did he give birth to such a robber son?
Although Hong Tiaoyuan didn't have much ability, he was very cautious in doing things and would not even do anything that crossed the threshold. Because of this, he was still a small-time general after so many years in the army.
Now that Ding Yunyi actually proposed such a "method", it was the most incredible thing in the world to Hong Tiaoyuan.
Hong Tiaoyuan firmly refused to agree, but the eyes of the brothers all showed blazing heat.
I have been living in poverty on this small island until now. How can I be unhappy when such a "reasonable" and bold inspection officer was finally sent?
When the brothers thought about it, Hong Tiaoyuan, the highest official, was left in the cold.
The soldiers became very interested and asked what to do. Ding Yunyi answered all questions, including how to select a target, how to carry out a robbery, and how to cover up the incident afterwards.
The brothers' blood was boiling after hearing this, and everyone wanted to take action immediately. Hong Tiaoyuan tried to speak several times, but was impatiently interrupted by his brothers.
"That's enough, you bunch of bastards!"
Hong Tiaoyuan finally couldn't bear it anymore and stopped the lively discussion with a loud shout. Hong Tiaoyuan was so angry that the flesh on his face shook wildly. He first pointed at his subordinates and then at Ding Yunyi: "Ding Yunyi, Ding Xiangwen,
After all, you are from a scholarly family, how could you say such words? How honest and upright my mentor was, yet he gave birth to you, this..."
After all, he couldn't say the next words, but it was Ding Yunyi who helped him say it: "The son of disdain, right?"
"Yes, the son of disdain!" Hong Tiaoyuan sighed, and his tone was somewhat calmer: "Brother Ding, we are receiving salary from the imperial court and serving as officials of the Ming Dynasty. How can we do things that only pirates can do?
If this spreads out, my officials in the Ming Dynasty will be completely disgraced."
"Boss Hong!" Ding Yunyi stood up, not afraid at all: "I only know one thing. The brothers are not clothed and have no food to eat. They are all living like beggars. How can we talk about it?
Defend Penghu? We haven’t seen any of the salary and supplies promised by the imperial court. If the red barbarians come, what can we do to fight them? Just rely on fifteen of us and fifteen swords? It’s a joke!”
Hong Tiaoyuan was stunned for a long time before he said: "But we can't do this, we would rather starve to death..."
"Boss Hong!" Ding Yunyi smiled bitterly and shook his head: "What we robbed are pirates, people who dry silk, foreigners, not innocent people. Why can the Hongyi occupy Taiwan? Robbery passing ships? Damn it.
The only thing we need is the help of big pirates like Liu Xiang. Hongyi can assess the situation and use his strength, so why can’t we? I don’t know how to talk about big things. I only know two points. The first is to find ways to fill the stomachs of the brothers.
, The second thing is that we have to arm ourselves, otherwise the Hongyi sword will hit us on the head, and we are so hungry that we can’t even swing the sword!"
Seeing all the brothers nodding frequently, Hong Tiaoyuan was so anxious that he didn't know what to say. Although he felt that what Ding Yunyi said was reasonable, it was absolutely impossible for him to do such a job.
Ding Yunyi sighed: "Boss Hong, brothers, the Hongyi ships are now equipped with cannons. One blast is very powerful. There are also Folan cannons, which are even more amazing. There is a method where each mother cannon is equipped with nine sub-cannons.
, fired in turns, known as 'mother-and-gun guns', and some are even equipped with sights. These Europeans...ah, no, the Thais have them. They want to bring these things to kill, what can we do to resist them?
?Knife, or stone?
Speaking of these, Ding Yunyi really has to thank his father in another era. If he hadn't let him learn these things since he was a child, he really couldn't say it right now.
Hong Tiaoyuan and the brothers were dumbfounded.
Firearms technology in the Ming Dynasty was quite powerful and mature. The earliest Fo Lang machine gun had been successfully imitated as early as the third year of Jiajing, and was even more powerful than European artillery.
During the Jiajing period alone, the Military War Bureau, the Ordnance Bureau and the border garrison produced large-scale Folang machines, medium-type Folang machines, small-scale Folang machines, cavalry Folang machines, Folang-type meteor cannons, and hundreds of Folang machines.
There are more than ten kinds of machine guns, such as Wansheng Folang machine, Renju Folang machine, Invincible general cannon, steel hair gun, etc. The total number reaches 30,000 to 40,000, which are used as naval guns, urban defense guns, tank guns, and field battle guns.
Cannons, infantry guns, and cavalry guns became one of the main equipment of the Ming army.
But the soldiers like Hong Tiaoyuan and Penghu had never seen such weapons. When Ding Yunyi said it, everyone was surprised.
At this moment, an angry voice suddenly came from outside:
"Okay, you soldiers don't want to serve the court and protect the people, but you are here secretly discussing to become pirates. Let's go, let's go, I will go with you to Zou Weilian to fight this lawsuit!"