Daming pirates

Nanri Island is about forty or fifty miles south of Treasure Island. For the distance on the sea, it is close at hand, so it took Yu Xiaotian less than a day to reach Nanri Island.

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When they arrived at Nanri Island, they felt the disparity in strength between the two sides. Before they reached within ten miles of Nanri Island, a ship flying the flag of Zhang Hu blocked their way.

This boat is a single-masted boat. It looks like a fishing boat on the surface. The displacement of the boat is not large, and the speed of the boat is average. If the signature red flag flag used by Zhang Hu is not displayed, most people will basically think of it.

It is regarded as a fishing boat for fishermen, but in Zhang Hu's hands, this kind of boat is obviously used as a sentinel boat for watching the wind, and it can also cover people's eyes and ears.

When it was discovered that Yu Xiaotian's boat was sailing towards Nanri Island, the fishing boat belonging to Zhang Hu still blocked Yu Xiaotian's way in a arrogant manner. Someone stood far away from the bow and shouted loudly, while giving orders.

Yu Xiaotian's boat lowered its sails and stopped, asking them about their purpose and identity.

Yu Xiaotian looked at the ship and asked the men on board to calm down and put away their anger. Most of them were driven into the cabin, and then ordered the sails to be lowered. After approaching, they reported their identities and intentions.

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After hearing that Yu Xiaotian's boat was the Sea Wolf's boat, Zhang Hu's men on the boat blocking the road showed some respect. The leader who took the lead looked at Yu Xiaotian and his

After getting out of the boat, he clasped his fists and said, "So you are the sea wolves! Why have you come here to pay homage to the dock now? Don't you think that we, Zhang Da, should be taken seriously?"

Yu Xiaotian quickly explained with a smile, and told the guy that he had made an appointment with their third boss, Wang Hong, and would come to pay homage to the dock years ago.

The leader of Zhang Hu's men nodded and said: "It turns out that Wang San's boss has agreed that it will be easy to handle! Come on! Just follow my boat and I will take you there! This will save you any misunderstandings!"

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Yu Xiaotian's boat came close to that guy's boat, so he sent ten taels of silver over and put a can of wine on the fishing boat.

As the saying goes, don’t slap someone with a smiling face. Yu Xiaotian understands the role of money in clearing the way, so he doesn’t care about small money. After having these ten taels of silver and a can of wine as a meeting gift, the expressions of Zhang Hu’s men on the ship became even brighter.

Feeling much better, he nodded repeatedly, raised the sail again, and led the way for Yu Xiaotian's boat, heading towards Nanri Island.

Nanri Island is very large, at least much larger than the Treasure Island that Yu Xiaotian currently occupies. It was formerly known as Nanri Mountain. The island covers an area of ​​dozens of square kilometers. It is the third largest island along the coast of Fujian and belongs to Fujian Xingxing.

It is under the jurisdiction of Huafu and is the largest island along the coast of Xinghuafu. It is an important place to control the north-south sea lanes of Fujian. However, it is a pity that the Ming Dynasty's sea ban policy prevented such important islands from being taken seriously, so that they were reduced to the status quo.

Under the control of pirates like Zhang Hu.

According to Liu Laoliu, in the early days of Nanri Island, the Fujian side of the Ming Dynasty built a Nanri Shanshui Village on the island to prepare for Japanese invasion, and nearly a thousand officers and soldiers were stationed there.

On the grounds of support, the water stronghold was removed, sent to Shicheng across the water, and merged into the Qingshan Inspection Department. From then on, Nanri Island became an unattended place and has always been controlled by Japanese pirates and pirates.

In recent years, as the Japanese invasion has gradually diminished, Zhang Hu led his men to seize the island and became a local overlord who ruled the island in this area. His sphere of influence was very wide, reaching as far as the mouth of the Minjiang River in the north and as far as the south.

After controlling the Meizhou Island area, the government also sent troops to try to suppress him the year before last, but they were defeated by Zhang Hu. The government settled the matter and turned a blind eye to Zhang Hu as long as he didn't cause too much trouble.

I don't care about him anymore.

Zhang Hu's experience of defeating the army in his early years made him even more arrogant. He vaguely claimed to be the overlord of this area, often harassing villages along the coast, and often hijacking ships, and became domineering on the island.

Zhang Hu's Dazhai is located in the northwest corner of the north of Nanri Island. It has also become a must-visit place for surrounding pirate groups.

It is said that Zhang Hu's village is a pirate's water village, but in the past few years, some businessmen have gradually come here to do business after being interested in Zhang Hu. By trading with Zhang Hu and the surrounding pirates, they obtained what they robbed.

goods, and then sell them for profit, so in the past two years, this place has become a bit like a town, and there are not too few ships coming and going.

It's a pity that Zhang Hu is not very good at business and is too greedy for money. He has a strong influence on his peers who come to trade with him, so that many pirates would rather go to Dalian Island to trade than come here, so this place has achieved

After a certain scale, the scale of business can no longer be expanded. Otherwise, if we take advantage of the unique conditions here, it will definitely be quite lively.

As Yu Xiaotian followed the boat slowly sailing to Nanri Island, he was sorting out all the information about Zhang Hu that he had learned during this period. Looking at such a large Nanri Island in the distance, he couldn't help but sigh that it was a pity.

If he were to grow up here, he would definitely be able to turn this place into a prosperous business place. At least he could turn Nanri Island into a rear base for him.

Yu Xiaotian has been regretting that he did not bring the high-power telescope on the ship with him when he fell into the sea. Otherwise, with that guy, he could have carefully observed the situation along the coast of Nanri Island from a distance.

However, as it approached Nanri Island, the pilot ship began to turn, which gave Yu Xiaotian an opportunity to observe Nanri Island up close. As far as he knew, the huge Nanri Island had at least one population on the island in later generations.

There are tens of thousands of people, but now it seems that the coast of the island is very desolate, not a single village can be seen, and occasionally individual abandoned villages can be seen, and not a single person can be seen.

Preliminary estimation is that the previous residents of this island were either harmed by Japanese pirates or were forced by this tiger to be unable to survive here and moved back to the mainland. As a result, the huge Nanri Island became a deserted place.

Xiaotian couldn't help but secretly scolded Zhang Hu for being a fool.

The water village on Nanri Island is many times larger than Yu Xiaotian's water village on Treasure Island. It covers an area of ​​hundreds of acres. As a defensive fortification, a wall has also been built, but the height of the wall is

It's not too high, and it's basically made of wooden walls. There are only a few places where it's made of stone. Its defensive capabilities are not necessarily any higher than those of Yu Xiaotian's small village.

No wonder Wang Hong was surprised by Xiaotian's village when he went to Treasure Island some time ago. It turns out that the village here was not very well built.

However, the pier here is still well built. Zhang Hu took advantage of the terrain here and built several trestles on the seaside, which can be used for ships to dock and load and unload cargo. At most, more than ten ships can be docked at a time.

It is a pity that the utilization rate of the wharf here is very low. There are only two piers with ships docked, and the rest of the ships are moored nearby in the bay, which looks chaotic.

Under the guidance of the boat in front, Yu Xiaotian encountered no more inquiries or troubles on the way over. Only one or two boats approached them curiously and looked at them. Under the explanation of the sentinel boat in front,

, did not cause any trouble to Yu Xiaotian, and drove away directly.

After getting on the trestle, Yu Xiaotian, led by the leader who piloted him, took a few men and carried a large gift box down to the trestle and walked towards the stockade.

After Yu Xiaotian visited the gate of Shuizhai, he informed him of his purpose and handed over a greeting card, asking him to see Zhang Hu.

The people guarding the stronghold asked him to wait and entered the stronghold with his greeting card. Only then did Yu Xiaotian start a conversation with the leader who led him.

The leader they met was actually a very small leader under Zhang Hu. He couldn't get promoted at all. He could only take a fishing boat and wander around on the sea, acting as the eyes and ears of the island. Under normal circumstances, he had very little oil and water, which was no better than others.

Leader, you can go out and rob ships, or land and plunder, so it's a hard job. I got Yu Xiaotian's ten taels of silver today, which is already pretty good.

So this guy was very satisfied with Xiaotian's generosity. After a few words of conversation on the shore, he became enthusiastic about Xiaotian and introduced their place to Yu Xiaotian with gesticulating words.

Similar to what Wang Hong said at the beginning, Zhang Hu has as many as seven to eight hundred people under his command. Sometimes when needed, he can also gather other colleagues from the surrounding area to help him. At most, he can gather one or two thousand people.

With people and dozens of ships, they can even land and attack a small county or large town, so they are considered very powerful.

Moreover, in the past two years, Zhang Hu has had his subordinates give him a leg up, and he has gradually become much lazier. He rarely takes people out to sea for plunder in person. More often, he spends most of his time on the island, passing by.

The days of living in a state of drunkenness and dreaming are extremely comfortable.

The little boss didn't dare to say that, but his words also revealed his admiration for Zhang Hu, but not much respect for him. This made Yu Xiaotian realize again that Zhang Hu actually had control over his subordinates.

The influence is no longer high, otherwise a small leader would not dare to say these things in front of outsiders, and would not be wary at all.

After a while, the man who went in with the greeting card came out and said coldly to Xiaotian: "Our boss doesn't have time to see you right now, so we asked you to wait in the village. We will summon you tomorrow if we are free."

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Yu Xiaotian smiled bitterly and thought to himself that Zhang Hu is really very arrogant. If he doesn't come, he won't come. After he came, this guy didn't see him yet. He left him here to hang out like this. I don't know if he did it on purpose.

After showing off his power, I really didn’t have time to see him.

So he had no choice but to nod and agree. He was taken into the village by his subordinates and led to the front of a courtyard. He was handed over to a steward here. This was regarded as the post house set up by Zhang Hu in the village. It should be called a guest house in future generations! The steward

It is also called the Guanshe, which can be regarded as the director of the guest house.

The steward was quite polite to Xiaotian. He let him and a few of his men into the courtyard and arranged two rooms for him and his men to live temporarily. However, he told him that they had to pay for their food and drink here.

, if you need water or food on the boat, it will also cost money.

Yu Xiaotian even cursed secretly in his heart. Zhang Hu was really impressive to his peers and didn't take people like them seriously at all. The first time he came to visit the wharf, he actually let him sit in the cold room first.

Bench, I got a rejection. It’s fine that they didn’t treat me well when I stopped here. They actually asked for money for everything, and they took advantage of the opportunity to make more. It was really money-minded.

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