Daming pirates

Regarding Xiaotian's request, Wang Hong didn't think much about it and immediately nodded and said: "What's so difficult about this? This Nanri Island is indeed not small. It's much bigger than your Treasure Island. Come here,

Why don’t you take a walk and have a look? Let’s go! I don’t have anything to do in the afternoon, so I might as well take you around!”

After saying that, Wang Hong called two of his men and ran to fetch two horses. One was for Yu Xiaotian to ride, and the other he rode himself. Yu Xiaotian didn't let anyone else follow, so he just

He and Wang Hong left Dazhai and walked toward the east of the island.

There are few horses in the south, and these horses are considered rare. There are only a few mules and donkeys on Yu Xiaotian's island, which are mainly used for pulling carts and carrying things on the island.

Yu Xiaotian, who was born in the south, is not very good at riding horses. He only rode once at a racecourse before. The experience of riding a horse is still fresh in his memory.

His limbs were stiff due to nervousness, and he desperately pulled on the horse's reins. As a result, the horse ran very fast. He was so frightened that he clamped the horse's belly tightly and ran around. His buttocks were sore and his thighs were also worn.

His skin almost broke and he made a fool of himself.

Wang Hong gave him a horse today, but he was too embarrassed to say he couldn't ride it, so he could only drive the duck onto the rack, climb on the horse's back, and then hold on to the horse's reins nervously, for fear of falling off the horse.

Fortunately, the horses here are relatively docile and short, unlike the war horses in the north. They can walk smoothly, and there are people nearby who ask him to lead the horses, so Yu Xiaotian doesn't make a fool of himself again.

But Wang Hong still saw at a glance that Yu Xiaotian didn't know how to ride a horse, and laughed loudly: "It seems that Brother Yu has never ridden a horse before! There is no need to be so nervous. The more relaxed you are, the more docile the horse will be. According to the

If the horse is uncomfortable with your riding method, how can it move smoothly? Don't be afraid, let go of the handle!"

Only then did Yu Xiaotian realize that he had almost pulled out the horse's hair, and he couldn't help but sweat profusely, thinking that he had made a fool of himself again this time!

Nanri Island is large at both ends and small in the middle. It is shaped like a dumbbell. The terrain is high at both ends. There is a mountain with an altitude of more than 100 meters in the southeast. The scenery is beautiful and very pleasant.

However, Yu Xiaotian did not come to see the scenery. He was not interested in the beautiful scenery here. What interested him was the various facilities of Zhang Hu's power on the island.

Zhang Hu's stronghold is located next to the bay in the northwest corner. It is backed by a high ground and faces a bay. It is indeed a good place. It is no wonder that when the government came to attack in the early years, they failed to capture his stronghold. Instead, they were attacked by him and his men.

Back, the terrain here helped him a lot.

On the north shore of the island, there are some small villages scattered here and there, which are the gathering areas for his other tribesmen, basically surrounding Dazhai.

There are only two small fishing villages on their island, and the fishermen in these two fishing villages, according to Wang Hong, usually fish near Nanri Island. While fishing, they have to act as sentinels on the island. Once they encounter

When a large group of officers and soldiers or enemies attack, they will light their fishing boats and alert the island. If they send out the warning in time, Zhang Hu will send them a new fishing boat and reward them with some money.

As for the fishermen on the island, except for keeping a small part of their catch for their own consumption or in exchange for food and clothing, the rest must be given to Zhang Hu for consumption by the pirates on the island.

If something goes wrong, sometimes these fishermen will be forcibly recruited onto pirate ships to serve as temporary minions. After doing so, they can also get some rewards.

Therefore, the fishermen in the two fishing villages on the island live a life of both civilians and thieves. Their life is not extremely difficult, but it is definitely not a moist life. They usually rely on salt even for eating.

If you boil your own salt, you don’t have money to buy it.

What Yu Xiaotian attaches most importance to is a boathouse near Dazhai. This boathouse has two docks. The docks are connected to the land on three sides and face the water on one side. They are equipped with dock doors. The boathouse also has ship frames and ship repairs.

The slide facilities are generally relatively complete, but strangely, they are in an abandoned state. The dock door of a dock is missing, and there is very little wood, which is scattered in a mess.

So Yu Xiaotian pointed to the boathouse and asked Wang Hong: "Brother Wang, you have such a big place here and there is a boathouse, why is this boathouse abandoned? If the boathouse was there, wouldn't it be much easier for you to repair the boat?

How can we still go to land and spend money to repair the ship?"

Wang Hong glanced at the boathouse, shook his head and said: "In the past, we repaired ships here. We could even build ships here two years ago. But when the army came to suppress it, they burned down the boathouse and destroyed the shiphouse.

The shipwrights were captured as our men and brought back to the land. They were killed and exiled!

Later, after we repelled the army, we originally wanted to repair this place, but for a while we couldn't find a few suitable shipwrights. Among the remaining shipwrights, two died inexplicably and two escaped.

There wasn't even a usable ship repairman. Later, our boss didn't care about it, so the shipyard was abandoned here! We could only temporarily find a place on land to repair the ship.

Last year, my second brother proposed that if it didn't work, he would go to Meizhou Bay and rob a boathouse directly, and kidnap all the boatwrights in the boathouse. Unfortunately, for some reason, the news got out, and we were waiting for us to go there.

By that time, all the owners and shipwrights in the boathouse had escaped in advance! Not a single shipwright was caught.

This year we tried our best to find two boathouses to start with, but we failed twice again. Maybe there might be someone inside here who spread the news in advance. Otherwise, it wouldn’t have happened.

In this way, the matter of restoring the boathouse has been put aside! Otherwise, we wouldn’t have to spend a lot of money to repair the boat on land!”

Yu Xiaotian walked and listened, and also made secret calculations. Looking at the abandoned boathouse, Yu Xiaotian felt envious and funny at the same time. It was a good boathouse, but it was abandoned here by them. This standard is

The prodigal's behavior is that he has a boathouse but wants to send the boat to land and repair it on Tuomen Road. Only an idiot can do such a thing.

Even at such a small scale, he is trying to find a way to find a shipwright to solve the problem of repairing his own ship. However, Zhang Hu, with such a large territory, so many subordinates, and ships, actually wants to go to land to spend money to repair the ship. This picture

Tiger's head must have been filled with water, or he drank too much yellow soup!

Suddenly Yu Xiaotian asked: "So generally, Brother Wang, I don't know who's route your ships take, and where do you go to get them repaired?"

Wang Hong immediately replied: "This is the way Lao Qi found. It has to be sent to a boathouse in Xinghua Prefecture. If my brother needs to repair his boat, I can ask someone to recommend him later! But it's not expensive to repair the boat there."

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Yu Xiaotian's heart moved and he asked: "Is Lao Qi the brother-in-law of Zhang Da's family?"

Wang Hong immediately became furious and nodded: "It's that guy! The seventh man's surname is He Guang. He is the younger brother of our boss's wife. When we went to the sea, he went with us!

Not only does that guy love money, but he also relies on his sister's power. He is very arrogant in our place. He has more subordinates than us, and he takes advantage of all the benefits. This is not because his brother-in-law is the boss, but he always gets the first chance.

Come on, all the hard work is our brothers’ fault! Forget it, don’t talk about it anymore, it will make you angry when you mention it!” Wang Hong picked up the reins of his horse and walked forward.

Yu Xiaotian touched the short beard on his chin, looked at the boathouse, thought about it again, then caught up with Wang Hong, said nothing more, and continued walking down.

After listening to Wang Hong's words today, Yu Xiaotian has basically gained a deeper understanding of Zhang Hu's situation. Now Zhang Hu is no longer the Zhang Hu he was back then. This guy has been around since more than two years ago.

After repelling the official army's attack, they forgot about it and became a little carried away with pride.

This guy is addicted to wine and sex, and loves money as much as his life. He has not established a proper distribution mechanism, and secretly purchased land on land. Now many of his brothers are already complaining about his behavior, and he is nepotistic.

It even made my brothers feel aggrieved by this.

That Lao Qi is also Zhang Hu's brother-in-law. Because he is Zhang Hu's brother-in-law, he is domineering under Zhang Hu and actually secretly controls the ship repairs. So this can explain why the boathouse on his island is so arrogant.

It has never been able to be rebuilt.

Wang Hong said that it is very expensive for them to repair ships. It can be seen that the profits of ship repairs are very high, and He Guang is responsible for the ship repairs. He Guang must have gained a lot of benefits from this, and it is even possible that the Xinghua Prefecture ship

Liao is He Guang's own. In this way, he can gain more benefits for himself.

Therefore, in the past two years, they have repeatedly tried to rob the boathouse and kidnap the boatman, but their plans have repeatedly failed. He Guang must be doing this secretly and passing the news to the outside world. Otherwise, they would not be as powerful as they are.

Not even a boathouse could be restored. If He Guang was not a traitor, he would not believe it even if Yu Xiaotian beat him to death.

It’s no wonder that Zhang Hu, who is so powerful, still has to go to land to repair ships and be controlled by others.

For him to occupy such a large Nanri Island, he really lost such a good place in vain. Yu Xiaotian was so greedy to see it, but there was no way for the time being. If Zhang Hu was a little better at management, then just with such a big

A Nanri Island, after two years, he has not remained the same as before, and now he has even the dragons from the river forcing him to come to his door.

Not to mention, Hun Jianglong's side has already come to the door, but Zhang Hu's side has not yet been able to unify their opinions and concentrate their efforts to attack him head-on. The reason is that the festival is about to take place right now. If this delay continues, the Shark Gang may have another difficult time.

The original majesty is now restored.

It can be seen that Zhang Hu's Shark Gang has become a piece of loose sand. On the surface, it still maintains a huge figure, but internally it has long been torn apart. It is only a matter of time before it collapses. Yu Xiaotian came here to completely understand the situation here.

I learned a lot about it.

Wang Hong spent an afternoon walking around the island with Yu Xiaotian. Yu Xiaotian even took advantage of Wang Hong's carelessness and walked around Zhang Hu's Dazhai, observing carefully.

I visited every place outside Dazhai, and secretly made a secret effort to write down everything I saw along the way.

After dark, Wang Hong originally wanted to take Yu Xiaotian to have a drink, but Yu Xiaotian refused, saying that he was tired and had something to do on the ship, so he insisted on returning to the ship for the night.

At the end of the night, Yu Xiaotian took a notebook bound with white paper and used a sharpened charcoal pen to record everything he saw during the day.

At the same time, he also sketched out a simple topographic map of Zhang Hu's Dazhai and various branch villages, docks, small villages, etc. on Nanri Island. After a long time, he forgot about it.

He is not doing this just to covet Nanri Island. With his current strength, it is far from enough to compete with Zhang Hu for territory. But for him, since he has come here, he cannot ignore such a rare collection.

Wang Hong was a bit heartless when it came to information opportunities. He treated him as a friend and hid nothing from him. He told him almost everything he could, allowing him to learn a lot about the situation here in detail.

Early the next morning, Yu Xiaotian prepared two more gifts on the boat, and sealed fifty taels of silver each. After taking them with him, he went ashore, found Wang Hong, and asked Wang Hong to take him to visit his second son Qian Song.

He and Lao Wu Fang'an's residence, presented two gifts to thank them for their help yesterday morning.

The second eldest child, Qian Song, didn't have much airs. He was very satisfied when he saw Yu Xiaotian's gift. He happily accepted the gift and wanted to entertain Yu Xiaotian with wine. However, Yu Xiaotian still had to rush back to his Treasure Island.

For this reason, he declined his kindness.

As for the fifth old man, Fang An, he was an introvert, didn't talk much, and wasn't very enthusiastic about Xiaotian. However, he accepted Yu Xiaotian's gift, but he didn't express any gratitude, nor did he have the slightest intention to stay as a guest.

After coming out, Wang Hong was a little embarrassed and said to Xiaotian: "Lao Wu has such a temper. He doesn't talk much when meeting new people, but he has a good heart and is very loyal to his friends. He gets along best with me!"

Originally he was not such a person, but in his early years he went out to fight with someone, and after his left hand was disabled, he almost lost his life when he came back. After he recovered from the injury, everyone thought he was a disabled person and didn't think much of him. Gradually, his temper became

That’s it!

Later, my second brother and I took care of him. After he recovered from his injury, he found someone to install an iron hook on his left hand, and diligently practiced the sword skills with his right hand. When the officers and soldiers came to attack, he actually knocked down several officers and soldiers by himself.

, and then he was allowed to lead some brothers alone.

In the past two years, among our brothers, he has done the best, but his temper seems a bit weird! Brother, don't mind!"

After listening to Wang Hong's explanation, Yu Xiaotian realized what kind of person Fang An was. In this era, disabled people like him, let alone living in this kind of environment, even in a normal environment, would

Being discriminated against and treated as a useless person.

However, Fang An was able to persevere in such adversity, practice martial arts diligently, and take advantage of the situation to rise. It can be seen that this person is a very strong-willed person. The reason why he became withdrawn is because he was excluded and despised by others, so

It hurt his self-esteem and made him unwilling to communicate with others.

However, as long as this kind of person can be recognized as a friend, he will be very loyal. Yu Xiaotian was not angry at all, but admired him very much. He shook his head and said that it was okay. He hoped to see Lao Wu more and chat with him if he had the opportunity.

Wang Hong sent Yu Xiaotian to the pier to board the ship. He clasped his fists again on the pier and said: "Good day, brother! Don't blame me for not being well-received when I come here this time! If I have a chance later, I will go to your place to have a drink with you."

, when the time comes when we two brothers try to compete with each other in terms of drinking capacity, I don’t believe it, I won’t let you down even if you drink! Haha!”

Yu Xiaotian also appreciated Wang Hong's frankness. He clasped his fists and said, "Brother, I'm always waiting for Brother Wang to visit me. As long as Brother Wang doesn't dislike my brother's small place, I can come anytime! Let's say goodbye. See you later!"