Daming pirates

"The villagers inside heard that my surname is Yu, and I am nicknamed Sea Wolf! I came here this time with no ill intentions towards you, I just want to inquire about some things from you, you don't have to be afraid!

But you are so ignorant of the current affairs, have no understanding of etiquette, and treat us as nothing. This is your fault! My patience has its limit. I will give you a stick of incense. If no one of you comes forward to answer

If so, then I am not a good person to someone. When the time comes, I will use my own methods to invite you out!

Don’t blame us for being rude then, start counting now and light the incense!”

Someone immediately threw it over, planted an incense stick on the ground outside the village, lit it with a fire stick, turned around and ran back.

Everyone watched calmly and silently as the incense burned slowly. Yu Xiaotian spread his legs and stood steadily outside the village. He closed his eyes slightly and waited silently for the incense to finish burning.

More than a hundred soldiers were also lined up neatly outside the village. No one moved. Their long spears and short knives, including polished blunderbuss, shone coldly in the sunlight.

The black muzzles of the two Crouching Tiger Cannons pointed quietly at the village. The sailors ran back and forth and delivered two boxes of ammunition, which were placed next to the Crouching Tiger Cannons.

A group of sailors were assigned to bring axes to the nearby area, began to chop down trees, and made wooden ladders on the spot.

There was a solemn atmosphere outside the entire village, which made people feel very nervous and very depressed at the same time.

The incense was still burning slowly. Before the incense burned halfway, someone on the wall of the village shouted: "Hero, spare your life..."

A shriveled old man knelt tremblingly in front of Xiaotian, trembling like chaff. Although he tried his best to appear calm, his trembling beard revealed the fear in his heart.

Seeing that his goal had been achieved, Yu Xiaotian waved his hands and ordered his subordinates to withdraw and rest on the beach. If they had nothing to do, they could send people to hunt some game and come back to improve their lives.

And he ordered someone to help the old man up, gave him a small horse to sit opposite him, and asked someone to bring him a glass of water, comforted the old man with a few words, and even handed him a roll that he rolled himself.

The old man didn't know how to smoke a cigarette, so he imitated Yu Xiaotian's example and lit it up, causing him to choke and cough repeatedly.

"This is called a cigarette. It's a bit strong, so you should smoke it slowly!" Yu Xiaotian took one out of the tin box, lit it and took two puffs proudly, puffing away the smoke quite comfortably.

He had long ago discovered that tobacco has appeared in China, and people in the north and south have begun to grow it. However, currently smoking it is not popular, and only a few people have begun to try smoking it with dry pipes.

Originally, Yu Xiaotian also tried to have a pipe made for him, but he was not used to smoking it. He still liked the feeling of rolling cigarettes, so he asked someone to get some tobacco leaves for him, and when he came back, he tried to ferment some.

Bake it, then use a small guillotine to roll it up and cut it into shreds, and then make a small hand-rolled cigarette.

He selected more than a dozen kinds of paper and tried rolling some. After trying it again, he finally settled on a kind of paper specially used for rolling cigarettes.

However, he did not understand the tobacco recipe and process of cigarettes, and the tobacco leaves were not processed properly, and the taste was far inferior to any other cigarettes of later generations. However, in this era, he could smoke a "cigarette" that he had not seen for a long time, so there was nothing to be picky about.

He is not a big smoker. When he first smoked, it was just to remember his past life. But he took the lead, and as a result, many of his subordinates and now bosses also started smoking after him.

Nowadays, many smokers have gradually emerged in the small circle of the Nanri Island Sea Wolf tribe, so he is planning to go back and arrange some people to make this kind of cigarettes for the tribesmen. He will supply them to his own people first, and then

The next step, if possible, is to promote it and sell it as a product of Nanri Island.

Today, the old man in the village is the first outsider to try his hand-rolled cigarettes. However, it seems that the old man is not used to the taste. He choked to tears. In desperation, he could only enjoy it by himself.

That's it.

"Don't be afraid, old man! We are not here to loot your village. We are just passing by and want to ask you about something. Please give us a little help!

Please don't worry, father-in-law. Although we are also pirates, we sea wolves are thieves. We are robbing the rich and giving to the poor. We have no fault in treating people like you!

You can turn around and take a look, no one of us is going to ruin your fields, and no one of us is going to touch even the two cows you left behind. Doesn’t that make you feel relieved?" Yu Xiaotian puffed at the same time,

Said to the old man.

The old man turned his head and looked around, then quickly turned around and thanked Xiaotian repeatedly. The expression on his face was still frightened. Obviously, he didn't really believe Yu Xiaotian's words. In this world, thieves are just thieves. Can there be thieves who don't harm the common people?

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Yu Xiaotian didn't care whether he believed it or not, and asked the old man: "What's your surname, my father-in-law? What's your name this year? What's the name of your village? When did you come here to build this village?"

The old man hunched over and sat on the pony in discomfort, and replied respectfully: "I don't dare to be, I don't dare to be, a good man is too polite. If I were a good man, I would call him Cao Ma instead of Cao!..."

Yu Xiaotian almost choked to death on the cigarette, and immediately coughed loudly and laughed, "Cao Ma, I'm dizzy, why don't you call me Cao Ni Ma? It's so uneducated!"

The old man was startled, and quickly continued: "The little old man happened to be sixty-five this year, and he should have been buried long ago, but the little old man was lucky, and he wasted many years of food! In our village, all Cao Cao

The family with this surname used to live in Zhangpu, Zhangzhou, and has been a farmer for generations. A few years ago, there was a severe drought in the little old man's family. As a last resort, the little old man took his children and grandchildren to escape from home. They took a boat and drifted here, and they settled here.

!

Later, when people in the clan learned that we had settled here, they followed us, and this is how Caojia Village came to be! Our Caojia Village has been here for five or six years!

I have offended all of you heroes so much today, so I hope you guys will not be angry. We farm and weave here, so we can’t produce many good things, but we can still give some fish, game, and skins to you heroes. The little old man has asked people to prepare them.

Good things will be delivered to the heroes soon!"

Yu Xiaotian immediately shook his head and said: "What are you talking about? I have already said that we are not here to extort or rob you, let alone harass you. We have no shortage of things ourselves, so you don't want to give us any gifts.

Give me!

I just want to ask about the situation here. How are the natives in your area? Are there many? What is the relationship between you and the natives? In addition, are there other villages that have migrated from the land near here? Don't be afraid.

, To be honest, if you can tell the truth, not only will I not harm you, but I will also give you generous gifts!"

After hearing this, the old man did not dare to hide anything from Xiaotian, because he knew that the pirates he encountered today were so powerful that they could not resist them. As long as they annoyed each other, these pirates could easily kill them in Caojia Village if they turned against them.

It would be as easy to crush their whole village to death as crushing a group of ants.

So the old man answered the question truthfully and told Yu Xiaotian everything he knew.

It turns out that this place is not very peaceful. There are many native tribes in their area. The large tribes have about two to three hundred people, and the small tribes have dozens of people. These natives are not good at farming, but they are expert hunters. For them

These outsiders are not friendly.

Generally speaking, the natives do not harass these villages that have immigrated from the mainland, but sometimes there are some conflicts, especially during hunting. In order to obtain more meat, immigrants will also hunt, sometimes because hunting will

A conflict occurs.

Both sides had killed each other's people, so they became enemies. The natives liked the food grown by the immigrants, and also liked the immigrants' cloth and ironware, so they would occasionally come to rob and rob the immigrants. In order to protect their own

The fruits of labor will naturally not work, but will fight against them.

Therefore, it is impossible to live here without building a village wall. In the past few years, the people of Caojia Village have continued to build a village wall and surrounded the entire village, basically ensuring the safety of their own family, except

In addition to resisting attacks from local natives, they sometimes also faced attacks from passing pirates.

However, the pirates also know that it is not easy for them to attack such a small immigrant village with little oil and water and a village with a wall. Therefore, relying on this wall, they often encounter pirates and are harassed.

Produce some local goods and send them away for future pirates.

If Yu Xiaotian hadn't taken the stance of attacking the stronghold today, Caojiacun would have wanted to use the old method to send them away.

In addition, according to the old man, there are indeed some villages where immigrants from the mainland have settled in some places in the surrounding areas. He knows that there are at least a dozen villages like them within a radius of a hundred miles, and the larger ones are larger.

There are probably more than 200 people in the village, and smaller villages have only a few dozen people.

Sometimes a village close to the river more than 20 miles away from the mouth of the Tamsui River becomes a commodity distribution center for the surrounding villages. Occasionally, small businessmen on land will bring some daily necessities from the land by boat.

For sale, villages in need will go there to exchange local products with them. If there is a lot of local products, they can also be exchanged for money or silver.

Although there are a lot of mosquitoes here and there are diseases from time to time, because this is an ownerless land, the land is yours and no one is exploiting them. In addition, there is relatively sufficient rain here and the land is very fertile, so life is quite peaceful.

It's better than on land.

So they would rather endure the mosquito infestation here than go back to land.

After listening to the old man's words, Yu Xiaotian nodded, and then asked the old man: "By the way, old man, since you have been here for so long, can you draw a map? Can you give me one? I am willing.

Bought it with a lot of money!”

The old man shook his head like a rattle: "No, no! Please forgive me, my dear fellow! There are so many illiterate people in the little old man's village, how could they draw any map! That's something only scholars understand, we people

, I usually remember the road in my mind, if you guys let us show you the way, that would be fine, but if you want a map, I really don’t have one!"

Yu Xiaotian saw that the old man didn't seem to be telling lies, so he had to give up. After thinking about it, he turned around and gave orders, and sent someone to the ship to get twenty pieces of linen cloth, ten pieces of cheesecloth, ten kilograms of tea, and another piece of tea.

Ten axes, ten machetes, three saws, and five hammers came, as well as two iron pots and some daily porcelain, which were placed in front of the old man.

(Fever diary, today is the 16th day of continuous low-grade fever. Yesterday, I had a CT scan of the lungs, and no problem was found! But the blood count was very high, so I stopped taking medicine and switched to water infusion! I hope the fever will go away soon, otherwise I will be feeling confused every day!

I can’t even code the words!)