Daming pirates

"Why is this? Why can he do it but I, Chu, can't?" Chu Cailao didn't think deeply for a while and asked Ma Xiang directly.

Ma Xiang glanced at the middle-aged man wearing a scholar's shirt next to him and said with a smile: "You might as well let Master Zhou explain this to the master!"

At this time, in the big tent, in addition to the two beautiful young women kneeling on the ground to serve Mr. Chu Cai, there was also a scribe-like man wearing a scribe's shirt and three strands of short beard sitting aside, listening to Chu Cai's speech.

The conversation between Cai Lao and Ma Xiang.

This person's surname is Zhou, and he is the master of Mr. Chu Cai. He can be said to be Mr. Chu Cai's full-time staff member. With such a big business like Mr. Chu Cai, it is natural that such a person is indispensable. He and Ma Xiang are among the old Chu Cai Group.

Their status among them is relatively high, and they are highly regarded by Mr. Chu Cai.

Ma Xiang was smart enough not to steal Master Zhou's job. When Mr. Chu Cai asked him why, he gave up the conversation to Master Zhou.

Master Zhou smiled slightly, showing a rather sophisticated look. He coughed slightly and nodded with satisfaction to Ma Xiang before clasping his fists and saying to Mr. Chu Cai: "Master, this is actually simple! Anyone named Yu can do it."

It can be done, but the big boss may not be able to do it! The reason is that the Sea Wolf Gang named Yu is very different from us, and there is no talk of the Sea Wolf Gang members taking shares!

To put it bluntly, everyone in the Sea Wolf Gang is directly under the command of Yu! Including their ships, they all take orders from Yu!

Among those named Yu, one person has the final say in the Sea Wolf Gang, and there is no division of their income!

But we are different. We are owned by shopkeepers, big and small. Although these shopkeepers obey the orders of the boss, they usually act independently.

If the boss wants to seize the waterway and imitate the person named Yu who collects money to buy the way, how should the money collected be divided? And once the money is collected, can passing ships be robbed? If not, what will happen to the shopkeepers below?

And what should their men do?

Is it possible that they don’t have to do anything in the future and just wait to get paid? In that case, who would be willing to support so many subordinates? It won’t take long for these shopkeepers to disperse their subordinates!

So the person named Yu can do this, but as the big shopkeeper, I’m afraid you can’t do it! Once you do it, not only will you not make any money, I’m afraid the shopkeeper below will start making a fuss first!”

As soon as Mr. Zhou said this, Mr. Chu Cai immediately understood the reason. According to what he said, he really couldn't imitate Yu's method of buying road money. Otherwise, if he just divided the spoils, I'm afraid his subordinates

Just break his head first. By then, he, a big shopkeeper, may no longer be a big shopkeeper.

So Mr. Chu Cai smiled bitterly, shook his head and said: "That makes sense! It seems that I really can't learn this thing about collecting toll money! Haha!

So Master Zhou and Ma Xiang, look at you two, how should we deal with this person named Yu this time?"

Ma Xiang looked at Master Zhou, clasped his fists at Master Zhou, and asked Master Zhou to speak, so the guy surnamed Zhou shook his head and stood up. He also imitated Chu Cai and walked back and forth in the tent twice before turning around and facing him.

Mr. Chu Cai said: "It is definitely not the best idea to go out in full force to Nanyue Island to find Yu Hailang and question him!

Nowadays, we know very little about Yu’s strength, but we do know that Yu has that kind of ghost ship in his hand! Although none of us have seen that kind of ghost ship, my subordinates have seen that kind of ghost ship.

As my brother said, I actually drew a sketch of a ghost ship!"

After saying this, Mr. Zhou turned around and fetched a piece of paper. He asked someone to carry it to a table and spread the paper on the table. Chu Cailao and Ma Xiang both walked towards the table and looked towards the table.

Looking at this picture.

Not to mention, this man named Zhou really has two brushes and actually has some painting skills. He used the brush to roughly outline the shape of a ship that looked a bit like a sloop.

The characteristics of the type of ship are drawn, but overall there are still big deviations.

As the big shopkeeper, Chu Cai Lao usually does not personally take risks to lead ships to hijack ships, so he has no chance to see such a ghost ship.

Now, although he has heard a lot of descriptions about the shape of ghost ships from his subordinates, he doesn't quite understand what such ghost ships look like.

Now when Master Zhou took out this picture, he could see the general appearance of this ghost ship more intuitively, so he immediately lowered his head and began to look at the picture carefully.

"Master, please take a look. This boat is the outline of a ghost ship that my subordinates drew based on what the brothers below said!

This kind of boat has a long and narrow hull, so it will definitely run faster, and they have soft sails, which are quite similar to the fast boats used by the Westerners!

Moreover, except for a stern, this kind of ship has a straight hull and a pointed bow. The strange thing is that they only have one mast, but they can hang two sails in the front and rear. This has never been seen on other Thai fast boats before!

But it can be seen that this kind of ghost ship must run very fast. It is said that once the sea wind is light, the stern of the ship can also put down three large oars, and it can still sail by manually rocking the oars. This is a bit like a double canopy.

boat and the smaller Guangzhou boat!

In addition, according to our brothers who have fought against these ghost ships below, these ghost ships are equipped with a lot of cannons. These cannons can fire far, very accurately, and are very powerful. If our ship encounters them,

, instead of fighting against each other, it is very disadvantageous, and the opponent is often beaten to the point of being unable to parry before even getting close.

It is said that someone has seen the cannon on their ship, and it looks very much like a small Hongyi cannon. If this is the case, things may not be simple!

We don't know where the Sea Wolf got these red cannons at the moment. Although some artillery fields in Guangdong can imitate the Franji people's red cannons, they are all ordered by the government and are difficult for ordinary people to obtain.

Therefore, my subordinates suspected that Yu Hailang might have obtained these cannons from the Taixi people, but did they obtain these red barbarian cannons from the Franji people, the Ganrasi people, or the Helan people?

No way of knowing where it was obtained!

What my subordinates are most worried about now is whether they have a large number of red barbarian cannons. If there are many red barbarian cannons like them, things will be very troublesome! The cannons on our ships will probably suffer a lot if they fire against them! ...

"

Master Zhou shook his head and pretended to be an expert. He commented on the capabilities of this sloop and speculated on the origin of Sea Wolf's cannon. He talked eloquently.

Chu Cailao nodded while listening, his brows gradually wrinkled, his mood obviously became bad, and he unknowingly stopped playing with the Hotan Jade Pixiu in his hand.

"By the way, Master Zhou! From what I can see, this kind of ghost ship is not a common ship type in our Ming Dynasty. We are all aware of the ships built by the shipyards in Fujian, Guangxi, Zhejiang and South Zhili along the coast of the Ming Dynasty.

They are nothing more than some lucky ships, sand ships, bird ships, Guangzhou ships, etc., but I have never seen such a ship type built anywhere. The sails and hull shape of this ship are similar to the ships used by the Westerners.

Quite similar, but different!

As far as I know, our Ming Dynasty shipbuilders will not build such a ship type. When you said this just now, I thought that maybe these ghost ships were also purchased from the Taixi people by the surname Yu.

Even the Hongyi cannons on the ship were probably purchased along with the ship!

The Taixi people made their fortune from boats. Although they did business with the Ming Dynasty, I rarely heard that they would easily sell their ships. At most, they were willing to sell some cannons and firecrackers. How did this surname Yu get to know the Taixi people and let the Taixi people sell them?

Where is the boat for him?"

Ma Xiang, who had been silent just now, couldn't help but speak after Master Zhou finished speaking.

Master Zhou also frowned and shook his head: "I have no way of knowing this! But it is very possible that these ghost ships named Yu that Brother Ma said were purchased from the Taixi people. As for who sold them to them

, it’s probably difficult for us to find out!”

Chu Cailao frowned and turned away from the table, wandering around in the big tent again, frowning and said: "The most difficult thing is that we have no way of knowing how many such ghost ships this Yu has in his possession.

, these boats are really difficult to deal with, but the others are easier to deal with!

In addition, we currently don’t know how many Hongyi cannons Yu has in hand. If they don’t have many Hongyi cannons, it would be easier. After all, it’s not impossible to get this thing, and it’s not like we don’t have it. It’s just that right now

I only have seven gates in my hand, if there are too many of them, we will probably suffer a big loss if we kill them like this!"

"Master, we can't be too anxious about this matter. Since we are determined to deal with that person named Yu, we must know ourselves and the enemy so that we can win the battle!

From the subordinates' point of view, we can first inquire more about Yu's strength, and wait until we find out his strength before making a decision. If Yu's strength is limited, then the boss can gather all the shopkeepers.

With their own hands, they directly killed Ben Nanyue Island and killed the man surnamed Yu in one fell swoop.

But if the person named Yu is too strong, we have to make other plans!

My subordinates have an idea. Since all the rumors have pointed to the person named Yu now, and it is estimated that the person named Yu can't be relied on, we might as well send someone to find him first and ask him why he did this.

!

The boss can make him compensate for our losses. If Yu is not strong enough, he will probably give in. At that time, we can make him pay first and then wipe him out in one fell swoop.

But if that guy wants to renege on the debt or refuses to give in, we can take the opportunity to explore his truth first and then talk to him!" The master named Zhou saw the hesitation in Mr. Chu Cai's heart, so he shook his head and told Mr. Chu Cai

Come up with an idea.

After hearing this, Mr. Chu Cai nodded and said: "Master Zhou's words are reasonable. If it is feasible, it would be safer to do so! We can't rush out to find trouble with him now, but we can talk to him first and let him

He will give me an explanation first!

In addition, I have to think more recently about the strength of Sea Wolf. It is best to find out how many ships and manpower he currently has. The most important thing is to find out how many ghost ships and red barbarians he currently has.

Cannon, it’s not too late to wait until these things are clarified!..."

(Tragedy! I didn’t get a monthly pass in the two updates yesterday! I’m dizzy! But I have to thank three brothers of I Am a Wolf, Eagle Warrior, and Winter Solstice 1979 for their rewards! May I ask, does any brother still have a monthly pass in his hand?

Thank you! Keep it!)