Daming pirates

Before dawn the next day, all the goods provided by the Li family for Yu Xiaotian and the others were loaded on the ship. Yu Xiaotian also returned to the ship with the goods. Without waiting for daylight, they set sail again and left the ship.

Lian Island.

Looking at the white fish belly gradually appearing on the horizon, and the sea breeze blowing the black scarf on Yu Xiaotian's head, Zhao Mazi walked behind Yu Xiaotian, coughed lightly and said: "Master, the sixth man asked me to come over and ask, what are we doing now?"

Should we go back to Treasure Island or go somewhere else!"

Yu Xiaotian took advantage of the little time before dawn to stand on the bow of the ship and enjoy the fresh sea breeze. He was standing on the bow of the ship and thinking about things secretly. When he heard Zhao Mazi's words, he turned around and walked to the stern of the ship, facing the teacher Liu.

Liu Laoliu, who was at the helm of Wang, said: "Let's go north to the mouth of Aojiang River!"

Zhao Mazi and Liu Laoliu were both startled and asked quickly: "Going to Aojiangkou?"

"Yes! We are going to Aojiangkou!" Yu Xiaotian nodded and replied affirmatively.

"Master, you drank too much last night! How can we go to the mouth of Aojiang River? You know there are officers and soldiers stationed there, and there is also a water village. If we go there, aren't we asking for trouble?" Zhao Mazi said

As soon as he heard this, he became anxious and said quickly.

Liu Laoliu also frowned. Although he did not object, he still showed a look of incomprehension.

Yu Xiaotian nodded and said: "Do you think I've had too much to drink? That's right! There are indeed officers and soldiers stationed at the Aojiang estuary, and there is also a water village, but we still have to go somewhere!"

Zhao Mazi didn't understand. He frowned and asked in a low voice: "Why did the master suddenly think of going to Aojiangkou? It's not to do something!"

Yu Xiaotian took two people to sit at the stern of the boat and whispered to them: "You two went down to rest early last night, and Manager Li and I chatted in the hall for a while longer!

Manager Li told me that there is Dongping Village north of Aojiang Estuary. Recently, the Lianjiang County Yamen arrested a group of unscrupulous people who were looting grain stores in the county and sent them to Dongping Village to build roads! In addition, there are several blacksmiths in Dongping Village.

The shop is quite famous in the Lianjiang area. Now I think about it carefully. We are too short of manpower. We can't do many big things with just our few manpower! So I am going to Dongping Village to recruit some manpower!

We can’t put off this matter any longer! So we took advantage of this opportunity when we came to Da Lian Island to take care of this matter!"

Hearing Yu Xiaotian say that the two of them had rested early last night, Zhao Mazi and Liu Laoliu's old faces turned red. After the two old guys had a good meal last night, they saw Yu Xiaotian and Manager Li getting along.

The conversation was very lively, so they all used the excuse of being too drunk to go to bed. They said they were going to sleep, but in fact they were going to the two women who had been arranged by Manager Li to accompany them. If Yu Xiaotian hadn't called them in the morning

If so, the two of them couldn't bear to get up at all. Up to now, both of them were still yawning, which showed that they didn't sleep well last night, so the two old guys were a little ashamed of it.

"But I heard that there is a water village of Fuzhou officers and soldiers at the mouth of Aojiang River, and officers and soldiers are stationed in Dinghai City. Where can we go? What if we encounter a government patrol boat?" Liu Laoliu finally couldn't bear it at this time.

asked.

Yu Xiaotian nodded and said: "You don't have to worry about this. Let's go to Aojiangkou this time. We will go there after dark and finish our work before dawn! Manager Li said that the government patrol boats will not come out at night, and Aojiangkou Village

There are only two or three boats at the moment. Although Dinghai City is a place with a thousand households and is responsible for guarding the Aojiang estuary, there are currently less than 200 officers and soldiers. They can protect themselves, but they have no courage to go out of the city overnight to chase us!

So you don’t have to worry. The Li family has often picked up and unloaded goods in the Aojiang Estuary area in the past few years, and is very familiar with the situation there. Although the Li family stated that they would not help us, they did not hide anything from me in this regard!

I think Manager Li told me these things. They just want to see if we have the courage. If we don’t dare to go, we will be underestimated by them! So it is worth taking a risk this time! We can’t let the Li family see it.

Defeat us!"

After listening to this, Liu Laoliu thought for a while and nodded: "That's true. If we leave after dark and before dawn, the government will not be able to do anything to us! I have been to that area and I know the situation on the water fairly well.

, it’s okay to be careful!”

When Zhao Mazi heard this, although he was still a little worried, he couldn't say anything more, so he went to wake up Crazy Meng who was still snoring and told Crazy Meng about Yu Xiaotian's decision.

Crazy Meng became excited when he heard this. This old guy was a man who was afraid of chaos in the world. He was bold and did things regardless of the consequences. When he heard that he was going to Aojiangkou, he became happy. The weirdo who was gearing up laughed and agreed repeatedly, as if

He was afraid that Yu Xiaotian would change his mind again.

After dawn, the ships turned north and took advantage of the wind. Even if they encountered individual merchant ships or fishing boats along the way, they did not rob them, nor did they raise their sea wolf flag. Instead, they disguised themselves as a merchant ship.

Then he headed towards the Aojiang estuary in a grand manner.

There was an episode on the way. They unexpectedly ran into a small pirate ship. The pirates used a single-masted fishing boat. There were only a dozen people in total. After seeing Yu Xiaotian's ship, they immediately followed it.

, seems to want to harm Xiaotian and their ship.

But when they saw clearly the group of people on Yu Xiaotian's boat, they immediately turned the bow and fled away without saying a word. If their boat hadn't been a little faster, Yu Xiaotian would have almost given the order to kill them.

Get rid of them.

As a result, everyone on the boat couldn't help but burst into laughter when they looked at the embarrassingly escaping boat. The aggrieved feeling of being bullied by Zhang Hu's men before suddenly disappeared.

This made Yu Xiaotian sigh, this is the law of survival in the sea, the strong is king, a world where the big fish eats the small fish. If you don't have the strength, don't talk about anything. Only when you have someone with a boat and a guy can you go sideways.

Let’s go! This further strengthened his determination to go to Dongping Village to fight.

Because it was a tailwind, and they were walking almost in a straight line, heading straight to the Aojiang estuary without making any stops along the way, they walked very fast. They passed the Minjiang estuary after noon, and before it got dark, they

We basically arrived at the sea surface of Aojiang estuary, where we could see a small number of fishing boats in the distance, sails being raised and furled on the sea surface. Yu Xiaotian ordered half of the sails to be lowered, slowing down the speed of the boats.

Their appearance did not attract the excessive attention of several fishing boats on the sea. After seeing that they had no ill intentions, these fishing boats continued to go about their business. After collecting them, before dark, there were only a few fishing boats on the sea.

They all started to drive towards the shore.

"Uncle Liu, do you know where Dongping Village is?" Yu Xiaotian looked at the setting sun and asked Liu Laoliu.

After Liu Laoliu carefully looked at the north shore, he shook his head and said: "I'm not sure, but didn't you say it today? Isn't Dongping Village about five miles west of Dinghai City? Of course I am in Dinghai City.

You know, as long as it gets dark, look at the lights on the walls of Dinghai City, and walk west along the coast, you can find Dongping Village!"

Yu Xiaotian felt relieved now. He was coming to Dongping Village today. What he was most worried about was not that he wouldn't be able to get things done, but that he wouldn't be able to find a place after dark. Besides, Dongping Village was too close to the Dinghai Guardian Thousand Household Castle.

It is impossible not to worry at all.

Although he often followed Liu Laoliu to learn how to read the sky during this period, this profession cannot be learned in a short time. At most, he can roughly distinguish the southeast from the northwest at night. As for finding the channel at night, ensuring the safety of the ship

He is far from mastering the ability to not yaw, or to put it bluntly, what he cannot do without right now is Liu Laoliu, the old sea wolf. Having such a treasure is the foundation for his activities at sea.

As the sky gradually darkened, Yu Xiaotian once again ordered the sails to be raised, and ordered that no lanterns be raised on the ship to avoid being discovered from a distance. They then relied on Liu Laoliu to watch the sky at night to control the course.

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Liu Laoliu squinted on the boat for a while during the day. Now he felt much better. With full energy, he directed everyone on the boat to adjust the sails and sail slowly towards the north bank of Aojiang Estuary.

Gradually, in the darkness of the night, everyone saw a point on the coast from a distance, with a wisp of lights appearing. After getting closer, they could see a row of lanterns forming a line, and they concluded that that was Dinghai City.

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In fact, Dinghai City was not called Dinghai City before, but was called Tingjiao Guards House Thousand Households. It was one of the Five Guards and Twelve Thousand Households built by the Ming Dynasty in Fujian during the Hongwu period. It was officially established in Ao

It is an important place outside the Jiangkou to defend Fuzhou. In the early years, this was the main place to defend against Japanese invasion. Officers and soldiers were stationed here all year round. At the most, it was said that there were more than 2,000 officers and soldiers stationed here.

But by this time, Japanese invasion was no longer a threat to the Ming Dynasty, and the number of officers and soldiers stationed here became smaller and smaller, so that now there are only more than 200 people left.

If this were not the case, even if Yu Xiaotian had the courage to cover himself, he would not dare to bring more than twenty people here to look for trouble.

The reason why he dared to come was firstly because he was eager to expand his strength, and secondly because the Li family told him the details of this area. Although there were officers and soldiers stationed in Dinghai City, the military strength of the south had been weakened over the years, and the Qi family army who was the most capable in the early years was defeated.

After being transferred to Liaodong, other officers and soldiers, especially those from military households, were completely ruined. Otherwise, there would not have been the famous fifty-three Japanese pirates in history who roamed for more than a thousand miles in the Ming Dynasty and plundered more than twenty people.

Prefectures and counties, things that are approaching the city of Nanjing.

Now he asked himself that the more than 20 people under his command were definitely not as powerful as the more than 50 Japanese pirates at that time, but he also believed that the officers and soldiers in Fujian were not much stronger at this time, otherwise he would not dare to take risks easily.

, bring people here to do things.

With Dinghai City as their beacon, it would be much easier to find Dongping Village. Liu Laoliu sailed the boat all the way west along the coast. After half an hour of careful sailing, he left Dinghai City behind and gradually

It was close to the coast.

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