According to Pan Xuezhong's estimate, it will take about twelve days to repair all the warships. This was after Raphael had already brought people to repair them. Although it was a bit long, Li Mingxun thought it was worth it for a Manila sailing ship with a displacement of more than 1,500 tons.

Unlike the casual and energetic Jack-style pirates in the movie, the group of pirates Li Mingxun saw were thin, sick, and even some of them couldn't even walk steadily. These pirates once made a living in the Caribbean area, but because of the challenge to Raphael's cruise ship, Ester, became a record in Ester.

Because Coquila asked the New Spanish Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor to support craftsmen and used the Chinese craftsmen to continue to make Manila sailboats after they left, the New Spanish Governor selected a group of prisoners, so the group of Caribbean pirates followed the sailboats to the east.

"His honorable commander of the East, I was once the captain of the privateer of Mary Rose, Pilon, and the leader elected by these people. I would like to express my respect and gratitude to you on behalf of everyone." Pilon took off his triangle hat and bowed to salute.

"Oh, privateer, who have you served for and which country did you come from?" Li Mingxun asked with a smile on Pi Long's glass of tequila.

Piron drank wine and said, "I am from France, and most of the sailors on my Mary Rose are from England, but our privateer is issued by the Dutch West India Company, looting the Spaniards and the Portuguese."

Lee Mingxun nodded slightly, and understood a little. He asked, "Well, Captain Pilong, I appreciate your courage to attack the evil and tyrannical Spaniards, especially the brave climbing of the bulwarks of the Garen ship, which is rare, but now you have fallen into my hands, and you represent all the pirates of the Caribbean, what do you want?"

Piron said: "I hope you don't sell us as slaves. We are all good craftsmen and are best at repairing ships. You know, pirates don't have their own docks, and we are used to repairing ships in such a simple situation."

Lee Myung-hoon did not deny this, Piron continued: "If possible, we hope you can hand us over to His Excellency Captain David, and we want to return to the Caribbean through the British East India Company relationship."

"The tickets to Europe are very expensive. Do you have money?" asked Lee Myung-hoon.

Piron shook his head in embarrassment: "In fact, we hope that after you have your permission, we will discuss with His Excellency David. I think this is possible. You give us work, whether it is a boat repair or a sailor, we will redeem ourselves with our work. After we have gained freedom, we will go to His Excellency David, and work for him and get a ticket to Europe."

"It's a fair idea, but it will take at least three years, or even five years." Li Mingxun interrupted.

Pi Long lowered his head helplessly and said, "This is the best way I can think of." Suddenly he raised his head and saw a playful smile on Li Mingxun's face. He asked, "Your Excellency, do you have a better way?"

Lee Mingxun nodded and shouted a few words to the guards beside him. Soon after, Galid walked over. Lee Mingxun asked the two to sit down, spread a chart, and said, "This is the Philippine, the Spanish territory. You were once pirates or navigators. I can issue you a private license and support your ships and artillery. You can rob Spaniards of ships in this sea area and go to these two ports: Hong Kong and Budai Port for sale. This is my port. What is this proposal?"

Pilong immediately became interested, and Li Mingxun said: "This is Galid, a prince of a small country in the Philippines, an excellent soldier. He is very familiar with the Philippine Sea and the Spanish in the Philippine Governor's District. You can cooperate completely."

"It's no problem, but I'm looking forward to the ships, artillery and share you support." Piron said.

Li Mingxun thought for a while, pointed to the two ships parked on the coast and said, "That large notice ship is the Phoebe, the robbery ship I captured in the Samar Island area. It has eight four-pound cannons and six circumference guns. The Java ship is in good condition. I can install several circumference guns for it. Of course, the mezzanine guns, sailor swords and everything needed for robbery can support you. A total of 12,000 taels of silver is worth ten thousand taels of silver. Before you pay it back, our profit distribution is 55% if you pay it back. If you pay it back, you will give me 10% according to the proportion given by the Europeans. How about it?"

"Thank you for your generosity!" Pilong stood up excitedly.

Lee Mingxun waved his hand and said, "At present, my community is in a state of cooperation with the Dutch and has not started a war with the Portuguese, so your plunder can only be in the East Indies, and you cannot enter the coast of Ming, and you can only hijack the Spaniards and vassals, and you cannot cause trouble for me."

"This will greatly affect the rate of return." Piron reminded.

Li Mingxun shook his head: "No, the Spanish have hundreds of thousands of vassals in the Philippines. If you catch them, they can be slaves and sell them to me. This alone is enough for you to make a lot of money. In addition, Captain Pilong, what do you think of my warship?"

"Very good. Your heavy gunboat is powerful and powerful, and your schooner is elegant and fast. They are all good ships. Will you also support them?" Pilong said with some whimsical thoughts.

Lee Mingxun waved his hand: "Of course not, but I can promise you that if you don't break my rules, I can release the right to buy a community ship to you in the future, informing you of ships, frigates and even cruise ships, Pilong, maybe one day, you can lead a fleet of your own back to the Caribbean to find the Spanish to take revenge."

Piron thought about it, pulled Galeid, and the two communicated in Spanish. Soon, the two reached an agreement. Galeid said: "Your Excellency, we lack people. Piron and I have only seventy-five people in total. Of course, this is enough to control a schooner and a horn-bluffing ship, but the pirate ship needs more people."

"What do you want to do?" Li Mingxun asked.

"I want to recruit a group of your captives, and of course I pay for it," Galid said.

Li Mingxun thought for a while: "Yes, I will give you the authority of fifty people, but there is one thing that craftsmen are not within this range. As for the other supplies you need, whether it is weapons, food, or rum that you haven't drunk for a long time, please do whatever you want. Here is what you can do. You can get some exercise during this period, and we will return together in twelve days."

In the afternoon of the same day, Li Mingxun handed over the large notice ship of Phoebe, a Javanese ship and fifty Spanish captives who were willing to join the pirate gang to Piron and Galeid. Piron became the captain, and the ship was also renamed the Mary Rose. Piron also served as the commander of the pirate fleet. Galeid, as the deputy commander, served as the captain of the Javanese ship, and the ship was renamed the Revenge Galeid.

During the handover process, David also joined on behalf of the British East India Company and issued a privateing permit to the pirate fleet. The pirates added a Banten as a place to sell the stolen goods. Of course, David fully supported Lee Myung-hoon's distribution of profits to the pirate fleet.

"Taylor, my close friend, today I finally got to know why our Eastern friends can establish such a great power in just a few years." David suddenly said with emotion as he watched the pirate fleet sailing to the outer sea.

"Why?" Taylor asked.

David said: "He has a talent that he obviously takes advantage of you, but he makes you praise him. For example, this Mary Rose originally had two extraordinary bronze cannons in eight four-pound cannons, but our friend replaced it with six-pound cast iron cannons on a sailboat, not only earning a small amount, but also making the pirates thank him for strengthening their firepower."

Taylor shook his head without comment, he felt that it was not that simple.

In fact, it proved that there is no more professional pirate in this world than the pirates of the Caribbean. These guys were very dedicated. After just a simple running-in, they immediately went out to fight and attacked and assisted Spanish logging and provided early warning information. In just seven days, they destroyed a tribe and captured more than 400 male and female pirates for the club. The pirates were indeed good at repairing ships in a simple environment. With their assistance, Pan Xuezhong's work went smoothly.

On May 27, the fleet officially returned.

Because the return journey was smooth, the fleet arrived near Samar Island in only six days. Because of the Ester's escape, Li Mingxun was always worried about being intercepted by the enemy, so he had a battle formation in two days before the Philippines. However, today, the main fleet now has four heavy gunboats and one large sailboat, and more than a dozen other warships cooperated. Unless he encountered the main fleet of the Philippine Governor's District, Li Mingxun was completely sure to break through the obstacle.

The expected obstacle did not appear, but the Spanish fortress on Samar Island had martial law. Li Mingxun did not approach it rashly, but found the uninhabited island and captured the women on the island as a reward for soldiers and sailors in this battle. The soldiers who received women were very excited, and naturally others also had rewards. According to the rules of the society, one-fifth of the enemy ships captured by the fleet, including the warship itself, was the reward for the officers and soldiers on the ship. In this battle, in addition to the 120,000 taels of taxes distributed to David, the cost of repairing the ship and replenishing the supply, the total income was worth 1.35 million, which means that the officers and soldiers of the fleet could get 270,000 taels of silver.

In the waters of Samar, Li Mingxun released several seriously injured Spanish prisoners and asked him to send two letters to the Philippine Governor Coquela, one of which was a declaration of war and the other was a negotiation.

In the declaration of war, Li Mingxun listed the exploitation and massacre of the Chinese by the Spanish on Luzon Island, and declared war on Spain on behalf of all Chinese in the name of Tenglong Trading Company. In the negotiations, Li Mingxun mentioned the disposal of Spanish prisoners and asked Coquela to bring a lot of money to redeem the prisoners.

This time, a total of 860 Spanish prisoners were captured, and Li Mingxun priced them more than 300,000 taels of silver. At the end, Li Mingxun told Koquera without any vagueness that the main heavy gunboat of the club was the former San Juan, and many of the Spanish captured two years ago were still working as coolies in prison camps.

Today's clubs are also replaced with bird guns, including three main battleships of heavy artillery, the White Shark, the Tiger Shark, and the Shark, as well as a large frigate and notification fleet. Although the Manila sailboat was eventually transformed into a heavy armed transport ship and renamed the Blue Whale, the British East India Company will soon send a large number of eighteen-pound cannons. When the Blue Whale is armed, it will be another heavy artillery boat. As the East India Company's flagship in the East, Adventure will also be stationed in Budai Port in the future. In dealing with the Spaniards, the club and the Dutch, and the British have found common interests.

Although the club with five main battleships is still not an opponent of the Spaniards in absolute strength, the Spaniards' biggest enemy is the Dutch who snatched the Spice Islands, and is always facing the land attack and pirate invasion of the Sulu people on Mindanao. It is basically impossible to draw a main fleet to attack north. What's more, Li Mingxun has trained two good opponents for the Spaniards.

After leaving the dangerous coast of the Philippines, the two notification ships left the formation and sailed at full speed, conveying the news of the victory of the main fleet back to the base camp and Hong Kong. So when Lee Myung-hoon returned to Budai Port, he received a cross-channel welcome from tens of thousands of people.

After landing, Li Mingxun rode an Andalusian horse in the middle of the street, and behind him were two guards, holding the captured Spanish flags, and the flags and family flags. The only one raised high was the black-bottom golden dragon flag of the community. The people on both sides, whether soldiers, citizens or slaves, cheered loudly. Li Mingxun enjoyed the cheers of the people and stopped the team in the central square of the port.

The climax of the celebration took place in the Central Square. In front of everyone, Li Mingxun hung forty-two Spanish officers and soldiers. On the way back, he had already interrogated and found out that these people were involved in the massacre in Manila.
Chapter completed!