Li Mingxun frowned slightly. Although Yan Yingyuan was just a clerk, he was a righteous person. If a trouble broke out, there would be trouble. He was thinking about whether he could find a way to solve it once and for all, but Qian Jin said: "Don't come forward, otherwise it will be easy for trouble."

This is true. The Jiangyin County Magistrate has already paid money to deal with it. In that guy's eyes, he took away a group of beggars and refugees, which is considered to have helped the county government handle the unstable factors. Li Mingxun asked: "Qian Jin, can you deal with it?"

Qian Jin smirked and said, "I can't do it either, but I have a good idea."

Yan Yingyuan rushed to the boat shop, and thousands of people gathered here, and the crowd was like a tide. When he heard the news in the afternoon, he was coming. Although Li Mingxun was recruiting workers in the name of recruiting boat workers to open the boat shop, the number was too large. Yan Yingyuan dared not entrust thousands of people to a merchant of unknown origin.

Since the Jiajing Dynasty, the southeast coast has been repeatedly violated. The illegal people from Taixi have forced or deceived them, causing many people to leave their hometowns and go to Nanyang to build bunkers and work hard labor. Many people never come back. Although Li Mingxun looks kinder than those red-haired and black-haired, how could Yan Yingyuan dare to take risks with thousands of people?

"Oh, isn't this Lord Dianshi?" Yan Yingyuan was trying to squeeze in, but was recognized by a woman.

Everyone around him looked over and the woman asked, "What are Lord Dianshi here? No one stole it, and there was no fight?"

Yan Yingyuan Long said in a voice: "After I heard from me, the road to Southeast Asia has always been difficult and dangerous..."

As soon as he said the words he had prepared, they were stopped by the woman. The woman shouted: "So what they said is true, but you don't give us a way out!"

"You...what do you mean?" Yan Yingyuan asked in surprise without knowing where this sentence came from.

The woman said, "You officials want to build ships and slap them randomly, which caused more than 20 shipyards along the river to be destroyed. We have no livelihoods. It would be fine if you cut off our way to live. Now, there are finally great charity people who want to support us and give us money and food, but you come out to obstruct us. Do you have to watch us starve to death in the land temple?"

This instantly attracted countless echoes, and thousands of people's insults and rebukes directly overwhelmed Yan Yingyuan. The scolding quickly turned into pushing. Before the angry village woman took action, several officers took Yan Yingyuan out of the ignorant.

"What's wrong with this world? I'm obviously for them... Why is it like this?" Yan Yingyuan's body fluctuated up and down with the bumps of the horse, but his heart didn't know where he had already flew to.

At the estuary of the Yangtze River, the Golden Oak merchant ship.

Captain David poured all the wine in the silver cup into his mouth. This was the last glass of wine on the boat. The only thing that bloomed in his mouth was bitter but not fragrant.

Looking at the Burmese gems inlaid on the silver cup, David slammed the wine glass hard on the table and said angrily: "Damn Ming people, liars, cowards, damn monkeys, and depraved nobles without honor!"

David was thirty-five years old. As the son of a declining baron, he became the captain at the age of eighteen. During his more than ten years of sailing, his footprints remained in America, Caribbean islands, Africa, the swords and axes of barbarians, Indians' blowings, and the spears of African tribes did not leave him fatal scars. The ships he experienced had never been shipwrecked, so they were called good luck David. However, in terms of money, David had always been lucky, and the money he earned was just paying off the debt left by his father.

Four years ago, David finally decided to go out to sea before he was old and save some savings for himself. Therefore, he became an employee of the British East India Company and came to India. However, after four years, life was filled with fierce battles and boring sailings, but there were no expected gold coins. This was David's last year. He decided to take a gamble on his luck and took the Golden Oak armed merchant ship to the Ming Kingdom of the East.

In the information he received, the Ming Dynasty was in war and it should require a comb and armor, just like the small countries in Myanmar, India and Southeast Asia, but it was unexpected that this country had war resources that were cheaper than weapons, that was human life.

Instead of replacing raw silk and porcelain, David cheated away the public property of the company on board, Ducat's Burmese gem worth two thousand gold. If he couldn't get it back, he would either go to a gallows or would rot in India for the rest of his life.

Two months have spent all David's supplies and cultivation. He pulled out his sword and made up his mind: "It's better to rob one, go south and rob, which should make up for this loss!"

He went north and had two months of dealing with Admiral Cao Jiang's men. David had already learned about the composition of the maritime power of the Ming Dynasty. The lucky ships and sand ships were huge, bloated and clumsy. The occasionally equipped guns were also rags that were eliminated a hundred years ago. As for those small boats, they were vulnerable.

"As long as they don't give them a chance to fight on the sidelines, Jin Oak will be invincible. Even if they can't grab anything, I will kill more!" David thought so.

"His captain, a Ming ship came over. It was the one that drove us a few days ago!" A crew member reported outside.

David smiled coldly: "Then start with you!"

David kicked open the door of the captain's room. Standing next to the side of the ship, he saw Qi Dazhi's hateful face. He was about to lift the musket beside him, but he found that the guy's ship was full of food bags, melons and vegetables, and even pigs and sheep.

"Did the greedy Count of Ming Dynasty ask you to apologize?" David asked in half-baked Chinese.

Qi Dazhi smiled and said, "You have violated the Ming Dynasty's laws by trespassing into the waters of Daming. Our uncle said that those gems are your compensation, so don't think about it. If you make trouble, our admiral yamen will not be so polite anymore."

"This is a gift from a maritime merchant and a letter to you." Qi Dazhi handed David Li Mingxun's handwritten letter.

David opened the envelope and saw it was in a casual English. He read it carefully. In the letter, the businessman named Li Mingxun expressed sympathy for his experience and was willing to trade with him, but the transaction location was set near an island in Zhoushan, and the date was agreed. The Ming officer in front of him not only sent food supplies, but also some samples, including raw silk, silk and tea.

At first, David thought it was a plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain, but even the samples were sent, which was really sincere.

David thought about it and thought that with the more than 300 guns and twenty-four cannons on the Golden Oak, he was not afraid of conspiracy and tricks, and even if he was deceived, he had made up his mind. Anyway, he had made up his mind and once he was not satisfied, he would plunder on the spot and return to Surat.

"Where is this island?" David asked.

Qi Dazhi glanced at him: "You are a foreigner, you don't even know Shuangyu Port?"

David suddenly remembered that when Portugal dominated the Asian sea seventy or eighty years ago, Shuangyu was the busiest port in the Chinese Sea. The Portuguese had a shopping mall on it and bought goods to Japan. However, because of the Japanese pirates and pirate Wang Zhi, Shuangyu Port was captured. The Ming army blocked the port with shipwrecks and wood and stones, making the port completely abandoned!

Five days later, Shuangyu.

David stood on the mast of the bow, grabbed the rope with his hand, and stood there quietly, which complemented the sculpture of the goddess of luck at the bow. After entering the nearby waters, David had been like this. He didn't like to blow the cold wind at the bow, but this mysterious sense of ritual could make the sailors on the boat more calm.

Everyone knows that if the captain's deal is not going well, they will declare war on the world's largest country, and they are an opponent of a country that has not won by the Thais.

In the distance, a huge island appeared in the field of view. The waves hit the black reefs and extended to the end of David's vision. The natural port was blocked by rotten masts and stones exposed on the water. You can see the broken walls on the island after passing them. The tall building should be the Portuguese embassy that year. It was already covered with vines. Several large Western-style sculptures were all broken, and the round dome was full of holes.

There must have been a very fierce battle here back then, maybe today too!

"Hisser Captain, there are sea boats there, and they are still placing banners at us. A big boat leaned over!" David, who was thinking, was awakened. Following the crew's fingers, there were seven large ships moored in the distance, five of which were larger than his Golden Oak. They were all Chinese-style cargo ships. Looking at the waterline, they must have loaded a lot of cargo.

"Hmph, if I can't satisfy me, they are my prey!" David whispered.

Li Mingxun boarded the Golden Oak and carefully looked at the Garen-style armed merchant ship. Its size is roughly the same as the Tiger Shark and its structure is almost the same, except that it only has a layer of artillery deck and a large amount of space as a cargo hold. Because it was built according to the standards of the merchant ship, the Golden Oak's displacement is smaller, but it does not prevent the ship from becoming a strong man on the coast of Asia. After all, this is the case with the strongest warship of the Dutch.

When Li Mingxun looked at the Golden Oak, David was also looking at Li Mingxun. He was surprised that the Ming man in front of him was as short as he did, and even more surprised why an oriental man was so tall, which had been six feet (more than one meter eight).

"Are you Lee Mingxun?" David asked first.

Li Mingxun smiled and said in fluent English: "Yes, I am Li Mingxun, the chairman of Tenglong Trading Company, and your most important partner."

"How is your English...so proficient!" David almost shouted. He hadn't heard such a familiar London accent for a long time.

"Talk about business, Your Excellency David, you definitely don't want to return empty-handed." Li Mingxun smiled, not struggling with language issues.

"My boat has fifty thrones of raw silk, silk, tea and porcelain, and you can buy out your entire ship's cargo." Li Mingxun said.

David smiled coldly: "As you said, why don't I just be a pirate? This way I don't have to spend money, I have everything."

As he said, David pointed to the Yongjin and said, "You came down from that boat. I bet that the precious goods are all on it, so even if your fleet flew in a scattered manner, I can still hold a lot of goods, right?"
Chapter completed!