"Why are you still hanging up there? Put everyone down, bad luck!"
When Liu Hongji arrived at the dock early in the morning, the first thing he saw was the corpses of pirates hanging above his head.
Looking at the corpses swaying in the wind, even though he was used to seeing dead people on the battlefield, he felt uncomfortable, so he immediately asked someone to put them down.
"By the way, don't kill the living ones inside. They didn't die all night. Xiao Han must like it if they are so lucky!" Frowning, Liu Hongji shouted angrily.
"Here!"
The general has spoken, although I don’t know why Lord Xiao likes pirates with great fortunes? But the soldiers accompanying Liu Hongji quickly nodded in agreement.
Immediately, a small scout was seen climbing onto the boat with numb hands and feet, preparing to untie the people on top.
However, when the scout came to the mast, he discovered that when the gang of killers tied people up yesterday, they tied them in a mess! There are more than a dozen ropes tied together randomly. How can you tell which one is tied to whom?
"Probably? Is this one?"
Looking at the rope that looked like a mess, the scout hesitated for a moment, then tentatively selected the one that seemed most pleasing to him and pulled it.
Then, the next second.
"Plop..."
"Plop..."
"Ah~~Plop!"
Under the mast, the scout who still kept pulling the rope but had nothing in his hands was stunned, and a big bead of sweat appeared on his bare forehead!
He never thought that the rope he pulled was connected to three or four other ropes at the same time. With his little strength, he couldn't pull so many ropes, so not surprisingly, all the ropes came off!
Of course, if the people tied to those ropes are dead people, then you can take them off. After all, they are all dead, and you are not afraid of dying again!
But the problem is: the one who seems to be alive and well, among the ropes that have escaped his hands, there happens to be another one that is not dead...
Well, it should be said that he was not dead just now, but now...
With a grimace, looking at the guy on the deck who was about to fall into pieces, there was no need to rescue him...
The scout who had a bad start carefully turned around and looked at General Liu who was still standing on the dock. Well, the general had no expression, except that his face seemed a little darker than before.
"Well, this thief's death can only be attributed to his lack of luck. It must be like this! Lord Marquis would not like a thief who is not lucky!" Wiping the sweat on his forehead, the scout's mouth twitched twice, and he quickly turned his head with a guilty conscience. He untied another rope with his skills.
"Plop..."
"Plop..."
Well, we did make progress this time. Although we didn't grab the rope, there were only two muffled sounds around us, and there was no one alive!
"Is that this one?"
"Plop..."
"Ahem, no, that's it!"
"Plop! Plop!"
Finally, after several attempts in succession, a pirate hanging above his head could no longer bear the inhuman torture and cried out on the spot: "Master! Give me a break! You're so damn scary..." "
Rescuing these pirates is not the purpose of Liu Hongji's visit to the pier this time. He came here this time under Xiao Han's entrustment. He is here to urge everyone to work quickly so that the repair of the pier that was destroyed by the fire can be completed. Delaying the rest of his plans.
The big-footed man kicked the idiot scout aside. This time, Lao Liu put a strong man up to rescue him. As expected, the result was much better. At least he didn't turn the living person into a dead one.
In the end, there were about a dozen pirates who were rescued and were still panting. They sent people to give these lucky pirates a bowl of gruel, and then they randomly found a room on the ship and threw it in for training.
Liu Hongji was not afraid of these people escaping. On the ship, there was no other way to escape except jumping into the sea! With the current temperature, diving is basically equivalent to suicide.
The dock restoration work was done quickly!
Xiao Han asked Liu Hongji to supervise, and it turned out that he was right. This guy had a lot of experience in being supervised when he was in Shi'an City...
Therefore, under his supervision, these prisoners were eager to use their energy to feed themselves. In just three days, the entire dock was completely renewed, and even the high walls that had been dug down were repaired. of good.
The pier was repaired, but it was still not open to the public. In the next two days, horse-drawn carriages and ox carts arrived at the pier from time to time pulling goods. At the same time, there were obviously fewer ships moored at the pier!
Of these missing boats, except for some picked up by Ma Laoliu, almost all the rest were bought by merchants in the city.
There is no other way. To supply the pirates with their voyage this time, the things that need to be prepared are definitely not small. From food, to clothing, to medicine, everything requires money!
And Xiao Han didn't have the bad habit of using his own money to contribute to the Tang Dynasty, so it was only right to sell off part of the ships and recycle the funds.
Besides, with so many ships, it’s inconvenient to be stuck here at the dock, isn’t it? After selling some, the space is now empty!
"What a loss, what a loss! They are just a bunch of poor people!"
A week after the siege of Guangzhou, Xiao Han was holding an account book in the Yamen of the Municipal Bureau of Shipping, and he almost chewed it off.
He had thought that pirates were poor, but he didn't expect these guys to be so poor!
After clearly wiping out tens of thousands of pirates, at the last count, the loot gained was not even 10,000 guan, which was less than a fraction of what he had when he raided Xun Mansion and Nankang Mansion! Even, there is not even enough money to buy various things!
"I heard that they have a secret base in Liuqiu. Maybe the money will be hidden there! Do you want me to take people to search it?" Luo Shixin, who walked in from the door, really couldn't bear to put his hand in Xiao Han's coffin. He died. He looked like he was asking for money and said with a frown.
"Liu Qiu? Let's forget it!" When Xiao Han heard this, he rolled his eyes, put down the account book and let out a long sigh: "Think about it, who would be crazy and put treasure in a den of thieves? I'm really worried that no one will Concerned?"
"Then..." Luo Shixin was speechless!
Think about it, now it is popular among the wealthy landlords in Chang'an to keep their money in banks and not dare to keep it at home. How could these pirates dare to put money at home?
"Forget it, if we don't have enough money, I'll go find Gupu. Doesn't he want to buy a few ships to transport sugar?"
Looking at the huge loss at the end of the account book, Xiao Han feebly stood up and walked out.
Hey, this may be the most losing business he has made since coming to Datang. Not only did he not make a penny, but he also had to find ways to trick others. This indeed goes against his principles as a person.
"Eh? Do you have principles as a human being?" the author said.
Xiao Han replied: "Ahem, nonsense! My principle is that when you should have principles, you should have them. When you shouldn't have them, you must not have them!"
