"Master Dong, less than half of the grain stores have delivered grain today."
"What? Less than half?" Anger appeared on Master Dong's face.
Is it because I am getting old, or because I can no longer pull out the knife? These store owners actually dare to disobey me?
"Yes, many stores said that today's grain has been sold to the new merchants from Tamsui Port, so they can't sell it to us for the time being."
"Humph!" Mr. Dong kicked the stool in front of him to the ground.
"I've warned them, but they actually dare not take me seriously!"
You must know that his master gave him enough money to buy supplies, but he pocketed a large part of it himself, and then used the rest to forcefully buy food from Tamsui Port.
If he can't bring the supplies back, he won't have any good fruits to eat.
"Then Mr. Dong, shall we go again tomorrow?" the subordinate asked.
"Where are we going?" Mr. Dong said with a gloomy face: "Since they are disobedient, they have to pay the price of disobedience!"
"Bring me the list of grain stores that have not delivered grain, and we will get it ourselves tonight!"
"This..." A subordinate hesitated and asked: "Master Dong, this is the Ryukyu Kingdom after all. Let's just go and rob it. If we find out..."
"Pop!" slapped the subordinate on the face: "Are you stupid? Just don't let anyone know about it? Can't it be enough that after dark, everyone will put on black clothes and pretend to be pirates?"
"Isn't it normal for a group of pirates to come to Tamsui Port? Those grain stores will be robbed by pirates. What does this have to do with me, Mr. Dong?"
"Master Dong is so smart!" The man who received the slap was flattering him with a smile on his face.
"Hmph, I'll rob them first tonight, and then come tomorrow with their IOUs and let them know the consequences of offending me, Mr. Dong." Feeling comfortable being flattered by his men, Mr. Dong also had a smile on his lips: "Again Take the wooden carvings you bought from Java, say they are the things that our Sri Lanka has blessed, and sell them ten of them!"
"When it comes to doing business, it has to be our Mr. Dong!" His subordinate gave a thumbs up, which made him laugh again.
The weather was pretty good during the day today, the wind was sunny and sunny, but the weather in the sea changed faster than a child's face.
When the sun was about to set over the sea, the sky suddenly became gloomy and the dark clouds were low.
When it got dark, it was even darker because there was no moonlight.
"Little ones, get ready to go!"
"Yes, Master Dong!"
"You are stupid, start calling me boss now!"
"Yes, boss!"
Dong Ye, the sailor of the two ships, gathered almost 300 people. Although it was not a lot, it was more than enough to clean up this small Tamsui port.
Tamsui Port could not accommodate large ships, so everyone put down their small boats and rowed towards the shore in the night.
"Eh? Am I dazzled?" Master Dong whispered softly on a small boat.
He scanned it just now because it was dark and couldn't see clearly, but why did he always feel that there were more ships than usual today?
After thinking for a while, he shook his head. He probably worked too hard at Yicui Tower a few days ago, but he couldn't blame himself!
We had to sneak ashore, so naturally we couldn't light a torch. After we got ashore, Dong Ye became more and more absolutely wrong.
Although it was dark, the beach was white, and the figures in their black clothes shadowing each other on it looked like they were more than 300 people.
Just when Mr. Dong was about to ask someone to light a torch, suddenly the entire beach lit up.
Then Mr. Dong became stupid.
Well, not only was he stupid, but the people he brought were also stupid.
Because they were surrounded by others!
There were no one knows how many people were surrounding them, all holding crossbow arrows with cold light pointed at them.
"Third brother, these fools seem to be trying to impersonate us!" Fourth Master Luo resumed his old pirate attire. Even though he met Master Dong during the day, Master Dong did not recognize the domineering pirate leader he was today. The middle-aged man who followed Tang Ping had a low eyebrow.
Or else there is a difference between professional and amateur? Fourth Master Luo and the others usually used a small boat to silently approach their target at night. Today, when they returned to their old business and led people to the edge of Master Dong's boat, no one noticed.
They originally planned to get on the boat but suddenly found that the other party was actually wearing black clothes and wanted to go ashore. Although they didn't know what they were going to do, it just saved trouble.
What Tang Ping said was to bring people over. If you get on the boat and take it to them, they have to be escorted ashore. Instead of doing this, it is better to wait until they get ashore before taking action.
Therefore, Fourth Master Luo and Qian Laosan did not take action, but mixed up and went ashore together before lighting the torch.
"You...what do you do?" Master Dong asked with a trembling voice.
"What you do is what we do." Qian Laosan walked up to Master Dong and the others and shook his head: "You said you just pretend to be pirates, but you are so unprofessional. Are there any pirates wearing the same style of black clothes like you? Even the shoes are exactly the same! One or two of them even covered their faces, what? Are we pirates afraid of being recognized?"
"Hahahaha, it's just that you clean up everything like a mother. It's so... so unprofessional."
The pirates who followed laughed. After being a pirate for so many years, they finally became a regular and pretended to be a pirate. Unexpectedly, there were other people pretending to be pirates, and they pretended to be so different!
Although Mr. Dong is bad, he is not stupid. Even though these people laughed at him, he looked at the "pirates" holding standard crossbows in each hand and couldn't help but murmur in his heart. How can there be such sophisticated pirates? A crossbow? None of their Sri Lankan regular army has such good crossbows.
As soon as I glanced over, I could see at least a thousand people. Although everyone was dressed differently and looked like pirates, their weapons couldn't be fake. They were all Tang Ping's standard equipment. .
These people are definitely not pirates, but where they come from, Mr. Dong doesn't know, but it doesn't matter at this time. Survival is the most important thing.
He spread his hands and said: "Fellow gentlemen, Lord Balabu, who passed away on Sri Lanka's behalf today, is here to buy supplies. The money he brought and the grain he bought are all on the boat. You can take them all if you want." Walk."
It's important to save your life now. If those things are robbed, just be robbed. If your life is gone, there will be nothing.
At worst, when these people leave, I can use some private money to fill in the holes this time.
"Haha, of course we have to want the money, and we want this guy too!" Qian Laosan sneered, then waved his hand: "Tie him up and take him away!"
Master Dong's men were originally bully sailors, but now they were surrounded by ferocious pirates several times their number. They were all captured obediently even if they dared to resist.
Then he was pushed to the other side.
When I reached a higher point, I realized that there were probably close to 2,000 people there, and these people were laughing and joking when they weren't talking to them. It didn't look like they were here to rob, but rather like they were out to play.
Dong Ye knew the area near Tamsui Port very well, and these people had obviously been escorted to a small beach outside Tamsui Port by him, where they set up a small camp.
His men were left behind, and he was taken into a camp.
The tent was brightly lit, and in the middle sat a bearded one-eyed dragon wearing an eyepatch.
Qian Laosan kicked Mr. Dong in the hip, knocking him to his knees on the ground. Then he raised his hands to the bearded one-eyed dragon and said, "Captain Jack, here we are."
Mr. Dong knelt on the ground, grinning in pain but not daring to make a sound. In addition to those who looked like pirates, there were actually many grain store owners from Tamsui Port in the tent.
Now he is kneeling here like this, but his face is gone.
"To the north, which pirate group are you from? Do you dare to come to my territory and run wild?"
The one-eyed dragon known as Captain Jack spoke. Although his tone was strange, Dong Ye did not dare to neglect and said quickly: "Captain Jack, misunderstanding, misunderstanding, we are not a pirate group, we are businessmen."
"Huh? But I heard that you are going to loot Tamsui Port! And Huo, is this Captain Jack also what you call him?"
The grain merchants who had been called here had no idea what they were going to do, but now they heard that Mr. Dong actually wanted to lead people to loot Tamsui Port, and they all looked at him angrily.
"I..." Mr. Dong wanted to quibble, but when he thought about how hundreds of his people had been arrested, how could he quibble over such a thing, he didn't know what to say for a while.
He could only lower his head and kowtow and say: "I was wrong, I was wrong. I have a lot of property on the ship, which is used to buy supplies. I am willing to give it all to all the heroes."
"No, we brought all your money."
As he said this, Fourth Master Luo brought someone in again and brought in two large boxes. When they were opened, they were all filled with gold and silver, which was the money Bala Bu gave Master Dong to use to buy supplies this time.
Then Tang Ping was given a small box, which contained land deeds for many places, including several from East Vietnam cities.
It seems that this is the private money that Mr. Dong usually saves. In addition, there is a large pile of IOUs and IOUs.
"Heroes, these are all yours, all for you!" Although it hurt, Master Dong said quickly.
"Otherwise, what do you want?" Tang Ping glanced at him. He didn't expect that wearing a one-eyed patch would be so uncomfortable. If he had known better, he wouldn't have done it like this.
After looking through the land deeds and IOUs in the small box, Tang Ping took out one: "Oh, that's good. I didn't expect that so many people in Tamsui Port owe you money."
Then he looked at the grain merchants: "This man said he was a merchant. Is it true or false?"
When the grain merchants saw their IOUs, although they felt resentful, they were afraid of Master Dong's revenge in the future, so they could only nod and say: "He is indeed a businessman, and he often buys and sells some things here with us."
"Hahaha, it's done!" Tang Ping looked at Master Dong: "I'm going to ask you a few questions. You'd better think about it before answering me. Otherwise, I'll tell you, although I look like a good person, Sir, if you step on my mine, it will be very difficult for me!"
