"Master, in my humble opinion, we should set sail immediately while we still have money in our hands, use the natives as guides, find the coastline closest to us as soon as possible, and then land, plunder, buy, or some other method. In short, we must have our own land on land as soon as possible before we can truly gain a foothold on this continent..." This time it was Conlin and his leaders' turn to be stunned and speechless, because any of them I never thought that these explicit and shocking words would actually come out of the mouth of Chang Jiansheng, a rotten scholar who seemed to have a stubborn temper and was obsessed with saving face. In the eyes of the leaders, Yan Xiaosong, who was quick-minded and had no moral integrity, would say this. It’s more likely!
"Master, what you said is very reasonable!" Yan Xiaosong looked up and saw that the master touched his chin and there was no longer an angry look on his face. He expected that Chang Xingzhi's words might have reached the master's heart, so he was very flexible. He immediately spoke in agreement with Chang Jiansheng.
"Well, Mr. Acid's words are not bad this time..."
"yes!"
"No matter what you say, we just listen to the boss..." The leaders were not stupid. When they calmed down, they all found that what Chang Jiansheng said was reasonable, so they all started to agree.
"Quiet! Quiet! No noise in front of the boss!" Seeing that the scene had become a little noisy again, Kanglin's deputy, the fleet manager Liu Laoliu, stood up again and started talking to the rest of the hall angrily. The leader roared angrily.
"..." Unlike the young boss, Liu Laoliu, as the oldest member of the fleet, is usually responsible for managing everyone except Kang Lin. Therefore, the leaders are a little afraid of him. Isn't this right? As soon as he spoke, the tent immediately became quiet again.
"Uncle Liu, what do you think of what Chang Xingzhi said?" Kang Lin relied heavily on Liu Laoliu. Although his cultural level was not high, he was rich in experience in handling affairs. Therefore, this guy was often indecisive when encountering problems. I would habitually ask my shipping manager.
"Master, the old man also thinks that Mr. Chang's words are reasonable. From now on, as long as we have money and territory, no matter who is a swordsman or a warlock, even if we encounter a gang of pirates, it will not have any impact on us at all... "
"Okay, since Uncle Liu and all the brothers agree with what Mr. Chang said, let's talk about the arrangements for the next step!" The head of Kangda pondered over and over again, and suddenly realized that he should not underestimate these ancient people under his command. Because they are not NPCs in computer games who only follow orders. They have flesh and blood, can do things and think better. What I am slightly better than them is just having hundreds of years of experience. Their ability to understand problems is actually not inferior to mine. !
"Uncle Six, let me tell you first, are we ready to sail, and have all the goods been loaded on the ship?" Entering a new topic, the first thing Conlin asked was his deputy, the fleet manager. Liu Laoliu.
"Master, the ship has been repaired and most of the cargo has been loaded on the ship. I will tell you when to set off..." Although Liu Laoliu was smoking his cigarette pipe, his pair of hazy eyes were still serious. Staring at the group of standing bosses.
"That's great. Thank you for your hard work, Uncle Liu. Then Shuwen (Yan Xiaosong's words), how are you preparing?" After getting a positive answer from Liu Laoliu, Kang Lin turned his head and looked at the station again. On Yan Xiaosong, the logistics officer next to Chang Jiansheng.
"Master, the student has led someone to count our supplies. Right now we have 182.5 taels of silver (there are also 1,000 units of silver stored in Kanglin's imperial auxiliary space backpack), 50 cubic meters of wood (200 units stored in the space ring), 55 stones of grain (100 units are stored in the space ring), * pieces of cloth, * pieces of silk, 50 loads of raw silk, 50 kilograms of tea, 300 kilograms of tung oil, some sundries..." Yan Xiaosong saw the boss asking and quickly stepped forward to report the report. .
"Well, yes, yes, brothers, if there are no accidents, we will arrange for each team to board the ship one by one after closing the accounts at three quarters of noon (13:00 to 15:00 p.m.), and no later than noon (15:00 to 17:00 p.m. At the first moment, pull up the anchor and raise the sail, and leave this place!" Seeing that everything was ready, Kang Lin only waited for himself to say a word, then stood up and gave the order to set off to all the leaders in the tent.
"Yes, Master!" After receiving the departure order from the Master, all the leaders agreed and went down to arrange the personnel and supplies one by one on board the ship.
"Big Boss..." Chang Jiansheng, who seemed pedantic and stubborn but was actually very clever and sinister, bowed to the big boss who was watching his subordinates pay their bills. The implication was to ask the big boss who was behind the case whether he had accepted him. suggestions.
"The fleet set off, with Jiang Ren as our guide, all the way south!" As if he saw Chang Jiansheng's thoughts clearly, Kang Lin stood up with a "huh" after the case, and said to his confidants, Liu Laoliu, Gu Wenlai, Lin Wu and others People’s words make it clear the way forward this time.
A quarter of an hour later.
"Master, Commander Fan just came to report that the results of the interrogation of Qiao Si, Yu Shan, Liao Guangfu and others have been obtained. Now I want to invite the master to come..." I saw the last four or five people who stayed in the meeting room. The general manager and the soldier commander also filed out of the tent and followed Yang Qi to open the curtain and come in to report to Kang Lin the latest progress of Fan Huzi's interrogation of the prisoners.
"Okay, I understand! Uncle Liu, you are a sophisticated man with rich experience in the world, so you should go and have a look with me." Kang Lin reached out and waved away Yang Qi, then turned to face Mr. Liu who was holding a cigarette stick and puffing away smoke. Six said.
"Okay, Master." Upon hearing this, Liu Laoliu immediately knocked the chimney on the sole of his shoe, then stuffed it into his waist and followed Kang Lin out of the meeting room.
The bird boat is flying on the Hebei Ren.
"Master!" Qin Lin, the deputy commander of the garrison (Fan Jingfan's deputy) and his men lined up in two neat lines to greet Kang Lin, the master of the fleet. Liu Laoliu, the chief manager, praised Yan Si and divided them. The manager Gu Wenlai is waiting for the arrival of a group of important people.
"Brothers, there is no need to be polite, just go and do your own thing!" Looking at the shouting and cheering of more than ten people, the scene was quite solemn. However, Master Kanglin Kangda was concerned about the prisoners. After boarding the ship, they didn't stay too long on the deck. They just gave everyone a few gentle words of encouragement, and then, under the guidance of the leader who stayed behind, they went straight down the deck and came to the tightly guarded prison room.
"Creak!" It may be that the door shaft has not moved for a long time and is rusty. Therefore, when the fully armed guard pushed open the solid wood hatch, the hatch actually made bursts of noise that made people's teeth ache. The sound, and this, also made the dark prison cell even more eerie and inexplicable!
"Master, please be careful where you step..." Qin Lin, the deputy commander of the bird ship, took the kerosene lamp from the guard and walked at the front of the group. He also turned his head from time to time to remind Kang Lin and others to be careful. The decks under your feet were damaged due to disrepair, and if someone accidentally stepped on the holes, it would be a big deal!
"I've met Captain Qin, my lords!" With Qin Lin holding a lantern to lead the way, the short corridor quickly came to an end, and when they arrived at the innermost cabin, the group could already clearly distinguish themselves from each other. I opened the cabin door and heard the screams coming from inside! It seems that Fan Huzi, the former flag officer of the Ming Army, is punishing the prisoners!
"Open the door!" The guard saw the leader and deputy commander of the ship coming over with a group of people. He was about to salute, but was stopped by Kang Lin, who strolled out from behind the deputy commander and waved his hand.
Clay ovens, flames, whips, soldering irons, shirtless men, and disheveled prisoners, this was the first feeling Kang Lin and others felt when they entered the dark and narrow torture room! And in order to set off the horror of the torture instruments and the ferocity of the torturers, the shirtless Fan Hu even asked the guards to bring in a few more kerosene lamps for lighting.
"Bring this person over here!" After entering the execution chamber, Kang Da's head waved his hand to stop Fan Huzi and others from saluting, unceremoniously sat down on the Taishi chair specially prepared for him, and then shouted to the guards carelessly. .
"Old Fan, have you confessed everything?" Without looking at Liao Guangfu, who was being carried like a chicken by the guards, the head of Kangda held the armrest of the Taishi chair and asked Fan Huzi, who was wiping his hands with a rag.
"The big boss, the guy surnamed Yu has some integrity, but his boss and the fourth boss from Fierce Shark Village are not so good. We only used whips and didn't use soldering irons. These two I'll do whatever I can to cowardly people..." In front of the bright oil lamp, Fan Huzi said lightly, but Kang Lin could hear an aura of cruelty and violence from his words. It seems that this guy is staying in the Pidao Army. Over time, I have unknowingly contracted some of the bad habits of the old army!
"Oh, what did they do?" Kang Lin, who didn't mean to blame too much, already had a problem in his heart, lowered his head and rubbed the armrest of the chair, while the two guards under him held down the man who was kneeling on the ground. Liao Guangfu, grabbed his long hair and raised his face high to facilitate his boss' questioning.
"Big boss, this guy (Liao Guangfu) is the fourth boss of Fierce Shark Village. He is usually in charge of two bird boats, three Cangshan boats, more than a dozen speedboats, and wooden rowing boats. Counting that there are about two to three hundred men under him who can fight. No. 1 is a man with strong men and strong horses! And the Fierce Shark Village to which he belongs has always robbed homes and roared on the sea. It is an extremely difficult overlord in the sea three hundred miles northeast of Shandong. In addition, the nearby government is unable to conquer, so all ships You have to pay protection fees to them when crossing the border! In the meantime, if anyone dares to evade paying the fee, once they are encountered, it will inevitably end in a shipwreck and death..." As if sensing the prisoners' dissatisfaction, Fan Huzi suddenly said Lifting up his huge iron fist, he punched Liao Guangfu hard on the lower abdomen. The force was so fierce that it made the vicious shark-in-chief curl up like a cooked shrimp! Under his perseverance and torture, Kang Lin and his group finally figured out the real reason why the vicious shark pirates appeared in this area. It turned out that these guys who eat raw meat had received the news from the insider in advance and followed a ship that was trying to Merchant ships evading the payment of protection fees came to this area. Moreover, if they had not suffered a sudden storm earlier, these guys would have been dividing money and goods a hundred miles away. As for later fighting against the Fukusen pirates (or merchants, generally the two are interchangeable under certain circumstances), ambushing Qiao Si's group, and even going to war with one's own fleet, it was just a matter of hunting down rabbits. Just do it casually.
Therefore, Fan Huzi, who had figured this out, was not only extremely ruthless, but also extremely black!
