Looking at the young man kneeling on the ground begging for mercy, Chen Zuyi smiled happily. This is a scholar who is greedy for life and afraid of death. He is a rare commodity.
Pirates are basically rough people, and there are very few scholars who are literate. When they looted the East China Sea, they even captured a few Confucian scholars. Unfortunately, they couldn't withstand the storms and hardships in the past two years, and they all died.
Keep it, not to mention that we will deal with Japan, North Korea, and the Ming Dynasty later. Even if you pretend to be a businessman, you have to find a gentle man to act as a facade. Otherwise, your subordinates will stand on the bow of the ship, let alone the merchant ship. The ghost ship doesn't dare to come near...
"May I have your name?"
Chen Zuyi asked.
"Chen Erbao."
Chen Zuyi looked at Chen Erbao's eldest brother: "Then you are Chen Dabao?"
"No, I am Chen Yibao."
Chen Zuyi's face was grim. This father didn't follow the rules and had to change his name: "Your name is Chen Dabao!"
Chen Yibao had no choice but to change his name to Chen Dabao.
Chen Zuyi raised his foot, stepped on Chen Erbao's head, and asked, "Have you ever killed anyone?"
Chen Erbao felt some pain in his forehead, and the corners of his mouth trembled slightly, and he said: "I am a good citizen, how could I kill someone..."
Chen Zuyi inserted the steel knife next to Chen Erbao and pointed at the man not far away: "Go and kill someone."
Chen Erbao felt his head lighten, and raised his head to look at Chen Zuyi in surprise. Chen Zuyi took two steps back and made a show of force to Chen Shiliang. Chen Shiliang put the knife on Chen Dabao's neck and threatened: "Chen Erbao, if you don't kill anyone, Your eldest brother must die!"
Chen Erbao looked at Chen Dabao, and Chen Dabao shouted: "Brother, don't kill anyone. If you kill someone, you will be a pirate. We will never be good citizens again."
"Shut up!"
Chen Shiliang punched Chen Dabao in the abdomen, and Chen Dabao fell to the ground in pain.
Chen Erbao shouted quickly: "Don't hit my brother, I, I..."
Chen Zuyi admired Chen Erbao's face. He was struggling, hesitant, helpless, desperate and fearful. Very good, this is a normal reaction of a good citizen.
However, if you want to join a gang and become a pirate, what can you do if you don't have a life on your hands? It's easy to use people if you cut off your escape route.
Under the threat of Chen Zuyi, Chen Erbao was forced to pick up the steel knife and step by step towards a stranger, who was a captured pirate on the island. The man suddenly panicked when he saw the approaching Chen Erbao and begged for mercy: "I surrender - —”
Chen Zuyi didn't care at all and just stared at Chen Erbao. This guy couldn't even hold a knife tightly. He was really a useless scholar.
Chen Shiliang threatened: "Kill! Otherwise, I will kill your eldest brother!"
"kill!"
The other pirates shouted.
Chen Erbao raised the steel knife, his hand was trembling and he couldn't swing it at all. Chen Zuyi came over and said sternly: "If you don't kill him, your brother will die. Do it!"
"ah!"
Chen Erbao looked back at Chen Dabao, who was beaten with a bruised nose and face, shouted, closed his eyes, held the knife in both hands and slashed, and poof, the knife hit the man's shoulder.
Chen Zuyi was very dissatisfied: "Aim and chop at his neck!"
Chen Erbao raised the knife with great effort, looked at the desperate pirate, and slashed again.
"Aim for the neck, why are you cutting his ears!"
"puff!"
"Neck, not hands!"
"puff!"
"Idiot, the skull is so hard, can you split it open? The neck!"
"Forget it if you kill me, I will live..."
The pirate is completely desperate, bastard, if you want to kill me, just kill me with one knife. Why did you chop me so many times? Isn’t this suffering? I can't commit suicide...
Chen Zuyi watched the pirate put his neck on the steel knife, while Chen Erbao was already paralyzed on the ground. He couldn't help but kicked Chen Erbao bitterly: "If you kill someone, you can only follow me. Remember, I It’s Nanyang King Chen Zuyi!”
Early the next morning, Chen Shiliang found Chen Zuyi and reported: "Father, Chen Erbao is a coward. He had a nightmare last night. Do you really want to keep such a person?"
Chen Zuyi looked at Chen Shiliang seriously and said: "Cowards are easy to control. At least it can prove that he is really a commoner. He is a scholar and has a brain. As long as he is willing to follow us, he will be useful. Is there any news about that matter?"
Seeing Chen Zuyi asking about other things, Chen Shiliang had no choice but to stop paying attention to Chen Erbao and said: "There is a little news. Last night, some pirates on the island were interrogated. Several pirates have heard from others that half a month ago, Qingyuan Hai A band of thieves once appeared near the Bo Ni Kingdom, led by a Taoist priest carrying a wooden sword."
"Taoist priest? Wooden sword?"
Chen Zuyi scratched his hair.
Taoist priests have nothing to do with the world. They mostly meditate and practice the art of immortality. Who would go to the sea and become a pirate? He is also carrying a wooden sword. Can a wooden sword kill people?
Chen Shiliang was also very confused: "Father, it is difficult to confirm the authenticity of this matter. The Qingyuan Pirates have suddenly emerged. In just two months, they have done more than 30 things in Nanyang. I heard that the people under them have already It’s over five hundred, and if it continues like this, it will become a threat to us sooner or later.”
Chen Zuyi was pacing and had a headache.
Qingyuan Pirates, Qingyuan, Qingyuan...
Chen Zuyi can be sure that this pirate group is definitely an anti-Ming Dynasty force. Otherwise, who would dare to directly use the name of the pirate group to stimulate Ming Dynasty. After all, "Qingyuan" means "celebrating the Great Yuan"...
Chen Zuyi, who didn't have much education, wouldn't know that Qingyuan was the reign name of Emperor Ningzong of the Southern Song Dynasty. Mingzhou was his residence and was changed to Qingyuan Mansion (Ningbo area).
"Gather everyone together to discuss and discuss. By the way, let Chen Dabao and Erbao come too."
Chen Zuyi passed down the message, and Chen Shiliang had no choice but to obey.
Not long after, leaders such as Chen Sancai, Lu Daobao, Zhang Chang, Wang Jiu, Li Twelve arrived one after another, and Chen Dabao and Chen Erbao also followed.
Chen Zuyi sat on the chair and said seriously to everyone: "A few years ago, when I was the King of Nanyang, from Sumatra to Japan, no one in the vast sea did not obey me. How many pirate groups attached themselves to us? Scenery! It’s a pity that Zheng He destroyed our main force in the battle of Penghu, and then in the battle of Jiugang, we lost our main force again, so that we are living in the deep sea, not daring to show our faces easily, and living a life worse than death!"
Chen Sancai, Lu Daobao and others lowered their heads, feeling very sad.
The contrast between the glory of the past and the abjection of today is too strong.
Chen Zuyi knew that this was a scar, but he also knew that if the wound wanted to be completely healed, the pus must be squeezed out: "But so what? As long as I am still there, as long as you are still there, we can build a powerful ship Sooner or later, the Ming Navy will pay a heavy price by capturing Zheng He and seizing the treasure ship!"
"Capture Zheng He and seize the treasure ship!"
Everyone shouted in unison, morale rising.
Chen Zuyi waved his hand and became serious: "But now a Qingyuan pirate group suddenly appeared, plundering the merchants who were supposed to be robbed by us, and occupying the island that originally belonged to us. Do you think we should kill them or not?"
"Should!"
Everyone is a licker of blood, and they always support murder.
Chen Zuyi stood up and shouted: "Although the Qingyuan Pirates are not as powerful as us, if they are allowed to do so, the Ming Dynasty Navy will definitely take this opportunity to enter Nanyang, and we are afraid that we will also be affected. Therefore, the top priority is Just find out which island the Qingyuan Pirates are stationed on, and eat them in one fell swoop to increase our power!"
"Destroy the Qingyuan Pirates!"
Chen Shiliang, Lu Daobao and others shouted excitedly.
Chen Erbao's face was very ugly. He struggled for a while, slapped the table, stood up and angrily yelled: "If you want to seek death, don't hold us back!"
"Asshole, who are you?"
"Shut up, it's not your turn to speak!"
Chen Sancai and others criticized.
Chen Zuyi didn't speak, just watched calmly.
Chen Erbao overturned the table and said, "You all know how to fight and kill, but have you thought about the consequences of doing so? I have heard of the Qingyuan Pirates. They are all eight feet tall..."
"The waist is also eight feet, right?"
Lu Daobao mocked.
Chen Erbao shouted angrily: "You are a bunch of idiots, the Qingyuan Pirates are subordinates of Fang Guozhen, how can you defeat them!"
"ah?!"
Chen Zuyi was shocked, and others did not dare to speak rudely.
Fang Guozhen!
This name is like thunder to Chen Zuyi and other pirates!
People all over the world say that Han Shantong and Liu Futong were the first people to rebel against the Yuan Dynasty. That is all nonsense. Fang Guozhen was the first to rebel against the Yuan Dynasty! This man was born with a black face and a strong galloping horse. He made a living as a sharecropper and smuggled salt. After the rebellion, he captured the generals of the Yuan Dynasty. Later, he surrendered and became an official of the Yuan Dynasty. He helped the Yuan Dynasty conquer Zhang Shicheng and achieved a glorious record of seven battles and seven victories. , forcing Zhang Shicheng to surrender to the Yuan Dynasty.
Although Fang Guozhen repeatedly surrendered and rebelled, and finally surrendered to Zhu Yuanzhang and died in the seventh year of Hongwu, at first Fang Guozhen was stationed in the eastern Zhejiang area and had many men, especially some of the elite navy. Later, some of the navy Unwilling to surrender, Zhu Yuanzhang ran overseas and became a pirate.
These people were sergeants who had experienced wars and were extremely brave. Chen Zuyi suffered a lot from these people in his early years, but they were leaderless and eventually lost power and gradually disappeared.
Chen Erbao actually said that the Qingyuan Pirates were subordinates of Fang Guozhen. If this was true, it would cause a lot of trouble.
Chen Zuyi quickly asked: "How did you know that they were Fang Guozhen's subordinates?"
Chen Erbao was not afraid and replied: "Qingyuan Pirates, where is Qingyuan? It was Fang Guozhen's lair back then! People have told you directly, but you still don't know? Are you really the King of Nanyang?"
Chen Zuyi suddenly realized that Fang Guozhen was stationed in Qingyuan, Wenzhou, Taizhou and other places in eastern Zhejiang. This group of people had been silent for thirty years, but now they have appeared. The original sergeants are probably too old to hold a knife now. Come on...
When Chen Shiliang heard that he was a subordinate of Fang Guozhen, he quickly persuaded: "Father, the Qingyuan Pirates may not be easy to deal with. It is the time when we are recovering our strength. It is not appropriate to confront them directly. We might as well sit back and watch and let the Ming Navy deal with them... …”
Chen Zuyi was silent.
Lu Daobao's face was a little ugly, but he still advocated a solution by force: "How many years has Fang Guozhen been dead, and you are still afraid that his subordinates who once escaped will not succeed? Damn it, the knife has the final say in the sea!"
Chen Erbao came out, pointed at Lu Dao Scar and cursed: "Are you an idiot? You know how to fight head-on. Can't we send people to ally with the Qingyuan Pirates to join forces and wait for the Ming Dynasty Navy to come? Let's run away first. , wouldn’t it be good to let them take the throne?”
Everyone was stunned and talked about their feelings for a long time, just for the convenience of you running away...
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