The ban on the sea was not strict in Guangdong at that time. Fishermen could still fish in the sea as long as they found a remote coastline. Therefore, there were many fishing villages within five miles of the coast. They often went ashore to plunder. When I was a freshman, I snatched all the way from the fishing village to the township, and once almost entered the county seat.

They robbed a lot of gold and silver treasures. These pirates wanted to go back to their hometown. After all, there were relatives and friends in the family. Some able-bodied refugees went out to sea again. Because they thought that the navy in Guangdong was weak, they also lived here for three or four years, and they also had some acquaintances, so they came here on purpose.

Apart from Chinese and Westerners, most of the pirates on the southeast coast were Japanese and Koreans. They knew how to find their compatriots.

Because they brought a lot of people this time, plus they have fifty-eight people, from past experience, fifty-eight people can form a team, and they can live a good life by themselves, so Unwilling to attach themselves to powerful fellow pirates lest they be exploited by them.

So, quite logically, they were concealed from the truth and pushed out as stones to ask directions.

If these fifty-eight people succeed this time, it means that there are still many loopholes in the coastline of Guangdong, and there is a great possibility that they can do something. You can continue to wait for others to test.

Although they were licking blood on the edge of a knife, none of them would risk their lives if they could survive to this day, except for those small gangs of pirates who had no food reserves, these big pirates would not take risks easily.

Qi Haoran asked curiously: "Your country is going to change dynasties? Isn't it too long? It's been eight years and still not settled?"

"My lord, they haven't changed their dynasties. It's just that their country's generals are fighting for power with the emperor, so the country is in turmoil." He has dealt with the pirates in Dongpu the most, and he has learned some of their domestic situations over time. He said: "Now their royal family is not Willing to lose power, they took their people as pawns and fought against the generals and soldiers in power, and the country was in chaos. I heard that many of their refugees fled to the sea."

Qi Haoran snorted coldly, "If you fled to the sea, you fled to the sea. What are you doing here in Daqi? Since you came here, you will fish honestly, and you want to trap the people of Daqi into injustice. They themselves are well-fed. The common people of Qi were ruined, and they killed the owner's family without visiting other people's houses, and robbed the owner's property. They took out those old pirates, interrogated their pirates' dens, drew a chart, and dragged the others to the beach to kill them. Now, I want to see if anyone dares to try again."

"Are there any pirates who have defected recently?"

"Yes," Zhou Zhou said, "but few, they are all the people of my Daqi. General, there are two relatively large groups of pirates in the sea, all of whom are composed of the people of my Daqi. The leader was once a sea merchant, and he was forced to help The pirates who have just started, although they have robbed the people these years, they have never killed people, why not send someone to recruit them at the end?"

"How do they compare with those Japanese people?"

"It's not as good. The largest gang only has more than a hundred people, but the largest gang of pirates in Japan has more than a thousand people, and they have connections with other pirates from Japan. Sometimes when we go out to sea to suppress bandits, they will There are 3,000 people who are in contact with each other and unite to deal with us, and this is not counting the Dongying pirates in Fuzhou."

"Do they still have contact with the Dongying pirates in Fuzhou?"

"Yes, not only the Fuzhou area, but also the northern Zhili area further north has contact with them."

Qi Haoran slapped the wall angrily, "Does this coastline belong to me, Daqi, or these pirates?"

Zhou Zhou lowered his head.

"Issuing an order to recruit security again, it means that the decree of voluntary surrender and lenient punishment will be canceled after the year. At that time, no matter where the pirates are, the imperial court will treat them equally." Qi Haoran sneered, "Recruit security? The one who recruited is the one who posted it on his own initiative, not the pirates. Ann, who went to Pakistan, if they don't come back, they will be suppressed when the bandits are suppressed."

Seeing that he was angry, Zhou Zhou dared not plead for those people anymore. In fact, they had cooperated with local pirates several times to fight against the increasingly powerful Japanese pirates.

The next day on the beach, at the place where the pirates were executed before, the executioner of the government office chopped off the heads of forty-eight pirates in a row. Among the many old pirates, Qi Haoran only wanted to keep ten.

Those who are willing to confess, he will give them a happy life, and those who are not willing to confess, he will make their life worse than death, and the jailer of the navy yamen will give less punishment, so he will go to the prison of the government yamen to borrow people.

These pirates were just ordinary fishermen. They lived with a lot of vigor and contempt until now. They had no professional training at all. Naturally, they could not withstand the severe punishment of the jailer. Still confessing one by one, but only one night before and after.

Qi Haoran got the drawn charts and confessions, and asked people to drag them to the beach and chop them up. He knew that the pirates at sea were watching, so he didn't ask people to drag these corpses down to be cremated this time, but Asking people to set up wooden pillars on the warship and hang the corpses on it is a warning to those pirates who are about to move.

Pedro received the report from his subordinates and sighed: "Our target is passing sea merchants. The fishermen in Daqi are very poor, so there is no need for us to be enemies with Qi Haoran."

"Then Victor and the others forget about their hatred?" Raul shouted dissatisfied.

Pedro was silent for a long time, and said slowly: "Da Qi has an old saying that the future will last forever."

On another island, Hero Fujita smashed a vase and said angrily, "He is provoking us. Hanging on the wooden post are the corpses of our compatriots!"

"General, he is warning all the pirates, not just us." Saburo Ono said in a low voice.

Hero Fujita calmed down slightly, and asked, "Did our people go ashore? Although Nantian and the others are a bit stupid, they are brave and powerful, and they hold sharp knives. How could they be caught by the navy? Could it be that they didn't do it for two or three years?" Pirates, have they even forgotten their instinct to escape?"

Saburo Ono was very ashamed, "General, Daqi is now very tightly controlled. The fishermen who catch the sea are all based on villages or families. If there are strange faces, even if they don't arrest people on the spot, they will soon notify the navy to come and investigate. , Our people tried several times, and every time they were interrogated as soon as they got into the crowd, if they hadn't walked fast, they might have been caught."

They want to go ashore to inquire about news, and they have to get in touch with people, and they will be discovered if they get in touch with people. The navy came to investigate and made them unable to even enter the city gate, so naturally they couldn't find any news.

And the most terrifying thing is the unknown. It is precisely because they don't know what happened to the Guangdong Navy that they are afraid and dare not act rashly.

The Westerners with the most sophisticated weapons and the bravest before were defeated by the Guangdong navy. This time they were caught without even making a splash of the stones they threw in, which is really frightening.

Hero Fujita gritted his teeth, "Keep waiting. We have enough food in stock, but other people don't have much food in their hands. Hunger can destroy all fear. Someone will take the initiative to stand up and continue to ask for directions."

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