Zhoushan archipelago is located in the northeast of Zhejiang, with many islands and reefs, such as dotted around, it is the largest archipelago in China, accounting for more than 20% of the total area of China's islands. Among them, Jintang Island is the fourth largest island in the Zhoushan archipelago, covering an area of 70 square kilometers.

On the first day of the fifth month of the second year of Jiajing, Xia Yan, the deputy envoy of the Qin Mission, led the troops to exterminate Shuangyu Port, and Wang Zhi, the head of the Hui Merchants Association, escaped by luck and fled to Jintang Island with the remnants of his troops.

After Wang Zhi got a respite on Jintang Island, he successively gathered a group of old troops of Shuangyu Port, and also recruited the subordinates who originally belonged to the Fujian Li Guangtou, plus several small groups of pirates and Japanese pirates in the vicinity to join, so in less than a month, Wang Zhi's subordinates accumulated thousands of people and became the most powerful group of pirates on the sea near Zhejiang.

Wang Zhikai, whose power has expanded rapidly, has carried out his old business, calling himself the owner of Wufeng Ship, and using Ligang on Jintang Island as a base to carry out maritime trade smuggling activities, after all, there are so many people under his command to feed, what else can he do if he doesn't smuggle? Of course, in addition to smuggling, Wang Zhi also arranged for manpower to cultivate crops on the island, in order to achieve self-sufficiency in grain, and he had the potential to occupy the island as the king.

Wang Zhi used to be a businessman in the mainland, but now that he has been surrounded and suppressed by Xia Yan, he has already confirmed the role of a pirate, so Wang Zhi is also broken and broken now, and he can't turn back anyway, so he just wants to be a lawless pirate king.

Let's talk about the past when he was in Shuangyu Port, Wang Zhi was doing smuggling business in a serious way, but now he has no money to buy and sell, robbing passing merchant ships, and even ordering his subordinates to go to the villages and towns along the mainland to loot materials, otherwise the thousands of brothers under his command will have to drink the northwest wind.

On May 25, Wang Zhi welcomed one of his old customers in Ligang, that is, the Francophone man who named himself Ximen Junxiu, transliterated as Luo Nadao.

At this time, Wang Zhi and Luo Nadao were sitting opposite each other in the simple grass hut, drinking inferior turbid wine and scolding their mothers, of course, not scolding each other's mothers, but scolding the mother of Deputy Xia Yan, and by the way, they greeted all the women of the eighteenth generation of the ancestors of Deputy Xia.

"Grass his grandmother's dog Qincha, grass his grandmother's summer deputy envoy, wo grass &&%%**......" The bearded Luo Nadao scolded while drinking, probably because he didn't enjoy scolding in half-baked Chinese, so he changed to Spanish and continued to scold.

It is said that although Ronald Dao escaped that day, he lost a bow ship, but the flesh of the cargo was painfully killed. The six-masted ship was worth a lot of money, and there were thirty-two Franc guns and eighty sailors on board, which were half of the property of Rhônado, and he relied on to make a fortune by crossing the ocean to the East, and now he had lost a bow, how could he not hate?

It is worth mentioning here that Londa is a Spanish nobleman, he has a Portuguese friend, led the fleet to the East to do business and made a lot of money, this goods can not help but be hot, so he also raised money from relatives and friends to build two ocean-going sailing ships, and recruited sailors, and rushed to the Ming Dynasty, a rich Eastern empire to do business and make a fortune.

It's a pity that the Daming Sea ban is strict, Luo Nadao, a newcomer, didn't make money at first, and was almost stewed by the Guangdong sailors, and then this goods learned from other adventurers, and privately traded with the pirate merchants along the coast of Daming, and began to make money in the past two years, but it was still a big step away from returning to the capital, and the money he borrowed from relatives and friends had to be calculated with interest.

Luo Nadao originally wanted to do a big job this year, but unfortunately he ran into Xia Yan, the deputy envoy of the Qin Mission, who led troops to encircle and suppress, and lost a big ship, which immediately made him lose all his money. The worst thing is that because Xia Yan is in Ningbo Mansion and cracks down on smuggling, the former smuggling trade center Shuangyu Port has also been blocked, so that there is no business to do.

Since there is no business to do, there is naturally no money to earn, and Luo Nadao, who owes a lot of debts in his hometown, can only borrow alcohol every day to kill his sorrows, and as a result, Simon Junxiu has become Simon emaciated.

Fortunately, there is no endless road, Luo Nadao heard that his old friend Wang Zhi opened a market in Ligang, Jintang Island, so he hurriedly came, but unfortunately Wang Zhi was just surrounded and suppressed, and his family was confiscated.

At this time, Wang Zhi poured a sip of turbid wine and said in a deep voice: "Brother Ximen, now Xia Yan is squatting in Ningbo Fucheng, sending troops to patrol the coast day and night, and destroying a large number of civilian sea ships, and the local gentry and merchants dare not contact me anymore to buy and sell, so it is difficult to buy enough goods, and can only collect some chicken and dog bits and pieces from Shaoxing Mansion, Jiaxing Mansion, Songjiang Mansion, etc.

Therefore, the five hundred horses of silk and three thousand catties of tea you want are really not available at the moment, but if you can trust the contemptible people, you can pay a deposit of 20% first, and then come back after three months, and the contemptible people promise to prepare all the goods for you, and it is possible to even double them. ”

Luo Nadao immediately frowned and said: "No, no, no, two percent deposit is too much, three months is too long, at most one percent deposit, one month." ”

Wang Zhi is now in urgent need of a big order to boost morale, and by the way, he will return some blood, so he hesitated a little and gritted his teeth and said: "Okay, for the sake of Brother Ximen is old customer, a deposit of one percent will be a deposit, and it will be delivered in a month, but there is still a small request from the contemptible." ”

Although Luo Nadao was full of beard and looked rough, he was actually a cautious and cunning person, and he rolled his eyes and said, "Boss Wang, let's listen to it first." ”

"Muskets, contemptible people want fifty muskets." Wang Zhi said in a deep voice.

Rona Dao's eyes flickered, arquebuses and Franc machine guns were a major advantage of Westerners, so there was an agreement between Westerners that muskets and artillery could never be sold to Orientals. After all, Westerners came from far and wide across the ocean, with few people and few ships, and if they didn't even have the advantages of muskets and artillery, they would easily be blacked out by pirate merchants from the eastern countries.

Wang said with a cold face: "Brother Ximen, we Han people have an idiom called broom self-cherishing, I don't know if you have heard of it?" ”

"Oh, what?"

"It means that a broken broom is hidden like a treasure and refuses to show it, so people can't make friends, remember, to make sincere friends, you must be generous and generous."

"No, no, no, our arquebuses are not broken brooms, they are sharp firearms."

Wang Zhi said disdainfully: "Brother Ximen, you also saw the flintlock pistol used by the Ming army that day, right?" Your arquebuses are far worse than them, and you Westerners still regard them as treasures. ”

Rona couldn't help but be slightly embarrassed: "It's not that exaggerated, the flintlock pistol is stronger than the arquebus, and the others are not much stronger." ”

Wang Zhi waved his hand and said: "Let's open the skylight and say something bright, now the imperial court strictly forbids the sea, if the guards of the local guard post of the Ming Dynasty are also equipped with flintlock pistols, then we people have no way to live, you Westerners are looking for ghosts to do business, your lips are cold and your teeth are dead, understand?" Besides, your arquebus used to have an advantage, but now it's lagging behind, so why cling to it? If we have an arquebus, we can at least fight with the Ming army. ”

Luo Nadao's face changed, obviously a little moved by Wang Zhi's words, plus he now owes a lot of debts, and he is in a hurry to return to the capital, and finally gritted his teeth and said: "Okay, I'll give you fifty arquebuses, twenty taels of silver each, but you can't reveal that I sold them." ”

The king did not answer, but raised a finger, indicating that he could only give ten taels of silver a rod.

The actual cost of the arquebus was less than five taels of silver, and the arquebuses in Luo Nadao's hands were all second-hand goods that had been used for several years, so he pretended to be frowning and embarrassed, and agreed after a while of "constipation".

At that moment, the two reached a deal, Luo Nadao gave Wang Zhi fifty second-hand arquebuses, Wang Zhi paid 500 taels, and Luo Nadao used the 500 taels to pay a deposit of 10% for the goods.

So after all, Luo Nadao gave Wang Zhi fifty arquebuses for nothing, of course, Wang Zhi is still more honest, if he can get the goods smoothly, he will not ignore Luo Nadao These hundreds of taels of silver, and Luo Nadao obviously trusts Wang Zhi's person.

Fifty arquebuses may not seem like much, but Wang Zhi, the owner of Wufeng, started his fortune with these fifty muskets and has since reached the pinnacle of his pirate life.