The Three Great Criminals at Sea?

Gonggong Wei listened more attentively, and the wine had long since disappeared.

Of course, he has to be energetic, and he must first settle down inside before he goes outside.

Father-in-law Wei didn't think that his royal navy could single-handedly take on the Western countries, nor did he think that these sea giants would bow down to his father-in-law Wei, and obediently stood under the long banner of his father-in-law Wei, singing long live the emperor, the world is one family, and was ordered to recruit Europa.

So, war is inevitable.

It's not up to Gonggong Wei to decide whether to fight or not, but it depends on whether people let you come out.

My father-in-law is definitely going out, so there is nothing to say.

Then, it is very important to know oneself and know one's opponent as Sun Tzu said.

According to Zhang An, this "Kapitan" is the Spanish pronunciation, which is the name given by the Spaniards in Manila to the leader of the Han people on the sea.

can be regarded as the leader of the Han people on the sea by the Xiban people, which shows the strength of Li Dan.

"Li Dan is a native of Quanzhou, southern Fujian, and has been doing business in Manila in Luzon in his early years, and later the business became bigger, causing the hostility of the Spanish people, so he transferred to Kyushu, the Japanese country, and heard that Li Dan was very powerful in the Japanese country, and the Tokugawa generals of the Japanese country were funded by him......"

The story of Kapitan is well known to those who deal with it at sea, and it is not a secret.

The little father-in-law in front of him had a life-saving grace for himself, and he was deeply respected by Western missionaries, so Zhang An said everything he knew and did not hide it at all.

Tao Jie also said something.

To sum up, it is an inspirational story of a Fujianese who had been doing business at sea because they were oppressed by the Spaniards and had to move to Japan, and later, through their own efforts, regained control of the East Asian routes and fought against Western countries.

Like Wang Zhi, the owner of Wufeng in the early years, after this Kapitan Li Dan arrived in Japan, he recruited a large number of Japanese defeated samurai and coastal pirates, and used his own fleet and funds to form an armed fleet, thus controlling the routes from Japan to China and Southeast Asia.

Those maritime groups along China's coast are essentially just downlines or branches of the Li Dan group.

Because, they can't control the route.

can't control the route, and wants to do business, so you can only pay Li Dan the road money and protection money.

The reverse is true for the Dutch and the Spaniards.

Historically, it was not until the Zheng family was overthrown and the Qing Dynasty was closed that the power of the Westerners really moved eastward, thus completely controlling the East Asian routes.

And the Zheng family obviously inherited the power of "Jiabidan" in its entirety.

Li Dan and the follow-up Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Chenggong are the last glory of the Han people in the East Asian seas.

When I thought of this, my father-in-law couldn't help but sigh.

Because he had been oppressed by the Spaniards, Li Dan was very hostile to the Spaniards, the Dutch, and the British, and his fleet engaged in commercial trade as well as sea robbery.

At the same time, the Western powers such as the Dutch and the Spaniards were defeated by the Ming Dynasty army when they advanced eastward into the Chinese coast, and their strength suffered a certain loss, which gave Li Dan, who was far away in Japan, the opportunity to suppress them again.

On the Japanese side, Tokugawa Ieyasu had always relied on Li Dan's financial support before and after the establishment of the Edo shogunate, so he recognized Li Dan's maritime power and handed over all the control of Japan's foreign trade to Li Dan's agent.

To put it mildly, the Han Jiapitan can be called the Emperor of the Tokugawa Shogunate.

With the support of Tokugawa Ieyasu, Li Dan's strength continued to increase, but the specific number of ships and men was not known by Tao Jie and Zhang An.

However, one thing is certain, this Kapitan can be called the king of Japan like Wang Zhi.

In this way, Gonggong Wei made a basic judgment that the number of merchant ships and warships under Li Dan's command could not be less than 100, or even more, and the number of maritime armed forces that could be mobilized should be more than 10,000.

This is underestimated.

Because, Tokugawa Ieyasu is the hero who ended the chaos of Japan's Warring States, and he is now the de facto king of Japan.

But even Tokugawa wants to support Li Dan and hand over Japan's foreign trade to Li Dan as an agent, what does this mean?

It shows that Tokugawa's sea power is simply not enough to deal with Li Dan!

And the power of Tokugawa is the power of the whole of Japan!

It can be seen from this how strong Li Dan's strength is.

It's a big rival, a big rival!

The first obstacle in front of Wei Gonggong's maritime industry.

Compared with Li Dan in Japan, the strength of the Siamese Lin family is much smaller.

The previous head of the Lin family was Lin Daoqian, a native of Chaozhou, who led more than 50 warships to fight against Yu Dayou, the deputy chief of the Ming Dynasty, but was defeated by Yu Dayou and retreated to Taiwan.

Later, he was recruited by the imperial court and settled in Chaoyang County, Guangdong. However, after recruiting An, Lin Daoqian was still not honest, recruiting troops and horses in Chaoyang, and the followers were crowded.

In the first year of Wanli, the general soldier Zhang Yuanxun and other troops surrounded and annihilated, Lin Daoqian led the crowd to surround it, but since then there has been no place to stay in China, so he led his troops to Cambodia and was appointed by the king of Cambodia as the water envoy.

After the Ming Dynasty made Liu Yaohai, he heard where Lin Daoqian was, and he ordered him to be arrested. Cambodia was a vassal of the Ming Dynasty and did not dare to resist the Ming Dynasty's decrees, so Lin Daoqian was arrested.

Lin Daoqian knew the news in advance, secretly sneaked back to Chaozhou, excavated the gold and silver treasures buried in the past, recruited more than 100 Chaoren, brought them to Siam, changed his name to Lin Wuliang and made a blood alliance with the King of Siam, settled in Pattani, south of Siam, and served as the governor of the port, and later died in civil strife.

However, King Pattani once married his daughter to Lin Daoqian, which made Lin Daoqian's death, his descendants still occupied Pattani Port, and developed into a famous maritime Han power in East Asia and Southeast Asia.

"In the early years, I heard that there were more than 100 ships brought by the Lin family to Pattani, and more than 2,000 subordinates in Chaozhou. The maritime merchants of Siam had to pay money to his family. Zhang An said.

Tao Jie remembered something and interjected: "By the way, my father-in-law doesn't know, the Lin family is now religious, and they have deep roots in Pattani, saying that they are Han people living there, but they are actually the actual rulers of Pattani." ”

Gonggong Wei nodded, Siam is Thailand, this place is now far away from his old man's home, not the enemy in front of him. Therefore, what the strength is, and what it has to do with the local regime, he will not take a closer look at it for the time being.

As for the last Yan Siqi, the father-in-law doesn't need to talk about it in detail, and he knows who this person is.

The "King of Taiwan" in the history books - the first Han pioneer to open up Taiwan!

It is said that this Yan Siqi is bold by nature, righteous and squandering money, burly, and proficient in martial arts. In his early years, he was bullied by the magistrate, killed his servants in a fit of anger, fled to Japan, worked as a tailor, and concurrently engaged in Sino-Japanese maritime trade (pirates), thus growing step by step, relying on the Fujian Gang in Japan to rise to a new generation of maritime heroes.