Chapter 384: The Price of Freedom

As she spoke, the black veil that covered her face was lifted, revealing her face.

This is a goose egg face, wheat-colored skin, and a pair of phoenix eyes revealing cold eyes, which constitute a unique beautiful temperament.

Yang Feng looked at her for just a moment and came to a conclusion: "This is a woman with a story,"

Yes, Yang Feng was also very surprised that he would use such a word to describe a woman, which was also the first time in his life that he described a woman like this.

"Liu Xiang?"

Yang Feng thought about it quickly in his mind, and it flashed like a search engine, and soon his expression was filled with doubt, "You are Liu Xiang...... Liu Xiang, who was originally a member of Eighteen Zhi? ”

Seeing Yang Feng's surprised expression, the visitor couldn't help but smile slightly. And at this moment, Yang Feng also found that this woman had a stubbornness in her expression even when she was laughing, and this stubbornness seemed to be engraved in her bones, even if she smiled, she couldn't erase it.

"The sinner is Liu Xiang!"

"Liu Xiang? Aren't you a man, how did you become a woman? ”

Yang Feng couldn't help frowning, he had checked a lot of information about Zheng Zhilong recently. The reason why Zheng Zhilong has been able to dominate Nanyang for more than ten years, in addition to the fact that he does have two brushes, the eighteen generals under him are also an important reason.

And in the Eighteen Zhili, the most famous is this Liu Xiang. Yang Feng once checked Liu Xiang's information. The information about him is as follows: Liu Xiang, also known as Liu Xianglao, a native of Lamma Island, Hong Kong, Guangdong Province, is one of the members of the "Eighteen Zhi" armed maritime group of Zheng Zhilong's group.

For some unknown reason, he broke with Zheng Zhilong, the former brother of Bai Zhiqi, and in 1635 (the eighth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty), he and Zheng Zhilong caught Zhihu with a fishing net when they fought in the sea of Guangdong, and threw it into the sea in front of Zheng Zhilong.

Although there is very little information about Liu Xiang, everyone can see Liu Xiang's unruly character from this just a few hundred words of information, in front of Zheng Zhilong, he caught his own brother in a fishing net and threw him into the sea, and then committed suicide with a gun, this alone is enough to show that this guy is a ruthless person.

And Liu Xiang has also caused a lot of controversy, some historians say that she is a woman, and some historians say that he is a man, which can be described as a matter of opinion. Yang Feng, like many people, has always thought that the ruthless person who can drown someone's own brother alive and then commit suicide with a gun must be a man, and a woman can't do this kind of thing, but now Yang Feng knows what life is more exciting. Dare to love has always been misled, this is an out-and-out woman not to say, but also a beauty.

Seeing Yang Feng's surprised expression, Liu Xiang said with a look of surprise: "Uncle, don't doubt it, the sinner is Liu Xiang." The reason why some people say that sinners are men is just that some people have a good face and wantonly spread rumors and slander. ”

"Oh...... I understand. ”

Yang Feng immediately understood when he heard it, Liu Xiang, as a famous pirate, naturally killed a lot of people in the ships he had robbed in his life, although those robbed businessmen hated Liu Xiang to the core, and wanted to drink her blood and eat her flesh, but in this patriarchal era, as a big man, he was robbed by a woman, and if this was spread out, their face would be lost.

As a result, many robbed businessmen spread rumors in secret, describing Liu Xiang as a big pirate with a beard and doing all kinds of evil, and over time many people believed that Liu Xiang was a big bad guy who did all kinds of evil.

After figuring this out, Yang Feng was relieved in his heart, but then there was another doubt, as another pirate who broke up after turning his face with Zheng Zhilong, why did she look for herself?

Although his mind was spinning rapidly, Yang Feng still sank his face: "Miss Liu, you know that Ben Bo hates pirates, and you dare to come to see Ben Bo in person, which also makes Ben Bo have to admire your courage, aren't you afraid that Ben Bo will be detained on the spot and handed over to the governor Yamen to punish you?" ”

Yang Feng sank his face like this, the temperature of the entire living room seemed to drop by a few degrees, and a force of iron-blooded qi sharpened on the battlefield and the majesty of being in the top position for a long time immediately rushed to his face, if ordinary people saw him with such a face, they would immediately kneel in fright.

But Liu Xiang is Liu Xiang after all, as a sea giant in the Ming Dynasty and the South Seas, her courage is too high compared to ordinary people. I saw her step forward and said in a deep voice: "Uncle, sinners also know that in the past, it was not tolerated by the law of the Ming Dynasty to rob houses in the maritime merchants, but thousands of brothers under his command also had to eat, and it was purely a last resort to do this." Moreover, sinners can guarantee that in the past, when sinners did those worthless transactions at sea, they only attacked those merchants, but they never went ashore to harass the people of the Ming Dynasty. ”

"Humph!" Yang Feng sneered: "Ben Bo still knows a little about this matter, so he naturally knows that you have never killed innocent people in Daming, otherwise Ben Bo would not have chatted with you until now, and he would have sent guards to arrest you a long time ago!" Tell me, what is your purpose in taking such a great risk to come to me? ”

"This ......" Liu Xiang hesitated for a moment, then took a deep breath before saying, "The sinner came here to cooperate with the uncle. ”

"Cooperation?"

Yang Feng couldn't help but say funny: "You actually want to cooperate with Benbo, you must know that Benbo is an official, you are a bandit, but now you want to cooperate, don't you know that this is ridiculous?" ”

Seeing the sneer on Yang Feng's face, Liu Xiang seemed to be enraged, only to see her glaring at Yang Feng and saying, "What's so ridiculous about this? Uncle is of course an official, but now the fleet under the command of Uncle Zheng, the biggest enemy of Uncle, is harassing the merchant ships and coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty day and night, and the Jiangning Army under Uncle Ye is powerless about it. Although the power of the sinner is small, there are thousands of brave brothers and hundreds of seagoing ships, and the Fujian sailors are now being built, and the shipyard is also stepping up time to build ships. It can be said that now is the most vulnerable time for your uncle, so why should you refuse people thousands of miles away.

When Liu Xiang was angry, her lips were tight, the corners of her mouth were slightly curved downward, a pair of Danfeng eyes were very round, and she looked at Yang Feng without showing weakness, and for a while she looked quite majestic, and Yang Feng was a little embarrassed to be stared at by a woman like this.

You look at me, I look at you, and they have been staring at each other for a long time. It wasn't until the maid stepped forward to serve tea that Yang Feng took the opportunity to pick up the teacup and blew it gently, covering the embarrassed expression on his face with the rising moisture from the teacup: "Okay, what do you want from Benber?" ”

"The sinner wants to ask the uncle to allow the sinner and the family members of the brothers to go ashore to live, and promise not to encircle and suppress us in the future if the Fujian sailors are built."

"Poof......

Yang Feng just took a sip of hot tea, and couldn't help but squirt out after hearing this.

"What did you say?"

Yang Feng's face immediately became solemn, and a terrifying glint shot out of his eyes, he looked at Liu Xiang and asked word by word, "Do you know what you're talking about?" ”

"Of course I do!"

Liu Xiang looked at Yang Feng without showing weakness, "Of course the sinner knows, but the sinner can promise that after the Fujian Navy Division is rebuilt in the future, the sinner and the brothers will never operate in the coastal area of Daming, and before that, the sinner and the brotherhood to which he belongs will do their best to intercept the ships sent by Zheng Zhilong to harass the coastal area of Daming." ”

Hearing this, Yang Feng couldn't help but be a little impressed by this woman. This woman is not simple, she clearly sees the dilemma of the Ming army in Fujian now, and at the cost of serving the Ming army for a period of time in exchange for the safety of her subordinates, she finally got the promise of the Ming army not to attack herself.

Liu Xiang's conditions seemed fair on the surface, Liu Xiang blocked Zheng Zhilong's harassment for Daming, and Daming made a promise not to encircle them in the future. But please note that what Liu Xiang paid was not as much as it seemed on the surface, it was just to block the harassment of Zheng Zhilong's troops for the Ming army, but the price that the Ming army would have to pay in the future was not small.

Just the promise not to encircle and suppress them is something that Yang Feng can't agree, what is the purpose of the establishment of the Fujian Water Division? Isn't it to encircle and suppress pirates and protect the maritime frontier of the Ming Dynasty? But what if you let a bunch of pirates hang around in front of you all day? Moreover, if this matter spreads, the dignified Earl of the Ming Dynasty actually colluded with the pirates, and promised to accept the pirates' families to live in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, I am afraid that Yang Feng, Jiang Ningbo, will also come to an end.

"No, Ben Bo will never agree to your conditions." Yang Feng categorically rejected Liu Xiang's conditions: "If you really want to work for my Ming Dynasty, then promise the imperial court's recruitment, Ben Bo can be the master and allow you to be a guerrilla general, and your subordinates will be reorganized into another water division and directly accept Ben Bo's moderation, what do you think?" ”

"No way!" Liu Xiang's attitude was also very resolute, "I'm used to being free and don't want to be restrained." ”

"Free?" Yang Feng couldn't help but sneer, "You were used to being free before, but being free comes at a price." On the one hand, it is free, and the result is that a group of people are not clothed and hungry, and on the other hand, they are restrained, and the result is that they can eat and wear warm clothes, and then they can be protected by the government, which one will you choose? ”

Liu Xiang was speechless now, the word freedom sounds really wonderful, but who knows the sadness in it? If life was really so good, she wouldn't have taken the initiative to ask for Yang Feng's help.

"Of course, since you have come here, Ben Bo can also give you a truth, if you really want to be protected by the Ming government, you must accept the court's recruitment, otherwise why should the court protect your family and protect your safety. You have to remember that there is no love for no reason in this world, and what you want to get is what you have to give first! You don't have to answer Ben Bo right away, Ben Bo can give you half a month to think about it, and if you figure it out within half a month, you can go back now! ”

After that, Yang Feng couldn't help but give an eviction order.