Even the pirates from the Ming Dynasty never thought that Yang Ce would give orders to the captives extremely naturally, let alone that these captives would gladly accept them.

Thousands of people scrambled for weapons, even for a rusty iron sword, and all of them were delighted, and they looked back at the big ships along the coast on the forest path away from the beach, and roared barefoot into the depths of the forest.

I don't get discouraged if I don't grab a weapon, as long as I can get up and break the branch, kick it off and carry it in my hand, wipe off the nosebleeds and run out.

Everyone who sees such a scene will think that they are an invincible male army.

Except for Yang Ce's pirates.

This means except for everyone.

On the ship that Yang Ce couldn't see, the pirates were holding the side of the ship and looking at the movement on the shore, and the sailor sitting cross-legged under the stern mast spilled a handful of copper coins in front of him, raised his arms and raised his fingers and shouted: "Buy and leave, three hundred steps!" ”

"Don't follow the steps, don't be sure."

Wearing a hair scarf and shirtless to reveal a strong figure, the boatswain came with a knife, raised his hand several times to throw the knife out, looked at the shore with palpitations, and finally reluctantly took out a brass pocket watch with pulp from his waist and pressed it on the deck: "Thirty more breaths!" ”

Immediately after that, the deck, which served as a gambling table, was in a very short time loaded with all sorts of things, four taels of silver, a small grain of gold, half a bag of tobacco, three pearls, a few feet of cotton, and a few precious stones of various colors.

In just a dozen breaths, there was a shout of killing in the dense forest in the distance, and the sailors who took a few cotton cloths laughed, and were not in a hurry to take away the objects, only covered them with one palm, looked around at everyone and smiled: "When we return to Xidacheng, we will not go to the private house, please go to the Jiaofang Division, the whole ship has a share!" ”

As he spoke, the sailor glanced back at the dense forest and said disdainfully, "Rabble! ”

They were gambling, although they didn't know what the slaves who were released by Yang Ce were going to do with their weapons, but everyone knew that they would definitely cut their own people first, taking advantage of the chaos to take revenge and complain, this situation is not uncommon in this land.

The pirates did not deliberately avoid Yang Ce by setting up gambling games on the ship, the pirates on the shore did not set up gambling just because they had duty tasks, and the Han Kingdom did not prohibit betting, even if it was Yang Ce, it was not forbidden.

This is not because Yang Ce failed to fight against the pirates, on the contrary, Yang Ce did not fight against this matter at all, and even deliberately contributed to the trouble, and the gambling laws of the Han Kingdom were formulated by Lin Afeng, a high-achieving student from the Ming Dynasty.

Similarly, there are the unique laws of the Han Kingdom, such as the law of seizure, the law of wine, the law of fighting, the law of prostitution, the law of captivity, etc., which did not appear in the Ming Dynasty, and Yang Ce participated in the formulation of more than half of them.

For example, the law of gambling, it is not allowed to play cards and games, because it kills time, and it is only allowed to set up gambling on the matter, which is limited to one time per day per ship, and the maximum bet per person is one hundred taels, which is recorded and supervised by the captain.

One percent of the assets earned by the winner shall be paid as a ship repair tax, thirty percent shall be kept for himself, and the remaining sixty percent shall be spent on all those who participate in the gambling game, and may also be extended to all members of the ship.

Yang Ce received a formal military education, not only the original military education of the Ming Dynasty, but also the new-style military education of the Guangzhou Lecture and Martial Arts Hall.

Regardless of whether it is new or old, regardless of whether the starting point is to rectify military discipline or enhance cohesion, it is forbidden for soldiers to participate in these things, but Yang Ce found that the Han State could not prohibit it.

The pirates are used to being free, doing things overseas with their heads, licking blood all day long, robbing money and not spending it, their fear and ** are increasing day by day, but they can't get a channel to vent, if they ban alcohol, gambling, and these bad things, they don't have a little cohesion.

Yang Ce also wanted to follow the number of roads in Beiyang and Nanyang, but he couldn't, even if the Nanyang Flag Army was stationed in Myanmar, it could still supply fresh stir-fried vegetables, meat, eggs, milk, fruits and vegetables every day, and there was no shortage of rock sugar, tobacco, alcohol, wine, and silver.

But he can't do it, Lin Feng can't do it, he has been training soldiers for more than a year, there are many days of big fish and meat, and there are times when he can only eat dry rice, and starvation at sea happens from time to time, and it seems that there will never be enough materials to meet the needs of soldiers.

Even if they have a lot of money, a lot of valuable things.

It was also when Yang Ce and Lin Afeng talked about these things that Lin Afeng really considered what Chen Mu said to him: There are so many heroes on the sea in the Ming Dynasty, and none of them died at sea.

The rules of pirates will not be changed just because Lin Afeng wants to seal the state and build the country, nor will he become another Nanyang army just because Yang Ce is a student of the martial arts hall.

The reason why people have rules is to adapt to the complex environment of a period, unless the environment changes, otherwise the rules will not change, because rules are a way of survival.

Unless the Han Kingdom can one day take root in the country, rely on taxes to feed the army, rely on food to feed the army, and rely on the national strength to keep the soldiers without fear and security to maintain their normal wishes, pirates will always be pirates, even if they are kings, they are also pirate kings.

Pirates, on the other hand, have to vent, they have to fight, they have to gamble, they have to kill, they have to plunder.

Otherwise, their pressure will turn into a knife and stick it into the chest of their own people.

At night, the bonfires on the coast burned vigorously, and someone asked Yang Ce why he gave weapons to the natives to let them go out to fight, and offered a reward.

The slave traders who were all over the place were of no use to the Han state, and even in their own countries, the slave traders usually did not have a decent background, and they could not get any ransom for throwing them out, and they could loot some goods with them, and once the slave dealers made a deal, they would become a bunch of poor eggs, and it would be a waste of gunpowder to be killed.

Yang Ce just shook his head, looking unfathomable.

In fact, he didn't know why he gave such an order, everyone knew that those people took weapons and rushed into the forest, and they might not come out again.

It could be dying in the process of fighting, or it could be that they simply ran away without participating in the fight, and even if a few sporadically completed their mission and returned here with the slave traders, it would be of no use to them.

After a long silence, Yang Ce finally spoke, his face flushed with the bonfire, and he replied, "Because it's interesting." ”

The pirate community is like a whirlpool, and anyone who is pulled into it cannot escape, and the endless strife and endless sea bring more than just excitement and loneliness.

He also needs to vent.

But he doesn't gamble, he doesn't drink, and he doesn't love money, so what can he vent?

Yang Ce at this moment looks particularly terrifying, just because of the sentence 'interesting', I don't know how many people will die, but it is insignificant to him.

He stretched out his knife and picked a bonfire to make the flames burn more vigorously, and said to the left and right: "We will wait here for a few days to see if anyone wants to come back and try their luck, and if anyone comes back, we will take him away, and then go back to the western city to be quiet for a few days." ”