At that moment, the ship put away its sails, slowly sailed to the dock, threw two cables and went ashore, and the sergeant on the dock pulled the ship over under the command of an officer, and then fixed the rope on the stake.

The stick on the ship of the Fu boat turned, the iron chain made a sound, and the large iron anchor of hundreds of catties burrowed into the water.

After the boat was docked, Gao Yihuan ordered a few men and the black clan to stay on the boat, and he took Gao Laosan to get off the board of the boat on the dock.

He first stuffed the officer at the dock with ten taels of silver, and said with a smile, "Brothers, please have tea." Then he said that he had a batch of goods to be transported to the Zheng family's firm, and asked the officers to take care of them before leading his subordinates into the city.

"Third child, you find a restaurant to order some food, ask for more meat, and send it to the brothers on the ship. Then go to the inn to see if there are any sailors to recruit, if not, go to the shacks outside the city and recruit some guards. After entering the city, Gao Yihuan stood beside the flag-lined street and said to the third child, Gao Yihuang.

After three years of development, Luzon City has begun to take shape, and there are all that should be there and what should not be there.

The expansion of the Ming Dynasty in Nanyang was mainly led by the big merchants and the imperial court, and the Han people who went to Nanyang could generally only give work to these big merchants.

They either went to the merchant to work as men and sailors, or helped the chamber of commerce to take care of the fields and shops, and went to the natives to buy spices and sell goods, etc., and their status did not change much, and they did not break through their own class.

The situation in Luzon was different, there was no strong government, and the defeat of the Zheng family in the struggle was also greatly weakened, but it gave many ordinary people a chance.

Luzon is close to Fujian, Guangdong, and Zhejiang, and many Ming people who come to Nanyang to seek a living are Luzon as their first stop, and Luzon is still on the route from Nanyang to Japan and Korea, and many Koreans and Japanese also come to Luzon to look for opportunities.

Here, as long as you have some capital and courage to go to sea, you can go to the inn to recruit sailors, go to the shantytown to recruit guards, and then find some rich people to participate in the shares, rent a boat and go to sea.

In the area controlled by the Ming Dynasty, most of the shipping routes and trade were monopolized by large merchants, and it was difficult for small merchants to have a chance to rise, so there were many people with a little bit of strength who came to Luzon to look for opportunities.

This environment made it easy for sailors and guards to find jobs, so people from all over the world gathered in the city of Luzon.

Gao Yihuan was able to make a comeback in Luzon because of such an environment in Luzon.

After the order, Gao Yihuan came to the Zheng family's business, and the shopkeeper heard that he had sugar and tobacco in his hand, and couldn't help but be overjoyed, this was exactly the goods they needed.

Most of the merchants in Luzon transported the goods of the Ming Dynasty to the Mughals as second-hand traders, and few of them grew their own sugar cane and tobacco to sell.

Cane sugar and tobacco mainly come from the eastern continents controlled by the Xiyi, and Luzon is very small and has not formed a scale, and most people want to go to sea to make quick money, so basically no one has the idea to hit it.

It is worth mentioning that the Ming Dynasty was still arguing endlessly about the theory of the circle of the sky and the circle of the earth, and Song Yingxing, the squire of the Ministry of Works, even led a fleet to follow a Portuguese merchant ship and sailed eastward to confirm the correctness of the theory of the circle of the earth, but in the South Seas, most people no matter what the earth is not round, but they already know that there is a continent in the east, from which the Spaniards can come.

Now the Zheng family does not have many fleets to go to sea, mainly empty ships to run the route from Luzon to Daming, and then build ships in Luzon, sell them to or lease them to small merchants, and take a cut of the income from their going to sea.

In addition to shipbuilding, the Zheng family also provided goods, weapons, and cannons for merchants, and they let others take risks, reduce their own risks, and profit from them.

Gao Yihuan said that he was responding to the call of the government to fight the Spaniards, and the shopkeeper quickly agreed to take his men to see the goods, and promised to give him a nine-percent discount in exchange for artillery and muskets.

On the other side, Gao Laosan first ordered a meal in a restaurant, asked his brother to wait for it to be ready and sent to the ship, and then went into an inn.

The inn is the shape of a courtyard house, the guest rooms are in the courtyard, the store has two floors, the lower floor is a teahouse, selling some snacks and tea, and there are storytellers to pass the time for the guests staying in the hotel.

The blockage of Luzon's maritime trade made the inns in the city popular, and the sailors who had money but did not have the opportunity to go to sea, most of them would stay in the inns and wait for the shipowners to come and recruit them.

Gao Laosan entered the inn, and saw that there were many people sitting inside, all of whom stretched their necks to listen to people's stories, he waited for a while, and made a gesture to the old man who told the story, and the old man stopped to drink tea to moisten his throat, and he said loudly: "The triad recruits sailors, ten who can sail, thirty two, have there been any?" ”

His voice immediately attracted the attention of the men in the teahouse, and they stared at Gao Laosan with a light in their eyes.

The room was silent immediately, but then a large number of people stood up with a "bang", and shouted, "I'll go!" ”

Sailors make money, but they can't afford to spend money lavishly, and they haven't started work for more than half a year, so they are all shy in their pockets.

Gao Laosan had chosen someone before, so he had a little experience, and he was about to choose, when a dark-skinned boy came out and shouted: "Third brother, choose me!" ”

When Gao Laosan looked at it, he was overjoyed and said, "Black donkey, okay, count you in." ”

This black donkey had gone to sea with Gao Yihuan before, and was detained in Malacca for several months, and after returning to Luzon, Gao Yihuan wanted to go farming, and he did not go to sea for a short time, and the recruited sailors were scattered.

The black donkey walked out happily, followed by a man in a short black suit with bulging muscles and a strong shape.

"Third brother, this is my clan brother from my hometown, he came to Nanyang after committing an accident, you can also take him!"

The Han people who went to the South Seas, in addition to those who could not survive, had many people who fled in trouble, and this kind of people were also needed at sea, and they were more suitable for going to the sea than those stable farmers.

When Gao Laosan saw his figure, he couldn't help but arch his hand and said, "This is a brother, what do you call it?" ”

The strong man hugged his fists and said: "Under is a native of Yiwu, Zhejiang named Chen Guigui, and Chen Baoping is the same clan, the year before last he killed the village bully, he couldn't stay in his hometown, I heard that Baoping was not bad in Luzon, so he took a boat to take refuge." ”

Gao Laosan didn't ask much, "Okay, then it's Brother Chen!" ”

Chen Baoping, nicknamed the black donkey on the side, saw that Gao Laosan agreed, and his face was overjoyed, both of them spent about the same amount of money, and they had to help people farm when they didn't have any work, but for people like them who made quick money, a few of them could still go to farm.

"Third brother, Zhao Si and they don't have any work, I'll call them too!" The black donkey did not forget his brother who had gone to sea, and said with some excitement.

The third didn't expect the old brothers to be there, and he was happy in his heart, but then he thought about something, and his face sank, "I have to make it clear, this time I will follow the official army to fight the Spaniards, you have to think clearly." ”

The black donkey had already known the news in the city, he glanced at the big black man, and said with a smile, "Going to sea is a matter of life, it's the same whether you beat the Spaniards or not, not to mention that this group of white ghosts has blocked our financial route, causing us to not go to sea for more than half a year, so we should have fought a long time ago." ”

When Gao Laosan heard this, he immediately smiled and said, "Okay! In that case, then you go and call Zhao Si. ”

The black donkey nodded, and after a while, he brought out a few men who had not woken up, and they were all overjoyed when they saw Gao Laosan.

Gao Laosan counted the old brothers, ordered a few more that seemed reliable, and gathered enough ten people, so he asked them to pack up and go to the boat, he left one brother to lead the way, and he followed the instructions of the second brother to the shanty town outside the city.

Although the guard is a desperate profession, there is no threshold, so in terms of salary, it is not as good as a sailor who knows how to handle the sails.

Compared with the inn in the city, the shantytown is much more chaotic, the dragon and snake are mixed, there are everyone, Gao Laosan was surrounded by a group of people as soon as he came, he gave the local gang thirty taels of silver, and nearly 100 people were brought out in a short time, and it was still chosen by Gao Laosan.

Gao Laosan chose five Japanese, three Koreans, and twenty-two sturdy Han Chinese, and took them to the city to eat and drink first, and when they were brought back to the ship, it was already dark.

Early the next morning, Gao Yihuan asked people to transport all the goods on the ship to the Zheng family's warehouse, sugar and tobacco are valuable goods, a few catties of tobacco in the Chongzhen period can be exchanged for a horse in the north, sugar is also something for the rich and noble.

The Zheng family discounted him by 4,500 taels, exchanged for 10 18-pounder guns, 10 12-pounder cannons, and gave some knives and guns for free.

At the beginning, Xu Guangqi bought a cannon, a thousand taels, but the cost of each one was actually within two hundred taels of silver, the Ming Dynasty now casts it by itself, one is only 150 taels, the Zheng family firm is 300 taels, and the twelve-pound cannon is 150 taels, which is said to be a discount, but in fact, it still makes a lot of money.

On the afternoon of the third day, all the artillery was loaded onto the ship with the help of the Zheng family firm.

The men of the Zheng family piled a bunch of bird knives and knives on the deck, and the second brother Gao walked over and chose a Japanese knife, stuck it in his waist, and then said: "This is a big battle, and the guys who take advantage of it are all good for self-defense." ”

The sailors on deck and the recruited guards stepped forward to select their weapons one after another, but only five Japanese with shaved samurai heads did not move, holding their heirloom swords.

Just when everyone was choosing, a drum suddenly sounded in the city, Gao Yihuan and the others narrowed their eyes, looked into the city, and knew that the government was going to summon soldiers to go on the expedition······

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