Xu Kun and Xu Ying didn't believe the words of the feudal merchants at all, and said sarcastically:

"Lord Xu, you're too daring, aren't you? These merchants of the sub-feudal kingdom scare you, do you believe it? Where are the pirates today? The four pirates have all been wiped out, where are the pirates? It's clear that these feudal merchants are fooling you. ”

When Xu Shixing heard this, he said in his heart, yes, Luo Xin has already killed the pirates and pirates, where are the pirates, and he couldn't help but look at those vassal merchants angrily.

Those merchants of the vassal kingdom shouted again and again, and finally swore an oath with a gambling curse, and if the gambling curse did not succeed, they would leave the Ming Dynasty. In the end, even Xu Shixing and Xu Jie's two sons were a little confused.

In the end, Xu Jie's two sons were also afraid that what these vassal merchants said was true, so they discussed and discussed, and finally the vassal merchants proposed two solutions.

The first option is to trade at the previous price.

The second way was to let Hu Zongxian send a navy to protect them and escort them out of the pirate-controlled area. But the second option is conditional. The merchants of the vassal kingdom first traded according to the price of the last time, and Xu Jie's son could send a ship to follow him to the sea, and when he left the sea area controlled by the pirates, the merchants of the vassal kingdom immediately made up the difference according to the price before the Xu family did not participate, and the people of the Xu family followed Hu Zongxian's army back.

If Hu Zongxian's army can't defeat the pirates, then they won't make up the difference, and once there is a greater loss, the Xu family will have to compensate.

In fact, this was already a big concession by the merchants of the vassal state. If the pirates saw that they dared to let the government navy protect them, they might kill them all.

However, they came all the way to Daming, and they were definitely not willing to go back empty-shipped. The power of capital makes them dare to risk their lives. In fact, they risked the unpredictable dangers of the sea all the way, and they were already pinning their heads to the waistband of their trousers.

Whether it is Xu Shixing or Xu Jie's two sons, it is impossible to refuse such conditions. So they all agreed to the second option.

On the one hand, it was Xu Jie's two sons who didn't believe that there were pirates, and on the other hand, if the merchants of the vassal country really left like this, so that Xu Shixing couldn't collect taxes, Xu Shixing would not hesitate to put this pot on their heads. Xu Shixing can't get good, and their Xu family can't get good, I'm afraid it will really affect Xu Jie's career. Therefore, Xu Kun and Xu Ying had no choice but to choose the second method.

And so, the problem arises again.

How to get Hu Zongxian to send troops?

You know, if it is said that there are pirates, it is completely what the merchants of the vassal country said, and no pirates have been found on the Daming coast. Hu Zongxian can completely ignore them. If you want Hu Zongxian to send troops to escort him, there is only one way, to give Hu Zongxian benefits.

This part of the interests naturally has to be paid by the Xu family, and the Xu family can afford it. If there were no pirates, the Xu family would trade with the merchants of the feudal kingdom at the price of the original five great families, so the Xu family would have a huge profit, and there would be nothing to deduct a part of these huge profits to Hu Zongxian, and the income would still be more than the original.

If there are pirates, then this is Hu Zongxian's business, they will destroy the pirates, or run away, the Xu family is still trading with the merchants of the vassal country at a high price, so it is still a huge profit.

As for Hu Zongxian's army, it can't defeat the pirates......

No kidding!

Do you think that today's pirates have the strength of the four pirates in the past!

If pirates have that strength, what are they doing at sea?

It's already like the previous Japanese invaders, and they have hit the shore.

However, if you want to talk to Hu Zongxian, Xu Kun and Xu Ying's identities are not qualified at all, even Xu Shixing is not enough. He is different from Luo Xin, when Luo Xin first arrived in the southeast, didn't Hu Zongxian also want to give Luo Xin a horse?

That's still Luo Xin has a holy decree!

And what does Xu Shixing have now?

Not to mention Xu Shixing, even Zhang Juzheng's qualifications as the prefect of Hangzhou are not enough, but Zhang Juzheng's reputation in the capital is barely enough. So Xu Shixing and Xu Jie's two sons ran to see Zhang Juzheng again. After listening to Xu Shixing's narration, Zhang Juzheng also realized the seriousness of the problem. couldn't help glaring at Xu Jie's two sons with hatred, without the greed of these two people, where would there be so many things?

But this is the teacher's son!

This ass has to be rubbed!

It's just that Zhang Juzheng doesn't have a score in his heart, and I don't know if Hu Zongxian will agree. He knew that Hu Zongxian and Xu Jie had broken up, and now Hu Zongxian was likely to form an alliance with Luo Xin. In this case, will Hu Zongxian send troops?

However, what they didn't expect was that when Zhang Juzheng, Xu Shixing and Xu Jie's two sons teamed up to find Hu Zongxian, Hu Zongxian happily agreed, but it was necessary to slaughter him fiercely. Nominally, it is the cost of sending troops to the navy, but everyone knows that most of the silver will fall into Hu Zongxian's own pocket.

However, there is no way around it.

Sending troops to protect the merchants of the feudal kingdom, Hu Zongxian didn't think about communicating with Luo Xin at all. After there were no Japanese robbers, the imperial court gave Hu Zongxian's military salary too much, and now that he finally came across a piece of meat, how could Hu Zongxian not bite?

As for helping the Xu family in this way, Luo Xin will not be angry, and he will naturally excuse himself at that time. Zhang Juzheng and Xu Shixing both came to the door, this is a business matter, if he does not send troops, Zhang Juzheng and Xu Shixing will join forces to impeach, and he can't stand it. In this way, Luo Xin can't blame him.

Therefore, after Hu Zongxian finished talking about the cost of sending troops, he happily agreed.

Zhang Juzheng, Xu Shixing and Xu Jie's two sons went back happily. Zhang Juzheng and Xu Shixing were quite calm, but they only informed the merchants of the vassal kingdom that Hu Zongxian had promised to send troops. But Xu Jie's two sons were not so steady, in order to show their ability and the prestige of the Xu family, in less than half a day, the entire Hangzhou government knew that Hu Zongxian was going to send troops to protect the merchants of the feudal kingdom to go to sea.

In this way, the merchants of the vassal kingdom had nothing to say, so they began to trade with the Xu Mansion and transport goods onto ships.

Night!

A small boat quietly left the shore and headed for the deep sea.

On the back side of a small island off the coast, there was a large boat, and on that small boat, someone raised a torch and spun three times in the air. There were also people on the big boat who raised torches and spun around three times. Then the small boat moved closer to the big one. A rope was thrown down from the boat, and the man in the small boat tied the boat to the big boat, and then climbed up along the rope, and the man went to the deck, his eyes lit up, and he stepped forward and knelt down on one knee and said:

"Lord Wang, you are here in person!"

Luo Sheng stretched out his hand to help him up and said, "My cousin hasn't heard from me for a long time, so I finally came to write once, so I naturally want to come over in person." What do you think? Is Hu Zongxian really going to send troops to protect the merchants of the vassal kingdom as my cousin expected? ”

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