These maritime merchants are not nerds, if the Dengzhou sailors can work, will there still be pirates such as jute seeds and sea snakes on the Bohai Sea?

Since the sailor can't count on it, the maritime merchants themselves are not enough to protect themselves, so they can only compromise with the pirates, but fortunately, those pirates usually know what sheep shearing is, and they don't force the rabbits to be anxious, and the two sides have gotten along very "peacefully" for so many years.

A tenth of your property is considered a protection fee!

But the appearance of the black skeleton broke the calm on the Bohai Sea, and the share of the yellow pote and the sea snake had to be paid, and now they had to pay an extra share, it hurt!

"Why is the combat effectiveness of the Dengzhou Navy Division getting worse and worse, the yellow matte and the sea snake can't be wiped out, and now even the emerging power Black Skull can't be wiped out, when did this Datang Navy become so vulnerable!"

The crowd complained, "This business is getting harder and harder now!" ”

On the surface, the Shanghai businessmen had to pay protection fees to the three pirates, and secretly they had to honor the Dengzhou sailors and Dengzhou officials a lot of yellow and white things, and if there were no complaints in their hearts, it would be false.

"You say that if the Black Skull defeats the Jute and the Sea Serpent, or vice versa, do we have to pay less?"

"The hundred-legged insect is dead but not stiff, although the black skeleton rises quickly, but after all, the time is too short, the number of people and ships are not as good as the jute and the sea snake, now the strength of the three is about the same, it seems that the Bohai Sea is equally divided, in fact, the jute and the sea snake join forces to overpower the black skull, the black skull is now more than enough to protect itself, the black skull and the sea snake are also very afraid of the black skull since the last time they failed to join forces, and only dare to operate near the west coast of the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate, using the terrain advantage to maneuver around the black skull, There hasn't been much conflict between the two sides in recent months. ”

Everyone frowned, this situation was the last thing the maritime merchants wanted to see, no matter who destroyed whom, it was better than the current stalemate.

Just when everyone was worried, the middle-aged man who spoke earlier said: "To be honest, there is no comparison between the black skeleton and the yellow hemp seed and the sea snake...... at all."

"Oh! Why don't you analyze it with us? ”

The middle-aged man coughed lightly and said, "I have met several maritime merchants who have been robbed by the Black Skeleton, and after communicating with them, they all think that the Black Skeleton has a strange style of doing things and behaves strangely, but it is worth reassuring us maritime merchants, this opinion is not my own opinion!" ”

"First of all, the Black Skull never robbed and harassed the coastal villages, only the passing merchant ships and merchants near the seashore, which is different from the jute seeds and sea snakes, they have never harassed the Denglai area before. Secondly, the Black Skull's methods are also more gentle, and I am talking about under normal circumstances, if anyone provokes the Black Skull, the result will naturally not be so good. Then the Black Skull's means of doing things ......", the middle-aged man suddenly lowered his voice and said: "You haven't seen the pirates under the Black Skull, when I saw the Black Skull for the first time, I almost thought that I had met the official army, there was no dirty mess of other pirates on the ship, the whole ship was orderly, the black thieves had a clear division of labor, they did things neatly and neatly, and they acted vigorously and resolutely, listening to each other's names and hierarchies, running like a huge machine, even ordinary sailors couldn't reach them, don't you think it's strange?" ”

The surrounding maritime merchants had never seen the black skeleton, and they smiled at the middle-aged man's words, their faces full of disbelief.

The middle-aged man didn't defend either, and a hint of pride suddenly flashed on his face: "Actually, these are not the most important things, and you will naturally understand after you meet the black skeleton."

Seeing the middle-aged man's vague words, the people around him immediately let out a mockery, "You just blow it!" Pirates are pirates, can they become other things? ”

was ridiculed by the people around him, and the middle-aged man finally couldn't hold back his face, and said: "What I said is true, who of you has ever seen a maritime merchant who has been robbed by pirates and still said that pirates are good, is there still anyone who is naturally willing to be robbed by pirates?" ”

"Is this true?"

However, what puzzled everyone was that the middle-aged man did not have the slightest resentment and dissatisfaction with the black skeleton, and it seemed that the next time he went to sea, he would like to meet the black skeleton again, as if it was not the middle-aged man who suffered, but the black skeleton.

No matter how the people around him coerced and tempted, the middle-aged man just gritted his teeth and didn't say the reason, so that these people seemed to be itching countless ants in their hearts, but they couldn't use a knife to force him to tell the reason, so they could only criticize it in their stomachs for a long time, and then they were unwilling to let go of the middle-aged man.

At this time, the old maritime merchant who had not spoken suddenly laughed, attracting the attention of the surrounding maritime merchants: "What are you laughing at?" ”

The old maritime merchant looked at the middle-aged thief and smiled: "I believe what you said is true, and I am also going to make the next trip from the coast of Dizhou to see if I can meet the black skeleton you said, I am a little looking forward to it!" ”

"Crazy!"

There are also maritime merchants who personally deliver them to the door, and the world is too crazy!

The middle-aged man and the old maritime merchant didn't pay attention to the idiot gazes of the people around them at all, and the two looked at each other and smiled understandingly, and they didn't mean to continue to break the tacit understanding.

The confused crowd was a little angry, could it be that they were idiots, they were treated as fools, as long as they were in their right minds, they would not be willing to accept such a fact.

But the two of them didn't say anything about the death, and everyone could only stare dryly.

Fujiwara Shuxiong listened to the discussion of the maritime merchants behind him, stopped the roast leg of lamb that was brought to his mouth, gave Zhen Qian a look, and lowered his voice to the extent that only the two of them could hear: "Zhen Lang, did you guess?" ”

Zhen Qian smiled mysteriously and said: "Do you still need to guess, businessmen seek profit, scholars seek fame, only profit can make businessmen forget the identity of the other party, do you say this is the truth."

Fujiwara brushed his eyes, and he had already guessed what Zhen Qian was going to say, and raised his thumb and said: "Zhen Lang is really a god, what happens to your mouth becomes extremely simple, there is a kind of magic that turns decay into magic, which I am afraid few people can compare!" ”

Zhen Qian just smiled faintly and said: "Many things are actually nothing if a layer of window paper is broken, those two maritime merchants don't want to say that they are afraid of setting themselves on fire, there are many things that can be said but can't be done, on the contrary, there are some things that can be done but can't be said, otherwise it will lead to death, this truth is something that many people have not figured out in their lives!" ”

"Just like Zhen Lang and I went back to the country this time, I can do it but I can't say it, it's really embarrassing for Zhen Lang?"

Zhen Qian waved his hand and said: "The matter is actually not very troublesome, the imperial court has a rule that anyone leaving the territory of the Tang Dynasty must have a document from the Ministry of Etiquette, but if it is a business to help, it is another matter, then it should not be a problem to find a businessman to go to sea in Yangzhou, Fujiwara-kun don't worry about this!" ”

At first, Fujiwara wanted to add Zhen Qian's name to the list of envoys to the Tang Dynasty through official channels, and leave the Tang Dynasty openly.

This stupid method startled Zhen Qian, if he really did this, not to mention whether he could leave Datang or not, it was possible to go to prison, who would let himself have an official status?

(End of chapter)