Chen Xin was silent, he had been living in this era for more than 5 years, and he was used to being here, and now he really couldn't understand Li Kuiqi's motives. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Although Chen Xin clearly knew what kind of great strength the United Kingdom of China had, it was useless just for the people of the kingdom to know.

In Asia in this era, the Ming Dynasty is orthodox, and other places are "poor and remote", which is not worthy of the nostalgia of the "heroes" at all.

At this time, the status of the Ming Dynasty is equivalent to the American imperialism of later generations, and countless people who have the dream of being promoted and making a fortune are yearning for it.

Moreover, in the 17th century, the national consciousness in the world had not yet been fully awakened, so the situation of yearning for and immigrating to the Ming Dynasty was more natural than the immigration of people from various poor countries in later generations.

In later generations, there are still various patriotic trends of thought that are restraining and guiding everyone's behavior, but in this era, there are not so many trends of thought.

is like Zheng Zhilong, in fact, he is also very powerful in Japan.

Zheng Zhilong was summoned by the Tokugawa shogunate many times, and was regarded as a prominent figure by the Japanese, and had close contacts with local tycoons. He even married the daughter of a retainer of the Nagasaki clan who was a close retainer of the Tokugawa shogunate.

It may be a bit twisting to say this, but if you take a closer look, you will know how powerful it is.

Nagasaki, before the occupation of the kingdom, was one of the only two port cities in Japan that was able to trade with foreign countries.

This was the most important source of wealth for the Tokugawa shogunate, in addition to Iwami Ginzan and Sado Kanezan, and the Nagasaki government was the highest official in charge of Nagasaki trade.

From the perspective of Chen Xin's later generations, it is really inconceivable that a pirate leader can marry the daughter of a retainer under a high-ranking official of this level.

However, even if he has such a prominent status in Japan and is courteous, it can't stop Zheng Zhilong's contempt for Japan, and his willingness to return to the Ming Dynasty is extremely strong, which is why he finally contributed to the recruitment of Xiong Wencan, the governor of Fujian, in September of the previous year.

When Daming appeased Zheng Zhilong, he also took and appeased his righteous brothers, but the result was that Li Kuiqi, Han Bin, and Liu Xiang, although they yearned for the prosperity of Daming, they were unwilling to accept Daming's control and refused to recruit An.

Even Da Ming's appeasement was not moved, but now he is willing to come to the kingdom to clear the way and be a "good citizen", which cannot but surprise and doubt.

"Since Li Kuiqi was chased here in a hurry, what is he going to use to unblock the joints? Does he have any good cards in his hand? Could it be that he still hides a fleet? ”

"Your Majesty, this is what the minister is going to report next, on the ship that Li Kuiqi himself was on, about 1.2 million taels of silver were found, as well as gold, silver jewelry, antiques, calligraphy, painting and jewelry, and a large number of luxury goods that could not be counted in a short time."

"Oh, I was thinking about bribery." Chen Xin pouted disdainfully, "It's such a big deal, no wonder I have to be willing to accept Daming's recruitment, it turns out that being a pirate is so profitable." ”

The United Kingdom of China has always had a very good finance, and it has never encountered a situation where it is short of money.

You know, the kingdom occupies Japan's largest source of wealth, Sado Kanayama, and at the same time, it has also opened hundreds of format factories to produce goods that are exported to Asia and Europe.

And the demand is still increasing, and the scale of factories is constantly expanding in various places.

Therefore, although Li Kuiqi brought a lot of gold and silver, it was not taken seriously by the people of the kingdom.

Chen Xin: This is just complaining that Li Kuiqi actually brought those bad problems to the kingdom.

After a sarcastic sentence, Chen Xin reacted, if he hadn't been defeated by Zheng Zhilong this time, Li Kuiqi, I'm afraid, would not be willing to give up the "rich" profession of pirates!

Li Guanghai, the person in charge of the Ping'an County Police Department, asked softly again, "So, dare to ask your lordship, what should we do with Li Kuiqi's gang?" ”

Chen Xin tapped his fingers on the table, "Where are they now?" Is it safe? You must know that these people are all militants, and they have been pirates, and there will definitely be some die-hard loyalists under them. ”

"Please rest assured, these people are being held in a secret prison of the Ministry of Justice, waiting to be disposed of. It's also very safe and there is no room for error, and when the Ministry of Justice established the prison, it was designed to secretly hold repeat offenders. ”

Chen Xin nodded and ignored this question, since the courtiers said that it was foolproof, then it would be good to believe it, Chen Xin didn't believe it, with the kingdom's current combat capabilities, there were still people who dared to spread wilderness in the country.

Then, Chen Xin began to think about how to deal with Li Kuiqi and these guys. After about a minute, his eyes suddenly lit up.

It occurred to him that the kingdom was now unable to greatly expand the number of troops due to the lack of population, which caused the development of the two maritime forces, the navy and the coast guard, to be sluggish.

If we could learn from John Bull and adopt the strategy of hiding troops from pirates, wouldn't we be able to recruit enough fighting force for the navy when it was short of manpower?

In the naval battle between the British and Spanish armadas decades ago, John Bull used to fight the fleet was made up of pirates who had been raiding enemy ships in the Atlantic Ocean for many years.

Those who have to worry about every battle, and have also experienced a hundred battles, have gone further in tactical innovation than the Spanish Navy, when Spain was still using gang jumping operations as the main force of operations, those pirates have developed a set of artillery combat methods.

And in terms of the degree of grasp of the warplane, these pirates, who stare at every prey like hungry wolves all day long, are far beyond Spain.

The combination of several aspects led to the destruction of the Spanish armada, although Spain, with its deep pockets, immediately reconstituted its fleet and sued for peace with John Bull, who had a new, more powerful fleet.

However, John Bull's use of pirates is still worth learning from.

As for whitewashing, the cattle and cattle of later generations will call themselves gentlemen, so do they still need to wash themselves? As long as the country is strong, some literati and public intellectuals from other countries will kneel and lick and help wash their hands.

However, there are still some problems that need to be carefully considered, that is, the management of pirates, in case it is time to support technology and materials on weekdays, and when it comes to battle, it will be embarrassing if no pirates come back to participate in the war.

Moreover, in case it is an emergency, it is not an embarrassment that can be fooled.

By the way, isn't this Li Kuiqi just a test product sent to the door? Is this guy being used as a pilot?

As for whether this person named Li Kuiqi is willing or not, hehe.