The person in Anyoule Town is called Hu Yuan, a native of Yazhou, who takes a fancy to the government here, and organizes a group of local young people, who have the right to speak here in the name of patrolling and guarding against pirates, and anyone who does a little business in the town must pay him a certain fee in order to get his protection, which is regarded as a protection fee. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

If a large group of pirates comes, Hu Yuan will provide them with fresh water and food to send them away - the pirates also need a place to settle down and replenish, and the two sides will be safe and sound - if a lone merchant comes, Hu Yuan will not mind making a cameo appearance as a robber and making a windfall. Over time, he has also accumulated some net worth, and he enjoys the life of this kind of soil emperor very much.

Today, I heard an urgent report from my subordinates, and a group of pirates, no less than 100 people, set up a position outside the town, and those who came were not good. Hu Yuan hurriedly led his subordinates to the wall to observe the reality of the other party. I saw that a hundred or so people gathered a hundred paces away, lined up neatly, and there was no noise, and there were two iron pipe-like things in front of the queue, and several people were fiddling with them, not knowing what to do.

He didn't know that this was the artillery that made the Li soldiers who cut off the foot mountain suffer a lot, but he thought it was a pirate who came to fight the autumn wind, and at the moment his hands gathered into a trumpet shape, and shouted to the opposite side: "I don't know if it's the brothers along the way, what do you have to do here, if there is a lack of water and food, the contemptible people can offer it with both hands." ”

In the summer, Nan Yile, this posture is to treat himself as a passing pirate, and he should be called Hanako! He also responded: "Listen to the person on the other side, what I need, I will come and get it." From today on, Anyoule Town is mine, if anyone is not convinced, go and tell Lord Yama to go! ”

Hu Yuanqi's seven tricks are smoking, he has never seen such an arrogant pirate, don't you know that he will leave a line in everything and see each other in the future? Give you a little color, and you're going to open a dyehouse. The fortifications here are strong, but it depends on how you, a hundred or so people, gnaw down here?

He turned around and shouted: "Brothers, raising soldiers for a thousand days and using soldiers for a while, Lao Tzu eats and drinks for you on weekdays, and now is the time for you to repay me." As long as we hold the wall and don't let them attack it, this bit of people won't be able to bite me! ”

These young men were all recruited by him, and he had never done anything with pirates with real knives and guns, but he was very good at bullying the traders in the village on weekdays, and felt that these hundred or so people were not to be afraid, so they shouted one after another: "Boss, don't worry, brothers are here, and these pirates will not be able to please them." ”

Hu Yuan waved his hand proudly to everyone, and was about to continue to boost morale, only to hear a loud bang, the wooden wall was blasted open a hole, and under the shock, everyone at the head of the wall stood unsteadily and fell to the ground one after another.

This was the first shot fired by the artillery, which deviated slightly by a few meters and hit the city walls. Lin Weiye said to the gunner in disappointment: "You can miss so close, go back and practice well!" "The gunner Nuno responded, quickly cleaned the chamber, loaded the shells, and prepared to fire the second shot.

Everyone on the wall got up, rubbing their numb ears that were shaken, you look at me, I look at you, I don't know what's going on. Hu Yuan stared blankly at the two iron pipes, still smoking, it seemed that this guy was making a noise.

Before they could react, the shelling after the school firing began, and two twelve-pounder mountain howitzers fired solid shells at the same time, accurately hitting the gate of the wall, which was more fragile than the chopping one, and directly shattered into pieces of wood and scattered in all directions.

At this time, Hu Yuan and his subordinates finally figured out what was going on, shouted "Mom", jumped off the wooden wall and fled. It's a pity that they're just a bunch of thugs who collect protection money, and they've never seen this battle.

Without firing a single shot, the convoy went straight into the town with guns in hand to accept the surrender of Hu Yuan and his men, which could not even be called a real battle, but more like an armed parade.

Hu Yuan's arrogance just now was completely gone, and he knelt in front of Xia Nan tremblingly, kowtowing like pounding garlic: "Uncle spare my life, as long as the uncle lets me go, I can do anything." ”

Xia Nan didn't bother to talk nonsense, and said bluntly: "You find me a few hundred people, go to Huangniling to mine, do a good job, you are still the head here, if you don't do a good job, you will be thrown into the sea to feed the fish!" ”

Mining? After a long time, he didn't come to plot this village, Hu Yuan was a little settled in his heart, and was about to think about how to phrase it, but someone behind him muttered, "Lao Tzu didn't go to the barren mountains and mountains to mine......

It was one of his subordinates who said this, usually a little stunned, and the kind with few brains. This sentence was heard by Xia Nan, and he was about to make an example of the monkey, so someone sent it to the door by himself. He took the rifle from one of the team members behind him—it was all loaded with ammunition—and aimed it at the fool and pulled the trigger.

At such a close distance, the destructive power of a stop-action lead bullet is even greater than that of a modern rifle bullet. Before Hu Yuan could react, he only heard a loud noise, accompanied by a burst of black smoke, and the head of the subordinate behind him exploded a big hole, and blood splashed his head and face, he subconsciously wiped his face, and there was something mushy on his hands, which looked like brains.

Hu Yuan screamed hysterically, he had also seen blood when he was trying to steal the money of the maritime merchants, but such a bloody scene was something he had never seen before, which exceeded his psychological capacity.

Summer Nan picked up his rifle, pointed it at him, and asked again: "Answer me, do it or not?" ”

Hu Yuan couldn't wipe the blood off his body, knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly, his head soon saw blood, and he howled and replied: "I'll do it, uncle, you can tell me to do anything, as long as you don't kill me!" ”

Xia Nan raised her head in satisfaction and glanced around. Hu Yuan's subordinates behind him were all eager to lie on the ground, and their bodies trembled. In the distance, there stood a large group of people, the townspeople's inhabitants and traders, who did not dare to speak out for fear of angering the guards. The effect has been achieved, and the young men and inhabitants fear themselves more than the pirates, and that is enough.

The stick was used, and the carrot couldn't be pulled down, Xia Nan's tone softened: "Don't worry, as long as you supervise the work well and mine for me, you will continue to be your mountain king, and the protection fee will be collected." If someone wants to make trouble in Anyoule, if you can't handle it, just tell my people, and I'll help you out. ”

Hu Yuan thought about it, it didn't sound bad, and besides, his life was in the hands of others, so he had no choice. In addition to the extra mining tasks, he has no substantial losses, and he is still the boss of Anyoule Town. And with such a powerful backer, ordinary pirates don't need to be taken seriously.

He reached out and wiped the blood on his forehead, so as not to cover his eyes: "Hu will definitely do his best!" ”

In this way, Hu Yuan became the foreman of the Tiandu Iron Mine, and his task was to supervise the miners to dig the iron ore, and then transport it to the shore, where Xia Nan sent people to load it and transport it away.

There are more than 1,000 permanent residents and a floating population of traders, blacksmiths, and prostitutes, and it is not a problem for each household to allocate one male to each household, and it is not a problem to gather one or two hundred miners. Lin Weiye's workload is 2 tons of ore per person per day, as long as he works for a full day, and the amount of labor is not too large.

Xia Nan is not afraid of Hu Yuan's dissenting intentions - it can be seen that this guy is reluctant to have any pots and jars here, and he will not run away easily, let alone confront the guards - as long as he regularly sends people to load ore.

The labor and supervisors of Tiandu Iron Mine were solved in this way, and after everything was arranged, Xia Nan embarked on the way home. He didn't go back empty-handed, not only loaded a few boatloads of urgently needed iron ore, but also loaded more than a hundred blacksmiths from Anyoule Town—these people could become craftsmen in the Bairentan Arsenal with good training, and what was most lacking in the summer was manpower in the summer.