Xia Hongsheng caught the three pirates, hung them upside down in the small black house for three days, used a bamboo pipe to put water droplets, and tricked them into making blood, so he pried their mouths open. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

It's a pity that these three pirates are just small people below, and they don't even know the real name of the "old ghost" in their mouths, let alone see them. I only know that he is called "Old Ghost", known as "Zhenhai Ghost King", and there are about more than 1,000 pirates under his command, dozens of sea ships, and countless other ships. It cruises in the sea all year round, and its base is in the Diaoyu Islands.

No amount of other information is of much use.

"How about it, do you want to inform the King of Hejian County and let him lead the Tang Dynasty Navy Division to send troops to Diaoyu Island and wipe out these pirates in one fell swoop?" Li Chengqian said to Xia Hongsheng.

"Now that the pirates have been exterminated, the power of the pirates on the shore still exists. Even their men were killed, and their ships were seized. But as long as the forces on the shore are thrown away, as soon as we leave, the people on the shore will continue to go into the sea to plunder, and within a few years, they will be another pirate. Xia Hongsheng shook his head and said, "If you don't cut the grass and don't remove the roots, the spring breeze will blow and grow again." Before exterminating the pirates on the water, it seems that we will find out his power on the shore. Let's work together to get rid of it completely, lest we leave in the future and these pirates will resurge. ”

Li Chengqian nodded, Xia Hongsheng went back to the desk to write a letter, and then handed it to a soldier who came with him, along with the things that came out, and asked him to go to Ryukyu to deliver a message to Li Xiaogong.

Xia Hongsheng continued to ponder the three firms. Now that you know the pirates' lair, as long as you know which business in this Quanzhou territory is cultivated and supported by pirates, you can exert force in the sea and on the shore at the same time, and wipe out the pirates in one fell swoop.

"Old ghost ......" Xia Hongsheng muttered in a low voice, his heart suddenly moved, and he turned to Li Chengqian and said, "Chengqian, we have to go to those three businesses today." ”

"What for?" Li Chengqian asked.

Xia Hongsheng smiled and said, "The most important thing is to tell them that our merchant ship will depart two days in advance!" Let's just say that the business is too good, there are too many commercial goods on the ship, the ship is running slowly, and I am afraid that the pirates will catch up, so I set off two days in advance to avoid the pirates and make it difficult for him to chase. ”

Li Chengqian is not a stupid person, and when he heard Xia Hongsheng say this, he immediately understood: "Brother Sheng, you mean, let's tell those businesses that we are going to leave early." If any of the firms belong to pirates, he will definitely spread the news that we are going to leave early overnight to the pirate ships at sea. Let's send people to keep an eye on these businesses, whoever makes a move means that they are in the same league as the pirates! ”

Xia Hongsheng nodded: "Yes, in this way, we will know which business is a pirate." ”

The two immediately hit it off, and immediately asked Shen Rong to prepare some exquisite gifts brought from Chang'an, and then left the Yiren business.

Xia Hongsheng, Li Chengqian, Qi Yong and Shen Rong went to Shuntai Business first.

"Shopkeeper Lin, the younger brother came to Quanzhou for the first time, established the Yiren business, and ate the bowl of rice of the maritime businessman. This is a piece of the shopkeeper Lin's pie. The younger brother is young, and he didn't say hello in advance, and now that he thinks about it, he is quite rude. Li Chengqian said to Lin Daoquan: "Just some thoughts, give Lin shopkeeper a gift and apologize." You are a senior in Quanzhou maritime business, in the future, the kid still needs to take care of the shopkeeper Lin, hahaha......"

The so-called reaching out and not hitting the smiling person, although Lin Daoquan didn't have a good face, but Li Chengqian said so, and he couldn't put on a black face anymore, so he reluctantly smiled: "Where, Li Gongzi is young and promising, and Yiren has a bright future." I'm just begging for food. ”

Li Chengqian smiled and said, "Tomorrow afternoon, the merchant ship of the Yiren Merchant will go to sea. The boy has never done anything about maritime affairs before, but he doesn't know what to pay attention to on this sea route, and he also asks Shopkeeper Lin to give him advice. ”

"Tomorrow afternoon?" Lin Daoquan was stunned: "Didn't I listen to what Shopkeeper Shen said before......"

"Hehe, I don't hide it from Shopkeeper Lin. If you want to come, you also know that there are sea disasters in Quanzhou, and the sea road is not very peaceful. It was said that the departure in seven days was a trick to teach the pirates that the merchant ship of the Yiren Firm would leave in seven days. In fact, the merchant ships will leave tomorrow afternoon. In this way, by the time the pirates find out, our merchant ships will be far away. Li Chengqian smiled and explained.

"Oh." Although Lin Daoquan was taken aback for a moment, he quickly returned to normalcy and said, "I can't talk about any advice." However, this sea god must be worshipped. ”

"Thank you, Shopkeeper Lin!" Li Chengqian raised his hand and saluted.

Everyone said a few more casual words, and then said goodbye to Shuntai. Later, when he came to Tongshun, Cai Jindou was full of smiles, and he was very happy to see that the things sent by Li Chengqian were exquisite, and he was busy inviting them to stay for dinner. Li Chengqian concocted the same thing, and he still said the same thing, and also told Cai Jindou about going to sea in advance.

Cai Jindou's reaction was similar to Lin Daoquan's.

The four of them refused Cai Jindou's retention, and came to the Xianghe business again.

Zhao Yutian was very surprised when he saw a few people coming, and hurriedly invited a few people into the house.

Li Chengqian still said the same thing.

After Li Chengqian finished speaking, Zhao Yutian shook his head and said, "This bowl of sea rice in Quanzhou is not delicious. Don't hide it from Li Gongzi, there was only one maritime merchant in Quanzhou earlier, that is, my Xianghe firm, which was all operated by my father. Shuntai's Lin Daoquan and Tongshun's Cai Jindou were all people who worked with their fathers earlier. After the death of my father, peace is no longer good. Alas, if it weren't for the fact that those two families still remembered some of their father's kindness in the past, I'm afraid that my peaceful business would have been unable to do it a long time ago. To tell the truth, Li Gongzi's Yiren business name will not have much impact on my peace at that time. However, Li Gongzi was too flamboyant at first, but he was afraid that he would offend those two families. ”

"Alas, the kid really has no intention of targeting others, he just wants to make the maritime business bigger, and everyone has something to earn." Li Chengqian shook his head and said: "By the way, tomorrow afternoon, the merchant ship of the Yiren Firm will go to sea, this is the first time the kid has done this, I implore the shopkeeper Zhao for some advice, the kid is grateful!" ”

"Tomorrow afternoon?" Zhao Yutian was taken aback: "I heard what the shopkeeper Shen said before, and the auspicious day is not ......"

"There's no way, although the auspicious day was set seven days later, but in order to prevent pirates, I can only go to sea in advance." Li Chengqian shook his head and said.

Hearing Li Chengqian's words, Zhao Yutian thought for a while, then turned his head left and right to look, lowered his voice, and asked, "Gongzi Li, allow me to say more." When you first arrived, the maritime merchants in Quanzhou have a number of secret rules, and you don't even know them. Shuntai and Tongshun saw that the righteous and benevolent were noisy and robbed the business, but they were afraid that they would also keep their mouths shut and wait to see the jokes. ”

Hearing Zhao Yutian say this, Xia Hongsheng's eyes froze and asked, "Oh? Please also ask the shopkeeper Zhao to make it clear! (To be continued.) )