Although Jiang Wubo imagined that this journey would not be smooth sailing, he had also heard others tell the story of opening up the route, and almost every paragraph could be used as a legendary novel. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info But when all the real problems were placed in front of him, Jiang Wubo still found that he had underestimated the difficulty of the matter.

The steamer continued its voyage towards the coast. On the map, it is marked with a nice name, Dubai.

Jiang Hecheng said with some joy: "I finally arrived at the place, I have been floating on the sea for so long, I hope the goods we brought can be sold at a good price." ”

Jiang Wubo didn't know why, but he was a little unhappy, his right eyelid kept jumping, looking at the coast with no buildings at all, the endless desert, and a little regretted why he listened to the words of the big people back then and came to this place to do business.

Some crew members saw a few small boats coming in the harbor, and the first mate said: "It should be the port's water guide ship, after all, we are here for the first time, and they may not have seen our kind of cargo ship, so before letting us enter the port, we must interrogate it." ”

After Lao Zhao cleaned up a group of pirates just now, he didn't put down the assault rifle in his hand, and he said to Jiang Wubo: "Boss Jiang, it's better to be cautious, just let a few of them get on the boat and ask for clarification." If they ask you to get off the boat and talk, you can't agree. ”

Jiang Wubo believed Lao Zhao's judgment, nodded, and after a while, several small boats sailed to the bottom of the freighter, shouting for the upper part to lower the gangway and pull them up.

Jiang Wubo asked the Arabic interpreter to shout: "We are Tang businessmen who have come here to do business, and we can only come up with two people, whoever is in charge of things will come up." ”

But this group of guys in white clothes still climbed up the gangway as if they didn't understand, Lao Zhao's eyes narrowed, he pulled the bolt, and said, "There is a problem." ”

Jiang Hecheng originally wanted to say that these might just be local officials or something, but when he looked down, he saw several bearded men holding guns and snapping at him.

This shot grazed his scalp, Jiang Hecheng screamed in fright, wiped his head, and actually bled out.

Jiang Wubo shouted: "Fight back, these are also pirates!" ”

Five or six security personnel immediately picked up assault rifles and shot down from the boat, and Jiang Wubo was also decisive, risking the bullets from below, pulling out his dagger and cutting the gangway made of ropes. But the gangway was woven with the toughest rope, and after a few cuts, he broke a little, and then gave up, and took a gun and shot downward.

This group of pirates was more numerous than anyone had seen at sea, and they were coming from different directions. When there was no gangway, they threw the grappling hook, and Jiang Wubo immediately shouted: "Open the boat, drive the boat away, the sailors will cut their ropes with knives, throw down the things that are not needed and smash them down!" ”

Fortunately, the captain didn't completely turn off the fire just now, and there was a little more vitality at this time. Although a few pirates did rush aboard, the well-stocked guards quickly shot them down. The captain wittily slammed the rudder and slammed the boat below, then turned around and ran, finally leaving the den of thieves.

Several sailors were wounded, and one security officer was slashed in the thigh by a pirate with a scimitar, but fortunately the dodge was timely and did not hurt the bone, otherwise the leg would have been gone.

Jiang Wubo said to Lao Zhao with some shame: "It's because I can't stand the big guy and encounter such a catastrophe." ”

Lao Zhao waved his hand and said, "We can't do this business smoothly." To tell the truth, it's similar to these pirates, they are all fighting for their lives, who knows what will go wrong, don't blame Boss Jiang. However, I asked the interpreter to ask about the pirates I had just caught, and these pirates were still very horizontal, unlike the previous ones, these were the warriors of the local Dubai tribal chieftain. ”

Jiang Wubo was a little confused and asked, "Then why did they come to rob us?" ”

Lao Zhao laughed and said: "This kind of thing is also common, you can't expect these tribesmen to abide by the law like us in the Tang Dynasty." The situation in the Persian Gulf seems to be more complicated than we thought before, the local area originally belonged to the Saeyid dynasty of Oman, but after the death of the Omani king, the country was in civil strife, so most of the local emirs did their own thing. We are suffering from the lack of intelligence, almost every one of the chiefs on the southern shore of the Persian Gulf is not a pirate, according to the captive, whether it is an Arab merchant ship or a European merchant ship, they will rob it, so when we get to the port, they only think we are fat sheep, and they have no intention of doing business with us at all. ”

Jiang Wubo said with annoyance: "How can this be good, if this area is so chaotic, it is impossible to do business, there are tens of thousands of yuan of goods on this ship, if it can't be sold, then the company will lose a lot of money." ”

Jiang Hecheng's head had already exploded, and it looked particularly funny to be wrapped in bandages, he was extremely panicked just now, but at this time he calmed down, and gave his father an idea: "Father, it's better for us to pull the goods to Surat, after all, it has just been captured by our Tang Army, and with the Tang Army to maintain law and order, the situation will definitely be much better." ”

Jiang Wubo nodded and said: "It's because my father is too greedy, thinking that he can find a good route and make a windfall, if we set a goal to go to Surat from the beginning, I'm afraid we can save so many twists and turns." ”

Surat is a long-established port that has been doing business with the outside world for more than 100 years, and has been operated by both the British and the French, and it is quite well equipped. In particular, the Tang Dynasty established a North Indian overseas territory here, and a large number of personnel and materials had to be transferred through here, and Surat was actually very busy at this time. Jiang Wubo was worried that he would not be able to compete with other companies, so he chose an unpopular route, intending to gain a foothold in the Persian Gulf and expand his influence in India, but he did not expect to fail so much.

Lao Zhao comforted Jiang Wubo for a while, and then suggested: "The maritime department still attaches great importance to the pirates encountered by our Datang merchant ships. Now that the Indian Ocean Fleet has expanded to the Arabian Sea, and there is also a base for our Datang Navy on the west coast of India, I see, let's compile this situation into a report and send it to the Tang Army on the Surat side to complain, and ask them to fight piracy for us. I know that Boss Jiang, you can't swallow this breath, it's just that we are weak, but we have a backer behind us. When the navy hears that we have been bullied, it will definitely come to help, and when these pirate chieftains are scared, business will naturally be able to sit up. ”

Jiang Wubo didn't trust this very much, in his opinion, after all, they had run away from the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang Army was not raised by them, so how could they go to great lengths to vent their anger. (To be continued.) )