The group entered the largest wooden house, and sat down with the guests.

Whitebeard looked at Li Jing carefully again, and said with a smile: "Seeing that General Li is still so radiant, it seems that the one-eyed Jiaoshamen Town was completely wiped out, and even his own head was cut off by the general's own hands is not a rumor, but true." ”

"Don't be so polite, just call me brother or Ji Yu." Li Jing sat on the left side of the chief, which was the most distinguished VIP seat. "I would also like to thank a few leaders for being able to send troops for me." Saying that, Li Jing got up, picked up the wine jug on the table, poured a glass of wine, and saluted Whitebeard.

"Ha Luha, you also said that you are not polite, you yourself will be polite immediately." Whitebeard happily bent down to take the wine glass, and said with a smile on his face, "I believe that if it were us who asked the general for help, the general would definitely not refuse." ”

"It is natural that our brotherly covenant is witnessed by heaven. If you need me to help, it is naturally incumbent! ”

Whitebeard nodded and said solemnly: "It's about our brotherly covenant, we have no choice but to send troops!" Those who dare to rob our friends in the East China Sea will inevitably be punished, pay the price of blood, and don't think of getting out of the way! ”

"Stick a knife in your brother's ribs!" Redbeard smiled heartily, "The enemy of my brother is our enemy." Feng Zhang actually dares to steal your goods secretly, that is our enemy. ”

"Thank you very much for the generosity of several masters, and I am really grateful for the five in the following." Li Jing got up and toasted to Whitebeard and a few others, the wine was bitter and unpalatable, and Li Jing guessed that it could be drunk with wheat. The power is not high. The wine is a cloudy yellow. It is full of fermented flavors. Although the degree is not high, the taste is very strong. He couldn't help but miss the high-grade liquor he had just brewed in Shamen Town. Originally, he was only going to brew a batch of high-grade liquor to make medical alcohol, which was used for first-aid disinfection and debridement on the battlefield. However, as soon as this wine came out, Lin Wu, Wang Zhong and other people who were good at wine were suddenly hooked, although this wine was extremely strong, but these people were as happy as they were. In the end, Li Jing had to open two wineries, one specializing in brewing super-high liquor, which was used to make medical alcohol. The other is used to make liquor with a slightly lower degree. On the other hand, it is also prepared to sell the wine as a supply for high-ranking officers, creating a revenue channel for Salmon Island.

Seeing that a few sea thieves were even drinking such bitter wine, Li Jing hurriedly beckoned, and Zhang Chengzong immediately got up and took out two five-pound small jars from the backpack he brought in.

Li Jing took it, stretched out his hand to pat the sealing mud, and suddenly a mellow fragrance rushed out of the altar, permeating the entire tent.

Whitebeard and the others couldn't help but sniff hard, and their expressions were shocked.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is a little gift from you."

A few pirate leaders have long been eroded by the aroma of this wine. Hurriedly beckoned a pirate guard to come forward and pour wine. The wine is in the bowl and is crystal clear. There is no cloudiness. Looking at the wine that was clearer than the spring water, and the strong fragrance, several people were amazed. With a small sip, the wine entered his throat, and suddenly a hot feeling surged, and the whole blood seemed to be ignited. Whitebeard drank a little too much in his first sip of wine, and the fierce aura almost made him unbearable, and his red face turned even redder. With a long sip of wine, Whitebeard shook his head lightly and sighed loudly: "Cool! ”

"What kind of wine is this, how have I never drunk or smelled it, it's so delicious. The wine is clear and mellow, and the sex is stronger, and this kind of wine is the wine that we should drink for the Jianghu men who lick the blood at the tip of the knife. Redbeard was also very impressed.

"Three thousand years in the world, five grains into jade liquid." Li Jing said with a smile, "This wine is called Wuliangye Liquor, a typical representative of the strong aroma Daqu Liquor, which integrates the aura of heaven, earth and man, and adopts traditional technology to select high-quality sorghum, glutinous rice, rice, wheat and millet five kinds of grains. It has a unique style of "long aroma, mellow taste, luscious entrance, clean throat, harmonious flavors, and just right", and is an outstanding boutique in today's liquor products. ”

"I often call myself a drunkard, but why have I never heard of the name of this Wuliangye?"

"Don't hide it from a few masters, in fact, this wine is a new specialty of my Shamen Town, and the wine that a few people drink is the first batch of fine wine in the winery. Now others have no chance to drink it. When the new wine was made, I happened to come to visit a few masters, so I brought it to a few people to taste first. ”

Several people couldn't help but drink a few glasses in a row, although this wine was stronger than ordinary wine, but a few people showed their full amount of alcohol.

"This wine is really good wine, the best wine I have ever drunk before is Jiannan Shochu Spring Wine, a fine wine in Shu. The second should be Sanle pulp, a fine wine from the Western Regions. And what kind of Persian grape wine, it's also good. However, as soon as I drank these five grains today, I knew what the world's best wine is and what is the world's first spirit. Brother Li, you let my brother drink this wine today, how can you swallow other wine in the future. "Yellowbeard is the most familiar with Li Jing, so he immediately asked for it.

Li Jing smiled, "This time, the younger brother came in a hurry, and he only brought a hundred jars of five grains and liquids, five catties and five taels per jar, just one bucket of wine." In the future, the younger brother will definitely give this wine to the elder brothers regularly, how about it! ”

"Okay, it's refreshing enough, and it really deserves to be my brother. Here, let's have another bowl. A jar of fine wine immediately brought Li Jing and the leaders of Zhendonghai a big step closer.

A jar of five catties and five taels of five grains was drunk in less than a while, and the other jar was quickly opened, and then drunk again after a short time. In addition to the four masters in Donghai, there are also two literati who look like dog-headed military advisors, and the children of the Xiao family on Li Jing's side are left outside, only him, Wang Chong, Liu Shouqian, Wang Chengzong, Li Wei and Wang Shi are six people. Twelve people, drank almost eleven pounds of wine. This batch of wine is a 50-degree wine. On average, everyone drank more than a pound.

Li Jing was a little dizzy from drinking, but seeing the white beard, their faces were full of red light, and their eyes became more and more energetic. Wang Shi simply drank down, fortunately, Liu Shouqian and Zhang Chengzong drank extraordinarily, and Li Wei could not be underestimated, and he was still in good spirits.

Seeing that they still wanted to drink again, Li Jing hurriedly stopped it.

He traveled more than 120 miles by sea, but he didn't really come just for drinking.

"A few masters. Drink it another day. Wait until we have a successful completion of this time. When I sacrifice my life to accompany the gentleman, how about not getting drunk and not returning? Now, let's talk about that shipment, how is it? ”

Answering Li Jing's red beard, "Everything has gone well so far, as soon as we received the letter from the second brother, we immediately sent scouts to go first, and we arrived later." We've checked the information you said, and the shipment is on Cat Island. ”

Press Redbeard to introduce. The southernmost tip of the Liaodong Peninsula is the town of Duli. The town of Duli is not a military town, but a place name. This place Li Jing knows the road, the Jin name is "Ma Shijin", the Tang is called "Duli Town", and the Yuan is called "Lion's Mouth", which was changed to Lushun in the Ming Dynasty, and then has been passed down from generation to generation.

Duli Town is an important place, which is the landing point of Dengzhou by sea into Liao. Moreover, it is also an important supply point for Dengzhou, the largest sea route in the north of the Tang Dynasty, to enter the Bohai Sea Road. Crossing the sea from Dengju to Liaodong must land through the town of Duli, and from Dengju along the coast to Silla and Japan, the town of Duli is also a must to land. The town of Duli is very prosperous and is a real free trade port. Especially after the Anshi Rebellion. Due to the judgment of Hebei feudal towns, they are almost in a state of separation. The imperial court had no choice but to move the Pinglu Festival in Yingzhou, Liaoxi, which was isolated outside the Guan, to Qingzhou, Shandong.

Later, the Bohai Kingdom rose, the Khitan and Xi also continued to rise, although the Tang Dynasty had Liaodong but could not govern, and the capital Andong Protectorate was also abolished after the most reluctance, Liaodong completely became a nominally subordinate enclave, but in fact it could no longer be managed.

After the Tang Dynasty withdrew from Liaodong, the feudal towns of Youzhou in Hebei Province repeatedly fought with the Khitans for the Liaoxi Corridor for a long time, and they were also unable to take care of the Liaodong Peninsula. The Bohai State has the strongest power in the east of the Haihai, and even crossed the sea to attack Dengzhou, but later the Tang Dynasty and the Bohai Sea have friendly exchanges for generations, and the Bohai State has taken into account the power of the Tang Dynasty, and has long set to expand to the east, competing for territory with the Heishui Ya people, but never live in the expansion of Liaodong, the Bohai people are the most powerful to occupy Liaodong, but taking into account the power of the Tang Dynasty, strategically took the initiative to stop at the east of the Liaodong Peninsula, and regarded this territory as a buffer zone with the Tang Dynasty, Khitan, Murowei, Silla and other tribes.

The Silla people south of Yalu Water picked up a big bargain in the hands of the Tang Dynasty in the early years, and after destroying Baekje and Goguryeo with the help of the Tang Dynasty, they took advantage of the Great Tang Dynasty and the Great War between Tibet to invade the entire Samhan Peninsula. After the seizure of the Samhan Peninsula, the Silla people increased their territory for a while, but they reached the limit of expansion, and in the north, they could only continue to build the Great Wall to defend against the powerful Haedong kingdom of Bohae, and they were unable to touch Liaodong at all.

It is in such a complex situation that Liaodong, the old land of Goguryeo that once ruled for 700 years, has become a vacuum zone that no party cares about in the past 100 years. Gradually, although the surrounding countries did not openly occupy this territory, they also secretly continued to infiltrate the forces of various factions, and now, the Han people who did not move south in the early years, as well as the Goguryeo nobles who lost their country and surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, as well as the Murwei people, the Khitan people, the Xi people, and even the Sumo Ya, Heishui Ya, Silla people, Baekje people, Turkic people, Tiele people, and various ethnic groups are mixed forces and fight with each other. At the end of the year, dozens of large and small potential forces were formed, occupying different sizes of territory.

To be precise, Duli Town is a powerful force formed by many Tang maritime merchant groups, and it is a powerful force formed in this important place at the southern tip of the Liaodong Peninsula. Together, they occupied the territory with armed guards, and built a huge and strong fortress port city on the basis of the original port town, and today, Duli Town has a population of more than 500,000 all year round, becoming a super coastal port city like Guangzhou.

To the west and north of the town of Tosato are five islands of various sizes, called Cat, Snake, Ox, Tiger, and Pig. Further north, there are islands of deer, rabbits, ants, and camels. However, no matter which island it is, due to the bustling free trade port of the town of Tori, these islands are now the private islands of many large merchant groups.

And Cat Island is the private island of the Bohai Feng family, the second largest family in Ziqing Town.

Cat Island is also known as Cat Island and Bird Island, and the locals call the seabirds as sea cats, and the sea cats are not cats but birds, so Cat Island is also called Bird Island. Cat Island is only six miles away from the port of Duli Town, and the whole island is only 500 acres of area. The island is full of vegetation and has a suitable climate, with plenty of rainfall and a lot of insects. Every spring and autumn, flocks of migratory birds fly south or north to rest and replenish their food, and year after year, the island becomes a stopover on their migration. The most common bird on the island is the seagull, which is a resident bird, that is, a long-term resident on the island, because this seagull calls like a cat's call, and the locals call it a sea cat, hence the name of the island.

The southern part of Cat Island has a water depth of more than 40 meters, and is a natural port of call. Because of its proximity to the town of Duri, the island is extremely valuable. The Feng family had occupied this island decades ago, and after decades of continuous construction, this island has already become the private island of the Feng family. The island is not only lined with warehouses, but also has a fort with a circumference of 200 paces. And a private guard of 300 people is stationed all year round.

Every time the Feng family's fleet arrives in the town of Duli, it first docks at Cat Island and rests on the island.

"The batch of ordnance that Feng Zhang robbed you is now hidden in the warehouse on Cat Island." Whitebeard said, "But Cat Island is well guarded, has a strong fortress, and has an escort of three hundred men. These people are not the most troublesome, and there are countless pirates who have wanted to fight the idea of Cat Island for decades. But so far, there has never been a person who has successfully captured Cat Island. Twenty years ago, there was a group of famous pirates called Zhensanjiang near Duli Town, and on a dark and windy night, they gathered seven or eight nearby pirate fleets, more than 200 boats, and nearly 3,000 pirates to attack Cat Island. In that battle, the escort of Cat Island was defeated, nearly half of them were killed, and only a few returned to the castle. ”

"But in such a situation, the escort of less than 100 people resisted the repeated attacks of thousands of pirates with the castle and the crossbow bed catapult and the strong bow and crossbow. Then they set fire to send a signal and summoned the combined fleet of Duli Town, all the three rivers of Zhenli were killed, and most of the thousands of pirates sank to the bottom of the sea, and only a small number of people managed to escape in the shape of birds and beasts. ”

Li Jing frowned and said: "In this way, it is almost impossible to capture Cat Island, I can't let a few masters and brothers go to death for me, I think we should do it another time." ”

Blackbeard's eyes were red and he said: "My brother doesn't know, that Zhen Sanjiang is the father of me and the big boss and the second boss, if it wasn't for the three masters and a few brothers to rescue us, we would have died on Cat Island long ago." After surviving that time, the three of us and the third brother became brothers, and led the remaining dozens of brothers to play the banner of Zhendonghai, and now, twenty years have passed, but this blood feud has always been engraved in our hearts. This battle, not for our brothers, but for ourselves, has been waiting for twenty years, and now it is finally time for us to take revenge. We can't wait any longer, we are afraid that we will never be able to raise the determination to take revenge! (To be continued.) )