Chapter 144: Windfall

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Li Jing waved his hand excitedly: "Let's go, let's go to the dock now and see what we have gained." ”

When Wang Zhong and other generals heard the good news, they didn't even bother to change the bloody clothes on their bodies, so they excitedly carried their blades and went to the dock. Liu Shouqian, Zhang Chengzong, and Li Shugen hurriedly ordered two family teams to accompany them. Zhang Hong saw Li Jing and the others running towards the dock from afar, and it was estimated that it was the matter of the fleet, so he ran up in a puff of smoke, and asked about the eighteen ships that had captured the pirates, and he was directly tripped up by the dirt on the side of the road in excitement.

With excitement, everyone quickly rushed to the dock. In the distance, I saw the pirate crew squatting on the dock, all tied up with their backhands and guarded by dozens of town soldiers. Outside the pier, a long line of ships is docked.

"One, two, three, four", Zhang Hong's eyes lit up, and he counted them one by one excitedly. "General, eighteen ships, eighteen ships in total."

Looking at the white sails, Li Jing's heart couldn't help but be excited.

"Wrong, it's nineteen, and our Ninghai is also behind." Lin Wei reminded with a smile. As he spoke, he beckoned to the family members who were guarding the pirate crew, and they immediately brought someone over. "General, this is a big leader under the One-Eyed Jiao, who is responsible for guarding the fleet."

The leader of the pirates was extremely embarrassed, and his body was tied with a cowhide rope, like a rice dumpling. After squatting on the dock for half a night, his face turned blue from the cold. There was also a wound on his forehead, and he couldn't wipe half of his face with blood. As soon as he saw that Lin Wei, who had defeated him earlier, had brought a group of people over, and he was still standing behind one of the young generals. immediately understood that this person was probably Li Jing, the town general of Shamen Town. They came here covered in blood. It is estimated that Zheng Balang and others have been more than lucky. Shocked at the moment. Hurriedly shouted to Lin Wei: "General Lin, I will lead the brothers to surrender to you and sacrifice the fleet to you, and you will save our lives and let us go." ”

Lin Wu stepped forward and kicked him down, kicking him like a ball and rolling on the ground, stained with the ashes of his clothes. "Damn the thief. Did you surrender sincerely? If Lao Tzu hadn't arrived with his brothers, and the Ninghai and Qiu team leaders touched your ship from behind, would you have surrendered? Holy shit, why didn't you show mercy when you killed our brother before? ”

The pirate leader was completely devoid of his fierceness at this time, and all that remained on his face was fear. shouted loudly: "General Lin, we say that we are good, and we can't be trustworthy." The ship is yours, and we only want a way to live. ”

Li Jing stopped Lin Wu, who was still about to step forward, and shouted, "What did you do before." Why be a thief? ”

The pirate leader glanced at Li Jing with some fear, "I used to be the leader of the Dengzhou Naval Division. Later, he was recruited by Zheng Balang and followed him. ”

"Since you used to be a sailor officer, why did you become a thief?"

The leader of the pirates looked at Li Jing, and suddenly smiled and said, "What is an official army, what is a thief?" Is there any difference between the two? The crows of the world are nothing but ordinary black. The only difference is that the officials in the official army do not treat their brothers as people, and in addition to being a thief, all the brothers eat meat in large pieces, drink wine in large bowls, do not deduct food and salary, and do not bully the officials! ”

Li Jing shouted: "Ridiculous, don't think that what you see is everything. Do you have to be a thief just because of the oppression of the officials? How could I have bullied you in Shamen Town, and you want to bring people to attack my Shamen Town? ”

"The way of the world is like this, big fish eat small fish, and small fish eat dried shrimp." The pirate leader said in a weak voice.

Li Jing glanced at him coldly, "According to your wishes, you are now in my hands, and life and death are up to me." ”

The leader of the pirates also understood that Li Jing refused to let him go, and in the end, he still kept a little arrogance and stopped begging for mercy senselessly. Li Jing shouted: "Pull out all the pirate leaders, behead them all, throw the corpses into the sea, and leave the heads." ”

Wang Zhong immediately beckoned more than a dozen people to come forward, sorted out the list according to the early interrogation of the family members, pulled out all the pirate leaders, pushed them to the dock, cut off their heads one by one, and pushed the headless corpses into the sea.

The remaining crew of the pirates numbered more than 500 people, and more than 100 were killed in the battle, and the remaining nearly 400 surrendered and were captured. Just after a round of purging, one percent of the big and small leaders were beheaded, and there were more than 300 pale crew members left.

"General, what to do with these people, let's kill them together." Wang Chong personally went up and killed the pirate leader just now, and his body was still stained with fresh blood. Li Jing looked at the pirates who were obviously scared, these people were no more teenagers and half-old men and some disabled than the pirates who fought in the castle before. He shook his head, the effect of killing chickens and monkeys just now was good, which greatly deterred these thieves. However, he didn't plan to kill all these people, people are also valuable resources, not to mention, although Salmon Island won this battle this time, it lost a lot of people.

"Bring them all back to the town of Salmon and make them all slaves. Killing them just cheapens them! Li Jing said coldly.

Li Jing already knew that the pirates who participated in the attack on Shamen Town this time were colluded by Wang Jin, in addition to the pirate One-Eyed Jiao who led eighteen boats to come, Wang Jin also sent the head of the family, Wang Fu, to lead two hundred guards to participate in the battle, and the two hundred people who were the most well-equipped were the Wang family guards. For Wang Jin, Li Jing's anger can be imagined. At the dock, he did not board the ship first, but ordered the hidden shops and warehouses of the Wang family that were exposed to be immediately sealed.

The Wang family has been secretly operating the Shimen Wharf in Shamen Town, with many shops and warehouses. Lin Wei had already controlled the entire dock when he captured the fleet. Under Li Jing's order, several stewards of the Wang family led the way, and Li Jing soon led people to the largest warehouse of the Wang family on the dock.

Li Jing slammed the door with a drink order, and everyone entered the warehouse, and they couldn't help but be surprised. I saw that the huge warehouse was filled with countless sacks, stacked on top of each other, like a mountain. Liu Shouqian stepped forward and tore off a sack and opened it to see that it was full of rice. When I pulled the steward up and asked, there was actually a lot of rice in this warehouse, which was 20,000 stones.

"What are the Wang family doing hoarding so much rice here?" Li Jing asked.

The cold weather in charge of things, but the sweat on his face was flowing like a waterfall, and his whole face was as white as paper, and he had just killed dozens of pirate leaders, and they were all forced to watch the whole process, and the heads were still flying in front of him. I was afraid that if I couldn't say a word, I would be cut off by the town soldiers.

"Back to the general's words, these are all rice transported from Silla, and they are stored here instead of Dengju because the goods enter the Dengju wharf and have to pay taxes. And unloading goods on Salmon Island can be exempted from commercial tax. The rice brought from Silla was first unloaded at the Salmon Island warehouse and then transported back to Tengju by small boat. If you go ashore from a small wharf in a private port, you don't have to pay taxes. The batch of rice in the warehouse had just arrived, and it had not yet arrived and had not yet been transported back to Dengzhou. ”

Li Jing and the others were all smiling, a big harvest, 20,000 stone of rice, he accepted it. Since it is the Wang family's thing, it will not be accepted for nothing. Even if he accepts it, the Wang family can do anything about it, and he can still summon another batch of pirates to fight him. Now that he has torn his face, Li Jing has no intention of being polite.

"There are other warehouses and shops in the Wang family, what else are in them?"

Several stewards stood there a little hesitantly, Li Jing nodded to Liu Shouqian, and Liu Shouqian immediately pulled one of the older and higher-status stewards out of the room. A moment later, there was a scream outside, and then Liu Shouqian walked back with a bloody copper mace. The faces of several stewards turned even paler, and several people immediately stammered to report to Li Jing.

This time, Li Jing's harvest was very rich, so rich that he was a little surprised. Not only did he find more than 3,000 stone of grain in a granary, but he also found a cloth warehouse in which more than 10,000 horses of linen cloth were stored, as well as more than 3,000 horses of precious silk fabrics such as silk lingluo. In addition, they also found a raw material warehouse, in which tens of thousands of catties of iron were hoarded.

What surprised Li Jing and the others even more was that one of the stewards told a secret that other stewards didn't know. The Wang family actually has a huge underground workshop under a warehouse that has been empty all the time in the dock area.

When the steward took Li Jing and the others into the underground workshop, not only Wang Zhong and the others were surprised, but even Li Jing was so surprised that he couldn't close his mouth, and even several other Wang stewards were stunned.

It was a huge underground workshop, hidden deep beneath the empty warehouse, with only one very secret entrance. There is usually a team of well-equipped guards guarding the gate, but at this time, the guards of those guards were all transferred to attack the fort and never returned, and there were only eight guards left at the entrance of the cave, which were easily taken by Li Jing's team.

When Li Jing and the others went down to the workshop, the workshop was still busy, and it was a hot scene. There were two or three hundred people busy.

Li Jing noticed a temporary cargo storage point at the entrance, where boxes of goods were stacked. The steward said on the side: "This is the finished product storage place, and after the work is stopped every night, it will be transported to the above-ground warehouse. ”

"With so many people in the workshop, what are they building?" Li Jing asked.

"The workshop is divided into a weapon workshop and an armor workshop, and the weapon workshop is divided into a horizontal knife workshop, a spear workshop, a bow and arrow workshop, and a crossbow machine workshop. The armor workshop is divided into iron armor workshop, leather armor workshop, vest workshop, as well as helmet workshop and Peng Pai workshop. In addition, such as the bow and arrow workshop is divided into longbow workshop, horn bow workshop, the production of feather arrows are also divided into five categories: archery, raw hair, long stacks, crossbow nails, and iron crossbow arrows. The shields made by Peng Pai Fang are also divided into six types: knee row, regimental plate, lacquer row, wooden row, joint wooden row, and leather row. The steward replied cautiously, not daring to hide it at all.

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