When he said this, Wang rolled his head and rolled his eyes! Liu Pei laughed and said: "Who told you not to lower the sails when I asked you to lower them, causing me to shoot four more times! Remember this in the future, and hurry up when you see my flag.

Lower the sail. I promise to only take 20% of your cargo and not harm your life!"

Liu Pei's idea is to let the water flow slowly. Because he doesn't want to kill the goose to retrieve the eggs, which will be a loss to China's maritime trade. Liu Pei also wants to let Chinese sailors travel all over the world. Now that a sailor is lost, it is a loss.

A seed is not cost-effective in the long run.

Moreover, with the spread of the sailors of the hijacked ships, as long as he only takes 20% of the money and his reputation of not hurting anyone spreads, and future ships will lower their sails and surrender when they see his flag, how much trouble will be saved! At least they can save less.

A lot of family members were lost. These sailors are the seeds of the future navy. If one Liu Pei is lost, he will be heartbroken.

However, Liu Pei has also made up his mind. If there is a ship that stubbornly resists, Liu Pei will kill him. After all, Liu Pei is in the early stage of capital accumulation and does not have so much kindness. What's more, since he has become a pirate, the opponent will attack him.

He will definitely not show mercy, so why should Liu Pei show mercy?

After the servants finished moving their things, Liu Pei put the boat away. In fact, Liu Pei also knew that the servants must have taken more than 30% of the things, maybe close to 35%. After all, the servants would not lose themselves. But only what was left

As for the goods, as long as they return to Daming smoothly, they will still make a certain profit without losing money. Therefore, Liu Pei is not worried that the young master will not go to sea in the future.

And as long as he sees Liu Pei's flag again in the future, he will definitely stop the ship and hand over the goods. What a beautiful scene! Liu Pei has already begun to imagine the future. His ship is parked on the sea in a grand manner, with a lot of

There was a scene of ships lining up to hand over their cargo and gold and silver to him.

Just when Liu Pei was thinking about it, Wu Yizhou happily ran over to report to him and said: "Master, we are rich! We got a lot of good things! It is not easy to estimate the goods now, but we got more than one hundred taels of gold and three taels of silver.

More than one thousand three hundred taels!"

Liu Peigang wanted to laugh. Suddenly he thought of something, slapped his thigh and said, "You didn't tell me earlier! How bad!"

Wu Yizhou was startled by Liu Pei's surprise and said, "What went wrong?"

Liu Pei said: "You fools! I told you to take 30% of the goods, but you really took 30% of the goods back! We have to sell those goods at a discount, but we can use the gold and silver after we get it! Remember

Come on, next time this happens again, we will give priority to gold and silver. For the extra gold and silver, we will take less of their goods. Isn’t this still 20%! In this way, our ship will run without cargo.

If you come here easily, you can rob a few more ships!"

Wu Yizhou reacted when he heard this, with a look of annoyance on his face. But he thought about it and said, "Master, your idea is good, but we don't have anyone on board who understands the value of the goods, so it's difficult to estimate it."

Liu Pei hated the iron and said: "Idiot! You won't let the ship owner quote a price before moving the goods? Besides, I don't know if you won't ask that? You will arrange for someone to go ashore in a few days.

Go ask those old accountants for advice, and you will know later!"

At this time, the other servants also reacted, with expressions of annoyance. Liu Pei was right. Is it the same to take 30% of the goods and gold and silver worth 30% of the goods? Just in terms of volume and weight.

It is much more cost-effective to get gold and silver. Although those goods are also very valuable, the stolen goods must be sold at a discount. Fortunately, Liu Pei has a large group of businessmen in the department store behind him, and it is not difficult to sell the stolen goods through them.

And the discount won’t be too low either.

Since opening, Liu Pei's luck seems to have come. In the following days, Liu Pei robbed four sea-going ships one after another. The conditions of the first three sea-going ships were similar to those of the first ship. Liu Pei's ship was brisk and direct.

They double-teamed them, fired a few more shots to intimidate, and then shouted. With the strength of the crowd, they forced the ship to stop. But unfortunately, the gold and silver carried on these three ships were relatively small, so the servants could only move the goods. So.

Liu Pei's ship also contained a lot of cargo.

The fourth sea ship was different. They found that Liu Pei's two ships were also loaded with cargo and were not much faster than them. So they began to think of escaping. It was not until a whole day of chasing that they caught up with them. And

The leader of the ship actually decided to resist and fired at Liu Pei's ship first! The lead bullets hit the Dingyuan's hull and rows like raindrops. Fortunately, Liu Pei hid better and was not injured.

Liu Pei, who was startled by the sound of the cannon, ordered a counterattack. Since Liu Pei and the others used granular gunpowder and fixed-charge powder packets, they were much more powerful than the artillery used on merchant ships! The four rounds of artillery took turns sweeping the deck.

The sailors on the other side suffered heavy casualties! More than half of the thirty or so people on the ship were killed or injured immediately. The captain was also killed in the shelling.

Liu Pei immediately decided to join the gang to rob the ship, and successfully captured the ship. During the entire process of robberies, only five servants were injured. However, Liu Pei did not order the killing of the remaining sailors, but instead treated the injured sailors.

But he took away 70% of their cargo as punishment. This time the ship owner might have to lose money! After all, the sailors' settlement expenses also cost a lot of money.

The fleet that had robbed five ships in a row was already full of cargo and could no longer rob it. So Liu Pei happily ordered to return. After the fleet arrived home smoothly, Liu Pei

Someone was sent to count the harvest. Liu Pei was surprised to find that all the goods on the two ships were worth more than 50,000 taels of silver! And the gold and silver stolen alone was enough to pay the salaries of the servants! There was actually a surplus! This made

Liu Pei couldn't help but sigh in his heart, it turns out that maritime trade is very profitable! The harvest from this robbery has strengthened Liu Pei's determination to accelerate the development of the ocean!

When Liu Pei returned to his hometown and was busy selling the stolen goods, his reputation had already spread among the maritime merchants. Everyone knew that a new group of pirates had appeared on the sea! This group of pirates were quite reasonable and did not like to kill people. Moreover,

If the ship did not resist, only 20% of the cargo would be taken away. Even on the ship that had fiercely resisted them, they did not kill anyone and seize the ship, but only took away 70% of the cargo. And they also healed the crew members. This group of pirates shot a

Strange black flag with a skull and human thighbone drawn on it.

The leader of this group of pirates is very young and very weird. He has two red things on his eyes. Moreover, his men are numerous and well-trained. Judging from the cleanliness of their clothes, this group of pirates is very mature.

It was large and powerful, so Liu Pei and his gang were nicknamed the "Skeleton Gang". Liu Pei himself was nicknamed the "Red Eyed Dragon King".

After all the troubles at sea, it was just before the Spring Festival. Liu Pei brought nothing else home this time, but took a large number of stolen Japanese knives as gifts and goods.

At that time, Japanese swords from Japan were very famous in China. Qi Jiguang, a famous anti-Japanese general in the Ming Dynasty, also praised Japanese swords for their excellent craftsmanship and reasonable structure. In "Guangdong News", there is such a passage: "There are many swords in Guangdong.

Japanese swordsmen... are so dazzling and sharp that they can cut jade as if it were clay, and cut hair as if it were a hairline, and they will not be broken or missing."

According to the "History of the Maritime Silk Road in Guangdong", in the eighth year of Xuande in the Ming Dynasty (1433), Japan sent 3,052 tribute knives; in the fourth year of Jingtai (1453), the number increased to 9,900; in the 20th year of Chenghua (1481), it increased to 38,610 According to research statistics, after 1432, the total number of swords donated by the Japanese in 11 tributes reached about 200,000, and the profits obtained from them were very huge. In the "Encyclopedia of Swords and Swords" written by the Japanese Shimizu Tachibana in 1932 Said: "In ancient my country, the clothing, food, housing, arts and crafts, and various craftsmanship techniques were all transmitted from China. Since swords are not unique to this country, the original forged swords were all imported. No one can dispute this."

Why is Japan particularly keen on importing swords to China? There is a passage in "History of the Guangdong Maritime Silk Road": "It is said that a Japanese sword is only worth 800 to 1,000 yuan in Japan, but the Ming Dynasty paid as much as
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