"Why are you still hanging up there? Put everyone down, it's bad luck!"
When Liu Hongji arrived at the dock early in the morning, the first thing he saw was the corpses of pirates hanging above his head.
Looking at the corpses swaying in the wind, even though he was used to seeing dead people on the battlefield, he felt uncomfortable, so he immediately asked someone to put them down.
"By the way, don't kill the living ones inside. They didn't die all night. Xiao Han must like it if they are so lucky!" Liu Hongji frowned and shouted angrily.
"Here!"
The general spoke. Although he didn't know why Mr. Xiao liked pirates with great fortunes, the soldiers who followed Liu Hongji quickly nodded in agreement.
Immediately, I saw a somewhat short scout climbing onto the boat with numb hands and feet, preparing to free the people on top.
However, when the scout came under the mast, he discovered that when the gang of killers tied people up yesterday, they tied them in a mess! A dozen ropes were tied together randomly. How could one know which rope tied whom?
"Probably? This one?"
Looking at the rope that looked like a mess, the scout hesitated for a moment, then tentatively selected the one that was most pleasing to his eye and pulled it.
Then, the next second.
"Plop..."
"Plop..."
"Ah~~Plop!"
Under the mast, the scout who still kept pulling the rope but had nothing in his hands was stunned, and a big bead of sweat appeared on his bare forehead!
He never thought that the rope he pulled was connected to three or four other ropes at the same time. With his little strength, he couldn't pull so many ropes, so no surprise, all the ropes fell off!
Of course, if the people tied to those ropes are dead people, then you can take them off. After all, they are all dead, and you are not afraid of dying again!
But the problem is: the one who is still alive, among the ropes that have been released, there happens to be another one who is not dead...
Well, it should be said that he was not dead just now, but now...
With a grimace, looking at the guy on the deck who was about to fall into pieces, there should be no need to rescue him...
The scout who had a bad start carefully turned around and looked at General Liu, who was still standing on the dock. Well, the general had no expression, except that his face seemed a little darker than before.
"Well, this thief's death can only be attributed to his lack of luck. It must be like this! Lord Marquis would not like a thief who is not lucky!" Wiping the sweat on his forehead, the scout's mouth twitched twice, and he quickly turned his head away with a guilty conscience.
Then he untied another rope with his own hands.
"Plop..."
"Plop..."
Well, we did make progress this time. Although we didn't grab the rope, there were only two muffled sounds around us, and there was no one alive!
"Is that this one?"
"Plop..."
"Ahem, no, that's it!"
"Plop! Plop!"
Finally, after several attempts in succession, a pirate who was hanging above his head could no longer bear the inhuman torture and cried out on the spot: "Master! Give me a break! You are so damn scary..."
"
Rescuing these pirates is not the purpose of Liu Hongji's visit to the dock this time. He came here this time under Xiao Han's entrustment. He is here to urge everyone to work quickly so that the dock that was burned down by the fire can be repaired to avoid unnecessary damage.
Delaying the rest of his plans.
The big-footed man kicked the idiot scout aside, and this time Lao Liu replaced a strong man to rescue the person. Sure enough, the result was much better, at least he didn't turn the living person into a dead person.
In the end, there were about a dozen pirates who were rescued and were still panting. They sent people to give these lucky pirates a bowl of gruel, and then they randomly found a room on the ship and threw it in for training.
Liu Hongji was not afraid of these people escaping. On the boat, there was no other way to escape except jumping into the sea! And with the current temperature, diving was basically equivalent to suicide.
The dock repair work was done quickly!
Xiao Han asked Liu Hongji to supervise, and it turned out that he was right. This guy had a lot of experience in being supervised when he was in Shi'an City...
Therefore, under his supervision, these prisoners were eager to use their energy to feed themselves. In just three days, the entire dock was completely renewed, and even the high walls that had been dug down were repaired.
of good.
The pier was repaired, but it was still not open to the public. In the next two days, horse-drawn carriages and ox carts arrived at the pier from time to time pulling goods. At the same time, there were obviously fewer ships moored at the pier!
Of these missing boats, except for some picked up by Ma Laoliu, almost all the rest were bought by merchants in the city.
There is no other way. In order to supply the pirates with their voyage this time, the things that need to be prepared are definitely not small. From food, to clothing, to medicine, everything requires money!
And Xiao Han didn't have the bad habit of using his own money to contribute to the Tang Dynasty, so it was only right to sell some of the ships and recycle the funds.
Besides, with so many ships, it’s inconvenient to be stuck at the dock, isn’t it? Sell some, and you’ll have free space!
"What a loss, what a loss! They are just a bunch of poor people!"
A week after the siege of Guangzhou, Xiao Han was holding an account book in the Yamen of the Municipal Bureau of Shipping, and he almost chewed it off.
He had thought that pirates were poor, but he didn't expect these guys to be so poor!
After clearly wiping out tens of thousands of pirates, at the last count, the loot gained was not even 10,000 guan, which was less than a fraction of what he had when he raided Xun Mansion and Nankang Mansion! He even didn't even have enough money to buy various things!
"I heard that they have a secret base in Liuqiu. Maybe the money will be hidden there! Do you want me to take people to search it?" Luo Shixin, who walked in from the door, really couldn't bear to put his hand in Xiao Han's coffin and died.
He looked like he was asking for money and said with a frown.
"Liu Qiu? Let's forget it!" When Xiao Han heard this, he rolled his eyes, put down the account book and let out a long sigh: "Think about it, who would be crazy and put treasure in a den of thieves? I'm really worried that no one will
Miss you?"
"Then..." Luo Shixin was speechless!
Think about it, now it is popular among the wealthy landlords in Chang'an to keep their money in banks and not dare to keep it at home. How could these pirates dare to put money at home?
"Forget it, if we don't have enough money, I'll go find him. Doesn't he want to buy a few ships to transport sugar?"
Looking at the huge loss amount at the end of the account book, Xiao Han feebly stood up and walked out.
Hey, this may be the most losing business he has made since coming to Datang. Not only did he not make a penny, but he also had to find ways to deceive others. This indeed goes against his principles as a human being.
"Huh? Do you have principles as a human being?" the author said.
Xiao Han replied: "Ahem, nonsense! My principle is that when you should have principles, you should have them. When you shouldn't have them, you must not have them!"
