Daming: At the start of the showdown, Lao Zhu was stunned

Chapter 791 Hijacking

"Huh?" Shopkeeper Fu was pouring water into the sea on the side of the ship. Although he was the leader of these white lotus men, since he was a hired worker on the ship of this Rakshasa devil, there was not much difference. It was the same. It is necessary to pull up the sail for fishing and tidy up the deck. It's just that as the leaders of these newly hired sailors, the Rakshasa captain and other sailors were more polite to Shopkeeper Fu.

Hearing Fang Zuozi's words at this time, Shopkeeper Fu put down the bucket in his hand and said: "They want to avoid the pursuit of the Ming Dynasty navy, so what's so strange about hiding here and there on the sea?"

"Shopkeeper, I naturally know that they have to avoid the Ming Dynasty's navy first... But even so, the general direction of the course should be good. It's just south first, then west... But in the past few days, I have been Pay attention to the sun, these Rakshasa devils, they have obviously been wandering in the same place these past few days..." Fang Zuozi said.

"Spinning?" Shopkeeper Fu straightened up in surprise. After thinking for a while, he said with relief: "Is it to report the merchant ships of their Rakshasa Kingdom... Haven't you seen that they have gathered a lot of merchant ships these days?"

Shopkeeper Fu was talking about the fact that many British merchant ships had joined this fleet in the past few days. Today, they are not the only European merchant ships coming to the Ming Dynasty through the Maritime Silk Road. There are also many other nobles and merchants who have organized ships to come. However, as "recognized" by the Ming court, Philip and Felt were undoubtedly the leaders of these strangers at sea.

Officials in the Ming Dynasty could not tell the difference between Britain and other European countries, and most of the merchant ships traveling to the Ming Dynasty pretended to be Britain. Therefore, most of the merchant ships that had docked had been seized by the Ming Dynasty. The remaining European merchant ships that could not land were gathered with Philip and others, and their fleet became larger and larger. Now it has More than forty large and small merchant ships gathered together.

"I also know about this, but it's just the shopkeeper. This is too strange." Fang Zuozi said still mysteriously: "It is precisely because there are so many ships... that I feel more and more that they don't want to go back at all."

"How can someone who should go home be left wandering around in front of someone else's house..."

"It's a bit like stepping on the plate before we do things!"

The words woke up the dreamer, and Shopkeeper Fu was startled, and then he felt that what Fang Zuozi said made sense. "Could it be that they don't want to go back at all?"

"But I want to gather together people and fight against the Ming Dynasty court first..."

"Is this Rakshasa devil crazy?" Fang Zuozi was already sweating on his forehead. "Shopkeeper, this is not good. The defense of Daming Port is very tight. If these Rakshasa ghosts lose their heads, what's the difference between knocking eggs against stones?"

"Now we and them are grasshoppers on the same boat... Shopkeeper, why not take action first..."

Before Fang Zuozi finished speaking, he saw a Semu boatman walking behind Shopkeeper Fu, and he hurriedly closed his mouth. Just listen to the dirty-eyed boatman saying in broken Chinese: "Fu, Captain Philip, I want you to come over!"

"...Okay, I got it." Shopkeeper Fu gave Fang Zuozi a calm look, and then followed the boatman to the cabin.

The style of the British ships was very different from the Ming Dynasty's treasure ships. Their ships were simple in style, but the captain's cabin was luxuriously decorated. Various gold and silver products, gold and porcelain ornaments turn an ordinary captain's cabin into a showroom. When Shopkeeper Fu stepped in, he felt nothing but splendor. He was a man who had seen the big world in the past. He couldn't help but curse these red-haired devils and rich men in his heart, and then said: "Captain Philip, what do you want to see me for?"

Philip's Chinese is much better than Felut's. Today, Fengyang Mandarin has almost become a common language on the sea. Philip, who wants to gamble on the sea, has naturally worked hard on the Ming Dynasty's Mandarin. Seeing Shopkeeper Fu coming, he said, "Dear Fu, we need your help with something." Shopkeeper Fu was used to these Rakshasa ghosts being straight to the point when talking. Opposite Phillip: "Captain, if you need anything, just tell me. You are our employer. Whatever you want us to do, we will naturally listen to you."

"No, no, no, dear Fu, what I need you to do is not simple work." Phillip shook his head, and his gray pupils became a little incomprehensible. "I need you and your men to fight for me..."

"Fight?" Shopkeeper Fu's eyes narrowed slightly, and in an instant he regained the fear and panic that a fisherman should have, "This... this is not possible, Captain Philip, we are all fishing at sea. Good people..."

"How can we do this fight and kill..."

"Dear Fu, I'm afraid this is not up to you." Philip lit a pipe, then clapped his hands gently. The door of the captain's room suddenly opened, and several fierce and lustful men came in from the outside in an instant, surrounding Shopkeeper Fu with eager eyes. in the middle. "I understand, those fishermen listen to you, and you are the leader of those fishermen."

"As long as you give them orders, they will listen to you... Don't worry, dear Fu, I won't treat you badly."

He took out a money bag and poured the gold in the money bag on the table. "As long as you make your brothers obey, these will be yours."

Looking at the bright yellow gold, Shopkeeper Fu deliberately swallowed a mouthful of saliva. In fact, these Rakshasa ghosts had no good intentions in recruiting sailors. He and his brothers had already expected this. After all, when sailing on the sea, sailors often not only have to bear the chores on the ship, but also take on the responsibilities of jumping gang battles, boarding battles, landing battles, etc. to charge into battle.

If the ship is going to Fengmingzhou, the sailors often need to help mine gold mines, and occasionally they can hide some privately... This is why everyone is rushing to be the first to recruit sailors when the ship is going to Fengmingzhou. .

However, these Rakshasa devils were still thinking about recruiting sailors before leaving, so they must not have good intentions: after all, they have been banned by the court, how can they go to Fengmingzhou to mine gold mines?

There is no need for manpower to mine, and there is actually no need for too many handymen at sea... So when we recruit sailors on board, we naturally want to force them to work for them.

But Shopkeeper Fu didn't expect this day to come so quickly. Now, they have not left the Ming Dynasty...

"Do you want to attack the Ming Dynasty's harbor?" Shopkeeper Fu asked pretending to be trembling. "Our brothers and I are good citizens, and we will never..."

"Humph, don't worry, it's not Daming." Phillip looked confident. "You will find out soon."

(End of this chapter)