Luo Huaiyuan is very bad at the moment!
To ask him to describe his unfortunate encounter in one sentence is simply a dog!
After arriving in Fuzhou, Xie Mao told Luo Huaiyuan in more detail. It turned out that the reason why Luo Huaiyuan had to come in person was because the copper mine Xie Mao discovered was in Ryukyu, which was separated from Daxi by an ocean.
Ryukyu is located in the eastern sea area of Daxi, facing northeast and southwest. It is not a complete continent, but scattered into many small islands, which are the features of the archipelago.
The copper mine where Xie Mao got the news was on one of the islands.
The Ryukyu Kingdom itself has its own ruling dynasty, but it is always in civil strife, and because of its special geographical location, it is connected to Fusang in the south and Xiaoliuqiu in the north, and is often invaded by foreigners. Its internal situation is extremely complex.
In recent years, Daxi has imposed a sea ban, and the situation of the Ryukyu Kingdom has been greatly alleviated. Its king has also worked hard to strengthen the diplomatic friendship with Daxi, and by virtue of the Ryukyu being a transit point for maritime trade, the country's economy has been revitalized. Of course, this is only limited to part of the main island of Ryukyu, and many of its affiliated islands have been in a state of chaos.
To use the simplest analogy, a slightly larger power used to be able to occupy the land and become the king, but these small islands were very rare, and under normal circumstances, no one came to occupy these small islands.
There are two other cases. One is pirates. Even if pirates rob ships everywhere, they still need a home. It is also good to occupy an unremarkable uninhabited island as a home. The second is the black market on the sea. The black market on the sea was born when Daxi was banned from the sea. The Ryukyu landform is special. It is a transit point for maritime trade in Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia. The transaction has become a famous black market nearby.
When Daxi was banned from the sea, black market transactions in Ryukyu were especially rampant. Until Daxi lifted the ban, because its market had already been formed, its prosperity was only slightly worse than that of Fuzhou port.
One of the largest black markets is on an island called Yeluo. The forces behind Yeluo Island are unknown and independent from the Ryukyu Kingdom. It is said that its armed forces are extremely powerful, and even the Fusang ronin, who often plunders along the coast, dare not Grab its edge.
Xie Mao and Yan Zhi had their own affairs in their own country, so naturally they could not go to sea easily, so they sent a letter to Yunzhou and asked Luo Huaiyuan to go there in person. Of course, this wasn't the main reason. The main reason was that Luo Huaiyuan had always wanted to find a way back for himself, a way out that would allow his entire family to exit safely even if the domestic situation failed.
Although the Ryukyu environment is complex, if it is handled properly, it is not a good way to go. People who have their own power and their own power, the days of occupying the land and being the king must be very happy.
This is also the reason why Luo Huaiyuan will go there in person, he has to go out and see for himself.
Imperative!
Now that it was decided, Luo Huaiyuan made arrangements and went out to sea with the merchant's cargo ship. He first went to the main island of the Ryukyu country to see the local customs, and then followed the merchant ship to divert to Yeluo Island.
On the sea route to Yeluo Island, the merchant ship they were on was hijacked.
Luo Huaiyuan didn't take many people with him when he went out here, only Xiao Anzi and two confidant guards.
First, the cargo ship was escorted by the ships of the Fujian Navy. Second, despite the civil strife in Ryukyu, most of the merchants who came to do business here were treated with courtesy. The first time Luo Huaiyuan came, he didn't intend to make any big moves. He just came to see the situation, and he didn't want to attract attention, so he dressed up as a businessman, and he never expected to be so unlucky.
When the merchant ships were hijacked, the ships of the Fujian Navy did not escort them.
Having said that, it is necessary to mention an old unwritten example on Yeluo Island.
Yeluo Island itself has its own power. They are from the black market, and they are unwilling to deal with officers and soldiers. Therefore, there has always been a rule on Yeluo Island that merchants and cargo ships from all over the world are welcome to come here, but other armed forces are not welcome to enter.
Although the Fujian navy is famous, it is not their own national border after all, and the entry is as customary. In addition, the Ryukyu Island and Yeluo Island are not far apart, so it is only half a day's journey. The power of Yeluo Island is also strong enough to shock all the Xiaoxiao everywhere and dare not loot the cargo ships that come to Yeluo Island to trade, so this sea route has always been safe.
But this time something went wrong, and the merchant ship was hijacked by a group of pirates.
Otherwise, Luo Huaiyuan would not be scolding the dog. He was always safe, but when he came, he encountered a pirate. Isn't this a dog
The merchant ships also have their own armed forces. It may be that they have been comfortable for a long time, or they may not have thought that they will be robbed. In addition, the pirates are fierce and they are almost powerless to fight back, and the merchant ships are taken down.
Luo Huaiyuan wanted to run, but there was nowhere to run. There was a vast sea outside. He believed that he did not have the ability to go back to the coast by dog-planing, so after much deliberation, he chose to be honest.
It's not that no merchant ships have been hijacked by pirates. As long as they don't encounter extremely vicious people, most of the above sea merchants can mix their lives without worry. At most, people suffer some crimes and lose some property. Because now the pirates have also learned to be smart, and understand the truth that they can't kill the chicken and get the eggs. This is to seek money, plus the Shanghai businessmen are all worth a lot, and they can make a lot of money by threatening their lives for some property.
So in the face of the hijacking of the merchant ship, after the initial panic, most of the merchants on the ship calmed down. Of course, the heart must not be calm. The so-called sacrifice of wealth to avoid disaster, although most people understand this truth, but when the real thing comes, it is inevitable to feel distressed.
All the merchants on the ship were gathered in one cabin by the pirates with knives. Luo Huaiyuan squatted in the crowd, and Xiao Anzi and the two guards seemed to be separated into other places.
After that, the hatch door was tightly closed, and someone was guarding the door. The ship seemed to move, and I didn't know where it was going.
The atmosphere in the cabin was very depressing, some merchants were in a low mood, some were approving and apprehensive, and some were crying loudly, as if they were dead mothers. It is estimated that it is the kind of person who poured all his family property and hoped to make a fortune from maritime trade. How could he know that he would die before he was born, and it was the first time that he encountered such an unfortunate thing.
There have always been many such people, and they can make a fortune with good luck. It is not uncommon for unlucky corpses to sink into the sea.
Maritime trade has great opportunities for profit, but there are also many relative dangers. However, due to the deterrence of Fujian navy in the past two years, there have been few cases of maritime merchants being robbed by pirates. Most of those who were robbed were some small businessmen who wanted to save the money of the Fujian navy, and put together a few small cargo ships to set sail without permission.
It is indeed a saving, but these also depend on opportunities. If you really encounter pirates and loot, you will lose the bottom line. Of course, you can't say that these people are at fault. Everyone has a chance. You can only say that you can eat a big bowl of rice. If you don't have that ability, you should take a break as soon as possible.
I don't know how long it took to sail, but the sky was getting darker.
Along the way, Luo Huaiyuan has repeatedly scolded the forces behind the Lao Shizi Yeluo Island. They were not powerful enough, and they had to learn to be arrogant and tyrannical, causing these innocent little businessmen to suffer.
There are also many businessmen discussing this matter in the cabin. Some of the more senior maritime businessmen, either to comfort themselves or to comfort others, all discuss this Yeluo Island with people who are familiar with them.
From their mouths, Luo Huaiyuan also learned about the forces behind Yeluo Island.
It turns out that many years ago, Yeluo Island was also a place where dragons and snakes were mixed, with pirates and refugees from all over the world. This group of people gradually merged into a pirate force, making a living by looting merchant ships and fishing boats everywhere. The leader of its power, Roach, is a man of great talent, and he is not willing to be a pirate. Instead, based on Yeluo Island, it has gradually developed into a large black market that is second to none in the nearby waters.
The origin of the black market at sea is not Yeluo Island, but Roach made it into a scale.
During this period, the competition of various forces is indispensable. The forces headed by Roach not only need to deal with the Ryukyu Island, but also fight against pirates everywhere. They can develop rapidly. Roach has spent countless efforts in it.
As a pirate, it is natural that his hands are stained with blood. It may be because of too many sins, and Roach's children are very thin. It is reported that there are more than 30 wives and concubines and the women who have snatched them, but there is only one daughter.
The woman's name is Luo Qiong, because she has the father of a pirate chief, and she is quite sturdy.
Naturally, the story does not end here, but begins after Roach's death from a serious injury.
At that time, after Roach's death, the forces on Yeluo Island were in chaos. Because there is no orthodox heir, his subordinates have turned against the water and want to establish their own business. Naturally, there are also a group of die-hards who are loyal to Roach's only daughter Luo Qiong. But Luo Qiong was only 28 years old, and she was a girl, and when her father passed away, she couldn't support herself for a while.
They all want to grab this black market that has developed into a large-scale black market. It is said that the civil strife on Yeluo Island lasted for a long time. In the end, Luo Qiong, the direct descendant, was defeated and retreated to avoid other islands. Luo Qiong's faction left, and the rest of the people were fighting more fiercely. During that time, no smugglers dared to go here.
Just as the civil unrest on Yeluo Island came to an end, Luo Qiong's faction suddenly made a comeback and took Yeluo Island with lightning speed.
The incident finally subsided, and the black market on Yeluo Island slowly returned to its former prosperity. Only then did people discover that the one who was the leader was not Luo Qiong, a direct descendant of the Luo surname, but a man named 'Fourth Master'.
The fourth master is Luo Qiong's new husband-in-law. After marrying, Luo Qiong, known as the 'Jade Face Rakshasa', retired, and handed over all the power in his hands to her husband, and devoted herself only to her husband and his son.
Where and who this 'Fourth Master' came from, no one knows, and his origin is extremely mysterious.
This fact surprised everyone, thinking that this 'Fourth Master' would be speculative, just because he won the heart of the 'Jade Faced Rakshasa', he took over the power of a good party.
Of course, some people don't think so, because the Luo Qiong faction's retreat was obviously a loss of power. Since they can make a comeback and take down Yeluo Island with a thunderous momentum, this 'Fourth Master' is not an incompetent person.
Facts have proved that this statement is not unreasonable. Ye Luodao quickly developed irresistibly in the hands of the 'Fourth Master'. Its scale is getting bigger and bigger, and seeing its means and formation, it is far from comparable to Roach's wild team.
This 'four masters' not only cleared away the pirate forces in the vicinity, but also expressly prohibited the nearby pirates from looting the merchant ships that came to Yeluo Island for business. Naturally, some people are unwilling to use force to violate the ban, but those people have been beaten into scum by the 'Fourth Master'. Intimidated by its edge, this item gradually became an unwritten rule that the nearby pirates abide by.
On the other hand, the black market business on Yeluo Island has also entered the market scale.
In the past, the black market was mixed with dragons and snakes, and inevitably there would be forced buying and selling, cheating, or directly robbing the property of merchants that had just been traded. Now Yeluo Island is safe and sound, and all evil spirits are forbidden to be carried out on the main island of Yeluo Island.
Of course, the merchants who come to trade here do not need to pay a price. They only need to take a certain percentage of the total price of their goods and give them to Yeluo Island as a protection fee. In the early years, the black market had this fee, but because of its irregularity, it would always happen that the following people used their power to force others to charge more, charge arbitrarily, or collect money but could not guarantee its safety, etc., which angered many businessmen. complained. But now Yeluo Island has clear regulations, and the fees it charges are also open, and everything follows the rules.
Yes, the rules.
Where there are rules, there is order. Everything in Yeluo Island follows the rules, and anyone who dares to break the rules will end up miserably.
And the pirates who robbed their merchant ship this time have violated the rules of Yeluo Island. I really don't know what their fate will be.
More and more businessmen joined the discussion, and it seemed that the more powerful Yeluo Island was, the more secure it was. However, when people are in crisis, they need a spiritual sustenance, so that they can not let themselves fall into despair.
"These pirates must be newcomers, they don't know the rules!" said a middle-aged businessman in his forties.
He looked like he was pointing the way. This time he started the discussion about Yeluo Island. It could be seen that he had confidence in Yeluo Island.
"It's true that this screwdriver is a real pirate. He made a rash move without inquiring about the situation. How can there be such a pirate." A businessman echoed.
"I don't know when they will let us go. They let us go early and returned the goods to us. We can consider not going to Yeluo Island and sue them for not understanding the rules."
It may also be out of fear, or it may be out of desperation to magnify Yeluo Island. The words of a few businessmen are becoming more and more absurd.
They never thought that they were in the hands of pirates at this time, and they all imagined that they hoped that they would suffer no losses, and let the pirates send them back like a grandfather.
There are several seasoned businessmen looking at them with weird eyes, but it's hard to say anything to refute them. After all, everyone is in the same boat now, and everyone can't wait to be as beautiful as they imagined.
There are no less than 30 merchants in the whole cabin size, and their minds are different at this time. Compared with others, Luo Huaiyuan smelled a hint of crisis.
You must know that there are many daring people in this world, but now in the waters near Ryukyu, there are still very few pirates who dare to rob Yeluo Island and Daxi Fujian navy. Are they really so daring? It doesn't matter if one side commits a crime, both sides commit a crime, how capable they are to make themselves retreat
Is it really a newcomer who doesn't understand the rules? Or are they extremely vicious people who don't think about the consequences at all
Luo Huaiyuan felt that the latter item might be bigger.
The reason why these maritime merchants were able to calm down before was because the pirates in recent years mainly robbed money and did not kill merchants. Because he also knows the truth of killing chickens to get eggs, it is better to cut them every once in a while, just like planting leeks, so that he will fatten his own pockets, and he will not be afraid of angering various forces and come to encircle and suppress them.
Now this prediction contradicts the previous one, so will pirates kill people to cover up their tracks? You must know that this is the vast ocean, and if someone kills them and throws them into the sea, it is really called unknowing. In this way, no one knows that they robbed the merchant ship that came to Yeluo Island, and they got the money, and they won't be held accountable...
Thinking of this, Luo Huaiyuan couldn't help shivering.
He covered the panic in his eyes and looked around.
There are so many businessmen gathered in one cabin, but there is no one to guard, just closed the cabin door? Are these people really careless, or are they sure that no one dares to run away? Also, the vast sea, where to run
Luo Huaiyuan could feel that there were people guarding outside the cabin door, but the discussions in the cabin were so loud that there were so many derogatory remarks against this group of pirates, but no one came in to stop them.
Are you really calm, or are you treating this group of people like dead people? The sound of the dead before dying can be ignored.
The more Luo Huaiyuan thought about it, the more timid he became. There were other people who had the same thoughts as him.
For example, there was a skinny old man in his fifties with a goatee beside him. When the two accidentally met their eyes just now, Luo Huaiyuan clearly saw panic in his eyes.
"The situation is not good." The old man squeezed his beard and faintly burst into blue veins.
Luo Huaiyuan's face was sullen, and his brain was spinning rapidly.
This is the first time in his life that he has faced the crisis of death, and at this time he feels that all the intrigues he has experienced in the past are nothing. After all, his status and status are there, even if someone wants to harm him and want to kill him, he has to be famous, and he has to detour.
But now facing a bunch of vicious pirates, they won't look at your identity, they won't listen to your reasoning, they will only brutally kill you, and then destroy your corpse. The so-called scholar meets soldier, which is probably what it means.
Could it be that he was wrong? Maybe-
At this moment, the hull swayed and seemed to stop.
Luo Huaiyuan was silent for a while, but he didn't feel the movement of anchoring.
You must know that the movement of the ship's anchor is great. If the anchor is not anchored, it means that it has not docked. Why does it stop when it does not dock
After that, there was no time for Luo Huaiyuan to think about this problem. The door of the cabin was opened, and a group of pirates with fierce faces rushed in. They were dressed in all kinds of fancy clothes. The big knife, looking at its coming, something is wrong.
The leader of the ship was chattering and didn't know what to say, and someone came forward to drive away the people in the cabin. One of them could speak Chinese, so everyone stood up and went to the deck.
Some businessmen wanted to talk to him, but no one paid any attention to them. With a flick of the knife in his hand, he followed him out.
There were many torches burning on the deck, and the light was so bright that it was like day. There were many pirates standing around, surrounded by ghastly faces.
Some people have realized that something is wrong, and they are panicked and asked what they are going to do. The old man beside Luo Huaiyuan sighed softly, "My life is over.
Another wave of people was driven to the deck. Luo Huaiyuan saw Xiao Anzi and the two guards. The three described it as a bit messy, and their hands were tied up. It is estimated that these people are the entourages of the merchants. Naturally, they are not as helpless as ordinary merchants, so the supervision is extremely strict.
One of the pirates stood out, speaking in unsmooth Chinese: "Listen to my report, some of you said that we violated the rules of Yeluo Island, and the 'Fourth Master' of Yeluo Island will not let me wait? We pirates of small power are naturally afraid of the 'Fourth Master', yes, we are also afraid of the Fujian Navy, in order to cause less trouble for our own family, so I'm sorry everyone."
This person has only one eye exposed and the other eye hidden under a black blindfold. He had a wicked grin on his face, his teeth dazzlingly white in the light of the torches. As soon as his voice fell, some pirates went to the crowd to pull people.
The deck suddenly became chaotic. Many businessmen wanted to intercede with the pirates, or exchange their belongings for their lives. Many others couldn't stand the scene in front of them, so they cried and begged for mercy...
These people are worthy of being vicious and vicious, and they don't listen to anyone's words at all. Pull over one, and the knife swings up. A miserable howl sounded, and the people who followed were thrown into the sea. They don't care whether people are killed or not, they are thrown into the sea when they are cut.
Above the sea, there are people everywhere who are not yet dead. Just a short while later, a more miserable howl could be heard from the sea.
"shark… "
"what… "
"Help!"
The night is as cool as water, with moon.
The moonlight swayed gently on the sea, shining a faint silver light. It can be seen that the color on the sea is more intense, and no one dares to guess whether it is blood or not.
Suddenly, a loud voice exploded, causing everyone to look sideways.
I saw a man with a rather large physique standing in the field with his head held high and his chest high, his aura was not angry and mighty, as if he was not a mortal. His voice was strong and powerful, pointing directly at the pirate leader with one hand, with the other behind his back.
"Look at who I am! Dare to touch me, no one in heaven and earth can save you!"