Soldiers love weapons more than women, and this is clearly reflected in Chen Hailong. The quality of the weapons is directly related to the outcome of the battle. For Chen Hailong, there are so many beautiful women that he can use them all.

, but there are no too many weapons that may guarantee victory.

"When I was passing by just now, I saw a pool over there. If you don't believe me, you can give it a try!" Li Xiao suggested to Chen Hailong with a smile.

"Okay! Okay! Okay! I heard that the firearms on your island are so sharp that even the Tatars are afraid of them. Today we want to see what a powerful method we have. Let's go to the pond and have a good look!" Chen Hailong was very interested.

After greeting his generals and officers, everyone gathered around Chen Hailong and came to the edge of the pond.

"Just pull off the ring and throw it out. This thing is very powerful. Throw it farther to be safe." Li Xiao pointed to the ring on the grenade and helped Chen Hailong explain how to use it.

Chen Hailong was not polite and stretched out his hand to pull the tab. When he saw green smoke coming out of the grenade in his hand, he panicked and threw it out.

The grenade came out of his hand and was not thrown too far. However, it was only a dozen meters away. If he were within this distance on land, Li Xiao would definitely lie down. But by the water, Li Xiao didn't have so many worries.

He quietly moved a step back and let Chen Hailong's tall body block him.

Just when Chen Hailong was wondering if this thing had been annihilated by the water, there was a loud "boom" and a column of water more than three feet high rose up from the water. The huge explosion even turned up the mud at the bottom of the pond.

Come up. By the light of the fire, Chen Hailong even saw a layer of smoke floating on the rolling water.

Having been in the military camp since he was a child, he has seen a lot of firearms. But this was the first time he saw this kind of thing. Chen Hailong keenly felt the use of this thing in naval battles. When the two sides rely on help, there is no need for anything else.

Just throw this thing up in a row, and the opponent's ship will be destroyed.

Good stuff, this stuff is really good stuff. Chen Hailong was so happy that he couldn’t even see his eyesight!

Just when Chen Hailong was about to talk to Li Xiao, a row of water drops came over him. The water drops still had the unique smell of gunpowder smoke, which was extremely unpleasant!

It was good that Li Xiao was hiding behind Chen Hailong, but Chen Hailong was not so lucky. Not only was he soaked by the water, but his robe was also stained with a lot of mud from the bottom of the pond. There were also water plants hanging on his head. It would have been so embarrassing to look like that.

How embarrassing.

"Commander!"

"Master Hou!"

His generals and officers all rushed over!

"Hahaha! It's okay! It's okay! Good things, good things! Chen Fu, you send Brother Xiao to the hall while I change clothes." Chen Hailong laughed and let everyone go away, and he went down with the help of the servants.

Change clothes at home.

The buzzing sound in the hall never stopped. Everyone was discussing the magical weapon they just saw. Many people stood up and wanted to see the grenade lying in the box. Some of them were wondering how to follow it.

The Marquis wants to bring out some. Brother Xiao just said that he would give the Marquis two hundred of these things.

Not long after, Chen Hailong put on new clothes and walked out of the inner house.

"Hehehe! Brother Xiao! Thank you, Mr. Mao, for me, Chen Hailong."

"I must bring it to you for Mr. Hou!"

Chen Hailong is extremely conflicted now. His intuition tells him that he cannot offend the people in Pidao. He has always had a good relationship with Pidao. Now Pidao has strong soldiers and powerful weapons. If there is a real conflict,

You might even suffer a loss.

But now we have to kill this Li Xiao. The messenger from Beijing made it very clear. This Li Xiao’s head will be decided!

Although Chen Hailong became the Marquis of Jinghai, he still did not dare to offend Zhao Nanxing and Li Sancai. These two were Donglin bosses and had high prestige within the Donglin Party. If he offended them, he would be punished by those

If the censors who are so idle are impeached, even if they are not dead, they will still have to shed their skin.

Although the Chen family was born into pirates, they had been rich for two generations. It was easy to move from frugality to luxury, but it was difficult to move from luxury to frugality. Letting Chen Hailong go to sea to become a pirate would be even more uncomfortable than killing him.

Besides, although my title was due to the head I bought from Li Xiao, it was also the result of the hard work of Zhao Nanxing and Li Sancai. They drank water without forgetting the well diggers, so their request was very difficult to refuse.

"This is my first glass of wine, a toast to my friends who have come from afar. Gentlemen, drink and win!" In this hall, Chen Hailong is recognized as the boss. Of course, this first glass of wine must come from him.

Li Xiao had already received a hint from Chen Fu that there was nothing wrong with the wine. He picked up the glass and drank it down with Ao Canghai!

After drinking the first glass of wine, Chen Hailong's men came over to toast enthusiastically. Chen Fu stood beside Li Xiao and Ao Canghai and helped introduce them to them.

Chen Hailong sat on the tiger-skin chair and looked at Li Xiao and Ao Canghai who were constantly joking with his men. Do you want to do it or not? As long as the cup in his hand falls to the ground, dozens of swordsmen will rush out.

, chop Li Xiao and Ao Canghai into mincemeat.

This entanglement has been entangled with Chen Hailong for a long time. The rise of Pi Island made Chen Hailong feel threatened. The Ming Dynasty's sea area is very vast, but the Ming Navy is unable to control such a huge sea area.

So the pirates like them were recruited directly, so that they could control the situation. After many years of operation, the entire Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea were already the domain of his Chen family. Zheng Zhilong in the south and he set a boundary in the Yellow Sea to prevent each other from infringing.

Now that something like this is growing on his own territory, how can Chen Hailong not be afraid of it?

What's more, people came to the capital and wanted Li Xiao's head by name.

"Master Hou! I would like to offer you a glass of wine and thank you for your warm hospitality." In a daze, Chen Hailong saw Li Xiao coming over, holding a wine glass in his hand.

Picking up the wine glass on his table, Chen Hailong responded and poured it into his mouth.

"The Tatars you beat are scurrying away, bringing out the evil spirit we have had for many years in the Ming Dynasty. It's true that heroes emerge from youth!"

"The Marquis is ridiculous. Without the support of the Marquis in Shandong, we Pidao would not be able to achieve such great results. Mr. Mao was not able to visit the Marquis this time, but he asked the boy to report to the Marquis. Our Pi Dao Zhi

Not for the sea, but for Liaodong.

Although the island has purchased a wide range of ships, most of them are transport ships. Our interest in doing business is far greater than developing maritime power. So far, our island has only one warship for the support of the Marquis.

Our Lord Mao said that Pi Dao has no intention of competing with anyone on the sea. As long as we counterattack Liaodong and attack the Tatars, it will be our lifetime achievement."

After Li Xiao finished speaking, he found that Chen Hailong's eyes were looking at him suspiciously. Taxation on maritime trade smuggling, how much benefit is there? How could Pidao give up just because he said it?

But what the boy in front of him said was all true. Although Pidao had purchased ships one after another in the past two years, the ships he bought were all transport ships, not warships capable of combat. In the past two years, Chen Hailong had monopolized the soap produced by Pidao.

I had a match business and made a lot of money.

If there was no entrustment from Zhao Nanxing and Li Sancai in the capital, he really wouldn't want to kill Li Xiao.

But now there is no way, Chen Hailong can only sigh and say: "This is also something that can't be helped, today...!"

Chen Hailong was about to throw the cup, but his hand stopped in mid-air.

Li Xiao unbuttoned his clothes, and opened the outer clothes to reveal the grenades hanging on his body. Four black grenades were hung on his chest, and the pull tabs had long been tied together. Li Xiao inserted one of his fingers into the pull tabs.

Inside, he looked at Chen Hailong with a smile.

Chen Hailong's hair stood on end. He had just seen the power of a grenade. One of these grenades can release such great power, and there are four of them in front of him. If it explodes, why don't you cut yourself into pieces?

"you……!"

"Hey...! Mr. Hou! In fact, we are all mutually beneficial. The improvement of Pidao will also be good for you, Shandong. Why did you listen to Zhao Nanxing and Li Sancai? You said you fell out with us, just for soap and matches.

Business, you will lose tens of thousands of taels of silver every month. This is not counting the benefits that our purchasing in Shandong has brought to you. In the past two years, our Pidao business has never forgotten your share.

Those two old bastards in Beijing are nothing more than a two-foot-wide piece of paper. You cut off your own arm. How much money do they give you every month? It’s good that they don’t ask for money from you. How do you expect them to give it to you?

Dong Lin is now calling the shots in the court, but how do you know that Dong Lin can control the sky with one hand like this? The court belongs to His Majesty, not to Zhao Nanxing and Li Sancai. The Marquis of Jinghai you are calling is an official of the Zhu family, not his Zhao family.

He is not an official of his Li family.

You killed the boy today, what will you do if Donglin falls in the future? To tell you the truth, I killed Zhu Zhifeng, the governor of the Xuan Mansion. His Majesty ordered it! I can’t tell you the reason. I’ll just tell you, Zhu Zhifeng

Zhi Feng’s master is called Ye Xianggao. As for who Ye Xianggao is, I don’t need to say more.”

"Really?" The governor is in charge of the military, political and civil affairs of a place, and his official position belongs to the second rank. He is one level higher than the admiral of Shandong Navy, who is the third rank. According to the Ming Dynasty's system of controlling military affairs with civility, it is even higher.

A level.

Just kill him? This news was so subversive that Chen Hailong couldn't believe it for a moment.

"This!" Li Xiao stretched out his hand and handed over a small seal. Chen Hailong knew the goods. He knew the fuse was real when he touched it. Then he looked at the money. Imperial envoy Xuanfu Zhu!

People are printing, and now the seal in Li Xiao's hands is enough to show...!

"This person's power cannot be too great, and he cannot always cover the sky with one hand. Mr. Marquis, please think twice! After all, the sky above our heads is still surnamed...!"

When the two people were talking, someone had already noticed this. The guy who caught Ao Canghai fighting for wine stopped fighting. The hall became quiet. Everyone looked at Li Xiao who had his back to Chen Hailong. The scene seemed to be frozen.

"What are you looking at? It's time to drink and drink! I'm going to talk about something with my little brother. Who's that? Find two people to wrestle with each other. It's not fun to drink. I'll open the handicap later. Let's see who loses the pants in the end today.

"Chen Hailong pointed at the people below and shouted boldly.

After hearing what Chen Hailong said, some drunkards immediately came forward. The generals and officers nearby started gambling habitually! A party in a pirate den would eventually turn into this. If you don't gamble, everyone will feel uncomfortable.

Seeing the people below became lively again, Chen Hailong said with a smile: "Brother Xiao, put your hands down and sit next to Chen and let's talk. You don't want everyone to see this scene!" After all, it was Lao Jianghu, and he quickly made a mental calculation.

Gains and losses come out.

Money can be made from Li Xiao. If what Li Xiao said is true, the emperor has begun to fear that the Donglin Party is too powerful, so it is better to keep a distance from them at this time, lest the political storm in the capital affect him.

After a few seconds of calculation, Chen Hailong decided to abandon Zhao Nanxing and Li Sancai.

Chen Fuku moved a chair interestingly, and Li Xiao sat next to Chen Hailong. However, he did not put down the hand holding the ring, but stretched it into his arms, only covering it with his clothes so that no one could see it.

"Chen did indeed ambush someone here, and I seem to have been prepared for it."

"Jin Yi Ti Ji, Lord Marquis must have heard of it too! There is one among the people drinking below, but I can't tell you who it is."

At this time, Li Xiao began to make nonsense. As for how Chen Hailong investigated afterwards, it was none of Li Xiao's business. Anyway, just try not to let Chen Hailong doubt Chen Fu!

Sure enough, Chen Hailong's expression changed.

"Little brother, actually I don't want to do this either. Everything is forced and we have no choice. You know these elders have the final say in Beijing now. The things they order, my brother also...!"

"In addition to those pavilion elders, there are also Governor Wei and Jin Yiwei in the capital. When it comes to being loyal to His Majesty, these people will not give in too much. Lord Marquis...!"

"Little brother, what's your name, Mr. Hou? From now on, we will be our brothers, just call me Brother Chen." Chen Hailong patted Li Xiao's shoulder enthusiastically, and when he saw Li Xiao's hand trembling, he quickly retracted it.

Chen Hailong is forty-one this year, and Li Xiao is under eighteen years old. According to the time when children are born these days, Li Xiao’s father may not be as old as Chen Hailong even when he is alive. Now Chen Hailong is actually comparable to Li Xiao’s brother. It can be seen that this

Marquis Jinghai can be regarded as showing off his face.

"Things in Beijing are turbulent. Since brother, you don't want to be an official in Beijing. It's better to make money steadily in Shandong! This time, I want to recruit troops in Shandong. You'd better tell Mr. Chen to take care of him.

It’s just a kid. After all, we have been working together for a long time and we are familiar with each other.

After a while, I want to do something big. If I'm interested, I can join in."

"A big deal?"

"Anyway, it's a profitable business. To be honest. When you become an official and climb up the ladder, it's nothing more than wealth. If it's not for money, who is addicted to wearing his head on his belt and risking his life? Although you have made a lot of money, but you

With so many people to support, the expenses must be quite high!
Chapter completed!