"If I'm right, you should have come to kill me, right?"

After sitting down in the cabin, Yang Xin said very directly.

"It was indeed before I was lifted up by You, but it was not afterwards. We are merchants and we will not do business that is destined to lose money."

Chen Zhongji said frankly.

"I like your honesty."

Yang Xin said with satisfaction.

Chen Zhongji was hired to intercept them. It is very likely that their pirates and merchant fleet have been active in this area during this period. The gentry who originally traded with them simply paid for it. After the failure of the previous action, Chen Zhongji did not leave.

There are some places hidden in this area.

It must be understood that the Yangtze River at this time is very different from the modern times.

Below the Yingkou of Sanjiang, Yangzhou, the entire Yangzhong Island was not formed, but a pile of sandbars of large and small divide the river water. These sandbars rise and separate the water and fall, which makes the river surface reach dozens of miles wide like a vast ocean. After passing the sandbar area in Yangzhong and then downstream, Jingjiang Island is immediately followed. This modern day is completely part of the land. At this time, it is a huge island that is not smaller than that of modern Yang. The river water has a wide flowing eastward between Taixing and Jingjiang.

Of course, Jiangyin is still the throat.

Because the water in the north is shallow, the large ship still has to pass through the Huangshan Fortress.

But the following is also different from Jiangyin. At this time, Zhangjiagang was really a port, because the river surface expanded south to Yangshe, and the gap between the north and modern times was not big.

The entire river is still nearly twenty kilometers wide.

And he has always maintained this width to Chongming.

At this time, Chongming was not a complete island, but also a series of sandbanks that were much smaller than modern times to form a group of sandbanks. However, the width of the Yangtze River estuary at this time was not comparable to that of modern times. The entire half of the Haimen in Qidong was all water, and the north bank of the Yangtze River estuary was at Lusi Port.

That is, Liao Jiaozui.

The entire Yangtze River estuary is more than one hundred kilometers wide.

It can be said that from the downstream of Sanjiang Yingkou, the width of the river surface of more than 200 kilometers has not fallen for fifteen kilometers. The same is true during the dry season, because the sea water will flow backwards during the high tide during the dry season, and the sea tide can form a countercurrent until the Zhenjiang section of the sea tide. In summer, the surging river water is surging, which is really a vast ocean. In such places, small pirates come and go freely and have no defense at all, because they cannot be prevented at all. At least thirty miles wide on the river surface and countless sandbank waterways, how can they defend at this level?

Not to mention that there are countless gentry and businessmen along the coast who rely on these businessmen and stolen guys to smuggle.

So it wasn't surprising that the Japanese pirates went to Nanjing directly, because they just left casually after passing Zhenjiang.

Chen Zhongji was indeed hired to intercept.

Even when Yang Xin got on the boat, he did not change this purpose.

He just lacked understanding of Yang Xin and didn't know that he could not put this guy in front of him, but then he knew, but it was too late. Yang Xin, who had boarded the boat, could not deal with it at all. After finding that this transaction was not only slim, but even possible to turn it in, he immediately made the choice that was most beneficial to him.

He is a businessman.

He will not do losing money.

"Indeed, I don't like to do lose money, so we can talk about a business that is beneficial to us. The emperor has issued an order to establish Tianjin Customs, the customs stationed in Gegu, and my identity is to be the deputy governor of the Jinyiwei, the General Secretary of the Jinyiwei, and the governor of the bandit army and the sea defense camp.

Gegu is my territory.

I have the final say in the entire Dagukou area.

I welcome any merchant ships to go there. Although the Ming Dynasty has rejected the tribute from Japan so far, fortunately, our trade with North Korea is legal, so I don’t need to teach you what to do. There are all the goods you need to purchase in Tianjin. I admit that the price is definitely higher than here, but you are legal merchants there.

No risk is required.

There is no need to bribe the naval generals who are in charge of the coastal defense.

All you need is to go there, buy everything you want as a legal merchant, and then pay taxes according to my standards. Here is a tax rate, and I can guarantee that you will not have to pay any extra money except for these taxes."

Yang Xin took out a small notebook from his arms and handed it to him.

By the way, he is now like those who attract investment, spared no effort to attract merchants.

After all, his conditions are not as good as those in the south.

The Japanese purchased silk from the Ming Dynasty, and tea, especially sugar, etc. At this time, sugar was the flagship product exported by the Ming Dynasty. The first batch of merchant ships to arrive in the Ming Dynasty, and 80% of the goods purchased were this kind of thing. The sugar industry in Southeast Asia and the Caribbean has not really begun. The Ming Dynasty is the world's main supplier of sugar, but the problem is that whether it is sugar or something else, Yang Xin actually shipped it from the south.

The price cannot be too low.

Unless he can supply the products he made in the future.

But the most important thing now is to establish a trade line. After all, he still has a disgrace to maritime trade.

Chen Zhongji just looked at it casually and then handed it over to his subordinates.

"Not interested?"

Yang Xin said in confusion.

"Yang Qianshi, I will send a boat to try it."

Chen Zhongji said perfunctorily.

"Don't you want to set foot on the Ming Dynasty as a legal businessman?"

Yang Xin said.

"Yang Qianshi, if I want, I can enter the Ming Dynasty as a legal merchant at any time, at most I can change my name. You won't think that the ports of the Ming Dynasty are closed to us, right? That's a joke. We ship so much goods every year, where can we do not load them in the port? The Ming Dynasty did prohibit trade with Japan, but would the merchants and officials of those ports care about this? Will they refuse us to bring silver to the door?

Indeed, it's worth a try.

But it's just worth a try, not to mention that I have to go to North Korea when I go to your place.

I have to set sail from Fukuoka to Houfeng in the south of North Korea, then go to Dengzhou, and then turn from Dengzhou to you. Even if it is as you said, I don’t need to manage the officials in your place, but I still have to manage the officials in North Korea to stop on the coast of North Korea, otherwise their navy will deal with me."

Chen Zhongji said with a smile.

"That is to say, you actually lied to me to kill me."

Yang Xin said.

"Yang Qianshi, although this is not good, it is true before you show your strength. Someone paid 50,000 taels to buy your head, and they only had your head. I think this business can be done. The brother you sent back is back, so I just gave up and let him trick you. But now I have given up because you are too powerful and I can't kill you. So we might as well make friends. I will send a boat to you to try it. If it is really profitable, of course it's best.

I also want to have a friend like you.”

Chen Zhongji said with a smile.

"You won't be of much use to me in this way."

Yang Xin said.

“Isn’t it good to make one more friend?”

Chen Zhongji said with a smile.

He smiled very stiffly.

"But I smelled the burning fuse behind me."

Yang Xin said.

The moment he said this, Yang Xin suddenly raised his legs and kicked his legs almost at the same time. His huge power made the table in front of him, which was originally fixed on the deck, fly directly and fly out behind him with a roar. The next moment, gunfire sounded behind him, and three bullets were secretly aimed at his guns, flying out from the three gunmen, swept over his head and flew past Chen Zhongji and hit the wall. But before the gunmen who were sneaking behind could dodge, the table smashed the window and slapped the three gunmen down at the same time.

"kill!"

Chen Zhongji's roar continued.

The pirates on both sides drew their swords forward and slashed at Yang Xin's body.

But unfortunately, what they gained was just a series of sounds of chopping on the steel plate. Before they could close their knife and cut them down again, Yang Xin's body was a fulcrum as a fulcrum. He suddenly began to rotate. He was like those inferior martial arts films, while rotating, his hands were holding the deck and changing positions, while his legs kept kicking out.

Then there were screams around.

Those unlucky pirates could not withstand his power. All those who were kicked by him screamed and flew backwards.

In a blink of an eye, he swept across the surroundings, and no one stood around him...

Then he jumped up.

“The stool is very strong!”

He said to the stunned Chen Zhongji.

Almost at the same time, two muzzles behind Chen Zhongji were extended, accompanied by the sound of the fuse clamp falling, and flames were sprayed at him at the same time. Yang Xin's head tilted his head to avoid the bullets shot towards his head. At the moment the other bullet hit his chest, he jumped forward at full speed and directly hit Chen Zhongji.

The latter pulled out the Japanese sword and roared and slashed it down.

But only half of it was cut.

Because Yang Xin's right hand held his hands like a ghost...

"You made a big mistake. You shouldn't let someone like me get on board this ship. I actually came with sincerity. If you are useful to me, I can forgive your deception, but if you are useless to me, why should I spare your life?"

Yang Xin said.

Chen Zhongji yelled like crazy, and tried his best to move downwards with his Japanese sword in his hand.

However, it was futile.

Yang Xin's right hand was like steel, imprisoning his Japanese sword.

"Why can't you make yourself more useful? Ah, am I doomed to die of talking too much like those big villains?"

Yang Xin pulled him and turned around suddenly as he spoke.

The gunshots rang out again.

Two bullets hit Chen Zhongji's back at the same time. Yang Xin, who could easily hear the sound of the fuse clamp falling, just watched Chen Zhongji shaking in the impact of the bullet.

But the Japanese iron cannon is not powerful enough to penetrate the human body.

Chen Zhongji lowered his head in shock and looked at his chest that was not strange. Then Yang Xin kicked him in the chest. He squirted out a mouthful of blood and screamed and flew backwards from the window that had been smashed before. At the same time, Yang Xin retreated like a ghost and instantly squeezed into two pirates waving their swords. One hand and the other suddenly collided. The next moment, he was holding two dead bodies and throwing them out directly. The pirates rushing in from outside were smashed and screamed.

"The surrendered ones are exempted from death. Chen Zhongji is useless to me, but you are useful to me!"

Yang Xin shouted in Minnan dialect.
Chapter completed!