When receiving a report from a Nanman ship docking in Bokang Bay on Hirado Island, Masara was inspecting the Luo Family Shipbuilding Workshop in Imari Bay in Matsuura County, Himemaki.

The workshop was established last year. Currently, only two shipwrecks from the Ming Dynasty and more than a dozen local shipwrecks worked here. In order to prepare for this shipbuilding workshop, Zhengliang sent people to various places to search and purchase a large amount of shipbuilding wood. Although most of the wood is not available for the time being, it is safe to be prepared.

At this time, the shipbuilding workshop did not have the ability to build ships alone, so it could only repair the ships already in the territory itself. Zhengliang had already entrusted Wang Hai and others to find some shipbuilding techniques and even craftsmen from the Ming Dynasty, and then prepared to start building Ming Dynasty ships by themselves.

Zhengliang prepared to build a large number of Haicang ships from the Ming Dynasty. According to the information provided by Wang Hai, this ship is slightly smaller than the Fu Ship, with a drought of about seven or eight feet, and a maneuver when it is low. It is used to cooperate with the Fu Ship in the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty navy generally equipped the ship with four thousand jin Folang machines, three bowl guns, fifty spray barrels, eighty cigarette cans, ten cannons, fifty fire bricks, two hundred rockets, six medicine crossbows, and one hundred crossbow arrows. Fifty-three crew members, nine sailors, and forty-four soldiers.

In Masayoshi's opinion, this kind of ship is better than the Japanese ship lock. Of course, both the Fuku ship from Ming Dynasty and the Anzai ship from Japan are better than this kind of ship. But judging from the technical capabilities and resources currently mastered by the Luo family, it will take at least a period of time to consider the construction of these two ships.

After receiving a report of a Portuguese visit, Zhengliang's initial idea was to send Ander directly to communicate. But when he turned around, he thought. It seemed that the Spanish and the Portuguese were still fighting in the Western waters? In the end, he gave up this idea. Then he planned to send Shaoce, the god of the territory responsible for foreign trade, to negotiate. But after learning that there was a Ming man named "Five Peaks" on the ship as the translator, Zhengliang went there himself instead.

Others don’t know who the guy from “Five Peaks” is, but Zhengliang knows it. This person is Wang Zhi, who is pseudonym “Five Peaks”. Two years ago, he took Wang Hai and others to smuggle and sell supplies at sea, but later he broke up with Wang Hai and others, and then followed a Japanese to serve him (in essence, a trade team under the guise of political interactions). Now, for some reason, he is actually entangled with the Southern Barbarians.

According to historical records, his cooperation with the Southern Barbarians will soon end, and he will then defect to his "little fellow townsman" Xu Dong. In Zhengliang's view, perhaps, he felt that he would defect to his "little fellow townsman", and at this time, Xu Dong, the leader of the largest armed merchant group at sea, could do a more vigorous career. Even if he was in the "business group" of Xu, there was more danger and blood than when he was in the "business group" of Japan. In his blood, there was no lack of cruelty and adventurous spirit. Moreover, he would soon gain Xu Dong's trust, from "guarantee" to "guarantee", becoming a powerful figure in the Xu merchant group with military power. Since then, he embarked on the road of gradually becoming "One Piece".

When he met this controversial figure in the future history, Masayoro also took the opportunity to look at the other party. He was about thirty years old and was wearing a gray jacket that ordinary people in Ming Dynasty often wore. He looked very square. But it was probably because he was often blown by the sea breeze, his skin was a little darker, but this was a healthy skin color.

"Greetings to Lord Lord." Seeing Zhengliang walk into the convention hall, Wang Zhi immediately saluted respectfully. The two Portuguese behind him also gave Zhengliang a standard aristocratic ceremony.

"What do you call these two?" Zhengliang looked at the two Portuguese with a smile, and then asked Wang Zhi.

"This one is Sir Francesco, and this one is Sir Bamond." Wang Zhi immediately introduced. Generally, Westerners who come to the East like to give themselves the title of aristocratic.

"Welcome to my territory, the shopkeeper of Wufeng, Sir Francisco, and Sir Bamond." After learning the guest's name, Masayoshi naturally expressed his welcome first.

"I am honored to be received by you, respected Lord Lord." After Wang Zhifan translated, Francesco and Bamond immediately expressed their gratitude to the director for their reception.

"Shopkeeper Wufeng, from the accent, you seem to be from Zhili, the Ming Dynasty?" Zhengliang said first after the host and guest sat down.

"Oh? Lord Lord has you ever been to the Ming Kingdom? I am indeed born in Guilin, She County, Huizhou, Nanzhili." When Wang Zhi heard Zhengliang accurately tell his birthplace, he was surprised at first, and then immediately guessed that Zhengliang must have been to the Ming Kingdom.

"Yes, I was fortunate to visit Mingguo a few years ago." Zhengliang also nodded and replied. Seeing Wang Zhi's surprised expression, Zhengliang smiled secretly in his heart. Brother, but he came from later generations, so he naturally knew about your situation.

"Haha, it seems that I have some opportunity with the Lord of the Lord." After receiving Zhengliang's affirmative reply, Wang Zhi immediately smiled. Judging from the expression on his face, it seemed that this man was a generous guy. But who would have thought that in just a few years, he would become the leader of the pirate who was famous for his cold-blooded plot? However, in such an environment, if he was not cold-blooded and treacherous, how could he survive? Everything was because of the circumstances and the environment.

"I wonder if the shopkeeper Wufeng and the two jazz are planning to visit this time?" After making some polite decisions, he was naturally about to get to the point, so Zhengliang asked directly.

"Lord, this is true. Sir Francesco and Sir Bamond are pioneering merchant ships in Portugal, hoping to establish a trade relationship with Lord Lord." Wang Zhi said immediately.

"Haha, welcome, maybe I don't know that the island where the dock where your ships docked is located is the place where I trade with merchants from all over the world. There is no need to pay taxes when trading on this island. As long as you can abide by the rules on the island, my family will protect everyone's property and personal safety on the island." Zhengliang immediately said after hearing Wang Zhi explain his purpose.

"Dear Lord, are you saying true?" After listening to Wang Zhi translated Zhengliang's words, Francesco and Bamond looked at each other in surprise, and then Francesco asked a little disbelief.

"It's true!" Zhengliang said affirmatively. At this time, even the coast of Ming Dynasty was occupied by pirates and used to specialize in pirate material transactions, Shuangyu Island also needs to pay taxes. Now Zhengliang has created such a tax-free island. It can be imagined that as more and more ships discover this place, it will become more and more prosperous.

After receiving Zhengliang's clear reply, with the help of Wang Zhi, Francesco and Bamond immediately made many transaction requests. Finally, they even took out a musket again in an attempt to attract Zhengliang's attention.

"Haha. This mesh gun is made with good craftsmanship. It is indeed a work of a good craftsman." Zhengliang took the mesh gun handed over by Wang Zhi and started to operate it skillfully.

"Lord, have you ever seen such muskets?" Seeing that Zhengliang was so familiar with this musket, Wang Zhi suddenly felt a sudden slap in his heart, so he asked hurriedly.

"Haha, to be honest, you are not the first Western ship to arrive here. Before you, a Spanish merchant ship had already arrived." Masayora said. But he felt funny in his heart. Wang Zhi and the other two obviously hoped that Masayora would be a sucker like Seed Island. He used thousands of taels of gold to buy these muskets, but now Masayora easily provoked the conflict between the Portuguese and the Spanish.

"Dear Lord, please believe us, we can provide something better than the Spanish." Sure enough, after learning that the Spanish had arrived here one step ahead of them, the two Portuguese quickly asked Wang Zhi to express his words.

Since then, they have provided a lot of discounts, and these Zhengliang asked them to discuss with Shaoce, the god of the Luo family, who is specifically responsible for foreign trade.

However, at the last moment of the meeting, Masayoshi took the initiative to propose that Francesco and Bamond would provide their three-masted sailboat manufacturing technology and artillery manufacturing technology. Compared with ordinary Southern Barbarian cargo, the Roh family actually needed these things more.

After seeing off Wang Zhi and the other two, Zhengliang sat quietly in the meeting hall. According to historical development, Wang Zhi will develop soon after he returned to Ming Dynasty and surrendered to Xu Dong.

At this time, Xu Dong, a native of She County, was entrenched on Shuangyu Island, 60 miles away from Ningbo, Ming Dynasty, and built a large brigged ship. He used force as a guarantee to carry "banned" goods, becoming an armed business group hero standing on the sea. They often did both business and robbed.

According to Zhengliang's own memory, in March of the 27th year of Jiajing (1548), Dusi Lu Tong led Fujian soldiers to the sea surface of Wenzhou. Before the typhoon season that year, the Ming army launched a sudden and fierce attack on Shuangyu. In April, Lu Tong lured Xu Dong's armed merchant fleet to leave Shuangyu, and the two armies fought fiercely in Jiushanyang. Finally, the armed merchant regiment was defeated and Xu Dong was captured. Wang Zhi led the remnants of his troops to break through the encirclement and fled to Zhoushan Islands with hatred. After the Battle of Shuangyu, Wang Zhi took the rest of his troops north to Liebiao Mountain (also known as Liegang), which was 60 miles away from Zhoushan County. At that time, Wang Zhi had replaced Xu Dong's original Jianghu status.

After that, Wang Zhi used sneak attacks, assassinations, annexation and other means to gradually subdue the surrounding forces, and finally established his position as a maritime overlord. The pirates in the southeast cannot survive without being controlled by their own rulings.

However, in the leap month of the 32nd year of Jiajing (1553), Wang Jun sent Yu Dayou and others to lead more than a thousand troops to attack Liegang at night. Yu Dayou led his soldiers and took the wind to attack the first, while Tang Kekuan led his troops to the back to respond and went straight to the bandit camp. Wang Zhi was caught off guard and broke out on a boat in a panic. The Ming army was blocked and killed the pirates, and countless pirates were killed.

It was through this battle that the young general Yu Dayou became famous at the sea, and Wang Zhi led the remnants to the islands in the Hirado and Satsuma in shame and anger. Speaking of which, it was also because in the past few years when Wang Zhi came to Japan, there was a large-scale failure in Japan due to the attack of the Little Ice Age climate. As a result, a large number of desperate ronin became Wang Zhi's mercenaries, which led to the rapid recovery and re-emergence of Wang Zhi's power.

To be honest, no matter what Zhengliang's relationship with Wang Zhi will be like in the future, in Zhengliang's view, he did not want his territory to become the nest of another maritime giant. So at this moment, Zhengliang accelerated the inclusion of the five islands into the territory of power, and his idea of ​​developing a navy was even stronger.
Chapter completed!