The fleet has left the coastline and headed towards the Penghu Islands. After passing the Penghu Islands and continuing to go east, you can be located on Dongfan Island on the other side of Fujian, which is Taiwan in later generations.

"Uncle Yan, it's very unsafe to sail at night. Why don't you spend the night in the Penghu Islands and set sail for the East Fen tomorrow morning?" Gao Shixin saw that the fleet did not stop, but drove directly to the East Fen, and he asked in confusion.

Yan Siqi sighed: "Penghu is controlled by Hong Maoyi, and they will not let us spend the night there. We can only sail overnight. We will arrive in Dongban early tomorrow morning, and we will be fine."

In May, as long as there is no typhoon, the wind will be calm and the ships sailing on the sea are very stable.

The fleet did not park in the Penghu Islands, but headed directly to the East, which disrupted Gao Shixin's plan. He had already planned all of them, and when the ship was docked at the Penghu Islands at night, he talked with Yan Siqi, and opened the bottom of the Jinyiwei to tell Yan Siqi, saying that the court hoped to recruit him and asked Yan Siqi to send him to Laizhou Prefecture. If Yan Siqi insisted on refusing, he would simply put a knife on his neck and force him to order the flagship to send him to Laizhou.

Now sailing at night. If Yan Siqi is hijacked at night, then when dawn, other ships find that Yan Siqi's flagship is missing. This group of Han people who immigrated to the Eastern Banner will be without a leader. After they board the land of the Eastern Banner, they are likely to be attacked by local natives and suffer heavy losses.

Thinking of this, Gao Shixin first took the jade token and silver arrow from the bag, put it on his body, and then walked towards the captain's room at the stern. When he arrived at the door of the captain's room, he knocked on the door.

"Who is it? I'm so late and I'm still looking for me?" Yan Siqi's voice came out of it.

"Uncle Yan, it's me, Zhang Sheng. I can't sleep at night, so I'll come to talk to you." Gao Shixin replied.

"You can open the door yourself, there is no lock."

Gao Shixin gently pushed open the door and saw that the captain's room was a luxuriously decorated room and the largest room on the boat. The captain's room was located at the stern, with a row of large windows open at the high stern of the boat. At this time, all the windows were open, the interior was well ventilated, the air was circulating, and a sea breeze blew, which felt very cool.

The interior layout of the captain's room is Japanese. Yan Siqi sat on the tatami next to the window at the stern of the boat. A square tea table was placed on the tatami with several cushions around it. There is also a door on the right side of the tatami, which can be seen with a cool mat, quilt, pillow, etc. inside. It is the bedroom; the door on the left is closed, and there is the toilet in the captain's room, and the excrement is directly discharged into the sea.

There are two toilets on the ship, all at the stern of the boat, one at the bottom of the captain's room, and one at the tail of the heavy artillery deck below, which also discharges the excrement directly into the sea.

Yan Siqi greeted, "Boy, come here to sit here. I can't sleep, so let's have a few drinks together!"

Gao Shi had no confidence in his confidence. Whether Yan Siqi completely trusted him. But he knew that Yan Siqi had very strong martial arts skills. Before becoming a pirate, Yan Siqi was originally an ordinary person. As early as the 31st year of Wanli, Yan Siqi, who was still a young man, was killed by him because he was dissatisfied with the evil servants of the gentry family bullying the people, and then went out of exile and became the pirate leader.

After arriving in Japan, Yan Siqi learned a lot of kung fu. He first made a living by making clothes, and later met two pirates, Yang Tiansheng and Huang Cheng. From then on, he embarked on the path of pirates and was respected by the pirates as the boss and became the eldest brother of the Brotherhood.

Gao Shixin walked to the tatami and saluted solemnly.

"Come up and sit down, let's have a few drinks!" Yan Siqi greeted warmly.

"Thank you, Uncle Yan!" Gao Shixin took off his shoes and walked onto the tatami, and sat cross-legged opposite Yan Siqi.

Yan Siqi took out a plate of dried green beans, a plate of braised beef, and a paper-packed roast chicken placed on the table, and took out a bottle of wine from under the tatami.

Gao Shixin sat opposite, and the two of them had a few drinks. After drinking one cup and poured another cup. After a while, the bottle of wine was completely gone. Yan Siqi moved away a wooden board on the tatami, took out a bottle of wine from below, and placed it on the table.

"Drink, happy today, let's stop drunk!" Yan Siqi smiled. The content of the chatting between the two made Yan Siqi very optimistic about the young man. Gao Shixin talked about the development plan of Dongfan Island. Although the first step is to start construction from the village, the towns and ports will be built soon, and the castle needs to be built to protect the towns and villages.

Gao Shixin asked: "Uncle Yan, how many days do you have to stay in Dongfan tomorrow?"

Yan Siqi replied, "Nephew, I can't stay for a few more days. There are still many businesses to deal with in Japan. If you put you guys there, I will set off."

"Uncle Yan, what if the local natives attacked us Han people when you were not there?" Gao Shixin asked. He didn't have much affection for the indigenous people on Dongfan Island. Those people were the ancestors of Taibazi later. Most of the descendants of those guys wanted to get fetal poison, and many of them were hybrids that were produced after crossing with the Japanese.

Yan Siqi smiled and said, "Don't worry, boy. Although the old lady is not here, she has left troops on the island. Just the natives, how can they do us? The natives still hold stone spears and bows and arrows made of bones. As soon as the natives approach, we first bombarded him with a Franc. They approached, and we also had bird gunners. They rushed in front of us. We had sword players and spearmen. Isn't it as simple as killing them or killing an ant?"

"Since Uncle Yan is ready, that kid will feel relieved." Gao Shixin said with a smile.

Yan Siqi laughed: "Are you afraid of death? But don't worry, with the five hundred elite soldiers I left behind, no matter how many natives he is, he will never want to snatch the island back from me."

Gao Shixin suddenly changed the topic and asked a question: "Yan Shu, you have thousands of warships and thousands of elite soldiers under your command. Why don't you serve the imperial court, but you have to be a pirate forever and live this knife-cutting blood. I don't know tomorrow's day today?"

Yan Siqi did not answer this question directly, but asked back: "My dear nephew, can you tell why the Japanese pirates arose?"

Gao Shixin replied without hesitation: "Because a group of poor Japanese samurai were so poor that they had only one sword left, so they could only come to the Ming Dynasty to rob them, so they had a way out."

"Only one knife is left and one life, hahaha 1" Yan Siqi laughed, "Nephew, this is not the main reason. Do you know Wang Zhi back then?"

"I heard a little."

"The reason is because of Wang Zhi! It's not that you are not trustworthy. Hu Zongxian wrote to Wang Zhi, saying that he would be invited to help him. What's the result? When Wang was directly recruited, he was executed by your Ming Dynasty! There were a group of Japanese and Han people under Wang Zhi's command, and only Wang Zhi could suppress them. But as soon as Wang Zhi died, those people had no leader and began to cause trouble. Some people were under the banner of avenging Wang Zhi, while others advocated for forcing the Ming Dynasty to give up the sea ban. So Japanese pirates rose in the southeast coast. Among them, there were a few of them real Japanese pirates, most of them were Wang Zhi's men, and the others were boatmen and fishermen who lost their way to survive because of the sea ban. Only a few of them were real Japanese pirates."

Yan Siqi said such a big call, which means that the government is untrustworthy. The government speaks nicely, but cannot believe a punctuation mark.

Gao Shixin searched for the memories in his mind. The computer inputted him all the historical data from the late Ming Dynasty. There were very few information before Wanli, but he used to love the history of the Ming Dynasty and knew that Wang Zhi was the man. Wang Zhi was a sea merchant from Zhengde to Jiajing period. Of course, the sea merchants in the Ming Dynasty were actually pirates. His power was spread throughout Japan, Korea, Ryukyu, Annan, Luzon, Siam, Borneo, Java, Jinzhou and other places. If he hadn't cooperated with the court himself, the court would have no way to deal with him.

However, Wang Zhi trusted the Ming Dynasty court and assisted the pirates such as Lu Qi and Shen Jiu. With the acquiesce of local officials and gentry, his smuggling became a semi-legal trade activity. His people could enter Suzhou, Hangzhou and other places in a dignified manner to buy silk, tea, and ceramics from the gentry in Jiangnan to transport them overseas. The people of Jiangsu and Zhejiang also sent their children to Wang Zhi's pirate group to work.

Wang Zhi built Zhoushan port, which led to the decline of Fujian port. As a result, in order to retaliate, the Fujian maritime merchants attracted Japanese pirates to attack Zhejiang and other places. Wang Zhi cooperated with Zhang Siwei to eliminate Japanese pirates.

However, the Ming Dynasty court betrayed and sent Yu Dayou to wipe out Wang Zhi. Shuangyu Port and Li Port were destroyed one after another, and Wang Zhi fled to Samoa. Zhejiang's maritime trade was severely hit, and the coastal economy lost its prosperity during the Song and Yuan dynasties.

Later, Hu Zongxian arrived in Zhejiang and planned to recruit Wang Zhi.

Hu Zongxian promised Wang Zhi that he would not kill him as long as he accepted the court's envoy. However, Zhejiang Governor Wang Bengu was betrayal and killed Wang Zhi, causing Wang Zhi's pirate group to lose its constraints, and eventually led to the rampant Japanese pirates from Jiajing to Wanli periods.

Why did Wang Ben kill Wang Zhi? It was because Wang Zhi's pirate group trade activities damaged the interests of the Northern Civil and Gentlemen Group. In fact, this was also a conflict of interest between the Northern Gentlemen Group and the Southern Gentlemen Group. Wang Zhi was able to control the group of Japanese in a fashionable manner. After Wang Zhi's death, Japanese pirates retaliated against each other, and lost their rule, causing chaos in Liangzhe and other places for decades.

Why is it said that Wang Zhi damaged the interests of the Northern Civil Affairs Gentlemen Group? The Northern Gentlemen Group also had its own fleet smuggling, and the cooperation between Wang Zhi and the Southern Gentlemen Group caused heavy losses to the Northern Gentlemen Group's smuggling fleet, which was one of the reasons for his killing.

From this point of view, it is because Wang Benjian insisted on killing Wang Zhi, which caused the tragedy of Japanese pirates that damaged the coastal areas for decades.
Chapter completed!