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Chapter 144: Unexpected Gains

Li Jing waved his hand excitedly: "Let's go, go to the dock now to see what we have gained."

When Wang Chong and other generals heard this good news, they didn't even care about changing their bloody clothes on their bodies, so they were excited to follow the wharf with weapons. Liu Shouqian, Zhang Chengzong, Li Shugen and others quickly ordered two servants to follow them. Zhang Hong saw Li Jing and others running towards the wharf from afar, and probably it was the fleet's business. They ran up and asked them and actually captured the 18 sea boats of the pirates. They were so excited that they were stumbled by the roadside trash.

With excitement, the crowd quickly arrived at the dock. From a distance, they saw the pirate crew members squatting in crows on the dock, all tied up with dozens of soldiers guarding them. There were a long row of sea boats docked on the sea outside the dock.

"One, two, three, four", Zhang Hong's eyes shone and counted one by one excitedly. "General, eighteen ships, a total of eighteen ships."

Looking at the white sails, Li Jing couldn't help but feel excited.

"I'm wrong, it's nineteen ships, and our Ninghai is also behind." Lin Wei reminded with a smile. While saying that, he waved to the servants who were guarding the pirate crew, and they immediately brought in. "General, this is a big leader under the One-Eyed Dragon, responsible for the remaining fleet."

The pirate leader was extremely embarrassed, tied with cowhide ropes, like a rice dumpling. He squatted at the dock for half a night, his face turned blue. There was a wound on his forehead, and half of his face could not be wiped. As soon as he saw Lin Wei, who had defeated him, brought a group of people in, and he was standing behind one of the young generals, he immediately understood that this person was probably Li Jing, the general of Shamen Town. They came here in blood, and it was probably more fierce than Zheng Balang and others. He was shocked and hurriedly shouted to Lin Wei: "General Lin, I promised that I will take my brothers to surrender to you and give the fleet to you, and you will save our lives and let us leave."

Lin Wu walked forward and kicked him down. He rolled on the ground like a ball, and was covered in ashes of clothes. "Damn thief, were you really surrendered? If I hadn't arrived with my brothers, and the Ninghai and the Qiu team head touched your ship from behind, would you surrender? Dogri, why didn't you let your brothers be ruthless?"

The pirate leader was completely gone at this time, with fear left on his face. He shouted loudly: "General Lin, we agreed that we must be trustworthy when we do it. The ship is already yours, and we only want a way out."

Li Jing stopped Lin Wu, who was still about to step forward, shouted: "What did you do before, how can you be a thief?"

The pirate leader looked at Li Jing with some fear, "I used to be the leader of the Dengzhou Navy, but later I was recruited by Zheng Balang, so I followed him."

"Since I was once a navy official army, why are you a thief?"

The pirate leader looked at Li Jing and suddenly laughed, "What is the official army and what is the thief? Is there any difference between these two? The crows are just ordinary black. The official army is no different from the thief. The only difference is that the officials in the official army do not take their brothers as their subordinates. In addition to you, all the brothers eat large pieces of meat and drink big bowls, no food and salary deduction, and no oppression from the Shangguan!"

Li Jing shouted, "It's ridiculous. Don't think that you're seeing everything. Do you have to follow the thief just because of Shangguan's oppression? How could I bully you in Shamen Town? Do you want to bring you in to attack Shamen Town?"

"This is the way of the world. Big fish eat small fish, and small fish eat shrimp." The pirate leader said in a weak voice.

Li Jing glanced at him coldly, "According to your wishes, if you fall into my hands now, then life and death will be my."

The pirate leader also understood that Li Jing refused to let him go, and finally he left a little bit of arrogance and no longer wanted to beg for mercy. Li Jing shouted: "Pull out all the pirate leaders, behead them all, throw the corpses into the sea, and leave the head at the top."

Wang Chong immediately called more than a dozen people to come forward, and according to the early interrogation of the servants, he pulled out all the pirates and leaders, pushed them onto the dock, cut off their heads one by one, and pushed the headless corpses into the sea.

The pirates had more than 500 left-behind crew members, more than 100 were killed in the battle, and nearly 400 were surrendered and captured. In just one round of cleaning, 10% of the leaders of all sizes were beheaded, and more than 300 pale crew members were left.

"General, how to deal with these incomings? Let's kill them together." Wang Chong went up to kill the pirate leader himself, with fresh blood stained with fresh blood. Li Jing looked at the pirates who were obviously scared. These incomings were not as good as those pirates who fought in the castle before, and were mostly young men, half-old men and some disabled people. He shook his head. He just killed the chicken and warned the monkey just now, which greatly shocked these thieves. However, he did not intend to kill all of these incomings. Entering was also a valuable resource. What's more, although Shaman Island won this battle this time, he lost a lot of incomings.

"Take them all back to Shamen Town and beat them all to slaves. Killing them is just a cheaper price!" Li Jing said coldly.

Li Jing already knew that the pirates involved in the attack on Shamen Town were colluded by Wang Jin. In addition to the pirate One-eyed Dragon leading eighteen ships, Wang Jin also sent his general Wang Fu to lead 200 guards to participate in the battle. The two hundred troops who were most equipped were the guards of the Wang family. Li Jing's anger was conceivable for Wang Jin. At the dock, he did not get on the ship first, but ordered the secret shops and warehouses of the Wang family that were exposed to be sealed immediately.

The Wang family has always secretly operated the Shimen Wharf, shops and warehouses in Shamen Town. Lin Wei had already controlled the entire wharf as early as when he captured the fleet. Under Li Jing's order, several Wang family managers led the way, and Li Jing quickly led to the front of the largest warehouse of the Wang family on the wharf.

Li Jing shouted to knock on the door, and the crowd entered the warehouse, and was shocked. The huge warehouse was filled with countless sacks, stacked like mountains. Liu Shouqian stepped forward and pulled off a sack and opened it. He saw that the white sack was covered with rice. He pulled the manager up and asked, and the warehouse was full of rice, which was 20,000 stones.

"What are the Wang family doing for stockpiling so much rice here?" Li Jing asked.

The manager was so cold that he was still angry, but the sweat on his face was flowing like a waterfall, and his whole face was as white as paper. Just now, the soldiers killed dozens of pirate leaders, but they were forced to watch the whole process. Their heads were still flying in front of them. They were afraid that they would not say anything well, so they were chopped off by the soldiers.

"If you go back to the general, these are all rice shipped from Silla. They exist here instead of Dengzhou because the goods are taxed when entering the Dengzhou wharf. And unloading goods on Shaman Island can be exempted from commercial tax. The rice shipped from Silla is first unloaded in the Shaman Island warehouse, and then transported back to Dengzhou by small boat. When you get ashore from the private port and small wharf, you don't have to pay taxes. The rice in the warehouse was transported shortly after, and it has not yet arrived to transport it back to Dengzhou."

Li Jing and others laughed and got a big harvest. He took 20,000 s of rice. Since it was the Wang family's things, it would be useless to collect them. Even if he accepted them, the Wang family could do anything and could summon another group of pirates to beat him. Since he had already tear his face, Li Jing didn't plan to be polite.

"The Wang family has other warehouses and shops, what else is there?"

Several managers stood there and hesitated. Li Jing nodded to Liu Shouqian. Liu Shouqian immediately pulled out one of the older and higher-ranking managers. After a moment, a scream came from outside, and then Liu Shouqian came back with a blood-covered copper mace. The faces of several managers became even pale, and several people immediately rushed to report to Li Jing in a stuttering manner.

This time, Li Jing's harvest was very rich, so rich that he was a little surprised. Not only did he find more than 3,000 stone grain in a granary, but he also found a cloth warehouse where more than 10,000 linen cloth and more than 3,000 precious silk fabrics such as silk Lingluo. In addition, they also found a raw material warehouse where tens of thousands of kilograms of iron were stored.

What surprised Li Jing even more was that a manager told a secret that no other manager knew. There was a huge underground workshop under a vacant warehouse in the dock area.

When the manager took Li Jing and others into the underground workshop, not only Wang Chong and others were surprised, but Li Jing was so surprised that he couldn't stop talking about it. Even the other managers of the Wang family were shocked.

It was a huge underground workshop, hidden deep within the empty warehouse, with only a secret entrance. There was usually a team of well-equipped guards guarding the door, but at this time the guards were all transferred to attack the castle city and never returned. There were only eight guards left at the entrance, which were easily captured by Li Jing's servants.

When Li Jing and others entered the workshop, the workshop was still busy, and there was a scene of rushing to die. Two or three hundred people were busy.

Li Jing noticed a temporary cargo stacking point at the entrance, where boxes of goods were piled up. The manager said, "This is the delivery place for the finished product stacking. After work is stopped at night, it will be transported to the ground warehouse."

"What are you creating so many workshops?" Li Jing asked.
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