It was not dawn yet, but the rain started to drizzle.

The sea breeze stirred the waves and clattered. I didn’t dare to sail at night, so the fleet got off the anchor early and spent the night at the sea.

This is a fleet of thirteen ships, headed by three large treasure ships, followed by three merchant ships, three warships, and four speedboats.

In the stern cabin of the flagship Sun never sets, the fleet commander Li Shimin was looking at the chart.

The destination of the fleet's trip was Sinaka Bulu, which was also called the City of Lions. The Han merchants who traveled and exchanged liked to be called Dazhan Haikou, or simply called Linyipu (Hoi'an).

"Fan Fanzhi has 5,000 imperial guards, and Lin Yipu is not easy to fight." Captain Whitebeard reminded Li Shimin again.

But Li Shimin just tapped the map with an iron hook with his left hand. He looked up and his eyes were covered with a dark eye mask, which made him feel a little tougher.

"So what about five thousand? We have been in and out of Linyipu more than once, and we know the truth and reality of the city." Li Shimin sneered a few times, "This Fan Fanzhi sent people to pay tribute to Luoyang, but on the other hand, he deliberately engaged in friction on the northern border and secretly stationed troops to build a city, which eventually attracted the flames of Rinan County. Now the South Prefect and our Sunset King attacked the Guluo River. The Sunset King and the Sunset County soldiers fought over the Guluo River from the west and crossed Changshan. Now Linyi lost the city and land, but it was in a tight embarrassment. Fan Fanzhi sent people to ask for peace in Luoyang, and at the same time, he drew many troops from all over Linyi to the north, including many imperial guards in Linyi."

Li Shimin has been staring at Lin Yipu for a day or two.

Although he was appointed as the magistrate of Nantang County by the court of Sunset County, he did not do much work. Instead, he borrowed a notebook from Luo Yi, and then ordered several ships from the shipyard with the money he robbed during the Lingnan rebellion, and bought several other sea ships to modify them.

So the sun never sets and the pirates continued to scatter across the sea.

He was not a specialist in pirates, but was both a businessman and a thief. While he was trading with Linyi and Funan in the south of Guangnan, he often attacked the coastal areas and even plundered merchant ships.

Both business and thief, there are no taboos, and Li Shimin's fleet has developed rapidly.

He established several strongholds on the coastal islands of Linyi and Funan. These strongholds include piers, water villages and even castles. He also conquered many pirates and bandits from Linyi and Funan, and developed them into their own subordinates.

On the other hand, he also built his own shops and warehouses in the coastal port city of Linyi and Funan.

Li Shimin had a treasure ship ordered at the Royal Shipyard of the Qin Dynasty and then added weapons privately. Not only were there desperate thieves on the ship, but also the elite guards directly drawn by Sunset King Luo Yi. They also had excellent equipment, strong armor, sharp weapons, and even some fierce equipment such as small-scale Shenji Captains and crossbows.

In addition to the advantages of navigation technology, they were almost invincible in Linyi and Funan, and even further south of Kunlun Sea. Although the most powerful force on the South China Sea was the royal South China Sea Fleet. But the cleverness of Li Shimin is that he did not do all this secretly. He used the Sunset King Luo Yi to pass these with the South China Sea Fleet, the South China Sea Maritime Department and others.

Even Li Shimin's fleet of sun-restless fleet itself is an extra-staff fleet under the Royal South China Sea Fleet.

It is precisely because of this black and white identity that his actions in Linyi and Funan have been smooth. He is not only a distributor of the South China Sea Caravan, but also acts as an intelligence officer, providing intelligence, etc.

Although it is quite profitable to do business with Funan and Linyi Kingdom, Li Shimin's speed is still a bit slow. It is difficult for formal channels to satisfy his ambitions.

He thinks the most profitable thing is to grab it.

But just robbing the sea, it was actually a small fuss. After all, although he had thirteen ships, he did not dare to rob the ships of the Central Plains merchants. Some of the ships from Funan Linyi and other countries would also have very strong armed guards, and they could not rob them every time.

What Li Shimin wants to grab the most is to go ashore to grab it.

But Li Shimin had a big appetite and was not satisfied with sneaking small-scale moves. He usually let the conquered Linyi, Funan or Zhenla Kingdom do the small-scale actions.

Li Shimin did the big thing, and he was aiming at the capital of Linyi.

"During the Southern Dynasties, Linyi repeatedly invaded, and Emperor Wen was furious, so he sent a large army to fight. At that time, Linyi was very scared and wanted to lose 10,000 jin of gold, 100,000 jin of silver, and 300,000 jin of copper, and returned the people of the southern county to whom it was included. However, the governor of Jiaozhou of the Liu Song Dynasty sent a fierce general Xiao Jingxian to lead the army to attack, first defeating Licheng in the northern border area, and then taking advantage of the victory of Linyi. At that time, he obtained countless rare things and sold his Jin people, and obtained hundreds of thousands of jin of gold! During the Sui Dynasty, Liu Fang also led his army to attack Linyi, destroyed his capital, and seized his temple master Jin people and returned."

Although a group of pirate leaders followed Li Shimin to plunder everywhere, no matter how much they robbed, they would just rob some commercial goods. It was so hard to believe that the gold was hundreds of thousands of pounds.

"Hundreds of thousands of pounds of gold? One pound is sixteen taels, and one hundred thousand pounds is one million. One pound of gold is more than eight guan. Wouldn't it be tens of millions of guan?"

"How is it?" Li Shimin smiled.

"Lingnan produces gold and silver, and Linyi places produce more gold and silver. Linyi has the benefits of sea trade and trades with gold and silver. Therefore, there are many gold and silver in the country. Linyi people admire Buddhism and like to build temples and set up gold Buddhas. Even the ancestral tablets like to cast gold. Before Liu Song could catch them, they were willing to give 10,000 jin of gold and 300,000 jin of copper. It can be seen that the gold and silver in the country are huge. After the defeat, the country was destroyed, and it is not surprising that hundreds of thousands of jin of gold was plundered by the Liu Song army."

A group of people were swallowing there.

"Hundreds of thousands of pounds, as long as there are ten thousand pounds, even ten thousand taels of this transaction is worth it."

Li Shimin laughed and said, "So, what's the point of robbing those small fishing villages? Are you robbing salted fish? If you want to robb, robbing Linyipu and robbing Lion City. As long as you succeed, not to mention hundreds of thousands of kilograms of gold, there will always be 10,000 kilograms of gold?"

A group of pirates began to fantasize there.

"With so much gold, what should I do?"

"What's wrong? Buy wine and meat, buy land and buy land, and marry a few beautiful girls. It's best to go to Nanhai, Jiaozhi, or even Guangling, Luoyang, and Chang'an to buy his big house, and then buy Kunlun slave Sila maid Bosji, BMW in Qinghai's Western Regions' Camel Kumoxi's car, Khitan's saddle...

"Come on, I have money. I went to Jiaozhi to buy his ten hectares of land and a hundred hectares of land. I will become a big landlord for generations, and then I will not have to worry about it for generations."
Chapter completed!