I am a pirate in Ming Dynasty

In the fucked up social environment of the Ming Dynasty, the farmers who are the support of the social economy have an extremely difficult life, not to mention those classes who are not favored by society.

The names are cleverly chosen and the various charges are dazzling. The additional taxes levied every year make every class breathless.

If you usually run a business and don't have a large group of people behind it, then the business will definitely have surprises of one kind or another.

It is said that a large wave of goods will be dumped, and the value of the sales will be recovered.

Ma Laosan was dumbfounded by a series of questions. Who among his family, Liu Laosan and others did not have dozens of acres of good irrigated land. They had been squeezed out by the gentry over the years and could not make ends meet.

Raising taxes to bankrupt the rich peasants has always been a common tactic used by the gentry. Finally, annexation was carried out to obtain more land.

Qin Shang didn't know how to judge this system. Ming Taizu was a generation of outstanding people, and some of the policies he introduced were harmful to his descendants.

The conversation between Boss Liu and others came to nothing in the end, and they didn't know when to wait until the delivery of goods.

Dumping in Jiangnan, the profit margin is too small. What's more, if other people sell this kind of thing cheaper than you, how can you sell it?

After everyone was quiet, Boss Liu told Fang Wu what he had learned about the changes in the pirate world.

Pirates use Shuangyu Island as their trading base in the east. All pirates are based on the leadership of Xu Dong. As long as they do business at sea, they must recognize the boss.

Under Boss Xu are the captains of Baixiong, which is equivalent to a hundred fleets. Each fleet has about a hundred people. The top ten are the exception. Each of them has a fleet of no less than a thousand people.

Xu Dong usually uses Baixiong to collect all the goods from the coastal areas to Shuangyu Island, where they are transported to Japan, Ryukyu, Luzon and other places through a fleet of ten people.

The smuggling center in the East uses Shuangyu Island as a transfer point to spread to the world.

"This ship has become ours now, but there is not a penny on it. Except for food, it is of no use to us. But I want to hide this ship on a small island in the sea as our retreat. I will continue to sail with Fang Wu, and when I become familiar with the current maritime situation, I can sell this batch of goods at a good price!" Boss Liu did not hide his thoughts at all.

Wang Laoer and others naturally have no objection. Wouldn't it be great to swallow a sum of one hundred thousand taels of silver?

An idea suddenly popped into Qin Shang's mind: founding a country overseas! If we use these materials as the basis, use food and a large amount of resources to support the construction of overseas islands, wouldn't it be possible to create a small country?

The problem lies in the people and the territory. Currently, the only territory suitable for overseas bases is Xiaoliuqiu. If you want to enter Ryukyu, you have to bypass Ningbo Prefecture. The fatal thing is that Ningbo Prefecture is the residence of the great pirate Xu Dong. If you pass there, you will inevitably There are many pirate fleets to meet.

Qin Shang remained silent, having some thoughts in his heart.

It was getting late, and the women happily returned to their rooms with their favorite silks and satins, and began to cut out the clothes they liked.

Even Han Zhaoxi took two pieces of good cloth and leaned on the oil lamp to pick up the needle.

This was also a rare time for Qin Shang to be alone. He had no desire to rest and walked out of the cabin alone with a small oil lamp.

A black shadow, fully dressed, was blowing in the wind on the bow of the boat. He was about to leave and asked calmly: "It's so late, can't you sleep?"

Qin Shang carefully protected the oil lamp, turned around and put it in the windless cabin, then walked out with his shoulders stretched out.

"I can't sleep, Uncle Liu, are you leaving now?"

"Yeah!" Boss Liu nodded and said, "Now even if I stay, it doesn't make much sense. You just stay here and wait until I make a name for myself at sea before I come back!"

"Then what should they do?" Qin Shang asked, pointing to the cabin.

Old Liu naturally knew what Qin Shang was referring to. The old, weak, women and children in the cabin were things he couldn't let go of. He turned his head to prevent the other party from seeing the apology in his eyes: "The place I went to is too dangerous, they can't go. "

"Really?" Qin Shang nodded, walked a few steps and sat under the mast, leaning against the mast and looking at the starry sky and said, "Uncle, I want to take them home."

"Why?" Boss Liu was very surprised.

Qin Shang turned his head and said with a bit of excitement on his immature face: "For the overseas base plan!"

"Overseas base?" The inexplicable term left Boss Liu a little confused.

Qin Shang became interested, waved his hand and said: "As long as Uncle Liu sneaks into the pirate team and brings the other three uncles to the top in the future, we will have the opportunity to immigrate all the refugees from Ming Dynasty to Xiaoliuqiu and build our own 'Double Island'."

Boss Liu was stunned after hearing this, and then stared at the other person with a pair of sharp eyes and said, "Are you serious when you say this? Do you know that many people will die?"

Qin Shang stared at the other party without showing any signs of weakness and said: "Of course, this is to pull teeth from the tiger's mouth, but if we really have a way to fool the people on 'Shuangyu Island', we may not be able to take our gall and replace them as the new one." Shuangyu Island'."

"Haha, hahaha," Boss Liu laughed loudly after hearing this. He looked at Qin Shang and said with a smile: "You are so young, but you have such knowledge and ambition. It is not simple, it is not simple. Qin Shang, will you really leave in the future?" At that point, your Uncle Liu will make you emperor!"

Turning around, Boss Liu turned around and said: "Tomorrow morning, pack your things and I will come back to arrange your return trip!"

Qin Shang watched the man leave from behind, and then lay down a little exhausted. It was really too hard to face a man full of murderous intent. He didn't know what was going on just now. When he thought of establishing a big power, All the fears in his heart disappeared, and he was even very excited.

Could it be that he really has the attributes of an ambitious person?

Qin Shang looked at the sky and slapped himself. It hurt. This was still that world.

"I have to go back, what on earth did I do?"

A small figure kept rolling back and forth on the board of the ship, and the shame in his heart instantly enveloped him. It wasn't until Han Zhaoxi finished all the work in his hands that he called Qin Shang off the board to sleep.

The stars are still twinkling, but the people under the light have different thoughts. The man on the dusty horse is still surprised by the child's astonishing words. His long-lasting difficulty in calming down proves the complexity of his heart.

Qin Li, who was far away in the Qin family compound, put down the pen in his hand, his heart was throbbing, and he couldn't calm down at all.