Pirate Avenger

Chapter 67 Regrouping
After the bloody civil strife, the Li family is now monolithic.

However, because the lackeys of the few clan elders who slipped through the net leaked the news, the eyes of the people looking at "Xiang Feihu" became more and more fearful.Although the Li family has been guarding their safety all these years.

If the loss is only these, then it doesn't matter, it is not a day or two for these foolish people to be afraid of Huamei.But the loss of the mall made the Li family gasp.

Because of the Ming Dynasty's sea ban policy, the Li family lost its status as an official local fleet.The reason why the unofficial guard fleet of the current Li family can exist is largely due to the fact that Richard Huisen, the nominal British inspector, is involved in it.In order to deal with Japanese pirates and even future powers, Huamei hopes to expand her power through diplomatic negotiations and strategies. This is why Huamei insists on taking Maria as her Christian name, all in order to negotiate with Westerners smoothly.

Because the fleet no longer has appropriations from the imperial court, all expenses are now supported by the commercial profits of the Li family.Business is the backbone of the Li family.

The government in many places was also aware of this point, so after getting the news, they immediately made a face that they wanted to reduce the Li family's market share, or even refused to make a deal.

In fact, everyone knows that they are just putting on a show and wanting to get more benefits.If the Li family's caravan really stopped reaching their town, the Li family would only suffer a loss of profit, and they would be miserable.Maybe the year-end tax and money will be a problem, and it is very possible that the black yarn will not be guaranteed.So although their actions are very dirty, they have touched the bottom line of the Li family very well, and they will never cross it easily.

It's the same this time.

Sure enough, Yi An came back from various negotiations, gathered all the information, and handed it over to Huamei.

Speaking of Yi An, it's also interesting.

Yi An's name is Yi An Dukov, a Russian.He is a swordsman who is as beautiful as a woman.Born in a rich merchant family, he received a good education since he was a child.Especially in business, has an excellent talent.Everyone thought that he would inherit the family business as a matter of course, but who would have thought that what Yi An wanted to be was a sailor who was said to be able to see different starry sky every day at sea.

Yi An's father was annoyed at the son of a visionary and strong-minded romantic.After another unhappiness broke up, Old Dukov forcibly arranged Yi An to go out to sea on a merchant ship under his chamber of commerce.

It turned out that this merchant ship had an accident on the east coast of Africa, and after Yi An asked the surviving people to send a message to his father, he concealed his identity and applied to be a hired sailor for Richard's fleet passing by here. China.

The story after that was a bit clichéd, it was nothing more than a foreign country, the same starry sky, and a different beauty. In short, Yi An stayed in Li's house, or more precisely, Hua Mei's side.

"Thank you, Yi An."

"You are. I have wronged you, Hua Mei."

"It's nothing, if it works, it's all worth it.

Closer to home, what was the result? "

"The market share has been preserved. Bribery has the greatest effect. It seems that we have colluded, and all of them are asking us to pay 3% of the turnover. And if it is disguised as a foreign fleet, all local governments and officials will turn a blind eye. With one eye closed."

"Sure enough, has it rotted to this point?"

"Yeah, it's not the first time.

But they also know that our sales tax is huge, and it is the best policy to let us go.And it is necessary for us to enlist their support.At this stage, we can only be patient. "

"I understand."

"How is the fleet, has the crew's morale been hit?"

"It's impossible to say nothing at all. Fortunately, the influence is limited, and Spark has already taken them to sea. I believe the fleet will regroup soon."

"Is there any news about coming to the island again?"

"That's not true. Judging from the news we got, it's just a small group of wandering pirates."

"You little pirate, then there's nothing to worry about.

By the way, I have some ideas for future business operations.Let's have a good chat. "

……

At this time, while Hua Mei and Yi An were discussing the future of the Li family's business, the Li family's military forces were carrying out the task of exterminating pirates.

The mission was carried out by the Li family's Huachang, led by the captain Spark and the charge captain Xingjiu.

Let’s talk about Xingjiu first.

Xingjiu Xuancheng Shiraki, Japanese, the youngest son of the Shiraki family, a retainer who guards a daimyo in Oshu.Xingjiu, who has an upright personality, understands that he will not be able to inherit the position of the patriarch anyway. After thinking about his future, Xingjiu asks his father for leave and embarks on a journey of practicing martial arts.

During his wanderings, he met an old swordsman named Bai Shu, and followed him to learn his own style of swordsmanship.It's a pity that this set of swordsmanship, which tries to transcend all schools in Japan, has not been fully completed, and the old swordsman passed away.Xingjiu decided to rely on his own strength to complete this set of swordsmanship and named it Baishu Swordsmanship.

Later, in order to complete the practice of swordsmanship and inquire about a famous sword at the same time, Xingjiu sailed westward to the Ming Dynasty by boat.

After seeing the bloody brutality of the pirates in the Linhai area, Xingjiu, who has a strong sense of justice, resolutely joined the army against the pirates, and was later favored by Huamei and became the charge captain of the Lijia Huachang.

Spark admires Xingjiu, a master swordsman, and even sees a little shadow of Sauron in him.The same self-confidence, the same uprightness, the same sense of justice.So I took good care of Xingjiu who had just arrived at that time.As a Japanese who was hostile by the people of the Ming Dynasty, Xingjiu was able to quickly integrate into the Li family and establish prestige on the Huachang. In addition to his real achievements, Spark also contributed a lot.

And Xingjiu also respects Spark, who is only a few months older than him.It's not because Spark is the captain of the Huachang, nor is it because Spark takes good care of him, but because he was defeated several times in sparring with Spark.This is Xingjiu's heartfelt respect and admiration for the strong as a warrior.

More importantly, Xingjiu saw the hope of completely perfecting Baishu swordsmanship in Spark.Although Spark's swordsmanship is not worth mentioning, his ghostly moving method (shaved), false and real attack moves (virtual and real), and instant strength skills (paoquan) all inspired Xingjiu. Isn't it exactly what Teacher Baishu has been pursuing all his life!
However, although Xingjiu was drooling over this, he didn't ask rashly.In Japan, there are many different schools, each of which is silent about its own moves.It is impossible for disciples who are not from this school to learn every move and half style.And it has always been regarded as a big taboo to secretly inquire about the moves of other schools.

Therefore, even though Xing Jiu had an unusual desire, he was still reluctant to speak.In fact, Spark didn't mind, but he just didn't know about it.And it was this misunderstanding caused by coincidence that finally made Spark laugh from ear to ear.

　Thanks to the book friend "Flying Wind Zidian" for the reward.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)