Wen Tianxiang and Su Liuyi had a long talk all night and finally reached a consensus on educating the people of Bagan. Although the Song Dynasty is not a benevolent country, it is a family and country after all. Wen Tianxiang decided to go north to Bagan to meet his teacher Jiang Wanli, not to ask for an official position, but to discuss with Jiang Wanli how to improve the relationship between Song and Ming dynasties.

Wen Tianxiang's decision accidentally helped Lei Batian solve a big and small problem, and at the same time it also made Lai Bao and Lai Fu's dream of slave traders go one step further.

"Brother, I have hired someone, and there are 92 men in total. Although they are a little short, they are all quite strong and can beat them!"

On a secluded dock in Daguang Port, a subordinate of Lei Batian pulled over a hundred short men less than five feet away. These short men looked like Han people, and their clothes seemed to be Han-style, but they were a little wider. About one-third of the people had a very long knife inserted into their belts, which looked very disharmonious compared to their small ones.

"What can you stand for so short?" Lei Batian sat in a shed made of bamboo and straw mat, suffusing a big palm fan in his hand, but sweat beads were still on his forehead. His face was slightly anxious, and he just shook his head when he looked at the little man who was brought to him. However, he didn't send these little men out of his way because he was short of staff now!

Changes are always faster than plans. Lei Batian's plan to do big business has not yet been realized. He has already fallen ill in a large area of ​​his men brought from China. Although the ship can still be driven, it is not possible to do big business. A lucky ship can be driven with very few sailors, but to do a big business without capital, it requires enough thugs to kill the generals. It is not possible to have too few people.

Therefore, Lei Batian has been selling food and elephants these days, while recruiting people. However, the Han people are simply rare species in Daguanggang, Chittagang, and Hebiangang. Moreover, there are quite a lot of forces to recruit them. The six countries of the Eight-Nation Alliance that invaded India, the Song Dynasty, the Strait Governor's Office of the Ming Dynasty, and the Nanyang Fleet are constantly recruiting people. Compared with them, Lei Batian's grass-roots team has no at all attractive. So he has never recruited enough people to do a large amount of money. So he once had the idea of ​​recruiting the natives of Nanfan and Tianzhu. But after careful consideration, he still gave up this idea. He could still figure out who he was, and he was an invader and colonist. How could he trust the natives? If something happened on the ship, the consequences would be unbearable.

"Brother, they are Japanese." Lei Batian's subordinate reminded.

"I know, I don't know the short guys in Japan yet?" Lei Batian looked disdainful. He used to run Japanese routes, so he naturally met Japanese people. These guys are short and small. When coolies think they are weak, who would hire them if they are full?

Lei Batian's subordinate said excitedly: "There are more than twenty people who are warriors, and the rest are experienced sailors."

"Samurai? Is it a ronin?" Lei Batian then put away his contemptuous expression. He knew that most of the Japanese samurai wars were a little tricky. Japan has been fighting civil wars over the years. A group of village chiefs who believe in the Tathaoism and a group of village chiefs who do not believe in the Tathaoism were in a civil war. Although the scale of the fight was not large, the frequency was extremely high, so a group of samurai who were good at fighting was trained. These people may not be useful when they go to a serious battlefield, but fighting melee and gang fights is quite powerful.

Lei Batian's men continued, "They came from Namba with a Han merchant surnamed Wen. They originally wanted to buy ivory from Daguang Port to sell it to Jiangdu. Unexpectedly, the Han merchant met noble people in Daguang Port and wanted to become a high-ranking official in Dasong. So they gave some money and sent the ship to them, so they drove back to Japan by themselves. However, the leaders of these Japanese men were the ronin who lost their master's family in the Battle of Heaven, and there was no good future when they returned to Japan. They also saw that it seemed that it was easy to make money in Daguang Mansion. So they wanted to find some more work. But they refused to separate. Ninety-two people had to be together and bought their ragged galleons, so no one was willing to hire them. So they became the master, hired them all, and bought their broken boat..."

Lei Batian waved his hand and interrupted his subordinates, "Have you tried it?"

The subordinate nodded, "I tried it, I'm pretty good."

"Okay!" Lei Batian raised his fan and pointed at the Japanese. "Who is the leader? Is anyone who speaks human language?"

There are a lot of Japanese samurai who can speak Chinese now. These Japanese people can be hired by Wen Tianxiang, so naturally some people speak Chinese. One of them has gray hair and dark skin, which is a bit like a man from the natives of the Southern Fan step forward and bow to salute: "In Shirai Iyu Kono Tochan, he is the son of Toshihiko and the leader of everyone."

"Kono clan? A figure of the Iyu navy?" Lei Batian nodded with a smile.

He knew that there was a group of samurai active on the water in the Seto Inland Sea in Japan, called "Seto Pirates". Also known as "Iyu Navy". The leader of this group of samurai warriors took Kono as the Miao character. Like most Japanese samurai families, Kono has experienced many internal struggles. This guy who called himself Kono Toshizen may be the loser of Kono's infighting, or a pretender of Siba. However, this is irrelevant to Lei Batian. As long as these people can fight and fight and get on the boat, he will have 251 men under his command. There is also a Fukuo ship and a Japanese galley. Fukuo ship can move near the sea, while a sailboat can easily enter the inland river. Now he can finally do a big fuss.

"Kono, do you have the courage to follow me to do a business that is not capital?" Lei Batian asked with a smile.

"What's not to dare?" Kono Tsuenchan grinned, "My Iyu Navy is also called Seto Pirates!"

"Good, then you guys will hang out with me from now on! Come and call all the brothers!"

Lei Batian made a quick decision and asked his subordinates to call all the sailor crew resting in the shacks on the boat and near the dock. The people gathered together in a short while, and Lai Bao and Lai Fu were among them. They were now a little adapted to life at sea and would not vomit like a dead fish. They got off the boat and rested for more than ten days, and now they had fully recovered their strength. When they heard the boss's call, they ran over as if they were flying.

When they ran to the dock, the father and son saw Lei Batian being neatly dressed, wearing steel armor, with a steel helmet on his head, and leaning on a large horizontal knife in both hands. A fierce face rarely showed a solemn expression, as if something big was coming. The sailor crew who had arrived seemed to have noticed something. Everyone held their breath and kept their minds in a word, but just looked at Lei Batian with his armor.

The father and son of the Lai family looked at each other and felt that the atmosphere was not very good. During the days when they were getting along with the crew and sailors, they also noticed some signs. This is not a sea boat that does the rules! However, the father and son who boarded the pirate ship did not think about leaving because they did not find Lai Toad. Even if Lei Batian let them go, what good places do they have to go in this unfamiliar place? Although people are recruiting people everywhere in Daguang Port, you will know that there is no easy money to make.

"Everyone, there is a big deal here!" Lei Batian roared, patted his breastplate and shouted, "Lei took over a big deal at the Hebian Port and worked for the Governor's Office!"

There must be nothing good! Lai Bao's heart is pounding.

"We go around the seawestern in Tianzhu to harass the coast of the Sultanate of Delhi, and to capture the sea boats of merchants of the Tianfang Cult, even the Great Food Kingdom and the eastern coast of Africa. The things, ships, and slaves we snatched are all ours! Lei only takes 30%. The rest is all for the brothers!"

Go robbery! Lai Bao, Lai Fu was so cold that he was breathing. This was really a beheading business, and he also had to rob and kill people on other people's territory. The soldiers of the Delhi Sultanate and the sea merchants of the Tianfang Sect are easy to mess with? Don't make trouble if you steal chickens and lose rice, and then spend your life in it!

"Brothers, do you do it?" Lei Batian asked loudly.

"Dry!"

"Snatch the fuck!"

Lei Batian waved his hand and said loudly: "This is not a robbery, it is a privateer! The governor of the Straits Fang Yumen issued us a certificate, allowing us to deal with Delhi on the sea and on land, and against Baifanhai merchants! Everyone let go of their hands and feet. This time, they will not violate the law of the king!"

Killing and robbing is not a violation of the king's law! Which family's reason is this? Lai Bao, Lai Fu was really a little surprised. If Lei Batian did not lie, they not only got on the pirate ship this time, but also arrived in a robber world!

If I had known that this was the case outside, I wouldn’t have come out at the beginning. I would just farm at home, even if I were a tenant for others?

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"Toad. That Indian woman named Kaifu is a beauty, right? She has big eyes, white skin, and has nothing to say. Du Shisan cannot compete with her at all! Moreover, she has a large dowry, does Du Shisan have?"

"Toad. Don't think about Du Shisan anymore. You are so old that you are a villain. Hurry up and marry a wife. I think this girl from the Kaifu family is very good. If you marry her, you will have a good life."

"Toad, don't think about Du Shisan. This year, it's been six years of heaven. Du Shisan is twenty-six and twenty-seven. In the blink of an eye, how could there be no man? I think it's just this Ashinkuff. A sixteen-year-old woman is as old as a flower, and her dowry is worth at least tens of thousands of yuan. If I hadn't had my brother, I would have wanted to marry her..."

Lai Bao and Lai Fu got on the pirate ship. When they were about to rob, Lai Hata was lucky. The beautiful lady from the Great Landlord family of the Great Brahmin caste came up! Of course, Lai Hata has also gone up now, not the bitter tenant boy. But the British nobleman with a special Brahmin caste, who has a fiefdom of 1,000 acres, a manor, and twenty tenants in the Tianzhu Riverside Mansion (near Dhaka in later generations). Moreover, he was the second lieutenant platoon leader in the Musketeer of the Great British King Guards! He was already a group of Indian untouchables who need to look up to.

Now he is trying to forget Du Shisan. It was Rapi Li who married the Brahmin lady in India earlier. Compared with Rapi, his official career can only be described as prosperity. Now he is the magistrate of Hebian County in Hebian Prefecture! And the reason why he was able to become a magistrate is funny to say that he is a whiter skin!

If you grow white, you can become a high-ranking official? It sounds ridiculous, but this is the rule here in Tianzhu! Because their ancestors of the high caste were white people from outside, they also developed a caste system. Over the past few thousand years, they formed a traditional thinking of noble white skin and low black skin. If Bao Qingtian, who had a black face, would probably not even be an official. In order to quickly and stably rule, Chen Huaiqing had been facing people all day long during this period, and took turns to recruit civil and military officials to Yingdu to test them one by one.

The black-faced one stood aside, and the little white-faced one immediately became promoted and made a fortune! So Lai Hata is still a platoon leader now, while Rappi Li is already a county parent official.

In addition, Rippi Li also had a wife, the woman from the Polo family, named Priya Capolo. She was very beautiful, but she had no dowry. Because the Polo family had been ruined for many years after losing the royal power, she was not as rich as the rich people in Bangladesh.

The most concerned thing for parents in the county of Babie Li is naturally the marriage of the "daughters". According to Chen Huaiqing's confession, if there are no daughters in the families of all the local tyrants in Hebian County, it is best to find a Da Ying Lord as their husbands. Only in this way can the foreign Da Ying ruler group be closely linked with the local tyrants in Tianzhu.

The little lady of the Kaifu family is the most beautiful girl in Hebian County, and the Kaifu family is a big landlord in Hebian County. According to the tradition of rich dowry here in Tianzhu, whoever wants to marry her can definitely fight for twenty years less. If the relationship between Rappi Li and Lai Hata is not the turn of Lai Hata. However, after Lai Hata heard of the little lady of Kaifu, her brows were frowning, as if she was not very satisfied.

"I'm not thinking about Du Shisan, I have no fate with her..." Lai Hata shook his head and sighed, "It's the family business. I asked someone to write a letter to send it, saying that the family had paid for farming. My father and Afu went on a long trip to do small business, and there was no news for a long time."
Chapter completed!