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- Nanyang?
After hearing his nephew¡¯s answer, Li Xiang suddenly fell into deep thought.
To be honest, considering the situation he is facing now, sending his family to Nanyang is really a good choice.
However, there are some problems that need to be solved in this choice.
First of all, the natives in Nanyang are very cruel. If the old, young, women and children are sent there, then safety will be a problem that needs to be worried about.
If he, Li Xiang, can survive the confrontation with Zheng Zhilong and the Japanese crusade in the future, then this may not be a big problem, but what if he is defeated?
This issue must be considered.
At the same time, how to live if the family goes there also needs to be solved.
However, besides Nanyang, Li Xiang really has no other choice now.
Think about it, now the coastal navy of the Ming Dynasty and the big shots in the DPRK have all chosen Zheng Zhilong's side. And if he, Li Xiang, is abandoned, then it will be impossible for him, Li Xiang, to send his family to the Ming Dynasty.
"Otherwise, wouldn't I be sending my family into the tiger's mouth?"
¡°Once the enemies over there in the Ming Dynasty find out about this and use their family members to threaten themselves, then they will be in trouble.
Therefore, the Ming Dynasty is absolutely not a choice.
"Besides, the Japanese can't do it either.
The Japanese are cruel by nature, and at the same time, he is likely to be the target of Kyushu.
If it is for the sake of the family, then the family must not be allowed to stay in Japan.
And the same can¡¯t be said for Korea.
If he is defeated in the future, this sea area will become owned by the Zheng Family Group in the future.
Therefore, his family will definitely become a serious problem for Zheng Zhilong, and he will definitely find out and eliminate them.
Koryo, hum, Koryo people have always liked to be treacherous, giving up others to protect themselves when their interests are at stake.
Therefore, the Koreans cannot believe it at all.
After much deliberation, there is only one way to go to Nanyang.
"Biaozi, I thought about it carefully. It seems that the way you said is the right one. Only by sending the old, young, women and children at home to Nanyang can we relieve our worries."
If he could choose, Li Xiang wouldn¡¯t even choose Nanyang.
However, as far as the situation he is facing now, there is only one way to go in front of him.
Therefore, it is impossible for him not to choose.
If you let your family stay on Amami Island, God knows when something will happen.
Therefore, in order to avoid this situation, he now has to start taking precautions for his family.
well!
In fact, Li Xiang¡¯s original plan was to return to the Ming Dynasty and buy some fields to support his family in retirement.
¡°But he never imagined that Zheng Zhilong would suddenly rise up and continue to challenge himself. At the same time, some people in the Ming Dynasty also began to gradually abandon themselves.
This led Li Xiangjue to give up the idea of ??returning to the Ming Dynasty.
Otherwise, with the wealth that Li Xiang now possesses, he can return to the Ming Dynasty to buy 100,000 acres of land, hire hundreds of domestic slaves, raise his old brothers who are pirates together, and have a good time in the Ming Dynasty. Zai's landlord is still okay.
It¡¯s just that God didn¡¯t even give him this hope, which made Li Xiang feel very frustrated.
Is it really a cycle of karma and retribution? Is this God punishing myself?
As the saying goes, hunting dogs will eventually die on the mountain, and generals will inevitably die in battle.
¡°Having been a pirate all your life, do you have to dedicate your life to the sea, like the pirate opponents you killed before, and become a stepping stone for the young Zheng Zhilong?
Yes, Li Xiang was very similar to Zheng Zhilong when he was young.
He slowly gained his current status by constantly challenging the old pirate leaders at the time.
But now things have changed, and he has met the same fate as the senior he provoked.
¡°I was constantly challenged by a young guy, and gradually became at a disadvantage.
This makes Li Xiang start to believe that there really is such a thing as reincarnation in this world. Otherwise, how could it be like this?
The world of pirates is cruel.
When Li Xiang was young, he was much bloodier than Zheng Zhilong.
However, as Li Xiang gets older, his ideas continue to change a lot.
In recent years, Li Xiang has even started eating fast and chanting Buddha¡¯s name.
I don¡¯t know if he is thinking of too many killings in his youth, so he feels repentant now?
Maybe, Li Xiang really wants to be a good person.
It¡¯s just that after Li Xiang¡¯s transformation, he didn¡¯t get what he wanted. On the contrary, many people began to feel that the once all-powerful Sea Dragon King had lost his energy, so many people began to abandon him.
The world of pirates is like this, where the strong are always respected.
This is like a pride of lions. The old lion king will eventually be overthrown and replaced by a younger and stronger new lion king.
This situation occurs not only in lions, but also in groups of many animals.
It¡¯s just that things like this happen more among carnivore groups.
Although humans are different from those beasts, some of their behaviors are no different from those of beasts.
Especially among pirates who pay attention to the law of the jungle, a strong person attracts others more.
And Li Xiang¡¯s performance in the past few years clearly does not look like the behavior of a strong person.
He became weak and even had a charitable heart.
People like him are no longer suitable to be pirates in the eyes of others, and they continue to command everyone.
On the contrary, Zheng Zhilong, who is young, cunning and growing in strength, showed his power to all the Eastern pirates.
Suddenly, everyone saw another young leader.
?Compared to a leader who has gradually aged, an obviously young leader is more attractive.
Especially in the battles in recent years, Li Xiang has continued to lose men. Zheng Zhilong, because of his good relationship with the Europeans, won their support. At the same time, he joined the Ming Dynasty and became the commander of the Fujian Navy. He could Use the name of the imperial court to attack Li Xiang.
The power of the imperial court, plus Zheng Zhilong's own pirate power at sea, and the combined power of the Europeans. How could Li Xiang be able to deal with these three forces combined.
It has to be said that talents come out from generation to generation, and a new generation replaces the old ones.
Li Xiang ended up in this situation because of his outdated concept and believed that he was a pirate and could not be punished.
"Zheng Zhilong, on the other hand, because of his quick mind, immediately saw the benefits in this, and that's why he achieved the current situation.
It seems that in this world, it is still very realistic and cruel for young people to replace old people.
The fleet was sneaking quickly on the sea, and countless seabirds were hovering around the fleet.
The climate in the Japanese waters in winter is still very cold.
However, as the fleet sails southward, the temperature gradually warms.
Amami Island
This island, built by Li Xiang as the nest of the Li Family Group, is located at the southern tip of Kyushu, between Kagoshima and Naha. It is an island that you will not notice if you are not careful. It is very suitable for pirates to settle down.
The entire Amami Island is only ten square kilometers in area and is surrounded by numerous reefs.
If it were not for ships that were familiar with the terrain of the nearby waters, it would be impossible to break into Amami Island without warning.
There is a natural harbor on Amami Island that can dock hundreds of ships at the same time.
Since Li Xiang rose up and discovered this island decades ago, he has occupied this island and built it into an important base of the Li Family Group.
On this island, the pirates who belong to Li Xiang have built their own residences here. And there are many pirate family members living here.
The population here, even at its peak, reached as many as 20,000.
There are even small markets on the island where people can do business.
It seems that this is a small city.
Originally, everyone in the Li family group living here was carefree, but with the rise of Zheng Zhilong, this situation changed.
First of all, many pirates who were originally affiliated with Li Xiang have left the Li Family Group. They went to Taiwan to join Zheng Zhilong. With the departure of these people, the number of residents on Amami Island also declined rapidly.
At the same time, as Li Xiang and Zheng Zhilong continued to suffer heavy losses in their confrontations, the flow of this population became faster.
In the past few years, the people on Amami Island haveThe population has dropped sharply from more than 20,000 people in the glory days to more than 6,000 people. The number has been reduced by 70%, which is not surprising.
Especially half a month ago, Li Xiang's kowtow drove his brothers away, taking away as many as 2,000 people.
It can be said that the people who are still on Amami Island are basically die-hard loyalists of the Li Family Group.
These people are either related to the Li family, or they are people who have no way out.
They have no other choice but to follow Li Xiang closely.
What troubles Li Xiang even more is that most of the people left behind are old, weak, sick and disabled. They are either older brothers or some young kids.
Those strong young men almost all followed the others and left.
Faced with such a situation, Li Xiang was also very helpless and had no choice.
Who told him that he has lost his former glory and is already old?
Now Li Xiang doesn¡¯t have much, he just hopes that he can get through this difficulty.
But this idea is already a luxury wish for him.
Because Li Xiang knows Zheng Zhilong, this guy is not a kind person.
He will definitely kill himself before he stops.
In addition to this being Zheng Zhilong¡¯s nature, this is also the rule of the pirate world.
Especially Zheng Zhilong needs to use the destruction of the Li Family Group to demonstrate the deterrent power of his Zheng Family Group.
Therefore, it is necessary to use the heads and blood of the Li family group to demonstrate to others.
When Li Xiang and his nephew Yang Biao talked on the deck for an hour, the fleet returned to Amami Island.
The fleet wandered around the island for a while, and after bypassing the reefs, they entered the port.
After the fleet members returned, the shore was already filled with women and children. When the men stepped off the boat one by one, greetings could be heard immediately.
The children threw themselves into their father's arms, and the women breathed a sigh of relief when they saw their men coming back.
Some old people came forward with smiles and looked for their families.
Li Xiang¡¯s family didn¡¯t come. It wasn¡¯t that they didn¡¯t want to come, but that Li Xiang didn¡¯t want them to come.
"Master, where did these nineteen ships come from?"
¡°Everyone is still very curious about the nineteen ships that Li Xiang and the others got back.
They are all people who make a living on the Eastern Sea, so they all recognize this as a European ship.
They have no problem with this.
What makes them wonder is that when their boss left, there were not so many European ships.
How come after a trip to Nagasaki, there were nineteen more European ships when I came back?
Because we have dealt with Europeans and fought with Europeans at sea, everyone is very familiar with European ships.
"Fast speed, many guns, and strong defense are all advantages that everyone knows very well."
"Hey! Did the rich man rob the fleet of those southern barbarians?"
At the moment, someone was speculating.
"Probably not. Judging from the appearance of the eldest master and his brothers, it seems that they have not experienced a naval battle. Moreover, the children who followed the eldest master have returned well one by one. If they robbed the merchant fleet of the Nanman people, It will inevitably cost a lot of manpower."
"But if that's not the case, then where did these ships come from? Could it be that they were given by the Southern Barbarians? I don't believe this. Those Southern Barbarians are not good people. They can't do such a thing. ."
"Perhaps the boss was in Nagasaki and took advantage of the Southern Barbarians to be unprepared to get these ships back. Maybe this is really the case."
"Haha, no matter what, with these nineteen ships, we no longer have to be afraid of that Zheng Bailian."
Before Li Xiang could answer this question, many people on the shore began to express their guesses.
¡°It¡¯s like the guesses they made were all kinds of, but no one was right.
¡°However, we can¡¯t blame them.
Even if Li Xiang really told the truth, no one would believe it.
The person who asked about the nineteen ships earlier was a burly old man around fifty years old, with a wrinkled face and a disheveled arm.
The old man¡¯s name is Lin Zhao??, they are old brothers who have been with Li Xiang since they were young.
It was only because he broke an arm in a confrontation with Zheng Zhilong a few years ago, and he was already quite old, that he was left on the island as a steward.
¡°As soon as he glanced at it, he saw nineteen European ships entering the port, so he came over and asked.
"My lord, there is one more thing I want to tell you. Liu Dashen and Mrs. Wang are back."
Before Lin Zhaodi could wait for Li Xiang to answer his question, he immediately asked another question.
The last words Lin Zhaodi said made Li Xiang's eyes widen in disbelief.
¡°What, Liu Dashen and Mrs. Wang are all back? (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novels will be better and updated faster!) - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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