However, Yang Wenqing's pride was soon shattered.
"It was you who ordered the ship to hit us."
A stout officer came over and before Yang Wenqing could recover from his shock, he slapped Yang Wenqing in the face.
"Pa" hit Yang Wenqing with a heavy palm on the face.
He staggered back two steps and sat on the board of the boat.
Blood flowed from the corner of his mouth, and half of his face was swollen.
"Asshole, do you know who I am?"
Yang Wenqing was immediately angry.
In all these years, he had never suffered such a big loss.
"Throw him into the sea to feed the fishes," the officer ordered casually, ignoring him at all.
"Yes, General Ma."
Several officers and soldiers smiled and stepped forward to drag Yang Wenqing away.
"My lord, my lord, calm down and calm down, this is all a misunderstanding."
Guo Linfeng is an old man who is used to traveling around the world.
He does not have the arrogance of Yang Wenqing who comes from a big family, so he naturally knows when to bow his head.
"It's better that you speak well.
Well, don't throw it into the sea yet."
Ma Chuang nodded with satisfaction.
"You are the chief of fire, right?
Order your men to replace the sails and drive the ship with us."
Under the coercion of the hundreds of officers and soldiers who boarded the ship, Guo Linfeng and the crew did not dare to disobey, and quickly took down the sail with the big hole burned and replaced it with a spare sail.
Then he turned around and headed towards Zhoushan.
"Two three-masted sailing ships were captured at once.
I didn't expect that the navy would have such combat power in less than half a month.
Master Fu Bo must have contributed a lot."
The two three-masted fortune ships were escorted back to Zhoushan Island.
Chen Yue personally welcomed him to the harbor dock and said to Fu Chuntian as he disembarked.
"The Duke's subordinates already have soldiers who are familiar with water warfare, and with the bed crossbows designed by the Ordnance Department and other sharp weapons designed to deal with sails, the subordinates dare not take credit."
Fu Chun said modestly.
"I naturally know what my group of people are like.
They usually sail on calm inland rivers and have not experienced much wind and waves at all.
Without your hard training, Master Fu, they would not have progressed so fast."
Chen Yue He shook his head.
Sailing on the sea is completely different from that on the inland river of the Yangtze River.
The wind and waves here are too strong for ordinary people to stand on the boat.
It is impossible without long-term and systematic training.
"Master Fu, thank you for your hard work.
Let's go back and rest first.
There is news from Dinghai that there are ships leaving the Yongjiang River every morning."
Chen Yue said with a smile.
"My lord, are we going to stop all ships passing through Zhoushan?"
Fu Chun asked worriedly.
"Only intercept those going out to sea from Zhejiang.
As for merchant ships passing through Fujian, ignore them."
Chen Yue said.
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Fu Chun nodded and left with some concern.
For Fu Chun, the Ningbo Yang family is already a behemoth that cannot be provoked, and Qi Guogong clearly wants to attack many maritime merchants.
This will offend countless people.
Fu Chun knows that the backgrounds of these maritime merchants are bigger than the last. , are not easy to mess with.
But now it seems that Qi Guogong is still reasonable and has not attacked Fujian's ships.
If he offends Fujian's Zheng family again, it will really be a dead end.
Although Fu Chun and Zheng Zhilong had enmity, he did not want Chen Yue to rush into Zheng Zhilong while Zhoushan's power was still weak.
Naturally, Chen Yue would not provoke Zheng Zhilong, as he did not have such a big appetite.
But considering the tight time limit and the little money he had in hand, he spent less and less, so he had to do something desperate.
Since it is too late to buy ships for maritime trade this year, then simply attack these maritime merchants.
This is the fastest way to make money that Chen Yue can think of.
As for offending these maritime merchants, it was only a matter of time.
Now that he has come to Zhoushan, he must take all the sea trade in Zhejiang into his own hands and completely control the coast of Zhejiang, so that he can have the strength to compete with the Zheng family in Fujian.
And plundering maritime merchants is the fastest way to accumulate strength.
Behind each of these maritime merchants was a big family in Zhejiang, and the powerless smugglers had long been bankrupted by their collusion with the government and the army.
Fu Chun, for example, could only go to sea to become a pirate.
You don't have to have a ship to engage in maritime trade, because you also have to have a supply of goods, and a large amount of the supply is in the hands of these gentry families.
Through Lu Tai, he could grasp the exact time and port of departure of merchant ships, and then send navy troops to ambush and intercept them at appropriate locations.
This was Chen Yue's strategy.
Otherwise, the sea is endless, and a ship traveling on the sea would not be so easy to intercept.
Of course, the geographical location of Zhoushan also gave Chen Yue great convenience.
Whether it was a ship from Zhejiang or Fujian, if it wanted to go to the Japanese country, it had to pass through the Zhoushan sea channel.
Chen Yue smiled from ear to ear while inspecting the cargo loaded on the stolen ship.
Six hundred loads of raw silk, tens of thousands of sets of porcelain of all kinds, thousands of needles, iron pots and other ironware, as well as mercury, medicinal materials, etc.
What Chen Yue didn't expect the most was that there were tens of thousands of copper coins loaded in the bottom of one of the ships.
Later, Fu Chun explained that although the Japanese country had a lot of copper and silver mines, its main folk currency was copper coins, and they used copper coins made in the Ming Dynasty.
The Japanese country itself did not have money-making technology.
In fact, throughout East Asia, Ming copper coins were the currency in circulation.
In the Ming Dynasty, one tael of silver was exchanged for about 1,200 copper coins, but in the Japanese country, one tael of silver could only be exchanged for five or six hundred copper coins.
Therefore, the profit of transporting copper coins to the Japanese country can be doubled.
According to the estimation of Zhang Chenglei, who had done maritime trade, all the two shipments of goods were sold to the Japanese country, which could be exchanged for four to five million taels of silver, which shows how huge the profits of maritime trade are.
But what Chen Yue planned was to intercept all Zhejiang ships passing through Zhoushan.
That was not just these two ships, but at least twenty or thirty ships.
Then twenty or thirty sea-going ships all sailed to Japan for trade, and the money earned could reach millions of taels, which was enough to support Chen Yue's expansion of territory.
Of course, this would be extremely risky.
It would first offend the gentry in Ningbo, and then offend the officials of the Ming Dynasty.
No matter how much you gain, you have to bear how much risk you have to bear.
Chen Yue naturally understands this.
But at least for a long time, Zhoushan will be safe and sound, because Chen Yue has ordered a strict blockade to prevent the news from leaking.
The captured Yang Wenqing and his cronies were secretly imprisoned on an isolated island by Chen Yue's order.
There are many such uninhabited desert islands near Zhoushan.
As for the original crew members on the ship, they were all employed by the Yang family.
Chen Yue did not embarrass them, but promised that as long as they came back from trading at sea, they would be paid a penny.
For the next half month, Fu Chun and Wu Ping led the fleet out every day and captured a ship every time.
In order to prevent the news from leaking, Chen Yue placed these ships in a port far away from the mainland, and he personally led heavy troops to guard them
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