Chapter 125: The Age of Pirates
The edge of the South China Sea.
This is an important business road leading to those distant foreign countries far away from Middle-earth, such as the Kingdom of Heaven, the Kingdom of Great Food, etc.
Tea, sugar, porcelain and silk shipped from the Dayin Dynasty to foreign countries can be exchanged for various items such as gold, spices and other items locally. The profits are enough to make all merchants crazy after one trip.
However, there are few caravans passing by here. Those caravans would rather walk far-off business roads from land and cross the desert than take this convenient South China Sea channel.
Because this is a sea where mermaids appear.
There are many legends about mermaids in ancient legends and stories about the Middle Earth Dynasty. Legend has it that they wept into tears and turned into pearls, with good looks and able to weave the most beautiful mermaid gauze in the world, which is comparable to the legendary celestial clothes.
They can sing and dance, and their singing can reach the sea for dozens of miles in a radius of the sea with the sea breeze.
But in fact, mermaids are a kind of alien race, and they are born with supernatural powers. They are fierce by nature, and eating people is just like eating pigs and sheep.
Even in ancient times, humans themselves were part of their recipes.
And more importantly, the mermaids, originally called the ancient and medieval people, actually had wisdom and writing, but with the fall of myths, the mermaids lost their former magical powers, and even lost their own writing and inheritance, and fell into chaos and unconsciousness.
The mermaids today are actually a group of wild animals.
In addition, the various demons of the former natural enemies of the sea gradually disappeared, and the mermaids continued to reproduce, gradually flourished, and fled in the South China Sea.
As long as the ship passes by, they will be dragged into the sea by them, and the sailors on the ship will be shared.
Even so, there is no shortage of maritime merchant fleets that are willing to take a risk for money.
It is a bright and sunny day, and the wind is bright.
There are many islands on the South China Sea, which are as big as a small country in the South China Sea. There are countless small islands as big as towns.
The sun's light refracted above the sea, with golden waves rising. A three-masted sailboat sailed across the sea. A group of seamen dressed in short-dressed dresses and the ship owners were busy washing the deck and woven ropes.
The ship owner was a young man standing on the bow of the boat and looking at the sea: "Ha! Where did the mermaid come from? I said that this route is safe."
A black-faced man next to him always looked around: "More than ten years ago, this channel was safe, but later it was said that a nest of mermaids came here to reproduce and survive. I don't know if it is true, so we should be careful."
At this time, a scream suddenly sounded from the stern of the boat.
"It's a mermaid!"
"Mermaid!"
The black-faced man immediately ran to the side of the ship and lay down and looked back. He saw waves rising from the sea. Some monsters with human bodies and fish tails swam at a high speed on the water, dragging a white wave out of the sea at a fast speed.
"Dongdongdongdongdongdongdong!" The lookout on the observation deck above immediately sounded the alarm bell.
"Come out for me! Pick up the weapons." The sailor immediately shouted and urged all the crew members.
"Don't panic! Take up the weapon!"
The strong male mermaids caught up with the ship and rushed directly to the deck. With a sharp claw, they stabbed the deck with a big hole, and were covered in scales and armor.
Their tails are as flexible and powerful as human feet, which can support them to stand on the deck, or they can pull several people out with one stroke.
Some sailors jumped into the water in fear, but they went there and opened their eyes.
I saw that under the water surface of the sea, there were densely packed with female mermaids and mermaid cubs, rushing up as if they were hungry.
The beautiful female mermaids opened their mouths, exposed their fangs and sharp teeth, and bit the sailor's neck in one bite.
They tore the sailor's flesh and blood under the water, like monsters.
The overwhelming mermaids attacked, and the deck was filled with screams of despair.
The entire ship slowly sank, and the crew members on the ship were lost to the mermaid's mouth.
Finally, the main sail of the merchant ship broke with the mast, and fell to the sea with the flag of Tong, proclaiming their end.
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Recently, the sea has changed, and various naval wars and conflicts have been erupting for no reason. Conflicts have occurred in Southeast Asia due to the re-division of maritime forces, and pirates in the East China Sea have emerged one after another.
The Dayin Navy successively wiped out several pirates with great reputations at sea, but the more they suppressed them, the more pirates there were.
Those pirates and caravans who could kill them no matter how hard they were, rushed to the sea like crazy.
Many people even claim to be pirate kings, claiming to be the Seven Heavenly Kings, etc.
In the new camp of the Longyin Port Navy Navy, Wang Qianlun was discussing with his deputy generals how to open the passage to the West and the final goal behind it - killing the dragon.
But now, let alone slaying dragons, it is not easy to cross the sea to reach the West Sea Abyss where the dragon is located, which is what the blond and blue-eyed alien Andre called the Sea of Monsters. It is not easy, and there are not many early work.
The deputy general sat in his seat and told Wang Qianlun about the recent changes at sea: "In the Yehai between Middle Earth and Yesang Kingdom, Wang Shuo, Zhou Lu, Yan Zeng, Zhang Houguan, Tao San, Zhang Hongming and Shen Mo formed a pirate fleet. He claimed that he had launched more than a dozen naval battles with more than 6,000 troops, strangled the giant bandit Bo Ruoseng of the Yesang Kingdom and became famous in the coastal areas. Now more and more people are going to join them."
"Suddenly, a dispute over the East China Sea pirate Kings emerged. It came from Shi Fang, my Dayin and Liu Yuanji, who participated in it, spreading news everywhere to provoke discord. These two guys were bold and reckless. Only three boats dared to rush to Urawa Port in Yesang Country to burn, kill and loot."
"The Asura, the black ship in the South China Sea, appeared again and led the fleet to fight back to his original nest, Shura Island. It is said that there are forty warships, which should have obtained the full support of the Luoluo Kingdom of the South China Sea. This time it is said that he will destroy several other groups of pirates in the South China Sea and annex their power. He is truly called the Black Ship King of the South China Sea."
After seeing the news, Wang Qianlun looked angry: "The East China Sea Pirate King? The South China Sea Black Ship King? The Seven Heavenly King of the Night Sea?"
"It's getting worse and worse!"
The deputy general then reported: "There have been a large number of signs of recruiting sailors in our Longyin Mansion. Many of the young and strong men who were not selected for the new Navy were dragged away by a fleet named Lang's fleet."
"Lang's family? Could it be Lang's family from which family?"
"That's right!"
Before, Wang Qianlun just felt that the sea was in chaos and did not take those pirate kings, Seven Heavenly Kings and so on seriously. However, when he heard the name of Lang, he looked at his deputy general seriously: "They also came out to join in the fun, it seems that it is really not peaceful."
The deputy general smiled and said, "But I think this is a good thing. Let them make trouble. After all these unstable guys go to the sea, Dayin will be at peace."
Wang Qianlun: "How did I ask you to pay attention to things in the South China Sea recently?"
Deputy General: "Another fleet has disappeared in the South China Sea Mermaids' Sea. The range of movements of the South China Sea Mermaids' Sea is getting wider and wider, and it seems uneasy."
Wang Qianlun looked at the chart on the table and slapped it on the South China Sea: "Hmph! As expected, this alien race cannot tolerate it."
The deputy general seemed to have known the result long ago: "The general has made a decision?"
Wang Qianlun was not polite at all: "Of course, the emperor asked us to open the waterway to the Xizhou Continent this time, and this mermaid water in the South China Sea is also a must-pass place for us."
"You have to fight early and late, so it's better to cook all these mermaids early."
The deputy general said, "There are many mermaids and are hidden deep in the sea, so it is difficult to deal with."
Wang Qianlun was confident and had already made arrangements in secret: "In the past, there was a clan who could go out to sea to hunt mermaids, and specially hunted mermaid oil, mermaid pearls and dragon silk yarn for princes and ministers. They could make a mermaid whistle to imitate the singing of mermaids and attract mermaids from dozens of miles apart."
"I had arranged for people to find the clan members of this clan a month ago, and now I have a look."
Chapter completed!