Chapter II Occupation
The speed of the pirate ship is not fast, even in the wind, the speed is only about ten knots. Gradually, Long Yufei became familiar with the ship. Except for the young pirate who threatened him, the rest of the pirates respect him.
From the mouths of these pirates, Long Yufei also learned the origin of these pirates. They were originally civilians in coastal areas. Although they lived in poverty, they were still quite adept. However, due to the ban on sea, they went to sea to fish and were discovered by the government. In order to avoid the government, they had to go out to sea to find a way out. In the end, in order to survive, they had to work on pirates.
Long Yufei knew that because the Qing government issued sea relocation orders and sea bans, the prosperous coastal areas were destroyed. Many people who could not survive fled to the South China Sea. However, these people who fled to the South China Sea did not live well. They were not only oppressed by Western colonists, but also oppressed by local natives, and life was very difficult! Many of them chose to be pirates. Of course, the final outcome of these pirates was also extremely tragic. With the development of science and technology, Western powers intensified their invasion of China and the entire East. Pirates active in the South China Sea will also be encircled and suppressed by Western powers, and they will eventually be eliminated.
The leader of this group of pirates was named Luo Sangu. Huzi said that their leader was originally Luo Sangu's father, but three years ago, Boss Luo was hit by foreign artillery during an operation, and his whole body was covered in blood and he died without long lasting. For the survival of the entire group, Luo Sangu stood up and became the leader of the group of pirates. At that time, she was only seventeen years old. However, the tiger father had no dog daughter, and Luo Sangu, who had been on the sea since childhood, did not know how to needlework or thread, was very proficient in boating and boating, and wielding swords to kill enemies. Other pirates were also very impressed by Luo Sangu, so they accepted her leadership. Luo Sangu also had a younger brother, but he was only thirteen or fourteen years old, and now he stayed in their nest.
Huzi is the young pirate of seventeen or eighteen years old, named Li Hu, who is very friendly to Long Yufei. As for the pirate who is hostile to Long Yufei, named Chen San, he has a high status among the pirates.
One day and one night later, the pirate ship landed on a remote coast.
"Mr. Long, this is Luzon. After you get ashore, you can reach a small city. There are many Chinese people there, and you will be safe when you get there! However, I hope you don't tell me what you met us, otherwise, even if you escape to the ends of the world, I will not let you go!" Luo Sangu said to Long Yufei.
Long Yufei hesitated a little. He was just a pure technical mate. He allowed him to survive alone in the first half of the 18th century, especially in a place like Luzon where birds do not shit, which was purely to let him fend for himself!
"A man surnamed Long, get out of the boat quickly!" Chen San scolded when he saw Long Yufei standing still!
"Uh, Miss Luo, I have nowhere to go. I wonder if I can join you?" Long Yufei asked. Anyway, he has no place to go now. After his observation, these pirates did not look like those vicious villains. If they stay with them, the chances of survival might be better.
Luo Sangu couldn't help but frown. He was a pirate, but he was doing a business of licking blood on his head. Maybe one day he would fall to the ground. Long Yufei looked like a scholar without any power, so he could be a pirate?
"Haha! You little guy, can you take a knife? Can you kill people? You also want to be a pirate, and don't look at your bird!" Chen San laughed! The other pirates looked at Long Yufei, and were full of doubts. In their opinion, no knowledgeable person wanted to be a pirate!
Long Yufei's eyes turned and then said, "I can use muskets!" He knew that if he did not show certain abilities, these pirates would not let him join!
"Huzi, that musket is coming!" Luo Sangu said.
"Yes, the boss!" Li Hu responded, ran into the cabin, and soon took out a musket.
Long Yufei looked at the musket in Luo Hu's hand and criticized him disdainfully. He recognized that this musket was a standard equipment of the British Army, a Berka rifle. This is a smoothbore rifle. It was only in 1800 that the British Army began to equip the troops. Although it has been thirty years now, it is still the main rifle of the British Army.
The Berka rifle uses round projectiles with a front end load. The bolt is flint-locked, with a maximum range of 200 meters, but its effective range is only 100 meters at most. If it exceeds 100 meters, it will have no lethality to the human body.
Long Yufei started to control the rifle. Although he was a little unfamiliar, he was still quite decent. Soon, after he was ready, Long Yufei aimed at a seabird on the shore.
"Bang!" A gunshot made the seabird about fifty meters away from them fall to the ground. This made Long Yufei very glad. Fortunately, his skills have not yet recovered, otherwise it would have been miserable. When he was in military training, his shooting results were very outstanding. The training instructors said that if he did not join the army, it would be a waste of talents. In the end, Long Yufei still chose to continue to go to college because he could not stand the hard life of the army.
The pirates all widened their eyes. Compared to muskets, they prefer to use knives. The feeling of stabbing into the flesh seemed to make them more excited. But Long Feiyu's marksmanship still made them very impressed!
"Okay, since you can use muskets, then join us! But you have to swear that after joining us, you must obey my orders and not do anything betrayal, otherwise I will cut you into pieces!" said Luo Sangu.
Long Yufei quickly patted his chest and promised that from now on, everyone will be brothers, and he will definitely not do such shameless things!
Long Yufei officially joined the gang, and the pirate ship set sail immediately and prepared to return to their nest. However, the pirate named Chen San found an opportunity to come to Long Yufei and warned viciously: "Boy, I don't care what your intentions are you joining us! But, I warn you, let me be far away from the boss, otherwise, you kid will be thrown into the sea to feed the fish!"
Long Yufei was stunned. He said, why did this person named Chen San always target him? It turned out that he regarded him as his rival in love! However, the boss seemed to be pretty good. Apart from a little darker skin, he had no shortcomings, especially his figure, which was more than enough to be a star in later generations.
Long Yufei did not take Chen San's warning seriously. He could see that Luo Sangu had a high prestige among pirates. Although Chen San had an intention to Luo Sangu, Luo Sangu seemed to have no intention of that. To put it bluntly, it was just that Chen San was unrequited!
After most of the day of sailing, in the evening, the pirate ship docked on an island! Although there was no chart, Long Yufei still guessed that this was a small island located in the southern part of the Luzon Islands, in the northern waters of the Sulu Sea in later generations.
The island is not big, only about ten square kilometers. There is a small port where more than ten large and small ships are moored. The larger ones are about ten or twenty meters long, while the smaller ones are fishing boats several meters long. However, the island has a large population. After Luo Sangu and others' ships approached the port, people rushed to the dock to welcome them. Among these people, the elderly, weak, women and children accounted for most of them, while there were not many strong men.
"Boss, is this trip going smoothly?" asked an old man with white hair.
"Uncle Zhao, the journey is quite smooth. All the goods have been sold. I bought some rice and flour and come back! You can arrange for someone to move out of the boat!" Luo Sangu ordered!
"Okay!" Uncle Zhao nodded, then looked at Long Yufei, a little wary of Long Yufei's face.
"Uncle Zhao, his name is Long Yufei, we rescued him on the road. He used to study in the UK, but the boat he was riding on the way back home was crashed. He saved his life when we passed by. Now he has joined us!" said Luo Sangu.
"Study in the UK?" Uncle Zhao's eyes flashed with surprise. As a result, something surprised Long Yufei happened! A string of English appeared in the mouth of the white-haired old man. Although it was a bit unstandard, he could hear the general meaning clearly, which was asking Long Yufei where he studied in the university and where his hometown was.
Although surprised, Long Yufei immediately replied in English, saying that he was studying abroad at Cambridge University and majoring in machinery. His hometown is from Taizhou, Zhejiang, but his family is in ruins. Now his hometown has no relatives!
At this time, the old man named Zhao nodded, which recognized Long Yufei.
Long Yufei couldn't help but exclaimed that he was lucky enough to pass the CET-6 English. If he didn't know anything at all, he would have to reveal himself this time. As for what would happen after the exposing, you don't have to think about it. This is the nest of this group of pirates. In order to ensure safety, those pirates will definitely kill people to silence them. Anyway, killing someone is completely common for these pirates!
Later, from Hu Zi, Long Yufei learned that the old man named Zhao Yi was named Zhao Yi. His ancestors were also scholars. Later, he had no choice but to wander overseas and became one of them. Zhao Yi was also very good at manufacturing firearms. Their firearm repairs and the like were all handled by Zhao Yi and his two sons. This made Long Yufei even more curious about Zhao Yi's origin. I wonder what he had to do with Zhao Shizhen, a firearm expert in the Ming Dynasty. After all, in China at this stage, there are not many Chinese people who know firearms!
Chapter completed!