Lin Daogan, Lin Feng, Liang Daoming, the King of the Three Buddhas Qi, Luo Fangbo, the leader of the Lanfang Republic, and Zheng Zhao, the King of Siam... The remaining two pirates are Zhang Jiexu and Wu Yuansheng... Zhang Jiexu was once a peasant in the Ming Dynasty and was bullied by pirates. At that time, the Ming Dynasty's navy was not strong, so Zhang Jiexu brought more than 300 fellow villagers to the Natuna Islands.

With his organizational leadership and economic mind, Zhang Jiexu led his men to first control the island and 127 surrounding islands, and then used this as a bargaining chip to negotiate with nearby neighboring countries, using the land under his control to provide surrounding countries with a place to dry the fishing catch in exchange for money and materials on which they depend for their survival.

Because this desert island was originally the same as a desert island, there was no suitable land for farming and crops that the Chinese were familiar with. So you can only make money in this way.

Gradually, the Chinese population on this island grew more and more, and everyone's life was getting better and better. Zhang Jiexu's status and ability were further recognized by everyone.

In fact, Zhang Jiexu is the real king of the island country, but Zhang Jiexu is very smart and unwilling to cause trouble for himself. He chose to be a low-key person. Until his death, he did not call himself the king and establish his name. Instead, he regarded "Nanhua Company" as the signboard of his island. But in fact, everyone knows that no matter what aspect Zhang Jiexu evaluates, he is the veritable "king" on this island.

Originally, this island was not suitable for farming, but in modern times, people have gradually discovered that the Natuna Archipelago actually has rich oil resources, which is obviously an important source of income. In addition, the popularization of cocoa, coconut, corn and other crops is not surprising that it is now rich in oil.

However, Zhang Jiexu's life is not easy now, because the Dutch have already set their sights on the island where Jixu has risen.

The following is Wu Yuansheng, who is even more legendary. He is a farmer, but he established a country. Everyone knows that Kalimantan Island in Southeast Asia is now the third largest island in the world. It is now divided into Wenlai, Indonesia and Malaysia. However, during the Qing Dynasty, there were many Chinese regimes here. In ancient times, Chinese people called Kalimantan Island Borneo, and many people traveled thousands of miles to find gold, so there were many Chinese people in the area.

Wu Yuansheng also had a Chinese regime in Borneo, which was the Daiyan Kingdom. The founder of this kingdom was named Wu Yuansheng, a farmer from the Ming Dynasty. So how did Wu Yuansheng turn from a farmer into a king?

It is said that Wu Yuansheng is from Tukuiling Township, Jiayingzhou, Guangdong Province, and today he is from Meizhou, Guangdong. Wu Yuansheng has a strong figure, has been practicing martial arts since childhood, has a generous personality, and likes to travel around. Such heroes will naturally miss the situation. In a dispute, he killed someone by mistake, and then was immediately wanted by the government.

Wu Yuansheng had no choice but to take his troops across the sea to Borneo.

At that time, there were serious bandits in Borneo, and merchants usually invited Chinese people to train to protect their own and their property safety. Wu Yuansheng then formed Jusheng Company locally, which developed rapidly and had a very influential local area. However, Jusheng Company had too many talents, and Luo Fangbo's personal abilities were even more outstanding than Wu Yuansheng, so he gradually replaced Wu Yuansheng's position and established the Lanfang Republic.

However, Wu Yuansheng, who became Luo Fangbo's subordinate, was not jealous. He became Luo Fangbo's right-hand man and stationed in the Kingdom of Daiyan in the north of the Pontianak River. Daiyan Kingdom is a small country, but it is surrounded by water on all sides and has a dangerous terrain, guarding the river. King Daiyan took this opportunity to ask for high tariffs from passing ships, and the merchant ships suffered a lot.

Moreover, King Dai Yan was extremely debauchery and cruel. He lent his tyrannical character. He lent his levies in the country, plundered the people and continuously built palaces for pleasure. The people of Dai Yan resented the king, but did not dare to resist.

Seeing this, Wu Yuansheng decided to get rid of the king. He bribed officials and said that he wanted to donate money to the king, so the king let him enter the city. After entering the palace, Wu Yuansheng led his troops to kill King Dai Yan, which was loved by the people of Dai Yan. With the support of people, Wu Yuansheng became King Dai Yan.

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These seven pirates should be the strongest pirates around the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Lang invited these people to explore overseas. His sea dragon army was always so precious, but these pirates were different. Zhu Lang didn't feel sorry for using it. Zhu Lang wanted to use them to draw more comprehensive charts for himself, and there were situations in other countries. In this way, Zhu Lang would achieve twice the result with half the effort to establish the Ming Empire.

The weather today was very good, and the seven pirate kings also set foot on the land of Dengzhou together. Lin Daoqian, Lin Feng, Liang Daoming, Luo Fangbo, Zheng Zhao, Zhang Jiexu and Wu Yuansheng met one after another.

Some of them knew each other, and some didn’t, but they were all received by people from Yingbin Building in Dengzhou.

Yingbin Building... The largest restaurant in Dengzhou City is called a restaurant, but in fact it is more like a beautiful garden. Yingbin Building is not only very high in height, but more importantly, its storefront decoration is also very "unique".

A long wooden pole is used to set up a "Cailou Huan Door" that is as high as the building. A mountain-shaped flower stand is built on each floor, decorated with flowers and bird decorations, and then silk tassels are hung under the eaves, which are exquisite and gorgeous.

There are towering "Looking Zi" hanging at the entrance or roof of the restaurant, also known as "green curtain" or "wine flag", which are mostly made of blue and white cloth, with promotional advertisements for the restaurant written on it, and you can see it from a distance.

In addition, there are also a row of wooden fences on both sides of the gates of high-end restaurants to block pedestrians and chariots and horses. This special fence is called "cabinet horse forks". Before the Song Dynasty, it was only available in front of the government gates, which shows how high the signboard of the Yingbin Restaurant was.

Although Yingbin Building only has three floors, it is used below, with two floors of stone building foundations, with a total height of five floors.

This height was very impressive in ancient times, with the surrounding street view. However, the room on the west side of the Yingbin Building cannot be opened to look out, because Zhu Lang's palace is on the west side.

After dinner, I also want to watch the "live broadcast" of the Qin Wang family? This is absolutely not allowed.

When you walk to the entrance of the restaurant, don’t panic, pretend to be a regular customer and walk in steadily.

There will be two handsome servants at the door to greet you, which is equivalent to the doorman today's welcome guests. In addition to the servants, there are also girls, all of whom are very pretty boys and girls, and they are all children of poor families.

The people used in Zhulang Yingbin Building are almost all children of poor families. After recruiting them, they will be trained for three weeks. During the training, the monthly money for one month is three taels of silver. After the training is over, they will be able to get a reward of silver after four taels of silver for a month.

Just like today, two boys and servants quickly welcomed the seven pirate kings to the store with great enthusiasm. The two boys and servants "wear square top turbans, purple shirts, silk shoes and clean socks under their feet", bowing their heads to guide you to the seat.

Such clean and neat clothes and polite actions attracted the appreciation of these pirate kings, among which Lin Daogan threw a large silver ingot of one or ten taels to two people.

When they saw that it was a big ingot, the two servants were very happy and bent down to thank them repeatedly. However, these ten taels were not divided by two people, but were included in today's rewards, and they were divided by thirty servants in a building today.

Of course, other servants also rewarded silver, so it is still very fair.

There are many locations in the Yingbin Building. If you want to experience the bustling city, just sit in the hall. There are many tables of different sizes in the hall, called "Zhutou". If you want to eat with friends and talk about private matters, then go upstairs to the "ge'er" upstairs, which is the private room.

After taking the seat, the first person to serve the "overselling", that is, the person who ordered the dishes.

These oversellers are very eye-catching and have a very good memory.

After ordering the dishes for you, he will sing the order to "Dangtou" at one time, that is, the chef. The two of them cooperate very well, and all dishes only need to be sung once. Next, the bartender who specializes in ordering wine will come to serve you.

Unlike today, Zhu Lang's welcome restaurant is divided into separate dishes and wine, and the sales and bartenders perform their duties to ensure the professionalism of the service.

After ordering the wine and food, rest for a while, the "good (xínɡ) dish" will serve you.

These chefs are a skill to serve dishes. They hold three bowls in their left hand and spread their right arm to hold twenty bowls, and they are guaranteed to be wrong. High-end restaurants have extremely high requirements for service quality. If the dish name is reported incorrectly or the dish is on the wrong table, chefs will be deducted wages or even expelled.

After the dishes are served, it is the turn of "Doctor of Liquor" to appear. Although they are called doctors, they are not scholars, they are just waiters responsible for making wine, measuring wine, and sifting wine. Doctors are the honorific titles for everyone to engage in professionalism, similar to "Teacher Tony" in the barber shop today.

During the process of serving wine and food, they will not be idle even after selling. They will observe the changes in the dishes on the table and keep changing dishes for you. When you raise your glass to drink, they will change to "fine dishes", that is, appetizers.

After changing the fine dishes, high-end dishes will be the finale, making your meals and drinks in the entire dinner feel very layered.

There are also many idle non-staff waiters in Yingbin Restaurant, such as "delivery boys", who have been waiting in the restaurant for many years to provide customers with paid errands.

If you want to add some food outside, the delivery guy will help you buy it, which is today's delivery guy. From this, you can see that the business strategy of Yingbin Tower is very generous and will not "reject to bring your own wine". When the wine is in full swing, will anyone be entertaining?

Of course there is.

In order to provide customers with all-round services, the Yingbin Restaurant allows singing girls to perform in the restaurant, which people at that time call it "kick up and take advantage of". Common arts selling items are playing and singing, and there are also playing flutes, playing Ruan, gong board, and playing scattered funerals. When guests taste delicious wine and delicacies, they "ordered girls to sing at will, even if they drink until the banquet, they will never be tired of it."

Of course, the seven pirate kings are not in the mood to order any singing service. Now they are already playing in their hearts, and they don’t know what they are like.

After the boy and servant came to a larger private room to sit, because Zhu Lang had not arrived yet, the seven people introduced themselves to each other. Luo Fangbo and Wu Yuansheng were old friends and they knew each other.

The others didn't know each other very well, of course, they had heard their own reputations. After this introduction, everyone got to know each other.

At this time, Lin Daogan took the lead in asking: "Everyone, who among you knows what happened to this King of Qin who brought us?"

Lin Daogan was also very panicked at this time. He was really worried that Zhu Lang would come and catch them all in one by one, but he didn't dare not come. After all, the King of Qin was too cruel.

"As for what to do, I don't know." Lin Feng looked at everyone and said slightly: "However, according to my guess, if nothing unexpected happens, it should be coming to hit us. Chen Zuyi, a bastard, dared to rob the gold transported to Yingtian by the King of Qin.

More than 10,000 people and hundreds of sea ships of all sizes were directly bombarded by the five lucky ships of the King of Qin.

Following the Seventh Fleet of the Sea Dragon Army of King Qin, he captured Chen Zuyi's lair in two days. I feel that the King of Qin must be here to hit us this time and let us be at peace with ourselves."

"Hey... this bastard Chen Zuyi, he ate some courage. He even dared to touch the gold of the Sea Dragon Army. He really thought he was long-lasting." Wu Yuansheng was speechless.

Luo Fangbo said at this time: "After the King of Qin comes, brothers must be careful to deal with it. Although our identity is pirates, we must remember that we still have another identity, that is, the people of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, we must respect His Highness the King of Qin.”

"Lao Luo, don't worry... Of course we all know this. Only Chen Zuyi is a bastard who is confused. Last time, when we robbed Dutch ships, fortunately the help of the Hailong Army, otherwise we would have almost fallen.

And now the Dutch are becoming more and more restless, and I actually hope to get help from the Ming Hailong Army.” Zhang Jiexu said slightly.

"Yes... I have also suffered losses from those red-haired people. In the Battle of Manila, many of my brothers died there. Fortunately, the Hailong Army helped me and my brothers avenge me.

When I came here this time, I had already thought about dying here. At worst, I could be considered as repaying the kindness I owe to my brothers." Lin Daogan smiled freely and easily.

At this moment, the knock on the door of the private room sounded, and a girl pulled up the door and looked at the seven pirate kings and smiled: "Everyone, your meal is here..."

Then dishes were served on the pirate kings' respective tables.

Looking at the dishes, at this time, the pirate kings asked the girl: "When will His Highness the King of Qin come?"

The girl smiled slightly and said a little apologetically: "I'm sorry, honorable guest, I don't know when His Highness of Qin will come. However, His Highness of Qin has already given instructions. You can play casually in the restaurant. There are some things that you need to delay, but the time will not be long, oh... By the way, Your Highness of the Crown Prince may come to meet you first."

"Your Highness the Crown Prince..." The pirate kings were a little surprised.

They didn't know why His Royal Highness came over, what was wrong, why the Prince of the Ming Dynasty wanted to see them, he was just some pirates with low status. His Royal Highness of Qin might have seen him because of something, but how could His Royal Highness of the Crown Prince meet him in a condescending way? For a moment, all the pirates were at a loss.
Chapter completed!