NFBE Chapter 432: King Qin Almost Goes Crazy
Chapter 432: King Qin Almost Goes Crazy
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After these words were spoken, the younger brothers who were responsible for delivering the message were all stunned, looking at each other in astonishment and amazement.
Oh my god!
Did they hear it wrong?
Big Brother! We really are a bunch of pirates! If the person saying this hadn't been so stylish and wearing such flashy armor, they wouldn't have known...
Holy shit! I’m so awesome!
They actually forced the East Japanese regime, a country, to pay protection fees to a group of pirates?
Ultimately, this is actually due to their triple identities, which leads to their lack of confidence and inferiority.
The first identity is Qiren!
The people of Qi today are a nation that has lost most of their territory and only has half of it left, struggling to survive across a vast river.
They couldn't defeat the barbarians or the bandits, and deep down they considered themselves weaklings. Apart from a slight sense of cultural identity, they couldn't find any confidence at all.
The second identity is that they are the Second Qi Army! They are the defeated army!
He was beaten by the rebels, namely Wang Yuanya's rebel army, and began to doubt his life.
Damn it! I can’t beat the barbarians, I can’t beat Li Zhenbei, I can’t beat Li Jize, and now I can’t even beat a woman named Wang Yuanya.
So autistic! So decadent! So inferior!
The third identity, Qi Kou! Pirate!
Once they left the country and reached the sea, who the hell would want to be a pirate if they had any other choice? Who would want to rob people?
It can be said……
From the beginning to the end, they believed themselves to be the losers and eliminated in the "Gu-raising Battlefield" of Da Qi! If it weren't for Li Jize's magnanimity and the introduction of the "Qi Life is Valuable" theory for the sake of his later colonial plan, they would have been fooled and killed long ago.
but……
As soon as they left the country and arrived at the battlefield outside, holy shit! Holy shit! Holy shit! They were all fucking idiots and dumbfounded, okay?
It turns out that Da Qi's "Gu-raising Battlefield" was actually a monster breeding room. After the King of Qin invented firearms, he single-handedly raised the combat capability of the entire Da Qi to another level.
Even these worst losers in the war, after being thrown out of the country, can still beat other countries in the outside world.
We are just a group of pirates, but we can make the entire East Japan cry out in despair. Now the general of East Japan has even come here personally with silver, asking for peace with them and is willing to pay protection fees.
Not bad, not bad. It’s really very good.
All of a sudden they were happy and excited, and hurried back to inform the pirate king Li Jihuan and other colleagues of the news.
For a moment, these cruel pirates, who were actually extremely self-deprecating in their bones, all cheered and shouted.
Awesome! The Pirate King is awesome! The King of Qin is awesome!
It turns out that we are so intimidating. It turns out that we can conquer a country and make people pay money obediently just by relying on force.
Li Jihuan was also quite arrogant. He immediately wanted to get off the boat and then go to the land to see what the general of the Eastern Japanese looked like without saying anything.
Let's go and see how much money they are willing to pay as protection money to buy peace.
Fortunately, among these pirates, or more precisely, among the captives, many of them were from humble backgrounds. They had come to fight for their families and were only captured here.
These children from poor families must first have a "family". Generally speaking, they all have the same family surname, but because their family is particularly poor, the head of the family will sponsor them to study.
Once you pass the imperial examination and become an official in the future, it will be time for you to repay your family.
How to report?
Either the land is registered under your name (according to the laws of the Great Qi Dynasty, those who have made achievements or held official positions can be exempted from taxes on a certain number of acres of land), or you use your connections to get other people in the clan in.
even……
During the war years, when the Regent Bochijin allowed private armies to be formed, these children from poor families became excellent sources of soldiers.
In other words, the quality of these pirates is actually frighteningly high. They may not be able to match the East Japanese warriors in terms of martial arts, but they are definitely smart.
They don't think it's that simple. You have to understand that it is precisely because you are powerful enough that they are afraid of you and are willing to negotiate and give you money.
But the other party is a country, a court after all. How could they be willing to be humiliated? On the contrary, this act of sending silver may be a policy of sacrificing face and delaying time.
That makes sense. It makes a lot of sense!
but……
Li Jihuan asked, "Then why are we looting?"
Just this one sentence choked everyone to death!
Yes! Why did the Song Dynasty and the Liao Dynasty establish the Chanyuan Alliance?
The Liao Dynasty is so powerful, wouldn’t it be better to just annex it?
The answer is...
He really couldn't swallow it! Not to mention that they were hiding behind the Yangtze River, even in terms of population, the Liao people were really not as many as the Song.
Secondly, wars result in casualties, and the little money you earn from looting may not even be enough to cover the silver that the Song Dynasty gives you.
The same goes for pirates. You rob for money, but... can you guarantee that the robbery will be smooth sailing? Even with overwhelming weapons, when pirates go to people's homes to steal gold and silver, or to harm young girls, they sometimes get killed by the girls themselves.
Not to mention this kind of war that will never end!
That's it...
Soon, the East Japanese and the pirates held their own negotiations, which took some time. When they finally reached an agreement, the East Japanese offered the pirates peace in exchange for 100,000 taels of silver and 200,000 pieces of cloth per year.
First, they paid a quarterly sum of 25,000 taels of silver, which made the pirates very happy. Now they could return home in glory.
When the news reached Da Qi, and was delivered to Qingzhou, and the victory report was delivered to Li Jize's desk...
Li Jize saw this intelligence and saw that Ou Doudou was still bragging about how powerful the pirates under his leadership were, and how they had beaten the Eastern Japanese people to the point of begging for mercy! He was willing to pay annual tribute in exchange for peace.
Li Jize: "..."
Damn it! These idiots!
He really wanted to burst into anger and curse. How could you not see such an obvious delaying tactic? Besides, have you never seen silver?
Stupid pig! One hundred thousand taels of silver a year, why is it one year?
He paid for one quarter, and within this one quarter, the power of a country was put into operation. How could these pirates be able to deal with it?
To put it bluntly, the reason they are able to take advantage now is that they deceived and attacked the other party, catching them off guard.
In addition, the appearance of fire guns made it difficult for them to adapt, but once the agreement was signed, three months would be enough for him to train an army specifically against Qi Kou.