I’m the Farmgirl You Can’t Mess With
Chapter 892 - Chapter 892 Reason

Chapter 892: Reason Chapter 892: Reason Editor: Atlas Studios Qi Haoran snorted and said, “That’s even better.

Bring your men to exterminate their mountain stronghold on the island.

We’ll prepare to return to the camp.” “What do we do with the captives?” Zhou Zhou asked.

Qi Haoran pondered for a moment and said, “Tie them up and bring them back.” Qi Haoran said to Fan Zijin, “Don’t you want to reopen the maritime transportation?

These Westerners will probably be of use.

If they’re useless, you can sentence them to death and drag them to the seaside to kill them.

This can also be considered a warning to the pirates.” Fan Zijin did not bicker this time.

When they came, there were two ships, but when they returned, there were five.

One of them was the Zhou family’s new ship, and the other two belonged to the pirates.

Among them, the pirates’ ships were warships that were larger than the Zhou family’s ship.

Together with the two cannons they had captured, this was a fruitful endeavor.

The soldiers were elated as they assumed that the two captured ships would be assigned to the Naval Division.

However, Qi Haoran despised the empty ships.

It was fine if it was the Zhou family’s ship, but the pirates’ ships were also empty.

There were not even many bags of grains on them.

Two soldiers rushed over to report and shouted, “Your Highness, General Zhou found many gold, silver, jewelry, and sea goods in the pirate nest.” Qi Haoran frowned.

“Didn’t they say that this is only their foothold?” The two soldiers grinned.

“That’s right.

The pirates said that they regularly transported things to their nests, but they haven’t had time to transport them this month.

Coincidentally, they just did one job two days ago and snatched the goods from two ships.” Fan Zijin’s mouth fell open.

Qi Haoran beamed and said proudly to him, “What did I say?

When have I ever returned empty-handed from a war?” Fan Zijin shut his mouth and turned his head slightly to the side.

Qi Haoran happily instructed the soldiers to move everything back.

Zhou Zhou spent half a night leading the soldiers to move the things from the warehouse.

Not only Qi Haoran, but even Fan Zijin did not expect there to be so many things in the warehouse at a stop.

How many treasures were there in that lair then?

Fan Zijin turned to look at Qi Haoran, and the smile on Qi Haoran’s face disappeared.

The two of them thought at the same time about how many of the items here belonged to merchants who were going to Great Qi.

They even thought about the reason why Great Zhou ordered maritime bans back then.

Qi Haoran narrowed his eyes dangerously.

Mu Yangling walked to his side and doused his enthusiasm.

“We don’t have a Naval Division in Great Qi.” The fighting spirit in Qi Haoran’s eyes intensified.

“We can create anything as long as there are people.” The corners of Mu Yangling’s lips curled up slightly as well.

“Zijin, let’s do sea trade together.” Fan Zijin rolled his eyes and said, “If you want money, just say so.” The couple chuckled at the same time and looked at him ingratiatingly.

They had all seen how poor the Naval Division was.

If they wanted to fight a naval battle, they had to have a ship first, and a big one at that.

Otherwise, it was just empty talk.

Shipbuilding required money, and a huge sum of money at that.

They could not afford it, but Fan Zijin definitely could.

Fan Zijin, who could afford it, was respectfully sent back to the main cabin by Qi Haoran and his wife.

They only left together after seeing him fall asleep with the blanket in his arms.

Qi Haoran asked in a low voice, “Have you found out why Zijin and the rest landed in the pirates’ nest?” “Yeah.” The corners of Mu Yangling’s mouth twitched.

“In short, it was a slip-up.” Qi Haoran blinked and looked at Mu Yangling in confusion.

Mu Yangling leaned on his shoulder and said, “Yanmo said that they arrived at that small island that very day they sailed off.

Zijin was very happy and even went ashore to take a look.

As he got too carried away chatting with Zhou De, they boarded the ship late.

Anyway, they couldn’t go back that day, so Fan Zijin suggested taking a look around the vicinityaEUR|” According to Fan Zijin’s usually cautious personality, he would not make such a suggestion under normal circumstances.

However, he was blinded by the profits of the sea trade and he couldn’t contain his excitement.

Hence, he brought up this idea that only Qi Haoran would suggest.

Regarding this, Fan Zijin attributed it to the fact that he had been with Qi Haoran for a long time in the past few years, so his intelligence and personality had deviated.

As they turned around, they saw two ships, which were the pirates’ ships.

If the people on those ships had black hair and yellow skin, Fan Zijin and the others would not have dared to approach them.

This was because the people who had been harassing the coastal people recently were Japanese, and those people looked similar to them.

Alas, they only saw fair-skinned and blond-haired Westerners on the ship.

Furthermore, there was no pirate logo on their ship.

Those Westerners even greeted them in a very friendly manner.

Fan Zijin had stood at the bow of the ship talking to them.

Through the conversation, he found out that they were businessmen from the West who were going to the nearby Nanyang to do business.

They had lost their way and were about to find someone to ask for directions.

The other party pulled over a Westerner who was half-fluent in Mandarin to communicate with them.

Hence, Fan Zijin learned that this was their first time here.

The Westerner who knew Mandarin had come to China ten years ago and had lived here for a period of time, so he knew a little Mandarin.

Fan Zijin did not suspect anything because he had never heard the Naval Division mention there were blond-haired Westerner pirates.

It was naturally impossible for the Naval Division to tell him this because they were only responsible for protecting Fan Zijin and there was no need for them to tell him the truth.

In fact, the blond-haired Westerner had only started harassing their coast three to four years ago.

The Zhou family knew a little, but the other party put up such a convincing act that they did not suspect anything.

Fan Zijin was planning to open a shop to specially sell imported goods, but he didn’t manage to come to an agreement with a Westerner who had docked.

Now that he saw such an opportunity, he naturally did not want to give up.

Hence, he told the other party that he wanted to see their goods.

If there was anything suitable, he would buy it.

However, it was impossible for Fan Zijin to go to their ship, and the other party was also worried about coming to their ship.

Also, they could not shout at each other across the ship for nobody did business this way.

However, Fan Zijin did not want to bring them back to the coast either.

Although this was the safest way, there were two other cargo ships of Westerners docked at the port.

As these Westerners looked like they belonged to one country (but actually, they were from two different countries, he feared he wouldn’t get a good bargain should they continue their negotiation at the port.

The shrewd Fan Zijin had thought of several strategies.

But no matter which one it was, he would first negotiate the business outside, sign the contract, before bringing them back to pay.

Coincidentally, they were somewhere near the island, so after a discussion, both parties docked.

The islanders could tell that Fan Zijin and his group were wealthy people of status, and the configuration on the ship obviously suggested it was meant for a long trip.

Thinking there must be a lot of gold, silver, jewelry, and supplies on the ship, those people planned to trick them to their resting place before making a move.

It was not that they could not attack at sea, but they could not bear to part with this new-looking ship, so they wanted to go ashore before attacking.

However, they had miscalculated.

The guard captain wasn’t adept at naval battles, but land battles were not a problem for him.

After all, having been by Qi Haoran’s side for five to six years, he had more or less learned a little.

Hence, when he went ashore and realized that the other party had ulterior motives, the guard captain made a prompt decision to escape to the mountain with Fan Zijin and their group and occupy the high ground.

Fan Zijin had always prided himself on being scheming, so he naturally didn’t want to mention that he had lost to a group of pirates this time.

However, when Mu Yangling asked Yanmo, Yanmo told her everything he knew because he felt that his master was too keen on sea trade and needed some reminders.

And only the Prince and Princess Consort could do this.