The Hangzhou city of the Ming Dynasty surrendered to the Li family, fell in the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and when Emperor Chongzhen died for his country, people in the south of the Yangtze River were panic and everyone was in danger, they directly surrendered to the Li family fleet and hung the banner of Li on the top of the city.

Actually, at the beginning, after the Li family fleet entered the Qiantang River, they frightened the few Ming navy and the turbulent government in the Qiantang River Water Village on the spot, so that they refused to believe that it was the Li family's fleet, and even more refused to believe that there would be a Ming princess named "Zhu Mai" in the fleet.

So, after a lawless little girl ordered the exterior wall of the water camp of the navy to be demolished with shells and threatened to shell the city, the person who did not know whether it was the county magistrate or the prefect, finally had to believe the words of the Li family fleet, and had to go out of the city to welcome the eldest princess of the Ming Dynasty, the second daughter of Emperor Chongzhen who died for his country, and announced to the public that Hangzhou would surrender to the Ming forces where the princess was, that is, the Li family fleet, and was willing to obey the princess' orders, etc.

Little Annie didn't care about what the officials of the Ming Dynasty were thinking or what they were going to do, because after processing the goods and simply replenishing them, she was already preparing to do some of her serious business.

"Expel the thieves and restore the Ming Dynasty?"

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"No!"

o(′^)o

"Big bearded man, I don't want to play the boring game of regaining lost land and expelling thieves with you!"

(lll￢▽￢)

So, when the bearded captain found Anne's great admiral, the fleet, and wanted her to send troops directly, that is, some of the sailors on the ship went ashore with muskets and cannons to defend the princess and guard the city of Hangzhou, she flatly refused.

"That's so troublesome. Now I'm going to go to the West and I don't have time to play with you here!"

o(′^)o

The reason why Anne stayed here in the East China Sea for so long was to eliminate the Japanese pirates coming to the island family so that she could show the abominable sister Li how powerful they were, and to prove how wrong it was for the hot bad guys to throw them in Hangzhou.

Now that the Japanese pirates have finished fighting, Japan has also signed an exclusive trade agreement with the Li family fleet. Now it is time for her to go south and find a hot sister Li Huamei to show off. How could she continue to delay in Hangzhou and play such boring war games with these boring guys?

Besides, she is not from the Ming Dynasty. Whether the Ming Dynasty will perish, what does it have to do with her Admiral Anne?

Moreover, she is not familiar with the spicy Princess Changping Zhu Ma!

The other party hadn't said a word to her during the days she was on the boat. She kindly went to rescue and gave them food and drink, and sent them to Hangzhou and spoke very well. How could she even come up to help them more?

"Great Admiral!"

"It would be fine if I can't do anything. Of course, my subordinates don't have to force me. But now, our Li family fleet is strong and powerful, and we are taking advantage of this opportunity to make achievements. How can we do that to waste our money and end the situation?"

Obviously, the bearded captain is very dissatisfied with voyage to the West now, because it is okay to go to the West any time, but now, once you miss the great opportunity in front of you and come back when the situation completely collapses, it will be completely finished!

But there was no way. The Li family fleet was not up to him. He had to convince the little girl in front of him. Otherwise, if the other party ordered, even if they were not happy, they would have to lift their sails and turn around and leave.

"Anyway, it just doesn't work!"

o(′^)o

Annie turned her face to the side and rejected the other party's proposal because she just didn't want to play the kind of war game. Besides, she really couldn't arrange troops, and she would just rush to order someone to charge.

“Great Admiral…”

"Great Admiral..."

With a fierce beard and big-pany face, the captain surnamed Li hurriedly turned to the other side, begging with the vivid expression of being entangled, and almost knelt down to Annie in front of her head and cried loudly.

“Um…”

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"Then, there are too many ten ships. It's troublesome to supply too many people on the ship. They might as well leave you thousands of musketeers and five ships. The Tamsui Fortress city and the defenders inside are all under your control. You can also find a way to recruit crew members by yourself. They only take Xiang Feihu and four other ships to Nanyang. What do you think?"

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Anne's decision to go to the West must not be changed. It is useless for anyone to persuade her. She just does what she does and is so stubborn!

However, thinking that it was indeed a big trouble to take ten super warships and so many musketeers. Moreover, those musketeers were a little confused and had very few opportunities to use, so she decided:

In addition to the necessary sailors and gunners, all the useless musketeers and land war artillery piled in the warehouse were just transferred out, and it would be almost enough to keep a thousand or eight hundred people for emergency response.

In that way, she could set out lightly, bring more supplies, and then persist at sea for a longer time, without having to think about which port to go to to replenish supplies all day long.

"this!"

"But……"

The bearded man was stunned. Originally, he just wanted to beg Anne, the great admiral, to stay and help. But now, according to her words, he actually wanted to leave the fleet and some soldiers directly to him and let him command with full authority?

Thinking that he could directly lead five full super battleships and manage the entire fortress in Xiao Liuqiu, his heart couldn't help but jump up wildly.

You know, there are still ten same giant warships and more than 10,000 elite musketeers in the Tamsui Fortress, as well as a large number of firearms and cannons, and even steel factories and weapons workshops. If all of them were under his control, God knows how much he could use those resources to do?

"Don't let it go!"

(*?~?*)

"I'm now announcing: Big Bearded You are the Admiral of the Li family fleet in the East China Sea!"

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"Now, the Ming Dynasty and the sea area of ​​Japan are all under your control. You have to do business and make money here, and protect our trading ports. That's about that!"

(*^▽^*)

"You think about other things yourself, we decided so happily!"

ヾ(⌒?⌒*)?

Anne made so many boats and people out, not to protect those ports and go to war, but to be able to play happily and to prepare for whatever she wants.

Now, since she has harmed this place and there are no hostile fleets here, she certainly must go south to find that guy Li Huamei and harm other places.

As for what's happening here...

Let's leave it to this bearded man for now. These guys can do whatever they want, as long as the minimum task she assigned can be completed.

"yes!"

"Abide by the order!!"

"Don't worry, Grand Admiral, if you can't manage this area well and you can't defend the port, then Mr. Li twists his head off and returns it to you!!"

After hearing what Xiao Annie said, he knew that he had become the Li family's admiral in the East China Sea, and was fully responsible for all matters here. Then the bearded man was shocked and soon understood what he could do with this. So he knelt down straight and kneeled down at their admiral with one knee, and promised with a solemn military salute.

With so many resources, he naturally has the confidence to make the Li family caravan bigger and stronger. It is nothing more than patrolling the routes and cracking down on other people's trends and caravans and some pirates who commit crimes. That is not too difficult.

The rest, he had enough strength to do something else, even more than what the Admiral said!

"Okay!"

ε=(′ο｀*))) Alas

"Go and arrange it quickly. There are four other warships on the Xiangfei Tiger. They have to take away. In addition to sailors and artillery, you can dispatch those useless guys first. They don't need too many people to go to the West!"

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Annie had actually discovered that there were too many cannons on these super battleships, which was a little too powerful. If there were ten ships, a total of 1,200 cannons could be fired at the target. Is that really a little crazy and a bit too wasteful?

If it is reduced by half, there will be a total of 600 cannons that can fire in one direction at the same time, which seems to be enough to deal with the threats in most cases.

So, seeing that the bearded man in front of him was so reluctantly that he didn't want to go to the West with her Admiral Anne, she had to simply divert the fleet. She only took the Xiangfei Tiger flagship and four other warships to go south to find Li Huamei and the guys.

"Here!!"

Seeing that Admiral Anne had decided, the bearded man dared not neglect, so he quickly responded and began to get up excitedly to get busy.

...

On March 19, the thief Li Zicheng captured Beijing.

It is reported that Emperor Chongzhen ordered all the concubines in the harem to commit suicide. Empress Yi'an Zhang and Empress Xiaojie Zhou committed suicide. Later, Emperor Chongzhen personally chopped and killed his two daughters. Princess Zhaoren was killed, and the eldest daughter Princess Changping Zhu Mai was cut off because she blocked the sword with her hands and survived.

Afterwards, Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself in Meishan. The eunuch Wang Chengen, Grand Secretary Fan Jingwen, Chief Censor Li Banghua, Minister of Revenue Ni Yuanlu and other ministers all calmly died and died for their country. The Ming Dynasty declared its demise.

However, the lean camel is bigger than a horse. Although the Ming Empire was basically declared to be destroyed by the emperor's family's death, most of the places that were harmed by the thieves were in the northwest and northern Zhili, including capital city, and other places. Jiangnan and Nanzhili have not been poisoned yet. There are still many royal families in Nanzhili and are all ready to move. Therefore, a newly appointed Admiral Li in the East China Sea began to take action.

After transferring thousands of land fighters from the five warships that Admiral Anne wanted to take away and directly took over Hangzhou City by force. He also added some sailors to strengthen supplies. He even piled up the warehouses of the five ships with a large amount of silk tea and porcelain purchased from Hangzhou. After nearly seven or eight days, he finally finished preparing.

On April 8, 17th year of Chongzhen, five huge ships lined up in the Qiantang River outside the port of Hangzhou. Admiral Anne Hasta of the Li family fleet finally led a fleet of five flying scissors super battleships to the West.

"Admiral Lee!"

"Our family doesn't understand. Are you not the Li family's Donghai Admiral? Why did you let the little girl from Fanbang take away the five giant gunboats?"

"Look, so many cannons are scaring me. If we could keep a few more ships, wouldn't the thief and Jiannu be scared?"

Seeing the five giant ships in Qiantang River in the distance starting to lift their sails and slowly accelerated towards the East China Sea under the influence of water and wind, standing among the crowd of people watching the fleet leave, I finally resisted the regret of not being sorry to whisper to the bearded captain, the current Admiral of the Li family Donghai.

"Father-in-law!"

"She is the great admiral of our Li family fleet. I am just the admiral in the East China Sea appointed by her. Not to mention that she wants to keep those five ships, as long as she orders, all the remaining five ships and these people will have to be withdrawn!"

Looking at the other five giant ships anchored in the deep water bay not far from Hangzhou Pier, and then looking at the elite soldiers standing nearby with strong bodies and flintlock muskets with long waists and long swords on their backs, the bearded captain sighed.

"ah?"

"You can't retreat! You can't retreat!"

When the old eunuch heard that the bearded man wanted to withdraw the ship and soldiers, he panicked decisively.

You know, in Hangzhou, the only people they can trust and rely on are the fleets and soldiers of the Li family in front of them. Once the Li family members are withdrawn, I am afraid that some people will not know how to try to eat people like him and the princess!

He has lived for so many years and has never seen any intrigue in the palace? So, he is not stupid and knows who he should trust and who he should rely on at this time.

Now that the Ming Dynasty is over, all he wants is to take good care of the princess, not let the princess be bullied by outsiders, and then he will have a good ending. How could he dare to have too many other thoughts?

"I didn't say I wanted to withdraw!"

"but……"

Looking at the Li family fleet, which was gradually moving away and faster in the distance, the bearded man couldn't help but feel a little regretful, and his eyes began to become a little dazed.

To be honest, if the Ming Dynasty hadn't suddenly died, I'm afraid he wouldn't have begged the Admiral for those things, and then he wouldn't have been disliked by the other party and stayed there. In that case, I'm afraid that now he can continue to travel across the world in the fleet that was heading south to the West?

"Forget it!"

"Dadfather, let me tell you that tomorrow, my fleet will also set sail for Xiaoliuqiu. It may take about half a month or a month to travel. Tomorrow I will leave before dawn, so you don't have to come and see us off."

Thinking of the fortress in Xiao Liuqiu and the ten warships that were not driven by no one, the bearded man felt that he had to make arrangements early.

Perhaps, he could draw out two-thirds of the skilled sailors and artillery soldiers in the fleet now, and then send some musketeers who have gone out to fight Japanese pirates with them to act as trainee sailors and gunners. I believe that he would be able to drive the ten warships soon and have a certain combat effectiveness?

In that case, he had a total of fifteen warships under his command, enough for him to do some crazy things he wanted to do.

"ah?"

"You are going to Xiao Liuqiu?"

"no!"

"Our family and the princess must follow us!"

When the old eunuch heard that the bearded man's fleet was about to leave, the old eunuch panicked again and hurriedly pulled the bearded man's clothes, saying that they would leave as well.

"ah?"

"We are not coming back, and there are five thousand musketeers from my Li family guarding here in Hangzhou. What are you afraid of?"

The bearded man felt a little confused.

"we……"

"Our family wants to go and see your Xiao Liuqiu fortress and big ship!"

"Just say whether you give it or not!"

"this……"

"All right!"

"Follow you, go!"

"But tomorrow at the Yin hour, I will be ready to board the ship. If you want to go, it's better to get earlier?"

"Yin time?"

"Then you don't have to wait for tomorrow. Our family and the princess will board the ship in the afternoon!"

How could the old eunuch who was afraid that the bearded man would leave him and be scared at the same time dare to stay on the shore more when the fleet was not around?

So he made a quick decision and prepared to take the princess to the boat early to wait. As for what the local officials would think after they left, how could he care so much?

"Okay!"

The bearded man thought about it after thinking about it, but in the end he didn't say he refused.

but……

What he didn't know was that when he arrived at Xiao Liuqiu and arrived at Tamsui Fortress, the old eunuch saw the giant ships and the strong and exaggerated fortress city, the towering stone walls, the fortress and countless terrifying shore-based cannons, he said he would not leave.

Of course, those are all later stories. The bearded admiral of the East China Sea must have been unexpected, and the admiral of the bad boy who was cheering on the flagship of the Xiangfei Tiger to voyage to the West would not know about it.

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Chapter completed!