He Bin, also known as He Tingbin, was one of the eighteen pirates under Zheng Zhilong. In his early years, he followed Zheng Zhilong in the East Fan and was both a businessman and a thief. Thousands of people gathered under his command. After the Dutch occupied the East Fan, the brothers gradually dispersed. Zheng Zhilong and others began to develop to Wugang in the north of the East Fan, but He Bin and others continued to stay near Chicing to make a living.

Later, Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Zhihu, Zheng Zhibao and other brothers surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, and there was a huge difference within Shibazhi. Yang Tiansheng, Chen Zhongji, He Bin, Guo Huaiyi and others tended to surrender to the Ming Dynasty with Zheng Zhilong. Li Kuiqi, Liu Xiang, Yang Liu, Yang Qi and others wanted to stay and continue to be pirates. In the end, the Shibazhi brothers completely broke up!

Li Kuiqi, Liu Xiang and others were extremely cruel. When Yang Tiansheng, Chen Zhongji, He Bin and Guo Huaiyi went to Fujian to join Zheng Zhilong, setting up an ambush halfway and attacked Yang Tiansheng and Chen Zhongji. He Bin and Guo Huaiyi escaped by chance and returned to Chichi with hundreds of subordinates. At that time, the waters near the Dongfan had been blocked by Li Kuiqi and Liu Xiang. In order to make a living, He Bin and Guo Huaiyi had to take the remaining subordinates to the Dutch disciples and act as commissars and compradors.

He Bin is not living a comfortable life now. Although he can make a lot of money by doing things for the Dutch, the Dutch are too cruel to the people in the East. He will bully them at will. He will massacre them in a few moments of resistance! He feels that he is completely helping the evil and is suffering from conscience every day, so he is suffering from alcoholism.

That night, he was locked in the room alone and drank to relieve his sorrows. Suddenly, the voice of his confidant Xiao Fan sounded from the storefront: "Brother, Shandong Maritime Merchants Xu Qi asked for a meeting."

Xu Qi had heard from his subordinates that he had a big business and was generous. He seemed to want to supply goods to the Dutch. Anyway, he was an agent for the Dutch, and the most important thing was to get kickbacks. The more generous the person he was, the more he liked it. So he asked someone to inform Xu Qi to talk about it if he had time these two days.

He Bin didn't need to be too polite. Instead of getting up to greet him, he sat there and said lightly: "Let him come in."

Soon a very capable middle-aged man walked in with a spring breeze on his face and bowed eagerly: "Mr. He, I have long admired him, long admired him."

He Bin was not seen, and raised his hand and said, "Shopkeeper Xu, why don't you sit down and have a drink."

Xu Qi was not even seen, and sat directly opposite him, smiling and said, "Then Xu is more respectful than obedient."

It is rare for such a straightforward person to look at him in surprise, took out a wine glass, poured him a glass himself, then raised the wine glass and said, "Okay, come and have a drink."

Xu Qi was not polite, so he picked up the wine glass, touched him, and finished the wine in the glass in one gulp.

He Bin raised his head and drank the wine in his glass, laughed and said, "Okay, I haven't seen such a cheerful person as Manager Xu for a long time. If you have anything to say, what He can do is not vague."

Unexpectedly, Xu Qi was not very excited, but continued to smile and said, "I really need Mr. He to help you, but..."

Oh, this is new. He asked someone for help and kept him indifferently. He Bin asked with interest: "But what, what's the matter, Xu's anecdote?"

Xu Qi suddenly looked around carefully and asked in a low voice: "Is this room safe for Lord He?"

He Bin was stunned by his expression and asked inexplicably: "What's safe or not? This is my place to rest. Is there any other problem?"

When Xu Qi heard this, he didn't say anything, but took out a letter from his arms mysteriously and handed it to him solemnly.

He Bin was a little hesitant to answer, but when he saw the words on the envelope, he immediately grabbed the letter excitedly and couldn't wait to open it. The letter looked very simple, just in one sentence: "Old Sixteen, I heard that you are not very satisfied with the Eastern Federation. Come and serve the court with us, and you will be able to support you with high officials and generous salaries, and you will be brilliant and prosperous."

He Bin stared at the mark at the end of the letter and asked in a trembling voice: "Brother, how are he doing? Who wrote this letter?"

Xu Qi bowed and said, "The prince is so proud, so naturally he can't be better. This letter was written by Zheng Zhihu, the admiral of the Nanyang Navy."

He Bin immediately asked eagerly: "So it was written by the second brother. Did you send it from the court?"

When Xu Qi heard this, he slowly took out a waist sign from his arms and handed it to him.

He Bin took it and looked at it. His face changed drastically. He was so scared that he almost threw the waist card out.

Why is he so scared? Because the waist sign engraved on it: Xu Tianqi, the 14th thousand household of the Jinyiwei!

Those who did not commit any crime were frightened when they saw the Jinyiwei, let alone those like him who had been pirates and were serving the barbarians.

Xu Tianqi retrieved his waist card and laughed: "Don't panic, Lord He, our Jinyiwei is not a demon who kills without blinking. If you want to be afraid, I have to be afraid of Lord He. Lord He took the Zheng family's boat, and the glorious and prosperous ones are just around the corner!"

He Bin asked in surprise when he heard this: "Brother has such great energy now?"

Xu Tianqi shook his head and said, "The prince doesn't have such great energy?"

He Bin was confused by him. Is there anyone in the Zheng family who is even more awesome than the prince? Is he the second brother? It seems that the admiral is not as big as the prince!

Seeing his appearance, Xu Tianqi knew that he couldn't understand, so he quickly explained: "It is the prince of Zhennan. He is regarded as the emperor's brother and is deeply favored by the emperor. He is now living in the Forbidden City to accompany the emperor!"

Prince of Zhennan? He Bin was secretly surprised when he heard this. The eldest brother's eldest son seemed to be only ten years old. Is there anything wrong? He Bin asked in disbelief: "Are you talking about Xiao Zhengsen? He seems to be only ten years old. How could the emperor value him so much?"

Xu Tianqi guessed: "This, maybe because he is closer to the emperor, so I won't talk about these things, just talk about things, talk about things."

He Bin's chin was almost shocked when he heard this. This means that the emperor is only in his teens. However, he also knows the taboos and is talking behind his back that the emperor wants to behead him. He quickly said, "Yeah, say it's important, say it's important, by the way, what's the reason for the second brother to ask you to come to me?"

Xu Tianqi said solemnly: "The emperor wants to take back the Eastern Band, but the Dutch's power at sea is too strong, so he needs Lord He to help lead the Dutch fleet to Luzon."

He Bin said happily: "Really, that's really great. The Dutch is so cruel that he ruined the people of the East Fan as animals. I long wanted to kill them all. But their navy is indeed very terrifying. They must lead them away to take the East Fan. Tell me, what do you want me to do?"

Xu Tianqi asked: "Do you know when the cargo ships they sent to Batavia will set sail?"

He Bin nodded and said, "Of course I know this. Every time my people help them load and unload the goods."

Xu Tianqi said happily: "That's good. Before they set sail, you just need to send someone to tell me the specific departure time."

After all, He Bin was a pirate, and he knew what was going on at first sight. He couldn't help but worry: "Do you want to pretend to be a Spaniard to rob their cargo ships? Then be careful, their cargo ships are all armed merchant ships, and there are a lot of artillery on them."

Xu Tianqi laughed and said, "You don't have to worry about this, we have more artillery than them."

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In a private room at the Dongsheng Restaurant in Batavia, a large group of people were eating and drinking. The combination of these people was strange. There were wealthy Ming merchants, humble Chinese translators, and a few locals who did not look like gangsters and hooligans did not look like hooligans, but they were all trying to compliment a very wealthy local.

This man is a big man in Batavia. He is a famous pirate in the local area, a famous local wealthy businessman, and a common business of the Dutch East India Company!

This guy is called Putu, and he is notoriously not easy to flatter. Most people can't even invite him. Xiao Jiucheng also tried his best to find out about this guy's hobbies. This guy likes to drink, but if you dare to invite him to drink ordinary water wine, you will be polite if he doesn't kill him with just one shot. He only drinks aged wine, and it must be white wine, wine, fruit wine, or medicinal wine.

It is not that easy to find aged wine. This guy can drink a few meals a month, so he is particularly greedy for wine. As long as there is good wine, you will arrive as soon as you invite him, and you will come by yourself if you don’t invite him.

This made Xiao Jiuzheng difficult. Where did he go to find aged wine!

By chance, this incident was also spread to Zhu Cijiu. If you want to talk about the good old wine, who is more than him? He is a child and cannot drink wine. He hasn't drunk a few sips of the tribute wine for the past five or six years. It is all stored in the wine cellar of the palace. Since it can be used, he will naturally not be stingy. He directly sent someone to deliver a thousand pounds to Xiao Jiucheng!

Xiao Jiucheng tried to ask someone to give Pu Tu a small bottle. This was amazing. Pu Tu was so attached to Xiao Jiucheng. Whenever he had time, he would come to find Xiao Jiucheng. He would not leave without a meal every day!

Within a few days, he called Xiao Jiucheng brother and brother, and Xiao Jiucheng was relieved and could finally implement the plan he had planned long ago.

That day, Xiao Jiucheng held a banquet to invite Putu. Putu naturally ran over happily. After filling him with almost a pound of white wine, Xiao Jiucheng pretended to be embarrassed in half-baked local dialect: "Brother Putu, can you help me?"

Putu was already in vain at this moment. Hearing this, he patted his chest and said, "Brother, what are you talking about, what are you doing or not? What are you talking about?"

Xiao Jiucheng pretended to be upset and said, "Oh, it's my first time doing business. I don't understand many things. I actually hired hundreds of coolies who loaded and unloaded goods at a time. Now I realize that I can't use so many people at all. Now I've brought them here, so it's not good to keep them idle every day. Look, aren't there many merchant ships on the Dutch side? Why don't you find some work for them?"

Putu thought it was something extraordinary, but this little thing was just his words. He immediately patted his chest and promised: "No problem, let them go and help the Dutch load and unload goods tomorrow."

So the next day, hundreds of coolies ran to the Dutch cargo ship and started loading and unloading. They were diligent and strong. Even the Dutch gave a thumbs up and praised the good people Putu, and these people gradually became special coolies for Dutch cargo ships.

Gradually, they could see the structure of the Dutch cargo ship clearly. They could see how many people a cargo ship was equipped with, how many muskets and how many artillery guns they were equipped with. Most importantly, they could see where these cargo ships set sail later.

The Dutch still didn't know that their cargo ship had been targeted by three powerful pirates, and a looting campaign against them was about to begin!
Chapter completed!