The heavens start from saving Daming

Chapter 97
The naval battle that broke out in Xiamen Bay lasted from three poles in the sun to sunset, and fought from Lujiang to Xunjiang.

Ten ironclad fishing boats severely ravaged hundreds of wooden sailboats.

The pirates once thought of taking advantage of their large numbers of people and boats, beating them up close and besieging them, or even directly fighting with gangs to capture these coveted iron ships.

But the speed of their boats is deeply affected by the current and wind direction, so it is as slow as a snail.

The fishing fleet using diesel generators, under the unified command of the walkie-talkie, can easily control the distance and jump out of the encirclement, destroying enemy ships one by one.

When the pirates from all walks of life were terrified and knew that they couldn't beat them and wanted to run away, there were sunken ships everywhere, bad formations, and the current and wind direction that didn't give them face gave them a fatal blow.

Li Yunze divided the armored fleet into two, and drove the pirate ships to squeeze in from the waterways on both sides of Xiamen Island.

The narrow sea area between Xiamen Island and Tong'an County was filled with chaotic ships all of a sudden.

They scurry and collide like headless chickens, fighting for a way out and even attacking each other.

When they were sure they couldn't escape, they washed up on Tong'an County or the island one after another.

Those who greeted them were the officers and soldiers of the Beijing camp who had been waiting for a long time.

At the end of the war, the pirates were destroyed and seized, and more than [-] ships of all sizes washed up on the beach and even surrendered.

More than ten thousand people were lost and captured.

Because Li Yunze specially took the big boats to fight, many well-known shopkeepers in the southeast sea were basically wiped out here.

As for the leaders of all walks of life, there are countless.

"General." Li Yunze, who slept late, just woke up the next afternoon when Jia Ping, who was in charge of statistics, showed her teeth and cheerfully reported the results, "We made a lot of money this time."

Every ship that can run on the sea is very valuable.

Moreover, there were also the personal wealth of the chief shopkeepers on board, which undoubtedly belonged to Li Yunze.

"General." An excited Jia Ping rubbed her hands. "Several shopkeeper leaders expressed their willingness to pay huge sums of money to redeem their lives."

Bandits and pirates, once they are caught, they must die.

If you don't want to die, you have to spend money to buy your life.

"These people have blood on their hands, they don't have any good things, and they still want to live?"

Li Yunze sneered, "You let them deliver the goods first, and then send someone to escort them to Shenjing City."

Jia Ping was startled, "General, this is against the rules."

It is undoubtedly against the rules to take the life money and take the life of others.

"What I say is the rules." Li Yunze raised his eyes and looked at Jia Ping, "Are you taking advantage of them?"

Jia Ping knelt down on the ground with a frightened 'plop', "General, I am loyal to the general, how dare I accept money in private. I am just worried that it will affect the general's reputation~~~"

"I'm not a gangster, I want a fart reputation."

Putting down the thick statistical document in his hand, Li Yunze instructed, "I don't understand you, go and call Xue Biao in first."

Jia Ping has a flexible mind, but lacks the necessary experience. He really doesn't understand some things.

The young and handsome Xue Tiao came in to salute, "Second brother called me?"

Li Yunze didn't talk nonsense, he came up directly to arrange work, "This time a group of shopkeeper leaders were arrested, you go and talk to them. Let them pay for ransom, and hand over your behind-the-scenes benefactors and correspondence. "

"It's not difficult to ask for money." Xue Pan frowned, "But you can ask the background backer, and you need evidence."

"Simple things can be done by anyone, why use you."

Xue Biao was embarrassed when he said this, and Jia Ping beside him also lowered his head and smiled secretly.

"Can it be done?"

"can."

Li Yunze nodded, and told Jia Ping, "When the money and letters and evidence arrive, you pay three thousand silver for travel expenses, and take a team of elite soldiers to send witnesses to Shenjing City, and leave it to Xia Shouzhong."

"You said it's against the rules to do so." Li Yunze suddenly looked down, pointing to Jia Ping, "I don't want any rules, what I want is the market they vacated. If I don't completely kill them, how can I take over their market share?"

Jia Ping was awe-inspiring, and hurriedly saluted and pleaded guilty.

"A lot of ghosts have also been arrested, right? Bring the leaders here." After instructing, Li Yunze signaled Xue Biao to "go to work."

In a short time, a group of panicked ghosts were dragged into the big tent.

These days, the people of the Great Zhou considered themselves to be the kingdom of heaven, and there was absolutely no such thing as worshiping foreigners.

The so-called foreigners are all natives of the barren land.

If a girl in Huating County throws herself into the arms of Fan Gui and says something like 'he is from a certain country, you can't touch him', then she must be directly thrown into the pond, and the whole family will never be able to hold their heads up.

Obviously, these fan ghosts with scars all over their bodies have suffered.

What surprised Li Yunze was that these ghosts could speak the official language of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Although they stumbled, they could at least understand it.

It's nothing more than that we have money, we want to pay for ransom, please don't chop off our heads or something.

Li Yunze was too lazy to talk nonsense with them, so he directly called Xue Pan, "Choose half at random and chop it up."

Xue Pan, who was excited as soon as he entered the battlefield, rushed up with his bodyguards and dragged half of them out.

After a short time, he returned with a row of heads.

Those who were still alive were all scared to pee, begging repeatedly.

Those who can drive thousands of miles to do business here these days, there are no good people, they are all scum and scum.

When there is an opportunity to loot, they will never let go of the opportunity.Doing business along the way is also robbing along the way.

The so-called Age of Discovery is essentially the Age of Great Pirates.

If it wasn't still useful, Li Yunze would not have left any of them.

After the process of killing chickens to scare monkeys was over, Li Yunze slowly raised his request.

"From now on, if you want to buy porcelain, tea, silk, etc., you must come to the Zhongzuo Institute. Those who dare to go to other places to do business will be disposed of."

"Give you a boat to go back and tell all your companions. Whether it's a big Frankie or a little Frankie, whether it's a red-haired fan or a golden-haired fan, you must come here to do business. Of course, the ransom is still have to pay first."

He pointed to the heads of those unlucky ones, "If their families want to take back the corpses, they have to pay, and they can pay half of it less. Remember, I only accept gold and silver for business. Do you understand? Listen If you understand, get out!"

After simple repairs, counting the battle achievements and issuing rewards, the fleet of armored fishing boats began to attack in turn, sweeping all the merchant ships along the way south.

When encountering a merchant ship from the Great Zhou Dynasty, if there is no sea-going document from the Shibo Division, all of them will be detained and brought back to the Zhongzuo Office.

When they met the boat of the ghosts, they all coerced them to go to Zhongzuo.

If there is a ship that dares to resist, no matter whose ship it is, it will be Yizute.

Li Yunze's actions undoubtedly touched the cakes of many big merchants, gentry and sea owners in the southeast.

It has been proven that he can't beat people with force, and it's been proven that Li Yunze has been in the barracks for a long time, and the heroes of the rivers and lakes were killed even if they couldn't even get to the island.

Then you can only use the power of the court.

On the ground, in the court hall, countless memorials to impeach Li Yunze flew towards the emperor.

At this time, the emperor was holding Li Yunze's memorial, looking up the souvenirs he sent over.

Looking at the boxes of silver taels in front of him, the emperor, who was short of breath, asked Xia Shouzhong, "What's the total?"

"Long live, the total is 380 taels."

Seeing so many local products, the emperor fell into silence.

According to Li Yunze's memorial, this is only the first batch.

Xia Shouzhong said something extra, "Long live, the silver taels handed in by various city and police departments last year were only more than 5 taels."

The squinting emperor raised his eyes and glanced over.

Needless to say, I know that this must be the benefit of Na Lian Er.

"Send the internal money." After returning to the dragon chair and sitting down, the emperor opened Li Yunze's memorial again.

The content of the memorial is actually very brief.

The first is to boast about how good he is, how many pirates he has defeated, and so on.

The point is that Li Yunze said that he wanted the exclusive right to sea trade in the southeast coast.

The time limit is not much, only five years is required.

Then he said that he would pay at least 100 million taels of tax to the emperor every year, and after five years, all business would be handed over to the inner government.

If Li Yunze can't control the Great Zhou Dynasty after five years, then he will lose face as a traveler.

As for silver taels, the emperor was really, really short of money.

During the period of the Supreme Emperor, the entire Great Zhou Dynasty had already been turned into a miasma, and all kinds of taxes dropped sharply.

Now it is natural disasters and man-made disasters, internal and external troubles.

There were people asking him for money everywhere, but Lian Er was the only one who really gave him large sums of money.

Even if it was Jia Yuanchun's money, it was also given by Lian Er.

After careful consideration, the emperor finally wrote a reply letter to Li Yunze.

Five years is too long, he only fights for the day and night.If you specialize in sea trade or something, you can only give it up to four years.

100 million taels per year is too little, at least 150 million taels.

Perhaps because he felt that he was too greedy, the emperor also said that he was also under tremendous pressure. Even the Supreme Emperor came forward to ask about the maritime trade ships, and he helped Li Yunze resist the pressure.

The imperial decree of the emperor failed to pass in the cabinet, because the interests behind the elders of the cabinet were complicated, and the southeastern merchants and sea masters were naturally indispensable.

Moreover, the Supreme Emperor came forward to express his attitude on this matter.

After all, among the filial piety received by the Supreme Emperor, those from the southeast are indispensable.

Without the cabinet's endorsement, the effectiveness of the imperial edict would naturally be greatly reduced.

But it doesn't matter, what Li Yunze needs is such a righteous name.

Next, not only the fleet of ironclad fishing boats attacked in an all-round way, but even the soldiers and horses of the Beijing camp also sent troops on land in large numbers.

The sea lords entrenched everywhere were directly attacked and destroyed after being surrounded by officers and soldiers.

Big businessmen from all over the world were directly broken into, and their homes were ransacked under the name of Shanghai bandits.

Their business, sources of goods, channels, etc., all naturally fell into Li Yunze's hands.

The resistance of these people was also very fierce, and even mobilized the southeast garrison to fight with the officers and soldiers of the Beijing camp.

For this reason, Li Yunze even broke through several seaport counties in the name of exterminating bandits.Thousands of officers and soldiers were annihilated, and many civil and military personnel, from generals to county magistrates, were all disposed of on charges of banditry.

His iron-blooded methods attracted countless impeachment memorials, and ministers shouted and killed every day in the court hall. Jia Zheng was so frightened that he even took sick leave and dared not go to court again.

And the emperor looked at the face of the large amount of silver taels that would be sent every month, especially when the Supreme Emperor took the initiative to let him take care of Li Yunze, which aroused his rebellious psychology, and he took the pressure off without saying a word.

Li Yunze's counterattack was also very quick. Not only did he intensify his attack on the gentry and civil officials who attacked him, he even publicly turned against the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, and sent troops to surround the city!

The reason is still the same old one, saying that the governor had access to pirates.

Of course the governor will not know the pirates, he just accepts the filial piety of the pirates.

But Li Yunze obtained the letters between him and the pirates, and even hired professionals to forge several letters, so he wanted to make an example of him.

In the end, the imperial court sent an imperial envoy, who first reprimanded Li Yunze, saying that he was so audacious that he dared to besiege the imperial palace, fined him and demoted him to rank.The momentum was great, but the board was lifted high, but it fell gently.

Then it was the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, who was directly dismissed and stuffed into a prison van and transported back to Shenjing City for interrogation.

After this battle, Li Yunze became famous, and almost no one in the southeast dared to fight against him openly.

Next, it's time to harvest the fruit.

(End of this chapter)