Corrupt official in the Red Chamber

Chapter 391 The Navy is dispatched

Thirty million taels of silver and three million acres of land.

This is the reward for Jia Rui's action.

In fact, this is still a small part. A large part of the antique calligraphy and paintings have not yet been evaluated and are waiting to be shipped back to Beijing.

Of course, since it is a house raid, there will of course be some losses. After all, the soldiers and officers also need to eat, and of course our Lord Jia Ruijia also needs to eat.

For example, near Jinling, Jia Rui has an additional estate of nearly 200,000 acres.

With this money, Jia Rui will be much more relaxed in his next actions. Jia Rui believes that with this money, he can kill the other party.

After becoming rich, Jia Rui immediately ordered that the entire southern coast be on standby and all residents move ten miles inward.

Of course, the people who move inland will be compensated by the imperial court, with each household receiving ten taels of silver.

Ten taels of silver is not a small amount, and ordinary people cannot even save ten taels of silver in their lifetime.

Therefore, although the people still had some complaints and did not want to leave their homes where they had lived for generations, they still took action under the temptation of twelve taels of silver.

As for the second policy, Jia Rui asked coastal states and counties to organize local braves to deal with pirate attacks.

In the third item, Jia Rui began to offer a huge reward. Anyone who knew the location of the pirate's lair would be immediately rewarded with three thousand taels of silver.

The fourth item is to offer rewards to the pirates through various channels. As long as they turn over to the light, they will forget the blame and the court will provide resettlement expenses.

The fifth item is a heavy reward for the pirate's head, with the reward for each head increased to twenty taels of silver.

Of course, this kind of gentle policy alone is not enough. All family members who participated in pirates will also be severely punished, such as the whole family being temporarily imprisoned and their fields confiscated.

This is just an external policy, Jia Rui is also preparing to practice his internal skills from the inside.

This internal strength is to build warships and expand the size of the navy.

Many people along the Jiangnan coast rely on fishing to make a living. These people are at sea all year round, and their quality is no worse than that of navy soldiers.

So Jia Rui focused his attention on these people, and with a military order, he immediately recruited 50,000 people.

As for whether recruiting so many people would affect coastal fishing activities, Jia Rui couldn't care less about that now.

In addition to recruiting soldiers, it is also urgent to build warships.

In addition to speeding up the construction of warships in Tianjin, a shipyard was also built in Jinling.

At the same time, several civilian shipyards along the coast of Guangdong were recruited to build warships for the country.

Of course, this requires a large amount of silver, but what Jia Rui is short of now is not silver. Therefore, after a large amount of silver was poured out, the entire empire's shipbuilding industry was running like crazy. In just half a year, hundreds more were built. A large ship, as well as supporting small warships.

Jia Rui's other policies have also achieved outstanding results in this six months.

First of all, those who took refuge with the Southern Barbarians and participated in piracy activities were all desperadoes, and they would do anything for money.

The first people to report pirate lairs to the court were not ordinary fishermen, but these pirates.

After receiving the report, Jia Rui was overjoyed. He pardoned all the pirate's crimes on the spot and gave him a heavy reward. At the same time, as promised, he did not miss a penny.

Then he ordered Tang Zhen in Fujian to dispatch all the navy to inflict heavy damage on the enemy.

Unfortunately, this operation did not achieve the intended results. Although it caused heavy damage to the enemy, the opponent still dispersed to the sea with their small and flexible ships.

Although this operation was not perfect, the court also achieved results, and Jia Rui was quite satisfied.

After this incident, the pirates also began to retaliate crazily against them. They turned into zero and kept moving along the coast, and went ashore to plunder when they had the opportunity.

However, this time their activities were not as scrupulous as before, because there were local warriors all over the coast. These people may not have much ability to fight, but they could still attack by sneak attack.

In addition to these local warriors, there are also bodyguards and martial arts masters who came from all over the country.

All these people came for Jia Rui's reward.

A pirate's head is twenty taels. If you kill a few more pirates, you can go home and buy land and become a small landowner.

In addition, Jia Rui now strictly prohibits smuggling by sea. The pirates have nothing to rob, so they quickly fell into a shortage of food and funds.

Due to the lack of food, there were several internal strife among the pirates. It was only after this that Jia Rui got the news through other channels.

In the past few months, the 50,000 fishermen recruited by Jia Rui have also been trained and become official members of the navy.

In addition to the original Fujian Navy's more than 10,000 people, Jia Rui's navy now has a strength of 60,000. There are also more than 150 large ships and two to three hundred small and medium-sized warships.

Of course, Jia Rui also had a hand in this, such as artillery.

Although Jia Rui knew the principles and methods of intelligent manufacturing, he did not contribute.

Otherwise, with so many battleships and artillery, this fleet can sweep across the world.

After everything was ready, Jia Rui abandoned Princess Nan'an and let her stay in Jinling. He took a warship and went straight to Fujian with his own soldiers.

As soon as he arrived near Fuzhou, Jia Rui saw countless warships swarming on the sea.

On the warship is the banner of our dynasty, and there is also a big Chinese character "Tang".

This is Tang Zhen leading the navy to greet Jia Rui. After that, countless warships surrounded Jia Rui's ship and slowly approached the Fujian dock.

When Jia Rui arrived at the dock and got off the battleship, Tang Zhen was already kneeling there.

Jia Rui stepped forward to help Tang Zhen up, and then said with a smile: "You have done well during this period. Keep up your hard work. After this war, you will be indispensable for a title."

Tang Zhen was so excited that he was speechless, "Everything is given to you by your Majesty, and it is natural that you should die for your Majesty."

Jia Rui nodded with satisfaction, and then, surrounded by Tang Zhen, walked down to meet the officials.

This time all the officials in Fuzhou came over, including the governor of Fuzhou, the big boss in Fujian.

Jia Rui greeted these people for a few words and then dismissed them. After all, Jia Rui came to fight, not to reminisce with them.

Moreover, Jia Rui did not go to the imperial envoy's residence in Fuzhou City this time, but stayed at the navy station.

Arriving at the Zhongjun tent, Jia Rui sat down firmly, then took out an envelope from his arms and threw it in front of Tang Zhen.

"Take a look at this thing."

Tang Zhen quickly stepped forward to take the envelope, then opened it carefully and took out three or four pieces of paper from inside.

Seeing this, Tang Zhen was overjoyed.

It turned out that these papers were marked as supply bases for pirates.

You must know that it is not easy to feed so many pirates, especially when there is a lack of vitamins at sea. If there is no quick supplement of fresh vegetables, these pirates will all die from septicemia.

Therefore they require constant replenishment from land.

The locations of these supplementary points were all obtained by Jia Rui through high bounties.

"I won't say anything more. Take action immediately tonight and divide your troops into several groups to pass all these locations for me." Jia Rui said with his eyes widened.

Tang Zhen confidently patted his chest and assured, "Don't worry, sir, I will definitely succeed this time."

The reason Tang Zhen can be so confident is because his strength has expanded to its maximum.

There are currently nearly 180 large ships under Tangzhen's command, and there are also 400 to 500 other small and medium-sized ships.

Moreover, these warships are also equipped with various tools such as catapults and long-range crossbows. They can be said to be the most powerful naval force in the world. As long as they are dispatched together, the entire world's seas will tremble.

This is also a manifestation of national strength. If it is a small country, it will take hundreds of years to build such a powerful naval force, but as long as the Central Plains China goes all out, it can be built in one year.

"Okay, I will listen to your good news in Fuzhou."

After discussing it, Jia Rui returned and went to rest.

Jia Rui was actually holding on. In the bumpy sea along the way, Jia Rui had already vomited all the food he had eaten.

I don't know why, even though Jia Rui was in great health and had all kinds of magic protection on his body, he still got seasick under the bumps on the sea.

However, after arriving in Fujian, Jia Rui held on hard in order to appear more majestic in front of the officers and soldiers of the Chinese Navy.

Now that Tang Zhen and his generals were finally sent away, Jia Rui started vomiting again as soon as he returned to the back tent.

After struggling all night, Jia Rui finally recovered.

However, although he recovered, Jia Rui's affairs did not stop, because in the next period of time he began to socialize in Fuzhou City.

Various officials in Fuzhou rushed to invite Jia Rui for various reasons, just to get close to Jia Rui.

Jia Rui welcomes all comers.

In this state of drunkenness and dreams, Jia Rui wandered around for more than ten days.

On this day, Jia Rui had just woken up from a hangover and was rubbing his forehead uncomfortably. Hualan next to him was serving tea with concern.

Before Jia Rui finished his cup of tea, a soldier from outside hurriedly came in and said, "Sir, there is news from the Navy."

As soon as he heard this, Jia Rui immediately woke up, his head no longer hurt, and his body no longer felt uncomfortable. "What's the news?"

"It was Lord Tang Zhen's personal soldiers who sent the message. I don't know what it is exactly."

"Then hurry up and call someone in."

The soldier hurried out after hearing Jia Rui's words, and soon he came in with a man who was dusty and smelled of sea salt.

This man entered the tent and immediately knelt down and kowtowed to Jia Rui.

"Okay, stop saluting, get up quickly and tell me how the battle is going?"

Only then did the man dare to stand up, then took out an envelope from his arms and dragged it over his head with both hands.

Hualan quickly stepped forward to take the envelope and returned it to Jia Rui.

Jia Rui opened the envelope, took out the letter paper from inside, looked at it carefully, and then the smile on his face couldn't stop.

(End of this chapter)