0569 Don't want to die
Wu Yizhou excitedly agreed. This is the most advantageous order for the Navy! Not to mention making some extra money, you can also merge with those new sailors faster.
You must know that every plunder is a share of the spoils from the captain to the soldiers. Of course, Liu Pei must be the biggest one! So when there was no order to let them plunder, they could only watch the ship drift away on the sea.
So with Liu Pei's order, the sea that had just quieted down boiled again. Ships flying skull flags on a black background desperately surround every ship at sea. Luckily for those who had been robbed, the pirates were very measured, and there were almost no casualties.
Because anyone who runs the sea knows what the skull flag with a black background represents, and they also know that as long as they obediently lower the sails and let them take away 20% of the goods, nothing dangerous will happen. But this time something strange happened! Even if they lowered their sails, their ships and cargo would be robbed. All would be loaded onto an empty ship and sent back to land.
Before they land, they will receive a message: "Tell the people above you not to go to sea lately." The dragon king has to talk to some people about something, and after the negotiation is done, it will return to normal. ”
Naturally, the heads and sailors had no opinion, because a large number of bayonets were surrounding them. Fortunately, his life was not in danger, so he obediently went home and passed the word on.
When the news reached Fuzhou Mansion, an elderly gentleman with a big belly dropped his teacup! He shouted angrily, "Who does he think he is? How dare he even move my boat? ”
This person's name is Liu Runlin, and he has lived in Fuzhou for seven generations. Their family has been cultivating and heirlooming for generations, and the family is huge, and almost every generation can produce a few people. Even Jinshi will appear one or two every one or two generations. Therefore, their family is extremely famous in Shilin and officialdom, and it can be said that it will be prosperous for a long time! Even if it has a huge influence in the local area. Moreover, Liu Runlin repairs bridges and roads on weekdays, and gives porridge and medicine, which has an excellent reputation in the local area!
But what ordinary people don't know is that the Liu Runlin family itself controls more than a dozen sea ships, and indirectly controls more than 30 sea ships
Boat. And they have friendships with many officials and big businessmen in the Susong area! As long as he said a word, many merchants would not be able to buy enough goods, or the goods they bought would be robbed by pirates after going to sea.
Fell a tea bowl with fine workmanship, and Liu Runlin had calmed down. He waved his hand and motioned to the little girl next to him to clean up the scene. After the little girl finished cleaning up the study and exited, Liu Runlin picked up a cup of tea again and took a few sips slowly, and then began to write calmly.
He wrote a total of four letters, and the recipients were all big names in the officialdom. The letter was very vague and demanded that the Quanzhou sailors be dispatched to encircle and suppress Liu Pei. After writing the letter, Liu Runlin read it repeatedly before he was satisfied with the cold tea in the teacup. Then he called the housekeeper and arranged for someone to tell him about the four letters and send them away. What he didn't know was that several others had done the same.
The ripple effect of these letters brewed in officialdom like a stone thrown into water, causing a series of ripples. When the final ripples reached Wang Desheng, the general of the Quanzhou Navy Division, it was a monstrous wave!
At this moment, where did Wang Desheng dare to attack Liu Pei? When he received the text from the Ministry of War, the first thing that came to mind was to scold his mother! How can he not know what the situation is at sea now? Last time, the Red-eyed Dragon King didn't directly roll up his fleet, which was already enough face, if he really went to sea with the fleet this time, he could only have one result, that is, he would be buried in the belly of the fish!
Wang Desheng can achieve the position of a general, although it is with the help of the family, but it is more because of his personal shrewd vision! You must know that the general is a high-ranking military attache in the Ming Dynasty!
After spending a sum of money, Wang Desheng got accurate inside information about why the Ministry of War issued a text. After getting the news, he scolded his mother firmly! Because his bad luck this time is really a disaster!
The reason is that after Liu Pei became the uncrowned king of the sea, he wanted to meet those sea merchants so that he could discuss the rules of the sea. This matter is not a secret, Wang Desheng has also heard the rumors. When he heard the wind, he felt very lucky, and felt that there was another person like Li Dan on the sea
Just as gentle as the Pirate King. So his life will be much better in the future.
But what I didn't expect was that the above didn't think Liu Pei had anything to fear, and felt that Liu Pei should have no strength after a big battle, so he directly asked to send troops to encircle and suppress it!
Wang Desheng is in the officialdom, so he naturally understands what those officials are like. They don't know what follows at all, but are used to making decisions based on their own conjectures! In their eyes, everything in the world is under their control, and it is impossible to get out of it. So if there is something wrong, it must be that the outside world is wrong, not that they are wrong. Or there are treacherous villains, as long as these treacherous villains are eliminated, things will definitely get back on track.
Now this command is the product of this ideology. Wang Desheng's superiors, under the impetus of several gentry, pushed Wang Desheng into an extremely embarrassing situation!
And the local civil service is also one of the drivers of this problem. The reason is that the last time Liu Pei broke through the camp of the sailors, under the pen of those civil officials, a defeat turned into a victory. It has created a kind of red-eyed dragon king for the bigwigs of the imperial court.
If it hadn't been for this great victory, this order would have been given. It's just that the above will also ask more about the situation below, and it won't be smashed with a direct order like this!
Wang Desheng naturally didn't want to take this kind of task of sending him to death. So he hurried to the various yamen. Not surprisingly, he ate all the soup!
Who in this part of Fujian doesn't know what's really going on on the sea? Only those who are far from the sea will give orders indiscriminately. People at all levels of the yamen did not want to be planted in this mud pit, so they naturally refused Wang Desheng's request for help.
Therefore, Wang Desheng ran to the yamen for more than ten days, but he did not get a favorable answer. In order to shirk their responsibilities, the yamen at all levels actively helped him prepare grain and grass materials and replenish craftsmen, as if they were afraid that he would not be able to do it without sending him to death!
In the evening, Wang Desheng, who had been waiting for a little day in the governor's yamen, returned home with a sad face. Not long after he sat down, and before he had finished drinking the tea in his cup, the butler came to report that several of his officers had asked to see him.