Section 244 Delivery of Telegrams
The Zheng family finally admitted it.
The Zheng family, which originated in Liuluo Bay, still has a relatively strong ability to collect intelligence in the entire Zhangzhou Bay area.
As time passed, when they saw the scene of the former Li Kuiqi gang being chased and killed by the officials and soldiers, the little abacus that remained could not be played - the mediocre leader did not have the ability to make the demoralized subordinates go to give away people's heads. As a result, the Zheng family's gang, which totaled 3,000 people, all surrendered before the deadline reached at noon the next day.
After Liu Zhe got the money, food, and soldier books that symbolized complete surrender, he didn't embarrass the few disgraced people in front of him. 300,000 taels of silver, 3,000 soldiers and horses with foreign surnames, these tributes are in line with the estimation of the Zheng family's family background by the crossing forces. In this way, the Zheng family's vitality was greatly damaged, their minions were lost, and they had degenerated into an ordinary maritime businessman, and their grade was no longer qualified to let Liu Zhe pay attention to it.
After sending these masters away, Liu Zhe transferred the sail fortune boat under his command on the spot, and still used the old method of pooling ships, selected 20 of the more than 130 ships seized by the Zheng family to load people, and then sent them to the other side of the strait.
There's no way around it. Kinmen's reception capacity is really limited, and there is a shortage of food, fresh water and medicine. The big guy's side is different, because of the perennial reception of foreign population, the capacity over there is extremely strong; Even if it is a fleet of 10,000 people, it can ensure that everyone is washed and assigned beds in the new dormitory within 48 hours, so Liu Zhe is now sending people on the road anytime and anywhere.
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With the last organized group of men and horses in Zhangzhou Bay being swallowed up by the crossing people, this anti-bandit operation has officially come to an end. At the same time, a delegation of captives, including Li Kuiqi, was also placed on the Youguang and prepared to go to Fuzhou to report the good news.
Here's a hiccup. The Arimitsu, which was about to depart, suddenly received an urgent telegram from Dayuan: The weather is not beautiful, and the second strong typhoon of 1628, which was named "Mangkhut" by the passing people, is about to pass through Dayuan, so all sailing is suspended on the Kinmen side to prepare for the wind......
Fortunately, the eye of Mangkhut was aimed at Guangdong, so after 48 hours of hiding in Kinmen, Youguang set off for Fuzhou.
After spending a day rushing to the sea off Fuzhou, the Youguang deliberately waited until the moment when the sun was rising before it docked on time on the official wharf outside Fuzhou.
And Lord Xiong, who was fully equipped with a guard of honor, waited at the dock early this time to welcome the soldiers who returned victoriously - at this time, they can no longer pretend to be forced, but they came back with a large amount of merit and political achievements, and they belong to the fortune boy. Yongzheng is so dragged, doesn't he have to lead hundreds of officials to greet General Nian.
Fortunately, the hearts of the traversers are Miami and Hawaii, so they are generally broad-minded. After the fake Cao Chuan got off the boat, not only did he not take charge, but he saluted the old bear in a proper manner.
And Xiong Wencan laughed and grabbed Zhang Dongdong's arm, looking like a gentleman and a minister.
Then came the trick of offering prisoners. Since Li Kuiqi's arrival, more than 20 pirate leaders of all sizes have been escorted off the cabin one after another, and they have been watched and amazed by the surrounding melon-eating crowd.
It's sweetest when you share the fruit.
At noon on the same day, Xiong Wencan cordially met with Cai Shanji and Cao Chuan, the political envoys of Fujian Zuobu, in the Fuya Flower Hall, and held a banquet to wash the dust for the heroes.
The two bigwigs took the opportunity of the banquet to first vaguely coordinate the content and scope of their respective performances in a few words - this is the most important work, and the cake must be reasonably distributed without infighting. After the completion of this major event, the rest are all "small things": for example, the list of bereavement pensions and the list of guarantees that Comrade Cao Chuan came up with.
Both of these lists are recognized by the bigwigs. joke, attacked the enemy camp at night in World War I, and then broke through 30,000 strong enemies in the first battle, and cleansed the atmosphere of the Fujian Sea in one fell swoop; In this kind of battle, I want to know that Cao Chuan and they fought to the death, so the brothers under him must have suffered a lot of casualties...... The pension money government must be released, and the soldiers must not be chilled.
This is the advantage of winning the battle: since Lao Cai, who is in charge of the treasury of a province, can share the credit from the chapter, then spending the money of the treasury is not a matter, anyway, it is the money of the government, who is not to give it?
After talking about the bereavement, there will naturally be a reward: the brothers can't pay for the court, right? It's expensive to destroy these poor pirates! Nothing was seized...... So, the reward of 100,000 taels of silver Lao Cai responded without stumbling.
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The above is a business matter, and the next is a private matter.
Crossing the crowd has now become a supermarket for gift-giving. When everyone crossed over, many people had various VIP cards in their wallets, and later these cards were all confiscated by the big office.
As a kind of letter that cannot be forged, after these cards were registered and recorded, they became the "shopping cards" that Zhang Dongdong gave to the bigwig during the banquet today. After the big guy gets the card, he can send his cronies to the outlets through the public to withdraw money, pick up goods, and handle deposit business afterwards.
For example, after Lao Xiong gets the card today, he can send Xiong Qi to the Haidong Commercial Bank inside the Jinglou Gate tomorrow to shop with the card. There is not only a shopping quota in the card, but also a part of the cash, if the bear is not in a hurry to use the money, he can also deposit the silver in the cabinet to eat interest.
Of course, at present, this kind of business of directional large-value certificates of deposit is limited to Hangzhou and Fuzhou, and other cities have not yet had time to reach out.
So, the reward silver and pension that a certain force had just received were sent out again. Not only did he send out the silver, but he also had to take the equivalent of high-end industrial products here: Lao Xiong naturally would not send Xiong Qi to Haidong Commercial Bank to make soy sauce, and if he wanted to buy it, it should be a kerosene lamp that has become popular all over Fujian and Zhejiang and caused a sensation in the circle of elites in Beijing.
This is the end of the happy spoils sharing meeting.
After receiving the most precious political merits and VIP cards, the bigwigs not only tacitly returned the public funds, but also ignored the trophies that crossed the crowd, and did not seize them.
The seizures are still quite numerous.
Not counting the more than 20,000 pirates who were the most precious in the eyes of the traversing public, even if it was cash, the total value of the goods collected from Li Kuiqi and the Zheng family combined was more than 800,000 taels of silver. In addition, the crossing forces also obtained nearly 700 ships of various types. These Chinese-style boats range from a battered fishing boat to thousands of lucky boats.
Now that these materials have entered the stomachs of the traversers, it is impossible to vomit.
...... After the bigwigs finished distributing the spoils, they went back to write their own chapters that night. And a guerrilla general with a small official rank naturally has to cooperate with the above table to report the good news to the emperor. Of course, only Huang Juren can write the recital at the moment, so he will do it for him.
After this battle, Xiong Wencan and Cao Chuan will be promoted without accident. Referring to the history of the same period, Xiong Wencan can probably raise his own official, the fourth rank of the right capital of the imperial history, by one level, and become the deputy capital of the third grade.