In the past, the Datang Navy was unable to deploy a large number of warships to suppress pirates because of other heavy tasks, of course, this is also related to the fact that the navy does not pay much attention to it.

Some time ago, the top brass of the Navy actively discussed with the top brass of the Army and tried to implement the tactic of jumping point, the simple tactic is that the Army advances head-on, while the Navy carries the Marine Corps or Army units to carry out landing operations on the rear coastline of the Ming Army.

Although there could not be too many logged troops, as long as a few thousand people were put into the rear of the Ming army, it was enough to have a great impact on the battle situation.

Of course, it makes sense to transport supplies for the army through the navy.

The above-mentioned strategy related to the Northern Expedition is the focus of the Datang Navy, as long as the pirates, the Datang Navy does not pay too much attention to it, anyway, they will escort the large-scale fleet, and those pirates give them a hundred dares and do not have the courage to attack the fleet escorted by naval warships.

However, they ignored one point before, Li Xuan wanted not only the safety of a large-scale fleet, but also the safety of the entire coastal sea, so that a large number of merchant ships could come and go safely, so as to better stimulate the development of maritime trade.

The security of trade at sea must be guaranteed!

If we can't even guarantee the safety of the sea at our doorstep now, how can we talk about going abroad and trading farther away in the future, we can't always be a simple supplier of goods, sitting at home and waiting for foreign maritime merchants to come to the door.

Your own merchant fleet is always going to go out!

In just a few days, the First Fleet has wiped out several small-scale pirate strongholds, and it has gained a lot!

Because after capturing these pirates' nests, the Datang Navy will remove all kinds of belongings in the nests, ships and loot on the spot, and at the same time, in order to avoid the port being reused by later pirates, the port will be completely burned!

As for the pirate captives who survived, they were all taken back to the ports and then dried!

In this process, some people say that they are not Japanese coles, they are Chinese people, great good people, don't kill them or anything like that, and they still speak authentic official dialect or provincial accents, in this regard, the officers and men of the Tang Navy often give them a bayonet on the spot!

As a Chinese, robbing the Chinese, the crime is one more degree!

Regardless of whether it is a real pirate or a fake pirate, in fact, it makes no difference to the Tang Navy, as long as it is a pirate, it should be damned!

The operation to clear the pirates was very smooth in the first few days, and those pirates were caught off guard, and several strongholds were eliminated by the Tang Navy.

But those pirates won't sit still!

Chen Sipan, a great pirate who has been active in the waters of Zhejiang and whose strength is no smaller than Wang Zhi's, has even teamed up with other pirates such as Lu Qi and Shen Jiu, bringing together more than 100 ships to try to resist.

And this kind of situation, after being known by another big pirate Wang Zhi, was ridiculed by Wang Zhi: "These two goods are simply impatient to try to confront the Tang Army head-on!" ”

And the subordinates on the side asked him: "Big boss, if this continues, I'm afraid there will be no place for us in this Zhoushan, if we don't join forces with Chen Sipan, what should we do later?" ”

Wang Zhidao: "This Zhoushan can't stay anymore, give the order to go down, gather the boats, and let's go south!" ”

"Go south, where to go?"

Wang Zhidao: "Let's go to Ryukyu to settle down first, but I think this Ryukyu is probably not able to stay, let's go directly to Fusang, we can't afford to provoke this Tang army, but Fusang is chaotic, but no one can control us!" ”

"Go to Fuso, this is a solution!"

The two major pirates in the waters of Zhejiang, Wang Zhi saw that the Tang army was fierce, and after putting on the appearance that no matter which pirate was, they were all going to be killed cleanly, he simply smeared oil on the soles of his feet, and directly crossed the sea east with his subordinates and dozens of ships, ready to go to Fusang.

However, Chen Sipan and others did not give up, when pirates had such a promising job, he didn't want to change careers, and Zhejiang was a prosperous place in the south of the Yangtze River, and he had gained a lot from looting, so he didn't want to change places, so he was ready to unite with other pirates to a hard pit.

He didn't believe it, although the warships of the Tang Army were powerful, there were only a dozen in total, and the ships after his union were more than 100 and tens of thousands of pirates1

Chen Sipan was confident that the joint pirates were ready to fight, and after this news was learned by the Datang Navy, they were also overjoyed, and the First Fleet even did not continue to sweep and attack in order to avoid startling the snakes, but called the Second Fleet that was sweeping in Penghu and Dayuan Island.

So, when the two fleets of the Tang Navy converged, they began to continue to sweep in the waters of Zhoushan, and then went straight to Chen Sipan's lair.

On 28 July, more than 60 ships of the Datang Navy launched a large-scale sweep in the waters of Zhoushan, and on the fourth day of August, part of the main fleets of the two sides encountered and a large-scale naval battle broke out.

In this battle, Chen Sipan's fleet lost more than half, and half of them were sunk and captured on the spot, and the rest fled one after another.

In this naval battle, the Datang Navy also completely destroyed the last vestige of confidence in the pirates' stubborn resistance, so they began to break into pieces, some of them continued to hide and continue to plunder, and some of them went south to Dayuan Island, Fujian and other sea areas, and some also crossed east to Fusang.

What is interesting is that when Chen Sipan led the remnants of his army to Fusang eastward, he was attacked by Wang Zhi, and the well-prepared Wang Zhi was defeated by Chen Sipan's remnants in one breath, and then annexed them, and then Wang Zhi specially sent people to send Chen Sipan's head to the Tang Navy.

However, the Lu Qisuo who fled to Dayuan Island and Fujian waters had a big order, because the second fleet had gone north, so their southward journey was quite smooth, first ran to Penghu, but then was caught up by the Datang Navy that followed, and as a result, he continued to flee east to several strongholds on Dayuan Island in a panic, but the fleet of the Datang Navy was in hot pursuit, and this Dayuan Island could not stay, so he gritted his teeth and ran directly to the waters of Southeast Asia with a large number of pirates.

It is rumored that when Lu Qi fled south, he also easily annexed the remnants of Shen Jiu and some pirate gangs in Fujian waters, and his strength was not weakened, but he had more ships and more people than before.

After running to Southeast Asia, he first went to Luzon to settle down, and then fought a few more with the Spanish and Franco-mans who tried to colonize Luzon.

After the large-scale pirates in the waters of Zhoushan and Dayuan Island were cleared, the main force of the navy began to return to the division, but in order to prevent the resurgence of piracy, the Datang Navy still left some warships to carry out daily patrols in the above-mentioned sea areas, and continued to clean up the remaining fragmentary pirates.

However, the main warships have already returned to defend the estuaries of the Pearl River and the Yangtze River.

After all, these two places are important areas, and the main forces of the navy are not there for a long time, and it is easy for the enemy to take advantage of the opportunity to attack.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of the navy to expel a large number of pirates, Li Xuan officially issued an order to set up an administrative organization on Dayuan Island and establish the Dayuan Mansion, which was under the jurisdiction of the Fujian political envoy, and the government governed Penghu County, Keelung County, Dongning County, and Keelung County.

And mobilize Fujian and other coastal provinces to move more landless people to Dayuan Island for reclamation, and give a very preferential policy: but anyone who goes to Dayuan Island for reclamation, the road fee is free, and the official also provides free farm tools and seeds after arrival, and each person can get ten acres of land for free, and five exemptions and five reductions, with a tax reduction period of up to ten years.

In order to enrich the local population and turn Dayuan Island into the latest place of exile, all criminals who have committed crimes and are exiled will be given priority to exile to Dayuan Island.

Nowadays, the Tang Dynasty often exiled criminals to remote places in Qiongzhou, Guizhou, and Yunnan, although the purpose was to punish, but it was also very important to enrich the local population.

Otherwise, it will be difficult for the population to grow, these places are now remote areas, and there is a lot of miasma, how long can you live here, it depends on the will of God, a hundred people moved to the reclamation, and the remaining half of the people within five years are a high probability, so the vast majority of people are unwilling to take the initiative to go.

Although the historical significance of setting up the Dayuan Mansion and officially bringing this place that has been outside the Central Dynasty of China into its rule is significant, it is actually not much positive for the current Tang Dynasty.

Dayuan Island is not a good place in these years, the miasma is very serious, and there are no special products or the like, it is very difficult to develop, otherwise, the Chinese dynasties of the past dynasties will not turn a blind eye to the Dayuan Island close to home.

But Li Xuan also knows that the geographical location of Dayuan Island is very important, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is to hold the central coast of China, not to mention anything else, a Dayuan Strait (Taiwan Strait) is important enough.

With Dayuan Island as a springboard, it is also more convenient to go south to Luzon Island, and for Li Xuan, who has long been regarded as a backyard by Luzon Island and other Southeast Asian islands, it is even more important to control Dayuan Island.

After setting up the Dayuan Mansion, the follow-up operation of Dayuan Island basically doesn't have to worry about Li Xuan, anyway, Li Xuan didn't expect to be able to develop Dayuan Island in a short time, as long as Dayuan Island can be used as a base for the navy to go out, then it is enough.

Throughout July and even August, Li Xuan's energy was focused on preparing for the Northern Expedition and stabilizing Jiangnan.

Needless to say, preparing for the Northern Expedition is the top priority of the Tang Dynasty!

And stabilizing Jiangnan and even other provinces is also an extremely important matter, the prosperous Jiangnan is the core area of the current Tang Dynasty, not to mention the rest, as long as Jiangnan is managed well, the tax of tens of millions of silver income is enough for Li Xuan to spend a lot of time for this.

And after being busy for a few months, Li Xuan suddenly found that he had not seen Jinling City well after coming to Jinling City for so long, especially Qinhuai River, and he had never been to it once.

Ma Dan, this is not good, what is the purpose of being tired and tired, but in order to drink the Qinhuai River, stepping on the land of Jinling City is so tired that he is like a dog to train the army to deal with the government, and now Jinling is here, but the Qinhuai River has not been there, this is simply intolerable!

However, from some of the impeachment excerpts, he already knew that many officials had visited the Qinhuai River many times.

These courtiers are simply lawless, and they dare not take me with them when they swim in the Qinhuai River!