Chapter 168: The Persian Pirates Suddenly Rise
The matter of the cable telegraph also let the people of the Great Song Dynasty know. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Most people listen to this as an anecdote, but when the arquebus military law can control the Imperial Arquebus saw this report, he suddenly stood up, how can this thing only be used in the trading house?! It can be used in military operations!!
At that time, he reported it to Zhao Yu, an official of the Great Song Dynasty, and pointed out the usage of this object.
Although Zhao Yu, the official of the Great Song Dynasty, was in poor health at this time and was slightly ill, he still saw the usefulness at a glance.
He thought that if I sat in the middle of the army and gave an order, of course the army in the distance would get the news in an instant, and it would be very wonderful!
No one doubts whether this is true or not, because what is said in the "Liuqiu Times" is basically true.
This incident made Zhao Yu, the official of the Great Song Dynasty, feel much better, and he was even happier than hearing that Liuqiu Island had offered more crystal balls.
He became excited, sweated a little, and suddenly felt better.
He hurriedly ordered someone to summon the commander of Fa Ke, he hadn't been to the imperial camp for many days, and called Fa Ke to come in, just so he could ask about it.
Seeing that the official family looked good, Fa Ke was greatly comforted in his heart, so he chatted with the official family carefully.
Of course, neither of them could figure out why this thing could transmit information thousands of miles away in an instant, but judging from the description of the "Liuqiu Times", it was really magical.
Zhao Yu, an official of the Great Song Dynasty, picked up a copy of "Liuqiu Times" from the dragon case, which was written with the introduction of cable telegraphs.
The question of the three views in the "Liuqiu Times" is very much in line with the appetite of the Great Song government, because there is often a comprehensive exposure of the crimes of the Tatar bandit group------ and the entire Great Song Dynasty basically cannot find anyone who does not hate the Tatars, so openly and secretly, let it be published casually.
Even the officials of the Great Song Dynasty must see it in every issue, but I can think of those main officials in the court.
The official of the Great Song Dynasty said: "It says that the main difficulty is in the training of newspaper collectors, what do you think? ”
Fa Ke sat on the brocade pier at this time, and returned with his hands: "Official, I am a great Song Dynasty with a lot of people, and it is easy to choose some spiritual people, so it is better to send a team of people to study from them------"
The official family of the Great Song Dynasty nodded, he thought exactly so, and the two talked about the military situation of the arquebus army in front of the imperial palace.
The results of the "Volunteer Army" sent to Shandong Road by the Imperial Arquebus Army were very good, and in the words of the commander, a group of men and horses were transferred back, and it could be immediately seen that they were different from ordinary soldiers, and they were obviously much higher in terms of momentum and combat ability!
Continue to send out the "Volunteer Army"!
This is the consensus of the two monarchs and ministers.
Zhao Yu, an official of the Great Song Dynasty, took out another copy of "Liuqiu Times", pointed to the second message on the front page and said:
"What do you think about this?"
To tell the truth, Zhao Yu, an official of the Great Song Dynasty, is still a little dissatisfied in his heart, he may not have known anything about the outside in the palace before, so he can only listen to the reports of the ministers.
However, now it was different, and he could learn from the Liuqiu Times about things that he couldn't have known before.
For example, the Liuqiu Navy actually annihilated twenty-seven large sea ships of Persian pirates at one time in the waters of the Tianzhu region!
They even found the lair of those pirates and captured countless gold and silver treasures------ the sea routes there were suddenly cleared and restored to the previous peace, which is said to be comparable to the tranquility of the coastal areas of the Great Song Dynasty!
Pirates are arguably one of the oldest criminal professions of mankind.
The earliest record of piracy was in 1350 BC, which was recorded on a clay inscription.
Merchants from the Greek region were occasionally attacked by pirates when they traded in Mediterranean ports such as Phoenicia and Anatolia.
By the time of the ancient Romans, piracy in the Eastern Mediterranean was rampant.
The Roman military commander Pompeii had to build a fleet specifically against pirates.
Yuri, who once lost ground? Caesar was even captured by pirates, after which he retaliated brutally by mobilizing his fleet to destroy the pirates' lair in Falmakuz.
However, the Roman Senate was reluctant to suppress pirates, who had a stake in their existence: they could supply thousands of slaves and disrupt the grain trade so that they could drive up prices and profit from it.
During the Roman period and before, piracy was confined to the Mediterranean, but in the Middle Ages, it began to prevail in Northern Europe.
The Middle Ages was the period of the development of piracy, and it was also the period of Viking's fame.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles records an attack in 787 BC:
Three Viking ships attacked Lindisfan's Abbey off the coast of England, where they "brutally plundered everything, dug up altars and looted all the treasures of this sacred church".
Between 800 and 1100 AD, pirates became an important social role in Northern Europe.
The ancestors of the Danes, like the Norwegians and Swedes, fought on the shores of Europe and earned the so-called "Vikings".
In that world, when archaeologists unearthed a pirate tomb in Sweden, they found silver coins from Spain, Egypt, Syria, Baghdad, and the city of Tashkent in Central Asia.
He was accompanied by axes, spears and daggers, several knives, a shield, and a belt buckle.
Piracy has also begun to appear along the southeastern coast of Asia, in the Arabian Sea and in the Persian Gulf.
In fact, there were pirates long before that.
As early as 786 A.D. of the Tang Dynasty, Da Shi and Persian pirates besieged the city of Guangzhou, and stabbed Swayley to see that he had passed the city, and the pirates plundered the warehouse, burned the house, and then floated away.
During this period, with the connivance of some ports of the Ilkhanate, and the Ilkhanate also converted some of its own navy into pirates, they raided the fledgling sea routes, causing a lot of damage for a while.
Some lone sea ships, or the Great Song Dynasty merchant caravans that set off on their own in order to save escort costs, were kidnapped by them one after another and suffered heavy losses.
These Persian pirates who suddenly appeared were extremely greedy, and they did not let go of ships, goods and people, and in some Persian areas, there was even a phenomenon that the Great Song people were sold as slaves!
But the caravans of the brigades, or the caravans that traveled with the ships of the sea, had not suffered much damage for the time being.
The horror of the Flowing Sea Ship also surprised the opponents, who had been beaten by the roaring things above when they attacked before!
In particular, a spherical thing scared them the most, if it hit the side of the Persian pirates, it would often penetrate the board of the ship, and beat the long-oared slaves inside into flesh and blood, so that their original ability to accelerate quickly over short distances was suddenly reduced------ and then a more violent blow was ushered in, until the ship sank and the people were destroyed, and the pirates floating on the surface of the sea did not let go, and they were all captured.
Among the rising Persian pirates, everyone knows that the ships with two red square-shaped flags have the most valuable possessions, but they are also the least to be provoked, attacking them will cause heavy casualties, and if the opponent ships are more numerous, the pirates will be wiped out!
Zhao Yu, an official of the Great Song Dynasty, was a person who liked to make contributions, and when he heard that the Fa Ke system also paid attention to the news, he was overjoyed and said: "Prosperous on the waves, famous thousands of miles away, unprecedented in ancient times!" If you have a heart, what can you do?! ”
The Fa Ke system was just about to say something, and someone came to report, and Pingzhang Jia seemed to ask to see him. (To be continued.) )