Chapter 240: Another Harvest
Captain Guo Beyu and Squadron Leader Zhang Depei carried enough of the materials they needed, and after reorganizing the team, they left the beggar port cleanly. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
They reduced the beggar's shipyard to ashes, left the beggar's city with nothing to lose in its treasury, but did not cause the common people to suffer a bit...... On the contrary, the ordinary people who are close to them have gained several benefits.
Of course, they are the kind of Tatar robbers.
As they were leaving, they released the magistrate of the beggar city, and no one knew what had been agreed between them, except for the two highest governors of the Tempus Guard and the Persian merchant.
At the same time, no one else knew what the big merchants in the city had secretly made with the Persian merchant...... However, the magistrates and the big businessmen understood each other that they were secretly related to distant seekers.
When the fleet of the Admiralty of the Roger Guard disappeared out of the begging harbor, the magistrate summoned the great merchants of the land, and they ate at the governor's house from noon until midnight, and they were not allowed to go near them even if they were discussing important matters...... No one but themselves knew what they had discussed.
When the Roukkers left the city, they took with them the soldiers they had captured...... In this way, the magistrate was free to fabricate the reasons and circumstances for the fall of the beggar city and the hanging of the Tatars.
It is clear that the Great Song maritime merchants invited the Liuqiu Navy to avenge the hijacking of their ships, and it was the whistleblowing of the Persian naval captives and the collusion between the Great Song slaves and the Liuqiu Navy inside and outside the Liuqiu Navy that caused such a result...... It's the enemy who is too cunning, not our incompetence.
In short, it was the Persian navy that posed as pirates to cause this...... As it turned out, their rhetoric was indeed useful, and their superiors did not even blame the city for it!
It was only later that they realized that by that time the Tatars had no time to take care of themselves.
The regime dominated by the bandit group has always been repressive internally, and if they suddenly show tolerance, it is a prelude to their imminent collapse!
Of course, that's all for later.
In fact, the two top officers of the Admiralty of the Wandering Guard were still at odds before leaving.
Captain Guo Beyu proposed to ask the soldiers to be fast and immediately go to attack Wuman Port!
His reason was that Umangang was a thousand miles away from the begging port, and they might not soon receive the news that the beggar port had been invaded and occupied, and even if they did, they would not necessarily think that they would be attacked immediately!
An attack at sea is always unguardable!
Captain Guo Beyu's reasons are reasonable...... The transmission speed of military intelligence in this time and space is terrifyingly slow, and it is extremely normal to calculate it in days.
Besides, since the port of Qisu has been invaded and occupied, there is no reason why such military information must be transmitted to the port of Uman, which is 500 kilometers west of the port and 500 kilometers away on the coast.
In the past few days that they have occupied the port of begging, it is difficult to control the land route, and on the sea route, they dare to guarantee that only the sea ships that enter the port without knowing the situation in advance will never leave the harbor, and not even a small boat will leave!
If someone could ride a war horse at high speed, the news would really reach the port of Uman...... But so what?!
Can they resist the onslaught of the Liuqiu warship?!
Squadron Leader Zhang Depei looked at the map of the Wuman area and thought for a long time, and said, "Why are we so anxious...... If our lord had been in a hurry, he would have ordered us to enter the Bohai Bay and land along the Dagu River, and he would have been able to take the Tatar bandit group by surprise! ”
Since their lords had given them more accurate maps and charts, they often designed war on them...... The merits of the Navy are revealed, they are more suitable for talking on paper.
They once pointed to the Bohai Bay marked by Zhang Guoan, the owner of the island, and imagined a plan for naval operations...... But often their own people deny their own people, their "legs" at sea are long enough to attack any point on the coast of the mainland, but after going ashore, the legs are lame, and they cannot go too far!
Of course, they all know that the Great Song Dynasty took advantage of the Li Tan Rebellion in Shandong to land in the Binzhou area of northern Shandong, and then blindly went all the way north, only to be defeated by the Tatar bandits relying on cavalry, the vanguard team was wiped out, and the rear army escaped from the battlefield by relying on warships...... They will never make such a mistake again, the navy is suitable for surprise attacks, but it cannot be used for adventure!
Therefore, the island lord of Zhang Guoan would rather entrench himself in the Shandong region, and would rather throw them thousands of miles away to clean up the battlefield of the Golden Sea Route, rather than use them to surprise the Tatar bandit forces in the north...... The reason here, everyone knows!
Captain Guo Beyu's mind calmed down a little, and he patiently listened to Squadron Leader Zhang Depei.
Squadron Leader Zhang Depei said slowly.
"We looked into the situation there beforehand...... Their situation is not quite the same as in the begging areas......"
Although the Uman region is similar to the beggar area, there are some differences.
It was one of the emerging agricultural regions of the Ilkhanate...... After Abaha Khan succeeded to the throne, except for the conflict with the fraternal Golden Horde in Transcaucasia, and a certain amount of heavy defense in the Syrilai region, the entire Persian region has been completely subjugated.
During this period, Abha Khan reused his ministers and began to develop agricultural production.
They encouraged farmers to reclaim wasteland tax-free for the first year, and one-third, one-half, or two-thirds of the second year, depending on the distance of the canals and the difficulty of reclamation. A portion of the tax is allowed to be allocated for the purchase of cattle, seeds and tools for distribution to those who are unable to farm.
In order to restore the vast tracts of farmland that had been barren by the war, they decreed that anyone who could trim and cultivate the farmland that had been barren would receive property rights, which could be passed down from generation to generation, with the right to transfer; Preferential treatment in tax amounts.
Even the bandit groups understood that the recognition of private property rights would arouse the peasantry's motivation to produce.
In those years, agriculture was further restored, the peasants' livelihood was guaranteed, and tax revenues increased considerably.
The Uman River in this time and space is abundant in water, and the whole area is flat, which is conducive to the reclamation of aqueducts to increase arable land.
Even the bandit groups recognized private property rights, and the peasants in that region were very motivated to produce, which soon made it one of the agricultural regions of the Ilkhanate.
Captain Guo Beyu looked at the chart again, he had actually considered these situations in advance.
He then took it and said, "They have about 500 infantry and 300 cavalry there...... Do you think these forces will be able to stop our surprise attack? ”
"Definitely not! But why don't we do it another way......"
"Hehe, no matter which method it is, it's not as good as using the method of encroaching on the beggar to lose the port!"
Urman Harbor is also a source of pearls, and it is famous for its carpets and other wool products.
It also produces a bezoar, which is rumored to be an unparalleled antidote on this plane, and is said to be able to remove all kinds of poisons from the body.
Therefore, compared to the begging port, the commerce there is more prosperous, and there should be more supplies in the public treasury!
But Squadron Leader Zhang Depei still said slowly: "Now it seems that how much we have gained should not be measured only by money......
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