Recently, he Yusheng has cast a net all over the sea, according to the water area, a large number of warships have been released to search for those merchant ships from the north, and the local merchant ships in Fujian are even more than one want to run, after paying the peace certificate, there is a ship all the way to Japan or to the South China Sea route, to the sea surface off the coast of Guangdong, it is not a matter of Yusheng, there is Liu Xiang's territory. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Due to the rules of doing things with Yusheng, the money is really done, and the pirates are not soft, and the route from Fujian and Zhejiang to Japan has become very safe recently, except for natural disasters, the old pirate attacks have almost disappeared, and the situation of paying silver for merchant ships to receive peace has been very common, and the mood of being robbed at the beginning has also changed to the feeling of paying taxes to the government, but it is difficult to give up the good money, of course, there are still guys who do not open their eyes and do not take the initiative to pay...... Of course, they will not be polite to these people and Yusheng, in addition to fighting pirates, the warships released everywhere will also be severely punished if they are caught and tried to evade the routes, Li Pingzhi and Zhang Xuwen are important errands in the north this time, but since they met on the way, of course, they will never let go.

Seeing that the lucky ship still wanted to seize the wind and escape, the Zhenyu here also fired an unceremonious shot.

In the midst of the fire and the sound of cannonballs, the cannonballs whistled within a hundred paces in front of Fujian, and the ship suddenly lowered its sails in fright.

Here again, a four-pulp sentinel boat dinghy was put over, and the owner of the opposite boat was transported.

It was not until the shipowner said with a sad face that he was willing to pay an extra 1,000 taels of peace as a fine and as a penalty for shells, and then Li Pingzhi instructed: "In this case, let this proprietor go." ”

The Zhenyu is the capital ship, and the captain is Zheng Shaolai, who is the oldest in qualifications, and even Zheng Zhilong has no way to compete with him for this position, Zheng Shaolai smiled at the moment: "Since Mr. Li is talking, this proprietor, hurry back to the ship, and then send someone to pay the silver." ”

The owner of the ship was frightened into a cold sweat, and he still bowed and thanked him, Zhang Xuwen was a little blind, feeling that his group was almost like pirates, and Wen Yan comforted him at the moment: "Don't worry, the owner of the ship, I really say that we sail at sea every day, and we fight pirates when we encounter them, and the cost is not small." And the soldiers are in danger, once the soldiers are injured, the pension or something is also very heavy, the money, of course, everyone has to pay together, we will contribute, the shipowners and cargo owners will pay, is this the truth? ”

"Exactly, exactly." The owner wiped the sweat from his face and agreed.

"When we go to sea in the future," Zhang Xuwen added, "there is no need to hire more guards, with us constantly patrolling the sea, piracy is almost extinct." Serious merchant ships do not dare to do those things that are deliberately used to rob other merchant ships, if you find out about the ship's owner, you can write it down and report it to our people, and we will definitely be the masters of the good merchants. ”

This was a very convincing remark, and the owner's fear and anger were greatly dissipated, and after repeated thanks, he left, and after a few moments four thousand taels of silver were taken from the opposite ship and brought back to the great ship.

Zheng Shaolai said to Li Ping: "The four thousand have not been accounted for, what should I do?" ”

"Put it in the silver cabin." Li Pingzhi said: "There is too much silver on the side of the military department, we send a little more, they will have less, and I will explain the accounts to the Finance Bureau of the Military Division after I go back, and I will make the accounts." ”

Zheng Shaolai nodded yes and arranged for someone to open the silver warehouse below the deck.

Many people came to see the excitement, and of course everyone liked silver, especially the large amount of silver taels beyond people's imagination.

Greed is also a lot of people, but they didn't think of the idea of beating these silvers to the death, every penny of silver is recorded, the military division has the financial bureau to manage the accounts, the internal intelligence division of the people to check the accounts, the military justice division of the people to supervise, not to mention the people below, even Chang Wei or Zhang Xuwen, Jiang Kui, as well as the military high-level, the captains of the warship, don't think about the idea of hitting these silver.

The lid of the silver warehouse opened, and everyone unsurprisingly let out an exclamation.

Zhang Xuwen and Li Pingzhi were both attracted, the cabin was renovated, the original several gun emplacements were canceled, divided into an independent space, and the original small cargo hold was also connected together, there was no other use, only a door was left, which was full of silver.

Taiwan's own melting of fifty taels of silver ingots, full of color, good color, each ingot of silver has a frost-like rough edge, the military department is mainly already using silver coins, but the outside still has to use silver, Taiwan knows that the silver here is tight, simply very considerate to melt into a large ingot silver two, some loss is also Taiwan's own responsibility.

Everyone looked at it, and the cabin was full of white and dazzling big ingots and silver taels, stacked layer by layer, and the silver light was brilliant, which was really intoxicating.

Even Zhang Xuwen, who has never taken wealth to heart, couldn't help but look at it twice at this time.

It is not for nothing that gold and silver can become money in circulation for thousands of years......

"These four thousand taels are also fifty-one ingots of silver." Li Pingzhi looked indifferent on the contrary, watching the people put four thousand taels into the cabin, he turned his head and smiled at Zhang Xuwen: "This is convenient, otherwise the other side will definitely say that we have no eyes, what are we doing when we come out with a pile of bits and pieces." ”

"Hmm." Zhang Xuwen nodded and said: "There are 600,000 in the cabin, and I have already informed the military department through the post that it is estimated that when we arrive in Tianjin, there should be a convoy to pick us up." ”

Li Pingyi said with a thoughtful look on his face: "There are a lot of silver taels, and the military department estimates that they will send people from the military intelligence department to act as guards, rather than ordinary dart masters." ”

600,000 taels of silver, even if it is a four-wheeled car with Yusheng, there must be more than a dozen, and there must be a large number of escorts, Daming sometimes sends out treasury silver, all of which mobilize the official forbidden army as an escort, no matter what, transporting 600,000 taels out at a time is really a rare big deal.

Li Pingzhi and Zhang Xuwen mentioned the matter of the convoy and the guards, of course, they were not worried about the safety of the military department, but they were really arrogant and showing off, and his face was clearly four words: come and praise me!

Zhang Xuwen took a breath and said helplessly: "Chang Zhengshi has already asked for credit for you, it is estimated that you have also arrived at the deputy director of the marching department, you are only less than twenty years old, the speed of such a promotion is enough to be demonic, it is not your smart mind, this peaceful idea, we have received more than 600,000 in a few months, to be honest, I don't dare to think of this number......

Li Pingyi's face was smug, and he raised his eyebrows and laughed.

The idea of peace is of course the greatest pride of Li Pingzhi's life, and he began to collect it in April, and he collected 600,000 taels of silver in three months!

There is so much silver, the main reason is that the Fujian sailors and the Dutch are trapped in Penghu and cannot move, and the maritime trade route is almost monopolized by the Yusheng family, the Li family did not receive this silver, of course, and Yusheng cannot receive the Li family's head, but from the north to Fujian and Zhejiang, the sea ships will inevitably pass through the Taiwan Strait to pay the silver to the Hutchison to receive peace, and this year, unless it is from the coast of Guangdong, how many sea ships can not pass through Fujian and Taiwan?

Zheng Zhilong has a net worth of tens of millions in more than ten years, and has raised more than 100,000 subordinates, and has built a huge fleet of hundreds of warships, and there is no way to fight the Dutch, where did this money come from? In addition to the trade routes to Japan, it was the Zheng family's fleet that collected protection fees at sea!

He Yusheng's execution is a hundred times stronger than Zheng Zhilong's group of pirates, and these months were originally the most prosperous period of maritime trade, and the trade volume will be greatly reduced in autumn and winter, and the income will of course be greatly reduced at that time.

However, it is estimated that no matter how much it is reduced, it will still be able to earn hundreds of thousands of dollars in the future, because the military department is short of silver, and Taiwan has trade profits to intercept and support it, and it is estimated that most of the silver will still be sent to Tianjin and handed over to the military department.

Don't talk about this, Chang Wei is of course the happiest and most excited one, when the Zhenyuwei transporting the silver set off, Chang Wei personally set up a banquet for Zhang Xuwen, Li Pingzhi and Zheng Shaolai and other people on the ship to see them off, the wine table was full of seafood, Chang Wei frequently persuaded him to drink, and he also drank a drunk!

It's no wonder Chang Wei, in the past two years, his pressure has been too great!

"I'll go to ......Tianjin in a few days," Zhang Xuwen said to Li Ping: "I'll personally report to Li Zhuang's military division, and you will go to Phi Dao to contact the next batch of big trees for the time to get on the ship, and after everything is done, we will leave together, and my time is estimated to be about ten days to go back and forth." ”

"Ten days?" Li Pingzhi: "It's rare to go back, don't you go to Puzhou to see?" ”

"My parents are in good health, and my grandfather has moved to live in Lizhuang, and my family is already in Qingcheng." Zhang Xuwen smiled: "What are you going to do in Puzhou?" ”

Li Pingzhi didn't say anything, he was about to become a high-level member of the marching division, and he was going to move his family to Qingcheng as usual, and he only woke up a little at this time, and in a short period of time, everyone's lives have undergone earth-shaking changes.

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Six days later, the ship arrived at the port of Tianjin.

In the offshore area, two more merchant ships that had just been launched were encountered, but this time the Zhenyuwei did not have much trouble, but only watched the two big fish swim away.

"Can't run away from them." Zheng Shaolai tugged at his beard with some displeasure and said, "When you get to the south, you have to hold them back." ”

Zhang Xuwen said with a smile: "You don't take people to run over once, and take the initiative to buy a peace certificate from us?" ”

"That's just as well." Zheng Shaolai immediately smiled.

Li Pingzhi didn't speak, he looked at the port very nervously, there were more than a dozen ships moored in the port, this scale is simply incomparable with Zhangzhou and other places, and the trade ports such as Hehehu are far away, but in the north of the Ming Dynasty, Tianjin is already a quite influential port, the radiation is not weak, the imperial court in Longqing had planned to change the river to the sea, Tianjin is also the terminal from the Yangtze River to the north, if the change of Cao Yun was successful at that time, Tianjin Port is estimated to be not so deserted.

However, Li Pingzhi did not pay attention to the few poor ships in the port, but looked for something else.

Soon he had a harvest, and in the harbor area, it was very obvious that there were nearly forty horse-drawn carriages parked, large black streamlined carriages, and the coachmen were already waiting on the four-horse carts, and more than a hundred people were standing beside the carriages and on the trestle bridge, obviously waiting for the ships to dock.

"Oh my God." Li Pingzhi couldn't help but scream, and the reserved and calm image he had always maintained was completely destroyed in an instant.

Zhang Xuwen also saw it, his face was pale, and he and Li Pingzhi looked at each other.

After half a ring, Li Pingzhi finally shouted again: "How short of money is the military division!" ”