Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Water Camp of the Huang Clan

"Five warships were dispatched to transport silver at one time, and Huang Yongtao was arrogant." He Tengxiao wants to gain a firm foothold in Yunguam Island in the future, and the Huang family's water camp is a potential threat. The Great Zhao Empire was in the area north of the Huai River, except for Shandong and Jinmen, which were set up with water divisions, and the rest of the northern regions did not set up water divisions. What does the Huang family, which is located in the western Liaoning corridor, want to run a water division?

"In the future, we will run Yun Guam, and Huangjiashui will be our biggest threat." Zhang Yuyang was a little worried, although he had not seen the fleet of the Huang family's sailors with his own eyes, He Tengxiao had captured a Huang family's sea falcon ship, and the well-equipped sea falcon ship had already made him staggered. The five warships were also a maritime force to be reckoned with on the Liaodong Peninsula.

"Will the Huang family send the warship out to deter us?" Ling Feng asked.

He Tengxiao was silent, the Huang family opened the water camp and it was indeed likely that it was to deter the Japanese invaders. Thinking that the He family's operation in Shuiying was still blank so far, He Tengxiao sighed lightly in his heart, one day, if the two clans of Huang and He met each other, the He family would be very passive.

The weight of 100,000 taels of silver is more than 7,300 catties, and most of the silver sent by the Huang family is an official-minted silver ingot weighing 50 taels and 100 taels. There is also an inscription of the Foundry Bureau at the bottom of the silver ingot, and engraved with the words fifty taels of silver, one hundred taels of silver, etc.

Of course, not all silver is fifty taels or one hundred taels of official minted silver. The monetary system of the Great Zhao Empire was not mature, and at the beginning of the country, the circulation of gold and silver was also forbidden, and the imperial court issued paper money indiscriminately, and the paper money quickly depreciated to the extent that it was about the same value as the butt paper. The people disregarded the ban of the imperial court on the use of gold and silver in transactions, and at first the imperial court also strictly investigated and dealt with them, but because the private transactions were basically using gold and silver, the major yamen could not find out at all, and the imperial court could only turn a blind eye to this. After Mu Zong, the household department Shangshu Zhuang Jibang reported the annual account of the household department, and for the first time, silver was used as a unit instead of the original grain measurement unit "stone".

These silvers come in various shapes, in addition to ingots, there are also spherical, square, and melon-shaped. There are also many irregular shapes that have one or even multiple corners cut out.

"Tsk." Zhang Yuyang sighed, "The military salary that the imperial court repaid to the Huang family this year is 250,000 taels of silver, and you are a small thousand households, and you extorted 100,000 taels from him at one time, so it would be a shame for you not to be a thief." ”

"What happened to the thieves?" He Tengxiao smiled, not caring at all about Zhang Yuyang's ridicule, "The Huang family's money is clean?" Isn't it just a bandit riding an official skin? ”

Ling Feng had never seen so many silver taels in his life, and the scene of more than 7,000 catties of silver taels piled together was very spectacular. After pouring out all the silver, Ling Feng looked at the silver in a daze for a while.

He Tengxiao picked up a fifty-pound silver ball and shook it, feeling a little heavy, "Sooner or later, the Huang family will find out that we are doing it, and I will go back to the second uncle now to ask for a book to invite him out of Zhenyun Guam." If we want to operate Cloud Guam, we need to do it as soon as possible, when did the sea ice in this vicinity generally melt in previous years? ”

"If memory serves, the sea ice near Gaizhou will begin to melt in early March, and it will not melt until mid-March at the earliest, and at the end of March at the latest." Ling Feng thought for a moment and replied.

"Mid-March...... In the middle of March...... "He Tengxiao murmured for a while, his eyes were very resolute, "After transporting this silver back to Pingshan Fort, we will send people to the island, the Huang family has a water camp, once the sea ice melts, the Huang family can directly threaten Yun Guam Island, we must build Yun Guam Island into a fortress before the sea ice melts!" ”

"But the Pingshan Fort also needs to be rebuilt, and it is also true, how many people does Lord Qianhu plan to transfer to build the fortress of Yunguam Island?" Zhang Yuyang looked at He Tengxiao's resolute eyes, and this decision seemed to be irreversible. It is undoubtedly a fool's dream to build a desert island into a strong fortress when the infrastructure construction is completely blank. It has only been forty or fifty years since the Dazhao Zhenjun abandoned Yunguam, and some of the inherent infrastructure is still there, and if there are enough manpower, material resources, and financial resources to strengthen and repair the original infrastructure, it is not impossible to build Yunguam into a strong fortress in about two months.

"I'll leave this matter to you, the manpower of Pingshan Fort will be transferred to you, I will give you as many craftsmen as you want, I can stop the affairs of Pingshan Fort for a while, but I will see a fortress-like Pingshan Fort in two months!" He Tengxiao stared at Zhang Yuyang's eyes, and He Tengxiao's conditions were beyond Zhang Yuyang's expectations. I didn't expect He Tengxiao to be so determined, for the sake of Yun Guam, he was able to suspend the construction of Pingshan Fort, and there were a few people in the world.

"Subordinates obey!" Zhang Yuyang was infected by He Tengxiao's resoluteness, and held his fists to lead his life. He Tengxiao was able to hand over such an important matter to him to fully trust him, thinking that two months ago in Pingshan Fort, He Tengxiao had held a knife holder around his neck to ask about his life experience, and now He Tengxiao handed over such a major matter of running Yun Guam to him. Zhang Yuyang thought to himself, the world is really impermanent.

"As for the garrison on the island, I will allocate you a reorganized 100 households, and you can also transfer strong men to expand a reorganized 100 households, and use the old pawns to bring the new pawns, and be sure to train the new pawns into elites within a period of time, and I will allocate you as much silver as you want." He Tengxiao rode away in the direction of Gaizhou City.

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"Your Excellency." Twenty miles away from Yunguam Island, the sea was calm and calm, and the ships broke the waves, and where the ships passed, they crashed into one after another water trails. A military attache in uniform of 100 households boarded the building ship of the five warships Gongwei on the Wupeng boat, walked straight into the main cabin, and reported to the military attache in the main cabin, "We have searched for more than 30 miles on Yunguam Island, and no suspicious ships have been found. ”

The military attache in the building boat is Yan Pu, who not only serves as the deputy general of Jinzhou, but also serves as the battalion general of the Huangjiashui battalion. This water camp was established by him with the support of Huang Yongtao and the southern soldiers he brought with him. Looking at the entire Northland, the water camp built by Yan Pu is a first-class elite water camp.

"Haven't found a single ship within a radius of thirty miles?" Yan Pu stood with his hands in his hands, looking out the window at the vast sea.

"Not a single ship was found." Baihu replied.

"Evil, really evil." Yan Pu smiled self-deprecatingly. There were no ships within a radius of 30 miles to meet the Japanese on Yunguan Island, so how could the Japanese on the island transport the silver taels?

"The subordinates will take someone to search again." Hyaknohe hug fist do.

Yan Pu thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "Let's go back." ”

Yan Pu gave the order to return, and the herald ran to the big drum on the deck and beat the drums of retreat.

When the warship heard the order, the commander of the ship instructed the ship to turn the bow and guard the ship in the center, and returned to the ship in an orderly manner.