Early in the morning of the next day, more than 100 warships of the Ming Navy turned around directly and surrounded Hua Guer's 30 warships. Pinshu.com

Zheng Chenggong volunteered to carry Li Kui's head and drove twenty Western soft sailing ships to Hua Gu'er to recruit Hua Gu'er.

Hua Gu'er knew that he was invincible, and when he saw that Li Kui's troops had been defeated, he surrendered without a fight.

Then, according to the intelligence of Jinyiwei, Zheng Chenggong and Gu San Mazi of the Ming Navy each led the front battalion and battalion to continue to encircle and suppress the pirate Ya Haizi and the Eastern Daimyo Asada Shiro Department in the north.

The rest of the pirates fled when they heard of this.

Liu Kongzhao, the commander-in-chief of the Ming Navy, accompanied by Cai Zheng, inspected along the way from the north of Songjiang Mansion to Denglai, and even specially appeared in Tianjin Wei once, and gave an artillery show to Tianjin Wei.

In this way, he told the Qing court and Abatai, the king of Doro, that the Ming navy still existed and still controlled the northern and southern sea routes.

Gu San Mazi chased the Oriental daimyo Shiro Asada, all the way to Nagato, Japan.

And the Oriental daimyo Shiro Asada fled to Sanyo Province in Japan and asked the Tokugawa shogunate for help.

Gu San Mazi's naval officers and men were all equipped with advanced flintlock pistols, and they were all formally trained, and the victory of annihilating the pirates had just begun, and it was the time when morale was high.

And the current Japan is not the Japan of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and it is not the Japan of the Meiji Restoration, which also makes Gu San Mako easily occupy Nagato, Japan.

And Gu San Mazi also looted unscrupulously in Nagato, Japan.

At the instigation of the accompanying staff, he sent a note to the Japanese shogunate in the name of the chief military officer of the Ming Dynasty and the deputy minister of the navy.

Gu San Mazi asked the Japanese shogun to immediately hand over Asada Shiro and compensate the Ming Navy for 100,000 silver dollars as the cost of ransom Nagato, otherwise the Ming Navy will occupy Nagato for a long time and send heavenly soldiers to attack.

In the end, the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate was forced by domestic pressure and was afraid of offending the Ming Dynasty, so it could only hand over Asada Shiro and hand over 80,000 taels of silver to Gu San Mazi.

After Gu San Mazi returned to Songjiang Mansion with 80,000 taels of silver and the property looted in Nagato, Japan, most of them were cashed into silver and opened his own industry in Hai County, Songjiang Prefecture, except for part of the money handed over to Liu Kongzhao and his colleagues and brothers.

The imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate even impeached Gu San Mazi for provoking disputes among neighboring countries without authorization.

But Zhu Youzhen ignored this, but also sent Dongchang Ma Jixiang to Gu Sanmazi's mansion to reprimand Gu Sanmazi why he got benefits, and he only thought of sincerity, but he didn't want to be the current emperor.

Gu San Mazi had to obediently hand over a part of it to Zhu Youzhen.

After hearing that His Majesty Zhu Youzhen would not pursue the illegal affairs of the navy abroad, as long as the profits were shared, they all geared up to learn from Gu San Mazi to go to Japan and other places to loot and make a sum of money.

And now the entire sea area north of Dongfan Island is under the control of the Ming Navy.

Especially now that he has eliminated the pirate forces that are trying to eliminate him, the Ming Navy has begun to be officially recognized by the sea giants, and the Ming Navy officers have also found that this is also a very lucrative career.

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Bang!

Liu Kongzhao's provocation in Tianjin Wei deeply irritated Abatai, the king of Doluo County.

Abbatey angrily threw a purple clay pot to the ground, and became furious for a while: "What are these pirates for?" ”

"Lord Wang, please calm your anger, the servants have already inquired clearly, this Ming navy originally had the help of the Zheng family, and now Zhu Youzhen has given half of the tariffs of the Ming Dynasty to the Zheng family, and the Zheng family will naturally give Daming their lives, but they pity us businessmen in the north!"

Fan Yongdou, the Manchu imperial merchant, sighed as he spoke.

"According to what you say, I'm afraid that the entire sea route will still be in the hands of his Ming Navy in the future, and those who do business here will have to continue to pay protection fees?"

Abatai said a word, holding his forehead and shaking: "It's a pity, I spent so much silver in vain, and the bamboo basket was empty." ”

"Not only do you have to pay, but this sincerity Bo Liu Kongzhao has already told the world that because of the extermination of pirates the day before yesterday, the Jingping sea route, the navy suffered huge losses, in order to make up for military supplies, from May 1 of the 20th year of Chongzhen to May 23rd year of Chongzhen, the protection fee will be increased by 3 percent!"

As soon as Fan Yongdou said this, Abatai slapped the table angrily again: "It's too much to deceive, too much to deceive!" This king wants to fold his son to the court, and he must also have his own sailor, and he can't let these Han people claim to be the king and hegemon in the sea! ”

The relatives of the Ming Dynasty have never been allowed to participate in politics, so most of them are good at business and money, as a sincere uncle Liu Kongzhao is no exception, after learning from the Jinyi Weikou that the pirates gathered in Songjiang Mansion to provoke the Ming Navy is dissatisfied with the merchants of the Northern Qing Dynasty to collect protection money, he thought of such a poisonous plan.

Without Zhu You's check, Liu Kongzhao directly added three percent of the protection fee, which means that he will have an extra income of hundreds of thousands of silver dollars every year.

The gentry merchants and Manchu nobles who took refuge in the Qing Kingdom in the north spent a lot of money this time, not only failed to get rid of the Ming navy, but also suffered a heavier protection fee in the past.

But the Qing court couldn't control the Ming navy, and the gentry in the north naturally couldn't do anything with Liu Kongzhao.

However, Zhu Youzhen received from Shi Kefa, the master of ceremonies, who received the impeachment of Liu Kongzhao for exploiting the interests of merchants in the sea and hindering the commercial development of the Ming Dynasty.

This made Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but sneer: "The gentry in the north have really long hands, they all came to my capital procuratorate, and sent an edict to Wang Chengen, the governor of Dongchang, to arrest this imperial historian and interrogate him strictly, who instructed him to do this?"

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"Your Majesty, this move must not be, the imperial historian has always had the right to participate in the impeachment, even if the impeachment is wrong, Rao is just a scholar's opinion, Your Majesty, you reprimand or demote to a foreign office, why bother to punish the crime, will this not block the way of speech, how can you expect the imperial historian to dare to impeach the powerful and arrogant generals of the dynasty in the future?"

Shi Kefa saw that Zhu Youzhen wanted to send the imperial history of impeachment of Liu Kongzhao to the edict prison and interrogate him strictly, so he hurriedly persuaded him.

"How do you know the reason for this, if it is an ordinary impeachment, but you know whose financial path Liu Kongzhao is blocking now, it is the financial road of those Han 0 traitors in the north who have taken refuge in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, this imperial history at this time Baba's impeachment of him This matter, who do you say he is talking for, if it is to invite the direct name to impeach the powerful, I can also accept it, but now this imperial history obviously has ulterior motives, I don't want my Metropolitan Procuratorate to be a group of officials who speak for Han 0 traitors!"

Zhu Youzhen's tone became stern as he spoke, and Shi Kefa couldn't say anything more.

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