Chapter Ninety-Seven: Maritime Trade Franchise

This naval battle that broke out in Xiamen Bay was fought from the sunrise to the sunset, from the Lujiang River to the Xunjiang River.

Ten ironclad fishing boats ravaged hundreds of wooden sailing boats.

The pirates once thought of taking advantage of their large number of men and boats, surrounded and beaten close to each other, and even directly engaged in the gangside gang to fight and seize these eye-catching iron ships.

But the speed of their ships is affected by the currents and the direction of the wind, and they are as slow as a snail.

The fishing fleet, which uses diesel generators, can easily control the distance and jump out of the encirclement under the unified command of walkie-talkies, destroying enemy ships one after another.

By the time the pirates of all walks of life were terrified and knew that they couldn't beat them and wanted to run away, the shipwrecks everywhere, the poor formation, and the completely faceless currents and wind direction gave them a fatal blow.

Li Yunze split the ironclad fleet in two, and drove those pirate ships to squeeze in from the channels on both sides of Xiamen Island.

The narrow sea area between Xiamen Island and Tong'an County was full of ships scurrying around for a while.

They scurried and collided like headless flies, fighting for a way out and even attacking each other.

When they were sure that they couldn't run, they rushed to Tong'an County or the island one after another.

They were greeted by the officers and men of the Beijing Battalion, who had been waiting for a long time.

At the end of the war, the pirates were destroyed and captured, and more than 200 ships of all sizes washed aground and even surrendered.

The number of people lost and captured more than 10,000 people.

Because Li Yunze specialized in catching big ships, many well-known big shopkeepers in the southeast sea were basically wiped out here.

As for the leaders of all stripes, there are countless of them.

"The general." Li Yunze, who had slept lazily, just got up in the afternoon of the next day, and Jia Ping, who was in charge of statistics, happily came to report the results: "We have made a lot of money this time." ”

Every ship that can run on the sea is valuable.

Moreover, there are also the private assets of the shopkeepers on the ship, and there is no doubt that they have all become Li Yunze's.

"The general." Jia Ping, who was excited, rubbed her hands, "Several shopkeepers expressed their willingness to spend a huge amount of money to redeem their lives." ”

Bandits and bandits, once caught, it will inevitably be a dead end.

If you don't want to die, you have to spend money to buy your life.

"These people have blood on their hands, they don't have a good thing, and they still want to live?"

Li Yunze sneered, "You ask them to send the goods over first, and then send someone to escort them to Shenjing City." ”

Jia Ping was shocked, "General, this is not in accordance with the rules." ”

Accepting money to buy lives and asking for other people's lives is undoubtedly out of line.

"What I say is the rule." Li Yunze raised his eyes and looked at Jia Ping, "Have you received their benefits?" ”

Jia Ping knelt on the ground with a frightened 'poof', "General, I am loyal to the general, how dare I accept goods in private." I'm just worried that it will affect the reputation of the general~~~"

"I'm not a fool, I want a reputation for fart."

Putting down the thick statistical documents in his hand, Li Yunze instructed, "I don't understand you, go and call Xue Zhen in first." ”

Jia Ping has a flexible mind, but he lacks the necessary experience, and there are some things he really doesn't understand.

The young and handsome Xue Zhen came in and saluted, "Second brother called me?" Li Yunze doesn't talk nonsense, he just arranges work directly, "This time, I arrested a group of shopkeepers, you go and talk to them." Let them pay for the redemption, and by the way, hand over their behind-the-scenes financiers and correspondence. ”

"It's not hard to ask for money." Xue Pan frowned, "You can ask the backstage backer, and you need evidence..."

"Simple things can be done by just someone, so why use you."

Xue Zhen was embarrassed for a while, and Jia Ping on the side also lowered her head and smiled secretly.

"Can it be done?"

"Yes."

Li Yunze nodded, and instructed Jia Ping, "When the silver and letter evidence are all arrived, you will pay 3,000 silver for travel expenses, and take a team of elite soldiers to send people and physical evidence to Shenjing City, or hand them over to Xia Shouzhong." ”

"You say it's not in order." Li Yunze suddenly became stunned and pointed at Jia Ping, "I don't want any rules, what I want is the market vacated by them." If I don't kill them completely, how can I take over their market share? ”

Jia Ping was awe-inspiring and hurriedly saluted and pleaded guilty. M.biQuge.biZ

"I've caught a lot of ghosts, right, bring the leaders here." After the instructions, Li Yunze motioned to Xue Zhen to "go and do something." ”

After a short period of effort, a group of embarrassed ghosts were dragged into the big tent.

In these years, the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty thought that they were in the Heavenly Empire, and there was no such thing as worshipping foreign countries.

The so-called foreigners are all barbarian natives.

If the girl in Huating County throws her arms to the ghost and says, 'He is from a certain country, you can't touch him' Yunyun, it must be directly sunk in the pond, and the whole family will never be able to raise their heads.

Obviously, these ghosts who are full of scars have suffered a lot.

What surprised Li Yunze was that these ghosts actually spoke the official language of the Great Zhou Dynasty, although they stumbled, they could at least understand it.

It's nothing more than that we have money, and we want to pay for it, so please don't cut off our heads or anything.

Li Yunze didn't bother to talk nonsense with them, and directly beckoned Xue Pan, "Just pick half of them and go out and cut them." ”

Xue Pan, who was excited as soon as he entered the battlefield, immediately rushed up with his guards and dragged half of the people out.

It didn't take a lot of effort, so he held a row of heads back.

Those who are still alive are all frightened and pee, and they keep kowtowing and begging.

In these years, those who can drive thousands of miles to do business here in a boat will not have good people, they are all scum.

When there is a chance to plunder, they will never let it go. Doing business all the way is also plundering all the way.

The so-called Age of Discovery, in essence, is the Age of Great Pirates.

If it weren't useful, Li Yunze wouldn't have left any of them.

The process of killing chickens and setting an example for monkeys ended, and Li Yunze slowly put forward his request.

"From now on, if you want to buy porcelain, tea, silk or something, you must come to the Zhongzuo Institute. Those who dare to do business elsewhere will be disposed of. ”

"Give you a ship to go back and inform all your companions. Whether it is a big Franki or a small Francis, whether it is a red hairy fan or a golden hairy fan, they must come here to do business. Of course, the ransom still has to be paid first. ”

He stretched out his hand and pointed to the heads of the unlucky ones, "If their families want to take back the corpses, they have to give money, and they can give half less." Remember, I only accept gold and silver in my business. Do you understand? Fuck off! After a brief trimming, counting the exploits and rewards, the ironclad fishing fleet began to attack in turn, sweeping all the merchant ships along the way to the south.

When encountering the merchant ships of the Great Zhou Dynasty, if there is no document from the City Bo Division to go to sea, all of them will be seized and brought back to the Zhongzuo Office.

encountered the boats of the ghosts, and all of them coerced them to go to the center and left.

If any ship dares to resist, no matter whose ship it is, it will be Yin Gute.

Li Yunze's action undoubtedly touched the cake of many big businessmen, gentry and sea owners in the southeast.

It has been proven that he can't beat people by force, and he secretly attacks or something, Li Yunze has been in the barracks for a long time, and the heroes of the rivers and lakes will be killed before they can even get on the island.

Then it can only be with the power of the court.

Locally, in the court, countless pieces of impeachment of Li Yunze flew towards the emperor.

At this time, the emperor was holding Li Yunze's piece and checking the souvenirs he sent.

Looking at the boxes of silver taels in front of him, the emperor, who was a little short of breath, asked Xia Shouzhong, "What is the total?" ”

"Hooray, a total of seventy-seven thousand three hundred and eighty taels."

Looking at so many souvenirs, the emperor fell silent.

According to Li Yunze's recital, this is only the first batch.

Xia Shouzhong said more, "Long live, the silver taels handed over by the city bosses last year were only more than 50,000 taels." ”

The emperor, who squinted his eyes, raised his eyes and swept over.

Needless to say, I also know that this Si must have received the benefits of Na Lian Er.

"Send it to the inside." Returning to the dragon chair and sitting down, the emperor once again opened Li Yunze's recital.

The content of the recital is actually very simple.

The first is to boast about his merits, saying how much he can fight and how many Haikou Yunyun he has extinguished.

The point is that Li Yunze said that he wants a maritime trade franchise on the southeast coast.

The time limit is not much, only five years is required.

Then he said that he would pay at least one million taels of taxes to the emperor every year, and wait until five years later all the business would be handed over to the inner government.

Five years later, if Li Yunze still can't control the Great Zhou Dynasty, then he will lose the face of the traverser.

As for the silver taels, the emperor is really, really short of money.

During the period of Emperor Taishang, the entire Great Zhou Dynasty had been made into a miasma, and various taxes were sharply reduced.

Now it is a natural and man-made disaster, internal and external troubles.

Everywhere they stretched out their hands to him to ask for silver, and the only one who really gave him a large sum of money was actually this Lian Er.

Even if it was Jia Yuanchun's silver, it was given by Lian Er.

After careful consideration, the emperor finally wrote a reply to Li Yunze.

Five years is too long, and he only seizes the day. Maritime trade franchise or something, can only be given for four years at most.

One million taels a year is too little, and it must be at least one and a half million taels.

Perhaps because he felt that he was too greedy, the emperor said that he was also under huge pressure, and even the emperor came forward to inquire about the matter of the sea trade ships, and it was he who helped Li Yunze resist the pressure.

The emperor's decree failed to pass in the cabinet, because the interests behind the cabinet elders are complicated, and naturally the southeast merchant and sea lord are indispensable.

And the Emperor Taishang came forward to express his attitude towards this matter.

After all, among the filial piety received by the emperor, it is also indispensable to come from the southeast. ....Without the Cabinet's signature, the effectiveness of the decree would be greatly diminished.

But it doesn't matter, what Li Yunze needs is such a righteous name.

Next, not only did the ironclad fishing fleet make a full-scale attack, but even the soldiers and horses of the Beijing camp also sent troops on land.

The sea lords who were entrenched everywhere were directly destroyed after being surrounded by officers and soldiers.

The big businessmen from all over the country were directly broken into the door and robbed their homes in the name of bandits.

Their business, supply of goods, channels and so on, naturally fell into Li Yunze's hands.

The resistance of these people was also very fierce, and they even mobilized the southeast garrison to fight with the officers and soldiers of the Beijing camp.

For this reason, Li Yunze even attacked several harbor counties in the name of exterminating the thieves. Thousands of officers and soldiers were annihilated, and many civil and military officers from the general to the county order were all dealt with on the charge of collaborating with bandits.

His iron-blooded methods have attracted countless impeachment concerts, and there are ministers in the court shouting and shouting to kill every day, and the frightened Jia Zheng even took sick leave and did not dare to go to the court again.

And the emperor saw the face of a large number of silver taels that would be sent every month, especially the emperor who took the initiative to let him take care of Li Yunze, which aroused his rebellious psychology and carried the pressure down without saying a word.

Li Yunze's counterattack was also very fast, not only intensified the attack on the gentry and civil officials who attacked him, but even openly turned against the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, and sent troops to surround the city!

The reason is still the same old-fashioned, saying that the governor is a sea bandit.

Of course, the governor will not be able to communicate with the pirates, he just collects the filial piety of the pirates.

But Li Yunze got his letters with the bandits, and also forged several letters from professionals, so he wanted to kill monkeys and make an example of him.

In the end, the imperial court sent a messenger, and first reprimanded Li Yunze, saying that he was so bold that he dared to besiege the imperial palace and punish him for demotion. The momentum was very loud, but the board was raised high, but it fell gently.

Then there was the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, who was directly removed from his post and stuffed into a prisoner car and transported back to Shenjing City for interrogation.

After this battle, Li Yunze became famous, and almost no one in the southeast dared to confront him openly.

Next, it's time to harvest the fruit.

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