0400 Liu Guangting and the family
But the activities of the nobles can't hide from the eyes of the civil officials, and they naturally want to know what the nobles are doing when they get together? However, they had not seen the renderings in Liu Haojia's hand, and the people who sent people to Tianjin to check only said that Liu Haojia was only leveling the land and building roads on the fiefdom, and they only knew that he wanted large-scale civil engineering. Therefore, many civil officials paid attention to him, and felt that this person was just a drunkard.
With this conclusion, some people are ready to move again! Especially the imperial historians of the Inspectorate! After they determined that Liu Haojia had no backhand, they had already decided to prepare to attack him again!
As the saying goes, cutting off people's wealth is equivalent to killing parents! After Liu Haojia stopped distributing the money to the Inspectorate, all the imperial historians hated him to the core, and they didn't want to bring down Liu Haojia all the time! They even want to take the matter of collecting money into their own hands! The imperial historians have been working hard for a long time, and it's time to make up for it!
And this kind of thing should also be left to these clear streams of them to do! They are the real moral people, and naturally they will not be as greedy as those corrupt officials and corrupt officials! To know what is a clear stream? It's those of us who are as clear as water and morally pure!
But they don't want to think about it, Liu Haojia naturally has a purpose for sharing the money for greedy ink, could it be that he has too much money and needs to be scattered around? As a result, these people in the Inspectorate took Liu Haojia's silver and brushed his political achievements on him, so how could Liu Haojia endure this kind of thing, so things have come to this point!
But the imperial historians of the Inspectorate don't think so! In their eyes, it is a matter of course that they impeach someone! After all, that's what we rely on to eat! I'll impeach you, you can share some money and come over, and this matter will naturally pass!
Everyone is doing this, why can't you accept it, and actually cut off our silver! So for more than half a year, the people of the Inspectorate have been keeping an eye on Liu Haojia tightly, always ready to bite off a piece of meat on him!
However, Liu Haojia didn't know what the Inspectorate was going to do at this time, and all his thoughts were already on the sea. Now he was holding a letter from Liu Guangting, which stated that he had just subdued a group of pirates, and that the captives had migrated to Ryukyu, that is, Taiwan!
Now Liu Guangting can be described as a strong soldier! Now there are more than 60 large and small ships under his command, and the arms and equipment and various materials sent by the Beiyang Fleet in Quanzhou have armed all the fleets and settlements!
Not to mention anything else, just going to the settlement of the Great Ryukyu, not counting the young pirates who went to sea, there are already more than 3,000 people, and it is already a huge town! And Liu Guangting is already planning to build a second gathering place in the upper reaches of the estuary!
Moreover, the Beiyang Fleet sent them not only weapons, food, but also a lot of construction materials. Now at the mouth of the river there are four batteries rising from the ground! In addition, the outer wall of the settlement is also being built, and the settlement is now becoming more and more like a small town!
At this time, the pirates who had been cultivating for half a month had already pulled anchor and set sail again, and their goal was the alliance of three pirates. Liu Haojia, who was reading the letter, didn't know that Liu Guangting was leading his fleet to ride the wind and waves.
At this time, Liu Guangting has completed the deployment of the operation, and now it depends on how the battle goes. So now he was sitting in the bow of the boat, enjoying the oncoming sea breeze. Very pleasant!
Just then, he heard footsteps behind him. He turned his head and saw three young men approaching. He is very familiar with these three people, and they are all orphans adopted by the Liu family back then. Now his right-hand man!
These three people are about the same age, and they entered the house at the same time, so when they were named, they were named according to the names of the three characters in the "Three Character Classic", so these three people are called Liu Ming, Liu Ju and Liu Yang!
Seeing these three people, Liu Guangting couldn't help but be in a trance! He remembered that when they first entered the house, the three children were huddled together among the other children, looking around timidly and hopefully! And now after several years of study and experience, especially in the waves, they have now become strong men in charge of themselves! This made him feel that he was getting old!
Seeing Liu Guangting turn around, Liu Ming gritted his teeth and smiled, taking advantage of his tanned skin from the scorching sun
His teeth are exceptionally white! He said, "It's blowing here again, Uncle Guangting, we're here to accompany you!"
Before each battle, Liu Guangting would get together with these family members. Because every time you fight, no one knows if they will come back alive! In the years since he left Gu Ningbo's Mansion, two of the family members he took away had been damaged and two were crippled!
When they sat down to relax and enjoy the sea breeze together, Liu Guangting took out a handful of beans and gave them a small handful. He chewed on the beans and said, "What about the other brothers?"
Liu Ming knew that Liu Guangting was just subconsciously asking, and he knew the location of each family member well, so he also said casually, "They are all checking the armament on their respective ships."
Liu Guangting nodded and said, "The morale of the brothers below is okay?" Look at the book
Liu Ming smiled and said, "Very good! Since the second young master paid them a salary, everyone has settled down a lot! I'm more obedient to commands!"
You know, pirates are a very loose group, and it's hard to really control them! But Liu Haojia found another way and specially allocated a sum of silver to pay the pirates! The salary is not much, only five cents a month!
It's not a lot of money, but it's a big deal! Many people watch movies about pirates at home and abroad, and they may think that this is a very romantic career, but in fact, it is not like that at all!
The life of a pirate is very sinful, not to mention the official encirclement and suppression, but also to face the fight of peers! When you are floating in the sea, there is a lack of medical treatment, and if you are sick, you have to see if the sky collects it! Not to mention food and fresh water, which are always scarce!
Especially since their income is extremely precarious! If you wander around the sea all day, it is good luck to have one of the ten ships you meet succeed in robbery! And I don't know if I'll die when I'm fighting! Even after the robbery is successful, when the dirty things are sold, they have to go through the exploitation of the nest owner, and the silver in the hands of the real ones has also shrunk greatly!
Even so, it was the pirate leaders who really took the lion's lead. When it comes to the low-level pirates, there won't be much silver at all! And since Liu Haojia gave them salaries, the pirates have been much more obedient!