Chapter 436: Sea Raid
After a friendly negotiation, Yue Qing ordered a package of weapons and equipment from Qin Yun at the price of 100 million taels of silver.
Qin Yun was very considerate and helped her equip three battalions of weapons and a scheduled battle cruiser.
Of course, the battleship was not included in the 100 million taels of silver.
The most important thing is that both sides feel that they have made a lot of money, and the country can have a modern army from now on.
And Qin Yun got the money that was urgently needed for development, of course, the two sides were not settled purely in silver, after all, silver belonged to precious metals in this era after all, and there was no bad street.
The two sides agreed to trade with equivalent goods, including iron ore and coal mines, which are most scarce in Qiongzhou.
"How satisfied are you?"
Qin Yun and Yue Qing asked with a smile after signing the contract.
Yue Qing: "If you give me a few more cannons, I will be even more satisfied!" ”
Qin Yun: "That's not good, friendship is friendship, business is business." ”
"Hmph, stingy ghost, Sister Han, I see that you better not follow Qin Yun, you follow me...... No, you follow me back to Yueguo, and I will ask my brother to give you a female princess. ”
Qin Yun secretly wondered in his heart, couldn't he see that these two little girls had cultivated a deep friendship with best friends?
Han Jiangxue quipped: "It depends on whether the prince agrees or not?" ”
Qin Yun: "Of course I don't agree!" Okay, visit and visit, you go back, I still have something to do. ”
"What's the matter?"
At this time, Yang Yong on the side came up.
"Lord Wang, the envoy of the Yu family and the envoy of King Li are waiting in the palace."
Qin Yun: "Look, this is not coming!" Han Jiangxue, you continue to play with Princess Yue. ”
After speaking, Qin Yun and Yang Yong walked quickly.
Along the way, he was in a very happy mood, after all, in his opinion, he took a big advantage, if this cannon really counts the cost, even if it counts the high amount of labor, it is only 10,000 taels of silver, and he directly sells it for 800,000 yuan, which is pure profiteering.
But the premise is that they must win the battle in front of them and gain sea supremacy, otherwise the so-called trade is all.
"How many of them came?"
Qin Yun turned his head and asked.
"Back to the prince, not much, they deliberately went around a big circle in order to avoid pirates, taking advantage of the island at night, but in the harbor of Chaozhou, there is a fleet of thousands of people."
Qin Yun's mind moved, and it seemed that he had to break the blockade first.
"Let's go, go home!"
……
Liang Wangfu.
Qin Yun strode forward, and the two messengers got up one after another to greet him.
"Yu Chengen, a grass man, greets the prince!"
Qin Yun looked at the young man in front of him, he was wearing a scarf of twenty-five or sixteen, dressed like a typical businessman, and he had no jade fingers on his fingers.
Qin Yun smiled: "It was the head of the Yu family who asked you to come, right?" ”
Yu Chengen arched his hand and said: "That's right, it was my father who sent the grass people to wait for the prince to send him, and this time the Tongzhou palace also sent people to help the prince." ”
Qin Yun nodded with satisfaction, and sure enough, the roses were fragrant.
Especially the Tongzhou Palace, they finally regained control of Tongzhou, and even though they knew that the direction of the imperial court was changing, they still sent people here as always, which represents absolute trust.
Tie Fengxian on the side arched his hand and said: "Lord, this is the letter that King Li asked me to bring you, King Li said that the children of the Li clan are not allowed to leave western Sichuan if they have ancestral training, so King Li asked the last general to tell the prince that he could not send someone to come, but King Li gave the income of Li wine in the next three years to the prince in advance." ”
"The silver pulled down the Yu family, and there are two boatloads of precious medicinal materials."
Qin Yun nodded: "King Li has a heart!" ”
Tie Fengxian said again: "This time, I moved all the people of Tiejia Village to Qiongzhou according to the requirements of the Tie Village Chief, and now they are in Chaozhou Port, as long as the prince gives an order, they can go to sea at any time." ”
Qin Yun waved his hand and interrupted: "Don't worry, it's not too late to move over when the war is calmer." ”
"Yu Chengen!"
"The grass people are here."
"Since your Yu family trusts this king so much, this king will naturally not treat you badly, so you can stay in the mansion and be a housekeeper."
Yu Chengen was terrified: "Lord Wang, how can the grass people be!" ”
Qin Yun smiled: "Why do you dislike the housekeeper is too small?" ”
"No, no, the grass people don't dare."
After speaking, Yu Chengen knelt on the ground and respectfully said, "Family master!"
This call is the head of the family, not the prince, indicating that Yu Chengen will be Qin Yun's slave from now on, even if he robs the family and exterminates the clan, he will follow along.
Qin Yun said with a smile: "Get up, after you are familiar with things first, after this king opens the country, I will release you as an official, so that others will not gossip." ”
Yu Chengen was very moved, his Yu family has been pressed by the Yuan family for so many years, and even the Yu family in the court is not happy.
In this Qiongzhou war, the head of the Yu family called a meeting of all the clansmen, and after a day and a night of discussion, they finally decided to bet on Qin Yun completely.
Yu Chengen came to show his determination.
"You are tired of traveling, go and rest first, and then go to the court tomorrow morning!"
"Thank you, Lord Wang!"
After the two left, Qin Yun got the list of the two of them to stay, but he had more confidence in his heart.
There are 1,200 people in Tiecun, these people are all born warriors and craftsmen, if they are all brought in, then the military industrial productivity of Qiongzhou will be increased to a higher level.
The Yu family, on the other hand, emptied their family foundations, and could support Qin Yun's 10 million taels of funds and various network resources in Yuzhou at any time.
However, on the line of the Yu family, Qin Yun is not ready to move, his target is not only the Yu family.
Now that Chaozhou is empty, Qin Yun's idea is to control Chaozhou after destroying the pirates, so that he can go north to the Central Plains and retreat to the sea.
"Yang Yong!"
"Humble duty."
"Inform the whole army and get ready for battle, although it is not clear what this group of pirates is waiting for, if they don't come, we will fight out!"
"Order the fishing boats at sea to speed boats, fire at the pirate ships besieging Qiongzhou, don't waste shells, you have to scare them to death if you can't hit them!"
"No!"
……
In the waters of Qiongzhou, the island boats that patrol daily are leisurely floating on the water.
Some of the pirates gathered on deck, some in the cabins, gambling and drinking.
After all, they had robbed Yue Guo's vote before, but they each made a lot of money, and their pockets were bulging.
"One, two, three, small! I won, keep driving. ”
"Leopard, leopard, six-six-six, I got a leopard!"
There are those who play dice, and there are those who play pai gow.
"Double Heaven Supreme, take it all!"
"Damn, why did you lose again, Chao Xiaoliu, Lao Tzu suspected that you were a good man, so take out your sleeves."
"your stinky fart, don't play if you can't afford to lose."
"Say it again!"
"What's the matter, if you don't accept it, you will fight?"
The pirates began to heckle: "Fight, fight!" ”
After all, there is only this little entertainment on the vast sea, because Zhou Dangjia offended Haitang Island, the prostitutes who were originally with the boat were all taken back.
But just as a group of gamblers were wrestling, suddenly the crew in charge of guarding rushed in.
"Oh no, Qiongzhou called!"
"Fart, where did the big ship come from in Qiongzhou."
"They don't have big ships, but they have small boats, and I don't believe you."
"Boom!"
"Damn, I really called, the brothers copied the guy and robbed him."
However, when everyone crossed the deck, they found that the small fishing boats in Qiongzhou were just falling far away.
As soon as they sailed, the fishing boat immediately turned around and retreated, if they anchored, the other party would kill back the carbine, always maintaining an ambiguous distance, and most importantly, Qiongzhou's cannon was indeed farther than them.
"Boss, it's not a problem to go on like this! Why don't you rush up and finish them all? ”
"I know that Chong, you can't use your brains, and then it's the range of other people's shore defense guns, you want to go down and feed the fish."
"What then? We can't just float like that. ”
"They fired their guns from afar, and one or two shots missed, what if one of the seven or eight shots hit one?"
"Boss, they can make a mistake a million times, but we can't make a mistake."
The leader muttered a little: "Gather all the big boats, give me Yang Fan to rush up and tear up this group of stinky fish and rotten shrimp!" ”
……
Qiongzhou Navy Division. A sailor watched as the enemy assembled a fleet and pounced on them.
"Commander, the other party is in a hurry!"
Yang Yong smiled: "Withdrawing, just to make them anxious." ”
"No, let's shoot him first."
"No!"
Under Yang Yong's order, the fishing boats that came to carry out the harassment mission opened fire one after another.
This kind of shore speedboat has a lot of recoil after firing a shot, so it is generally installed in the stern, and the muzzle is aimed at the pirate, and when it fires, it is like a butt spitting fire, and it can also accelerate with the help of inertia.
This made even the pirate Yang Fan's big ship stare dryly, chasing but not chasing, and not being able to fight.
was so angry that a group of leaders scolded their mothers.
"Damn, I'm so angry, the seabird sent a book to Zhou Dangjia to ask what to do!"
"Yes!"
……
On the broad-leaved island, Zhou Qianyu sat in the first place. Now that the second master is seriously injured, the big boss retreats to break through the great master, and the third master retreats on Haitang Island, and he is now the nominal leader.
"Zhou is in charge, the front line is reporting, the Qiongzhou Navy Division is dispatched from time to time, whether the brothers are fighting or not, what do you think?"
Zhou Qianyu groaned: "Drag, drag until the windy season!" ”
"But it stands to reason that the windy season has entered in the past few days, but there is no movement on the sea, and the wind is uncontrollable."
"The brothers have been worried all day long, and they have already complained."
"Yes, there are only a thousand days to be a thief, how can there be a thousand days to prevent thieves, Zhou Dangjia has to think of a way."
Zhou Qianyu snorted coldly in his heart, after all, it was a rabble, not a real army. This group of people may be able to burst out with unimaginable combat power for money, but once they are asked to perform some errands that don't seem to be oily and watery, these bastards start to play helplessly.
"Pass the order, each ship will hold on for one more day, and issue 10,000 taels of silver!"
As soon as these words came out, everyone was gagged.
But there are still people who are unwilling to continue to be stationed.
"Zhou is in charge, our belongings are not blowing in the wind, the opponent's artillery is obviously farther than ours, and it is only a matter of time before it is sunk like this."
"Why don't you leave!"
"I'm not allowed to withdraw, now that I'm withdrawing, once Qiongzhou is relieved, the good days I've been waiting for will come to an end."
"Since the other party sent people to harass us, then we can also send people to attack the coastline at night."
"What Dangjia Zhou said is right, he Qin Yun is the first year of junior high school, and we can also do fifteen."
Zhou Qianyu looked at the subordinates of the second master on the side.
"By the way, send someone to Ryukyu Island to ask about the artillery, why the other party's artillery has a long range for us!"