This naval battle that broke out in Xiamen Bay lasted from sunrise to sunset, from Lujiang to Xunjiang.
Ten armored fishing boats severely ravaged hundreds of wooden sailing boats.
The pirates once thought of taking advantage of their large number of people and ships to attack them closely, or even directly join forces to fight and seize these coveted iron ships.
However, the speed of their ships is greatly affected by the current and wind direction, and is simply as slow as a snail.
The fishing fleet using diesel generators, under the unified command of a walkie-talkie, can easily control the distance and jump out of the encirclement, destroying enemy ships one after another.
When the pirates from all walks of life were frightened and wanted to run away, knowing that they could not defeat them, the sunken ships everywhere, the bad formation, and the completely shameless current and wind direction gave them a fatal blow.
Li Yunze divided the armored fleet into two and drove the 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 suddenly filled with ships scurrying around.
They were running around and colliding like headless flies, even attacking each other in order to fight for a way out.
When they were sure they couldn't run away, they all washed up on the beach in Tong'an County or the island.
What greeted them were the officers and soldiers from the Beijing camp 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, large and small, were stranded on the beach and even surrendered.
There were more than 10,000 people lost and captured.
Because Li Yunze specifically captured and beat up large ships, many of the well-known big shopkeepers on the southeast sea were basically wiped out here.
As for the leaders of various walks of life, they are countless.
"General." Li Yunze, who had slept in, just got up in the afternoon of the next day, and Jia Ping, who was in charge of statistics, showed his teeth and happily reported the results of the battle, "We made a lot of money this time."
Every sea-going ship that can run on the sea is very valuable.
Moreover, there was also the private property of the shopkeepers on the ship, which undoubtedly belonged to Li Yunze.
"General." An excited Jia Ping rubbed her hands. "Several shopkeepers have expressed their willingness to pay huge sums of money to redeem their lives."
Bandits and pirates are bound to die if they are caught.
If you don't want to die, you have to spend money to buy your life.
"These people have blood on their hands. None of them are good. How do you still want to survive?"
Li Yunze sneered, "Ask them to deliver the goods first, and then send someone to escort them to Shenjing City."
Jia Ping was shocked: "General, this is against the rules."
It is undoubtedly against the rules to take someone else's life after receiving money to buy it.
"What I said is the rule." Li Yunze raised his eyes and looked at Jia Ping, "Are you accepting their benefits?"
Jia Ping was so frightened that she knelt down on the ground. "General, I am loyal to you. How dare I accept property privately? I'm just worried that it will affect your reputation~~~"
"I'm not a gangster trying to get a bad reputation."
Putting down the thick statistical document in his hand, Li Yunze said, "If I don't understand, go and call Xue Biao first."
Jia Ping has a flexible mind, but lacks the necessary experience. There are some things that he really doesn't understand.
The young and handsome Xue Biao came in and saluted, "Second brother, call me?"... Li Yunze didn't talk nonsense. He directly arranged the work. "This time we arrested a group of shopkeepers. Go and talk to them about tricks. Let them pay money to redeem themselves." , and by the way, hand over your behind-the-scenes financial backers and correspondence."
"It's not difficult to get money." Xue Pan frowned, "But if you ask the backers, you still need evidence..."
"You can just find someone to handle simple things, why should I use you?"
Xue Biao was embarrassed for a moment when he said this, while Jia Ping beside him also lowered his head and smiled secretly.
"Can it be done?"
"able."
Li Yunze nodded and told Jia Ping, "When the money and correspondence evidence arrive, you can pay three thousand silver for travel expenses, lead a team of elite soldiers to deliver witnesses and evidence to Shenjing City, or hand them over to Xia Shouzhong."
"You said this was against the rules." Li Yunze suddenly became serious and pointed to Jia Ping, "I don't want any rules. What I want is the market they have vacated. How can I take over their market share if I don't kill them completely?"
Jia Ping was awe-inspiring and hurriedly saluted to apologize. M.biQuge.biZ
"We also captured a lot of ghosts, right? Bring the leaders here." After giving instructions, Li Yunze motioned to Xue Biao, "Go and do some work."
In a short time, a group of embarrassed ghosts were dragged into the tent.
In these days, the people of the Zhou Dynasty considered themselves to be the emperor of heaven, and there was no such thing as worshiping foreigners.
The so-called foreigners are all natives from barbaric countries.
If a girl from Huating County throws herself into the arms of Fan Gui and says, "He is from such and such a country, you can't touch him," etc., she will definitely be thrown into the pond, and the whole family will never be able to hold their heads high.
It was obvious that these ghosts with scars all over their bodies had suffered a lot.
What surprised Li Yunze was that these ghosts could actually speak the official dialect of the Zhou Dynasty. Although they were stumbling, they could at least understand it.
All we have to say is that we have money and we want to pay to redeem ourselves. Please don't chop off our heads or anything like that.
Li Yunze was too lazy to talk nonsense with them and directly called Xue Pan, "Just pick half of them and go out and chop them."
Xue Pan, who was excited as soon as he entered the battlefield, immediately rushed up with his guards and dragged half of them out.
In a short time, he held a row of heads and reported back.
Those who were still alive were all frightened to the point of peeing, and they kowtowed and begged.
Nowadays, those who can drive thousands of miles to do business here are not good people, they are all scum.
When given the opportunity to rob, they would never let it go. Doing business along the way is also plundering along the way.
The so-called Age of Discovery is essentially the Age of Piracy.
If they weren't still useful, Li Yunze wouldn't keep any of them.
After the process of killing the chicken to scare the monkey was over, Li Yunze slowly made his request.
"From now on, if you want to buy porcelain, tea, silk, etc., you must come to the Zhongzuo Institute. Anyone who dares to do business elsewhere will be disposed of."
"Give you a ship to go back and inform all your companions. Whether they are big Frankies or small Frankies, whether they are red-haired or golden-haired, they must come here to do business. Of course, the ransom is still You have to pay first.”
He pointed at the heads of those unlucky people, "If their families want to take back the bodies, they have to pay them. They can give less than half. Remember, I only accept gold and silver for business. Do you understand? Listen?" Get out of here if you understand!"… After a simple repair, counting the merits and issuing rewards, the armored fishing boat fleet began to take turns to attack, sweeping all the merchant ships along the way south.
When encountering merchant ships from the Zhou Dynasty, if they did not have the documents from Shibo Si to go to sea, they would all be seized and brought back to Zhongzuo Suo.
Encountering the ghosts' ship, they all forced them to go to Zhongzuo.
If any ship dares to resist, no matter whose ship it is, it will all be Yin Zhute.
Li Yunze's actions undoubtedly touched the hearts of many big merchants, gentry and sea owners in the southeast.
It has been proven that force cannot be used to defeat others. Li Yunze has been in the military camp for a long time, and the heroes are killed before they can even get to the island.
Then we can only use the power of the court.
Locally and in the court, countless memorials to impeach Li Yunze flew towards the emperor.
At this time, the emperor was holding Li Yunze's memorial and checking the local products he had sent.
Looking at the boxes of silver in front of him, the emperor, who was breathing a little quickly, asked Xia Shouzhong, "What is the total?"
"Long live the total of seventy-seven thousand three hundred and eighty taels."
Looking at so many local products, the emperor fell into silence.
According to Li Yunze's memorial, this is only the first batch.
Xia Shouzhong said more, "Long live the money. Last year, the silver taels handed over by various municipalities were only more than 50,000 taels."
The emperor, who squinted his eyes, raised his eyes and glanced over.
Needless to say, Si Si must have received the benefits from Na Lian Er.
"Send the internal funds." After returning to the dragon chair and sitting down, the emperor opened Li Yunze's memorial again.
The content of the memorial is actually very brief.
First of all, he boasted about his achievements, saying how capable he was in fighting, how many pirates he had defeated, and so on.
The point is that Li Yunze said that he wanted a maritime trade franchise on the southeast coast.
There is not much time limit, 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 that after five years all business would be handed over to the inner government.
If Li Yunze still cannot control the Zhou Dynasty in five years, then he will lose face as a time traveler.
As for silver, the emperor was really, really short of money.
During the reign of the Supreme Emperor, the entire Zhou Dynasty was already in a state of chaos, and all kinds of taxes and taxes were drastically reduced.
Now there are natural and man-made disasters, internal and external troubles.
There were people asking for money from him everywhere, but Lian Er was the only one who really gave him a large amount of money.
Even Jia Yuanchun's money was given by Lian Er.
After careful consideration, the emperor finally wrote a reply to Li Yunze.
Five years is too long, and he seizes every day. Maritime trade franchise or something like that can only be given for a maximum of four years.
One million taels per year is too little, it must be at least 1.5 million taels.
Perhaps because he felt that he was too greedy, the emperor said that he was also under tremendous pressure. Even the Supreme Emperor specifically intervened in the matter of sea trade ships. It was he who helped Li Yunze withstand the pressure.
The emperor's imperial edict failed to pass the cabinet because the interests behind the cabinet elders were complicated, and naturally the southeastern merchants and sea masters were indispensable.
Moreover, the Supreme Emperor came forward to specifically express his attitude on this matter.
After all, among the filial piety received by the Supreme Emperor, those from the southeast are indispensable. …Without the cabinet’s signature, the effectiveness of the imperial edict will naturally be greatly reduced.
But it doesn't matter, what Li Yunze needs is such a righteous reputation.
Next, not only the armored fishing fleet launched a full-scale attack, but even the Beijing camp soldiers and horses also sent out large-scale troops on land.
The sea masters entrenched everywhere were directly attacked and destroyed after being surrounded by officers and soldiers.
Big businessmen from all over the country were directly broken into, branded as pirates, and their homes were ransacked.
Their business, supply of goods, channels, etc., 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 seaport counties in the name of annihilating bandits. Thousands of officers and soldiers were annihilated, and many civil and military officials, from generals to county magistrates, were all charged with being bandits.
His iron-blooded tactics led to countless impeachment memorials. Every day in the court, ministers shouted for beatings and killings. Jia Zheng was so frightened that he even took sick leave and did not dare to go to court again.
The emperor took advantage of the large amount of silver that was delivered every month, especially when the emperor took the initiative to ask him to take charge of Li Yunze, which aroused his rebellious psychology and took the pressure without saying a word.
Li Yunze also responded quickly. Not only did he intensify the attack on the gentry and civil servants who attacked him, he even openly fell out with the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang and sent troops to surround the city!
The reason is still the same, saying that the governor is acquainted with pirates.
Of course the governor will not communicate with the pirates, he only accepts their tribute.
But Li Yunze got the letters between him and the pirates, and asked professionals to forge several letters, so he wanted to use him to scare the monkeys and chickens.
Finally, the imperial envoy was sent by the imperial envoy, who first reprimanded Li Yunze, saying that he was so bold that he dared to besiege the imperial palace and ordered him to be fined and demoted. The momentum was very loud, but the board was raised high, but it fell gently.
Then the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang was dismissed from his post and put into a prison 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 fruits. .
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