Chapter 214:

In the Qing Palace, the emperor Jiacheng was on top of the dragon chair.
There were many officials standing under it. Only a few motleys stood in the end, but they were officials of the department.
"Okay, very good. The sailors in the two places couldn't get a group of pirates. It seems that the silver that the imperial court allocated to the sailors every year was in vain."
"Your Majesty is angry. After investigation, most of the naval ships in Fujian and Guangdong are old and in disrepair, so this encirclement and suppression will return to nothing."
"I am afraid that Feng Ge is wrong, this is not to return without success, but to be beaten down. It is enough to lose one, both lose, what is the face of the court? The court allocates two places every year. There are also a lot of silver in the sailor. Only two million two were allocated this year to repair the ship. This silver was still reported by Master Feng in person. After the cabinet vote, the silver of the household was also passed. Is it Feng? Adults have a bad memory and forgot this? "Zheng Yunjie deserves to be a master of history.
"This ..." Feng Chengbao flashed a bit of anger and anger on his face, and said, "Although the silver was reported by the Ministry of Military Affairs, it is the Hube that can be allocated money. Besides, the silver was transported all the way and used to repair and build ships without time? Photo Master Zheng means, is this money that my military department is greedy ?! "
"If there is no evidence, the officer would not dare to make such an assertion. Of course, if Feng Ge is afraid of the suspicion of the court, he can report to the account book to be checked by the household department. As for whether it is innocent or not, it will come out!"
What Feng Chengbao wanted to say, Wu Ge coughed aside.
Zheng Yunjie was born in Imperial History. He has a Longquan sword in his tongue, and no blood can be seen in the murder. If he talks about his mouth, I am afraid that few people in Chaotang can match him.
He made a round from the side and said: "Since Master Zheng is suspicious, and wait for the two naval account books to be sent back, Master Feng will be referred to the household department for verification, so why not make meaningless words here."
Feng Chengbao also sneered: "Then Master Zheng is waiting for the result of the household department, don't scorn the official with red lips and white teeth. With such words, the official will disregard the friendship of the same dynasty and impeach you to slander the cabinet minister. The name."
"Old Feng Ge, this officer has never said a word about your army's greed for money, so why has it made you so angry?"
At this time, as a step forward to Chen Jian in the matter, after paying his respects to the emperor Jiacheng on the dragon chair, he said: "Your Majesty, Xiaguan my humble opinion, now it is important to kill the pirates, not to quarrel between the two places. Teachers are still not allowed, why not. Now the sailors in Guangdong and Fujian are defeated, and other suitable candidates should be selected to promote my national prestige. "
"What Chen Aiqing said is very reasonable! Then I don't know who you think, who should be elected to attack the bandits?" Emperor Jiacheng smiled.
"Of course it is the Zhejiang Marine Master!" Chen Jian faced Zhuang Su with a loud voice: "I have only three marine masters along the coast of Dachang. Among them, the Fujian Marine Master is the oldest and the most famous. Newly formed. Feng Shangshu said before that the reason why the sailors of the two places will be defeated is that they are defeated by the old warships. The warships of the Zhejiang pilots are all newly built. miss you."
Don't look at Chen Jian's eloquent speech here, Emperor Jiacheng nodded and praised again and again, does not mean that everyone has no opinion. Therefore, Chen Jian's words fell, and some people came forward to refute.
"Your Majesty, his subjects opposed. Zhejiang is Zhejiang, Fujian is Fujian, and Guangdong is Guangdong. How can there be more reason to act as a substitute."
"Your Majesty, the officials also opposed. After all, the Zhejiang Navy is a newly formed sailor. The soldiers are seconded from the Chaohu Navy. Although the Chaohu Navy is a sailor, it is also a famous name. Ding, how to fight the fierce pirates will only lose my face in Dachang. "
"Your Majesty, the ministers do not agree with them. What happened to the new learning at the end of the day? Master Xue, the admiral of Zhejiang Navy, is the new learning at the end of the study, but now my treasury income from Dachang in the past two years has all come from Zhejiang. Zhejiang is also near Dinghai City is on the sea when they are on the sea, but so far I have never heard of pirates looting. What does this mean? I suppose everyone knows. "
Of course I understand that my face is crackled and straight, can I still not understand? !
But Xue Tingyan took over Zhejiang first, and then let him contaminate Guangdong, Fujian. Who knew what he would do, so many courtiers opposed it.
There are various reasons for objection. The mainstream argument is that Dinghai is the weight of the imperial court, and it must not be lost. Zhejiang and Fujian are too close. If the Zhejiang mariners came to Fujian to gangsters in Guangdong, the backyard caught fire. What about.
All in all, there is everything to say, and experienced people know that this matter will not be able to discuss any results in a while.
The above can be discussed slowly, but the following can't wait.
The two sailors in Guangdong, Fujian, all returned in disastrous defeat, which has caused panic among many businessmen. There are people who are not afraid of death and continue to go out to sea, but they will be robbed.
The group of pirates was also surprised. They didn't kill people, they just grabbed the goods. After the goods were robbed, ships would be left to allow these merchants to return to the land, so the name of this unknown pirate spread almost everywhere in the world.
The reason why they are called anonymous pirates is because these pirates never fly flags, so they don't know who they are.
However, because the other party does not kill, there are still people who ca n’t resist the temptation to try all kinds of methods to fish in the muddy water. Most of these people have been cooperating with the foreign merchants for many years. The tiger leaned towards the Tiger Mountain.
Before dawn, the foggy weather is located in Langqi Island, Fuzhou, Fujian. More than a dozen people are loading cargo on the ship like ants.
The ship is a small boat, and no big ship can enter this place.
Most of the goods are raw silk, packed in several layers of sacks, a seemingly small package, but it can crush the backbone of a strong man.
They have been so lucky all night, everyone is exhausted, and the only thing that can keep them going is the high price of money from the owner. After doing this for one night, you can get a hundred or two silver, so even the labor is desperate.
Finally, the goods were all on board.
The laborers quietly followed the people out of the place, and the boat slowly went out to the layman.
Locally, there is a lot of fog at this time in Langqiyu. At this time, generally for safety reasons, it will not go out to sea. But they were forced by the pirates and could only take risks.
"Horse stewards, you said we wouldn't meet the unknown pirate?" A young man, looking like a man, looked at the fog outside and said in fear.
"Bah, you can't hide your mouth, certainly not! In this weather, the pirates dared to go out, and I chop off my head and give them a chair."
The guy thought for a while and found that it made sense. They dared to come out on this trip. The owner also specially found several old boatmen with decades of experience. They were like the old horse, without Sinan, they could close their eyes. Touching a place on the sea does not mean that there can be such people in the pirates.
The boat was moving very fast, standing on Class A, shrouded in a mist 50 meters away.
They hope to leave near Dongsha before the sun comes out. According to their income, as long as they can get out of Dongsha's ship, they will rarely encounter unknown pirates.
The sky lit up a little bit, and the horse steward said a little anxiously: "How long can I go out?"
Someone answered: "It takes two quarters of an hour to manage things."
Two quarters of an hour?
No matter how anxious it is, you can't put wings on the boat.
Just as the horse manager was restless and was about to enter the cabin, there was a loud noise from the bow.
He hurried forward without telling others that he saw a hundred meters away from them, and a black behemoth was walking here in the thick fog.
Everyone is frightened. This kind of scene is extremely rare. Some people have never seen such a spectacle after a lifetime.
Closer, closer, is a ship.
There are no flags flying on the mast, that is—
"It's an unknown pirate!"
...
The boatman was very honest and probably knew the rules of the unknown pirates, and did not try to resist anything.
The pirates moved all the cargo onto their own ships, and they were hidden in the vast sea.
And those who are robbed and treated as labor have no strength to speak. Can only look at the empty ship, crying without tears.
And at this moment, the East finally radiated a red light, puncturing this thick fog.
At the time when Fujian and Guangdong were in panic of unknown pirates, there were also people in the coastal areas of Zhejiang and Suzhou who were suffering.
In the name of coastal defense, Zhejiang naval forces set up short-term strongholds in the East China Sea to patrol and defend.
All the sailors were dispatched, and one-third patrolled the Dinghai and Zhoushan Islands. Another two-thirds of the troops are partly cruising the coast of Zhejiang, and the other part is expanding into the area of ​​Nansha, Huangpu River, and the mouth of the Yangtze River.
Although not even mosquitoes can fly out, at least no boat can escape their eyes.
If there is a customs clearance letter issued by Dinghai, it will be released. If not, it will be detained. Since entering February, the Zhejiang Navy has detained nearly 100 smuggled cargo ships.
If you do n’t take it seriously, if it is more serious, the goods of these nearly 100 ships will be converted into commercial tax, and it will probably cost hundreds of thousands or even millions of silver.
Once seized, they were all confiscated, but the Zhejiang mariners were still quite reasonable. If the detained businessman is willing to pay a high amount of bail, it will not embarrass these people. Collect the money and let go, but don't worry about the goods.
For some small businessmen, they would rather fill in themselves, than always fill in the goods, that is all silver.
Among them, the Hongchang ticket number is the most anxious.
As I have said before, Hongchang ticket number is the largest ticket number in the Jiangnan area. It is indispensable to carry out various investments with the money in the ticket number in order to maximize profits. In the early years, all kinds of mining, salt, tea, grain, etc. were involved, which is the main reason why Hongchang Tickets can quickly accumulate a large number of resources.
Since I have touched the path of maritime trade, those have become a bit tasteless, so in recent years, Hongchang ticket has mainly focused on the sea.
The details of the period do not need to be described, even if it is Kaifu in Dinghai, because Hongchang has been working for many years, the backing is hard enough, and there has never been a lack of business.
Difficult, it must be more difficult than letting go of the hands and feet, but it will not be impossible to do it.
But since the end of last year, the Zhejiang mariners didn't know what crazy they were. They had only patrolled the Dinghai and Zhoushan areas. Now they have come across Suzhou to Suzhou.
To know that Suzhou is under the jurisdiction of Nanzhili, it cannot be linked to Zhejiang. In the early years, Nanzhili also had a sailor, called Su Song, who specialized in supporting the area around Suhang. Later, for some reason, it was withdrawn, and there were no more sailors around Suhang.
Different land on the sea is clearly demarcated, and whose place is the one, subject to the boundary monument. It is impossible to do the boundary stele at sea, and with the fact that there are no pilots in the Suhang area, it is not impossible for Zhejiang pilots to protect by the way.
It is reasonable to say that this is a good thing, after all, it is safe, but for those who want to smuggle, they ca n’t wait to go as far as the sailor ’s ship.
There are also local officials in the Suhang area, but all of them were suppressed by superior officials. This kind of slackness is nothing to look for and scold. If Shi Chaoting asked you about the local non-water master, why didn't he want to do the due diligence of Zhejiang water master?
Could it be that we want to go to sea, so Zhejiang mariners are in the way?
Moreover, the Zhejiang navy only patrolled the coast, did not enter the inland, and no one could catch each other's problems.
The problem is that if the goods inside want to go out, they can only go out to sea. Once they enter the sea, they will hit the nose of the Zhejiang marine master.
This is now the case. A bird cage is surrounded, and the birds in the cage can only flutter.
The Hongchang ticket number has already been detained three times and has lost nearly three million silver. A ticket number seems to have huge funds. In fact, not much cash can be circulated on the books. This is all the depositors' money. However, Xiang Qingshan's family has not been ruined, but it is inevitable to hurt his muscles.
Wu Qing's Xiang Qingshan has already spoken numerous times, all of which are vague. Xiang Qingshan is also tolerant, and the business of the simple ticket number is not all directed at the sea, so the business at sea is stopped. At this time, the business is done in the limelight, and it is not something that smart people will do.
But it was at this time that the Wu family was right. It was Wu Wanqiong who sent the message back and said that he had met a sea merchant in Dinghai.
The Yishang has a way in the Zhejiang naval division. If he deals with him, there is no need to worry about the goods being seized. But relatively, the price of natural shipments is much lower than normal.
Xiang Qingshan asked the price, although it made a lot of less, but still made a profit. And the ticket number has already been short of money, and now it is urgent to fill in the account, so I wrote to say that I am very interested in this business.