Mystery Makes Me Strong

The end of the red-haired captain is not good.

First of all, it was a huge sum of two million taels, which triggered a sailor riot after sailing south for only more than 500 nautical miles.

The sailors demanded an equal split.

There are 50 people on board, and one person can share 40,000 taels equally.

This is also a huge sum of money.

Enough for everyone to buy enough real estate to live comfortably for a lifetime.

Relying on the first mate and some henchmen, the captain killed some of the sailors and recruited them again. The newcomers didn't know anything.

Then the henchmen rebelled again.

In short, there were three rebellions back and forth.

The captain was injured and lost a leg.

The first mate was missing an eye.

In the end, there were only five people who still knew that there were two million silver on board...

The five pirates share the silver, and everyone chooses to share it equally.

The new sailors are completely unaware.

However, the core sailors have been lost, and the new sailors are not familiar with the business.

When they passed through the southern strait, they were discovered by people from Rongyao Group.

Then check for interception.

Because Jia Rong already knew that the red-haired man was colluding with the court.

"A bunch of pirates!"

The captain cursed and gave the order to flee.

Patrols are sailing clippers.

And his ship was equipped with a steam engine, so it was supposed to be able to escape.

As a result, the new sailors couldn't operate it. Under the fear and tension, too much coal was stuffed in, and the tank was blown up...

This is the drawback of early steam engines: the failure rate is extremely high.

It must be operated by skilled workers.

So two million taels were all given to the pirates: Rongyao Company.

The captain was hanged.

The mate was pardoned for reciting a philosophical poem before dying.

He decided to give him to Master Jia Rong as a slave.

In other words, the two million taels spent by the emperor to buy the warship was finally returned to the hands of the rebels.

This is liars cheating fools, robbers robbing liars.

In the end, the robbers won.

Not long after, the second wave of red-haired people contacting the court appeared again.

Of course they should be called blue-haired men. They are different from red-haired men, and they wear blue hats.

The blue-haired man sent an envoy to tell the emperor that they were also willing to use the fleet to help the imperial court, but only needed the imperial court to provide silver as military expenses.

As a result, the emissary was hacked to death by the enraged emperor as soon as he finished speaking.

Because the emperor already knew that the silver was cheated by the red-haired captain.

As for how to know, of course, Jia Rong spread the news.

It is to be used to attack the emperor's prestige and let everyone know that he is a fool.

The emperor is wise, and the emperor is a fool, the deterrent effect brought to people is completely different.

The emperor said angrily: "You are all in the same group, you only know how to cheat my money!"

The blue-haired man was also angry: "These barbarians, they actually killed our envoy!"

"We are going to help them. Sure enough, barbarians are barbarians, and everything should be cleaned up!"

However, in the face of interests, the blue-haired man quickly understood why the emperor was furious.

Because they sent a second wave of envoys to bribe important ministers first.

The minister told them that the first wave of red-haired men cheated them of two million taels of boat purchase fees.

"Those damn red-haired ghosts, they ruined our reputation." The blue-haired man cursed.

How could the early maritime merchants have any credibility?

They're all a mix of pirates and merchants.

As long as you are strong at sea, you will be a pirate.

Only those with small strength can do business honestly.

So it's no wonder that the court hacked them to death.

After the early maritime merchants were hacked to death, the rate of injustice was very low.

In short, after several twists and turns, the court still agreed to meet in an increasingly dangerous situation.

After all, only red-haired people can defeat Rongyao Company

Because the rebels had steamships, which the imperial court did not have.

Without a fleet, the court is bound to fail.

But it is useless to cram for the moment, you must rely on other people's ships and sailors.

The parties reached an agreement.

The imperial court employs a fleet of blue-haired men.

But the results of the battle must be shown to the court, as much money as there are results of the battle.

The blue-haired man doesn't have to worry about not getting the silver.

Because if the court doesn't give it, you can only cheat once, and you will still be defeated by the people of Rongyao Company in the end.

Then there is nothing.

The blue-haired man, who understood this, agreed.

After all, they already had a huge conflict of interest with Rongyao.

In recent years, Rongyao Company has developed too powerfully.

If they were allowed to occupy the entire Eastern Dynasty, they would no longer have any special interests to speak of.

If you can only do business on your own, it will be very hard.

You can't easily smuggle and make a lot of money like now.

After all, the Eastern Dynasty did not understand what tariffs were and what smuggling was.

A lot of money was given to the people below.

But the strength of the blue-haired people's fleet in the east is seriously insufficient.

Their fleet has only ten battleships, of which there are only three steam battleships.

They need to concentrate their forces.

But Rongyao's people expanded rapidly.

One more year would be enough to completely occupy the core of the Eastern Dynasty.

Then don't even think about turning the tables.

So the blue-haired people began to assemble fleets of other forces.

Then he pulled the nearest fleet to the west to make up the numbers.

In the end, a total of 30 warships were assembled, of which 15 were steam ships and the other 15 were sail warships.

Everyone made a final agreement on the division of interests according to the proportion of the ship.

The main thing is who will control the major ports of the Eastern Dynasty.

This fleet is definitely very powerful in the Eastern Ocean.

They are going to have a decisive battle with the fleet of the Rongyao Company,

As long as they defeat the opponent's fleet, they can take the initiative.

The opponent's land fortress will be divided and surrounded by them.

The imperial court can reopen the water transport, have food and grass, and send a large army to surround their fortress.

Relying on the huge manpower to overwhelm them.

Very nice idea.

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However, neither Zhao Han nor Jia Rong or Jia Lian were afraid of these western fleets at all.

Because all three of them knew their opponent's Achilles' heel.

In this era, the influence of Westerners in the East has just risen, and there is no time to establish a good port.

Outside of their hands in the east, there is no port where steamships can be repaired.

30 battleships may seem like a lot.

But if the opponent hits one, there will be one less.

There is no port, repair ships for them, and build ships.

They have to go back to the west to fix it.

But Rongyao is different.

They have ports where they can repair ships.

Moreover, enough coastal defense cannons have been built to ensure that the port will not fall.

There are three such ports.

Each is a big hedgehog.

30 or 60 ships cannot be defeated.

What's more, there are enough manpower to defend above.

It will take at least two to three years for the blue-haired man to build a port with such a function.

There must be enough manpower and a lot of silver.

And the ports that meet the conditions are all within their attack range.

As long as the other party starts to build, they will send ships to bombard them.

So strategically they have enough advantages.

But the idea of ​​the blue-haired man is to use 30 warships to defeat the fleet of the Rongyao Company, and then transport the soldiers of the imperial court to land on the island to seize the repair port of the Rongyao Company.

A fleet of bluehaired men seeks a decisive battle.

They chose to attack Longjiang Estuary.

Just at the mouth of the Longjiang River, the two sides started a big battle.

It has to be said that the confidence of the pirates is not fake.

Because they were played all the way.

And Rongyao and the others are just playing rookies.

Even with better design, better artillery, more manpower, home field advantage...

The two sides are still tied.

After the war, both sides lost half of their warships each.

One lost a dozen ships, and the other also lost a dozen ships.

The problem is that a month later, Rongyao Company's warships came back again.

They took the initiative to look for the blue-haired man's warship to attack.

The blue-haired man could only retreat to the west.

A draw means failure.

Now this distance determines the outcome on the battlefield.

The fatal distance made their victory slip away from their hands.

It will take at least half a year for their new ships to arrive from the west.

And the other party can repair the damaged ship in just one month, and at the same time replenish it with new ships.

With such a long time difference, the other party will not let it go.

The blue-haired man had to admit that his intervention was powerless and a failure.

But before retreating, they still thought of an idea.

They decided to use a steam warship to transport important figures of the court away.

They began to persuade the emperor to send the prince to an island in the west.

But the emperor refused.

They later proposed sending several members of the royal family over.

The emperor agreed, and after knowing the result of the naval battle, he took the prince and ran west.

After all, the enemy came from the sea.

There is no sea in the west, so the west should still be very safe.

Of course, they didn't know that their opponents were not ordinary pirates, they wanted to conquer the entire dynasty.

The west side is not safe either.

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at the same time.

The land of Jinling.

There's been a strange rumor going on in town this year.

That is to say, the four families of Jia Shi Wang Xue rebelled.

They organized pirates to go ashore to build castles and block water transportation.

The people from the Rongyao Company, using the name of pirates, are actually from the Jia family.

It's just that everyone, bureaucrats and clerks feel very strange.

A rebellious pirate, instead of looting, he is maintaining order.

Even doing good business.

This is quite different from previous rebels.

In the past, when people rebelled, they must have burned, killed and looted everywhere.

And this group of pirates, their request to the prefecture and county is that as long as you open the door to do business normally, we will not attack your city.

If you dare to close the city gate, we will bombard you with cannons.

Some people think these pirates are pretty good.

Because they shipped a lot of food, they calmed down the soaring food prices caused by the war.

Many large grain merchants who are hoarding have suffered a lot.

They also set up bazaar places where these people come to buy and sell things.

They also proactively maintain law and order.

Clean up the bandits who took advantage of the fire.

The leader was killed, and the rest were taken overseas to do coolies.

Under such circumstances, people's hearts began to waver.

The main reason is that those who failed to pass the examination as scholars, or those who were scholars but failed to pass the examination as Juren, had their own ideas in their minds.

You know it's not easy to live these days.

You can't pass the exam as a scholar, and you can't do anything until you are forty or fifty years old. You can only become a private school teacher.

But there are few teachers.

Old Tongsheng had a very miserable life.

One of the representatives is Fan Jin in the scholars.

Before being admitted to Juren, the old mother was almost blind from hunger.

This can truly reflect the living conditions of scholars.

But now, Rongyao Company is rebelling. It's good to rebel, and the rebellion can be the founding hero of the country.

Many scholars are ambitious.

It can be said that many people just don't have the conditions.

And in their view, Rongyao looks like Jackie Chan.

Why do you say that?

Because these people know how to rule, how to operate and build.

This is completely different from pirates and rogues.

If the rogue doesn't know how to operate and build, he will inevitably fail.

However, Rongyao Company knew how to build and operate from the very beginning. Once such a force takes advantage of the momentum, the probability of success is extremely high.

Why nomads can beat farming, because they also have a complete construction system.

They are also able to operate and build.

That's why they were able to win.

So soon, there were scholars and children who had tried and failed, joined the group one after another, and sought an official position to do it.

In the beginning, it was mainly to be an accountant and a teacher.

Help with literacy.

Teaches simplified text.

In fact, there have been simplified characters since ancient times.

With the joining of scholars, more and more people found that the imperial court was going to fail.

In folk cities, taverns and hotels, and county government mansions, scholars and officials are discussing everywhere.

"This court pill!"

"Yes, there is no water transport, and the northern soldiers were blocked by ships. They wanted to detour, but they were blocked by those strong fortresses."

"If the imperial court can't hold on for a few years, it will collapse."

"That's right. As for the Rongyao Company, they have money and food, and they are getting more and more prosperous. They transport a large number of refugees overseas. Obviously, they have a place overseas."

"Yes, this is equivalent to the northern captives who occupied the Central Plains before."

"Then what should we do?"

"Yeah, are we helping the court? Or are we helping them?"

"We will definitely help no one."

"You're right. The Rongyao Company didn't rob us of our land or food, but only took away some refugees."

Why should we rebel?

Many big landlords and big businessmen in the south of the Yangtze River think so.

After all, Rongyao is in business.

They also do a lot of business with each other.

Buy food, sell raw silk, buy medicines, Western things.

All in all, everyone is in harmony.

It's all due to some villains in the imperial court. The other party only transported the refugees away and calmed down the local area.

It's a win-win thing.

But the villain can't stand it.

Of course, some officials still want to resist.

It's just that they have to rely on big businessmen and big landlords to have money and food.

But these big landlords and big businessmen found that they could continue to do business with Rongyao.

The other party does not rob them of their land or their money.

Not to hurt their people.

In this case, it costs a lot of money to fight against the opponent.

There is also the risk of failure.

Aren't they hitting a rock with an egg?

In the face of strength, as long as the other party does not touch too much of their own interests, only 5% of people are willing to resist for the court.

Some did rise up against it.

They are some famous Confucian ministers.

"It's a pity that they are destined to block the car with their arms." A scholar said.

This happened to be what the emperor said when he commented on the four major families.