The Rise of the European Emperor

Chapter 1908: All Burnt Up

It was also Da Gama's luck. At this time, the Ming army's navy was struggling to charge into the deep water bay, and did not pay attention to the situation in the southeast. Noticing the few ships in the southeast, they didn't know that there were "big fish" on the escaped ships. Seeing that the "Prince Enrique" ran aground and blocked the way out, they didn't bother to chase them, but turned around to snatch the Portuguese warship. The boat went.

At this time, because da Gama took a group of captains, officers and a small number of sailors to board the ship and escape quickly, the Portuguese crowd on the shore had no leader, and they were already like headless flies. Of the more than ten ships that were launched, only seven ran out, and one was stranded.

Seeing that Fulang and his men were in a mess, the commander of the navy of the Ming army changed his order and ordered to seize the ship. As a result, of the 25 Portuguese warships on the dock, except for the 6 that escaped, 12 of the remaining 19 were burned, and the remaining 7 ships, including the stranded "Prince Enrique", were all captured by the Ming army.

As for the shore, the Ming army who had been ambushing in the mountains for a long time also took advantage of the situation and came out, shouting and killing for a while. The Portuguese, who had long been leaderless, had no will to resist. After dozens of diehards were killed, the rest surrendered.

After dawn, the soldiers of the Ming army who had completely occupied Deep Water Bay began to clean up the results of the battle. Meanwhile, loot is moved down from the boat.

Fortunately, the most valuable gold and silver treasures totaled 400,000 taels, all of which were on the largest flagship "Prince Enrique". As for the other ships, there were mainly china and silk. Those silks were naturally burned along with the ship, and most of the porcelains sank into the sea.

But for the people of the Ming Dynasty, silk and porcelain are worthless at all, gold and silver are the most important, and those copper coins and bronze wares...

...

"Great victory! Great victory!" At noon in the Taiping Mountain temporary camp, the messenger sent from Deep Water Bay ran and shouted as soon as they entered the gate of the camp.

"My lord deputy envoy, Tongzhi Lin (Tianhai) of the navy and Commander Yang of the infantry have defeated the Frangji army. Among them, Tongzhi Lin's navy burned 12 large deck ships of the enemy, captured 7 ships, and the enemy only took advantage of the chaos. Escape. Commander Yang commanded 5,000 infantry troops to enter the enemy camp on the shore, killed 79 enemies, and captured 3,351 Fanguis!"

"Good! Good! Good!" Wang Hung jumped up excitedly and said "Yes" three times in a row.

After the messenger breathed a sigh of relief, he said again:

"In addition, the property looted by the Frangji people along the coast of the two provinces was basically shipped. Except for the property on the burned ship and the few ships that escaped in the chaos, a total of gold, silver and copper coins were seized on the seven captured ships. 390,000 taels (10,000 was hacked). There are also various properties worth more than 20,000 taels..."

"Well...that is to say,

Most of the belongings were burned with the ship? "Wang Hung said regretfully.

The messenger replied:

"Yes, my lord. However, Lin Tongzhi speculates that the Frangji people should put all their money on the largest captured ship. The rest of the ships are mostly silk and porcelain."

Wang Hung breathed a sigh of relief and said:

"That's good..." In his opinion, silk and porcelain can be reproduced. But gold, silver and copper are scarce and still very precious.

The messenger asked again:

"Commander Yang and Lin Tongzhi asked your lord what to do with the captured Fanguis and ships?"

Wang Hung thought for a while, and was about to speak out, but Lu Xiucai Lu Feng, who had been silent beside him, stopped him:

"Wait a minute, Dong Weng, Feng has something to say..."

Wang Hung looked at Lu Feng suspiciously, and according to Lu Feng's request, he screened back left and right, and asked suspiciously:

"Yizhi (written by Lu Feng), what do you want to say?"

At this time, Lu Feng had been recruited by Wang Hung as a guest, that is, as a teacher. But Wang Hong didn't know that Lu Feng was just a spy sent by Kong Tai, and he had a mission...

As mentioned earlier, Lu Feng's father was ill and needed expensive medicinal materials, but his family was poor and helpless. The people sent by Kong Tai saw this and bought Lu Feng with a lot of money, so that Lu Feng could marry his father successfully.

In ancient times, the grace of saving one's father was very important, so Lu Feng later took refuge in Kong Tai. Moreover, Kong Tai gave him a very generous treatment-an annual salary of 500 taels!

what is this concept? The annual salary of the county magistrate of Daming is 45 taels, and his annual salary is 11 times that of the county magistrate of the Ming Dynasty! Of course, the income of county magistrates in the Ming Dynasty must have been more than 45 taels, and there were many ways for them to get money.

But who is Lu Feng? But a poor scholar. And the county magistrate is at least a Juren! Moreover, the county magistrate who is not too greedy may not be able to get 500 taels a year.

In addition, Kong Tai also promised that what he did would not harm the fundamental interests of China, which made Lu Feng feel at ease.

This time, Lu Feng followed Kong Tai's instructions and came to give advice to Wang Hong...

"Ahem... Dong Weng, what do you plan to do with the seven captured deck ships?"

"Of course it will be handed over to the imperial court, and the imperial court will deal with it. If it can be sent to the capital for a display, it can also promote the prestige of the Ming Dynasty!" Wang Hung said without hesitation.

At this time, Lu Feng said seriously:

"Dong Weng, have you heard the story about Mr. Dongshan's possession of sea charts and blueprints of treasure ships?"

Wang Hung frowned and said:

"What do you want to say?"

"Dong Weng, the students want to say, to promote the country's prestige, the more than 3,300 ghost prisoners of war can be released from the capital, and those ships cannot be kept!" Lu Feng said solemnly.

"Why? I think those Flanger-deck ships are powerful weapons for naval warfare. Why don't you keep imitations and use them for my Ming Dynasty?" Wang Hung said displeased. He was a smart man, and he could see the superiority of the Portuguese warships, so he naturally wanted to imitate them.

"Dong Weng must not, if so, it will be a waste of all the painstaking efforts of Mr. Dongshan and the princes in the court!" Lu Feng persuaded.

"Why?" Wang Hung didn't understand.

"Dong Weng, don't you understand? Mr. Dongshan seems to have hidden the charts and blueprints of the treasure ship back then, just because he didn't want the court to do the trip of the Sanbao eunuch to the West again! You also know that the Sanbao eunuch went to the West back then, wasting more than millions of state funds Now, Mr. Dongshan has hidden the charts and blueprints of the treasure ship. And Dongweng, you know that Jinshang Haowu, if you let him get this deck ship and imitate it wantonly, how much state money will the court waste? Now, The governor is leading an army to quell the chaos in Fujiang. If His Majesty spends huge sums of money on shipbuilding on a whim, it will definitely cost the treasury. If there is not enough money, His Majesty may order an increase in taxes. However, civil disturbances have occurred many times since His Majesty took the throne. Increasing taxes, wouldn’t the government force the people to rebel?”

Wang Hung broke into a cold sweat after hearing this. Based on his understanding of Emperor Zhengde, if he really wants to give him this big toy, it will really be built on a large scale, and then he will make a voyage to the West or something. Nothing else, our emperor is capricious...

So, he saluted Lu Feng seriously and said:

"Thank you Yizhi for teaching me, then, Yizhi, what should we do with those big ships now? Also, if the Frangji invade our sea again, how should we deal with it?"

Lu Feng laughed loudly and said:

"Dong Weng, if the Fulang Robot comes again, don't you already have a mature countermeasure? Moreover, this is the first time you use it in actual combat. In any case, the name will never escape!"

"You mean Huo Gong?" Wang Hung also understood. Indeed, with this great victory, the Portuguese warships will come again in the future, just follow the gourd and continue to use this trick. Moreover, this move is very in line with the literati's idea of ​​"witty and decisive victory", and he, Wang Hung, will definitely become famous in the future, and it is no problem to leave his name in history.

Lu Feng nodded and said:

"Feng hereby congratulates Dong Weng in advance that he is about to become famous all over the world, and he is about to rise to the top!"

Wang Hung also laughed, and after laughing for a while, he asked again:

"Then, beneficially, what should be done with the seven captive ships?"

"Burn them all!" Lu Feng said lightly.

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