Chapter 24 Business "Dong dong dong, dong dong, dong dong dong dong."
The continuous sound of war drums swept across the beach, and together with the sound of waves, poured into the sleeping Jiaozhou City.
"Damn it!"
Daru Hua Chi'eryou, who was painting in Jiaozhou, Meng Yuan Province, threw the pen on the table and cursed in a low voice.
No need to ask, it must be someone who is having fun with the Privy Council again and is having a "fierce battle" with the pirates.
The Jiaozhou Navy would fight four or five similar "fierce battles" every year, winning every game.
However, very few pirates were killed each time, and no prisoners were ever taken.
After all, buying death row prisoners from Korea is also an expense, and Mr.
Tuohuan will never spend the money he can save.
However, every time the navy returned triumphantly, the "thief's filth" seized was very rich.
Privy Councilor Qian was very good at doing things and was very good at doing things.
From Shandong Road, to Yidu Road, to Jiaozhou City, officials at all levels could get their due share from the "thief's spoils" according to their corresponding official levels.
Therefore, the commotion became more noisy, and the officials in Jiaozhou were too embarrassed to stand up and expose the excerpts played by the prostitutes and smuggling merchants.
Of course, after receiving the profit share, everyone also tacitly adopted a blind-turning attitude towards the smuggling cargo ships sailing in and out of Jiaozhou Bay.
Anyway, this kind of smuggling trade is in vain.
Anyone who dares to ignore the shipping department controlled by Semu Ren and send ships directly from Jiaozhou Bay to Korea and Japan, who doesn't have a prince or above standing behind him?
If you fail to apologize to others, you will lose your official position and your life.
It's better to pretend to be deaf and dumb.
At least you can get a dividend from the "thief's stolen goods" every quarter, which is far more satisfying than scratching the ground.
Not all officials are willing to work together.
A few years ago, there was a naval officer named Wanhu who was transferred from Dadu.
He ignored the dissuasion of his subordinates and insisted on blocking the huge smuggling hole in Jiaozhou Bay for the imperial court.
As a result, while leading the team to hunt down the smuggling ship, he slipped and fell into the sea.
By the time he was fished out by his men, his stomach was already as full as a roller.
No matter what the gods did, he would be unable to save his life.
Since then, the civil and military officials in Jiaozhou City have never taken the initiative to cause trouble.
Even recently, it was discovered that traders were secretly smuggling grain and saltpeter from the sea to Huai'an City, but they just let it go.
Anyway, the mirrors, ice emeralds, and jade dew of flowers that can be applied to the body for half a month in exchange for grain and saltpeter from Huai'an City have never been left for public sale in Jiaozhou City.
Almost early the next morning, there were special carriages transporting these extremely expensive luxury items directly to Jinan for shipment.
Then it went upstream along the Daqing River, entered the canal, and meandered to Dadu, Shangdu, Jining and other places where the princes and nobles liked to live.
You can even go as far away as the Ilkhanate and deliver it to the nobles who spend a lot of money.
A glass mirror that can clearly reflect the sweat pores on a person's face; it is carved from ice jade and can illuminate various utensils at night; it is a jade dew brewed from the essence of flowers.
The price of any item is no more than 1,000 yuan.
Even if you are from Jiaozhou Daru Hua Chi'er, a fourth-grade official, if you want to buy a piece of everything to taste it, you will have to frown and hesitate for several days.
He didn't believe that after these goods arrived in the capital city, they would flow into the homes of ordinary merchants.
The prime ministers, Pingzhang, and censors of the current dynasty knew that this thing would cause a large amount of money and food to flow to Huai'an, into the hands of the red scarf giant Zhu Chongjiu, and eventually turn into cannons, long spears, and broadswords. , but remained indifferent.
This strange situation is somewhat thought-provoking.
"Is it possible that someone in the imperial court doesn't want the red thieves to be wiped out as soon as possible?"
He ordered the maid to close the doors and windows to isolate the sound of the war drums.
Zhou Daru Hua Chi'eryou picked up the pen again and walked back and forth beside the bookcase.
Tuotuo and Hama have the same potential as water and fire.
This point is clear to all officials with a little enthusiasm.
And if Tuotuo successfully kills Zhu Chongjiu, Liu Futong and other thieves, with his dazzling military exploits and the 300,000 victorious troops in his hands, he will definitely trample Hama under his feet.
But what if Tuotuo loses the battle?
That's impossible, absolutely impossible.
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No matter how bastard Hama is, he wouldn't dare to joke about the great power of the Yuan Dynasty.
Holding tightly on the brush covered with thick ink, Jiaozhou Daru Hua Chi Eryou was so scared that he broke out in a cold sweat due to the sudden thoughts that popped up in his mind.
If Zhu Chongjiu defeated Tuotuo, the consequences would be terrible.
The Yuan Dynasty will definitely fall into ruin and even collapse in an instant.
Hama, who is also an important minister in the dynasty, would definitely not be stupid enough to collude with the Zhu thieves.
However, if we try to find a way to make Tuotuo and Zhuthi draw a tie, or drag the war for four or five months, then the situation will become clear again.
Hama can join forces with Yue Kuochaer and others to impeach Tutuo on the grounds of "working hard to no avail and raising a thief to respect himself".
Then find a general to replace him.
It happened that Tuotuo had also exhausted the red thief to the point where the oil was exhausted.
As soon as the replacement Tuotuo arrived, he could immediately fight the red scarf thief.
The entire "counterinsurgency" effort fell into the hands of Hama and others.
Tutuo and Timur were not brothers, and they completely lost the emperor's trust.
The weather in coastal cities has always been cool, but Daru Hua Chi Eryou's back in Jiaozhou became wet unknowingly.
Not because of the continuous sound of war drums outside the window, but because of the unpredictable political situation in the capital city thousands of miles away.
At that time, the Prime Minister Boyan lost power and was replaced by Tuotuo.
From top to bottom in the Yuan Dynasty, countless officials’ heads were chopped off.
And once Hama replaces Tuotuo, will those guys who are on the wrong team end up with a happy ending?
But if Tuotuo had the last laugh, in order to set an example, he would not let Hama and Xuexue go.
By then, I'm afraid there will be an explanation as to where so many mirrors and flower dew in the capital came from.
As one of the main smuggling channels, Jiaozhou is definitely doomed.
The civil and military officials in the city may also have endless troubles.
"My lord, my lord, this is not going to happen, this is going to be bad," I was thinking in agony, when suddenly there was an annoying noise outside the door.
Immediately afterwards, Han Qing, a fellow magistrate of Jiaozhou, rushed in, holding the door with both hands, and said angrily, "Sir, please go and have a look.
Something happened, something really big happened.
Pirates, pirates are guarding the east gate.
We landed on Waihuang Beach and wiped out all the naval forces."
"What are you talking about?
Aren't you just trying to fool people?
How could they really get into a fight?"
Jiaozhou Daru Hua Chi Eryou quickly pulled off his earmuffs and accidentally smeared ink all over his face with the brush in his hand.
"Oh, my lord, when would I dare to lie to you?"
Han Qing, a colleague from Jiaozhou, crawled forward a few steps and hugged Eryou's thighs with both hands.
"They are not merchants, they are pirates, real pirates.
We are in Jiaozhou.
You, the waterman of Wanhusuo It's not that I don't know that 70% of the free wages have been eaten up.
The remaining two or three thousand brothers have been defeated one after another, and they have been defeated all the way to the city gate.
If you don't send people to support quickly, the thieves will kill them directly.
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