0573 Dead hand
What made the personal soldiers blush was that by comparing the two lists, we could find that the list provided by the navy was obviously exaggerated. However, these personal soldiers were shamelessly trying to ask for more silver, but they were knocked over to the ground without hesitation before becoming honest. After the two sides handed over the silver, these people left quietly.
What happened next was quite incredible. When Wang Desheng saw the car burning silver, his eyes were almost bulging out! They didn't expect that the Red Eye Dragon King's burning silver for his subordinates was so generous! But since the silver had already reached his hands, he naturally wanted to pluck his hair!
So according to the tradition of the Ming army, he only took out a small part of the silver and distributed it to the families of the deceased, but the news was leaked. Everyone knew that the silver was paid by the Red Eye Dragon King, and the amount was quite large! After all, the sailors knew who they were fighting for this trip to sea?
This led to rumors flying in the military camp, which directly shakes the morale of the Quanzhou navy. Unfortunately, Wang Desheng and a few officers who had distributed the money were still proud, but they didn't know that there was a volcano under their butt being brewing.
In the past, sailors would not be angry when encountering such things. Because everyone is used to it. And everyone knows the money that can be transferred to the helmsman. But today the money that is about to be distributed to the hands is very dissatisfied! This is how people are. They don’t want to lose if they have never obtained it, and they don’t want to lose it if they have obtained it!
The civil servants in the governor's yamen naturally knew what this battle was. The matter in the officialdom was to deceive the superiors and not hide the subordinates! However, this contribution included the contributions of their operations, including the contributions of the supervision of the transportation of food and supplies, so they would never expose them.
Instead, they kept bragging to Shangguan how difficult and important this battle was! In short, they were very satisfied with the battle.
Liu Pei used the hands of the Quanzhou Navy to wipe out several pirates and clear the obstacles. The Quanzhou Navy got the military achievements they wanted and completed the order of the Ministry of War. Promotion and promotion are just around the corner! The civil servants made a surprise fortune in the food and food they supervised, and then got a lot of credit. Even the soldiers in the Navy also got benefits. Although the rewards they received were deducted
, but after all, some of the money was given to them.
But the happiest thing is the maritime merchants. After a series of battles at sea, they all thought that the pirates' strength had been severely damaged, so they excitedly organized their source of goods to go out to sea to earn money. But what made them both disheartened was that their ships had just sailed halfway, when they encountered an interception from Liu Pei's fleet!
With the support of the Intelligence Bureau, the fleet had already calculated the time to wait for them to go out to sea! Now Liu Pei is strong and has countless ships! After scattering the fleet, the only few routes on the sea were cut off from the middle very quickly! Those sea ships loaded with cargo could not escape the fleet's roundup!
All the heads of the ships were used to running to the sea. When they saw the Liu Pei fleet's momentum of showing off their power, they knew that they had not suffered any losses in their previous battles. After thinking about it a little more, they understood the various things.
So they all cursed Wang Degong to cheat people! But they had no choice but to be at sea. Since they couldn't escape, they could only surrender obediently. Fortunately, the Red Eye Dragon King had the name of not being bloody. They thought that as long as they handed over 20% of the goods, they would be fine.
But this time they were disappointed! After Liu Pei's fleet intercepted the ship, he still followed the old ways before. That was towed all the ships and cargo, and all the sailors were dragged to work on Taiwan Island.
Those maritime merchants waited for the ship to come back and naturally had to inquire about the news. When they got the real news from other people, some maritime merchants, big and small, were scolded, and some were beaten and stamped their feet! But they had no choice but to Liu Pei.
For these maritime merchants, they can buy goods if they lose them. Although it is a troublesome thing for sailors to lose them, they can always hire some skilled sailors for a high price. But sea boats are their lifeline! If there is no ship, you can't swim across the sea with your cargo on your back!
During this period, Liu Pei's fleet had already grabbed more than a hundred sea ships, giving these sea merchants a heavy blow!
But those maritime merchants would be powerless if they wanted to put pressure through the government. They had already spent a lot of favors and financial resources to ask the court for answering.
It is time to send troops. If you want to ask the court to send troops for the second time, it will be even more difficult! After all, the court also needs shame. Should the court admit that he had hit the wrong person last time and do it again this time?
Moreover, due to Wang Desheng's victory this time, both local civil and military systems stood on Wang Desheng's side. It would be impossible to admit that it would not be possible to attack the Red Eye Dragon King! So even if they have the ability to push the navy to attack Liu Pei again, they cannot do this! Because that would be a complete breakup with local officials!
Moreover, even if they fought to tear each other apart and let the court encircle Liu Pei again regardless of their face, they would not be able to guarantee whether the local officials would cooperate with Liu Pei again, so that their plans would be in vain!
This forced the maritime merchants to find a way for themselves. So the small maritime merchants turned to larger maritime merchants. The larger maritime merchants asked the gentry and big merchants to find a way to talk to Liu Pei. After all, this disaster was caused by them. The dignified king of the sea, the Red Crystal Dragon King, would sit down with everyone to talk about doing business together. Your response was to send a large army to encircle and suppress it? So you have to solve this matter!
Although the top maritime merchants have great influence in the court and the stern world, they can't suppress such a surging reaction in the face of half of Jiangnan! After all, the various relationships behind everyone will be unable to bear it if they arouse public anger! So under such circumstances, seven or eight people who pushed the navy to encircle Liu Pei had to gather to discuss how to deal with the current situation.
More than ten days later, two tall and sturdy sea boats went out to sea. Although the sea boat was very old, it can be seen that it had been specially sorted out and repaired before going to sea, and it was wiped cleanly. If you look into the boat building, you will understand why the ship was dealt with.
Chapter completed!