Chapter 206: Great Victory Against the Japanese, Minglan Goes to Zhao's Tea House

Once upon a time, when Japanese pirates were causing chaos along the coast, they were always the attacking party, and the Great Zhou could only passively defend.

The reason was that the Japanese pirates were good at roaming around. If they took the initiative to attack, it would not only be difficult to find their traces, but also easy to encounter an ambush.

But since the establishment of the navy, this phenomenon has been completely reversed.

The Japanese pirates have become the defending party.

As long as they see the navy soldiers of the Great Zhou, they will immediately flee without any hesitation.

After all, some Japanese pirates have seen it with their own eyes in the past few days.

Several soldiers of the Great Zhou killed a Japanese pirate together, and then dismembered the body in full view of the public.

One person held an arm and a leg and continued to fight.

Is this still a human being? It's just a madman!

Let me ask, who can not be timid in fighting against such a Great Zhou army?

This encounter on the sea ended with the Japanese pirates fleeing in panic.

Some naval officers who failed to kill the Japanese pirates may not be able to sleep well.

On a certain warship, the captain was scolding his soldiers,

"Why are those ships so fast? They caught up with the Japanese pirates in the blink of an eye! Why can't we do that?"

"Next time we meet Japanese pirates, we should be more alert and drive the ship directly to hit them!"

"Otherwise, we won't even see the bones!"

There are many naval officers who have the same idea as him.

To be honest, they all want to jump into the sea and swim over because the warships are too slow.

How else can they be alert?

In any case, after the tossing of the new navy of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the sea outside Fuzhou is much safer.

It can be regarded as a good foundation for the sea transportation that is about to be officially launched.

On July 10, there are still about five or six days before the date decided by Wei Yuan to start the sea transportation.

Guo Hao, the former Daizhou Tuanlian Envoy, came to Fuzhou by order of the emperor to assist Wei Yuan in building the navy.

At this moment, in the big tent of the Fuzhou City Defense Camp.

Guo Hao said to Wei Yuan: "General, when I received the imperial edict, I asked the angel whether I should go to the capital to meet the emperor first."

"The angel said that the emperor asked me to go to Fuzhou immediately. I dared not delay and rushed here day and night."

The latter was relieved: "You asked this question, which can save a lot of trouble."

At least, in Zhao Zhen's eyes, he would feel that the generals who seemed to be from Daizhou not only had Wei Yuan in their eyes, but also the emperor.

Guo Hao said: "Before I met you, General Huyan briefly told me about the current situation of the navy construction."

"General Huyan is quite knowledgeable about the navy, and I have been training border troops. Will it be difficult for me to take on this task?"

Wei Yuan shook his head and said: "Huyan Zhong is a good candidate, but for now, he is not one of us."

"After I leave, you will be the commander of the navy, I feel relieved."

Guo Hao said: "General, when do you think it is appropriate for me to recruit new soldiers?"

Wei Yuan thought for a while and said: There is no time to lose. "

Guo Hao said: "I have some ideas about recruiting new soldiers. I wonder if I should say it or not?"

Wei Yuan smiled and said: "Since I have given you this task, I naturally trust you. Why should I say it or not? Just speak frankly."

Guo Hao nodded and said: "For the recruitment of new naval soldiers this time, I want to recruit from some coastal towns, especially from cold and bitter places."

"As for the rich places such as Suzhou and Hangzhou, I will not consider it for the time being. I wonder what you think, General?"

Now that it has come to this, what else can Wei Yuan say?

This Guo Hao, as Xiao Yuming and others said, has too strong opinions and is not easy to control.

But at the moment, Wei Yuan has no more suitable candidate.

"Are you worried that the children from rich places can't endure hardships?"

Guo Hao nodded and said, "General, we are all people who have fought in the frontier, so we know that those rich children who have no worries about food and drink can't make it on the battlefield."

"On the contrary, the people who come from the bitter and cold places can only fight bravely to stand out."

No matter what kind of battle is launched between countries, there must be a saying that it is to protect the safety of the people.

But in fact, every time a war is fought, it is always the common people who suffer, and the vested interests are the big men who are high above.

It is no exaggeration to say that Wei Yuan's promotion is so fast, which is inseparable from every soldier who died in the frontier.

The so-called one general's success is the result of the sacrifice of thousands of soldiers, which is exactly the case.

"Establishing a navy is not as simple as you think."

"If we only recruit poor young men, it is difficult to guarantee that they will 'escort' those aristocratic merchants."

"What I mean is that a portion of the troops should be selected from aristocratic families."

"It is very important to use whoever you fight for."

Wei Yuan said earnestly.

To put it bluntly, the poor young men he was unwilling to fight for were all poor young men.

The establishment of the navy is to stabilize the situation along the southeast coast and to serve the merchants who travel by sea.

In this case, the merchants' children should participate.

Don't want to participate? Then don't participate in sea transportation.

After Guo Hao left, Fan Chunren and Wei Yuan began to discuss the first batch of merchants participating in sea transportation.

First, the local merchants in Fujian Road.

Fan Chunren said: "In the past few days, the business contracts required by various countries have been drafted and sent to the nobles and merchants in Fujian Road first, and they will prepare the goods."

"As for the merchants in Liangzhe and other places who want to participate, I have recommended a few. Take a look and see if they are suitable."

Generally speaking, the court prohibits merchants from directly trading with overseas countries.

So, the court became a kind of middleman.

The government formed a bridge to allow merchants to trade with overseas countries, so that many matters of sea transportation can be better controlled.

The local officials in Fujian Road, including Cai Xiang, of course hoped that the first batch of participants in sea transportation would only be their local merchants.

But this is not practical.

Sea transportation is a national event, not a matter of one place or one state.

If the first batch of sea transportation is participated by Fujian Road merchants, there will be chaos.

Therefore, Wei Yuan and Fan Chunren will recommend the better merchants from other places to participate in the shipping.

If merchants from other places want to be recommended to participate in the shipping, they can only give benefits to the two of them.

Wei Yuan glanced at the list handed over by Fan Chunren. Many of the noble families on it have power in the court and seem to have a lot of connections with their Fan family.

He said meaningfully: "There is a story behind these people recommended by Lord Fan."

Fan Chunren smiled and said: "Both, but in reality, they do have enough ability to participate in the shipping. The first batch of shipping is related to the face of the country. I have also selected some people after careful consideration."

Wei Yuan nodded, exhaled a breath of turbid air, and murmured: "Now, everything is ready, only the east wind is missing."

Fan Chunren asked curiously: "Where is the east wind?"

Wei Yuan smiled and said: "An unprecedented victory against the Japanese pirates."

Unprecedented victory?

Fan Chunren was thoughtful, "I'll wait for good news."

At noon on July 11, Wei Yuan personally ordered 4,000 naval officers and soldiers to rush to Diaoyutai and Chiwei Island to launch a general attack on the Japanese pirates entrenched there.

At the same time, he ordered the Danglu Army and officers and soldiers from all over the country to carry out a comprehensive cleansing of the mountain strongholds and bandit forces in various places that intended to affect the normal trade of sea transportation.

Based on the principle of killing the wrong people rather than letting them go, the family-style mountain strongholds that used to harm one side were completely eradicated.

Before Wei Yuan came to the southeast, Wang Anshi once said that the bandit forces organized by villages and strongholds were what really made the people in the southeast miserable.

They usually looked like good people, but they had done a lot of robbing and looting.

The local governments were helpless against them.

At that time, Wang Anshi also specifically asked Wei Yuan to deal with them together if possible, and give the people in the southeast a temporarily clear sky.

Now that those forces have the possibility of affecting sea transportation, Wei Yuan will not be lenient to them.

After all, the government can't do anything to them because they rarely have evidence that they violate the law.

But does Wei Yuan need the law? Obviously not.

Moreover, for the current local officials in Fujian Road, whoever dares to do something to hinder the normal operation and development of shipping is their enemy.

Therefore, Wei Yuan's elimination of those forces is a good thing for them, and they naturally have to support it strongly.

Therefore, there is no rumor that Wei Yuan ordered the killing of innocent people in the local area.

On the contrary, many people are still praising Wei Yuan's achievements.

On the evening of the 13th, at the beginning of the hour of Hai.

In the big tent of the Fuzhou Coastal Defense Camp.

Wei Yuan, Yang Huairen, Chen Daniu and many other generals are patiently waiting for news from Diaoyutai.

Shipping will start on the 15th, that is, before the 15th, the navy must eliminate all the Japanese pirates active in Diaoyutai and Chiwei Island.

Use a great victory to tell those countries that want to destroy the shipping of the Great Zhou what is wishful thinking.

This is also used to reassure some anxious forces or countries.

This battle will become the first "famous battle" of the organized navy since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and it cannot be lost.

In the big tent.

Wei Yuan has always looked like he is sitting on a mountain of stability.

But at this time, many generals, led by Chen Daniu, were a little anxious and started to discuss.

"On the evening of the 11th, the navy arrived at Chiwei Island and Diaoyutai. Even if they were divided into two groups, with the current strength of the navy, it would not be a problem to wipe out the Japanese pirates in the area within two days. But how long has it been? How come there is no news?"

"Hu Yanzhong patted his chest and said to the general that he would definitely wipe out the Japanese pirates in the waters around Fuzhou. Was he just bragging?"

"Okay, keep your voice down, otherwise if the general heard it, he would definitely punish you for disturbing the morale of the army."

"I am also worried and confused. After all, two full days have passed. Even if we can't take Diaoyutai and other places, there should be some news, right?"

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Wei Yuan vaguely heard the discussion, but he ignored it.

On the contrary, Chen Daniu could not sit still and said to Wei Yuan:

"General Wei, how about giving me a group of people and taking a boat to see the situation of Diaoyutai and Chiwei Island?"

"It is not a good idea to sit here all the time!"

Wei Yuan glanced at him and said, "I have told you many times to be patient. If you are as impatient as you are, it will cause a big mess."

If it were other generals, he would scold them directly or ignore them.

He would never speak to Chen Daniu in a serious manner like Chen Daniu.

It was because Wei Yuan had high hopes for Chen Daniu.

Among the many generals in the court, including Zhang Fu, Gu Yankai and others, Chen Daniu would be dissatisfied with them, but Wei Yuan said that he dared not even breathe.

Just as Wei Yuan finished speaking.

Suddenly, an urgent report came.

It was a naval commander.

"Reporting to the commander, General Huyan has taken Diaoyutai last night!"

"There are hundreds of Japanese pirates in Diaoyutai, and none of them survived!"

"After taking Diaoyutai, General Huyan gathered his troops and is attacking Chiwei Island!"

After the naval commander finished speaking.

Many people in the tent were overjoyed and said one after another:

"Congratulations, Commander Wei, once Diaoyutai is taken, Chiwei Island should be taken in one or two days."

"The overall situation has been decided!"

"General Huyan is great, it only took half a night to reach Diaoyutai, it's really amazing!"

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Wei Yuan laughed and said, "The autumn wind has arrived, pass the order, martial law in Fuzhou, and prepare to go to sea from tomorrow!"

He was no longer worried about the problem of Chiwei Island.

In short, the overall situation has been decided.

Huyan Zhong did not disappoint his expectations.

The next day.

Merchants from all corners of the world, as long as they were on the first list of people going out to sea, began to be active.

They began to store goods at the newly built Fuzhou wharf, preparing to go out to sea tomorrow.

Once the matter of Chiwei Island was settled, the navy would escort them forward.

And overseas countries also responded positively.

For a time, because of those merchants, the town of Fuzhou suddenly became much more prosperous.

Even the scene of people coming and going was close to Bianjing.

This was just the beginning.

The first batch of merchants going out to sea had to be divided into three echelons and completed the voyage within three days.

This also meant that in the next two days, Fuzhou would be more prosperous.

At the same time.

Hangzhou.

Minglan and her group had been here for a few days.

On weekdays, if they wandered around the city, there would be people from the government following them, because they were worried that they would have problems.

After all, Mei Zhi, the governor of Hangzhou, felt that he had completely offended Wei Yuan and must not make any more mistakes.

If someone was blind and wanted to cause trouble for Minglan again, and Wei Yuan knew about it, the consequences would be disastrous.

In the past few days, Mei Zhi also took the time to tell Minglan what happened in Zhao's teahouse, and asked her to say something good for him when she saw Wei Yuan again, considering that he had tried his best to entertain her.

Minglan was ambiguous and did not directly agree, but just said that she would mention this matter when she met her uncle.

Minglan avoided Mei Zhi's so-called entertainment as much as possible.

In the past few days, Rulan and others had nothing to do and didn't know where to go, so they started talking.

"We've toured the lake and enjoyed the scenery, but I think the food here is not as good as that in Yangzhou. After staying for a few days, I don't know where to go to find some fun."

"Some places are not convenient for us women to go to."

"I heard that Hangzhou's tea and acrobatics are very famous. Let's go drink tea?"

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Tea and acrobatics?

Hearing what Pinlan said, Minglan thought of the Zhao's tea shop mentioned by the governor of Hangzhou, and smiled:

"If you want to drink tea, I have a good place to go."

A tea shop that can make his uncle say that the tea is good must be good.

Rulan and Pinlan just want to go out for a walk, as for whether to drink tea or other things, it doesn't matter.

And Molan had studied tea and acrobatics when she was in the capital, and she also wanted to see how the tea and acrobatics in Hangzhou are different from those in the capital.