Chapter 845: Envoy? Dispatch troops?
In the bay of Busanpo, the wind is calm and the sea is gently undulating. Perhaps because of the special topography, it is surrounded by two small peninsulas and a Jeakin Island, and no matter how strong the wind and waves outside the harbor are, the water surface in the middle of Busan Pura is always calm and peaceful, and it is a natural haven.
On the eastern shore of Pusan, on a port pier called Yongtang, a short and fat man wearing the robes of a high-ranking civil official of the Goryeo Kingdom is leading a group of sesame mung bean officials to look around with their necks stretched.
In the back, they lost a few weights, their faces were vegetable, and at first glance, they were the officers and soldiers of the Goryeo Prefecture who had not eaten for a long time, and they were also standing stupidly on the dock looking at the sea, and a few of them had quite big mouths, as if they had seen monsters.
Busanpo is a county under the jurisdiction of the Ulju Pastoral Governor of Goryeo. It is said to be a county, but in fact it is a village. In the Goryeo Kingdom, there were four levels of administrative units: provinces, prefectures, counties, and counties. But how big is Goryeo? The Communist Party is equivalent to a road in the Great Song Dynasty, so the road of Goryeo is similar to the state of the Great Song Dynasty, the state capital is equivalent to the county, and the county is probably about the same as the town, and the county is similar to the village of the Great Song Dynasty.
However, the "village" of Busan Po is still prosperous, and it has always been an important port for maritime trade between Korea and Japan. Although from the perspective of the Great Song Dynasty, this port is also too depressed. However, every year when the southeast wind blows, several merchant ships sail from the port of Hakata in Japan.
At this time, it is not only the festival of the entire "Busanpo Village", but also the festival of the entire Ulju officials. Those merchants of the Song State or the Goryeo Kingdom on the merchant ships (Japan closed the country, so there were no merchants going to sea), after all, they had to prepare a lot of "generous gifts" to deal with the officials of the Goryeo Kingdom, even if it was just a small government soldier, as long as they could get those merchants, they could get a few benefits.
Therefore, whenever a sea ship arrives, the officials up and down Ulju will gather at the dock with their small soldiers in a big way, waiting to collect the money!
Even if the king of Goryeo "sold" the tax card of Pusanpo to the merchants of the Song Kingdom, he could not stop these large and small local snakes from blocking the sea to collect money.
Whoever dares not to give it will be confiscated even if the person and the boat are confiscated!
However, the news that the Song State had dedicated the Busanpu tax card to the Liao State from Kaijing a while ago made the officials in Ulzhou have a feeling that something is wrong.
The Song State is not afraid, but the Liao State is very cruel. Everyone knows that those Khitans occupied Kyoto in the past.
In addition, the edict sent by Kaijing also said that the Jueying Island in Punai, Busan, would be leased to the Liao people to open a Laoshizi trading market!
In the future, the officials of Dagoryeo will not be able to manage the affairs of Jeokingeji Island...... Oh, after 99, Jeep Island will still be returned to Goryeo, but it can't be managed until then.
This is sad for a group of Goryeo masters and young masters who are officials in Ulju and soldiers in Busan.
More than half of their annual income is on those merchant ships. If you don't have to take it, how can you live? Moreover, the shortage of officials in Ulzhou will not fall from the sky, and they will have to spend money to buy them back. Now that the cost has not been recovered, why is it going to be out of harvest for 99 years? Isn't this pushing people to a dead end?
Just when the officials up and down Ulju and the government soldiers in charge of guarding the place of Busan Pur were all in a hurry, there was finally good news.
Dozens of merchant ships appeared on the sea! It's all big and fat, and I don't know how many good things are on it!
This time, you must hang a lot of money!
Li Rulin, the Ulzhou Mu of the Great Goryeo Kingdom, secretly decided in his heart: This time he must make enough 10 million...... Wen! Well, the money of these two units, Li Dazhoumu has only heard of it, but has never seen it.
And money doesn't seem to be of much use in Goryeo, most of the Goryeo people don't know copper coins, and they are bought and sold by bartering.
But Li Dazhou Mu just likes money! 10 million, it's fun to think about!
A military attache from the Goryeo Kingdom came to Li Rulin's side and said in a low voice: "Zhou Mu, it seems that something is wrong!" ”
"What's wrong?" Li Rulin asked.
"You see those boats have oars......"
"Nonsense! How do you drive a boat without oars? ”
"Zhou Mu, the big merchant ships on the sea generally don't have oars, and they use both sails and oars, and they are so big, most of them are warships!"
This military attache is the commander of the naval army here in Busanpo, although he has never fought a serious naval battle, and he has not even fought a pirate (and can't beat it), but he knows a little bit about it.
I know that a big ship that carries goods at sea is not usually equipped with many long oars - how many people can paddle it! If there are more people, there will be more supplies and fresh water, and there will be fewer goods.
Moreover, the merchant ships all sailed with the wind, and they traveled thousands of miles in one day and one night. There is not much difference between whether there is an oar or not, and the most important thing is to transport more goods.
Generally speaking, only the ships owned by the seafarers were equipped with long oars. But the problem is that there seem to be more than 20 large boats rowing with wooden oars on the sea today.
More than twenty warships...... How is this possible?
Thinking about it, it was impossible, so the military attache of the Goryeo Navy didn't speak, and waited for those "warships" to get closer.
However, Li Rulin didn't want to give this sesame officer of the Goryeo navy a chance to wait for the enemy to approach, and ordered in a low voice: "Commander Quan, you take a boat to stop them and tell them that this is the port of Great Goryeo." They can't enter the harbor together with so many ships, and they can only enter the harbor two at a time, and the rest are waiting for the officer on the sea outside the harbor. ”
"Whoa."
……
"There are so many people, and there are many officers and soldiers...... Did they notice that something was wrong with us? Do you want to arm? ”
At this time, Ji Yi was standing on the bow of the "God of Light" warship of the Ji family's maritime merchants, holding a telescope and looking at the pier of Busanpo.
He was followed by Hu Yanqing and the warships of the Ji family's maritime merchants.
Cheng Gui was a short Zhejiang man, with dark skin, a terrible scar on his face, a scarf on his head, a white shirt, and an embroidered red belt around his waist, and a scimitar made of Uzi steel hanging from his belt, which he had snatched from the Grammguard, a maritime merchant of a large food country.
Hu Yanqing was also a lot darker, wearing a white-washed green official uniform, tied with a very mismatched black belt, with a Xixia sword hanging from the belt, and looking around with a telescope in his hand.
This Hu Yanqing's official position has also been promoted, because of the "liberation" of Taiwan Island and Penghu, the military officer was promoted to the deputy envoy of the Xishang Cabinet Gate, and the official became the inspection envoy of the five islands - under the Coastal City Shipping Control Division, there are now three inspection divisions, including the Wudao Inspection Division, the Penghu Inspection Division, and the Jingdong Inspection Division, which are actually the three fleet headquarters, but the name of the Inspection Division is used.
Among them, the Five Islands Inspection Division and the Penghu Inspection Division are both fleets directly under the jurisdiction of the Coastal City Shipping Division, while the Jingdong Inspection Division is under the jurisdiction of the Jingdong Municipal Shipping Division. There are not a few warships under the three inspection divisions, but the fleet is already in place, and the shipbuilding order has been issued to the shipyard.
In addition, the Jiehe Ship Administration School opened a "Combat Ship Section" a year and a half ago and began to train naval officers. Now the first batch of naval officers has graduated and is training naval infantry on Tamna Island under the leadership of Wu Sihai (Wu Side's younger brother).
"It's not like arming, it's like watching the excitement." Hu Yanqing also has a telescope in his hand, and he can see the situation on the edge of the dock clearly, "But even if it's armed, it's nothing, a bunch of soldiers look so weak, all of them are like they haven't eaten." ”
"Shibo," Cheng Gui couldn't hold back, and asked Ji Yidao, "Do you want to beat them?" ”
When Ji Yi heard this, he also put down the telescope and glanced at the number one thug of the Ji family's maritime merchants, "Don't shout and kill...... You're an officer now! The officers and soldiers all subdue people with virtue. Xia Du, don't you say? ”
Hu Yanqing smiled and said: "Yes, yes, what the city says is extremely good, we just want to convince people with virtue and convince people with virtue." But you still have to be prepared to fight! ”
Ji Yi sighed, what is this called? Is this an envoy or an army?
If he is an envoy, he has no national letter or edict...... If it weren't for the fact that the City Ship Division had the right to go to sea to arrest smuggling and attract investment, the imperial history would have been able to participate in one of his own unauthorized departures.
It would be even more unreasonable to say that it was to send troops, this is an unauthorized provocation!
"Okay, then let's get ready!" Ji Yi sighed and gave an order to prepare for war - he did not have a national letter or an edict, so he "went out without authorization", which was simply unreasonable. So you have to show your teeth and claws, scare the Koreans first, and then reason with a pleasant face.
"Whoa!" Cheng Gui responded loudly, and then spread his feet (barefoot) and rushed to the stern of the boat, and said loudly to several leaders of the Ji family's naval army who were waiting there, "There is an order in the market, prepare for war!" ”
Orders on board were all conveyed by flags or lanterns. Cheng Gui gave an order, and immediately a red battle flag was raised to the mast. At the same time, the thugs of the water warfare, who were waiting for orders below deck, all dressed in paper armor, armed with bows, crossbows, swords, and shields, rushed to the deck barefoot. There are also some soldiers of the Ji family who skillfully operate the bed crossbow on the deck, and load the spears with gauze soaked in animal fat one by one, and load the bed crossbows, with a ruthless attitude that is ready to kill and set fire at any time.
A burst of chaos alarmed Cui Xian and Su Shi, who were resting in the cabin, and the two of them also came to the bow of the boat, and they were all taken aback when they saw that they looked like they were facing a great enemy.
Cui Xian hurriedly asked: "Ji Shibo, do you want to provoke the border?" ”
Ji Yi snorted: "Whether the war starts or not, it depends on what the officers and soldiers of your Goryeo Kingdom do!" This official is the official who escorted the friends of the Great Liao to take over the Shadow Island Concession...... If you dare to resist, then it is no wonder that the official is ruthless. ”
"Shibo," Hu Yanqing's voice sounded again at this time, "There is a small boat of the Goryeo people approaching, and there seems to be an official of the Goryeo Kingdom on board." ”
Ji Yi nodded, "Lean in, let the officials of Goryeo get on the boat, and the official will have a talk with him!" ”