Like a storm on the sea, Li Chao swept away the archipelago in a few days with ten boats. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Info Faced with the cannon of the strong ship, only one of the pirates on the small island tried to jump over the wall, but they were immediately ruthlessly exterminated.

Li Chao's fleet had more than ten ships at this time.

Several nobles in Dengzhou Port knew that Li Chao was leaving, and they immediately followed. These are all relatively fast, and they have already recruited people to mention the ship, as for more nobles, they can only look at their own ships with annoyance, and they are still on the production plans in various ship parts factories in Tiannan and Haibei.

As for the crew sailors, it was more difficult to recruit.

There are also some noble children who have not yet mentioned the ship, but have already recruited some people, and they can't wait for the new ship, so they simply follow the old ship they bought.

The ranks are getting bigger, but the sweep is getting easier.

They can only watch dryly, watch from afar, and watch the ships of Li Cheng, Cui, Zheng and Lu, sweep all the way, and then harvest countless people, slaves, money, and goods.

The population is very large, and after a sweep, more than 30,000 people were harvested.

The Dengzhou officials who rushed were all surprised, and Cheng Yanjin played the shameless rogue spirit and entangled with the Dengzhou officials for a long time. In the end, an agreement was reached, and those pirates and smugglers were treated as official slaves, and then Cheng Biting Jin and the other five families paid for it. As for the families of the pirates and smugglers, the court was magnanimous.

Of course, in order to ensure local tranquility, the five Cheng and Li families were willing to share the worries of the imperial court and recruited them to settle in their own territory at their own expense. Even, they gave the government a sum of money.

Only a few notorious pirates and smugglers were treated as examples and left to the government, and these people were to be hanged after a public trial.

And the goods and goods obtained from the sweep were naturally under Lao Cheng's public relations, and the five families were divided up with the government. said that it was a share, but in fact, Lao Cheng took out a small part of the loot, and then everyone divided it again. As a result, the government is actually only a small part.

However, the people of Dengzhou Yamen seem to be very satisfied with this.

So, everyone rejoiced.

With a population of more than 30,000, Li Cheng and other five families divided it, and one family divided it into more than 6,000. Li Chao took the more than 6,000 people who were allocated, some of whom were notorious pirates, as slaves, and these people were not sent to Liuqiu Island, but to be sent to the mines in the interior for mining. The rest, according to the old rules, were sent to Ryuqiu Island.

But this time, Li Chao didn't give them the same good conditions as the red viper as soon as he came.

"You are still in the observation period, when you get there, the Li family will set up a collective tunzhuang, you are tenants in Zhuangzi, reclaiming barren tuntian for Zhuangzi, and the Li family will rent you houses, ploughing cattle, seeds, farm tools, etc., and even lend you the cost of settling down. If you do well in the village, then after three years, ten acres of land will be given to you. After that, every other year, I will give you ten acres. Until every adult male or female has been allotted fifty acres of land. ”

Although they were not considered slaves, they were also dependents of pirates and smugglers, or were themselves accomplices to pirates and smugglers, so their original property was confiscated.

They now have nothing but two suits.

Li Chao sent them to Liuqiu, but they still had to prove themselves by their own performance. He worked as a tenant on a collective farm for three years, and then the land was divided.

It's not a one-time division, it's ten acres a year. The highest is only fifty acres, and there is no good luck like the red vipers, and they can directly divide a hundred acres.

In comparison, Li Chao is quite benevolent.

Lao Cheng unceremoniously arranged all the people who were assigned to him as tenants, and in the future, they would work for the Cheng family and want to divide the land? Rely on your own ability to make money and save money, when you have money, when you buy it with your own ability.

And the three families of Cui Zheng and Lu, they themselves are thousand-year-old families, and these families are also the most ruthless. They are not so kind, and when they get their hands on it, they directly make more than half of the people into slaves first, because these strong people are the most unstable, and they need to ensure control.

The rest also became tenants.

"You're too polite to them." Lao Cheng said that this old rascal was also a landlord before. As a landlord, I know very well how to better control people.

Li Chao just smiled.

"A thousand golden bones."

Cheng Yanjin was stunned for a moment, and then laughed.

"I forgot, the last thing you lack now is land, the Li family has so many territories, what your family lacks is people."

"Yes, if someone is willing to immigrate there, I will give 100 acres of land by myself, and even pay for settling in."

The once bustling archipelago is now empty.

However, close to the port of Dengzhou, these islands can be said to be very valuable, especially close to the islands of Dengzhou. Thirty-two islands of all sizes add up to an area of about 100,000 acres.

The island is not very suitable for farming, but the fishing here is good, especially next to the island of Dengju and the important route to Goguryeo, so it can be said that this archipelago is really valuable.

Now this island is a few of the Li family's battles.

"In the past, this island actually didn't belong to Dengzhou Island, it was considered a terra nullius, so it was entrenched by pirates and smugglers." Cui Jin came over and said to Li Chao, what he meant was to simply divide the thirty-two islands among the five families.

They even thought of a plan for carving up, the big and small Changshan Islands belonged to the Li family, and the other islands belonged to the four of them.

"You have divided the archipelago like this, haven't you thought about the imperial court? Have you asked them yet? ”

"Brother-in-law, this matter is not a big deal, with your status and the reputation of our four families, it is easy to say a few words to the imperial court and give us the island."

Lu Gao also said on the side, "It's cost-effective to spend some money." ”

An archipelago, a few young children of a family, want to swallow it privately.

Li Chao couldn't help but sigh at the boldness of these guys.

But for Li Chao, even if he gives him the largest islands, it is nothing.

Cheng Yanjin said on the side, "I'll do this matter, I'll find an old friend to deliver a message." Speaking of which, we have also exterminated tens of thousands of bandits this time, which can be regarded as a great achievement. If we are willing to pay for these small islands, I believe Your Majesty will be willing. ”

100,000 acres seems to be very large. But a founding viscount also has a ten-mile fief. Ten miles of fiefdom refers to a square conversion of ten miles on one side, which is almost nearly 40,000 acres.

Combined, the large and small Changshan Islands are just a fiefdom of the founding sons. What the Li family lacks the most is now a fiefdom.

A treasure island is tens of thousands of square kilometers, and a Dalian island is also more than 10,000 square kilometers.

Li Chao doesn't take it seriously, but several of his brothers-in-law take it seriously. Several families have paid for the knight, which is precious. The Cui family bought one marquis and two viscounts, and spent three million before and after. It doesn't add up to seventy miles of fiefdom.

This archipelago is equivalent to nearly thirty miles of fiefdom, and in terms of the price of the imperial court's title, it is worth more than one million yuan. If it can be operated, the five families will be divided equally, even if their family is divided into five miles and eight miles, it will be worth hundreds of thousands.

Especially the location of this island is good, but it is worth more than dozens of miles of fiefdom on the frontier.

Even Cheng Bites Jin's old hooligan thinks that this archipelago has a good location and is valuable.

On the same day, several hooligans, young and old, wrote letters to Hanjing.

Li Chao didn't bother to pay attention to it, the fleet temporarily rested in Wuhu, and the subsequent resettlement of these people, the disposal of property on the island, and more and more large and small ships came to follow to rob the north.

They are willing to follow, of course Li Chao doesn't care, after all, these are all aristocratic and wealthy families, and they all have privateering licenses issued by the emperor in their hands.

But since you want to follow Li Chao, you have to abide by his rules. If there are no rules, it will be messed up.

Even if it's a robbery, there have to be rules.

"I don't have many rules, but they're strict. Even if we are not an army, if we go north, we will enter the enemy's territory, and it will be a battle. Therefore, I will manage according to military law, and if anyone can't stand it, they can quit now. However, as long as you stay, then you have to accept my dispatch, and if anyone dares to disobey, don't blame me for turning my face and not recognizing anyone. ”

Li Chao's gaze swept over the faces of the nobles, these people are basically young sons of the nobles, and there is another characteristic, most of them are concubines in the family. is not qualified to inherit the title, inherit the family business or anything.

But they also have the blood of those noble families in their bodies, and they are naturally the most trusted people in the family.

Cheng Yanjin sat next to Li Chao, and the old hooligan was particularly conspicuous among the young nobles. Everyone sent their concubines to come, but Lao Cheng, one of the eight nobles of Zhenguan, came in person.

"I also want to say a few words, it is your luck to be able to follow Zhao Guogong and me to the north to rob. You also know that the Duke of Zhao has led thousands of troops and fought countless battles, but he has never been defeated. My old Cheng has also fought for half his life, he has fought all kinds of vicious battles, and he has killed countless people, I don't want you guys to ruin our reputation in the first life. ”

"When the time comes, if anyone dares to mess around, don't blame me for Lao Cheng's ruthless axe. cut you, your father and mother have nothing to say. ”

The old rascal stopped those young people with a few words, after all, Lao Cheng was a dignified general.

"My rule is to act according to military law." Li Chao announced.

"Military law is like a mountain, although we are going to rob, but we also have to be disciplined, first of all, it is forbidden to ** women, if anyone dares to violate this article, they will be killed on the spot, and there will be no forgiveness, whether you are a wealthy family in Guanlong, or a Shandong scholar, or a Jiangnan Chinese family, or a military meritorious person, the emperor's relatives and relatives, and the offender will die."

The murderous sentence made the atmosphere solemn.

"Article 2, all the spoils of war must be handed over to the public, and finally distributed uniformly, whoever dares to hide the spoils of war privately, there will be no forgiveness!"

"Article 3, it is forbidden to kill innocent people indiscriminately, as long as there is no resistance, no random killing, those people should be our property, whoever kills indiscriminately is harming everyone's common property."

"This is the third chapter of the covenant, and if any of you feel that you cannot keep it, leave the team now."

"Anyone leaving?"

Li Chao's gaze swept over everyone's faces one by one.

The conditions were a bit harsh, and everyone thought that going to the coast of Goguryeo was a random raid. If the person who said this was an ordinary person, I was afraid that they would rebel.

The person who said this was Li Chao, a group of children of big families, after all, no one dared to take the lead.

"Didn't anyone leave?"

No one left.

"Very well, then it will be regarded as your agreement to the three chapters of the covenant."

Lao Cheng said on the side, "Since I have agreed to these three chapters, then I, Lao Cheng, will be the supervising judge, and whoever dares to violate these three chapters will fall into my hands." ”