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In front of Chen Zixin and others' lucky boat was a warship. The specifications of the warship are the same as those of ordinary two-thousand-material fortune ships. They are also two feet by four feet wide, ten feet long, and have two masts. However, two double masts were installed on the topmast, a ram was installed on the bow, and space was reserved for erecting a single-tip cannon. There were also stacks on both sides of the ship's side to prevent jumping.

The imaginary enemy of this kind of ship is the navy of the Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty. It has no use in daily life. But if it is placed in a fleet composed of several lucky ships, it can be seen at a glance that it is a tough one.

At this time, the former Nanjing stayed behind, and the current caravan leader Yin Chang also stood by the side of the ship and sneered: "I really don't dare to take action..."

Beside Yin Chang, several capable subordinates also showed angry expressions.

When Yin Chang was ordered to go to Goryeo, Li Yun entrusted many of his hidden connections and partners in Goryeo to Yin Chang. The more than two months that Yin Chang stayed in Shandong after arriving in Shandong was also a process in which he took over step by step.

The purpose of this operation is to take advantage of the volatile situation in Goryeo to control the parties involved as smoothly and quickly as possible, and to open a window for Zhou's political and economic forces to fully penetrate Goryeo, with a special emphasis on seizing a few sources of extra money. industry.

In order to achieve this goal, the Left and Right Division's early operations in Korea have been mobilized in advance.

Based on the information compiled through several routes, Yin Chang estimated that the situation in Goryeo was already on the verge of breaking out. At least two forces were unwilling to see a powerful figure from the Great Zhou Kingdom arrive in Goryeo and trigger unpredictable changes.

In all likelihood, they will do something halfway from Dengzhou to Licheng Port to force their own fleet to turn back.

It is naturally impossible to turn back.

Yin Chang was dismissed from his official position this time, which was a terrible fall. This trip was related to whether he could demonstrate his talents and regain the emperor's trust.

More importantly, Yin Chang also understood the emperor's next arrangements for many senior military generals.

Since we have to face powerful enemies from the north, expansion to the south will not be allowed in the short term. Not only cannot they expand, they must also deepen cooperation and strengthen friendly exchanges to ensure that more and more people in the Song Kingdom stand with us. So, what should we do with the many ambitious soldiers in the army who want to expand?

It was impossible for the emperor to send them all to the north to fight. From a certain perspective, many warriors who were born in the Red Coat Army and local heroes may not be willing to continue high-intensity training and fighting, and always have to face the Mongolian front. They were warriors, yes, but they were not warriors from the official imperial army; their composition was less loyal and more cunning and greedy.

The emperor understood this very well. So he launched a wave of purges in the army, and at the same time found another way out for those who were purged.

Yin Chang's trip was the first step in the entire exploration.

If the first step is steady and reliable, countless wolves will rush towards the sea. That was much more shocking than the scene where Shi Tianni was tied up in the Song Dynasty.

In this case, Yin Chang can't at least be scared back halfway, right?

Not to mention the threat of pirates, even if all the waves on the sea turn into knives, they can't stop Yin Chang from taking a trip.

However, Yin Chang had been dismissed from his post after all, and it was impossible for him to mobilize the maritime power of the Great Zhou Dynasty to escort him. So his original intention was to rely on this temporarily formed fleet to withstand the next attack.

The route from Denglai to Licheng Port is not long, and usually a small fleet of two or three ships returns quickly. Only those who engaged in triangular trade between the Great Zhou Dynasty, the Great Song Dynasty and Goryeo would form larger fleets. This time, because I heard that a former high-ranking official was traveling with him, I gathered five ships at once, plus the five ships shipped from Haizhou to recruit Song people, making ten large ships.

Even ten domesticated pigs are not that easy to catch, let alone intercepting ten large ships on the vast sea? Yin Chang felt that he could sit on a warship armed to the teeth and sit back and watch the water bandits attack from unknown origins.

After the other ships had withstood a few rounds, Yin Chang dispatched his own large ship and dozens of elite guards on board to clean up the situation. In this way, the recently recruited Song people can see their blood, and secondly, they can also judge who is hostile to the Zhou Dynasty based on the identity of the incoming pirates.

In the past few years, the navy of the Great Zhou Dynasty has been gradually improved, and the equipment of the merchants has become increasingly abundant. The lone wolf-like pirates in the early years have been constantly liquidated, and the temporary guest appearance of the merchants as pirates is not worth the gain. Therefore, there are only two types of pirates that can still haunt the northern seas. If the newcomers were a mixture of Jurchens and Koreans, they would be pirates known as "Daoyi" who were usually active in the east of the peninsula. This type of pirates has been in decline for many years, but has suddenly flourished again in the past few years. Their main task is to create obstacles for Japan's maritime trade.

The person who can mobilize them is usually Cui Zhongxian, the powerful minister of Goryeo. However, Cui Zhongxian has no need to change the status quo, and there is no need to stop Yin Chang at all. Therefore, if this wave of pirates is dispatched, it means that the Cui family's force is out of control, and even the center of power built by Cui Zhongxian in Kaesong has changed hands.

If the visitors were mainly Japanese, they would either be subordinates of the so-called imperial family of the Kamakura shogunate from the Japanese country of Kyushu, or they would be fugitive samurai who had recently attacked the powerful Hojo clan but were defeated.

The former usually operate in groups of hundreds and have their own ships. The latter were extremely numerous, but had neither reliable ships nor solid organization. What the two have in common is that most of them have a close relationship with Cui Zhongxian's eldest son Cui Yu.

Cui Zhongxian has been in power for twenty years. He has killed countless close relatives who tried to seize power, and he is also very wary of his eldest son. And the available force that Cui Yu can win over are all such bereaved dogs.

If Cui Yu takes action against himself, there are two possibilities.

One is that Cui Zhongxian's serious illness was fake. He decided to eradicate his eldest son who was too big to lose his tail, forcing Cui Yu to jump over the wall in a hurry. He had to solve the trouble at sea first, and then fight with his back to the wall.

The other is that Cui Yu is just a puppet, and there is another force behind him that is deliberately promoting the hostility between Cui Yu and the Great Zhou Dynasty, thereby attracting the attention of all parties in the Goryeo capital.

But Yin Chang did not intend to analyze slowly and advance the situation step by step.

He had already thought that once his fleet and personnel were lost, he would use this as an excuse to put pressure on the officials in charge of Port Guanyi of Goryeo after landing, and incite many merchants anchored at Yeseong Port to join forces. The noise caused a violent uproar.

The Goryeo official who lives in Bilanting in Yecheng Port is Cui Junwen, who has always worked closely with Li Yun.

In the past few years, Cui Junwen has served as Cui Zhongxian's representative, just as Li Yun has served as Guo Ning's representative. The two have each upheld the meaning of the big man behind them and have happily cooperated in business. Cui Junwen himself has continuously improved his status with this meritorious service. Now he has become one of the three people who actually controlled the real power of Goryeo when Prime Minister Cui was seriously ill. He has become a decisive force leader in the current situation.

Regardless of whether the attacker is related to Cui Junwen or not, as long as he is forced to react, the situation in Goryeo, which is in a stalemate with each other, can change. If the subsequent chain reaction comes to Licheng Port, Yin Chang will just wait for the opportunity to go to Kaesong and get right to the heart.

Unexpectedly, Yin Changan arrived at Licheng Port safely.

Something should have happened! There should have been an attack!

This is a good thing that has hundreds of benefits and no harm. It doesn't matter if a few people die for it.

However, my ship has slowly entered the river from the sea, and the pirates didn't show up?

Yin Chang felt a little disappointed. It was as if he had exerted all his strength to prepare for a fight, but missed, or as if he had arranged fishing hooks and bait, but no fish could bite the hook.

From this point of view, there are obviously smart people in Korea, but they should not be thought of as stupid.