Traveling through history leaving a name

Chapter 395 Defection

"The enemy has retreated."

"Great, the enemy has retreated."

Soon, the pirates discovered this situation and immediately cheered.

In one day today, they defeated more than 1 naval officers and soldiers and killed nearly 3000 people, but they themselves suffered very little loss.

Even so, they were exhausted to the point of exhaustion. If the enemy launched a few more attacks, they didn't know if they could hold on.

Fortunately, the enemy retreated.

Although the enemy retreated, the pirates found that they could not go anywhere except this island, because all their ships had sunk to the bottom of the sea.

"We can only wait for the people above to find out what's going on here and send a ship over here," said the pirate leader Zou Yunqi.

"Everyone, let's rest. I'll be on the alert. Everyone, get rid of the corpses on the island tomorrow, so as not to cause a plague."

After a day of fighting, all the pirates were exhausted, and under the arrangement of the pirate leader, most of them fell asleep soon.

The next day, all the pirates started to clean up the dead bodies on the island.

Fortunately, many of the corpses have been taken away by officers and soldiers of the Ming army navy, and they only need to clean up a few of them.

At noon that day, a small boat came to the island.

A few days later, more than 30 ships and some supplies were sent over, and the pirates had a ship again.

In the next half month, an earth-shattering event occurred in the Minzhe area, and the Fujian navy collectively defected.

It turned out that the Fujian navy did not make much noise at first after returning to the water army camp.

Xiao Wenmang, deputy commander of the navy, first found the roster of the navy and set it on fire, so that no one could find out the specific information of the officers and soldiers of the navy.

After that, he asked people to pick up most of the family members of the officers and soldiers.

In order to prevent his soldiers from disclosing their defection, he let the deserters who killed the military judge do it quietly, because these deserters were guilty and they dared not escape.

One day half a month later, the Fujian Navy drove more than 300 ships all the way south, and never went back.

Only after the navy officers and soldiers left did someone expose the defection of the Fujian navy.

After learning about the defection of the navy, everyone was in an uproar.

Under such circumstances, countless news spread rapidly.

For example, when navy officers and soldiers attacked pirates, more than 3000 people died in one day.

There is also Xiao Wenmang, the deputy general, who personally killed Tian Hai, the chief soldier, because Tian Hai kept sending soldiers to die regardless of whether the soldiers were dead or alive.

In addition, there is still left to say that the firearms used by the pirates are too powerful, which should be supported by powerful forces, otherwise the pirates would not be able to have such a strong combat effectiveness.

Of course, the supporters behind this were faintly pointed at the Royal Fleet.

Even more, some officials heard the wind and played, and the memorial accused the Royal Fleet of supporting the pirates.

Originally, these memorials could not be sent to the hands of Emperor Wanli at all, because Emperor Wanli had ignored the government for more than [-] years, and most of the memorials were processed in the Supervisor of Rites, unless there were important matters. Emperor Wanli will see it in person.

However, these memorials to impeach the royal fleet were sent to the hands of Emperor Wanli.

On this day, Emperor Wanli called Zhang Qingfeng into the palace.

"Zhou Aiqing, look at this."

Emperor Wanli directly handed several memorials to Zhang Qingfeng and said.

Zhang Qingfeng took the memorial and looked at it, then respectfully said to Emperor Wanli: "Long live, didn't you expect this situation a long time ago? It's just that they dared to disturb your boss with such a trivial matter. It seems that I have become It is a target that many people want to defeat."

"I will give you an explanation for this matter. As long as there is no evidence, no one can frame you, but you have to be prepared yourself, and don't let people catch your feet." Emperor Wanli said to Zhang Qingfeng.

Obviously, Emperor Wanli knew this matter clearly.

Zhang Qingfeng would not have dared to pretend to be a pirate without the support of Emperor Wanli, because it would be easy to be discovered.

If this matter is exposed without Emperor Wanli knowing, even if Emperor Wanli still reuses Zhang Qingfeng, he will become very defensive against him. After all, a subordinate has done a lot behind your back, you don’t know No one can stand the bad things.

The reason why Zhang Qingfeng persuaded Emperor Wanli to support him in doing this was simple, because Zhang Qingfeng described a bright prospect to him, that is, if he did this, he would be able to earn at least 2000 million taels of silver a year in a few years.

Hearing that he could earn 2000 million taels of silver a year, let alone pretending to be a pirate, even if he was a real pirate, Emperor Wanli agreed.

The official's impeachment of Zhang Qingfeng did not bring Zhang Qingfeng any trouble.

After this incident, Emperor Wanli directly dismissed all the impeached officials on the charge of framing an earl without evidence.

At the same time, Emperor Wanli also decreed to abolish the two eunuchs who were in charge of ceremonies because they were old and should retire.

Of course, these are all situations that happened in the capital.

In the south of the Yangtze River, Jin Yiwei directly dispatched and arrested more than a dozen min and zhejiang merchants, because they supported pirates to rob the Ming merchant ship, and the evidence was solid.

At the same time, the Daming Daily also reported this incident, letting the people of the whole country know that more than a dozen Minzhe sea merchants supported pirates to rob ordinary merchant ships.

Those who were also implicated were the officials of these great merchant families who were also removed from their official positions after the incident.

After this incident happened, countless sea merchants in Minzhe were silent, and many merchant ships even stopped overseas trade, for fear that the merchant ships would be robbed after going to sea.

Although many people knew in their hearts that these pirates were related to the Royal Fleet, they had no proof.

The houses of the dozen or so big merchants who framed the Royal Fleet have been ransacked. Can others not be afraid?

As for the eradication of pirates, it has become a joke for you on the coast of Minzhe, and the collective defection of [-] navy officers and soldiers is a good negative example.

If anyone says to dispatch the navy to eliminate the pirates now, he will definitely be sprayed to death by the saliva of the remaining navy officers and soldiers.

Just when pirates were rampant along the coast and merchant ships were afraid to go to sea for trade, some people appeared.

They began to sell a flag and a document to some merchant ships, saying that they only need to hang this flag when encountering pirates, and the pirates will not rob. Even if there are pirates to check, as long as they show the documents to the pirates, the pirates will leave.

The price of this flag is 3000 taels of silver a year, and the document is only valid for one year, and a flag can only be hung on one ship.

For those who peddled the flag, many people knew that they were members of the Royal Fleet, but they didn't dare to expose it directly.

Some merchants tried to buy some flags, but most merchants were waiting and watching.

It wasn't until the merchant ships who bought the flag tried to go to sea, and when they encountered pirates, they hung that flag, and after the pirates retreated, this was confirmed.

As long as such a flag is hung, the pirates will not rob merchant ships. Even if the pirates approach, they only need to show the documents to the pirates.

The pirates just checked to see if the flag was fake, since it's easy to fake this thing.

The documents are printed on special paper with a special number on it, so it is easy to identify fake documents.

(End of this chapter)