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There were more than 20 ships that once roamed the entire East China Sea, and they were close to the pirate leader with 2,000 men.

Now it has really become a head, hanging on the gate of Dengzhou City.

Many coastal people have been harmed by him in recent years, which is naturally a very satisfying thing.

And in Dengzhou City, it's not just Fourth Master Jin's spies who come to think of it.

That hanging head is telling them.

You can’t afford to offend the Tang Dynasty today.

In the battle on the beach, more than 1,200 enemies were finally wiped out, and only 100 were captured.

Such results occurred only because Tang Jun was kind-hearted.

He was reluctant to let the injured pirates experience pain that was worse than death, so he directly gave them pleasure.

There are also some prisoners who, according to Li Anyan, have not done much evil and can be used by him.

Yan Kai had no suspicion and handed everyone over to him directly.

If we want to run on the sea in the future, we can't just have more than ten people like Li Anyan.

Since he was confident in conquering these pirates, Yan Kai chose to believe in him.

Twelve large and small sailboats were seized from the pirates, and Fourth Master Jin's many years of savings were also emptied.

These are basically handed over to Li Anyan.

During this period of life at sea, Li Anyan has fallen in love with this feeling.

Yan Kai also felt that Kuoding County should have its own maritime trade route.

The two hit it off immediately, and Li Anyan stayed as the exclusive maritime merchant in Kuoding County.

The report of the incident was given to Li Shimin, this time it was a letter written by Yan Kai himself.

The crooked characters gave Li Shimin a headache.

He probably talked about why Kuoding County needs maritime merchants now.

Of course, the first two paragraphs are basically nonsense, and Li Shimin saw the last two paragraphs.

One paragraph talks about how much money Yan Kai expects to earn from sea trade every year in the future.

There are only three words in a paragraph: twenty-eight points.

Of course, this time it was Yan Kaiba, and he would give the 20% to the Tang government in the form of taxation.

Li Shimin also had some expectations. If the sea trade could really succeed, Datang would be able to increase its income by a considerable amount.

He gave Dengzhou eighty strings symbolically, saying they were the proceeds from suppressing bandits.

Chun Yunan didn't ask any more questions. It was rare for his men to suppress bandits and still capture something and hand it over.

As for casualties, the Tang Army miraculously maintained a record of zero casualties.

It was just that two soldiers tripped over the corpses of pirates on the beach and sprained their feet during the pursuit.

Everyone laughed for days.

After that, Yan Kai spent most of his time at the beach, leading craftsmen to renovate the ships.

The number of military advisers behind him is too huge now.

After taking everyone's opinions into account, these captured ships underwent major changes.

Even in terms of style, it is no longer entirely an East Asian-style sailing ship, but has some other flavors.

After all, the Age of Discovery has not yet come, and there is still a big gap between today's shipbuilding technology and what it will be a few hundred years ago.

It's just that Yan Kai is not very satisfied with the modified ship.

He promised Li Anyan that he would first establish a maritime trading company for him.

As long as the sea trade makes money, bigger and more advanced warships will be built for him.

As for why maritime merchants need warships, the main reason is that sometimes they may have to do some part-time work.

The hot summer is finally coming, and even when working here in Dengzhou, you can only wear single clothes.

The sweet potatoes and pumpkins in the field are basically mature.

Once again, the people were amazed at the yields of these two crops.

During the harvest, Chun Yunan also came, bringing the rewards given by the court for the last bandit suppression.

Then he threw away the official uniform of the governor and went to the fields to collect sweet potatoes and pumpkins with the people of Kuoding County.

Yan Kai and the others couldn't hold him back.

When he came up with a pumpkin almost as big as two basketballs, Yan Kai stopped him and just stood there in the field.

Chun Yunan asked Yan Kai with some doubts, but Yan Kai only said that he would give him a gift on his birthday.

Then he saw Yan Kai holding a small black box facing him, and after a while he told himself it was okay.

After harvesting the two crops, Chun Yunan naturally wanted to stay and eat.

After tasting roasted sweet potatoes, sweet potato cakes, fried pumpkins, and pumpkin porridge, Chun Yunan finally felt like he was almost strangled to death.

These are two types of grains that can keep you full and are easy to store.

He asked with some embarrassment: "Brother, do you want to report your name to the court this time? You... brother feel so sorry!"

"No need." Yan Kai shook his head, but added to Chun Yunan: "Next spring, sign up for Zheng Zhixun."

In the Tang Dynasty, officials who were already officials could still take the imperial examination.

"Old Book of Tang Dynasty·Biography of Zhang Jiuling" writes: Zhang Jiuling became a scholar when he was a Jinshi scholar, and later became a "Daoist Yilu Kece Gaozuo".

After he became the school secretary, he took the exam again and became Zuo Shiyi.

If the serving officials are non-Taiwan provincial officials below the sixth rank and want to be promoted quickly, they can participate in the system department specially set up for officials with background or the selection of the Ministry of Personnel.

It's just that Yan Kai couldn't handle the qualifications, so he left it to Chun Yunan.

Chun Yunan naturally agreed to this request by patting his chest.

With the newly harvested crops and planting methods from Yankai, Chun Yunan once again sent people to send things to Chang'an.

In Chang'an City, the potatoes received last time had not yet been harvested. As a result, Chun Yunan sent two kinds of grains with the same claimed yield of more than two thousand kilograms per mu.

Some officials who didn't know the truth had their eyes red when they heard it.

It didn’t matter if one type was discovered. In just a few months, three species were discovered and all were planted.

Is Chunyu Nan the God of Agriculture reincarnated?

Otherwise, why would these high-yielding crops be the same as the cabbage in the field?

One after another?

Only Li Shimin knew whose handiwork this was.

Now he was doubting whether he had done something wrong in sending the young man so far away.

But think about it, although he likes to toss, he doesn't seem to like to toss under everyone's nose that much.

Whether it was the auction of Hua Xiangrong that he had done privately, or the transformation of the silk reeling machine and the subsequent high-yielding grains.

Oh, and the two times when a large number of pirates were wiped out were actually done by him.

But he hid it very well. The civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty might have guessed some things, but on the surface these things had nothing to do with him.

If he really locked him up in Chang'an, he might not do this anymore.

Not to mention that the last time he was able to resist the Turkic army moving south was because of his repeated reminders and preparations in advance.

But this feeling of not being in control is still a bit unpleasant.

Li Shimin's thoughts changed, you don't like to be in public, right?

But how can I, Li Shimin, be someone who does not reward me for my merits? What you don’t want, I want to give you.

After I gave it, I made it impossible for you to refuse. Let’s see what you do!

With this in mind, Li Shimin directly said to the chamberlain beside him: "Invite Mr. Zhongshu Lingfang over."