The Reborn Wife is Farming

"My lord, there are islands near the port, and they are still foreigners." Zhou Zhou rushed to report as soon as he received the news from his subordinates.

Qi Haoran finished his breakfast slowly, and then asked: "Have they landed?"

"No, just wandering around the port, not even daring to go near the sea."

"Then how many boats do they have?"

"Two," Zhou Zhou said, "The pirates said they only have four boats in total."

Qi Haoran snorted coldly, "Then what are you afraid of? Send troops to surround the port and return the foreigners' boats?"

"Not yet," Zhou Zhou said, "I'm planning to return it later."

There are too many things. They moved for half the night yesterday, and they wanted to carry down the seized cannon. They are not princesses. In order not to damage the cannon, they moved it down bit by bit, so they didn't have time to return it.

"Then borrow another day and get the soldiers on board to see what the pirates are here for."

The Zhou family's boat was still at the port, and if they wanted to borrow it, it was only a matter of one sentence, five to two, and he didn't want them to go to war, just to scare each other?

Qi Haoran looked at Zhou Zhou with a slightly disappointed expression, "How did you deal with these pirates before? Obviously we have won a battle, and they won't run away, and they dare to provoke them."

Zhou Zhou lowered his head in shame.

Mu Yangling on the side stretched out his foot and kicked his foot, Qi Haoran waved and said, "Hurry up and get down."

Zhou Zhou retreated quickly.

"Only the foreign pirates came, and the Dongying people and other pirates didn't move. It seems that they are watching." Mu Yangling asked, "How long do you plan to stay here?"

Now that Qi Haoran is in the Navy, they can be so tough. If he is gone, their bones may be weak again, but they are leaving Beijing urgently, so obviously they can't stay for long.

Qi Haoran didn't want the end to be anticlimactic, so he pondered for a while and said, "Let me talk to my elder brother, see if I can stay here to support Zijin, those pirates don't want to sell Zijin's face, why don't you go back to Beijing first?"

Qi Haoran was also worried about the children at home.

Mu Yangling said, "Ask Brother."

Qi Haoran nodded and went to the study.

Mu Yangling planned to go to the market to see what Guangzhou looks like at this time.

When I arrived at the market, I found that today's people seem to be very excited, and those who set up stalls don't have much thought about entertaining customers.

Mu Yangling bought a piece of jade with a peddler and asked, "Is there any happy event today?"

The peddler saw that she didn't have a local accent but spoke official language, so he asked, "Aren't you from our place?"

Mu Yangling said with a smile: "I followed my grandfather to do business, and I'm curious to have a look when I have time today."

Today Mu Yangling was wearing women's clothing, and the peddler had no doubts, and smiled happily: "The lady is lucky, just in time for our prince to win a big battle, today the pirates who don't have long eyes dare to provoke, General Zhou Shen is leading People are going to resist the enemy, and everyone can't help being excited, you see, many people ran to see it."

Mu Yangling raised his eyebrows and asked, "Aren't you afraid of affecting them?"

The peddler said confidently: "What are you afraid of? The prince is still in Guangzhou. Do they dare to go ashore? The prince just wiped out 3,000 of them. This is the biggest victory in more than 20 years."

An old peddler next to him snorted coldly: "How many years have you lived, dare to say that you have lived for more than 20 years."

"But I'm telling the truth. When did we win such a big battle since Forbidden Sea? In the past, when General Wang was here, we could win two out of ten games. Nian was completely suppressed and beaten by pirates..."

The old peddler sighed, and said: "This time is indeed a big victory, not only the only time in the past twenty years, but also decades ago, when the Guangdong Marine Division was not weak, it would be considered a big victory, but boy, Don't be too complacent, that's the prince, and he has to go back to the capital. When the prince is here, the people in the government office will have to straighten up their waists no matter how bent they are. Once the prince leaves, those people's waists must bend to their calves again. , What's the use of leaving a shabby sailor? If the pirates fight back at that time, it will be us who will suffer."

Mu Yangling went to see the old vendor in surprise, and asked inadvertently, "This war is a matter for the navy, what does it have to do with the government office?"

The old peddler shook his head and smiled, and said, "Ma'am, you need weapons, ships, food, and medicine in this war. You have to ask the government for these things. If they don't give it to you, how can the navy fight? They don't even have arrows." If they don’t make it all together, could it be possible to fight the pirates with a wooden stick? So the navy has to listen to the government.”

"Military and political separation..."

"That's about the garrison. They have military land and are self-sufficient. Naturally, they don't need to look at the government's face, but the navy is at sea. They don't have military land, and they all rely on the government for supplies."

Mu Yangling asked curiously, "Shouldn't it be given by the Ministry of War?"

"The orders issued by the Ministry of War are all taken from the local taxation, but the upper layers of the local government are exploited layer by layer, and very few can reach the hands of the navy." The old vendor sighed, "Why was General Wang Shen defeated? I don't want to hold back this breath..."

The old peddler quickly stopped talking, and said with a smile, "The little old man likes to talk nonsense when he gets old, don't mind my wife." He got up and closed the stall in a hurry, and said with a smile, "I'll go to the port to see the excitement."

Mu Yangling watched his back disappear, glanced at the guards without a trace, and one of the following guards quietly left to follow.

Mu Yangling continued to choose the goods on the hawker stall, and asked with a smile, "That old man knows a lot, and he doesn't want to set up a stall to buy things at all, which is really amazing."

The peddler saw that she had taken a jade-carved steed, and he immediately flattered her: "My wife doesn't know, he is not an ordinary peddler. A few years ago, he was also the number one figure in the navy, and he followed General Wang Shen to kill the enemy." Later, Yu Zhizhou defeated General Wang Can, and all those who fought with General Wang were dismissed, and their lives were unsustainable, so they set up a stall to sell things. He is not bad, those who followed General Wang before, and now Just staying in the hearthstone workshop in Dongcheng to hammer stones for others, or waiting at the port to carry goods with hard workers, earning a few copper coins from foreigners, it is very miserable."

"Yu Zhizhou? Why not the previous prefect? ​​Can he be bigger than the prefect alone?"

The peddler hesitated.

A guard gave him a dime of silver, and the peddler's eyes went straight. The silver was worth two or two taels, which was almost his annual income.

The peddler hesitated for a moment, thinking that Yu Zhizhou might lose his life because of the prefect Fan’s affairs. This is what the old peddler said. "I don't know that my wife is an outsider. In fact, our former prefect was a good official."

Wouldn't it be a good officer to die fighting pirates?

Mu Yangling never thought he was a bad official.

"...I don't know about these things. They are all said by the old man. He is the number one person. He was the military adviser next to General Wang Shen. Just like it is written in the book, he is like a god. He said that the magistrate My lord was suppressed by Yu Zhizhou."