The Reborn Wife is Farming

Except for the three relatively large groups of pirates along the southeast coast, the rest of the pirates number in the tens or hundreds. They often occupy a small island and can form a den. Over the past few years, Yu Cheng has moved the fishing village inland. For ten miles, they need to go deep to plunder villages and towns, so they usually do one ticket to eat three months.

Because there are few people and boats, they don't have a lot of food. They haven't been ashore since Fan Zijin went missing and the Guangdong Navy went out to search on a large scale. Up to now, the rice tank at home is almost bottomed out.

The already restless mind stopped when he saw the corpse hanging on the pole of the boat. Within two days, the patrolling navy brought back a dozen surrendered pirates, all of them from Daqi.

Zhou Zhou immediately stepped up his patrol, and then went to see Qi Haoran with the confession of surrendering to the pirates, "They are running out of food, my lord, I think the situation of other pirates should be similar, do you think they will go ashore?"

Qi Haoran knocked on the table and said: "Strengthen the patrol, tell General Wang that the Guangdong coastal area is on the third level of security, and send someone to inform the navy in Quanzhou and Fuzhou, and let them be careful to prevent pirates from escaping to them. crime."

Qi Haoran looked solemn, and said: "In the final analysis, our people are still too small, and many defenses cannot be deployed."

Zhou Zhou was excited and asked, "My lord, do you want to recruit troops?"

"It's easy to recruit soldiers, can you afford them?"

Zhou Zhou bowed his head, and it was obviously impossible to ask the Ministry of Households to transfer money to recruit soldiers for them before the end of the year.

Qi Haoran went home and discussed with Mu Yangling, "Why don't you let Zhou Zhou lead the troops out to suppress the bandits, as long as you win again, you can deter them for at least half a month."

"Then what if we lose," Mu Yangling said, "At that time, the sense of mystery you tried to create will disappear, and not only the small group of pirates who lack food and clothing will go ashore, but also the large group of pirates who wait and see will go ashore. ashore."

"But if we can't defend the coastline and let those small groups of pirates succeed, those people will also guess that we are short of troops, and we will still go ashore." Qi Haoran was annoyed, "How did you know that they don't even have half a year's food in reserve? It’s almost the Chinese New Year, and the common people don’t have a happy life, and my father and elder brother are also having a hard time.”

Mu Yangling saw that he had a sour face, and was also anxious for him in his heart, so he thought with him with a sour face, when Qi Haoran turned his face, seeing her small face was wrinkled together, and her brows were furrowed, he reached out to smoothen her brows, "Don't worry, the boat will go straight when it arrives at the bridge. Master Ming will call all the people from the Naval Yamen to discuss it. We can always find a way by working together."

Mu Yangling nodded, smiled at him and said, "Then don't think about it, go to sleep."

Qi Haoran turned over, found a comfortable position, turned his back to Mu Yangling, and snored softly after a while.

Mu Yangling couldn't fall asleep anyway. She always felt that there was a better solution to this matter than confrontation. After all, they were short-staffed and not skilled enough to wipe out those pirates. They will be wiped out next year or the year after when their strength increases greatly.

But they can't go on, why can't they go on?

Because those small bands of pirates had no food left, if they wanted to starve or survive, they had to go ashore to grab food, while the big band of pirates waited for them to move and see the situation.

But if the small group of pirates doesn't move, will the big group of pirates dare to move?

Mu Yangling thought of the information Qi Haoran brought back. There were only three groups of big pirates. One was Pedro's group of Westerners. They had just fought, and they would definitely not dare to attack them again in a short time. It has always been the merchant ships on the sea, not the fishermen of Daqi.

The other two groups are composed of Dongying people and Korean people. The number of the former is roughly twice that of the latter, but no matter whether it is the former or the latter, they have been operating in the southeast coast for more than ten years. The scale is large and the number of people is large, so they have to be cautious. They must not dare to act rashly when they cannot find out the specific circumstances of the navy.

Because Pedro's strength is the strongest among them, Pedro has lost to them, and now there are corpses hanging on the warship, so the key is not to ask them to investigate the situation of Guangdong and the Guangdong Navy , then a small group of pirates cannot be allowed to go ashore or succeed.

So how can we keep them from going ashore?

food!

How to make those small groups of pirates have food in their hands, Mu Yangling thought of Yu Cheng who colluded with the pirates.

Mu Yangling hurriedly shook Qi Haoran awake, and said, "How about we colluding with pirates and exchanging food for their treasures?"

The dazed Qi Haoran woke up with a jerk, and stared at Mu Yangling, "Are you crazy?"

Mu Yangling said: "Didn't you say it was delaying time? Let people do business with them and make sure they won't go ashore to plunder this year. Wait until you have trained the sailors next year before going to suppress the bandits."

Qi Haoran frowned, and said disapprovingly: "But they are pirates."

"Haven't you done business with bandits before?"

"That's my people in Daqi. They are bandits because the officials forced the people to rebel. Those pirates outside are all foreigners. They came to kill my people in Daqi for no reason. I still do business with them?"

"Heroes who are able to bend and stretch are not you who are incapable of suppressing bandits now? Is it possible to watch them go ashore and plunder the people?"

Qi Haoran glared at her with puffy cheeks.

"You don't have to come forward in person, ask your subordinates to go, or find a businessman to meet with them and raise the price a little bit. They have been pirates for so many years, and they must have a lot of treasures. A sum of money, no matter where you come to recruit troops or buy armaments, it will be useful." The more Mu Yangling talked, the more he felt that this idea was good, and said: "It's best to do this in secret, don't call too many people Know."

Qi Haoran turned his back and was unwilling to listen, he pouted and said, "My lord is Da Qi's prince, and he actually went to collude with pirates? No!"

Mu Yangling lay on his back and continued: "When the time comes, ask people to pay attention to their number. They will only be given enough food for next June, so they will die a little..."

Qi Haoran lifted the quilt to cover his head, and said vaguely: "I don't agree, they are not from my Daqi."

Mu Yangling lay on the pillow and said: "It doesn't matter who it is, don't think that we are colluding with pirates, but think that we are fighting, and this is also a way of war. This war It started when we arrived in Guangdong, and it will continue until all the pirates are wiped out."

Qi Haoran hid in the quilt thoughtfully.

Seeing that he was quiet, Mu Yangling quietly lifted the quilt, leaned on his back and said, "And you can use this to send spies to the pirates and get more information from them, Haoran, it's not just about lining up troops on the battlefield Fighting is fighting with real knives and guns, and we are fighting now."