Zhang Liangpeng promised that he would give an explanation within a month and solve the person behind the disturbance at sea, but no one would not do what they should do because of this promise.
During this period, in order to ensure their own safety, all merchant ships traveling to Shanghai were organized into more than ten ships, and each ship was equipped with additional armored guards and ship doctors.
In addition, the Great Zhou Dynasty accelerated the expansion of its navy. The ships ordered from major shipyards in the Song Dynasty alone cost more than 200,000 yuan. They also successively transferred more than 4,000 elite soldiers from the north to go south to Haizhou.
Travel by boat to the base to maintain the safety of the waterway.
When the Zhou navy assembled in Haizhou, the ferocity of the Da Shi pirates put tremendous pressure on the military states along the Song Dynasty.
Not that the officials of the Song Dynasty cared about this delicate disease.
Not to mention Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, there are four hundred or four thousand pirates who are just running rampant on the ocean. As long as they don't burn, kill and loot under the eyes of local officials, they will either die as sea traders or live in exile.
In short, the landless refugees at sea had nothing to do with the imperial court. The Song Dynasty had always been peaceful and peaceful, and the imperial court did not need to know about the existence of pirates.
Therefore, many pirate leaders were killing people and stealing goods at sea while working as wealthy country squires on land. Their identities were basically semi-public.
However, the behavior of that group of predatory pirates was too much. They showed no scruples in using their tactics on land and watching other pirates kill them indiscriminately. As a result, a large number of private coastal ports appeared in many military states and walled cities were attacked.
They looted and burned, and even threatened the cities and towns of prefectures and counties with soldiers.
Under this situation, military and state officials cannot hide and report it, and once they are reported, no one will praise them for their vigilance in coastal defense. It will only give people the impression of poor governance. Not to mention, these accusations are likely to be
Many local officials were involved, affecting many people's futures and money.
As a result, the chief officials of the Sixteenth Military Prefecture along the coast were all irritable. When these officials with real power had the same attitude, the pressure created was far greater than an order issued by the central court there.
Xuan Zhen, who went south to investigate on behalf of Prime Minister Shi, had always felt that there were invisible nets everywhere, trying to cover his and Prime Minister Shi's ears and eyes; so that he had been busy for two months, but he had not heard any valuable news.
But as the chief officers of the military states along the coast were all intolerable, the pressure and unspeakable conflicts were violently transmitted under the water, finally triggering a riptide visible to the naked eye. What was originally invisible, he could see clearly in an instant.
In the spring of the third year of Longwu in the Great Zhou Dynasty and the eleventh year of Jiading in the Great Song Dynasty, Shi Tianni came to Fuzhou again and entered Fuzhou city in a grand manner.
The administrative office of Fujian Road is located in Fuzhou, so most of the local nobles gather here. And because the Fujian Shipping Department is based in Quanzhou, Fuzhou's local maritime trade is less restricted, so it is particularly prosperous.
When Shi Tianni and his party entered the city, there were so many ships on the Min River that the water surface from the Jinshan Tower down was almost crowded, from the Tangjing Gate to the Shipyard Gate, not to mention the river surface, and the official road parallel to the river surface.
There are also business travelers traveling shoulder to shoulder.
If you go further north, to the Pingshan area, you can still see merchants coming from Jiangnan East Road and West Road. I heard that among them are representatives of several marshals from Jiankang Prefecture, who made a special trip to buy ginseng and pearls from Liaodong.
What came instead were war horses, because the court spent huge sums of money to buy many of them in the past two years, and the generals did not value them.
The prosperity is as good as ever, but there seem to be many more homeless people and beggars in the city than before.
In the past two years, the weather has been bad, with floods and droughts raging in turn, and even hailstorms. However, the local gentry have benefited a lot from maritime trade and are keen to buy land, crisscrossing the country to annex the poor.
Therefore, in the wealthy military prefectures along the coast, the number of people running away from famine and begging has been increasing.
However, with the prosperity of the Song Dynasty, the refugees could not afford to eat. Shipyard owners and maritime leaders were always recruiting people everywhere.
Shi Tianni and others entered the city through Tangjing Gate, passed through Haiyan Gate, passed through Hujie Gate, and saw the Yamen of Fuzhou Zhizhou.
This is the most prosperous place in the city. The streets are filled with the sedan chairs of nobles and the mules and horses of merchants. The streets are lined with rows of official shops or shops opened by wealthy merchants. Some ordinary people passing in front of the shops will inevitably be swayed by the wealthy slaves.
Eyes of contempt.
However, even the most outspoken people did not dare to approach Shi Tianni and others. They clearly had weapons under their robes, and pedestrians could feel their murderous intent from a long distance away, and they sped up one after another.
He didn't dare to stop beside them, and some even hurriedly came to the door of the nearby official store.
After a while, some officials from the Zhizhou Yamen rushed out, waving sticks and sticks amidst shouts and curses, as if they wanted to drive away Shi Tianni and others. But when they rushed closer, they immediately felt that dozens of people were indifferent.
The pressure of vision.
There was almost no emotion like vigilance or anger in this look, but simply a lack of regard for these government servants, as if they were all pigs and dogs about to die.
The yamen officials suddenly thought of something. The people at the front stopped suddenly and were knocked down by those behind them. They rolled twice on the ground and dropped the sticks in their hands. After getting up, some of them ran back to the yamen.
, some people simply darted into the streets and alleys and disappeared out of sight.
Shi Tianni looked at his own attire, then looked at his companions behind him, and confirmed that everyone was dressed as a local wealthy businessman, and the clothes were bought by local Zheng Guang. Zheng Guang was a scholar, and everyone now calls him Master Zheng.
, knowing that he will not make mistakes when doing things.
Shi Tianni smiled and guessed that it was because of fighting for several months that his ferocious momentum could not be suppressed for a while.
Fortunately, we will soon be able to see the initial results of this trip south, and everyone can feel a little relieved. Today, the mastermind behind the pirate instigation is going to die in this government office.
"Isn't this the Yamen of Fuzhou Zhizhou?"
Shi Tianxiang looked up at the tall main entrance, then at the drum tower and two rows of halberds behind the main entrance: "I heard that Hu Ju, the governor of Fuzhou, was a close confidant of the prime minister of the Southern Dynasties. Could it be that we have been busy for a long time because of the people around him?
Someone has a problem?"
Shi Tianni took out half of his waist knife and took it back: "It's not just the people around him who have problems. The person who secretly incited the pirates to attack our merchant ships, causing huge losses, is Hu Ju himself."
Behind the main entrance of Zhizhou Yamen in Fuzhou is the Yimen, behind the Yimen is the main hall, behind the main hall is the side hall, and through the side hall is the Huangtang where Zhizhou's daily life is.
The specifications of these buildings are all higher than those of normal state offices, and they have inherited some of the style of the governor's palace in the Tang Dynasty. Hu Ju, who was sitting in the yellow hall, looked pale, and in the past he had the fierce style of being a lackey of the prime minister in Lin'an.
Nothing can be seen at all.
Xuan Zhen, who was sitting face to face with him, was heartbroken: "Zhong Fang, why you? Why are you so faint?"
