In front of the blessing ship of Chen Zixin and others is a warship. The warship's specifications are the same as those of an ordinary two-thousand-material blessing ship. It is also two feet four feet wide, ten feet long, and has two masts. However, the top mast has a double mast.
It is equipped with two sets of sights, a ramming angle is installed on the bow, and space is reserved for erecting a single cannon. There are also stacks on both sides of the ship's side to prevent jumping.
The imaginary enemy of this kind of ship is the naval force of the Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasties. It is useless on a daily basis. But if it is placed in a fleet composed of several lucky ships, it can be seen at a glance that it is a tough one.
At this time, the former Nanjing stayed behind, and the current caravan leader Yin Chang also stood by the side of the ship and sneered: "I really don't dare to take action..."
Beside Yin Chang, several capable subordinates also showed angry expressions.
When Yin Chang was ordered to go to Goryeo, Li Yun entrusted many of his hidden connections and partners in Goryeo to Yin Chang. The more than two months that Yin Chang stayed in Shandong after arriving in Shandong was also a process in which he took over step by step.
The purpose of this operation is to take advantage of the ever-turbulent situation in Goryeo to control the parties involved as smoothly and quickly as possible, and to open a window for Zhou's political and economic forces to fully penetrate Goryeo, with special emphasis on seizing a few sources of extra money.
industry.
In order to achieve this goal, the company's early operations in Korea have been mobilized in advance.
Based on the information compiled through several routes, Yin Chang estimated that the situation in Goryeo was already on the verge of breaking out. At least two forces were unwilling to see a powerful figure from the Great Zhou Kingdom arrive in Goryeo and trigger unpredictable changes.
In all likelihood, they will do something halfway from Dengzhou to Licheng Port to force their own fleet to turn back.
It is naturally impossible to turn back.
This time Yin Chang was dismissed from his official position, which was a terrible fall. This trip was related to whether he could demonstrate his talents and regain the emperor's trust.
More importantly, Yin Chang also understood the emperor's next arrangements for many senior military generals.
Since we have to face a strong enemy in the north, expansion to the south is not allowed in the short term. Not only cannot we expand, we must also deepen cooperation and strengthen friendly exchanges to ensure that more and more people in the Song Dynasty stand with us. Then,
What should we do if there are many ambitious soldiers in the army who want to expand?
The emperor could not send them all to the north to fight. From a certain perspective, many warriors who were born in the Red Coat Army and local heroes may not be willing to continue high-intensity training and fighting, and always have to face the Mongolian front.
They are warriors, yes, but they are not warriors who came from the official imperial army; their composition is less loyal and more cunning and greedy.
The emperor understood this very well. So he launched a wave of purges in the army and at the same time found another way out for those who were purged.
Yin Chang's trip was the first step in the entire exploration.
If you take the first step steadily and reliably, there will be countless wolves running towards the sea. That scene is much more shocking than the scene where Shi Tianni was tied up in the Song Dynasty.
In this case, Yin Chang can't at least be scared back halfway, right?
Not to mention the threat of pirates, even if all the waves on the sea turn into knives, they can't stop Yin Chang from taking a trip.
However, Yin Chang had been dismissed from office after all, and it was impossible for him to mobilize the maritime power of the Great Zhou Dynasty to escort him. Therefore, his original intention was to rely on this temporarily formed fleet to withstand the next attack.
The route from Denglai to Licheng Port is not long, and usually small fleets of two or three ships go back and forth quickly. Only those who engage in triangular trade between Da Zhou, Da Song and Goryeo will form larger fleets
.This time, because I heard that a former *** was traveling with me, I gathered five ships at once, plus the five ships shipped from Haizhou to recruit people from the Song Dynasty, making ten large ships.
Even ten domesticated pigs are not that easy to catch, let alone intercepting ten large ships on the vast sea? Yin Chang felt that he could sit on a warship armed to the teeth and sit back and watch the attack of water pirates of unknown origin.
After the other ships had withstood a few rounds, Yin Chang dispatched his own large ship and dozens of elite guards on board to clean up the situation. This would allow the recently recruited Song people to see blood, and secondly, it would also be able to respond to the incoming pirates' attacks
Identity, determine who is hostile to Da Zhou.
In the past few years, the navy of the Zhou Dynasty has gradually improved, and the equipment of the maritime merchants has gradually improved.
The equipment is becoming increasingly abundant. In the early years, the lone wolf-like pirates were constantly being eliminated. However, the temporary guest appearance of maritime merchants as pirates was not worth the gain. Therefore, there are only two types of pirates that can still haunt the northern seas.
If the newcomers are a mixture of Jurchens and Koreans, they are pirates known as "Daoyi" who are usually active in the east of the peninsula. This type of pirates has been in decline for many years, and has suddenly flourished in the past few years.
, the main task is to create obstacles for Japan’s maritime trade.
The person who can mobilize them is usually Cui Zhongxian, the powerful minister of Goryeo. However, Cui Zhongxian has no need to change the status quo, and there is no need to stop Yin Chang. Therefore, if this wave of pirates is dispatched, it means that Cui's force is out of control, and even Cui Zhongxian
The political center built in Kaesong has also changed hands.
If the visitors were mainly Japanese, they would either be subordinates of the so-called royal family of the Kamakura shogunate from the Japanese country of Kyushu, or they would be fugitive samurai who had recently attacked the powerful Hojo clan but were defeated.
The former usually operates in hundreds and has its own ships. The latter has a very large number, but has neither reliable ships nor a stable organization. What the two have in common is that most of them have close relationships with Cui Zhongxian's eldest son Cui Yu.
Cui Zhongxian has been in power for 20 years, and he has killed countless close friends who tried to seize power. He is also very wary of his eldest son. And the available force that Cui Yu has attracted are all such losers.
If Cui Yu takes action against himself, there are two possibilities.
One is that Cui Zhongxian's serious illness was fake. He decided to eradicate his eldest son who was too big to lose his tail, forcing Cui Yu to jump over the wall. He had to solve the trouble at sea first, and then fight with his back to the wall.
The other is that Cui Yu is just a puppet, and there is another force behind him that is deliberately promoting the hostility between Cui Yu and the Great Zhou Dynasty, thereby attracting the attention of all parties in the Goryeo capital.
But Yin Chang did not intend to analyze the situation slowly and advance the situation step by step.
He had already thought that once his fleet and personnel were lost, he would use this as an excuse after landing to put pressure on the officials in charge of the port in Korea and incite many merchants anchored at Yeseong Port to join forces.
Making noise and causing a violent uproar.
The Goryeo official who lives in Bilanting in Yecheng Port is Cui Junwen, who has always worked closely with Li Yun.
In the past few years, Cui Junwen has served as the representative of Cui Zhongxian, just as Li Yun has served as the representative of Guo Ning. The two of them have upheld the meaning of the big man behind them and have happily cooperated in business. Cui Junwen himself has continued to improve his status through his achievements, and now he has become
When Prime Minister Choi was seriously ill, one of the three people who actually controlled the real power of Goryeo became a decisive force leader in the current situation.
Regardless of whether the attacker is related to Cui Junwen or not, as long as he is forced to react, the situation in Goryeo, which is in a stalemate with each other, can change. If the subsequent chain reaction comes to Yeseong Port, Yin Chang will just wait for the opportunity to go to Kaesong.
Come on, let's go straight to the heart.
Unexpectedly, Yin Changan arrived at Yecheng Port safely.
Something should have happened! There should have been an attack!
This is a good thing that has hundreds of benefits and no harm. It doesn't matter if a few people die for it.
However, my ship has slowly entered the river from the sea, and the pirates have not appeared?
Yin Chang felt a little disappointed. It was as if he had used all his strength to prepare for a fight, but failed, or he had arranged fishing hooks and bait, but no fish could bite the hook.
From this point of view, there are obviously smart people in Korea, but they should not be thought of as stupid.