Chapter 554: New Politics

After three consecutive days of interrogation, the general crime was settled and the confession was taken. Transfer of the shipment made Hu Hai's confession the most useful, and the bad deeds of these people in the past were revealed. A single conclusive evidence colluded with pirates to attack Shanggang in the Song Dynasty was roughly no different from treason. As for bullying and tyrannical behavior, it was just a trivial matter.

Whenever it involves rebellion, it also involves the naval army and the wing army. Those who are detained will not be able to survive. Early this morning, the access control began to be released, and the servants beat gongs and declared the orders everywhere, and asked people to go to the dock to see the sea merchants.

Killing people is not only a killing of chickens, police and monkeys, but also a kind of oath, which is to tell the merchants in Quanzhou that officials and businessmen can no longer make trouble. The four major surnames are not worth mentioning in front of Shen Qinshi.

Quanzhou was frightened and finally recovered. The winner was decided. Now it was time to watch the fun, so many people rushed to the wharf outside the city. Before the prisoners were taken over, there were already crowds of people here.

The leaders of all major merchant gangs were called to the side of Wangyuan Tower. Looking down from Wangyuan Tower, you could see the execution ground separated by the water army.

Chen Ao first invited everyone to drink tea, but everyone drank absent-mindedly, thinking to himself, asking someone to drink tea to come and kill people, the hobby of this imperial envoy is really strange.

Chen Ao, as if bathing in the spring breeze, said slowly: "You are all doing business. It is good to seek wealth. Our officials also seek wealth. But a gentleman loves money and makes it well. Therefore, we must have rules and rules. We will do it according to the rules. I don't care about how much money you make, but if someone breaks the rules, it will be difficult for everyone to speak."

This opening remark was straight to the point. The merchants dared not say anything, and they said one after another: "What the sir is saying."

Chen Ao continued: "The rules of this official are very simple. The commercial tax will be collected by the navy first. In the future, there is no need to withdraw goods as tax. Just use money. A large ship with a capacity of more than a thousand materials will pay 1,000 guan per ship to sea and 500 guan per ship. I wonder who has any objection?"

Everyone hesitated for a moment, but there were not many objections. In the past, they used to withdraw goods for taxes, but they were too flexible. It was common for them to take more than a few boxes of goods from taxes. Now they pay the bank directly, and how much should it be? The tax is quite reasonable. Around half of the profits of a ship of goods are paid and half of them belong to themselves, and it is not too much.

Chen Ao laughed and said, "Of course, the court collects your taxes and cannot ignore you. The navy forces sends ships out of the port every month, and merchant ships can travel at the rear. In this way, if you encounter pirates on the road, the navy's ships can naturally protect your safety."

When the merchants heard this, they immediately understood Chen Ao's meaning. If a merchant ship went to sea and could have a naval army guarded along the way, wouldn't the safety of going to sea be guaranteed? What is most afraid of in the vast ocean is to bump into pirates. Once the pirates came out, not only would the goods not be safe, but they could not even be able to save their lives. This is a big hidden danger of navigation. In the future, if the ship went to sea, they would go with the navy and everyone would go together, and this hidden danger would be solved.

As for Chen Ao's meaning, it is actually simple. The navy goes out to sea to protect the merchant ships and can also let the navy bring some goods. After going back and forth, not only will it not lose money, but it will also make a profit. As for the ships on the navy, it is easy to solve the problem. All the official and merchant ships will have to be confiscated in the future and there will be confiscated silver. At that time, recruit some navy troops, and the manpower will be enough. If a customization is formed in the future, a team of military ships will leave the port at the beginning of each month, similar to the later bus system, on time and on time. Those merchant ships that want to go out must follow the military ships. The scale of going to sea at one time will be quite large.

After saying so much, a burst of cheers came from the bottom. The merchants looked out through the window and saw a series of criminals being escorted. These criminals were still arrogant just a few days ago, and now they have become prisoners one by one. Where can they see any glamour?

Some even cried and cried, some fainted on the way, all of whom were pulled and pulled by the navy, knelt down to the execution ground, and rowed over, and then a team of knife hands raised their swords with briskness. The blade blew a cold light in the air, blood splattered everywhere, and the head fell to the ground.

The execution of a team of criminals was escorted to the second team, which made the merchants feel distressed. They were drinking tea in their mouths, and they couldn't drink it anymore, and they felt nauseous discomfort.

Chen Ao looked calm and smiled, "The most urgent task at the moment is to wipe out the pirates. Let me tell you the truth. You have a lot of benefits to eliminate officials and businessmen. At this time, you should also serve me. From now on, your ships and people will go to the Transportation Department to report, and the officials will temporarily control them to eliminate the pirates."

The merchants dared not say anything. Seeing the bloody rain and the heads rolling to the ground, they could only say a word. At this point, if there are still people who don’t understand the current situation, it is a pig brain. It is good for the imperial envoy Chen to clear out the pirates. Lord Shen fights officials and businessmen, which is good for them. Originally, everyone was still worried, afraid that the officials and businessmen will settle the score in the future, but with the order of the imperial envoy Chen, they relieved their worries. The whole family of officials and businessmen in Quanzhou City was killed, and nothing left. Now they understand. Following Lord Shen, there is still soup behind him. If anyone dares to disobey him, it will be a dead end. Now, even if the imperial envoy Chen asks them to eat shit, they will never dare to disobey at all.

More than 1,700 criminals were killed, and they were killed at any time. Teams of death row prisoners were pulled up and executed, without any room for maneuver. The creator slashed and even his arms were numb. At first, the spectators cheered and cheered, feeling that the imperial envoy gave them a breath. Usually, there were not many good dog officials and officials and businessmen, but as they watched, the applause gradually disappeared, and there was only a bone-broken chill. Looking at the piles of corpses, there was only fear.

It took two and a half hours for the execution to be completed. Zhou Chu stepped to Wangyuan Tower and saluted Chen Ao: "Sir, everyone has committed 1,734 crimes, and they have all been executed."

The merchants were thrilling to hear that more than a thousand living lives were gone. The Chen surnamed Chen was really cruel. He secretly looked at Chen Ao, but Chen Ao had no expression on his face and showed no sympathy. He slowly said, "Put it aside and disperse the crowd."

Zhou Chu shouted loudly: "As for your order." Then he turned around and went out.

Chen Ao stood up, looked at the leaders of the chamber of commerce, and slowly said: "That's all about this today, let's break up."

After saying that, he led a team of personal guards back to the Transport Office from Wangyuan Tower. After returning to the bedroom, Chen Ao took out a good rice paper and took a pen to write on the paper: "Where are corpses everywhere outside Quanzhou City, are there sadness and joy?"

This is Chen Ao's mood log. He suddenly realized that he would either leave a devil for thousands of years or keep his wealth forever. At this time, writing some diaries every day can be considered as erecting a arch for himself. For example, today, after killing so many people, the diary only records his mood. One is sad and happy, and he proves to future generations that he is complicated at this moment. The so-called crying of a family is like crying all the way, and the killing of a family is like killing all the way. Chen Ao's brief question, the nobleness of this sentiment is also reflected.

After writing the diary, I was in a good mood, so I picked up my pen and started writing the memorial, including the evidence of the officials and businessmen, and the list of the number of murders.

When the imperial envoy arrived in Quanzhou, the first thing he did was to kill people. After killing so many people, the people in Quanzhou had settled down. No matter what, Quanzhou is now the imperial envoy had the final say, and there was no need to question it. The so-called unified thinking, what we need to do now is to follow the imperial envoy's tone, and there is no need to think randomly anymore.

The imperial envoy made a noise and wanted to implement a new policy in Quanzhou. There are two new policies, one is to clarify maritime affairs. This maritime affairs are easy to understand. It is nothing more than to clear out pirates, investigate merchants, register sailors, and modify tax terms.

The second article is to purify the navy. According to the idea of ​​the imperial envoy, the newly built Dasong Navy was divided into three systems. The Xinghua Navy was changed to the Nanyang Navy and expanded the navy. It is said that the palace had already approved it, so I waited for the imperial envoy to draw up a charter and start working on it.

After the rumor came out, no one had any objections. No one dared to be that young man at this time. Except for the Shen surname in the Song Dynasty, who dared to be so frustrated? The merchants did not dare to be negligent at all. They all went to the Transportation Department to report to themselves. They had to write down their own ships, how many sailors, the origins, names, and backgrounds of sailors must be clearly written, and archived by the Transportation Department.

The Transport Department took the roster and began to dispatch which ship and sailors were united to which team, and if they should issue weapons, they would temporarily allocate some money and even proposed rewards, which would be used to clear out the important forces of pirates at that time.

There were also lieutenants from the Xiang Army to take over. The former head of the capital, Yu Hou, was extremely guilty and directly chopped off his head. The rest were disbanded and returned, and the lieutenants were led by the lieutenants to consolidate the city defense.

Not only this, recruiting sailors has also begun to be put on the agenda. Any young and strong person can sign up. Of course, they will not be allowed to join the camp for the time being, but will only give them a bite of food. They will be distributed to them and temporarily call them as militias. When the pirates are defeated, they will be organized into the navy.

After doing so much, it is nothing more than fighting pirates. In Shen Ao's eyes, only navy is allowed in Quanzhou's waters, and no pirates are allowed. Now that all the forces in Quanzhou are gathered together, they are going to fight to the death with those pirates.

But no matter what you do, it is absolutely impossible to have no money. So many people have to stumble on their meals, and they must also need military pay and rewards. It is easy to talk about food. I immediately sent a *** to Fujian Prefecture to transport grain. The military pay was mainly taken out of the money and grains of the houses. The income from the large and small officials and businessmen's houses was more than 700 million yuan, and the four major surnames accounted for half. It can be seen that these people have strong financial resources. Faced with such a large amount of money, Chen Ao could only allocate a little. The rest had to wait for the decree to come down before making plans.

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