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Chapter 207 It's Good To Dry Salted Fish

"Commander, there are pirates climbing up on four ships. What should those people do?"

There are about a hundred people on their boat. It's getting late now and I've already been stunned in front of the live-streamed ship collision drama.

Now they are like the two fools at the village entrance, spreading on the deck and blowing the sea breeze.

Zhao Dali touched his big bald head, and his eyes turned: "Why don't we send a report to the commander-in-chief and see what should he do?"

Zhao Heng couldn't understand: "Isn't it just three or four hundred white skins? Is there any need to bother the commander-in-chief?"

Zhao Dali glared at him: "You know what the hell is, it's boring to sit in the back. Can't we have some fun for him?"

Damn it, no wonder you can be the commander of the fleet, I can only be the captain. This is the difference between people.

"I understand, I'll send a telegram now."

Li Bin raised the telegram in his hand and smiled at Li Yan, "Look, Zhao Dali, a rough man, actually learned to flatter others."

Li Yan took the telegram and saw it, and laughed: "There are hundreds of turtles in the jar, and he also sent a telegram. This guy turned out to be a man who looked rough."

Li Bin waved his hand: "Since he wants to have some fun, let him have some fun. When they arrive tomorrow morning, everyone will just keep the boat at a distance of 200 meters to watch the show."

Even if the other party brings a flintlock rifle at this distance, it will be useless.

Zhao Dali and the others chased each other too far, and they came back slowly when they came back in the evening. They did not approach the ship of the North Sea Fleet until after 8 o'clock the next morning.

Everyone stopped the boat at a distance of 200 meters, and the breakfast that should have been eaten long ago was delayed today.

The sailors were very bad, so they delayed their breakfast just to see the white skin on the deck!

A funny and funny play was staged at the entrance of the Strait of Malacca: the officers and soldiers of the North Sea Fleet were holding big sea bowls, drinking porridge and eating buns while pointing at the prisoners on the South Sea Fleet ship.

These guys jumped onto the boat yesterday morning and one late yesterday morning. They couldn't see the food in the boat under their feet. Now the boat next to them was full of people, and they could see clearly where they were eating.

After driving away the enemy, the two fleets were not short of two days. Everyone just took a rest on the sea for two days to relax their nervousness during the battle? By the way, watch the monkey show.

Bathing on the sea at low latitude for two days? What does it feel like to have no food or drink? What's more, there is a hot steel plate under your butt.

On the first day, the people on the boat threw away all their weapons and demanded to surrender? Unfortunately, their request for surrender was ignored.

According to Li Bin, everyone is fair, let’s talk about it after two days of sunshine? See who will dare to climb onto our boat in the future.

The salted fish that had been drying for two days was satisfied, and everyone's bad taste was also satisfied? These half-dead white skins were finally liberated? The sailors in the cabin walked out with revolvers in their hands, handcuffed them one by one, and sent them to the Labor Management Office in Daming City? There are many construction projects here.

The situation in Shandong this year is very bad? There has not been a few rains since the beginning of the year. Finally, people took the lead and put the seeds into the field, but only a few sparse seeds were produced.

There was no work to do in the canal transportation. The imperial court has not walked through the canal transportation this year.

There is no grain collected at all when tax collection, and all gold tickets are collected directly? There is also grain transport there.

In April, the Zheng family in the south recruited 100,000 troops by the canal? All the family members were removed.

Then Huaxia Company recruited another 200,000 yuan, and also took her family away.

Are officials from the canal transportation yamen transferred? The ones who were sent to the canal transportation, and the remaining ones are now mainly responsible for auctioning the canal ships.

All these ships were sold to merchants? Let them take them to transport the goods themselves.

He could barely take down all the remaining strong men? Can he have a job to make a living.

The problem is? The big guys inside are unhappy.

The entire canal transport of hundreds of thousands of people was instantly demolished, and the old and weak were left to them, and the old prestige was gone forever.

Their power is not only in the canal transport, but also in the shipyard. The imperial court used to have to repair and renew the canal ships every year, but now it is gone, and the workers in the shipyard are suddenly panicked.

As soon as these big guys were encouraged, and there were financial supporters who contributed money and efforts, Shandong immediately became a fire.

Deng Xiaotao sat in front of Li Bin's desk and rolled his eyes: "I want to tell me that I would deal with the Shandong family earlier, and there would be no such a mess."

Li Bin is quite interested: "How much does that family spend in this Shandong rebellion?"

Deng Xiaotao thought for a while: "We can't find the specific numbers, but so far, there are at least five million yuan. The current food, weapons and military pay of the rioters led by Liu Zeqing are almost one-third of the current food, weapons and military pay for the family."

"Two-thirds are Yangzhou salt merchants?"

Deng Xiaotao nodded: "Indeed, they have not earned money in the past two years. This time they collected taxes, they were hurt by a knife. The people's houses were hundreds of acres at every turn, and there were a lot of manors and shops. The few paid more than 100,000 yuan and the more than 300,000 yuan. This is what they have to pay every year, so it would be strange if they don't feel sorry."

Li Bin also had a headache: "This scene is too big, the military head, the White Lotus Sect, the saints, and the salt merchants are mixed together."

Li Bin's focus has always been on the saint's house. He hasn't paid attention to it for a long time: "I don't collect salt tax now. Whoever pays asset tax and business tax can sell it? Isn't it good for salt merchants to do business honestly? Such a big industry, it's impossible to make money even if they can't make money, right?"

Deng Xiaotao shook his head: "It's only sad for them without salt tax. What they earn is salt tax. Those people are willing to do business honestly. They are speculative and collusion between officials and businessmen. Can they be happy to let them make hard money?"

Li Bin understood in a flash that these people have become a habit of making money quickly. Besides, there is no salt tax and the competition is fierce. Huaxia's industrial salt farm has now reduced the salt price to a penny per pound, and there is nothing to make money.

"So, our problem now is that their rebellion is actually a small problem, but neither the saints nor the salt merchants showed up. Is it Liu Zeqing and the White Lotus Sect that are ahead?"

Deng Xiaotao nodded: "Yes, it's not a big problem for the saint to catch them directly. The evidence in our hands is enough to nail them to the pillar of shame. The key is that if the salt merchants in Yangzhou do it directly, it is a bit difficult to explain. After all, they honestly paid the tax and did not make any mistakes. They didn't have a big tail."

Li Bin thought: "No, what about the evidence of their collusion with those officials and bribery?"

Deng Xiaotao said helplessly: "These things are all small people in the family, and they are all giving money and gifts. The big people in the family are not involved in these things. This is what people guard against. There are people who have the people in that family. Unless they are like the Eight Great Masters in Shanxi, they are connected with treason, the entire family cannot escape."

"What do you mean is that the eight majorities in Shanxi have already handled it?"

Li Bin finally heard the first good news about his return from Nanyang.

"Well, the Shanxi Joint Operations Team has arrested all personnel and collected all the evidence. They are currently counting their property and preparing to hand over the case to the court."

Deng Xiaotao paused for a moment and continued: "Li Ruolian and the others performed well this time. After such a long period of rectification, I think they can take on their own responsibilities."

Li Bin was a little suspicious: "The eight great masters in Shanxi are in the entire Datong or Shanxi. Why are there no movement in others? Shandong is just in chaos here, so don't wait for us to quell the rebellion, and Shanxi is in chaos again!"

Deng Xiaotao rolled his eyes at him: "Are we so stupid? Shanxi officials arrested a lot of them when we took over last year. The reason why Li Ruolian performed well this time was that we cooperated to arrest all the officials provided by the Eight Great Masters. Even General Jiang Guan was easily captured by Li Ruolian and his men."

Li Bin now doesn't care about these details at all, and throws them to the secretary's office. After they are classified, they will send them to relevant departments. Then, they will supervise them later and review the submitted documents after the relevant departments have finished processing.

So Li Bin didn't know these details, but when he thought of arresting the general again, he also had a headache: "What should we do now for the soldiers in his hands?"

"Of course it's handing it over to the Ministry of Defense. Whether it's retraining or retirement, it's not our business."

This involves a new issue, military system reform.

"What's all about this? There is no problem in the Ming Dynasty. There are problems everywhere. If you cut off a sore, you have to cut the sores next to it. No wonder the problems are dealing with more and more."

Deng Xiaotao also felt deeply: "It's true. I feel that I want to solve the Ming Dynasty's problems quickly, unless we spend 30 to 40 billion yuan at one time."

Li Bin was scared by her imagination: "You really dare to think about it. For 30 to 40 billion, we will collapse first. This is not a matter of money. We must give the Ming Dynasty the ability to produce blood by itself, and also have healthy blood."

Deng Xiaotao was not interested in this kind of political topic. Just as he was about to say something else, the secretary outside came in: "Boss, Chief of Staff Sheng is here."

Seeing that the opportunity to chat with the boss was gone, Deng Xiaotao had to get up and say goodbye.

As soon as Sheng Xiaobo entered the door, he complained: "Commander-in-Chief, we don't have enough troops!"

Li Bin looked at him with a dark face: "Why are you as good as Lin Zhanfei? You call it poor when you come up?"

Sheng Xiaobo began to give him a wrench: "Qin Liangyu brought fifteen divisions, responsible for security along the Tiansu Line, playing hide-and-seek with the Mongols on the grassland, and ten divisions were in the south. Another fifteen divisions were trained with Lin Zhanfei in Siam and guarded the prisoners. The 500,000 new recruits from the Ming Dynasty were gone. Our own sixteen divisions, Beihai, Lin Zhanfei took four, Qin Liangyu took one away, China Resources Department Store dispersed two divisions, and now there are only five divisions in Beijing, and even Pudong is under the Marine Corps responsible for the guarding."
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