Chapter 896： old man

   "My lord, there is an island near the port, and it's still a foreigner." As soon as Zhou Zhou received the news from his subordinates, he hurried to report.

Qi Haoran finished his breakfast slowly and then asked, "Have they landed?"

"No, just wandering around the port, not even daring to go offshore."

"Then how many boats do they have?"

"Two," Zhou Zhou said: "The pirates say they have four ships in total."

Qi Haoran snorted coldly, "Then what are you afraid of? Send troops to surround the port, and the foreigners' boats are returned?"

"I haven't paid it yet," Zhou Zhou said, "I was thinking of going to pay it back later."

There are too many things. They moved the cannon for half the night yesterday, and they have to take down the captured cannon. They are not princesses, so they moved down little by little in order not to damage the cannon, so they didn't have time to return it.

"Then borrow another day, get the soldiers on board and see what the pirates are doing."

The Zhou family's boat is still at the port, and it's just a matter of borrowing one sentence, five to two, and he doesn't want them to go to war, so he can't scare each other?

Qi Haoran looked at Zhou Zhou with a slightly disappointed look, "How did you deal with these pirates in the past? Obviously we all fought a victorious battle, they couldn't escape, and they dared to provoke them."

Zhou Zhou bowed his head in shame.

Mu Yangling stretched out and kicked his foot, Qi Haoran waved: "Go down quickly."

Zhou Zhou quickly stepped back.

"Only the foreign pirates came. Dongying and other pirates did not move. It seems that they are watching." Mu Yangling asked: "How long are you going to stay here?"

Now Qi Haoran is in the sea division to be able to be so tough. If he is gone, I am afraid that their bones will become soft again, but they are leaving Beijing urgently and obviously cannot stay for long.

Qi Haoran didn't want the end of the antics, so he pondered for a while and said, "I'll talk to my eldest brother to see if I can stay here to support Zijin. Those pirates won't sell Zijin's face, why don't you go back to Beijing first?"

Qi Haoran is also not worried about the children at home.

Mu Yangling said: "Ask Big Brother."

Qi Haoran nodded and went to the study.

Mu Yangling planned to go to the market to see what Guangzhou was like at this time.

When I arrived at the market, I found that today's people seemed to be very excited, and the stalls did not have much thought to entertain the guests.

Mu Yangling and a hawker bought a piece of jade and asked, "Is there a happy event today?"

When the hawker saw that she was not speaking with a local accent and spoke Mandarin, he asked, "You are not from our place, are you?"

Mu Yangling smiled and said, "I follow my father to do business. I'll come out and take a look when I have time today."

Today, Mu Yangling was wearing women's clothes, and the hawker had no doubts and smiled happily: "The lady is lucky, she just met our prince and won a big victory. Today, the pirates with short eyes dared to provoke, and General Zhou Shen is bringing People are going to resist the enemy, everyone can't help but be excited, you see, many people are running to see it."

Mu Yangling raised his eyebrows and asked, "Aren't you afraid of affecting them?"

The hawker said confidently: "What are you afraid of, the lord is still in our Guangzhou, do they dare to go ashore? The lord just killed 3,000 of them. This is the biggest victory in more than 20 years."

An old peddler next to him snorted coldly: "How many years have you lived, you dare to say more than 20 years."

"But I'm telling the truth. Since the ban on the sea, when have we won such a big battle? In the past, when General Wang was there, we could win two out of ten games, but since General Wang was defeated, how many of us Nian was completely pressed and beaten by pirates..."

The old trader sighed and said: "This time is indeed a great victory, not only is it the only time in the past 20 years, but in the next few decades, when the Guangdong sea division is not weak, it is a great victory, but boy, Don't be too complacent, that's the prince, who has to go back to the capital. When the prince is there, the people in the government office will have to straighten their waists no matter how they bend. When the prince leaves, those people's waists will definitely bend to their calves again. , what's the use of leaving a tattered sailor? If the pirates fight back, we will suffer."

Mu Yangling looked at the old vendor in surprise, and asked inadvertently, "This war is a matter of the navy, what does it have to do with the government office?"

The old trader shook his head and smiled, and said, "Ma'am, this war requires weapons, ships, food, and medicine. You have to ask the government office for all these things. If they don't give them, how can the navy fight? Even arrows. If we can't get it together, is it possible to take a stick to fight the pirates? So this navy has to listen to the government."

"Military and political separation..."

"That's the garrison. They have military fields and are self-sufficient. Naturally, they don't need to look at the face of the government office. But the navy is all at sea, and they don't have military fields.

Mu Yangling asked curiously, "Shouldn't it be given by the Ministry of War?"

"The Ministry of War issued an order, and they were all taken from the local taxation, but the local upper layers were stripped away, and very few of them were able to get into the hands of the sailors." The old trader sighed, "Why was General Wang Shen defeated? It's because I don't want to bear it any longer..."

The old vendor hurriedly shut up and said with a smile: "Little old man likes to talk nonsense when he is old, madam, don't mind." He got up and hurriedly closed the stall and said with a smile, "I will also go to the port to see the excitement."

Mu Yangling watched his back disappear, glanced at the guards without a trace, and one of the guards who followed quietly left and followed.

Mu Yangling continued to select the goods on the hawker stall, and asked with a smile, "That old man knows a lot, and he doesn't want to set up a stall to buy things at all. It's amazing."

The hawker saw that she had taken a jade-carved horse, and immediately said, "Madam I don't know, he is not an ordinary hawker. A few years ago, he was also the No. 1 figure in the navy, and he followed General Wang Can to kill the enemy. Later, Yu Zhizhou fought General Wang Can down, and all those who fought with General Wang were dismissed, and life was unsustainable, so he set up a stall to sell things, he was still good, he used to follow General Wang, and now Just staying in the Hearthstone Workshop in the East City and hitting people with hammers and stones, or waiting with the hard laborers at the port to carry the goods and earning a few copper coins from foreigners, it is very miserable."

"Yu Zhizhou? Why not the former prefect? ​​Can he be bigger than the prefect as a prefect?"

The hawker looked hesitant.

A guard gave him a dime of silver, and the peddler's eyes were straightened. This was two or two ounces of silver, which was almost his annual income.

The peddler hesitated for a moment, thinking that Yu Zhizhou might lose his life because of Fan Zhifu's affairs. This is what the old peddler said. His words were always accurate. The peddler made up his mind and looked around and whispered to Mu Yang: "I don't know that my wife is an outsider. In fact, our former prefect was a good official."

Wouldn't it be a good official to die fighting against pirates?

Mu Yangling never thought he was a bad official.

"...I don't know about these things, but the old dealer said it. He is the number one person. He was the military advisor next to General Wang Cang, just like the book. Your lord was suppressed by Yu Zhizhou."