Chapter 878 Sailing Overseas Liangshan Exploitation
"Song Gongming's going here is a wish, but I don't know how many of these men will be safe!" Looking at the recruiting team going away, Shen Long sighed, "But it's okay, once Song Gongming leaves, For the time being, the imperial court doesn't care about our Liangshan."
There is also a lot of food in the cottage, and Shen Long also strictly ordered to rob the passing merchants, but instead charged tolls, as long as the merchants paid the money, they would be safely escorted out of the range of Liangshan. Although such a single income is less, it can be After it spread among merchants, more and more merchants began to take this path, and the total income went up instead.
You must know that it is not peaceful to go out and do business at this time. Not only are there bandits and grassroots robbing, but also corrupt officials are extorting money. Although Liangshan collects protection fees, they still do practical things. At least it is more cost-effective than going from other places. Liangshan has actually formed a trade route, which can not only provide Liangshan with a steady stream of protection fees, but also bring a lot of urgently needed supplies to Liangshan. This makes Shen Long have to feel that robbery is not as good as collecting tolls. This has been the case since ancient times.
In addition to tolls and urgently needed supplies, Zhu Gui, Du Xing, Sun Xin, and Mrs. Gu made a lot of money in the hotels opened by these businessmen in Liangshan's inns.
This was originally a good thing, but who would have thought that Zhang Qing, Sun Erniang, and the judge Li Li, who had been urged to order, would start to make buns again? Pei Xuan was really ruthless and directly sentenced them to be beheaded for public display.
Wu Song, Li Jun and the others knew that they had done these deeds before, and they only thought they had changed after going up the mountain. Now that they saw the evidence Pei Xuan showed them, they had nothing to say, so they could only look at the brothers Cai Fu and Cai Qing. Behead these people.
After this incident, the morale of Liangshan was severed, and Wu Song felt a little uncomfortable, but it was justified to kill and pay for his life, and he couldn't blame Shen Long and Pei Xuan; Very big, how could he ruin his future because of Li Li?
"Compared to Song Gongming, Yuanwai is the one who does great things!" After witnessing the changes in Liangshan with his own eyes, Wen Huanzhang said while drinking with Gongsun Sheng.
"Thinking of Yuanwai's words at the time, Song Gongming's life after recruiting security may be difficult! I heard that the imperial court arranged for Song Gongming to attack Tianhu in Hebei, and I'm afraid they have the intention of hurting both of them." Gongsun Sheng sighed when he heard the news. Afterwards, everyone in Liangshan became more and more thankful that they had made the right decision.
Now that Song Jiang's men are weak, it may be more dangerous to compete with Tian Hu. On the other hand, Li Jun is already familiar with the handling of sea ships in Liangshan.
When everything was ready, Shen Long set off with the fleet in person, accompanied by horse war leaders such as Lin Chong, Xu Ning, and Yang Zhi, as well as foot war leaders such as Wu Song, Lu Zhishen, and Liu Tang. The Ruan brothers drew lots and finally selected Ruan Xiaoer and Ruan Xiaoqi went together,
Ruan Xiaowu stayed to guard Liangshanbo.
For the time being, Shen Long handed over the matter on the mountain to Gongsun Sheng and Zhu Wu, and led 10,000 soldiers out of Liangshanbo, and followed the Yellow River into the sea.
"At first I thought that Liangshan Pond was big enough, but now I'm on the top of the sea, I know it's vast!" After arriving at the sea, Ruan Xiaoqi was amazed when he saw the endless sea.
"Haha, Xiao Qi is looking at the ocean and sighing today." Wen Huanzhang remembered the allusion of He Bo looking at the ocean and sighing in "Zhuangzi".
Shen Long was fully prepared for this trip, and he also had nautical charts and various navigation tools hundreds of years ahead of this era to locate. After many days of sailing, the boat finally arrived at Tamna Island smoothly.
At this time, there were few people on Tamra Island, and the military equipment was even weaker. Suddenly seeing so many large ships attacking, the people on the island were powerless to resist, and Shen Long easily captured them.
Immediately, Shen Long took out the imperial decree forged by the sage scholar Xiao Rang and covered it with the imperial edict of the jade-arm craftsman Jin Dajian privately engraving the jade seal, and reprimanded the Koryo officials on the island in the name of the Song Dynasty officials, asking them to return Tamna Island to its original The ruler, Tamra Star Lord.
Of course, these are just superficial efforts, even if it is returned to Tamra Star Lord, they can't do without Shen Long's support, so Tamna Island fell into Shen Long's hands easily.
Shen Long quickly appointed Wen Huanzhang as the official to manage the civil affairs of Tamna Island, and used sea ships to continuously transport the victims from the mainland, distributed food to them, and asked Tao Zongwang to lead them to reclaim the land here.
In addition, let Li Ying, the flying eagle, follow Li Jun to lead the fleet to Japan for trade, and use sea trade to provide Liangshan with a steady stream of financial support, as well as various minerals such as copper ore and saltpeter necessary for farming.
Liangshan is in the territory of the Song Dynasty, if too many people gather together, and they have to train soldiers, it will definitely cause uneasiness in the court, but overseas, there is no such scruple, and in recent years, there have been many natural and man-made disasters in the Song Dynasty, and the number of displaced victims is unknown. In just a few years, Shen Long could gather a large number of people and train a group of elite soldiers to strengthen the future.
Manpower was arranged on Tamna Island, with Wen Huanzhang as the head of the civil servants, Lin Chong and Xu Ning as military commanders to help train the recruits, Li Jun led the navy to garrison Koryo, and Lu Zhishen, Yang Zhi and others were in charge of suppressing the territory.
Then Shen Long returned to Liangshan. Tamna Island is suitable for farming, but not suitable for industrial development. Most of the farming tasks can only be completed in Liangshan. Shen Long reckoned that from now on he would have to run between Liangshan and Tamna Island. up.
As for whether Goryeo will go to Song Dynasty to file a complaint, he is not too worried. Now that Song Dynasty is very busy with the affairs of the Liao Kingdom, he still has the mind to worry about a mere small island.
With the income from overseas bases and sea trade, Liangshan no longer has to rely on robbing the surrounding counties to make a living, so Liangshan fell silent for a while, and the officials in the surrounding counties just pretended that they hadn’t seen it, and they never mentioned Liangshan in their official documents. Occasionally, those who were loyal to the imperial court wanted to send memorials, but were dissuaded by those around them.
Song Jiang had just recruited, and many officials around him had no one to speak. If you want to reveal the truth now, you will offend a large number of officials. After thinking about it, these people can only sigh and burn the written memorial.
The Liangshan side was peaceful, but Song Jiang and others who were recruited by the court were miserable. They had just finished beating Tian Hu and were dragged to beat Huaixi Wang Qing. Wang Qing had to fight Fang La with Tong Guan after the beating. There is hardly a day of rest.
Two years after Song Jiang recruited security, one day, Wu Yong suddenly came to the Golden Beach and asked to go up the mountain.