Chapter 2018 Naval Battle
Zhao Han asked again: "Then do you still have any difficulties now?"
"Difficulties? The biggest difficulty is only one thing, and it cannot be solved. "Jia Rong sighed.
"What's the matter? Aren't you time travellers? What other difficulties can stump you?" Zhao Han said subconsciously.
"Disease." Jia Rong sighed again.
"Disease? Well, other time-travelers rarely get sick, and they never got sick once from beginning to end." Zhao Han said helplessly.
Thanks to her, she also guessed many kinds of difficulties, such as social productivity, stubborn ideas, and human nature. She didn't expect it to be a disease.
"Yes, this is the most difficult to deal with. I almost fainted several times. Do you still remember the first time I started to get malaria? I almost died." Jia Rong said seriously.
Jia Lian also said: "Yes, disease is indeed a big trouble. Yuan Shao failed largely because he died of illness ten years early. If he was 75 years old, he would have It is very possible to bring down Cao Cao."
Wen Rensheng was watching.
He wanted to say that the example his girlfriend gave was not accurate enough.
Of course there are aliens in the history of the world of Dongzhou, which are much weaker.
Zheng Chenggong in his previous life was the most regrettable. He died of illness at the age of 39.
He took the path of overseas trade, attracting land refugees, and developing overseas islands.
If you live to the age of 54, you may kill the Manchus.
Because at that time, Wu Sangui rebelled, Wu Sangui and Zheng Chenggong attacked simultaneously from the south and the east. The Qing Dynasty might be doomed.
And overseas trade can continue.
"Hey, can the teacher cheat me?" Zhao Han asked secretly.
“Why do you always have to cheat? If you don’t cheat, you won’t be able to play games or do things anymore?” Wen Rensheng asked.
"I know, if you don't want to open it, you won't open it." Zhao Han said bitterly.
"Be careful of diseases. You are 18 years old this year, I am already 26 years old, and Jia Rong is 19 years old. Many people in ancient times died of illness before the age of 30. Wei Ruolan died of illness early. He was Shi Xiangyun's husband. He was of good character. He looks good, but it’s a pity.” Jia Lian shook his head.
"Hey, by the way, I remember that Dai Ji and Eunuch Xia are all acting by uncles. We can discuss with them to see what good medicine they have." Zhao Han came up with another idea. road.
"If there is really good medicine, the emperor will not live so long."
Zhao Han said helplessly: "Then what should we do?"
" Well, we actually have some measures. One is to focus on pharmaceutical production and make modern medicines with local methods.”
"Second, don't get infected. Don't get injured. If you're often at sea, you'll be easily infected by deep-sea bacteria. Modern means can't do anything about it, so don't get any wounds on your body. And don't get bitten by mosquitoes, various small bugs, or heat. Wear more clothes too," Jia Rong sighed.
Zhao Han shook his head and said: "They are all passive measures."
"Yes. There is no other way but to make do." Jia Lian agreed.
Jia Rong nodded: "I didn't expect that the biggest problem for time travelers is disease. It's all because we are not the protagonists. We live in reality. We can solve other things by ourselves, but we can't solve this disease. Solve it."
"Then you still need to exercise more and keep your body in good shape. I will also go find more miracle doctors, foreign miracle doctors and domestic miracle doctors." Zhao Han comforted you.
"Forget about the foreign ones. Before modern times, the domestic ones were more reliable. At any rate, because we were in a feudal society, we were not very courageous. The foreign ones were all veterinarians." Jia Lian shook his head.
"Yes, what kind of iron can cure hemorrhoids, bloodletting is omnipotent, soy sauce can be fed into the stomach, a leg has just been amputated during surgery, and he went to deliver the baby immediately..." Jia Rong said with disdain.
“Yes, since we all know it, we should establish a modern nursing method.”
“We have been doing this for a long time. We don’t have instruments and medicines, but we have people and systems. We are equipped with All hospitals use high-level alcohol disinfection and boiling water to eliminate bacteria as much as possible."
"Can those anti-inflammatory drugs be made?"
"We have begun to prepare some drugs such as aspirin and salicylic acid that are directly extracted from plants. Manual preparation is extremely expensive, but it is enough if you have it." Jia Rong said.
Jia Lian added: "There is another problem. In order to live longer, we cannot personally lead troops at sea. The death rate at sea these days is too high. I don’t know how many generals have died in battle in the past. On the way."
"So what's the problem?" Zhao Han asked.
"You are stupid. If we don't personally lead the troops, then the military power will definitely be in the hands of the people below who personally lead the troops. How risky is this?" Jia Rong said helplessly.
“For example, Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Sun Quan all have to personally lead their troops in order to prevent their military power from falling apart.”
"Now we can only guarantee it through ideas, supervision by others, and the security system, but they are not the most reliable." Only after hearing this, Zhao Han realized how complicated it is to really succeed in the rebellion.
No wonder this is a story that later generations thought was simple when they saw some people succeed in rebellion, but if they really wanted to rebel themselves, it would be too difficult.
"Then how far have you reached in your business now?"
"We are about to face the big pirate Wang Bolun. He is the next target we must eradicate." Jia Rong became excited.
War is always exciting.
"Wang Bolun? I just handled his case. His desire to control forced his son to fake his own death to escape. This person is definitely difficult to deal with..." Zhao Han told the information he got one by one.
People who are extremely controlling are a nightmare for their children, but they often succeed in their careers.
Because he can control most details, he can ensure the progress of things.
Often ordinary subordinates will not move unless you urge them.
This success in turn strengthened his belief in his method, but he forgot that children and employees are not the same thing.
The latter can be changed at will, and they can leave if they can't resist the pressure.
Children cannot be changed casually. The cost of changing if you cannot resist the pressure is too high, unless you are an emperor.
The emperor could not bear the cost of changing the prince.
"I see, it seems that this can be used by us...to lure the enemy deep enough to make him come over in person." Jia Rong thought for a moment and said.
"Yes, the big pirate Wang Bolun must be cleaned up. He has hindered the expansion of trade scale and interfered with the efficiency of the utilization of our resources. Moreover, his robbery has caused our goods to be wasted." Jia Lian nodded. .
The three of them discussed it and continued to act against each other.
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On the southeastern sea, somewhere on an island lair.
Lighting up, feasting and feasting.
The pirates cheered each other, and there were many screams inside.
They are entrenched here, and even the imperial court has nothing to do with them.
Most of the pirates who were wiped out in history were killed by themselves and natural disasters.
The court could only control the small pirates by appeasing the big pirates.
Even in modern times, pirates are rampant, let alone this era?
“It turns out that my son is not dead. This unfilial son actually did such a thing to escape me!”
"How good I am to him, how could he never think that this unfilial thing, I asked him to become an official on the shore, and he actually did such a thing just to escape!" Wang Bolun said angrily to his men. .
At this moment, one of his men with big gold teeth shouted: "Master, leave your son alone, that man from the Rong Pharmaceutical Company is as quick as a red-haired ghost." The boat has been flexing its muscles on our land many times recently, asking us to surrender, and escorting those poor fishermen, so that we can’t even collect the usual fish tax money.”
Obviously, Da Jinya doesn’t look at it.
Wang Bolun drew out his knife and slashed at him.
Big Golden Tooth quickly ducked away.
"What kind of bullshit company is this? I'm afraid of what the red-haired devil is doing? Bring the fire boat immediately and burn him for me!" Wang Bolun was not afraid at all.
The red-haired ghost is powerful with big ships, but is afraid of fire ships.
But these days, as long as you have two mouthfuls of food, you can find a group of refugees who are not afraid of death.
Let them drive the boat quickly, rush over and set fire to it, and the red-haired ghost will be scared away.
At this time, a white fan said: "Master, we can use the power of the court. I have heard that Rongyao Company has expanded several times, but it has offended many people. They want to monopolize maritime trade. , and only paid a small amount of money to the court officials.”
"That's because they used their money to raise soldiers. These people obviously want to rebel, which is different from us." Da Jinya said from the side.
"Yes, every time we rob merchant ships recently, they have to come out to rescue people. It affects us too much to make a fortune. We must show them how powerful we are." Another one-eyed pirate shouted. "Cut them!"
"Cut them!"
Many pirates clamored together.
"Okay, Master, go and see where they are now?"
"The big boss, they are from the land. I have already found out clearly," Bai Fanzi said, "They are just south of us. "It's a smooth journey for three days."
"It's quite close. No wonder they want us to surrender." Wang Bolun nodded.
The sudden incident made him put down his son's affairs.
"I think we really need to repair and repair them, otherwise, we will not be able to survive these days, Mr. Bai Fanzi said.
"It must be repaired and these bastards killed. Master, how do you think this should be arranged?" Wang Bolun asked again.
“My subordinates thought that we should go spend money to find the naval admiral’s office first. I heard that Governor Fanyu had already had a problem with them. They make a lot of money every year, but only give the governor 10,000 yuan. "Two." Bai Fanzi said confidently,
"The governor originally wanted three hundred thousand taels, but there are people behind them. We can discuss it with the governor. As long as we join forces to defeat them, we will let these guys go." They raised the filial piety to three hundred thousand taels.”
“They will definitely agree to send troops. When the time comes, they will charge Na Rong Pharmaceutical Company with treason and let them disarm and arrest them.”
< br>"That's right, we will dispatch immediately!" Wang Bolun gritted his teeth.
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Zhao Han also knew that Governor Fanyu had been restless in the past two years.
After all, Bai Yinzi can defeat the emperor's threats to them, let alone himself.
But they must have refused. After all, they now have guns and cannons. If the governor really doesn't open his eyes, just kill him and replace him with another one.
There is no shortage of officials in the world.
But they hadn't thought that the other party would decisively collude with the pirates.
This morning.
Rong Yao Company's clipper fleet began patrolling several busy routes nearby as usual.
They protect their main trading partners, and these trading partners are also willing to give them more money as protection fees.
After all, there is a big difference between merchant ships and warships. They can only be turned into armed merchant ships, which is already very expensive.
The cost is always low if you can let others protect you.
After all, the Navy Yamen doesn’t work, so we can only protect ourselves.
Zhao Han watched a live broadcast.
Because of this patrol, Jia Rong happened to be on the boat.
He didn’t want to go to sea, but this time, he wanted to see how effective the new ship was.
Not long after patrolling along the route, they saw three ships in the distance on the sea, all merchant ships.
They don’t have many sailors, their masts are very high, and they mainly run routes in the South China Sea.
Running from land to the South China Sea can be done twice a year.
It’s not the kind of big ship that goes directly to the West.
Soon after, a group of fast galleys came from a distance.
They rowed their oars, hoisted their sails, and when they saw three merchant ships, they started chasing them.
The merchant ship immediately began to flee.
However, there is a headwind at this time.
Their boats are big. If they want to escape, they have to make a big turn and run downwind. Only then can they escape.
Curving turns at sea is very slow. It is not as simple as turning on land. The boat may capsize accidentally.
On the opposite side was a tailwind, and the oarsmen.
Being caught up is doomed.
While the three merchant ships were making desperate turns, they suddenly became happy.
Because they saw the patrol clipper of Rongyao Company.
They immediately moved closer to each other's ship.
The patrol clipper can use the wind from all directions and run against the wind.
Of course the speed is definitely slow, but the merchant ship is happy that they no longer need to run past the pirates.
Because of the patrolling speedboat, we went up against the pirates.
As long as the merchant ships run past, or meet the patrol boats, they will be safe.
The other party will entangle the pirates.
Sure enough, the patrol speedboat and the pirate's speed galley were fighting together.
Shooting arrows and cannons, throwing lime bottles, violent oil bottles...
However, the fast galley was soon at a disadvantage because the opponent used new cannons with a long range and could avoid their range. Play outside.
This is very uncomfortable.
Every time I want to fight hand to hand, the opponent will run away.
If you want to run away, the other party will chase you.
The pirates quickly retreated.
Choose to escape with the wind, but the direction of escape is towards land.
Jia Rong immediately subconsciously ordered the ship to pursue him, trying to defeat the pirates at once.
It’s just that Zhao Han looked a little strange at this time.
But I can't tell why something is wrong.
It can only be attributed to the intuition generated by solving the case for a long time.
The way the pirates act is a bit inconsistent.
"No! Pirates are looking for money. If they just want to rob merchant ships, they should run away immediately when they see a strong opponent."
"Fighting for a while before escaping shows that they are I came here just to fight!”
"Facing a strong enemy, they fought for a while before leaving. Therefore, the truth is that they are luring the enemy deeper!"
Zhao Han quickly asked Xiaohuan to inform Jia Rong.
Jia Rong immediately woke up.
Hurry and order the ship to stop.
However, a patrol speedboat came aboard. It disobeyed the order and chased after it desperately.
Zhao Han sighed.
She understood, this is the issue of loyalty that friends are talking about.
You don’t lead troops all year round, you only train in the rear.
The people on the front line just don’t accept you!
This one is that modern teams are difficult to control, let alone ancient times.
(End of this chapter)