Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 982 Conspiracy or Coincidence
Chapter 989 Conspiracy or Coincidence

It is said that Zhang Zhanggu holds a large amount of property in circulation every day, so he has to do some tricks, and it is absolutely deceiving to say that there is no chance.But Zhang Fang only realized at this time that it is really difficult to be a corrupt official.Corruption is definitely not something that can be done by one person. As long as there is corruption, someone will definitely know about it.However, Wei Guo is very good at cracking down on corruption, and he can report under his real name or anonymously without worrying about retaliation. Moreover, as long as there is evidence to be found, the whistleblower can get a certain percentage of the amount of money corrupted by corrupt officials. Someone will report him and pull him down.

Although the official position of Zhanggu is obtained through the imperial examination, as long as those low-level officials perform well and do things without mistakes, they may be promoted to Zhanggu. At present, there are four people who have entered the reserve Zhanggu program in Buqigang .

"If things go on like this, don't talk about being rich and honored, return home in good clothes. Whether you can get a wife is a big problem!" Zhang Fang couldn't help sighing as he looked at the mountain of files.

Now that he is an official, especially the former boss, there is also a semicolon in Buqi. In order to fear that Zhang Fang will embarrass him, he deliberately brought gifts to Buqi, and his attitude towards Zhang Fang is as submissive as possible.This made Zhang Fang feel very good. If he lost his official position, not to mention that his original boss would not ignore him, I am afraid that eating now would be a problem.

Although there was no way to buy a big house for a while, and he returned home with fresh clothes and furious horses, but when he thought of his poverty and poverty, Zhang Fang couldn't help sweating coldly with fright. The precarious days in the past must not be passed again.

In the Royal Study Room of the Imperial Palace in Yecheng, Ran Ming read one memorial after another. Almost all of these memorials were approved by Wang Jian, the chief minister of the cabinet. If there is a disagreement, call back and re-instruct.

Ran Ming rubbed his astringent eyes, and heaved a long sigh. The job of the emperor is definitely not a simple job. It may be one of the most complicated jobs in the world, no more than those who manufacture nuclear weapons or aerospace science The branches are complex.And don't underestimate those big-bellied and powerful leaders, because they will never be as easy as you see on the surface, because they have done more and more difficult than you imagined.

Usually people have the habit of high-sightedness and low-handedness, and they usually talk to themselves, if I am asked to do this, what should I do?In fact, give these bastards a real chance and they tend to make things worse.Ran Ming has rich experience in managing a large-scale enterprise in later generations, and he can also take advantage of legal loopholes to make this enterprise bigger and stronger, but running an enterprise and managing a country are two different concepts.

As the person who opened Pandora's Box with his own hands, Ran Ming is very clear about that sentence, if there is a 20.00% profit, capital will be ready to move, if there is a 50.00% profit, they will take risks, if there is a [-]% profit , capitalists dare to risk death, if there is a [-]% profit, they dare to trample on any law in the world.

Monopoly is a very good way to make profits, and it is also the fastest way to get money, second only to robbery.Now the Royal Secret Service directly under Ran Ming has discovered some bad signs.

However, Ran Ming will not be worried. In this era, it is different from the later generations, because Ran Ming has a good handle, and he will destroy anyone without saying hello. He will never encounter any resistance .Like later generations of American businessmen who controlled politics behind the scenes, there was no market in Wei State. The biggest wish of these businessmen was to let their children pass the imperial examination and become officials.

On the surface, Ran Ming never asked about the four islands of the Wa Kingdom.But in fact, the merchants of Wei State have already discovered the Wa State. They colluded with the big names and lords of the State of Wa, sold Japanese warriors, and developed the gold mines, silver mines, and copper mines of the State of Wa on a large scale. price.With the influx of a large amount of gold and silver, it directly floods the financial market of Wei State, especially silver. According to the exchange rate of Wei State, one tael of silver is equal to [-] yuan. In fact, due to the large inflow of silver, Wei State’s silver is very cheap now. One catty of silver can only be exchanged for nine catties of copper, which is nearly twice as cheap.

Seeing this information, Ran Ming was furious, but the policy of abolishing the two and changing the yuan was urgent.However, what caught Ran Ming by surprise was that something happened to the expeditionary navy, which made Ran Ming very worried.

"The battle flag flutters with the wind, the battle horn is so loud, Wei Guo's navy marches forward bravely, defending the empire's seas and borders. Every inch of mountains and rivers and an inch of blood, I live and the country dies and I die and the country survives. I am invincible and there is no enemy without me. The enemy dares to invade the empire. I will teach him to perish.” The squadron of the Wei State Expeditionary Force returned from the Hooghly city-state with a full load, and the whole army sang the Wei State Navy’s military song, and embarked on the return journey excitedly.However, this return journey is not destined to be as smooth as when they came.

"Haotian bless!" Liu Laozhi looked at the excited soldiers and became inexplicably anxious.On the sixth day after entering the Indian Ocean, a storm suddenly blew up on the sea.Looking around, there are huge waves like hills, layer upon layer, turbulent waves, dark sky and dark sky, no matter how well-trained the sailors are, they are full of despair.

"Crack" made a terrifying sound, and a transport ship full of nearly [-] shi of grain was cut in half by the waves in an instant.Xie Xuan watched in despair as the two out-of-control transport ships collided. Needless to say, the transport ship full of [-] soldiers overturned. In the end, only more than [-] people were successfully rescued, and the rest of the soldiers were swallowed by the sea. up.

At this moment, Xie Xuan was about to cry.The elite infantry under his command are the elite of the Wei army in all battles. Even if they face an enemy ten times superior, they will fight to the end. However, they did not fall on the battlefield, but died on the way home.All the sails have already been lowered. Even without sails, the warships and transport ships that lost power were ravaged by the huge waves to death.In the face of such a storm, all the war drums and horns have lost the function of transmitting messages, and the entire fleet of more than 100 large and small warships lost contact almost instantly.

With the help of his own soldiers, Liu Laozhi quickly put on the life jacket made of pig and sheep bladders.This life jacket is wrapped with a layer of silk to ensure its durability.The most outstanding invention is that the craftsmen of the Great Wei State invented the one-way air valve. As long as the air is inflated enough, this life jacket will not leak unless it breaks.For this reason, the craftsman also received 20 yuan from the Yecheng Patent Department.Moreover, every time Wei Guo produces a set of life jackets, he will receive a patent fee of one penny, and this period will be 20 years.

There were 87 members of the 240 soldiers on the flagship of China Unicom, and all nine members put on life jackets, strung together with ropes by ten people, and also carried a box for storing food and flint.At this time, more than a dozen semaphore signalmen risked their lives to climb onto the main mast, and then used torches to transmit command signals on it.

Like the baton of the beacon tower, the warships that saw the flagship command signal unanimously passed on the signal.

"Abandon all unnecessary materials and protect the lives of people." Liu Lao issued this order and lost all strength.Issuing this order means that their trophies may not reach Wei State.food.All kinds of gold, silver and precious stones, especially the most precious one is the Mipeng bird made of more than 460 catties of gold.

"The lieutenant is looking at the signal of the flagship."

The sailor on Xie Xuan's battleship, who was beaten to death by the strong wind, danced with excitement. If he hadn't been tied to the mast with a rope, he might have been blown into the sea at this time.Xie Xuan breathed a sigh of relief. With Liu Laozhi's order, he could give the order to remove the armor. On the sea, armor is not only a guarantee to protect the lives of soldiers, but also a reminder for life.Because once a soldier in armor falls into the water, there is almost no possibility of surviving.

But the military law is always unkind, as long as the general does not order the armor to be removed, they will wear the armor as long as they know they are dead.This order was issued very timely, if Liu Lao had issued such an order just at the beginning of the storm.Even if the two transport ships full of soldiers sank, more people could be rescued.It's just that Xie Xuan also understands that it's not that Liu Lao's order was not delivered in time, but that the storm delayed the delivery of the news. To put it bluntly, this is fate.

The strong wind raged for seven hours, and the entire squadron of more than 100 warships has now overturned almost one-third of the ships, but most of them are transport ships.

Liu Laozhi's heart was bleeding, but there was nothing he could do.When the storm was a little smaller, Liu Lao gave an order, and the ships reported their losses.

However, at this moment, the Flying Fish warship, Liu Laozhi's flagship, let out a burst of exclamation: "It's not good, is the cabin leaking?"

"Pipe damage is responsible for plugging the leak."

As soon as Liu Laozhi's order was issued, the flying fish warship made a teeth-gritting sound, as if the warship might fall apart at any time.The Flying Fish battleship with 48 water-tight tanks has good anti-sinking ability. Since it is a wooden battleship, during the test, unless more than [-] water-tight tanks are flooded, the Flying Fish battleship will not sink. ,

After being tested in the storm, the Flying Fish battleship withstood the test. Although the entire battleship was severely battered by the strong wind, in fact, the obvious old sailors could see that although the Flying Fish battleship was a bit miserable, it didn't hurt any bones at all.Even without returning to the dock for overhaul, they can restore the battleship to its original appearance.

However, a series of exclamations sounded, "Water has entered the No. [-] tight water tank in District C, and it has lost the possibility of plugging the leak."

"The No. [-], No. [-], and No. [-] dense water tanks in District A are flooded."

In just one stick of incense, Liu Laozhi received all bad news. There were actually 27 water tanks flooded. At this time, the Flying Fish battleship had no possibility of saving.Liu Laozhi was full of doubts. Although he clearly felt that the battleship was sinking, Liu Laozhi still picked up a tomahawk and slashed at the keel of the bow frantically.

With the sound of "bang bang", the sawdust of the keel flew, but the battleship sank rapidly.

Liu Laozhi was so tired that he was sweating profusely, dropped the battle ax in his hand, and roared: "There is no reason, there is no reason." After a long while, Liu Laozhi said with difficulty: "Abandon the ship."

Ten sailors strung together and wearing life jackets screamed and jumped into the turbulent waves. The guards dragged Liu Laozhi, who had just jumped into the sea, and found that the battleship was struggling with only half of the hull left. The sea surged up to the deck, and slowly only the thickest part of the mast remained.

As the Flying Fish flagship sank in the water, more and more Flying Fish warships sent warnings of water ingress. Liu Laozhi was quickly rescued to a nearby transport ship. Liu Laozhi, who was covered in sea water, rudely refused his soldiers Liu Laozhi's mind is full of doubts about the request to change his clothes.

Flying fish warships are very strong. Even in such a big storm, not many were sunk, only two. Why did they sink one after another after the storm?The Flying Fish battleship, which was ravaged by the strong wind, was still strong in structure, but why did it sink without warning?

Of the 23 staff officers, only six survived today, and the other 17 were swallowed by the sea. Usually these civilian staff officers did not pay attention to physical training, but this disadvantage obviously came out.First-ship military-level staff officers have no chance to participate in battles, so these civilian staff officers are almost all literary talents. This time they finally suffered a big loss. I hope they can increase their physical training in the future.

The sun hung dimly in the sky, faintly visible, unable to distinguish east from west, north from south, and the huge fleet was filled with mourning and crying. Because Liu Laozhi had followed Ran Ming for too long, he had learned from Ran Ming that he did not respect ghosts and gods at all. Instead, he pointed at the sky on the deck Swearing at the street, until the swearing is hoarse and has no strength, then let it go.

"land"

A sailor screamed: "Land right ahead."

When Liu Laozhi heard this, he immediately took out the binoculars and looked to the front right.The helmsman adjusted the rudder and headed for land without an order at all.

The strong wind continued to rage all night, and finally subsided slowly, but the trauma left to Liu Laozhi's fleet was too severe. Of the more than 100 large and small warships, only 57 ships successfully survived the storm. Fortunately, more than a dozen ships were stranded in Boni Bay. The loss of personnel was not heavy, but 690 people were missing.These missing persons are basically equated with death.

Xie Xuan was devastated. He lost nearly [-] brothers. Among them, Xie Yan was injured in the abdomen by sawdust floating in the sea. He fell into a coma for seven days before slowly waking up.

The structure of a country, what can be established at the beginning of the country, will basically shrink slowly in the future, so Ran Ming really wants to establish Wei's political system at this time.To expand the territory as much as possible and occupy the absolute space, Ran Ming is very ambitious at this time.There were no decent cities in Europe at this time.

Ran Ming never cared about the country of India.Although the state of Wei has not manufactured firearms, it has produced artillery that can fire live ammunition. If the solid shells are changed into explosive shells, then the state of Wei, which has the king of war, will be invincible in the world.

Personal bravery and determination will not be able to control the situation of the war. After a war is fought, it is very likely that there will be truly zero casualties.Facing other enemies, Ran Ming may not be able to guarantee it, but he has 100% confidence in the Gupta Empire.Throughout the history of India, India has encountered a total of more than 300 invasions. Except for a tie during the Maurya Dynasty, India lost all other times.Although China has experienced many disasters, the entire nation has only been exterminated twice, once by the Mongols to destroy the Song Dynasty, and once by the Manchus and Qing Dynasty.But India is different. As long as India is defeated, there is absolutely no hope of rising, but we in China will always have hero leaders to lead us to help the Central Plains.

Even with only primitive artillery, Ran Ming is confident that he will lead his empire to defeat the Gupta Empire.It's just that something that Ran Ming really didn't expect happened. There was a problem with the Wei State Expeditionary Army, and it was a very big problem, a fatal problem.In April of the second year of Hongshi, the Wei State Expeditionary Army encountered a severe storm in Boni Bay and suffered heavy losses.

To conquer the sea, Ran Ming has already been mentally prepared to face the storm, so when forming the navy, Ran Ming raised the treatment of the navy officers and soldiers very high.The salaries of the navy officers and soldiers are much higher than those of the army. Even the highest cavalry in the army of the Wei army, their salaries are only two-thirds of that of the navy officers and soldiers.As an emperor, Ran Ming has already become hard-hearted, and lost more than 50 ships. Although it would be a bit painful, Ran Ming didn't take it to heart.The loss of more than 2000 people is just a loss of manpower in a low-intensity war. Ran Ming has a hundred reasons to convince himself to accept it.

However, what Ran Ming pays more attention to is the problem of those Flying Fish warships flooded and sunk every year. From the intelligence point of view, this is not just an ordinary accident problem.Liu Laozhi even dared to use his head to guarantee that these warships were extremely strong, but all of them sank because of the water in the dense water tank. , that is, the bottom of the boat broke and water entered.

In front of Ran Ming was a palm-sized plank at the bottom of a ship. The three-finger-thick plank was densely packed with small holes. There were as many as 95 holes in the bottom of the plank. It is conceivable that the plank at the bottom of the ship like this cannot bear the huge water pressure. A slightly larger wave can tear this board like a rag.

(End of this chapter)