Fu Tang

Li Congjia looked at the note in his hand, and his anger had reached a critical point. In fact, there was a very simple sentence on it: Pirates wreaked havoc in Dengzhou, slaughtering a total of [-] people in three villages.

It was a short sentence, but behind it was boundless blood.

Six hundred and two lives were lost in this way. Perhaps judging from the current population ratio of Datang, these six hundred and two people are nothing, but Li Congjia now always feels that there are not enough people, and he feels distressed if he loses one!

Li Congjia passed the note down, and said angrily, "What does Lei Youzhong do to eat? Three villages were massacred without any resistance?"

Because the note was in the hands of the military generals, the civil servants didn't know what happened at first, but after Li Congjia said this, they were shocked. Three villages were slaughtered?This is no small matter.

Fan Zhi quickly asked, "Do you know who did it?"

Li Congjia shook his head: "There is no news, only that it is a pirate."

Everyone looked at each other, and Zhao Kuangyin was a little puzzled: "Although pirates are indeed devoid of humanity, they usually intercept passing ships and rob, and rarely go ashore to rob. This time...are they real pirates?"

Li Congjia said with a sullen face: "I don't know, no matter whether it is this matter or not, you can't let it go, pass my oral order, let Lei Youchu cooperate with the governor of Dengzhou to find out the truth as soon as possible!"

I was very happy when I just sold the weapon, but then something bad happened. Li Congjia is in a very bad mood now.

Shi Xueting followed Li Congjia and left the Xuanzheng Palace. After the rest of the civil and military officials watched their backs leave, Yang Ye said: "The news of the national teacher is really well-informed. I'm afraid that Governor Lei's book is still on the way."

Yang Ye’s words made everyone very subtle. Now it seems that the intelligence department’s way of delivering messages is very fast. It may use carrier pigeons or falcons, so the speed is fast, but the intelligence department only transmits a message, so it can respond quickly.

When I went to serious officials, there was a corresponding format for reporting news, and all kinds of paperwork were indispensable. How to describe the facts had to be thought through and written to ensure that there was no problem before sending it to Chang'an.

In this way, the news from the Ministry of Intelligence will always be one step ahead, while the emperor got the news, the news sent by the minister is still on the way slowly, as time goes by...

For a while everyone was a little entangled in this matter, but now it seems impossible to ban the Ministry of Intelligence. The only thing they can do is to make Li Congjia less dependent on the Ministry of Intelligence.

But when they thought that the person in charge of the intelligence department was the national teacher, they felt that this matter... was a bit difficult.

Everyone looked at each other and decided to put this matter here first. No matter what it is, we must find opportunities. The most important thing now is to find out about the pirates.

In fact, Li Congjia didn't blame Lei Youzhong for the slow news, he was just angry that Lei Youzhong allowed the pirates to slaughter three villages, how did this defense work?

After returning to the study, Shi Xueting said: "Calm down, it's no wonder that Lei Youchu is responsible for this incident, after all, his governor's mansion seems a little far away from the place where the accident happened."

Li Congjia said with a sullen face: "That's not the case. A group of pirates can go ashore to rob and kill the people of Tang Dynasty at will. This reveals not only the reaction speed of the navy, but also the coast and border defense. Normally, pirates should enter Our territorial waters have been discovered and chased away!"

Shi Xueting's first reaction after hearing this was: "Isn't this a bit difficult?"

Li Congjia took a deep breath and said, "It's not difficult."

The train is about to come out, so why can't they make a sea cruise?

Of course, when cruising at sea, it is not easy to transmit signals at present, but it is not that difficult. Beacon fireworks and signal flares can be used for all kinds of things. This is not an excuse for weak coastal defense.

After Li Congjia calmed down a bit, he thought for a while and said, "Invite the King of Chu and the King of Shu."

Chunsheng repeated it, and seeing that Li Congjia had no other instructions, he stepped back to hire someone.

Shi Xueting immediately said: "Then I will go first."

"What are you going for?" Li Congjia took his hand and said, "There's nothing to be shy about. You don't have military power, so what can you do if you hear this? They won't even understand this truth."

Shi Xueting didn't speak, but he knew in his heart that although he didn't have military power, the intelligence department in his hand was actually a threat to these ministers. Even though he was always calm, he couldn't help bursting into anger, so he went directly to Li Congjia.

However, when he followed Li Congjia away, he did not ignore the expressions of those present. He knew that these people must have remembered the key points of the intelligence department, and he needed to be more careful next.

Li Jingda and Li Hongji were very cautious when they came. They came together. On the way, Li Hongji couldn't help asking in a low voice: "Uncle, what do you think Your Majesty will do with Lei Youzhong?"

Li Jingda was silent for a long time before saying: "That depends on whether Lei You can find out something useful."

Li Hongji sighed, "Where are pirates so easy to find?"

Li Jingda shook his head and said, "There are not many islands near Dengzhou, and there are even fewer islands where pirates can survive. The one closest to us is Korea, and the other is Japan."

Li Hongji stared at Li Jingda with wide eyes in an instant: "Uncle, you mean..."

Li Jingda shook his head and said: "It's too early to say anything now, hey, I just hope that His Majesty's anger will not be too big this time, otherwise... Lei You will be afraid..."

Li Hongji also felt a little sympathetic to Lei Youzhong, this kind of thing is really rare - no one wants to ask for it.

After the two of them entered the study room and saluted, they stood quietly on the side, and began to think about how to make Lei Youzhong's crime less serious. Of course, in their eyes, Lei Youzhong had no crime at all.

They didn't expect Li Congjia's first words to be: "What do you think about Haiphong?"

Li Jingda and Li Hongji were slightly taken aback, they looked at each other and felt that they couldn't keep up with Li Congjia's train of thought, didn't they want to talk about the problem of Lei Youyou's end?

Seeing that they didn't answer, Li Congjia was a little puzzled: "What's the matter? Haven't you thought about it? It doesn't matter if you haven't thought about it. Now think about it, the defense of our land border is enough. Before this incident, no one paid attention to coastal defense. These are all normal things, but since such a serious thing has happened, the coastal defense must pay attention."

Li Jingda reacted quickly, and immediately said: "It is true that we need to pay attention to it, and the pirates cannot be allowed to be so rampant. However, coastal defense is still different from land defense. You can't use beacons to send messages at sea like you do on land. In this case, the way of sending messages must be considered."

Li Hongji asked: "Perhaps using flying eagles as a letter?"

After he finished speaking, he couldn't help but glanced at Shi Xueting. Now most of the courtiers thought that the intelligence department might use eagles to transmit messages, but they didn't know how the intelligence department boiled the eagles.

Shi Xueting looked at his nose, nose and heart, and he didn't notice Li Hongji's little trick at all.

Li Congjia suddenly said: "Actually, there is no need for summons. The bottom line of coastal defense is to allow warships to patrol the sea. If you encounter an unknown ship, first determine the identity of the other party. If it is an illegal intrusion, then expel it. If expulsion is useless, just directly Let's fight, what are you afraid of?"

Li Hongji asked: "What if you can't beat it?"

Li Congjia smiled: "Although ordinary warships are indeed inferior to Dafu ships, they are still much better than ships from other countries or even pirates. Take a step back and say that even if you can't beat the opponent at that time, you can still fight." Urge nearby ships to expel them with signal flares.”

Li Jingda took a deep breath and said, "Won't this directly give the patrol boat the right to go to war? But if this is the case..."

Li Congjia's face sank: "I have emphasized the concept of territorial waters many times in the surrounding countries, and I have also told them the scope of our territorial waters. If their ships still come in, then there is no such thing as innocent people." This is a possibility, and I didn’t ask them to go to war immediately, but to see if there is any customs clearance document first, and if there is no customs clearance document, they will be expelled, if the other party strongly resists, it must be malicious, why are you being polite?”

Li Jingda always felt that what Li Congjia said sounded right, but something seemed wrong.

Only then did Li Hongji speak: "What if the generals on the patrol boat didn't follow this regulation?"

Li Congjia frowned. He keenly noticed that his uncle and brother didn't agree with this method. He didn't know why they didn't agree with it. What's wrong with it?If it is on land, whether it is Khitan, Tubo, or the Kara Khanate, as long as their people enter the customs directly without customs clearance documents, they must be deported.

If it is the army that comes, it will also be fought. Why are there so many things at sea?

At this time, Shi Xueting said: "If too many powers are given to the patrolling generals, it may not be easy for the governors or Jiedu envoys to do so."

Li Jingda and Li Hongji gave Shi Xueting a thumbs up silently in their hearts. What they two wanted to talk about was this issue, but the topic of military power is more sensitive, even if they are the emperor's uncle or elder brother, it is not good to just say that directly , so they have been deviously hoping that Li Congjia can figure it out.

It turned out that Li Congjia hadn't thought about this all the time, and they were worried about how to continue reminding them, thanks to Shi Xueting who said it directly.

But... They took a sneak peek at Li Congjia, and found that Li Congjia suddenly realized that he didn't mind Shi Xueting talking about such a sensitive topic, so they couldn't help raising the importance of Shi Xueting in their hearts.

Li Congjia heaved a sigh of relief. He really didn't think of this just now. He just didn't want to waste time because of sending messages, thereby wasting the best opportunity to fight.

He turned his head to look at Shi Xueting and asked, "What can you do?"

Li Hongji and Li Jingda's eyes were about to pop out, would they even listen to Shi Xueting's opinion on such matters?Isn't this an ordinary favor?

Shi Xueting glanced at Li Congjia calmly, and found that the other party had actually winked at him very rudely. He immediately knew that Li Congjia did it on purpose.

Deliberately making these people look at him more highly, he did not hide it, and simply said: "Why don't you draft a regulation, the patrol officer has a certain right to directly expel illegally intruding ships, but the size of the other party's ships and the size of the fleet There is a certain limit on the scale, and it still needs to be decided by the governors of the states if it exceeds this scale."

Li Congjia nodded and looked at Li Hongji and Li Jingda and said, "That's it, you go back and draft a charter. In addition, there is an order to find out where the pirates are, no matter where they come from."

Li's uncle and nephew bowed their heads and agreed without saying a word, and it's okay not to agree. Li Congjia's attitude has already explained everything.

They can all think that those pirates may not be real pirates, but rely on their identity as pirates to provoke or retaliate, so it is very likely to find a certain country by following the clues.

It's just that there is no definite evidence, and it is basically difficult to attack the other country, or this evidence is not easy to find at all!

But as long as Li Congjia is persistent, he can't find it if he wants to find it. It is estimated that the day he finds it will be the day when the war will start.

After the two left, Li Congjia sighed, "Hey, I want electricity."

Shi Xueting looked at him inexplicably: "Do you know who is the master?"

Li Congjia was stunned for a moment: "Ah? I don't know, what's wrong?"

"Then who do you want to strike to death with lightning?" Shi Xueting raised his eyebrows. He still remembers that when he came back that year, someone told him that Li Congjia said that whoever died, God's lightning strikes were super accurate.

Li Congjia couldn't help laughing after hearing this. He knew that Shi Xueting had misunderstood it. A series of products such as telephones and computers were produced.

Li Congjia just thought of such a convenient and easy-to-use thing as a telephone. With a telephone, why is it so difficult to send messages?Even if you don't have a phone, you can have a telegram.

While Li Congjia was feeling emotional, Lei Youzhong's book finally arrived in Chang'an.

The messenger was about to run away to death on this road, and only then did he report the situation in Dengzhou in just five days.

The information that Lei You finally fed back must be more detailed than what Shi Xueting told Li Congjia. Of course, this is also the result of Shi Xueting not letting his subordinates go deeper. After all, there are people in charge there, and his intelligence department only needs to tell Li Congjia one step ahead. A general situation is enough, and someone will report the more in-depth situation, unless the person is lying, Shi Xueting will let people report the real situation.

After Li Congjia opened the brochure and read it, he couldn't help laughing: "This Lei Youfinal is really..."

Shi Xueting looked at him with some doubts, Li Congjia directly gave him the scripture and said, "Look for yourself."

Shi Xueting took it over and took a look, and found that it was clearly written in the booklet, the losses of the three villages, casualties, and how the pirates landed were all clearly checked.

The only thing that can't be found is where the pirates came from and where they went.

But it doesn't matter, if we can't find it, we will search a little bit, so Lei Youzhong led the fleet to sweep directly on the sea. As long as there is an island, they will land on it to see if there is anyone. If there is anyone, they will ask. What.

Of course, these islands are not within the scope of Datang. The islands within the scope of Datang have long been controlled, and there are naval garrisons on them, so there is no possibility of pirates.

And the islands they raided... Li Congjia glanced at the map silently, and found that they were all small islands around Japan and Koryo Island. Anyway, they raided as long as they looked habitable.

After reading it, Shi Xueting said, "I'm afraid you will receive the certificate of protest again in two days."

After Datang established the scope of territorial waters, other countries close to the sea basically began to develop the concept of territorial waters. Among them, Khitan and Japan are still arguing about the scope of territorial waters on both sides. After all, they are also very close, and Japan is surrounded by The sea, in fact, the area of ​​the territorial sea is no less than the area of ​​their country.

Originally, Li Congjia happily watched the dispute between Japan and Khitan. Anyway, he doesn't like to see these two countries, so he likes to fight.

But this time Lei You finally invaded their territorial waters, and even cleaned up the "citizens" on the islands within their territorial waters. It is estimated that Japan and Khitan would definitely not do it.

Li Congjia said with some disdain: "Dengzhou encountered pirates, and the pirates must be nearby. What's wrong with us looking for pirates? This is also to eliminate harm for them. If they dare to show up, I have to reasonably suspect the origin of the pirates. When the time comes, I will definitely write a letter of credence to let them hand over the pirates, if they can't hand over...hehe."

Shi Xueting didn't think there was anything wrong with this, but just said: "The cabinet will probably be a headache."

Li Congjia gritted his teeth: "To be wiped out of three villages silently is a great shame!"

Ever since he went to the Western Regions to establish his own power, Li Congjia has never suffered such a big loss even if he suffered a loss. What's more, in the past, he could find the right owner when he suffered a loss, but now he can't even find the right owner. I really feel angry when I think about it died.

Lei Youzhong's approach can only be said that he knows Li Congjia very well, and he wants to calm down Li Congjia first, and then investigate slowly.

Although Li Congjia was depressed about this, there was nothing he could do about it. After all, there is no such thing as DNA these days, and it is not so easy to solve the case.

As Shi Xueting said, within two days, the protest credentials of Japan and Khitan arrived almost at the same time. If he finds out, no matter which country it is related to, he will not let it go.

Originally very confident, and planning to learn from Datang and emphasize the sovereignty of their territorial waters, the two countries were immediately stupefied with malice.

I have seen unreasonable ones, but I have never seen such unreasonable ones.

However, Li Congjia had the confidence to be unreasonable, and Ye Luxian finally made some progress this time, and instead of continuing to turn the table, he just asked after getting angry: "Go and ask if it is one of us, if so... just find some people to let us know." They went to Tang Guo to surrender, don't give Tang Guo an excuse!"

Ye Luxian was very upset, and he didn't want to bow his head, but the situation was stronger than others, if he didn't bow his head, Li Congjia would use force to hold his head down, what could he do if he couldn't bear it?

Fortunately, the final result was that those pirates had nothing to do with them. Ye Luxian immediately felt relieved, and turned around and continued to write the letter of credence to Datang.

Li Congjia raised his eyebrows after receiving the letter of credence: "Yeluxian has grown up."

Shi Xueting glanced at it, and immediately understood that what Li Congjia said about progress was that Ye Luxian finally understood that strength is the last word. This time, the national writing was very polite, and he also wrote down the process and results of the investigation. Many , Anyway, the translation means that we have already checked to make sure that those pirates have absolutely nothing to do with Khitan, but we don’t know if they are not related to Japan.

Li Congjia put down the credential, but the Japanese credential is very intriguing. Regarding Datang’s questioning, Japan directly avoided answering, and kept emphasizing that Datang invaded their territorial waters. If it continues, they don’t mind. Use force to defend your territorial waters.

Li Congjia laughed at the time: "Sovereignty of territorial waters? I said this. They didn't even know what sovereignty of territorial waters was! Who is the emperor of Japan now?"

"Emperor Kenpei should be the one who is still in power now."

Emperor Kenpei?Li Congjia tilted his head and thought about it for a while, oh, this is the Emperor Fukai Ice, who was later called Emperor Cold Spring.

"It's that lunatic." Li Congjia sneered, "He probably won't be the emperor for long."

Shi Xueting's first reaction after hearing this was: "What do you want to do?"

"What else can I do? Give Japan two options, either hand it over to someone, or shut up and let us investigate. If you don't choose, then I have to dispatch the Yuanxi Fleet." Li Congjia spread his hands, and to be honest, he was a bully. It feels pretty good. After finally developing the national power, why should he endure it?

Shi Xueting didn't say anything. His purpose was that Li Congjia would not be wronged, and Datang would not suffer any losses. Li Congjia's decision would obviously not harm Datang's interests, so how could he object?

Just two days after the two of them talked, Shi Xueting came to Li Congjia with a complicated face and said, "Emperor Xianping has abdicated."

His majesty is really...one is right.

Li Congjia knew what Shi Xueting was thinking when he looked at Shi Xueting's expression, and he was very helpless. He knew that Emperor Xianping would definitely abdicate, because it was like this in history. For more than 40 years, that's why he was called Emperor Reisen.

However, he can't say this reason, he can only admit his "golden words".

After Shi Xueting finished the news, he said: "There is another news that you may also be very interested in."

Li Congjia asked, "Did you find the pirate?"

Shi Xueting shook his head: "No, but...the imperial daughter of Japan has arrived in Chang'an."

Li Congjia:? ? ? ? ? ?