The black bear, who had once killed people without blinking, knelt on the ground in fear at this time, and his head was not dared to lift up. His body was shaking like a sieve, and his sweat had already wet his clothes.

The unknown is always fearful.

With a round of artillery bombardment, the gate of the water village on Xiong Island was bombarded into pieces.

The thunderous cry, the orange flame, and the huge power made the pirates who were leaping across the sea and hijacking ships dumbfounded.

The ships were very big, but they were still so far away from them, a hundred steps away. Then, they didn't even see the face of the official army, and just watched the big and powerful side of the ship spitting fire at them.

After only one round, the black bear raised the white flag.

Because he saw a shell that sank a small boat directly.

There were also several catapult cars on the shore and several eight-ox crossbows. These were all made by him at a high cost, but he had no desire to resist that day's thunder meteorite.

"I'm willing to surrender." The black bear knelt there and said tremblingly, "I'm willing to surrender."

Li Chao looked at the man as thick as a bear, knelt in front of him and shook his head, just shook his head.

"Bear, you were arrested for committing pirates and smuggling, and now you will be taken back to Dengzhou for public trial. Tell you a news that you will be publicly tried at the port and then hanged."

"I've already surrendered." The black bear didn't bother to tell that he was actually called the black bear.

"You have done many evil deeds and have many evil deeds, and your sins are unforgivable." Li Chao snorted coldly. Some people deserve to give a chance to start over, like the Red Viper Snake and others. But some people do not deserve this opportunity.

"If your lives were not worth a lot, you would have been killed on the spot. But now, death is too cheap for you. If the court had not removed the punishments such as Lingchi, Cheli, etc., you would not have been hanging. The court would give you a pleasure, but your other brothers would not have been so relaxed. Their second half of death would have become slaves to the court and stayed in the mines for the rest of their lives. Of course, if they performed well, they might be able to reduce the punishment and get free after digging for twenty or thirty years. Of course, the premise is that you can live for so long. As far as I know, it is difficult for the slaves to mine."

Hearing Li Chao's ruthless words, the pirates became turbulent. They had already thrown their weapons down and wanted to resist. But they were knocked down with a gun that was shocked and they all became honest.

"Tie it up, register it, and be detained."

Du Hongying looked at the once arrogant Black Bear and his men, and couldn't help but shake her head secretly. Fortunately, she met Li Chao. Maybe if another official came, they would have the same fate as Black Bear and others today.

Cui Jin, Lu An and Zheng Gao’s three brothers happily took people to plunder the pirates’ wealth, while Li Chao sat next to the desk with a little bored.

"It's really boring to kill a chicken with a slaughter." Lao Cheng also moved a chair and sat next to him.

"But your gun is really powerful. These are just two gun ships. If there are 180 ports, even a big port like Dengzhou will be blocked on the sea. The warships line up and as long as they are bombarded together, one day, they will be able to knock Dengzhou port into flat ground."

Li Chao admired Lao Cheng's vision and knew the strongest usage of a warship at once. What he said was clearly the usage of a battleship.

"Uncle Cheng, your tactical idea is good, but there are only 180 gunboats, but it is impossible to afford it. Such a double-layer three-masted warship is equipped with 32 general guns, as well as a bow and stern mortar cannon and a small cannon of the destroyer. The cost is quite high. Just a ship like this can cost tens of thousands of chunks."

"What's more, there are dozens of cannons."

In the era of great voyage, naval guns were very cheap. But at this time, guns were never cheap. A cannon was said to be sold for more than 1,000 kilograms, and a gun stand was still several hundred kilograms. Iron selling was worth a lot of money, not to mention that this cannon was cast with a blast furnace, and then drilled through the cannon chamber.

It is no problem to get ten or eight gunboats. The navy of the court is currently planning this way, with more than a dozen large ships equipped with cannons and powerful crossbows.

"It's pretty good to think about it." Old Cheng smiled, "Driving dozens of boats to Pyongyang and blasting the port."

Li Chao shook his head.

The cannons are still too small. In the Age of Discovery, sailing warships did have such ability. With several warships, they could block the ports and bomb the city. But at that time the cannons were all heavy cannons worth dozens of pounds, and Li Chao's cannons on the ship now could only be regarded as small cannons and light cannons at that time.

With a range of two or three hundred steps and two kilograms of shells, how can you bomb the port?

Du Hongying and Ximen Changshan stood respectfully on one side. The cannon fire just now shocked both the black bear and the other. This was outside the island. If anyone's ship met Li Chao's gunship, he would not be able to escape.

There is no need to rely on the side jumping, just hit the ball far away. Their ship is fast and can always keep the distance, and then put the enemy ship within their range.

It can be knocked down and sunk all the time.

But after thinking about it, I still feel distressed when I knocked out hundreds of kilograms of iron balls at one time.

Iron materials have always been a hot commodity for direct personal use, used to press the bilge and transport it to Silla Baekje Goguryeo and other places. You can change it to a large number of slaves and tiger skin ginseng.

"Ying Niang, who do you think we will choose next target?" Li Chao asked.

Du Hongying replied, "The Duke of Zhao has such a powerful gunship, and no one dares to resist in the entire archipelago. The ships are driving all the way, and a volley can make them surrender with fear."

Li Chao laughed, this was good news.

In his eyes, the very backward Xiaopao was a divine object like thunder in the eyes of Du Hongying and others.

"Okay, then we will take the lead and clear all the pirates and smugglers on this island."

Cheng Yaojin smiled and said, "By the way, haha, this is very valuable by the way. There are tens of thousands of people, as well as workshops and money for pirates and smugglers on the island. This trip, you can make a lot of money."

"But I would like to remind you that most of the smugglers have some backgrounds, and even those pirates are protected by people. If we don't say hello, we will just sweep all the way. Is it okay?"

"What can happen?"

Even if there are people behind them, they are mostly local tyrants. But looking at the world, these people are at most landlords and powerful people in one state and one county, or they may have something to do with some big clans, but they have little to do with them.

Who is Li Chao?

He swept away the pirates and smugglers on the Wuhu Islands. Even if those people feel distressed, they can only swallow their teeth.

In the field of Haima, Li Chao is the leader. He joined forces with major wealthy families to occupy the greatest interests and is willing to let other people get a share, but there are rules.

It’s better to go to sea trade together, but it’s okay to be a supplier, transporter, or distributor of imported goods for sea trade, but smuggling and pirates are harmful to the entire sea trade industry, and Li Chao will not let it go.

Whoever dares to reach out, he will be cut.

At this point, the interests of the court and Li Chao are consistent. Therefore, Li Chao will support him even if he is too much.

Dengzhou.

Now it has been renamed Hanjing, and Dengzhou is also Hanjing Prefecture.

In May, the emperor and all officials moved to Xindu first.

In June, a large number of officials, families, merchants and people moved to Xindu one after another.

Everything is fine in Xinjing, with tall and majestic imperial palaces, bustling and lively outer cities, the imperial city where the hundreds of yamen gather. Everything is very good. There are several acropolises in the suburbs of Xinjing, garrisons, workshops, and shopping town markets in the north and south yamen.

Everything is fine in Xinjing. Even after the Supreme Emperor moved into the Beigong Daming Palace of the Imperial Palace, he never mentioned the matter of going back to Chang'an. Li Shimin was very satisfied with his Ziwei Palace, and the prince was also very satisfied with the Eastern Palace.

The palace city of Xinjing is not the square city in Chang'an in the past, but the three palace cities have the words "Pin": The Daming Palace is in the north, the Ziwei Palace is in the west, and the Prince's East Palace is in the southeast.

The entire palace city is in the north of Hanjing, while the imperial city is in the south of the palace city. The outer city and Guocheng are further south. The layout of the entire Hanjing is not square, but it has a bit of a pyramid. The imperial city of the palace city lives in the highlands in the north, while the outer city is in the flat land on the south.

Xinjing is very good, but Li Shimin has suffered from insomnia recently.

In front of him were two secret reports.

One is that Tubo Zan Plangrizan was poisoned not long ago. It is rumored that the old nobles were dissatisfied with the new nobles of Subi, but the old nobles said that the Subi people poisoned Zangrizan.

The civil war broke out in Tubo.

There is another news that Mo Hedu, who was originally beaten by Tongye Hu, turned around and defeated.

It’s not because Mo Hedu suddenly became powerful. The coalition forces planned by the Tang army were still in the organization and had not yet arrived in the Western Regions. Tong Ye Hu was assassinated and did everything he could to fight. Mo Hedu was also poisoned.

Now that Ye Hu has inherited the position of Khan who ruled Ye Hu, the situation in the Western Regions has become more confusing.

Both are good news.

However, when Li Shimin saw a hero like Tongye Hu who was finally poisoned by his own uncle, he felt very sad.

The situation in the Western Regions has shown a turning point and a key point.

As he got up and walked to the sand table in the hall, Li Shimin frowned and thought.

On the sand table, small flags were inserted on it, representing the forces of all parties.

Western Regions!

This territory that the Han Dynasty once conquered, now the Tang Dynasty has the opportunity to take back it.

The king of Ye Huxin was destroyed. Although the king of Ye and Hu had old subordinates, his prestige was insufficient. If at this time, the Tang Dynasty launched a large army and summoned Xue Yantuo, Khitan, Xi, Tuyuhun and other tribes to follow the battle, and to consolidate the overall situation of the Western Regions in one fell swoop, it would be a great achievement for all generations.

If the Western Regions are pacified, the Turks will perish from then on.

The biggest external threat of the Tang Dynasty has always been gone.

Looking at the sand table, the thought that had been lingering in Li Shimin's mind arose again.
Chapter completed!