The red-haired captain did not end well.

First, it was a huge sum of two million taels that triggered a sailor riot after sailing just over 500 nautical miles south.

The sailors demanded an equal share.

There are 50 people on board, and each person can share 40,000 taels equally.

This is also a huge amount of money.

Enough for everyone to buy enough real estate and live a happy and comfortable life.

The captain relied on the first mate and some henchmen to kill some sailors and recruit new sailors. The new people knew nothing.

Then the confidants rebelled again.

In total, there were three rebellions.

The captain was injured and lost a leg.

The first mate is missing an eye.

In the end, there were only five people who still knew that there were two million pieces of silver on the ship...

The five pirates divided the money and everyone chose to share it equally.

The new sailor was completely unaware.

However, the core sailors have been lost, and the new sailors are unfamiliar with the business.

When they were passing through the southern strait, they were discovered by people from the Rongyao Group.

Then perform an interception check.

Because Jia Rong already knew that the red-haired man was colluding with the court.

"A bunch of pirates!"

The captain cursed angrily and then ordered to escape.

Patrolling is a sailing clipper.

And his ship was equipped with a steam engine, so it was supposed to be able to escape.

As a result, the new sailors did not know how to operate, and due to fear and tension, they stuffed too much coal into the tank and exploded...

This was the drawback of early steam engines: the failure rate was extremely high.

It must be operated by skilled workers.

So two million taels were all given to the pirate: Rong Pharmaceutical Company.

The captain was hanged.

The first mate was pardoned because he recited a philosophical poem before he died.

Decided to give him as a slave to Master Jia Rong.

In other words, the two million taels spent by the emperor to buy warships finally returned to the hands of the rebels.

This is how liars deceive fools and robbers rob liars.

In the end, the robbers won.

Not long after, the second wave of red-haired people who contacted the imperial court appeared again.

Of course they should be called blue-haired people. Unlike the red-haired people, they wear blue hats.

The blue-haired people sent an envoy to tell the emperor that they were also willing to use the fleet to help the imperial court, but they only needed the imperial court to provide money for military expenses.

As a result, as soon as he finished speaking, the envoy was hacked to death by the furious emperor.

Because the emperor already knew that the silver was cheated by the red-haired captain.

As for how he knew it, of course it was the news spread by Jia Rong.

It was intended to undermine the emperor's prestige and let everyone know that he was a fool.

The wise emperor and the foolish emperor bring completely different intimidation to people.

The emperor said angrily: "You are all in the same group, you only know how to defraud me of my money!"

The blue-haired man was equally angry: "These barbarians, they actually killed our envoys!"

"We are going to help them. After all, barbarians are barbarians, and they should all be cleaned up!"

However, in the face of interests, the blue-haired man quickly understood why the emperor was furious.

Because they sent a second wave of envoys to bribe important ministers first.

The minister told them that the first wave of red-haired men defrauded them of two million taels of ship-buying fees.

"Those damn red-haired ghosts, they ruined our credibility." The blue-haired man cursed.

How could early maritime merchants have any credibility?

They are a mixture of pirates and merchants.

As long as you are strong at sea, you will become a pirate.

Only when you have little strength can you do business honestly.

So it's no wonder that the imperial court hacked them to death.

In the early days, when maritime merchants were hacked to death, the injustice rate was very low.

In short, after several twists and turns, the court agreed to meet despite the increasingly dangerous situation.

After all, only red-haired people can defeat Rongyao Company.

Because the rebels had steamships, which the imperial court did not have.

Without a fleet, the imperial court would inevitably fail.

But there is no use improvising. You must rely on other people's ships and sailors.

Both parties reached an agreement.

The imperial court hired a fleet of blue-haired men.

But the results must be shown to the court. The amount of money will be given according to the results.

Blue-haired people don’t have to worry about not getting money.

Because if the court refuses to give, you can only cheat once, and in the end you will be defeated by the people of Rong Yao Company.

Then there is nothing.

The blue-haired man, who understood this truth, agreed.

After all, they already have a huge conflict of interest with Rong Pharmaceutical Company.

In recent years, Rongyao Company has developed very strongly.

If they were allowed to occupy the entire Eastern Dynasty, they would no longer have any special interests at all.

If you can only rely on your own skills to do business, it will be very hard.

You can't make a lot of money by smuggling easily like now.

After all, the Eastern Dynasty did not understand what tariffs were and what smuggling was.

A lot of money was given to the people below.

However, the blue-haired people's fleet in the east is seriously insufficient.

Their fleet only has ten battleships, including only three steam battleships.

They need to concentrate their forces.

But the people at Rongyao Company expanded very quickly.

One more year would be enough to completely capture the core of the Eastern Dynasty.

Don't even think about making a comeback then.

So the blue-haired people began to gather fleets from other forces.

Then he pulled the nearest fleet to the west to make up the numbers.

In the end, a total of 30 battleships were gathered, including 15 steamships and the other 15 sailing battleships.

Everyone made an agreement on the final division of interests based on the proportion of ships shipped.

The main thing is who will control the major ports of the Eastern Dynasty.

This fleet is definitely very powerful on the Eastern Ocean.

They are going to have a decisive battle with the fleet of Rongyao Company.

As long as they defeat the opponent's fleet, they can take the initiative.

The opponent's land fortress will be divided and surrounded by them.

The imperial court could reopen water transportation, possess grain and grass, and send out large armies to surround their fortresses.
To be continued...