Chapter 116: My Emperor is Wise
"Your Majesty is wise!"

After reading the contents of the secret letter, Qi Pinghai's hands and feet trembled with excitement and he prostrated himself in front of the secret letter.

His usually solemn and dignified face was now covered with tears.

"It's been a hundred years, a full hundred years. Our Pinghai Navy can finally pacify the East China Sea."

Obviously Qi Pinghai has been waiting for this day for a very long time. Ever since he became the Lord of Donghai Mansion a hundred years ago, he has been waiting for this day. Unfortunately, he has never waited for it.

He is already 260 years old this year. If he cannot break through to the Grand Master level, he will only have 20 to 30 years left to live.

If I can't wait for this day, I'm afraid I will have to leave this life with regrets.

Fortunately, God opened his eyes and sent him the secret letter he needed most when he was about to despair.

He was not afraid of having no money, no resources, and no people, because he had accumulated enough money, no resources, and no manpower over the past hundred years. He was just afraid that the imperial court would continue to suppress him and prevent him from going to war with the Sakura pirates.

Now that I have finally got what I wanted, what are I waiting for!
"Gather the men!"

"Flatten the East China Sea!"

……

Qi Pinghai roared loudly, and soon the entire Anhai City was shaking.

"Is this true? His Majesty has agreed to allow us to send troops to the East China Sea to crush the Ying bandits."

"Really, this is true. Palace Master Qi has ordered all the Pinghai troops to gather and prepare to march into the East China Sea."

"Hahahaha, after so many years of preparation, we can finally give those stinky bandits a surprise."

……

A large number of commanders, generals, commanders... each brought their own troops and flocked to Qi Mansion, ready to obey Qi Pinghai's orders and lead the army into the East China Sea.

In just a few dozen hours, more than 500 tiger-head warships and more than 100 dragon-head warships entered the East China Sea in a mighty force, heading towards the place where the Sakura pirates were wreaking havoc most severely.

Qi Pinghai personally led the army and was at the forefront. He soon found a large group of Sakura bandits.

"kill!"

Amid roars, thick crossbows shot out from the tiger-head warships and the dragon-head warships, heading straight for the almost defenseless wooden sailing ship of Sakurakou.

"Boom boom boom..."

Faced with the crossbows that were as thick as buckets, these wooden sailboats were like weak women being raped by strong men and were shattered in the blink of an eye.

These Sakura pirates never thought that the Ping Navy would dare to take the initiative to fight, so there were almost no defensive measures on the ship. Although there were crossbows, they were far inferior to those of the Ping Navy.

In the East China Sea, ships that are generally equipped with one to ten crossbows are called tiger-head warships. Ships with one crossbow are called one-tiger warships, ships with two crossbows are called two-tiger warships... and ships with nine crossbows are called nine-tiger warships.

If it has ten bed crossbows, it is a dragon head battleship, or one dragon battleship. If it has more than twenty bed crossbows, it is a two dragon battleship... and if it has more than ninety bed crossbows, it is called a nine dragon battleship.

The best warship of the Daning Dynasty was the Liulong warship, which had more than sixty crossbows, far exceeding the Yingkou.

The best battleship that Yingkou currently owns is the Four Dragon Battleship, which is several levels lower than Daning.

When subsequent artillery appears, the Daning Navy equipped with artillery will surely sweep across the entire East China Sea. Because the Daning Dynasty has never attacked them in the past hundred years, and knowing the Daning Dynasty's policy of peace talks with them, the Yingkou have not developed their navy much in recent years.

Unlike Qi Pinghai, who has been preparing for war for a hundred years, just waiting for the day to take revenge on the Sakura pirates.

Before Qi Pinghai took office as the Lord of Donghai Prefecture, Daning's best warship was only the Sanlong battleship, which was not even as good as the Yingkou.

Now a hundred years have passed, Qi Pinghai has upgraded Daning's warship to the level of a six-dragon warship, but Yingkou's best warship is still a four-dragon warship, without any improvement at all.

Not only was there no progress, many of the Sakura pirates' warships had become fragile due to disrepair, and they had almost no ability to resist the Ping Navy's crossbows.

Dozens of Sakura pirates' warships didn't even last a moment before being killed by Qi Pinghai, and not a single one escaped.

"Haha, so happy!"

Looking at the completely destroyed Sakura pirate fleet, Qi Pinghai couldn't help laughing out loud, and the Pinghai navy behind him also laughed, obviously they were quite satisfied with the result of the battle.

"The Sakurakou natives are vulnerable!"

"Thanks to the Palace Master for his hard work and preparations over the years, he never slacked off for a single day. Otherwise, we wouldn't have been able to defeat the Sakura Bandits so easily."

"The late emperor and His Majesty made us behave like turtles for so many years. Could it be that this was just to paralyze Ying Kou and then give them a fatal blow?"

……

The Pinghai Army was advancing like a hot knife through butter, galloping across the vast western coast of the East China Sea. After receiving the news, Lu Changjing was also quite happy.

From the intelligence from the Embroidered Uniform Guard, Lu Changjing knew that the Pinghai Army had not slacked off in recent years and knew that they should be able to win this battle.

However, he did not expect that the Pinghai Navy would be so competitive. They had almost no enemies wherever they went. Those Sakura pirates were like ice and snow meeting the warm sun. They were all wiped out by the Pinghai Navy one after another.

The money and military expenses that Lu Changjing used to support the Ping Navy naturally came from the sales of glass.

Anyway, what he earned from glass products was just some ordinary gold and silver, which was of little use to Lu Changjing. It would be better to use it to support the Pinghai Army.

There is also the construction of Huangsha River, whose costs also come from the sales of glass.

At this moment, the glass products were already selling well in most of the Da Ning Dynasty, bringing in huge amounts of gold and silver to the Tan Company and Lu Changjing. Lu Changjing simply could not use it all, so naturally there was extra gold and silver to support the construction of the Huangsha River Dike and the Peace Navy.

Mirrors, glass cups, glass ornaments... were all produced by Tan's Company and became very popular as soon as they were launched.

In addition, unlike Pilizi, which can earn extraordinary materials, the profits from glass products are just ordinary things. With the size of the Tan family, they can fully afford it.

Under such circumstances, Tan's Company naturally opened up production and sales, and the wealth earned from it was far beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

To put it bluntly, although the glass products have only been sold for a few months, the gold and silver earned are already as much as the annual tax revenue of the Daning Dynasty, of course, this is without taking into account those extraordinary materials.

At this moment, most of the affairs of the Da Ning Dynasty could be solved with ordinary gold and silver, and no extraordinary materials were needed.

For example, the money and food needed to attack the Blood Barbarians, the gold and silver needed to build the Huangsha River embankment, and the military expenses for pacifying the navy...

Anyone who uses extraordinary materials is basically a master, and looking at the Daning Dynasty, the number of masters is quite rare.

After learning about the situation in Donghai Prefecture, Lu Changjing asked someone to bring intelligence about the King of the Southwest and the Mountain Barbarians. As he read it, Lu Changjing frowned.

(End of this chapter)