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Deng Minghe sat in the lobby with a gloomy face, and under him sat the captains of the Deng family's fleet, in the past, the Deng family had five large fleets, twelve medium-sized fleets, and those small fleets that were attached to them were countless, every time the hall was full, but now looking at these few people, he didn't mention how angry he was.

"It's only been more than four months, and you've actually folded into three medium-sized fleets, what are you all eating? Are all the guns I equipped?"

It's no wonder that Deng Minghe has such an atmosphere, he finally got so many artillery here, and he thought that after he armed the fleet well this time, he could definitely go sideways on the sea, but who knew that this sea would become like this, those artillery that originally thought it was powerful were so easily defeated by a group of pirates, and their fleet was looted and killed, just thinking about it felt like a headache.

"The master of the house~~~!Although our artillery is also powerful, but the accuracy is not good, and it is often dumb~~!The opponent's cannon we can't see clearly from a distance, but it can also be seen that it is different from our artillery, not only that, the range of the opponent's cannon is far better than ours, and the shells are different~~!We are the kind of big iron ball, and the opponent's cannonball will explode directly after hitting, and the power is even more amazing~~!

It was Deng Chengfeng who said this, he was not only the captain of the Deng family's largest fleet, but also Deng Minghe's little uncle, and among these people present, he dared to speak to Deng Minghe like this.

And with Deng Chengfeng taking the lead, the remaining captains also spoke: "That's it, the master of the family, it's not that we can't do it, but the weapons of those pirates are too powerful, and our artillery can't hit the other party at all, and the other party blew up our ship first, what should we do~~!And that's at sea, being beaten like that by the ship, and being killed directly is no different~~!"

"And the other party seems to be specifically targeting our fleet, is there something wrong with this?" At this time, the captain of a small fleet suddenly spoke, and he only had five cargo ships under his command, and he only ran out of line when he went to sea.

"Hmm~~~!" The captains who were still complaining there suddenly quieted down, and they all thought about it, and sure enough, in the past half a year or so, more than half of the fleets that were looted at sea were the Deng family's fleet, and almost all the Deng family's merchant ships that took that line would be looted.

"That's it~~!Our Deng family's fleet has suffered the most serious losses~~!"

"It's not just like this~~!" Deng Chengfeng's brows furrowed and said: "If you think about it, the other party is not only targeting our Deng family's fleet, they are targeting those sulfur~~!, think about it, if you pull sulfur on the ship, you will be looted by the other party~~!"

In the past two years, because of the explosives in the artillery, the sulfur market has been very hot, and the price of sulfur has risen again and again, plus some places overseas are rich in sulfur, sulfur is definitely a rotten street thing in them, and they only need to pay a little bit of goods in exchange for a boatload of sulfur, so the right fleet has now been accustomed to carrying a boatload of sulfur back when taking that sea line, and whether it is their Deng family's fleet, or other fleets, the fleets attacked by pirates have a common feature, that is, there is sulfur on board。

"This is someone who doesn't want us to bring sulfur back~~!" One of the captains slapped his thigh and said: "This sulfur is a necessity for making explosives, and if there is no sulfur to make explosives, those cannons will become ornaments~~!

Hearing this, Deng Minghe subconsciously wanted to open his mouth to refute, but when the words came to his mouth, he hurriedly swallowed it, the Deng family is attached to this Wei family, and only a few people in the Deng family know about the cooperation between the Wei family and Da Yue, and everyone is from the Nanshu Kingdom, and they don't have a good impression of the hostile Da Yue, if they know what they are doing, I am afraid that they will rebel on the spot~!

"The other party can't be Da Yue's side~~!" Deng Minghe thought for a while and said: "Don't you all say that the other party's weapons are more powerful than ours~~!If the other party is really supporting Da Yue, do they still use such a method~~!"

"It's not Da Yue, who is it?Who will rob the sulfur ship and not let us transport the sulfur back?No matter how the other party looks at it, they are helping Da Yue, and it can't be said that someone on our side deliberately didn't let us transport the sulfur back~~!"

I don't know whose words fell on Deng Minghe's ears like a thunderbolt on a sunny day~~! This thing is clearly that some people are unwilling to let the sulfur in~~!As for why they are willing, are they afraid that the sulfur will eventually flow into Da Yue's side, because now Da Yue already has artillery in his hand, and the other party knows about it~~!

After thinking about this, Deng Minghe's body suddenly aroused a cold sweat, what does he do now represent, he is actually very clear in his heart, if this thing succeeds, then the Deng family will directly defeat the Huo family and become the first trading house, not to mention, the Deng family will also be transformed into the founding father, when the time comes to get a knighthood or something, he will suddenly change from a merchant to a high-ranking nobleman, this is what he wants to get the most.

But the premise of all this is that this thing that he is planning must be successful, and if this thing is known to others in advance, he can't imagine what awaits the Deng family~~!

A little restless, Deng Minghe didn't bother to talk to the captains of these fleets about the next thing, he hurriedly found an excuse to get out, and after returning to the study, he wrote a secret letter and asked people to send it to the capital immediately.

When Wei Yurong received the secret letter, she was shocked by the content of the letter, although it was just a speculation, but if this speculation was true, then it would definitely not be a good thing waiting for them, thinking of this, Wei Yurong hurriedly told her grandfather about this matter, and the old man Wei also immediately arranged for someone to investigate this matter, but unfortunately the other party was at sea, and Huo Shibai had long ago, under the instruction of Li Hui, he chose several isolated islands far away from the route as bases at sea, whether it was him or Sinbad, who was now a pirate gallop at sea, It can be said that it is completely beyond the scope of control, even if the Wei family is investigating, they can't get any useful information.

However, the Wei family's investigation can't be said to be really useless, they still investigated something.

"The people below said that now Huo Eighteen has completely disappeared, although he often does not come back for two or three years at sea, but there will be news back, but this time there has been no news for a long time~~! And the most important thing is that I suddenly didn't know that some small fleets have emerged from there recently, although their ships are not big, but the goods they brought back are all of the highest quality, and the most important thing is that the sulfur in the goods of these fleets accounts for a large proportion, and their sulfur is never sold, but directly sold to the imperial court~~!"

Wei Yurong reported back to his grandfather one by one because of the pirates, and now because of piracy, the sulfur on the entire sea cannot be transported back, and in this case, the price of sulfur can be said to have soared, and now as long as someone can bring back the sulfur, it will definitely be looted as soon as it arrives at the port, and the other party is in this situation, selling these sulfur to the imperial court where the price is relatively much lower, and not buying it to the trading house with a lot of silver outside, this alone is a big problem。

"Did you find out the bottom of those small fleets?" asked Old Man Wei as he sat there.

"No~~!Someone has covered up all their information~~!Our people can't investigate anything~~!" Wei Yurong herself felt very incredible here, since she took over the dark line of the Wei family, she knew how terrible the Wei family's energy in the secret was, but in such a situation, she still didn't investigate what she had, which was simply abnormal.

"Can't investigate?" Old Man Wei's first reaction when he heard this was complete disbelief, but he also knew very well that it was impossible for his granddaughter to hide himself from this, and those below did not dare, so who could have so much energy to do this, and the most important thing was that from the series of things that the other party did, they obviously knew their intentions, if they were further exposed, then the next scene was definitely not what they wanted to see.

Thinking of this, Old Man Wei hurriedly arranged a series of things, and even temporarily cut off the connection with Da Yue, and cleaned up the previous traces as much as possible.

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"There hasn't been much progress in our investigation, the other party seems to have noticed something, and has completely lurked, but the people on the big moon side have been more active recently~~!" Huo Ming integrated the things from the investigation and handed them to Li Shuo.

"The other party is an old fox, and we didn't have any sore feet to catch each other, so there is no way at all~~!But Da Yue's side can take advantage of it, and the effect of letting the people on the Wei Mansion spread the news was not ideal before, you arrange it and expose the people on Da Yue's side~~!" Li Shuo arranged for Huo Ming to directly expose those spy personnel in Da Yue, so that the effect would only be more direct.

Huo Ming, who got the arrangement, quickly went down to make arrangements, and he didn't bother to select those Dayue spies, but directly asked people to poke out the Dayue spies lurking around his eldest mother and two brothers.

Originally, Huo 18 donated artillery meritorious, Duanmu Shuxuan rewarded him severely, and not long ago, Huo 18 secretly presented the manufacturing method of artillery, and the authenticity has been completely verified after testing, Duanmu Shuxuan was even more happy There is no way, and even wants to simply let Huo 18 be the head of the Huo family, and now it is actually revealed that Huo 18's wife and eldest son, There are Dayue's spies lurking next to the second son, how can this not make Duanmu Shuxuan angry, and Huo Shibai is a hero of the country, how can he not let the hero's family be threatened~~!So Duanmu Shuxuan immediately asked people to arrest those Dayue's spies, and after being tortured, he got even more shocking news, that is, Dayue also began to cast artillery.

"Is this news true?" Duanmu Shuxuan asked with a gloomy face.

"Returning to Your Majesty~~!This news is absolutely true, and Da Yue stole the Huo family's drawings before, although there are some small problems in the drawings, but on that basis, it is not impossible to develop artillery~~!" Du Yu, the secret guard who was in charge of interrogating those Da Yue spies, replied in a low voice.

Hearing Du Yu's words, Duanmu Shuxuan also agreed in his heart, and at the same time, he was even more angry with the Huo family in his heart, if it wasn't for the Huo family secretly dismantling the artillery at that time, and secretly drawing the drawings, how could this Dayue get the drawings of the artillery, and now the artillery has been researched, although I don't know what the power of the artillery on Dayue's side is, but the power of the artillery is so great, as long as it is developed, it will definitely be amazingly lethal, and I am afraid that Dayue will come again.

"Arrange someone to investigate the matter of artillery on Da Yue's side, this matter must be investigated by me~~!" Duanmu Shuxuan, who was a little angry, ordered someone to investigate this matter thoroughly, and at the same time he also realized that the war between the two must be inevitable, so he began to prepare secretly, no matter what, since Nanshu was able to defeat Da Yue before, this time it will definitely be possible.

And at this time, when Huo Shiba, who was far away at sea, looked at the huge steel ship in front of him, he was shocked and didn't know how to express his current mood, although this ship was actually equivalent to what he looked at and built, but when it was really completed, he was still full of disbelief~~!