There were three stewards on the two ships, ten men, twenty guards, and twenty-four sailors, and Ji Gang interrogated these people separately, and found half-old firecrackers from the guards, and among the sailors, these people really didn't know anything, and among the men, they didn't know the origin of the firecrackers in the box, they were loading and unloading the goods under the guidance of the steward. And the confession of the steward is very considerable.

Steward Huang and Steward Niu actually took the route of eastern Zhejiang for the first time, so the route was all guided by Steward Zheng, and the two of Niu Huang agreed that where the ship went and where to dock were all decided by Steward Zheng, and they did not know why Steward Zheng commanded the ship to sail to an island, and then it was surrounded by officers and soldiers - and Steward Zheng did not torture at all, and admitted that he drove to the location of the small island, because someone asked him to throw these two boxes on the island, and he ordered the sailors to fly the flag, which was also told to him by this person.

"So the surname Zheng confessed to Zhang Ying," Ma Yun said: "It is said that he was instructed by him, who is this Zhang Ying?"

Zhang Ying is Zhang Sheng's henchman, and Chen Shan is Zhang Sheng's right-hand man, when Zhang Sheng was working in the caravan in Yongcheng, these two people did with him, and then Zhang Sheng made a mistake and moved his family to Beiping, and these two people followed him to Beiping. Zhang Sheng founded Qingyuan, and the identities of these two people are getting higher and higher, and now they are the chief stewards, and Zhang Sheng is almost handed over to Zhang Ying to take care of the semicolon.

Zhang Ying was soon arrested, but he did not admit that he had instructed Zheng to do things, saying that Zheng had framed him. However, after Jinyiwei was tortured, Zhang Ying was tortured to the point of almost dying, and finally relented, saying that he instructed him.

Of course, Ji Gang is that he identified Zhang Sheng - so a new round of punishment has begun.

At this time, in the Ordnance Bureau, some craftsmen were singled out, and they were brought to Lin Fang, the waiter of the Ministry of Works, who thought that they were going to ask about things related to the loss of the Tianzi firecracker, but Lin Fang said with a pleasant face: "A few days ago, Jinyiwei came to the Ministry of Industry's E-word warehouse, and the warehouse was all messed up. Because the five military camps were in too much of a hurry, saying that they would ask for it tomorrow, and the official had just taken office, and the person in charge of the inspection was not there, so he could only bother you craftsmen with sharp eyes to find out the fish mixed in the pearls. ”

As soon as Lin Fang said this, the craftsmen began to help screen and inspect.

More than an hour passed, Lin Fang called them to rest for a while, and then a craftsman said: "I found another one, and at first glance it was made by Wang Dagui, and his ridge line is always crooked!

Lin Fang said, "Can you still tell that these handcuffs are made?"

"That's nature," the craftsmen laughed, "so familiar!"

Lin Fang said in disbelief: "That's 1,100 people!"

"Anything you have seen, you will never forget," the craftsmen said: "We have all handled tens of thousands of parts, we all remember clearly, this person looks like a firebolt, who can make what kind of things, we all know!"

Lin Fang really became interested and said, "I don't believe it, then I'm going to test you!"

He randomly selected a few handcuffs for the craftsmen to see, these craftsmen got together and said a little, and then said: "This one is made by the craftsman Chen Guanhe, this guy's problem is that he always likes to use waste materials to make wooden horses, he can't change it, this gun can be used, but it ages quickly; this one is made by the craftsman Liu Tongsan...... This one is the craftsmanship of the craftsman Martha. ”

Lin Fang was stunned and said, "Three people, you can't be mistaken, right?"

"If you don't believe me," said the craftsmen, "call someone over and ask if it's true." ”

Lin Fang seemed to think about it for a while, he picked out a few more and asked, and there were actually two more craftsmen. He left the craftsman in the Wuzi library, and he turned into the back hall with a handcuff, and said: "Father-in-law, that is, more than a dozen guns, are actually made by five or six craftsmen, and the words of these people are afraid that they are unreliable." ”

"No," Ma Yun turned out from behind the screen and said, "What they said is right, these craftsmen are not clean." ”

Lin Fang was entrusted by Ma Yun, and today he summoned craftsmen not to screen the quality at all, he mixed a batch of fire guns into it, in fact, to let these craftsmen identify whose craftsmanship it is. And the result is that there are a lot of craftsmen involved, and these two hundred handcuffs are not made by one craftsman, so the self-suicide of the craftsman Zhao Xiang is simply one person who saved other craftsmen.

Ma Yun was in the lobby of the Ministry of Industry, interrogated Chen Guanhe, Liu Tongsan, and Ma Da, and soon went to prison.

In the Ordnance Bureau, craftsmen were poorly paid and had no future due to heavy labor. But they soon had a way to get money, because they could make firecrackers and sell them - the Ordnance Bureau from top to bottom, from ambassadors to chiefs and stewards, all participated in such sales, and they traded with people, and they showdown the amount on the craftsmen, and then they naturally took the lion's share of the silver.

"We don't want to," said the craftsmen, "but we have been doing it for many years, and there is no mistake at all, we call this 'private work', and we can also take money, although it is not much, but it is better than nothing, and the older husbands are also clear, and the new husbands will know it after a while." ”

"Do you know who made these firecrackers," Ma Yun said, "who were sold to?"

"I don't know, we are only responsible for making it, and after it is built, the people above will take it," these people said: "They also trade with people." ”

Ma Yun knew that the time was very rare, and he immediately detained Chen Zhiliang and Wang Dezhong, the ambassadors of the Ordnance Bureau, and the interesting thing is that he did not alarm the people of Jinyiwei at all, but chose the little eunuchs under his hands, these people are much better than Jinyiwei, and the people of Jinyiwei only listen to Ji Gang's words, and Ma Yun does not move at all.

These two people are good officials, but they are just officials of the sixth grade, Ma Yun doesn't know how they are so bold and dare to sell weapons, and when they are forced to ask out, they know that the object of their transaction is the noble of the Ming Dynasty and the people of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies. Looking at a bunch of names of the princesses, Ma Yun shook his head and said: "The strange thing is that Ji Gang wants to lead him to the Ministry of Industry, but if he can't do it, Zhao Xiang will die, it turns out that he knows, he doesn't want to offend this group of people." ”

There were almost no nobles who did not sell weapons, and the weapons obtained by these people from the Ordnance Bureau were sold to the border army and local guard posts, especially the coastal guard posts, which were the most severely affected by the Japanese and were in urgent need of firearms for self-defense, and the local ordnance bureaus could supply only a limited number of handguns, so they bought them from them at a price of 150 taels to 200 taels each.