Chapter 260 Yongle Tongbao

Judging from the coagulation of the blood stains at the scene, Swift's death was not long, and it was almost an hour to visually measure.

Combined with Xiao Li's previous mention of the time when Roy left the resurrection bar, Zhang Chenfeng estimated that even if the bar manager's memory was a little different, the murderer should not have run away.

It is enough to leave a few people at the scene of the murder to deal with, and the most important thing at the moment is to search for the murderer as soon as possible.

Zhang Chenfeng stood up and was about to give the order to continue the pursuit, when suddenly, his gaze stayed on Swift's other hand.

Swift's right hand has been covering his neck, but his left hand is hanging down to the side of his body.

Zhang Chenfeng found that the palm of the hand that he hadn't noticed just now was tightly clenched into a fist.

Zhang Chenfeng's eyes froze, he squatted down again, and slowly broke open the palm......

In Swift's palm, tightly clutched is a copper coin with a square hole - Brother Kong Fang.

Wiping the blood stains on the copper coin on the corpse's clothes, Zhang Chenfeng saw clearly the words on the copper coin in his hand, and on the left and right of the square hole, there were two traditional seal characters: "Yiwen".

Zhang Chenfeng was full of suspicions, what does this person mean by holding a copper coin tightly before he died?

It's just a penny, not a gold coin!

However, when Zhang Chenfeng turned the copper coin over, he was surprised to find that the front of the copper coin, around the square hole, was cast with four large characters in Lishu - "Yongle Tongbao"!

"Yongle?"

Zhang Chenfeng's heart jumped, Yongle is the name of Zhu Di, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, and now, it is in the Yongli period of the Ming Dynasty!

Zhang Chenfeng blinked vigorously, looked at it again, confirmed!

The traditional Chinese character is definitely the word "music".

This is an ancient coin that has long been out of circulation, more than 200 years ago!

The intuition of a professional soldier told Zhang Chenfeng that this must be an important clue!

However, what is important, Zhang Chenfeng can't figure it out, so he can only wait for the captain and them to come.

The most important thing now is to track down the murderer as soon as possible.

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At the sound of an order, more than a dozen soldiers followed Zhang Chenfeng, and under the leadership of Xiao Li, they moved forward along the alley.

The murderer killed two people in a row and did not calmly dispose of the corpses, indicating that they had smelled the danger, and it was very unlikely that they would hide in the city, and there was a chance that they would escape by boat overnight.

Eighty percent of the things on the "Dragon Ascension" were done by them!

If those rifles and missile launchers were indeed in their hands, then it was their instinctive reaction to flee as fast as possible.

Zhang Chenfeng thought as he walked, and after a while, the sound of seagulls sounded in his ears, and there was a strong salty smell in the wind, he knew that he was about to reach the beach.

Sure enough, the end of the alley suddenly opened up, and the residential area had come to an end, and in front of me was a large area of mud that had been compacted for a short time.

On the ground, there are bundles of goods, covered with reed mats, and a team of coolies are carrying them on their shoulders and shouting trumpets, and they are laboriously carrying the goods packed in straw bags and sacks to the dock.

Some straw bags, the packaging has been torn, revealing the straw rope that binds the porcelain inside, or the coarse cloth wrapped in silk.

Most of these coolies are indigenous Chinese people living in nearby villages outside the city.

The Ming government did not give any effort, and the people who lived here for generations not only had their ancestral lands snatched away by the Franc Ji people, but also fell to the point where they had to pay taxes to the authorities of the Franc Machine.

Otherwise, they will face being evicted from their ancestral homes and deprived of their last place to stay.

Seeing that the sun had set, in order to make a living, they had no intention of calling it a day, and gritted their teeth one by one.

In order to earn more money to buy rice for their families who are waiting to be fed at home, they dare not be lazy at all, and try their best to move more goods every day......

Near the beach, on the muddy ground, lay several abandoned dinghys, wrecked by the wreckage of the storm, and a stone anchor deep in the mud......

This is the North Bay Pier, which has not yet been fully formed.

A few wooden trestles stretched out into the sea, and many boats, mostly small Chinese sailing ships, were moored in the bay, and in the distance, several large Galen ships were moored.

These large Galen ships do not look much smaller than the "Unicorn", at least more than 1,000 tons, with huge hulls, towering masts, and black barrels in the gun windows, giving people a sense of coercion......

Unlike the many Western ships moored at the Nanwan Wharf, some small Chinese merchants who came to supply grain, vegetables, and meat from the nearby coast mostly parked their ships here in order to save some business taxes and make as much profit as possible.

For the same reason, those smuggling boats of unknown origin also like to mingle in order to avoid the eyes and ears of all parties.

In addition, there must be many large and small pirate ships, as well as merchant ships from other countries that do not have a good relationship with the Franco.

The Dutchman, who came from the big man, if he wanted to do some shady business, would have made a smart choice to park his boat in this mixed bay.

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Regardless of the fact that there were still many large and small mud puddles on the muddy ground, Xiao Li led everyone to continue walking.

It was already dark, and his vision was not very good, so he wanted to get closer and see if there were any suspicious Western ships that had set sail in a hurry.

As they walked and looked into the sea, the group had unconsciously walked to the other side of the pier, and at the end was the shallow backwater bay, and then not far away was the gate leading to the mainland.

On the water, there was all kinds of garbage, emitting a foul smell, Xiao Li didn't know how to cover his nose, and hurriedly beckoned everyone to go back.

Back on the edge of the dock, Xiao Li asked the soldiers to continue to watch and watch, and led Zhang Chenfeng, the only one who did not carry a spear, to a tea stall with a pergola alone.

Xiao Li asked for a pot of tea, and then asked Zhang Chenfeng to sit down, he wanted to inquire if there was a ship that had just left the port not long ago.

"Yes, yes."

The one who set up the tea stall was a middle-aged aunt dressed in rough clothes.

said that it was a tea stall, but in fact, she could only make some boiling water money, and her business object was those coolies on the dock.

They can't afford to drink tea at all, but they can buy a pot of "herbal tea" without tea leaves to replenish their hydration, so that they can rest under the pergola.

Business is not good today, so I didn't have a stall so late, so I waited for the coolies to stop working, and then came to buy a pot of tea to drink.

I didn't expect to be able to sell an extra pot of tea, although this aunt frequently looked at Zhang Chenfeng, who was dressed in strange clothes, she still seemed very enthusiastic.

"Auntie, how many boats have taken in an hour?"

Xiao Li drank water and pulled up homely cooking.

Zhang Chenfeng didn't speak Cantonese and could only understand a few pronunciations occasionally, so although he also sat down, a pair of eyes kept anxiously scanning the bay.

"An hour? Probably...... There are five or six of them...... Seven or eight. ”

"Then, how many people have just come out of the city and boarded the boat here?"

"This ...... There are many that have come out of the city. ”

The tea seller wiped the slatted table and sat down opposite Xiao Li.

There are no guests at the moment, she is happy to have someone to talk and chat, "I'm afraid there are dozens of them, don't they all have to go back to the ship for the night...... This uncle, why are you asking about this? ”

"Oh, we're looking for a few people, it's a business business."

Xiao Li smiled and responded as kindly as possible, talking to this kind of person, you can't frighten them, otherwise you won't be able to ask anything.

"Businessman?"

The aunt looked at the team of armed soldiers on the dock in the distance, and said with a sneer, "Aren't all businessmen here?" ”

"What we're looking for is a big man, a foreigner's ship,"

Xiao Li said slowly, "You sell tea here every day, you must know those boats." ”

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