Shen Xi knew that these silver were "hush money", and Zhang Lian was afraid that he would report to the imperial court that someone was pretending to be an envoy of the Buddha machine today.

Because the discerning people can see that these people are found by the prefect's yamen, even if Shen Xi is confused and doesn't notice it, someone will remind him afterwards.

The Buddha sent the tribute, but the envoy was fake, and the prefect yamen dared to say that he didn't know?

Once Shen Xi plays to the court, Zhang Lian is a big crime of bullying the king!

Shen Xi felt very embarrassed.

No matter how you look at it, only by accepting the money can you be safer in Quanzhou Mansion, otherwise Zhang Lian may start at any time in order to protect himself.

But if it is accepted, how can this silver be explained to the court!

Even if the problem of the envoy of the Buddha machine can be revealed, Zhang Lian has other crimes, and the Yamen has sent Yu Niang as a pioneer to verify, and there will be a bigger figure when he returns, and he will receive the money on behalf of him and Zhang Lian's snake and rat.

"You can't take this money, so find someone to return it." Shen Xi confessed to Mi Lu and the others.

"Don't mind, Lord Shen, the money has been sent, isn't it okay to return it?"

Mi Lu and Song Laoyue were still waiting for the benefits of sharing profits, and when they heard Shen Xi's words, the two of them couldn't wait to get their hearts out, and persuaded Shen Xi to "get acquainted".

They already knew what happened to Shen Xi and Liu Jin in the prefect's yamen, and they didn't accept the money, which means they didn't buy it.

If you don't buy it, how can you not take action?

"Then do you think your life is long?" Shen Xihu was dumbfounded, "Accepting bribes, according to my Da Ming law, peeling and cramping are light." Do as the officer instructs! ”

Liu Jin said: "Shen Zhongyun wants to be a Qing official, just send his share back, no one can touch our family's share!" ”

Mi Lu and Song Laoyue looked at Liu Jin, their faces felt like confidants, and they thought, is it still Liu Gonggong who is considerate, why did he be blinded by lard before, and listened to Shen Xi's nonsense?

Shen Xi said angrily: "I am the envoy of His Majesty's order, if anyone disobeys the order, he will be cut first!" ”

Liu Jin was so angry that his teeth were bouncing, and he pointed at Shen Xi and didn't say anything for a long time, but Song Xiaocheng and others went into the room and carried out the silver box sent by the prefect's yamen before.

Shen Xi went to the desk and wrote a letter and handed it to Song Xiaocheng: "Submit it to Governor Zhang along with this letter, he will naturally understand after reading it." ”

Liu Jin said angrily: "The stones in the pit are smelly and hard, and the fuck still wants you to soak a puddle of urine to soften?" Now that he doesn't accept the money, he writes to Governor Zhang, thinking that three or two good words will coax people? Let's see, let's wait for someone to collect the corpse at the official post! ”

Liu Jin's meaning, Shen Xi's letter to Zhang Lian shows that he will not talk nonsense, but as long as he doesn't accept cash, no matter how he looks at it, it looks like a slap in the face.

So Liu Jin felt that Shen Xi had no experience as an official and acted recklessly.

You don't even accept other people's money, why do people believe that you don't report to the court?

Shen Xi didn't bother to explain to Liu Jin, at this time, he didn't need to care about Liu Jin's thoughts, what if he offended a big traitor in the future? With him coming to this world, whether Liu Jin can take power is still a matter of words.

When Song Xiaocheng sent the silver and letters to the prefect's yamen, Zhang Lian did not immediately send people to Xingshi to ask questions or even kill people as Liu Jin, Mi Lu and others expected.

"We must come at night, today we will go out of the city and leave this place quickly!" Liu Jin called Mi Lu and Song Laoyue together to discuss the escape.

didn't know that Shen Xi had been staring at them for a long time, and before the three of them packed up their baggage, Shen Xi appeared in front of them. Shen Xi said coldly: "Do you think you can escape like this? Originally, Zhang Lian didn't want to kill you, but as soon as you left the city, you couldn't keep it for a few miles...... Don't forget how Zhang Lian sent someone to find us the day before yesterday! ”

One sentence made Liu Jin's body tremble, this time he was not angry, but frightened.

Two days ago, Zhang Lian sent people to Jin'an Station to greet him warmly, and Liu Jin thought that the Quanzhou prefect would do things and take good care of them. But now that I think about it, where is this to take care of them? It is clear that someone has been sent to monitor it a long time ago...... It's so clear which way to go on a day, and now it's right under people's noses, where can you run?

Liu Jin pointed at Shen Xi and said, "Shen Zhongyun, you are really harmful!" Earlier, you pretended to be confused in the prefect's yamen and couldn't recognize those Fanbang people, so there was nothing to do? ”

Shen Xi smiled faintly: "As long as you stay in the post house honestly, nothing will happen." Walking out of the post house is a dead end! ”

As soon as Shen Xi said this, even Liu Jin didn't dare to mention the escape.

After nightfall, Liu Jin didn't even come out to eat dinner, Shen Xi knew that this old guy was hiding in the room and praying to God, Mi Lu and Song Laoyue also looked worried, they all thought that Zhang Lian would send someone to kill people that night.

At this time, the person sent by Shen Xi in advance to contact the Chamber of Commerce finally came back, bringing a local from Quanzhou who knew the inside story, and he explained the situation to Shen Xi.

“…… A few months ago, the Buddha machine people did go to Quanzhou, and they also did business with our Chamber of Commerce, and the quality of their silver was not very good, so they could only change the copper coins after our silver number was folded......"

"The local merchants in Quanzhou didn't like to be willing to do business with these Yiren who were inconvenient to communicate with and calculating, so they went out of the city, and the ships docked at Yandun Mountain in the south."

"Later, I heard that they slaughtered several villages in the vicinity of Doghoi Reef and nearby Guiyu Rock under the guise of going ashore to replenish fresh water, which is simply a group of beasts! Lord Shen, you have to be the master of the people. ”

Speaking of this family who lives at the foot of Chishan Mountain in the east of Quanzhou City, the village where the tragedy occurred is on the other side of the mountain, he is both angry and frightened when he talks about the slaughter of the people by the Buddha and the machine.

Shen Xi asked, "The yamen at the government and county levels are not in charge?" ”

"Counting on those officials? At the beginning, the Buddha machine people were still sent by the officials to the introduction of the city, and the merchants did not want to do business with the Buddha machine people, and the government forced us to sell the goods to them, and none of these officials had good things...... The villain is not talking about Lord Shen, you ......"

"Under the pressure of the government, the Chamber of Commerce can only coordinate in the middle and sell some of the backlog of tea, ceramics, silk, etc. to the Buddha machine people, and those Buddha machine people take them as treasures...... Later, the Buddha machine people didn't know if the capital was gone, so they simply went ashore to rob it and stopped trading with us. ”

Shen Xi sighed secretly, the magistrate does not make decisions for his own people, what is the need for the Buddha to be polite?

With the end of the fourteenth century, European artillery technology is becoming more and more mature, to the Ming Dynasty orthodoxy and Chenghua years, Europeans have generally used cast iron cannons of bronze cannons and cast iron cannons, which is the famous Buddha cannon after the introduction of the Ming Dynasty.

The cannon was made of cast iron shells, which could quickly destroy the city walls and other fortifications in a very short time, which is an important reason why the Portuguese, Spanish, and later Dutch and British were able to kill all the invincible opponents in the world.

And what is the standard configuration of the Ming army at this time?

How do earth cannons, firecrackers, spears, and shields compare with other people's Buddha machine guns and arquebuses?

Shen Xi asked, "Where is the Buddha Robot now?" ”

The person who came shook his head and said: "Back to Lord Shen, I heard that those Buddha people went to the south, and it was also said that it was on the sea around Quanzhou, as long as there were merchant ships passing by, they would all be hijacked...... They are all afraid of death. Even the ships of our Chamber of Commerce are now cowering in the port outside the city, and the goods are almost piled up. ”

Shen Xi nodded.

Most of the people of Fo Luo are waiting in Quanzhou Bay, knowing that Quanzhou is a famous harbor city in the Ming Dynasty, there are many sea ships coming and going to Quanzhou on weekdays, when pirates are wandering around on the sea, it is rare to encounter ships, where is there such a guard to guard the port to rob a piece of pleasure?

If there are disobedient ones, hit you with artillery until you are obedient!

Due to the ban on the sea, the sea ships of the Ming Dynasty basically have no self-defense ability, and the Buddha machine people want to hijack them, and they will rob one by one.

However, at present, we all know that there is danger outside Quanzhou Bay, the ships in Quanzhou port are not able to shrink, and the outside fleet has also changed to Ningbo Port and Guangzhou Port.

"I know what's going on, and when I go back, I said to the shopkeeper Yan, transport the goods to the warehouse in the city, or simply send them to the upper reaches of the Jinjiang River, these days the Buddha machine people may make a comeback, this time it's not a business, I'm afraid it's going to burn and loot."

When Shen Xi said this, the people from the Chamber of Commerce were frightened, and they quickly kowtowed and said goodbye, and went back to convey Shen Xi's meaning to the branch of the Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce.

Song Xiaocheng next to him asked, "Lord Zhuangyuan, how did you know that the Buddha Robot would come?" ”

Shen Xi said: "The obvious thing, the Buddha machine is strong and the ship is strong, and my Ming officials and soldiers are not opponents, let alone those ordinary merchants and ordinary people?" If I am a Buddha machine man, I can't grab something at sea, I will land to grab it, and I will guard such a big treasure in the port, if I don't make enough money, wouldn't it be in vain? ”

Song Xiaocheng thought about it carefully, but no, I heard people describe the fleet of the Buddha machine people as so powerful, why is it necessary to only do business and not loot after going ashore?

"But...... Lord Champion, why didn't they come to the port to rob before, and they had to wait until now? Song Xiaocheng was still puzzled.

Shen Xi said: "At that time, they had just arrived, and they didn't know the details of my Ming Dynasty, and they didn't know if there was an army that was enough to defend the sea frontier, so they came first and gained the trust of the government...... Later, they slaughtered civilians along the coast, in fact, it was to test the bottom line of our Ming government, and as a result, the government did not care about their massacre of civilians and robbery of ships and goods, and naturally became more arrogant, thinking that they could arbitrarily invade the county capital of our state, and it was best to occupy the territory, as its colony, it was a big deal to loot it, and it was a week! ”

Song Xiaocheng suddenly realized: "What Lord Zhuangyuan said is reasonable. ”

Shen Xi felt very tricky now, if he wanted to guard against the sneak attack of the Buddha Machine, he had to have an army to deploy, but he was a poor man, and he couldn't command the local army at all. The safest way to do this is to write a letter to Zhang Lian and inform the prefect and yamen to take precautions as soon as possible.

But Shen Xi knew that this would not have any effect except to startle the snake.

Zhang Lian would have thought that I really didn't provoke the Buddha Jiren, but I accepted their bribes, allowed them to dock, and forwarded their credentials.

Now that the Buddha is forgetting his righteousness and wants to attack my Daming, the court knows that he must kill me to vent his anger!

In this case, Zhang Lian would only describe to the court how pious the Buddha was to the great tomorrow, how could he admit the fact that the Buddha was a thief?

In the end, Shen Xi decided not to write this letter.

"Zhang Lian, Zhang Lian, until the door of the foreign country is on fire and your eyebrows are burned, are you ready to go to the end on the road of deceiving and shrinking your head to be a turtle...... In that case, I will fulfill you. ”

Shen Xi had this idea, and immediately taught Song Xiaocheng the opportunity, who would have thought that Song Xiaocheng would be so frightened that he didn't come to his senses for a long time after hearing it.

"Lord Zhuangyuan, are you asking me to die?" Song Xiaocheng looked aggrieved.

Shen Xi said: "You just have to rest assured, the Buddha machine cannon is not so powerful...... Most of their guns were mounted on both sides of the deck, and the range was no more than a mile, and due to the severe turbulence, it was not easy to hit a moving target with one out of a hundred rounds. As long as you keep facing their bow and row back quickly, there will be no danger...... Of course, if you are afraid of death, you can change to someone else. ”

Song Xiaocheng suddenly felt a touch of crisis.

Shen Xi instructed him to disguise himself as a merchant ship to go to sea the next day, and when he saw the fleet of the Francophiles from afar, he turned around and ran back, "leading" his fleet to the city of Quanzhou. Song Xiaocheng thought to himself: "The little master must be crazy, those foreign devils are so powerful, it's too late to hide, where is the reason to take the initiative to provoke?" ”

Shen Xi found that his proposal was indeed too embarrassing for Song Xiaocheng, and sighed lightly: "In this way, there is no need to do anything to the fleet of the Buddha Machine, just send someone to use a small boat to explore their specific location, if the official army wants to use troops against the Buddha Machine, it is good to know their truth." ”

"When the time comes, I'll give you a credit."

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PS: The first update is delivered!

Today, the staff of Telecom installed optical fiber for new users in our building, but the broadband signal of the users in the whole building was cut off, from 9:40 in the morning to 5:30 in the afternoon, the red signal light of the optical modem just now turned green, and the computers and mobile phones at home can access the Internet!

Hurry up and send you an update! The promise of today's outbreak of the four watches remains unchanged, which means that there are three more chapters in the future, and the Son of Heaven has to work harder! (To be continued.) )