When Hu Cheng heard this, he was surprised: "It's really lawless, I killed two people and arrested one person without giving money."

Lu Junren said: "This shopkeeper has been with me for more than ten years, he is diligent and willing to work, and he implores the caravan to uphold justice for us." ”

Hu Cheng said: "Although Champa is a small country in Fanbang, but there is always a place for the king's law, let's go to the Yamen of Champa to report the head, in addition, Lu Yuanwai next time remember to abide by the rules and regulations of the caravan, all trade at the wharf, cash in stock, and then the caravan will not be responsible for the next time." ”

Lu Junren nodded yes, it was indeed careless, because the boy was so bold and generous, who would have thought that he would change his face and kill people when he went home.

Immediately, Hu Cheng took a few elite guys and Lu Junren to rush to the yamen, suing Zhan Gang who snatched ginseng, but it turned out to be a joke, and the yamen was stopped, and a group of officials blocked the way with knives and guns.

Hu Cheng asked, "What's the situation?" ”

The translator smiled bitterly: "These officials said that this is the patrol yamen, and the highest height is Zhan Gang, let us get out of here quickly, otherwise we will be arrested and put in prison." ”

Hu Cheng scolded: "Who led the way, to go to the highest yamen of the city or meet the king." ”

The king of Zhancheng Hu Cheng can't see it, the small country of Fanbang also took a shelf, and came to the Zhancheng Mansion, the highest governor of Zhancheng is called the governor, and the prefect of our Great Song Dynasty is at the same level, the translator explained the meaning, and the governor did not let the clerk register, waved his hand, and said: "Go back and wait for the news, we will investigate." ”

This is clearly a prevarication, and there is no sincerity to solve the problem, no wonder Chao Gai said that when dealing with these small countries, he must first wake him up with a cannon, so that he will no longer be arrogant.

The ignorant karmic fire that was formed by Hu Cheng rose, you are sending Huazi, Lao Tzu came to complain, and you waved your hand and drove away?

"When to release our people, when to pay for the goods, when to arrest the murderer, please let the Governor know." Hu Cheng asked.

The governor's face darkened after listening to the translation's words, and he slapped the table: "You and other merchants, for profit, eight radishes are sold for four thousand taels of silver, and killing two is cheap, and they dare to come back to complain." ”

Lu Junren almost vomited blood angrily, a hundred years of ginseng is extremely rare, in China is the price of five or six hundred taels of silver, this price is indeed expensive, you must know that a cow is only seven or eight taels, but then again, ginseng is a luxury, don't buy it if you don't have money.

"Boom away." The Governor flicked his sleeves and drove the caravan away.

Lu Junren was very anxious, but it didn't take long for Zhan Gang to send a letter, saying that it was easy to release people, and he only needed to pay a ransom of 10,000 taels of silver.

Hu Chengdao: "This matter ends here, we don't have to be responsible, the people of the fleet have taken over and promised to rescue people." ”

The original escort fleet was still hiding in the bay more than ten miles away, after all, it was rude for warships to come to someone's port. After receiving Hu Cheng's request, Ruan Xiaoqi was happy, and said: "Finally, there is something to do, and there is not even a pirate hair on this way, and the brothers are uncomfortable." ”

Hu Chengdao: "One of us has been imprisoned by them, and it is best to rescue him in advance when he does it." ”

Ruan Xiaoqi said: "No problem, it's just that we don't know this person, so let their caravan send someone to follow, so as not to save the wrong person." ”

Although Lu Junren was a literati, he was bold in his bones, and he decided to act with Ruan Xiaoqi.

The city at night is also noisy and lively, the girls on the flower boat flirt and scold, and the sound of drinking and boxing comes from the restaurant.

At the port, Ruan Xiaoqi quietly gathered five hundred soldiers, of which four hundred soldiers each had a Vulcan spear, a two-meter spear was swarthy, and a hundred soldiers were holding twenty-five tiger squatting cannons, Lu Junren followed Ruan Xiaoqi: "What am I doing?" ”

Ruan Xiaoqi threw a shield to Lu Junren: "You must pay attention to safety when fighting, if you see that the situation is not good, you can escape, you are not a soldier." ”

Lu Junren said with a smile: "The captain of the fleet said that he laughed, since I am a soldier with the army, I am a soldier, and life and death are with everyone." ”

"Okay, let's go."

The team ran forward, and the pace of Kua Kua Kuakua ran all the way to Zhan Gang's house, Zhan Gang's mansion is a villa, covering a large area, and the gate of the courtyard wall is also very strong, and a dozen patrols with knives and swords at the door saw a large group of people, and wanted to come over to stop it, Ruan Xiaoqi signaled, and more than a dozen arrows were shot over, and they all burped and caught a cold.

Some of them ran as fast as they could, and fled into the house first, closing the strong gates, and the soldiers rushed up and kicked them, without the slightest reaction.

Ruan Xiaoqi said: "Stand back and look at the artillery." ”

It didn't work much, so he used five tiger squat cannons, opened fire more than ten meters away, boom, and the gate was immediately shattered with five big holes.

Ruan Xiaoqi said: "The wood used for this guy's door is really hard, and there will be five more cannons." ”

Just as he was about to open fire, the gate opened, and Zhan Gang and Zhan Ming led hundreds of people with knives and guns to come out to meet them.

Lu Junren said: "It's the ginseng that this guy used to deceive." ”

Ruan Xiaoqi asked the interpreter to shout: "Hand over the ginseng, hand over the hostages, there is still room for negotiation, otherwise today will be a bloody battle to the end." ”

Zhan Gang laughed: "Ignorance, I have thousands of soldiers in the city, and reinforcements will come in a while, you still have to think about how you escape." ”

Ruan Xiaoqi waved the flag, and the Vulcan gunners lined up in four rows, the first row fired first, because the distance was only a few tens of meters, the power of the scattered bullets was huge, and after the smoke passed, I saw that there were few people standing at the gate.

"Up." Immediately, Ruan Xiaoqi transferred a hundred people to attack it, and caught Zhan Gang and Zhan Ming's father and son from the pile, these two people were very lucky, they didn't die, but they were injured by scattered bullets.

The house was empty, and there were not many servants. The soldiers rescued the shopkeeper from the firewood room, and then retreated.

Lu Junren was more strange and said, "There are mountains of gold and silver in his house, how can our soldiers not move?" ”

Ruan Xiaoqi said: "We are the Seventh Fleet of the Jeju Army, an upright navy, not bandits or pirates, how can we move their property." We arrested the father and son, and we were going to bring them back to New Jeju and hand them over to Xiao County after the trial. ”

"Oh, I see, but I haven't gotten my five hundred-year-old ginseng back yet." Lu Junren said.

Ruan Xiaoqi said: "Don't worry, the Zhan family is not without people, this battle is quite costly, and the consumption is borne by them, but before that, we have to go to the governor's palace." ”

As he was talking, the enemy's reinforcements in front arrived, and Zhan Gang laughed: "You can't run." ”

Zhan Gang shouted at the reinforcements: "General, I'm here." The soldier on guard slapped him casually, knocking off one of Zhan Gang's front teeth.

Ruan Xiaoqi looked at it, good guys, at least three or four thousand people.

"Queue, prepare." With Ruan Xiaoqi's order, 500 people lined up, first 25 tiger squatting cannons, this time loaded with scattered shells, seeing that the enemy had no intention of negotiating, he immediately ordered the artillery to be fired.

A round of artillery hit and killed a large area, followed by the Vulcan gun, bang, bang. The first row of a hundred Vulcan guns fired, followed by the second row. Before the third row of Vulcan guns moved, the enemy did not dare to rush forward.

The Champa army was blinded, they had never seen such a weapon, and the soldiers died one by one, only more than a thousand were killed, and the other soldiers scattered in a hurry.

"Pursuit." Ruan Xiaoqi ordered the team to pursue, and the team slowly followed the deserters with neat steps, and the deserters ran in all directions, some ran to the port, and some ran to the city, anyway, it was a mess of porridge, usually these soldiers are also a level of bullying the common people, and today when they encounter hard stubble, they are scared. Ruan Xiaoqi led people straight to the governor's mansion, grabbed the governor from under the table, tied them up into zongzi and took them away.

Lu Junren was terrified, Lu Yuan was no stranger to fighting, killing and killing, his younger brother Lu Junyi was known as the first gun stick in Hebei, as an elder brother, he had heard a lot, but he had never seen a battle like today, which wiped out thousands of people in an instant, and his feet were scared.

Looking at Ruan Xiaoqi's team, no one was killed in battle, only two soldiers couldn't see the road clearly because it was dark, stepped on a banana peel, and fell on their butts.

The governors of Zhangang, Zhanming, and Zhancheng were directly mentioned to the port warships, and all merchant ships and merchant ships were put on alert that night, and any trading was suspended.

The losses of the Lu family's caravan were easy to calculate, and the direct ones were 3,000 taels of silver, the bereavement pensions of the two men who died in the battle, and so on, and the medical expenses of the injured shopkeeper and his lost work expenses were more than 1,000 taels of silver. A total of 5,000 taels of silver was needed to be compensated, but four warships were pulled out to the port and 500 soldiers were mobilized, which was a huge cost. The military documents calculated that it was 10,000 taels of silver.

Ruan Xiaoqi took the bill and threw it in Zhan Gang's face, and shouted: "Compensation for the caravan of five thousand taels of silver, compensation for the fleet of ten thousand taels of silver, when will it be sent back." ”

Zhan Gang was directly stupid, and hurriedly said: "Compensation, compensation, let me go back, and I will send it back immediately." ”

"You write a letter to someone to send it back, and send the money as soon as possible." Ruan Xiaoqi said.

Immediately, Zhan Gang asked someone to send a letter back and asked the family to prepare silver. The Zhan family has a rich foundation, and it didn't take long for the silver to be delivered, 5,000 taels of silver belonged to the Lu family firm, and 10,000 taels were registered and handed over to the military department when they turned back.

Hu Cheng and Ruan Xiaoqi discussed how to deal with the matter of the governor of Champa, and Hu Cheng said: "I mean to teach them a lesson, let them know that they are wrong, there is no need to fight too hard, after all, we are mainly business." ”

Ruan Xiaoqi nodded: "I understand this, there are also regulations for fleet escort, and a national war cannot easily occur." It's just that you can't be weak in momentum, and once you are weak in momentum, you will be bullied. When we negotiate with Champa tomorrow, we must ask them to severely punish the murderers, absolutely not allow similar things to happen, and at the same time bear the losses of this troop. ”

Hu Cheng said: "Okay, let's see what the king of Champa means tomorrow and then make plans." ”

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