The next thing is very simple, Zhou Yu led the team back to the county seat, and the dead bodies all over the ground in front of the county government were also cleaned up. If there are family members, the family members will claim them, and those who can't tell them will be pulled to mass graves outside the city for centralized burial.

At this time, the bluestone square in front of the county yamen was full of blood stains, and dark red blood clots had formed in some low-lying places. The officials of the prefectural government are washing with water.

When these officials saw Zhou Yu coming back, they were so frightened that they knelt down and kowtowed one by one. Zhou Yu ignored them and led people into the county office. Find Ma Jiyuan and report the situation.

Ma Jiyuan knew that these killers only listened to Zhu Hongsan's orders, and he didn't order them at all. So he didn't say anything, just asked Zhou Yu and them to camp outside the city.

At this time, all the raiding teams returned, and this time it was a bumper harvest. The wealth accumulated by Xu Wen's sugar merchants over the past hundred years is cheaper than Zhu Hongsan. Among the more than 20 sugar merchants, three million taels of silver were found, and countless other gold, silver, and jewels were found.

The other sugar merchants had already been caught, but they ran away from Wang Youdao, and after interrogation, someone saw Wang Youdao fleeing to Hai'an.

According to Zhou Yu's intentions, it was better to go and capture Hai'an, but this request was stopped by Ma Jiyuan. This massacre in the county town can also be interpreted as the suppression of civil unrest, and the nature of this gang of killings has changed when they want to attack the Hai'an Institute, which is after all the official military institution of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhou Yu was very unimpressed with what Ma Jiyuan said, Daming has now become an empty shelf, and there are already people in the new army who are ready to add Zhu Hongsan's yellow robe. After all, only Zhu Hongsan is the emperor, and Zhou Yu and his new army can tear the earth and seal the marquis. However, this behavior of the new army was forcibly suppressed by Zhu Hongsan because the time was not right.

Because of this, in the new army, these new army leaders headed by Qian Yong and Zhao Guodong absolutely did not allow the old-style Ming army to share their own merits. Zhou Yu is now a senior general of the new army, so he naturally has no good face for the Ming army.

After Ma Jiyuan suppressed Zhou Yu, he wrote a letter to the Qian garrison of the Hai'an Institute, asking him to hand over Wang Youdao. Ma Jiyuan is an old fritter in officialdom, and he believes that after the news of the county town reaches the Hai'an Office, the money guard should know what to do.

Things are just like Ma Jiyuan thought. Wang Youdao still overestimated the professional ethics of Ming officials. When his life was at stake, a rich man like Wang Youdao became the object of sacrifice.

On the third day, Qian Garrison personally escorted Wang Youdao to the county government to visit the prefect of Ma. At the same time, he explained that he did not cooperate with the Ma Governor's Mansion some time ago.

Officialdom is like this, the sedan chair carries people, hello, hello, hello, everyone. Although Ma Jiyuan was Taoist but not pedantic, he accepted Qian Shoubei's apology and promised to add Qian Shoubei's name to the credit for suppressing the civil unrest.

Qian Shoubei was naturally overjoyed, patting his chest and promising to protect the prefect's sugar factory in the future.

Next, interrogating Wang Youdao, it is very simple to know that the Wang family still has a pirate background, and the craftsmen arrested are all overseas on Baisha Island, and it is even more justifiable to clean up Wang Youdao. Ma Jiyuan concocted a letter of invitation for merit, and in it, the prefect Ma and the county magistrate Tang were naturally wise and martial. Defend the siege of the Wang pirates, and then with the support of the garrison of Hai'an, eliminate more than 1,000 pirates, behead 800 people, and the heads of those sugar farmers outside the city are.

Zhou Yu is very ashamed of this kind of civil official's style, and Zhou Yu has no intention of getting involved in the credit of civil officials. The New Army has not yet degenerated to the point of killing the good and risking it.

Now Zhou Yu was worried that there was no ship, and at this moment there was good news, Boss Yan came with a boat.

Yan Qingshan liked this mission to sea very much, and he stopped and stopped along the way. When you see an island, you have to shoot a few shots, which is called a test of actual combat ability. made the officers and soldiers who accompanied the ship secretly curse this dirt bun in their hearts.

In fact, in the eyes of the officials and the military, these three new warships are also very powerful, with high speed, strong firepower, and fast production speed. You know, these three ships were produced in two months. In the past, a 400-material sea ship could not be launched at all within half a year.

Each of the three ships had twenty-two guns, ten on each side and one in the bow and stern. This kind of firepower configuration is already the firepower configuration of a large ship of 800 or even 1,000 materials. What they didn't know was that all three ships were made of steel as keels, which greatly strengthened their recoil.

What the officers and military did not know was that these three ships were experimental models, and the shipyard had already begun to build a huge ship of 2,000 materials and 800 tons. There were fifty guns on that big ship, and you must know that an army regiment had fifty-four guns.

Yan Qingshan is very happy now, he found that the most right thing to do in his life is to marry his daughter to Zhu Hongsan. Yan Qingshan had already secretly gone to see the big guy in the shipyard, two thousand materials, it was no longer inferior to the main cruiser of the Franco.

What Boss Yan didn't know was that the big guy in his eyes was just a kind of cruiser in the eyes of his son-in-law. In Zhu Hongsan's plan, the main battleship was the strongest of the sail warships, the British kind of first-class battleship, with 100 guns, 800 members, and a displacement of about 2,500 tons.

However, this kind of big guy is not something that Zhu Hongsan can create now. This kind of maritime hegemony is a demonstration of a country's overall strength, and Zhu Hongsan expects that he will not have the financial resources to build a few ships until he occupies half of China.

In this way, Boss Yan came to the dock of Xuwen County with three experimental warships.

Zhou Yu was very happy to hear that his ship was coming, so that he had the ability to exterminate the pirates. Zhou Yu told Boss Yan about this, and Boss Yan was very excited, and it was just a test shot along the way, and there was no actual combat at all. When the small boats on the sea saw their three large ships, they immediately scattered.

In this way, Wang Youdao fell into the hands of Boss Yan, and these pirates dealt with Wang Youdao with a bad move. It didn't take long to know the location of Baisha Island and the hydrological situation around the island.

Baisha Island is located in a bay twenty miles away from Xu Wen, and it is a very hidden island. There were more than 300 pirates on the island, more than 50 large and small ships, and the captured craftsmen were in the island's prison.

Zhou Yu and Boss Yan discussed using a boat to bring two companies of 200 people to the island to save people, as for the naval battle, it was Boss Yan's business. When Zhou Yu asked how the naval battle would be fought, Boss Yan said: "There are hundreds of us, and there are sixty-six artillery pieces on three ships, what tactics do we use to bombard the damn with artillery directly approaching." ”

Zhou Yu said: "Pay attention to the craftsmen on the island. ”

Boss Yan scolded: "It's my business, I only care about killing pirates, and the rest is your business." ”

Zhou Yu knew that this pirate head was the cheap old man of the King of Chu, and he couldn't get angry, so he had to give up.

In the evening, Boss Yan rested for one night, and the next day he set out to Baisha Island.

The battle is very simple, just like Boss Yan said, first sink all the pirate ships on the sea, and then shoot at close range. Although Boss Yan said that he didn't care whether the craftsman lived or died, he still ordered the artillery to not shoot at the houses.

The next thing is Zhou Yu's business, and the battle will end soon. These pirates had seen such a naval battle, and when they came up, the artillery bombarded indiscriminately, so they surrendered when they saw Zhou Yu coming ashore.

After Zhou Yu rescued the more than 20 craftsmen, he saw that they were not in good spirits, but he was not tortured. Of course, Wang Youdao still wants them to be cash cows, how can he be willing to hurt them.

More than 150 pirates surrendered, and all the others died under the fire of Boss Yan. These more than 100 pirates were also unceremoniously taken by Boss Yan, after all, there are still not many qualified sailors on the ship, and these more than 100 people are talents.

After returning to Xuwen County, the few captured family heads and Wang Youdao and Wang Youde were both shot by Zhou Yu, and all the female dependents were dragged to Guangzhou Mansion and sold into the Jiaofang Division.

Now the entire sugar industry in Xuwen County has fallen into the hands of Zhu Hongsan, the king of Chu, who has obtained hundreds of thousands of acres of sugarcane fields through this bloodbath in Xuwen County and controlled the sugar production of the entire Xuwen.

After the matter was over, Zhou Yu led people back to Changhua as a garrison, and Boss Yan took the captured female dependents and several boatloads of silver and jewelry back to Dongguan.

And Ma Jiyuan still has to stay in Xu Wen for a while, after all, the sugar factory has been burned down by the rioters, and the sugar factory has to be rebuilt. This time, without the interference of large local households, the sugar factory went smoothly. Production resumed after half a month, and then Ma Jiyuan built ten sugar factories using the soil sugar liao of more than 20 sugar merchants.

After the completion of these ten sugar factories, they can produce 1,000 tons of white sugar and 3,000 tons of brown sugar every year. At the same time, bagasse can be used to make wine, and thousands of tons of wine are produced every year, and the farms that use sake lees also have a good income.

Since then, Xu Wen has become Zhu Hongsan's money bag, and sugar and salt have become millions of taels of silver earned for Zhu Hongsan every year. The consequence of this incident is that the cheap and high-quality salt has had a great impact on the two Huai, and the rich salt merchants in Yangzhou have gone bankrupt, and finally Xu Wen's salt has also hit Zheng Zhilong in Fujian.

Although the majority of Zheng Zhilong's income is not private salt, no one wants his money to be less, so this also laid the fuse of the conflict between Zhu Hongsan and Zheng Zhilong.