Since the wharf two miles away from the customs office was attacked and burned down by pirates, the Guangzhou Mansion was silent for a while, and a depressing atmosphere was permeated in the sky.

As soon as the Pearl River fire ended, the pirates of the Black Flag Gang slaughtered the people who cleaned up the river and burned the ships, which made the people of Guangzhou even more gloomy. The long-standing resentment against pirates has reached a critical point, and this incident has completely ignited the anger in their chests.

No longer erupts in silence, but dies in silence and suffers humiliation. Therefore, the people of Guangzhou Mansion woke up and broke out, and under the deliberate promotion of the officials, it intensified.

When they heard that the three most powerful people in Guangdong Province had formulated a plan to exterminate the Black Flag Gang, the people of Guangzhou immediately took action, and those with ships and those without ships contributed to the effort, which shows how resentful pirates are. Bandit plan

Before the implementation, everyone worked together to clean up the corpses and shipwrecks on the Pearl River to avoid secondary disasters and plagues.

In just two days, what would have taken half a month was completed in two days. After the surface of the Pearl River is cleared, I saw that the river is full of boats of different sizes, stretching endlessly, which is very spectacular. the big ones were temporarily requisitioned by the government as warships; Small, as a logistical transport.

Everyone was busy, and there were constant patrols coming and going in the streets, all of whom were organized by ordinary people and wealthy merchants, showing that the whole city was full of soldiers, in a wartime state, alerting pirates to infiltrate the city and kill the generals and dignitaries of the bandits.

This pirate-hating aura was brewing, accumulating, waiting, and everyone was waiting for the bandits to be suppressed in two days' time. By the time the plan is implemented, this rage will be like lava in the event of a volcanic eruption, burning the entire sea, fighting the pirates in a desperate fight.

At the same time, from Guangzhou Mansion to Foshan, then to Xiangshan, and finally to Qianshanzhai and Macao, all the batteries along the coast were activated, aiming at the river and sea at all times, and could be fired at any time, dealing a heavy blow to the intruding pirate ship.

Li Lianying's residence, in the past few days, he has already known that it was the members of the Black Flag Gang who connected with him that day, but he didn't expect his unintentional words to cause such a backlash from the top and bottom of the Guangzhou Mansion, if the matter is revealed, he can't imagine it anymore.

The moment he heard the news, he really understood the situation, he regretted his death, and his heart was inexplicably frightened, beyond words. This is the anger of the public, even his governor brother-in-law can't provoke it, so Li Lianying spends all day in fear.

Every time he walked through the street and saw the ordinary people patrolling, he was scared at that time, and when he looked down on them, he was afraid at that moment, these people who he looked down on in the past.

The cooperation reached with the Black Flag Gang, in which Li Lianying could only break her teeth and swallow it in her stomach, and did not dare to tell anyone, including the sister who loved him and spoiled him. It's not that he doesn't worry about his own sister, but he is afraid that his sister will also be worried, when he said that he was bald, and his brother-in-law who was the governor knew about it. Li Lianying didn't dare to think about it anymore, and her heart trembled.

Frightened again and again, Li Lianying couldn't hold on any longer, didn't dare to go out again, and never went to the customs office again. When he saw that everyone in the customs office was also in a wartime state, he couldn't stand the stimulation, and finally had to ask for leave and stay at home.

For two days, Li Lianying's heart was tormented all the time, and there was a hope, hoping that martial law throughout the whole process would scare the people of the Black Flag Gang into not daring to find him, and then two days later, the multi-party coalition annihilated the Black Flag Gang in one fell swoop, and there was not a single pirate left, so that he would be safe and escape the difficulties.

It seems that heaven is from the wishes of people, Li Lianying's continuous sleeplessness, and all night of prayer, finally got the blessing and fulfillment, and no one looked for him for two days, so that he could spend two days peacefully.

Continuous fear, sleepless nights, and ignorant of food, Li Lianying had long forgotten about Yang Lin's affairs, and no longer fantasized about ascending to the position of the president of the Yaxing Bank. For him, the sky and the earth were gloomy for two days, and he no longer wanted anything, as long as the little thug stopped looking for him and avoided this difficulty.

Doge's Palace, in the study.

The room was dimly lit, and the atmosphere was quiet, and the two of them sat opposite each other, talking and discussing, it was the governor and his master.

"Master, what do you think of the Governor and the Overseer's gift? When did the relationship between the two of them become so good? ”

"My lord, I think they are the same, nothing special, they all accept the filial piety of those merchants, and they just take money to do things, it's normal?"

"Then~ Why does it seem that the two of them have discussed it in advance, and then they came to me to discuss?"

"My lord, there's nothing strange about that. Those merchants are under the jurisdiction of the overseer, and if something happens, they must first find their immediate boss and overseer. And the governor's brother-in-law works in the customs office, and the governor is involved, so it is not difficult to understand why they will discuss it in advance. ”

The governor fell silent, digesting the master's words and relieving the doubts in his chest. However, there is always such a cloud of doubt in my heart, I can't spit it out, I can't say it clearly, and it's uncomfortable to hold back. It seems that he accepted the master's words and turned to other things.

"Master, what do you think about the extermination of the Black Flag Gang? How successful was the operation? ”

"En-sama, it's not good to say the small ones. However, without the participation of other pirates, without sabotaging our plans, the success is high. Moreover, this black flag gang has been too rampant recently, and they dare to commit murder at the offshore dock in broad daylight, and they must be taught a lesson, and they must be ruthless once, so they will be honest for a while, so it is necessary to suppress the bandits this time. ”

"My lord, if you don't want other large and small pirate forces to get involved and twist into a rope, you must let some bigwigs in Guangzhou come forward and let them warn the bandits they support not to act rashly and get involved."

He had been in Canton for some time, and of course the governor knew about the situation there, and knew that some people were secretly supporting some pirates and selling gunpowder, iron tools, and other strictly controlled goods to some gangs. Otherwise, why have many anti-bandit operations not achieved much effect, there must be ghosts among them.

Although I know the tricks of these things, no one cares, not only because I don't touch the interests of others, but also because there are a lot of interests in them. In Guangzhou Prefecture, every official has the identity of a hidden businessman, and those normal businessmen belong to the official and business sequence. Therefore, the two kinds of people generally do not have conflicts, and they just turn a blind eye to some things, and have some kind of tacit understanding.

As he thought about these things, the governor fell silent, and the master sat honestly aside, waiting for his orders and dispatches at any time.

When the forces of all parties were secretly discussing, Yang Lin was not idle. On the second day of the Black Flag Gang's attack on the docks, Wu Bingde, the leader of the Thirteen Merchants, under the recommendation of Master Liu, brought a large number of experimental raw materials and carefully selected Western most advanced scientific books to meet Yang Lin and express his gratitude.

Still in the study, there were only three people, Yang Lin, Master Liu and Wu Bingde, who sat down separately, and after the tea came up, they began to talk.

"Lord Yang, thank you for your submission, otherwise we businessmen would be miserable."

"President Wu, it's an exaggeration, the official just handed over a submission, and the others didn't do anything, and your taxes were not reduced or reduced, and the official felt guilty about accepting these things from you, how can I take on the word thank you again?"

"My lord, don't say that, my subordinates also know that the possibility of tax reduction and exemption is very small, and I and other business colleagues have already asked for it, and I am grateful."

"What's more, even if you pass the level of the three adults, you will be beaten back when you go to the royal family. It would be a great grace to be able to slow down the payment of taxes now and let us merchants take a breath. If in the past, there were merchants who had their property confiscated and went to prison because they couldn't pay taxes, so what else would they dare to expect? ”

After some conversation, Yang Lin sighed in his heart.

"This Wu Bingde really deserves to be a long-sleeved person who is good at dancing, and in just a few years, he has jumped from the third position of the thirteen banks in Guangzhou to the position of the industry leader and the boss." (To be continued.) )