Lei Gongteng, a thousand households in brocade clothes, walked around like a fly in the lobby of the thousand households, sighing: "Alas, I shouldn't have asked someone Qin for help, but judging from the friendship between the two now, the female devil shouldn't care......"

When Qin Lin walked up to the lobby, Lei Gongteng greeted him in person with a smile on his face, holding his hand and greeting him.

Qin Lin also has an excellent attitude, and the chief's call is affectionate.

Because Tianxiang Pavilion has paid the usual practice, many green houses, gambling stalls, and taverns have also paid silver, and now the monthly income can reach three thousand taels; If even the drunken phoenix building can be put away, there will no longer be any Qinglou and gambling stalls on the Qinhuai River, and the monthly income will reach an unprecedented 5,000 taels by then, which means that Qin Lin will have a balance of 20,000 taels of silver every year after handing over the monthly silver of the 1,000 households and spending the entire official school!

Lei Gongteng didn't know for some reason, the Gengzi office arranged for Qin Lin was really a fat shortage.

"Oops, I almost forgot about business," after a few words of greeting, Lei Gongteng said the reason for inviting Qin Lin to come.

After the enemy ship was captured, the Ming army found that the ship was built quite horizontally, with a strong hull and a good surname, it was simply a warship, and the warships of the Yangtze River Naval Division relied on the warcraftsman system of the decline of Yuyi to build, and the warships used now were even worse than this thief ship.

The upper and lower reaches of the Yangtze River are under the control of the Governor's Mansion and the Jiangfang Dao is strictly controlled, where did the White Lotus Sect build this warship? Are the thieves setting out to build an elite sailor?

Yong'an Hou and Admiral Jiang Xu Qiaosong were greatly surprised, and hurriedly sent the case to Jinyiwei for investigation, so as to ask for a truthful confession.

Lei Gongteng, who was specifically responsible for handling the case, made a careful investigation, and the arrested White Lotus disciples themselves were all fishermen and boatmen on the Yangtze River, and the elders and the three incense masters were in charge of mobilizing people, setting up ambushes, and planning joint attacks on land and water.

When asked how they boarded the boat, they all replied that they were in a bay in Zhenjiang, and they were led by three incense lords to arrive by land.

The next day, two identical boats came, and Elder Tian Heng Etian stood on the deck of this boat, and when they reached the shore, the sailors who drove the ship turned to the other ship and sailed away, and the White Lotus Sect members boarded the boat to join Elder Tian.

Those mysterious sailors, none of the White Lotus Sect disciples knew each other, but they all heard one of them, a short and stout man, and Elder Tian answering two words when he was leaving.

Elder Tian's official Nanjing dialect is "the two families work together" and "pay more respects to your master, Tian is full of hospitality".

The other party's answer was very strange, some of the White Lotus disciples said that it was a dialect of eastern Zhejiang, and some said that it was like people in the Xiangbian Mountains talking, and so on.

From the accent, you can judge the approximate territory of the other party, and then find the shipyard of the White Lotus Sect along the vine, it is because Lei Gongteng did not relax, and the White Lotus Sect was separated and detained, and tortured to extract confessions.

I didn't think that I had fought for three days in a row, but there was no result, the disciples were still talking nonsense, and the accents of that group of mysterious sailors were from Zhejiang to Mobei, from Xiangxi to Fujian, which was simply inaccurate.

Lei Gongteng had no choice but to ask Qin Lin to come and help investigate.

After listening to Lei Gongteng's introduction, Qin Lin thought it was quite interesting, so he asked the captured White Lotus Sect to be brought up for questioning.

The first disciple was unkempt and his face was blue, and he had obviously suffered a lot, and when he saw that there was a new officer of the Jinyi Guard, he immediately looked like a frightened bird.

Qin Lin didn't hit him, and asked with a pleasant face: "Don't be afraid, this official doesn't beat you, just asks where are you who are from when you pick up the boat in Zhenjiang and hear the accents of those mysterious sailors?" ”

The believer swore by the heavens and the earth: "In eastern Zhejiang, in the area of Taizhou in eastern Zhejiang, the little ones dare to take their heads to vouch for it, and they heard it right!" ”

Qin Lin raised his eyebrows: "How do you know it's Taizhou?" ”

"When I was eating tea in a teahouse the year before last, I heard a few Taizhou businessmen talking, and the tone was no different from those sailors!"

Qin Lin frowned, thought for a moment, and asked, "Where are you from?" ”

The man blinked his eyes: "The little one lives in Andong County, Huai'an Prefecture, and he went to Zhenjiang to work as a boatman five years ago. ”

Qin Lin rubbed his temples with his fingers thoughtfully, and after a while, he asked, "So, what did Elder Tian say when the sailor leader answered each other?" ”

"It's too far away, and the wind and waves on the river are roaring, so I can't hear it clearly."

Qin Lin waved his hand to let him go down.

Lei Gongteng listened to it next to him, and felt that it was not surprising, this person also said the same thing when he was arraigned, but Qin Lin seemed to ask in detail, but it didn't seem to have much to do with the case...... The second man was brought up again, and the young man looked withered, his eye sockets were deep, and there were black blood marks on his clothes, and he thought that he had also been tortured.

Qin Lin asked him the same.

"The little ones don't know why they are always beaten to tell the truth, the little ones really hear what they say in Yangzhou dialect, and the ones are really not half fake!"

Qin Lin shook his head slightly and said with a smile: "How dare you be so sure? ”

"Don't hide it from the chief, I am from Anqing Mansion, but I have been to Yangzhou, when I was eight years old, I went to my uncle's house in Yangzhou, and listening to Yangzhou people is like this."

Qin Lin asked, "Then do you hear what the mysterious sailor said?" ”

"No mother, vacuum hometown? No, isn't it right, is it Maitreya who was born and King Ming was born? The young man pondered for a long time, but was completely unsure, and finally had to kneel down and plead: "The little one hasn't been to Yangzhou for more than ten years, but the little one remembers it very clearly, and the taste of that speech will not be wrong." The little one didn't tell a lie, and begged the chief grandfather to avoid beating. ”

Qin Lin crooked his mouth and asked him to take this person down.

The third and fourth were also brought in, and the answers were similar to the first two.

The third Ying Tianfu insisted that the sailors were from Xiangxi, because he had a neighbor from Huguang who spoke Xiangxi with his wife in his own home, and he had heard him.

However, the fourth believer from Yangzhou firmly objected to the second person's statement, arguing that Yangzhou did not have that kind of accent in either the city or the countryside, and in his opinion, the group should have come from the vicinity of Anqing Mansion.

Qin Lin no longer called people to come up for questioning, he seemed to have made up his mind, touching his chin, and the corners of his mouth showed some smiles.

Lei Gongteng will be wrong, only when Qin Lin is at a loss for the case.

The confessions of the believers about the accent of the mysterious sailors were simply confused, the one from Huai'an Mansion insisted that the other party was from Taizhou, eastern Zhejiang, and the prisoner from Anqing Mansion insisted that the group of sailors was from Yangzhou Mansion, and the believers from Yingtianfu said that those people were from Xiangxi, but the Christians from Yangzhou said that the accent sounded like near Anqing.

The only thing that was the same was that no one could hear what the sailor had said to Elder Tian.

Lei Gongteng was a little anxious: "These naughty bones, they don't want to tell the truth when they ask questions, Qin Baihu, do you think it?" ”

"Lord Qianhu doesn't need to worry," Qin Lin's smiling expression was very determined, and he arched his hand and said: "The lower official has almost guessed the origin of that group of mysterious sailors, and asked the Lord of the Thousand Households to take the lower official to see the ship, so that you can find out." ”

"Brother Qin is really my Jinyiwei's young talent!" Lei Gongteng jumped up from the chair all of a sudden, took Qin Lin's hand and walked out, "Brother Qin is still powerful, brother, I asked for a long time, but I didn't ask what the sailor said......

Qin Lin touched his chin and said meaningfully: "Because that group of people didn't speak human words in the first place." ”

Lei Gongteng was stunned, he didn't say anything, could it be that the sailor leader said nonsense?

The group soon came to the dock where the captured enemy ship was moored, boarded the ship to check, and sure enough, the hull was sturdy, and the sails, rigging, rudder and other equipment were quite sophisticated, which was really better than the warships of the Yangtze River Naval Division under the Governor's Mansion of the Yangtze River.

In the early years of Wanli, the system of guards has been declining, although it has not completely collapsed like the end of the Ming Dynasty, it is also quite dilapidated, even the guards and horses in Nanjing are old and weak, and the rated number of a thousand households is 1,120 people, and there should be 2,240 soldiers under the jurisdiction of two to five thousand households under the jurisdiction of a command and envoy, but what Long Xiangwei and Shen Cewei command can bring out the elite soldiers who accompany Xu Xinyi to hunt, each guard is only three or five hundred people, and the rest are either fleeing, or they are old and weak remnants who cannot be put on the table.

The warcraftsman system attached to the guard system is also said to be corrupted, the income of the craftsman can only barely make ends meet, and when building warships, there are officials at all levels who deduct silver taels from their hands layer by layer, and unscrupulously cut corners, originally the warships and firearms of the Ming Dynasty are quite advanced, but the quality of such a project is very problematic, for example, firearms are often blown up when they are used, and warships are also made roughly.

No wonder Yong'an Hou and Admiral Yejiang Xu Qiaosong saw this well-made ship as if they were facing a great enemy, if the White Lotus Sect's ship was actually better than the imperial court sailors, once they became the climate, then it would be okay?

Qin Lin carefully inspected the ship, but found no useful clues, the ship was too clean, from the rudder to the deck, from the sail to the mast, there was no sign that could confirm its identity.

"Brother, I've double-checked it several times, but I found nothing!" Lei Gongteng sighed repeatedly.

"Yes," Qin Lin nodded, "but there's another place we haven't seen." ”

Boat bottom.

Lei Gongteng blinked, what clues could there be at the bottom of the boat?

Qin Lin commanded the soldiers to drag the ship into the dock, drop the lock, pump the water, and after a while, a lot of water in the dock was drained, revealing a small half of the bottom of the ship.

Yes! Everyone shouted in unison.

I saw that there was a lot of seagrass growing on the bottom of the boat, and there were a lot of oysters in the middle of the entangled and coiled seaweed!

This is not a river boat, it is clearly driven into the Yangtze River from the sea!

Lei Gongteng was surprised: "Yes, it's a pirate?" Did the White Lotus Sect collude with pirates? No, pirates don't have such ships, they look like pirates! ”

So aren't they talking about human words, where can the little devil spit out human words? Qin Lin laughed.

"Wang Zhi, it must be Wang Zhiyu's party! The little devils couldn't build such a good ship, they were all built for them by Han Jian and Chinese craftsmen! Lei Gongteng jumped to his feet and scolded.

(To be continued)