After ending the negotiation with Zheng Hongkui, Yang Chao privately reprimanded He Mingyu fiercely, annoyed that He Mingyu did not tell him the news of Zheng Hongkui in advance.

He Mingyu is a relational eater, and now he almost relies on the Jinchai House Exchange, and his career has reached a new level, and he can't afford to offend Yang Chao with this alone, so he explained with a smile, saying that he didn't know in advance, but he didn't expect Zheng Hongkui to come forward in person.

Then he explained Zheng Hongkui's situation to Yang Chao in detail.

Zheng Hongkui used to be called Zheng Zhifeng, which was the dragon and phoenix combination that was paired with Zheng Zhilong, and was obviously the core figure of the Zheng Group.

But in order to participate in the martial arts exam, he changed this Zheng Hongkui so that he could remove the pirate mark on his body.

With the martial arts that he worked hard at sea, coupled with the secret escort of the Zheng family's financial resources, Zheng Zhifeng was admitted to the martial arts as he wished.

Then he got a fictitious title of commander of the Jinyi Guard in Nanjing, the commander of the Jinyi Guard seems to be very bluffing, but it just sounds good, and the status may not even be comparable to a real hundred households.

But the daughter of the Zheng family just wanted to get a position for Zheng Zhifeng in Nanjing, so she only needed to take a false position, and she didn't plan to really get him an official position, and then go to make money.

The Zheng family tried their best to place Zheng Zhifeng in Nanjing, obviously with other plans, and the intention was nothing more than to control a stable source of goods.

But Zheng Zhifeng has not been smooth in the past few years, and other things are okay to say, but once it comes to the issue of interests, the wealthy families in Jiangnan will not give in at all, and they will only give face because they are big financiers, these gentry and wealthy families with huge land as the core, in the final analysis, still look down on the strength of pirates like the Zheng family.

But Yang Chao suddenly came out and wanted to cooperate with the Zheng family, although he didn't know Yang Chao's intentions at first, but he was able to get in touch with a local force like Yang Chao. It is exactly what they have been asking for, so Zheng Hongkui personally went out, in fact, they also attach great importance to it.

After listening to He Mingyu's introduction. Yang Chao suddenly realized, no wonder Zheng Hongkui agreed so simply in the end. accepted his own price increase, but only slightly showed his dissatisfaction, obviously they also need Yang Chao, so this time the two sides hit it off, and they both need each other.

It's just that Zheng Hongkui also left a list of prisoners for Yang Chao to fish out, saying that they were all their past brothers who were arrested by the government.

on this list. Yang Chao has two guesses, the first is a test for the Zheng family, they want to see Yang Chao's true ability, and they are not blindly superstitious about Yang Chao's name, and the second is that the Zheng family wants to see Yang Chao's sincerity, and wants Yang Chao to help them do something to prove it first, proving that Yang Chao does not just want to use the Zheng family, but is really willing to cooperate with the Zheng family and really values the Zheng family.

As for the list given by Zheng Hongkui, it was supplied to the Zheng family in previous years. and was caught by the government.

There are four batches in total: the first batch is two people from Huizhou, Wang Youde and Qiu Shangqing; the second group is Yang Mingfeng and Zhang Yu from Suzhou; The third batch is the most, Zhang Er, Bingrudder Xue Kui, Chen Zigao, Chen Si, Jia Nanshan, Wang Yu, and Lin Zhixian. Boatman Sheng Youen, Sailor Wang Er, Monday, Fang Sichuan; The fourth group is the ship's owners Shi Qiaohe, Shi Yuheng, Cheng Wuzhi, Wang Yanggeng, sailors Li San, Li Da, and boatman Wu Sixteen.

The Ming Dynasty had a very prejudiced view of the people who did the sea trade, and anyone who went abroad was given a discriminatory charge.

Another similarity is that these people were all arrested by the same person, and this person Yang Chao is also familiar with, it is Zhang Guowei, the governor of the Ten Provinces. A few years ago, Zhang Xianzhong was in the south of the Yangtze River, and Shi Kefa was repeatedly defeated and made meritorious contributions. As a result, his father-in-law died, and Shi Kefa went home to mourn. The successor is this Zhang Guowei.

To be honest, Zhang Guowei's ability to lead troops is much stronger than Shi Kefa, at the most critical time, Zhang Xianzhong hit Jiangpu on the north bank of Nanjing, Zhang Guowei mobilized elite soldiers and strong generals, and fought a bloody battle to defeat Zhang Xianzhong, and drove Zhang Xianzhong out of the vicinity of Nanjing step by step, it can be said that he has the talent to lead troops.

And Zhang Guowei arrested these criminals at that time, he took the soldiers in the Suzhou area in his hands, supervised the Yangtze River line, and as a result, he arrested many smugglers, and these four batches were only a small part.

But these four batches happen to be the local forces developed by the Zheng family, obviously the Zheng family wants to enter Jiangnan, and the action of mastering the source of goods by themselves has already begun, and after the last failure, they chose to let Zheng Hongkui, a big man, directly take the martial arts test, and then personally sit in Jiangnan.

After Yang Chao carefully read these lists, he immediately felt that there was a deep smell of conspiracy in them.

Jiangnan Hao clan through the sea, this is an open secret in Jiangnan, but they do not return directly to Japan, that is too dangerous, Jiangnan people who are full of food all day long are not willing to do it, and they can't compete with the Zheng family, so they monopolize raw silk and other sources, sit and eat the Zheng family.

The wealthy people are very happy to eat, and naturally they don't want to see the Zheng family come to insert a lever by themselves, and they actually want to control the supply of goods by themselves, so it's worth it.

But the Zheng family dares to do it directly, and it will definitely not be ruthless, these people they are looking for, whether it is Huizhou people or Su people, they are also local big forces, and it is not so easy for the Hao clan to do it, and there are some outlaws to do things for these people, the Hao clan really wants to do it themselves, and they have to consider the damage, so they simply pretended to be Zhang Guowei's hand.

Zhang Guowei obviously didn't want to see the seriousness of the collusion, and he happened to have a heavy army in charge of Jiangnan, and the wealthy clans only needed to reveal a little news to Zhang Guowei through various channels, and Zhang Guowei would directly lead the troops to arrest people.

After Yang Chao also went to the Criminal Department to check the file, he found that it was very close to what he had guessed, because when Zhang Guowei arrested these people, many of them were directly seized on the boat, and there were officers and soldiers of the Naval Guards along the river escorting them at that time.

Among them, Zhang Guowei was left with the words "Wang Xian, the sentinel officer, cannot be arrested early, and escorted him to the sea", but obviously, the Zheng family has opened up the officers and soldiers of the local guard station and has established a stable chain of goods, but it was still strangled by the wealthy families.

However, Zhang Guowei later returned to Suzhou after the end of supervision, but these people have been imprisoned in the Nanjing prison, neither sentenced nor exiled, and have been there for five or six years.

As long as the Zheng family does not give up running Jiangnan personally, the wealthy family will never let go of these people, and will let these guys who cooperate with the Zheng family sit through the prison and give others a warning.

And if the Zheng family wants to run Jiangnan, they must fish out these people who have cooperated with them, otherwise no one will be willing to cooperate with them in the future.

"The intrigue is very powerful!"

After learning more about the inside story, Yang Chao couldn't help but sigh.

It seems that he is involved in a fierce power struggle again, but this time it is not political power, but business power, wealth power, but Yang Chao has to be involved.

simply handed over this trouble to Shi Kefa, and let Shi Kefa mediate and release these people, anyway, it was Shi Kefa who pulled Yang Chao into this whirlpool, and it was too much to say not to let him help.

It's not that Yang Chao doesn't dare to fish people by himself, but Yang Chao doesn't have so much leisure, because Yang Chao's recruits are back, he wants to sit in the military camp, and this batch of elite soldiers will be trained as soon as possible.

But in this way, Yang Chao doesn't have to fight with the wealthy families in Jiangnan in advance, because Shi Kefa's purpose of secretly helping the emperor and helping the court make money is impossible to expose that Yang Chao asked him to make a move, he will only do it in other ways, in the eyes of outsiders, I am afraid that it is Shi Kefa who will make a move, why Shi Kefa will make a move, is it because the Zheng family opened Shi Kefa's door, or the family of those people has an old relationship with Shi Kefa, let those wealthy families guess it, and they can't guess that Yang Chao is the mastermind behind the scenes.

When these wealthy clans really know about Yang Chao, they are afraid that they will face the pressure of Yang Chao's thousands of elite soldiers.

Before returning to the barracks, Yang Chao had tea with Dong Xiaowan and Chen Yuanyuan in the Jinchai Building, and went to Meixianglou the next day, and invited Li Xiangjun and Gu Mei to talk, not that Yang Chao was interested in being romantic with these women, but since Yang Chao returned to Nanjing, people have invited them many times, Yang Chao has no time, and he has to go back to the barracks again, I am afraid that he will have to be busy for a long time, so he took the initiative to be the east and give them an explanation.

But this time Yang Chao finally felt that something was not right, Dong Xiaowan's meaning to Yang Chao was already obvious, and he almost made it clear that he was willing to be a concubine for Yang Chao, Dong Xiaowan's meaning Yang Chao was not strange, since Dong Xiaowan was protected from Tian Wan's hands, Dong Xiaowan began to woo the Yang family behind his back, coaxing Yang Chao's family to be very satisfied.

Yang Chao is not a fool, in his previous life, he was also a veteran of flowers, and he was good at his children, knowing that Dong Xiaowan had a strong sense of crisis about his life experience after going through twists and turns, and he wanted to find a strong arm to rely on, and Yang Chao's arm was obviously thick enough to protect her forever.

But I was a little puzzled about Li Xiangjun and Yang Chao, how could Li Xiangjun take a fancy to himself, after Yang Chao sorted out the relationship with Li Xiangjun, he found that he had once walked far away from this little girl, Li Xiangjun was not very friendly to himself, why did he suddenly change his attitude.

Since Yang Chao returned to Nanjing, Li Xiangjun has held several poetry meetings and invited Yang Chao, but first, Yang Chao is really busy, and secondly, he really doesn't dare to offer ugliness, and he has plagiarized a few poems, but when it comes to poetry, he is really not as good as a scribe like Sigongzi.

So I politely rejected Li Xiangjun's poetry meeting, and later learned that Li Xiangjun's poetry meeting was actually held for Yang Chao, and it was not about the wind and snow at all, but with the title of Jin Ge Iron Horse.

This made Yang Chao feel that it was because no one loved heroes, Li Xiangjun, a young girl who was not yet eighteen years old, had a good impression of herself?

At this time, Liu Ru came to the door, and Yang Chao planned to ask this Li Xiangjun's friend. (To be continued...... ）。