Chapter 69: The Pirate Zheng Dedication
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Jiangning, the Liangjiang Governor's Mansion, Kali has just issued an impeachment and dismissal of Chen Pengnian, the governor of Suzhou Prefecture, Jia Pu of Susong Grain Road, and Zhang Tingcai, the governor of Suzhou Prefecture, and he wants to breathe a sigh of relief, he received a report of the robbery of the Shanghai merchant fleet, and after a cursory sweep, his heart was shocked, the amount involved in this robbery case reached 600,000 yuan, and 43 people died, which is really shocking, it can be called the first major case in Liangjiang, he did not dare to have the slightest neglect, and immediately ordered a battalion of superintendent soldiers to rush to Suzhou, And quickly informed the Jiangnan Governor Shi Yide and the Jiangsu Governor Zhang Boxing to meet in Suzhou. Hand hit the Reading Pavilion mobile novel site
After Kali and Shi Yide met in Suzhou, they knew that Zhang Boxing had rushed to Shanghai first, and the two discussed it a little, in fact, both of them understood in their hearts that the fourteenth prince Yinzhen was sitting in Shanghai, and Zhang Pengxi, the head of the household department, was also in Jiangning, and there were still many Kangxi's eyes and ears in Jiangnan. Soon the two decided to come down, Kali accompanied the Suzhou general army to take the Suzhou Navy warship from the river to the sea, from top to bottom to search, Shi Yide went to Wolf Mountain to lead the Wolf Mountain Town Navy Division into the sea to search from the bottom up, and ordered Zhang Boxing to try his best to appease the robbed maritime merchants in Shanghai and stabilize people's hearts.
East China Sea, Rhubarb Ocean, Xu Weng Mountain. Bayi Chinese~
Xu Weng Mountain is just a small hanging water island with a circle of two miles, there are no fixed residents on the island, during the fishing season, there are occasionally fishing boats staying on the island, but recently, Xu Weng Mountain is surrounded by more than 20 large and small sea boats.
In the center of a large sea ship, a man in his early forties, sturdy, rugged face is sitting listlessly on the deck fishing, this person is the thief leader who robbed the sea trade ship in the East China Sea, Zheng Quanxin, he is a native of Ningbo, Zhejiang, his parents died since he was a child, and he was at sea, with his extraordinary vision, scheming, and ruthlessness, he soon stood out among the pirates, but because he refused to abide by the rules, he had too many grievances among the pirates, and over the years, he has not been able to stabilize himself, although the strength is getting bigger and bigger, However, he was repeatedly surrounded and suppressed by the imperial court sailors and sea pirates, and drifted on the sea all year round.
Ye Kai is their second master, a lean man in his thirties who is a little Sven, he took a small boat to Zheng Qianxin's boat, and walked forward quickly, "Big boss, all the big and small ships are basically fully loaded, shouldn't we leave, this place is closer to the shore, and let's stay longer." ”
"What about being close to the shore? Just rely on those soft-footed shrimp, how many Lao Tzu will clean up. Zheng said disdainfully, said, stood up, stretched his waist comfortably, and then smiled: "But it's time to leave, as soon as the news spreads, no ship dares to fight here anymore, so I ordered to go down, tell the sons and daughters to change their flags and numbers, and tomorrow, let's take a detour to the South Seas." ”
After Zhang Boxing arrived in Shanghai, he first visited Yinzhen, the 14th prince, and then lived in the Shanghai County Government, where he invited the maritime giants who should have been robbed to comfort them with gentle words, and showed that the imperial court had sent sailors and soldiers to the sea to encircle and suppress the pirates, so that everyone could wait for the news at home.
Zhang Boxing is a well-known Qing official, deep love for the small people, and he is very fond of private interviews, thinking that only by going deep into the people, can we have a clearer understanding of the people's suffering, plus this case is too big, more than 600,000 silver goods were robbed, and it also involved 43 murders, but fortunately it is at sea, if it is on land, the officials of Liangjiang Province are afraid that they will be dismissed from their posts and questioned for their crimes.
Although he learned that Kali and Shi Yide had led the sailors to the sea to chase after them, he still did not dare to slack off in the slightest, and every day he was a little hat in green clothes, and frequently visited those who had been robbed by the crew, sailors, and small merchants, one to appease, and the other to see if he could find out if he could find out the valuable situation. The third is also to investigate the people's sentiment by the way.
Kali and Shi Yide each took a town of officers and soldiers of the naval division, searched back and forth in the East China Sea for several days, but they did not even see the shadow of pirates, let alone pirates, in a radius of more than 20 miles where the maritime ships were robbed, not even a single fishing boat could be seen, after decades of chaos, the coastal fishermen and maritime merchants had already become elite, and when they heard that the sailors went out to sea to suppress pirates, they all stayed at home obediently, for fear of being killed by those officers and soldiers of the naval division. Unwilling to give up their troops, the two men had no choice but to continue to expand the scope of the search and send out small boats to disperse and collect relevant information.
Through a large number of visits, he first found that many of Zhang Yuanlong's crew members and sailors were Fujianese, but they changed their names and surnames to fraudulently use Songjiang Huating's origin, and the Zhang family's fleet not only had a license in Shanghai, but also had a license in other places such as Guanxian, which made him secretly frightened, and the management of the sea trade fleet was chaotic to this point.
With further investigation and understanding, he found that this situation was not unique to the Zhang family, and several other maritime trade fleets were also like this, and what surprised him even more was that this Zhang Yuanlong actually had dealings with Kali, and his brother Zhang Lingtao was actually Kali's son-in-law, and someone accidentally revealed that last year, this Zhang Yuanlong had teamed up with Kali to resell a large amount of rice on the sea with warships, and the Zhang family and pirates were also inextricably linked.
How did Zhang Yuanlong know that Zhang Boxing was secretly investigating him, after spending a few days asking in detail about some sailors and crew members who came back safely, he had already figured out the details of the pirates who robbed his fleet, and he knew that this situation was very useful to Yinzhen, so he hurried to Liuchun Garden.
"Fourteenth master, the origin and identity of this group of pirates have been ascertained, the leader of this group of pirates is named Zheng Qianxin, it turned out to be entrenched in the area of Jeju Island in the Yellow Sea, the strength is relatively large, there are four thousands of large ships under his command, the number is about six hundred, and there are many red-coated cannons on board, this group of pirates has not heard from them for many years, I didn't expect to come to the East China Sea this year to do this big case."
The strength of this pirate is not small, after listening to Zhang Yuanlong's report, Yinzhen couldn't help but be secretly frightened, and at the same time surprised, why did this Zhang Yuanlong know so much, he asked tentatively: "Do you have a relationship with this Zheng Quanxin?" ”
"What do I have to do with him?" Zhang Yuanlong said hatefully, "Ten years ago, in the Yellow Sea, I fought with him, at that time, he didn't have such great strength, and he dared to grab our fleet of more than 60 ships, and in the end, he lost both, and he didn't get a good deal." ”
Maritime trade fleets fighting pirates? Yinzhen was very curious, "Your fleet to the sea has firearms?" ”
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