The fire incident at the military port completely disrupted Li Xin's arrangement, and the Pingbo fleet could not leave for Taiping Mansion on time to help in the war, so it also delayed the trip to Zhejiang. The reason why the fleet was to go to Zhejiang was to support Xiong Mingyu, who was investigating the embezzlement of public funds in Hangzhou. Previously, Li Xin had more or less heard some news that Xiong Ming had encountered some resistance, which made him have the idea of sending a fleet to Zhejiang to demonstrate, which was also a matter of killing two birds with one stone, in addition to thoroughly training the new sailors on the ship. Let these newcomers also experience the vastness of the sea.

However, now these things can only be temporarily put aside, as the investigation deepens, the case becomes more and more confusing, Fan Shi, a businessman from Huzhou, Zhejiang, swallowed gold and committed suicide, and most of the secrets behind him also returned to dust. The torture of his servants is in progress, and Zhu Yuncai is the best at this, and few of the people who are rectified by him can endure it.

Sure enough, Zhu Yuncai couldn't make Li Xin wait long, and in just half a day, a detailed confession was sent to Li Xin's desk. Looking at the confession on the case, Li Xin frowned, according to the confession of the servants of the Fan family, Fan Shi did have some abnormal behavior before the fire in the military port, and he was often in a daze, and even once knocked over the candlestick, lit the account book on the table and failed to wake up in time, or failed to cause a fire under the reminder of the family.

And not only that, Fan City has also secretly met with a mysterious person many times, as for who that mysterious person is, everyone in the Fan family's servants has said why. At first, Zhu Yuncai didn't believe it, and he even killed two people directly with a cane in order to deter them, but no one could confess under such a heavy punishment. Therefore, the confessions of the servants of the household are much more credible if they do not know about it.

Just when Zhu Yuncai thought that he couldn't squeeze out any useful information, a family member suddenly remembered some things. One of them is very important, that is, the mysterious person who came into contact with Fan City was not a local, but spoke a dialect of unknown place, far from the Hangzhou accent, and obscure. Zhu Yuncai asked again, what kind of accent it was, but the servant couldn't say it anyway. This has something to do with personal knowledge, if the household servants have been to a relatively small number of areas, and there are not many people in contact with outsiders, then it is normal to not be able to hear the other party's accent and place of belonging.

Zhu Yuncai was respectful, and he also explained a few words to Li Xin from time to time, but he was also a little ashamed and ashamed, and the content of these confessions did not make the case clear, but complicated the problem again. He also read the content of the "Bulletin" early in the morning, it seems that this is the official explanation, but the Marquis of Zhenyu wants to investigate privately, so what is the point? Is it just for peace of mind? However, he will never say these words, as a subordinate official, he naturally has the consciousness of a subordinate official, what should be said and what not to say, this bit of proportion is just many years of experience for officials.

Li Xin was not satisfied with Zhu Yuncai's confession, and these contents also gave him an intuition, as if secretly there was a pair of thieves' bright eyes staring at him, and he would come up and bite when he saw the opportunity, but he was still unaware, and even noticed it but didn't know where the danger came from?

"There's another figure to hand over to you!"

Li Xin suddenly spoke, which made Zhu Yuncai surprised for a while, the Marquis of Zhenyu did not express his opinion on this confession, but had to hand it over to his own character, and immediately felt a lot of pressure, and immediately replied: "Marquis Zhenyu, please command, the lower officials will do their best!" ”

"Li Shuangcai is in Yingtianfu, you go and ask him how much he knows about the fire in the military port!"

"Yes! The lower official has written it down! ”

"That's it! Let's go down! Li Xin waved his hand tiredly, signaling that Zhu Yun could go out.

Intuition told Li Xin that Li Shuangcai was just a pitiful pawn to be used, and what he could know might not necessarily involve the core secrets of the military port fire. Until this time, Li Xin had not closed his eyes for three days and two nights, he leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes tiredly, but his brain was still running rapidly. All the things I have experienced in the past few days flashed back in my mind. From the military parade outside the Jubao Gate, to the sudden fire at the dock of the military port, until Zheng Sanjun unexpectedly changed his attitude, abandoned the style of riding the wall, and even went back to protect every time, in addition to Shao Hualong's fall into the well, this person must know the inside story, but Li Xin has always taken into account the identity of this person's general soldier, only put him under house arrest, and did not torture him, nor did he let Zhu Yuncai, a cool official, torture him.

Li Xin sighed secretly, it seems that he is still soft-hearted, and he has not been able to put aside many concerns, it seems that he can no longer get the news that Fan Shi and Li Shuangcai can use again, so Shao Hualong and his people may be an unexpected breakthrough.

Half an hour later, Zhu Yuncai came to Li Xin again with a confession in his hand. However, there are still unexpected gains for Li Xin.

"Li Shuangcai's attitude is quite cooperative, and after seeing the lower officials, he poured beans into a bamboo tube and confessed all the qiē!"

The word Zhu Yuncai used was confession, which made Li Xin feel a little harsh. Li Shuangcai is still trapped in it much stricter than he thought. Li Xin looked at the confession carefully, and Zhu Yuncai's voice still echoed in his ears.

Li Shuangcai not only confessed to colluding with the profiteer Fan City, but also confessed an important clue that he had met a stranger who had contact with Fan City by coincidence. According to the speculation of the lower officials, it is the mysterious person confessed by the servants of the Fan City family! And the accent of this mysterious person was heard by Li Shuangcai in the Quanzhou area at that time......"

This news made Li Xin gasp!

Fan Shi is a native of Huzhou, Zhejiang, and Li Xin initially suspected that it was the collusion of local officials and businessmen in Zhejiang, so he secretly obstructed Xiong Ming's thorough investigation of Zhejiang City's Bo Si. However, the mysterious person who came into contact with Fan City was greatly beyond Li Xin's expectations, and he was a native of Quanzhou who had nothing to do with Zhejiang.

What kind of place is that in Quanzhou? It is a province belonging to Fujian, one of the only three cities in the Ming Dynasty in addition to Hangzhou and Guangzhou, and the third is set in Quanzhou. Moreover, in addition, there is another point that makes Li Xin feel suddenly enlightened.

Because Quanzhou is still the lair of Zheng Zhilong, the chief military officer of Fujian, Zheng Zhilong built a wall and built a city in Anping, Quanzhou Prefecture, and operated nearby as if it were an independent kingdom, which is almost unknown to everyone in Jiangnan.

"Xia Guan thinks, can this be a coincidence?"

How shrewd Zhu Yuncai was, he immediately realized this when he learned that Fan City had something to do with Quanzhou. However, he found the idea somewhat unbelievable, and even sensational to say.

The chief military officer of the Ming Dynasty bombed the military port in Nanjing, the capital of China, what was this going to do? Rebellion?

Therefore, Zhu Yuncai felt that this might be just a coincidence, and he felt that it was a more reasonable explanation, but it was related to the people of Zhejiang and even the Huai King of Jiangxi, so it was natural to say it.

"Even if it's a coincidence, we can't treat it as a coincidence! Now we are like walking on the edge of a cliff at night, if you are not careful, you may step on the air, and if you step on the air, you will be crushed, and you will never recover! ”

Zhu Yuncai nodded secretly, and he agreed very much with the words of the Marquis of Zhen. It's one thing to believe it or not, but you can't be careless, there is a case for everything, if this guess is true, then it will become 10,000.

Unlike Zhu Yuncai, Li Xin has confirmed this kind of speculation, and it is true that Zhu Yuncai does not know that Zhang Shi is driving tigers and wolves on the border of Fujian and Jiangxi. Li Xin believed that Zheng Zhilong's ability to go from a mere pirate to a provincial commander in a complex environment and an independent kingdom operated along the coast of Fujian was definitely not a simple role. Then, the Three Guards' obvious plan to drive away the tiger and devour the wolf must not escape this person's eyes. In response, it is logical to take the initiative to attack.

As soon as he thought of this, Li Xin suddenly felt a little relieved, he was not afraid of a strong enemy, but he was afraid that he didn't know who the enemy was, and now that he had a general goal, it might be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

Zhu Yuncai suddenly noticed a hint of a smile in the eyes of the Marquis of Zhen, but this smile was fleeting, and when he blinked his eyes and looked at it again, those eyes looked like he couldn't see anger again. Zhu Yuncai even thought that he was hallucinating, and the expression of the Marquis of Zhenyu had not changed at all.

Just when Zhu Yuncai was thinking heavily, there were still people who were also fidgeting. Gao Hongtu, the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, was forced by Li Xinqiang to get on the thief ship and interrogated Shao Hualong, who was a subordinate of Wei Guogong, but he was afraid that he would greatly offend Wei Guogong in the future.

Therefore, Gao Hongtu came to Zheng Sanjun to vent his bitterness and begged this old brother to help him get an idea. Who knew that Zheng Sanjun laughed, and Gao Hongtu, who laughed straightly, was furious in his heart.

"It's a shame that you can still laugh, I, my heart is already a mess! Now I can get on the thief ship, but I don't know how to get off the ship safely! ”

However, Zheng Sanjun's words surprised Gao Hongtu again.

"Disembark? Why did you get off the boat when you got on it? ”

Gao Hongtu was tired of Zheng Sanjun's gloating tone, so he said dissatisfiedly: "Standing and talking doesn't hurt your back, you got on the boat and let me see if you can still laugh?" ”

The two had the same position on dealing with Li Xin, so they had relatively few scruples when they talked about it, especially about Li Xin. It's just that Gao Hongtu couldn't help but regret a little when he saw Zheng Sanjun's attitude, he shouldn't have come to this person today to ask for an idea.

Unexpectedly, Zheng Sanjun was speechless today, "The old man is already on the thief ship, do you see the old man laughing?" ”

"What? Extremely? You, did you create collusion with that, that guy? ”

"Hey, even collusion? The Marquis of Zhenyu is loyal to the court, so why should you and I be embarrassed by it? ”

In addition to this high-sounding sentence, Zheng Sanjun said another sentence, but it was in Gao Hongtu's heart.

"Think about it, since the Marquis of Zhenzhen came to Nanjing, which time didn't he go further when something happened? All disasters are not only eliminated invisibly, but they have to be inched in, and although they are not obvious on the surface, they have steadily manipulated the authority of Nanzhili step by step. ”