Chapter 577: Crack down on smuggling
Zhangzhou Crescent Bay is located in the remote smuggling prevail, even if Duan Fei issued a ban, there are still some smugglers who continue to do smuggling business here with a fluke mentality, this morning, the businessmen who are about to sail away suddenly found that the sea in front of them is black and oppressive to a dark cloud, is surprised how there is a typhoon at the end of the year, the sailors on the mast are sailing loudly: "That's not a dark cloud, that's a lot of ships!" It's coming this way! ”
Since Lord Chincha ordered a strict investigation of smuggling, most of the smuggling ships have come at night and left during the day. Everyone looked out of the port curiously, the dark cloud approached quickly, gradually becoming clearer, seeing the huge fleet, everyone was stunned, and when they saw the Qincha dragon flag flying high on the ship, they realized that yesterday was the last day of the Qincha Restriction Order, but they didn't expect that Lord Qincha had already arrived with such a large number of ships early in the morning!
"My mother! Quickly turn around, it's the dog's boat, turn around! My hands and feet are so slow, I'm going to die! "The owners of the ships who were going to leave the port were in a hurry, urging this and scolding that on the deck, and everyone hurriedly turned around, and many of the ships collided directly into each other, and it was a mess.
Seeing the flustered appearance of these people from the binoculars, Duan Fei said indifferently: "There are all smuggling boats ahead, Wu Huai'an, enter the combat state, ready to open fire, just use these small boats for you to practice." ”
Wu Huai'an screamed excitedly, commanded the fleet to approach quickly, and then the small boats of the escort flashed to both sides, and the flagship at the front continued to move forward with the other nine ships, and after entering the firing range, he turned sharply, exposing the side gun ports, and the large ships that followed also turned one after another, and in a blink of an eye they were lined up on the sea.
At the sound of Wu Huai'an's order, ten ships opened fire almost simultaneously, four hundred cannons fired together, and four hundred cannonballs smashed into the small boats on the opposite side, and almost in an instant the dozen or so small boats were smashed into shadows, and only broken wood chips and blood-stained scattered clothes were left on the sea.
Still didn't feel like it was enjoyable, but Duan Fei was distressed, he said: "Okay, against more than ten small boats, how many cannons did you smash at once?" It's too wasteful, don't do this in the future, otherwise be careful that the official will detain you! ”
Wu Huai'an stuck out his tongue and said with a smile: "I understand that I will not dare to dare in the future, little ones, re-line and prepare to enter the port!" ”
The fleet passed through the ruins just now, and there were still people who did not die in the large wreckage, Duan Fei left two small boats to rescue these people on board, but the main force of the fleet entered Crescent Bay without stopping.
Seeing that the ship that left first ended up like this, there was already a mess in Crescent Bay, several ships collided together, and they couldn't move anymore, Duan Fei's fleet slowly forced over, and those boats cried and screamed, and someone shouted on the boat: "Surrender!" We surrender! I don't want to die, I don't want to die......"
Several small boats under the command of Wu Huai'an went over to detain all the people on board, and the boat was also towed back to the dock, and several merchants and ship owners led by them were arrested in front of Duan Fei.
"Adults spare their lives, adults spare their lives!" These people desperately begged for mercy, Duan Fei said indifferently: "You really don't shed tears when you don't see the coffin, this official has already given you ten days, since you don't care about your own life, why should this official care?" You don't have to ask for it anymore, take it all down, find a place to lock it up, confiscate all your property, and the official will ask the emperor, and if the emperor is in a good mood, he will spare your life, otherwise you will all wait to be beheaded. ”
This group of people were taken down with a sad face, and Duan Fei ordered: "Everyone get off the boat with me, find a place to hide these ten big ships, and the other ships have also removed their flags and hid on both sides of the bay, and prepare the turtle in the urn at night." ”
Everyone agreed and went to work, Duan Fei got off the boat and came to the dock, the Crescent Bay Pier has a certain scale, and the simple dock can park hundreds of boats, but now there are only twenty-three ships left on the dock, all of which have become Duan Fei's prisoners.
The ship was full of porcelain, tea and silk, and after a rough calculation, the goods on these ships were worth tens of thousands of taels of silver, and soon Jin Yiwei found several warehouses near the dock, which were full of ivory, spices, pearls and other overseas goods, the value of which was estimated to be as much as 300,000 taels.
When Haicheng Zhixian rushed to the wharf, Jinyiwei had cleaned the entire wharf and its surroundings, but where a large number of goods were suspiciously stacked, all the goods were confiscated, the whole family of the person in charge was detained, the family property was confiscated, and the entire port was stirred up into a miasma, some people tried to resist and were killed on the spot, and Jinyiwei's fierce firearms completely calmed the scene.
"Master Duan, you spare them, if you want to arrest me, just arrest me." Jin Xiaoming of Haicheng Zhi County cried and pleaded with Duan Fei: "It's the lower officials who connived at them, and Lord Duan will arrest me if he wants to." ”
Duan Fei sneered: "The smuggling in Haicheng County is so serious, you can't escape your guilt, just send it to the door yourself, save the official from sending someone to arrest you, come here, take off his official hat, strip off his official robe, and detain him with these criminals!" ”
Jin Xiaoming soon stepped into the ranks of prisoners, and when Wu Huaian saw that he was also arrested, he couldn't help but ask: "My lord, Jin County Ling is a good official, why did you arrest him too?" ”
Duan Fei said in a low voice: "This official has his own opinions, you don't have to be wordy...... Jin County ordered him to condone smuggling, and he should be beheaded according to the law, and the official was already merciful if he didn't kill him directly. ”
Wu Huai'an was the only one who should be, Duan Fei ignored him, and seeing that the dock was under control, he immediately took Jinyiwei to Haicheng County.
Haicheng prospered because of smuggling, but this is very likely to become history soon, because after Lord Qincha rushed to Haicheng County, he immediately issued an announcement, and the county ordered Jin Xiaoming to be arrested for conniving at smuggling, and those who want to go to sea to do business in the future must take the right path, and those who want to continue smuggling will be severely punished by the imperial court! Seriously, the nine clans are connected!
Who in Haicheng County is not involved in smuggling, seeing the four words Zhulian Nine Clans, the entire Haicheng County is immersed in a panicked mood, and the majestic Jinyi guards with real knives and guns on the street have exacerbated this fear.
Soon, there was a notice from the people, and the government said that the past can be blamed, as long as everyone does business obediently in the future, no one will turn over the old bottom and arrest people, and the panicked people have settled down a little.
Duan Fei appointed the former Haicheng County County Cheng Lu as the temporary county magistrate of Haicheng County, and at the same time posted a notice that the conscription of sailors was well paid, as a military family, there were many preferential treatments, such as a certain tax exemption and exemption, and some civilians could not get the protection, only one afternoon after the announcement was posted, hundreds of people came to sign up, all of them were young and strong, Jiao Yang was responsible for selecting people, and picked out a hundred or so strong young men on the spot, which can be seen from their dark skin and calluses on their hands, They had been at sea for a long time, and these people were not coming from the right way, but Duan Fei didn't care about the three-seven-twenty-one, and he would take it all and talk about it.