The Nanyang sailors with weapons had blocked the hatch, and loudly asked Liu Ziguang to hand over their captain, where did Liu Ziguang put these shrimp soldiers and crabs in his eyes, kicked on the hatch, knocked down a large number of people blocking outside, and then jumped out and swung his feet, kicked all the people who dared to block the way into the water, jumped on the trestle and walked away.

As soon as he walked out of the dock, an inconspicuous carriage rushed over at a gallop, Liu Ziguang waited until the carriage ran to him, jumped up, and the people inside immediately pulled the curtain on the carriage, and the carriage was dusty in the eyes of the sailors who chased out.

The carriage was sent by Hu Yimin to pick up Liu Ziguang, who had been paying attention to the movements nearby, and their movements were very agile, and their cooperation was extremely tacit, even more capable than the people and horses of Nanchang, and after the two captives were thrown into the car, the swordsmen immediately tied them up strongly, and their heads were covered with black cloth.

The carriage circled several times to make sure that no one was following before entering Miss Hu's courtyard, and the two prisoners were carried into the cellar to take care of it, Liu Ziguang went to the upper room and briefly told Hu Yimin about the situation, Miss Hu frowned when she heard this, and said: "There are three main types of taxes levied by the City Shipping Division on overseas merchant ships: one is water salary. It is based on the volume of the ship as the standard, each ship is less than 5o taels to 1ooo taels or so, ranging from two to 6 salaries, that is, the average tax rate of imported goods declared by the import tax is less than two points, and the third is for the Oriental travel Song silver ship plus the tax rate is six points, if according to what you said 100,000 taels of silver, that is the tax payable 6,000 taels of silver, Laijia from overseas to bring cheap silver, and then from the mainland to exchange cheaper goods, export overseas in and out of the tax evasion of tens of thousands, plus a million profits of overseas trade, it is difficult to think of it, according to this way, I am afraid that the Fuyuan will have more silver than Rishengchang。 ”

"What's going on with this overseas silver ship? The silver of the Ming Dynasty was still scarce, and it needed to be imported from overseas. "Liu Ziguang lacks the mind of ancient politics and finance, and he still has to humbly ask Miss Hu for advice on such a problem.

"I have mined all the silver in the market, most of the silver money circulating in the market comes from overseas, there are all kinds of silver coins purchased by Western countries, as well as the silver ship that the Song Dynasty drove directly to the country, the copper is expensive and the silver is cheap, the Ming Dynasty can exchange one or two silver for the consistent copper money, and the Ming Dynasty can exchange it for one or two five, this kind of fast and profitable way to make money makes many maritime merchants take risks and open up the sea route of copper money for silver money, but there are more people on this road, and it gradually becomes not so good, and now the silver and copper price of the country has been almost the same as that of the Ming Dynasty, and then there is a channel for the inflow of silver money, that is, the gold and silver coins used in the Song Dynasty are transported from overseas in the Far EastI heard that the price of gold and silver over there is very low, it is as cheap as bricks and tiles, and the fineness is indeed excellent, although it is thousands of miles away, but as long as a boatload of gold and silver is transported, it is enough to live in the next life. Liu Ziguang was slightly surprised, and further east of the Song Dynasty, isn't that the vast Pacific Ocean?

Across the Pacific Ocean is South America, where cheap gold and silver are shipped? It is very likely that the silver mines in Chile and Peru are very good, and you can dig up good silver ore by digging a pit, which is indeed a good way to make money.

After figuring out the reason, Liu Ziguang decided to immediately interrogate the two captives, and the first to be taken was the mysterious young man, Liu Ziguang's sixth sense, telling him that this person might be helpful to him.

After the young man was brought up, Liu Ziguang asked him to untie his rope, took off the black cloth covering his head, and asked Yahuan to make a cup of tea for him, and the man rubbed his bloodied wrist that was tied up, and looked at it calmly, while Liu Ziguang was also carefully observing him.

Dark-skinned, and the kind of ocean sailor who has been exposed to the wind and sun for as long as an ocean-going sailor, his eyes are firm, and he doesn't seem to be too worried about the current situation, it seems that his background must be very strong, his fingers and teeth are yellow, he should be a person with a big addiction to smoking, and usually the people of the Song Dynasty are more addicted to smoking, and more importantly, his face looks so familiar, and it is so similar to someone in his memory.

Liu Ziguang quickly searched for this person in his mind, it was Zhao Jing, the commander of the Song Dynasty Navy who drove the submarine back then.

Liu Ziguang smiled slightly and took the lead in breaking the silence: "Isn't it too rude for the people from the Song Navy to come to our Daming territory to do things and not say hello to me, the host." The man's expression changed, and then he calmed down and said, "I don't understand what you're saying." ”

"If you don't understand it, it's okay, you just know it in your own heart, right, your brother Zhao Jing, okay? It's not easy to be a submariner, and Wen Jun hasn't seen him for a few days, so it's strange to think that you can help me bring him when you see him. Well, you're good to go. Liu Ziguang's trick is called wanting to capture, so the man was fooled and asked suspiciously: "My second brother rarely shows up in the Ming Kingdom, how did you meet?" Who are you sacred? Liu Ziguang smiled: "Didn't your second brother mention that he had met any heroes and heroes worthy of his admiration in Daming?" ”

"Could it be that you are Lord Liu, the Governor of Nanchang?" The man's eyes widened and he asked. Liu Ziguang smiled but didn't answer, stood up and walked to the window, pushed the window open, the sunlight shone in, and he was painted with a layer of gold, looking like a king.

"In the lower brigade, Zhao Kang, captain of the anti-smuggling detachment of the Song Navy, visited Lord Liu." That person was also a smart man, and hurriedly gave Liu Ziguang a salute again.

"General Zhao is exempt." Liu Ziguang knew that the surname Zhao was all children of the royal family in the Song Dynasty, and he was very respected, so he didn't dare to accept his worship, but Zhao Kang insisted on saluting according to his rank, so he had to accept his worship.

Zhao Kang said that he was on an anti-smuggling mission to investigate the smuggling of silver ships, this person surnamed Ma is called Ma Sufu, a Muslim, specializing in maritime smuggling business, the route is to travel to the Song Dynasty capital Xinbian Jing to the Ming Dynasty Shanghai on both sides of the city, he has a lot of acquaintances, the amount of tax evasion for many years, the Song Dynasty, this country is not better than the Ming Dynasty's spy politics, there is no evidence, you can arrest people at will, but it is very important to witness evidence, otherwise the Yushitai will not approve the arrest, so Zhao Lei tracked all the way to Shanghai, and was about to take Ma Sufu and the account book together, when Liu Ziguang appeared, this is the current scene。

"You threw the ledger into the river, I don't know which fish is in the belly." Liu Ziguang said.

"My lord, don't be anxious, there are frogmen from our fleet in the water, and the account book may have arrived on the submarine at this time, and please be kind, and hand over Ma Sufu to the subordinate and bring it back with you."

"Of course the official can give it to you as a smuggler, but this case involves all aspects of my Daming, and we also plan to investigate this in the South Factory, I don't think it is as good as our two to co-organize this case." Liu Ziguang's conditions made Zhao Kang unable not to agree, after all, this is in the land of the Ming Dynasty, and the power of the Fuyuan is so huge, with the help of Nanchang, the difficulty of investigating this case can be greatly reduced.

"That's it." Zhao Lei arched his hand, Liu Ziguang smiled and reached out to hold his hand, and the palms of the two slapped in the air, which can be regarded as a certainty.

The next interrogation was carried out by Zhao Kang, after all, he had been following Ma Sufu for a while, and all kinds of situations were very thorough, at first Ma Sufu was still pretending to be stupid, hoping that someone would come to save him, but Liu Ziguang, who was listening to the interrogation next to him, dispelled all his luck with a word: "You think you are not afraid to rely on you to support you, let it be clear, you are now a criminal in the Southern Compilation Factory of the Ming Dynasty!" "The reputation of the South Factory is but it is out, who doesn't know that behind the South Factory is the Red Shirt Regiment with strong combat effectiveness and the red man Liu Ziguang in front of the emperor, whether it is on force or power, who can match it in the Ming Dynasty today?

Ma Sufu's psychological defenses were quickly broken, and he said in a hoarse voice, "Can you give me a cigar?" Zhao Kang and Liu Ziguang glanced at each other, and smiled knowingly, they knew that this case had eyebrows.

According to Ma Sufu's confession, Lai Youwei, the owner of the Fuyuan, hired him to smuggle silver from last year, Ma Sufu was born as a pirate, very familiar with the waterway from the Song Dynasty to Shanghai, and was also very proficient in evading maritime investigations, he gathered a group of rabble, bought a dual-purpose ship manufactured by the Wuchang Shipyard in the Ming Dynasty, and did so, and there were many smugglers who took the same waterway, but only Ma Sufu traveled to Song and Shanghai, and both ends of the smuggler could eat, so his business was very prosperous, and he loaded silver from Xinbian Jing to Shanghai, and then loaded porcelain and silk to the sea off the coast of Xinbian Jing in exchange for silver from the other side of the oceanAs for the real big boss Lai Youwei, I don't know how many taels of silver he earned, after all, people don't just have this silver boat.

Ma Sufu knew an official in the Song Dynasty, and it was precisely because of his shielding that the anti-smuggling personnel in the Song Dynasty could not catch the evidence, and as for the Shanghai side, it was the Lai family who dealt with the Municipal Shipping Division, and Ma Sufu did not know the specific situation, but only knew that no one had ever come to collect taxes.

Lai Youwei's nephew, Lai Wenguang, who usually deals with him, has the same account book on both sides, and signs each other when loading and unloading, as a voucher for settlement.

There was probably only so much oil and water on Ma Sufu's body, Liu Ziguang turned around and walked out of the interrogation room, ready to introduce the situation to Hu Yimin, when he saw a swordsman hurriedly come over and said to Liu Ziguang: "My lord, your two friends on the dock have been arrested by the Lai family. ”