Although Wei Ping is a little ignorant, he is not a fool, what kind of calculation are the Haihan people doing this, and he basically has a clue now.

The Haihan people hope to buy these people sent by the Yazhou government with generous treatment, and this kind of bribery does not require the inspection department to do anything for the Haihan people, on the contrary, the purpose of the Haihan people is to hope that they will not do anything in Shengli Port, and not even go out of this demarcated courtyard. It is more accurate to say that it is not so much captivity.

There are patrolling soldiers walking around the wall close at hand, and there are also people standing guard outside the small courtyard, coupled with the low fence around the courtyard, this place is clearly designed by the Haihan people to facilitate the monitoring and inspection department.

Wei Ping suddenly remembered that Luo Shengdong had emphasized several times before that as long as he obeyed the arrangements of the Haihan people, it would not be difficult to make a small fortune. And the situation he has encountered now seems to confirm Luo Shengdong's words, if you do what the Haihan people say, you don't have to do anything in this courtyard, even three meals are prepared and delivered, and you don't need to be exposed to the wind and sun when you are a comfortable uncle, and there are hundreds of taels of silver every year, which is indeed more than a hundred times better than going to the desolate place in Tianya Town in the past.

This kind of treatment Wei Ping had never heard of in the past, and it was really hard to resist the Haihan people offering this fifty taels per month, but Wei Ping still felt uncomfortable, why should I listen to the arrangements of your group of maritime merchants for the inspection of the Ming Dynasty?

Wei Ping was about to have a seizure when he thought of this, Luo Shengdong gently pulled his sleeve beside him, and when he was distracted, he listened to Ning Qi continue: "If Wei Inspector feels that the conditions here are not suitable, then just go back to Yazhou, and we will not stop it." But if you want to stay here, you have to follow our rules. ”

"What if I don't follow your rules?" Wei Ping finally couldn't hold back and asked with three points of anger.

"I won't do anything to you. Yan Chujie, who had not spoken, finally spoke: "But there have been pirates cruising around recently, maybe they will land here in two days, Wei Inspector led his men to die of exhaustion in order to protect the local people, and we will definitely send someone to Yazhou to ask for credit for you." ”

This is simply an undisguised threat! Wei Ping was so angry that his lungs were about to explode, and he was about to turn his face and not recognize anyone, but he saw Yan Chujie take the copper whistle hanging around his neck to his mouth and blow it, and then he saw dozens of green-clothed soldiers armed with arquebuses appear outside the fence, surrounding the small courtyard. The officer who took the lead gave an order, and immediately dozens of guns were aimed at the dozen people in the inspection department from several directions.

Seeing this, Wei Ping shouted: "I am the Yulin Inspection Department inspecting Wei Ping, and the other chaotic people will not retreat quickly!"

The soldiers were numb, and they didn't even react when they stood there, as if they hadn't heard his roar at all.

"If you train your troops privately and don't obey the law, you won't be afraid that my Daming will send troops to suppress you!" Wei Ping knew that he would definitely not be able to leave here safely with his own points, so he simply tore his face, hoping to scare the other party.

"It's useless. Luo Shengdong patted Wei Ping on the shoulder with a sympathetic face: "If I could scare them with a mouth, I would have scared them to death a few times!"

Tao Donglai said slowly: "Inspector Wei, why do you bother? If you talk so stiffly, we won't be able to let you go back to Yazhou." In this way, I will give you two options, one is to stay in this yard and do your Yulin patrol well, we will raise you with good food and housing, and let you go back in a year or two. ”

"And what is the second way?" Wei Ping asked unwillingly.

"The second way...... If you're not willing to take the first option, we'll have to reluctantly send you to work on the construction site. Of course, there is no such comfort as the inspection department, if you don't work hard enough, you will have to eat the whip!" Tao Donglai's tone was very steady, as if he was saying something that was taken for granted: "But this hard labor doesn't have to be done for a lifetime, after a year or two, we will also let you go back to Yazhou." ”

Tao Dong looked at Wei Ping, who was gritting his teeth in anger, and continued: "As for your subordinates, if you choose to enjoy happiness, then they can all follow Xiangfu, and if you choose to do hard labor, then they will also have to follow you to do hard labor for two years!"

Wei Ping looked at the expressions of these people on the left and right, most of them lowered their heads and didn't dare to look at him, but none of them stood up and said anything in support of him. Wei Ping sighed, knowing that the conditions were so different, if there would be someone who supported him to fight against the Haihan people, it would be really crazy.

"If I follow you, can I keep the safety of the thirteen people in my line?" Wei Ping knew that there was no hope of fighting hard, so he could only give in.

"Of course, I repeat, we don't want to hurt you, as long as you obey the arrangement and live well here. We don't want outsiders to meddle in the affairs of this place, including the Ming Mansion. Tao Donglai saw that he was soft, so he stopped threatening him with words.

"It's okay for our inspection department, so what about their errands?" Wei Ping pointed to the two officials: "They are here to measure the cultivated land, how do they do things in this place?"

Tao Donglai glanced back at Schneider, Schneider seemed to have been prepared for this, and said: "Don't bother to measure things, our land will be measured by ourselves." As for registering...... You can just write a hundred acres casually. ”

100 acres? Wei Ping felt the deep malice in these words, where thousands of people lived, the cultivated land was only 100 acres? Although Lao Tzu did not read much, he did not let you bluff him like this!

Before Wei Ping could turn this thought in his heart, he listened to Schneider continue: "As for the grain tax or something, don't think about it, we don't have enough food on our side, and we can't pay the grain tax to the Ming Dynasty anymore." ”

Schneider blocked this errand in a few words, although Wei Ping was not convinced, but under the aim of dozens of firearms, he had long lost the courage to fight. What's more, even if he wants to fight, his gang of people may not be willing to help him, maybe before he can pull out the waist knife, he will be knocked over by his own people around him. These people are willing to follow Wei Ping to this Victory Harbor, but they are all for money, no one can go to play with this group of Haihan people who are even equipped with fire guns in the militia group, if Wei Ping really turns his face with the Haihan people, then most of these subordinates will choose to turn against him instead of the Haihan people.

Then some soldiers stepped forward and took away the weapons they were carrying, and even carefully inspected their luggage, and collected almost all the metal objects, but the money they carried with them was not touched.

Tao Donglai finally pointed to the courtyard gate and said: "Your range of activities is in this courtyard, you can't go down the river casually, you can't climb over this fence, you can't go out of this courtyard gate without permission, the above behavior is found once a warning, and if you find it twice, you will be directly assigned to the construction site to do hard labor." ”

Ning Qi added: "If you have letters or belongings that need to be brought back to Yazhou, you can inform our sentinels, we have a boat to Yazhou on a regular basis, and we will help you deliver them to your home." The next day, someone will organize you to take a bath, and the commode must be poured in the designated place, and you are not allowed to pour it into the river!"

Wei Pingtie listened to these admonitions with a blushing face, and watched the group of mermaids walk out of the courtyard. Luo Shengdong walked at the end, lowered his voice and said: "Inspector Wei, be honest yourself, they won't lock you up for too long if they see that you have a good attitude, so do it yourself!"

After advising Wei Ping, Luo Shengdong hurriedly followed the team, and he also had to hand over the ship's goods with Schneider and Ning Qi. This time, he brought in a total of 88 prisoners from Yazhou for hard labor, and some goods purchased by the Yazhou Office and entrusted to him to send back to Shengli Port. Last time, he pulled a batch of salt to Lingshui, Wanzhou, and Wenchang to sell very well, and almost immediately got rid of the ship when it arrived at the local area, Luo Shengdong planned to take advantage of this time to go out to the east coast again, and seize the time to sell as much cheap refined salt as possible from the Haihan people to these places. Luo Shengdong heard Schneider say last time that this kind of behavior is called "seizing the market", as long as the local consumption habits can be formed, the salt industry market in these places will be firmly in the hands of the future.

The group of people in the inspection department did not recover from their uneasy feelings, and as soon as the executive committee members left, they immediately began to discuss how to escape from here.

When asked about Wei Ping's place, Wei Ping just sneered: "Escape, where to escape? There are sentry posts in the front and back of this courtyard, and we will be discovered as long as we make the slightest disturbance." As soon as the brass whistle around the necks of those sentinels was blown, we had nothing to hide. ”

"Maybe we can go into the mountains at night, or go to the docks to grab a boat. Someone came up with an idea.

"There are people here within a radius of dozens of miles, and if you go into the mountains, you have to hide for several days, what are we going to eat?" someone immediately retorted.

"It's useless to rob the boat, we don't even have a boatman among us. Someone soon dismissed another way of escape.

"Why don't we stay for a few days? Anyway, the leader of the sea man also said that as long as we don't get into trouble, it won't hurt our lives. "There are timid people who start to build yì another option.

"Yes, the Haihan people also said that they would pay double the salary according to our original salary, and what 'office expenses' are there every month, this money is naturally the lion's share of Wei Patrol, but we can also drink some soup with it!"

After discussing for a long time, the group still did not have a unified conclusion, but it seemed that it was not feasible to escape, so they stayed and watched the shape first, and it was natural that it became their only choice. Wei Ping stood in front of the fence, looking at the busy crowd on the dock in the distance, but he was thinking about another thing in his heart: these Haihan people are so generous, how did they get their money? How did they do it to build a port and fort here, and to feed thousands of hired laborers?