After talking to the ship boss, Yan Mingjun became more depressed in his heart, and he tried to prove that the rule of the Haihan people in Qiongzhou had no legal name, but it was obvious that the ship boss who had been favored by the Haihan did not care about this. Compared with who is orthodox, ordinary people are more concerned about who can make their lives better, and the achievements of the Haihan people in this regard are obviously much better than those of the local government, so that the image of the government in the people has gradually become a decoration, and there is not much sense of existence at all.

This time, it was Li Li's turn to come in and comfort him: "Brother Yan, don't mind the remarks of these coarse people too much, uneducated people, how do you know the importance of the orthodoxy of the imperial court." I heard that Danzhou was prosperous in culture and education, and presumably the local people would not hear these rebellious remarks again. ”

Yan Mingjun's face softened a little, and he nodded in response: "Brother Li is right, Danzhou has always been the cultural center of Qiongzhou Island, and there are many talented people. Presumably, under the education of many sages, the local people will not be so easily bewitched by the Haihan people. ”

The captain of the ship was no longer available to chat with the two officials, and his ship had to be loaded with a shipment of goods from the mainland before it set off. However, because the shipping department greeted him in advance, his ship did not carry any more passengers.

In the afternoon of the same day, the regular shuttle ship between Fucheng and Danzhou departed from the No. 3 pier of Haikou Port at the scheduled time and sailed west to Danzhou. From Haikou Port to Baimajing Wharf in Danzhou, the voyage is about more than 80 nautical miles, and it takes nearly a day to reach the average speed of an ordinary Fu ship, but the sail rope system of this ship has been transformed, and the speed is about 30% higher than that of an ordinary Fu ship, and the time required to complete this voyage has been compressed to 15 or 6 hours. The Haihan warships, which had escorted the official fleet all the way, no longer continued to carry out escort missions during this voyage.

At nightfall, the ship had already sailed into the waters of Lingao County. The next morning, Yan Mingjun woke up and went out of the cabin to ask the sailors, and learned that he had arrived at the waters of the Yangpu Peninsula north of Danzhou Bay, and after bypassing this peninsula to the southwest, it was the Baimajing Wharf at the entrance of Danzhou Bay.

After the two alternate officers had a simple breakfast with their family members on the ship, they heard the captain of the ship shouting loudly on the deck: "There is the White Horse Well ahead!"

When the two officers came to the deck, they saw a strait about a few miles wide in front of them, and the captain explained that after passing through the guò strait, they would enter Danzhou Bay.

After the two of them set off from Guangzhou, they were really tired after running at sea for many days, and now they feel a little relieved when they see that they are about to arrive at the terminal. Although I don't know what the current situation in Danzhou is, it is better than floating on the sea all day long.

As soon as the ship entered Danzhou Bay, it turned southeast and docked, and both Yan Mingjun and Li Jin noticed that the wharf here was the same as that of Haikou Port, still in the style of a traditional wharf, and was not paved with cement like Lijiazhuang and Wanshan Port. However, when the ship docked, they noticed that construction was going on on the shore not far away, and there were constant laborers laying carts of mud onto the dock floor.

"That's Haihan cement!" Yan Mingjun introduced to Li Jin: "This thing looks like thin mud, but when the craftsman smooths it out and dries it, it will be as solid as a rock in a few days." ”

Li Jin responded: "Look at this posture, Haihan is planning to build a lot of construction here." Brother Yan, they really don't think of themselves as outsiders!"

Yan Mingjun and Li Jin don't know how much it will cost to build a Haihan-style concrete wharf, but there is no doubt that the cost of building the wharf must be paid by the Haihan people themselves, and they will spend a lot of money on construction in this place, which is enough to show that they have a full grasp of the local control.

Before landing, too, there were people boarding the ship to register them and check the people on board. After checking that they were correct, they were allowed to land.

Li Jin's eyes were sharp, and as soon as he got off the boat, he saw the flags of "Qiongzhou Sailor", "Hainan Wei" and "White Horse Inspection Division" on the wharf, and immediately came to the confidence, greeted Yan Mingjun, and strode over, intending to see what the situation of his colleagues and subordinates would be in the future. But after arriving at him, Li Jin was dumbfounded.

A pergola was built under these two banners, and there were seven or eight people dressed in the uniforms of the Ming army, and one of them looked like he was the general manager of the guard, but these people were not equipped with any weapons around them, and their attention was not at all on the dock, and they were sitting around playing with horse hangings. This kind of entertainment card originated in the Ming Qi period, which is the prototype of mahjong in later generations.

Li Jin coughed loudly, and someone looked back at him and said, "What are you doing? If you want to do something, turn left and go to the row of red brick houses, and the port center sign is hung at the door." ”

Li Jin held back his anger and said: "This official is Li Jin, the new general appointed by the imperial court to Danzhou!"

"Yo, it's Lord Li!" Mr. Qian's attention was finally diverted from the horse tag in his hand: "Why are you stunned! Hurry up and give up your seat!"

"No need!" Li Jin saw that Mr. Qian didn't stand up and reply, and he was even more angry: "Who are you?"

Mr. Qian slowly put down the horse tag in his hand, looked at Li Jin with a smile and said: "The next official is Xiao Yin, the commander of the Danzhou Guard, if Lord Li is willing, it is okay to call Xiao Laosan." ”

Li Jin asked, "How did this official hear that this Danzhou Qian is always surnamed Tian?"

Xiao Laosan responded: "Mr. Tian Qian was unfortunately killed in battle when resisting the pirate siege last year, and the next official used to serve in Changhua County, and he had just taken over. ”

This Xiao Laosan is the general Xiao who was stationed in the county seat of Changhua County before, and he was completely bought by Qiao Zhiya not long after the start of the railway project from Changhua to Shilu. Later, Haihan also donated a candidate for him to the position of President Qian, when he attacked Danzhou last year, the generals of the local defenders and President Qian were all arrested, and the vacated position was just cheaper Xiao Laosan. However, after he was transferred to Danzhou, he was actually not much different from in Changhua, and he was still a puppet at the behest of Haihan. Of course, this silver must be better than the harvest in Changhua County.

"You are called a subordinate official, you should know that your position is inferior, but you sit and talk to your own official, what is the reason!" Li Jin saw that this guy was completely unconscious, and couldn't help but raise his voice.

"Lord Li is angry, everyone is the chief...... Doing things for the imperial court, why bother too much about these details?" Xiao Laosan didn't eat him at all, his mouth was good, but his ass continued to sit still.

"Someone!" Li Jin shouted, and his four personal soldiers immediately came up.

"What are you doing, you want to do it, brothers, guys!" Xiao Laosan's face sank, and he also shouted, and several people present reached out into their arms.

Li Jin was immediately taken aback, and secretly said that he was going to suffer. Although his personal soldiers were all equipped with single knives, they were all detained by the militia before disembarking, claiming that they were so-called "controlled knives" and could only be returned to them with the approval of the local Haihan chief. However, it seems that the local Haihan person in charge did not arrive at the dock in time to meet them for some unknown reason, so now these pro-soldiers are bare-handed, and they are only the attributes of orderlies and domestic servants, and being bodyguards and thugs is purely part-time, not to mention how strong the force is. Even if the seven or eight people on the other side took out only daggers, it would be enough for them to drink a pot.

Unexpectedly, these Ming soldiers took out not weapons such as daggers from their arms, but bamboo whistles, and when they put them in their mouths, they blew out a sharp sound, which could be heard from a hundred feet away.

Before Li Jin and his subordinates could figure out what the situation was, a team of black-clothed people had already arrived running, these people were carrying short sticks in one hand and rattan shields in the other, and immediately surrounded Li Jin and several people under the greeting of Xiao Laosan.

The black-clothed man at the leader pointed at Li Jin and the others with a short stick and shouted, "All squat down!

Li Jin naturally wouldn't do such a humiliating thing, and after a little hesitation, the man in black shouted, "Do it!"

Immediately the stick was struck from all directions, a short baton that copied the style of the American Aetco 113 style batons, two feet long and one inch in diameter, made of solid wood, with anti-slip patterns and metal rings for easy hanging on belt clips. It's not a joke to knock this thing on the body, and it can break bones with a good grasp of the strength.

Several of Li Jin's personal soldiers raised their hands to block a few times, and they were quickly knocked to the ground by the sticks. Li Jin himself had a little kung fu, and as soon as he raised his foot, he kicked over a man in black in front of him, and then rushed out of the encirclement with a blank look. However, after just a few moments, Li Jin found that two more teams of black-clothed men had arrived, and they dispersed the team on the periphery, blocking his escape route.

Li Jin only hated that he didn't have a weapon in his hand at this time, if there was a single knife, he was still very confident that he could break out. But now with bare hands, and the opponent is overwhelming, as long as you eat a few sticks in a row on your body, and your movements slow down, I'm afraid you will be knocked to the ground.

"Stop, stop, stop, what are you doing!"

With a shout, the black-clothed men who were about to surround and capture Li Jin all stopped their movements and separated the two sides. Only then did Li Jin see his savior, a dark-skinned Haihan man, surrounded by several Haihan militiamen with loaded guns.

Although this person's skin color is quite close to that of the locals, Li Jin can still tell at a glance that he is not a Ming person, because the kind of confidence, calmness, and feeling of being in control from his face are something that ordinary Ming people do not have at all.

Before Li Jin could speak, Xiao Laosan had already come to the side of the Haihan man and explained: "Director Zhang, this is the new staff general Li Jin Li in Guangzhou, and he had a little misunderstanding with the subordinate just now, so he called the brothers of the police force to come over to maintain order." ”

"Why did you start to maintain order again!" Xiao Laosan called "Director Zhang" is Zhang Xin, the head of the Danzhou Provisional Management Committee, according to the arrangement, he should have come here today to greet the two alternate officials, but there was something to delay the trip before, and he hurried to Baimajing to meet the scene just now. If he hadn't drunk it in time, this Li Jin would probably have to eat a stick before it was finished.

"Master Li was frightened, didn't you get hurt just now?" Zhang Xin's reproach to the police force was just one sentence, in fact, giving the new official a dismissal was also one of the strategies he had prepared, but he didn't expect that Li Jin would take the initiative to provoke the incident as soon as he arrived at the dock. Although Xiao Laosan did not get Zhang Xin's instructions in advance, he was not a person who would suffer immediate losses, and when he saw that the momentum was not right, he immediately whistled for help according to his usual practice.

Xiao Laosan's gang was placed here, mainly to make an appearance to the outside world, so that this place seemed to be under the control of the Ming Dynasty, but it was the police and militia groups controlled by Haihan who were really responsible for law enforcement. Although under the banner of "Qiongzhou Water Division", "Hainan Wei" and "White Horse Inspection Division", in fact, only Xiao Laosan brought people are here to fill the number, which is similar to Sanya's Daming Water Division and Inspection Division.

Li Jin was not stupid, he quickly realized the reason for this situation, although he was very angry, but he also understood the truth that a strong dragon could not suppress the earth head snake - not to mention that this sea man was not an ordinary earth snake at all, but a complete earth emperor.

Seeing that this Qianhu surnamed Xiao was so familiar with the officials of Haihan, Li Jin probably understood why he would treat himself as nothing. Obviously, the identity of a Ming official is not popular here, and at most, this identity is more convenient when helping the Haihan people.

Li Jin knew that if he turned his face and settled accounts with this Haihan man again, then there would really be no one to save him, so he suppressed the anger in his heart at the moment, hugged his fist to Li Jin and said: "The official is fine, but the officials and these personal soldiers have been injured for no reason, how to deal with it?"

"Hurry up and send these people to bandage their wounds and check if there are any broken bones!" Zhang Xin didn't have any nonsense, and immediately arranged for someone to help or lift these unlucky ghosts away: "It should be all skin trauma, I will arrange a doctor for treatment, please rest assured." ”

Yan Mingjun also rushed over as he spoke, and he saw Li Jin walking into the pergola under the banner of the military in the distance, and he was still waiting to wait for his luggage and family to get off the boat, and then go over to meet him. Unexpectedly, there was a fight over there in a moment, and when he rushed over panting, Zhang Xin had already arrived to stop the farce.

After Zhang Xin and Yan Mingjun also saw each other, they took the initiative to greet them: "The two adults have worked hard all the way, and they must be very tired, I have prepared a carriage and sent the two back to the city to rest, and then set up a banquet in the evening to catch the wind and wash the dust for the two adults." ”

"There's Director Lao Zhang. Although Yan Mingjun didn't know how big an official Hai Han was as the "director", when he heard others call him so, he followed the customs.