The atmosphere of today's venue is not much better than the previous times, Qiu Yuan sat on the main seat, first looked at the expressions of the gentry present, most of them had a calm face, and their eyes did not look at Qiu Yuan, it is conceivable that the attitude of these people towards today's meeting should be perfunctory.

"I invite you to come over today, I want to discuss with you, the wharf of Haikou Port in this city will be renovated and expanded in the near future, if you have any comments, you may wish to speak out and discuss it together. Qiu Yuan didn't go around in circles, and when he came up, he explained the purpose of today's meeting straight to the point.

However, the scene obviously lacked people like Danzhou Yuan Fatzi who would cheer the scene, and after Qiu Yuan finished speaking, there was silence in the venue, and no one answered. This situation was actually expected by Qiu Yuan, after all, in the previous meetings with similar themes, the situation of cold scenes also occurred frequently.

However, today is different from the previous meetings, and Qiu Yuan has made full preparations for this in advance. Seeing that these people deliberately made an indifferent posture, Qiu Yuan smiled coldly and continued: "Considering that Haikou Port has always been an important gateway to and from Fucheng, in the future, we will conduct qualification certification for merchant ships using this port, and ships that do not have the qualifications to enter the port will not be allowed to enter the port at will in the future!"

As soon as Qiu Yuan said this, the faces of some of the people present changed slightly. As the most important port in the north of Qiongzhou Island, Haikou Port originally undertook about eighty percent of the cargo throughput of Qiongzhou Island's shipping industry, although this proportion has declined year by year after the rise of Sanya in the south, and now it is about thirty percent at most, but there are still a large number of local merchants who rely on shipping to survive, if the ship can not enter Haikou Port, it will undoubtedly greatly affect their business channels.

Someone on Qiu Yuan's left side asked, "May I ask Director Qiu, who should certify this entry qualification, and how should it be certified?"

Qiu Yuan wanted someone to ask a question, so he immediately responded: "Before answering this question, let me explain why this threshold is being established. Everyone should know that the previous pirate landing attack was launched from Danzhou, but why did Danzhou and other prefectures and counties fail to give timely warning, so that the entire government in northern Qiongbei could not organize an effective counterattack offensive? The answer is that I can tell you here that it is because the pirates sent a large number of men ashore in Danzhou Bay a few days before the attack, lurked in various places inside and outside the city at the same time, and grabbed a city gate to let the pirate army enter the city. If it weren't for their limited number of troops, the same thing would probably be repeated here in Fucheng......"

Qiu Yuan paused, and then said: "The reason for this is that the guards on the Danzhou side usually neglected to guard against attacks from the sea, and did not conduct a strict inventory of ships and personnel entering and leaving the port, which caused bad results. The most effective way to prevent the recurrence of similar evils is to qualify ships entering and leaving the port. As for who certifies it...... Originally, this matter should have been done by the government, but in the current situation, as you all know, since the Governor has entrusted the affairs here to us Haihan to take care of it temporarily, of course, it will be up to us to audit and certify. ”

"The criteria are very simple, as long as you cooperate with us in normal times, and are willing to abide by and implement the various systems we promulgate, there is no record of bad behavior, you only need to submit a written application to us, and deposit a certain amount of security deposit in Haihan Bank, you can obtain permission to enter and exit the port of Haikou. Qiu Yuan emphasized: "We will not charge any additional fees during this process, and the deposit deposit of ZÀI Haihan Bank can also be refunded at any time, as long as the entry and exit permit is cancelled." ”

After Qiu Yuan finished speaking, the businessmen present could no longer maintain their composure. The reason why they want to remain silent at the meeting is that they are unwilling to cooperate with Haihan, and the so-called "certification standard" announced by Qiu Yuan is obviously that Haihan people intend to come according to their own preferences, and all Haihan merchants who are unwilling to cooperate with Haihan will obviously be excluded by this certification threshold, and only those who are willing to whisper and hug Haihan's thighs can have the opportunity to continue playing in this game.

As for depositing a certain amount of security deposit in the Haihan Bank, this condition is a disguised coercion in everyone's eyes - if they are not obedient, then the money probably will not have a chance to be taken back from the hands of the Haihan people, which is obviously another harsh condition that is difficult to accept.

The person who asked the question earlier opened his mouth and retorted: "Director Qiu's words are wrong, the pirate invasion is indeed a dereliction of duty on the part of the guards, but it is not the fault of our merchants, this strict port inventory is a good thing, but why do you want to set up this so-called certification qualification to embarrass us?"

At that moment, four or five people followed up and shouted, expressing their dissatisfaction with Qiu Yuan's unilateral announcement of this policy of cheating people. Qiu Yuan was not in a hurry, he picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea, and when the people were all over the trouble, he slowly put down the teacup and asked coldly: "It's all over? ”

Perhaps this cold tone played a certain deterrent role, but now no one is in a hurry to refute him. Qiu Yuan said slowly: "The one I asked just now, if I remember correctly, should be Zhang Fucheng, the owner of the local 'Fucheng Boat Company'?"

"In the next place, Director Qiu has a good memory. The man raised his hand slightly and clenched his fist.

"Boss Zhang, can you explain to me that seven days before the pirate army attacked Fucheng, what kind of goods did the sailing ship with the number 'Bingqi' under the name of your ship carry out?

"This ...... I don't remember much about what happened a few months ago. Zhang Fucheng shook his head and did not answer Qiu Yuan's question directly.

"It doesn't matter if you don't remember, I do!" Qiu Yuan sneered: "On that day, your ship sailed from Haikou Port to Danzhou, and the goods it transported were a batch of munitions, a total of twenty boxes of arquebuses, five thousand rounds of lead bullet, six hundred catties of gunpowder, and two small cannons. The person who picked up the goods was a man named Huang Ting, do you remember it now?"

Zhang Fucheng's face changed and said: "I don't remember this incident, Director Qiu is just afraid that he made a mistake, right?"

Qiu Yuan didn't pay attention to his defense, and continued to his own heart: "This person with the pseudonym Huang Ting was captured by our militia army in the battle to recover Danzhou two months ago. His real identity was actually one of the pirates who invaded Qiongzhou Island before, and the weapon he purchased from Boss Zhang was later used to arm the pirate army. These little-known pirates were able to sweep through Qiongbei like a withered blow, and Boss Zhang also contributed a lot!"

"You...... You are slandering good people!" Zhang Fucheng got up anxiously and retorted: "The owner of these weapons is someone else, and he didn't sell it to him......"

"Then you admit that you did transport this batch of weapons to Danzhou to trade?" Qiu Yuan immediately seized the loophole in his words.

"I ......" Zhang Fucheng was speechless for a while, and could only defend helplessly: "I am only carrying goods, and I don't know what the contents of those boxes are, and this matter really has nothing to do with me!"

"Boss Zhang, if you don't see the Yellow River, you won't give up!" Qiu Yuan shook his head helplessly and said, "Bring the evidence!"

Someone immediately presented evidence, and Qiu Yuan showed a note to everyone: "This is the shipping document issued by 'Fucheng Ship' at that time, which clearly states the contents of the goods, and has the signature of someone in your chapter, and most importantly, the freight column does not indicate the number." If you're shipping goods for someone else, don't you have to charge for shipping?"

"This is because the shipper has prepaid the freight in full in advance, because the shipping amount is not stated on the waybill......" Zhang Fucheng said while finding that the eyes of the people around him had changed significantly.

Qiu Yuan shook his head and said, "Boss Zhang, why do you bother with this futile defense? I just said that the person who handed over this batch of goods to you has been caught by us before, do you still have to wait for us to escort people from Danzhou and confront you face to face before you admit your guilt?"

Zhang Fucheng was also anxious at this time: "What crime do I confess? I did not collude with pirates......

"Oh, you said you didn't collude with the pirates, so tell me who entrusted the weapons to you? Who was the pirates? If you can find the culprit, then people might still be able to believe your defense. Qiu Yuan looked at him now like a fox staring at its prey under its claws.

Zhang Fucheng was stunned for a moment, and suddenly shouted: "It's you! Yes, it's you Haihan people! I remembered that the person who came to the door to consign this batch of goods was your Haihan office in Fucheng! I didn't want to take over the business of your Haihan people at that time, and he specially increased the price of 100 taels of silver!"

Qiu Yuan couldn't help laughing: "You mean that we paid you to transport a batch of weapons to Danzhou to the people sent by the pirates, and then the pirates used these weapons to attack Qiongzhou Island, and now we have seized the pirates' personal certificates, seized the physical evidence of the transaction, and in front of so many local gentry, we have revealed your true face, and the final purpose is to prove in front of everyone that we Haihan are the real masterminds behind the scenes? Is it because our brains are broken, or are you not telling the truth?"

Zhang Fucheng only felt a chill in his back, he knew that he was not lying, the person who came to the ship to haul this batch of goods was indeed a staff member of the Haihan office, he looked at the high freight of the other party, and also knew that the Haihan people often sold some sporadic arms to the local rich people to engage in private arming, and did not take this seriously at that time, and reluctantly accepted the transaction for the sake of silver. After the goods arrived at the place, the handover was completed smoothly, and Zhang Fucheng left this matter behind. Unexpectedly, after a few months, this matter would be turned over by Qiu Yuan on this occasion, and he would be crucified to the big crime of "colluding with pirates" all of a sudden.

But now obviously no one will believe the truth he said, the series of reasoning that Qiu Yuan just said is indeed an unsolvable paradox, there is no reason for the Haihan people to spend so much trouble to detain themselves with the black pot of "collusion with pirates", and the onlookers will only think that this is his Zhang Fucheng full of lies trying to blame Haihan. Unless he still has a way to find the person who talked to him about this deal in the first place to confront him face to face, but the Haihan people have dug the pit so deep early, how can they leave this person in Fucheng?

Qiu Yuan looked at the dumb Zhang Fucheng with a mocking expression, and there was a faint hint of pleasure after the abuse in his heart. This Zhang Fucheng is a well-known anti-Haihan faction in Fucheng, and he is quite disgusted by the pervasive development of Haihan in the Daming area, and he has done a lot of things that have caused headaches for the Fucheng Office in the past year, and the relevant departments have long wanted to take it down.

After the plan was finalized, the Ministry of Security worked out a series of solutions to some local unstable factors, and it was not a stupid method with very low technical content such as kidnapping and assassination, and there were many scruples in execution. Adhering to the principle of maximizing profits, the plan developed by the Ministry of Security is relatively complex, but the results obtained are by no means comparable to simple and crude methods.

The plan for Zhang Fucheng was planned and implemented by the Ministry of Security, and the ship of Fucheng was hired by the higher remuneration to transport a batch of old arms eliminated by the military to Danzhou. As for the party receiving the goods, it is naturally also a member of the Ministry of Security, if it is really necessary, the Ministry of Security can even cooperate with Qiu Yuan and "escort" the handling personnel to Fucheng to stage a complete show. And when he planned this plan, he didn't leave Zhang Fucheng any chance to turn around, all the details were very thoughtful, even if he wanted to clear his name, in the end he could only find himself walking into an unsolvable dead end.

If Zhang Fucheng can change his face after the war and hug Haihan's thighs, then he can probably continue to be the owner of his ship dealership, and it is no problem to make a fortune and be a small rich man. But after Haihan took over the city, this guy was as unwilling to be lonely as ever, and jumped out from time to time to contradict the temporary management committee led by Qiu Yuan, and also encouraged other local businessmen not to cooperate with Haihan, and even tried to challenge Haihan's ban on navigation, so it is no wonder that Qiu Yuan wanted to be ruthless to him.

Looking at Zhang Fucheng, whose face was like ashes, Qiu Yuan said coldly: "Boss Zhang, do you have anything else you want to say now?"

Zhang Fucheng muttered: "It's not me, I'm really wronged......"

"At this point, you still refuse to admit your guilt, it seems that you are really stubborn!" Qiu Yuan pretended to be distressed and shook his head: "Everyone, you have all seen it, it's not that I don't give Boss Zhang a chance to reform himself, but that he refuses to surrender to the law at all." If anyone still thinks he's innocent, raise your hand. ”