The Xihai Canal was temporarily closed.

This can be said to be particularly exciting news.

The Xihai Canal directly connects the Red Sea and the Great Qin Sea, and then connects the two oceans of the Little Western Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, and finally connects the two worlds of Shenzhou and Taixi.

The West Sea Canal is one of the most important sea communication arteries in the world today.

Most of the merchant ships between Shenzhou and Taixi would pass through this canal.

Not only because it is much closer than the Western Cape, but also because this route is safer and you don't have to go to the stormy Southern Ocean.

The Xihai Canal was also the core passage for the Ming Dynasty to control the inner area of the Great Qinhai.

Throughout the World War, the Ming Dynasty always tried to keep the canal open, although only its own people were allowed to pass through.

But today, in an era of regional peace in the Old Continent as a whole, the canal was suddenly and temporarily shut down.

Even if a ship has already entered the canal, it cannot continue to move forward and leave the canal.

All were asked to stop at several anchorages in the middle and at both ends of the canal for inspection.

The slave ship of Gu Rui, a slave trader in the Ming Dynasty, was here.

Gu Rui, along with the British slave trader Lu Frei and the Ming Dynasty immigrant merchant Huang Xin, made a fortune in the United States by selling Tianzhu female slaves to southern America.

But immediately after that, the United States tightened its slave trade policy, and the Revolutionary War soon broke out in Yinzhou.

After the situation in Yinzhou became chaotic, the price of slaves could not be maintained.

Therefore, Gu Rui's business of selling Tianzhu female slaves to Yinzhou was only done once.

But this time it made the net worth of Gu Rui, Lu Frei, and Huang Xin skyrocket.

After Gu Rui and Luffrey returned to the Old World, they continued to trade Tianzhu slaves between Tianzhu and the Great Food Country, as well as Mozhou.

Gu Rui sent the Tianzhu girl to the Great Food Country to be a wife and concubine for the people of the Great Food Country, or to engage in special service industries.

Lufrey sent the young men of Tianzhu to Mozhou, contributing to the New England of Mozhou, which was a source of bricks for the Tianzhu people.

Gu Rui has been operating in this industry for more than two years, and then the trend of development and construction of Big Food Country, his wealth has continued to increase several times.

In addition, it has established a stable cooperative relationship with the civil affairs organization of the Great Food Country.

Quicksand City basically doesn't want to immigrate now, and Gu Rui's delivery destination has shifted to the North Mozhou and the area around the Great Qin Sea.

In the last month of the second year of Ankang, Gu Rui specially prepared a batch of Tianzhu orchids.

Either dry ears, and at the same time, the physiognomy and body are above the average level.

It's either oily ears, but the appearance and figure are all top-grade.

All in all, it can be regarded as a boutique orchid, rather than a product of daily impulse.

Gu Rui was going to send them to several Daming immigration areas in North Mozhou before the New Year.

As the immigration development of the Great Food Country entered a stable period, the official court of the Great Food Country no longer fully controlled the orchid trade.

After strict price controls and industry norms were put in place, licensed slave traders were allowed to sell on their own.

That's why Gu Ruicai thought about selling high-quality products, instead of continuing to sell as in the early days.

In order to make this batch of goods look better, Gu Rui used two 15,000-ton ships to transport a total of more than 3,000 orchids.

These orchids were not crammed into cramped cabins like ordinary slaves, and the living space was equivalent to ordinary collective dormitories.

Gu Rui also prepared more decent clothes for them, so that they could take a regular bath in the collective bathhouse, and they could see the grade without special tidying.

As Gu Rui's net worth rose and the scale of the ships he controlled became larger and larger, Gu Rui's lifestyle also changed.

I prepared a special room for myself on the ship, and I had a separate place to bathe and change clothes.

Even if you travel long distances with the boat, you can always stay clean and decent.

As a slave trader, every time he travels with a boat, he will choose one or two boutique female slaves to accompany him, and life can be described as delicious.

This time, the slave ship departed from Tianzhu, crossed the Xiaoxi Ocean into the Red Sea, paid the money and entered the Xihai Canal, ready to go to the vicinity of the Great Qinhai Sea to sell.

Everything was going well, but just as we were about to leave the canal, a patrol boat suddenly came from the front in the opposite direction.

The electric horn on the patrol boat loudly broadcast to the pilot ship and Gu Rui's slave ship:

"His Royal Highness Prince Dashi, Minister of Military Affairs and Foreign Affairs of the Governor-General Da Shi, Da Qinhai, and Mozhou regions, ordered the canal to be temporarily closed.

"All ships south of the northern end of the canal go to the nearest anchorage to stop and be inspected by the Governor's Office of the Right Army.

"All ships are not allowed to continue sailing, and those who refuse to stop the ship for investigation are regarded as rebels!"

The small boat that piloted the ship listened to the most clear orders first, and did not care what was going on, and did not have any idea of questioning it at all.

If you want to question it, wait until you stop the boat and see someone, otherwise the other party may shoot directly.

directly guided Gu Rui's slave trading ship to the anchorage to stop the ship.

As the broadcast got closer and closer, the crew members on Gu Rui's ship also understood it one after another.

They did not dare to disobey the order, and immediately followed the pilot ship into the anchorage, preparing to stop the ship for the so-called inspection.

The energy of the Ming army and the imperial court, as well as the deterrent power that is regarded as rebellion, are too strong.

However, this does not prevent them from complaining to each other.

"Stop the ship for inspection? What to check? ”

"Here's what's going on, just shut down the canal......"

"If this canal stops, how much money will it lose......

"If our New Year's goods can't be delivered before the end of the year, this time the trade will be a loss!"

At the same time, a crew member immediately went to Gu Rui's cabin to report the news outside to Gu Rui.

Gu Rui, who felt that the road was far away and boring, was ready to move his body with Hu Ji, who was accompanying him, and suddenly lost his interest when he heard the news.

Gu Rui immediately tidied up his clothes, asked about the specific situation, and then ran quickly to the deck and gathered all the crew:

"Don't care what the Governor's Mansion is looking for! Be fucking honest with me! ”

"Are there any contraband on board? Did anyone bring something they shouldn't have brought in private? ”

"What can be destroyed is destroyed, and what can't be destroyed is directly in the water!"

"If anyone affects Lao Tzu's serious business, if the court doesn't kill you, I will kill you when I go back!"

"Immediately, immediately, all of them are going to deal with their own things!"

After Gu Rui gave a lecture, he immediately disbanded the team.

At the same time, a fleet of the Navy of the Governor's Mansion of the Right Army blocked the exit of the West Sea Canal.

A large number of navy and army soldiers entered the canal in transport boats and patrol boats, and boarded the boats parked in the canal in turn to inspect them.

Soon a soldier came to Gu Rui's slave trading ship.

A flag boss, seeing Gu Rui coming up here, subconsciously laughed:

"I didn't expect this ship to be Gu Shopkeeper's......"

Gu Rui often sent orchids to various parts of the Great Food Country, and later he was able to sell orchids on his own.

Later, he also got a permit to invest in several green buildings dedicated to orchids in the Great Food Country.

has a first-hand source of goods, and does not engage in literary and artistic cover-up, mainly because he does not have that ability.

It pursues a good quality and low price, simple and rude, so it is very popular with ordinary soldiers and workers.

Many officers and soldiers are far away from home, and they often go to take care of Gu Rui's business during their holidays, so they are familiar with it.

Gu Rui immediately smiled and said:

"It seems that this military master is also a regular customer...... This time I sent all the boutiques, do you want to keep one with you? ”

Mr. Naqi immediately shook his head with a smile and waved his hand and said:

"Of course I want to, but it's really not possible, the brothers have to get down to business quickly, and the rest will have a chance in the future.

"This time, His Royal Highness the Prince of Great Food personally ordered it, and the shopkeeper Gu should not blame the soldiers for being ruthless."

Gu Rui was also a little surprised this time:

"The King's business? What's going on? Who angered the king? Ordered to directly close the canal and inspect the ship? ”

Mr. Qi said with a dry smile:

"Smuggler, our Highness is a great inventor, with a bunch of patents and secret recipes in his hands.

"The things that are made are very profitable, so this smuggling, reselling and so on has been banned repeatedly.

"Once or twice is nothing, after a long time, the number of times, His Highness will be annoyed.

"So this time I gave a ruthless order, and the cruisers of the two governors came out to arrest smuggling."

Gu Rui understood what was going on, but there were still a lot of puzzles:

"Smuggling...... Reselling His Royal Highness's patented products, this is indeed something that should be investigated.

"But my ship is from Tianzhu to the Great Food Country to sell orchids.

"Tianzhu doesn't have anything to smuggle into the Great Food Country.

"If I want to smuggle the goods of the Great Food Country, I have to bring it with me on my return......

Mr. Qi also seemed a little helpless:

"I understand what the shopkeeper means, but this errand still needs to be done.

"But you foreign vessels, which are not involved in smuggling and destination, can be inspected a little faster.

"I really won't talk to you anymore, it's a waste of time, I have to get to work quickly.

"Shopkeeper Gu, take out the registration information of your ship, as well as the list of goods carried on board.

"Let all the people on board go to the deck, and we will confirm the identity of the people in turn."

Gu Rui didn't dare to delay, and immediately asked people to get the documents.

Although he is a slave trader, Gu Rui's procedures are complete, and he is a legitimate and serious businessman.

Then during this waiting time, Gu Rui asked a new question a little confused:

"That...... Master Jun, is the orchid trafficked on my ship considered a person on the ship?

"There are more than 3,000 on the two ships, and now they are all closed, and they are all called to the deck for fear that it will be difficult to control."

This flag is also obviously stunned, and there are not too many people on ordinary freighters.

Even ordinary passenger ships of the same tonnage will not be stuffed with so many guests, which is a characteristic of slave trading ships.

The trafficked orchids are counted as cargo, or the people on board, which is indeed a big and small problem.

However, this flag is also insightful, and a decision was made quickly:

"Since it's in captivity, let's treat it as a live animal, and let's go to the scene to inspect ...... in turn."

With the processing standards in place, inspections begin quickly.

The crew of Gu Rui's ship was once again gathered on the deck.

The soldiers first took the official registration information they received and compared it with the registration information carried on the ship provided by Gu Rui.

Confirm that the information of both parties is consistent, confirm that the other party's documents are genuine, and then confirm whether the personnel and the list are consistent in turn.

Finally, the soldiers were asked to follow and monitor the crew, and entered the cabin to begin a full inspection.

Search for possible hiding, possible illegal items.

There were many more large and small teams, which in turn boarded other passenger ships and freighters to inspect.

Gu Rui's fleet itself did not involve Mengxian County, and it did not even dock at the mainland of the Great Food Country, so the suspicion itself was very low.

The soldiers walked around the ship, looked through all the rooms, and without directly seeing any obvious problems, they announced that the inspection was complete.

The level of in-depth inspection is obviously determined by the probability of smuggling goods from the big food countries.

It is like a ship between Mengxian and Quicksand City in the Ming Dynasty, and its own ship between the mainland and Mengxian County.

These ships do not involve Taixi, and it is unlikely that they will carry products from the Great Food Country, and even if they do, they are not the focus of treatment for the time being.

But other ships are not so simple.

The ship that came out of the mainland of the Great Food Country and Mengxian County was strictly investigated.

After passing through the ships of Mengxian County and the mainland of the Great Food Country, they were strictly investigated.

Ships from the Ming Dynasty to Taixi and Yinzhou were strictly investigated.

Any ship to Taixi and Yinzhou will be strictly checked.

All personnel must confirm one by one, and all cabins should not only be seen, but also unpacked and unpacked.

Cargo holds, fuel tanks, containers, boiler rooms, all rooms must be inspected, and they must be fully inspected by turning over boxes and cabinets.

A ship is checked for days.

The former military capital of the Ming Dynasty was in charge of the sub-Saharan region of Mozhou and the nearby seas.

The Governor's Office of the Right Army is responsible for the surroundings of the Great Qin Sea and the Great Food Country and the surrounding areas.

After the end of the world war, the armies of the two prefectures were still fighting intermittently.

The main thing was to conquer and clean up the indigenous regimes in the interior of Mozhou.

The navies of the two prefectures, especially the naval fleets of the former military prefectures, were basically only responsible for patrolling and escorting convoys.

At most, the natives have a "lake army", and it is basically impossible to have a navy.

After the end of the World War, the size of the navy of the Tessie countries began to shrink.

Although the Ming Navy has not directly shrunk, but is replacing the old ships with new ones, the Navy still has a certain sense of crisis.

The main thing is to find something to do, and the light patrol and escort are a bit unsteady.

Prince Oshi was his own clear commander, and the orders he gave were reasonable, so he took decisive large-scale action.

Below the armored cruisers of the two prefectures, most of the fleet was scattered.

In this sea area, the two governors were originally in charge of controlling the sea power and shipping routes, but now they are directly stepping up.

However, even if there are more warships sent by the two prefectures to investigate, it is relatively compared to the usual patrols.

Near the eastern coastline of Mozhou, which is not the main shipping route of the current world, the number of merchant ships passing here is not large.

However, even if there are relatively few merchant ships on this line, it is relative to the merchant ships in the main channel.

In general, there are still a large number of merchant ships and a small number of warships.

A cruiser or a large destroyer is responsible for the inspection of several ships.

In the canal, let the merchant ships go directly to the anchorage and stop, waiting for them to check in turn.

On the open sea, these cruisers ran around first and gathered several nearby ships together.

Let these boats reduce their speed to the lowest and float slowly on the sea together, one by one to get on board and check it.

The whole route is completely stuck, and I don't know when it's all checked.

Many people are not meeting the scheduled delivery deadlines.

Some of the more daring captains of the Ming Dynasty approached the officers to inquire and question.

The officers of the Governor's Mansion are not very perfunctory, they can only say that they are orders from above, and they just carry them out.

Let the other party wait patiently, and then continue to check step by step, no matter what you say, without the order from above, the check cannot be stopped.

For merchant ships other than the Ming Dynasty, it was even more simple and rude.

The battleships came up directly, and the guns of the large and small ships directly hit the merchant ships.

As long as there is any non-cooperation, the opposite side may first strafe with machine guns, and then disobediently then directly attack with naval guns.

The navy is directly on the waterway, intercepting the passing merchant ships at the residence for inspection, which is actually a very crude operation.

There is no special order, and under normal circumstances, neither the army nor the Jinyi Guard are qualified to do such a thing.

The point is that if there is no accurate intelligence and predetermined targets, it is difficult to have practical results in investigating all the passing ships in order without knowing in advance that a certain ship is carrying a large number of illegal and smuggled goods.

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A ship has a displacement of tens of thousands of tons, and there may be dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of various spaces.

There were a large number of people and luggage on passenger ships and slave traders, and a large amount of materials on board cargo ships.

If these ships do not directly transport a large number of illegal materials, but with the participation of the management personnel, carrying dozens or even hundreds of kilograms of things, or just a few smugglers, it is really difficult to search for them in a short time.

In particular, the things that are the most smuggled in the big food country are those pantyhose.

The weight is light, the total number may not be much, and the volume should not be large, so it is easy to hide.

If you have the heart to destroy it as a last resort, you can just throw it into the boiler and burn it, and it will be gone.

However, after the large-scale sudden interception and inspection operation began, many problems were discovered in the process of boarding and inspection.

"The manifest you declare is three hundred taels of bicycles, why is the actual number three hundred and twenty?"

"Why did you deduct the nameplate from this gasoline engine? What exactly is this model and power? ”

"Why are these three boxes of bearings not registered? It's all treated as smuggling! ”

"Why don't you people have identity information? Where the hell are you from? Where are you going? ”

"You don't have these boxes of penicillin on your list, and the amount of this cargo is seriously beyond the standard allowed on a passenger ship."

"This can be used as an amplifier and electric speaker for the whole square, you say you use it to listen to music at home?"

"That's enough tobacco to smoke you to death! That's enough wine to drown you! ”

"You said you like to shoot guns, so you brought back two containers of eight-millimeter machine gun bullets to use?"

"These guns are enough to fucking equip five hundred infantrymen! Buckle it all! ”

"Ren Niang, why is the secondary gun tube eliminated on our ship in your cabin!"

The anti-smuggling operations of the two governors soon paid off.

But it basically has nothing to do with Zhu Jingyuan's Mengxian Industrial Zone.

Most of them smuggled various industrial products, luxury goods, daily necessities, and even military supplies from the Ming Dynasty to Taixi.

Inspections were not carried out in normal times, so many small-scale smuggling operations were hidden.

The high-intensity investigation initiated by Zhu Jingyuan has unearthed a large part of these people.

This "windfall" allows the high-intensity anti-smuggling operation to continue, silencing the mouths of opponents with relevant interests.