After Feng Shuo's horses were settled, Shopkeeper Wang was ready to set sail, unlike the relatively much more convenient sailing process of hard sails, the soft sail was very complicated, and Jinshan Bay was not very wide, so Shopkeeper Wang chose to let the crew go down to the cabin and row the boat with a paddleboard.

Zhang Xianzhong, who pretended to be dumb, sat in the middle of the crew, clumsily imitating the posture of the other crew members, but paddling was originally a job where everyone worked together and walked in unison, and his incongruity attracted the captain's angry curse and two whips.

Zhang Xianzhong endured the severe pain and continued to wail "Abba Aba" to maintain his character. The crew laughed, since they rescued this mute half a month ago, the crew members liked to bully him, mainly because the way he explained every time "Abba Aba" explained was really funny.

Zhang Xianzhong lowered his head and continued to make a "Abba Aba" voice aggrievedly, but the invisible eyes of the crew were full of fierceness and anger.

It turns out that your surname is Zhang!

Damn bastard, you're the one who made me like this!

He cursed Liu Yifeng in his heart, and thought about a question: whether he should give up this hard-won new identity, endure it until the boat returned to Daming, or choose to take revenge on Liu Yifeng at the risk of exposure.

"Dumb! Tell you to stop, can't you hear!? ”

Zhang Xianzhong thought too much about it, and the whip was drawn on his body again before he reacted and the navigator asked them to stop pulping.

The cheerful atmosphere in the cabin and Zhang Xianzhong's urge to resist killing people aside, Liu Yifeng and Shopkeeper Wang both frowned and watched the small Guangzhou boat forcibly insert itself into the channel without ignoring the rules of ferry navigation.

Not only did they force their ship to stop, but several ferries were also forced out of the channel, almost causing chaos in the entire channel.

But no one dared to say anything, because the small Canton ship was flying the flags of both the Maritime Administration and the Navy.

"What's going on?" The shopkeeper said to himself.

"Why did the king's shopkeeper say this?"

Shopkeeper Wang pointed to the Guangzhou ship and said: "That is the ship specially used by the Maritime Safety Bureau to deliver military information, I heard that the army organized by the Maritime Safety Bureau went deep into Dongshan Prefecture to suppress Zhang bandits 10 days ago, is it defeated?" ”

Zhang Xianzhong's remnants are still alive?

Liu Yifeng didn't answer the question of the shopkeeper Wang, and he didn't know the answer.

The person in charge of the lookout at the port of Jinshan City immediately notified the relevant personnel when he saw the ship, and soon the official of the maritime safety bureau of the port cleared a wharf, and an official pulled a horse and waited on the wharf.

After the boat was docked on the dock, before it could even come to a standstill, the man on it threw a letter in a bamboo tube to the knight. He turned over and delivered the letter to Song Yingxing as quickly as possible.

Song Yingxing was planning a new urban area on the east bank of Jinshan Bay with other officials of the Maritime Safety Bureau, and they planned to build a total of five urban districts from north to south in imitation of the city of Yushan, when a messenger who suddenly broke into the venue interrupted everyone's imagination.

Song Yingxing took apart the bamboo tube on the spot, took out the letter written on the cloth and read it. The officials of the Maritime Safety Bureau, who were waiting patiently, had normal expressions at most, and at most they were a little curious, but as Song Yingxing's expression became more and more ugly, they also began to fidget.

"The meeting is adjourned for the time being. The construction of the East Coast has begun, and everything that has not yet begun has stopped! ”

Leaving this sentence, Song Yingxing ordered a few high-level officials of the Dongshan Prefecture Maritime Safety Bureau to enter the room. In the courtyard of the meeting place, the officials of the Maritime Safety Bureau, you look at me, I look at you, and they don't know what happened.

They don't dare to guess, and if they do, they will wait for some people to release the news. So immediately, there were a few officials who were quite high in the Dongshan Prefecture Maritime Safety Bureau, and politely walked in front of Yang Changbai, Sun Xin and Wu Sangui, who also didn't know what was going on.

"3 adults, if Lord Song has any instructions, please ask the 3 to reveal the points in advance."

Yang Changbai and the three of them nodded, bowed and left the courtyard. They have a special identity, although Song Yingxing has not been recognized by the other party, and they have always called Song Yingxing "adult", but they are still Song Yingxing's disciples in name.

In officialdom, this kind of nepotism consisting of so-called disciple relationships is very common, and generally speaking, it is either a formal master and disciple, or a simple political alliance. Yang Changbai and the three of them all belong to the latter, but on the surface, they are still Song Yingxing's disciples, although they can't enter the inner room, they can wait at the door.

It is enough to be on call at the door, to know a lot of information in advance, which is already a good treatment for the other officials of the Maritime Administration who are anxious outside like ants on a hot pot.

And Song Yingxing really takes care of the three of them, or values the forces behind the three of them, after all, this is the first political alliance between the new generation of officials trained by the Sixth Ministry and the Maritime Safety Administration. So the three of them only stood at the door for a while, and then they were called in by Song Yingxing: "Changbai, Xin'er, Sangui, you are listening." ”

"Yes, sir."

The three listened for a while and finally understood what was happening.

The Zhang bandit group of the Maritime Safety Bureau was successfully wiped out, but Zhang Xianzhong was not caught.

When the Maritime Safety Bureau was ready to arrest Zhang Xianzhong at any cost, Zhang Bandit could not resist at all, because Song Yingxing directly signed an amnesty order: All members of Zhang Bandit who voluntarily surrendered would be exempted from death if they served for another 10 years on the basis of their original service.

If Zhang Xianzhong had just rebelled, it is estimated that this amnesty decree would have no effect except for the spitting and swearing of Zhang bandits. But now, even the part of the people who just joined this year feel that this kind of life with savages is really unbearable. This is completely different from them being the king of the mountain in their homeland, there is no village to grab food and rob the little ladies at will, even if there is a commercial bank to rob it, it is all kinds of materials to rob, copper coins and silver ingots or something.

This amnesty was issued by the trading houses and explorers, and in the areas of their activities pointed out by the captives who had surrendered, they were stunned and pasted on stones or hung on tree branches. The literate people in the Zhang bandit gang were immediately overjoyed, and they were the ones who regretted joining the Zhang bandit team the most. As a result, the second master, who had no intention of leading the team, completely lost control of the team, and after someone discussed it every day, he disappeared in the night, and when they reappeared, they were already in the team of the Maritime Safety Bureau with shackles and desperately gnawed on dried salted fish and bread steamed buns with rice soup.

Relying on the amnesty order, Zhang Bandit, who had endangered Jinshan City for a whole year, was suppressed, but the bandit leader Zhang Xianzhong was not caught.

It doesn't matter if Zhang Xianzhong didn't catch it, what really made Song Yingxing terminate the urban planning meeting was that the front-line troops told the Maritime Safety Bureau that the clues to the gold ore veins were probably wrong!

"Lord Song, I think we must quickly send experts to personally investigate and survey, and if we can find doghead gold, it means that there are definitely gold veins there!"

Dongshan Prefecture finally found a specialty that can impress the locals, how can the front-line officials dispel the one-sided words and continue to investigate.

"However, the experts are all in the hands of the household department, in what name do we apply for experts?"

The officials present are all officials who know that Hao Ping, the former manager of the Dongshan Prefecture Maritime Safety Bureau, cooperated with Xu Guangqi, the general staff of the Maritime Safety Bureau, to forcibly enclose the land to build Jinshan City under false information about the gold mine and prepare for land finance, and they also know that the current imperial court and cabinet are not clear about the affairs of Jinshan City, and once Song Yingxing applies to the household department for the secondment of experts, then the affairs of Jinshan City will not be able to be covered.

Even if there is really a gold mine in Jinshan City, the household department will definitely cooperate with the dispatch of experts to investigate, but as far as the private construction of Jinshan City is concerned, the household department will definitely not let it go, and will join the other five ministries to fight a verbal lawsuit with Xu Guangqi in the cabinet.

This is where Song Yingxing is uncomfortable: there is no reason not to expose the existence of Jinshan City and invite experts to come.

"Then let's ask the person who oversees the mining from Fuso, okay?"

But the official denied it himself as soon as he finished proposing.

All the mining experts in the Ming Dynasty are basically officials below the seventh grade, and all transfers must be approved by the household department. Unless they tie one up, it's strange that Fuso doesn't mess up like that.

An official in charge of the Fuso gold mine is missing, and although the official position is small, the meaning behind it is too great. I don't know if the cabinet will directly order the navy and the southern army to land in Edo, lock up the poor Tokugawa family first, and then investigate slowly.

"Will there be anyone in the private sector who knows how to survey for gold?"

Another official, like his colleague, gave himself a veto as soon as he finished expressing his opinion.

There must be such people in the people, such as the old foreman of the mine, but this kind of person generally eats household food, and all the imperial court is registered, and basically has the identity of a craftsman.

The craftsmen registered in the imperial court are not available at will, and the missing one is to send Jinyi Wei and the six doors to investigate the truth together.

"Lord Song, what is the specific situation?"

Song Yingxing kept holding the cloth in his hand and didn't show it to everyone, he just briefly said the information on the cloth.

After hearing his subordinates ask like this, he spread out the cloth and looked at it, and said in a deep voice: "After questioning in batches and torturing key personnel, the subordinates believe that the gold mine vein is the product of ignorance and fiction of the brown-skinned savages. In addition to the strange rocks and the Gobi, the location provided by Zhang Bandit and the brown-skinned savages is extremely desolate, and it does not look like there is a mineral deposit at all, so it is speculated. ”

Although the official who wrote this report was not an expert in the household department, he had spent at least a few months in the gold mines of Fusang, and had never eaten pork and seen pigs run, so Song Yingxing stuffed him into the front-line troops of the Maritime Safety Bureau.

Later, he described in detail the desolation of the Nevada mountains where the brown-skinned savages were located, and the landform of the Gobi rocks was completely different from the Fusang gold mine, so he specially wrote a song to send his guess to Song Yingxing in the fastest way.

However, he also gave two other speculations based on the fact that there was indeed a dog's head gold.

The first guess is: he thinks that the gold ore vein does exist, otherwise this dog's head gold cannot be explained, and it is difficult to pick up such a large dog's head gold rough when the Fusang gold mine is not mined on a large scale, but the brown-skinned savage is ignorant and shameless, and the place given is wrong.

The second speculation is that the gold ore vein is no longer in the Jinshan City area, and may continue to the east, deeper in Dongshan Prefecture. If that's the case, is it worth continuing to explore east?

When these two speculations were raised, everyone fell silent.

Dongshan Prefecture is very large, they know it in their hearts, these officials of the Maritime Safety Administration are not ready to stake land, they prefer to go step by step, reclaim each city first, and then encroach on Dongshan Prefecture little by little.

If the gold mine is really deep in the area of Dongshan Prefecture, it is estimated that the household department that likes to mine everywhere the most will not agree.

In the end, it was Song Yingxing who clapped his hands and said: "Find a ship that is not the fastest in the navy, and we will inform Lord Xu of this matter." ”