After completing this month's competition, the focus of His Royal Highness the King of Chu has finally shifted to the sales link.

For this reason, he interrogated Xie Yunzhang again.

Seeing that His Royal Highness the King of Chu finally remembered himself, Liting Gong was about to cry excitedly. He has been in prison for more than two months, and he is not from Suzhou, so he is not eligible to participate in the competition.

Others are in prison every day, and they see their families from time to time, but he can only count his toes and stare dryly every day.

So as soon as he saw the sixth child, he kowtowed and begged:

"Your Highness, give the villain a chance, I also want to atone for my crimes, and I also want to participate in the competition."

"This king gave them this opportunity to save Suzhou, and you are not from Suzhou, why are you making this fun?" The king of Chu was lazily lying on the soft couch, and a beautiful maid brought a gentle breeze. And those who feed him fruit.

"I can also be from Suzhou, my uncle's family is from Wu County." Xie Liting hurriedly pointed to himself and said, "The villain will let the family move the workshop to Suzhou." ”

"Haha, don't bother." Zhu Zhen smiled and waved his hand: "You answer a few questions from this king first." ”

"Your Highness, may I ask." As soon as Xie Yunzhang heard that there was a door, he hurriedly pricked up his ears and listened.

"Originally, the silk you produced, as well as tea, porcelain, and so on. How do you sell them overseas without going through the market? The king of Chu asked.

"Back to Your Highness, when the six major maritime merchants used to sell goods to them, then we don't have to worry about it." Xie Yunzhang said busily:

"Zhang Wang...... Oh no, after Zhang Sijiu was defeated, those sea ships retreated to the sea. The imperial court sent sailors to continue to suppress it, and cut off contact with the land, and the six major maritime merchants became a thing of the past.

Later, the situation calmed down, and Lu Zhonghe re-established contact with the sea through some relationship. Those people will place orders through Lu Zhonghe, and then every month, there will be sea ships coming, and we will ship the goods over, pay the money with one hand, and deliver the goods with the other. However, the ship has not been here since the year......

"But we can't be considered maritime merchants at all, because the ships are not ours, and we can't control them." Xie Yunzhang said: "Even Lu Zhonghe is just a two-headed person. ”

"Hmm." Zhu Zhen nodded, he had heard some things from others, but some things he had heard of for the first time.

There's no way, that's how the old thing is interrogated, never expect the bamboo tube to pour beans and spit it out at a time. It's like squeezing toothpaste, squeezing a little at a time, and squeezing will always be there, and it will never be clean.

"Where do they land?" The sixth asked again.

"There are a lot of joints, and every time it is not necessarily, they notify Lu Zhonghe temporarily, and Lu Zhonghe will notify us again." Xie Yunzhang hurriedly replied:

"But it's mainly outside Hangzhou Bay, where the islands are dotted, so it's easy for them to hide, and the sailors can escape when they come."

"You sent a boat to the island?" Zhu Zhen said in a deep voice.

"It's all offshore, and the sand boats we drive on inland rivers are barely competent." Xie Yunzhang said.

"If you are so controlled by others, it is estimated that you will not be able to share the majority of the profits, right?" The sixth asked.

"Your Highness Mingjian, you can't eat meat at all, that is, drink soup." Xie Yunzhang smiled bitterly.

"Then why don't you just go through it?" The King of Chu asked.

Xie Yunzhang smiled bitterly and said deeply: "Because the sand boat is a flat-bottomed boat, this kind of boat is not afraid of running aground and is suitable for inland shipping." But one is too slow, and the other is that it can't break the waves, especially in the ocean, it is easy to capsize. At the beginning, Kublai Khan conquered Japan and transferred 900 sand boats from Jiangnan, but before he could land, he encountered a typhoon and almost wiped out his army, which is the reason.

"It is a sand boat that cannot go to the sea. The imperial court also forbade the people to build sea ships, and we can only look at the ocean and sigh. ”

"Isn't that right, you're going to be that honest?" Zhu Zhen didn't believe it, he was really afraid of the law of the country, so they wouldn't engage in smuggling. He looked at Xie Yunzhang coldly and said, "If you hide it with me again, you will die in prison!" ”

"Yes, yes......" Xie Yunzhang actually hadn't made up his mind to explain everything, but he didn't expect to be induced by the King of Chu and leak the clues.

There was no way to hide it now, so I had to tell the truth: "It's the lord in the capital who doesn't allow us to go to sea." ”

"Hu Weiyong or Li Shanchang?" Zhu Zhen asked.

"This villain really doesn't know." Xie Yunzhang shook his head and said: "The reason why Lu Zhonghe was able to become the leading big brother is because he monopolized the connection with that adult and regarded himself as his spokesperson. How can you tell us the secret, what if we also go online with Kyosato? ”

As he spoke, he said as if he was invited: "Your Highness can find the fourth elder of the Lu family, Lu Jihe, he should be the person contacted by the Lu family in Beijing." ”

"He's dead." Zhu Zhen said lightly. He had already learned about this person from other big accounts, and the third brother immediately ordered Liu Ying, who had returned to Beijing, to order them to arrest this person.

It's a pity that it's still a step too late, the fourth child of the Lu family has been drunk and thrown into the Qinhuai River......

The sixth child was not surprised by this result, even Lu Zhonghe was forced to die, let alone a single contact.

In addition, Liu Ying told them in his reply that the fourth child of the Lu family had indeed drunk with Hu Weiyong's nephew, and it was just before Lu Zhonghe was forced to die!

Therefore, Hu Weiyong's suspicion is already very big.

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"He's dead, too?" Liting Gong's face turned pale when he heard this.

Lu Jihe's death seemed to hit him hard, even harder than the blow brought by Lu Zhonghe.

"What, is your relationship with him better than with his eldest brother?" The sixth asked.

"No, the villain hasn't even seen him," Xie Liting laughed miserably: "It's just that I originally thought that Lord Jingli wanted Lu Zhonghe to die, but it was just that Pingjiang Gong was self-defeating, and he had to fake it." But the fourth child of his family also died, which shows that the adult killed everyone who knew about it. ”

"Knowing you're in prison, you're actually the safest, right?" King Chu couldn't help but laugh.

"Yes." Xie Yunzhang finally had no hope, and the sixth old man kowtowed and said, "The villain told His Highness everything!" ”

"Actually, Lin Xian, the commander of the Ningbo Guard, is also the person of that adult. So none of us dared to build a sea ship, otherwise he would find out and wait to be imprisoned and recharged. ”

"Ningbo Wei ......" Zhu Zhen repeated, and the question in his heart finally had an answer.

The Ming Dynasty did not have a separate naval division, and the warships were all subordinate to the guards along the coast and the river. Therefore, Zhejiang's warships are basically under the control of Ningbo Wei, and when they leave Hangzhou Bay, they are all under the control of that Lin commander on the sea.

No wonder those smuggling fleets will mainly operate along the coast of Zhejiang, it turns out that there is a protective umbrella!

No wonder these things are hidden, the court is being concealed to death, it turns out that someone is deceiving the upper and lower!

"Lin Xian's boss is the commander of Zhejiang, right?" Zhu Zhen asked, "Who is here?" ”

"His name is Wang Cheng." Xie Yunzhang replied: "However, the main task of Ningbo Wei is to prepare for the Japanese, so Lin Xian has long belonged to the chief military officer of the Bei Japanese. ”

"Jinghai Hou?" Zhu Zhen's head was big for a while.

(End of chapter)