At the beginning of April, a new officer of the Maritime Division took office.

The female officials Banxia and Lu Ming, who took office, took all the people of their newly established yamen and went to Dagu in a mighty way.

The general Ji Feng was also sent to the vicinity of Dagu to train sailors.

Because of the timely appropriation of funds from the imperial court, the Dagu Shipyard soon entered into normalization.

Skilled craftsmen from all over Daliang were summoned to Dagu.

In particular, experienced shipbuilders from all over the country have now become fragrant and sweet.

Just when everything is going well...... But something surprising happened.

It was a late April day, and a wind suddenly rose on the calm sea.

The wind swirled and moved from afar to the sea.

At first, it was the fishing boat that went out of the port to catch fish that was the first to find out.

"Dragon King! It's the dragon king's apparition! ”

"The Dragon King has appeared! The Dragon King has appeared! ”

The fishermen hurriedly put down their nets and gear, knelt on the boat, and bowed to the whirlwind.

The wind whipped up a cyclone, enveloping the sea, and a huge column of water appeared at sea level.

A huge column of water towers proudly between the sea and the sky...... It's like there's a dragon in the sky sucking water.

"Coming to the shore!"

In the exclamation of the fishermen.

The column of water rushing to the shore rushed to the shore.

Ships on the shore were either overturned by the waves, swept into the water column, or directly broken by the water column.

The whistling wind raged on the shore for another distance.

The sea water was sucked into the sky, and immediately a downpour of rain fell around it, pouring down on the vicinity of the water column.

The dragon absorbs the water column, and the damage caused is not very large.

In addition to a small amount of damage to fishing boats, damage to the docks, and a small number of injuries.

It's nothing.

On the contrary, there were many large and small fish, which were swept ashore by the water column.

There will be no pie in the sky, but there will really be fish in the sky!

Many children, unlike adults, saw the water column and hurriedly knelt down to worship the "Dragon King".

They screamed and snatched the big fish and prawns that had been caught in the case.

At first, the shipping department didn't take it seriously at all.

But somehow, there were rumors that spread in Dagu.

"The water column of the dragon absorbing water is in the direction of the shipyard!"

"The Dragon King is angry! This is a warning! Don't build big ships and sail away! Don't set foot in the Dragon King's territory! ”

"If Dagu continues to build ships, the Dragon King will definitely send a catastrophe!"

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The rumors are getting more and more powerful.

The Department of Shipping and the local government have joined forces to curb the rumors.

But human nature may be born with a "rebellious" nature. The more the rumors are suppressed, the more the rumors spread. It seems like that's the case.

Some people even said that they had noses and eyes, saying that when they were at sea, they heard the sound of a dragon, and the dragon king was angry and wanted to burn down the shipyard.

A few days after the situation had fermented.

One night, there was a spring thunderstorm.

After a click of lightning, the Dagu shipyard was really on fire!

"Sure enough, it's the Dragon King! The dragon king is going to burn down the shipyard! ”

More than half of the people in Dagu make a living from fishing.

They gathered a crowd to surround the shipyard, asking the shipyard to stop working, not to build a big ship to sail, and affect their lives!

"The dragon king is powerful, and everyone will encounter wind and waves when they go to sea in the future! You can't catch fish when you go to sea! How to live! ”

"Yesterday, Ah Si was accepted by the Dragon King! His boat was fishing, and suddenly he was caught by a force that caught the fishing net, and Ah Si was dragged into the sea by that force! ”

"Ah Si's water nature is the best! But he didn't come up! We've been looking for a long time, but we haven't even seen the shadow of Ah Si! ”

"I can't see anyone in life, and I can't see a corpse in death!"

As Changqing, Banxia originally handed over the rumors and fishermen's affairs to the people below.

Unexpectedly, things became bigger and bigger, and even their shipping department yamen was surrounded by people.

Banxia and Lu Ming had no choice but to come forward in person and explain to the fishermen.

Lu Ming said with a straight face, "Before the shipyard, there were no fishermen who went out to sea to fish and encountered wind and waves?"

"Going out to sea to fish is inherently risky, what does it have to do with the shipyard?"

The fishermen shouted, "The Dragon King has warned you!" That dragon sucks water from the shipyard! ”

"You've angered the Dragon King by building a big ship! Last night, the Dragon King made a move and slashed the shipyard with electricity, light, thunder, and fire! ”

The crowd was hoarse.

Lu Ming was angered by their stupidity and extremism, "Whoever makes trouble again will be arrested on the spot!"

"Spring thunderstorms, and occasional lightning strikes tall buildings, it's a common thing! What does it have to do with the Dragon King? ”

Lu Ming's righteousness and stern words also angered the fishermen.

"He doesn't respect the Dragon King!"

"He doesn't respect providence!"

"It's these strangers! These lackeys of the court! Angered the Dragon King! ”

"If they don't leave, we won't be able to live!"

Under the crowd, they didn't know that it was the mob who made the first move.

It was the officials of the Maritime Department who did it first.

The already tense atmosphere is like a full gas canister, and the slightest spark will explode.

The scene was out of control for a while.

The local government mobilized the troops stationed in the area to bring the mob under control.

At that time, as many as 200 or 300 people were arrested.

The sheer number of people shocked the local government office, and the prison of the government office could not manage so many prisoners.

Even so, there are many more people who have done it, seeing that something is wrong, and running away in time.

The newly established Maritime Department Yamen...... All at once it became dilapidated.

Banxia and a few people around her were protected by soldiers and were not seriously injured.

But Lu Ming stood in front of him, close to the mobs, and was pulled into the crowd and beaten.

Wen Yuanjie was also present at the time, and he also suffered a lot in order to save Lu Ming.

At this time, he had a young and handsome face, one blue and one purple, swollen so much. His whole body hurt even more when he touched it.

"How did things come to this? ...... hissed, "When Wen Yuanjie applied the medicine, he inhaled in pain.

Banxia walked around the yamen with his hands behind his back, his face calm, in the yamen that had been smashed and robbed.

"Could it be that someone is instigating it behind your back?" Banxia Road.

Lu Ming sighed, "I have already asked someone to visit secretly, if you say instigation...... At first, there were a few ruffians who wanted to work in the shipyard to get paid.

"But they are idle and don't do their jobs on weekdays. Hardworking people all make a living from fishing.

"Instead, they make a living by beating people, extorting money, and apportioning 'land rentals' to fishermen. Therefore, the little official in charge of recruiting workers did not let them enter the shipyard. ”

Wen Yuanjie said, "I shouldn't let them come!" This is the black sheep! If you don't come to work, you just want to get money for nothing! ”

Lu Ming nodded, "I think so too...... Unexpectedly, they didn't enter the factory, so they began to spread rumors outside, saying that the dragon king was angry......"

Banxia looked at him, "You already knew about this?" Why didn't it be reported? ”

Lu Ming sighed, "I didn't take it seriously, who knew that fishermen would believe these people who bullied them all day long and asked them for money?" ”

Banxia sighed, "Foolish people, foolish people, that's it.

"The people who bully them are stronger than them. They don't have their own thinking, and those who are stronger than them believe whatever they say!

"This is the meaning of the queen's mother who has always wanted to popularize education, so that the people have the ability to think for themselves."

Lu Ming nodded, "It's too late to say this now, after arresting two or three hundred people, you can't keep it locked up, right?" Shipyard business......"