After Li Zhi spoke his judgment, Feng Ang and Duan Zhixuan both pondered.

Nowadays, more and more merchant ships are being robbed by pirates.

The looted goods cannot always be left in the hands of the pirates.

They will definitely find a way to sell these goods at a low price, and then use the money in exchange to continue to build their strength.

These goods cannot be circulated through normal channels, so they must be sold secretly in various parts of Jiangnan.

This can also explain why imported goods will not be sold at high prices in various parts of Jiangnan.

After thinking about this, Duan Zhixuan opened his mouth and said to Li Zhi: "Your Highness, it seems that this pirate problem needs to be solved quickly!" ”

Li Zhi also nodded solemnly at this time: "It really needs to be solved quickly."

Otherwise, I am afraid that the sea trade that Datang has developed with great difficulty will be greatly affected. ”

Duan Zhixuan asked: "Now that the pirates are ghostly, they can't find traces at all, I don't know if Your Highness has a good plan?" ”

Li Zhi also began to have a headache when he heard this.

The waters around Datang are vast, and there are countless islands on the sea.

If you had to go up and search every island, you don't know how much time and effort it would take.

If, while the sailors were searching the islands, the pirates would all return to land.

Then the chances of finding them will be even lower.

The best way to settle the matter once and for all is to go directly to the merchants who helped the pirates destroy the stolen goods.

Then get the specific location of the pirate from the mouth of the merchant.

Feng Ang and the two saw that Li Zhi couldn't come up with a way for a while, so they looked at each other and smiled bitterly.

Li Zhi has always been good at solving problems, and at this moment, even he can't come up with a good solution, which shows that this matter is indeed difficult.

At this time, all the people in the private room stopped talking, and everyone looked up to drink except to eat with their heads down.

On the surface, it seems that the matter has passed, but in fact, the brains of several people have been spinning wildly.

Everyone wants to find a good solution.

At this moment, Li Zhi suddenly thought of the information he received two days ago.

At that time, he had been wondering what kind of business could make people willing to pay a great deal to avoid taxes.

Now that I think about it, their purpose may not be just to evade taxes, but to completely conceal a very extensive smuggling business.

Thinking of this, Li Zhi suddenly patted his thigh and said, "This king may already have some eyebrows.

Wait for this king to carefully arrange for an in-depth investigation.

Perhaps the danger of piracy will soon be solved once and for all. ”

Feng Ang and Duan Zhixuan finally relaxed after listening to Li Zhi's words.

Since Li Zhi has already spoken, this matter is basically certain.

The two of them just had to wait for the final result.

So the atmosphere at the table finally began to warm up in the following time, and several people drank this wine until late at night.

And when Li Zhi issued an order the next day to ask Baiqi Sijia to send people to help the woodcutter and others investigate the case.

After discussing for a long time, the woodcutter and others in Yongzhou finally sent out an application for reinforcements.

And so the next interesting scene happened.

Many liaison stations scattered throughout the country have received reinforcements from Li Zhi and Zhai Changsun.

The difference is that some liaison stations received the news of Zhai Changsun first, while others received the news of Li Zhi first.

In any case, the manpower of the Hundred Riders Division began to quickly join the investigation of this major smuggling case.

In just a few days, the number has increased to more than 100 people.

And after a month, the number was completely fixed at three hundred.

This time, Li Zhi made a bloody investment.

He was ready to use this opportunity to thoroughly show Li Shimin the strength of the Hundred Cavalry Division.

By the way, it also lays a good foundation for future expansion.

In Li Zhi's opinion, the more than 1,000 case-handling personnel are a little too few.

At this point, it is impossible to effectively monitor all the officials in the more than 300 state capitals.

Just when the Hundred Cavalry Division was investigating this major smuggling case with all its might.

The smugglers, led by Song Zhen and others, had already begun to take goods from the pirates at an additional price of 10%.

In just over a month, they have received two shipments from the pirates.

And some of the personnel of the Hundred Cavalry Division also followed their traders and quietly came to the boundary of Wu'an Prefecture.

As the investigation continued, a complete smuggling channel was dug up.

One by one, the state officials involved in the case are about to face severe punishment.

And the growing pirates have begun to enter the final madness.

Some of them have been found in their lair by the hands of the Hundred Riders.

The funny thing is that many of these people are actually well-known local people.

Li Zhi finally received Li Shimin's reply during this time.

It turned out that Li Shimin's original purpose was just to give Gao Jiqiang an official position to repay his father's care for the eldest grandson, Empress Queen's brother and sister.

He didn't know that Dang Renhong was still doing this kind of thing behind his back.

After getting this answer, Li Zhi almost didn't report Dang Renhong again.

Just because of this old guy's indiscriminate operation, he almost didn't let the entire Datang clan follow suit.

Just when Li Zhi was crying and laughing and wanted to tell Duan Zhixuan and Feng Ang the news, the news just sent by Baiqi Si showed that this Gao Jiqiang was actually involved in the smuggling case.

This suddenly made Li Zhi feel a little toothache.

At this time, he couldn't wait to arrest that Gao Jiqiang and punish him severely.

But now that he has been involved in a major smuggling case, it is really not good to startle the snake at will.

So he had to let Feng Zhixing be wronged for a while first, and promised that he would definitely not let Gao Jiqiang feel better at that time.

Just when Li Zhi's side was in full swing coordinating the personnel on both sides of the Navy Division and the Guangzhou Governor's Mansion.

A team of Hundred Riders is posing as a merchant and preparing to make contact with the pirate gang of Rayton.

By the time the case was investigated for nearly two months, all the people involved in Datang had basically been firmly watched by the case-handling personnel.

Now only Lei Tong and his most powerful wave of pirates are left, and they are unable to grasp the location of the lair because they are abroad.

Therefore, the Hundred Horsemen decided to have the woodcutter lead the team to pretend to be a merchant who wanted to carry out smuggling business to contact Lei Tong.

In order to find out where the other party's nest is as soon as possible.

"Your Excellency is the Lord of Leitong Island?" The woodcutter blocked Lei Tong's way outside the door of a restaurant in the capital of the Cham Kingdom.

"Who are you? Why did you stop me? Lei Tong pretended not to understand what the woodcutter was saying and asked directly in Cham language.

It's a pity that the woodcutter already knew that he was proficient in the official dialect of the Tang Dynasty, so he smiled slightly and continued to chat with him in the official dialect of the Tang Dynasty.

"The owner of Leitong Island doesn't need to be nervous, there is absolutely no malice here, he just wants to make a deal with the island owner..."