Father can be an enemy country

Chapter 402 I Want To

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

For this reason, he arraigned Xie Yunzhang again.

Seeing that His Royal Highness King Chu finally remembered him, Duke Li Ting almost cried with excitement.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 strategize in the prison every day and meet with family members from time to time, but he can only count his toes every day and stare blankly.

So when he saw the sixth child, he kowtowed and begged:
"Your Highness, give the villain a chance. I also want to take credit for my merits, 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 join in the fun?" King Chu lazily lay on the soft couch, and a beautiful maid sent him a gentle breeze.And 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 factory to Suzhou."

"Haha, don't bother." Zhu Zhen waved his hand with a smile and said, "You answer a few questions from me first."

"Excuse me, Your Highness." Xie Yunzhang immediately pricked up his ears to listen when he heard that there was something to be said.

"In the past, the silk you produced, as well as tea, porcelain and so on. How did you sell it overseas without going through the Shibo Department?" King Chu asked.

"Returning to Your Highness, when the six big merchants used to sell their goods to them, then we don't have to worry about it." Xie Yunzhang said hurriedly:

"King Zhang... oh no, after Zhang Sijiu's defeat, all those seagoing ships retreated to the sea. The imperial court sent naval forces to continue to attack, and they lost contact with the land, and the six great merchants became a thing of the past.

"Later, the situation settled down, and Lu Zhonghe re-established contact with the sea through some relationship. Those people would place orders through Lu Zhonghe, and then every month, sea ships would arrive, and we would ship the goods over there. Pay with one hand, and deliver with one hand. However, I haven't been to the ship after a year...

"But we can't be regarded as 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 middleman who spreads messages between two ends."

"En." Zhu Zhen nodded. He had heard others mention some of the content, but it was the first time he had heard of some things.

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

"Where are they docking?" Lao Liu asked again.

"There are many joints, and they are not necessarily every time. They just notify Lu Zhonghe temporarily, and Lu Zhonghe informs us again." Xie Yunzhang hurriedly replied:
"But it's mainly outside Hangzhou Bay, where the islands are scattered all over the place, so it's easy for them to hide, and it's easy for them to escape when the navy comes."

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

"It's all near the sea, and the sandboats we drive in the inland rivers are barely competent." Xie Yunzhang said.

"Being controlled by others like this, it is estimated that the profit will not be divided into big parts, right?" Lao Liu asked.

"His Royal Highness knows that there is no need to eat meat at all, that is, to drink soup." Xie Yunzhang smiled wryly.

"Then why don't you communicate directly?" King Chu asked.

Xie Yunzhang smiled bitterly and said deeper: "Because the sand boat is a flat-bottomed boat, this kind of boat is not afraid of running aground, and is suitable for inland waterway navigation. But one is too slow, and the other is that it cannot break the waves, especially in the ocean. This is the reason why [-] sand ships were conscripted, but before landing, they encountered a typhoon and almost wiped out the entire army.

"Because sand boats can't go to the ocean. The imperial court also banned private building of sea boats, so we can only look at the ocean and sigh."

"Isn't that right, you guys would be so honest?" Zhu Zhen didn't believe it, he was really afraid of the national law, so they stopped smuggling.He looked at Xie Yunzhang coldly and said: "If you keep hiding with me, you will rot in prison!"

"Yes, yes..." Xie Yunzhang hadn't made up his mind to explain everything, but he didn't expect that the king of Chu would induce him to reveal the clues.

Now there is no way to hide it, so I had to tell the truth: "It was the lord in Jingli who didn'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 leader is because he monopolized the contact with that adult and regarded himself as his spokesperson. How could he tell us the secret? , what if we also connect with Jingli?"

As he said that, he said as if asking for credit: "Your Highness, you can look for Lu Jihe, the fourth son of the Lu family. He should be the person the Lu family contacted in Beijing."

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

It's a pity that it was still a step too late, the fourth son of the Lu family was already drunk and thrown into the Qinhuai River to silence him...

The sixth child was not surprised by this result, even Lu Zhonghe was forced to death, let alone a mere liaison.

In addition, Liu Ying told them in the reply that the fourth child of the Lu family had indeed drank with Hu Weiyong's nephew, and just before Lu Zhonghe was forced to death!
So Hu Weiyong's suspicion is already very big.

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"He's dead too?" Li Tinggong's face turned pale when he heard this.

Lu Jihe's death seemed to have hit him hard, even harder than Lu Zhonghe's.

"Why, is your relationship with him better than with his elder brother?" the sixth child asked.

"No, the villain hasn't even seen him," Xie Liting said with a sad smile, "It's just that I thought that Lord Jingli wanted Lu Zhonghe to die, but Mr. Ping Jiang was self-defeating and had no choice but to make a fake show for real. But his fourth child also died. It means that the lord is killing all those who know."

"Knowing that you are in prison, is it actually the safest?" King Chu couldn't help laughing.

"Yes." Xie Yunzhang finally lost all hope, kowtowed heavily to the sixth child and said: "The villain tells His Highness everything!"

"Actually, Lin Xian, Commander of the Ningbo Guards, is also a member of that lord. So none of us dare to build sea-going ships, or if he finds out, we'll be thrown into prison and exiled into the army."

"Ningbo Wei..." Zhu Zhen repeated, the question in his heart was finally answered.

The Ming Dynasty did not have a separate navy, and the warships were all attached to the guards along the coast and along the river.Therefore, the warships in Zhejiang are basically under the management of Ningbo Guard, and when they leave Hangzhou Bay, they are under the control of Commander Lin.

No wonder those smuggling fleets are mainly operating along the coast of Zhejiang, so there is an umbrella!

It's no wonder that the court has been kept under wraps about these things. It turns out that someone is cheating!

"Lin Xian's boss is the Commander of Zhejiang Metropolis, right?" Zhu Zhen asked, "Who is it?"

"His name is Wang Cheng." Xie Yunzhang replied: "However, the main task of the Ningbo Guard is to prepare for the Japanese, so Lin Xian has long been dispatched by the Chief Military Officer for the Japanese."

"Jinghaihou?" Zhu Zhen felt dizzy.

(End of this chapter)