People live in the Ming Dynasty, evil spirits are soaring into the sky

Chapter 257: Shi Bosi Tiju, who has an excellent reputation, finally showed his flaws! The Spaniards are starting to move out!

The reason why Chen Han wanted to summon all the officials from Zhangzhou Prefecture after killing those people was to show them the process of killing people and to shock them.

Sure enough, these officials were all so frightened that they knelt on the ground and trembled.

When he saw a unique figure - Zheng Guangming.

Chen Han didn't believe that these people in Zhangzhou Prefecture were not involved in smuggling, guarding such a fat job, and guarding the only port for overseas trade. If they didn't join us, they would bring some private goods and sell them to Nanyang, or take them from Nanyang smugglers. Buy some cheap spices etc, that's not possible.

According to Chen Han's understanding, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, most of the spices of the Ming Dynasty were controlled by the Portuguese and Spanish.

There is a very interesting phenomenon. During the Jiajing period, Emperor Jiajing needed to use many spices, such as ambergris, to make elixirs.

Ambergris was sold at a price of one thousand two hundred taels per catty.

But even so, it is difficult to buy ambergris along the coast of China. The amount per year is only about one to two pounds.

And most of it was in the hands of the Portuguese and Spanish.

It can be seen that at that time, the two countries on the periphery of the Ming Dynasty had very strong control over trade.

Especially after the Longqing Switch, these two countries took advantage of the advent of the sea power era to control a lot of trade around the Ming Dynasty.

In the age of navigation that Chen Han is about to launch, he will compete with these two countries for supremacy.

And now he actually found out that the Spaniards dared to sell women in the Ming Dynasty. Wasn't he looking for death?

After seeing Zheng Guangming's performance, Chen Han remembered him.

This Zheng Guangming is not a top figure in Zhangzhou Prefecture, but he is very prominent.

After all, the Shipping Secretary Tiju controls the Ming Dynasty's only official port for overseas trade, so the oil and water must be very large.

It is unknown how many people are attached to him and benefit from it.

But this one definitely needs attention.

Chen Han just glanced at them a few times, and then said, "Whoever among you is involved in smuggling can come to this supervisor alone to surrender. If you take the initiative to admit it, your crime will be reduced by one level. If you are found out by this supervisor, your fate will be worse than theirs." Still miserable.

You may not get a happy death by then. "

After Chen Han finished threatening, he got on his horse and left with the Jin Yiwei and the thousand girls.

Even the work of cleaning the docks has to be handled by Zhangzhou Prefecture itself.

After Chen Han left, the people in the whole dock cheered endlessly, but the officials seemed to have fallen into an ice cellar.

That afternoon, seven officials came to Chen Han's Guanyi. Unable to bear the pressure, they came directly to Guanyi to surrender.

It was said that they had participated in smuggling. When asked, they all had connections with businessmen in the southeast, helped them ship goods, and also bought goods from Southeast Asia.

They are considered pawns of those big smuggling families.

Chen Han wiped out a wave of smuggling families before, but did not sweep them out because they were small enough.

Chen Han looked at the officials kneeling on the ground and asked, "What's going on with this Fifth Master?"

The official kneeling on the ground immediately replied: "Master Qi, this Fifth Master has always been a low-key and mysterious person in the smuggling circle in the southeast.

Everyone only knows that he is nicknamed Fifth Master, but they have never met him in person. He is not a member of their core interest group, and they have no idea where this person comes from or where he lives.

We can't get in touch with them, even those smuggling families are different from him.

It is said that this fifth master does not interact with people in the official circles, and he does not even pay much attention to the smuggling families in the southeast, and they all go their own ways.

This fifth master..."

When he was about to say something, Chen Han waved his hand. This guy meant the same thing over and over again. They are not familiar with this person, this person does not confront them head-on, and has his own set of logic.

"Since you surrendered, I will keep the promise I made to you on the dock.

As long as you return the stolen money, the governor will only remove you from your official position and will never hire you. You should be convinced by this punishment. "

The officials burst into tears of gratitude after listening to Chen Han's words.

Compared with the naval officers on the dock who were shot one by one, it would be good if he could retire with his own life and save his own life.

After the seven people were taken down, Chen Han smiled and said: "We have really met our opponent. You should immediately arrange for ten brothers to take turns to be on duty at the gate of Shibosi Yamen.

There must be something wrong with this lift.

Li Rusong replied, "Yes," and went to make arrangements immediately.

For half a month, Chen Han did nothing but send the women back to their places of origin one by one.

But Li Rusong and the others finally discovered that Zheng Guangming was a little strange.

I was in the yamen every day, working until midnight before going back.

Everyone in the yamen was full of praise for him, he was kind-hearted, good to his subordinates, good to the people, good to the traders, honest and so on.

Every one of them is a good comment, but the strange thing about this person is that when Jin Yiwei followed him, he found that whenever his carriage entered a busy city, there would be three identical carriages meeting him.

Then, for some reason, I didn't know which carriage he was on.

Ten Jinyi guards were divided into three groups to follow the three carriages, but in the end they all found that they had lost track.

I got off the bus without knowing where or where.

An official with such a good reputation still needs to sneak around secretly?
Isn't it too strange that no one should know his whereabouts?

As the saying goes, there must be a demon when something goes wrong, and there is no need to know his last whereabouts.

Chen Han concluded that this person was a ghost.

Not to mention, Zheng Guangming was already very angry at this time.

Because within half a month, he could not raise the next batch of girls to Manila, and his brother was killed by the Spanish in Manila.

The head was placed in a very delicate box and returned to the Ming Dynasty on a normal trade ship, and was handed over to him.

When he opened the box and saw his brother's dead head, he was furious.

He has already warned the Spanish in Manila that if they do not send ships to teach Chen Han a lesson, then trade will not be possible in the future.

If they lose this road, the worst they can do is wash their hands in a golden basin. Anyway, they have done so many deals over the years, and they can retire from the world long ago.

But you Spaniards are different. Without Daming as a partner, your life will not be easy.

The most important thing is that you lost three hundred elites at once, aren't you angry?
Don't we need an explanation?

So under Zheng Guangming's stimulation, the Spanish governor of Manila actually issued a kill order for Chen Han.

They ordered twenty warships and joined the pirates to attack Zhangzhou, Fujian.

Their action was very simple. They were to rob merchant ships along the coast, so that the Ming Dynasty would feel pressure and relax the search on those smugglers. This was their usual method.

Just like the big families in the southeast who resisted taxes and the imperial court's reforms before, it makes sense to unite with the Japanese pirates...

Fourth update! !

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