Mingshi

Chapter 998

In fact, they also hope that the Daming Navy will win, so that they can do business smoothly without being exploited by pirates.You must know that pirates can kill people at any time. If the pirates are slightly dissatisfied, they will kill people and seize goods.

Zhang Juzheng, Xu Shixing and the Xu brothers didn't have time to pay attention to the merchants of the feudal kingdom, they hurried towards Hu Zongxian's Metropolitan Government.

Entering the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, he was told that the Metropolitan Governor was investigating the cause of the navy's failure, and asked the four of them to wait in the living room.After waiting for more than two hours, Hu Zongxian walked into the living room with a tired face.

"Great Governor!" The four of Zhang Juzheng stood up immediately.

Hu Zongxian waved his hands wearily and said: "To make a long story short, I have carefully studied the strength of pirates. Their ships are faster, stronger, and bigger, and their firearms are very powerful. Our Daming Navy is no match for pirates at all. In the future The Daming Navy will no longer take the initiative to attack at sea, but will choose to defend. At sea, I can't help you. Well, you can leave."

"Governor!" Zhang Juzheng cupped his hands and said, "Do you know the background of these pirates?"

"I don't know!" Hu Zongxian shook his head and said, "However, I will investigate."

After saying that, Hu Zongxian looked at Xu Shixing and said, "Master Xu, no matter what, we went to sea twice, so the Department of Shipbuilding still has to compensate us for our losses."

Xu Shixing was also quite irritable at this time, the navy you trained lost the battle, how dare you ask for money?So he said in a low voice:

"I will present it to His Majesty. As long as His Majesty makes an order and the Ministry of War orders, the officials will send the gold and silver."

Hu Zongxian's face turned gloomy, he narrowed his eyes slightly, with a sharp light flickering in the slits of his eyes, and said in a dark voice:

"Okay, I've made a note of it. Come and see off the guests."

The four people were forcibly driven out, Zhang Juzheng looked at Xu Shixing and sighed:

"You! Why are you so direct? You can be vague first, why bother to turn against Hu Zongxian face to face? On the southeast side, Hu Zongxian's cooperation is still needed."

"Need his cooperation?" Xu Shixing sneered: "When did the people in the southeast rely on Hu Zongxian? Hu Zongxian eliminated all the pirates and Japanese pirates? They were all eliminated by Luo Xin. Now only some pirates who have just appeared can kill them." His navy has been beaten to nothing, what else can he rely on?
Let me see, if the pirates really hit the shore again, Hu Zongxian is still useless.For such a person, why should I compromise?Giving him back gold and silver means making him marry another concubine? "

"My lords, please stop arguing!" Xu Kun said, "What about the deal with the merchants of the vassal state? The price they offered is simply unacceptable. At that price, our Xu family will not only make money, but pay less." Yes, it's all luck."

"What if it's the previous price?"

"What price was it before?"

Xu Shixing said unhappily: "It's the price at which your Xu family squeezed out the five great families."

"That price is not a compensation, but it's not profitable either. This can't keep Xu Jiabai busy."

"I don't care about this!" Xu Shixing said coldly: "It was your malicious competition that squeezed out the five great families, so you must complete the taxation of the Shibo Department. If you lose a companion, I will definitely report to Your Majesty and impeach your Xu family One."

"That can't keep our Xu Jiabai busy!" Xu Kun said decisively.

"Okay, I'll go back and write the memorial now. And Mr. Zhang, you agreed to let the Xu family participate in the transaction this time. I won't hide it."

After Xu Shixing finished speaking, he tossed his sleeves and left.Looking at Xu Shixing's leaving back, Zhang Juzheng sighed and said:

"You two young masters, this tariff can't stop you, it will affect the teacher's future."

Xu Kun and Xu Ying's faces were also very ugly, but they could not give Xu Shixing face, but they couldn't not give Zhang Ju face.Xu Kun pondered for a while and said:

"I'll write to my father!"

Zhang Juzheng nodded, got into the sedan chair and left.

Xu Shixing returned to the Shibo Department in a hurry, full of shame and anger.He once came to the southeast with the belief of being reborn from the ashes, but now he has fallen into the mire.Luo Xin's exhortation at the beginning still rings in my ears, let him come to the southeast, everything just sticks to the rules, but in the end he didn't resist the pressure and let the Xu family participate.Originally thought that the Xu family only participated in it, and only gave a piece of meat to the Xu family, so there should be no problem.

However, they did not expect that the Xu family was so greedy, step by step, the matter got out of hand.

"Xu Jie, how much better are you than Yan Song?"

Xu Shixing wrote down every detail of his trip to the southeast, and added the evidence he had collected, and then sent someone to the capital.

At the same time, Zhang Juzheng was also writing a letter, writing down the matter objectively, and then sent someone to his teacher Xu Jie.

Xu Fu, Xu Kun is also writing to Xu Jie.It's just that he pushed all the responsibilities to the pirates and Hu Zongxian.At the same time, he also filed a complaint with Xu Jie, and Xu Shixing refused to listen to the orders of the Xu family.

On the same day, the three letters left Hangzhou and headed for the capital.

However, more detailed information than them was sent to Luo Xin one step ahead of time through a car dealership.

Luo Xin was sitting in the study, holding the piece of news about Southeast in his hand, with a smile on his face.

There was a sound of footsteps, and Lu Daqing's voice sounded outside.

"Master Hou, Lu Yi is here."

Luo Xin nodded. Lu Yi has the Jinyiwei channel, and he only got the news later than himself. He should have gotten the news before Xu Shixing, Zhang Juzheng and the Xu family.

Shi Shiran walked out of the study and came to the flower hall. Lu Yi suddenly stood up with a happy face and said:
"Lord Luo, we have received news from Southeast."

Luo Xin sat down, motioned for Lu Yi to sit down and said, "What news?"

"Look!" Lu Yi took out a piece of paper from his cuff and handed it to Luo Xin. Luo Xin took it, read it hastily, and then returned the paper to Lu Yi, with a look of compassion on his face. :

"Pirates, there are pirates again! The wildfire is endless, and the spring breeze blows again. The people in the southeast will suffer again."

The smile on Lu Yi's face tightened and he said, "My lord is kind."

Luo Xin waved his hand and said: "I'm just feeling a little bit of emotion, I'm not in my position, I don't want to do anything about it, now I'm just a left-handed son of Zhan Shifu, I'm powerless!"

"Yes!" Lu Yi complimented, "If your lord is in the southeast, where would there be pirates?"

Luo Xin waved his hand again and said: "It's too good!"

"Master Luo, what do you think we should do now? Should we let the five great families participate again? This time is our good opportunity."

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(End of this chapter)