The Reborn Wife is Farming

The fifty-eight pirates were all from Dongying. Qi Haoran and Fan Zijin went to see the sober pirates together. The two expressed doubts that they dared to break the deadlock and go ashore first.

Dongying Haikou lay down on the ground cursing, seeing Qi Haoran and Fan Zijin coming in, his eyes were even more staring, full of resentment, if it wasn't for the chains on his body, he might have rushed to them.

Qi Haoran just glanced at them, turned around and left, Fan Zijin hurriedly followed him out, Qi Haoran turned his head and looked at Zhou Zhou coldly, "How to interrogate the pirates and let the master teach you? First beat them into obedience, and the master will come back at noon." I don’t want to hear a bad word from them.”

Zhou Zhou hurriedly bowed his head in response.

Seeing him leave, Fan Zijin said to Qi Haoran, "You come to interrogate yourself at noon, and let me know the result."

Qi Haoran said: "There are too many foreigners in Guangzhou, I don't understand everything they say, and those pirates don't know if they understand Chinese, so we need to find some people who are proficient in various languages."

"Businessmen who often do business with foreign domains should have such people on their hands, as well as veterans in the navy," Fan Zijin analyzed: "They often deal with pirates from domain merchants, so they should understand. I'll help you find merchants. Master, you can find it yourself."

Qi Haoran nodded, ordered the soldiers around him to do it, and then went to the Yamen with Fan Zijin.

When the government officials saw Qi Haoran, they all stood up and saluted, and then took the official documents to Fan Zijin's place to listen to the announcement.

General Wang Shen had been waiting in the government office for a long time. Seeing the two people coming together, he quickly got up and saluted. After Qi Haoran waved his hand, he sat down in his seat. The hall was divided into two rows, left Wen and right Wu This is the first military and political meeting since Qi Xiuyuan and Fan Zijin became the top military and political leaders in Guangzhou.

And the meeting has only one content, to check Yu Cheng.

Before, Yu Cheng had been escorted to Beijing for corruption, bribery, collusion with pirates, and killing Zhongliang, but after Fan Zijin rebuilt the fishing village, he discovered that the previous list of crimes was still missing.

Because the fishermen moved ten miles inland and found two sun-dried salt farms in a deserted fishing village, the two salt farms belonged to Yu Cheng.

Those fishermen had to move inland after being massacred and plundered by pirates. They found two hidden salt fields there, and they couldn't help wondering whether it was pirates who slaughtered the villagers?

Also, are the officials in Guangdong really ignorant?

It is almost impossible to hide the fact that so many officials in Guangdong have built two salt farms, dried salt, sold salt, and transported salt. Some of them must have opened the door for convenience.

The salt farm was built eight years ago. At that time, Daqi had not yet been established, and it was in troubled times. It was not difficult to do such a thing, but after Daqi was established and the order gradually stabilized, it was difficult to hide it.

Fan Zijin could still turn a blind eye to this kind of thing, but Qi Haoran didn't rub the sand in his eyes. After learning the news from Fan Zijin, he decided to gather officials from both the military and the government for a meeting, because it was a legacy from the previous dynasty. If there is a problem, he can meet the crime as appropriate, provided that the official has surrendered himself.

Qi Haoran said: "My lord, no matter whether you are in office, retired, or transferred outside, anyone who is involved in this matter must turn himself in at last, otherwise, I will ask this king to find out, and I will never show mercy. Unless you are dead, what should you do? What a crime!"

Fan Zijin looked coldly at the officials below, and said calmly: "Everyone, don't forget that all the criminals in Yu Cheng's case have been arrested, even Yu Cheng himself has been arrested."

The faces of the officials below were a little pale. They thought the earthquake had passed, but they didn't expect it to be more violent this time. It seemed that the officialdom in Guangdong was about to shake again.

After explaining the matter to Qi Haoran, he returned to the Naval Office.

The pirates were lying on the ground dying. Compared with the morning, they were like a fish about to die. Seeing Qi Haoran coming in, there was resentment in their eyes, but more fear and fear.

Qi Haoran stood still, turned his head and asked Zhou Zhou, "Did you find the translator?"

"I found it," Zhou Zhou pulled out a middle-aged man in ragged clothes, and said, "My lord, this man's name is Zhao San. He was captured by the Dongying people a few years ago and became a pirate. He learned the Dongying dialect inside. So it’s no problem to do the translation.”

Qi Haoran frowned and asked, "You are a pirate? Then how did you come back?"

Zhao Sancheng bowed in fear and said: "Go back, go back to the lord, I was arrested by them as a cook, and I was only responsible for cooking. More than two months ago, the pirates came back and said that the sky in Guangdong has changed. Who came here?" It’s very powerful. They defeated the foreign pirates and got a big ship, so they had to move. Oh, the island where they lived was very close to our coast. With the big ship, they could get there in half an hour. They were afraid, so they planned to When I moved, the younger one was also put on the boat, because I have been honest all these years, and they didn’t take precautions against me. When the boat got near the reef, I pretended to fall into the water, dived into the water and hid among the reefs, until the boat got close to the reef. It took a day to dare to swim back secretly."

Thinking of the narrow escape at that time, Zhao San still couldn't help but get red eyes, "Fortunately, I'm a good swimmer and I'm lucky, so I swam over after half a day."

As soon as he landed, he was found by the patrolling navy and brought back. Zhou Zhou asked someone to check his identity and found that he was a dead person in the file eight years ago.

It was found that Lizheng and the old man in the fishing village at that time could still know him, so Zhou Zhou didn't deal with him carefully.

Qi Haoran was looking for someone who is proficient in Dongying, but Zhou Zhou couldn't find it for a while. There were some people in the navy who could shout a few words, but there were really few who were proficient. Thinking of Zhao San who had lived in the pirate's den of the Dongying people for eight years. Years, I should understand, so I called him.

Of course, in order to prevent the other party from lying or playing tricks, Zhou Zhou also found two soldiers who could barely understand Japanese to listen.

Qi Haoran looked at Zhou Zhou, and Zhou Zhou nodded slightly to him, indicating that Zhao San could trust him, then he raised his chin slightly and said, "Ask them, how long have they been pirates, where is their lair, how dare they climb up this time?" How many people are still in the old nest."

Zhao San hurriedly bowed his head and nodded, and went forward to ask the other party in a chattering voice. The pirates looked at him coldly at first, but the guard next to him whipped him up when he saw that they didn't answer. From the looks, they knew that the other party was obedient and resisting. They had already received the order, and they didn't have to be polite to the pirates. of.

These pirates were not resistant to beatings, and they gave in after being whipped a few times. Even though their eyes were still full of resentment, they were willing to speak to answer Zhao San's question.

Zhao San translated sentence by sentence for Qi Haoran, and after a while, Qi Haoran finally understood the whole story.

These pirates are veterans, and it is not the first time they have gone ashore to rob people.

They are just refugees from Dongying, and they used to be fishermen, but because of the chaos in Dongying, they couldn't survive in the country, so they sailed across the ocean in a boat, and later landed in Fuzhou, and saw that the people were rich, so they became pirates. Live by robbery.

But the navy in Fuzhou is powerful, they are few in number, they were scattered several times, and after fleeing, they fled to the Guangdong area, and this is where they made their fortunes.