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"Reporting to Your Majesty, all parts of Nanyang are covered by lush forests, and only a small amount of land by the sea can be used. Because fresh water is needed, it is usually by the river. If it is too far away from the river, then the sea cannot be used."

Chen Qing also understands that it is precisely because of too many forests that the Southeast Asian countries can become the centers of spices in the world. Not only do they go to buy spices, but Arabs, Persians, and even Eastern Roman merchants also come to buy spices.

"I know!"

Chen Qing nodded and said: "The trade in Nanyang will continue, but the construction of the new city of Malacca must be stepped up, as well as the land on the Luni country. The key point is to recruit Han people to live there."

"Your Majesty, it is indeed difficult to recruit people in the past. There are many women in Nanyang and few men. If Your Majesty agrees to let the soldiers stay, they can marry the women there and continue their heirs."

Chen Qing thought for a while, and then said happily: "I have never objected to soldiers staying overseas, and they can marry local women. You should pay attention to it, not to let soldiers integrate into the local area, but to let local women integrate into us, and even let the local women integrate into us. The local people are gradually sinicizing, and let their children learn Chinese and learn the etiquette of the Central Plains."

"This minister fully understands His Highness' national policy!"

"It's good if you understand. I have been paying close attention to Ryukyu Island. Three counties have been built there. We need to intensify population migration from the Central Plains. As long as the population exceeds [-] households, we can independently build a government and establish a Ryukyu government. Work hard." ! I will make you the first governor of Ryukyu Prefecture."

Excited, Chao Kun got up and bowed, "My minister will definitely do everything possible to increase the population of Ryukyu Island."

Chapter 560 Kidnapping

Jingzhao Shipbuilding School is a school co-founded by Zheng, Yu, and Wang, three big businessmen. The major is shipbuilding and repairing. At present, the shipbuilding industry is the most popular industry in the Yong Dynasty. The monthly income of an ordinary boatman can reach ten guanqian. The monthly income of master craftsmen who can build seagoing ships even reached [-] yuan.

Therefore, the Shipbuilding School was established, and the number of students who signed up was very popular. Tens of thousands of people signed up, but only 3000 people were admitted in the end.

The school is still under construction outside the west city, and the temporary school has already started classes, mainly for some theoretical content.

This afternoon, the students came out of the school one after another, and a thin boy came out of the school.

A carriage stopped in front of him, and someone called him, "Huang Heping!"

The teenager looked at the other party, he was a man he didn't know, with a friendly smile.

"Are you looking for me?"

The man nodded, "Your father is very busy, there is an important matter at Shaofu Temple, he asked me to pick you up!"

The boy shook his head, "No, I'll go back by myself!"

"Come up quickly! I'm going to a friend's house for dinner today. You don't know the place. Your father asked me to pick you up."

The young man hesitated for a moment, and got into the carriage. The door slammed shut, and the carriage sped away. The young man felt something was wrong and struggled desperately. A dagger was held against his throat. Just now the man said viciously: "If you move again, your throat will be cut off!"

"Who are you?" The boy scolded angrily.

"It doesn't matter who we are, the important thing is that you cooperate obediently, otherwise we can only kill you and your parents together!"

The other party threatened his parents, so the teenager had to stop struggling.

"That's right, we'll let you go home soon!"

The man tied the boy's hands behind his back, covered his head with a black bag, and the carriage accelerated towards Xianyang.

……

Huang Qing, who lives in No. 70, No. [-], Sifang City, is a master smelter of Shaofu Temple. He can be regarded as the best smelter of the Yong Dynasty. made.

At night, Huang Qing's family was anxious. His second son, Huang Heping, went to learn shipbuilding, but he hadn't returned home yet, which really worried Huang Qing.

His son has always been honest and well-behaved. He never spends the night outside, nor does he hang out with any cronies. He comes home on time every time, but what happened tonight?

"The child's father, someone is looking for him!"

Huang Qing is upset, what are the guests doing at this time?

He walked quickly into the yard, and there were two strange men carrying a big suitcase.

"Who are you?"

The man smiled and said, "My name is Pei Qiushan. He is the teacher of the shipbuilding school. Your son is at my house now!"

Huang Qing was stunned, "My son is at your house?"

Pei Qiushan nodded, "Let's talk!"

"Where's my son, why doesn't he go home?"

Pei Qiushan said lightly: "Let's talk about it!"

Huang Qing suddenly realized something and nodded, "Please come in!"

Pei Qiushan and his men walked into the living room, Huang Qing told his wife: "You close the courtyard door, don't bother me!"

His wife didn't know what happened, so she hurried to close the door.

Huang Qing came to the living room and asked the two to sit down. He cut to the chase and said, "Who are you guys? Where is my son?"

As a first-class master craftsman, Huang Qing had received special anti-leaking training from internal guards. He immediately realized that these two people came with bad intentions, and they most likely kidnapped his son.

Pei Qiushan took out a jade ruyi wrapped with a red string and put it on the table. Huang Qing recognized it was on his son's wrist at a glance, and he said angrily: "You really kidnapped my son!"

"Please don't get excited, Mr. Huang. Your son is fine. We didn't hurt him, but restricted his freedom."

Pei Qiushan tried his best to appease Huang Qing, he put the big box on the table, opened the box, the golden light was shining in an instant, and the inside was full of gold.

"What exactly do you want?" Huang Qing clenched his fists. Now he only cares about his son's safety, and he doesn't care about gold anymore.

"It's very simple. We want to learn Mr. Huang's smelting and forging technology, and we want to hire Mr. Huang to go to Korea as the chief master craftsman."

"So you are from Korea!"

"It doesn't matter where we are from, what matters is our sincerity!"

"Sincere?"

Huang Qing snorted heavily, "Kidnapping my son, is that what you call sincerity?"

"We didn't kidnap, we just want you to be reunited together!"

Huang Qing shook his head, "Hurry up and put my son back, everything is easy to talk about, if you don't see my son tonight, you can't leave Sifang City."

Pei Qiushan saw that Huang Jin's threat was useless to Huang Qing, so he could only adopt the second plan. He gave his subordinate a wink, and his subordinate's movement was as fast as lightning, and he slammed his palm on Huang Qing's neck, Huang Qing fell limp immediately. Land, passed out.

The subordinates did the same thing again and knocked Huang Qing's wife unconscious. They worked together and carried Huang Qing and his wife into the carriage outside the door one after another.

The carriage started immediately and left Sifang City quickly.

……

This time, the inner guards stared at them.

At night, the carriage couldn't go fast, so two old men riding donkeys followed the carriage and headed all the way to Jingzhao City.

The carriage drove into a farm compound outside the west city gate.

The inner guard didn't immediately rescue them, Zhong Huan guessed that there were other craftsmen in the hands of the other party, and they would probably gather the craftsmen together and send them to Korea together.

This is also because the inner guards have learned from previous experience and lessons. There are two groups of Korean people, one is responsible for collecting resources, and the other is responsible for transferring resources, that is, sending them to Korea.

Last time, the internal guards acted prematurely and arrested a group of people who collected resources. As a result, another group of Koreans who transferred resources calmly sent Tie Huolei to Korea.

This time, the inner guards will wipe out the two groups of Koreans.

Pei Qiushan took medicine for three of Huang Qing's family, and all three of them were in a deep sleep.

At one o'clock, the carriage left the compound outside the West City again, heading towards the Weihe River...

At this time, Zhong Huan was waiting for news in an internal guard branch near the west gate.

He could not send more men, but sent three men with the strongest tracking ability to stare at each other, and at the same time deployed tracking ships at the Weihe River and Guangyuntan Wharf.

According to the previous interrogation record, it was learned that the other party had set up a transfer point in Gong County, Kaifeng Prefecture, but they didn't know where it was in Gong County.

Zhong Huan judged that this time they would still send the three members of Huang Qing's family to Gong County to meet up, and then transfer from Gong County to Shandong Road to go to sea and go to Korea.

At this time, a soldier came to report.

"General Qi, the other party has already left the compound, and the carriage is heading towards the Weihe River!"

Zhong Huan nodded, "Have you followed him?"

"The two have already followed, leaving one person to continue to stare at the compound!"

This is very necessary to prevent the other party from feinting and shooting.

"I see, continue to stare at the other side's compound!"

After his men left, Zhong Huan continued to patiently wait for the other party's next move.

……

The carriage arrived at the Weihe Wharf and stopped in front of a three-thousand-stone ship. There was only this three-thousand-stone ship on the entire pier, and the others were cargo ships of about a thousand stone.

Several warriors unloaded three large wooden boxes from the carriage and carried them onto the boat.

Xu Cheng, the leader of the inner guard, was staring at the ship from a distance, and said to the two subordinates on his opponent: "Go to the dock registration office to check this ship!"

The two men rushed away, and after a while, the two men came back and reported in a low voice: "This is a civilian cargo ship. The owner's surname is Liu. It travels between Sanmenxia and Jingzhao all the year round. It just arrived in Jingzhao this afternoon. , was locked up for three months."

At this time, a boatman jumped out of the boat, clutched his stomach and ran into the grass.

This was an opportunity, but Xu Cheng hesitated for a moment, could this be the opposing warrior disguised as a boatman?

However, based on the way the boatman jumped off the boat and ran, Xu Cheng concluded that the boatman did not know martial arts and should be just an ordinary boatman, not the opponent's converted samurai.

Xu Cheng had a bold idea in his heart, and rushed over in a flash.

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Soon, Xu Cheng jumped onto the boat wearing the boatman's clothes, and he saw the boatman's boss, Lao Fang, a middle-aged man with gray beard and hair.

He walked up to the old side and said in a low voice: "Don't say anything, I'm the inner guard!"

He took out the inner guard's silver medal, the boss of the boat was startled, and quickly asked in a low voice: "What happened?"

"These people are Korean spies who came to Jingzhao to steal military secrets."

"I mean, why can't I understand what they are saying?"

Xu Cheng said in a low voice: "From now on, I will be Wang Ping. Tell some of your subordinates not to be spotted by the other party, or your life will be in danger."

The boss of the boat nodded and asked again, "Where's Xiao Wang?"

"My men have brought him back to the city."

The boss of the boat went to gather several boatmen and told them a few words, and Xu Cheng stayed on the boat under the pseudonym of Wang Ping.

At the middle of the night, at the request of the other party, the ship left the pier and set sail towards Tongguan.

……

Not long after the ship set sail, Zhong Huan got the news that the commander Xu Cheng had boarded the ship, disguised as a boatman, and would leave a message at the Huayin County wharf.

Zhong Huan immediately arranged for his men to follow the big ship from land, and ordered the commander Chu Guangya to lead more than 100 inner guards to Huayin County by land.

Zhong Huan continued to stare at Pei Qiushan, Yao Kaishan and their accomplices.

……

Pei Qiushan found a troublesome thing, Sifang City suddenly stepped up its security, and drove all the small merchants out of the city. The gate was full of soldiers, and a pass was required to enter and exit.

It should be that they kidnapped Huang Qing and his wife last night, which triggered a security alert.

If so, how did they take Gunpowder Master away?

Pei Qiushan was a little embarrassed, so he immediately found the county captain Yao Kaishan.

"You have to think of a way. This is a plan hosted by the king himself. We must not go back empty-handed."

Yao Kaishan shook his head, "Gunpowder and firearms smiths have always been the most strictly controlled. In the morning, there are special carriages to take them to the firearms supervisor, and there are cavalry guards. The same is true at night. You don't even know their names and where they live? Unless you can buy a firearms warrant, it's pretty much impossible."

Pei Qiushan said unwillingly: "Is there any low-level official like Kong Yuan who has important information at the same time?"

"Some have also been brought under control. To be honest, I am very worried that Kong Yuan will be watched by the inner guards. He is in control of the list. Now that Huang Qing is missing, the inner guards will definitely start investigating. They will definitely focus on suspecting Kong Yuan. A little bit of Kong Yuan If I'm under investigation, I'm about to be arrested, have you found out where Kong Yuan is hiding, and kill him quickly!"

"Don't worry! If you can't find out about you, it should be Huang Qing's son who leaked it. I asked him. Several of his classmates knew about his father's situation. The inner guards usually start with the family members around them, and then they will suspect it at the end. To the officials, think of a solution now, what about the gunpowder maker?"

Yao Kaishan pondered for a moment and said: "The only way is to fight on the road, you kill thirty escort cavalry, and the craftsmen in the carriage are up to you to choose."

"Don't say such stupid things. We only came 15 people in total. Five people left last night, and there are still ten people left. Ten people fight against thirty cavalry?"

"Then we can only wait patiently, the opportunity is waiting!"

Pei Qiushan pondered for a moment and said: "Think about what you can do. Let me know at noon tomorrow. If it really doesn't work, we will evacuate to Luoyang first and contact you in three months."

Pei Qiushan left in a hurry, Yao Kaishan was pacing back and forth in the room with his hands behind his back, he was also upset, Kong Yuan was like a knife hanging above his head, he didn't know when it would fall.