The Most Powerful Man in the World

Zhou Tong glanced at Liu's Patriarch lightly, then looked at Wang Ping again, and said slowly in a low voice.

Wang Ping and Liu's patriarchs could not help but look a little horrified and excited when they heard Zhou Tong's words.To be honest, both Wang Ping and the Liu family were shocked after hearing Zhou Tong's idea.

I just heard Wang Ping high-five and praise: "Brother Zhou Tong, your idea is really good, but this time I want to see how that Chu Yi solves the problem."

The manager of Huating Ship Division is a fifth-rank official, with more than a dozen subordinate officials, plus others, there are dozens of people in total.

Because of the new establishment of the entire Shibo Division, the yamen was just a random courtyard in Huating County that was temporarily used as a yamen.

Chen Ku was an official of Chu Yi's family, and he could be personally selected by Chu Yi and appointed as the director of the newly established Shibo Division. Naturally, he had some talent. , and was even stationed in Huating by Chu Yi.

In the evening of this day, Chen Kuzheng wrote a letter in cursive writing in his study with a distressed face. In this letter, he informed Yu Chuyi of everything that had happened since the establishment of the Huating Ship Division.

Gradually, the study became dark, and the flames flickered, reflecting Chen Ku's figure on the window.

But it is said that Huating County is adjacent to the estuary of the Yangtze River, which can be said to be a natural and excellent seaport.

The waves slapped against the rocks, except for the sound of the waves, other than the sound of the waves, there was almost no other sound, and suddenly a shouting sounded: "Be careful, King Ben, if anyone makes any big noise, Ben Your Majesty will never spare them."

In the darkness not far from the port, more than a dozen small boats were docked on the shore, and then one after another silhouette jumped directly ashore from the boat.

Indistinctly, hundreds of brave people landed on the shore, each with a hideous face, and soon a group of people gathered on the shore.

These people hid in the reefs on the shore like hungry wolves, and it didn't take long to see a boat reappearing on the sea.

This time, the number of ships that appeared was not a dozen, but dozens. When the people on these ships landed smoothly, there were hundreds of people.

These hundreds of people looked a little weird, because these people were dressed in strange clothes, many of them were wearing clogs, with mustaches, and samurai swords were slanted at their waists.

If anyone who knows these people sees it, I am afraid they will exclaim: "Japanese pirates!"

These people are the Japanese pirates who traversed the southeast coast and once became the scourge of the Ming Dynasty.

The name of Japanese pirates is a title for the pirates in the east. Since the morale of Taizu, Japanese pirates have invaded the coastal areas, and until Chengzu, Zheng He, the eunuch of the Three Treasures, personally commanded the fleet to go to the West.

The strength of the Daming marine navy team directly crushed those large and small Japanese pirates. Since then, the Japanese pirates who have truly seen the power of the marine navy team of the Daming Institute have suddenly become more restrained.

At that time, due to Daming's illustrious reputation in the surrounding countries and even the sea, Daming did not need to take action. It was only the city lords and generals of Dongying who were near the sea to deal with those Japanese pirates.

However, over the past [-] years, Dongying has always remembered what to eat and not to fight, and has long forgotten the terrible threat and pressure that the huge fleet of the Ming Dynasty had brought to its ancestors. generation.

It can even be said that if Chu Yi did not appear, the Japanese pirate rebellion would completely break out in at most 20 years. On the one hand, it was because at that time the internal struggle for power in Japan was fierce, and big names in various places broke out in order to compete for territory and interests. battle.

In the war, whether it was deserters or defeated daimyo, many people directly chose to be a pirate and became a pirate who caused the disaster.

And these pirates naturally set their sights on the fat Ming, which created the later famous southeastern Japanese pirates rebellion.

Although the Japanese pirates existed at this time, they were not too many in number, and there were at least 200 Japanese pirates who landed this time. It can be seen that this is definitely a truly powerful pirate.

The leader of a samurai, with clogs under his feet, with a mustache and braids on his head, appeared in front of a big man with bare breasts, squinting his eyes and bowing at the big man, "Hey, Gang. Muragui has seen Wang Jun!"

Wang Mei looked at Gangcun Guiyi, and immediately showed a bit of surprise on his face, and bowed to Gangcun Guiyi: "General Gangcun is really a big hand, and he actually sent Guiyijun to lead the troops in person."

Gangcun Guiyi smiled and said: "My general is an ally with you. Besides, this time is profitable. It is reasonable for the general to send more people, but I would like to ask Mr. Wang to forgive me."

Wang Mei frowned, but after pondering for a while, he said to Gangcun Gui: "This time, I also ask Mr. Gangcun to cooperate with Wang to destroy the Huating City Ship Company!"

Gangcun Guiyi laughed loudly and said, "It's just the ship division of Huating City, not to mention the ship division of one city. Even the entire Huating County, this general can break through if he wants to."

Wang Mei glanced at Gangcun Gui, opened his mouth and said nothing, but he waved his hand, and immediately saw Wang Mei's men and horses gathered together and disappeared into the night.

And Gangcun Guiichi was the first to lead his subordinates to follow closely.

Huating County is shrouded in darkness. At first glance, the entire Huating County is not too big, the city walls are in disrepair, and the bricks in many places are broken, so a door will squeak whether it is opened or closed. There was a creaking sound, and I was really worried that the door would fall.

A few figures could be vaguely seen above the city wall, but those figures were in a daze, and they almost fell asleep directly against the city wall.

Those figures are the soldiers guarding the county seat of Huating County. Originally, there were at least dozens of people in the group. As a result, due to various reasons such as empty wages, there should have been dozens of people patrolling the city wall, but it turned out that less than [-]% remained. Even the remaining forty percent were old, weak, sick and disabled, so there were a few figures on the city wall.

In the darkness, if you didn't look carefully, you wouldn't be able to notice a group of people slowly approaching the city gate.

There was a jingle, a subtle sound came from above the city wall, and I saw an iron claw stuck on the battlement, and then a figure jumped up the city wall smartly and quickly. The nearest guard who was almost asleep covered his mouth in front of him, the sharp knife slashed his throat fiercely, and blood spurted out immediately.

Immediately after that, several figures climbed up the city wall along the rope. Originally, there were not many soldiers guarding the city wall. As a result, more than a dozen soldiers guarding the city lost their lives almost in their sleep.

When a dozen figures descended the city wall along the corridor to the gate of the city, a confused defender of the city was stunned for a moment, and shouted as if he had seen a ghost: "There is a ghost!"

The soldier's exclamation suddenly alarmed more than a dozen soldiers who were resting in the city gate hole, but these soldiers did not realize that the enemy was coming, but instead cursed, thinking that the soldier was yelling and disturbing their dreams.

But when more than a dozen figures with ferocious faces rushed into the city gate, the sword light flashed, and these soldiers almost lost their lives in a daze. Even if someone reacted, it was too late to react. With the screams, the entire city gate was filled with a bloody aura, and blood spurted out everywhere on the ground.

Squeaky squeak, the old city gate slowly opened, and then hundreds of figures swarmed in.

Needless to say, these people were of course Wang Mei and Gangcun Guiyi and others. With Wang Mei leading the way, it can be said that hundreds of people went straight to the direction of the ship division of Zhonghua Pavilion in the city.

The movement made by hundreds of people is not small, but even if the people in the city heard the movement, no one dared to open the door.

Huating Ship Division is located in a corner of Huating County. Because the yamen is still under construction, the current location of Huating Ship Division is simply an ordinary compound.

Because of the intentional or unintentional confrontation between the merchants in Huating County, Huating City Shipping Division did not receive any tax and silver at all, and Chen Ku was also writing letters by the lights in the study at the moment.

At this moment, the compound of Huating Ship Division has been surrounded by hundreds of ferocious pirates, and even a fly can never fly into the Ship Division.

Looking at the gate of the shipping department, Wang Mei glanced at Gangcun Guiyi, and bowed to Gangcun Guiyi and said, "Mr. Gangcun, please do everything next!"

Gangcun Guiyi said to Wang Meisu: "Don't worry, Wang Jun, I will definitely kill this ship company from top to bottom!"

Wang Mei nodded slightly, and disappeared in front of Gangcun Guiyi in a flash, while Gangcun Guiyi waved his hand with a ferocious and ferocious look in his eyes, kicked the door open and shouted loudly at the crowd behind him. : "Kill with me, no matter whether it is a living person or an animal, leave none of it!"

Chapter 440 The Big Fire in the Dark Night

The door collapsed with a bang, and then a group of people rushed into the Shibo Division waving their weapons one by one.

The Huating Ship Division is just a yamen responsible for collecting taxes. There are not many guards at all, especially in the dead of night. It can be said that [-]% of the entire Ship Division are in their sleep.

These people suddenly entered the city ship division, and they didn't even respond to some sleeping people.

However, Chen Ku heard the movement for the first time, and almost instinctively opened his mouth to blow out the oil lamp. He jumped out of the window with a stunned figure, and rolled on the spot to hide in a clump of flowers.

Chen Ku is a talent selected by Chu Yi, and he is naturally not an incompetent person who can be the head of the ship company.

It can even be said that Chen Ku was already mentally prepared for this situation before he became the director of Shibo Division.

Although Chen Ku is unwilling to believe that someone dares to stare at Chu Yi's fierceness and attack Shibosi, Chen Ku is more aware that dogs jump over walls in a hurry, rabbits bite people when they are in a hurry, not to mention the fact that these money, family Interests are regarded as life-like people.

The local clan power can be said to be deeply ingrained, and there are countless people who despise Wang Fa in the local area, so there is always a group of people who seem to be very stupid and run over to die.

But Chen Ku didn't expect that some people would be so blatant, and even sent someone to rush directly into the Shibo Division.

Hiding in a remote corner, Chen Ku could see at least dozens of people rushing into the Shibo Division through the dim moonlight.

When Chen Ku vaguely saw the person in the lead, he couldn't help but be surprised. Obviously, Chen Ku saw Gangcun Guiyi's dress.

Gangcun Guiyi's outfits are difficult for most people to recognize when they see him, but Chen Ku is also a very capable person, and he can be regarded as well-informed, especially when Chu Yi was assigned to take charge. The matter of Huating Shibosi, so Chen Ku really put a lot of effort into understanding some of the things that Shibosi has to contact and some problems that may be encountered.

Among them, maritime trade is obviously the main object under the jurisdiction of the Shi Ship Division, and maritime trade is, in the final analysis, overseas trade. If you want to talk about the overseas countries closest to Daming, the first thing that many people think of is the East Ying Island country.

Chen Ku naturally knew about this. Although he said that he had never seen a Dongying person, Chen Ku had also read some records about the Dongying people.

He was wearing clogs under his feet, braided upside down, and had a mustache. The most striking thing was the samurai sword in his hand, which was completely different from the style of the Central Plains, so when he saw Gangcun Gui and a group of people rushing into the Shibo Division, Chen Ku It turned out that these people were Japanese pirates.

In recent years, Japanese pirates will harass all parts of the coast from time to time, and Huating is obviously within the scope of the harassment of Japanese pirates. Even if there are Japanese pirates appearing in Huating, it is not uncommon.

Gangcun Guiyi kicked the door of a room open, and then he heard an angry roar: "Who..."

However, the next moment, there was an exclamation and screams from the room, and soon Gangcun Guiyi walked out of the room with a bloody samurai sword.

As for the other rooms, those Japanese pirates who rushed into the room with Gangcun Guiyi easily confused the officials of Huating City Ship Division and even did not know what was going on. Gang Xian was killed.

Gangcun Guiyi stood in the middle of the compound, and soon saw a person walking up to Gangcun Guiyi and said to Gangcun Gui, "Mr. Gangcun, there are 38 people in Huating Shipyard, and 37 people were killed. Without Chen Ku, the head of the Shipbuilding Department!"

Gangcun Guiyi couldn't help frowning when he heard the words, and the master opened his eyes wide and shouted, "Everyone will search for me, even if you dig three feet in the ground, you will find people."

According to the information Gangcun Guiyi had previously obtained, Chen Ku, the head of the Shibo Division, was in this compound. It can be said that one of their goals here was Chen Ku. As a result, they were all killed now, but No trace of Chen Ku was found, how could this not make Gangcun Guiyi angry.

Immediately, dozens of ferocious, blood-stained Japanese pirates searched the huge yard.

Chen Ku was just hiding in a remote corner, covered by a patch of flowers. Previously, these Japanese pirates were busy cleaning up the officials in the room, so they didn't pay attention to where Chen Ku was hiding.

But at this moment, the Japanese pirates began to search the entire yard. Unless a crack opened in the ground and Chen Ku burrowed into the ground, if the Japanese pirates got serious, Chen Ku would be discovered sooner or later.

"You wait for such a big dog to dare to attack and kill the officials of the imperial court. Are you not afraid that my army will come and kill you?"

Chen Ku's sudden appearance surprised the two Japanese pirates who had found Chen Ku's hiding place. After all, a figure suddenly appeared in the darkness, which was too scary after all.

When Gangcun Guiyi heard the words, his eyes fell on Chen Ku. When he saw Chen Ku's clothes, Gangcun Guiyi's eyes lit up and stared at Chen Ku and said in lame Chinese: "Your Excellency is The director of Huating City Shipping Division, Chen Ku?"

Chen Ku took a deep breath and looked at Gangcun Guiyi and the others, especially at Gangcun Gui: "If this official is not mistaken, you are not from my Ming Dynasty, but a Japanese pirate in the East!"

Gangcun Guiyi narrowed his eyes, and the corners of his mouth curled slightly: "Lord Chen guessed it, so next year's day will be the day of your death."

While speaking, Gang Cun Gui took a big step towards Chen Ku.Chen Ku's expression showed a bit of nervousness, but the whole person did not take a step back, nor did he mean to ask for mercy.

As a smart person, Chen Ku saw very clearly that since these Japanese pirates killed the entire Shibo Division, they would definitely not leave him alive, so no matter how much he begged for mercy, these people would not. Let him go, since he'll die anyway, it's better to die with more backbone.

Seeing Gangcun Guiyi walking towards him, Chen Ku stared at Gangcun Guiyi with a trembling voice: "Today, if you kill my Daming officials, tomorrow my Daming warship will surely pacify the land of Dongying. , use your blood to restore today's revenge..."

With a puff, he saw Gangcun Guiyi stabbed into Chen Ku's belly one by one, and Chen Ku groaned suddenly, the whole person hunched over his forehead with blue veins bursting out, and a big mouthful of blood gushed out of his mouth.

With a thud, Chen Ku's body fell softly to the ground, and a large area of ​​blood immediately dyed the ground red. As the twitching of Chen Ku's body gradually stopped, it was obvious that Chen Ku was already breathless.

Gangcun Gui glanced at Chen Ku with a look of admiration in his eyes, but when he raised his head, he said with a grim look: "Search all the places again, don't miss a living person, be sure to Make sure the chickens and dogs don't stay!"

Soon, a raging fire ignited in the courtyard where the Ship Office Yamen of Huating City was located.

The raging fire naturally alerted many people in Huating County who were gathered around the ship division of Huating City for the first time.

"It's not good, it's gone..."

"It's on fire, everyone, get up and put out the fire!"

It's a pity that when these people came out with buckets of water spontaneously, the entire Huating City Yamen was completely swallowed up by the fire. Not to mention that some people spontaneously put out the fire, even the people of the entire Huating County were dispatched together. There is no way to save the fire that is completely burning.

Fortunately, these people controlled the fire in time, but only allowed the fire to spread to a few nearby houses. The fire caused a lot of noise. Those people living near the compound where the Shibo Division was located were naturally awakened and escaped in time. A catastrophe.

The fire raged for almost the middle of the night, and under the raging fire, no one could get close to the Shibo Division.

However, the Huating City Ship Division, which had not been established for a long time, was swallowed up by a fire, which naturally alarmed the county government. The county magistrate was awakened by the yamen in his sleep. All he could do was watch the fire burn.

Between the flashes of fire, in the dark corner of the distance, a sedan chair was parked in a remote place, and a figure was sitting in the sedan chair, looking at the raging fire from a distance through the window of the sedan chair, you could vaguely see it. A look of excitement and grimness flashed across a face.

Jingshi

Chu Yi returned from Tianjin Wei not long ago, and his whole person seemed to be a lot lower-key all of a sudden. Chu Yi gradually seldom intervened in the political affairs of the DPRK and China, and instead handed over a large number of government affairs to Zhu Houzhao to deal with.

Zhu Houzhao was obviously aware of Chu Yi's actions, and was very puzzled. He even came to see Chu Yi in person to ask the reason. After all, Zhu Houzhao trusted and relied on Chu Yi very much. Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but think about it.

Of course, Zhu Houzhao didn't think that Chu Yi would be bad for him, but thought that Chu Yi did this on purpose to avoid danger, but Zhu Houzhao was afraid that it would ruin the relationship between the two of them.