Chapter 113: Meet a Marine Businessman

The Jinyiwei stayed at the original Yuan Dynasty Filipino Chamber of Commerce Hall, which was specially used to receive overseas merchants. After the maritime ban, it was changed to the welcome hall of the government, which was specially used to receive high-ranking officials of the imperial court or other local government officials. The guild hall covers a large area and has hundreds of various houses, divided into two parts, east and west. Li Weizheng's 300 Jinyiwei lived in the East Hall.

At this moment, Li Weizheng's room was kneeling on the ground and cried in tears. Yes, he was Zhao Shisanlang, who was the last unknown person in the Wuchang letter-winning case. He was ordered to plant Cheng Yannian by Cheng Yannian. When Cheng Yannian took the fake letter from the ship, he was murdered by Zhao Shisanlang in the river. Unexpectedly, when the Yellow Bird was behind, he had just received the letter, and another subordinate of Han Danding, who became the boatman of Qiao, suddenly attacked. He cut off his arm holding the letter when he was unprepared and kicked him out of the river. Zhao Shisanlang was very lucky and was rescued by a fisherman and escaped his life. At this time, Zhao Wuji had already returned to the capital. Zhao Shisanlang threw the letter in the river and went to see the leader. He simply stayed in Wuchang to recuperate.

But when he was injured for several months and returned to the capital, he learned that his brother Zhao Da was killed by the King of Qin. Zhao Da was Zhao Shisanlang's brother. The two were fifteen years apart. Both of them died since childhood. Zhao Da pulled his brother to his name as his elder brother and was in love with his father and son. When he learned that his elder brother died tragically, the thought of revenge was deeply buried in Zhao Shisanlang's heart. He destroyed his appearance in order not to let the guards around Qin Wang recognize him. However, with the identity of the King of Qin and his arm cut off, it was so difficult to get revenge. He had no chance to get in the King of Qin. Zhao Shisanlang had no choice but to make a long-term plan, and his eyes were on Li Weizheng. Perhaps only he could fulfill his wish in the end.

After listening to his words silently, Li Weizheng asked, "Then what are your plans in the future?"

Zhao Shisanlang kowtowed heavily, "I am drifting all over the world and have no support. The villain is willing to follow the Qianhu and serve the adults."

Although Li Weizheng also learned a little sword technique, it was okay to deal with ordinary thieves. But if someone with high martial arts skills came to assassinate him, he might not be able to escape. Therefore, he really needed someone who was proficient in martial arts to protect him. Zhao Shisanlang was known as the number one master under the Qin King's tent. Although he had a broken arm, from his victory over Kikuchi Hideo, his martial arts skills were indeed not reduced, and he was extremely quick-witted. He was really a rare talent, but he had a strong sense of revenge. Li Wei was worried that he would ruin his own affairs at the critical moment. He pondered for a moment and said, "You can surrender to me, but I have a saying that in front, the King of Qin is not an ordinary person, and there is only one person in the world who can kill him. Do you understand what I mean?"

Zhao Shisan nodded and said, "The villain understands that villain is not a reckless person. A gentleman takes revenge. It is not too late for thirty years. As long as he follows the adults, I believe that he will wait until that day sooner or later."

"You are quite confident, okay! You will call Shisanlang from now on, and be my personal guard." Li Weizheng finally agreed to him. He then walked to the door and called Luo Guang in, pointing at Shisanlang and laughed: "This is the mysterious lieutenant you have never forgotten. He is an old friend of mine. Now for my personal guard, you can take him to change to a formal Jinyi Guard uniform!"

Luo Guangcai was overjoyed. He quickly helped Shisanlang up and smiled and said, "Your knife is really unforgettable. I have time to teach me a skill."

He said as he took him down to change his military uniform. Li Wei was walking out of the room and asked a lieutenant, "Where is that assassin?"

"Reporting to Qianhu, Chen Baihu is interrogating him."

The captain led Li Wei to a small courtyard, which was designated as a temporary interrogation center for the Jinyiwei. More than a dozen large-sleeved Jinyiwei stood at the door. A creepy sound came from the room. The air was filled with a pungent smell of blood, as if he was in an underground slaughterhouse. Seeing Qianhu coming, the Jinyiwei bowed and saluted together. Li Wei nodded and walked into the room. In the room, the assassin was hung on two iron rings with his limbs separated, his clothes were stripped naked, his roots had been cut off, his body was bloody, and he could not see a piece of good flesh. He was in a coma.

The person who was the judge of him was Chen Ying, a hundred households. He was also a devil who killed people without blinking. He was nicknamed "Chen Wuchang". In the case of Guo Heng in the 18th year of Hongwu, he went to Zhejiang to investigate the case. He skinned thirty corrupt officials in two days. He was a devil figure who was disgusted in the Zhejiang officialdom. In the morning, Magistrate Zhang was skinned, which was his move.

"How is it, did he call it?" Li Weizheng asked.

Chen Ying hurriedly stepped forward and bowed: "Report to the master, he has already asked, but his subordinates want to ask more deeply."

"What did he call?"

"The one who sent him to assassinate the adults was Luo Song, the eldest son of the famous Guangdong gentry Luo family. His subordinates were preparing to interrogate the assassination motive, but he didn't seem to know."

Li Wei was pondering for a moment and said, "You must keep a secret in this matter. Don't touch the Luo family for the time being. In addition, feed this person's poison, wash his body, and return the body to the government. He said that he committed suicide for fear of crime and asked nothing."

"Sir, obey the order!" Chen Ying waved his hand and immediately two Jinyiwei came up to put down the assassin.

Li Weizheng told him again: "Although the Luo family will not be disturbed for the time being, I will send someone to investigate the details of the Luo family. I will leave this matter to you."

"Please rest assured that the subordinates will do it."

Li Wei was walking out of the torture room. This incident really made him a little strange. The disaster relief grain case has not yet begun to investigate. It is impossible for anyone to risk his life to assassinate him for the time being. But if it is a Japanese silver smuggling case, it is even more impossible. Isn’t assassination meant to attract his attention? Zhao Wuji is not so stupid. Is there something else to do?

As soon as Li Wei walked out of the far door, a lieutenant came to report: "Sir, a guest came to visit and said he was your old friend in the capital."

Li Wei was stunned. He pondered for a moment and suddenly laughed: "Is he a young noble man?"

“That’s right!”

Li Weizheng smiled and walked quickly towards the gate. There was a person standing outside the gate. Zhu Quan, the seventeenth prince who served as the deputy envoy of Guangdong Xuanwei. Zhu Yuanzhang ordered him to be the deputy envoy, but let him come out to have a long experience and experience. He had no right to take charge of the affairs, so he lived in the Western Guild Hall. He just heard that the Jinyiwei had come down, and it was a thousand household surnamed Li. Zhu Quan was moved and came to visit him. Unexpectedly, it was Li Weizheng.

Both of them were extremely happy when they met an old friend in a foreign land. Zhu Quan stepped forward and bowed and smiled, "I don't know at all when did Li Qianhu arrive, and I don't say hello in advance."

"I just arrived, how is the little prince living in Guangdong? Are you used to the customs here?"

Zhu Quan shook his head and sighed: "Follow Mr. Luo to provide disaster relief, I am so tired that I am so tired. I have to talk about any habits, but I have to get used to it even if I don't get used to it."

The two of them exchanged greetings at the door. Li Wei was suddenly awakened and quickly smiled apologized and said, "Look at me, I just talked, and I didn't invite the little prince in to come in and sit down. Please come in quickly."

Zhu Quan looked at it and smiled, "I've been bored in the house these two days and I've been going out for a walk. How about we go and take a look at the street view in Guangzhou?"

"Okay, I'm just about to go and have a look."

Li Wei was turning over the horse, bringing more than twenty brothers, and the newly acquired Shisanlang was also following him. The two of them went along the street to find a lively place.

Not far ahead is the place where commodities are distributed in Guangzhou. Stores at each store are open side by side, piled up with goods from all over the mountains and south of the sea. It was the afternoon when there were many people. People came and drove on the streets, shouting, selling and selling coolies, purchasing goods from all over Guangdong, purchasing goods from streets, begging along the streets, and all kinds of people were mixed on the streets, with the crowds and bustling. I thought Guangzhou was blocked, but the scene on the street was no different from that of the Central Plains.

While the two were slowly moving, chatting in a low voice. Zhu Quan seemed to be in a heavy mood. He sighed and asked, "I heard that Brother Li tried a case as soon as he came to Guangzhou. What did you find?"

"What kind of discovery are you referring to?"

"Corruption relief grain corruption case."

Li Weizheng shook his head and said, "We captured the magistrate of Nanhai County. This man used a small bucket of food to endanger the reputation of the emperor. I peeled him in the street. As for the case of corruption in disaster relief grain, I have not started yet."

Zhu Quan shook his head and sighed: "Brother Li was reckless in this matter. He offended the Guangzhou governor, but he also went in the wrong direction."

Li Wei was listening to something in his words, but remembering Hong Zhifan's hint that there was something hidden. He smiled and asked, "What are the hints for the little prince?"

"Actually, Brother Li will find something strange after checking. I might as well tell you first that a large amount of rice bran appeared in the disaster relief grains all came from military rations, and more than a dozen counties discovered this situation at the same time. Lord Luo and I specially found these grains for inspection, and found that the proportion of rice bran mixed with them was the same. Three buckets of rice bran were mixed with ten dou of grains. Brother Li thought about it, even if the local officials were corrupt, how could it be uniform and carried out at the same time?"

Li Wei understood what he meant. The source of rice bran came from the military warehouse, not the problem of local officials, but someone in the army embezzled military rations and was discovered for disaster relief. He asked without saying a word: "Then can you find out which military rations came from?"

"Of course it is easy to check. There are records. These foods come from the military warehouse of the Guangdong Commander Commander, but the Guangdong Commander Commander, Zhang Yi, refused to admit it. Mr. Luo was embarrassed here, so he stopped moving his troops and waited for the Jinyiwei to be the evil man."

"This cunning Luo Ziqi." Li Weizheng laughed and cursed: "He was probably snickering from the side when I killed someone and peeled it!"

"So, Brother Li is reckless. The murder and skinning of Brother Li has caused a sensation in the entire Guangzhou city. Now the streets and alleys are talking about this matter, and officials at all levels are even more panicked. From noon to now, there are endless people coming to ask Mr. Luo for complaints, and everyone scolds the Jinyiwei for being ruthless. It is said that many officials secretly transport wealth to the countryside. Brother Li is really famous this time.

Li Wei was smiling faintly. Isn’t this what he hoped?

At this moment, a sudden noise came from the front, and someone was shouting, "Come on! I've caught it." Dozens of yamen run from all directions. They obviously ambushed in advance, rushed up, rushed into a rice-selling shop, and heard the sound of beatings and scoldings coming from the shop.

Li Wei grabbed the arm of a yamen runner and asked, "What's wrong?"

The yamen runner was about to curse, but when he turned around, he saw that Li Weizheng was killing and skinning on the street. He was so scared that his heart almost stopped beating. He quickly replied in a trembling voice: "Report to the master, there was a secret line coming to report last night that there would be smuggled rice on the market today. The brothers were all lying here, and they were really here."

‘Missing rice?’ Li Wei was moved in his heart and quickly let go of the yamen runners and looked at the rice shop. He saw a group of yamen runners escorting three people out. The leader was tall and had a very big nose. It was Chen Wanli, a smuggler I met a few days ago. His clothes had been torn, his face was beaten lightly, and his arms were cut back. The other two arrested people seemed to be his friends, both of whom were very young and their eyes were filled with fear.

A group of yamen runners carried the confiscated stolen silver and walked upstairs cursingly. Li Wei saw that the man was shiny and his eyes were full of resentment and helplessness. He couldn't help but feel pampering his talents. I wonder how many of the bosses of this ship who could cut through the waves in the deep sea were left in the Ming Dynasty?

He pointed at the horse whip and said, "Stop!"

A group of yamen runners stopped in fear. A small official with a dictionary look rushed forward and smiled flatteringly: "Little Man Fanyu County Dianshi Yaner, please see the Lord Qianhu."

Li Wei's face sank and said, "We are also here to arrest the spy Annan. It's this person. You give him to me."

At this time, Chen Wanli also recognized Li Weizheng. A glimmer of hope flashed through his eyes. He quickly lowered his head without saying a word. Dian Shi showed a difficult face. This was a smuggling crime that had been filed. He wanted to behead his head in public. After the Jinyiwei was about to leave, how could he handle the work? Zhu Quan next to him saw that Dian Shi was not aware of it and sneered: "This official officer, this is a thousand households of the Jinyiwei. If you don't give it to me now, you will come to ask for someone in person later. Don't talk about you at that time, even your magistrate can't afford it."

Yan Dianshi had been kicked several times in secret by his subordinates, and they all hated him for not knowing what he was and did not see who it was. Yan Dianshi suddenly realized, and then quickly waved his handed the three criminals and silver to the Jinyiwei. He apologized and led the yamen run wildly.

Seeing that Li Wei was already famous, Zhu Quan couldn't help but sigh secretly. Li Wei was urging his horse to come to Chen Wan and smiled and said, "Master Chen, don't be fine!"

Chen Wanli sighed and said, "This is the second time I have fallen into your hands. I can handle it with you, and I have no complaints."

"Disposal?" Li Weizheng shook his head and smiled, "If I want to kill you, you will be dead a few days ago. I tell you, I can save you once or twice, but I can't save you the third time. You should take care of yourself in the future!"

Chen Wanli knelt down and kowtowed three times, "I remember my kindness to save my life. I will return to Luzon now and not let my efforts be wasted."

He kowtowed again, stood up and wanted to leave, but Li Weizheng suddenly called him, "You said you were going back to Luzon? Are you trading in Annan?"

Chen Wanli hurriedly said, "If you want to go back to your adults, this time I went to Annan just to buy rice. In fact, my home is in Luzon, and my parents, wife and children are there. I have sold the rice, so I will return to Luzon."

When Li Wei heard the word "Luzon", he suddenly had an idea in his mind. He knew that many economic crops were introduced to the Ming Dynasty, such as tobacco, tomato, corn, sweet potatoes and other crops, and many of them came from Luzon. If this person was willing to give him some seeds one day, wouldn't that have done a big thing?

He smiled and said, "When it comes to Luzon, I knew someone before. He told me that Luzon has many crops that I didn't have in the Ming Dynasty. If you go back to the Ming Dynasty one day, bring some seeds for me, what do you think?"

Chen Wanli nodded solemnly and said, "Sir, this is a trivial matter, I will definitely do it."

At this time, Zhu Quan next to him smiled and said, "You have to remember that the person who saved you is Li Qianhu, the third Jinyiwei Institute of the Capital. If you want to repay your kindness, you must know who the benefactor is not!"

"Thank you, my son, I remember." Chen Wanli bowed and hurried away with his men.

Zhu Quan kept looking at them and then smiled at Li Weizheng: "Brother Li seems to have reservations about the sea ban!"

Li Weijing smiled and shook his head, "I let this person go not because of a sea ban, but because I met him in Xin'an County a few days ago. When he saw that his opponents were quite loyal, I like such people, so I helped him once."

Zhu Quan sighed slightly and said, "I have heard that Guangzhou was prosperous for a long time during the Tang and Song dynasties. I was so eager to do it. But when I got here, I was disappointed. Although my father forbidden the sea to prevent Japanese troops, he also injured these coastal cities in Guangzhou. It was not worth the loss!"

Li Wei didn't want to talk about this with Zhu Quanshen. At this time, he saw a subordinate running from afar, so he turned his head and asked, "What's the matter?"

"Sir, Chen Baihu has received the news and wants to report it to you."

The assassin case is also an important thing that Li Weizheng is concerned about. He immediately smiled at Zhu Quan and said, "Little Prince, I still have official duties, so I have to go back first."

Zhu Quan nodded and said, "Forget it, I don't want to go shopping anymore, let's go back together!"

The two rode back to the guild hall and said goodbye at the door. Li Wei was walking into the room quickly. As soon as he entered the room, Chen Ying, who was waiting here, immediately stepped forward to report: "Sir, after the assassin's body was sent to the government, the Luo family really sent someone to inquire about the news. The government's identification was that he committed suicide by taking poison. The Luo family should not know that the assassin had confessed."

"Where is the background of the Luo family? Have you found it?" Li Weizheng asked coldly.

"A brother has already found out that it is almost well-known in Guangzhou. The head of the Luo family is Luo Nansheng. He is the richest man in Guangdong. He has been engaged in overseas trade in Guangzhou for generations. He used to be a famous tycoon in Guangdong. After the ban, he washed his feet and went ashore to buy land, and became a gentry. There are also rumors that the Luo family is still engaged in illegal activities, which may be smuggling."

Chen Baihu had already retired after reporting, and Li Wei was in deep thought. On the first day he came to Guangzhou, complicated matters came to his face. He handled the case of the grain leakage of the clean government, but it led to the hidden information of the corruption case of disaster relief grain. The problem was actually in the army. I don’t know how big a rat nest would be drawn if the investigation continued. But this was not the focus of his coming to Guangdong. He came to Guangdong to investigate and deal with the case of the King of Qin smuggling Japanese silver ships, but he had no clue about this matter. Although he knew it was related to the Nanhaiwei, what about the evidence? He could not catch the evidence and could not explain it to Zhu Yuanzhang.

Just when he was in a mess, an accidental assassination led to a Guangdong tyrant, the Luo family. Li Weizheng didn't know why they were assassinating him, but he had an intuition that the Luo family might be related to the silver ship smuggling case. This intuition did not arise out of thin air, but the background of the Luo family's overseas trade. Who would the Qin King entrust to do it if he smuggled silver?

Li Weizheng's eyes gradually narrowed, and it seemed that he had to seize the Luo family and not let go.

At this time, a Jinyiwei lieutenant walked to the door to report: "Sir, someone has sent an invitation."
Chapter completed!