Jiangning, Liangjiang Governor's Office, Gali had just issued a memorial to impeach and dismiss Suzhou Prefecture's prefecture's prefecture's prefecture's memorial, Susong's grain bureau Jia Pu, and Suzhou Prefecture's co-magistrate Zhang Tingcai. Just as he was about to breathe a sigh of relief, he received a report of the robbery case being robbed by the Shanghai merchant fleet. After a brief scan, he was shocked. The amount involved in this robbery case actually reached 600,000 yuan, and forty-three people died. It was really shocking and was the largest case in Liangjiang. He did not dare to be negligent. He immediately ordered a battalion of supervisors to rush to Suzhou, and quickly notified Jiangnan's admiral Shi Yide and Jiangsu Governor Zhang Boxing to meet in Suzhou.

After Gali and Shi Yide met in Suzhou, they realized that Zhang Boxing had rushed to Shanghai first. The two discussed it for a moment. In fact, they both understood in their hearts that the 14th prince Yinzhen was in Shanghai, and the Minister of Revenue Zhang Pengheng was also in Jiangning, and there were many Kangxi's ears in Jiangnan. If this case was to be suppressed, it would be impossible to make a big deal. It was impossible to eliminate the pirates as soon as possible. Soon the two decided to come down. Gali and Suzhou general took Suzhou Navy warships to the sea from the river to search from the top to the top. Shi Yide went to Langshan to lead the Langshan Town Navy into the sea and searched from the bottom to the top, and he quickly sent Zhang Boxing to Shanghai to try his best to appease the robbed maritime merchants in Shanghai and stabilize the people's hearts. [.]

Donghai, Dahuangyang, Xu Wengshan.

Xu Wengshan is only a two-mile radius of hanging water. There are no fixed residents on the island. During the fishing season, fishing boats occasionally stay on the island. However, in recent times, more than 20 large and small sea boats have been moored around Xu Wengshan.

On a sea boat in the middle, a man in his early forties, strong and rough-looking figure was sitting listlessly on the deck fishing. This man was the leader of the thief who robbed the sea trade ship in the East China Sea. Zheng Jinxin, a native of Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, had both his parents died since he was a child and was wandering on the sea. With his extraordinary vision, scheming, and ruthlessness, he soon stood out among the pirates. However, because he refused to stick to the rules and had too many grudges among the pirates, he had never been able to stabilize over the years. Although his strength was getting bigger and bigger, he was repeatedly surrounded and suppressed by the imperial navy and pirates at sea, drifting on the sea all year round.

Ye Kai was their second boss, a slightly gentle man in his thirties. He came to Zheng Jinxin's boat on a small boat and walked up quickly. "The boss, all the big and small ships are basically full. Should we leave? This place is a little closer to the shore, and we have been staying for a long time."

"So what's the matter close to the shore? Just because of those soft-legged shrimps, I'll clean up as much as I come." Zheng Jinxin said disdainfully, and said, "It's time to set off. Once the wind spreads, there is no ship dares to pass here again. Let's continue and ask the men to change their flags and numbers. We will take a detour to Nanyang tomorrow."

After Zhang Boxing arrived in Shanghai, he first visited the 14th Prince Yinzhen, and then moved into the Shanghai County Government. He drew all the robbed maritime merchants and comforted them with gentle words, and stated that the court had sent naval officers and soldiers to sea to encircle and suppress the pirates, so that everyone could wait for the news at home.

Zhang Boxing was a famous honest official and loved the common people. He also liked to visit privately, believing that only by going deep into the people can one understand the sufferings of the people more clearly. In addition, this case was too big, with more than 600,000 silver goods robbed and forty-three murders involved. Fortunately, it was at sea. If it were on land, officials from Liangjianghe Province were afraid that they would be dismissed from office and punished.

Although he learned that Gali and Shi Yide had led the navy to pursue the sea, he still did not dare to slack off. Every day, he was wearing a green hat and frequently visited the robbed crew members, sailors, and small businessmen. One was to comfort him, the other was to see if he could find out valuable situations. The third was to also examine the people's conditions.

Gali and Shi Yide each led a town of naval officers and soldiers to search back and forth in the East China Sea for several days, but they didn't even see the shadow of pirates. Not to mention pirates, they could not even see a fishing boat in the radius of more than twenty miles of sea merchant ships. After decades of chaos, the fishermen along the coast had long become eccentric. When they heard the navy going out to sea to suppress pirates, they all stayed at home obediently, fearing that the navy officers and soldiers would be killed by the naval officers and soldiers. The two men, who had nothing to find, were unwilling to withdraw their troops, and had to continue to expand the scope of the search and condemn the spread of small boats to collect relevant information.

Gali and Shi Yide made no gains in the encirclement and suppression of pirates. Zhang Boxing made a lot of gains in private visits in Shanghai. Through a large number of visits, he first discovered that Zhang Yuanlong's crew members, many of the sailors were from Fujian, but changed their names and surnames to impersonate the origin of Huating Songjiang. Moreover, the Zhang family's fleet not only received a license in Shanghai, but also received a license in Guanxian and other places. This made him secretly shocked that the management of the maritime trade fleet was so chaotic.

After further investigation, he found that this situation was not unique to the Zhang family, and the other sea trade fleets were the same. What surprised him even more was that Zhang Yuanlong actually had contact with Galisu, and his brother Zhang Lingtao was Gali's son-in-law. Some people accidentally revealed that last year, Zhang Yuanlong and Gali used warships to resell a large amount of rice on the sea, and the Zhang family also had a close relationship with the pirates.

Zhang Yuanlong didn't know that Zhang Boxing was secretly investigating him. After he spent a few days asking some sailor crew members who came back in detail, he had already figured out the details of the pirates who robbed his fleet. He knew that this situation was very useful to Yinzhen, so he hurried to Liuchunyuan.

"Fourth Master, the origin and identity of this pirate has been found. The leader of this pirate is Zheng Jinxin. It turns out that he is entrenched in the area of ​​Jeju Island in the Yellow Sea. He is very powerful. He has four sea ships with thousands of materials under his command, with a population of about 600. There are many red-clothed cannons on the ship. This pirate has not heard from them for many years. He did not expect to go to the East China Sea to do this major case this year."

This pirate is quite powerful. After listening to Zhang Yuanlong's report, Yinzhen couldn't help but feel secretly shocked. At the same time, he was surprised why Zhang Yuanlong knew so much. He asked tentatively: "Do you have any contact with Zheng Jinxin?"

"What do I have to do with him?" Zhang Yuanlong said hatefully, "Ten years ago, I fought with him in Huanghai. At that time, he was not as strong as that. He dared to take action against our fleet of more than 60 sea ships. In the end, both sides were injured and he didn't get it well."

The sea trade fleet fought with the pirates? Yinzhen was very curious, "Your fleet is carrying firearms?"

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