Liang Wanning woke up and walked out of the cabin. Wu Min said anxiously: "Sir, let's go to the harbor to deliver the goods."

Liang Wanning raised his head and looked at the setting sun and said, "It's already midnight now. The sun will set in another hour, and it will be too late to rush to the port to unload the cargo. Why don't you anchor and sleep here today, and go directly to the port when you wake up tomorrow."

Wu Min said anxiously: "Then let's anchor at the harbor."

Liang Wanning refused: "No, there may be spies at the port. How can you dock at the port as rebels?"

Wu Min was dubious and wanted to send a boat to the port to find out what was going on. He asked, "It's okay to anchor here and sleep for one night. I'll send a boat back to the shore with you to buy some food."

Liang Wanning agreed: "Okay."

These were all expected. In order to prevent Xu Jun from asking for vegetables, meat and local products, Qi Jun's navy had already prepared dried vegetables, dried meat and local specialties, as well as some long-lasting melons and beans.

Liang Wanning said goodbye and left. Wu Min sent a boat to follow them back to the port. Before they reached the port, a boat loaded with dried vegetables arrived.

Liang Wanning said to Xu Bing: "The vegetables and meat are here, just move them to the boat."

Xu Bing was surprised and said: "Sir, we have to go ashore to buy it."

Liang Wanning said with authority: "What are you buying? Are you saying that I can't even afford a boatload of food?"

Xu Bing did not dare to offend the official, so he agreed to move the meat and vegetables and leave.

When Wu Min saw Xu Bing coming back with vegetables and meat, he didn't suspect anything and ordered the fleet to anchor and cook.

As night fell, the fleet turned off their lights and rested, leaving only ten sentinel ships patrolling the perimeter.

This sea area is close to the coast without strong winds and waves, and there will be no pirates. Besides, Xu Jun himself is a pirate.

Ten sentry boats patrolled slowly, and all focused on the open sea. Only two sentinel boats were left patrolling on the side of the coastline, which gave Qi Jun's navy a good space for action.

Qi Jun's sailors had already sneaked to the bottom of Xu Jun's sandboat, knocked off the wooden plugs, causing the boat to flood, and blew smoke at Xu Jun's sailors who were sleeping in the cabin.

Then Qi Jun's sand boat secretly rowed in. Qi Bing carried the Xu Jun sailors who were caught in the smoke to Qi Jun's sand boat.

Xu Jun's sand ships carrying silver boxes sank one after another, and they were replaced by Qi Jun's navy sand ships.

After the battle was completed, Qi Jun's sailors dived and swam away one after another, while Xu Jun was still in the dark.

The sun rose the next day, and Xu's fleet weighed anchor. Some sailors on sand ships found something suspicious, so they checked the boxes and didn't say much more.

Wu Min led the fleet to the harbor. The weather was sunny and the harbor was as green as a lotus leaf.

Wu Min found that the officials had not arrived yet and had to wait patiently.

At this time, Qi Jun's sailors were busy salvaging the sunken silver box.

They pressed the small wooden plug back into the small round hole in the bottom of the boat, then lifted the sand boat out of the water and drained it. The sand boat floated, and the box was basically not moved. The salvage speed was very fast.

Jiaozhou officials came to the port and saw Xu Jun's fleet and asked: "Are you Xu Jun delivering goods?" New

Wu Min replied: "Yes, where is Mr. Liang?"

The Jiaozhou official didn't understand and took out his official seal and said, "We are here to receive the goods."

Wu Min didn't dare to ask more questions and replied: "Okay."

The officials were relieved to see that Xu Jun finally delivered the goods. They were exhausted from waiting for Xu Jun to deliver silver these days.

They opened several boxes of silver to check and found that it was silver. They were so excited that they ordered to count the boxes and receive the goods without careful identification.

After receiving the goods, Jiaozhou officials transported the silver to Qingzhou Prefecture. Yan Shaoting was very happy to receive the goods and ordered his cronies to escort the silver to Jiangxi.

Wu Min handed over the goods and left. Qi Jun's navy had already completed salvage and sailed away one hundred and twenty sand ships.

Tang Shimao took the customs clearance documents and took the silver boxes to the capital tribute warehouse in batches.

Monk Hengzhi was stunned when he saw another 2.2 million taels of silver brought into the warehouse. A total of 6.7 million taels of silver were piled up in the warehouse.

Where did this disciple get so much silver? It will be delivered every few days.

A batch of silver mines cannot be mined so fast. Hengzhi clasped his hands together and exclaimed: "Amitabha, how good it is."

Wu Min arrived at the Zhigu port and handed the remaining half of the stone ingot box to the Zhigu officials. The Zhigu officials collected the silver box and sent it to the capital.

The stone ingot arrived in the capital, and Yan Shifan's officials took out 300,000 taels of silver and sent it to the emperor's small treasury.

The chief internal officer collected the silver and put it into the emperor's small treasury. Yan Shifan's officials took away 200,000 taels, and the remaining 600,000 taels were sent to the treasury.

The treasury is not a child's play. The inspection of counterfeit and low-quality silver is very strict. As a result, the inspection revealed that the silver ingot is made of stone and coated with silver paint.

The Minister of Household Affairs in the capital was a member of the Yan Party and immediately reported the situation to Yan Shifan.

Yan Shifan didn't believe his ears. After confirming that the silver sent by Zhigu officials was stones, he cursed his mother angrily: "Xu Weixue, you have done such a good thing, you have caused great harm to our Yan family!"

Yan Shifan angrily ran to see Yan Song.

Yan Song was shocked and asked: "Has the emperor's small treasury been sent in?"

Yan Shifan said angrily: "Of course I sent it in. If Your Majesty finds out, it is a trivial matter to blame our family for being incompetent. If our family is punished for the crime of bullying the king and neglecting the superior, it will be a mute who cannot tell the suffering of eating coptis."

Yan Song said sternly: "Your Majesty must not find out about this matter. We must contact the chief internal officer to contract out the stones and silver."

Yan Shifan said: "Your Majesty is short of money. The three hundred thousand taels sent in this time have been recorded in the account. Who is willing to pay this money to transfer it out?"

Yan Song asked: "Is Shaoting's silver also a stone? If not, ask Shaoting to send the silver."

"Dad!" Yan Shifan said anxiously, "Of course Shaoting's place is also made of rocks."

Yan Song was stunned and said: "The 2.2 million taels of silver sent by the Xu family are all made of stone?"

Yan Shifan was so angry that he beat the table and cursed: "A bunch of trash, what kind of thing are you doing!"

Yan Song became suspicious and said: "Xu Weixue wants to plot something evil and leave his master to go it alone? Isn't this unlike his character, or is he being tricked by others?"

Yan Shifan said: "It's too late to investigate the cause now. The top priority is to use silver to transfer the stones from the small treasury.

Therefore, Xu Weixue must be urged immediately to make up for the real silver, otherwise the consequences will be serious!”

Yan Song nodded and said, "Yes, you must speak harshly about such an important matter."

While Yan Shaoting was escorting the stone ingots, he received a letter from his father Yan Shifan. After checking, he found that the stone ingots he was escorting were indeed fake. He was so angry that he threw all the boxes into the river.

When Zhao Wenhua received Yan Shifan's letter and learned that the silver he received was all stones, he was so shocked that he fell down on his couch and hurriedly got up and wrote a letter to accuse Nightingale.

Nightingale learned that the silver her master received was all fake and made of stone. She felt it was very outrageous and hurriedly asked Xu Weixue's uncle and nephew for questioning.

Xu Weixue's uncle and nephew didn't believe their ears even more after hearing this, and hurriedly called Wu Min for questioning. By this time, Wu Min had already returned.

Wu Min told the details of the delivery process. Nightingale and Xu Weixue's uncle and nephew found no problems after listening.

Nightingale was furious and said: "Until now, the master has not received a single tael of silver, but instead received a pile of rubble stones. This is a huge matter that is difficult to end."

Wu Min vowed: "What I gave you is real silver. As for how it turned into stone, I really don't know."

Nightingale said angrily: "But the master clearly received stones, how do you want me to explain?"
Chapter completed!