The next thing was very simple. Zhou Yu led the team back to the county town, and some people cleaned up the dead bodies in front of the county government. The families claimed the family, and those who could not distinguish were taken to mass graves outside the city to bury them.

At this time, the bluestone square in front of the county government was covered with blood, and some low-lying places had dark red blood clots formed. The county government government officials were cleaning it with water.

The yamen runners were so scared that they knelt down and kowtowed one by one when they saw Zhou Yu coming back. Zhou Yu ignored them and took people into the county yamen. He found Ma Jiyuan and reported the situation.

Ma Jiyuan knew that these killers only followed Zhu Hongsan's orders and did not move them at all. So he didn't say anything, just asked Zhou Yu and the others to camp outside the city.

At this time, all the house search teams were back, and this time it was a great harvest. The wealth accumulated by Xuwen sugar merchants over the past hundred years was cheaper Zhu Hongsan. Three million taels of silver were found in these more than 20 sugar merchants, and countless other gold, silver and jewelry were found.

The other sugar merchants had already caught it, but they ran away from Wang Youdao. After interrogation, someone saw Wang Youdao flee to Hai'an.

According to Zhou Yu's opinion, it would be better to capture the Hai'an Institute along the way, but this request was stopped by Ma Jiyuan. The massacre in the county can also be explained as suppressing civil unrest. The nature of these killers was to attack the Hai'an Institute. After all, the Hai'an Institute was a formal military institution of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhou Yu disagreed with what Ma Jiyuan said. The Ming Dynasty has now become an empty scepter. Someone within the new army is ready to wear Zhu Hongsan's yellow robe. After all, only Zhu Hongsan is the emperor, Zhou Yu and his group of new troops can split the land and become marquis. However, the new army's behavior was forcibly suppressed by Zhu Hongsan with the opportunity.

Because of this, these new army leaders led by Qian Yong and Zhao Guodong would never allow the old Ming army to share their support. Zhou Yu is now considered a senior general of the new army, so he naturally has no good face to the Ming army.

After Ma Jiyuan suppressed Zhou Yu next time, he wrote a letter to Qian Shouge of Hai'an Institute, asking him to hand over Wang Youdao. Ma Jiyuan is an old official, and he believed that Qian Shouge of the county should know what to do after the news from the county town reached Hai'an Institute.

Things were just as Ma Jiyuan thought. Wang Youdao still overestimated the professional ethics of Ming officials. When his life was at stake, the local rich man like Wang Youdao became the target of sacrifice.

On the third day, Qian Shoubei personally took Wang Youdao to the county government to visit Magistrate Ma. At the same time, he explained that he had not cooperated with Magistrate Ma some time ago.

This is the case in the officialdom. People carry people in a sedan chair. Hello, I, everyone. Although Ma Jiyuan was not pedantic, he accepted Qian Shoujie's apology and promised to add Qian Shoujie's name to the credit for suppressing civil unrest.

Qian Shoujie was naturally overjoyed and patted his chest to ensure that he would protect the prefect's sugar factory in the future.

Next, I interrogated Wang Youdao. It was very simple to know that the Wang family had a background of pirates. The craftsmen caught were all on Baisha Island overseas. It was even more legitimate to clear Wang Youdao. Ma Jiyuan made a letter of request for merit, and the prefect Ma and the county magistrate Tang were naturally wise and powerful. He defended the siege of the Wang family pirates, and then with the support of the money guards of Hai'an, he wiped out more than 1,000 pirates and beheaded 800 people. The heads of the sugar farmers outside the city were.

Zhou Yu was very ashamed of the manners of civil servants, and Zhou Yu did not intend to get involved in the contributions of civil servants. The new army had not yet fallen to the point of killing good people and taking credit for them.

Now Zhou Yu was worried that there would be no ship, so good news came at this moment, and Boss Yan brought the ship.

Yan Qingshan liked the mission of going to sea very much, and he stopped and stopped along the way. He had to shoot a few shots when he saw an island, which was called testing practical combat capabilities. The officials and soldiers who were on the boat secretly cursed the local bun in their hearts.

In fact, in the eyes of the official army, these three new warships are also very awesome, with fast speed, strong firepower and fast production speed. You should know that these three ships were produced within two months. In the past, a 400-foot sea ship could not be launched in the water in less than half a year.

Each of these three ships has twenty-two artillery guns, ten on each side and one on the bow and stern on the boat. This firepower configuration is already the firepower configuration of a large ship with eight hundred or even thousands of materials. What they didn't know is that these three ships use steel as keels, and the recoil was greatly enhanced.

What the official army didn't know was that these three ships were just test models, and they had already started to manufacture 2,000-ton giant ships in the shipyard. There were fifty artillery pieces on the big ship, and you should know that only one army regiment had fifty-four artillery pieces.

Yan Qingshan is very happy now. He found that the most right thing he did in his life was to marry his daughter to Zhu Hongsan. Yan Qingshan had secretly visited the big guy in the shipyard, two thousand materials, no longer inferior to the main cruiser of Folang Jiren.

What Boss Yan didn't know was that the big guy in his eyes was just a kind of cruiser in his son-in-law's eyes. In Zhu Hongsan's plan, the main battleship was the strongest among sailing warships. The first-class battleship of the British type had 100 artillery pieces, 800 members, and a displacement of about 2,500 tons.

However, this kind of big guy is not something that Zhu Hongsan can create now. This kind of marine overlord is a demonstration of the overall strength of a country. Zhu Hongsan expects that he will have the financial resources to build several ships after occupying half of China.

Boss Yan brought three experimental warships to the Xuwen County Wharf.

Zhou Yu was very happy to hear that his ship came, so he had the ability to wipe out the pirates. Zhou Yu told Boss Yan about this matter, and Boss Yan was very excited. He only had a test shooting along the way, and there was no actual combat at all. The small boat on the sea immediately scattered when he saw his three large ships.

In this way, Wang Youdao fell into Boss Yan's hands, and these pirates used a detriment to Wang Youdao and Youdao. In a short time, they knew the location of Baisha Island and the hydrological situation around the island clearly.

Baisha Island is located in a bay twenty miles away from Xuwen. It is a very hidden island. There are more than 300 pirates and more than 50 ships of all sizes. The captured craftsmen are in prison on the island.

Zhou Yu and Boss Yan discussed using a boat to bring two 200 people to the island to save people. As for the naval battle, Boss Yan's business was Boss Yan's business. When Zhou Yu asked how to fight the naval battle, Boss Yan said, "We have hundreds of people, and there are sixty-six cannons in three ships. What tactics do you use to directly approach and use the cannon to bombard his mother."

Zhou Yu said: "Be careful about the craftsmen on the island."

Boss Yan cursed: "It's all my business. I just want to kill the pirates, the rest is your business."

Zhou Yu knew that the pirate head was the cheap father-in-law of the King of Chu, so he couldn't get angry, so he had to give up.

Boss Yan rested for one night and went out to Baisha Island the next day.

The battle was very simple, just like what Boss Yan said, first sank all the pirates' ships on the sea, and then approached and shot. Although Boss Yan said that regardless of the life or death of the craftsman, he still ordered the cannon power not to shoot in the houses.

The next thing was Zhou Yu's affairs, and the battle ended soon. Those who had seen such naval battles, came up with artillery bombardment, so they surrendered when they saw Zhou Yu coming ashore.

After Zhou Yu rescued the twenty or so craftsmen, he saw that they were not in good spirits and did not suffer much. Of course, Wang Youdao also wanted them to be money trees, so how could he bear to hurt them?

The pirates surrendered more than 150 people, and the others died under the artillery fire of Boss Yan. These more than 100 pirates were also taken for themselves by Boss Yan. After all, there are still few qualified sailors now, and these more than 100 people are talented.

After returning to Xuwen County, the two of the captured heads and Wang Youdao and Wang Youde were shot dead by Zhou Yu, and all the female relatives were taken to Guangzhou Prefecture to sell them to the Jiaofangsi.

Now the sugar production industry in Xuwen County has fallen into the hands of King Zhu Hongsan of Chu. Zhu Hongsan has obtained hundreds of thousands of acres of sugarcane fields through this bloody sweep of Xuwen County, controlling the sugar production in Xuwen.

After the matter was over, Zhou Yu led his men back to Changhua as a garrison. Boss Yan pulled the captured female family members and several ships of silver jewelry back to Dongguan.

Ma Jiyuan still has to stay in Xuwen for a while. After all, the sugar factory has been burned by the rioters, and the sugar factory has to be rebuilt. This time, the sugar factory was very smooth without the interference of local big customers. It resumed production half a month later. Next, Ma Jiyuan used the Tutangliao of more than 20 sugar merchants to build ten sugar factories.

After these ten sugar factories are built, they can produce 1,000 tons of white sugar and 3,000 tons of red sugar every year. At the same time, sugarcane bagasse can make wine, and the wine production reaches thousands of tons every year. The farms opened with wine lees also have a huge income.

From then on, Xuwen became Zhu Hongsan's wallet, sugar and salt became several million taels of silver for Zhu Hongsan every year. The consequence of this incident was that cheap and good-quality salt had a great impact on Lianghuai. In the past, those salt merchants in Yangzhou who were rich enough to compete with the country went bankrupt one after another, and in the end Xuwen's salt also hit Zheng Zhilong in Fujian.

Although Zheng Zhilong's income is not private salt, no one wants his money to become less, so this also laid the trigger for the conflict between Zhu Hongsan and Zheng Zhilong.
Chapter completed!