What is it like to be surrounded by the main fleet of the Qiantang Navy on the sea?
Online experience of Wu Ankang, the former chief historian of Qiantang.
When he knew that the Qiantang Navy was coming, Wu Ankang knew that he would not run away now.
Unless he suddenly turns into Zhang Shun, a white stripe in the waves, and can swim faster than the boats of the Qiantang Navy.
The Yao family's merchant ships were all impounded by the Qiantang navy on charges of harboring and smuggling important imperial criminals.
"I would also like to thank Governor Wu for helping me this time!"
Li Xunhuan thanked Wu Qiming, the commander of the Qiantang Navy, and said that the Qiantang Navy had indeed given enough honor this time, even moving out the flagship.
"Li Yushi, you're welcome. Patrolling the sea is also one of our responsibilities."
Wu Qiming, Commander-in-Chief of the Qiantang Navy, was born as a coastal fisherman. After joining the army, he gradually climbed to this position. Whether he was leading soldiers or serving as an official, he had his own way of doing it.
Four days ago, when Li Xunhuan returned from the Money Gang, he started to arrange everything.
First, Li Xunhuan asked Ye Jianhan to go to Taohua Castle overnight and ask Hua Ruling for a favor - to track down the partners who were close to the Qian Gang in sea trade.
Especially, has the Money Gang discussed with anyone about sea trade recently?
In the south of the Yangtze River, the Hua family is the god of wealth, and money can make the mill push ghosts.
The Hua family quickly found out that the Money Gang had in-depth cooperation with the Yao family and the Xie family in maritime trade.
It was then traced that the Yao family would have a fleet heading to Japan in three days.
Li Xunhuan once analyzed Wu Ankang's whereabouts.
There are only two possibilities: being silenced by Shangguan Jinhong, or fleeing Qiantang County.
If Shangguan Jinhong wanted to silence him, he could just kill him in his house. There was no need to engage in the confrontation that night.
Then the biggest possibility is to escape from Qiantang County.
As for why he didn't stay in Qiantang County?! He was a wanted criminal by the imperial court. Since he knew he was in the city, he would never let him go. What if Li Xunhuan mobilized troops from other places for support and started a large-scale search?
It's not easy to hide it all the time.
If we want to take out Qiantang County, it is nothing more than water and land routes.
Because of the loss of wages, the entire Yuezhou is now in a blockade stage, with checkpoints set up on every major road and river.
If Wu Ankang really couldn't walk two steps in these places, he would be caught.
As for walking on a small road? Is that because I look down on the mountains of Yuezhou or because I think too highly of Wu Ankang’s scumbag physique?
Not every scholar is like Yang Qingyuan and Li Xunhuan.
Moreover, the mountains and forests of Yuezhou have not yet been developed. There are many kinds of beasts in the mountains, such as snakes, insects, rats, and ants. If you accidentally encounter a venomous insect or python, you will be told that it is in the deep mountains and old forests.
Therefore, it is almost impossible to take the mountain road. On the other hand, if Wu Ankang can really escape from Yuezhou from the mountains, then there is nothing Li Xunhuan can do!
Although the mountain roads and rivers were blocked, there was one place that Li Xunhuan could not block.
The mainland coastline of Qiantang County is nearly a thousand miles long. If you want to completely block the coastline of Qiantang County, you will have to mobilize all the Shenwu Army.
Therefore, Li Xunhuan simply did not defend the coastline, but set up a checkpoint at the port where he boarded the ship, deliberately leaving this loophole.
Of course, Li Xunhuan still made arrangements. He tightly controlled all the docks in Qiantang County and pretended that I was arresting people.
Li Xunhuan was from the Central Plains and rarely came to coastal areas, so he lowered Shangguan Jinhong's defensiveness.
Everyone thinks he is a real talent! In fact, he is just acting!
After receiving the news of the communication between the Qian Gang and the Yao family, Li Xunhuan sent people to Shanyin Mansion overnight to find Yang Qingyuan, and brought from him the imperial envoy's order to monk Fang Zhanma Jian, and used these two things to mobilize the Qiantang Navy
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Although the coastline of Qiantang County is extremely long, if they really want to enter the East China Sea, Qiantang Bay is the only way for them.
Therefore, Li Xunhuan mobilized the Qiantang Navy in advance and went out to the East China Sea in the name of training. This made Shangguan Jinhong and others feel that the opportunity was coming. If they wanted to leave, this was the best opportunity.
Huangtian paid off, and this series of arrangements were not in vain.
Wu Ankang's uneasiness and Shangguan Jinhong's calculations made them unable to let go of this opportunity. The moment he boarded the boat, the fish took the bait.
No matter how the Yao family's merchant ships sailed, they could not escape the Qiantang Navy's defenses if they wanted to enter the East China Sea. However, they were very lucky and happened to hit the main force of the Qiantang Navy.
"Wu Changshi! Long time no see!"
When Li Xunhuan first came to Yuezhou, he met Wu Ankang in the Yuezhou Governor's Mansion.
After setting foot on land, Wu Ankang's heart, which had been wandering, settled down. There was no place to escape now.
"Wu Changshi, should we follow the process? Or should you just explain it yourself!"
Wu Ankang was no longer burdened at this moment, and instead smiled.
"Li Yushi, it's impossible for me to say that!"
"Oh?! Mr. Wu is going to fight at all costs?!"
Wu Ankang had completely calmed down at this moment, "Li Yushi, I won't avoid death if I don't say anything, but Li Yushi should only have evidence of my corruption and bribery! I will die for this crime. But my wife and children will not
Something will happen! On the contrary, I want to say that even if the court is lenient to me, people who have interests in me will not let go of my wife and children. If it were you, Li Yushi, how would you choose!?"
"Your worries are justified!"
Li Xunhuan knew that Wu Ankang was not only telling a fact but also negotiating terms with him.
If Li Xunhuan could offer conditions that exceeded his psychological expectations, he would certainly be willing to confess.
Li Xunhuan has worked in the Metropolitan Procuratorate for so many years and is now the fourth-in-command of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Naturally, he also knows what Wu Ankang means.
"Wu Changshi, I know what you mean. There are no unspeakable conditions that I can offer. I can tell you now. Whether your life can be saved or not is not something I say. It must be reviewed after the crime you have committed.
Only then can we come to a conclusion. If you confess now, you will naturally be given a lighter punishment or even a reduced punishment when the crime is discussed and sentenced."
Wu Ankang did not speak, but listened quietly to what Li Xunhuan said.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "But one thing I can guarantee is that if you confess truthfully, your wife will never be implicated as long as she is not involved in the case. As for your children
, the imperial court will never deal with it. I know some people will murder your wife and children, but the imperial court will protect them! You can rest assured!"
Wu Ankang's parents died, and the only people he cared about were his wife and two children.
"Can Yushi Li keep his words?!"
This condition was enough to make Wu Ankang's heart flutter, but Wu Ankang still had concerns.
Li Xunhuan was Zuo Qiandu's censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Yuezhou Imperial Envoy, and the second-in-command of the Yuezhou Imperial Envoy this time.
But he was only the second in command. The only person who could represent the emperor was Yang Qingyuan, the deposed envoy of Yuezhou and the imperial envoy.
The validity of the promise Li Xunhuan has made is yet to be determined.
Faced with Wu Ankang's doubts, Li Xunhuan asked the people on the side to bring out Shang Fang's horse-killing sword!
This is a symbol of power given to the imperial envoy by the emperor. Although Yang Qingyuan is not here, Li Xunhuan holding Shang Fang's horse-killing sword can represent Yang Qingyuan and the emperor.
When he saw Shang Fang slaying the sword, Wu Ankang understood why Li Xunhuan, a civil servant, could mobilize the Qiantang Navy, and also believed Li Xunhuan's promise.
"Li Yushi, what do you want to know? Just ask!"
"Let's start from the beginning. I have already mastered most of your criminal facts. If you have anything to hide, then the conditions just mentioned will not count!"
This sentence was also a threat to Wu Ankang. Wu Ankang didn't know what Li Xunhuan had found so far. If he had concealed something and the agreement had just been invalidated, it would be more gain than loss.
"Then let's start from the first time Shangguan Jinhong met me!..."
The interrogation room of Qiantang County Government Office was brightly lit all night!
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"Sir! Sir Li has an urgent report from Qiantang County!"
A young man wearing a patrol commander's uniform with two horizontal stripes, one long and one short, on his cuffs, hurried into Yang Qingyuan's study with a letter.
This person is none other than Zhang San in the Wen Yuzhang case, now Zhang Muqing.
Today, Zhang Muqing is already the patrol commander of the Anti-Theft Department of Dali Temple and an archer in the Yuanhua Realm.
This time Yang Qingyuan was sent to Yuezhou on an imperial mission, and he was also one of the followers in Dali Temple.
Yang Qingyuan took the letter from Zhang Muqing!
After reading it carefully, Yang Qingyuan frowned!
Li Xunhuan wrote in his letter that Wu Ankang, the former chief historian of Qiantang, once embezzled a sum of tax money.
About seven or eight months ago, Qiantang County had a business tax to be sent to the Yuezhou Governor's Office. The total tax amount was 550,000 taels. Wu Ankang embezzled 10,000 taels of it and only sent 540,000 taels.
To Yuezhou Bank.
He was originally unwilling to embezzle this money. After all, this kind of tax has a fixed quota and it is difficult to embezzle money. However, the mysterious organization that has been cooperating with him found him and asked him to embezzle 10,000 taels of silver. He promised
Will help him hide the facts of the crime.
Wu Ankang couldn't help himself at the time, so he could only covet the ten thousand taels of silver.
After this incident, he had been on tenterhooks for fear that something would happen, but he didn't know what method the mysterious group of people used. Yuezhou Bank did not discover the corruption incident, and Wu Ankang breathed a sigh of relief.
"These 10,000 taels should be the 10,000 taels missing from Yuezhou's bank account! The accounts are correct! But why go to such trouble for these 10,000 taels?!"
Yang Qingyuan then dug up the entry and exit records of the Shenwu Army and found the registration of the Shenwu Army that day.
In the twenty-first year of Yong'an, on the second day of October, two hundred and ten boxes of silver were put into the treasury.
The boxes containing silver in the Yuezhou Bank are customized. One box can hold five thousand taels of silver. Logically speaking, the tax silver sent by Wu Ankang should be two boxes less.
Then I found the receipt record of the bank, which contained 110 boxes. The person who signed for it was none other than Li Da, the treasurer of Yuezhou Bank.
Yang Qingyuan seemed to feel that he had grasped something key, but there was still something missing.
To make that group of people pay so much attention to these ten thousand taels, there must be some mystery behind it.
Yang Qingyuan had seen that kind of silver box before. Its size couldn't hold anyone at all.
Pretending?!
"boom!"
There was a thunder in the sky, and the rain outside became heavier and heavier.
But it failed to interrupt Yang Qingyuan's thoughts.
That’s right! Pretend!
A master of tomb robbing and gold-hunting in the world, he is good at drilling holes in collarbones. He can shrink his body and maybe put it into this silver box.
The Touching Gold lineage is also good at earthworks, so they might be doing something under the bank!
But once there is a lot of noise during the construction work, how can we hide it from the bank guards?
All the clues converged into a line in Yang Qingyuan's mind, green plants!
Those green plants that were suddenly planted!
If there is a reasonable reason for the soil work, can it be hidden from the guards?!
"Mu Qing, where is Zhiyuan?!"
Yang Qingyuan stood up and asked, he was going to Yuezhou Bank.
Zhang Muqing opened his mouth and replied, "Master Di went to the Yuezhou Bank and has not come back yet!"
"Let's go! Let's go to Yuezhou Bank too!"
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In the Yuezhou Bank.
Di Zhiyuan was sitting in the study room that used to be the treasurer of the Yuezhou Bank.
It can't be regarded as his study. This room is used by the officials of the Yuezhou Bank to work. Not only him, but also Yincao Wangli of the Yuezhou Governor's Office can work here.
However, Wang Li seldom came to the Yuezhou Treasury, so this study room was always used by Li Da, the treasurer.
Di Zhiyuan looked at it many times but couldn't find any problems in the study.
"Whoa!"
The heavy rain kept hitting the tiles, and a drop of rain fell on Di Zhiyuan's head.
"Um?!"
Di Zhiyuan looked up at the roof and saw more than one leak.
The rain was really heavy, causing leaks in many places.
Di Zhiyuan shook his head, but the moment he lowered his head to think, he discovered a problem.
There were many leaks, but the place on the left front of his body did not accumulate water like the other leaks. After the rain fell nearby, it slowly seeped down.
Di Zhiyuan was stunned and immediately shouted, "Here comes someone!"
At the same time that Di Zhiyuan discovered something unusual in the study, Yang Qingyuan rushed to the bank again.
Yincao Wangli from Yuezhou Governor's Office also arrived at the scene.
Yang Qingyuan stepped into the bank and looked around. It was a bank made of steel. It would be difficult to break open the bank without attracting attention!
"Wang Yincao, you said before that this bank is made entirely of pure steel, right?"
"Yes!" Wang Li replied.
"In other words, the floor tiles under our feet are also pure steel!?"
"exactly!"
Yang Qingyuan stared at the ground and said to the Shenwu soldiers following him, "Find someone to lift up all these floor tiles!"
"ah……"
"this?!"
Everyone present was stunned by Yang Qingyuan's words!
"Do as I say! Go get the tools!"
Wang Li came back to his senses and asked half-jokingly, "Master Yang, do you think someone has dug a secret tunnel down here?!"
Yang Qingyuan nodded slowly, "That's right!"
Only then did Wang Li realize that Yang Qingyuan was not joking.
"Master Yang, this, how is this possible?! Who can sneak into this bank, and what else can they do in it?! This is simply impossible!"
If it is true that the bank has been tampered with, then he, the Yuezhou Yincao, cannot escape the blame.
"Isn't it possible? We'll find out when we lift the floor tiles!"
With the efforts of the Shenwu soldiers, all the square tiles on the floor of the bank were soon lifted, and the pure steel was exposed to everyone's eyes.
Also appearing together was a square mark that had obviously been cut!