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Sixth Inspection

When Jiang Yifan heard that overseas people were in a state of anxiety, he couldn't help but worry, so he decided to take a risk to Penghu. Zhan Zhen said, "Aren't you making things difficult for me?" But as Li Yanzhi's envoy, Jiang Yifan had to cooperate as much as possible when he made a request to come to Zhan Zhen.

The two set out from Zhangzhou Prefecture City and arrived at Yuegang soon after. Jiang Yifan realized how strict the control of Fujian and Zhejiang was! Now it was an extraordinary period. The inner court was forced by county officials, the county officials were forced by county officials, the county officials were forced by prefect, the prefect was forced by prefect, the prefect was forced by prefect, and the prefect was forced by Zhu Wan again! Zhu Wan sharpened his sword on his head, and was authoritarian and upright. The officials of all sizes neither wanted to lose their jobs nor their heads, so they all became more severely arrested. They would rather arrest the wrong person than have problems in their jurisdiction. The officials below were honest and followed the rules, and took the opportunity to steal, harass the local people, and forced the good people to give filial piety, otherwise they would arrest them to ask for the crime of Tongfan. Therefore, from Zhangzhou Prefecture to Yuegang, they were clearly walking on the road of the same prefecture, but Jiang Yifan and Zhan Zhen still paid filial piety seven times.

When he arrived at Yuegang, Zhang Wei shook his head and sighed when he heard that they were going to sea, and took them to the warehouse. He saw a large and small warehouse of firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, silk, ceramic, sulfur needles, and Zhang Wei said: "If I could leave the sea at this moment, I would have already left these goods. The officials of all sizes who were usually bribed by us have now secretly issued strict orders, saying that we should not act rashly, otherwise they would have to do their business!"

In fact, the business of the maritime merchants is so big that the local officials along the coast are all local officials. How could they not know who goes out to sea and who doesn't go out to sea? But before Zhu Wan came, the ban on the sea was just a piece of paper. Although there was "official business", it was not "official". The Baojia system was really strictly implemented. Everyone had to be in charge of any incident between the Tongfangs in the city and the Tongli in the village. A broke the law. If his neighbor B knew that he would not report the matter, he would be punished the same - this is called Yan Baojia! This move made everyone feel that his neighbor was staring at him, and everyone was afraid of being reported by his relatives and neighbors. Under such a terrifying surveillance network, everyone dared not move. Therefore, except for a few people who even ignored the beheading, most of them shrank and did not dare to move.

Jiang Yifan asked, "Is there nothing I can do?"

Zhang Wei said: "There are two ways. One is to take the risk of going out to sea and bet on luck. Maybe you can go out to sea without meeting anyone, or you meet an official who is willing to collect money when the other party is willing to collect money. That's fine. This month, many people rushed out, and about one or two of the ten people succeeded."

Jiang Yifan frowned: "How can that be done? It's too low!"

Zhang Wei pointed to the goods in the warehouse and sighed: "If it is considered high, will I still keep these things here and get moldy?"

Zhan Zhen asked: "What is the second solution?"

"Right out!" Zhang Wei said: "Bring a knife and rush out if the bribe is not done! Among the people who rushed out this month, two or three of them did this. The officers and soldiers were willing to fight and cherish their lives and could not stop us."

Jiang Yifan and Zhan Zhen shouted in unison as soon as they heard this: "How can that be! No!"

No matter what happens, you must not confront the government. This is the first strict order left by Li Yanzhi before going north!

Zhang Wei said: "Then I have no choice. Why don't you go to Zhenhaiwei and maybe you can go out from there."

When Jiang Yifan heard Zhenhaiwei, he was overjoyed and said, "Yes, why didn't I think of it there!"

Unexpectedly, when Tian Dake heard Zhan Zhen ask him to send a small boat to send Jiang Yifan to sea, he complained, "Master Jiang, Grandpa Jiang! You don't look at what time it is now! Ask me such a big problem! How dare I move in this situation now! Zhu Wan's cruel official is more tight than thieves! Who knows how many eyes he has put in staring here! He is the governor and imperial envoy, holding Shangfang's sword in his hand! He will kill anyone he doesn't like to see! How dare I provoke him! After all, I am an official from the court, and Zhenhaiwei is not my family."

As he was talking, he came down to report that a group of pirates invaded. Jiang Yifan moved and said, "There are pirates here?"

"Li Xiaolian...ah, it's Li Huiyuan now. Since he swept and slaughtered, there have been a lot fewer pirates in this area," Tian Da said with a sigh: "But the merchants in China cannot get out of the goods, and overseas merchants cannot buy goods. They can't help but deal with them. So some people want to come in from outside to pick up goods, some people want to go out to sell goods, some people take advantage of the chaos to rob, some people, some people, in short, all kinds of messy things! Alas, I have to go to do business quickly."

He heard the roaring sound outside, and seemed to have started fighting. Tian Dake had an affair with Li Yanzhi and made a lot of benefits. He also got Li Yanzhi's advice to put some of them into military use. Therefore, the weapons were better than other garrisons. The people under his command were somewhat commercially rewarded, and the enthusiasm was higher than that of other garrisons. At this time, he fought and defeated the gang of pirates. Tian Dake had a flash of inspiration during the battle. He thought of an idea and took the opportunity to send a ship to the thief patrol the sea and send Jiang Yifan and Zhan Zhen out along the way.

The two were overjoyed. Just as they were about to leave, the Zhan family of Zhangzhou Prefecture sent someone to send an urgent letter and said, "Young Master, run away! The county has issued an order to detain the master! Now the master and his wife have been detained."

Zhan Zhen was shocked. After asking, he learned that someone had reported that Lin Xiyuan's son Lin Wenzhen had an affair overseas. The case was arrested by Zhu Wan. As the trial was conducted, he involved the Zhan family. Although the prefect of Zhangzhou had received a lot of filial piety from the Zhan family on weekdays, he was forced by Shangfeng and had to send someone to get Zhan Zhen. As a result, Zhan Zhen did not get it, so he detained his parents and only let him come out to inform Zhan Zhen to come back to the case. However, Zhan Zhen's parents felt sorry for his son, but told his family to secretly advise his son to escape: "Don't worry about his parents."

When Zhan Zhen heard this, he burst into tears. Not only did he not escape, but he wanted to go back. Jiang Yifan advised: "If Zhu Wan arrested this case, I'm afraid you will be in danger this time!"

Zhan Zhen shook his head and said, "There are so many dangers that I have to go back! If I don't go back, not only will my parents be unable to protect them, but Tongli will also be in chaos. If you are involved, I'm afraid that even the Li family and Chen family will be involved! That will be dangerous!"

Tian Da was terrified of his own harm, and he also agreed to go back, saying, "Actually, there is no need to worry too much. The main culprit in this case is Lin Xiyuan's son! As soon as he comes in, half of the scholars in Fujian will be implicated. The strong dragon will not suppress the local snake. No matter how cruel Zhu Wan is, she may not be able to fight these people in Fujian."

Zhan Zhen nodded and said, "What Commander Tian said is reasonable." Then he said goodbye to Jiang Yifan, said goodbye and left.

Jiang Yifan knew that he had to go back out of responsibility, so he did not persuade him. He took the cruise ship sent by Tian Dake and arrived in Penghu. Tian Dake's confidant took out the goods from the ship and went to the market to trade, but Jiang Yifan came to find Li Jie, Chen Yuting and others.

Li Jie, Chen Yuting and others were overjoyed when they heard that he came and hurriedly set up a "sweet potato and fish soup banquet" to welcome him. Sweet potato and fish are the most valuable foods for the officials. At present, these senior officials dare not waste it because the officials encountered economic difficulties again. However, the last time the economic difficulties were due to natural disasters, but this time it was due to man-made disasters.

At the banquet, Li Jie was drunk until the glass was dry for his younger brother's wedding, but Chen Yuting did not drink any wine. Jiang Yifan came to persuade him, but he still used water instead of wine, saying, "Yifan, I really can't drink it, I'm afraid I will be confused, please forgive me."

Jiang Yifan only felt that his emphasis was strange. Seeing a cross hanging on his chest, he smiled and said, "Is this kind of necklace popular here recently?"

"No." Chen Yuting smiled and said, "This is given to me by Father Shaberou. Yifan. If you have time tomorrow, how about you come and listen to the priest's reasoning?"

Jiang Yifan frowned and said, "Father? Are those monks? Do you know that the third young master doesn't like them."

"How could it be!" Chen Yuting said: "Many of the third son's ideas are inconsistent with the truth, but some parts of the third son also need to be modified. Yifan, you don't like him, just think he is a foreign race and has a different appearance from us. But one day, everyone will find that Father Zaberuo is talking about the truth, which is beyond all races."

"Okay, okay!" Wang Mumin said from the side: "Don't say that, it's not as interesting as everyone is drinking."

Li Jie was drunk that night, but Jiang Yifan was quite restrained. On the second day, he went to various markets of Penghu officials. Wherever he went, the merchants complained, saying, "When will the third young master come back? After the famine last year, the business improved a little, but when Zhu Wan came, the business was difficult to do again!"

Jiang Yifan advised repeatedly, saying, "Although the third young master is not here, others are in the north, but they are concerned about this place."

The merchants said, "That's right, that's right! We all hope that the third young master will come back quickly every day and night. In the past, we must have made money when he has good news."

Several other businessmen secretly said: "It's not bad for us, Chen Lichang, but he is not very good at doing business. We follow him and always see losses."

Jiang Yifan hurriedly said: "The situation in the entire East China Sea is not good now. It would be great if I could survive in the past few years. Do you still want to make money?"

The merchants all sighed after hearing this: "That's the same."

Jiang Yifan visited the countryside again. At that time, fifty-seven villages had been opened in the south of the main, but they were still a "limit" in the system, which was really not a good name. These villages were built by Chen Yuting, and most of the villagers in each village were new immigrants. But they heard that Li Yanzhi was the leader, but they saw how Chen Yuting worked hard and did his best, so Chen Yuting had a higher prestige among the villagers.

In addition, whether it is administrative hall, market, ancestral hall, Mazu temple, or village military office, it is built by Li Yanzhi. However, the Cross Hall within Penghu College is much more lively, and hundreds of people come to worship every seven days.

Jiang Yifan was surprised and worried that Chen Yuting would violate the rules. After asking, Cai Ershui said, "Chen Lichang did not violate the rules, and we did not let the monk go outside to preach. However, after Chen Lichang believed him, many people followed suit."

Finally, Jiang Yifan returned to Penghu and inspected the water camp aircraft.

There are now two major aircraft water camps in the Dayuan Strait. The southern Penghu Water Camp is controlled by Wu Ping, and the northern Jilong Water Camp is controlled by Wang Mumin. These two major water camps are the main force of Li's overseas aircraft soldiers. In addition to being responsible for the defense of the Dayuan Strait, Wu Ping also regulates security affairs in the South China Sea. The dynamics in the East China Sea are handled by Wang Mumin. Attacking the south and defending the north are also the general strategy set by Li Yanzhi before going north. In Wu and Wang, Li Jie coordinated all aircraft soldiers.

At this time, Wu Ping had not returned from the Luzon inspection, and Jiang Yifan had a seal from Li Yanzhi in his hand. Although he could go directly to the camp to parade, it was not an extraordinary period. He respected Wu Ping and did not trespass and came to the chicken coop.

After the "Sweet Potato Fish Soup Banquet" that day, Wang Mumin had no chance to talk to Jiang Yifan, so he went back to the chicken cage. When he heard that he came, he specially drove seven four-masted warships out of the water camp, and more than 200 large and small warships were arranged in formations to welcome the fire. Jiang Yifan smiled at the bow of the ship: "Fatty Wang! You are so arrogant! Be careful that Zhu Wan on the other side heard the cannon sound and said you were rebelling!"

In fact, how can I hear the fire here? Besides, Zhu Wan doesn't live by the sea. Jiang Yifan is a joke, but Wang Mumin smiled bitterly after hearing this and said, "Don't mention him! For him, all the brothers on the sea are poor, and everyone hates him! It's just that the third young master has a strict life! Otherwise, I'll send troops to fuck him!" He pointed to the fleet behind him and said, "You have come too early. If you come two years late, there will be only half of the fleet."

Jiang Yifan said in surprise: "There is half left? Why is this?"

"Building boats and soldiers requires money!" Wang Mumin complained: "Chen Yuting said that now is an extraordinary period, and the income from Tongli has dropped sharply. I have to reduce my expenses - fuck! I don't spend money randomly, how can I compress it? There is no way, so I have to not repair the old ship and not build the new ones."

Jiang Yifan said in shock: "How can this work! Without the protection of the military force, how can the senior officials ensure safety?"

"It wouldn't be possible without a soldier." Wang Mumin said: "But what Chen meant was to cut the ship by 40% and reduce the train by half. When the future improves, build ships and recruit soldiers. Humph! The population of the seniors has increased twenty times in a few years. It was supposed to be the increase in troops, but he did not increase but reduced his money and used all his money to do those unimportant things!"

Jiang Yifan asked him what Chen Yuting used to do with the money. Wang Mumin said angrily: "Paving the road, building bridges! Building water conservancy! Do you think this is nonsense?" Jiang Yifan smiled and said: "So these are the things that are good for people's livelihood."

"You are not prioritized!" Wang Mumin said: "Even if it is a good thing, you have to separate it! Now the official has become a piece of fat, and he is staring at many eyes. But he will do those things that are not in a hurry first and please the guests who have moved in! Humph! Therefore, the brothers all have objections to him! I went to find Wu Ping, but Wu Ping can't suppress the surname Chen now, so he went to find the second young master. The second young master couldn't tell him! In the end, Wu Ping said: 'It's impossible to cut so little! If you can't get the money, I'll find a way to do this balance!"

Jiang Yifan was very surprised and said, "Wu Ping doesn't care about the money, how can he find a way?"

"He doesn't care about money, but he has the way to make money." Wang Mumin smiled and said, "At that time, the man surnamed Chen asked like you. Wu Ping said, "I took someone to pretend to be a pirate to rob." He was shocked by the man surnamed Chen, and even said that he was inappropriate. Wu Ping said, "The third young master only said that he could not fight with the official army, and did not say that he could not be a pirate. Now is an extraordinary period! In order to raise soldiers, I can't say that I can only take out my old business! People cannot be wronged by those benevolence, righteousness and morality, so that my brother can't let me be wronged.

We are so poor!’ The man surnamed Chen had no choice but to take a step back, saying that he would cut the aircraft 20% and reduce the cost of warships by 30%. The ships are easy to reduce, but the wood is the way to reduce the number of people? Those brothers were brought out step by step, who can they drive away? In the end, I didn’t drive them, and took the lead in reducing the salary of soldiers by 20%. Fortunately, the brothers listened to me, but they couldn’t help but complain in secret. Envoy Jiang Qin! When you go north, remember to talk about this with the third young master and ask him to preside over justice for everyone!”

Jiang Yifan smiled and said, "Don't worry! I will definitely say it!" But he thought to himself: "Now everyone in Donghai is sad. Even if he talks to the third young master, he may not help you."

However, Jiang Yifan was wrong. When he spread the news to Beijing, Li Yanzhi was stunned for a long time after he found out. He immediately asked Feng Qi to leave all the goods from the capital in advance, and sent a letter home. He sold more than a dozen industries in his hometown. Even the Li family's house was mortgaged. In order to raise the amount of money specified by his son, the old Li family was almost embarrassed to sell in Youxi. However, Li Dashu and Li Gang did not hesitate. After hearing Sanzai's words, they transferred the money to Zhan Zhen and asked him to try to transfer to Penghu to redistribute the annual salary to the aircraft soldiers. After receiving the salary, the two camps cheered, but they were all moved and cried after hearing the source of the money.

At this time, Jiang Yifan walked around the chicken coop that had only been established for a year. Although the water village had established its foundation, due to insufficient additional funds, he almost did not see any additional fortifications being started. He stayed in the chicken coop for two days, and met Zhang Yue, who was in charge of the north trade route in Xingang, north of the senior official.

Since Tongli temporarily gave up the base of Shuangyu and shrank to the north of the senior officials, Tongli's business share in the East China Sea has also decreased sharply. However, because the timely cuts of the flesh and blood, he has made preparations. Zhu Wan was not affected too much after coming. However, Zhang Yue was still active on the sea north of the senior officials and south of Japan. At this time, Jiang Yifan asked about Shuangyu and Japan's situation. Zhang Yue smiled and said, "The situation on Shuangyu is similar to what the third prince expected, but something big happened in Japan."

Jiang Yifan hurriedly asked, "What's the big deal?"
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