After hearing Zhu Wan's story about the situation on Dongsha Island, Xu Jin almost couldn't sleep all night. He planned to sail to the sea early the next morning and rushed to Dongsha Island in person. However, something very unpleasant happened at this time.

Originally, the Xixi Inspection Department also had more than a dozen sea boats, but due to disrepair and poor maintenance, there were only two fast boats left to use. The only three-masted bird boat could not even stand the deck on it, and the wooden board would break as soon as it stepped on it. For such a ship, if Xu Jin dared to go out to sea, if it disintegrated on the sea halfway, then all the people would have to be buried in the sea.

Although there are two Clippers available, the Clippers are small in size and cannot carry less than 100 brothers from 500 battalions. Moreover, the Clippers are cruising offshore, so it is a bit of a risky ride out of the sea.

In the end, there was no choice but to transfer two centipede ships from the Salt Transport Branch, and they had to set sail until noon. Xu Jiong, judge of the Salt Transport Branch, originally wanted to go to sea with him, but Xu Jin refused and asked him to lead the Salt Ding to assist the inspection department in defense and guard against Japanese pirates coming again.

Centipede boat, also known as crab boat, is twenty meters long and more than three meters wide. There are rows of oars on both sides of the boat, which look like centipede. It sails when there is wind and makes the oars when there is no wind. It is very fast. Therefore, pirates often use this centipede boat, which comes and goes like the wind when it is plundering, and can quickly escape from the distance regardless of the wind.

At about three o'clock in the afternoon, two centipede boats finally arrived at Dongsha Island with Xu Jin and others. Xu Jin first visited the injured brothers of the 500th battalion, and arranged for the pension for the dead. Then he followed Zhu Wanqi, Jingtong and others to the cave.

Xiao was mentally prepared for Xu Jin, but after seeing the various items piled up in the cave, he was still surprised and asked, "Old Qi, have these things been counted?"

Qi Jingtong grinned and said, "I just counted it about it. There are eight thousand taels of gold, sixty thousand taels of silver, ten boxes of copper coins, two thousand pieces of silk, five thousand pieces of cloth, and more than ten thousand kilograms of various medicinal materials..."

Listening to the series of numbers reported by Qi Jing, Xu Jin couldn't help but jump in his eyelids. How many unscrupulous things did these pirates do to accumulate such a huge amount of wealth.

Zhu Wan said coldly: "I have heard that our dynasty's cloth, medicinal materials, copper coins and other items are very popular in Japan. After being shipped to Japan, the value can be several times or even dozens of times. Therefore, some illegal businessmen and gentlemen were tempted by profit and colluded with pirates to smuggle and trade with Japanese merchants. Now it seems that it is true."

Xu Jinshen nodded with consent. If a group of pirates had robbed a large amount of gold and silver, he still believed that, but the cave in front of him had such a large amount of medicine and cloth, it was definitely not something a group of pirates could have collected.

Xu Jinxing went to a box of copper coins and reached out to pick up a handful. The copper coins were yellow and of very good quality. Without exception, they were all brand new Xuande Tongbao, just like the dozens he picked up on the beach.

Zhu Wan also walked over and grabbed a handful of copper coins and said angrily: "These are all privately cast copper coins. It's outrageous. The bold dog thief actually dares to cast copper coins privately. It's hateful! It's not enough to correct the laws and regulations of the country if they don't kill them."

Xu Jin couldn't help but ask: "Why do these illegal people only cast Xuande Tongbao instead of Hongzhi Tongbao?"

Zhu Wan shook her head and said, "I don't know. I guess Xuande Tongbao is more valuable in Japan. It is said that the value of our Ming Dynasty copper coins can be four or five times higher in Japan, and one thousand cents are exchanged for four taels of silver."

Xu Jin couldn't help but feel moved. He had heard that Japan had a lot of silver. It seemed that the Japanese body was indeed cheap and expensive at this time. If the Ming Dynasty could open up the sea ban and trade with the Japanese, the Japanese silver would have flowed to the Ming Dynasty.

"Didn't it mean that two pirate leaders were captured alive? Have you ever interrogated it? Have you ever found out the origin of the stolen goods?" Xu Jin asked.

Qi Jingtong regretfully spread his hands and said, "The pirate leader Chen Sipan was seriously injured and is still unconscious. It is probably difficult to survive. The other third leader named Shen Laoqi, who was a cordyceps and had to deal with them before he was executed. He has admitted that these goods were sent by merchants from various coastal states and counties. They were responsible for selling these goods to Japanese people and dividing the money afterwards. However, Shen Laoqi did not know which merchants and gentlemen these goods belonged to, because Chen Sipan and Chen Dong had always been responsible for connecting with those people."

Zhu Wan's eyes shone coldly and said, "How can there be no trace of such a large number of medicinal materials and cloths? As long as you work hard to investigate, you will definitely find out the truth. Lord Xu, I am willing to take over this case."

After Zhu Wan said that, she looked at Xu Jin with a scorching look. Xu Jin sighed inwardly. The investigation of this case would definitely involve a lot of people. It would probably be too many people to fall into the ground, and it would cut off the livelihoods of many people. However, this case involves private coins, which is very important, so naturally, it is impossible to investigate. So she nodded and said, "Okay, County Magistrate Zhu, this imperial envoy will order you to thoroughly investigate this case, and the Xixi Inspection Department will temporarily serve as the inspector."

Zhu Wan was overjoyed when he heard this. He also understood that once the investigation of this case was launched, it would definitely offend the local gentry and wealthy families, and the resistance would be huge. Now that the imperial envoy fully supports it and holds an armed force, Zhu Wan naturally has more confidence and bows to Xu Jin solemnly and said, "I will definitely live up to the entrustedness of Lord Xu, even if I am tragic!"

Xu Jin said: "Brother Zichun is so serious. By the way, Brother Lao Zichun has completely counted the goods and money here, and then registered and compiled them."

Zhu Wan bowed and said, "The emperor obeys the order."

Qi Jingtong coughed lightly and said, "Sir, there are some things you need to take a look at here."

Xu Jin looked at Qi Jingtong and Xie Erjian in confusion. Xie Erjian waved his hand, and several 500 battalions of soldiers carried out two inconspicuous wooden boxes from the corner.

When the lid of the wooden box was opened, Xu Jin and Zhu Wan were both shocked and blurted out: "Fireware!"

I saw that these two wooden boxes contained firearms such as muskets and landmines, but they looked extremely old, with muskets rusty and some of them even broken.

Xie Erjian bent down and took two muskets and knocked them together. The rust on it fell one after another, and a stream of yellow smoke rose. Xie Erjian pointed to the corner and said, "There are seven or eight boxes over there. In addition to the muskets, there are also bead guns, etc., which are all defective products."

Xu Jin's face became extremely serious. The court has always strictly controlled firearms. Each firearm is engraved with inscriptions and is registered. Some people are so brave that they smuggled firearms?

Zhu Wan also picked up a rusty musket and looked at it carefully, and said in a deep voice: "This is made by the Nanjing Military Weapons Bureau. In the Military Weapons Bureau, we should be able to find out which garrison the batch of muskets were allocated to."

Xu Jin nodded with a cold expression, and there seemed to be a blazing rage on his chest. Damn, he can tolerate the combat effectiveness of the coastal garrison and shit, but he can't tolerate these bastards being scammers. For money, even firearms can be smuggled to the Japanese. These bastards with no bottom line are really fucking!

Xu Jin was both angry and scared. If the flintlock rifle was also exchanged for money by these bastards in the future, I really couldn't imagine what kind of disaster the Japanese pirates who had mastered the flintlock rifle would bring to the Ming Dynasty.
Chapter completed!