The people who were still alive saw a group of crude boats rowing towards them.
"Help! Help!"
Someone yelled, and the remaining people started to scream.
After the black shadows under the water determined the location of these people, they assigned a few people to pull a group of people into the water. The remaining people were finally rescued one by one by boats coming from behind without knowing it.
"Is there anyone alive?"
The people on the boat held torches and shouted loudly, and soon they rescued two more dying people.
After a quarter of an hour, finally, the entire canal became completely quiet.
The rescued people were arranged by kind people to warm themselves by the fire and change clothes in a spacious cabin. Everyone was thankful that they were lucky enough to encounter other ships in the middle of the night and were saved.
But they didn't know that just when they were sighing that they survived the disaster, a few streams of white smoke floated out from the small hole in the cabin. After a while, everyone felt very sleepy and gradually fell asleep.
After confirming that all the dozens of rescued people in the cabin were asleep, a wave of men in black walked into the cabin and threw the sleeping people into the water one by one.
The wind was cold and the river was icy. People who fell into drowsiness under the influence of the drug did not wake up again.
Three of the ten official ships carrying salt capsized and seven were damaged.
Soon, the salt loaded in the seven ships was transported to the ships that came later.
These ships were organized in an orderly manner. As soon as one was loaded, they left immediately without stopping for a moment. After a while, all the official salt in the seven official ships was carried away.
There were several boats waiting quietly behind, not in a hurry.
Finally, a dark figure surfaced on the water, handed the people on the boat a few ropes, and then dived into the water again.
The people on the boat immediately pulled the rope like a tug of war. Before long, the bags of official salt tied to the rope were dragged out of the water.
While it was still dark and everyone was still sleeping soundly, those official salts that had sunk to the bottom were fished out almost without leaking a bag.
After all the ships had left, the shadows under the water used various tools to cut open the seven official ships that had not capsized, making them look like they had been damaged by ice.
Soon after, seven official ships sank to the bottom.
There are still several huge pieces of ice left next to the remaining overturned official ships, which is the best explanation for this shipwreck.
More than thirty black figures came ashore from the river. The black clothes they wore were all made of whale skin, which is a tight-fitting material that is extremely waterproof and warm!
At close to noon the next day, Ling Zhongqing took the river transportation officials from Jizhou to pick up the salt ship, but after waiting for a long time, no one came.
In the afternoon, news came from Yunzhou on the other side of the Jizhou River: It must have been yesterday night that ice blocks from the upstream rushed down and hit the moving salt ships. All ten salt ships were destroyed. Because it was night time, no one was there.
During the rescue, coupled with the freezing coldness of the river, no one among the 108 crew members survived!
Eight days after the incident, word spread to the capital. The emperor was furious and dismissed the governor of Yunzhou from his post to investigate.
Let's say that after the official salt was transported away by dozens of crude boats, it came to a secret place.
There were more than 300 bags of official salt submerged in water and needed time to dry. The remaining 700 or so bags were all unsealed immediately, and then put into bags of various colors and styles.
After the people waiting in the secret place are reinstalled,