The ship was hung with the banner of Fushun Trading Company. This is a trading firm in Liaodong, which mainly deals in leather goods, ginseng, deer antler and other businesses. Every time it sails, the first stop is Jiangnan, where the goods are exchanged for silver and a batch of silk is purchased.
Porcelain, etc., and then continued south to Champa, Java, Sulu, etc. and sold them at high prices.
After spending time in various Southeast Asian countries, we purchased a batch of cane sugar, spices, ivory and other rare items from the Central Plains, and then returned home.
A trip can take as little as three months or as much as half a year, and the profits are quite substantial.
Therefore, the scale of the commercial bank grew larger and larger, and even purchased hundreds of acres of real estate in Ningbo and built its own warehouses. You must know that after the rise of maritime trade, the land price in Ningbo Port has increased.
With one hundred acres of land, the economic strength of the business owner cannot be underestimated.
As soon as the ship docked, people from the Municipal Shipping Department and the Inspection Department came forward.
The Municipal Shipping Department is responsible for collecting taxes, and the Inspection Department conducts routine inspections. The ship boss is already familiar with dealing with these people. He handed over a stack of banknotes and the next step was hello, me, hello, everyone.
Sure enough, the official on duty just took a casual look, without even counting the goods on the ship. He collected the customs duties according to the account books provided by the ship boss, and then left.
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Immediately afterwards, the crew began to unload the cargo. Amidst the intense busyness and shouting, the shopkeeper Wan Kai flew onto a carriage.
After the carriage entered the city, they came to a spacious house, which was also the property of Fushun Trading Company.
"Master, you are back!"
"Hmm!"
Wan Kaifei patted the dust on his body and asked: "How is the arrangement going?"
"Li San's letter is all ready. We will take a boat down the river tomorrow and arrive before dark."
"Without further ado, you go and inform us that the merchant ship will leave the port early the day after tomorrow."
"Yes!"
As night fell, Wan Kaifei stared at the moon in the sky and fell into deep thought.
The disaster three years ago was something he would remember for the rest of his life.
The tribe suffered a devastating disaster, but their parents, wife, and newborn child all survived...
Bang!
Suddenly, there was a burst of explosions in the quiet night sky. Wan Kaifei immediately became nervous and listened carefully. It seemed that someone had broken in, and there were quite a few people!
"Master, something happened!"
The concierge ran in panting, with blood stains on his body.
Wan Kaifei frowned and said, "What's going on?"
"Yes..."
Bang!
Just as the concierge was about to speak, there was another loud bang. This time, the sound was very close, making people's ears ringing.
Then, Wan Kaifei saw a big hole appear in the concierge's chest, blood splattered everywhere, and he fell straight down.
Such power...is the Ming army's musket!
Hula la——
A group of officers and soldiers wearing soap uniforms rushed in and surrounded him.
"Who are you and what are you going to do?"
Wan Kaifei forced himself to remain calm and pretended to be an innocent citizen.
Immediately afterwards, a man wearing soft armor walked in and looked at him coldly.
"You...who are you?"
"Who am I?"
The man grinned and said, "Don't you have my file in your hand?"
"I, I don't understand what you are talking about..."
"Haha!"
As he spoke, the man threw out a stack of files and said, "I, Shi Heng, haven't you investigated it before, and now you're pretending to be Hu Tu?"
Wan Kaifei's face turned green and white, and he grabbed a file, which was exactly the various personnel information he had secretly collected over the past three years.
This is my secret, why did it fall into the other party's hands...
"Shopkeeper Wan... No, I should call you Gunaha, right?"
"What Gunaha, I don't know!"
"Are you being stubborn?"
Shi Heng opened his mouth and showed a smile that was uglier than crying, and said: "Your information is inaccurate. In the past few years, I, Shi, have been responsible for not only the Japanese country, but also the entire East China Sea." Wan Kaifei didn't know what to say, so he kept his mouth shut.
"Don't say anything, right? Come and take us away!"
"Wait!"
Wan Kaifei said with a stern face: "My name is Wan Kaifei. I am the boss of Liaodong Fushun Trading Company. I am a serious businessman. You are making false accusations. I will go to Yingtian Mansion to file a lawsuit against you!"
Shi Heng slowly squatted down, smiled again, and said: "Don't be too excited. Ying Tianfu can't control this matter. I have to hand you over to the Jin Yiwei. Don't worry, I won't let you die early. At least I will take care of you."
I have tasted all the instruments of torture in prison... No, it's not enough. If you dare to assassinate the emperor, such a serious crime of treason, you have to do it at least ten or eight times."
Wan Kaifei said with a dark face: "If you want to impose a crime, why bother!"
Shi Hengdan said calmly: "It's easy to find out your details. Let me ask you, have you ever done business with Japan?"
As soon as these words came out, Wan Kaifei was suddenly shocked.
He had done business with the Japanese country, and it was also a smuggling business, a shady kind of thing.
Because he bought a large number of Japanese knives from the Japanese country, it would be fine if he just bought one at home to collect, but buying in large quantities would explain the problem.
Alas!
He finally understood why he had been exposed.
It must be because the news about the batch of Japanese knives was leaked. Shi Heng got the news in the Japanese country and followed this line to trace it to himself.
"You are a smart man. I won't say too much. Besides, I, Mr. Shi, am a rough man and not very good at talking. I just want to tell you one thing. In this world, money is a good thing. The people under you will follow you.
, this is to make money, not to lose your wealth and life, that’s it, let’s go!”
Seeing that the matter was revealed, Wan Kaifei stopped hiding it. He slowly stood up and said, "It's useless if you arrest me. Your emperor is in my hands!"
"Hahaha..."
Shi Heng laughed again, as if he had heard some interesting joke.
Wan Kaifei said calmly: "I'm not joking with you. If you don't believe me, go and ask. Did your emperor disappear by the Qinhuai River last night?"
"You... what can you say about you?"
Shi Heng shook his head and said: "The emperor is the real dragon emperor, how can you covet it? Now I might as well tell you that the emperor deliberately let your people capture him, just to dig out the line you hid in Nanjing.
Your whereabouts in Liaodong, Ningbo, Nanjing, and several ships at sea have all been in the hands of the Jinyiwei, and the emperor's decree is... to catch them all in one fell swoop, leaving no one behind!"
"What did you say?"
Wan Kaifei's expression changed drastically, and the pores in his eyes shrank sharply.
"Just like the war three years ago, no one was left alive!"
"Emperor Dog, I will fight with you!"
These words stimulated Wan Kaifei, who rushed towards Shi Heng as if going crazy.