In the next few days, Yunxi not only ordered craftsmen to go to Heyanzhuang to study glass, but also stayed in the palace to read memorials and study political affairs. It was not until the 21st that Yunxi received a secret report from Jin Yiwei about Suzhou. Attention turned to other aspects.
After the Hu Weiyong case was concluded, Zhu Yuanzhang drastically reduced the number of Jinyi Guard personnel. The capital was fine, but there were very few open and hidden lines in the local area, so it took so long to find out the whole story this time.
The secret report sent by Jin Yiwei said: It was found that on the third day of October, someone was spreading rumors in Jiading and other places. The accent was the local accent, saying that the Ming Dynasty did not have enough grain to exchange for treasures. The rumors were very superficial; but the people of Suzhou He has always been dissatisfied with the Ming Dynasty, and after hearing the news, he rushed to exchange for food. The ministers waited day and night to catch those who spread rumors...
After reading their report, Yunxi learned the whole story. The Ming Dynasty had the highest tax rate in the country in Suzhou and Songfu. However, when Zhang Shicheng was in charge of the Suzhou and Song Dynasties, it was extremely lax, so the people of Suzhou resented the Ming Dynasty. That's why they did this this time .
After Yunxi thought about it, the only example he could think of to stabilize the currency value was that in the early days of the founding of the Republic, merchants in Shanghai and Shenzhou hoarded goods, causing prices to skyrocket. Chen Yi mobilized the country's grain, cotton, coal, etc. to sell them intensively, which stabilized the price and currency value.
Schacht's method of stabilizing the mark in 1923 was very clever, but Yunxi could not use it now. So in the end, Yunxi could only use force to overcome cleverness, and ordered the granary in Suzhou to be ready to dispatch grain at any time, but for the time being No, Yunxi wants to take a final look at Zhuo Jing's performance.
October 24, Suzhou.
Zhuo Jing stood nervously in his office, pacing repeatedly. All the food used for the thirty days of preparation today has been exchanged, and Zhuo Jing must make a decision tonight. Zhuo Jing does not want to mobilize any more food, but he I can't think of any other solution these days, I can only watch as the food becomes less and less day by day.
After stamping repeatedly for a long time, Zhuo Jing finally made up his mind that it would be better to use more food than to mess up the matter, and shouted: "Li You."
The servant Li You who was waiting outside immediately responded: "Master, the young one is here."
Zhuo Jing said: "Prepare the car immediately, I am going to the official warehouse of Suzhou Prefecture." After saying that, he took out Zhu Yuanzhang's imperial edict that Yunxi later sent to him, put on his coat and went out of the gate.
Late at night, off the coast of Jiading County, Suzhou Prefecture.
Li Jiqian was playing Pai Gow on his family's boat. As the leader of the pirates, he did not dare to enter the city, and today was the day when his companions who entered the city came back, so he took the risk of sailing into the Yangtze River Estuary and waited for his companions. It was too boring while waiting. So a bunch of people are waiting for entertainment.
While the fight was going on, the dock in Jiading County flashed with light, as if a ship was sailing out.
Everyone didn't pay attention, thinking that it was their returning companions who were driving out in the boat, including Li Jiqian. But Li Sha'er was not sleeping yet. She was staying aside to watch them playing Pai Gow, and she immediately walked over when she saw a bright light outside. Then, Li Shaer said attentively: "Brother, come and take a look. There is a lot of light. There should be at least five or six boats coming out. How can there be so many boats in the middle of the night?"
"Huh?" Li Jiqian immediately became alert after hearing this. He gave up his seat to others and walked to the side of the boat. Seeing more and more light, his face changed and he shouted: "Stop playing around and start the boat right away."
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Others were puzzled, but fortunately Li Jiqian still had some prestige among everyone, so some people packed up the pai gow while others arranged to sail the boat.
But this does not mean that no one has asked, especially those who have relatives on the shore. They ask: "Master, why are there still people on the shore? Why don't you wait?"
Li Jiqian said: "Look at the light at the dock. It cannot be emitted by one or two ships at all, let alone our people or other pirates leaving the port. It must be a government ship. It is very likely that someone has been caught.
Yes, the government went out to sea specifically to catch us or other pirate ships. Didn’t we also see Boss You’s ship when we came here?”
The others took a look and realized that there was too much light. It must be a government ship. They all became nervous, raised their sails as fast as possible, and sailed away from the Yangtze River towards the open sea.
Li Sha'er's attentiveness and Li Jiqian's prudence saved their lives. Not long after their ship sailed away, seven or eight ships arrived at his original position. They were all ships of the Ming Dynasty's regular navy flying the official flag.
Liming, the Qianhu Ban of the Wusongjiang Naval Force who led the team out, asked: "Have any ships been found near here?"
The flagman picked up the signal light and asked other ships if they had found any. After a while, the flagman reported back to Ban Qianhu and said: "Sir Qianhu, the other ships have not found other ships."
In fact, there is no need for the flag-bearer. As Ban Liming, who has worked in the Navy for twenty years, he can also understand the signal, and then issued the order: "Let all ships light up all their lights, and form a team of two ships to disperse.
Come and look for other ships." Then the ships separated to search. But the target they were looking for had already sailed away, and no matter how hard they looked, they couldn't find it!
So after searching for half a night, it was almost midnight, and Ban Liming ordered the ship to be collected and returned.
Ban Liming was very upset. He failed to seize such a good opportunity to make meritorious deeds. He was very frustrated.
But Li Jiqian and others who escaped were not happy because their companions were caught. After leaving the Yangtze River, they did not even dare to stay on Chashan Island and found a few strangers near Chashan Island.
He drove a small boat and pretended to be a fisherman, watching to see if anyone had escaped and asking what was going on.
On the 28th, they found the three companions who were in shock in a small boat. After questioning them, they confirmed that someone had been caught.
Li Jiqian asked carefully about what happened, but the three people who escaped didn't know what happened. They just knew that they were hiding in a deserted small yard during the day on the 24th, and someone from the local government went to arrest them. The three of them
After finally escaping from Jiading County, there were navy ships searching the water for the past few days, so they did not dare to sail there anymore. They escaped until they reached the boundary of Hushen County before finding a ship to go to sea.
With a bang, Li Jiqian put his hands on the table. This time he really suffered a big loss. Not only were the goods he brought for trading gone, but seven people were also lost. It was a heavy loss. He didn't know why.
The government will conduct a large-scale investigation into the reason why they were finally caught. If he knew that the reason why he suffered such a big loss was because he wanted to cause trouble to the Ming Dynasty, he would regret it for the rest of his life.
But they were also people who had been eating at sea for a long time. Many people were beaten to death by the Ming Navy and other pirates. Naturally, they would not be emotional. After waiting for a few more days, no one came out, so they immediately sailed back
Went to another nest located in Ryukyu.
In fact, Li Jiqian vaguely felt that it was because of his own troubles that he made such a fuss, but as the head of the family, he could not make mistakes, so he did not tell anyone else, but remained silent for a long time. Fortunately, everyone else thought he was
I was just worried about my companions, so it was okay.