A fat man wearing a raincoat and a bamboo hat followed the fishermen to the beach in the dark.
"That's it," the fisherman pointed at the broken fishing boat and spread his hands. "Where's the money?"
The fat man held the dagger in one hand, deliberately showing the tip of the blade, and threw the money bag with the other hand: "The money has been cleared, you can go."
After counting the money, the fisherman waved his harpoon and said sarcastically: "If I had evil intentions, I would have killed you long ago. Why wait until now?" After saying that, the fisherman suddenly turned around and shouted into the darkness, "Come out.
, you have followed all the way!"
Zhao Yidao, who was lying on the ground, slowly stood up and said to the fisherman: "It has nothing to do with you."
The fisherman looked at the fat man, then at Zhao Yidao, and smiled: "Then you can slowly reminisce about old times, and grandpa will go home and have a drink."
In the blink of an eye, the fishermen disappeared into the night.
Zhao Yidao drew his sword out of its sheath: "Brother Lin, where is the silver you promised? But there are still three thousand taels that have not been settled."
The fat man surnamed Lin cried sadly: "I have become a lost dog myself, how can I still have money to give you?"
"How do you say it?" Zhao Yidao asked.
Fatty Lin lamented: "My house was secretly surrounded by people, waiting for me to go back and die. Fortunately, I was more cautious, otherwise I would have died in Ningbo!"
Zhao Yidao asked: "Has Governor Wang chased him to Ningbo?"
"It's not Governor Wang, it's the royal minister who killed a thousand swordsmen!" Fatty Lin said angrily.
"Wang Chen is the person involved, right?" Zhao Yidao asked.
"You still want to ask him for money?" Fatty Lin quickly walked towards the broken fishing boat, waved his hand and said, "Let's run away together. Wang Chen is the chief officer of the Ningbo Shipping Department, and he forced me to do this. No.
I can't do anything. I originally thought that as long as things didn't come to light, I would be safe and get a lot of benefits. But this guy was so uneasy that he actually wanted to kill me to silence me. Now that I'm running away, maybe my family will be safe.
You can still live, but if I go back, my whole family will be wiped out! You are still happy, one person has enough to eat, the whole family is not hungry, and there is no burden."
Zhao Yidao followed him onto the boat and asked, "Where are we going?"
Fatty Lin said: "Of course I'm going to join the pirates. Do you still dare to go ashore?"
Zhao Yidao helped row the boat and asked: "Wang Chen, a small chief, doesn't dare to go against Governor Wang, right? Could it be that he is the eunuch in charge of the Shipping Department?"
Fatty Lin pointed at the bright starry sky: "In my opinion, this matter reaches the sky."
"Is there someone in the court who is instigating this?" Zhao Yidao asked in shock.
Fatty Lin said: "No matter who it is, we can't afford to offend him."
Fatty Lin was born in a branch of the Ningbo Lin family. I don’t know how many generations he has been crooked. Anyway, he has long lost contact with the main clan. This guy does not live in the city, but is a village tyrant in the suburbs. His sister is a subordinate of the Shibo Department.
Kong Mu's concubine, relying on this relationship, can live in the land of fish and meat.
Just a few days ago, Fatty Lin was suddenly called out by Wang Chen, the head of the tooth shop, who forced him to go to Hangzhou and hire people to burn down the seaside warehouse.
The reason why Fatty Lin was selected was that he had a reason to be caught by Yaxing, and he was a branch of the Lin family. If the matter was exposed, he could kill him directly and blame the arson on the Lin family.
Anyway, given Wang Yuan's courage, he would not dare to go to Ningbo to cause trouble for the eunuch, the chief eunuch, in the absence of witnesses or evidence.
Behind the Shibo Department is the imperial eunuch, and the imperial eunuch’s handprint is Zhang Yong, the eunuch!
Zhang Yong was originally the chief minister of rites. Because he moved 7,000 taels of silver directly back to his private residence without any accounting concealment, he was impeached and dismissed from office. After the fire in Qianqing Palace, Zhang Yong was re-appointed and changed his position.
He became the Imperial Supervisor and the Governor-General took charge of the reconstruction of the Qing Palace.
The young Mongolian prince invaded in large numbers, so Zhu Houzhao asked Admiral Zhang Yong to supervise the three sides and take the Beijing camp to the border towns to reorganize defenses.
Today, Zhang Yong's main job is the imperial eunuch's palm, and his temporary position is the governor of the three sides. He also supervises Shangshan, Shangyi, Sishe and other eunuchs, surpassing Gu Dayong again to become the top eunuch. Of course, his ceremonial eunuch
The position was lost, and the current chief ceremonial officer is Zhang Xiong.
Unless there is an attack by Japanese pirates, the eunuchs supervising the shipping department of each city must be dispatched from the imperial eunuch.
In other words, all shipping companies in various places are Zhang Yong’s pocketbook!
This damn eunuch would definitely not dare to fight against Wang Yuan alone. There must be help from others, such as... some big bosses from the cabinet and the Sixth Department.
Zhao Yidao and Fatty Lin naturally didn't understand these twists and turns, they were just small people being taken advantage of.
Two little people, driving a small fishing boat, went to Zhoushan overnight to join the pirates.
It was not Chen Shuangxi who they took refuge with, but a group of small pirates with only four boats. They were caught shortly after landing, and Fatty Lin shouted: "Brother, you Zhang Er and I are old friends, please let me know!"
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Not long after, the two were brought to Mr. Zhang Er.
Mr. Zhang, the second in command of this pirate gang, laughed loudly, patted Fatty Lin on the shoulder and said, "Brother Lin, what gust of wind blew you to the island?"
"It's hard to say it all, it's hard to say it all," Fatty Lin sighed, "Oh, my little brother can't survive on the shore. From now on, he will have to rely on his elder brother for food."
"Easy to say," Mr. Zhang pointed at Zhao Yidao, "Who is this?"
Fatty Lin said: "This is my life and death friend..."
Zhao Yidao quickly handed over his hand: "Li Zhen pays homage to Mr. Zhang!"
Mr. Zhang laughed loudly: "We are all brothers, no need to be polite. Let's go have a meal before we go and drink some hot wine to warm up."
When the two of them first arrived at the den of thieves, they didn't dare to get drunk, but because of their appearance, they couldn't refuse the offer of a drink, so they both got half drunk.
In the afternoon, Huang Dana, the leader of thieves, came back from Shuangyu Island and immediately announced: "Get ready tomorrow, and we will go to Hangzhou to load the goods and go to sea together the day after tomorrow!"
Mr. Zhang Er asked: "Do you really want to take a gamble?"
Huang Da Na laughed and said: "Twelve boats named Chen dare to bet, what are we afraid of four boats? If you don't dare, just stay on the island and wait for me to make money and come back."
There are four ocean-going ships on the island, one of which belongs to Mr. Zhang. He also smiled and said: "Then I will take a gamble with my brother. By the way, an old friend came to invest today. He has some connections on the shore, which may be useful someday in the future."
superior."
"Since we are friends, let's meet." Huang Dana said.
Zhao Yidao and Fatty Lin had been rowing all night and were half drunk. Now they were snoring to catch up on their sleep.
When they woke up, it was already the afternoon, and they were immediately taken to visit the leader of the thief.
When Huang Dana saw the two of them, he was obviously stunned. He stared at Zhao Yidao and asked, "Is the brother's surname Zhao?"
Zhao Yidao was so frightened that he forced himself to calm down and said, "Even if I admit the wrong person, my surname is Li."
"Shit!"
Huang Dana immediately drew his knife: "Tie up these two thieves! Although the portraits are not exactly the same, their facial features are always similar. The resemblance of one person is a coincidence, and the real owner is the same if two people are similar. This motherfucker is
God has sent me a reward of two thousand taels of silver!"
Mr. Zhang Er said hurriedly: "Brother, I'm afraid there is some misunderstanding."
"No misunderstanding," Huang Dana said with a smile, "I went to Shuangyu Island today, and all the heroes were discussing the matter of going to sea. Chen Shuangxi took out two portraits of wanted people in the province. Each one is worth a thousand taels of silver. These two are the ones in front of him.