"I wonder what the Lord Marquis has to do with summoning the servants and Lord Luo?"

It didn't take long for Yang Rong and Luo Sigong, who had followed Wang Bing to Yuegang, to rush over.

"You can put aside what you are doing and let me find out what happened in this month's Hong Kong. Damn it, Nuo Yue Hong Kong pays more taxes every year than your newspaper office..."

After throwing the account book in his hand to Yang Rong and Luo Sigong, Wang Bing spoke angrily and gave instructions.

"Master Hou, you have forgotten those confessions..."

After glancing at the ironic figures on the account book, Yang Rong looked at Zhao Yixian, the revenue officer on the side.

"It doesn't matter, I'm not an outsider!"

After waving his hand, Wang Bing motioned for Yang Rong to continue speaking.

"Master Marquis, according to those confessions, I and Master Luo were planning to investigate from this month's port..."

After getting Wang Bing's signal, Yang Rong continued to speak.

It turned out that based on the confessions of dozens of smugglers and after some analysis and discussion, Yang Rong and Luo Sigong also decided to use Yuegang as a breakthrough point, so they followed Wang Bing to Yuegang.

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"Well, I am quite confused by these bastards!"

After hearing Yang Rong's explanation, Wang Bing, who had originally focused his attention on Donglin Academy, remembered that there seemed to be several confessions related to Yuegang.

"In that case, let's go check it out. I just need a head to be sacrificed to establish my authority!"

In the end, Wang Bing waved his hands at Yang Rong and Luo Sigong with murderous intent.

"Master Hou, these people are all from Zhangzhou. If...will it cause trouble? The people here have always been fierce..."

Hearing Wang Bing's words, 'I need a head to sacrifice the flag to establish my authority', after Yang Rong and Luo Sigong left, Zhao Xianyi reminded Wang Bing with some concern.

"Haha, they are just a few moths. If they dare to jump around in front of me, I can still look down on them!"

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"Check, Zhou Yideng, Yao Yinglong, Ye Shide, Wang Yingqian, Shu Jiusi and other seven people embezzled Mo Yue's Hong Kong tax money. The amount was huge. They were immediately sentenced to execution and their family properties were confiscated to make up for the tax money they had embezzled from Mo Yue..."

In the twenty-fifth year of Wanli, on the fifteenth day of the winter lunar month, in the square outside the Governor's Rate Hall, since the establishment of the Governor's Rate Hall, except for the first two rate officers, one of the seven rate officers before Zhao Xianyi now has one.

One, all trembling, kneeling on the makeshift execution platform.

Speaking of which, Jin Yiwei and Dongchang are indeed veterans in handling cases. It only took five days from Wang Bing's order to getting the evidence of corruption among these salary officials and arresting them all.

In fact, speaking of it, it is just a few assistant officers who serve as payment officers. How can they have such great ability to swallow up all the huge amounts of corruption in Hong Kong this month? There must be other officials behind this!

However, firstly, to resolve the affairs of the Nanyang and Western Barbarians, and secondly, for the later plan of "officials and gentry working together as messengers to pay for food", Wang Bing could only endure it first and take some of the heads of these payment officers first.

interest.

"Hu, your champion is really strange. He just killed a few corrupt officials. Why did he have to call us in too?"

Just when Wang Bing asked people to announce the crimes and punishments of these revenue officers, the Western Yi merchants in the square couldn't help but look puzzled.

It turned out that just the day before, all the Xiyi merchants in Yuegang had received an order from Zhao Xianyi, the pay officer of the Du Rating Hall, asking them to go to the Du Rating Hall the next day to observe the execution. Needless to say, this order was actually issued.

Of course it’s Wang Bing.

"What's weird about this? It's called killing a chicken to scare the monkeys. It's specifically designed to scare you yellow-haired devils. Hehe..."

"We are not from the Ming Dynasty, so what is there to be afraid of?"

Looking at the prisoners on the execution platform, these Xiyi people curled their lips indifferently. They didn't care much about the name of the businessman surnamed Hu as "yellow-haired devil". They must be very familiar with each other.

"I said, Lao Ma, since the Champion has informed you to come, he must have deep intentions. Why are you so anxious? Just wait!"

Finally, the Han merchants who were joking before now also put away their banter.

"cut!"

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"The Emperor is entrusted with the destiny of heaven, and the edict says: The countries in Nanyang are all tributaries of the Ming Dynasty. In the past, the imperial court was busy with the Northern invaders, so the Western barbarians took the opportunity to invade... Now I order the champion to lead the Ming Dynasty army to conquer. However, God has the virtue of good life, and I give it to you.

Wait for two months to evacuate on your own, and no more soldiers will be allowed to occupy an inch of land. If you don't listen to the good words... From now on, if you abide by the laws of the Ming Dynasty, business transactions will continue as usual..."

After several former salary officers of the Governor's Office were beheaded and brought to justice, just when the Western Yi merchants were preparing to leave, the Ming Emperor ordered an expedition against the Western Yi and regained the Nanyang vassals, but the edict was left on the execution platform.

With cold blood, he read it out with murderous intent. The purpose was naturally to let these Western Yi merchants take the news back.

"Hu, your emperor wants to go to war with us?"

When this murderous imperial edict was read out, all the Western merchants could not help but be shocked.

"Isn't this nonsense? Didn't you see that His Majesty has issued an edict? If you are ignorant and want to continue to occupy the Southeast Asian countries, then the champion will lead his troops to kill them. When the time comes, hehe, maybe our Ming Dynasty will still

We need to add a few more temples built with the heads of your Westerners..."

The businessman surnamed Hu who was joking with the Xiyi people before started laughing in a self-conscious manner.

"We admit that your emperor's Yulin Guards are very powerful, but without warships, how can they swim past? Your warships are far inferior to ours!"

Hearing the confidence on the face of the businessman surnamed Hu, these Western businessmen were immediately dissatisfied.

"Hey, it doesn't matter if your warships are bigger. After all, the number is limited. My Ming Dynasty..."

Seeing that these Xifan people were still not convinced, the businessman surnamed Hu was not to be outdone, and he opened his mouth and prepared to use the "ship and sea" tactic to deal with them.

However, before he could finish his words, he was suddenly interrupted by a dull sound of artillery coming from outside the port.

"That's, that's your Ming Dynasty's battleship?"

Amidst the roaring sound of artillery, these Western merchants couldn't help but be shocked when they saw the hundreds of Ming warships that suddenly appeared outside the port.

There was no way. I just said that the Ming warships were inferior to them, but in a blink of an eye, I discovered that the Ming warships were not only not inferior to them, but also more numerous than their respective counterparts in Nanyang.

"Haha, isn't this nonsense? If it weren't for our Ming Dynasty's battleship, it could still be yours? Didn't you see the dragon flag on it..."

Seeing the shocked expressions of these Xiyi merchants, the Han merchants present looked proud and proud at the moment. I don't blame them for being jealous, it was really a great feeling to slap someone's face on the spot.

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"Master Marquis, why do you give them two months to evacuate? If these Xiyi really escape by then, wouldn't our work have been in vain?"

Watching the Xiyi merchant ships leaving the port one after another, Chen Lin, who had just led a small team of second- and third-level warships to Yuegang, couldn't help but look puzzled.

"Haha, don't worry, these Xiyi people are all greedy people who covet the wealth of the East. How can they voluntarily evacuate with just a word from us?"

Shaking his head, Wang Bing was not worried at all about Chen Lin's worries.

In fact, giving these Western barbarians two months was just the time Wang Bing gave them to unite and assemble, in order to complete the battle by then.

However, what he didn't expect was that his plan would lead to an irreversible tragedy because of his own negligence.

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