When he heard that Wu Shi was outside, Cao Sanyang, the governor of Shuntian Prefecture, immediately put down his official duties and asked him to come in and meet him.

"Wuzhai, why are you back?" Cao Sanyang smiled and invited Wu Shi to sit down, and let someone watch the tea again.

Cao Sanyang is already in his destiny and is in the same age as Zhao Jin, but he has not suffered much. He has always been pampered and maintained properly. Therefore, he looks much younger than Zhao Hao's older brother, similar to Wu Shilai, who is ten years younger than him.

"Ming Mansion." After Changsui went out, Wu Shilai asked in a low voice: "The official is here to ask Zhao Xiaolian what happened. What kind of heavenly rules did he violate? I would like to ask for instructions."

"Zhao Xiaolian..." Cao Sanyang was stunned and did not meet the number.

"It's Zhao Zhongcheng's cousin. Today, Ni Dahong was directly brought into the yamen office." Wu Shilai said with an unhappy look: "They are all crazy at home, and they are going to gather his team to beat the drums in the same year!"

"Oh, you talk about him..." Cao Sanyang heard Ni Dahong's name and nodded slowly and said, "Is this the case? Didn't Ni Dahong tell you in detail?"

"He just said he was looking for a Lu family account book and asked again, so he asked me to ask the Ming Mansion." Wu Shilai lowered his head and said in a muffled voice: "I would like to ask the Ming Mansion to relieve the confusion in the hearts of the officials."

"Oh, okay." Cao Sanyang nodded, and after the long-lasting escort tea, he told him to close the door and not let someone get close.

When there was no one else, the prefect Cao sighed:

"Wuzhai, do you think I am willing to care about this nostalgic business? Then Zhao Zhongcheng is the same subject who is in charge of politics with me. As soon as he left, I arrested his uncle. How should Yigan look at me in the same year?"

"Why..." Wu Shilai looked at him in confusion.

I heard the Cao Mansion Gong ask Youyou, "Do you still remember Wang Zhi?"

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"That's all right." Wu Shilai nodded.

All the officials and people in the southeast will never forget the owner of the Five Peaks ship who dominates the sea until their deaths.

Wu Shilai's proud work in his life was his feat of fighting against Japanese devils when he was appointed as the official of Songjiang Prefecture.

When the Japanese pirates invaded Songjiang, they chased and killed the fugitives. Wu Shilai resisted the huge pressure and resolutely opened the city gate, allowing tens of thousands of refugees to go to the city to take refuge, properly resettled them, and personally led hundreds of powerful crossbowmen out of the city to meet the enemy, miraculously repelled the Japanese pirates!

Chen Dong, who led the Japanese pirates to attack at that time, was just one of the many captains under Wang Zhi.

"This matter has something to do with him?" Wu Shilai asked with a serious expression: "He has been dead for almost ten years, right?"

"But the huge territory he established in Japan is still there, and the fleets that traverse all over the world have not been destroyed. Even now, the Florians and the Japanese still only recognize his golden seal. Those maritime merchants must hold his golden seal to allow sea ships to enter and trade."

Although there were no one else in the room, Cao Sanyang subconsciously lowered his voice and said, "My brother suffered in Guangxi for many years, and it is understandable that what happened later is. Let me tell you this. After Wang Zhi was executed, the Lu family took over his sea business, including the golden seal."

"Ah!" Wu Shilai shivered, but then he felt that it should be so. Because when Wang Zhi was alive, there were rumors in the officialdom that Lu Bing and Yan Shifan were his backstage, otherwise Hu Zongxian, the commander-in-chief of the anti-Japanese war, would not have been flirting with him and his attitude was ambiguous.

Moreover, judging from the published files, Yan Shifan's party member Luo Longwen served as an aide in Hu Zongxian's Governor's Office and traveled to and from the sea all year round. He himself was a Japanese pirate under Wang Zhi's office, or a maritime merchant.

At the same time, Lu Bing and Yan Shifan were not only children and relatives, but after Yan Shifan was defeated, the Lu family also took in his only son Yan Shaoting... This is also a major crime that the Lu family has been liquidated now.

So although Wu Shilai could not understand the mystery, since the Lu family is likely to be Wang Zhi's backstage. After Wang Zhi was killed, it was reasonable for the Lu family to send someone to take over his territory.

After all, it was a smuggling empire with an annual trade volume of tens of millions of taels of silver!

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In the signing room, Cao Sanyang whispered to Wu Shilai to tell his secrets.

"Of course, such a big deal is not something that the Lu family can afford. Almost all the powerful families in the southeast have their share. However, Lu Bing was at the peak of his life at that time, and everyone had to rely on his protection, so everyone respected the Lu family as the new King of Jinghai and allowed them to monopolize 20% of the shares."

Wu Shilai nodded slightly.

He suddenly thought that Cao Sanyang was from Yixing, Nanzhili, and Yixing and Pinghu Lu family were far away from Taihu Lake. I am afraid that the Cao family would not miss this gluttonous feast.

Otherwise, why should he, the Minister of the Cao family, be in charge of this idiot?

"But Lu's family, the King of Jinghai, was not good. Jing thought about eating more and taking up more, but she was unwilling to share the benefits with others. But with Lu Bing here, no one dared to say anything. Later, when Lu Bing died, his son Lu Yi took over as the commander of the Jinyiwei, and everyone could only swallow their anger."

"However, after reaching the top, everything has changed. Lu Bing's guilt that year was revealed, Lu Yi and Lu Wei were all imprisoned, the Lu family was also confiscated, and more than 300 people were imprisoned by the Youshi Department." Cao Sanyang said and sighed:

"But there is still a fish that escapes the net. Lu Bing's second son Lu Shen fled to Japan. He actually ordered the entire fleet to set off in the name of King Jinghai, and followed him to attack Hangzhou City and rescue his whole family. How could this be possible?"

"So in the internal strife, Lu Shen was killed and the shares of the Lu family were also deprived. Lu Shen's son Lu Xuan was so angry that he actually came to Beijing to expose everyone and die together." Cao Sanyang said slowly:

"They have the account books for the purchase and payment of maritime merchants. If they fall into the hands of the emperor, the consequences will be unimaginable." After saying that, he was silent for a long time, until Wu Shilai couldn't help but want to speak up, and then sighed:

"The maritime merchants received the news and asked me for my place. I sent people to set up cheques on the roads entering Beijing on the grounds that someone from the Lu family was trying to rob the prison. "

Wu Shi came here and finally understood the whole story of the matter. However, he was still shocked and indescribable.

The dignified third-rank Shuntian Prefecture Priest actually became an accomplice of the maritime merchants. This matter was spread, and I am afraid no one would believe it...

Cao Sanyang naturally knew what Wu Shilai was thinking, so he slowly stood up, walked to the "Da Ming Mountain and River Map" hanging on the wall, turned around and looked at Wu Shilai calmly and said:

"I know what you are thinking in Wuzhai. Whether you believe it or not, I will tell you that my Cao family has been farming for generations and has not been involved in any sea business, nor has they taken a slight slight share in their gang. If this statement is false, it will be a slightest blow to me!"

Seeing that his boss had said this, Wu Shilai hurriedly stood up and said, "The officials have never doubted the innocence of the Ming Mansion."

"No, I am not innocent. I am a member of the marshals. Not only me, but also the officials, gentry and people in the southeast are also a party of the marshals."

But I heard the prefect Shi Potian's analysis:

"Wuzhai, you are from Zhejiang and have been an official in Songjiang. Naturally, you know that in the southeast of our area, farmers who rely on growing grain for a living are no longer seen. Most farmers are growing mulberry trees, growing cotton and spinning, growing tea and stir-frying tea... The citizens in the county and capital cities rely on spinning, weaving, weaving silk, making porcelain, and making paper. So many things are continuously produced, and they cannot be sold by domestic sales at all. Only by relying on marine merchants to help them sell them overseas!"

"Wuzhai, the people are all supported by maritime merchants. If the court has done all maritime merchants, what will the people in the southeast eat? If there is no employment and control of the maritime merchant group, those sailors who run boats will turn into cannibal Japanese pirates! The ten years of Japanese turmoil that had just been quelled will be a comeback in a blink of an eye! The victory we won in the anti-Japanese war that we made such a great sacrifice will be wasted immediately..."

"So I can only help them and try to settle this matter for them." Cao Sanyang sighed with vicissitudes: "Can Wuzhai understand this when I say this?"
Chapter completed!