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Chapter 720 Windfalls and Talented Think Tanks

Although he knew that Qiu Sihai had a black cloth covering his head and could not see himself, when Xiaobei threatened with the words of Shen Dahai, he was still not as natural as Wang Fulin, and he would have to stare fiercely at the side. If Wang Fulin had not claimed that Qiu Sihai had heard his voice, no matter how he disguised himself, he would have been recognized, and he was unwilling to let others around him take action, for fear that someone would remember the voice, how could it be her turn to take action? At this moment, she was waiting for the other party's reply with some patience. She thought that she might have to be punished in the end, but she did not expect Qiu Sihai to make a sudden sound.

"If I really say it, Master Feng will never go back. Can you really protect me for a future?"

"Do you have any other choice now? If you don't believe me, then die; if you believe me, you may still have a way out. Since you have been a pirate for so many years, you should be very skilled in betting like this!"

Qiu Sihai immediately froze. He had bet many times in his life, but it was the first time for such a dangerous scene like this. After all, whether it was a friend who was gangsters at sea or when they encountered strong winds and waves, there was still a glimmer of hope, unlike the life and death that was in the hands of others now. After weighing and weighing, he said carefully: "I came out this time just to explore the way for Mr. Feng, and not much stuff is available. In total, spices and gems worth more than 10,000 taels of silver, and five hundred taels of gold. The things were indeed not hidden on their bodies, but buried in a courtyard in Guangzhou City."

"You only know? So you can only lead the way?"

"Yes." Qiu Sihai spoke out this word very cautiously, and then said, "After taking this money, is the Lord really planning to dedicate it to the government? I wonder which adult thread you have taken?"

"Ha, do you still doubt me? I've been staring at you for a long time or two. You went to the Nanhai County Government to send money to become a chef. Then, during the previous provincial examination, I went to the tribute college and took advantage of the medical skills to plot against the deputy envoy of the Haidao Bureau, Zhou Guan, and wanted to take the opportunity to get closer to him and do the job of pleading. Do you think I don't know?"

The most secret whereabouts and purpose were revealed by the other party in a single word. Qiu Sihai finally realized that he had no bargaining capital. After a long silence, he finally had to admit defeat. However, he grabbed the last straw: "Okay, I am willing to give all these rare and gold to Zunjia. I just hope Zunjia can take me and these brothers. Since Zunjia intends to recruit me and don't do anything, even if these officials have collected money, they may not be willing to do anything. I can help you gather the power of Feng Ye. If you become the king of pirates in Guangdong and Fujian, you will be strong and generous when the government recruits the government, you will give official positions and fields!"

Selling the boss so quickly?

When Wang Fulin saw Xiaobei turning to look at him, he suddenly widened his eyes. He smiled and shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands, then nodded at her, hinting that she could agree.

Although Wang Fulin said this, Xiaobei knew that the promise was too easy to arouse suspicion. Therefore, she deliberately pretended not to trust Qiu Sihai, and after a while, she finally agreed with some reservations. Of course, this was just an oral agreement and had no binding force, but for Qiu Sihai, the other party seemed to be moved by his best guarantee. Should he kill him to silence his mouth only for more than 10,000 taels of silver, or keep him. Then gathered the nearly 1,000 people on the ten ships in Lin Afeng's hand, and obtained larger bargaining chips when negotiating with the court?

With such an oral agreement, Wang Fulin sent someone to take out the money buried by Qiu Sihai, of course there was no effort. The final result was two boxes of uncarved red sapphire raw stones, two boxes of South China Sea pearls, and a few tortoiseshell agate. In short, they were all gold jewelry that were favored by dignitaries. In addition, the rare thing was a few pieces of ambergris with considerable weight, plus five hundred taels of gold. Qiu Sihai estimated that 10,000 taels of gold, which really underestimated the value of these things. If it was sent to the capital thousands of miles away, it would be very likely that 20,000 taels of goods would be sold.

If Wang Fulin was a person who loved money, at this time, as long as he killed Qiu Sihai and other pirates who could not be shy, all of these things would be able to be taken with a smile. But now he is no longer a young scholar who was carrying huge debts and his fame is still in danger. Not to mention that the Rice Industry Guild alone has advanced to Wuhu and mastered a large number of Wuhu's stacks at the estuary of the Yangtze River. To say that the Xu family and Cheng family, the two major Hui merchants, and the silver merchants and the bills that were spread out in the southeast system, are an industry that makes money every day. Therefore, this unexpected fortune is not worthy of being moved at all. What he has to worry about now is how to talk to Ling Yunyi, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi.

Especially when there are such a batch of property, how can he guarantee Ling Yunyi's ethics and that the governor will not embezzle it? How can he guarantee that Ling Yunyi will not think that he swallowed the big head and offered a small head? Taking a step back, even Ling Yunyi is just as unpopular as him and is committed to the top of the officialdom. So when the other party sees such things, will he give it to the court and then attack the pirates with his backhand, completely ignoring his advice? Judging from the previous measures of the court, it is very possible. The four words "rebel" are the most commonly used methods by the government, not just the patents of pirates.

After thinking about it over and over again, Wang Fulin finally decided that since he was unsure of such a major matter, he would go to discuss it with someone. After all, he employed a staff member not just for work, but also for someone to make up for specific policies. Therefore, he asked Xiaobei to continue to play the role of prison chief, and he hurried back to the procuratorate.

In the past few days, after Du Maode drafted a memorial to send Beijing officials to the provincial examination, he also drafted memorials to impeach several Guangdong officials based on his instructions, but it was not limited to Guangzhou, but was scattered in ten prefectures, ranging from small to county-level academic teaching, to various aspects, from corruption to incompetence.

It is certainly impossible to travel around these places even if you have two legs. But I can't resist the fact that Lu Guangwu, who has been to Guangdong twice in a row this year and went deep into the people, and Xiaobei went to Lianxi Academy to meet Wang Ji, who was still teaching here. From what Mr. Longxi learned from him, and with the evidence of the two authentic locals Xu Xiucai and Du Maode, they can naturally ensure the accuracy of the impeachment list. In this way, one of the greatest responsibilities of the censor was achieved as a censor, and after all, the inspector censor is also a member of the censor's team. In this way, even if he stayed in the censor's door, others could not find fault.

Chen Bingchang has been helping Du Maode to sort out the European nations together. Although it is still an extremely simple version, Wang Fulin believes that compared to the historians who wrote history in the court, this is already very deep. Just when Wang Fulin brought the money that Qiu Sihai said to be back, Xu Xiucai happened to be back from Hao Jing and brought back Jia Nailou's positive response to the exchange student, of course. At the same time, there was also protest against the government's withdrawal of Hao Jing's right to lease.

Now that the scholar's think tank was all here, Wang Fulin simply summoned everyone to the main hall where he lived in the backyard, and directly placed a few boxes of precious gems, agate, pearls, etc. on the big case.

Although Xu Xiucai had seen many good things in Haojing, he could not help but be stunned at this moment: "Master Wang. This is..."

Wang Fulin glanced at Du Maode and saw that the scholar who was good at playing the role of the iron ruler was as usual. He did not explain the cause and effect, but said concisely: "It was a fortune that several pirates sneaked into Guangzhou, trying to clear the government and seek pacification."

This explains the source of things, but for Xu Xiucai, who has rich experience and tragic fate, there are too many speculations. He didn't care that he was still happy that Wang Fulin had just received his recommendation and recruited Du Maode. He took a deep breath and decided to die for his confidant. He advised Wang Fulin to not betrayed money because of money. Who knew that the topic was actually snatched by Du Maode.

"Brother Xu, Brother Chen, things have come to this point. Although Mr. Wang hides it for me, I can't just treat it as a matter of nothing."

Du Maode paused for a moment and told him about his experience of being forced to be a pirate, as well as being recognized by Qiu Sihai, and so on. Seeing that Xu Xiucai couldn't close his mouth, Chen Bingchang was also stunned. He sighed in his heart, then looked at Wang Fulin and asked, "Did Mr. Wang's property come from Qiu Sihai?"

Seeing Wang Fulin nodding, he took a breath and said as if he was determined: "If Mr. Wang intends to follow the old example of Mr. Hu Meilin taking down the Shuangfeng Ship owner Wang Zhi, the students are willing to serve."

That incident was so famous back then. Not to mention Xu Xiucai's age, even Chen Bingchang had heard of it, and the latter jumped up suddenly: "Senior Du, this is too dangerous! You can escape easily. Will you not go back and get into the tiger's mouth?"

"Yes, yes!" Xu Xiucai didn't have time to think about why the person he recommended to Wang Fulin was, but now Wang Fulin knew Du Maode's past better than himself. Now he knew that there were many people, so he did not mean to blame Du Maode with righteousness at all. Instead, he echoed Chen Bingchang, "Since they already had the intention of placing this big fortune, they obviously don't have to take such risk."

"If Mr. Wang thought so, he wouldn't have let me see these things. What the students said?"

Seeing Du Maode look at him and the other two looked at him half a beat slower thinking, Wang Fulin sighed inwardly that the two he chose were staff members with specialized skills, and the other one was only considered an intern, so naturally he could not compare with the lineup of famous staff members who were accused by the late father-in-law Hu Zongxian. Of course, although Hu Zongxian started as the inspector's censor, the gathering of staff members later was the matter of being in charge of the party. He is now just an inspector. He briefly talked about his concerns, as well as the new ideas and new ideas of recruiting pirates mentioned by Lu Guangwu and Zheng Mingxian, and then mentioned Ling Yunyi's ambiguous attitude towards recruiting pirates and the court's always tough tendency.

It was not until the end that he said: "So, this time I discussed it with you three, which seemed to be for this ill-gotten fortune, but in fact it was for one thing, how to completely convince Ling Jiantai, and even to persuade the chief minister of the cabinet in the central government of the court. Even if it fails, I should also attract attention from the affairs of the South China countries, even if it is a few people!"

Adopt the countries in Southeast Asia!

Faced with such heavy six words, all the three scholars present were silent. Chen Bingchang was young and inexperienced, but he was still in his heart and sighed that it was Brother Wang and had courage. Xu Xiucai knew that these six words would cause a strong wind and wave after dealing with the Folang Jiren. As for Du Maode, who had the most profound vision and thoughtful thoughts among the three, he thought that when Emperor Yongle sent Zheng He and others to the West to the East, the real purpose was not to be a strategy. According to legend, it was to find Emperor Jianwen, and sprinkle gold and silk, and consumed countless money and food. If we really wanted to make the result, it was probably to establish the strong position of the Ming Dynasty as the sect leader, and even to pay tribute in the future.

But since Yongle, Zheng He's treasure ship has been abandoned, and the imperial court's ban on sea ban has become tighter and tighter. Even when Longqing opened the sea, he only sold dog meat with the head of sheep, in order to better ban on sea ban.

So, with Wang Fulin's current vision, how much resistance will there be in the North Korea? How likely is it to win over supporters?

Seeing that the three of them were all thinking, Wang Fulin threw out another important news: "In addition, Xu Sheng and I had been to the coastal fishing village outside Xin'an City before. In addition to capturing the assassins who took money and wanted to take my life there, I also set up an ambush to catch a group of pirates walking out of the village. In order to recruit a large number of pirates including Lin Dao Qianlin Afeng, Mr. Lu of Xinchang and Mr. Zheng of Kunshan took the white boat deep into the enemy camp. It should have been almost a month since then. However, no news has been heard back yet."

Although Du Maode had heard Wang Fulin mention that he was forced to join the pirates, he heard from Lu Guangwu until he learned about this that he was truly sure how the relationship between Wang Fulin and Lu Guangwu went deep into the enemy camp. If it weren't for the extremely close and close relationship, how could he agree easily and do it easily? It was himself, if it weren't for the heavy stain on his body, he might have affected his family, and in order to repay the favor of his encounter, how could he volunteer to risk returning to the tiger's mouth?

In the end, Du Maode suppressed his concerns about Lu Guangwu's trip and asked, "I heard that Mr. Wang had saved Zhou Guan, deputy envoy of the Haidao in the tribute court before? Have you visited him before?"

Of course, Wang Fulin knew what Du Maode was going to ask, so he nodded and said, "After a lot of heart, Zhou Observation can now be considered an ally."

"That's the best! Mr. Wang can explain to Zhou Guan in detail about Qiu Sihai and these rare property and the recruitment of pirates in advance, and seek the support of Zhou Guan, and then meet Ling Jiantai again after planning it. Now Ling Jiantai is about to quell the Yaomin rebellion in Luobangshan. There is not much property of 10,000 or 20,000 yuan, but whether it is used for war or for comfort afterwards, it is all used on the blade, and it will never be too much. As for how to turn these things into cash, Mr. Pan will never refuse the favor of Mr. Wang and Brother Xu's previous dispute over the head of the Pan family in Guangzhou. As for the characterization of this money, it might as well be said to be obtained from the stolen money and used as military expenses."

Xu Xiucai understood it all at once. But the second half is easy, and even if Wang Fulin doesn't need to be, he will not have any problems. After all, just letting the Pan family eat these goods, it is not a waste of money. But even if Wang Fulin said that Zhou Congwen was an ally, he could really persuade him to make suggestions with Ling Yunyi? Will Ling Yunyi really agree? Can the words of using pirates to manage Nanyang be fooled?

He tried his best to think about some of his experiences when dealing with the Portuguese in Haojing, and suddenly a sentence came out: "If you want to recruit pirates to spread the situation in Nanyang, can you say that our country will recruit righteous men and help the Malaga restore the country?"

Hearing this, Wang Fulin immediately stroked his hands and laughed: "What a Xu Sheng, I really have the same views. That's what I think!"
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