Emperor Zhengde of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 182
Building the Zheng He Bao was the emperor's idea. He seemed to have thought about the accident where the bottom of the ship was dug through. Therefore, when building this warship, the craftsmen followed the emperor's advice and sandwiched a layer of steel plate between the bottom plywood. .

However, this is a secret of the Ministry of Industry and is generally not disclosed to the outside world.

Several pirate leaders who were imprisoned in the cabin guest room thought of a way to die together, and this is the only way they can think of to escape.

Just when the few of them were about to set fire to the boat and escape in the chaos, a timid thief peed his pants in fright.

Although he has also done murder before, but now they are facing the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. If this matter is not successful, the consequences he can think of are that the survival of several generations of each of their families will be implicated. Problem, this is a big problem.

No matter how awesome your second leader is, and how much you want to die, you can't take me to die in vain. Our rebellion was forced by the court, and it was not voluntary. If you die, you don't implicate innocent people. If you burn the government ship, I'm afraid.
"Second Master, wait a moment and see if there is any other way. I don't think the previous official meant to make things difficult for us. We can't do things too badly. If we really set the ship on fire, I'm afraid None of us can escape, we will still be trapped by the Pearl Chain Tribe."

The thief who was scared to pee just now stopped the second-in-charge.

When the second master heard it, he also felt a little bit in his heart.

What he said is not unreasonable!
So, he blew out the fire zip first, put it in his arms, and then waved his hand to signal others to extinguish the fire zip.

He had never seriously considered the consequences before. He only thought of such a bad idea when he heard the tragic screams outside. If he really set the ship on fire, where could he escape to?

Even if he fled to the ends of the earth, he would be chased back.

He had hated the Ming system for so many times before, but he still didn't have the courage to fight against the imperial court.

"What do you propose?"

"We have fallen into their trap. I have a brother here who is a soldier. I can find a way to get him to clear up the relationship. Even if we are all arrested, we will not be beheaded. Then we will think about it carefully. The solution is the best policy!”

When the second master heard that what the kid said made sense, he nodded immediately.

"I've heard before that your brother served under Master Qi. Although he didn't get an official job, but his name is more than enough to save us. I never thought that there is a steel plate at the bottom of this boat, otherwise I have already succeeded!"

"Forget it, you go and tell the people outside, just say that we want to see their adults, and see what he says when the time comes, so we can adapt accordingly."

Fortunately, they didn't set fire to the ship. If they did, the ship was made of pine wood and had a layer of paint. Once exposed to an open flame, it would be destroyed in an instant.
If this were the case, Qi Jingtong might not be able to afford it even with his eight lifetime savings.

When he learned that the pirates used the method of internal cooperation and external cooperation to steal the food on the ship, he couldn't help being furious: "There must be a traitor. If we don't have a ghost inside, who can leak this matter?"

"Come on! Give this governor a careful review and find out the person who leaked information about our army!"

Immediately, a staff member walked out.

"Stay this person, put him under custody, and bring those people who were previously locked in the guest room. If you can find out the ghost, the governor will never let you go lightly!"

"Yes!"

Soon, several guards took the dying soldier down, came to the guest room, reached out and opened the lock outside.

But he soon discovered that there was a pile of sawdust on the ground, and there were several places, and he immediately understood the intentions of these people.

"Catch them all, remove their weapons, and take them all to the master!"

Several naval officers quickly ran in and tied up the pirates with ropes.

At first they pretended to resist one by one, but when someone found hidden weapons such as short knives from them, all of them became silent.

"Bold! Is this how you treat guests?" Qi Jingtong scolded his subordinates with a gloomy expression.

"My lord, we are all fishermen here, we were really wronged!"

The person who scared to pee his pants just now opened his mouth to explain to Qi Jingtong as soon as he came in.

"Well, I believe you are local fishermen and have no other malicious intentions. It's all just a misunderstanding!"

"Come on, untie them!"

When Qi Jingtong gave an order, several people standing around looked at each other in blank dismay, and did not move for a long time.

"Did you hear that? You adults have let go. This is really a misunderstanding! A misunderstanding!"

The man just nodded and bowed and said to the officer standing beside them.

"My lord, this."

Qi Jingtong waved his hand, signaling them to quickly untie these pirates and not to speak.

"Fellow fellows, you haven't eaten yet, right? It's all a misunderstanding. I think you are hungry too, so let's eat here first, and then go to bed after eating!"

Those pirates were also proud, only the second master began to pay attention to everything around him a little bit, he thought it was a grand banquet!

"My lord, it's better not to trouble your lord. The grass folks should go back. Although they haven't eaten all day, the grass folks are still willing to go home. After all, there are wives and children at home."

The second leader responded quickly, and immediately proposed to Qi Jingtong the idea of ​​going home.

"It's okay, our officers and soldiers of Ming Dynasty are doing things for the common people, fellow, you don't even eat a bowl of rice, are our officers and soldiers so unreasonable?"

"Oh, no no no!"

The second leader immediately waved his hand, and several other people also became hostile to him, it seems that they are about to have a full meal, but you refuse.

"I heard that the relatives of some of you are also serving in our army, why don't you call them over and sit down together?" Qi Jingtong said to these sailors.

"Yes, just call your brother here. Do you think I'm so polite? Huh?"

A sailor who had been silent all this time suddenly spoke to the man who was scared to pee his pants just now, and even satirized him with words.

The pirate who was scared to pee his pants couldn't refuse at this time, so he nodded and said: "My lord, my brother is called Mao Liu, and he is on patrol on your ship. He returned it a while ago."

When he said this, he immediately realized that he had said something wrong, and immediately shut up!

Qi Jingtong said: "This fellow said it's okay, we are all our own people here, nothing will happen, I treat you as relatives, what else can you hide?"

The man saw that the second master's face was not good-looking, so he didn't respond to Qi Jingtong's words.

Soon, hot meals were served, and the cruise officer named Mao Liu was also invited in.

Qi Jingtong very politely asked Mao Liu to sit down, and then stroked the beard on his chin proudly. Now that he was going to catch the turtle, the matter suddenly became easier.

"Mao Liu! Have you found any news recently?" Qi Jingtong pretended to chat with them while eating.

He still hasn't figured out a lot of things, this time he wants to use this small fish to catch the big fish behind the pirate.

Even, taking advantage of the current strength of the Daming Navy, it is his goal to get rid of all the thieves in the Daming sea area.

(End of this chapter)