My Daming New Empire

Huang Yuan and Zhao Yongliang were immediately frustrated. If Zhu Zhanji didn't know about this, they would naturally make him happy when they found this batch of gold and silver.

But since Zhu Zhanji already knew about this matter, even if they offered gold and silver, it was only a matter of course.

It's just that they have already arrived here, and they can't get out of it at this time. Besides, they are also interested in this batch of gold and silver.

Now that the matter had been made public, Zhao Yongliang generously disembarked 150 Habayashi Guard soldiers to assist the inner prison guards in searching for this batch of gold and silver.

The addition of Habayashi Wei is much faster than only a hundred internal eunuchs.They carefully searched every warehouse, and then checked the ground everywhere for signs of excavation.

But even if they dug three feet here, they couldn't find where the gold and silver were, which made several people's faces look a little ugly.

As an outsider, Zhao Yongliang had never participated in the intelligence analysis, so the first one was a little frustrated. "Could it be that the information is false, or that the Emperor of Japan has sent people to transfer this batch of gold and silver?"

Chang Fu looked back at an unattractive middle-aged man behind the crowd, and asked: "He Zongqi, you have been in Osaka for more than a year, and you were the first to report the situation here, and you are also the most familiar with the situation here, but Have you noticed that the goods have been transported away?"

He Zongqi, who looked amiable at first, puffed up his chest at this time, walked to the front of the crowd, and said loudly: "I have seen a large amount of goods arrive here with my own eyes, and I have been paying attention to the situation here since then. I can be sure that this batch The gold and silver were never transported away. When the goods arrived, all the participants were executed. Dongying lacked large vehicles, the gold and silver were heavy, and transportation was difficult. In order to keep secret, they did not dare to let ordinary people participate and leak the news .”

Everyone nodded, believing that his words were correct.The transportation of gold and silver is indeed difficult, and a small box costs several hundred catties.However, the roads in Dongying are rough and the vehicles are scarce. It is indeed difficult to keep such goods secret.

Huang Yuan looked at the ground where the potholes had been dug, and asked, "Based on what you've seen, where will they hide these treasures?"

He Zongqi pondered for a while, looked at the river beside the port, and said uncertainly: "Since there is no land, will it be hidden in the water?"

One sentence awakened the dreamer, and everyone lifted their spirits and looked at the special pier of the warehouse.Since the gold and silver have not been transferred and there is no land on land, the biggest possibility is that it is only in the water.

Huang Yuan looked at Zhao Yongliang, and Zhao Yongliang immediately blew the whistle on his neck knowingly, calling the Habayashi guards to gather.

After the soldiers covered in mud lined up neatly in front of him, he said loudly, "Those who can dive will come out, go into the water and check to see if there are any boxes or anything like that."

Most of the members of Habayashi Guard are from Fengyang and Jiangnan, and nearly half of them know how to swim. Of the 150 members, 50 can be easily selected.

But it doesn't take so many people. Zhao Yongliang selected twenty soldiers with excellent water skills and asked them to take off their clothes.

Although it's only the end of April, the river water is still a bit cold, but after all, it's early summer, and they dug the soil for half a day, and they're not afraid of cramps after entering the water.

This time, there was news that a soldier found a rope tied to the underwater part of the wooden pile on the pier. wooden box.

It is difficult for ordinary people to get water out of these wooden boxes, but there is already a crane on the ship of the inner prison, which can lift a cow onto the ship at once, let alone just a box.

When the thirty mud-covered boxes were neatly placed on the deck of the inner prison ship, everyone's faces showed gratified smiles.

The three of them made some concessions, and Chang Fu was the first to open one of the smaller boxes.

The thirty boxes are all made of mahogany, they are extremely strong, but there are some differences, there are six smaller ones, and 24 larger ones, but the smaller ones are heavier.

Everyone knows that gold is heavier than silver, and everyone is looking forward to these small boxes.

When Chang Fu broke the wax seal and personally pried open a small box, the yellow light inside made everyone cheer.

When Zhu Zhanji got the news, it was already dark.

After a day of intense fighting, even the most excited soldiers of Ming Dynasty showed a trace of fatigue at this time.

But everyone didn't dare to be careless, because this was the first day of the war, and there was no way to attack the Japanese people head-on. They were probably all looking forward to the arrival of night.

In order to deal with possible attacks, Zheng He has already been busy all afternoon, arranging the defense of each occupied area.

In addition to the defense of the shore positions, the fleet must also pay more attention to possible attacks. There are many people in Japan who are good at water, and they must be prevented from diving and digging ships.

Hearing that the inner prisoner and Habayashi Wei seized 7000 catties of gold and more than [-] catties of silver at once, he just let out an oh, expressing his understanding.

Three thousand catties of gold is less than 5 taels, and more than 7000 catties of silver is only 10 taels. Together, they are worth almost 50 taels of silver, and they are just the expenses of this army expedition.

He is not a person who loves money. For him, the only thing he values ​​is fame.

On the contrary, Zhu Zhanji is more excited, because with this batch of seizures, the basic expenses of this army's battle have been saved, and if there are any seizures in the future, it will be a profit.

He is different from most people in this era. As a businessman in his previous life, he paid the most attention to cost and profit.

(I was in a hurry on the road, and I hope to forgive if there is something wrong...)

Thank you Da Sui Zhang Degong, I spit out your reward, thank you for your support

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If you want to say who the Dongying people hate the most, apart from the Ming royal family, I am afraid it will belong to Zhuang Jing.

Since the end of last year, the Ming Fleet has occupied Tsushima Island and blocked the waters of Japan.Zhuang Jing led the Japanese pirates and the Ming Fleet to set fire to Nagasaki Port, causing Japan's biggest property loss since the Mongolian Yuan invaded Japan.

In Nagasaki alone, more than a hundred ships were burned, and the entire wooden dock area of ​​Nagasaki Port became ruins, and the burned materials piled up into mountains.

Later, in Osaka Prefecture, although the Japanese took precautions, the losses caused this time were far smaller than those in Nagasaki, but it also greatly affected the transshipment of goods in Osaka.

Coupled with the closure of the port by the Ming Fleet, as long as ships leave the port, they will be attacked.

The Japanese ships without guns could only be beaten passively in front of the Ming fleet, which also caused the livelihood of the people in Osaka Prefecture to wither.

When he set foot on the land of Dongpu, Zhuang Jing was much more low-key than before. If the people of Dongpu knew of his existence, he might suffer countless attacks.

He is not like His Royal Highness Taisun, who has a whole team of elite Habayashi guards to guard him, and he is not afraid of the counterattack of the Japanese people.There are only more than 20 Jinyiwei's subordinates around him, and even if he includes the former spies recalled after coming to Dongpu, the number of them does not exceed a hundred.

He was not only worried about the Japanese attack, but also about the counterattack of Zaemon Hayata.He has never dared to take this pirate leader lightly, who is ambitious and capable.

If given the chance, Zhuang Jing has no doubt that he will fight back.But precisely because of his outstanding ability, now he has to use this person.

In fact, he has some regrets now. He doesn't regret burning Nagasaki and Osaka, but regrets that he did too much in the past, which made him notorious in Japan.

It was also at this time that he understood why Ji Gang had been keeping a low profile when he came to Dongpu, and never showed up to do anything directly against Dongpu.

If you want to stay in Japan, you must have a good reputation. With his reputation, it is already impossible to stay in Japan.

Even if His Royal Highness rewarded him with a piece of land, because he has become a public enemy of the Dongying people, he may face continuous attacks and assassinations, and it is impossible to live in peace.

It's just that it was too late to understand everything. When he wanted to understand this matter, he had already become a public enemy.

At this time, he had to think about his future.

Daming couldn't go back, and Dongying couldn't stay any longer, so he could only set his sights on Nanyang.

His Royal Highness Taisun wants to attack Nanyang, and there are still many opportunities for him to develop.

And in this process, the role of Hayata Zaemon has become more and more obvious, because the 2000 people under him will be a force that cannot be ignored.

How to make good use of this power without being swallowed by it has become a problem he needs to solve now.

It's not that he didn't think about killing Hayata Zaemon directly, and then gather this force, but these Japanese Japanese pirates are now tightly guarded against this, and they are tightly hugging, so he has no chance to attack.

And if he kills Hayata Zaemon, I am afraid that not only will he not be able to gather this power, but he will cause trouble instead.