My Daming New Empire

Although those inner eunuchs were not afraid of Jin Yiwei, they did not dare to resist the handwritten letter from His Majesty Chen Xuan took out, and stayed in the room obediently, waiting for the audit.

And in the Jiaodong Shuizhai, the Jiaodong headquarters of the transshipment department, all sea-going ships unload here, and this is also the transshipment center for the entire southern part of the Shandong Peninsula.

Here, however, Meng Ying, the vice-governor of the First Fleet of the Navy, Baoding Hou, came out in person and produced Zhu Di's imperial edict.

Yi Xin, the governor of the Second Fleet, immediately led the troops to seal up the Internal Supervision and Transshipment Department, not daring to be sloppy.

Seeing the imperial decree, Yi Xin was actually more frightened than anyone else. As the commander of the Second Fleet, such large-scale corruption occurred in his territory.

"Baodinghou, I need you to mediate a lot this time. This time, I really suffered an unreasonable disaster."

Meng Ying is a veteran Marquis, and Yi Xin was awarded the title of Uncle Zhonglian for his meritorious service in the Eastern Conquest of Dongying three years ago.So in front of Meng Ying, Yi Xin didn't have the slightest confidence.

Meng Ying said with a smile: "Your Highness told you when you came here. The Second Fleet holds Dongpu's gold and silver. Even if there are people below who are corrupt, it has nothing to do with Zhonglian Bo. Because they want silver, they start from Dongpu's Yinshan. Easier."

Yi Xinxin felt relieved, and said with a long bow: "That's true. On the Gold and Silver Island to the north of Zhonglian Island, the production of gold and silver has increased greatly. I am not talented. Thanks to His Highness's favor, I can get five points alone. With these gold and silver , I really don’t need to take some life-threatening food from the victims of the disaster.”

Of course Meng Ying knows about this, and this is what makes him most jealous of Yi Xin.Yi Xin, who has mastered the Second Fleet, controls the entire northern sea area of ​​Ming Dynasty, and even North Korea and Japan are within his sphere of influence.

Iwami Yinshan in Japan's own country was controlled by Ji Gang, and now he is his toubob in Japan.

As for the isolated island formerly known as Zuodu Island, but now renamed as Treasure Island, no one would have thought that the gold and silver output on that island would not be less than that of Iwami Yinshan. .

The entire naval fleet can get five points, and Yi Xin gets five points alone, which is 2%.It means that Yi Xin does nothing, and has more than [-] taels of silver a year.

Relying on this income, Yi Xin built the luxurious Zhonglianbo Mansion on Zhonglian Island, which was much larger than the Hou Mansion of many of them.

Of course, this chair is not so easy to get. If you want to get this money, you have to fight with your life.

The emperor and grandson are impatient for Daming to develop Dongzhou, and Yi Xin is responsible for opening up the waterway, and dare not neglect in the slightest.

Being able to become the person in charge of the investigation team this time, of course Meng Ying will not let go of this opportunity to slaughter a fat sheep. Even if it is Yi Xin's life-saving money, I don't want too much. 5000 taels of silver will not hurt him. It should still be out.

Therefore, Meng Ying comforted him, and said: "However, Magazine is very dissatisfied with your vigorous efforts to build Zhonglianbo Mansion. An Earl's mansion is built more luxuriously than the Duke's mansion. What's the matter? Moreover, your residence is in Laizhou, but you spend most of your time in Zhonglian Island, which made the Emperor and His Highness very dissatisfied.

What's more, apart from such a major case now, although you don't know how deeply the navy is involved in it, you can't escape the crime of ignorance.Now, you are invited to cooperate with the investigation team to investigate this matter clearly, and then go to the capital with me to take the initiative to plead guilty! "

This is Meng Ying's alarmist talk. As long as Yi Xin is not directly involved in corruption, Zhu Zhanji still expects him to arrive in America as soon as possible and open up the waterway to America. How could he be punished for this.

However, it has been three years since Zhu Zhanji went out, and Yi Xin hasn't seen Zhu Zhanji for three years, so he naturally doesn't know what he thinks now.

Hearing Meng Ying's alarmist words, he only felt that the sky was about to fall, and he couldn't find out what Zhu Di and Zhu Zhanji were thinking about this matter, so he could only ask Meng Ying for advice.

Seeing his inquiry, Meng Ying laughed more and more gently, he knew that this trip was worthwhile.

And Ma Dezhong, who originally thought he had no nostalgia for his hometown, saw this county that was no different from his hometown after he landed, and heard a voice that was slightly different, but it was definitely a local accent. He didn't know why. , became a little panicked.

All night, he didn't sleep well, and his mind was always full of thoughts. Many things that he had forgotten when he was young came to mind.

The big jujube tree at the entrance of the former residence, he still remembers that his mother always moved the spinning wheel under the jujube tree to watch the dates when the dates were about to ripen, and then went to sell dates in Yanzhou County with his father when the dates were ripe.

He also remembered that once when he went to the street, a peddler carrying a burden asked him for a date, and he reluctantly gave it to him, but the other party gave him a sugar figurine.

It was the first time he ate candy, and the sweetness really wanted to enter his heart.

And his mother was sick, but because of the military disaster, the doctors were taken away by the army, and his mother finally coughed up blood and died.

Also, in order to bury his mother, his father borrowed money from a patriarch, and the contemptuous smile on the other party's face, all these forgotten things suddenly filled his head.

Until dawn, he seemed to have fallen asleep for a while.

However, he dreamed that his father was beating up dozens of people from neighboring villages all by himself in order to fight for water.

In order to retaliate, the neighboring village sent someone to assassinate his father.

But at this time, those tribesmen seemed to have forgotten that his father fought for the water in the field, and instead occupied his family's land and house for the reason of burying his father.

He woke up completely, and he couldn't tell whether it was a dream or his own memory.

"Head, you're awake..."

"Well, I can't sleep anymore. If you sleep a little longer, you still have hundreds of miles to drive today."

Unexpected disasters in the army gave Ma Dezhong a group of trustworthy brothers.With his status, it is of course impossible to return home to visit relatives and bring a group of guards with him.

They were all brothers who went on vacation with him and then accompanied him back to the hometown to relocate his grave, so he never regarded himself as the general manager.

He glanced out the window, and could feel the sky getting brighter through a layer of paper.He couldn't sleep anymore, so he didn't sleep anymore, got up, put on his clothes, and came to the yard.

An old man who cleaned the yard in the restaurant saw him get up, and chuckled softly, "Young man, you got up so early."

Hearing his voice, Ma Dezhong didn't know why he suddenly felt moved.

He suddenly understood.

No matter how bad this place is, no matter how bad the impression it left on him, but this place is also his root!

Because of his roots, he has a sense of belonging, and he is not a lonely ghost.

Thank you for a catty of white sugar, Da Sui Zhang Degong, bamboo sticks, and lights to see others, I spit you for the reward, thank you for your support

Chapter 32 Grave

Ma Dezhong wanted to go back to his hometown. In fact, it was most convenient to land in Haizhou, or he could simply go through the canal, which is not too far from his hometown.

But he didn't think carefully beforehand. He just heard that there was an opportunity to perform missions in Shandong. After he inquired, he had enough time to go back to his hometown, so he volunteered.

From Jiaozhou to Yanzhou, the distance in a straight line is not far.But it has to go through a large mountain area.Due to successive years of natural and man-made disasters in Shandong, there are now a large number of thieves and bandits.

It is really necessary to go directly through the mountains, the road is dangerous and unsafe.

Ma Dezhong originally planned to follow the trend, and turned southwest when he arrived in Qingzhou.But after talking with Feng Xiaonian, the governor of Jinyiwei, he changed his mind and planned to lead his subordinates to walk in a straight line through the mountains.

We were about to leave from Jiaozhou, and everyone came to bid farewell to Ma Dezhong early in the morning.

Feng Xiaonian was very drunk last night, even though he got up, his energy was still a little sluggish.

"Brother Ma, the arrangements for last night have been made. Lin Matou and the others are already waiting at the station outside the city. You don't need to worry about them when you go, but when you return, try to bring them all back."

Because he is Zhu Zhanji's pro-army and not a senior general, Ma Dezhong has no prejudice against Jin Yiwei.Seeing Feng Xiaonian's politeness, he returned the salute and said, "Please don't worry, the governor, since he is acting with me, I, Ma Dezhong, will regard them as comrades-in-arms and will never leave a brother behind."

He led ten subordinates to the post station in the west of the city. Eleven tall horses had been prepared for them here.

In addition to these horses, there were fourteen other officers and men in navy uniforms. Only ten of them were real navy officers, and the other four were investigators of Jinyiwei.

They are responsible for the investigation of the South Road to find out the local food distribution situation in Shandong, and they have traveled farther than Ma Dezhong and the others. They will go through Shandong and arrive at Jining in the southwest.

This time, there are 25 people in the group.They are all elites in the army, and they carry muskets, so they don't have to be afraid of small groups of bandits.