In Hua Qi's words, because the four princes returned to the palace to report the news, the emperor really wanted to take the third prince, the prince, to interrogate and interrogate in person, but this son of heaven has always done whatever he wants, but the prince understands the priorities very well, and is a good boy of the first class, so he personally guarded the emperor in the Qianqing Palace to see the lively emperor, so he replaced the two of them to see what was going on.

Chu Kuan, on the other hand, was serious and careful about Zhang Shou, so he found the flaws of the so-called envoys and expressed high praise and admiration, and praised Zhang Shou's idea of sending Ah Liu to bring out the most questionable person for trial alone. Anyway, when Hua Qiqua was the prince, the first person who used to be the chief celebrant directly touted Zhang Shou as a detective superman.

Rao is Zhang Shou has long been accustomed to unrealistic praise, but at this time, he still feels itchy when he listens to it. When he caught a glimpse of the fourth prince staring at him expectantly, he spread his hands helplessly and said, "If the two of you come with the four princes on purpose to ask the guy who claims to be the guardian of the mission, then you may be disappointed." ”

Seeing that Chu Kuan and Hua Qi's faces both changed, and the fourth prince was so angry that he almost jumped over, he laughed: "I don't know what this guy was like when he was in Shanhaiwei, but after Ah Liu drugged everyone, he took him out of the house alone and poured a basin of cold water on him, and before he used any means, he directly recruited him." ”

"How is that possible! Since they all say that they are envoys, why are they so useless! ”

As if a toy that was expected to be very fun suddenly became boring, the child of the fourth prince turned red with anger all of a sudden, and after scolding instinctively, he came back to his senses, and muttered sullenly at the moment: "I thought I would at least scare him!" ”

Hua Qi and Chu Kuan are not as entangled in the process as the four princes, they only care about the result. And Zhang Shou had no intention of letting people guess the dumb riddle, so he said bluntly: "The person is in the sixth room of the East Second House, let the fourth prince take you over." ”

When the fourth prince saw Hua Qi and Chu Kuan, he immediately looked at him, he turned around and ran away without saying a word, but he was still complaining in his heart that Zhang Shou and Ah Liu were moving so fast, and they didn't wait for him to come back before starting. Thanks to his running back and forth in the cold weather, the third brother deliberately dragged his father, but he didn't catch up.

However, when he was out of breath, he hurriedly ran to the East Second House, and was looking around for Bingliujian, he saw a familiar figure not far away, and immediately trotted over without thinking about it, and then called the sixth brother.

Before he could ask about the follow-up, Ah Liu turned sideways, and then pointed to the door: "It's inside, just ask." ”

Hua Qi had long been accustomed to Ah Liu's habit of not saying much if there was no need, but when he saw that the fourth prince was about to rush in alone, he still stepped forward to grab the person, and then glanced at Ah Liu angrily. But Ah Liu seemed to see through his thoughts, and stood there without even moving: "Don't worry, he can't hurt anyone!" ”

Only then did the fourth prince realize that people were worried about his safety, and immediately showed a big smile to Ah Liu, and then slapped the clothes on his body after Hua Qi let go of him, and then complained without looking back: "Sixth brother does things so safely, where do I need you to remind him!" Well, I'll just follow you! ”

Seeing that the fourth prince was actually flashing behind him and Chu Kuan this time, thinking that the person had just left the palace after hurriedly reporting the news, and before he had time to change out of the big dress of the waiter, Hua Qi didn't know whether to say that this little guy was enlightened, or that this little guy finally knew how to save his life.

However, seeing Chu Kuan pushing the door in with a calm face, he didn't have time to think too much, so he hurriedly chased in.

At a glance, seeing the guy who was tied to the chair and gagged, and couldn't even struggle, Hua Qi finally understood why Ah Liu's so-called can't hurt people be so confident. His skills have almost been taught to this kid, and yet, he is still better than the blue.

This hand rope is really a flower, which will not be tied to death to make people's blood not alive, nor will it be tied too loosely to give people a chance to escape...... It's a shame not to do errands like jailers and prison servants!

Hua Qi was secretly slandering himself, and Chu Kuan had already directly reached out and took out the rag from the mouth of the middle-aged man who was tied up by five flowers. And the next moment, as if it had been stuffed for too long, the person immediately shouted loudly.

"My lord, the villain is really a Goryeo person, not a descendant of the Ming Taizu, he was coerced by someone to kill or even exterminate the clan, so he had to pretend to be an envoy to Shanhaiwei, the villain dared to swear to the sky, there must be a lie, the sky is thundering and thundering!"

The fourth prince blinked, as if he couldn't react. Before they even started asking, they just recruited them...... It's so useless!

Knowing this, he was still excited to be a waiter, and if he escorted people to the palace, would people confess so easily?

Of course, the middle-aged man who is still tied up doesn't know that in the mind of a child, he has become synonymous with uselessness. He struggled desperately twice, and shouted hoarsely: "Our tribute ship has been robbed, and all the tributes are gone, if we return to Goryeo, the king will not let us go, and our whole family will be beheaded...... Even if he can survive, he will be demoted to an official, slave, and official! ”

"The villain's grandfather was a pariah, and it was easy to pass the miscellaneous examination to become a Chinese, and the villain was also a translator in the ancestral industry, so he could only follow the mission to venture out to sea, hoping to earn a background, so that the villain's children could live a better life, and not end up living more miserable than the untouchables because ......of poverty."

Chu Kuan was not the slightest interested in this guy's life experience, and at this time, he was still chattering about his misery, he grabbed the other party's chin with a cold expression, and forcibly blocked the words he hadn't finished saying back into his mouth, and then let go of his hand and said coldly: "I just want to know what's going on with your ship, and who is the person who instructed you, I'm not interested in other things." ”

"Yes, yes, the villain is on board...... Interpreter on board. In fact, the king was reluctant to send tribute to the Celestial Empire by sea, but because of the legacy system of Emperor Taizu of the Celestial Empire, the number of land envoys had always been strictly controlled, and that number of people was not enough to escort the tribute, so he could only send tribute across the sea according to the rules. But our ships, a few days after going to sea, encountered pirates! ”

As if seeing Chu Kuan's extremely hideous expression in an instant, the middle-aged man who claimed to be the translator couldn't help but shudder, and then he couldn't help but hang his head involuntarily, and his voice was much quieter.

"The villain doesn't know how he was blocked by the pirates. Paying tribute every year, although there are times when there are winds and waves, but because many times our dynasty will borrow the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty, in fact, the number of capsizing or encountering pirates is really not much. But this time, the king had just ascended the throne, but he refused to borrow the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Speaking of this, as if thinking of the experience of almost being killed at the hands of pirates and almost dying, the middle-aged interpreter gritted his teeth a little.

"Just for the sake of the king's face, I feel that borrowing Ming merchant ships is really detrimental to the national body. After he had cleaned up a few clans and two shifts, he finally got three boats. Those few families had trade dealings with the Celestial Empire in the past, but these ships were no match for the merchant ships of the Great Tomorrow Dynasty. ”

"So when we encountered pirates at sea, we had no ability to fight back, and we couldn't even escape, and we were finally attacked by someone who was gently and skillfully...... A lot of people died, many, many people ......"

Speaking of the danger of the day, the middle-aged interpreter's face was pale, and he was even a little dazed, and even his eyes looked a little dull. And when the fourth prince saw his expression, and heard people exaggerate that when the big ship was full of blood and even stained the sea red, Rao was always bold, but he couldn't help but feel a little hairy.

And at this moment, he heard Hua Qi's faint voice: "Don't listen to this Korean people's words, how vast the sea is, don't say that a boatload of people bleed to death, even if ten boats of people bleed to death, it may not be able to stain a sea area red!" What's more, since it is said that it is a Goryeo merchant ship...... The boat was indeed very small, and a boat could only hold twenty or thirty people at most! Speaking of which......"

Hua Qi frowned suddenly, shouted heavily and called the middle-aged translator who was still incoherent back to his soul, and then asked: "Even if your king uses a confiscated domestic merchant ship to load tribute, then he will still send soldiers, horses and officers on the ship, otherwise, he is not afraid that someone will be obsessed with money and rob a boatload of tribute?" ”

Chu Kuan caught a glimpse of the four princes on the side who were already dumbfounded, so he explained softly: "Goryeo can travel to and from the Ming Dynasty, either by land or by sea, however, once there are many people by land, the road from Liaodong to the capital is far away, coupled with the severe cold at the end of the year, disturbing the people and tired people, so Emperor Taizu set the tribute shipping system. Most of the people who took this from Goryeo were the merchants who came and went to Goryeo in our dynasty. ”

"Goryeo is much poorer than the Ming Dynasty, and the imperial court doesn't care how much tribute they send, and the merchant ships go away with a full load, sell out the goods, and then carry back the Korean ginseng from their side, but they can't press the cabin, but the work of receiving tributes is just right. Moreover, the tribute of Goryeo was a drop in the bucket compared to the income from their trade between the two countries, so it was always safest to transport them by merchant ships. ”

"In the nearly 100 years since the founding of the country, there has never been a problem except for the real storms."

When Chu Kuan said this, the fourth prince certainly understood it completely, and the middle-aged translator naturally became even more sad and angry.

"Your Excellency is right, that's exactly what you say! The Ming merchant ship is safe, but the king has to go his own way, the courtiers have no choice, and I, a little translator, have no choice! Because of the danger of escorting the ship, the real Western warriors were reluctant to accompany the ship, so in the end, our ship was escorted by a small officer with ten soldiers. ”

"But as soon as this man met the pirates, he was like a soft-footed shrimp, his own soldiers were slaughtered cleanly, but he actually raised his hand and surrendered! As a result, he was cut down and thrown into the sea to feed the fish......"

Speaking of the scene of the massacre at that time, the middle-aged translator became sad and angry again. However, how could Hua Qi have the time to hear people cry about this, Chu Kuan mentioned the national conditions of Goryeo, that is still to explain the knowledge of tribute to the four princes, how can he endure this guy's chatter? He drank again.

"That's enough, all you have to do is tell you what the ship-takers told you to do! Are the six of you on board the survivors, or are there some of them left behind by the hijackers? Also, has the ship also changed? Why didn't you say it when you were in Shanhaiwei, but here you are like pouring beans into a bamboo tube? ”

"My lord, the six smaller ones are the ones who survived all three boats combined...... God forbids you to survive! Our ship has been sunk by them, replaced by their ship, and sailed and so on. As for when we were in Shanhaiwei, everyone was mixed together, and Shanhaiwei didn't dare to interrogate us alone, and the villain didn't dare to say it......"

"Stop!" Chu Kuan abruptly interrupted the middle-aged interpreter, and asked with a frown, "Wouldn't it be more convenient if they really wanted to sneak in, pretend to be your Goryeo tribute ship, and kill you all?" They do this kind of thing, and they don't know Goryeo? ”

As soon as these words came out, the middle-aged translator was still ignorant, and the four princes, who only watched and had no chance to interject, finally felt that he had grasped the key point this time: "That's right, as long as you pretend to be a Gaoli Gong ship, and then mix in, it is much easier to win people's trust than pretending to be a descendant of Taizu and Miao, overseas founding and other nonsense!" Could it be that these people are trying to deliberately create a momentum! ”

Hua Qi agreed with the last sentence of the little fourth prince, however, he thought of a more important question: "Since the six of you are all survivors of the real Goryeo Gong ship, but the six of you came first, are those guys so defenseless?" I'm not afraid that after you confess, what will happen to them? ”

The middle-aged interpreter was slightly stunned, and then he said in a hurry: "The villain doesn't know, those ferocious guys ordered to dock, and the six villains asked to enter Beijing first as envoys. Because including the villain, everyone is very proficient in the Ming language, yes, they just asked this point to kill people, and deliberately left us. ”

Chu Kuan was already frowning into a knot. He didn't care about continuing the interrogation, turned around and arched his hand to Hua Qi and said, "Hua Qiye, I'll hand it over to you first, and I'll go back to the palace to report." If the emperor nods, I will bring people over in the starry night, and if I can intercept those people on the road, then interrogate them on the spot immediately! ”

Seeing that Hua Qi had no objections, Chu Kuan turned around and left, but he forgot to even say hello to the four princes. And for such neglect, if it were replaced by the fourth prince who had never been in the eyes of the queen and the eldest prince and the second prince in the past, it would definitely be like thunder, but now that the three mountains on his head are long gone, he can treat this matter with a normal heart.

Therefore, seeing Chu Kuan walking away quickly, he tilted his head and thought for a while, then looked at the middle-aged translator who wanted to speak and stopped, and asked word by word: "Hey, you said that you are a Goryeo translator, and the others are also Goryeo, is there any evidence?" Also, based on what you just said, you can't be exempted from the crime or even the crime, and if you are investigated, it will not be less than if you were condemned by the king of Goryeo! ”

"Think about it, what did the people who hijacked the tribute ship say to you, so that you don't eat rice and vegetables when you eat? Well, what's the matter with Emperor Taizu's bow and arrow, what's the matter? ”