In the next few days, in addition to instructing people to find craftsmen to study glass in Heyanzhuang, Yun Xi stayed in the palace to watch the folds and learn politics. It wasn't until www.biquge.info the 21st that Yun Xi received a secret report from Jinyiwei about Suzhou that he turned his attention to other aspects.

After the conclusion of the Hu Weiyong case, Zhu Yuanzhang drastically reduced the personnel of Jinyi Guard. The capital is fine, but the bright and dark lines in the place have become very few, so it took so long to find out what happened this time.

The secret report presented by Jinyiwei wrote: It was found that on the third day of the first month of October, someone spread rumors in Jiading and other places, and the accent was the local accent, saying that the Ming Dynasty did not have enough grain to exchange for treasure money, and the rumors were very shallow; However, the people of Suzhou have always been disrespectful to the Ming Dynasty, and they rushed to exchange for food. The ministers go out day and night, wanting to catch those who spread rumors. ……

Yun Xi read their report and knew what was going on. The tax rate of the Ming Dynasty in Su and Song has always been the highest in the country, and Zhang Shicheng was extremely lenient in the Su Song generation when he was in charge, so the people of Suzhou were disgusted with the Ming Dynasty. That's what I did this time.

Yun Xi thought about it for a while, and the only examples that he could come up with to stabilize the value of the currency were when the Republic was first established, when the prices of goods soared due to the hoarding of merchants in Shanghai and Shenzhou, and when Chen Yi mobilized the whole country to sell grain, cotton, and coal in a concentrated manner, so as to stabilize the prices and currency value.

Schacht's method of stabilizing Mark in 1923 was very ingenious, but now Yunxi is not working. So in the end, Yun Xi could only use the method of breaking the trick with force, and ordered the granary of Suzhou Mansion to be ready to dispatch grain at any time, but for the time being, Yun Xi wanted to take a final look at Zhuo Jing's performance.

October 24, Suzhou.

Zhuo Jing stood nervously in his office room, pacing repeatedly. All the food used for today's thirty days of preparation has been exchanged, and Zhuo Jing must make a decision this evening. Zhuo Jing was reluctant to mobilize food anymore, but he couldn't think of any other way these days, so he could only watch the food get less and less day by day.

After stomping repeatedly for a long time, Zhuo Jing finally made up his mind that it was better to use more food than to mess things up, and shouted, "Li You." ”

Li You, the servant waiting outside, immediately responded: "Master, the little one is here." ”

Zhuo Jing said: "Prepare the car immediately, I want to go to the official warehouse of Suzhou Prefecture." As he spoke, he took out the holy decree of Zhu Yuanzhang that Yunxi later sent to him, put on his coat, and went out of the gate.

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Late at night, off the coast of Jiading County, Suzhou Prefecture.

Li Jiqian is playing pai gow on his boat. As the leader of the pirates, he did not dare to enter the city, and today was the day when his companions who entered the city returned, so he took the risk of sailing into the mouth of the Yangtze River and waiting for his companions. It's too boring to wait, so wait for entertainment.

Just as the fight was being fought, the dock in Jiading County flashed brightly, and it seemed that a ship had sailed out.

Everyone didn't care, thinking that it was the companions who came back who came out in a boat, including Li Jiqian. But Li Sha'er hadn't slept yet, she had stayed by and watched them play pai gow, and when she saw a bright light flashing outside, she immediately walked to the side of the boat to watch. Then, carefully Li Sha'er immediately said: "Big brother, come over and take a look, there is a lot of light, there should be at least five or six boats coming out, how can there be so many boats in the middle of the night?" ”

"Huh?" Li Jiqian immediately became alert when he heard this, he gave up his seat to others and walked to the side of the boat by himself. Seeing more and more bright lights, his face changed, and he shouted: "Don't play, start the boat immediately!" ”

Others were puzzled, but fortunately, Li Jiqian still had some prestige among everyone, so some people packed up Pai Gow, and others operated the boat.

But this doesn't mean that no one asks, especially those who have relatives on the shore ask: "Big boss, why are there still people on the shore, why don't you wait?" ”

Li Jiqian said: "Look at the light on the dock, it is not at all that one or two ships can emit, let alone our people or other pirates leaving the port, this must be the government's ship." It's likely that someone was caught, and the government went out to sea to catch us or other pirate ships, didn't we also see Boss You's ship when we came. ”

The others took a second look and found that there was too much light, and it must have been the government's ship that had set out, and they all became nervous, raised their sails as fast as they could, sailed away from the Yangtze River, and sailed out to the open sea.

Li Sha'er's carefulness and Li Jiqian's caution saved their lives. Not long after their ship left, seven or eight boats sailed to his original position, all of which were ships of the regular sailors of the Ming Dynasty who were flying the banner of the government.

Ban Liming, who led the team out of the Wusong River Army, asked, "Have you found any ships in this vicinity?" ”

The flag bearer picked up the signal light and asked the other boats if they had found it. After a while, the standard-bearer replied to Ban Qianhu and said, "Lord Qianhu, none of the other ships have found any other ships. ”

In fact, there is no need for the standard-bearer to say, as for Ban Liming, who has worked as a sailor for 20 years, he can also understand the signal, and immediately ordered: "Let all the ships turn on all the lights, and scatter the two ships in a team to find other ships." Then the ships went their separate ways. But the target they were looking for has already been driven away, and no matter how much they look for it, they can't find it!

So after searching for half the night, it was almost time, and Ban Liming ordered the ship to go back.

Ban Liming was very annoyed, he didn't seize such a good opportunity to make meritorious contributions, and he was very frustrated.

But Li Jiqian, who escaped, was not happy either, because their companions were caught. After leaving the Yangtze River, they didn't even dare to stay on Chashan Island, so they found a few people who were young people to drive small boats near Chashan Island to disguise themselves as fishermen, and while seeing if anyone had escaped, they asked what was going on.

On the 28th, they found three frightened companions in the boat, and by questioning them, they were sure that someone had been caught.

Li Jiqian inquired carefully, but the three people who escaped did not know what was going on, but they knew that they were hiding in a small deserted courtyard during the day on the 24th, and someone from the local government went to arrest them, and the three of them finally escaped from Jiading County.

With a 'bang', Li Jiqian's hands were lined up on the table, this time he really lost a lot, not only did the goods he brought to the transaction all gone, but he also lost seven people, which was really a heavy loss. This is still the reason why he didn't know why the government would conduct a large-scale investigation and finally catch them, if he knew that the reason why he suffered such a big loss was because he wanted to cause chaos to Daming, he would regret it for life.

But they were also people who had been eating at sea for a long time, and there were many people who were killed by the Ming sailors and other pirates, so they naturally did not get emotional, and after waiting for a few days, no one came out, and immediately sailed back to another lair in the Ryukyus.

In fact, Li Jiqian vaguely felt that he was like this because of his own troubles, but as a big boss, he couldn't make mistakes, so he didn't tell anyone else, but he was silent for a long time. Fortunately, everyone else thought that he was worried about his companions, so it was fine.