In fact, they also hoped that the Great Ming Mariners would win, so that they could do business without being exploited by pirates. You must know that pirates can kill at any time, and if they are not satisfied with the pirates, they will kill and take goods.

Zhang Juzheng, Xu Shixing, and the Xu family brothers didn't have time to pay attention to the merchants of the feudal kingdom, and they hurried towards Hu Zongxian's Dadu Governor's Mansion.

Entering the Governor's Mansion, he was told that the Governor was investigating the cause of the failure of the Sailor and asked the four of them to wait in the living room. After waiting for more than two hours, Hu Zongxian walked into the living room with a tired face.

"The Grand Duke!" Zhang Juzheng and the four of them immediately stood up.

Hu Zongxian waved his hand tiredly and said: "To make a long story short, I have carefully studied the strength of pirates, their ships are faster, stronger, and larger, and their firearms are very powerful, our Daming Sailor is not an opponent of pirates at all." In the future, the Daming Sailor will not go to sea to take the initiative to attack, but will choose to defend. At sea, I can't help you. Alright, you can leave. ”

"The Grand Duke!" Zhang Juzheng arched his hand and said, "Do you know the background of this group of pirates?" ”

"I don't know!" Hu Zongxian shook his head and said, "However, I will investigate." ”

After the words fell, Hu Zongxian looked at Xu Shixing and said: "Lord Xu, no matter what, we went to sea twice, so our losses, the city boss still has to compensate us." ”

Xu Shixing was also quite irritable at this time, the sailor you trained lost the battle, and you are embarrassed to ask for money? So he said in a condensed voice:

"I will play it to Your Majesty, as long as Your Majesty gives an order, the Ministry of War gives an order, and the lower officials will send the gold and silver."

Hu Zongxian's face turned gloomy, his eyes narrowed slightly, the sharp light flashed in his eyes, and he said in a dark voice:

"Okay, the officer made a note of it. Come, send off. ”

The four people were forcibly driven out, Zhang Juzheng looked at Xu Shixing and sighed and said:

"You! Why be so direct? You can be vague first, why bother to turn your face with Hu Zongxian? On the southeast side, Hu Zongxian's cooperation is still needed. ”

"Need his cooperation?" Xu Shixing sneered: "When did the people in the southeast rely on Hu Zongxian? All the pirates and pirates were eliminated by Hu Zongxian? It was all eliminated by Luo Xin. Now some pirates who have just appeared can beat his sailors to the ground, what else can they rely on him?

Let me see, if the real pirates hit the shore again, he Hu Zongxian will still be of no use. Why should I compromise on such a person? Returning him gold and silver, is it for him to marry one more concubine? ”

"Two adults, don't quarrel yet!" Xu Kun said: "What about this transaction with the merchants of the feudal kingdom?" The price they offer is simply unacceptable. That price transaction, our Xu family is not to say that it is profitable, and it is lucky to lose less. ”

"And what if it's the previous price?"

"Which price was before?"

Xu Shixing said angrily: "It's the price at which your Xu family squeezed out the five major families." ”

"It's not a loss, but it's not profitable. This can't make us Xu Jiabai busy. ”

"I don't care about this!" Xu Shixing said coldly: "It was you who maliciously competed and squeezed out the five great families, so you must complete the tax of the City Division." If you lose a companion, this official will definitely play Your Majesty and impeach your Xu family. ”

"That can't keep us Xu Jiabai busy!" Xu Kun said categorically.

"Okay, I'll go back and write the recital. And Lord Zhang, this time you promised to let the Xu family participate in the transaction, and the lower officials will not hide it. ”

After Xu Shixing finished speaking, he flicked the sleeves of his robe and left. Looking at the back of Xu Shixing's departure, Zhang Juzheng sighed and said:

"Two sons, you can't think that you should stop this tariff, that will affect the teacher's future."

Xu Kun and Xu Ying's faces were also very ugly, but they could not give Xu Shixing face, but they couldn't help but give Zhang Ju a face. Xu Kun pondered for a moment and said:

"I'll write to my father!"

Zhang Juzheng nodded and also got into the sedan chair and left.

Xu Shixing returned to the city in a hurry, and his heart was full of shame. He once came to the southeast with the belief of being reborn from the fire, but now he is deep in the quagmire. Luo Xin's original advice was still in his ears, and after he came to the southeast, everything could be done in accordance with the rules, but in the end, he did not resist the pressure and let the Xu family participate. Originally, I thought that the Xu family was just involved, and they only gave a piece of meat to the Xu family, so there should be no problem.

However, they didn't expect that the Xu family was so greedy and brought things out of control step by step.

"Xu Jie, how much stronger are you than Yan Song?"

Xu Shixing wrote down the bits and pieces of his coming to the southeast, added the evidence he had collected, and then sent someone to the capital.

At the same time, Zhang Juzheng was also writing a letter, writing down the matter objectively, and then sending someone to the teacher Xu Jie.

Xu Mansion, Xu Kun is also writing to Xu Jie. It's just that he put all the blame on the pirates and Hu Zongxian. At the same time, he also complained to Xu Jie, but Xu Shixing did not listen to the Xu family's call.

On the same day, the three letters left Hangzhou one after another and headed for the capital.

However, the more detailed information than them was delivered to Luo Xin's hands one step ahead of time through the carriage and horse shop.

Luo Xin sat in the study, holding the news about the southeast in his hand, and a smile appeared on his face.

There was a sound of footsteps, and Lu Daqing's voice sounded outside.

"Master Hou, Lu Yi is here."

Luo Xin nodded, Lu Yi has a Jinyi Wei channel, and the news he got was only a little later than himself, he should still be in Xu Shixing, Zhang Juzheng and the Xu family got the news before.

Shi Shiran walked out of the study and came to the flower hall, Lu Yi stood up and said with joy on his face:

"Lord Luo, we have received news from the southeast."

Luo Xin sat down, motioned for Lu Yi to sit down, and said, "What news?" ”

"Look!" Lu Yi took out a piece of paper from his cuff and handed it to Luo Xin, Luo Xin took it, looked at it hurriedly, and returned the paper to Lu Yi, with a compassionate look on his face and said:

"Pirates, pirates again! It is really a wildfire that burns inexhaustibly, and the spring breeze blows and grows. The people of the southeast will suffer again. ”

The smile on Lu Yi's face was a smile and said, "My lord is merciful." ”

Luo Xin waved his hand and said: "I just sighed, I don't want to be in his position, I don't want to be in his position, now I am just a left concubine of Zhan Shifu, and I am powerless!" ”

"yes!" Lu Yi complimented: "If the adults are in the southeast, where will there be pirates?" ”

Luo Xin waved his hand again and said, "It's too famous!" ”

"Lord Luo, what do you think we are doing now? Is it to let the five great families participate again, this is a good opportunity for us. ”

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