At night, the county seat of Dinghai County, the backyard of the county government.

Li Yuntian paced back and forth in the courtyard with his hands behind his back, his brows furrowed slightly, as if he was thinking about something.

"Lord Wang, the people from the Ningbo Bosi Jiaozhi Tax Bureau are here." A guard walked over and reported to Li Yuntian in a deep voice.

"Let them in." Li Yuntian came back to his senses and nodded to the guard.

"See the prince for his humble duties." Soon, several military attachés wearing martial arts uniforms walked into the courtyard quickly and bowed to Li Yuntian.

In order to inspect the goods entering and leaving the Ningbo City, Fuzhou City, and Guangzhou City Shipping Divisions for overseas trade, Li Yuntian set up "Jiaozhi Taxation Bureaus" in the three municipal shipping divisions, and the people who worked in the taxation bureaus were all tax officials from Jiangwutang.

In addition to the tax collectors, there is also a company of Xiaowu guards in each of the three municipal tax offices.

In this attack on Ningbo City, the Xiaowu army stationed in the tax bureau played a very important role, escorting the important information in the tax bureau to evacuate from danger and prevent those materials from being buried in the fire.

"The king asks you, what was the battle on the docks when the Japanese invaded that night?" Li Yuntian looked at the military attaches and asked in a deep voice.

"Lord Yu, the battle on the dock that night was very tragic, the Chamber of Commerce militia fought to the death with the Japanese Invaders, and there were many dead and wounded, and it was the humble duty and people who finally rescued the survivors from the encirclement of the Japanese Invaders." The leader of the several military attaches was a major, who bowed to Li Yuntian and replied.

The major was wounded in his left arm, hung from his neck with a bandage, and had two wounds on his face, apparently in a bloody battle with the Japanese invaders.

The Chamber of Commerce in the Major's mouth refers to the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce, because all the merchants who have a share of overseas transactions have joined the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce, so in order to ensure the safety of those goods used for overseas transactions on the dock yard, the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce has specially formed a vigilante group to take care of it.

There are more than 200 militia groups guarding the freight yard of Ningbo Bosi Wharf, all of them are strong men, in order to protect the freight yard and the Japanese Kou in the fight with seventy percent of the casualties, and later under the response of the major, this is the only way to kill a bloody way to escape from the encirclement of the Japanese Kou, due to the wound Yan zhòng has basically lost its combat effectiveness.

"What about the people of Dinghaiwei?" After listening to the major's answer, Li Yuntian's brows furrowed slightly, and he asked quietly, the major did not mention Dinghaiwei just now, and they should be the main force to fight against the Japanese invaders.

"Lord Wang, after the Japanese attacked, they first attacked the military camp of Dinghaiwei, and the people of Dinghaiwei then withdrew from the town, and did not come to the dock until dawn, so they did not participate in the battle at the dock." A look of disdain flashed across the major's face, and he replied coldly.

Li Yuntian's brows furrowed even deeper now, he had long expected that the people of Dinghaiwei would not be so heroic and fight to the death against the Japanese Kou, and now it seems that this is indeed the case.

"Lord Wang, as far as I know, Commander Zhao seems to be in the Qinglou in the county seat on the night of the incident." After hesitating for a moment, the major told Li Yuntian a piece of news in a deep voice.

"Do your best to organize people to rebuild the tax office." Li Yuntian shook his head secretly in his heart when he heard this, and then asked the major in a deep voice, he had confirmed the guess in his heart from the major.

The major bowed to Li Yuntian and then led his military attachés out of the courtyard, Li Yuntian looked up at the bright stars in the night sky with some helplessness, it seemed that the situation in Dinghaiwei was much stricter than he imagined.

"Xianggong, I found this heraldic carved sword among those trophies." Not long after, Lei Ting came to Li Yuntian's side and handed him a katana.

"Which daimyo is this coat of arms from?" Li Yuntian noticed that the knife on the handle of the knife was engraved with a three-legged black pattern, so he looked up and asked Lei Ting.

"The Wa people are now in the Warring States period, and there are many countries in the country, so it is impossible to know which daimyo this coat of arms belongs to." Lei Ting shook her head, except for the tribute, the Ming basically had no people-to-people exchanges with Japan, so the Ming had very little information about Japan.

"Let Keiko come." Li Yuntian pondered for a while, and asked Lei Ting to call Keiko Yamaguchi, maybe Keiko Yamaguchi would know something.

Since leaving the capital, Keiko Yamaguchi has been by Lei Ting's side, Lei Ting knew that Li Yuntian wanted to help Keiko Yamaguchi return to Japan to take revenge, so he carefully trained Keiko Yamaguchi, which benefited Keiko Yamaguchi a lot.

"Lord Wang, where did this knife come from?" When she saw the three-legged black pattern on the knife, Keiko Yamaguchi was stunned for a moment, and then became excited, and asked Li Yuntian in a coquettish voice.

"Left behind by the same pirates who attacked the docks." Li Yuntian noticed the change in Keiko Yamaguchi's feelings, and felt that she seemed to know the origin of this coat of arms, so he asked, "Which daimyo coat of arms is this?" ”

"Shikoku Island, Nishitori House!" Keiko Yamaguchi took a deep breath and replied to Li Yuntian in a deep voice, with a hint of murderous aura flashing in her eyes.

"Shikoku?" Li Yuntian felt a little surprised, he thought it was the daimyo of Kyushu Island, the southernmost of Japan's four islands, but he didn't expect it to be Shikoku Island in the northeast of Kyushu Island.

Generally speaking, the Japanese who attacked the Ming came from Kyushu Island, Tsushima Island, and the southern part of Honshu Island, because these places were separated from the Ming by the sea and had geographical advantages, while Shikoku Island and the Ming were separated by Kyushu Island and Honshu Island, and few Japanese invaders came out from Shikoku Island to plunder the Ming Dynasty.

"Where did this knife come from?" Keiko Yamaguchi was also a little surprised that this knife would appear here in Li Yuntian, and asked with some curiosity.

"When the Japanese attacked, a group of Japanese invaders wanted to storm the tax office, and the Xiaowu army guarding the tax office resisted desperately, and the arm of the Japanese who held the knife was cut off during the melee, and was later picked up as a weapon by a miscellaneous officer of the tax office, and was collected in the spoils of war after the war." Lei Ting opened her mouth to explain.

"The three-legged black of the West Bird family has a lot of patterns, and the only people who can have this knife wound pattern are the descendants of the West Bird family, and the people of the West Bird family are likely to have participated in the attack of the City Bird Division." Keiko Yamaguchi checked the pattern on the knife again, and said to Li Yuntian with certainty.

"As long as there are clues, we will definitely be able to figure out the ins and outs of this attack." Li Yuntian's face was cold when he heard this, those would-be robbers had the audacity to loot the freight yard of the city's shipyard and set fire to many buildings, this matter naturally couldn't be ignored so lightly.

It is worth mentioning that because the gang was busy looting property, they did not go on a killing spree in the town, but only attacked the Dinghaiwei barracks after occupying the docks, which may have been a great joy in misfortune.

In the final analysis, the purpose of the Japanese Kou this time was to rob rather than kill, after all, Ningbo City Bosi was an important yamen of the Ming Dynasty, and they were also worried about being besieged by the Ming army and civilians, so the main energy was focused on carrying goods, and finally returned with a full load.

"By the way, how did that matter go?" Then, Li Yuntian remembered something and turned his head to ask Lei Ting.

"The people are not only very resistant to the people in the government, but also wary of strangers, and the people sent below have not obtained any valuable information." Lei Ting shook her head, muttered for a while, and said, "But I heard that the Japanese did not set fire when they left that night, and many people rushed to loot the remaining goods in the warehouse of the freight yard, and then a fire broke out. ”

"Oh?" Li Yuntian couldn't help but feel a little surprised, his brows furrowed slightly, he was very strange, those people not only did not flee in the face of the attack of the Japanese invaders, but dared to go to the freight yard to grab the goods, aren't they afraid of being killed by those Japanese robbers?

"Let people prepare, tomorrow we will go to the nearby villages and towns." Obviously, this matter is not simple, Li Yuntian quickly made up his mind, and said to Lei Ting after stretching lazily.

"Lord Wang, don't you check the affairs of the city?" Keiko Yamaguchi was suddenly a little surprised when she heard this, and couldn't help but ask, did she think that Li Yuntian would bring Zheng Liang and the others here for no reason.

"Do you think the people of Dinghaiwei can destroy so many pirates?" Li Yuntian did not answer Keiko Yamaguchi's question, but asked lightly.

Keiko Yamaguchi shook her head after thinking about it, she already knew that Dinghaiwei's people were chased by the Japanese who attacked the military camp that night, and they fled in all directions, how could they kill hundreds of Japanese invaders?

"Lord Wang, do you want to find out about Haiwei's killing of good and risky merit?" Then, Keiko Yamaguchi reacted and asked in surprise.

"Hundreds of lives can't just be lost in such an unknown way, this king must find out about this matter." Li Yuntian bowed slightly, his eyes flashed a cold light, he was not afraid that Dinghaiwei would not be able to tolerate it if he could kill the good and take the merit.

In the military exploits of the Ming Dynasty, the merit of killing the enemy on the battlefield is the heaviest, and the basis for killing the enemy is very simple - the enemy's head, so the first thing after killing the enemy on the battlefield is to cut off the opponent's head, so on the battlefield, you can often see soldiers with the enemy's head hanging on their waists fighting with the enemy.

In this way, it is naturally inevitable that civilians will be killed and the military will be killed, and whether it is a frontier operation or the suppression of bandits in the interior, the phenomenon of killing good people and risking their merits will not stop again and again.

The credit of Ding Haiwei's report this time is "the capture of 36 Japanese pirates and the annihilation of 591 Japanese pirates", which means that Ding Haiwei has 591 bloody heads in his hands.

As far as Li Yuntian knew, when the Japanese retreated, they had already brought back all the corpses, and it was extremely intriguing where the five hundred and ninety-one heads of Ding Haiwei came from.

Keiko Yamaguchi looked at Li Yuntian with a cold expression and nodded thoughtfully, due to the resistance of the people, the people arranged by Lei Ting could no longer go privately to investigate the matter of killing Liang Maogong, if it continued, it would definitely arouse the suspicion of the outside world, and it would make things complicated at that time.

Of course, Li Yuntian will not care about the small Dinghaiwei, but behind Dinghaiwei is the Zhejiang Metropolitan Division, the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies and even the Military Pavilion, which makes Li Yuntian have to be jealous, he can't let the outside world think that he is deliberately finding fault, it is obvious that whether it is the Zhejiang Metropolitan Division or the Governor's Mansion and the Military Pavilion of the Fifth Army, they will find a way to suppress this scandal.

Therefore, if Li Yuntian wants to find out about the killing of good and risky merit, Li Yuntian must go out in person, and only when Li Yuntian appears in front of those people can the people dispel their worries and expose the matter, and then give Li Yuntian a reason to investigate.

What Li Yuntian needed now was evidence to control the killing of good and meritorious deeds, so that he could bargain with the Governor's Mansion and the Military Pavilion of the Five Armed Forces, and use this as an opportunity to propose the reform measures he had formulated for the coastal guards. R1148