Ye Chunqiu gave Zhu Houzhao enough hint.

The general logic is that smuggling will ruin the trade franchise. If the trade franchise is gone, it means that the Zhenguo Mansion will make a lot of money.

This means that the money from Zhenguo Mansion was stolen.

All of a sudden, the logic became clear.

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but open her mouth as big as an egg, and then said angrily: "I will definitely find out about this matter, don't worry."

Do you understand?

Ye Chunqiu is not very confident.

I’m afraid that even if the factory guards checked, they would not be able to find any results. Otherwise, after so many dynasties and generations over the years, why have these people never been hit and become more and more serious?

What Ye Chunqiu wanted was not to let Zhu Houzhao find out something, but to use this to shake the mountain and let the little emperor protest against these people.

Hurry up and wash your hands, there is still a chance. Otherwise, even the little emperor will stand on the side of the Zhenguo Mansion, so don’t be ignorant of politeness.

Zhu Houzhao spent a day in the new army camp in Zhenguo. In the evening, when the sunset was shining all over the earth, he was willing to go back.

Zhu Houzhao walked to the carriage, and Ye Chunqiu followed him to see him off. Zhu Houzhao got on the carriage, and then smiled at Ye Chunqiu outside the carriage, saying, "I am waiting for good news for your navy in the palace."

"Please rest assured, I will do my best." Ye Chunqiu bowed to Zhu Houzhao, and Zhu Houzhao smiled and blinked at him, "Your child is about to give birth. I am going to give birth next month. I have a lot of experience in giving birth. I don't know anything about giving birth. I can ask me when I meet next time."

Ye Chunqiu couldn't help laughing and said, "Just let me deal with it myself."

Zhu Houzhao was a little annoyed, glared at Ye Chunqiu and said, "Treat me as an outsider, right? Humph, do you know what amniotic fluid is?"

"Ammogram is amniotic fluid. If the amniotic fluid is broken, it is time to give birth." Ye Chunqiu replied.

Zhu Houzhao was stunned for a moment, but Ye Chunqiu was still a little bit serious, so he said embarrassedly: "I forgot that you are still good at medical skills. Okay, I've gone back to the palace."

Qian Qian accompanied him and said goodbye to Ye Chunqiu. Then he walked to catch up with the carriage and hurried to the Forbidden City with dozens of guards.

Ye Chunqiu looked at the carriage that was getting further and further away, and couldn't help but smile helplessly, then looked towards the direction of the research institute of Zhenguo Mansion, with a thoughtful expression.

What Ye Chunqiu thought about at this time was to let the research institute trial-produce artillery.

In fact, the artillery has begun to be trial-produced at the research institute. Because there is sufficient technical reserve, the artillery needs to be built, which is lighter. After all, it can create complex guns. A big guy like artillery saves time and effort. However, although the structure is easy, the material, rifle and even the selection of shells requires repeated experiments.

But this is not urgent. Ye Chunqiu let them use various materials to experiment.

However, the palace soon came out and urged the Duke of Wei, who was guarding Nanjing, to investigate the smuggling strictly.

This decree did not seem to have changed much. It just sent the decree to Nanjing lightly, but no one expected that the court had always investigated smuggling, and often the Ministry of Justice or the Preparatory Department of the Japanese Ministry of Justice, but now it was sent to the Nanjing garrison, which was a bit unexpected.

There are actually changes. At least after the decree came out, Lu Wenjie no longer ran to Ye's mansion enthusiastically, as if he had disappeared without a trace.

As soon as this will was released, it was a blow to some people, making them not only afraid, but also began to get a little confused.

However, the capital was still calm. It was reported that the Duke of Wei, who was guarding Nanjing, personally rushed to Zhejiang Preparation Department, to take charge of the smuggling, and took a lot of private ships.

Duke Wei was not negligent, and he was decisive in his work, and with his status, no one dared to take revenge on him.

Ye Chunqiu knew that the private ships that were taken were just small fish and shrimps, and had not really touched the roots of the big tribes along the coast. The Duke of Wei was just right. He did not hurt them and prevented them from counterattacking, but he also investigated them hard and made them afraid.

At this moment, the navy finally began to mobilize to Tianjin and had already started to practice on the boat. The 1,600-strong Folang machine and the Han people were mixed together and began to learn the skills of anchoring and helming.

The capital was calm. Every time Ye Chunqiu returned to his mansion, Ye Song would wait for him in the hall and report the news he had inquired to Ye Chunqiu one by one.

Now it is early autumn, everything is gradually desolate and the weather is getting cooler.

Ye Chunqiu came back late today, and he just arrived home at midnight. When the door saw him, he hurriedly carried a lantern to illuminate the road for Ye Chunqiu who got out of the car. He entered the door, but heard someone say in the dark: "Chunqiu."

Ye Chunqiu looked sideways and saw Ye Song standing here as usual, in the shadow behind the wall, like a ghost.

Ye Chunqiu said calmly: "Go in and talk."

Ye Song nodded tacitly and entered the hall one by one. Ye Song didn't greet him and said straightforwardly: "There is a little strange in Jiangnan."

"Hmm?" Ye Chunqiu took a sip of tea and looked at Ye Song with inquiring eyes.

Ye Song said: "Recently, many people have had close correspondence. Duke Wei is now in Hangzhou and replaced the Dusi yamen with his personal soldiers brought from the Nanjing Governor's Palace. He instructed the Japanese guards to patrol private ships everywhere. The attack was very severe and he also took many people. However, Duke Wei did not make a big deal. Obviously, he was unwilling to take out the owners behind these private ships. He did not go to trial and directly beheaded. However, many people dare not go into the sea now. I heard that many goods are now accumulated in the warehouses in Ningbo, Quanzhou and Songjiang. There are many people who have suffered a lot of losses."

Ye Chunqiu nodded.

This is actually very understandable. The goods from these smuggled ships must be purchased and will be food on a large scale. After all, according to the market conditions in previous years, they will send a large amount of goods overseas. Since this is the case, they will definitely put the goods in advance at one time and then transport them slowly.

However, after collecting the goods, the risk of private ships going into the sea has increased a lot. In the past, ten ships could be taken into the sea, but now there are less than five. One or two ships may be seized by the Duke of Wei. This transaction was a failure, and both people and ships were lost. Although they did not want their heads, they suffered heavy losses.

Ye Song narrowed his eyes and said, "Since recently, there have been many Japanese pirates on the sea and have begun to attack anti-smuggling ships. When the ships prepared for Japanese guards saw the Japanese ships, they immediately avoided the war."

Ye Chunqiu, who had just looked calm, finally frowned slightly and said, "Has the Japanese pirates come out?"

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