Why didn’t Ye Chunqiu understand? In fact, Duke Wei could not continue to investigate. If he really wanted to investigate it to the end, there were not only one or two people involved, but I’m afraid that many of them were still old acquaintances of His Majesty.

Ye Chunqiu had to admire Duke Wei. He handled this very well, which not only gave people a glimmer of hope, but also helped Zhenguo Mansion.

Zhu Houzhao said, "I can't understand where those private merchants come from so many ships? It is said that some private ships are not smaller than lucky ships. The goods they carry are worth tens of thousands of silver. This is just a ship. After thinking about your words carefully, you are right. These private merchants are clearly robbing my money, which is really hateful."

Are there tens of thousands of silver tattoos? Ye Chunqiu thought to himself that tens of thousands of silver tattoos were just the market in the Ming Dynasty. When transported outside, I don’t know how many times it will increase. This is a huge profitable industry. It is precisely because of huge profits that so many people take risks, and can hire so many people and build such large connections.

Zhu Houzhao said: "I must ban smuggling. Your navy must practice it quickly and catch these private ships at that time. Let's see who wants to compete with me for profit."

After complaining, time gradually passed, and there were still constant crying of pain from the bedroom. However, after Zhu Houzhao changed the topic, Ye Chunqiu's expression also relaxed a little, at least not tense all over.

However, Liu Jin said at this time: "Your Majesty is time to return to the palace."

Zhu Houzhao glared at Liu Jin, shook her head and said, "I won't go back, I'll live here tonight."

Liu Jin looked bitter, but Zhu Houzhao waved his hand impatiently and said, "You want to leave, just leave."

Liu Jin didn't dare to speak anymore, swallowed his saliva, looked at Ye Chunqiu, and Ye Chunqiu just smiled, and said at this time: "Have your Majesty ever thought that what if the private businessmen refused to submit?"

"Hmm?" Zhu Houzhao looked at Ye Chunqiu and said, "Do they dare?"

Ye Chunqiu said seriously: "This is ten times the profit, which is enough to make anyone take risks. I think it will not be so simple next."

Zhu Houzhao frowned and was speechless for a moment.

But at this moment, a little maid hurriedly said, "Report to the master, the outsider said, Consul Wang is here."

Ye Chunqiu, when the old lady Ye had ordered someone to tell all kinds of people who were close to the Ye family about Wang Jingchu's birth, hence Wang Shouren came late at night, so he hurriedly asked someone to bring him.

But when Wang Shouren came in, he saw Wang Shouren frowning and looked depressed. Seeing that Zhu Houzhao was actually here, he was shocked and hurriedly bowed to Zhu Houzhao. Zhu Houzhao waved his hand: "No need to be polite, your girl is going to give birth, why do you look like this?"

After hearing this, Wang Shouren was overjoyed. In fact, when he came into the yard just now, he heard the movements in the bedroom. At this time, he heard Zhu Houzhao's words and confirmed it even more.

Wang Shouren looked at Ye Chunqiu and said, "Congratulations, congratulations."

Ye Chunqiu replied to him and said, "Happy together."

Then Wang Shouren said: "There was an accident there in Qinhuangdao, which is the latest news. The shopkeeper Sun from the China Merchants Bureau received the news and asked me to report that he still has to deal with it there."

"What's the matter?" Ye Chunqiu frowned.

Wang Shouren said: "The wharf has been opened in Qinhuangdao. Now a steady stream of craftsmen and coolies have settled in and started to build various facilities. The Zhenguo Mansion has rented a total of more than 700 ships of all sizes and sizes, specifically used to transport supplies and goods on the island. There are already seven or eight thousand people on the island. There are now barns built there, but... just at night, the gunpowder warehouse exploded, killing more than 90 people, which also caused a fire, burning many temporary buildings. Fortunately, at night, because the gunpowder warehouse is far away from other warehouses, although the losses are not small, it is not affected too much, just..."

Ye Chunqiu and Zhu Houzhao's faces were all pulled down.

Ye Chunqiu said: "Is it a man-made or an accident?"

Wang Shouren looked at Ye Chunqiu and Zhu Houzhao's ugly faces and said, "The gunpowder warehouse has always been very cautious and decided not to neglect anything. Later, he found that several recruited guards were missing. They had neither found their corpses nor were there. Later, they heard that they had left on a boat overnight and didn't know where they were going."

Artificial...

Ye Chunqiu had already expressed the answer in his heart, and his eyes couldn't help but narrow, looking very solemn.

The gunpowder on the island is used to open mountains and explode rocks. After all, a large-scale construction of an isolated island is required. The progress of manpower alone is too slow, so whether it is building roads or other things, gunpowder is essential.

Now some people obviously want to destroy the development of Qinhuangdao. The only possibility is that some people do not want Qinhuangdao to be built into a huge port, nor do they want the navy of Zhenguo Mansion to build it.

Or maybe, some people want to demonstrate.

All these are possible.

Zhu Houzhao was already furious and said, "Who is it? How many guards have such courage? Have you checked the details of those people?"

Wang Shouren shook his head helplessly and said, "It's not clear that these guards were carefully selected, and most of them were good families. But now, their identities should be fake identities, and there are even a few of them who had already been in the Zhenguo Mansion. They might have been inserted a long time ago."

Zhenguo Mansion has a great family and some people are in it, which is hard to guard against. Ye Chunqiu even felt that there might be people inside the navy, and he was afraid that someone would have installed someone. Ye Chunqiu looked at Zhu Houzhao and said solemnly: "Your Majesty, it seems that some people don't like the navy of Zhenguo Mansion."

Zhu Houzhao nodded and said, "I know, I also know that those damn private businesses are the most suspicious. What are they going to do?"

"Demonstration!" Ye Chunqiu blurted out and continued: "When His Majesty began to investigate the private ships strictly, they had already suffered heavy losses. Now doing this is to give us some color."

Zhu Houzhao sneered and then said, "Is that true?"

After a while, Zhu Houzhao said, "Liu Baoban..."

Liu Jin hurried forward and said, "I am here."

Zhu Houzhao was already popular at this time. He never thought that anyone would dare to use this to provoke his authority. He thought that if a simple order was carried out, the private businessmen would be wiped out. But in fact, not only did these people not be silent, they actually dared to do these small actions.

Zhu Houzhao continued: "The factory guard immediately allocated personnel and investigated me hard, from the capital to Qinhuangdao, from Qinhuangdao to Ningbo, Quanzhou, and Songjiang, one by one, to find out who has such ability and courage."
Chapter completed!