On the fifth day of the first lunar month, he returned from Penghu and headed south with the wind. On the tenth day of the first lunar month, he returned to Dongguan.

After riding on the sea boat for five consecutive days, Chen Xun's legs, who had just stepped onto Dongguan Port, were a little weak.

Chen Xun originally planned to go back to Chenjiazhuang to rest directly, but when he was replenishing supplies on Lamma Island, he received bad news and had to come to Dongguan to deal with it in person.

"Langjun." The housekeeper Ge Chang had already been waiting in the port.

"What a big deal, I'll let you wait here in person." Chen Xun hugged Ge Chang's shoulder and greeted him warmly.

Ge Chang was mainly responsible for managing the marine trade in the Chen family. It can be said that he was the Chen family's money tree. If he hadn't saved his life in Ma Yi, with the Chen family's size at that time, it would have been impossible for him to recruit talents of this level.

"It's not a big deal, but the signs are bad." Ge Chang looked more like a martial artist in terms of figure. He was half a palm taller than Chen Xun, who was 1.75 meters tall. He was from Quanzhou and had been doing business for generations. He has been traveling Southeast Asia with his family's fleet since he was a child, and he can reach Singapore, which is the farthest in his future.

The risk of running to the sea is very high. In addition to natural disasters, man-made disasters are even more difficult to prevent.

During a normal southward trade, the fleet was snatched by locals in Mayi, and Ge Chang himself was detained.

Ma Yi's pirates sent a letter back to Quanzhou to ask for money to redeem the people. Ge Chang was the eldest son of the family and was trained as a successor. It was natural that he could redeem it with money. Unfortunately, the Ge family accidentally missed the letter when raising money. When the competitors found out that the Ge family's fleet was trapped in Ma Yi, they colluded with the eunuch of Quanzhou Maritime Control and Prevention to the Ge family for tax evasion, and the whole family took it.

Chen Xun had just gained magnetic field vision and led his family's sea boat to the south to explore the sea trade route. He was robbed by the same pirate in Ma Yi. However, Chen Xun was not like the Ge family, and he was always timid. For the first time, he developed the boat. There were more people on the ship than goods, which was a standard iron plate. If the pirates failed to rob, he lost his wife, which gave the Chen family the first overseas station in Ma Yi.

Ge Chang was also rescued at that time.

The story afterwards was very bloody. Ge Chang, who finally returned home, found that his family had been destroyed and his family had to turn around and came to find Chen Xun again, because Chen Xun was much more open-minded overseas than in mainland China, and he was very restless. Ge Chang felt that Chen Xun could help him revenge.

"Why should I help you? You still owe me a life-saving favor." Chen Xun asked at the time.

"I'll trade it myself." Chen Xun was moved. Being able to sail on the sea does not mean that he can run for sea trade. Chen Xun lost money when he went south for the first time.

After agreeing to Ge Chang's conditions, Chen Xun secretly sneaked to Quanzhou and asked Ge Chang to kill his enemies with his own hands. He also rescued some of his family from the workshop and then bought some from the army.

With Chen Xun's hard work and helping, Ge Chang was naturally devoted to it.

"What sign?"

"We may be targeted by the Guangzhou Maritime Manufacturing Department. This time, the tax check of Dongguan County Maritime Manufacturing Bureau and Maritime Manufacturing Bureau should be a first test." Ge Chang replied.

"How could we be targeted by the Maritime Bureau of such a small size?" Chen Xun couldn't believe it.

Don’t think that a family property is a lot of hundreds of thousands of yuan. There are many families along the coast of Jiangnan, which are richer than the Chen family. Moreover, Chen Xun also hides most of his assets overseas, and his family’s assets are nominally scattered among the Chen clan and his subordinates. Chen Xun usually acts in the mainland and is very low-key, and even stops his father from taking a concubine. He is not a huge wealth on the surface and should not be targeted by a department as large as the Maritime Bureau.

You should know that the Maritime Bureau mainly targets foreign ships, that is, taxes on foreigners.

Moreover, the Song Dynasty was encouraging in business and attached great importance to overseas trade. The Maritime Bureau was able to recruit meritorious personnel who were often rewarded and banned the act of pursuing fraud.

What the Ge family encountered can only be regarded as an isolated case, not the entire Maritime Bureau is so dark.

Chen Xun thought for a moment that it was because of the disaster encountered by his family that Ge Chang was a little sensitive.

"Because there is no one above us." Ge Chang's words dispelled Chen Xun's suspicion.

Every man is guilty of being guilty of being a treasure. Now he is like a child holding gold in a downtown city without anyone protecting him. It looks so delicious.

The two did not continue chatting, and came to the small courtyard purchased by the Chen family in Dongguan in silence, and waved to someone to find the person in charge of the spy from Dongguan.

"Langjun." The person in charge is the owner of a department store. He looks honest and probably won't make much money even if he opens a store.

"I started the Guangdong Maritime Manufacturing Department, Dongguan Maritime Manufacturing Service, Dongguan Port Maritime Manufacturing Market, and the Dongguan County Government. I want to know if they have paid special attention to our Chen family recently."

"yes."

When he was confused and the news was blocked, Chen Xun did not dare to make a decision. The tragic losses caused by recklessness in the past few years made Chen Xun rarely make decisions based on speculation.

"Cooperate with them and let them check." This is the order to Ge Chang: "Give the benefits you should give as usual, but don't give more."

"I understand." Ge Changying said: "Can you ask Butler Liu and the second uncle of the Chen family to cooperate with me?"

"Okay, I'll write to them now and let them cooperate with you with all their strength." Chen Xun replied that most of the industries in Chenjiazhuang are managed by Liu Yu, and the second uncle of the Chen family is Chen Yi's second brother. He usually manages the affairs of the Chen clan, and it is very reasonable for Ge Chang to cooperate with them.

When the two went out to work, Chen Xun looked through the recent reports from Dongguan in the study. These were all brought by the spy just now. He had been waiting for more than an hour. It was dark and he had just waited for his uncle Chen Fu.

Chen Fu was a division in Dongguan County. Among the county yamen officials, he was second only to the escort, and was equivalent to the level of the section chief and deputy section chief in later generations.

However, because the officials of the Song Dynasty had no way to rise, their serious salary and low salaries, and rural clan autonomy, the right to split was not great, and after all, they were just a document.

"This time, the main thing is that Master Wu takes the lead and Zheng Aishi executes the execution. The people selected are those who do not deal with our Chen family. I was excluded. I am not very clear about the specific reasons and how to operate them."

Hearing Chen Fu's words, he was a little out of the way, which made Chen Xun a little angry.

Considering that Chen Fu came so late, I guess he was afraid of being seen and wanted to pick himself out of the Chen family. It seems that the people who want to deal with the Chen family this time are quite famous.

However, Chen Fu's idea was too stupid in Chen Xun's opinion.

If it weren't for Chen Xun's support in recent years, with Chen Fu's meager income and unwillingness to do anything, he would have starved to death.

In the eyes of those who want to punish the Chen family, even if Chen Fu dies, he cannot be picked out.
Chapter completed!