Chapter 1128 Silence
The girl's father, who was in the helm of the cabin, let out a shrill cry and tried his best to pounce out, but Tuhai pressed it down hard.
Xuanye returned to the cabin with a pistol and said fiercely to Tuhai: "Get out of the way!"
Tuhai quickly jumped aside, Xuanye picked up the gun, and shot the middle-aged man twice without saying a word.
The man stared at his eyes, without saying a word, slowly shrank into a pool of blood.
Tu Hai said nervously: "Master, are you too impulsive? Will the sound of guns attract the fleet over there?"
Xuanye sneered: "Idiot, you don't look at the direction of the wind. They are walking with the wind and are so far away. Can you hear it?"
In fact, Xuanye just realized that the Ming fleet should be the Jinghai Fleet squadron stationed in Taiwan, and they were just cruised as usual.
The fishing boat is hung with the Ming Dynasty's four-star golden sun flag, which is a typical Jiangnan ship shape. Navy warships will not come to take the initiative to investigate the fishing boat!
This was the first time Xuanye killed someone with his own hands. His chest was pounding like drinking, both nervous and excited.
Tuhai was even more nervous and threw the fishermen's bodies into the sea in panic, causing a destruction of the corpse.
After doing all this, the master and servant looked at each other and smiled, feeling a little relaxed.
After a moment, Xuanye's smile disappeared instantly, like a chameleon. He asked seriously: "Tuhai, can you fly a boat?"
The smile on Tuhai's face gradually solidified, and he said in surprise: "It's a little bit, not very familiar."
Xuanye nodded, licked his lips and said, "It's better to know a little, it's better than not knowing anything. We can explore slowly. This kind of sailing should be very simple!"
Before the Tianwu Dynasty, the helmsman operated the tiller attached to the rudder to change direction. In bad weather, four people needed to withstand the pressure of the rudder, which was extremely inconvenient.
Since the Royal Navy invented the installation of rudder wheels and vertical tillers, and then used rudder wheel-driven sliding rudder technology, the operation of sailboats has become very simple, and civilian ships have successively adopted this advanced technology.
The fisherman father and daughter, the father was at the helm, and the daughter observed the sails, and the two could drive a sailboat.
Xuanye and Tuhai are both intellectuals, with strong learning ability. It is indeed not difficult for them to control ships. At most, they lack experience in survival at sea.
Xuanye smiled and said, "Whether we can survive depends on your ability to drive the boat."
Isn’t it just for the slave to work? Tu Hai immediately drove a sailboat towards Luzon without waiting for the clear instructions.
Xuanye breathed a sigh of relief. No matter what the future is, at least there is a loyal slave around him, and things are much easier to do.
I just don’t know how loyal the slaves in Nanyang are?
Two days later, another fleet appeared near the Penghu Islands, with the flag flying against the Yangtze River Fleet.
Xu Mingwu moved into the Penghu Inspection Department as soon as possible and asked someone to check the ship's pass records in recent days.
The Penghu Inspection Office was found in the Yuan Dynasty. Kublai Khan failed to expedition to Japan and detoured Taiwan. He passed through Penghu to set up a management of Penghu, attempting to advance Taiwan as a preparation for expedition to Japan.
The Ming Dynasty followed its rules and was used by administrative power, but later it was reinstated due to the ban on sea and the opening of the sea.
When the Tianwu Dynasty arrived, the Penghu Inspection Department gradually evolved into a "high-speed toll station", setting up a card to collect tolls from foreign merchant ships and collecting information on the ships.
However, how many merchant ships pass through the Taiwan Strait every day? After receiving the order, the inspectors took a group of people there to work, sweating profusely searching for archives and records. After a day, they didn't even dare to eat hot rice.
Xu Mingwu stayed in the inspection office all night. He was afraid that there would be any situation and did not dare to go back to the warship to sleep, so he slept on the camp bed, allowing the inspectors to make progress to wake him up.
But when he woke up until dawn, no one called him, which means that there was no progress all night!
"Damn, if I had known, I would have gone back to the boat to sleep. It would have been more comfortable than this!"
Xu Mingwu rubbed his eyes and was in a very unhappy mood.
At this time, the officials of the Penghu Inspection Department ran over with a smile and reported: "Sir, I found it! The day before yesterday, a half-black and half-gray fishing boat headed south from Penghu, and it was as big as the size."
"Yeah? I found it?"
Xu Mingwu looked suspicious. He seriously suspected that this guy had found it last night and did not dare to disturb him to rest, so he deliberately dragged him to wake up. Otherwise, it would have been such a coincidence?
"Yes, sir, not only did we find it, we also found a corpse in the nearby waters. There were two bullet holes in the chest of the body. It should be the fisherman of that boat. The murderer you are chasing should kill him."
Upon hearing this, Xu Mingwu suppressed his anger, sat on a chair, took a cup of tea, and asked while drinking: "How to judge the time of death coroner?"
The inspector's official immediately replied: "The coroner's judgment was probably two days ago, and it was basically consistent with the time when the fishing boat passed through Penghu Island."
Xu Mingwu suddenly became excited, put down his cup, stood up "live" and was like a leopard seeing prey, and immediately got up and left.
Before leaving, he gritted his teeth and said politely: "I fucking thank you!"
Even the autopsy report was done. I clearly found out last night, but I just reported it early in the morning. Isn’t this delaying my time?
Are you stupid as an official? Will you flatter?
Siam, Bangkok, Ming army camp.
Tens of thousands of troops were scattered within a radius of more than ten miles of this small fishing village in Bangkok. Flags and banners were waving, camps and tents were connected, and the atmosphere of war was strong.
The central army tent was filled with Ming generals, including the Qin Gongsun Yingyuan's legitimate son Zhiyuan, the Yanping Marquis Zhu Cheng's legitimate son Zhu Jing, and the Zhonghou Li Hu's legitimate son Li Zheng and the Zhongming Marquis Li and the Zhongming Marquis Li Zheng and the others were talking and greeting each other.
Crown Prince Zhu Hebi lived in high spirits, and a brand new Shangfang sword hung behind him, which was quite similar to the scene when Zhu Cixuan ordered troops in Tongzhou.
The Crown Prince of Siam launched a coup and eliminated the pro-French merchant forces of Prince Eyath and Walkon, but this did not mean that the Ayutthaya dynasty will be prosperous and safe from then on, and will be revived.
The army commander and the usurpation of the throne and seized power by the important officials in the court is itself a proof of the decline in the prestige of the Siam king.
Just after the crown prince captured Perracha and seized power, the throne had not yet settled, and three large-scale uprisings in the name of King Nalai occurred in Siam.
This directly shows that the Crown Prince's political proposition of taking Perracha did not actually receive support from ordinary people, and he only represented the interests of the old Siam aristocrats.
Now, when Prince Zhu Hebi is ordered to fight against rebellion, he will punish Peperatcha on behalf of the Ming Dynasty. Although Peperatcha admits his conscience early, the Ming army has no intention of retreating.
While the generals in the tent were talking, they suddenly heard Ye Busuocheng's commander Li Zheng hurried over and walked up to whisper a few words to the prince.
"Have you caught it yet?" Zhu Hebi frowned slightly.
When he heard that the Han King Party had messed up the entire Zhili in order to arrest Xuanye, Zhu Hebi smiled: "Hmph, my second brother doesn't even have a decent intelligence official, what will he do?"
When all the generals in the tent heard this, they all laughed.
All of the people here are hard-core figures of the princelings. They grew up with the prince since childhood and there is nothing to hide.
Everyone knows that with the assistance of Li Zheng, the Jinyiwei family, the East Palace has a small intelligence department.
On the other hand, the intelligence system in his hands mainly relies on the military's no-stop service. They can detect military information, but they are a little amateur in politics and civil affairs.
Li Zheng asked for instructions: "Your Highness, do we need to send the intelligence department to capture that boy Xuanye?"
Xuanye forged the prince's order, which caused the princelings to suffer. Those present had long wanted to catch him and kill him.
Zhu Hebi thought for a while, but waved his hand and said, "No need, let the kid leave it to the King of Han to make trouble. We will do our best to solve Siam!"
He stood up and swept to the generals, saying with great pride: "Don't be distracted by some trivial matters. This is our main battlefield!"
The generals responded with a loud bang: "I understand!"
Chapter completed!