Three days later, the Yongjin and two large sand ships arrived at the port and stuffed the raw silk, iron ingots, tea and porcelain stored in the warehouse into the cargo hold. They stopped loading until the waterline. In fact, not only were the three cargo ships coming this time, but there were also the White Egret and Seagull escorting all the way outside the Yangtze River Estuary. In addition to meeting the Zheng family's fleet on the way back and forth, the most important thing was to make the two sloop schooners familiar with the sea route. In the future, the store was set up and they were bound to come.

On the second floor of the mall, two Eight Immortals tables were filled with gorgeously dressed merchants. One of the big-bellied men drank a glass of wine that Li Mingxun had greeted and said, "Shopkeeper Li, although Lin is a latecomer, he also wants to be a bad person to remind him that Jiangnan is the heart of the Ming Dynasty. Your three gunboats are really unsafe. There are many whirlpools in the Yangtze River. Maybe which one belongs to. If you meet someone who is jealous, it will be unbeautiful."

Li Mingxun knew this person's identity. Although he was not a wealthy man among many merchants, the Lin family was one of the most gentry in Suzhou. Even in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, there were many prominent families in the clan. Among them, the best one was the Minister of Revenue during the Tianqi Dynasty. Now the head of the Lin family also retired from the position of governor. Although there were no important officials of the pillar country in three generations, his disciples and old friends were spread all over the court, and his background was naturally good. Therefore, the shopkeeper Lin spoke a little casually.

"Shopkeeper Lin is joking. You are sincere. You really think about Mingxun. How can Mingxun treat it as bad words? In fact, this is also what Mingxun considers, so..." Li Mingxun stepped down and wanted to propose the idea of ​​choosing a place to set up a shopping mall in Jiangnan, but he never thought that a loud bang came and the door was knocked open.

When Cheng Bi saw that his servant A Jin was breaking in, his face was immediately displeased: "Dog guy, don't look at what time it is, so rude!"

Ajin didn't bother to speak and pulled someone in from outside. Cheng Bi's face changed and he asked, "Cheng Zhi, why are you here? Is the old lady in poor health?"

It turned out that the person who came in Ajinla was the housekeeper of the Cheng family. Although Cheng Bi was from Huizhou, he had settled in Jiangyin and was still rich in Jiangyin. His old mother and wife were both at Jiangyin's home, so Cheng Bi asked this question.

"Master... Pirate... Pirates are coming, and the pirates are coming to Jiangyin." The housekeeper was incoherent and threw himself to the ground, shouting in horror.

This sentence came out, and the whole room was in a mess. Cheng Bi covered his forehead and cried, "Mother, my mother..."

Cheng Bi cried and fainted. It was still Ajin who stepped forward and pressed the person to wake him up. Cheng Bi looked worried and said, "I'm really sorry. Jiangyin is lost and my mother suffers. Cheng Bi's heart is in chaos and can't be with her. I have to go home immediately. I'm sorry, sorry..."

As he said that, he staggered towards the door. No one dared to speak in the room. Several people also stood up. They were all merchants in Suzhou and Changzhou. They knew very well that for organizations like pirates with high traversalism, they could go directly to Wuxi, Suzhou and Changzhou from Jiangyin along the canal. Each of them had other houses outside the city. How could they sit still?

Li Mingxun slapped the table, and shouted, "Slow down!"

He stood up and stood directly at the door. The tall body blocked it. These people naturally couldn't go out. Cheng Bi asked, "What are you doing?"

Li Mingxun said: "Brother Cheng, please wait. Now that the pirates invade Jiangyin, the entire Yangtze River waterway must be under martial law. Don't say that you can go back, what can you do if you go back? What can you do with your master and servant three or five? Besides, the situation is not yet clear, how can you take risks alone?"

Cheng Bi sat dejectedly on the chair and asked, "Jiangyin is over, my mother..."

Xu Changxing quickly stood up, clasped his fists and said, "Listen to me, you and I are both merchants, who are good at trading but do not know how to kill, but Mingxun is different. He must have a strategy to compete with Western barbarians overseas. It is better to let him analyze the interests and give advice for everyone."

"Yes, yes, yes, Shopkeeper Li is both civil and military, so he is naturally better than I am waiting for Hu Lai." The people who lost their backbone seemed to have grabbed a life-saving straw and quickly welcomed him.

Li Mingxun suddenly pulled out his sword, and the sharp blade pressed against the neck of the news manager, and asked sternly: "I'll ask you and answer. If there is any falsehood, you will be killed in your head!"

The butler sat on the ground and did not dare to look up. Li Mingxun immediately asked, "How many days have the pirates arrived in Jiangyin?"

The housekeeper hurriedly said, "The villain came from Jiangyin and had been there for two days. Did he make an appointment to arrive at Jiangyin at noon the day before yesterday?"

"What's the weather then?"

"It was clear weather, and there was no rain or fog." The butler answered very quickly.

Lee Mingxun asked again: "How many ships are there in the pirates?"

The butler looked shocked and said, "The pirate ship is like a locust, covering the sky and the entire river..."

Before he finished speaking, Li Mingxun hit his chest with a knife. The housekeeper rolled to the ground in pain, but Li Mingxun shouted: "So brave! How dare you speak nonsense!"

"It's sunny, how can you not see the pirate ships clearly? It's really damn!" Li Mingxun shouted, already raising his long sword.

The housekeeper hurriedly said, "The villain dares not, the villain dares not, and the villain cannot explain clearly. He always feels that there are too many. Those thieves came ashore from Huangtian area and all the way to the canal dock are pirate ships."

Li Mingxun put away his long knife and said, "Brother Cheng is safe, so I will definitely be fine!"

When Cheng Bi heard this, he hurriedly asked, "Shopkeeper Li, how can he be so sure?"

Li Mingxun said: "Brother Cheng also knows that from Huangtian to the canal pier, the river section is only about two miles away. Those who can dock are fishing boats and melon-pi boats, and I am afraid that they can dock more than 200 boats. Brother Cheng also heard that the weather was sunny on the day of the pirates' attack. It was noon again. Even ordinary people knew that they were thieves. How could they not go into the city to hide? Although Jiangyin is not as short as the frontier city, city walls, pheasants and moats, there is no shortage of thieves. How can they easily break through the thieves."

"Yes, this is reasonable, it's reasonable!" Xu Changxing was the first to stand up and agree.

Li Mingxun said to others: "Don't worry, everyone, these thieves dare not go down the canal. To put it bluntly, a group of mobs are just afraid of hitting the wolf at both ends. With Jiangyin behind, they are even more afraid that the Yangtze River patrol ships block the retreat, so they must not go deeper!"

"Shopkeeper Li, what do you think you are going to be?" asked a shopkeeper.

Li Mingxun thought for a while and said, "These thieves are considered to be Chongming water thieves, and they are nothing more than refugees who cannot eat enough. Fishermen must plunder the villages and towns around Jiangyin. As long as the imperial army arrives, they will flee."

"The army of the imperial court? A group of stupid pigs who don't see the money and don't move their nests!" a shopkeeper immediately said angrily.

Cheng Bi sighed: "Those groups of Qiubaba cannot rob more of the thieves. They can take the people's fat and ointment into their pockets as spoils. I pity the people of Jiangyin, who are now harmed by pirates and poisoned by soldiers. This is the world."

"Is there a quicker way?" The shopkeeper surnamed Lin asked. Seeing that everyone was puzzled, he said, "Brothers, it's time to collect spring silk. If the thieves are disturbed, our losses will be great."

Everyone nodded. If it really makes a big deal, the price of raw silk will be increased, but there is no goods in hand, and the money will be made in vain by people from Zhejiang.

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