All fifty-eight pirates were from Dongying. Qi Haoran and Fan Zijin went to see the sober pirates together. The two expressed their doubts that they dared to break the deadlock and go ashore first.

Dongying pirates lay on the ground and cursed. When they saw Qi Haoran and Fan Zijin come in, their eyes were even more stared, and their eyes were full of resentment.

Qi Haoran just glanced at them and turned to leave, Fan Zijin hurriedly followed him out, Qi Haoran turned his head and looked at Zhou Zhou coldly, "How to interrogate the pirates and ask Master to teach you? Make them obedient and talk about it, Master will come back at noon. I don't want to hear a dirty word from them."

Zhou Zhou hurriedly bowed his head.

Fan Zijin saw that he was gone, so he said to Qi Haoran, "Come and judge by yourself at noon, and let me know when there is a result."

Qi Haoran said: "Guangzhou also has too many foreigners. They don't understand everything they say, and those pirates don't know whether they know Chinese or not. They have to find some people who are proficient in various languages."

"The merchants who often do business with foreign vassals should have such people in their hands, as well as the veterans of the navy," Fan Zijin analyzed: "They often deal with pirates of the vassal merchants, and they should understand. I will help you find the merchants here. You can find it by yourself."

Qi Haoran nodded and ordered his personal soldiers to do it, so he went to the yamen with Fan Zijin.

The officials of the government office saw Qi Haoran, they got up and saluted, and then took the official document to Fan Zijin to listen to the announcement.

General Wang Cang had been waiting in the mansion for a long time. Seeing that the two of them came together, he hurriedly stood up and saluted. After Qi Haoran waved his hand, he sat down in his place. , This is the first meeting between the military and the government since Qi Xiuyuan and Fan Zijin became the top leaders of the military and government in Guangzhou.

And the meeting has only one content, the inventory of Yu Cheng.

Yu Cheng was escorted to Beijing for corruption and bribery, colluding with pirates, and murdering Zhongliang. However, as Fan Zijin rebuilt the fishing village, he realized that there were fewer crimes listed before.

Because the fishermen moved ten miles inland, they discovered two salt drying fields in the deserted part of the fishing village. Those two salt fields belonged to Yu Cheng.

Those fishermen had to move inland after being slaughtered and looted by pirates. They found two hidden salt pans there. They couldn't help but wonder if it was a pirate who slaughtered the villagers back then?

Also, are the officials in Guangdong really ignorant?

It is almost impossible to hide so many officials in Guangdong from building two salt farms, drying salt, selling salt, and transporting salt. Some of them must have opened the door for convenience.

The ?? Salt Works were built eight years ago. At that time, Daqi had not yet been established, and it was in troubled times. It was not difficult to do such a thing, but after Daqi was established and the order became stable, it was difficult to hide it.

Fan Zijin can still turn a blind eye to this kind of thing, but Qi Haoran doesn't rub the sand in his eyes. After learning the news from Fan Zijin, he decided to gather officials from both the military and the government for a meeting, because it was a legacy from the previous dynasty. problem, he can meet the guilt at his discretion, provided that the officer has surrendered.

Qi Haoran said: "Master, no matter whether you are currently employed, appointed to an official position, or transferred abroad, anyone who is involved in this matter will surrender at the end, otherwise, I will ask this king to find out, and there will be no mercy. Unless you are dead, what should you be blamed for? What a sin!"

Fan Zijin looked coldly at the officials below, and said lightly: "Don't forget, everyone, the offenders in Yu Cheng's case have been put on file, and even Yu Cheng has been arrested."

The officials below ?? were pale. They thought the earthquake was over, but this time it would be even more violent. It seems that the officialdom in Guangdong is about to shake again.

Qi Haoran did not return to the navy yamen until he had explained the matter to Qi Haoran.

The pirates lay on the ground with their breath dying. Compared to the morning, they were like a fish about to die. When they saw Qi Haoran coming in, there was resentment in their eyes, but more fear and jealousy.

Qi Haoran stood still, turned his head and asked Zhou Zhou, "Have you found the translation?"

"I found it," Zhou Zhou returned to his senses and pushed out a middle-aged man with ragged clothes, saying: "My lord, this man is called Zhao San. He was arrested by the Dongying people and became a pirate a few years ago. He learned the Dongying dialect in it. So it's no problem to do translation."

Qi Haoran frowned and asked, "Are you a pirate? Then how did you get back?"

Zhao Sancheng bowed down in fear and said: "Hui, Hui Wangye, I was caught by them as a cook, only responsible for cooking, more than two months ago, the pirates came back and said that the weather in Guangdong has changed, who has come. Very powerful, defeated the foreign pirates, and got a big ship, so they have to move, oh, the island they lived in is very close to our coast, with a big ship, they can be there in half an hour, they are afraid, they plan to I moved, and the little one was taken on the boat, because I have been very honest all these years, and they didn't take much precautions against me. When the boat was near the reef, I pretended to fall into the water, dived into the water and hid in the reef group, and waited. It only took a day to sneak back in."

Zhao San thought of the nine-death life at that time, and his eyes were still red, "Fortunately, the little one has good water and good luck, and he swam for a long time."

As soon as he got ashore, he was found by the patrolling navy and brought back. Zhou Zhou asked someone to check his identity and found that he was a dead person in the file eight years ago.

Li Zheng and the old man who found the fishing village at the time could still know him, so Zhou Zhou didn't deal with him carefully.

Qi Haoran was looking for someone who was proficient in the Dongying language, but Zhou Zhou couldn't find it for a while. There were some people in the navy who could say a few words, but there were really no proficient ones. Nian, I should understand, so I called someone.

Of course, in order to prevent the other party from lying or playing tricks, Zhou Zhou also found two soldiers who could barely understand the Dongying dialect to sit in.

Qi Haoran looked at Zhou Zhou, Zhou Zhou nodded slightly to him, indicating that Zhao San could be trusted, he raised his chin slightly and said: "Ask them, how long have they been pirates, where is the lair, and how dare they climb this time? Looting from the shore, how many people are still in the old nest."

Zhao San hurriedly bent down and nodded, and went up to ask the other side chatteringly. The pirates treated him coldly at first, and the jailer next to him whipped them up when they didn't answer. They knew from the look that the other party was obeying and resisting. They had already received the order. They didn't have to be polite to the pirates. They planned to ignore them, so they did not show mercy. Anyway, there are fifty-eight pirates. of.

These pirates were not resistant to beatings. They gave in after being whipped a few times. Even though there was still resentment in their eyes, they were willing to speak and answer Zhao San's question.

Zhao San translated the sentences to Qi Haoran. After a while, Qi Haoran finally understood the whole story.

These pirates are all veterans, and it is not the first time that they have come ashore and plundered the people.

They were just refugees from Dongying. They used to be fishermen, but because of the chaos in the country, they could not survive in the country, so they sailed across the ocean in boats, and later landed in Fuzhou. Live by robbery.

But the navy in Fuzhou were very powerful. They were few in number and were scattered several times. After fleeing, they ended up in the Guangdong area, and this is where they made their fortunes.