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The navy camp.

Every day, the navy will send a boat to the waters around the camp. In fact, it is just a form of walking around the nearby waters, grab some fish and shrimps, and then return.

Today, it was Luo Sheng's turn to patrol the ship. Luo Xin led the five hundred men to drive a large ship to leave the camp, sailed into the sea area, and then disappeared into the sea area.

It's night.

Qiantang River bank.

Luo Xin lurked on the shore with more than 1,200 veterans from the north, and was carrying some boxes, which contained made thunder bullets.

A large ship approached the shore in the darkness of the night, then broke down and stopped. A springboard was put down from the boat. Luo Sheng and Liang Botao walked down from the boat and stood quietly on the shore.

The woods on the shore were rustling, and Luo Xin led more than 1,200 people out of the woods and walked towards Luo Sheng.

"Cousin!"

"Brother Xin!"

Luo Xin came to Luo Sheng and held his two big hands together. Luo Xin waved to the northern veterans behind him, and the veterans quickly followed the springboard toward the ship. Luo Xin said softly to Luo Sheng:

"Don't go to Taiwan Island for now..."

Luo Sheng nodded while listening, and finally nodded heavily and said, "Brother Xin, don't worry. I asked Brother Liang to leave two people here, and I will wait for your news in the place where Brother Liang and the others hide."

"Okay! I wish you all the best."

In the night.

Luo Sheng's big ship slowly left the water shore and disappeared into the distance.

Luo Xin took advantage of the night to return to the manor outside his city. On the second day, he returned to Hangzhou in casual clothes and entered the Maritime Office from the back door. In the morning, not only the New Year was coming, but many officials from the Maritime Office came to Luo Xin one after another and complained to him that the prefect had cut off all the supplies of the Maritime Office. The construction of the wharf had completely stopped. Luo Xin just told them not to hurry and sent them out. But he had already felt that the atmosphere of the Maritime Office had changed, and the morale that had finally gathered before began to dissipate, and the officials' faces began to show a decadent look on their faces.

At this time, in the Maritime Bureau, officials were frowning and whispering from time to time.

"Oh... I finally felt like I had hope. Now it seems that I am thinking too much."

"Yes, sir, don't look like a coward, why do you just let the prefect bully like this?"

"So what if you don't let the bully? The magistrate is only a fifth-rank magistrate, and the magistrate is a fourth-rank magistrate. As the saying goes, a senior official will kill people!"

"Hmph, I think we are just a slut in the house. We have many ways to deal with it. We will be timid when we meet the prefect."

"We have no hope..."

“…………”

Luo Xin was sitting in the study, frowning tightly. He also knew that the matter of the Maritime Bureau could not be delayed. If he dragged it down, people's hearts would be dispersed. However, now he had no choice. Although he had an imperial edict in his hand, he could kill officials below the third rank, and even the prefect of Hangzhou could kill, this imperial edict might not be useful.

The southeast is very chaotic, because the Japanese pirates have been rife for many years, and the place has become corrupt. Those officials are no longer like officials in the court, and they are like local emperors. If they take the imperial edict to get people and kill people, those officials, such as the prefect Song Danian, might kill him Luo Xin and then fabricate a reason to say that Luo Xin was killed by the Japanese pirates. Therefore, Luo Xin cannot act rashly now unless he has the strength to protect himself, that is, Qi Jiguang and Luo Qing come back with their soldiers. At that time, he will have imperial edicts and soldiers, and only then can he act according to his wishes.

"The court reward should have arrived, right?"

"Mr. Marquis!"

Luo Xin was thinking about his thoughts when he heard Lu Daqing's voice, looked up and said, "What's the matter?"

"Master Ting Tang sent someone to see you."

"Please!"

Luo Xin was delighted and thought to himself, was it because the court rewards had been given, or... = Hu Zongxian had learned about Luo Sheng's disappearance?

"Mr. Luo!"

Luo Xin looked up and saw that it was a general under Hu Zongxian. He had met twice, so he stood up and said:

"General Zhao, please sit down."

"I won't sit anymore!" General Zhao waved his hand and said, "Mr. Luo asked Lord Luo to go to the Governor's Office to discuss with you if you have important matters."

"What's the matter?"

"I don't know!" Speaking of this, he hesitated and said, "But, Mao Haifeng is here."

"oh!"

Luo Xin was a little disappointed. Since Mao Haifeng was here, it means that the pirates on several small islands near Qiantang River were wiped out. However, when Mao Haifeng was here, what did Hu Zongxian ask him to go over and do?

However, when I remembered my plan, Hu Zongxian had to nod and said readily:

"Okay, we'll set off right away."

Governor's Office.

There were only three people sitting in the lobby, with Hu Zongxian sitting on the upper head and Luo Xin and Mao Haifeng sitting on the left and right of the lower head. Hu Zongxian is now more enthusiastic about Luo Xin, looking at Luo Xin with a smile on his face and said:

"No, Haifeng has now eliminated all the pirates on the islands near Qiantang River. This time Haifeng came back, just to ask when the Maritime Bureau will officially start operating."

Luo Xin frowned slightly and said, "I'm afraid it will take a lot of time. Now the Maritime Service is in some trouble."

"Please?" Mao Haifeng's face changed: "Is it the emperor that he will not open the sea?"

"Of course not!" Luo Xin shook his head and said, "Your Majesty's golden words, how can the words he said do not count?"

"Why?" Mao Haifeng looked stunned.

"Someone is jealous of the Maritime Warehouse and wants to get a share of the Maritime Warehouse, so they stopped some supplies to build the dock and waited for me to take the initiative to compromise with them."

"Then let's make money together!"

Mao Haifeng spread his hands and said that in his heart, no matter how the officials and merchants of the Ming Dynasty distributed their interests, as long as the Ming Dynasty opened the sea, their Jiuzhou Island would definitely make a big profit, because without their Jiuzhou Island protecting the sea, the Ming Dynasty opened the sea was a joke. How much goods would be robbed when they went to sea.

Luo Xin smiled faintly and said, "But His Majesty the Emperor gave me an indicator that I had to pay a certain amount of money this year. If those people were allowed to share the pie, it would be a price increase. In this way, Mao Zhuangshi would have to lose."

"That won't work!"

Mao Haifeng's head immediately shook like a rattle, and Luo Xin said uneasy:

"So this matter will be delayed for a while, don't be anxious, good things will be a bit harder! By the way, I know that even if our Maritime Bureau has not opened the sea, you will not lose any losses. I know that you and the people on the shore have been smuggling."

Mao Haifeng shook his head again and said, "Mr. Luo, you are wrong."

"Oh? What's wrong with me?" Luo Xin asked curiously.

"We used to smuggle with people on the shore of Daming, and it was the largest smuggling fleet. However, since the last time I went back to lead my brothers to eliminate pirates for the adults, my father issued an order, our Wufeng fleet in Kyushu Island stopped smuggling, and we were ready to cooperate with the court in place."

"Oh?" Luo Xin raised his eyebrows and said, "So, there is no smuggling in the southeast now?"

"How about it?" Mao Haifeng smiled bitterly: "We are not the only one at the sea."

"But you are the largest one, you don't smuggle anymore, and anyone dares to smuggle?"

Mao Haifeng hesitated for a moment, and said with a hint of embarrassment: "Actually there is a pirate on the sea, which is not much worse than us."

"who?"

"Xu Hai!"

"Xu Hai?"

"Well, Xu Hai is called Xu Monk, who is cruel and ruthless, and is very powerful in war. He is a cruel master, and even my godfather is unwilling to provoke him."

Luo Xin frowned slightly and said, "What if Xu Hai is coming to rob him after the Maritime Warehouse opened the sea?"

Mao Haifeng slapped his chest and said, "With my godfather here, Xu Hai dared not be presumptuous."

Luo Xin nodded, looked at Hu Zongxian again and said, "Brother, there is some trouble here in the Maritime Department, so I'm going to be the hindrance of Master Tuomen."

Hu Zongxian waved his hand and said, "Don't say such disgusting words without any reason, do you need your brother's help?"

Luo Xin pondered for a moment and said, "I really need a helping brother."

"If you don't have any tools, you will definitely do it for you as long as it is something that my brother can do."

"Thank you, brother!" Luo Xin bowed and said, "Brother, what reward will my elder brother and cousin receive from the court this time?"

Hu Zongxian smiled and said, "Don't worry, I will give a lot of credit to your elder brother and cousin this time. Your elder brother should be able to be promoted to the fourth grade, and your cousin can also be promoted to the fifth grade."

"Is that true!" Luo Xin said happily, "Brother, after the court has received the reward, I hope that I can send General Qi and my elder brother to Hangzhou to help me with the business."

"This is no problem!"

Hu Zongxian answered readily, this was nothing at all. Originally, Qi Jiguang and Luo Qing transferred to Luo Xin, but now they are just returning to the original owner.

"Brother, since my elder brother has been promoted, can he have more soldiers?"

"He will recruit this by himself, and I can make him have three thousand people."

"Thank you, brother."

"Master Master!" A voice came from outside the door.

"Come in!"

A general walked in and saluted, "Sir, the navy commander is here, and he said he has something to report to you."

"Let him in."

After a while, the navy commander came in and saw Luo Xin sitting there, his expression changed, and he couldn't speak in a daze. Hu Zongxian's face darkened, and he said unhappy in his eyes:

"What's the matter?"
To be continued...