The drums sounded like thunder in the prefect's office.

Seeing this, the three-class officers gathered together.

After a moment, under the illumination of countless torches.

Wen Yansheng was a little drunk, holding an iron rod in his hand, and grilled fish skewers on the iron rod. He walked out slowly. He looked calm and glanced at the servants.

After being silent for a long time, Wen Yansheng said lightly: "I have heard from someone who has an affair with the Japanese pirates. This is a sin that the three-class officer will listen to it. Now it is different from the past. I naturally know that if you make friends with all kinds of religions and thieves, you will always deal with some unclean people. However, the Japanese pirates have just attacked Taizhou Prefecture, and now they are eyeing our Ningbo Prefecture. Those who collude with Japanese pirates will all kill nine clans and cut them into pieces. Tonight, I will take you to get the thief. The private businessmen in Ningbo Prefecture and the thieves who collude with Japanese pirates. Our government will all kill you."

"If someone among you has a good relationship with such evil people, don't mislead yourself or expect to inform you. Now is different from the past. Don't think that our dean dares to kill people. Once we find out, we will not only kill you, but also kill your wife and children and your whole family in the name of affair with Japanese pirates."

"You are officials in the government. You have to make friends with all kinds of religions and all kinds of people. Even if you have personal relationships with others, as long as you do your best from today, our government will naturally be able to go through the past. Okay, you have said all the good and bad things, and send orders to three squads of servants to set off with our government. Then send people to the Ningbo Prefecture Water and Land Inspection Office to order them to transfer a military horse and advance together with our government. Tonight, our government will also attack Huanglong."

After saying that, he took a bite of the grilled fish. The skin of the grilled fish was extremely crisp and oily. The scent of scallions and pepper mixed with the meat aroma of fish meat made Wen Yan happy. Such a prefect was really pleasant to do.

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That night.

In Yin County, there were fire everywhere, and the sounds of officers and officials breaking the doors were everywhere.

After a night, I followed the clues and when the dawn was about to begin, the many stolen goods brought from outside the prefect's office were piled up like mountains, mostly rare treasures from foreign vassals that were illegally hidden. I also found many letters that had been exchanged privately with certain princes of Japan, as well as privately maps of the Ming coastal defenses drawn.

Ningbo Prefecture suddenly became boiling.

At this time, people deeply hated the Japanese pirates and surrounded them outside the prefect's office. These private businessmen were not simple people. Some of them were once merchants and some were local officials. One of them was a family with Jinshi and Juren.

Dozens of people were taken here, and some of the other gangs were stubborn and killed directly on the spot. Some of them fled to the sea and were still arrested everywhere.

Wen Yansheng was tired all night, so he naturally went to rest first. When he was in good spirits, he ate a bowl of fish porridge made of yellow croaker. He was immediately energetic and went to the court to pass the trial and asked him to confess.

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Huang Daming and several civil servants patrolled the coast.

They were originally a farmhouse household, but the man suddenly said he wanted to suppress the Japanese. How dare they not come? Besides, the man gave him ten kilograms of rice and dozens of fish at home. So he and many people formed the matter together. His main responsibility was to search for beaches everywhere. There were many people like him, hundreds or thousands of people, spreading every inch of the coast of Ningbo Prefecture, in groups of three or five people, and traveling back and forth.

Not only that, a porridge shop was specially arranged at each inspection site, which had enough porridge tubes made of yellow croaker and also provided tea for Huang Daming and others to rest at any time.

Huang Daming thought this job was good, and the group went back and forth. Although it was boring, it was not the busy farming season after all. With all their strength, they always had to have a place to vent.

I heard that hundreds of townsmen were organized in the city, holding forks and practicing. The instructor was the head of the Huang family's guards, and he used a good gun and stick.

There are now coordinated personnel guarding every waterway into the sea.

Many private businesses have been found out now, and there must be many people who want to go out to sea. They often set out from several waterways that go into the sea and go downstream. After leaving the sea, there will naturally be people to respond.

Therefore, many people set up chucks there to prevent anyone from informing the Japanese pirates.

A group of craftsmen organized and began to strengthen the city walls that were not reinforced in Ningbo City. Each village and his family also began to dispatch personnel to prevent them before they happened.

Huang Daming suddenly felt that the world had changed.

In fact, if the countryside farmers like them secretly know that someone in their family is running errands for private businessmen or doing something unclear, they will not only not think that this is a Japanese pirate, but will instead feel envious. People are people who have ways, and people who have no ways can do this big deal?

It is said that this is profitable. Many people earned money from unknown sources and built houses in the village within a few years. Well... they were brick houses, not thatched houses. Although they only had one house, they could not become masters, but their days were not comparable to ordinary households.

In the past, no one dared to talk too much. After all, such things have nothing to do with you. Moreover, they are mostly natives and fellow villagers in the country. Are you talking too much, aren’t you afraid of someone coming to the door?

Besides, even if you talk too much, who knows who is above others? I dare not be too troublesome.

But now... everything has changed.

Such people would have suddenly disappeared and disappeared. The government started to confiscate the house. Some were directly held down by the local gentry organization or the official servants, dragged out of the house and walked away. They were beaten all the way, covered with scars, and were hit by countless punches and kicks, and went directly to prison. Then they passed the trial and waited for them to confess their next accomplice.

Huang Daming saw a fellow villager with his own eyes. He was still proud of his youth, but because of his courage, he was already rampant in the countryside. It is said that he had hooked up with something, and his family was living a wealthy life because of this. This object he once envied was really worse than a dog. He was beaten and covered in blood. The master of the Huang family thought that there were Japanese pirates in his family, and thought it was a great humiliation. He angrily hung him up, and then raked him to the government.

Mr. Huang also said, "The Japanese pirates' wives need to remarry immediately, otherwise they will be unwilling to their own clan and their children will all be slaves."

Huang Daming no longer envies such a person.

The scholars talked about it in the village every day. They all said that the Japanese pirates raped and plundered and committed all kinds of evil. Their wives and daughters were killed like terrible. They deserved to die!

Huang Daming was also angry. These people are worse than pigs and dogs.

They walked past a mudflat for the fourteenth time, and suddenly a villager said, "Look, what is that?"

This place is very close to the harbor.

But on their sea, there were... one... no, two big ships.

Suddenly, Huang Daming was almost exploded: "This is..."

Another farmhouse trembled in fear: "This is not a water village ship, where did this ship... come from?"

"Japanese pirates!" Huang Daming shouted and shouted: "Japanese pirates, the Japanese pirates are here. The master said that the big ship that came inexplicably is the Japanese pirates. The Japanese pirates came on a sea boat, stopped overseas, and paddled on a small boat. Look, aren't they mooring the boat? Oh... they are really Japanese pirates!"

"Hurry, beat the gong and warn!"

A farmer took off the gong and took out the hammer, and then started to hit it with a clang.

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In the water village, halfway through the exercise, the faint sound of the gong sounded from afar.

The officers and soldiers who were originally shouting to kill suddenly stopped talking, and everyone held their breath and pricked their ears.

The gong is a warning, and three times in a row indicate that the Japanese pirates are coming.

Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding

Isn’t this just three moves?

Suddenly, it was like a bombing camp, and the water village was boiling, as if it was the Chinese New Year.

"The Japanese pirates are here, Hu Qianhu, Qi Qianhu, the Japanese pirates are here, listen quickly, I'm really here, I won't lie to you."

"Quick, hurry up, let's get together."

Hu Kaishan raised his eyebrows and was so happy that he wanted to die of himself. He has been dreaming these days, always dreaming that the Japanese pirates would come, and sometimes he didn't sleep, and even had hallucinations. Hu Kaishan was so excited that tears filled his eyes, and he slapped the sailors on the shoulders of the opposite sailor.

The sailor instantly became half short, almost lying down, his eyes turned red.

Hu Kaishan shouted: "Get my chain armor and helmet, and my steel spear."

Countless people cheered and jumped three feet high with excitement. They hurriedly began to get their weapons and screamed, "Go to the Tang Shi Juan to ask for orders, and go and ask for orders."

A Japanese pirate, five taels of silver, is calculated based on the head, but in order to prevent someone from stealing the head, the method is to calculate all the heads together and then divide them evenly.

This is just a reward set in the water camp, not including the rewards from the court.

No matter how you look at it, it's all like a fortune-telling deal.

These days, the sailors' hearts were broken. Because of the Japanese pirates, they were not allowed to go out to sea, they could not catch whales, or yellow croakers. The bounty was gone all of a sudden, which made the sailors all feel hatred. Japanese pirates were worse than pigs and dogs. If they didn't kill them, they would not be able to celebrate the New Year this year.

Now... finally here...

Someone's eyes were red and he cried, and tears fell down: "It's been here..."

Qi Jingtong heard the news and was excited.

But when he saw the countless people roaring sailors in this camp, he was shocked and immediately remembered his duties and shouted at them: "Don't be excited, everyone, don't be excited!"

Qi Jingtong felt that his throat was yelling smoke. He felt that the world had changed. He used to lead his troops, but when he heard that a thief was coming, he had to boost morale and shouted loudly, "Brothers, don't be afraid." But now, he repeated and said, "Don't be excited. After the Japanese pirates landed, they can't run away. Who dares to come forward rashly? Military law is ruthless!"

"Assemble, he gathered together." Hu Kaishan was already wearing armor and shouted in a daze: "Assemble immediately!"

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Chapter completed!