Liang Xin was just a marquis of Yu, the fact that he was not very important. He was not valued by his superiors and had no support for his family. Therefore, this marquis of Yu had been in full seven years and was sure to stay on the spot.

There are more than a dozen ports in Quanzhou, distributed in three bays. As soon as the night comes, there will be a buzzing tide on the shore, which makes you feel deafening. Although there is no wind on the sea today, it is also a very hard work to stay at night on this pier.

Seven or eight wingmen hurried lazily on the pier, and the tide came over and faded. In the distance was the lighthouse in Quanzhou, dozens of feet high, and the raging flames swayed and burned, making people feel a little warm.

Liang Xin cursed a few words in a low voice, took a wine gourd from his waist, shook it, sighed, and asked Xiang Jun beside him: "Who has the wine? Give me a few sips."

Everyone shook their heads, and one of them said, "Sir, weren't you a strict order to drink at night a few days ago? Brothers dare not bring me."

Liang Xin said angrily: "They are full and full. When they are officials, they don't have to drink to sleep with their wives at night. We stayed in this cold and frozen place all night. Will people live without alcohol?"

After complaining a few times, he felt that it was meaningless, so he sat down on the pier and napped against the wooden stake. When he woke up in a daze, he heard a xiang army calling him: "Yuhou...Yuhou...Look at it."

Liang Xin was furious: "Why are you yelling at me?"

This woke everyone up. The frightened Xiang Jun pointed to the depths of the sea: "Look, what is that?"

Liang Xin raised his eyes lazily and immediately cheered up. The sound of waves on the sea with the rising night fog was like a roar. In the night sky, with the lighthouse and starlight, ships vaguely broke out from the night sky, one... two... seven... there was no end to see.

Ship? Liang Xin denied that this was a merchant ship in a moment. Several bays in Quanzhou Port had to be locked at night to prohibit merchant ships from passing. If you want to enter the port, you have to wait until early the next morning. These... are definitely not merchant ships.

"No, pirate..." Liang Xin shouted, and could already see a huge ship rushing towards this pier. When he arrived near the sea, he didn't even remove the canvas. With the rapid movement of the sea breeze, Liang Xin could almost see the mottled hull and the dark side of the ship. The hull transformed into a splash of water in the waves and spread rapidly.

Immediately, the rain of arrows flew over from the darkness. Liang Xin was so shocked that he even forgot to run. In the past, there were pirates in Quanzhou's waters, but in the important areas of Quanzhou, ordinary pirates dared not be arrogant. They were just waiting for merchant ships to leave the port outside the bay to take action. This was the first time he saw it.

The rain of arrows fell on the wooden stakes. On the trestle, an arrow penetrated through a wing army beside Liang Xin. The wing army covered the wound and then rolled into the waves and disappeared.

"Run!" Liang Xin finally reacted, ran away, and then wailed and shouted. He was only concerned about his legs. The sea breeze was quickly covered by blood, but he did not forget to shout: "Pirates attack the port!"

That night, densely packed pirate ships entered the ports of Quanzhou. The big ships lowered the small ships or directly boarded a sampan on the trestle. Countless people rushed to the trestle with swords and guns, rushed to the dock, and into the cargo tank. At the closed Quanzhou city gate, there were ignitions. Before the defenders could react, the pirate holding the ladder rushed into the city.

The local wing army commander resisted for a while, but couldn't defend it, so he had to abandon the barrier and withdraw his troops to defend the inner city. The inner city finally settled, but dozens of ports and pirates in Quanzhou and all fell into the hands of pirates.

Ruixiang Inn was just under the outer city wall. A team of pirates with red eyes rushed in, but found that the entire inn was empty. The bronze face of a pirate in the lead twitched, and with a bleeding long knife, he kicked the table over, and said viciously: "Where is the person?"

A pirate said, "Didn't it run?"

The leader shook his head, with anger in his eyes: "If I had run, why would the entire inn be so neat? Oops, maybe they had known the news and had prepared in advance. Brothers, follow me to chase after me."

After coming out of the inn, the entire Quanzhou outer city was filled with fire, and screams of fear and grin. Most of the outer city were the residences of sailors and merchants, and most of the inner family were arranged in the inner city. These sailors and merchants also discovered something was wrong at this time, but they were not easily provoked. They all brought out weapons to resist the pirates.

It was not until dawn that the pirates retreated from Quanzhou like a tide and drove into the sea. A leaf was full of looted goods and left calmly.

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In Cui Mansion, someone hurried in early morning. In the main hall of Cui Mansion, someone stayed up all night, and they were waiting for news uneasyly. When they saw someone coming in, everyone suddenly stood up, even Cui Jian was no exception. The first question was Cui Yan, and Cui Yan said impatiently: "How is it, is Shen Ao dead?"

The man looked depressed and lowered his head and said, "It's gone."

"Absent?" Everyone gasped.

Cui Jian slapped the table hard: "Why didn't you see me? Make it clear."

"The villain didn't know either. He only knew that when the pirates rushed in, there was no one in the entire inn, and there was no sign of falling tables and chairs. He shouldn't have escaped in a hurry. Later, a few brothers were afraid that there would be a cellar in the inn, so they asked people to search it. There was nothing, and more than two hundred people were missing."

"How could that happen?" Cui Jian was stunned and said slowly: "Didn't the mansion ask people to stare at them? Isn't it that the inner city gates were closed during the day, and they called them back because they were afraid that the pirates would kill their brothers by chance at night. So, the man surnamed Shen had known about our actions, and just took the person away in the gap after dark? It's not right, wasn't the outer city gates closed at night?"

Eunuch Zhang said: "The outer city is not as good as the inner city. Although the door is closed, a river is introduced to the edge of the outer city. Many goods are transported into the city by boat through that river through the river. The river will not stop at night. Could it be that they walked from there?"

Cui Jian slapped the table again and said annoyedly: "Missue, wrong plan! Now that we do this, the person has run away. Do we still have a way out?"

But Hu Hai said calmly at this moment: "What are you afraid of? You will run away. As long as there is no evidence, you will be able to lead a wolf into the house. What can the person surnamed Shen do to us? Besides, this time the pirate attack on the port can also be pushed to the person surnamed Shen. Just as the imperial envoy arrived in Quanzhou, he caused anger and resentment from the heavens. Many ship merchants were angry and gathered pirates to attack the city. As for the pirates who instigated pirates, just fabricated a few. In short, the court should know that if the person surnamed Shen stayed on Fujian Road, something big will happen in the future. The court asked all the masters to do something. Will the emperor still risk the world's worst and let him make trouble here?"

After Hu Hai said this, everyone calmed down. Eunuch Zhang said: "Yes, it's best to do it according to this meaning. It doesn't matter whether someone named Chen kills or not. As long as he gets out of Fujian Road, everything is easy to say."

Cui Jian calmed down, hesitated for a moment, and said, "I just don't know where the Chen Ao ran."

After he said this, Hu Hai's face changed and suddenly said: "Xinghua Army!"

Eunuch Zhang was also shocked: "If it were him in the Zajia, 80% would have run to Xinghua Army."

The hall buzzed and discussed, and many people looked even more ugly. Hu Hai said: "If you really want him to run to Xinghua Army, let him control the Xinghua Navy. Following his past actions, you must be leading the navy."

Cui Jian said dazedly: "We must not let him control the Xinghua Army. He walked last night. The Xinghua Army will take as long as three or four days to get from Quanzhou. They have no sea boats. If they walk on the sea, they can reach it in just one day. Come quickly, bring paper and pen. I will write another letter to the commander of the Xinghua Army, and told him directly that he would never be fooled by the surname Chen. As long as he claims to be an imperial envoy, he will take it first."

Cui Jian wrote a cursive letter, asking people to pass it on to Xinghua immediately. After all the matter was done, he sighed and said to everyone: "Don't worry, the Chen surname is not as capable as Tongtian. As long as we report the letter in advance, the commander of the Xinghua Army will not be on guard? As long as there is prevention, the Chen surname cannot be defeated. Even if he crosses the river, our Fujian Road is not a place for him to go wild."

After hearing what Cui Jian said, everyone felt a little more at ease. After staying up all night, who was pampered and had enough food to survive? They had already yawned and said goodbye.

When everyone left, Cui Jian called Cui Yan to the side, looked at the nephew, and said slowly: "You go and write a letter to your father and tell him everything about this." Then he sighed and said: "Everyone said that Shen Ao and slippery heads, but he didn't expect that he was a loach. Well, let him go first. As long as he was willing to return to Beijing obediently, he would not bother him."

Cui Zhi smiled and said, "When he was in the capital, he often heard people telling him how powerful he was, but when he arrived in Quanzhou, he fled in panic."

The uncle and nephew talked for a while and then they parted.

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The sky was raining heavily, and Xinghua Daying Water Village was close to Ninghai Town. There were Yingpan everywhere in Ninghai. Not far away, there were docks and trests. There were sometimes naval warships coming and going. It was raining today, so no warships came out. Xinghua Army was one of the few naval naval navy in the Song Dynasty. Apart from the Lianshui Army, there were only Xinghua Army left. The Xinghua Army had a full 8,000 people, but the generals also had no vacancies, so the real number may not be so large. In addition, the warships have been in disrepair for many years, and the commanders of all generations did not care about this, so they became more and more broken. Occasionally, a little bit of scattered pirates were almost the same. If they really wanted to pull them out, they would be really hurt.

The water village was lazy, and the rain seemed to be endless, which made the water soldiers not very interested. They occasionally came out to stand whistle, but just held the swords and guns in their hands and stomped their feet in the wind to breathe.

As for the camp, it was even more casual. Drinking and gambling were everywhere. The officials didn't care anyway, and they couldn't get out of it. For example, the commander called a few camp prostitutes from Ninghai Town in the early morning to have fun in the big tent. The debauchery was itchy when he heard it.

If the commander is like this, the people below are happy. He will not care about the matter. Anyway, there is no need to practice. Everyone can have some fun.

These navy troops didn't care about anything. They were all in groups of three in the tent and had quarrels, so they came out of the tent and fought to the death in the mud. Others chased them out and applauded in the rain, which was very lively.

Being a navy in Xinghua Army is different from other places. Not to mention anything else, although the treatment of the navy is not as good as that of the imperial guards, it is much better than that of the Xiang army. In addition, there is still good fortune on weekdays, officials not only do not deduct military pay, but sometimes they will also pay some scattered money. Therefore, everyone's life is pretty good and they will not be embarrassed.

After all, the navy army is rich and not like the wing army. There is no land to scrape, so the navy army is different. When you go out for a walk, God knows how many filial piety can get from the sea merchants. When you go out occasionally, no one sees a single sea boat, even if you go to grab it, no one will take care of it. This is even more so when you reach the command level. Not only can you make money from here, the large sea merchants in Quanzhou also send a common silver every year, which is sharper than the imperial court, with 3,000 guan a month, a lot of money.

If everyone has money, the gambling is popular quickly. The trend of gambling on Fujian Road is also strong, so after the fight there, everyone patted their butts and went back to their own tents to bet. Even the two who were fighting were blushing just now, and they were all angrily involved in the gambling game the next moment.

The dealer is a man who is a man with a fat head, and he is always smiling, smiling even stronger than the profiteer. He is shaking dice in his hand and shouting: "I'm going to buy it, Chen Er, bet quickly, why are you hesitating? Everyone is waiting for you!"

Everyone also scolded Chen Er. Chen Er placed the bet, and the dice cup was put down and not opened. Someone hurried into the tent and said to the head: "Sir... there are... some..."

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Chapter completed!