July is coming in a blink of an eye, and there are still one month left before the provincial examination, but there are more and more candidates in Fuzhou City, and soon the major inns are full.↑,

Originally, Chen Xi estimated that there were four or five thousand students in this provincial examination, but due to the good weather and peace in Fujian in the past year, the people had spare money, which led to an increase in the number of students who came to participate in the provincial examination to prepare for a chance to try their luck, and it was estimated that there would be six or seven thousand in the end.

This further reduces the chance of admission to this provincial examination.

But this did not affect Chen Xi's preparation for the exam. He couldn't even hurry at this time. The only thing he could do was to try to enrich his knowledge and respond to changes in the same way as he could.

Chen Xi memorized the books in his room every day. Since he had memorized the "Four Books", "Five Classics" and "Collected Notes" and memorized various current texts. He simply divided the "Four Books" and "Five Classics" into sentences, and then combined them casually to see how to solve the topic and how to explain it in detail, and enjoyed it.

At this time, Yin Wen always sat obediently beside him. If Chenxi was hot, she would fan him. When Chenxi was thirsty, she would hand him tea. When Chenxi wanted to write, she would grind the ink silently... The little girl was skillful and skillful, and the ink she grinded was both well-proportioned and delicate, which was highly praised by Chenxi.

Sometimes Chen Xi wanted to change his mind, so he taught Yin Wen to write.

When Chen Xi finished writing one stroke after another, the little girl always sat on the side happily with the paper with the words written, writing and drawing, and slowly pondering.

If Chen Xi had no time to teach her, she would pick up the book and read it in a similar way, and would occasionally follow the handwriting on the book. Chen Xi would laugh every time she saw it.

Chen Xi occasionally feels intriguing and will tell stories to Yin Wen. She listens carefully, and after listening, she has a happy yearning look on her face, but she can only smile and will not be entangled.

Chen Xi felt that having such a well-behaved and lovely girl next to her Hongxiu was very comfortable and comfortable. The most important thing was that Yin Wen was very quiet, not as obsessed as Lu Xier and Lin Dai, who was very conscious of the general and knew how to advance and retreat.

On the ninth day of the seventh month, Chenxi, as before, has been warming up for a day.

At dusk, Mrs. Yin came over to take Yin Wen home, who was reluctant to leave. Chen Xi was about to pack up and prepare for dinner, but Ma Jiu helped Shen Mingtang, who was covered in wounds, to the inn.

The two of them were covered in blood. They looked very terrifying.

"What's going on?"

Chen Xi hurriedly helped the person into the room, briefly bandaged the two of them, and looked at Ma Jiu with a cold expression.

Ma Jiu touched the shallow knife marks that were scratched from the tip of his right eyebrow to the crack of his left lip and said angrily: "Our warehouse was snatched up, a batch of silk and dozens of bags of rice and grain... Those people were very cruel, and they injured many of our brothers. Several of them were seriously injured. They are being rescued in the clinic of the Chamber of Commerce. I don't know if they can be rescued..."

"There is a batch of comic strips that have just been transported in the warehouse. When the other party saw that they couldn't take them away, they burned the fire. When I helped the third master back, I was putting out the fire. I went out to do business at noon, but when I went back, I just ran into it. I couldn't hide and was stabbed a few times. Fortunately, they were all injured."

Chen Xi frowned.

This is really a tree that wants to be quiet but the wind does not stop. It is impossible to calm down if you want to calm down!

Song Xier's people became more and more arrogant, and they were even more arrogant than bandits. Bandits and robbers were just for money and could only sneak. Song Xier directly robbed them in the provincial capital, and even killed people.

In the first year, there was a move to burn the Fuzhou Branch of the Chamber of Commerce. A few brothers died here, and the matter was investigated by the government. Song Xier's personnel were calm for a while.

As the wind passed, Song Xier's people became active again. Two months ago, they robbed the cargo ship of the Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce, causing human life, and then there were constant disasters. Now they have developed to robbing with knives. They are still lawless in broad daylight.

Chen Xi asked, "Have you reported to the official?"

Ma Jiu smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Little shopkeeper, it's useless to report to the official. Now everyone in the yamen knows who did it, but no one dares to take care of it. Even if it reports to the government, so what if there is no evidence and no evidence, the government can do nothing. And... Behind that group of people is the Commander-in-Chief, who dares to act rashly..."

In Fujian, because Japanese pirates invade borders all year round and frequent wars, the Dusiya Office needs to continuously mobilize the troops of various garrisons to encircle and suppress.

The reason why the commander-in-chief Fang Guan accepted Song Xier as his adopted daughter must be because he valued that Song Xier could make money for him. It is impossible for soldiers to fight for nothing. They need military merits and silver rewards. It is obviously not enough to rely solely on the court to allocate them. In addition, officials at all levels have made it more and more tight funds.

In this case, the local military yamen tried every means to "create income" for themselves.

The army cannot openly rob, and the commander Fang Guan cultivated local forces like Song Xier and "helped" him to steal. Even if Song Xier did these things, even if it was not Fang Guan's idea, he at least agreed with him.

The prefecture and county governments have long seen this clearly. The emperor of Fujian is far away and is robbing the lower-ranking merchants. Especially the Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce is an outsider, so they simply turn a blind eye and deal with it casually.

The official bandit family is a family. The merchants not only pay various taxes every year, but also have to respect the people of Song Xier's power and are often robbed. The life of merchants in Fuzhou is really hard!

If you declare war with Song Xier's forces, you must consider that the Fujian Metropolitan Government behind Song Xier is likely to be in a situation where one step is wrong and all the losses are lost.

Chen Xi asked, "Brother Jiu, last time I asked you to find someone, how many brothers do you have in your hands that can come in handy now?"

Ma Jiu thought for a while and said, "Add to add a new trick. If you take this injury, there are fifty or sixty people who can be ordered. Little shopkeeper, are you planning to take people to Huaiyang Tower to find a woman named Song to fight to the death? We only have fifty or sixty people, and we are just hitting stones with eggs!"

Chen Xi frowned: "Do you think I am such an impulsive person? Even if Huaiyang Tower is not prepared and we will enter with great fanfare, how can there be no news from the Dusi Yamen? A bad situation is that the entire army is wiped out. In the end, it may be accused of treason, which is not worth the loss!"

Ma Jiu had a bitter face: "Is there nothing I can do with the woman named Song? It's just happened today and it's not a big deal. In a few days, maybe there are many shops who choose to withdraw from the Chamber of Commerce because they are afraid of being implicated... Now we may really have to return to Tingzhou Prefecture."

"Before you are at the end of your life, don't give up easily!"

Chen Xi said seriously and asked, "I heard that Song Xier is also engaged in population trading?"

Ma Jiu was a little confused: "Huaiyang Building is a brothel, what's so strange about doing population trading? I heard that many of the girls there were bought from Huaiyang and other places."

Chen Xidao: "I'm not talking about the girl from Huaiyang Tower... I have the support of the Dusi Yamen. Even if some of the women are unknown, the government will not pursue them. I mean, did she have any connections with the Japanese people along the coast and trafficked people..."

Ma Jiu took a deep breath, feeling a little unbelievable: "Little shopkeeper, where did you find out? Collaborating with Japanese pirates is the death penalty for raiding the house and extermination of the clan!"

Since the ban on the sea in Hongwu, many coastal islands have been moved. In addition, Japan has frequent domestic wars, many defeated Daming took samurai and ronin to sea and occupied these unmanned islands. This is the main reason for the rampant Japanese pirates along the coast. However, Japanese pirates do not have to produce and can only rely on looting to maintain them. However, strong men need to build them and women need to reproduce.

By the Hongzhi period, the Japanese pirates along the coast of Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong had already shown a trend of flooding. After that, Liu Daxia would serve as the right censor, in charge of military affairs in Fujian and Guangdong, and launched a large-scale encirclement and suppression of Japanese pirates along the coast. The Japanese pirates gradually decreased, but they were once again flooded during the Jiajing period and were rampant.

The Japanese pirates not only stopped the Japanese people, but also the local bandits and water bandits along the coast of the Ming Dynasty. They were also attacked by the Japanese pirates.

The guards commanded by the Fujian Dushi were stationed along the coast of Fujian. The Japanese pirates thought it was difficult to seize the population inland, so they could only trade with local forces and spend money to buy people to the island.

Chen Xi had asked Manager Yin before and learned that boats and personnel often disappeared on the Jin'an River flowing through the provincial capital and the Minjiang River south of the city. Some people said it was a water monster. The water monster overturned the boat. The people on the boat fell into the water and were eaten by the monster, so they could not even find the body.

But in Shen Xi's view, it was obvious that someone secretly robbed people and then sold them to Japanese pirates.

The situation in Fuzhou is obvious, and ordinary small forces cannot engage with Japanese pirates at all, only Song Xier. She is the leader of local forces and the support of the Fujian Metropolitan Office, so she can easily send people out.

Chen Xi said: "You don't have to worry about where I found out. Capturing the thief first is to capture the king. What we have to do now is to trick Song Xier out of Huaiyang Tower. You must not disclose this to anyone. Next I will ask you to do something, just follow the instructions step by step, don't ask why."

Ma Jiu's face was full of surprise and looked at Chen Xi again.

If Chen Xi really had a way to trick Song Xier out of Huaiyang Tower, there would be a great chance to kill Song Xier in one fell swoop.

When Chen Xi told Ma Jiuyi about the detailed plan, Ma Jiu widened his eyes in disbelief: "Little shopkeeper, doing this is too risky. We don't look like the Japanese. Why should a woman named Song believe us?"

Chen Xi frowned: "Have you seen the Japanese?"

Ma Jiu shook his head: "I haven't seen it before, but I heard from others that Japanese people all have three eyes and two mouths, look like ghosts, killing people without blinking, and like drinking human blood the most..."

Out of fear of Japanese pirates, the people described the Japanese as devils. In order to ban the sea, the government also fueled this kind of rumors, which led to the spread becoming more and more mysterious.

Chen Xidao: "The Japanese look the same as us, you just need to send the letter to Huaiyang Tower."

Chen Xi liked watching Japanese dramas in his previous life. After learning Japanese for a while, he could simply write in Japanese. Although it was not very authentic, it was still easy to get away with it.

Most Japanese pirates were ignorant, and the few who knew literacy were basically the samurai class or the down-and-out famous names. Chen Xi was preparing to write a letter to buy a population in the tone of the Japanese pirates and asked someone to take it to Huaiyang Tower.

It is not difficult to make Song Xier believe that such a deal is not difficult. After all, Japanese pirates are distributed on the vast islands along the coast of Zhejiang to Guangdong, and they are all in charge. Song Xier does not have any connection with all Japanese pirates. After receiving the letter, Song Xier will definitely not dare to spread the matter, because even if Fang Guan supports her, if someone knows that she has abducted the population and sold it to Japanese pirates, there will be no enough brains.

In addition, Fang Guan could not avoid having to install eyeliner next to Song Xier. Song Xier wanted to avoid eyeliner dealing with Japanese pirates, so there would not be many people going out. As long as Song Xier left Huaiyang Tower, she would have a chance to take action.

In front of Ma Jiu, Chen Xi wrote a letter in Japanese, because most of them were Chinese characters, so it was not very difficult to write. Chen Xi handed the letter to Ma Jiu and explained it carefully, including hiding the letter in the crack layer of the shoes, and carrying a sceptical letter on his body, first testing Song Xier, and finally taking out the Japanese letter. In this way, Song Xier would believe that Ma Jiu was an intermediary sent by the Japanese pirates to contact.

What should I say, what people ask, and what should Ma Jiu answer during this process? Chen Xi gave a live scene drill.

Finally, Chen Xidao: "Brother Jiu, this trip to Huaiyang Tower is very dangerous. If you feel that you can't bear the huge pressure, you can't find someone else."

Ma Jiu slapped his chest: "Little shopkeeper, you don't believe me! You also said that this mission is dangerous. I, Ma Jiu, don't know the word "big" but I know what kind of loyalty is. There is no reason to leave the danger to others. Besides, the Chamber of Commerce suffered heavy losses and the brothers were killed and injured. They were all instructed by the damn woman. Even if I take revenge, I must go this trip."

Afterwards, Chen Xi taught Ma Jiu to talk in Japanese.

Ma Jiuren is very smart and learns things quickly. Chen Xi taught him simple Japanese dialogue in just a few hours. Although it is still far away from the answer, it is still feasible to say a few words occasionally to scare people.

Chen Xi thought to himself that if Song Xier could be deceived and the "beheading" mission was successful, he could turn around and be the boss of the carriage and horse gang branch in Fuzhou, which would be a reward for him.

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ps: The second update!

The emperor went to the hospital and checked his body temperature at 37.8 degrees. In addition, the tonsils had severe inflammation, so he arranged an infusion. After the infusion, the emperor went to check the cause of shoulder pain and diagnosed it as tenosynovitis. The doctor said it was caused by overwork and he was sweating!

It was already five o'clock in the afternoon when I got home, so I quickly typed it, but this chapter was a bit difficult to write. It was not until now that I could code it out. I quickly gave it to everyone!

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