Chapter 187 People are panicked

Yu Xiaotian took the confession of the shopkeeper Tian sent by Xingtang and the Juyouzhai bartender. After reading it, he breathed a long sigh of relief.

Under the torture and interrogation in the prison hall, these guys all told the truth. The shopkeeper Tian is not under Mr. Chu Cai. He is indeed a businessman in Quanzhou, but this guy has had a relationship with Mr. Chu Cai before and has a little friendship.

Since the sea wolf was inexplicably attacked by several ghost ships a few years ago, Mr. Chu Cai offered a heavy reward to find out who was the master messenger behind the scenes. When the shopkeeper returned to Quanzhou to handle the goods, he felt that this was an opportunity to make a fortune and secretly colluded with Mr. Chu Cai's men.

Shopkeeper Tian once saw the sea wolf's new sloop in Nanri Island, that is, this kind of ship called the flying fast boat inside the sea wolf. When he heard that the ghost ship Chu Cai was looking for was quite similar to the new flying fast boat made by the sea wolf, so he secretly informed Chu Cailao that he wanted to receive the prize.

After learning that this matter should have been done by the sea wolf, Chu Cailao cashed a large amount of silver, asked Tian to act as his eyeliner on Nanri Island, and gave him a lot of silver. After Tian got the sweetness, he readily agreed.

As for the bartender in Juyouzhai, he was originally introduced to Juyouzhai by Tian. Originally, Tian didn't have much plan. He just asked the bartender to help him pay attention to some sea wolves when he was working in the restaurant and tell him at any time.

The bartender was also honest. When he heard everything, he ran to tell Tian secretly. Later, after Chu Cailao bought Tian, the bartender became the full-time eyes and ears of Tian, helping him collect and inquire about all kinds of things about the sea wolf.

Chu Cailao also sent two men to Tian and stayed in Guanghe Company as a clerk. As Chu Cailao's full-time spy, he was responsible for collecting information about the sea wolf here, and then transmitted the message to Chu Cailao through the carrier pigeons they brought.

Of course, the carrier pigeon was also sent by the old man sent by Chu Cai to Tian. During this period, Tian and two Chu Cai Lao's subordinates and the bartender inquired about the news of the sea wolf. While passing the message to Chu Cailao with the carrier pigeon, he sorted out the information records and prepared to send it back to Chu Cai Lao in the next two days, but Before they could send out the detailed information, the incident happened at the east window and was captured by the sea wolf.

The guy who was killed on the spot in Guanghe Company was a subordinate sent by Mr. Chu Cai. This guy tried to resist and escape. As a result, he overestimated his ability and was killed by a sea wolf on the spot.

As for the other Guanghe merchants, some of them are insiders, and some of them are unknown, and they have been screened out after interrogation.

The shopkeeper of Juyouzhai's pub was accidentally implicated. He did not know that his bartender was secretly working for Tian and helping Chu Cailao collect all kinds of information about the sea wolf.

Now the matter has been thoroughly investigated, and the ship on the outlying island of Guanghe Company was also intercepted that night. No information sent by Tian was found, but the ship was still detained by the sea wolf, including the business number and goods on the island, and all of them were confiscated.

But this incident also caused a lot of shock in the business stack area. When Meng Fei copied Guanghe's business name that night, Meng Fei's action shocked all the shops gathered in the business stack area. Many people did not understand what had happened at that time. They only knew that the sea wolf would deal with the Guanghe business. Suddenly, he was surrounded, grabbed all the shopkeepers, including the clerks, and killed people. In addition, the Juyouzhai Restaurant was also sealed up that night and everyone was controlled.

So there were various rumors in the business warehouse area. Some people said that Guanghe Company and Juyouzhai were the work of Chu Cai's old man, some people said that they had offended the sea wolf, and some even some people said that the sea wolf fell in love with their business and wanted to swallow them.

In a word, before the sea wolf announced the truth of the matter, people were panicked in the business stack area, and some merchants felt that it was not as safe as before. In short, there was a feeling that the mountains and rain were full of wind and buildings. In addition, there was a lot of ups and rain between the sea wolf and Chu Cailao recently, so some people couldn't help but retreat and opened He began to quietly pack up his things, ship some goods on the island, and transport them away from Nanri Island. For the time being, the business here was temporarily stopped, leaving only one or two men to watch the store.

After investigating the matter of Guanghe Company, Yu Xiaotian immediately asked people to post an announcement in the commercial warehouse area to make the matter public, and as a shock, he ordered all the people involved to show the people involved on the spot. The rest of the information were sent to Danshuizhai as slaves for five to ten years. As for those who do not know, He was acquitted and wanted to go home, but he had to stay on Nanri Island for the time being and wait for the storm to pass.

Juyouzhai was also exonerated and fined 500 taels of silver. After his fine, he was allowed to reopen, and the seized things were also returned, but the person who ran the hall must have landed on the ground, which was also a warning to his shopkeepers and bartenders in the store.

In this way, the gossip in the business stack area has been stopped, which makes everyone understand why sea wolves treat Guanghe business like this. The most taboo thing about their pirate business is to be buried nails and inquire about the news. No matter who catches this kind of person, he will never forgive him, and Yu Xiaotian will never be generous with this kind of thing, only Cutting their heads is actually a cheap job for them.

If other pirates catch such spies, they will often take more cruel measures against them. Stripping cramps, delay, and lighting the skylights are common.

So people who have nothing to do in the business stack area feel at ease and are no longer as panicked as they were at the beginning.

However, the fact that the sea wolf offended Chu Cai Lao also completely opened the lid of the pot. All the merchants realized that after the sea wolf offended Chu Cai Lao, this place will no longer be as safe as before.

Although they didn't say anything, they began to make their own plans secretly. After the Guanghe business incident, the special dock in the commercial warehouse area obviously began to become cold. Even if some ships came, most of them were empty ships. Instead, they began to store the goods on the island. The goods were shipped away from Nanri Island.

Seeing this situation, the director was worried. Although the cargo throughput of the warehouse area is not too large now, after all, it was not easy for them to attract so many merchants to bring the Nanri Island warehouse area to this extent, and they have made a lot of profits every year.

Nowadays, merchants have begun to withdraw and close shops and stop trading here, which will have some impact on their income. Therefore, the intention of the council hall is to prevent them from withdrawing, but Yu Xiaotian shook his head and rejected their opinions.

Yu Xiaotian's opinion is very clear. Merchants are businessmen. What they want is profit and peace. If Nanri Island is under threat, it is obviously impossible to expect them merchants and sea wolves to advance and retreat together. All they have to do now is to eliminate the threat of Chu Cailao as soon as possible, at least let Chu Cailao know his sea. The wolf is not easy to mess with and dare not make trouble again, and these merchants will naturally come back.

After the beginning of March, the whole originally lively Nanri Island gradually became deserted, and people, including the immigrant villages and fishing villages on the island, also felt this change and began to become a little uneasy.

Now everyone knows that the sea wolf and Mr. Chu Cai are famous enough. The people living in the coastal area know it. In the past, Mr. Chu Cai once attacked the coastal area of Fuzhou. At that time, the Shark Gang did not even dare to fart, allowing them come and go freely, and the people were many times by him. Harm.

Nowadays, although these residents of Nanri Island are single-minded with the sea wolf, they are not sure whether the sea wolf is the opponent of Chu Cai. If Chu Cai comes to attack, once the sea wolf is defeated, then these people who are attached to the survival of the sea wolf will become the victims of this dispute.

But these people are different from merchants. Now they have to rely on sea wolves and this Nanri Island to survive. Their homes have been settled here. There is food planted in their fields, and they also have to fish in this area, so it is impossible for them to pack up and leave like merchants.

Now, Yu Xiaotian no longer covers the lid. He simply sent people directly to the villages and told them about Chu Cailao. Two or three soldiers were stationed in each village to gather the young men in the village, organize them, and start the simplest military training.

In addition, Yu Xiaotian ordered to distribute some useless knives, guns, bows and arrows and other things stored in the warehouse to the villages to equip the young people in these villages. Moreover, Yu Xiaotian temporarily called these organized villagers Xiang Yong. Through short-term intensive training, these villagers first had a certain self-confidence. The ability to guard also makes it initially learn some organization. Once something happens, although these villagers may not be able to resist the pirates who land on the island, they can at least protect the old and weak women and children in the village to escape to the sea wolf village.

After several expansions, the sea wolf's village has expanded several times more than when Zhang Hu was here. Once necessary, the islanders can basically temporarily move into the village to provide them with shelter for a period of time.

But if the villagers have not received a certain degree of training, once they are in chaos, no one will organize them, and it is difficult for them to quickly escape to escape, so he arranged his men to the villages and organize the villagers to carry out training, just to avoid once Chu Cai comes to the crime. When he went down to the village, he vented his anger on these islanders, causing great losses to the islanders.

You know that in order to prosper the island, he tried to get immigrants from all over the island, but he spent a lot of effort and money. If these islanders were killed and kidnapped because of Chu Cai's old invaders, then he would have been busy in the past two years.

So although he is ready to meet Chu Cailao on Nanri Island, he dares not ignore the islanders. He doesn't want the sea wolves to care about themselves when the islanders feel the disaster, regardless of them.

Although this has exacerbated the tension of the islanders, it also made the islanders feel the goodwill of the sea wolves and the importance they attach to them. These islanders basically rely on sea wolves to survive. At this time, they can't help but feel the same hatred. Many people scold Mr. Chu Cai and cursed Chu Cai's old man quickly. If you die, saving life is a scourge.

After the beginning of March, the whole Nanri Island began to become completely tense, and a team of soldiers began to enter the Dazhai and commercial warehouse areas. The patrol personnel also strengthened patrols around the island, and the forts began to replenish ammunition reserves, including the recruits being trained in the new battalion also replaced with new weapons. , he was temporarily assigned to the leadership of the soldiers and was ready to welcome Chu Cai's invasion.

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