The gate collapsed, and then a group of people rushed into the Maritime Bureau with their weapons waving in their hands.

Huating Maritime Warehouse is just a yamen responsible for collecting taxes, with few guards at all, especially when it is late at night, it can be said that 99% of the people in the Maritime Warehouse Warehouse are in their sleep.

These people suddenly entered the market department and did not even react to some sleeping people.

However, Chen Ku heard the movement at the first time, and almost instinctively opened his mouth to blow out the oil lamp. He jumped out of the window and rolled on the spot and hid in a bush of flowers.

Chen Ku is a talent selected by Chu Yi. He is naturally not an incompetent person who can be the head of the Maritime Bureau.

It can even be said that before he became the head of the Maritime Warehouse Department, Chen Ku had already made some psychological preparations for this situation.

Although Chen Ku was unwilling to believe that someone dared to stare at Chu Yi's fierce power and attack the Maritime Warlord, Chen Ku knew better. He was anxious and jumped over the wall, and the rabbit was anxious and even bitten people, let alone those who regarded money and family interests as ordinary people.

The local clan forces can be said to be deeply rooted, and there are countless people who despise the king's laws in the local area, so there are always a group of people who seem to be very stupid to come over and die.

But Chen Ku did not expect that some people were so blatant and even sent people to rush into the Maritime Bureau.

Hiding in a remote corner, Chen Ku could vaguely see at least dozens of people rushing into the Maritime Warehouse through the dim moonlight.

When Chen Ku saw clearly the person in the head clearly in a vague way, he was shocked. It was obvious that Chen Ku saw the dress of Gangmura Guiyi.

Most people may not recognize the dress of Gangcun Guiyi when they see him, but Chen Ku is also a person with good abilities and can be regarded as knowledgeable, especially because he was sent by Chu Yi to be responsible for Huating Maritime Affairs, so Chen Ku really put a lot of effort into understanding some of the things that Maritime Affairs needs to be exposed to and some of the problems that may be encountered.

Among them, maritime trade is obviously the key jurisdiction of the Maritime Trade Department, and maritime trade is ultimately overseas trade. If the overseas countries closest to the Ming Dynasty want to say, many people think of the first thing they think of is the Japanese island country.

Chen Ku naturally understood these things. Although he had never met Japanese people, Chen Ku had also read some records about Japanese people.

He was wearing wooden clogs, with a braid on the sky, and a mustache. The most eye-catching thing was the samurai sword in his hand, which was completely different from the Central Plains style. So when he saw the group of people from Gangcun rushing into the Maritime Bureau, Chen Ku realized that these people were Japanese pirates.

In recent years, Japanese pirates have occasionally raided all over the coast, and Huating is obviously within the range of the Japanese pirates. Even if Japanese pirates appear in Huating, it is not a rare thing.

Gangcun Gui kicked the door of a room one by one, and then heard a roar, "Who..."

However, the next moment, a scream and scream came from the room. Soon, Gangmura Kiichi walked out of the room with a blood-dropping samurai sword.

As for the other rooms, the Japanese pirates who rushed into the room with Gangmura Takaichi and easily killed all the officials of Huating Maritime Affairs who had not reacted in a daze.

Gangcun Guiyi stood in the courtyard and soon saw a man walking to Gangcun Guiyi and said to Gangcun Guiyi: "Gangcunjun, Huating Maritime Warehouse Command has 38 people killed 37 people, but Chen Ku, the head of the Maritime Warehouse Command, was missing!"

When Gangcun Gui frowned when he heard this, the head of the house opened his eyes wide and shouted, "Everyone searches for me, even if he digs three feet into the ground, he will find the person."

Among the news that Gangcun Guiyi had received before, Chen Ku, who was the head of the Maritime Warehouse Department, was in this compound. It can be said that one of their targets here was Chen Ku. As a result, everyone was killed, but no trace of Chen Ku was found. How could this not make Gangcun Guiyi angry?

Suddenly, dozens of Japanese pirates covered in blood, who were as fierce as blood, searched the huge yard.

Chen Ku was just hiding in a remote corner, covered by a flower bush. The Japanese pirates were busy cleaning up the officials in the room, so they did not focus on where Chen Ku was hiding.

But at this moment, the Japanese pirates began to search the entire yard. Unless a crack was cracked underground and Chen Ku was allowed to penetrate the ground, if the Japanese pirates became serious, Chen Ku would be discovered only a matter of time.

"You are so brave, you dare to attack and kill the imperial officials. Are you not afraid that my soldiers from the Great Dawn will arrive and kill you all?"

Chen Ku suddenly appeared but was shocked by the two Japanese pirates who had found Chen Ku's hiding. After all, a figure suddenly popped up in the darkness, which was too scary after all.

When Gangcun Guiyi heard this, his eyes fell on Chen Ku. When he saw Chen Ku's clothes, Gangcun Guiyi's eyes lit up and stared at Chen Ku's use of bad Chinese words: "Are you the head of Huating Maritime Warehouse Department, Chen Ku?"

Chen Ku took a deep breath and looked at Gangcun Guiyi and others, especially at Gangcun Guiyi: "If I read it correctly, you are not from my Ming Dynasty, but Japanese pirates in Japan!"

Gangcungui narrowed his eyes and raised his lips slightly and said, "So what if Lord Chen guessed it? Next year's day is my death day."

While speaking, Gangcungui walked towards Chen Ku with a big step. Chen Ku's expression showed a little nervous look, but he did not take a step back or wanted to beg for mercy.

As a smart man, Chen Ku saw clearly that since these Japanese pirates killed the entire Maritime Warrior Division, he would definitely not leave him alone. Therefore, no matter how he begs for mercy, these people would not let him go. Since they are dead, they would not be better off than death.

Seeing Gangcun Gui coming over to himself, Chen Ku stared at Gangcun Gui and said in a trembling voice: "Today, you are waiting to kill my Ming officials, and the Ming warship will surely strait the land of Japan in the future. Use your blood to restore today's hatred..."

With a squeak, Gangcun Gui stabbed Chen Ku's stomach one by one. Chen Ku immediately groaned, and the blue veins swelled up from his forehead, and blood gushed out of his mouth.

With a sound of thump, Chen Ku fell to the ground softly, and a large area of ​​blood suddenly dyed the ground red. As Chen Ku's body twitched, it gradually stopped. It was obvious that Chen Ku had no breath.

Gangcun Gui glanced at Chen Ku, and his eyes showed a bit of admiration, but when he raised his head, he said with a ferocious look: "Search all the places again, don't miss a living person, be sure to ensure that no one is left behind!"

Soon, a huge fire ignited in the courtyard where the Huating Maritime Warehouse Office was located, and a sea of ​​fire completely burned, swallowing the entire Maritime Warehouse.

When the raging fire burned, it naturally alarmed many people gathered around Huating Maritime Warehouse in Huating County.

"Not good, I'm leaving..."

"It's on fire, everyone get up and put out the fire!"

Unfortunately, when these people spontaneously came out with buckets, the entire Huating Maritime Warehouse Office was completely swallowed up by the fire. Not to mention some people spontaneously put out the fire, even if the people in the entire Huating County were dispatched together, they could not save the completely burning fire.

Fortunately, these people controlled the fire in time, but the fire only affected several nearby houses. The fire was very disturbed. The people living near the courtyard where the Maritime Bureau was located were naturally awakened and escaped in time.

The fire was almost burning for a half-night time. Under the raging fire, no one could get close to the location of the Maritime Bureau.

However, Huating Maritime Warehouse, which had just been established, was swallowed by a fire, which naturally alarmed the county government. The county magistrate was awakened by the yamen runners in his sleep. He immediately led the yamen runners in the county government to the scene, but he could only watch the fire burning.

As the fire flashed, in the dark corner in the distance, a sedan chair stopped in a remote place, and a figure sat in the sedan chair. Through the window of the sedan chair, looking at the burning fire from afar, you could vaguely see a look of excitement and hideousness flashing over a face.

Beijing

Chu Yi returned from Tianjin Wei not long ago, and he seemed to have become much more low-key. Chu Yi, a major political affairs in the court, gradually rarely intervened, but instead handed over a large amount of government affairs to Zhu Houzhao for handling.

Zhu Houzhao obviously noticed Chu Yi's behavior and was very confused. She even came to see Chu Yi in person to ask the reason. After all, Zhu Houzhao trusted and dependent on Chu Yi. Chu Yi's behavior that obviously took the initiative to delegate power made Zhu Houzhao think too much.

Of course, Zhu Houzhao did not think that Chu Yi would be unfavorable to him. Instead, he thought that Chu Yi deliberately did this in order to avoid danger, but Zhu Houzhao was afraid that the relationship between the two would be damaged.

However, Chu Yi explained to Zhu Houzhao. When Chu Yi practiced with his critical moment, he needed to focus more energy on his cultivation, which was considered to be a pleasing Zhu Houzhao.

It’s also a blessing that Zhu Houzhao knows that Chu Yi values ​​cultivation. Otherwise, if Chu Yi really had another excuse, Zhu Houzhao would have been unable to pass that level.

Of course, Chu Yi did focus a considerable amount of energy on his practice. Now Chu Yi's cultivation has reached the peak of the innate level.

With the altar of luck, Chu Yi worked hard to accumulate his foundation and tried to hit the next realm. However, whenever Chu Yi tried to hit the next realm, he felt an invisible bottleneck existence, which was the existence of the invisible bottleneck that made Chu Yi unable to enter the next realm for a long time.

After a few days, more than a thousand luck has been lost. In addition to the accumulation of itself, there is no progress in the bottleneck breakthrough.

However, Chu Yi was not in a hurry. The practice was not a day or two, so Chu Yi was in seclusion for several days and had not made much progress, so he broke through the barrier.

When Chu Yi left the secret room, Qi Hu, who was guarding outside the secret room for Chu Yi, couldn't help but flash a light in his eyes, and he immediately bowed to Chu Yi and said, "Master General, you have finally come out of seclusion!"

Chu Yi heard Qi Hu's emotions were a little different from his words, and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and glance at Qi Hu and said, "Oh, Qi Hu, has anything happened in the court during my retreat?"

Qi Hu smiled bitterly and said, "Master General, I can't explain the matter clearly for a while.Master General, it's better to go and see the urgent report from the Huating Jinyiwei."

In the study, Chu Yi, who had been washing up, sat there, and in front of him was an urgent report from the Huating Jinyiwei.

Looking at the content above the urgent report, Chu Yi's expression was calm, and there was no sign of Chu Yi's inner emotions at all.

Cao Shaoqin, Lin Pingzhi, Qi Hu and others were standing there silently, not daring to breathe.

Whether it was Cao Shaoqin or Qi Hu, they had already known about the contents of the emergency report. After all, the case of Huating Maritime Warehouse was destroyed, and the entire court was shocked.

It was a yamen established by a serious court, including a fifth-rank official, several sixth-rank officials, seventh-rank officials, and some idle-rank officials, and dozens of people in total, but they died in a fire, and even dozens of people were unable to escape.

If it is just an ordinary fire, no matter how powerful the fire is, it is impossible for even a single person to escape. Therefore, as long as you are not a fool, you can see that the fire is not that simple when you see the report submitted by the Huating County Magistrate.

Chu Yi read the urgent report and looked up at Cao Shaoqin with a calm expression and said, "Cao Shaoqin, the Huating Maritime Warehouse has been destroyed for nearly seven days. The news has been delayed on the road for about four days. In other words, it has been three days since the imperial court received the urgent report. What countermeasures can the imperial court come up with during these three days, and what actions will the Dongchang and Jinyiwei have taken?"

Cao Shaoqin, who was named directly by Chu Yi, had almost completely replaced Chu Yi and took charge of the entire East Factory, still did not dare to be at all over the place and careless when facing Chu Yi.

Cao Shaoqin looked solemn and bowed respectfully to Chu Yi: "Report to the Grand Chief Executive, Your Majesty has discussed with the cabinet and ordered the Ministry of Justice to send capable personnel to Huating County to investigate the family destruction case of Huating Maritime Warehouse."

Chu Yi nodded slightly. It was reasonable for Zhu Houzhao and his fellow civil and military officials to make such a decision. This case is obviously not that simple. If the court does not thoroughly investigate it, it would be a strange thing.

However, Chu Yi looked at Cao Shaoqin. Cao Shaoqin took a deep breath and bowed, "I sent a capable general from the East Factory to lead the East Factory who is best at investigating the case to Huating secretly. I think I have arrived in Huating now."
Chapter completed!