My father Zhu Gaoxu

Chapter 390 The Monk of Unknown Origin

"Selling goods, needles, thread, rouge, gouache, everything~"

He Jin was dressed as a peddler, with picks on his shoulders, yelling as he walked, but his eyes looked at the Lin family's mansion not far away from time to time.

He Jin is a son of Dongchang, and was ordered to monitor the Lin family mansion a few days ago.

Speaking of the Lin family, they are the most wealthy people in Xiangshan County. It is said that half of the shops in the county town belong to the Lin family, so they are nicknamed Lin Bancheng.

The Lin family is very rich, with various industries under their name, but few people know that the real source of income of the Lin family is smuggling.

Before opening the sea, the Lin family was one of the largest smugglers in Ningbo. Relying on smuggling, the Lin family has grown from a small landlord to the richest man in Xiangshan County. Get on the number.

Since the opening of the sea, the Lin family has relied on the dividends accumulated by smuggling in the past, such as a large-scale fleet, and stewards and crew members who are familiar with the sea conditions, which have made the Lin family's business even bigger. It is said that if the Lin family is willing, they can take the entire county buy them all.

He Jin has been wandering around the Lin family's mansion for the past few days, and has already figured out the situation of the mansion.

Xiangshan County is near the sea, and the Lin family's mansion is not in the county seat, but to the east of the county seat. There is a big river flowing into the sea, and the Lin family's mansion is built along the river.

The Lin family even built a private pier by the river, where they can directly enter the sea by boat. In the past, the Lin family used this private pier for smuggling.

Now the Lin family's sea trade business is getting bigger, so this private pier has become even busier. There are boats coming and going every day, and there are many people entering and leaving the Lin family through the pier.

After He Jin found out the situation of the Lin family's mansion, he kept staring at the private pier of the Lin family, especially those who entered and exited, carefully observed, because there were orders from above, and he suspected that the Lin family might be related to Japanese pirates.

"A local rich man is actually so rich. The goods coming in and out of this wharf every day must be in the tens of thousands, right?"

He Jin glanced at Lin's dock again, then whispered to himself.

As a person from the capital, He Jin naturally had a sense of superiority, but he never thought that the Lin family had such money, and the goods they brought in and out every day were astonishing.

Of course, along with the import and export of these goods, various people also appeared at the Lin family, such as businessmen, assistants, coolies, etc., and even officials. The day before yesterday, he saw the county magistrate of Xiangshan County personally visit the Lin family.

A day passed quickly. Although there were many people coming and going in and out of the Lin family, He Jin still did not see anyone suspected of being a Japanese pirate. This made him secretly suspect that the Lin family might have nothing to do with the Japanese pirates. Even if they were, the Japanese pirates were not in the Lin family mansion. .

However, whether the Lin family is related to Japanese pirates or not has little to do with He Jin. He has only one task, which is to keep an eye on the Lin family. If he finds any suspicious person entering or leaving the Lin family, he only needs to report it.

Seeing that it was getting dark, He Jin was about to close the stall and leave, so naturally someone else would take his place at night.

But at this moment, a group of bald-headed monks from the Lin family came out, about a dozen or so, holding various magical instruments in their hands, who looked like they were performing rituals for others.

"Huh? No, why don't I remember that a monk came into Lin's house these days?"

Looking at the group of monks who came out from the Lin family, He Jin also frowned.

Unless these monks have been living in the Lin family a few days ago, but the Lin family is not a temple, how could there be monks staying here?And he hadn't heard that the Lin family was going to do something recently, so this group of monks seemed very suspicious.

Thinking of this, He Jin immediately found his boss and reported the matter of these monks.

Soon the Dongchang fans began to act secretly, staring closely at the group of monks who left from the Lin family.

Not long after, Zhu Zhanhe received a report from Cao Lei that a group of monks of unknown origin appeared in the Lin family, and they took a boat down the river, apparently going to sea.

"The Xiangshanlin family, one of the smugglers we are focusing on, unexpectedly has a group of monks of unknown origin."

Zhu Zhanhe looked at the information in his hand, with a smile on his face.

Ever since he came to Ningbo, Zhu Zhanhe has been staying in Dinghaiwei. At the same time, he sent troops from Dongchang to monitor those original smugglers, among which the Lin family is one of the key targets.

"My son, before opening the sea, this Lin family made a fortune by smuggling, and it is said that their family has relations with Japanese pirates, and some people even saw Japanese people haunting the Lin family, so the incident of Japanese pirates this time is probably related to them .”

Cao Lei also said excitedly at this time.

After staring at it for so long, the subordinates finally found some useful information.

"The Japanese pirates appeared for the second time and raided Xiangshan County. How far is it from the Lin family?"

Zhu Zhanhe asked again.

As soon as they arrived in Ningbo, the Japanese pirates raided again, landed in Xiangshan County, and left after looting, causing more than 100 civilian casualties.

After this incident happened, Zhu Zhanhe was very annoyed, wishing he could arrest these people and bring them to justice as soon as possible.

"The distance is not far, and when these Japanese pirates raided Xiangshan, they chose the place very cleverly. The two villages that were raided were very close to each other, and they were very rich. By that time, the opponent’s ship had long since disappeared.”

Cao Lei replied immediately.

Compared with the first raid on Zhoushan, the gang of Japanese pirates appeared more professional during the second raid on Xiangshan. They seemed to have learned from the previous experience, so they were able to snatch a lot of property smoothly.

As soon as Cao Lei's words fell, he saw a leader rushing to report: "My lord, the brothers who monitored the monks came back and reported that they had gone out to sea by boat and went straight to Zhoushan!"

"It's Zhoushan again!"

Zhu Zhanhe frowned. The Zhoushan Islands have complicated sea conditions and many islands, so it is very easy for pirates to breed.

At the beginning of the sea ban, Zhu Yuanzhang moved all the people in the Zhoushan Islands inland, just to clear the population here, so that anyone who appeared in Zhoushan would be treated as Japanese pirates.

"My son, Zhoushan is a place where Buddhism flourishes. There are many temples there. Especially after the opening of the sea, many monks crossed the sea and went to Zhoushan. This group of monks also went to Zhoushan to worship, right?"

Cao Lei made a reasonable guess at this time, if this group of monks really only went to Zhoushan to worship, then they might have an oolong this time.

"Don't rush to draw conclusions, keep letting people stare at those monks, see which island they went to, which temple they entered, and never let them out of your sight!"

Zhu Zhanhe ordered again.

Although Cao Lei's guess was very reasonable, Zhu Zhanhe's intuition told him that this group of monks who inexplicably appeared in the Lin family always made him feel that there was something wrong.

(End of this chapter)