Byrne Fank shrugged his shoulders, with an extremely exaggerated expression on his face: "Please, if anyone is chased by a warship at sea, their first reaction would be fear, right? I am a timid person, so of course I will choose to run away.

Now that you have checked it, can you let me go?"

Yang Tao's face became increasingly gloomy.

After being chased at sea for so long, there is probably something wrong with this ship - but the problem is that I have not been able to find out what is wrong with this ship!

Yang Tao snorted coldly and was about to order the Yizhou to be withdrawn. Hu, the Jinyiwei captain who boarded with Yang Tao, reached out to stop Yang Tao. He took out the Jinyiwei's waistband and waved it in front of Bai Enfanke's eyes, and said with a smile:

"Why are you panicking? You're already here, why don't you check it out?"

As soon as he saw the waistband in the hand of the Imperial Guard Captain, Byrne Fank's heart sank to the bottom.

As a member of the East India Company and someone who specializes in the Far East, Byrne Fank certainly knows what that waistband represents - he is considered a notorious Jinyiwei even within the Ming Empire.

Once outside the Ming Dynasty, it was even more lawless.

Once again he pretended to be relaxed and shrugged, and said with a relaxed expression: "Whatever, if you are willing, I can even let the ship park here and let you check it until dawn tomorrow. Of course, after dawn, I will enter the port to replenish supplies.

."

The captain of the Imperial Guard chuckled lightly, glanced meaningfully at Byrne Fanck, and then motioned to Byrne Fanck to lead the way to the cabin.

Yang Tao walked forward and whispered: "Since nothing has been found, what else do you want to check?"

The Jinyi Guardsman sneered and said, "Who said it wasn't found out?"

Yang Tao was stunned and asked: "What did you find?"

The captain of the Jinyi Guard said: "Who has the final say whether it is found or not? Even if I throw a flintlock gun on their ship casually, isn't this evidence?"

Hearing what the Jin Yiwei Colonel said, Yang Tao was immediately shocked and dumbfounded. He couldn't help but wipe the non-existent cold sweat on his forehead - look, look, this is my Jin Yiwei? These guys usually

Are they all like this?

The captain of the Jinyi Guard looked at the strange look on Yang Tao's face and said with a smile: "Don't look at me like that. Our Jinyi Guards do not have the right to directly arrest or interrogate people in the Ming Dynasty, unless we get His Majesty's imperial edict or there is a punishment department.

, the Imperial Procuratorate, and the imperial censor’s official post.”

"Of course, when we get to the sea, the laws of the Ming Dynasty will no longer restrict us, unless there are people from the Ming Dynasty like us on the opposite side, otherwise..."

The expression on the face of the captain of the Jinyi Guard slowly turned cold: "Don't think that we in the Jinyi Guard are lawless, and don't think that we use any means to achieve our goals, arbitrarily concocting evidence and even treating human life as nothing."

"Because the world is never as beautiful as you imagine - you will know it when you become the commander-in-chief of the South China Sea Fleet or the commander-in-chief of the military level."

"In the last year alone, more than 70 Jinyiwei people died in the line of duty, and the number of Tiandihui people who died in the line of duty was close to 100. Even the Intelligence Bureau under the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion also had more than 50 people die in the line of duty. This is still

Not counting the uniformed guards."

"But it doesn't matter, anyway, those who work in our profession are destined to have a happy death from the first day."

Having said this, the captain of the Jinyi Guards smiled and shook his head and said: "I will teach you one more trick, please remember it - most of the barbarian merchant ships actually do some part-time piracy. Of course, our Ming Dynasty

The same goes for merchant ships. No one who makes a living at sea is cleaner than anyone else."

"For example, a sailor."

"These barbarian merchant ships especially like to use slaves as sailors, because there is no need to feel bad when the slaves die, just throw them into the sea and that's it."

"But, these Dutch merchant ships are the most unruly among them. Their background is the least clean, and they are the easiest to catch."

"For example, one of their slave sailors happens to be a citizen of the Ming Dynasty..."

Yang Tao looked at the captain of the Jinyi Guards in confusion and asked: "What does this have to do with the Pearl? Are there Ming people on their ship?"

The captain of the Jinyi Guards sneered and said: "What if there is one? If there is none, then just pick one that looks pleasing to the eye, unless he uses all the Kunlun slaves on this ship."

"As for the household registration issue... the worst case scenario is that the Guangzhou Prefect's Yamen will issue a household registration certificate - do you think the Guangzhou Prefect's Yamen will pay homage to the two of us or to that surname?"

The Imperial Guard had no intention of avoiding anyone. Even though he knew that Byrne Fank could listen and speak Chinese, the Imperial Guard still let Byrne Fanke lead the way while talking to Yang Tao normally.

But Bainfanke was filled with hatred, but he had to lead the way for Captain Jinyi and Yang Tao honestly.

Because Byrne Fank knew that what Captain Jinyi said was true, at least it was true relative to the Pearl he controlled.

At the same time, Byrne Fank also knew in his heart that if the imperial guard in front of him really threw a flintlock gun on his ship, he would have to follow them to the Ming government for interrogation, even if he was finally released by the Ming government.

, it is estimated that a certain price will have to be paid, but this Imperial Guard Captain will not be punished in any way.

But as the captain of the Jinyi Guards inspected one cabin after another, Byrne Fank's heart gradually calmed down.

As long as nothing could be found, the Ming government had no reason to do anything to them.

As for whether there are Ming people as slaves among the sailors?

That is completely impossible. All the sailors on the Pearl were captured from the Black Continent. No matter how shameless the Imperial Guard Captain in front of him was, he would not be able to point at a Black Continent slave and insist that he was white.

?

Until the group of people slowly walked to the bottom cabin where the sailors were.

Just as Byrne Fank expected, the Imperial Guard lost interest when he saw these slave sailors - who could expect that among these swarthy black slave sailors there would be Ming people?

Seeing the expression of the Imperial Guardsman's face darken a little bit, Byrne Fank suddenly became angry: "Let me just say, although our East India Company does not do any good things, we still respect the Ming Empire very much.

, it is absolutely impossible to capture civilians of the Ming Empire as slaves."

Having said this, Byrne Fank first pointed at himself, then pointed at a group of black slaves, and said: "You, me, we are white, and they are black, do you understand, sir?"

?”

The captain of the Jinyi Guard glared at Byrne Fank hatefully, casually took off the Xiuchun Dao from his waist, threw it on the ship's board and said to Byrne Fank: "Pick it up."

Byrne Fank shook his head and said: "No, no, no, you can send me to the government of the Ming Empire. I am willing to accept interrogation - after all, I have not violated the laws of the Ming Empire. If I picked up this knife

, then the nature is completely different.”

Seeing the increasingly gloomy face of the Jin Yiwei in front of him, Byrne Fank couldn't help but want to laugh three times - it's not like I haven't seen this kind of trick before.

However, before Byrne Fanck could laugh out loud, someone among the swarthy slave sailors suddenly shouted: "Da Ming! Da Ming! I am from the Ming country!"

The captain of the Jinyi Guard quickly walked up to the slave sailor, looked at it and asked: "What did you say? Tell me your name and place of origin?"

However, the swarthy slave sailor let out another spooky scream, and then continued shouting: "Daming! Daming! I am from the Ming Dynasty!"

The captain of the Jinyi Guard couldn't help but turn his head to look at the interpreter, only to see the interpreter shake his head, saying that he didn't understand what the worker in front of him was saying at all.

And as the slave sailor screamed again, the glimmer of hope that had just arisen in the heart of the Jinyi Guard Captain was shattered - let alone the people of the Ming Dynasty, even the Kunlun slaves in Nanyang were not so black, they just knew how to do it.

Speaking a few words in Chinese does not prove that he is a Ming citizen.

As for rescuing these slave sailors... the Imperial Guardsman has no interest in this at all. There are many ways to kill Byrne Vanke, so there is no need to make a fuss about these workers.

Shaking his head slightly, the Jinyi Guards Captain was about to leave, but the slave sailor fell to his knees with a thud and shouted: "Zheng He!... Zheng He! Treasure ship!... Fleet! Descendants!"

[To be honest, I have been using Mimi recently to read and catch up on books. I can switch sources and read aloud with a variety of sounds. It can be used on both Android and Apple.]

Hearing these words, Captain Jin Yi's face couldn't help but become very ugly. He looked at Byrne Fank, whose face was also extremely ugly, and asked: "What is he talking about? Also, where did you catch him? Say

Clearly, forget about this matter, otherwise..."

Seeing the murderous eyes of the Imperial Guard Captain, Byrne Fank's heart trembled, and he quickly looked at the interpreter on his ship.

The interpreter on the Pearl also hurriedly translated carefully: "He said that he came from an island in Heizhou. There were many people on his island who were like him. They were all descendants of a high-ranking official from the Ming Empire named Zheng.

."

"He said that the senior official named Zheng commanded an invincible fleet, and the largest ship was called a treasure ship. He said that their ancestors had been waiting for Master Zheng to send someone to pick them up, but they never did."

"He said that because they didn't wait until Lord Zheng sent someone to pick them up, their ancestors slowly began to intermarry with the locals. Now they have multiplied for many generations, and slowly lost their original language. But

There are many people like him in their clan who can all say words like Ming Dynasty, Zheng He, Treasure Ship, and Descendants."

"He also said that he just heard you mention the Ming Empire to Mr. Byrne Fanck, so he hopes you can help him and take him back to the Ming Empire."

Seeing the expressions of Jin Yiwei and Yang Tao becoming more and more solemn, Bainfanke's heart trembled and he shouted: "If you need it, I can tell you the location and route of the island."

"But, I really don't know what relationship he has with your Ming Empire...and I didn't capture him. He was sold to the Pearl."

"Also, you just said that as long as I tell you the location and route of the island, the matter this time will be over, and you can't pursue it any further."

The Jinyi Guard Captain and Yang Tao looked at each other, then nodded seriously, and said: "Yes, as long as you hand over him and the sailors who were bought on the ship with him, and then give me the location and route of the island.

Tell me, forget it this time. Of course, it won’t be the case next time.”

After hearing the last threat from the Imperial Guard Captain, Byrne Fank finally breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Okay, sir, from now on, he is yours, and I can assure you that on my ship

He is the only one from that island, and I will draw the route to that island for you."

The captain of the Jinyi Guards also nodded again, and together with Yang Tao and others, left the bottom cabin with the slave sailor who claimed to be a descendant of Zheng He.
Chapter completed!