Be a master through ancient times

"My lord, I didn't find it."

The soldiers in charge of the search checked the ships again and found that the goods inside were the same as the goods he reported.Mr. Fan's face turned green and then pale, and finally he could only lead him away under Zhao Kuan's playful eyes.

Behind him, Zhao Kuan also said: "Master Fan, Chu Tixue, don't you want to stay a little longer? Why don't you come and have a look tomorrow?"

"Hmph! A merchant is so arrogant!" Lord Fan was indignant, but there was nothing he could do about it.Seeing that Chu Ci remained silent, he said, "Brother Chu, you don't have to mind too much. This guy is cunning and cunning, so it's not easy to expose his true colors. But as long as he stays in Nanfu for a day, I will Make people keep an eye on him."

He thought that Chu Ci's misjudgment just now was humiliated, and he felt unhappy.

Chu Ci smiled and said he didn't mind, but he was still thinking about the previous violations. He always felt that these ships were different from other ships, but he couldn't tell what was different.

Master Fan treated the dinner, after the meal, Chu Ci went back to his room.This time he came by himself, and if he had any doubts, he could only think about it by himself, and he could not discuss it with others.

But what was wrong with those ships?

Chu Ci kept thinking about this question before going to bed, and he didn't think of anything until his body fell into a deep sleep due to exhaustion.

Thinking by day and dreaming at night, Chuci naturally dreamed.In the dream, he seemed to be still observing these ships at the pier, but the shapes of these ships were no different from ordinary ships.Chu Ci in the dream was light and light. He flew around the boats by the pier again and again, and finally found the difference.If there is a difference, it is that these ships have more draft than other ships, so that the hulls are shorter than the ships next to them.It's just that the sea water has been surging, which will make people have visual differences.

Yes, that's the difference!

Chu Ci suddenly opened his eyes, looking at the dark roof.He had seen Zhao Kuan's manifest, it said leather goods and jewelry, these things were not heavy, how could they weigh the boat like that?Therefore, there must be heavier cargo on this ship than these things.

Chu Ci didn't know how he hid the things, but he knew that Zhao Kuan must be tricky.

……

When the sky turned pale, there was a hasty knock on the door outside Mr. Fan's room. He was so angry that he got out of bed with a sullen face and opened the door, but what he saw was Chu Ci.

"Brother Chu, what's the matter? Is there something urgent?" Fan Ju suppressed his dissatisfaction and asked with concern.

"Lord Fan, hurry up and take a team of people with me to the pier to stop Zhao Kuan. If you get there late, it will be too late." Chu Ci said bluntly.If the courtyard door hadn't been opened before, he would have thought of coming here.

Hearing his tone, Fan Ju didn't dare to delay at all. He immediately went back to his room and put on his clothes, then gathered his men and rushed towards the pier.

On the pier, Zhao Kuan's fleet was about to arrive.

"Stop! The people above get off the boat immediately!"

"Master Fan, what do you mean?" Zhao Kuan's heart sank to the bottom of the valley, and the expression on his face became gloomy.

"I suspect that you took other things out to sea with you on board, and I need to check again." Darren Fan said humanely, and Chu Ci had already told him about it when he was on the way.

"Joke, you search again and again, are you dissatisfied with the governor? Zhao's business trip to sea is authorized by the governor. Why do you obstruct it?" Zhao Kuan asked sharply.

Chu Ci looked up at Zhao Kuan, who was constantly clamoring on the boat, and smiled softly: "Didn't Master Zhao let us come to see it again today? Why are you unhappy when we come? Could it be... Ghost?"

"What nonsense!" Zhao Kuan replied sternly, "Zhao is only afraid that the auspicious time will be missed. When we go to sea, we will set off at the auspicious time, so that we can keep the journey safe and free from storms. We were caught in a storm at sea, and the lives of a boatload of people, Chu Tixue, can you bear it?"

As if he had obtained some magic weapon, his tone gradually became tougher.

Chu Ci laughed loudly: "Hahaha, Mr. Zhao, you are too alarmist. Storms and waves on the sea are celestial phenomena. How can this be avoided by choosing an auspicious time? As the owner of the ship, you don't want to think about it." How to add tools to reduce danger but pin your hope on the auspicious time obtained by praying to God, I think you are just taking the lives of this boat as a trifling matter!"

What he said made Zhao Kuan's face as black as ink. If eyes could kill, Chu Ci would have been beaten.Chu Ci was quite familiar with this kind of look. Ever since he crossed over, he was often looked at by people like this, and his heart was no longer disturbed.

"Zhao Kuan, if you don't come down again, don't blame me for being tough." The two sides confronted for a while, but there was no sign of people on the boat wanting to come down, so Fan Ju threatened.

"Lord Fan is so powerful." A strange voice came from behind, "How do you want to be tough?"

"Master Governor?"

The person who came was Governor Lin. He walked very fast, and he seemed to be rushing over in a hurry. He was followed by the housekeeper of the Zhao residence. It was clear at a glance who invited him here.

"It's my officer." Governor Lin said with a sullen face, "Yesterday I wished the Marshal to release him, but I thought it was over. But I don't want Mr. Fan to come here again and again to make trouble, isn't it a bit misleading of my officer?" Pay attention to it?"

Fan Ju laughed awkwardly, and quickly said: "How could it be? I don't mean to underestimate the governor, but Zhao Kuan is suspected seriously, and I have to investigate."

All in all, his rank is actually similar to that of Governor Lin, but the status of civil servants and military officials has never been equal. Even Marshal Zhu has to sell the face of Governor Lin, the parent official.

"Hmph, I gave the approval note for Zhao Kuan to go to sea. Master Fan, does this mean that I am his accomplice?" Governor Lin said coldly, "And you, Chu Ci, right?"

He raised his eyes and looked at Chu Ci: "You are a student in a government, and you are not managing a school in Zhangzhou. Why do you come here to join in the fun? I remember that the emperor didn't send you here to let you investigate the case, right?"

"Your governor clearly understands that Chu Ci came to the provincial capital this time to send the new textbooks to Mr. Du for review, but it just happened to happen at the right time, and it was not intentional." He replied in an unassuming manner. When he saw Governor Lin coming over just now, he had already thought of the words in his mind.

"In that case, you can go to the Department of Education now, you are not needed here." Governor Lin waved his hand, not taking him seriously at all.

Chu Ci stood motionless, apparently not taking his words seriously.

Governor Lin sneered: "Are you determined to fight against me?"

Chu Ci shook his head: "Master Governor, I don't intend to oppose you, but Zhao Kuan must be strictly investigated if he wants to go to sea."

"If my memory serves me right, you guys came to check yesterday, right? How many times do you want to check a small boat? Do you still want to take it apart and check it?" Said in a patient tone.

As if trying to annoy him on purpose, Chu Ci said sternly, "That's right, this boat has to be dismantled and checked!"

"You!" Governor Lin was blocked by him, and almost didn't know what to say.Seeing that he couldn't say Chu Ci, he looked at Fan Ju: "Master Fan, do you also have to investigate?"

His words were threatening, and Fan Ju couldn't help feeling a little conflicted. He looked at Governor Lin with unkind eyes, then at Chu Ci with a determined face, and finally gritted his teeth and said, "Check!"

"Okay, okay!" Governor Lin smiled angrily, but his eyes were cold, "Since you want to investigate, you can investigate carefully. But if you don't find anything, don't blame me for being rude! "

Zhao Kuan on the boat couldn't help turning pale when he heard that he agreed.But he still managed to calm himself down, comforting himself that they shouldn't be able to find it. After all, they didn't find anything in the previous two searches.

Fan Ju asked the sailors to divide into several teams and board the boat separately. Chu Ci was not going to stand still this time, and followed Fan Ju to the boat that Zhao Kuan had just treated.

"Master Fan, you have been dealing with ships all year round, can you tell how tall this ship is?"

Fan Ju frowned and looked at the boat for a while, then said: "Judging from the draft, this is a large ship of [-] materials, with a depth of about two feet."

One zhang is about 3.11 meters at this time, so two zhang is 6.22 meters.Chu Ci calculated quickly in his heart.The depth Mr. Fan said should be the height from the cabin to the deck. If the buildings on the deck are included, the height of the ship should be about ten meters.

He stepped on the board and walked towards the ship. He could see everything on the deck at a glance. Chu Ci only stayed for a short time before walking into the cabin.The cabin is divided into two floors, one above the deck and the other below.

The upper floor is where the main house and the guards live. The doors of the rooms were opened by the sailors who came in before. The inside is quite empty, and it doesn't look like they can hide things.Chu Ci went down the ladder, and found that the lower floor was shorter and narrower than the upper floor. He checked with his eyes and found that the distance between the top and bottom of the room was no more than two meters. Even someone like him felt that it was too cramped. If Kou Jing came , will definitely feel more uncomfortable.

The cabin below is a place where coolie crew members live. There are probably seven or eight people living in a room, and they are all bunks. The environment can be said to be very poor.After passing through several such rooms, the warehouse where the goods are placed is the further inside.

The soldiers were still inside, and there were opened boxes all over the place. The boxes were filled with various leather materials, which were soft to the touch, and they were very expensive once you tried it.

"Have all the boxes been checked?"

"I have checked, we have opened and searched every box, and there is nothing but leather goods."

"Is there anything else that hasn't gone down?"

"No, there are only two floors in this cabin, and there is no other place to go down."

"Yeah." Chu Ci nodded, and suddenly stomped on the board underneath.

The soldiers and Fan Ju looked at Chu Ci with indescribable eyes. In their opinion, Chu Ci was becoming angry from embarrassment.

Fan Ju just wanted to persuade a few words, but his expression suddenly became serious.Just now when Chu Ci stepped on it hard, he suddenly heard a few hollow "tong tong" sounds, and there was obviously a lot of space underneath.Fan Ju remembered the depth of Chu Ci's question just now, and couldn't help being awed in his heart. This is clearly a child prodigy, and even this was expected by him.

A group of people began to step on the floor with their feet. After searching around, they finally found the weakest point of the warehouse.They took out their big knives and pried off the upper board. Before they could wait any longer, a smell of fresh grain rushed up.Looking again, the bottom is full of grain packed in cloth bags...