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Liu Xingzuo also glanced at him and said coldly: "If you want to say that this matter was instructed by your gang leader, then there is no need. His Majesty only pardoned you, not your money gang. How dare you kidnap officials so blatantly? The family members will definitely pay the price!”

The middle-aged man was not surprised when he heard this. At this time, he looked at Emperor Chongzhen. He was kneeling there instead of lying softly on the ground. He reported again: "Your Majesty, the grassroots kidnapping the Chen family's servant was indeed assigned by the gang leader, but according to the grassroots Observe, this is not just blackmail."

Those who are involved in the world are all seeking wealth. All the loyalty in the world is for sale, it is nothing more than enough profit. Now I have an opportunity to express myself in front of the most powerful person in the world. This kind of person in the world, not to mention the gang leader, even his biological parents are useless.

Upon hearing his words, Emperor Chongzhen was a little surprised that there was another inside story. He immediately thought of what this man had said before, which seemed to mean that he had support from people in the officialdom. I originally thought that what he said was just like when he moved out of the Taihu Gang, just to scare people. If he said he had a hidden agenda, this should be it, right?

Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen looked at him and said lightly: "Speak!"

When the middle-aged man heard this, he did not dare to be negligent and quickly replied: "The gang leader told us to kidnap the Chen family's children and hide them. However, our gang leader did not dare to have such courage before because... Because I was entrusted by others.”

Upon hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen became a little interested and asked again: "Who is he entrusted by?"

"The common people don't know." The middle-aged man replied, and then when he saw Emperor Chongzhen's face seemed to darken a little, he quickly added and explained: "The common people really don't know. My gang leader often meets a mysterious person who avoids us. Yes, we didn’t say anything afterward. This time, it was only after we met the mysterious man again that we were asked to kidnap the Chen family’s child. The common people estimate that this matter must not be as simple as extorting money!”

Hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but remember Wu Ergou's previous confession that they were the ones who helped and were instructed by a mysterious person to counterfeit banknotes. After the Ax Gang was taken away, the mysterious man did not show up, and the clues were lost. This time, we encountered a similar situation again.

Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen asked in a deep voice: "How do you know that kidnapping the Chen family's children is not extorting money?"

"As far as your majesty is concerned, Chief Chen is very powerful and won't sell anything to anyone. He also has many tribesmen working for him. On the government side, he has... connections with the emperor, and he is also very tough." The middle-aged man quickly said He replied, "So most of us in the world are just begging for food. We dare not offend Township Chief Chen, let alone kidnap his only son!"

Upon hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen frowned slightly and glanced at Liu Xingzuo.

When Liu Xingzuo saw it, he immediately asked for instructions: "Your Majesty, no matter what the conspiracy is, I will eventually go and arrest this money gang, including its people and their nests, and we will definitely find out the inside story!"

He knew that since this was not an ordinary extortion of money, there must be some conspiracy against Township Chief Chen. And the emperor was very concerned about Mayor Chen. Seeing that Nanxun Town under his rule was good, he admired Mayor Chen. Now that he has encountered this matter, with the emperor's temper, he must find out. Therefore, he took the initiative to take over the matter.

Unexpectedly, Emperor Chongzhen shook his head after hearing this and said: "Don't alert others for the time being. Since the other party avoids others every time and only sees the person in front of them, they must not want people to know their identity. Since I bumped into this matter, this time We need to find out the people behind the scenes.”

Anyway, there is plenty of time for this incognito tour, so I can stay in Nanxun Town for a few more days.

After Emperor Chongzhen finished speaking, he turned to look at the middle-aged man and asked, "I want to find out who wants to deal with Township Chief Chen. Do you have any ideas?"

Hearing the emperor ask himself, the middle-aged man felt happy, but he did not dare to show his happiness on the surface, and quickly replied: "Your Majesty was right just now, and the common people also thought that this matter should not be alarmed. The common people went back and told the gang leader, and said The Chen family's child has been kidnapped. In this case, the gang leader will definitely contact that person. If you pay attention, you will definitely know the identity of that person."

When he said this, he thought of something, and quickly added: "There have been many times, but in fact, the mysterious man doesn't pay as much attention to us as he did at the beginning. And the villain is good at tracking and stepping on the scene, so the villain is sure, the villain I am willing to find out this person at the expense of his merits."

After hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen thought for a moment. This matter is not as simple as kidnapping and extortion. According to what this person said, it may be possible to catch the mysterious person. Even if he can't catch him, looking at his next move, he should be able to figure out his purpose of instructing people in the world to kidnap the Chen family's children.

Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen stared at the middle-aged man and said in a less cold tone: "Okay, I will believe you just once. I hope you will perform well."

After finishing speaking, he turned around and told Liu Xingzuo: "Please follow up on this matter. I won't go to see Mayor Chen for now. I'll just wait here and see what's going on!"

"According to the order!" Liu Xingzuo agreed immediately after hearing this.

The middle-aged man was happy to hear that. As long as he performed well this time, the emperor would definitely get a job. Even if the emperor doesn't reward him with anything, just by virtue of this matter, he can still gain connections with Township Chief Chen.

So, he obediently listened to the arrangements of Captain Jinyi and was taken out of the house.

At this moment, Emperor Chongzhen knelt down, looked at the now clean Chen family child, and said, "You can't go home just yet. I didn't help you fight last time, so I'll help you find the bad guys this time, okay?" good?"

Hearing this, the Chen family child nodded vigorously and said: "Okay!"

Emperor Chongzhen touched his head, turned to the two concubines beside him and said, "Let's take a break here for the next few days. I want to see who is doing some conspiracy?"

For Hai Lanzhu and Tian Guifei, this kind of thing is rare to encounter. Now that they were bumped into by them during a private visit incognito, they found it very funny. It was the emperor who proposed it, so naturally they would have no objection.

After talking here for a while, Liu Xingzuo came in after arranging things outside. He briefly reported the situation to Emperor Chongzhen and said: "The general has sent people to control his family secretly. In addition, he has also sent people to monitor him secretly. On the side of Township Chief Chen, if there is any move, the general will definitely be able to grasp it."

After hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen nodded. Thinking of what he had just thought of, he asked again: "What's going on with the Taihu Gang?"

"Back to your majesty, the Taihu Gang relies on Taihu Lake. They always deal with the government and cannot be wiped out." Liu Xingzuo replied with a serious face, "The general believes that this situation is due to the failure of the local army to suppress it, and the second reason is that there are local Those thieves’ spies are therefore difficult to eradicate!”

After hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen pondered for a moment and then ordered: "The troops of the guards who do not go out to fight cannot eat all they can. I will issue an order to let the troops of the guards take action to destroy the powerful gangs in various places. But before that, the Jin Yiwei must also take action to obtain intelligence for the army's attack. Isn't that Wu Ergou in Yingtian Mansion? Increase support for him and let the Jianghu people deal with the Jianghu people. "

"The general will obey the order!" Liu Xingzuo responded immediately after hearing this.

After hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen turned his thoughts back to the present. After thinking for a while, he suddenly said with a smile: "Chen Youming is afraid that he will be worried. After the thief contacts him, he will tell him quietly to make him feel at ease. I will just watch indifferently, but I want to take a look. , what on earth do these monsters and monsters want to do?"

"Your Majesty is wise!" Liu Xingzuo heard this and replied with a smile, "You can't tell Township Chief Chen in advance, lest others see his flaws."

In fact, in his heart, if he had his way, he would not tell Chen Youming until the truth comes out. In his opinion, the emperor's heart was still a little softer, fearing that Mayor Chen would be too worried.

On this point, he actually misunderstood Emperor Chongzhen. For Emperor Chongzhen, he was satisfied with what Chen Youming had done so far. He didn't want to test his humanity again. Otherwise, if he never told Chen Youming, and he was threatened by demons and monsters, and ended up doing some bad things, what would he do? Rather than doing this, it would be better to cut off this possibility in advance.

As Emperor Chongzhen expected, when the sun was about to set and her son had not returned, Chen Youming's daughter-in-law became anxious and rushed to Chen Youming's official office.

Generally speaking, official offices are divided into front and rear offices, with the rear office being the residence of the chief official. However, Chen Youming was an official in his own town and had his own house.

The most significant thing is that the emperor and his concubine once lived in this house. To put it in layman's terms, this place has the aura of a dragon. If you can't live in such a nice place, it would be strange to live in a government office.

As far as the official system of the Ming Dynasty is concerned, there is a significant feature, that is, there are few officials. Even though Emperor Chongzhen is now promoting the transformation of yamen clerks into officials, overall, there are still too few officials.

Under such a general background, it is even less likely that there will be too many officials in the lowest level administrative system. Chen Youming is the head of the township, but the town he oversees is a mixed bag of dragons and snakes. The volume of Hu silk transactions is astonishingly large, so he is naturally very busy every day, not to mention that it is now time for the first batch of Hu silk products to be put on the market.

In the midst of his busy schedule, Chen Youming heard his wife calling for him. Hearing her worried words, he didn't care at first and said, "Madam, I'm already so busy, so don't make things worse. It's not even dark yet." Come down, maybe Zhong'er has been fascinated by some excitement! When it gets dark, Uncle Chen will naturally take him home."

"Master, I'm feeling very panicked." When his wife heard this, she said worriedly, "Although Zhong'er sometimes comes home late, it's getting dark soon, so he's never been home so late!"

"What are you afraid of?" Chen Youming said disapprovingly, "What else can happen in Nanxun Town?"

After finishing speaking, seeing that his wife still wanted to say something, he took the lead and said: "Besides, Zhong'er is a blessed person. Look at who's child in the world can have Zhong'er's luck. I met the emperor’s concubine at a young age, and we can still chat together. Right?”

"Okay, I'll go back after I've finished what I'm doing. That kid has made his mother so worried. I wonder if I won't spank him!" After Chen Youming finished speaking, he hurriedly turned to the front office to handle official business. .

When her daughter-in-law saw her, she was helpless. Her husband was indeed very busy, or was he attracted by the excitement somewhere as he said?

When it got dark, Chen Youming hurried home with his son in mind.

His house has been expanded on the original basis. The new house is about three times the size of the previous one, surrounding the old house. Among them, the house where Emperor Chongzhen lived was solemnly dedicated, or rather surrounded, and no one could enter. Even if Shangguan comes to visit, he can only take a look at the door.

As soon as he arrived at the door of his house, Chen Youming asked the concierge who came over: "When did Zhong'er come home?"

In his opinion, Madam's worries were unnecessary. However, he decided that in order not to worry his wife, he had to train his son well.

"Master, the young master has not come back yet. Madam is very anxious and is preparing to find you!"

The concierge's answer made Chen Youming stunned for a moment, and then he became anxious. As he strode inside, he said loudly: "What's going on? Why hasn't this little bastard come back yet? Where is Uncle Chen?"

At this time, hearing the noise, her wife came out immediately. Seeing her like that, she almost burst into tears. Holding his daughter with one hand, as if he was afraid that her daughter was missing, Chen Youming quickly sent more people out to look for her.

It's getting dark today and I haven't come back yet. If it was just a child, maybe he was playful or something like that. But the children's school said that it was impossible for Uncle Chen to have no sense of time when he picked him up. This means that something may have happened.

As soon as he thought about it, Chen Youming panicked and immediately mobilized his manpower to look for it.

As a result, Nanxun Town, which had been quiet because of darkness, became lively again. There were people holding lanterns and torches everywhere, shouting and looking for them.

"Chen Jingzhong, go home!"

"Has anyone seen Chen Jingzhong?"

"..."

When other people in Nanxun Town heard that the mayor's son was missing, they immediately helped to find him. Suddenly, people in and outside the town were looking for Chen Jingzhong.

Emperor Chongzhen heard the shouting in the room and couldn't help but feel a little strange and asked: "Why did you change your name?"

This name always reminded him of Geng Jingzhong, which was a little awkward. However, in this dimension, Geng Jingzhong was still working under the Dongjiang Army and Lu Xiangsheng without any fault.

"My dad changed it, saying that I will serve the country loyally when I grow up!" The little kid replied carelessly, not worried about people outside calling his name, and eating delicious pastries.

Naturally, people are impossible to find. Nanxun Town was noisy all night, and after dawn the next day, the incident quickly spread throughout the surrounding area.

Thanks to the Silver Dragon Cavalry for the reward!