Chongzhen Undergraduates

"Alas." The Zhang brothers glanced at each other and then at the four guards at the door, feeling helpless.

"My lord, just let us go, our brother will give you all the silver." Zhang Tianfu suddenly knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Hu Maozhen.

"Why, it's not enough for Shopkeeper Cheng to invite you?" Hu Maozhen sneered.

"Everyone has agreed before that no matter what happens or not, Manager Cheng should send us north." Zhang Tianlu argued stubbornly.

"I can't make up my mind about this. When you see Shopkeeper Cheng, tell him face to face." Hu Maozhen was unmoved.

The Zhang brothers always thought that they were the only ones in the army participating at this time, but they didn't expect that their immediate superiors were also participating.Thinking about it now, there was a reason why they deployed their weapons so smoothly.

A four-wheeled carriage was parked at the door, which was the most commonly used equipment for the supply troops. The Zhang brothers were almost escorted into the carriage by Hu Maozhen.

The car drove outside the city of Yangzhou, but instead of going to the salt merchant Cheng Jia's house, he just ran all the way to a remote and deserted place, and threw two headless corpses from the car.

In the middle of the night, the houses of the Zhang brothers' two houses were flooded and burned for an entire hour. Two good houses were burnt to rubble, and all seven members of the two families died.

Assassins can have the standard weapons of the army, which shows that they are involved with the army.The Black Banner Army stationed in Nanjing is not equipped with iron cannons. At present, only the supply troops of the Gao Xing family have them.

Coupled with the confessions of those people in the rivers and lakes, the target only refers to Yangzhou.

When Fang Jinnan arrived in Yangzhou overnight, he looked at the still smoking fire with a mocking expression.

Chapter 2 Eighty: Lost pawns to save the car

Shi Kefa is actually a person who is afraid of trouble and things. He hopes that the world will be peaceful every day and avoid too many things to deal with.

It's a pity that his life is not good, and things have been going on since he became an official.Shi Kefa is always busy mediating among all parties, trying to explain the righteousness of the family and the country to the world, and maintain the moral values ​​in his heart.

Shi Kefa had only just arrived in Yangzhou, and Nanjing was involved in the assassination of the emperor that happened in Nanjing, and the evidence was solid and the facts were clear.

There are many people involved in this case. There are three salt merchants alone, soldiers in the army and many gangs in Yangzhou.

Gao Xing was naturally the one who accompanied Fang Jinnan, because it was her subordinates who had problems.

This incident also made Zhu Youjian understand that even though he had reorganized Jiangbei's army once, there were still various problems.The officers brought out by the old-fashioned warlords had no country in their hearts, and many of them still had the warlord mentality.

In this regard, the Later Jin's control over the Han army was not stronger than that of the Ming Dynasty, otherwise there would not have been several army rebellions.In the original history, there are Jiang Xiang, Jin Shengheng, Li Chengdong, etc. until the San Francisco Rebellion.

These people are not so much dissatisfied with Houjin, it is better to say that they just want to be a warlord and a local emperor all the time. After all, people like Shi Kefa are used to it.

History entered the Chongzhen Dynasty, the status of generals was getting higher and higher day by day, and their combat effectiveness was getting better and better.

"Master Shi, I'm afraid the whole city of Yangzhou will be under martial law." Fang Jinnan frowned while holding a thick roster.

"There are not many people in Yangzhou City, but the population surrounding Yangzhou City is 50."

Shi Kefa was in a dilemma. In a city like Yangzhou, the city wall is not large, mainly because of the concentration of institutions such as yamen.What is really prosperous is the piers set up along the various channels of the canal outside the city, where a large number of people who live by water transportation gather.

Even if the water transportation is interrupted now, the salt industry leading to various places is still busy.

It is undoubtedly very difficult to impose martial law on such a place.

"Madam, can the brigade stationed in Yangzhou be able to control it?" Shi Kefa can only pin his hopes on the garrison stationed in Yangzhou.

There are now two brigades stationed in Yangzhou, one is the original Huang Degong's subordinates, and the other is the Gao Xing's subordinates.Shi Kefa can only dispatch the defenders of Yangzhou City at present, but he is not sure about Gao Xing's brigade.

The problem is that the weapons in the assassins are all from Hu Maozhen's brigade.

"I'll do my best." Gao Xing was also depressed, the burden on her body was too heavy now.Controlling the army is not her specialty, and she has been busy managing military production, so she doesn't know how much control of the original army is left.

While several people were discussing how to carry out the arrest operation, an officer from the Governor's Mansion came to report that Hu Maozhen had asked to see him.

"How many soldiers did you bring?" Shi Kefa was startled, fearing that the visitors would be unkind.

"My lord governor, General Hu only brought four people with him."

"Please!" Shi Kefa breathed a sigh of relief.

After a while, everyone saw a tall general striding into the Yamen.In terms of appearance, Hu Maozhen definitely meets the standard of a good general. Shi Kefa's first impression of this person is quite good.

"At the end of the day, I will see the governor, and my wife." Hu Maozhen saluted respectfully and humbly when he entered the door.

He had already glanced at the people in the room. He had seen Shi Kefa in Xuzhou before; let alone Mrs. Xing, but he had never seen a young and beautiful girl in the room.

"Come on, let me introduce you: this is Fang Jinnan girl." As the immediate boss, Madam Xing naturally couldn't let her subordinates neglect Fang Jinnan.

Even though Fang Jinnan doesn't even have a rank now, the power in his hands is not small, even more daunting than Shi Kefa, a senior member of the second rank.

"Hu Maozhen has met Miss Fang." Hu Maozhen was very smart, and in an instant he disguised himself as someone who didn't know Fang Jinnan's identity at all.

Gao Xing frowned, a little displeased with Hu Maozhen's title.But after thinking about it, he was relieved. After all, Fang Jinnan had only taken over the factory guard for a few days, and it was normal for officials from other places not to know.

Shi Kefa also thinks so, he rejects people like Fang Jinnan in his heart, so he likes Hu Maozhen even more.

Fang Jinnan's face was expressionless, and now she would not judge a person's true colors just by meeting them once.

Fang Jinnan didn't know Hu Maozhen, but Hu Maozhen knew Fang Jinnan.Recently, it was reported within the Tiandihui that the chief rudder was called Fang Jinnan. Hu Maozhen did not expect Fang Jinnan to be so close to the Ming court.

"What is General Hu doing here?" Shi Kefa asked eagerly.

"The last general is here to meet with the superior; secondly, to be dispatched by the governor at any time. I have assembled the whole brigade in the barracks, and I am ready for orders at any time." Hu Maozhen was still very humble.

"Okay, okay." Shi Kefa said hello three times in a row. It was really timely to send a pillow when he was sleepy.

Mrs. Xing was also very happy with the performance of her old subordinates, she couldn't help smiling and nodding.

Only Fang Jinnan's expression remained unchanged, Fang Jinnan was a little puzzled, this guy came too timely, he always felt a little fake.

Suspicion is one thing, but it cannot affect her arrest in Yangzhou.With Hu Maozhen's support, Fang Jinnan's actions in Yangzhou City went smoothly and smoothly.

A total of 78 people involved in the case were arrested this time, and the three salt merchants involved were all businessmen who had interests in dealing with Shanxi merchants.Also smashed two gangs on the Yangzhou pier.

Even inside the Tiandihui, twelve people were cleared out.There was a sudden turmoil in Yangzhou City, and the salt merchants were in danger.However, Cheng Jia was not involved, and Wang Ranming, a great businessman from Yangzhou, was not involved.

In this operation, Hu Maozhen, who performed the best, was busy and worked hard.

"General Hu, thanks for your help in the past few days. On behalf of Tiandi, I will thank you!" Fang Jinnan naturally wanted to be polite when the work was over.

By this time, Hu Maozhen already knew Fang Jinnan's true identity, and he only thought that Fang Jinnan was just the chief rudder of the Tiandihui.

"It's a good thing that the Zhang brothers were killed earlier. Before that, he thought about sending people to the north through the relationship of the Tiandihui." Hu Maozhen was very grateful.

"Lord Fang, you are being polite. This is the job of the last general." Hu Maozhen didn't dare to hold Fang Jinnan in front of him, and his humility was just right.

Fang Jinnan always felt weird, it was the first time for her to be called "Master", which was really weird in Daming.But Fang Jinnan was not surprised by this. She always felt that Hu Maozhen's acuity was too strong. He didn't look like an ordinary military officer, but a cunning businessman.

Shi Kefa is very satisfied with Hu Maozhen's behavior. He thinks that he needs subordinates like Hu Maozhen in Yangzhou, who can obey his orders and carry out his orders without reservation.