Daiyu of the Red Chamber raised a cat

Lin Ruhai led Zhou Hang and the others to the tower next to the canal, looking into the distance, suddenly the flames brightened in the dark sky, first there was a rushing neigh, and then there was a fierce clash of knives and guns.Wails, hissing, flames... Although I didn't see it with my own eyes, it's not hard to imagine what a tragic scene ahead just by hearing the sound.

The night was pitch black, although there was moonlight, it was so far away that other people couldn't see it clearly, but Zhou Hang could see it clearly.

Three large water transport ships on the canal were surrounded by hundreds of men in black, and the armored soldiers guarding the boats were fighting with the rebellious men in black, and the fire and the sound of fighting came from there.Although the armored soldiers were all carefully selected from thousands of soldiers, all of them were strong, but the number of them was not enough, there were only less than 100 people. Because they were outnumbered, they retreated steadily, and the more they fought, the smaller the territory was compressed.

One of the boats was on fire, and the other two boats had been occupied by men in black and were heading south.

Steal tax money!This was Zhou Hang's first thought.

The three ships are all salt class ships, that is to say, they are filled with last year's salt class money.The salt tax bank was supposed to set off on the canal waterway in the morning, but after receiving reliable news that someone had proposed to pay the salt tax bank, Lin Ruhai made arrangements. Stored in three unremarkable water transport ships, ready to set off in three days.

The wealth of Lianghuai salt merchants is famous all over the world, and these salt merchants have to pay a large amount of salt tax silver to the imperial court every year.This is a very large amount. The salt tax revenue in the Jianghuai area alone accounts for about one-third of the total revenue of the imperial court every year.The three boats looked inconspicuous, but they were all genuine yellow and white things inside.

Now someone wants to hijack the ship that transports the salt money, this is terrible!

Hijacking tax money, committing crimes and conspiring rebellion, that is to punish the nine clans, who is so arrogant?

The crime of losing tax money is not a light one. Although it is not enough to punish the nine clans, his life is basically over.Even when encountering a virtuous and virtuous monarch, who couldn't bear to kill his ministers, he would usually be demoted or exiled.If the tax money is really lost in Lin Ruhai's hands, it will be miserable.

Zhou Hang was startled at first, then thought again, since Lin Ruhai can watch the fire from the shore so leisurely, and obviously has an attitude of watching the show, maybe everything is already under control.

"My lord!" Zhang Yu, a petty official, pointed to the front and shouted in panic, "It's not good, my lord, someone is robbing tax money!"

When he yelled, the guard beside him was not only surprised: "What tax money?"

Zhang Yu: "Salt class money, count and transport it to the capital!"

Guard: "Didn't the money for the salt class be transported away in the morning? Why is it here?"

Zhang Yu: "What was transported away in the morning was nothing more than stones, to fool those thieves. My lord got the news that Lishan Flying Eagle was going to pay for the salt class, so he came up with a method of stealing money and stealing money. It was done with great fanfare on purpose. The money was transported to Beijing to confuse Lishan Feiying and the gang of rebels. In fact, the real salt money was not transported away, it was placed in the three ships, and it was ready to set off three days later."

Li Shan Feiying is a big salt lord, no one knows what his real name is, they only know that he is a ruthless character who is difficult to deal with.He has numerous saltworks under his command, has his own armed forces, and is very cunning. He escaped from the imperial court's repeated raids and killings.

There are many folk legends about this man.Although there are many things to say, there is no dispute, this person is very rich, and no one knows how rich he is.It is rumored that there was a flood in the south of the Yangtze River, and hundreds of thousands of people were displaced. Lishan Flying Eagle took in nearly [-] people at one time. Women and the elderly and weak worked in the saltworks, and strong men practiced | Strengthen the armed forces.

This person has numerous strongholds in Lianghuai and Jiangnan, and the imperial court has repeatedly sent people to suppress him.Reluctantly, the three caves of the cunning rabbit destroyed this place, and that place rose again.Destroy this, and start that again with great fanfare.Even after destroying a stronghold, it didn't take long before it revived again.In these years, the military supplies that have always been in this place are countless.

It is said that there are also collaborators in the imperial court, and not all of those imperial court officials have a heart of loyalty. Under the heavy profit, what can't be done?This is also an important reason for repeated suppression.

In the past, this Lishan Flying Eagle was just making some private salt, but he didn't dare to take the idea of ​​taxing the imperial court.After all, although selling private salt was a serious crime, it did not directly harm the imperial court, and the imperial court would not devote too much force to deal with a traitor. They might still have room for survival.However, hijacking the imperial tax bank and complicity in treason, the imperial court will never leave it alone.

In the past, although Li Shan Feiying was arrogant, he never dared to touch this bad luck, but this time, for some reason, he became so unscrupulous.

When the guards heard that someone was robbing tax money, they couldn't help becoming agitated, all of them holding knives and staring at each other, looking like they were going to rush down desperately.

One person said: "My lord, what are you waiting for, quickly order the brothers to go down and protect the tax bank!"

Another person said: "Yes, my lord, Li Shan Feiying is a bastard who dares to rob the court's tax money, I'm going down now, and put a thousand holes in him!"

"Yes, my lord, hurry up and order, don't talk about tax money later, the hair is gone!"

Although they are too far away, they can only see the flames and hear the roaring fights, and they don't know how the battle is going on, but it is a matter of taxation and silver, and there must be no sloppy at all. One bad thing is to move your head.Moreover, if their majestic court officers and soldiers are invincible even to a gang of bandits, they will not be able to meet people if they spread the word.The calmer Lin Ruhai was, the more anxious they were, wishing they could rush to the canal immediately and kill all those thieves.

But at this time, Zhou Hang said: "My lord, the three ships have been controlled by the thieves."

The guards became more and more anxious after hearing this.I don't care about the black lights, how did Zhou Hang know about it.

"My lord!" They all knelt down and begged for orders, "Let the lowly officials pass."

In desperation, no one thought that if the tax silver ship was really escorted by less than 100 soldiers, even if there were only [-] people, it would be a powerful force with high martial arts skills, and would not be so dismissive of a blow.

Besides, nearly a hundred guards can't do anything, so what if they go?

"My lord, I can't wait any longer!"

The already impatient guards couldn't help drawing their swords and rushing down, but due to Lin Ruhai's strict order before departure, no one was allowed to act rashly without his order, so they had to restrain themselves.Anxious emotions hit his chest, like a barking tsunami encountering a soaring dam, causing his face to flush.

"Very good." Lin Ruhai just responded lightly, and wasted no time arranging her clothes.

These two short words, like spring water ding dong, were neither impatient nor impatient. Although the guard had said that he could not wait any longer, Zhou Hang knew that he was responding to him.All three ships were controlled by the man in black, and he said it was fine.Zhou Hang was even more sure of his guess, all of this was arranged by Lin Ruhai.

Although I don't know why Daddy Lin kept the secret so carefully this time, and he didn't even tell himself, but he will soon know, won't he?

After hearing these two words, the guards felt as if they had drunk a stimulant. They drew their swords and were about to rush down.

They thought it was Lin Ruhai who agreed.

"Wait!" Lin Ruhai said, "Who told you to draw your swords?"

"My lord... this..." The guards looked at each other, and the guard closest to Lin Ruhai said in a daze.

"Everyone come back!" Lin Ruhai said in a low voice.

He doesn't often use this kind of life-threatening tone, but when he uses it occasionally, it is very intimidating, and the people who listen to it are terrified.Subconsciously, the guards stopped and walked back quickly.I was a little scared in my heart, secretly thinking that Mr. Lin's gentle and refined appearance on weekdays, when he was serious, he was better than the most severe instructor who trained them.

Lin Ruhai stood up slowly, "Why are you so restless?" Compared with Cai Cai, his tone was already gentle, and he spoke earnestly, "You are also the people who always follow me, the reason for being reckless and wrong Don’t you know? Remember, no matter what time you have to stay calm, don’t act arbitrarily,” pointing your finger at your head, “use your brain…”

The guards looked at each other, Lin Ruhai continued: "The tax bank was robbed, the first one is to cut off my head." Looking around the crowd, "Why do I still have the mood to explain the truth to you here, you think about it carefully?"

He glanced around and finally landed on Zhou Hang with a little satisfaction and admiration.Lin Ruhai was very satisfied with Zhou Hang's calm and composed attitude. It is rare for him to be able to remain calm in the face of danger at such a young age.

"My lord, could it be that what was in the boat...wasn't Ku Yin?"

A guard said hesitantly.

Lin Ruhai nodded and looked at Zhou Hang, "You must have guessed that the real Ku Yin was transported away in the morning."

"What? My lord, this..." Zhang Yu's face was full of astonishment, with fear, fear, uneasiness, and many other complicated and indescribable emotions in his face, "How is this possible, my lord, no, it's not like this, It can't be like this..."

"Then what do you think it should be?" Lin Ruhai smiled half a smile.

"This..." Zhang Yu backed up trembling all over, aimlessly, his face was as white as a piece of paper, until he hit a guard.

"There are traitors in the Yanke Yamen." Lin Ruhai said with certainty, "And it's upstairs." There were only him, Zhou Hang, Zhang Yu, and some guards upstairs. They raised their eyes and glanced at the crowd with sharp eyes, "Who is it? Myself Stand up, otherwise it won't look so good if I point it out."

With a "plop", Zhang Yu collapsed on the ground, his eyes were out of focus, and there were only holes left.

Now no one needs to say anything, everyone understands, it seems that this traitor is this person.

It turned out that Lin Ruhai had long suspected that there was a traitor in the Yanke Yamen, but after receiving the news that Lishan Feiying wanted to rob the tax bank, he became more certain.It's just that there are many people in the Yanke yamen. I don't know who they are, so it's hard to act.So they sent out suspicious soldiers, saying on the surface that the fake tax money was going first, but in fact they asked capable people to drop the tax money in private.Therefore, the real tax money was transported away in the morning.

Lishan Feiying received the news that the real tax bank was still in Yangzhou and had never set off, so naturally he would not plan on the few ships that had already left.

What's more, there are probably thousands of armored soldiers on board those ships, all of them are brave men, even if he wants to fight, he is not afraid.

He didn't even tell Zhou Hang about this, because he was afraid that he would be too young and careless to say it out loud.The gold and silver were packed in boxes and sealed, and even the soldiers carrying them didn't know what they were.

Knowing that Zhang Yu is a traitor was also a few days ago.When he first saw the information sent by his subordinates, he was quite surprised.Zhang Yu has been with him for more than three years, and he works conscientiously, but he has never seen any signs of misconduct.What's more, everyone who followed him and participated in confidential matters had been thoroughly checked, and there was no doubt about it.

It turned out that Zhang Yu was bought off in the last few months.Daiyu was robbed, Lin Ruhai was in a hurry and couldn't care about the affairs of the yamen for a while, Zhang Yu was coerced and seduced by Gao Pengfei, of course, there were temptations, the main thing was coercion, threatening the lives of his family members, and then this weak-hearted The small official rebelled logically.

Gao Pengfei originally planned to find a way to transfer back to the capital to get away from these beheadings.However, since ancient times, it is easy to get on a thief ship, but it is difficult to think about it.He wanted to get away, but they would not let him go so easily.

As soon as Lin Ruhai gave an order, the guards took Zhang Yu down and tied him like a rice dumpling.

After completely occupying the ship, the man in black rowed southward, and after walking about two or three miles, he encountered an ambush.The boat was stopped by the fence and could not move forward any further. Suddenly, there was an earth-shattering shout and charge on both sides of the bank, followed by the sound of rumbling horseshoes, footsteps and ice blades.The blackness on both sides of the strait is full of soldiers with sharp weapons, at least a few thousand, and the torches illuminate the entire canal as if it were daytime.

The men in black on the boat knew that they were in an ambush, and they panicked for a while and became a mess.

The flames suddenly lit up, and countless rockets drew graceful arcs in the sky and landed on the ship.Soldiers familiar with water skills who had been lurking underwater for a long time came out and dumped the wine jars full of oil on the boat, and the canal instantly turned into a sea of ​​flames.

According to statistics afterwards, a total of more than 100 people were beheaded and killed, more than 100 were burned to death, and more than [-] were captured.The leader was a man with a full face and a big scar on the left forehead, about forty or so.

Qin Hongming, the governor of the Huaihe River, personally brought the hunky man to Lin Ruhai, and said, "He is the leader!" The voice was very loud, like thunder and lightning, bursting out with awe-inspiring righteousness.Pushed and shoved the meaty man to the ground, "This guy is a hard nut to crack. He broke several of my brothers, his grandma! Master Lin, I have already found out that he belongs to Li Shan Feiying's subordinates." One of the four heads must know where Li Shan Flying Eagle is hiding."

It is said that there are four chief executives under Lishan Feiying, who are in charge of thousands of saltworks and farms.These four masters are all highly skilled in martial arts, and they are the core members of the Lishan Flying Eagle Group.In order to catch this man with scars, dozens of soldiers besieged and sometimes shot arrows. Several people were killed by his sword, and the number of wounded was even more numerous.

Both Lin Ruhai and Qin Hongming felt that it was worth it. As long as they could pry his mouth open, they would be able to grasp more confidential information about Lishan Flying Eagle, so as to bring this great salt owl who endangered the court and was very good at hiding to justice.

The governor stationed in the Huaihe River is in the third grade and holds a heavy army.Qin Hongming came from a mud-legged background, didn't know a few big characters, and got out of his current position on the battlefield.Although he is poor in human relations and sophistication, he has many brave fighters with high martial arts skills under his command.

Lin Ruhai clasped his hands and said, "You have worked so hard, General, Ruhai is very grateful."

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The meaty man was very loyal to his master, Lin Ruhai tried many methods, but none of them pried his mouth open.Let's try to persuade them with good words, and people will ignore them, let's torture and torture them, it's useless to deal with such people, coercion and temptation?He has nothing to intimidate or lure.He himself said that he was alone, he only had the master in his heart, and he ignored everything else, even killing him was useless.

Even Zhou Hang's truth talisman only raised a few insignificant questions on him.

In the end, it was Daiyu who came up with an upgraded version of the truth talisman, and asked for several confidential information, including the layout of Lishan Flying Eagle's forces in the Lianghuai area and the distribution of salt fields.As for the hiding place, Li Shan Feiying was very cautious, even the four chief executives didn't know, so he couldn't find out.

However, it is already very good to be able to draw out the forces and the distribution of salt fields in the Lianghuai area.The Huaihe River and Huai River are the main salt-producing areas, destroying these forces is enough to seriously damage Lishan Feiying's vitality, and it will not be able to make trouble for several years.And it might be possible to take down Lishan Flying Eagle in one fell swoop, which is also unknown.

The robbery of tax money this time was not directly instigated by Li Shan Feiying, but secretly manipulated by a man surnamed Ma, whom they all called Lord Ma.

From his description, Zhou Hang suspects that the man he mentioned with the surname Ma is the one who hijacked Daiyu last time, so he draws a picture for the man to recognize.

Lin Ruhai was also very angry. He wanted to catch the horse master and avenge his daughter. He secretly said, let you run away last time, but this time it will not be so cheap!

After getting the exact news, Lin Ruhai personally led people to round up Ma Ye's stronghold in the east of Yangzhou City.Everyone holds a picture of Ma Ye, saying that when they see this person, no matter whether they live or die, they must not let him escape.The officers and soldiers surrounded a small courtyard with three floors inside and three floors outside, but they actually searched for a horse master, who was exactly the same as in the picture, and even Zhou Hang thought it was this person at first glance.But in the end it turned out that it was just a cover-up, used to confuse everyone to buy time, and the real Ma Ye had led a few thieves to escape through the tunnel.

Among the many strongholds destroyed, this is the only one with authenticity.

There are organs in the tunnel, hidden behind a wall, and at the end is a barren hill in the east of Yangzhou City.

After leaving this barren mountain, you can go out of Yangzhou in half a day by riding a fast horse.Although Lin Ruhai had already notified the nearby counties and issued arrest warrants, it would be difficult for him to catch a tiger if he left it in the forest.

Not to mention these, just say that as the strongholds were destroyed one by one, more and more core people were captured. With the improved version of the truth charm, they might not be able to pry their mouths open.Although the big salt lords had their own armed forces, they were weaker than the soldiers who fought on the real battlefield.Moreover, weapons such as knives, guns, arrows and feathers are strictly controlled by the imperial court. Although the salt lords are rich, there are still a few people who dare to risk their heads to provide them with weapons.

Therefore, in the days of weapons, the armed forces of salt lords were inferior to those of the imperial court.

In just half a month, Lishan Flying Eagle's forces in the Lianghuai area were almost completely wiped out, and three of the four major bosses were lost.In the end, there was really no other way out, so he had to flee to Beijing with the few remaining cronies.

Seeing that autumn has come, Lin Ruhai has served as the inspector of Yanyan for four years.

The other official positions are reported once every three years. Because the inspection of the salt censor is a heavy responsibility and a fat job, it is reasonable to report once a year.Before Lin Ruhai, there were seldom any of the inspectors who served as inspectors for more than a year.The reason why Lin Ruhai didn't go to Beijing to report on his duties in the past few years was because the emperor had dismissed him from reporting on his duties and was directly re-elected.Seeing Long En's prosperity, it's no wonder that so many people are jealous and always try to mess with Lin's mansion.

This year, Lin Ruhai hadn't submitted the paperwork for going to Beijing to report on his duties, so the Holy Majesty issued an imperial decree ordering Lin Ruhai to go to Beijing.

One stone caused a thousand waves. It is said that Lin Ruhai has made great contributions to suppressing the salt lords by managing the Jiangnan Salt Department. This time he will definitely be promoted.Some also secretly thought that Lin Ruhai was the favorite of the Supreme Emperor, and now that the Supreme Emperor had abdicated, the current Emperor was worried, so he was transferred to Beijing, and most likely he would be promoted to a job that was not useful, and would be promoted secretly.

Lin Ruhai didn't care about all this. Apart from handing over to the new salt class, he took Zhou Hang to study in his free time, played chess with his daughter, and cultivated his relationship.

After reading the Four Books and Five Classics, Lin Ruhai began to teach Zhou Hang "Sun Tzu's Art of War". After reading "Sun Tzu's Art of War", it was "Six Secret Teachings" and "Three Strategies". When Daiyu went to the study to bring tea to her father, Lin Ruhai was explaining "Wen Tao" to Zhou Hang. To sum up, it is nothing more than the way of seeking the world, recruiting wise men, and governing the country.

Zhou Hang complained silently while listening, I am not the emperor, learning these emperor's skills and emperor's language is useless.

Suddenly the servant girl reported: "The girl is here to deliver tea!"

Lin Ruhai nodded, and hurriedly brought the tea, but felt sorry for her daughter who came all the way here, and since Zhou Hang was there, it was difficult to ask her to come in, "Tell the girl, it's fine to send a maid to bring it over later, no need Running so far in person. As long as you have this filial piety, it's the same. If you get tired, won't it make your father feel sorry for you?"

"Yes." The servant girl took the order and left.

Zhou Hang wanted to ask Daiyu to come in and rest before leaving, but due to the strict etiquette and laws in ancient times, it was inappropriate to say it himself.If it's someone else, he doesn't care about etiquette or impoliteness, everything depends on his own mind.Maybe this is because it has been cultivated for real, but it is more casual.But this is Lin Ruhai, sister Lin's father, the only remaining close relative in the world.He didn't want Daddy Lin to treat him as a frivolous bastard, and he didn't want Sister Lin to be caught between him and Daddy Lin.

He really wanted to hold back, but after holding back, he still couldn't hold back.

"Haha, that, my lord..." Zhou Hang smiled, his glasses were almost narrowed, "Let Sister Yu'er come in to rest..."

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Sorry for the delay~

Try to make up for it these days.

There was a power outage in the community. It is said that the power consumption is too large, and it seems that the line is broken.My first reaction was that I was glad that the battery of my mobile phone was full, and I used the code words on my mobile phone in the dark. I didn’t pay attention to the time. I wanted to change it before midnight, but I realized that it was [-]:[-], so I changed it. Don’t be too late, dear friends .

Visually, tonight is a sleepless night, it's so hot~

Even if the air conditioner is not working when the power is off, there are mosquito bites