There is an inn in Jiangling City called Dongyue Inn.
This inn is located in the northwest corner of the city. The terrain is very poor. There are not many merchants and travelers who come to stay here on weekdays, so it is deserted all day long.
But what is strange is that although this inn does not have many guests, it is still managed "strongly" and has not closed down due to poor business.
At this time, Yao Guangming was resting in a guest room on the second floor. This inn was a stronghold set up by the Ministry of Military Intelligence in Jingzhou Prefecture. It was specially used for the exchange of military intelligence personnel and the transmission of various intelligence.
Yao Guangming opened the window and saw no one in the quiet alley outside. There were no people in the surrounding private houses. Two of them were abandoned and two important private houses were bought by the Ministry of Military Intelligence. , there was no one living there at this time.
"Well, the brothers here in Jingzhou Mansion are still reliable, and the location of this inn is well chosen."
Just as Yao Guangming was thinking about it, he heard someone knocking on the door outside. The frequency of the knocking was exactly the code required by the Ministry of Military Intelligence.
"Come in."
The person coming was none other than Zhang Haitai. Yao Guangming asked Zhang Haitai to sit down and then asked, "Any clues?"
Zhang Haitai nodded and said: "The Han family in the city!"
"Han family?"
Yao Guangming frowned slightly. He had also heard of the Han family, which was considered a well-known powerful person in the Jiangling area. Not only did he do business and own a farm, but he also had close contacts with officials from Jingzhou Prefecture.
"Is there any evidence?"
Zhang Haitai said: "Not yet, it's just rumors among the people in the city. However, my subordinates have sent people to keep an eye on the Han family secretly. There should be news in two days."
Yao Guang
Ming nodded slightly, thought for a moment, and said, "You have been paying special attention to the Han family in the past two days. Maybe the Han family is the key to unlocking the situation for us."
"Sir, what do you mean, do you want to take action on the Han family?"
"snort!"
Yao Guangming said: "Even if there is no evidence now, we can still guess that the masterminds behind the tax resistance in various places should be powerful people like the Han family, and maybe some local officials."
"These people have deep roots in the local area. It is not easy to get evidence that they incite people to cause trouble. So when necessary, we should kill them to serve as a warning to others!"
"As long as those people's courage is frightened, they will definitely reveal the truth, and then we will be able to follow the clues."
"My subordinate understands!"
"only……"
Zhang Haitai hesitated for a moment, then asked: "What if the Han family wakes up during surveillance, or organizes tenants to cause trouble again?"
Yao Guangming sneered and said: "Isn't that just right? If you arrest people and arrest them, you can deal with them how you want!"
"Yes, I understand!"
Two days later, at nightfall.
In an inconspicuous private house to the south of the Han family's residence, Zhang Haitai and two of his subordinates were watching here. At this time, a small hole had been made in the back wall of the private house to observe the situation on the street outside. It was just right. Saw the movement in the Han family residence.
"Sir, there's a situation!"
Zhang Haitai heard the warning from his subordinates and hurriedly came over to check through the small hole. He saw that the door of the Han family's residence slowly opened a crack, and a man walked out and got directly into the carriage parked at the door.
"That's..., the housekeeper of the Han family
! "
After these two days of surveillance, Zhang Haitai naturally recognized the main targets of the Han family, and the housekeeper was one of them.
"You two keep staring here, and I'll take someone to follow you and have a look."
"yes!"
After a while, Zhang Haitai and several of his subordinates followed quickly under the cover of night.
Everyone didn't dare to ride in a carriage or ride a horse. They just followed the butler's carriage from a distance and chased it through the alleys along the way, as long as they didn't lose their target.
Not long after, Zhang Haitai and others stopped and looked out at a hidden street corner. They saw that the carriage driven by the Han family's butler had stopped at the east gate of Jiangling City. The officers and soldiers guarding the city were talking to the butler. .
Then Zhang Haitai was surprised to see that the city guards opened the city gate at night and let the Han family housekeeper out of the city!
"The Han family is really knowledgeable in Jiangling City. They can even enter and leave the city freely at night!"
"Sir, what should we do?"
Zhang Haitai thought for a moment and asked, "Does any of you remember what property the Han family has in the east outside the city?"
"There is the Han family's farm on the east side of the city, and the Han family's farmland is mainly concentrated on the east side of the city."
"Understood!"
Zhang Haitai said: "Let's wait here for dawn. After dawn, we will go directly to the Han family farm."
"Aren't we leaving the city now?"
It is actually not difficult for Zhang Haitai and others to leave the city. They all have waist cards from the Military Intelligence Department and can enter and leave the city at will at night.
But in this way, with the Han family's ears, eyes and connections in Jiangling City, it won't be long before everyone's existence is known, and there is no guarantee that they will not be alerted.
"Don't leave the city now, wait until dawn!"
that day
When the color was polished, the gate of Jiangling City slowly opened. Zhang Haitai hurriedly led people out of the east gate, and everyone walked all the way to the Han family farm outside the city.
"Look, sir!"
Not long after, everyone came to the outskirts of the farm and saw a huge farm. There were at least tens of thousands of acres of cultivated land around it. There were hundreds of tenants here, including men, women, old and young. They should all be farmers who could not survive and were dependent on them. The Han family lives.
"The housekeeper moved very quickly. He gathered hundreds of people in one night. Where are you going?"
Then Zhang Haitai saw the Han family's butler at a glance. At this time, the butler had changed his clothes. The satin green shirt he wore last night was gone, replaced by a pair of coarse cloth clothes, tattered, just like the tenants around him.
"Humph, you do a whole show, you're really thoughtful!"
"Sir, what should we do?"
"Let's take a look first and then talk."
Then Zhang Haitai and others lay down in a ditch outside the farm, quietly watching the movements of the crowd in the distance. Under the instigation and leadership of the Han family's housekeeper, hundreds of tenants were marching towards Jiangling City. Go.
"Can these people still enter the city? What are they thinking!"
"Why can't you go into the city?"
Zhang Haitai said with a solemn expression: "Don't forget how the Han family's housekeeper came out!"
Several subordinates were immediately shocked. It seemed that the Han family wanted to bring something big and bring people directly into the city to cause trouble, instead of gathering outside the city as usual.
"Rush back immediately and report to the Lord."
"You guys go to the military camp in the city immediately, seal the city in the name of the Intelligence Department, and keep those people out first."
"yes!"
Zhang Haitai sent several subordinates
After leaving, he thought for a while, and then said to himself: "I'm afraid it's too late. The defenders in the city have a close relationship with the Han family. They delayed it for a while, and the tenants entered the city. Hundreds of people quarreled, and Jiangling was in trouble. The city will be in chaos!"
Thinking of this, Zhang Haitai waved to the two remaining men around him. The three of them rushed out of the ditch where they were hiding. They rushed to the front of hundreds of tenants in three steps and two steps at a time. Then with a big wave of his hand, the three of them rushed out. The saber stopped the advancing crowd.
The housekeeper of the Han family was also startled, and then shouted angrily: "Who are you? You want to die, how dare you stop my Han family!"
Zhang Haitai took out his badge with a cold face. When the Han family's butler saw it, his face suddenly turned pale and he stammered: "Military Intelligence, Department, Department, you are the Jin Yiwei!"
When the hundreds of tenants heard the word "Jinyiwei", they were all frightened and backed away. Many women suddenly burst into tears, just grabbed their children, turned around and ran away.
After a while, one-third of the hundreds of people fled, leaving only a few men who were still holding on fearfully.
At this time, the Han family's butler turned pale, forced out a smile, and said: "I don't know what business the three adults have, why did they stop the villain?"
Zhang Haitai said coldly: "Since I have found you, it means something has happened to your Han family!"
"What happened?"
The housekeeper of the Han family was pounding in his heart, his expression kept changing, and his small eyes turned around, thinking about something.
"Jinyiwei is handling the case. Will he come to the door if there is no evidence?"
Zhang Haitai said coldly: "A large group of people have gone to the Han family now, we are just here to stop them. No.
Seeing that you gathered these hundreds of people, you must be the main culprit. How you will explain and how you will make decisions in the future will happen in just a moment. I don’t have much patience to wait! "
"grown ups!"
Zhang Haitai originally thought of shouting a few more words, but who would have thought that the Han family's housekeeper directly called "sir", then knelt on the ground with a plop, and then said with runny nose and tears: "It's all forced by the master of the house, villain. I really don’t dare to fight against the imperial court. The previous tax resistance was all arranged by the head of the family and was not the intention of a villain!"
Seeing this scene, the remaining tenants in the group lost their backbone and knelt down one after another with the Han family's housekeeper, kowtow and beg for mercy, and cried bitterly, for fear that they would be implicated by the Han family.
Zhang Haitai and his two subordinates breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, the servants of the Han family were timid and did not take action. Otherwise, the three of them alone would not be able to stop these hundreds of tenants.
So Zhang Haitai asked: "So, you are just being instigated by others?"
"yes!"
The Han family's housekeeper said loudly: "The villain is just being instigated by others!"
"Do you have any evidence?"
"have!"
The housekeeper of the Han family seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw and said hurriedly: "The villain knew that the Han family was acting erratically and was worried that one day something would happen, so he recorded all the previous tax resistance incidents, including which officials the head of the Han family contacted. Record them one by one. Also, I will record everything that the Han family has done that violated the law in the past."
Zhang Haitai's eyes suddenly lit up and he asked, "Where is that thing?"
"In the little man's home!"
"very good!"
Then Zhang Haitai looked at the many tenants kneeling on the ground and said loudly: "Today
The matter has not caused any adverse consequences. I will not care about you for the time being. In the future, you must not be manipulated by others and act as a pawn for thieves to fight against the imperial court. Otherwise, you will bear the consequences! "
All the tenants swore an oath that they would never dare to confront the imperial court.
So Zhang Haitai immediately dismissed all the tenants and warned everyone to work and live peacefully after returning. The court would successively promulgate various new policies to benefit the people, so that everyone could wait with peace of mind.
All the tenants then returned to the farm with many thanks.
Here, Zhang Haitai said to the Han family's housekeeper: "Let's go, take me to get the criminal evidence of the Han family, and you will be considered guilty and meritorious."
"Yes, sir, please rest assured, the villain will definitely serve his crime and serve!"
In Jiangling City, Yao Guangming received the news sent by Zhang Haitai. He was surprised and began to deploy countermeasures.
"Immediately send someone with my order to the garrison in the city and mobilize troops to surround the Han family!"
"Immediately seal all the city gates, and at the same time, immediately replace the soldiers originally stationed at the various city gates!"
"yes!"
Immediately, Yao Guangming led several men from the Military Intelligence Department to the outside of the Han family's residence. When everyone arrived, the city's garrison had already arrived first and surrounded the entire residence.
"The last general, Jiangling Guardsman Xu Fengran, pays homage to your lord!"
Yao Guangming is the commander of the Nanzhen Fu Division of the Ministry of Military Intelligence. His rank is higher than that of the city's defense guards, so he naturally considers himself to be a senior official.
"Is anyone coming or going from the Han family?"
"Please rest assured, sir, not even a fly can fly out of the Han family's residence!"
"good!"
Suddenly, the door of the house opened a small crack, and a fat man with big ears squeezed out sideways. The man saw the guard Xu Feng at a glance.
However, he said loudly in shock: "Brother Xu, why are you doing this? Didn't we agree to go to Zuixianglou to drink wine tonight? Why did you suddenly surround my house?"
At this time, Yao Guangming looked at the guard Xu Fengran beside him, and saw that Xu Fengran's face was ashen, and he gritted his teeth and looked at the man who spoke, looking like he was eating someone.
