late at night.
There were only four people in the hall, the Lin family couple and the Jia family brothers.
"That is to say, my uncle has confirmed that there are problems with the salt merchants, but he has never taken the opportunity to kill them?" Jia Hui held a folding fan and kept slapping the palm of his left hand.
"Yes, from the hands of the Dalu family, we have found the ledger of correspondence with each family, but you also know that this is completely useless unless we really catch them on the spot!
They all prepare several ledgers! "Speaking of this, Lin Ruhai sighed.
"Then, how did they contact Zhongxin and the Zhen family?" Jia Zhu rubbed her chin and asked another question.
"This is the strangest thing. They only have one-way contact. The head of the Dalu family explained that it was President Bai of their Salt Merchant Chamber of Commerce who was in contact with a person named Shopkeeper Shi from the Zhongxin Palace. The contact with the Zhen family was also with a person named Shopkeeper Xu from the Zhen family. contact."
"Single contact? Haven't the other salt merchants tried to bypass President Bai?" Jia Zhu felt a little incredible.
"Hmph, presumably, these salt merchants who tried to circumvent them either died violently or were caught, and they had no choice but to let President Bai and Shopkeeper Shi monopolize the contact." Jia Hui put the fan on his lap. , sneered.
Lin Ruhai nodded.
Jia Hui started tapping his legs with the folding fan.
"Something's wrong, something's very wrong..."
"Something's wrong? What's wrong with Brother Hui?" Jia Min asked.
Jia Hui did not answer.
"There is definitely a problem with the salt merchant's matter. Uncle, I'd better put it on hold for now. No matter what, let's wait until I run the Jiangnan Camp!" Jia Hui knocked the folding fan heavily on his lap and said solemnly to Lin Ruhai.
"That's...ok..." Lin Ruhai heard that the salt merchant's matter was to be put on hold and was about to retort. Seeing Jia Hui's solemn expression, she agreed.
"However, you still have to beat it. Let's do it in a few days when they come to pay their birthdays."
Several people nodded subconsciously, suddenly feeling something was wrong.
"Blessings to you? Brother, who do you wish to wish you birthday to?" Jia Zhu was confused.
"Yes, Brother Hui, the old lady at home has a birthday in July, and your uncle and I don't have birthdays in May. Who do you want to celebrate her birthday with?" Jia Min also looked confused.
wrong! Birthday in May?
"It's my nineteenth birthday! Whoever doesn't come is despising the Great General Sima!"
Jia Hui knocked on the table next to her with her fan and stood up.
"Going to rest, farewell!"
. . . . . .
The next day, news about the birthday of the Commander-in-Chief of the Zuo Army, Shangzhu State, General Sima, and Dunhuang County Duke Jia Hui's 19th birthday spread throughout Yangzhou City, especially the salt merchants.
"Nineteen years old? Birthday? Humph, this age is called a birthday, isn't he afraid of losing his fortune and longevity?" Chairman Bai looked at the invitation in his hand that Jia Hui celebrated his birthday and invited him to the birthday banquet with an absurd expression.
What embarrassed him the most was that at the end of the invitation there was no honorific such as "Welcome," but an extremely arrogant sentence - If you don't come, you will bear the consequences.
"President, to put it bluntly, at this age, General Jia has already obtained the wealth and glory that we may not be able to achieve in our eighty or ninety years old, or even in the next few lives. Isn't it right to be arrogant and domineering? ?
Even if he died suddenly now, he would still be recorded in the annals of history, and his name would go down in history as a famous general of Qi. What was he afraid of damaging his fortune and longevity? "The head of the salt merchant Gao family is a man who speaks faster than his brain. President Bai was so ashamed on the spot that he almost passed by.
Several salt merchants hurriedly fanned President Bai again, which made him feel better, and it took him a while to calm down.
President Bai looked at the head of the Gao family helplessly. If he hadn't known that he had been fighting since childhood, he would have been outspoken and capable.
The most important thing is that the size of the Gao family is on the same level as mine, or even a little higher. If the head of the Gao family hadn't been too young at the time, who would have gotten him as the president?
"Well said, don't say it again next time!"
What else? Of course I forgive him...
Although President Bai was quite afraid of the Gao family, the head of the Gao family still respected President Bai. Seeing that President Bai's condition had stabilized, he quickly got a cup of tea and handed it to President Bai.
"President, do we really want to go? This is obviously a sign of bad intentions. After all, we are disciples of Prince Zhongxin!" A salt merchant owner said worriedly.
Things like wallflowers will always become unpalatable to both sides.
"Go, you must go! This has nothing to do with the grasshopper!
Although we all show off our power in Jiangnan, in Jia Hui's eyes, there is not much difference between squeezing us to death and squeezing ants to death. The gap in status is too big. To be honest, there are not many noble people in Yangzhou, so we have the opportunity to meet them.
If he were in the capital of the gods, he would probably be kicked out by his disciples. He wouldn't even be able to meet his chief steward, and he wouldn't even be qualified to visit him!
So, just go with peace of mind, the prince will definitely understand! "
Although he is doing things for the Yi tribe, President Bai still has a clear and very clear positioning of his identity.
"Then, let's go then? What kind of gifts are you preparing?" asked the head of the Gao family.
"What level are you preparing for? Go read the "Da Qi Laws" and the "Da Qi Huidian". What can you give, what can't you give, and what will tyrannize the Yi tribe. It's all written on it, don't be stunned. Now, go and get ready." President Bai finished speaking and left the teahouse first.
The salt merchants looked at me and I looked at you, and they all went back to prepare.
. . . . . .
Outside Yangzhou City, the old camp of Jiangbei.
Jia Hui chose this place as one of the command posts for this reorganization of the Jiangnan camp.
As for why not live in Jinling City?
The main reason is that the aristocratic families in Jinling have a close relationship with Jiangnan Camp. In this case, Jia Hui will not go to other people's territory to cut their flesh. Poison, water leakage, assassination, etc.?
However, sooner or later, he had to go to Jinling for work, so Jia Hui sent people to repair the military camp at the southern foot of Zijin Mountain, where the Xiaoling Guards of the Ming Dynasty had been in his previous life.
Coincidentally, there used to be a guard station here, called Zijin Guard, which was established in the early years of the founding of the People's Republic of China. It was abolished when the Jiangnan Camp was established and merged into the Jiangnan Camp.
As for the Jiangnan Camp, it was stationed at the Grand Campus south of Jinling City in the previous Ming Dynasty.
The Jinling City in this world is not as big as the previous life, which is the Ming Jinling without the outer city.
Since Jiangbei Camp was dismantled only three years ago, the camp can be used again after a little cleaning and maintenance.
Of course, they didn't pack much, so they packed up an independent camp that could accommodate about four to five thousand people. It was more than enough to accommodate the more than 3,500 people Jia Hui brought.
In the festival hall, Jia Hui is meeting with Tan Ji, a Qianhu of the Jinling Qianhu Office of Xiuyiwei.
"For your humble position, please see the Governor!" As soon as he entered the door, Tan Ji knelt down on one knee and paid homage.
"Tan Qianhu, no courtesy, come and sit down."
"Thank you for your humiliation, Commander-in-Chief!" Tan Ji stood up, but still leaned forward, walked quickly and sat on the chair on the side, then straightened his waist, not looking at Jia Hui, but with his head slightly lowered. , roughly looking at the wooden tube holding the token on the table.
He is indeed a very polite person.
Jia Hui observed Tan Ji.
This is a good-looking man, about thirty years old, with thick eyebrows and big eyes. In Jia Hui's eyes, Tan Ji's every move shows that he has good skills, but he is a bit short, about 1.6 meters tall. .
But this height coupled with the obvious muscles that can be felt give Tan Ji a fierce look.
He is a talent, but unfortunately, he is a pervert.
Tan Ji is known internally as the "hand that separates tendons and bones" in Xiuyiwei.
What I loved most in my life was crushing the prisoners' bones alive during torture. Of course, he also liked other torture methods.
Although the method is extremely cruel, everyone in Xiuyiwei is not an ordinary person. Apart from causing some irritation at first, they quickly got used to it.
Until last year, after the emperor's last commander of the embroidered clothing guard died of illness, the emperor gave the embroidered clothing guard to the emperor, leaving only the Dongchang in his hands.
The happy emperor parachuted his nanny brother to the Xiuyi Guard as a commander.
The new commander naturally wanted to get familiar with his subordinates, so he took people on a tour.
It was very good at first, perfectly in line with the Commander’s fantasy of embroidered clothes.
Then he wanted to go to Zhao Prison again, and then he saw Tan Ji who was interrogating prisoners.
Three days later, a transfer order was placed on Tan Ji's desk.
According to reports from people familiar with the matter, the commander of the Jump Gang who followed the emperor in the naval battle went home after watching Tan Ji's interrogation process. When he got home, he started vomiting, and the bile vomited came out. Meat was seen on the dinner table. I just retched and didn't sleep well for several nights. I came to work with big bags under my eyes for several days in a row.
In this way, Tan Ji came to Qianhu in Jinling.
Of course, there is no talk of being demoted. Tan Ji was even promoted one level, from Deputy Qianhu to Qianhu.
But now, the emperor temporarily granted him command of the Qianhu Institute in Jinling and so on. Before he returned to the capital of the gods, the entire Jiangnan Embroidery Guard system was under Jia Hui's control.
"As for the collusion between the Salt Gang and Jiangnan Camp...forget it, give me the information about Jiangnan Camp first, and the Salt Gang will monitor it for the time being."
"Yes, I understand!" Tan Ji answered with his hands raised.
Then, Tan Ji took out a booklet from his arms, held the booklet in both hands and handed it to Jia Hui.
"that's it?"
"Back to the Grand Governor, the Jiangnan camp is the focus of surveillance by my thousands of households, and there is a lot of information.
This is a summary of Bizhong. If you want to see the details, Bizhong will send someone to deliver it right away! "
Afraid of misunderstanding by the Governor, Tan Ji quickly explained.
"That's it. Then sort out the group of people who have colluded with the Jiangnan clan or were originally relatives of the clan. I want to see it tonight."
"Yes, I humbly obey the order!" After saying that, Tan Ji turned around and looked at the soldier who followed him in. The soldier understood and hurriedly went to ask someone to sort it out.
Jia Hui looked at Tan Ji's summary.
In general, Jiangnan Camp is divided into these parts.
The first part, soldiers and low-level officers.
It is composed of a majority of people from Jinling and surrounding areas and a small number of soldiers from Su, Hui and Zhejiang.
As time goes by, among the locals in the camp, more and more children of wealthy families enter the gilded camp, and many common people work hard to send their idle sons to the military camp to serve as soldiers and get paid, so as to gain face. Look for a good wife to talk to him about.
But neither group of people are good birds. Under the influence of the two groups of people, the remaining people who are responsible have been drawn into divisions and corrupted.
Only the visiting troops from Su, Hui and Zhejiang who were transferred here have maintained a certain amount of training, but more than ten years of peace have inevitably caused their combat effectiveness to decline.
Some of the senior generals are very simple.
Needless to say, the rest should be cleaned up. Those who thought they could be lawless by relying on the Zhen family and Queen Zhongxin, and the so-called "Da Qi veterans" who relied on their elders and disdained Jia Hui.
There are some other reasons here and there, which I won’t go into here.
"That is to say, Da Qi's so-called Jiangnan camp has almost turned into a private army of the aristocratic families headed by the Zhen family?"
"Back to the Governor, I'm afraid it is true. The Zhen family relied on the old lady Feng Sheng to arbitrarily place people in the south of the Yangtze River and get involved in various businesses. The Jiangnan camp cannot be ignored. Take the bribed generals as an example. Bar.
After being transferred to Jiangnan Camp, another prince came to Jiangnan Camp.
Suddenly he became Prince Zhongxin's disciple, but because there were more people than jobs, and the Jiangnan camp was a garrison, there was no chance of promotion and wealth, so he had no choice but to drink the blood of the soldiers.
At this moment, the Zhen family, who had grasped the handle of these generals, appeared. He began to spread the word about what kind of benefits Prince Zhongxin would receive as he ascended the throne, and what kind of benefits it would bring to the continuation of the family. He could not tolerate rejection.
At this time, the generals of Jinling, who had no way out, had no choice but to board the Zhen family's pirate ship.
Many wealthy families were also forced onto the ship by the Zhen family, and they couldn't escape even if they wanted to..."
Tan Ji began to give a brief introduction to Jia Hui.
Jia Hui kept nodding.
But as if being hit by something, Jia recalled the two people.
"By the way, Tan Qianhu, do you have any information about these two so-called 'Shopkeeper Bai' and 'Shopkeeper Shi' in your office?"
Jia Hui poked his face with a fan. These relationships were so confusing that he was confused, so he forced himself to wake up.
"Shopkeeper Shi and Shopkeeper Bai... Shopkeeper Shi doesn't have it, but Shopkeeper Bai seems to have heard of it."
"What's going on?" Jia Hui leaned over.
"Because of the old lady Feng Sheng and Prince Zhongxin, we didn't go too deep into the investigation.
Fortunately, the prince can still fight with his old skills, but the people really can't get in.
What's more, the old lady Feng Sheng was called 'my old lady' by the Emperor, and she had always forbidden me and Xiu Yi from sneaking in and could not disturb her.
Because of this, we only knew that the man was the intermediary between the Zhen family and Prince Zhongxin. There had never been anything unusual. The humble predecessor put them aside and concentrated on thinking about how to send the secret agents in Qianhusuo. Go to Zhen's house. "Tan Ji explained calmly.
Jia Hui looked at him with a smile.
Tan Ji knew that his little idea of scapegoating had been discovered.
"It doesn't matter. After all, you have only been in Jinling for half a year. It is already very good to be able to achieve this level." Jia Hui held a folding fan and gently fanned the wind.
Tan Ji's heart dropped.
"Do you need a humble position to investigate?"
"Of course, there is no need to be afraid of the Zhen family or those who are loyal to the king.
Your supporter will be me, Mr. Jia, from today on. If you find out anything, tell me. Okay, I still have something to do, so go ahead and do your work! "
After speaking, Jia Hui picked up a stack of documents and waved it towards Tan Ji, put it on the table and started writing, ignoring Tan Ji.
Tan Ji stood up, bowed deeply to Jia Hui, and then walked out of the festival hall without looking back.
I'm sorry. I didn't get home until almost 11 o'clock in the evening. I wrote this chapter in a hurry. I'll start with 4,000 words today and make up for the two chapters and 4,000 words tomorrow.
(End of chapter)
