Lu Han took a ladle of water and poured it on Guo Ning's head: "I told you, don't move!"
"Okay, don't move. Just tell me! I, a big Zhou, are just a bunch of people. The only one who is truly reliable is you, Ahan!"
"Don't talk nonsense." Lu Han said softly.
Guo Ning stretched out his hand to signal, but was speechless.
"Li Yun and Xu Jin each have their own way of investigating. What happened these days is complicated and confusing... Let me start with Li Yun and draw out the first clue."
While Lu Han was washing the towel, he spoke in a very soft voice, which reassured Guo Ning as usual.
"The clues that Xu Wei threw to Li Yun focused on the expansion of the docks at Liukou and Sanchakou. This matter first originated from the busy transportation of materials during the construction period of Tianjin Prefecture. It was included in the Caoshan Division's plan last autumn, and was immediately informed by the Ministry of Works. Approval. Most of the people working in the Ministry of Industry belong to the Xu family, and their methods of doing things are very flexible, so they directly transferred the manpower dispatching matter to Wang Kou'er, the upstart in Baodi County, Li Erlang's father-in-law."
"I do remember that."
Guo Ning said: "Nowadays, most of the matters of horse herding in the army are scattered to the commander's office and the envoy department. Wang Kou'er's group animal husbandry department is now a empty one, leaving behind some old brothers who have no special talents but are hardworking."
"That's true. Wang Koo'er was born as a local businessman. After taking a job as a sinecure, he opened several brick kilns in the name of his relatives to supply various projects of Tianjin Prefecture and make some money. The wharf at Sanchakou is along the current expansion line. Facing the East Bay, the embankment is one and a half miles long, with two miles of attached carriage roads, two watchtowers and three trestles, with a total of 400,000 bricks. It was all done by Wang Kou'er's manpower, which took about two months, using kiln workers, There are many masons and carpenters, and the more ordinary laborers the better.”
Tianjin Prefecture is connected to the rivers, seas and Dayi, so it is a treasure land. The only disadvantage is that the terrain is low and humid, and the wooden and stone buildings are easily damaged. Therefore, in various large-scale constructions where the supply of stone is insufficient, bricks must be used in large quantities.
Baking bricks is not an advanced technology. It is nothing more than mining clay, making brick embryos, and then drying and firing them. The only way to produce enough and quickly is to increase the number of manpower.
"Wang Kou'er doesn't have that many people," Guo Ning said.
Lu Han nodded: "But he has connections."
"He is Li Erlang's father-in-law, and he is respected everywhere. In his early years, he raised horses for the army. He was very popular and recognized by everyone. So this time he first found Shi Qing, the defense envoy of Tongzhou, and borrowed Shi Qing's help. Thanks to the relationship, I contacted Xia Quan and Shi Gui from Shandong."
"Xia Quan and Shi Gui fought with Li Erlang in Shandong back then, and they were not acquainted. They were well-known and skilled in the East and West Road of Shandong. They had their own large manor to attract guests, and they were also happy to find some leisure time for the villagers. It was an opportunity to make extra money. Now the two of them gathered the people and asked their close relatives to take them north."
"It turns out they are Xia Quan and Shi Gui..." Guo Ning murmured to himself: "Could it be Xia Quan and Shi Gui? They don't have such thoughts, it's impossible!"
"Xia Quan and Shi Gui were just the reason for gathering the people, not their superiors. But after the people arrived in Tianjin, they were jealous of the treatment of the local craftsmen and made troubles several times in a row, so that the project that was originally planned was disrupted again and again. Delay... By the time you went out on patrol, Wang Kou'er felt that if you delayed it any longer, he was afraid that something would happen, and he was even more afraid that he would be implicated. So he went to Hu Zhonggui and asked him to step in as a patrol inspector, make a fool of himself, and punish him severely. The first few people."
"Hu Zhonggui didn't learn Li Erlang's cunning, he only learned a vicious look. Once he gets involved, he only knows how to kill people and beat him... Hum, let's investigate the matter of wanton killing later. He doesn't want to give any clues. I saw it!"
Guo Ning cursed a few words and asked, "Citizens travel thousands of miles just for money, not to sacrifice their lives. Seeing people die, and others in the team incite it, will it naturally become more chaotic?"
"There are indeed people in the team who are instigating. Wang Kou'er is confused, but since Li Yun started to investigate, he must have known it by now."
Guo Ning listened carefully, and sure enough at the same time, the sound of the cavalry running across the ground boomed again.
"He has gone back to Sanchakou again..."
Guo Ning pondered for a moment and said: "It seems that the person behind the instigation in the team is not
In Tianjin Mansion, Li Yun wanted to take down the minions who were doing things first. Hey, I'm curious about it. He can encourage everyone to focus their resentment on the inspection, he can transfer the suspicion of the outside world to the two people around Li Ting, and he can withstand pressure from all sides and keep delaying the construction of the chief engineer. It lasted for several months, to the point of blocking grain transportation, but it did not intensify enough to prevent the garrison from coming forward... Such precision is not something ordinary people can do, it must be a master! How can such a good player be found casually? "
When Guo Ning first started his army, he could know almost every soldier under his command and every official under his command. Later, he became a hero and could point out the capable civil and military subordinates one by one when he patrolled the military and political affairs in various places.
As the size of the army continues to grow, no matter how hard he tries to get familiar with it, there is always a limit to a person's energy. What's more, the interest circles of nobles and military households associated with the army have expanded abnormally. But he can be sure that anyone with such ability must have established a name in the turmoil of the past few years, and will definitely not be an unknown person.
"He is indeed a good player, and he is indeed an unusual little guy. You praised him in the early years in Jinan. They are all alert. I guess that Li Yun may be able to catch some clues when he runs to Sanchakou now, but he has No one is there. They must have escaped early."
When Lu Han said this, he felt that the water in the bathtub did not iron the skin as much as before, so he went to the cubicle and picked up a bucket of hot water, and slowly poured it into the bathtub with a ladle.
However, the temperature in the room has always been warm, which shows that the iron heater that snakes along the corner of the room is very effective. This kind of heater only became popular this year. It is made of fine iron to form a sealed tube, and water is filled into the tube. In a special room next door, charcoal fire or coal is burned to heat the water in the tube, which is used to circulate heat for heating.
Several trading houses with official background from the Great Zhou Dynasty are promoting this thing as a good product. It is said that the cold wave this year is extremely cold, so the business of the heater must be very good.
In the blink of an eye as Lu Han came in and out, Guo Ning thought of who she was talking about.
Guo Ning sank deeper into the water and said slowly: "...It's Xu Wende, and Guo Zheng, right?"
"Exactly. Mukuro, you have always had a good memory."
Guo Ning patted his forehead: "Back then, the Mongolian soldiers retreated and gathered in Jinan Water Village. They then deceived Yin Chang's two men by singing, chanting, and fighting, and later became Yin Chang's confidants. These two men were low-key officials. He has no reputation, so he can follow the people northward, and they have the ability to disturb people's hearts. By the way, last year when we went to Shandong, you said that you couldn't write two characters of "Guo" in one sentence, but you privately thought that Guo Zheng was a relative of yours... "
Guo Ning couldn't help laughing: "No wonder, Guo Zheng won't hide it from you."
After laughing twice, Guo Ning couldn't help but pat the water and turned into a bitter smile: "Since these two people are secretly manipulating it, then Yin Chang behind them is definitely involved. Li Yun is worried that our Marshal Guanzhong is involved, Now Marshal Guanzhong has been left aside, but Nanjing Deputy Lieutenant is involved again!"
"I'm afraid the Nanjing Deputy Lieutenant is not the only one involved."
"Who else?"
"Xu Wende and Guo Zheng worked for Yanshi before they were accepted as confidants by Yin Chang, and they have an irreversible relationship with each other."
"Is the Nanjing Road Transfer Envoy also involved?"
"Xu and Guo did not receive Yan Shi's instructions for this trip. But according to Guo Zheng, Yan Shi must have known about it."
"Haha, haha." Guo Ning smiled and shook his head.
After a while, he asked Lu Han: "Is there no one else on the line that Li Yun is holding on to? If there is anyone else, I will feel aggrieved."
"There is no one else on this thread, but Xu Jin still has more threads in his hands."
"Even if Lao Xu is in the Recording Department, he doesn't offend people easily. He just hopes that Li Yun will be irritable and cause trouble to cover his private actions."
"This time you are on an expedition. There are many strange things in both the government and the public. If you examine each line carefully, you will find a long explanation. Xu Jin is generally doing things properly."
Guo Ning waved his hands repeatedly: "Ahan, you might as well tell me directly, who are the people jumping online?"
"For the specific names, you can read what I wrote later. Right now, I know for sure that there are fourteen people with positions ranging from the fifth to the third rank, who hold real power in the middle of the DPRK or on the southern border. Xu Jin checked
After asking, you can find out more. "
"Are they colluding? Why? Do they want to rebel?"
"It's not like they deliberately colluded, and no one wants to rebel. However, their ideas are different from you and the generals of the three northern recruiting divisions. In their eyes, you have been paying attention to the grassland for too long, and you have invested so much. There are too many resources; what the court should really do is to march south and conquer the Song Dynasty."
