The old bustard howled like a pig: "Ah, a murderer. The common woman was wronged!!"
Xiang'er was pulled in from the outside and pushed to the ground, motionless.
Zhu Bai raised his eyebrows at Zhang Yu and asked, "Dead?"
Zhang Yu said: "She wanted to commit suicide, but my subordinates could only immobilize her."
Zhu Bai nodded slightly.
Zhang Yu and the others secretly sighed: Zhu Bai looked obsessed that day, but now he doesn't have any pity.
When he gave the snack in his hand to the beggar, he was innocent and harmless, just like the boy next to Guanyin.
When killing people, he doesn't even blink, and he is extremely cold-blooded and cruel, like a Shura from hell.
He is truly the Bodhisattva who saves people from suffering, and he is also the devil who kills without blinking an eye.
Others from the brothel were herded in from upstairs and outside to kneel in the hall.
The outside was already surrounded by Yangzhou guards and officers and soldiers from Yangzhou government offices on three levels inside and three outside.
Fugui placed a chair in the center of the hall.
Zhu Bai sat down slowly, not in a hurry, as if he was waiting for something.
After a while, dozens of officials from the Salt Envoy Department were escorted in, as well as the old woman who sold the horse that day and several of her servants.
The madam who had been wailing just now was shaking like a rocker and dared not say anything anymore.
Zhu Bai glanced at the person who had just been escorted in, frowned and asked, "Where is Li Dacai?"
Zhang Yu replied: "Since His Highness's inspection was transferred to the Salt Envoy Department that day, Li Dacai went back to the Ministry of Household Affairs overnight to work as his Yuanwai Lang."
It is said that Li Dacai said this when he left: "It's over, it's over, the 'Little King of Hell' is here. We can't stay here anymore. A lot of people are going to die again. We can still make money in the future, but we must save our lives first."
Zhu Bai didn't know whether to laugh or cry: This bastard slipped away very quickly.
The transfer envoy of the capital saluted Zhu Bai and said, "Your Highness, I wonder what the minor minister has committed?"
After all, he was a third-grade official, so it was really hurtful to have Zhu Bai's people break into his home in the middle of the night, drag him out of bed and kneel here.
Zhu Bai calmly took out the gold medal that said "I am here in person" from his arms and shook it.
All the transfer envoys immediately fell silent.
Zhu Bai has this gold medal. There is no need for any evidence or charges to kill him, and there is no need to ask Lao Zhu for instructions.
Zhu Bai said: "I have always been puzzled. There are not even a hundred but dozens of water merchants who transport salt from Yangzhou City every day. How do these Japanese pirates accurately select the merchants with the largest amount of money to rob and kill, and also You can do it when the water merchant sells salt and returns with a banknote in his pocket. Although the salt merchant is rich, there are also many wealthy merchants in the official teeth bureau who do business every day, and many of them are wealthy people, but they have never suffered Poisonous hand. Later, I realized that someone from the salt transport department in the capital delivered a message to Xiang'er, informing the water merchants of the weight of the salt transported, the time of leaving the city, which gate to leave the city through, and the destination."
Precisely because the salt transport department had Japanese pirates' internal contacts, the Yangzhou government office had no way of investigating.
Because all the salt envoys were transferred to the Yangzhou Prefecture, they were not under the jurisdiction of the Yamen.
The Guanya Bureau has no such internal response, so if the Japanese pirates want to rob and kill merchants, they have to rely purely on luck, which is not reliable.
Moreover, it will also alert the official dental bureau, which is not cost-effective.
Therefore, Japanese pirates never touch the merchants of Guanya Bureau.
The transfer envoy lost his voice and said: "It's impossible, otherwise I wouldn't know anything about it."
Zhu Bai stared at him: "Originally, the imperial court stipulated that the water course map only required the determination of the destination and the state capitals along the way to facilitate the water merchants' entry and exit from the city. But you have even stipulated which city gate they will enter and exit through and what time they will enter and exit. Aren't you just afraid that the Japanese pirates will lose you or get the wrong person?"
The transfer envoy looked at Tongzhi: It was Tongzhi who suggested the detailed regulations to him at that time. It is said to prevent merchants from taking detours and being inspected by guards.
Anyway, Tongzhi organized people to draw the water flow diagram. As long as Tongzhi didn't mind the trouble, he didn't care.
Unexpectedly, there is such a mystery in it.
Now he couldn't speak clearly even when he opened his mouth. Even if Lao Zhu believed that he was innocent, he was guilty of negligence.
Zhu Bai said calmly: "When Xiang'er got the news, he used a piece of Hujia music to tell the news to the Japanese pirates who came to bid for the music. Your secret code is, Xiang'er asked, new music or old music. The merchant replied, listen to the music. Most of the new tunes are played by Japanese pirates. Five times the minimum bidding price every night is the estimated price of the smallest salt shipment, with no upper limit. After listening to the Japanese pirates, they will ask to listen to the important parts again, so as not to let fools with a lot of money mistakenly I heard it by mistake, but I didn’t know what it meant, so I wasted the news.”
Gong, Shang, Jiao, Zheng and Yu represent one, two, three, four and five respectively.
When you blow the passage containing these information, Xianger will remind you with a prolonged palace sound. Then the people listening started counting. Any stress indicates the beginning and end of a message.
The first section represents the month. Assuming it's Shang, it's February. If it exceeds five, it is expressed by the sum of several sounds.
The second measure of the song indicates a specific date. The rules are the same as before. For example, on the tenth day of the lunar month, they are Gong, Shang, Jiao, and Zheng. Fifteen is Gong, Shang, Jiao, Zheng, and Yu.
The third subsection is the total value of the goods. In units of one hundred taels of silver, if it exceeds five hundred taels, several sounds will be combined.
Section 456 is the gate for entry and exit, the time of day and the name of the destination.
They have detailed password tables, marking each number corresponding to each city gate and each state capital in the world.
The pirate with the highest bid can get the information of the merchant with the highest total price.
Thanks to the pro-military captain's interrogation skills, he was able to ask so many questions from the first captured Japanese pirate.
In order to confirm these things, he specially asked his people to bid and listen several times.
Zhu Bai smacked his lips and sighed: "Tsk tsk, that's why so many fools are willing to spend hundreds of taels of silver to listen to a song. The money in the bidding is the reward they give you and the insiders. If you don't know the inside story, you can't see the flaw at all. It's true. It’s so perfect, it’s an eye-opener for me.”
The woman who raised the thin horse kowtowed: "A common woman doesn't know anything about this, Your Highness, please have mercy."
Zhu Bai said: "Really? That Xiang'er is obviously an official slave, why would he be put to you for training? Think about it, that day the high-roller was surrounded by so many people raising thin horses, why did he choose you? .”
Only then did the woman realize that the wealthy man was also one of Zhu Bai's, and her face suddenly lost all color.
Zhu Bai looked at her with a half-smile, "It's called training, but it's just asking you to teach her the password rules."
The woman just kowtowed: "They gave me a thousand taels of silver to train Xiang'er, but they never said that they asked Xiang'er to do this. After all, the adults gave the order, and I, a powerless old woman, really didn't dare Disobedience. Please spare your life, Your Highness."
There was a chuckle from behind.
Everyone looked back in horror.
It turned out that Xiang'er didn't know when she woke up.
She stopped laughing and sighed: "So you listened to it for so long that day to find the patterns in my music."
