To kill someone with a borrowed knife, "The enemy is known, but the friend is not yet determined. If you lead a friend to kill the enemy, you will not use your own strength to harm the deduction."
"Shibo! I will entrust you to take care of my maid!"
"Brother Xing, won't you come back to Beijing with us?"
"I won't go. Now that things are going on in Yangzhou, people from the capital are about to arrive. Shibo's safety is guaranteed. Peace is rare in the border areas. The sooner this happens, the better!!"
"Well, Brother Qi is right. If that's the case, then I wish you a safe journey!!"
In the Yanyan Yamen, at the end of a corridor, Jia Qi stood still for a moment and said: "Come out!!"
A figure flashed in the shadow and appeared in front of Jia Qi. It was Yang Yun, the inner guard sent by Emperor Mingkang to protect Lin Ruhai.
"What are your orders, Master!!"
"You will probably be by Lin Shibo's side in the future. Before I return to the capital, if Lin Shibo behaves abnormally, do you know what to do?"
Yang Yun's hands and feet went cold. Since the last time he was controlled by Jia Qi, he realized that the boy in front of him was not a kind person. He never thought that he would give him such an order before leaving.
After a long while, he whispered back: "I know!"
"Lu Guangbing and Yu Baichuan were walking south. They couldn't walk fast with their families!"
Yang Yun's eyes lit up, and he bowed and said, "Thank you so much, sir! I will live up to your trust in the future!"
Then Yang Yun disappeared into the night again and disappeared without a trace.
Jia Qi was silent for a long time, and his eyes flickered a few times. The two people staying behind would be a disaster after all. It was better to eradicate the roots. Those two people would never surrender when they knew they were going to die, so Yang Yun could only take him with him on this trip. Just two heads back.
Yangzhou City, Wanhua Tower, Huayu Pavilion.
Both looked at the jade plate hanging in the sky, their pretty faces slowly turned rosy, and their expressions became a little sad. Their thoughts drifted into the distance with the quiet moonlight.
Twenty-Four Bridges On a moonlit night, where can a beautiful lady teach me how to play the flute?
The moon is shining tonight, and I don’t know where the young master is or when they will meet again.
Under the moonlight, a small boat sailed out of Yangzhou lightly, and there were people singing faintly in the night.
"What's the point of the war in the world? There are many heroic souls on the battlefield.
Go to Quantai to recruit old troops, and kill Yama with a hundred thousand banners! "
On the second day, an army of 5,000 people from the camp on the outskirts of Beijing arrived in Yangzhou. They were accompanied by people from the Sansi Yamen and many unfamiliar faces. These people looked much greener, and most of them were recent scholars. Jinshi raises people.
Seeing these people, Lin Ruhai knew very well that Emperor Mingkang wanted to give Yangzhou a complete blood change. After all, most of the local officials in Yangzhou were involved in the salt transportation incident, and most of them belonged to the lineage of Emperor Taikang. This time Yangzhou With such a big incident happening, it was only natural for Emperor Mingkang to take action.
However, he didn't have the time to care about these things. This move had already made him oust himself from Yangzhou's officialdom. The rest of the matter should be left to those who come after him!
Most of the leading generals in the camp on the outskirts of Beijing were descendants of the Xungui Group. After meeting Lin Ruhai, most of them were neither salty nor salty. They were surrounded by Emperor Taikang, and they could not urinate in the same pot as Emperor Mingkang. Naturally He didn't have much of a good impression on him, Emperor Mingkang's confidant, and Lin Ruhai didn't care about it, just let everyone do their own thing.
As for the people in the three divisions, most of them are civil servants, and they can be said to be die-hards of Emperor Mingkang. Lin Ruhai was not only a member of the imperial examination, but also a close official of Emperor Mingkang. They were naturally close to the generals in the camp on the outskirts of Beijing. Bi, it’s really a sky and an earth.
Soon these people straightened out the case based on the evidence provided by Lin Ruhai, and investigated officials at all levels in Yangzhou. Only those imprisoned accounted for fifty-sixths of the officialdom in Yangzhou, and hundreds of officials, big and small, were involved. Once the incident was reported back to the court, it caused turmoil in the court.
Emperor Mingkang was even more furious. What Dakang lacked most now was money. Riots in various places and natural and man-made disasters all required huge amounts of money to fill it.
Once these rebellions are suppressed, troops need to be sent to fight. As long as there is a war, money will naturally be used. Since ancient times, if the troops and horses are not moved, food and grass go first, and the army is dispatched. It is not just a few thousand taels or tens of thousands taels. .
Secondly, to appease the victims, this is also a terrifying number. Even millions of taels cannot last for a few months.
It can be said that Emperor Kangxi of the Ming Dynasty wanted to break a tael of silver in half and use it as a tael of silver. But Yangzhou was not good. Officials and businessmen colluded to resell salt and line their own pockets. The salt merchants alone had amassed tens of millions of taels. For money, he wished he could kill all nine of their clans directly.
In the end, after the three divisions ransacked their homes, the wealth of the officials in Yangzhou reached an astonishing 25 million taels of silver, which almost shocked their jaws.
Including the confiscation of the homes of the six major salt merchants in Yangzhou, the total was 60 million taels of silver. Even the Third Division was red-eyed when they saw this number, but fortunately they did not dare to cross that line. This matter It was clear that Emperor Kang personally paid close attention to the matter and did not tolerate their cheating. They worked like this for nearly a month before the end of Yangzhou was almost handled. Then the group returned to the capital under the escort of the army.
On the other side, Jia Qi went north along the canal. Not far from the capital, he got off the boat and took the dry road to the north. He encountered all kinds of things along the way. In the green forest, he saw a young prince brother alone. Naturally, there were many people who made up their minds when traveling, but in the end most of them were killed by Jia Qi and fed to the bastards in the river.
After that, Jia Qi caught up with another caravan and paid twenty taels of silver. It was considered a hitchhike and the journey was considered stable.
Until this day, when they were passing near Yanshan, they encountered a group of strong men.
The caravan has a total of seventy or eighty people, including the bodyguards they hired and their original followers.
The escorts are from the Weiyuan Escort Agency in Baoding Prefecture. They are all proficient in fists and kicks. They are all tall and tall. Normally even five or six people can't get close to each other. There are about twenty or thirty people in this group of escorts.
The other group was the original followers of the caravan. There were forty or fifty of them. Although they were not as sharp as the bodyguards, they were still good players.
The leader was an old man named Wang. His name was Wang Shanwen. He was from Jiangsu and Zhejiang. He was good at talking and had a business mind. By chance, he discovered that there was a huge price difference between the north and the south, so he found a few partners and started. This business of traveling all over the world.
After so many years, the wealth has accumulated more and more, and the number of people under his command has become more and more. Now it has become a caravan. Jia Qi also heard a lot of information during the chat with him earlier. The old man said that in recent days, Business has become increasingly difficult in recent years. Ten years ago, there were no such strong backbones in various places. But for some reason in the past few years, it is normal for almost every province not to encounter one or two groups.
Jia Qi was thoughtful about this. If Dakang really replaced Daming, perhaps these things would not be surprising.
After the Ming Dynasty, there was a period of time during the Little Ice Age. The weather suddenly became cold and crop yields decreased. Those ordinary people could no longer survive and would naturally look for a way out. Qiang Liang was probably the last resort.
"I opened this mountain~"
