The sky is already hazy.
Gu Zhengchen opened his eyes, lifted the quilt and sat on the edge of the bed, looked out the window, and asked, "Hasn't there been news from Qin Song and Lin Baifan yet?"
Xiao Cheng, who was sitting cross-legged, shook his head: "No."
Gu Zhengchen stood up and took off his clothes from the screen: "Is there any news from the Bu family?"
Xiao Cheng stood up, walked to the desk, and took out the paperweight: "During the third watch, Duan Shimin sent two messages. One said that the Bu family packed their luggage and would most likely leave Jinjiang City early tomorrow morning. The other time It is said that Bu Zhongsheng tried to smoothen the relationship and open the city gate but failed."
Gu Zhengchen sat down and Xiao Cheng held the lamp.
Looking at the information in the document, Gu Zhengchen took a copper coin from the desk, flicked it with his thumb, raised his hand to grab the flipped copper coin in the air, and looked at Xiao Cheng: "Heads or tails?"
Xiao Cheng stared: "Front."
Gu Zhengchen spread his hands and looked at it. Sure enough, it was the front. He threw the copper coins on the table and said in a deep voice: "It will be dawn soon."
Zhang Pei hurried over and saw that Gu Zhengchen had woken up. He stepped forward excitedly: "Sir, two pieces of good news. One is that Lin Shannan has caught the fisherman and Yan Sangsang has returned to Shuangxikou."
Gu Zhengchen didn't smile, he just looked at Zhang Pei and asked a key question: "Is it him?"
Zhang Pei nodded heavily.
Gu Zhengchen rubbed his eyebrows: "Don't tell Li Chengyi for now, wait until I see him. Did Qin Song send the second news?"
Zhang Pei quickly replied: "Yes, Qin Song, Lin Baifan, Yu Siye and others found a large amount of property in the villa, captured a group of remnants of the Bu family, as well as beauties kept in captivity by the Bu family, and even found many armors ,weapon!"
"weapon?"
Xiao Cheng became nervous.
Gu Zhengchen glanced at Xiao Cheng: "It's not surprising that there are some weapons. The sea is not safe now. Although the Bu family conducts maritime trade in the name of envoys, pirates make a living by robbing, and they don't care what they are used for." The ministers will not envoy the ministers. The sea is not very peaceful at the moment, and they need weapons."
Xiao Cheng had a cold face and said sternly: "Hiding armor and weapons secretly is for premeditated rebellion! Everyone in the Bu family should be executed!"
Gu Zhengchen glanced at Gu Zhengchen and said nothing.
Zhang Pei continued: "Qin Song also said one more thing..."
The back door of Bu's house.
A carriage stopped, two boxes were piled on it, two people got on, and the carriage left. Not long after, another carriage stopped at the back door of Bu's house. The same two boxes, the same two people, also left quickly. Less than half a quarter of an hour later, another carriage came slowly...
Just as the cycle started over and over again, eighteen carriages arrived and then left.
Duan Shimin, who was observing in the dark, frowned. It was obvious that the people of the Bu family had noticed that someone was following them, so they began to learn Cao Cao's plan of seventy-two suspicious tombs.
Haven't they ever thought that all the coffins that Cao Cao ran out of the city gates back then were coffins, and no one at the city gate would stop him to check, or open the coffins to see which one contained Cao Cao.
But Jinjiang City is different. There are people checking here, so it should be impossible to leave easily.
In a carriage, a charming woman pulled a seven or eight-year-old boy and looked at the fortune teller worriedly: "Is the situation really that dangerous?"
"Ms. Liu, last night Gu Zhengchen sent someone to check out Jingming Villa. It seems he has already succeeded. Once exposed there, the Bu family will be close to being destroyed. If we don't leave at this time, I'm afraid we won't be able to escape."
Bu Suanzi's attire is no longer the elegant one of the past, but has changed into that of a big man with a beard. There is a plaster on his forehead and pockmarks on his face. Even if he is standing in front of Gu Zhengchen, this attire will look awkward if he doesn't look at it carefully. can not recognize.
"Where is the old man?"
Liu Niang was a little worried.
The fortune teller was silent for a moment and said, "They will leave through the east gate and take another road."
Bu Yin wanted to open the curtain, but Liu Niang stopped him.
The fortune teller was worried.
The carriage stopped, and the sergeant's voice came out.
Liu Niang pulled Bu Yin and whispered: "Don't dare to speak."
Soon, a conversation between the coachman and the sergeant was heard outside the carriage. The sergeant still insisted on opening the curtain. When the curtain was opened, the sergeant looked at it and waved to let him go.
Liu Niang breathed a sigh of relief and said softly: "The person being interrogated must be the Quanzhou Guard sergeant. He doesn't look like a member of the government's strong squad in the past."
Bu Suanzi nodded heavily: "The strong squad is only responsible for the daily defense of the city gates. Gu Zhengchen used the threat of pirates as an excuse to transfer sergeants to take over the four gates. The newly appointed commander Huang Senping seems to be very cooperative with Gu Zhengchen's actions. We must be behind this. Unknown secrets.”..??m
The carriage just passed the city gate and didn't go far when it suddenly stopped again.
"Master Jun, we have just conducted an investigation."
"Don't complain during the second interrogation, otherwise you will be arrested immediately and everyone in the carriage will be asked to get out."
"But there is a sick woman inside, who is very weak..."
"This car is suspicious, everyone get off the carriage!"
The coachman wanted to vomit blood, but what he said would lead to suspicion. How could he be suspected?
Bu Suanzi came out first and said to the interrogating sergeant: "My wife at home is sick and I want to go to Fuzhou to visit a doctor for medicine. Can I be accommodating?"
The sergeant opened the curtain and looked at the children and women inside. Liu Niang suddenly coughed.
The sergeant lowered the curtain, took a step back, and asked sideways, "How?"
"No problem, let them go."
Bu Suanzi looked along the sound, his heart trembled suddenly, a look of panic appeared in his eyes, and he quickly turned around and got on the carriage. After the carriage left, he wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.
"What happened?"
Liu Niang asked uneasily.
The flesh on Bu Suanzi's cheeks trembled a little, and his eyes flashed with murderous intent: "The person who just helped the sergeant in the investigation is Bu Huang from Jingming Villa. He betrayed the Bu family!"
"Bu Huang?"
Liu Niang was shocked. He was an old man of the Bu family and the housekeeper of the Jingming Villa. He was very familiar with divination, divination and longevity!
Fortunately, he didn't recognize him. Fortunately, Bu Huang didn't look at the person inside the carriage.
Government office.
Lin Baifan and Qin Song met Gu Zhengchen in the second hall.
Qin Song put the dozen or so account books he had brought on the table and said solemnly: "Jingming Villa should be where the Bu family hides their wealth. There are a large amount of gold, silver and copper coins in it, as well as a lot of spices, silk, Ceramics, tea.”
"Chimming Villa, there are many chickens raised there?"
Gu Zhengchen looked through the account books and asked with a frown.
Qin Song chuckled: "It's not the chicken of chickens, ducks and geese, but the 坖 of Yuan Tu, the Ming of Ming Dynasty."
Gu Zhengchen stared and his eyes became cold: "Yuan Tu? It has been many years since the Yuan Dynasty collapsed in the Central Plains. They still think about Yuan Tu? They hate, resent, and are jealous. They cannot be jealous of the Ming Dynasty. I think it is resentment and Do you hate the Ming Dynasty? The one named you is so bold!"
Bu Shou calls himself Old Man Changyuan, and now another Jingming Villa appears!
This is not a mere coincidence of words, but an arrangement with ulterior motives!
Missing the Yuan Dynasty and longing for the Yuan Dynasty to take back its territory, this phenomenon is not difficult to understand for the emerging Ming Dynasty.
In fact, it was not only the Bu family who had hopes for the Yuan Dynasty, but also some scholars. They were not optimistic about Zhu Yuanzhang, who was born in a commoner family. For many years since the founding of the country, he would rather hide in the ravines than come out to become an official in the Ming Dynasty.
Their thinking is:
The Ming Dynasty will not last long, and the Yuan Dynasty will definitely fight back. If you join the Ming Dynasty now, you will definitely be unlucky in the future.
Throughout the seven years of Hongwu, the Ming Dynasty did face considerable military pressure. The northeast, northwest, true north, southwest, and even west of Jiayuguan were all occupied by the Yuan Dynasty. It is not incomprehensible that some people are worried that the Yuan Dynasty will come back.
But the problem is that these people are more worried that when the Yuan Dynasty comes back, they will be liquidated for taking refuge in the Ming Dynasty! The Bu family is different. They are more looking forward to the return of the Yuan Dynasty so that they can use the knife behind their backs to hit the Ming Dynasty, just like Pu Shougeng did to the Southern Song Dynasty!
Gu Zhengchen turned over a page of the account book.
The descendants of Pu Shougeng are still full of shamelessness and betrayal in their hearts. These are a group of people who cannot be forgiven!
Mei Hong walked in and reported: "Bu Shou, Bu Zhongsheng and others have left Jinjiang City in a carriage from the east gate of the city. Do they need to be intercepted?"
Gu Zhengchen looked down at the account books and shook his head: "Prepare your horses. Let's go to Quanzhou Port to wait for them."
Mei Hong agreed, turned and left.
Gu Zhengchen handed the account books to Zhang Pei: "You stay in the government office and take good care of these account books."
Zhang Pei had no objection.
Gu Zhengchen led Xiao Cheng, Qin Song, Lin Baifan, and Mei Hong, got on their horses, went out from the north gate, took a detour and went straight to Quanzhou Port in Quanzhou.
Quanzhou Port.
City Shipping Secretary Tiju Wei Hong stood at the port pier, looking at the thirty or so lifeless ships moored in the harbor, he couldn't help but sigh. It is said that when Quanzhou Port was prosperous, the number of ships berthed on Quanzhou Port and Jinjiang River exceeded 10,000! But look at the ships in front of you. It's pitiful. It's just a little bit smaller than it was in its heyday.
The decline of Quanzhou Port was not entirely caused by Zhu Yuanzhang's policy of banning the sea. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the ten-year war in Yisi and Baxi almost destroyed the entire Quanzhou Prefecture. The Pu family was also involved in the killings. , they wanted to compete for greater power, but failed in the end.
Who would have imagined that the Pu family did not rise during the war, but the Bu family relied on a fortune and extraordinary means to gradually take control of Quanzhou Prefecture and become the underground emperor!
However, this scenery is short-lived.
Why do you want to go to Jinling for a walk? Who are you kidding? Do you dare to go to Jinling by sea?
It's just that the Bu family was afraid of Magistrate Gu's majesty and methods and wanted to find a safe place to hide.
Wei Hong paced.
I don't want to offend the Divination family. They are huge and powerful. They are very likely to die without being frozen. They may turn over and hurt others at any time.
He didn't want to offend Gu Zhengchen. This prefect Gu was really tyrannical. He killed people without blinking an eye. He dared to execute Qin Xin and Wu Kang, fellow magistrates of Quanzhou Prefecture, without going through the hands of the Ministry of Punishments and the Emperor!
Once the information falls into the hands of Magistrate Gu, I'm afraid there will be no good outcome.
The only solution for now is to please both sides, get benefits from both sides, let him go first, and then file a complaint. Neither side will be offended, and we can still watch a good show of cat and mouse...
