marquis of jingan

Chapter 423
Li Mu and Shen Yi left Jiankang, and it has been a month or two in the blink of an eye. In the past two months, the two of them have not made any achievements except for finding out the Wang family through a relatively unconventional method. .

In particular, there were still some disputes about whether the Wang family communicated with the Japanese.

As for Linhaiwei's defeat by Japanese pirates outside Linhai City, Li Mu didn't even dare to report it in detail, lest the court get angry.

In addition, later, the two directly copied the Wang family's house and "misappropriated" the Wang family's property, which caused a lot of controversy in the court.

Adding all these things together, Li Mu, an imperial envoy, would have to bear a lot of pressure from the imperial court.

But now, with the victory of the Anti-Japanese Army, these pressures finally disappeared into the invisible.

Although the results of about one hundred Japanese pirates are not very big, but judging from the records of the coastal areas over the years, this is already a very good result.

More importantly, this time the anti-Japanese army did not win by numbers, but with the same number of people, almost crushing the Japanese pirates.

That's why Shen Yi told Li Mu that their work has some clues. This sentence is slightly cryptic, but if you put it more bluntly, you can say that this time the work of patrolling the sea south is the most difficult part. Already done.

Next, it is nothing more than to promote the Wolf Whip, expand the Anti-Japanese Army, and then spread the intelligence network of the Dibao Division with the expansion of the Anti-Japanese Army.

This is not a difficult task, the really difficult first step has been completed by Shen Yi.

His Royal Highness was all smiles, took Shen Yi's hand and sat in his carriage, and smiled happily: "Don't be afraid to tell Ziheng honestly, my father wrote to me a few days ago, asking me to consider going back to Jiankang. Abandon this imperial envoy, so as not to bring trouble to the Jin Palace."

"I also have some shakes in my heart."

"but now…"

The prince of Jin laughed and said, "Ziheng, you have given me a big reassurance. You and my brother will join hands and work together to complete this errand of patrolling the sea."

He pointed to Shen Yi, then pointed to himself, and said with a smile: "It's no problem for Shen Ziheng to be ranked in the middle school in the future. Even if you can't touch the word "hereditary" as a brother, maybe you can be a lifetime." Prince's title."

These words sounded a little too flattering. Even if Shen Yi managed his errands well this time, he would at most get the position of head of the Ministry of War, and he was still a thousand miles away from Zhongshu Zaifu.

Master Shen didn't like this, he looked at Li Mu, squinted his eyes and smiled: "My son said this because he wanted my younger brother to work hard. The two of us have a good relationship, but it's not good to say it. , Prince Jin's Mansion is my father and son's food and clothing parents, originally I went out with my son on business, my younger brother should do his best, but..."

Shen Yi looked up at Li Mu, and chuckled: "It's just that the next few things, I'm afraid I will have to do it myself."

At this moment, Li Mu's carriage had already started slowly, and the prince of Jin looked at Shen Yi thoughtfully, "What kind of errand is Zi Heng talking about?"

Shen Yi smiled and said: "Before we came to Taizhou Mansion, I mentioned to Shizi that the royal family in Taizhou Mansion is the most difficult to investigate, so we have to come to Taizhou Mansion first, so as not to startle the snake."

"Since we came to Taizhou Mansion first, it means that the Bureau of Dibao has already found out a lot of things related to the Japanese in other places, some of which are conclusive evidence, and others are at least [-]% or [-]% sure even if they are not certain. "

Li Mu's expression changed slightly in the carriage. He looked at Shen Yi and couldn't help swallowing: "How many houses have you found?"

Shen Yi looked directly at Li Mu, and after a while, he sighed slightly: "Together, I guess there are twelve or three families, most of them are rich local families, and only one is a rich businessman who has just made a fortune."

Li Mu swallowed again.

He looked at Shen Yi and confirmed: "Ziheng means that these ten families are all nobles?"

Shen Yi saw Li Mu's concerns, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, my son, I have sent people to check the backgrounds of these families. Although many of them have clan members who are officials in the court, their grades are not too high."

"The tallest one is a fourth-rank Beijing official, not worth mentioning to the prince..."

"Fourth Grade Beijing Official..."

Li Mu stared at Shen Yi with wide eyes, and took a breath: "Which yamen is the fourth grade?"

"Zhan Shifu, less Zhan Shi."

Hearing the name of this yamen, Li Mucai breathed a sigh of relief.

Because Zhan Shifu is an official agency prepared for the prince of the East Palace, the emperor has just got married not long ago, and although the empress is pregnant, she has not yet been born, so Da Chen does not have a prince now.

Without a crown prince, Zhan Shi's mansion would become a decoration, so Li Mu was really not afraid.

And if they are the fourth-rank civil servants with real power, they are really not characters that can be provoked by the Prince Jin's mansion at will. After all, the relationship between these civil servants is intricate, and whoever may be whose teacher.

Shen Yi smiled at Li Mu, and said, "My lord, the evidence of these families' collusion has already been prepared, and I just wait for the lord to personally punish him..."

This time on the southward patrol, Li Mu is undoubtedly the protagonist, because there are some things that must be done by him.

For example, to harvest the gentry in these places who communicated with the Japanese.

Many of these gentry families are local big families.Communicating with Japanese pirates is not all about supporting Japanese pirates, but just wanting to maintain their local status, or do some business with Japanese pirates in private.

More importantly, many of these gentry families have backgrounds, for example, there is a Jinshi master in the family, or a Jinshi uncle is in office in the court.

If it was about one or two families, Shen Yi gritted his teeth and maybe went to do it, but offending more than a dozen noble families at the same time was not something he, the chief executive of the Bapin Mansion, was qualified to deal with.

The sea has not been patrolled yet, and his body may be cold.

Only members of the Li family can bite the bullet and offend so many people.

Li Mu took a deep breath for a long time, then he was fixedly looking at Shen Yi, and said with a wry smile: "With the virtues of you civil servants, every one of you is pulling out carrots and bringing out mud, and the forces involved in more than a dozen civil servants may have to be implicated halfway. a civil servant class."

The carriage drove slowly, Shen Yi nodded with a smile and said: "My lord, if you want to do something, you must not be afraid of offending others. Today is my lord, everyone you offend will be recorded in the credit book in the future."

"Say it."

Li Mu lowered his eyebrows and said, "What should I do?"

Hearing his words, Master Shen smiled with a kind smile.

"It's very simple, my son, you lead a team to check all the way along the list of the Di Baosi. After checking, you should arrest and kill the ones who should be killed."

"Mainly to seize cash."

Master Shen looked sincere, and said: "In this world, many things are ignored, only cash is accepted. With enough cash, the expansion speed of the Anti-Japanese Army will not be a problem."

"Copy more than a dozen families..."

In the carriage, Li Mu's expression was complicated, he was a little scared, but also a little excited.

"Okay, I'll leave in a few days, and follow the list you gave me, Ziheng, and arrest them one by one."

Having said that, he smiled wryly, his tone full of emotion,
"I just hope that if I do things for the court, I won't implicate my family..."

(End of this chapter)