Paper Maker: This is the end of the Ming Dynasty in Liaozhai

Chapter 111 How to Kill People?

At night, the Li family courtyard was brightly lit.

In a secret room, there were three figures sitting around a table. If anyone from the pier was there, they would definitely recognize the three of them, Li Yaoping, the head of the Li family, Lu Xi, the head of the Lu family, and Ding Yizhen, the grain officer of the water transport granary in Linqing Prefecture.

"Brother Li, Brother Lu, word has been passed from above that Wei Zhongxian intends to seize control of Water Transport, let us be more careful."

Ding Yizhen said solemnly.

"Brother Ding, we have already asked people from the state government to inspect the water transport terminal day and night, and also asked people from various inns to report all the people staying at the terminal. This should be almost the same, right?"

Hearing Ding Yizhen's words, Lu Xi shook his head and said: "If you do too much, then there will be no silver 300 taels here."

Although with their power, even if the entire water transport terminal is completely blocked, it is not impossible to search one by one, but doing so is undoubtedly telling everyone that there are ghosts here.

"Be careful anyway."

Ding Yizhen's expression was gloomy: "I heard that other people have nothing to do with Wei Zhongxian. Some people have given up fighting against Wei Zhongxian. If Wei Zhongxian takes advantage of the matter here, how many people will die?"

Now Wei Zhongxian's power is getting stronger and stronger, and more and more officials are relying on him. Many low-level officials regard Wei Zhongxian as a shortcut to the sky in one step. Now that Wei Zhongxian wants to plan to control the water transportation, many officials have chosen to stand by.

Li Yaoping said bitterly, "They just watched the eunuchs run amok?"

Hearing what Li Yaoping said, Ding Yizhen just glanced at it calmly. He did not comment on Li Yaoping's nonsensical words. If it's difficult, ask others to come out to help, how is this possible!

But what's more, people still expect Wei Zhongxian to grab the water transport, and when Wei Zhongxian falls, they can also take advantage of the opportunity.

As for why Wei Zhongxian fell, to be honest, no one doubts this question. Although Wei Zhongxian is so powerful now, everyone knows that Wei Zhongxian is just a puppet shelf. Coupled with the lack of military power in their hands, Wei Guangwei and the others needed to rely on Wei Zhongxian to regain a firm foothold and fight against the people of Donglin Academy to stand with Wei Zhongxian. When they stood up again, Wei Zhongxian would have no value in existence.

In the eyes of the princes in the court, eunuchs are eunuchs after all, and their parents are their parents. These people actually cut off their descendants and entered the palace as slaves. Ancestors, these kind of fatherless and motherless people can use one or two for the time being, so how can they really be worthy of being with them.

"Let the people below be careful."

After pondering for a moment, Ding Yizhen shook his head. As Lu Xiru said, it is almost enough to reach this level, unless the entire water transport terminal is really blocked, but that would be too attention-grabbing.

.........

The next day, Su Hao changed his appearance again and came to Water Transport Wharf.

Looking at the big courtyards of Lu's and Li's not far away, Su Hao rubbed his chin lightly. It's very difficult to meet the head of the Li's and Lu's. Yesterday he changed his face several times and walked around for a long time. For a long time, they have not met the two of them.

It’s just not a problem to hang around here all the time. He’s in a state of vigilance right now. No matter how much he changes his face, it’s useless. There are people wandering around the door every day. Yes, the other party has been asking people from the state government to check the way on the pier. If they attract the attention of people from the state government, they will also be exposed.

Thinking of this, Su Hao began to search around. If he wanted to stay unnoticed for a long time at the pier, he could only find a resident on the pier and secretly replace the other party's identity.

He has the disguise technique of painting skin, so it is no problem to pretend to be an ordinary person, but the relationship with the other party must not be too complicated. It is best to be withdrawn and have no relatives or friends, otherwise he will reveal his secrets soon.

After searching for two full days, Su Hao finally found a suitable target, a framer named Liu Shuang, in his fifties, with a weird temper, with the status of a scholar, he didn't think much of ordinary people around him. , there are no good neighbors, and my son and daughter-in-law are not here at the pier. They live in Zhoucheng and rarely come here. The most important thing is that Liu Shuang is somewhat famous at the pier. I won't pay too much attention to it.

With Fu Bo's help, Su Hao easily replaced Liu Shuang's identity. As for Liu Shuang, he was trapped in the room by Fu Bo's ghost hitting the wall. Although this Liu Shuang has read sage books for decades, it is a pity Even the threshold of Confucianism and Taoism has not been touched.

Having been in Jinyiwei for so long, he has some understanding of various ways of practice. To step into the threshold of Confucianism and Taoism is to establish a heart, and to establish a heart is to establish a belief. A belief, and then unswervingly practice this belief.

Self-cultivation, family harmony, country governance, and peace of the world, any belief can be established. Reading sage books is just a process of sticking to one's own beliefs and strengthening one's mind. A single yell can tear your heart apart.

According to his own understanding, the way of Confucianism is to attack the spirit and will. You must know that even a first-class warrior may not have a strong will. It's just that he has never seen the methods of Confucianism and Taoism for so long, but according to He Liu It is said that Yang Lian, the current censor of the Zuoqin capital, had encountered a fierce ghost who harmed people before he was elected. As a result, Yang Lian yelled angrily, and actually drank the ghost out of his wits.

With Liu Shuang's identity, Su Hao began to place paper dolls everywhere on the pier. As long as there was any suspicion, Su Hao didn't let go of any of them, even Xu Ming, the prefect who was in the state government, Su Hao didn't let go.

...

Just like that, Su Hao hid himself on the pier under Liu Shuang's identity.

The first one to show his feet was Chi Wei. Chi Wei had a concubine outside his family, and that concubine gave birth to him a son.

During the period of following Chi Wei, Su Hao found that the other party would always stay in this concubine's house for a long time, and this concubine's house also had a secret room.

After Chi Wei left, he asked Uncle Fu to check it out. In the secret room, apart from the martial arts cheats that Chi Wei himself had practiced, there were also two thick ledgers. The detailed time and quantity of grain stolen by the family.

.........

Time is like rain, and the years are like a shuttle.

In the constant monitoring, a month's time is fleeting, and this month's monitoring is extremely smooth, the main reason is that Fang Haichuan and the others gave him cover, and now most of the Jinyiwei Qianhu in Shandong and Nanzhili have gathered here In Huai'an, the target was directed at Yang Yipeng. Without the pressure, the defense of the Water Transport Wharf also relaxed.

This month, he has also figured out where the Li family and the Lu family hide the evidence. The Li family hides the evidence in a house not far from the Li family. There is only one old servant living in that house. The secret passage leads to that house, and that house is by the river, and there is a small fishing boat all year round, ready to escape from the canal at any time.

The evidence of the Lu family is similar. Obviously, both families know that once the grain theft is discovered, it will inevitably end in ransacking the house and destroying the family, so they have prepared a way out in advance.

In addition to these three people, he also found the backup left by Ding Yizhen, the grain officer in charge of grain inspection in the grain storage warehouse. No one who does such a thing is a fool. These people will be silenced immediately.

In the tea house, seeing people coming and going on the street and the hustle and bustle of cars and horses, Su Hao also felt a headache. The evidence was found, but now there is a problem before him.

How to kill people to gain enlightenment points?

The main reason why he chose to join Fang Haichuan was that he could use Wei Zhongxian's name to attack those wealthy families and officials. For this reason, he even spent all his efforts to exchange for 32 thunderbolts.

But now that the evidence is found, Su Hao is very worried. He can't just kill Ding Yizhen and Li Yaoping.

There are also rules in the officialdom, not to mention catching thieves and taking stolen goods, but since the evidence is already there, it is natural to arrest people openly, and killing people secretly will only make those people catch the handle. It was fishy all over.

And he also had to notify Fang Haichuan in advance to let Fang Haichuan bring people over. Li Yaoping and the others are quite powerful. There are no fewer than seven first-class warriors. There are four from the Li family and the Lu family, plus Chi Wei and the foot gang. The gang leader Du Yan and Ding Yizhen are also guarded by a first-class warrior, not to mention there are some hidden ones.

In addition, there are other second-rate warriors and third-rate warriors. No matter how conceited he is, he dare not say that one person can deal with so many people. If he has this strength, he doesn't have to rely on Fang Haichuan. If Fang Haichuan comes , Fang Haichuan will not let him kill people at will.

Thinking of this, Su Hao rubbed his temples subconsciously. This is a deadlock. If he wants to deal with Li Yaoping and the others, he can only deal with them secretly, one by one. But in this way, he won't take advantage of it. This has nothing to do with him hiding his identity. There is no difference in killing people at will, as long as they show evidence, the other party can bite back and say that he planted a frame, and it is estimated that he will be sent to jail by then.

At this time, a large group of yamen servants came up from the downstairs, one by one began to check the guides. Seeing this, Su Hao narrowed his eyes slightly, and an idea suddenly appeared in his mind.

...

Huai'an Mansion.

In a private house, Fang Haichuan brought together five Jinyiwei [-] households from the entire Jinyiwei Yamen in Jinan Prefecture.

"Tang Baihu, I asked you to go to Shanyang to investigate, what can you gain?"

Fang Haichuan said lightly, although he didn't expect to gain something here, but he finally came here, and he didn't want to make this trip in vain.

Most of the water transport ships are built in Shanyang County. Water transport ships are usually abandoned in about ten years and then rebuilt. Hundreds of thousands of water transport ships are launched here every year. The cost is not a small amount, and it will definitely be Someone is playing tricks, and if evidence of corruption can be found, Yang Yipeng, the governor of water transportation, will certainly not be able to escape.

"Qianhu, we found the inspector of the East River Shipyard who was in charge of supervising the construction of water transport ships, but the other party drowned and died a few days ago, so the clues were cut off."

Hearing Fang Haichuan's question, Tang Xiangjin looked helpless. Wei Zhongxian sent all the tasks to the various yamen, and he had already alarmed the snake. They were discovered not long after they arrived, so it's a fart to check.

"Didn't catch the murderer?"

Fang Haichuan frowned, although he knew that it was difficult to find anything useful, but just after the search, even the people were gone, obviously he was provoking Jin Yiwei.

Tang Xiangjin shook his head: "Drunk, died accidentally."

"What a surprise!"

Hearing this, Fang Haichuan snorted coldly.

"what about you?"

After a moment of contemplation, Fang Haichuan looked at the others.

"No gain."

The others looked helpless, and one of them said: "Now there is evidence that in the collection of grain in various places, those boat gangs and subordinates colluded. , if we continue to investigate, there should be gains."

"Check it out?"

Fang Haichuan snorted coldly. If he wanted to investigate this, why would he continue to investigate? This issue has long been known to all courts. Using this question to challenge Yang Yipeng will at most make Yang Yipeng resign from office, which is useless at all.

At this time, a school lieutenant hurried in with a letter in his hand.

"Qianhu, the yamen sent an urgent letter!"

Urgent letter?

Hearing this, Fang Haichuan's eyes lit up immediately, he quickly snatched the letter, opened it, and saw a few words written on it.

Brother, come quickly, pay attention to concealment!
Seeing these words, Fang Haichuan laughed out loud!

Looking at the laughing Fang Haichuan, all Jinyiwei's hundreds of households looked blank, not knowing what Fang Haichuan saw that made him so happy.

"Clean up, let's go!"

Fang Haichuan's hand trembled, and the letter in his hand instantly turned into ashes.

"Qianhu, where are you going?"

A Jinyiwei hundred households asked curiously.

"Don't ask, just follow along."

Fang Haichuan waved his hand, Su Hao told him to be careful, obviously he only had clues, and he hadn't got the evidence yet.

After hearing Fang Haichuan's words, the others stopped asking any more questions.

(End of this chapter)