Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 494 Blackmail

Among these people, the one he valued the most was Ma Benyuan, who was a secretary in the yamen guarding the Taoist branch in Hainan. Most of the large quantities of stolen goods were sold through his hands.Gou Da and Gou Er had a lot of correspondence with him, and all kinds of black materials were enough to cause him to be beheaded ten times.Lin Baiguang felt that he had enough leverage to force him to submit.

Lin Baiguang didn't pay much attention to the route of selling stolen goods mastered by Ma Benyuan, and now the business route in Lingao has basically been opened up.Adding one more is the icing on the cake.What he fancy is Master Ma's position in guarding the Taoist Yamen.With such an insider, the time travel group will be able to know in advance every move of the highest authority in Hainan.

Lin Baiguang knew that he would never meet Ma Benyuan if he went directly to see him. This kind of person is extremely suspicious and never easily meets outsiders he doesn't know.He presented a silver birthday star inlaid with eight treasures that Ma Benyuan had given as a birthday present among the objects copied from Gou Er's family.

This unexpected gift surprised Ma Benyuan—this is his gift to Gou Er, why did it suddenly appear in front of him?Ever since Gou Er fled to Qiongshan in embarrassment last year and cried out that Zhuangzi was wiped out, he has not seen this person for almost a year.

At the beginning, he unceremoniously drove Gou Er away, and didn't even give him the 3000 taels of stolen money. It wasn't that he wanted to blackmail the money. He was the one who got the Gou family back then. This line is considered half a guarantor, and now the owner of the nest has been given to someone, and there is nothing left. If Mr. Zhucai took his anger out on him and came to his door to ask his teacher about the crime, he would not be able to afford it.This amount of money can at least calm down the anger of the big masters.

After Gou Er was driven away by him, Ma Benyuan was worried all the time. He was considered a figure in Qiongshan County, but he was not even a fart in front of sea masters like Mr. Zhu Cai.

Fortunately, Mr. Zhucai was in troubles himself, except for sending people to ask about Gou Er's whereabouts a few times, he didn't bother him.However, he also learned from Zhucai's veterans that it was a group of new people from the sea who took away Goujiazhuang. They called themselves Australians and came on iron boats with powerful firearms.Ma Benyuan secretly groaned, the Australians and the big masters, it seems that none of them are good.

Recently he learned that Zhu Dazhang had died in battle in Fujian.This made Ma Benyuan heave a sigh of relief.One must know that for the past six months, Zhu Cai's subordinates have been looking for Gou Er everywhere, and he is deeply afraid that one day if he can't find Gou Er, he will find him to vent his anger.

Now that the birthday star appeared in front of his eyes, could it be that Gou Er also knew the news that Zhu Cailao was dead, so he came to ask for the stolen money?

Ma Benyuan thought for a moment whether he should steal the money, so he avoided it.Anyway, Gou Er is now a bereaved dog, and has no strength other than a son.If he dared to make trouble in Qiongshan County, he would hack him with one finger.

Just to be cautious, he asked, "Is the person here Gou Er?"

The doorkeeper is his confidant, and naturally all the foxes and dogs that the master comes and goes with know each other.

Upon questioning, the person who came was not Gou Er, nor his son, but a stranger who did not know him, who spoke a strange Qiongzhou dialect.Ma Benyuan rubbed his chin in doubt, when he suddenly got excited:

Come to be an Australian!

The thought almost scared him out of his chair.Xindao, what did the Australians come to him for?There is no coming and going between him and the Australians, and there are no holidays.

But this silver birthday star - Ma Benyuan knew very well that when Gou Er escaped from Zhuangzi, he would only bring gold and silver and other small things with him, and would never run away with such a gift.It could only have fallen into Australian hands.

Why do Australians come to your door?Ma Benyuan wanted to miss it, but he thought that since all the Australians had come to his door, he would come prepared - he even found out the silver birthday star he gave to Gou Er - he had better meet him and see the truth.

"The student and the respected master have never met each other before, and they don't know that the great master is here, so why?" Ma Benyuan saw that the visitor was very young, with a calm demeanor, and looked quite aristocratic. He couldn't figure out his details for a while, so he asked very politely. .

"My surname is Lin, and I'm from Lingao." Lin Baiguang smiled.Since he is going to be recruited to serve the Traveling Group, there is no need to hide it.

Ma Benyuan's heart skipped a beat, it seemed that it was indeed them!

He said cautiously: "Your Majesty is an Australian."

Lin Baiguang nodded and said, "Exactly." As he spoke, he handed over a stack of thin paper.

This is a copy of the account book, and the account book itself is compiled based on the materials copied from the Gou family brothers. It clearly records that Ma Benyuan sold the stolen goods for Zhu Cailao and other pirates.There is a date, there is a quantity, and it is clear.And the last sum is clearly written, there is 3000 taels of silver that have not been settled for the sale of stolen goods by Mr. Zhu Cai.

Seeing this manuscript, Ma Benyuan immediately fell into his chair like a discouraged ball, and said after a while:

"The student does have a business relationship with the Gou family brother, but it's just to sell some goods for him." He waved his hand feebly, "The goods are the stolen goods of Mr. Zhucai and others. I really don't know..."

"Mr. Ma," Lin Baiguang said with a smile all over his face, "I'm not a government official, so I don't care about this kind of thing."

"Yes, yes, I appreciate it very much." Ma Benyuan said.Based on his experience, of course he knew that the other party was going to make an offer, "I don't know if there is anything you can do for the students?"

"I just want to continue to partner with Mr. Ma." Lin Baiguang knew that the matter was more than half done, and said with a smile, "Conspiracy." Lin Baiguang thought that Ma Benyuan was a smart man, and he had enough cards in his hand to force him to submit. No need for twists and turns.Immediately said his request one by one, Ma Benyuan originally had a calm expression, but the more he listened to it, the more ugly his expression became.It took a while before he replied: "This matter is too embarrassing."

Lin Baiguang said: "Sir, he just told us what he heard and saw in the yamen. Naturally, we have someone to contact him."

Ma Benyuan still shook his head hesitantly, this kind of behavior is tantamount to being a spy for the Australians.It's not a big deal to tip off people in the yamen, but he knows a little bit about the behavior of Australians: these people are building cities and roads in Lingao, recruiting and accepting rebels, and sooner or later there will be big troubles!If you find out about them yourself, if you find out, you will be charged with decapitation!

But Lin Baiguang's threats are really scary—especially this account book, which is too lethal.Mr. Zhu Cai had just been exterminated recently, and the government's enthusiasm for suppressing pirates has not yet passed. Once this thing is thrown out, even if he is not dead, his skin will be peeled off.Seeing that his determination was wavering, Lin Baiguang told him that he could keep the 3000 taels of silver, and he could continue to do the work of selling stolen goods for the pirates in the past, and the commission would be paid by the Traveling Group.

Ma Benyuan finally agreed to this attractive condition. In fact, he couldn't refuse to agree. If he agreed, he could buy money every year at least.As for how to do this, it is a matter of the future.

Seeing that he agreed, Lin Baiguang told him the contact information: Under normal circumstances, he would send someone to contact him once a month on a certain day, and the place was in a teahouse on Ximenwai Street.

"As long as you sit there, someone will naturally contact you." Lin Baiguang whispered, "People who come to contact you will bring a hookah with a jasper holder. If there is any news in the yamen and outside the city, you Just tell him."

This is not difficult.Ma Benyuan thought.

"If there is anything we want to know, he will tell you." Lin Baiguang said.

Ma Benyuan nodded.

"In case you need to see our people immediately, you can go to Wugong Temple and throw a broken straw sandal beside the stone steps outside the gate. Then go to the teahouse and wait, and someone will naturally come to meet you."

Ma Benyuan felt a chill in his heart.It's not that this method is so clever and unexpected, but that the ability to do so shows that the Australians have already placed a lot of people in the capital, and maybe there are Australian spies outside watching their house.

"Sometimes we will look for you urgently, and we will draw a circle on the wall outside your house. When you see it, go to the teahouse, and someone will contact you."

Lin Baiguang said it clearly and logically, but in fact he has no one in Qiongzhou Prefecture, so the so-called Qiongzhou Station is still nothing to say.However, this set of rhetoric served the purpose of intimidating Ma Benyuan.

By the way, after recruiting Ma Benyuan, Lin Baiguang's visit lasted for a few more days, and none of the people on his list dared to refuse his request-the lethality of black materials is very effective.This group of people is not very reliable, but they are only forced to serve the time travel group.Lin Baiguang only used them as sources of intelligence, and the real intelligence work had to be composed of intelligence personnel sent by Lingao.

One thing he was worried about was the Jinyiwei staff in Qiongzhou Mansion.According to the usual practice: there is an agency of Jinyiwei in Fucheng, and there are hundreds of households, trial hundred households, general banners, small banners and other officials of all sizes.Affected by movies and television, ordinary people are very familiar with the Ming Dynasty's Jinyiwei, Dongchang, Xichang and other secret service agencies, and they can't help but feel a little afraid.Lin Baiguang is no exception.

However, the Gou family's network did not include the names of Jinyiwei personnel.It made him a little weird.The Gou family's transactions of concealing stolen goods, selling stolen goods, and smuggling salt are all lucrative black businesses. For a powerful organization like Jinyiwei, it is impossible not to come to get a share of the money when it is free and looking for money.

Among the bribe booklets seized in Gou Er's box, only the names of Jinyiwei Hundred Households and Trial Hundred Households in Qiongzhou Mansion were listed in the gift booklets for three festivals and two longevity, but they were not included in the booklets that actually contained large bribes. name.

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Note: Whether Hainan Dao is called Bingbei Dao or Fen Shou Dao, and whether this Hainan Dao still existed in the late Ming Dynasty, I have not found the exact statement. Some materials only indicate that there was a Hainan Dao yamen in Qiongshan County.

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