Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

() And during this month, from outsiders' perspective, Wu Shigong seemed to stay at home in fear after being assassinated, not even daring to step out the door.

But Wu Shigong was at home and issued a series of orders to his subordinates.In addition to issuing the order to the action team through Xue Zhinong to assassinate the head of the Qi family, he also asked Xue Zhinong to find out the news of all Yangzhou salt merchants in Runing Mansion and Guide Mansion.And Wu Shigong also issued a large-scale mobilization order to his army.

It was the day when Zhang Rubao assassinated the head of the Qi family.That night, in the city of Runing Prefecture, Wu Shigong's soldiers imposed a curfew on the whole city.According to Wu Shigong's soldiers, they have already found clues of the assassin's accomplices, and they are going to conduct a large-scale manhunt throughout the city.

Qi Zhengyin is the big shopkeeper arranged by Qi's family in Runing Fucheng.That night, he had already made an appointment with a business partner to go to the brothel to get in touch, but because of the curfew, he had to return to his residence in Runing Fucheng.

Seeing that Qi Zhengyin returned home so early, Qi Zhengyin's concubine was very surprised, so she asked Qi Zhengyin, "Master, didn't you say that you might not come back tonight?"

Qi Zhengyin said helplessly: "Wu Shoubei didn't know what kind of madness he was going into, and he sent soldiers to make the whole city of Runing Prefecture a mess. Master, I have no choice but to go home. I will spend more time with you, little ghost. "

The two of them were laughing when they heard a heavy knock on the door.And with the sound of knocking on the door, someone shouted outside: "The government is searching, open the door!"

When Qi Zhengyin's butler opened the door, he saw a group of soldiers rushing in...

Chen Gui and a dozen or so salt boat guards were sitting on the bow drinking and eating meat.Chen Gui is a small leader of the guards escorting the salt boat.After their salt boat docked at the pier today, the guards were all ready to go to the small town by the pier to have fun.But Chen Gui was unlucky, so he drew a lottery, so he had to take his own men to guard the salt boat.

But tonight, Chen Gui didn't worry about the salt boat he was guarding at all, because this place was already on the ground of Guide Mansion, and there was a town beside the pier with a lot of residents, so no robbers would come here at all.

But when Chen Gui was [-] to [-]% drunk, Chen Gui seemed to see a group of soldiers running to the pier when he was drunk.Those soldiers lined up, all holding an iron rod in their hands and aiming at Chen Gui and the others.Chen Gui heard someone yelling: "Shoot!" Then those iron bars made a loud noise and spewed out flames. Chen Gui was surprised to find that the guards around him had fallen into a pool of blood.

But Chen Gui was miraculously unharmed, he sat there blankly, feeling like he had a nightmare.But then, Chen Gui saw that behind the row of soldiers with iron rods, another group of soldiers with long spears came running towards Chen Gui and the others aggressively...

Wang Song was lying on the ground with a bruised nose and swollen eyes. His body was tied up like a rice dumpling.But although Wang Song was bruised all over, he didn't dare to groan.

Wang Song was in Runing Mansion, guarding a storehouse of salt merchants in Yangzhou.Today, however, a group of gangsters rushed into Zhuangzi swaggeringly and arrested everyone in Zhuangzi.

When they learned that Wang Song was the head of Zhuangzi, they tortured Wang Song immediately.Under the threat, Wang Song revealed all the gold and silver hidden in the village, and Wang Song hoped that after the gangsters took the money, they would let him survive.

But after those bandits swept away the gold and silver, they conjured up many carts like magic. They calmly loaded the salt and grain in the village into the carts, and carried them out in an orderly manner. with.

After all the warehouses in Zhuangzi were empty, the bandit leader walked up to Wang Song, and he drew his waist knife.He slashed at Wang Song fiercely...

In the entire July of the fourth year of Chongzhen, in the two prefectures of Runing Mansion and Guide Mansion in Henan Province, as long as it was owned by Yangzhou salt merchants, whether it was salt cargo transported on salt ships or those stored in warehouses, they were It was swept away by a group of "unknown origin".

What's even more frightening is that that group of people are evil-minded. Those guarding the warehouse, guarding the salt boat, and even the boatmen on the salt boat were all killed by that group of people.

In addition, the whole family of the shopkeepers and buddies arranged by the Yangzhou salt merchants in these two prefectures were wiped out by the unidentified gangsters who broke in, and all their belongings were robbed.Adding up all these people, the Yangzhou salt merchants lost more than 400 people.

Moreover, the Yangzhou salt merchants who lost this time were not just the Qijia family. As long as they provided salt goods to Runing Mansion and Guide Mansion, the entire army of Yangzhou salt merchants was wiped out.

And after that, in Runing Mansion and Guide Mansion, all the local merchants selling salt received a letter signed by the Four Seas Trading Company.In this letter, Sihai Trading Company politely asked those merchants not to take salt from Yangzhou salt merchants anymore.If they need salt, they can go to the Four Seas Trading Company to buy it.

It can be said that apart from a few businessmen who are familiar with Wu Shigong, other businessmen don't know that there is such a firm at all.So out of curiosity, these businessmen all inquired about the background of this firm.When these merchants realized that Wu Shigong was standing behind the Four Seas Commercial Company, and then thought of what happened to Yangzhou salt merchants in the two prefectures recently, those merchants immediately shuddered.

But at this time, the officials of the two prefectures and the Yangzhou salt merchants still couldn't see that it was Wu Shigong who was playing tricks, so they must be blind.However, regarding Wu Shigong's crazy behavior, no one dared to question Wu Shigong face to face, so now those officials and Yangzhou salt merchants have kept unusually silent.

Even those civil servants who claim to be the messengers of justice are collectively silent.At this time, they didn't even dare to play any impeachment memorials to provoke Wu Shigong.

In their view, it is understandable for Wu Shigong to take some slightly out-of-the-ordinary revenge after being assassinated.But Wu Shigong made such an undisguised, fierce and cruel revenge, then Wu Shigong must have lost his mind.If now..., I'm afraid that I will have nothing to do in the future!

And those interested people among the salt merchants in Yangzhou connected this incident with the assassination of the head of the Qi family, and later learned that Wu Shigong was assassinated a month ago.These Yangzhou salt merchants thought that what happened now must have something to do with the Qi family.

Moreover, those highly skilled salt merchants learned about all the things that happened between Qi Jia and Wu Shigong through their connections, and they were immediately outraged.You Qijia are not honest in their work, but we salt merchants have suffered such a big loss. Isn't this a disaster for the fish in the pond?

What's even more hateful is, why should the Qi family want to assassinate Wu Shigong?Do the Qi family still abide by the rules of the salt industry?And after that, no matter how the new Qi Family Patriarch explained to those salt merchants, those salt merchants refused to accept it.For those salt merchants, evidence is not important, as long as there is doubt.

But now, if there is any problem, I have to put it aside first.The biggest problem at present is to make up the relationship between Yangzhou salt merchants and Wu Shigong as soon as possible.Otherwise, the salt merchants would suffer even greater losses.