Jinyi Town Mountains and Rivers

Chapter 139
Lao Hu gave Lin Dasheng a bowl of water.Lin Dasheng gulped it down in one gulp.

"Those twenty firecrackers were indeed shipped to Japanese pirates! It's just that they are not traded, but inspected. If Shishiro Inoue finds them useful after inspection, he will buy them in large quantities." Lin Dasheng said weakly.

"Shishiro Inoue? Why is this name so familiar?" He Liu asked Lao Hu.

Old Hu said: "I heard Vice General Tang say that the leader of the group of Japanese pirates led by Madam Qi is called Shishiro Inoue."

He Liu was a little strange.Didn't Qi Jiguang say that he captured [-] new firecrackers from Japanese pirates in Huling?It shows that the Japanese pirates have purchased this kind of firecrackers in large quantities.Why do you need to inspect anything?

Old Hu seemed to see through the doubts in He Liu's heart.He said: "The Japanese pirates are not led by one person. They are divided into groups. I think it is the Japanese pirates in Huling, not the same group as Shishiro Inoue."

He Liu nodded and continued to interrogate Lin Dasheng: "Who ordered you?"

Lin Dasheng said three words: "I don't know."

He Liu sneered: "Could it be that you want to suffer that heart-piercing pain again? Hu, put on the curse!"

Lin Dasheng sighed: "Oh, I really don't know who ordered me! If I want to know who it is, I will definitely kill his whole family! Because the person who ordered me has arrested my whole family!"

He Liu was stunned: "Arrested your whole family?"

Lin Dasheng nodded, and told the whole story: the imperial court has always used and fought against the Cao Gang.The Cao grain in Zhejiang and Zhizhi provinces has always been transported to the capital by the grain ships of the Cao Gang.Three months ago, under the order of Yu Sanjiao, the head of the Cao Gang, Lin Dasheng escorted the ten-day grain to Beijing.

When the grain ship docked, Lin Dasheng made the delivery with the ambassador of the Warehousing Department of the Ministry of Households, and the errand was finished.He was going to take his brothers to spend a few days in the capital before returning to Yangzhou.

One day, he was drinking flower wine with his brothers in Yihonglou, when suddenly a beggar came to him with a small burden on his back.Said that this little burden was given to him by someone.

Lin Dasheng opened the bag, and inside were some children's playthings, women's jewelry, and the old man's felt boots.

Lin Dasheng was shocked!These things are the personal belongings of the young and old in the family.

There is also a letter in the package, to the effect that Lin Dasheng's family is in the hands of the person who wrote the letter.Ask him to remove all Cao Gang guards from the empty grain ships at night.

Lin Dasheng's first reaction after reading the letter was that an enemy was playing tricks on him.

As the leader of the Qingyun Gang, he knew that he had offended too many people in these years.Every time he leaves home to run errands, he always leaves more than 30 Qingyuntang masters to protect his family.The more than 30 people are all highly skilled in martial arts.With their protection, my family will never be easily kidnapped by others.

But there is a coincidence.He had just read the letter in the bundle when someone came to him.The man's name is Wang Fa, and he is the beater of Qingyun Hall.It was he who led [-] brothers to stay in Jiangnan to take care of Lin Dasheng's family.

Wang Fa told him that his family was kidnapped by a group of strong men.The more than 30 brothers were also killed and injured.

Lin Dasheng turned pale with shock, it seems that the kidnapping of his family members is true!

Although he is the number one ruthless person in the world, he respects his parents above all and loves his children below.The lives of family members are more important than their own lives.

In desperation, he had no choice but to withdraw the Cao Gang guards from all the grain ships that night as requested in the letter.

The next day, there were more than a dozen grain ships, each with a large wooden box in the bottom warehouse.There are more than 100 firecrackers in each large wooden box.There are thousands of firecrackers in total.

The beggar who delivered the letter to Lin Dasheng the day before came again, and this time he still brought a burden.

In the baggage, there are bundles of hair.There are two red strings hanging from the hair, and some are tied with hairpins. . . .The red headband belonged to Lin Dasheng's daughter, and the hairpin belonged to Lin Dasheng's wife and two concubines. . . .

Just like yesterday, there was still a letter in the bundle.

Lin Dasheng opened the letter, which told him to transport the thousand firecrackers to the south of the Yangtze River with the grain ship of the Cao Gang.

Smuggling firearms is a felony. Ordinary merchant ships passing by the canal have to undergo layer-by-layer inspections at dozens of checkpoints in the River Yamen Patrol Battalion.If it was replaced by an ordinary merchant ship to transport the guns, I am afraid that even the Lianzhou Wharf would not be able to get out.

The river patrol battalion will not check the grain ships of the Cao Gang.

Because there is an unwritten rule for Caobang grain ships to go to Beijing.When they came, they were transporting grain.When they go back, the officials in the capital will entrust the Cao Gang to carry a large number of private goods back to the south of the Yangtze River to sell in grain ships.

When the Caobang grain ship returned to the south of the Yangtze River, it might have brought some private goods of some minister or minister on board.The River Patrol Battalion will not touch that bad luck.

Lin Dasheng asked his men to beat the beggar who delivered the letter half to death, and asked him to tell the whereabouts of his family.After some torture, he found that the beggar was really just a messenger—the beggar only knew that the person who sent him the letter was a short and fat man, and he had given him 20 taels of silver before he came.

Lin Dasheng's family fell into their hands, but he had no choice but to escort the grain ship and return to Hangzhou, where the main rudder of the Cao Gang was located, with a thousand firecrackers.

As soon as he got off the boat, a monk found him.The monk told Lin Dasheng that his people had arrested Lin Dasheng's family.

The monk ordered him to find a private place in Hangzhou City and hide the thousand firecrackers.

Originally, Lin Dasheng wanted to be tough on the monk.But the monk threatened the lives of his whole family, so he could only choose to compromise.

It is not difficult to find a large warehouse for hiding things for the dignified Cao Gang Qingyuntang Xiangzhu.Lin Dasheng hid the firecracker in a warehouse controlled by Qingyuntang in Hangzhou City.

A few days later, the monk asked Lin Dasheng to take a group of brothers to escort [-] of the firecrackers to Taizhou, and handed over the goods to Taro Watanabe, the leader of the Japanese pirates who landed in Taozhu.

The Japanese pirates under Taro Watanabe were the one that Qi's army defeated in Huling.

After finishing the deal with Taro Watanabe, Lin Dasheng returned to Hangzhou City.

But the monk did not return to Lin Dasheng's family.

Half a month later, the monk found Lin Dasheng again and asked him to take twenty firecrackers to Taizhou to find Shishiro Inoue.

If Shishiro Inoue is satisfied with the shipment, Lin Dasheng will return to Hangzhou and transport all the remaining [-] firecrackers to Taizhou to complete the transaction with Shishiro Inoue.

By that time, all the firecrackers were sold out, and the monk said that Lin Dasheng's family would be released.

Who would have thought that Lin Dasheng was unlucky, and met the Qi family army halfway, and then, Lin Dasheng and his men were escorted to the prison cell of the Taizhou government until He Liu and Lao Hu appeared. . . .

After Lin Dasheng made his statement, he sighed: "Oh, I don't know where my parents, wife and daughter are now."

When it comes to parents, wives and daughters, He Liusheng has three points of compassion.He thought in his heart that if his wife Bai Xiaoyan and his daughter Xiangxiang were kidnapped by others, he, the Sixth Taibao of Jinyiwei, might also obey the kidnappers.

He Liu and Lin Dasheng are the same people, they value the lives of their own family members more than their own.There are many people like them in the world.

(End of this chapter)