Ming Dynasty: The Rampant Crown Prince

Autumn.

The deserted moon hung high.

The autumn night was silent, and the swishing autumn wind danced in the forest without knowing it, and suddenly, the wind became stronger and stronger, blowing cold the mountains and forests, and also blowing cold everyone's hearts.

Under the reflection of the moonlight, a long fire dragon drove on the wide official road, and hundreds of trucks came to a small bamboo forest, and then a black shadow stood on the truck, holding a torch high, and shook it in mid-air.

Then on a high stone in the small bamboo forest, a torch was also raised, and it was shaken in mid-air, and then the 100-person convoy on the official road left the official road and headed towards the small bamboo forest.

"This is the grain truck, the official grain from the Yangzhou government. In

a small forest on the other side of the official road, a group of people and cats watched all this from the big tree, Li Ruolian next to Zhu Cihong explained to His Royal Highness, and said: " The new policy of the imperial court, the grain reserve department to receive the official grain of the government to manage independently, but the local government is yang and yin, Yangzhou only gave 10,000 stone of grain to the grain reserve department, the rest of the 300,000 stone, hidden, and then every year will embezzle more than half, and then these embezzled grain, transported out of Yangzhou, sold, this bamboo gang is to help distribute to the gang around the gang. "

Only food

?" Zhu Cihong squatted on the trunk of the tree, and said: "There should be private salt and iron handles?" "

Yes, the palace...... Childe is wise.

Li Ruolian said, and said: "These have been transported to Henan, Jinyi Wei found out, Henan is full of wars, droughts, no harvest in many places, there are many displaced people, the only one who can spend a lot of money to buy grain, sell salt and iron, is not a businessman, but a thief." "

It's Zhang Xianzhong's people, pretending to be businessmen to buy military funds everywhere.

As soon as Zhu Cihong heard this, his eyes became cold, this Yangzhou prefect is so bold, whether he knows this grain or not, where the salt and iron end up flowing, but dare to corrupt officials and sell grain privately, it is a great crime, and a corruption is still 200,000 stones, no wonder, the court is as poor as a ghost, and the tax revenue of the treasury is getting less and less year by year.

There is a good reason, in the year of the catastrophe, the year of war, not to mention the real disaster area, the same is true for the area that has not been affected, from Yangzhou, we know how corrupt the officialdom at the end of the Ming Dynasty was.

Yangzhou is like this, misappropriating the government's reserve grain without authorization, and the reserve bank is probably also in deficit, and there is a huge deficit.

The two policies of Daming Qianzhuang and the Grain Reserve Department can well curb these problems, but they must be drastically cut down in Jiangnan in order to be implemented well.

"Is the Yongwei Battalion cracking down on thieves under Xiong Wencan, the prime minister of the five provinces?" Zhu

Cihong asked suddenly.

"Yes, now I am fighting back and forth with Zhang Xianzhong's department in Runing, Henan.

Li Ruolian thought about it, and said the exact location of the Yongwei battalion, Jinyiwei is all over the south of the Yangtze River, and the bamboo gang transports Yangzhou's grain, salt and iron to Henan, and who they sell it to, they all find out clearly, of course, they know where the Yongwei battalion is.

"Who is the general?" Zhu

Cihong asked again, although there is no problem with the Yongwei battalion, but in addition to the soldiers in the Beijing camp, he does not dare to use it with confidence to other armies of the Ming Dynasty, this matter must be kept secret, and it must be made into an accident to intercept the goods transported to Henan by the Bamboo Gang, instead of deliberately waiting there.

Therefore, no one can leak the news about this matter, and now the officialdom of Daming is all TM gang, and they are really afraid of revealing the news.

"It's Huang Degong, Sun Yingyuan.

Li Ruolian said.

"Let the bamboo gang transport these goods out, and then send people to monitor and report the specific route to the brave camp.

Zhu Cihong planned to cut off the beard, and another person to get the stolen goods, so he said: "I ordered Huang Degong and Sun Yingyuan of Runing, Henan, to let them give up the pursuit of the anti-thieves, and immediately rushed to the border of Henan, and informed them that there would be a batch of materials entering Henan, and trading with the anti-thieves who pretended to be a caravan, so that they must intercept this batch of materials." "

Yes!"

Soon, Yijin Yiwei immediately braved the night and galloped away from here, heading into the distance.

Zhu Cihong spent a lot of money on this 5,000 brocade guards going to the south of the Yangtze River, so much manpower and material resources, he must make full use of the benefits.

"Zhang Huaibin, you send eight people to follow Li Ruolian, Gao Wencai and others into the small bamboo forest and arrest them. "

......

"Hey, this Yangzhou is only 500,000 but the harvest of grain every year, the government is greedy for 300,000 stones, and the other 200,000 stones are reserved for official grain reserves. "

Deep in the bamboo forest, a village is brightly lit, which is the root base of the bamboo gang.

At this moment, a group of people came out to keep vigil, and after a long night, they began to chat.

"What kind of bullshit is Daming Qianzhuang, the Grain Reserve Division, under the direct jurisdiction of the Ministry of Household Affairs in the capital, to control the local money and grain, then these corrupt officials will not be able to freely mobilize money and grain, and naturally resist, no, I heard that the whole Jiangnan has joined forces to boycott this new policy, and our bamboo gang has also benefited, and a large number of grains and private salt have flowed out.

"If you take it to the imperial court, it's better for them to resell it first." "

Haha, the corrupt officials are good, we are happy, this is not a robbery every day, isn't it because of the cooperation with the Yangzhou government, that we are safe, and I don't look at how much money is sent in every year." "

In recent months, the most lively discussion in Jiangnan has been the new policy of the imperial court, which is a major reform, a reform that has never been seen in thousands of years, and it is naturally very hot, and even they bandits know it.

"You guys, keep a good vigil, so much nonsense, these words are what you can talk about, keep your mouths shut. At

this time, the two hundred and fifty eighty thousand during the day walked out, and today it was his turn to be on duty at night, so he naturally wanted to come out to patrol it, and as soon as he came out, he heard a few people talking about the secrets of the bamboo gang in this mouth, thanks to his own place, and the night was dark and windy, otherwise it would be a leak of secrets to others.

"Four masters. Several

people said hello.

"We're bored, our own brothers talk casually, how can we say this to the outside world. The

four masters looked around, and said with a smile: "This vigil is more boring, isn't it good to talk about women, and after this batch of goods is sold, discuss where to go to Yangzhou to play, isn't it!"

After casually reprimanding a few words, the four masters walked into the village.

Late at night, several black shadows turned into the stockade, in front of the stockade, there is a room that is always lit, this is the room used for the vigil to rest and change the guard, at this moment, the four masters are lying in it and sleeping.

Li Ruolian and the others walked next to the wall, dodged a few tower sentinels, and then sneaked towards the room.

Soon, they came to the door of the room, listening to the snoring inside, several people slowly pushed the door open, and then Li Ruolian took out a small porcelain bottle from his arms, walked lightly in front of the four masters, opened the bottle mouth, and put the bottle on the nose of the four masters.

After a while, I saw that the four masters were weak in all their limbs, and it was obvious that he was slumped on the bed with his hands and feet, apparently unconscious.

Then, a set of sacks was carried out by the whole person.

In the city of Yangzhou.

Yin time.

In a courtyard, Zhu Cihong looked at the people in the sack on the ground, smiled at the corner of his mouth, and said, "Drag him to the secret room and wake him up." Soon

, a basin of cold water was poured directly on the face of the four masters, Li Ruolian walked over, raised his hand and slapped it twice, and the four masters immediately opened their eyes in a daze.

Li Ruolian used a light smoke, and it was very simple to wake up.

"You are the caravan during the day!" As

soon as the four masters saw the group of people in front of them, they immediately recognized them, and after looking at the surrounding environment, their hearts beat violently, and their hearts panicked.

It's over, they underestimate this group of people, no wonder they don't say a word during the day, they give money so happily, and they are all ruthless people, thinking about revenge in secret!

After the four masters figured this out, their eyes rolled quickly, and they were frantically calculating in their hearts, what the other party wanted to do, what was the intention to arrest him, and how the other party caught him out of the stockade.

Could this gang be a gang from another town?

Obviously not an ordinary caravan.

"Ladies and gentlemen, what are you doing here, a thousand taels of silver for the toll, if you are not happy, it will be a big deal to pay you back double, why kidnap me. "

Although the four masters are arrogant, they are not stupid people, how can they be stupid when they can mix with the four masters in the bamboo gang, not only that, he is also extraordinary, but he was kidnapped by this group of people without knowing it, then the other party's kung fu is absolutely first-class, not even worse than the owner of the village.

At this time, before figuring out the other party's purpose, it is necessary to be soft, otherwise he may not be able to go out.

"Everyone, what do you want, can you say it, don't look at me so seriously, okay?"

The group of people in front of the meeting of the four masters didn't speak, just stared at themselves, and they couldn't help but feel a little hairy in their hearts, and they were stared at by so many pairs of eyes.