Lin Ruhai has been operating in Yangzhou for many years, and during this period, he secretly visited and naturally gained something. And he was assassinated in the first place, probably because his actions made people suspicious and alarmed the other party, which led to the murder. However, since Jia Min's incident, the Lin Mansion has taken careful precautions, and the other party had to take risks and chose to assassinate.

In fact, since receiving the emperor's instructions, Lin Ruhai's excerpt has already arrived in the capital, but the emperor has been waiting for the opportunity, the original plan was to ask Lin Ruhai to secretly visit some results, and then take Jiangnan to open the knife, who expected the other party to be so decisive, after finding that Lin Ruhai had made a move, he was not sure but did not hesitate at all, and actually killed directly.

Until he received the news of Lin Ruhai's assassination, the emperor fortunately did not hide it, suppressed the news of the assassination, and threw the previous fold to the morning court, and announced Lin Ruhai's assassination the next day.

After all, the assassination of a senior member of the imperial court is completely different from the nature of corruption and fraud, and it is simply contempt for the imperial court.

And Lin Ruhai's side, since he had already startled the snake and attracted the assassination, he simply led the snake out of the hole, taking advantage of the other party's successful assassination and his "coma" when he died, some people in Yangzhou were really ready to move, Lin Ruhai took this opportunity to turn light into darkness, combined with the previous clues all the way down, he was not afraid of the other party moving, he was afraid that the other party would not move, the bigger the movement, the bigger the flaw.

Lin Ruhai explained some of the clues and speculations he traced one by one, and now the matter is rough, but the purpose of their trip is not just to copy a few salt merchants, Jiangnan Salt Administration, no, not only the salt administration, I am afraid that the entire Jiangnan officialdom will have to move, and the most important thing is to see if this matter can implicate those high-ranking nobles in the capital.

Several people deliberated for a long time and made a preliminary plan, seeing that they were resting temporarily, Lin Daiyu thought about it and suddenly asked, "Daddy, where is Mr. Peng?" ”

Lin Ruhai was stunned for a moment, but she didn't expect her to suddenly burst out of this sentence, relieved herself, her expression was subtle, but she replied: "Your Mr. Peng, when my father was assassinated that day, he was also injured and unfortunately passed away." ”

Lin Ruhai sighed after speaking, this is really a coincidence.

The rectification of the salt administration was originally an order from Peng Shixing, so since he began to investigate the salt tax, Peng Shixing has been inseparable from him most of the time, both assisting and surveilling.

Peng Shixing was naturally there when he left the house that day, and Peng Shixing was unlucky, he was not as lucky as Lin Ruhai, the knife happened to be blocked by the turtle, and those assassins were smeared with poison on the knives, he was stabbed, although he did not die on the spot, but he died of poison on the way back.

To tell the truth, although Lin Ruhai has always wanted to get rid of him, he really didn't do anything about it, and now in retrospect, when he went out that day, Master Turtle took a look at Peng Shixing for the first time, and his eyes were very strange, Lin Ruhai still remembers that look, and now he still thinks about it.

Lin Daiyu's expression was also subtle, speaking of which, her relationship with Mr. Peng was originally quite good, after all, Daiyu was opened by him since she was a child, and she always regarded him as a teacher, until that incident happened later, and she was still entangled in it for a long time. And when she returned to Yangzhou this time, she hadn't thought about facing this Mr. Peng.

But now, this person is gone? Lin Daiyu couldn't help but be in a trance.

Seeing her like this, Lin Ruhai sighed and began to drive people away, "You're also tired, why don't you go back and rest." ”

Lin Daiyu nodded, anyway, Daddy has already seen it, and she has listened to it after a while, and the rest of the matter is up to Daddy and them.

Lin Daiyu left, but the matter here is not over, after discussing with Lin Ruhai, he returned to his room, and recruited the subordinates of Gonggong Sheng who stayed in Yangzhou back then, asked carefully, and ordered a new order. Lin Ruhai has already found out some people's problems, and now he is just asking them to keep an eye on them and investigate them carefully. And tomorrow, there will be a reception banquet to welcome him, and several people in Yangzhou will attend, and he just happens to have some breath. By the way, after the reception banquet, visit several key people.

At the same time, in the mansion of the head of the salt merchants in Yangzhou, Jiang Xia, the current head of the salt merchants, was so angry that he dropped his cup.

"A bunch of idiots! I'm X! ”

The housekeeper waited quietly to the side, listening to his master scolding his mother, and he didn't dare to say a word.

"Who gave them the courage to assassinate the imperial court officials, or patrol the salt imperial history, now it's okay, the matter is completely big! Now that the king of Anjun is here, they have the courage to slaughter the king of Anjun! ”

Hearing this, Steward Jiang was even more arrogant, just as if he hadn't heard such a big rebellion.

After losing his temper for a while, Jiang Xia finally calmed down, pondered for a while, but suddenly said, "Maybe they really dare, some people are not afraid of heaven and earth!" ”

After speaking, he sneered, "It's really getting more and more courageous, if there is someone behind, everything will be guaranteed." Let's make trouble, the bigger the trouble, the better, and then we will go down together as a companion! ”

Saying this, Jiang Xia's face showed a look of decadence, paused, and asked the housekeeper who had been standing beside him, "Have you found out which family did it?" Is it still the rabbit cub surnamed Sun? ”

"Back to the master, our people have checked, but this time it really didn't seem to be the Sun family's doing, the clues are wiped cleanly, this is a clear knife and a gun, and it is not the style of the Sun family."

The housekeeper's meaning is very clear, this group of assassins is well-trained, the division of labor is clear during the assassination, and they died cleanly after being caught, and they were wiped clean in the follow-up, which is really not something that the Sun family can do. Their level was also arranged to deal with the internal response, and they were poisoned, and the follow-up was not dealt with yet, and the clues were found, "Also, when our people checked the Sun family, they also found another group of people staring at the Sun family." ”

Jiang Xia waved his hand, "Lin Ruhai suffered a loss back then, and he has been guarding against the Sun family, it is estimated that it is his person, hum, he can bear it." If this kind of thing happened to my wife, Lao Tzu would have destroyed them long ago. ”

Steward Jiang lowered his head, rolled his eyes silently, and did not answer. Can this be the same?

"Forget it, it's hard for him." I don't know what I thought, Jiang Xia sighed again and stopped talking about it.

"Then master, do you still check?" The housekeeper continued to ask as if he hadn't heard Jiang Xia's words.

Jiang Xia was a little excited, "What to check, the Qin mission has arrived, Lao Tzu's life is almost gone, what is there to check." ”

Seeing him sad, Steward Jiang was also a little uncomfortable, he had accompanied Jiang Xia since he was a child, and naturally had deep feelings, so he persuaded, "Master, these years of disasters and famines, water conservancy repairs, the imperial court is going to use silver, you don't know how much you donated, not to mention that a lot of the silver you got here has been exchanged for tribute and presented to that person, and the funds for this tribute have always been known." And when you took over, you also did your best, the silver is like flowing water, the emperor didn't also say that you were a friend of the cloth, and now you can't say that you can still be accommodating."

Jiang Xia smiled bitterly, can you believe the emperor's words? People don't give you a face, if you really take it seriously, you are a fool.

Besides, Lin Ruhai's assassination is so clean, he sometimes thinks about it, and always has some doubts about whether it is the handwriting of that person, there is no reason, he suddenly thinks so, if this is, it is ruthless enough, but it stands to reason that this is not enough. Lin Ruhai is dead, what good can he do?

As for the salt shortage, this advance salt introduction is not what his family is doing, but every family is like this, salt merchants and salt administration, and even a few people in the capital have made a lot of profits, but wrong is wrong, no one mentions it's okay, it's so rotten inside, but if it is found out, it will be a sin. He can see that this time the matter is serious, and he really needs to investigate it thoroughly.

But it's too late for him to get out now, but he doesn't want to die, unlike those who are lucky, now he wants to fight, saying that he can't atone for his crimes, things can still turn around, and he can save the lives of the whole family.

"King Anjun is not safe now, I'm afraid someone wants to be unfavorable to him, no matter who it is, the dirty and smelly can push our salt merchants, you send someone to keep an eye on the point, and also observe and observe King Anjun's person, and then find a way to pick up with him and pass a few words to him."

Steward Jiang listened silently, nodded, and asked hesitantly for a while, "Master, has this decided to take the king of Anjun?" ”

Who else could there be besides him, Jiang Xia was weakly crooked on the Taishi chair, and the Emperor Taishang made it clear that he wanted to praise him, not to mention that he had met the first prince during his southern tour, and had some contacts. To be honest, if the first prince had succeeded to the throne earlier, it is estimated that these messy things in Jiangnan would have been sorted out a long time ago.

Well, but he's probably done with it too.

Thinking about it like this, Jiang Xia touched his chin, thinking with some guilt, it is better not to succeed to the throne this first prince.

But now, he can only hope that the son of the former prince can see that he has learned his way back and reported meritorious, and can open up to his family a little. Of course, it would be nice if I could keep some of my possessions, really just a few.

As for those rumors about vain caution, he doesn't believe it at all, how could a character like the first prince give birth to a straw bale, it is estimated that this is pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger. There are times when they regret it.

Well, Jiang Xia touched his chin again, and had a bad idea, if there was a chance to save it, it would be better to show sincerity. As for the others, people don't kill for themselves, anyway, everyone deserves it, and he can only take care of his wife and children first.

He didn't know that someone was thinking about giving him a big gift. At this time, Lord Li still had no news, and he was cautious and left him alone, anyway, he would always appear when the time came. Now he is embarking on a new round of eating, drinking, and merrymaking.