On the sixth day of December, Nanzhili Huai'an Mansion, Nanzhili Governor Zhu Dadian inspected here.

It has been three months since Zhu Dadian was appointed as the governor of Nanzhili by Zhu Cihong, and his work can be described as diligent and conscientious, and he has made great efforts to investigate the hidden fields of Nanzhili and implement the apportionment into the mu.

After Zhu Dadian's strong pressure, Nanzhili's policy of apportioning the land into mu was carried out very smoothly, and he also carried out disaster relief and pacification in the affected areas, so that the disaster situation in Songjiang Prefecture and Changzhou Prefecture and other places improved, and soon recovered its vitality.

After Zhu Dadian solved the land contradictions and disasters in Nanzhili, he began to free up his hands to rectify the blackest Caoyun and Jiangnan salt affairs in the Ming Dynasty, and he demanded that all salt farms must be controlled by the government, suppressing private salt farms, or buying or seizing them.

However, this matter is not easy to divide into acres, and the land matter has the help of Sun Yingyuan, who is stationed in Yangzhou Mansion, which seems to be very convenient, while the matter of Cao Yun and salt affairs is the power of Xungui, and the interests are very complicated.

Although Wei Guogong and other Nanjing nobles have now been suppressed by Zhu Cihong and have fallen silent, they still have a lot of strength, and Zhu Cihong has no chance to start for a while.

Zhu Dadian has been the governor of Caoyun for several years, and he knows how dark Caoyun is, and it continues to eat away at the blood of the Ming Dynasty until it is squeezed dry.

Zhu Dadian himself has reaped a lot of benefits from it, and now he has followed the crown prince, knowing that sooner or later the prince will have to fight against Nanjing Xungui and Cao, and the prince has already told himself.

Zhu Dadian naturally wanted to take this opportunity to strike a further blow to the nobles of Nanjing and cut off the nobles' financial routes, so that they would have nothing to jump on.

The current governor of Caoyun is Zhu Guobi, the Marquis of Funing, who is the backbone of Nanjing's nobles, and he will do whatever it takes to get the silver.

At the same time, Zhu Guobi also bribed everyone to transport salt, and bribed several small officials in a salt factory, taking advantage of the convenience of Cao Yun, and also carrying private salt.

If these are found out, it will be a crime to turn around, and Zhu Dadian is an insider, so Zhu Guobi, the governor of Caoyun, is unwilling to let Zhu Dadian investigate no matter what.

Zhu Dadian came to the Caoyun Yamen in Huai'an with a vote of officials, ready to check the accounts, but after arriving at the Caoyun Yamen, the porter said that Zhu Guobi, the governor of Caoyun, had gone to Nanjing, and the chief in charge of the accounts had gone to the Caoyun Wharf.

Zhu Dadian drank a pot of tea in Caoyun Yamen and didn't see the person in charge come back, and he felt very unhappy.

Yan Yingyuan, who followed Zhu Dadian's side, said: "My lord, my subordinates feel that Funing Hou deliberately avoided the adult, and the supervisor of the Caoyun Yamen took away the account books and other things, which also made it impossible for the adults to check out. ”

Zhu Dadian thought for a while and said: "There is such a possibility, but he can hide from the first day of junior high school, and he can't hide from the fifteenth, and the official has already arrived here, so he is determined not to give up!" ”

Yan Yingyuan was a little worried: "My lord, it's better for my subordinates to be cautious about this matter, the Tianwu Army is stationed in Yangzhou Mansion, it is better to ask Jing Wubo to transfer some troops to help your lord investigate this case, after all, there are tens of thousands of guards in Caoyun." ”

As the fattest official of the Ming Dynasty, the governor of Caoyun also has great authority in his hands, and his subordinates have more than 270 civil and military generals of different levels and positions, such as Li Cao's participation in politics, patrol of Cao Yushi, Langzhong, supervision, punishment, and chief, and more than 20,000 people under his jurisdiction.

Moreover, the authority of the governor of Caoyun is heavy, there are armed forces under the jurisdiction of the pro-jurisdiction, as well as the battalion of the water division, and the "Caobiao" under the pro-jurisdiction of the "Caobiao" is divided into seven battalions of the left, center, right, city guard, and water division, with a total of more than 3,400 soldiers, and controls the Caoliang and Wei stations in the eight provinces of Shandong, Henan, Suzhou, Hui, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Hubei and Hunan.

Zhu Dadian said with a smile: "No matter what this official says, he is also the governor of Caoyun, and now he is the governor of Nanzhili, and they don't dare to go too far, if they don't know what to do, this official has no choice but not to remember the old feelings, and ask His Royal Highness's pro-army to deter this group of people!" ”

Not long after, Zhu Dadian directly took people to the Caoyun Wharf not far from the city.

Cao Yun is a lifeline to maintain the normal operation of the country, and at the same time drive the economy on both sides of the canal, Cao Yun Wharf is quite prosperous around, there are rows of Cao boats parked on the bank, the wharf is bustling with people, in addition to the loading workers, there are many slender men pulling boats.

Zhu Dadian sent someone to summon the person in charge and directly explained his intention.

The person in charge was Zhu Dadian's old subordinate, and he didn't dare to slack off at the moment, and said: "My lord, the lower official is going to get the accounts, please wait a while." ”

Seeing that this principal did not delay, Zhu Dadian nodded, and walked a few steps to the canal, inspecting by the way.

At this moment, someone on the dock shouted: "He is Zhu Dadian, the governor of Nanzhili, who is the one who cut off the life of many people in Nanzhili, and now he is here to cut off our life!" ”

When the people on the Caoyun wharf heard this, they all showed anger on their faces, shouted and scolded loudly, and Yan Yingyuan and the officials of Yingtianfu hurriedly blocked in front of Zhu Dadian.

Suddenly surrounded by the Caoyun workers, and asked himself to give them a way to live, Zhu Dadian wondered in his heart, why did he cut off your way of life? You are not gentry or officials, so where do you start?

Just when Zhu Dadian was puzzled, he saw a person suddenly burst out of the crowd, holding a dagger in his hand, and directly stabbed him in the heart.

Zhu Dadian covered his chest with his hands, with a look of disbelief, why did the person in front of him stab me? Is this a conspiracy?

Zhu Dadian shook his body and fell to the ground, he was very unwilling at this time, he still had a lot of things to achieve, and Nan Zhili had just started, which was all infused with his own hard work......

The officers and soldiers of Ying Tianfu who were guarding Zhu Dadian were stunned when they saw the governor with a knife in his heart, this kind of assassination of the imperial court official was too sudden, and everyone had never encountered it in their lives.

Yan Yingyuan picked up the fallen Zhu Dadian and shouted to the stunned officers and soldiers around: "Catch that assassin!" ”

After hearing Yan Yingyuan's shouting, these officers and soldiers reacted and surrounded them one after another to get people.

This assassin dressed as a Caoyun worker did not flee after assassinating Zhu Dadian, but shouted loudly: "Dog officer, kill your life, I, Li Dahai, can be regarded as a good man for the people, and I will be a good man after eighteen years!" ”

The officers and soldiers tied up this man who called himself Li Dahai, picked up Zhu Dadian and ran towards the Yamen of the Governor of Caoyun, and scattered to find the famous doctor in Huai'an City.

When the group hurriedly returned to the governor's yamen, Zhu Dadian was already out of breath, and Yan Yingyuan and other subordinate officials of the governor's yamen panicked at that time, and hurriedly sent a six-hundred-mile expedited to Huizhou Mansion, and also sent a letter to Sun Yingyuan, who was stationed in Yangzhou Mansion.