In the land south of the Yangtze River, [Tian Lai zw.xyz] is far away from the court, and the rivers and lakes that have bred from this can be described as full of tricks, which corresponds to the saying that the rivers and lakes are far away. When all walks of life were breeding in Jiangnan, many gangs were also born, and even the White Lotus Sect was mixed in, and the Cao Gang became one of the representative forces.

The reason why Zhang Tingyu mentioned that the Cao Gang can be used is the result of his understanding of the underground forces in Jiangnan, because compared to other gangs, the Cao Gang is indeed in an existential crisis at the moment, and has even become a dynamite barrel that can be ignited at one point, and these have to start from the source of the Cao Gang.

Since the Sui and Tang dynasties, the imperial court has attached great importance to the role of Cao Yun, and even did not hesitate to dig the canal, and then the Sui and Tang dynasties, the function of the Grand Canal was still valued by the rulers of the past dynasties. For example, the Song Dynasty various transport divisions, also known as the "Cao Division", is one of the three local divisions, and the functions and powers of the transit envoys have been further strengthened.

When it came to the Ming Dynasty, especially during the Yongle period, the demand for Mongolian troops was increasing, and the Yongle Emperor in order to ensure adequate logistical supplies, so he absorbed the local population and displaced people from the Weisho army to form a 100,000-strong Cao army team, so as to institutionalize the Cao Yun, and after moving the capital to Beijing, the Cao Yun became the lifeblood of the country completely.

In the next 300 years, the system of water transportation gave birth to a large number of wharf areas, as well as the sailors, slender men, and helmsmen who lived around these wharf areas....... In particular, the mechanism in the Cao Yun system is extremely complex, so there are a large number of permanent personnel and many temporary workers, and these vast number of Cao Yun participants constitute a large number of people.

When millions of people live around Caoyun, the social network of these people inevitably becomes more and more complex, and in this long-term process, the Cao Gang gradually begins to take shape, and its organization and behavior become more and more complex.

But today, the Cao Gang has not become more and more prosperous, but there are signs of falling apart, the primary reason is that Ning Chu established a country in Nanjing, completely cut off the Cao Yun to the north, so the Cao Yun survivors who communicate around the north and south will naturally lose their livelihoods.

Zhang Tingyu discovered this sign very early, but the problem was that he had never taken care of it before, and he didn't bother to use these Cao Gang personnel who were not on the table, but now with the stability of Ning Chu's rule, the previous methods have gradually become ineffective, but these Cao Gang still have one or two places to use.

"Your Majesty, now that the Cao Gang has no food and clothing, and is facing a situation of life and death, if it is used by my Qing Dynasty and creates a momentum in the land of Chu Rebellion, it is not bad...... If it can be done, millions of people will have a seizure, and even if it can't be done, it will be harmless to my Qing Dynasty. ”

When Yongzheng heard this, he couldn't help but feel moved in his heart, "I know about this matter, you go down and arrange it." ”

In the final analysis, Emperor Yongzheng still regards the people of Jiangnan as his own people on his face, and it is naturally difficult to say some too explicit words, and now let Zhang Tingyu arrange it, and everyone will be happy if he succeeds, if it doesn't work, it will lead to the killing of the people of Caoyun, it is not his involvement as the emperor, it is purely Zhang Tingyu's pot.

Zhang Tingyu naturally understood in his heart, so he kowtowed and left, and when he returned to the mansion, he wrote a letter in an instant, and sent someone to take it to the south from a secret channel.

It's just that when Zhang Tingyu was writing, his heart was depressed and unsettled, and a line of words was never written in a proper manner, so he simply let go of his suppressed emotions and wrote heartily.

At this time, on the white paper on the desk, a big word "kill" has been written, which is daunting.

.........

On the Nanjing Passenger Wharf, an extremely inconspicuous Guangzhou ship slowly docked over, and several men dressed very strangely came down from it, with the style of the head of the moon dynasty on their heads, and a long katana hanging from their waists.

"Zhu Jun, after many years of absence, you have finally returned to the land of the Celestial Empire again."

A young man with a moon head spoke an extremely strange Daming official dialect, looked at the young man with Daming clothes, and blessed from the bottom of his heart.

A look of excitement appeared on the face of the young man known as "Zhu Jun", but he quickly reined in, and then his expression showed a bit of pain, "Now that the world is no longer the case, the Ming Dynasty has become history, even if the unfilial descendants return to the land of China, what can they do?" ”

"Zhu Jun, but if the orthodoxy of the Han family is re-established today, don't you want to see the Great Chu Emperor? You know, as an envoy of the Tokugawa shogun, I have every chance to meet the Son of Heaven! ”

The identity of the head of the moon generation who spoke is indeed unusual, his name is Matsudaira Tsunayoshi, as the messenger of the eighth general of the Edo shogunate, Tokugawa Yoshimune, came to Ningchu, and the young man he called Zhu Jun has a very simple origin, and he is a descendant of the great Confucian Zhu Shunshui who went east to Japan, called Zhu Yuyan.

The so-called Zhu Shunshui, formerly known as Zhu Zhiyu, is Wang Yangming, Huanglizhou's fellow townsmen, but he is eleven years older than Huanglizhou, when the Ming Dynasty fell, he couldn't bear to see Shenzhou Lu Shen, so he resolutely decided, chose to go east to Japan, and then received the courtesy of Tokugawa Guangguo, the lord of the Mito domain, and was very respectful, and did not dare to call his name, so Zhu Zhiyu took Shunshui as the name, which means "the name of the water of Shunshui is also the name of the water".

Although ordinary people don't know Zhu Shunshui's name, his reputation in Japan is very lofty. The Japanese respectfully call Zhu Shunshui "Taishan Beidou", every time he lectures, many old Japanese scholars also go to listen to his lectures with crutches, and Zhu Shunshui has been in Japan for more than 20 years, and his students are all over Japan and court officials, and even formed the Japanese "Edo School" with the purpose of "Shunshui Studies". ”

But even so, Zhu Shunshui was looking forward to returning to his homeland all his life, but he had no chance until he died, and with the rise of the Han Dynasty army, and after the founding of Nanjing, Zhu Yuyan, a descendant of Zhu Shunshui who was far away in Japan, naturally got such a news, and it happened that the Edo shogunate general Tokugawa Yoshimune sent an envoy to China, so they came to Nanjing together.

"Matsudaira-kun, I appreciate your kindness, it's just that I want to revisit my homeland, I don't want to go directly to see the Son of Heaven just like this, so let's take a look on the streets of Nanjing first......"

Zhu Yuyan was born and raised in Japan, and although he mastered a proficient Chinese language under the upbringing of his parents, his memories of his homeland only stayed on paper and became a symbol-like existence.

In this case, Zhu Yuyan's feelings for his homeland were extremely complicated, so he rejected Matsudaira Tsunayoshi's kindness and chose to travel alone in Nanjing.

However, in fact, the whereabouts of Zhu Yuyan and Matsudaira Tsunayoshi have been transmitted to Ning Yu through the shadow, and he is really a little curious about this descendant of the former Ming Confucian.