The frightened Zheng Juzhong was brought back to his senses by the chief arrester, and his skills from decades of officialdom experience were also revealed, don't look at his fifties, his mind turned quickly, and in a blink of an eye, he thought that even if the kidnapping was really done by Cangzhao, but since he deliberately left a book, instead of secretly interrogating and directly participating in the exposé, it shows that there is still room for negotiation in this matter, in other words, there is still room for mutual compromise.

There is a way out, and it is easy to do.

What Cangzhao did was nothing more than to exchange it for him to let go of Cangzhao's hand and keep his business interests.

As long as he lets go or just loosens it, then Cangzhao will give in, but he will pinch the evidence as a backhand, but the hostage should be able to be released.

This will have to be discussed.

Cryptic negotiations.

Test each other's bottom line, grind their teeth and strive for their greatest interests, this is what he is best at, and he is not afraid of Cangzhao playing this.

Thinking about it like this, Zheng Juzhong's spirit relaxed a lot, his eyes were no longer dark, and he continued to scan the contents of the letter.

There were dozens of people who were kidnapped, and the second person in line was the deputy commander Hei Yongkang's family.

On the whole, the victims are high-ranking military and political officials and wealthy businessmen in Fucheng, and they are all people who follow him to benefit, and each family captured must have major children and grandchildren and housekeepers in charge of the key points, which directly threatens the inheritance and deadly privacy of the descendants of each family.

This hand is so vicious, it hits the nail on the head, and people have to give in.

But how can so many people be quietly arrested without alarming others at all?

Is it true that the army and the fast catchers in the city are blind and wasteful?

Zheng Juzhong was angry, and he couldn't help but stare at the chief catcher with a vicious gaze.

Bastard, this official needs competent people, seeing that your martial arts are good and sensible, he will take you into account and promote you from the capital. This official wants you to help me control Cangzhou, not to help you come here to get promoted and make a fortune.

You have been a head hunter for so long, and you actually let such a big vicious incident happen in Fucheng, and you have to pass on the book from the evil bandits to know what you are eating?

Embroidered pillows, things that don't really work.

"Have you checked how people were kidnapped?"

When the chief catcher heard Zheng Juzhong's gloomy question, he was frightened, and hurriedly knelt down and said, "Back to Fuzun, the villain found some." ”

"Say." Zheng Juzhong shouted angrily.

"Yes."

"There are nearly twenty sons of officials and wealthy merchants such as the prince of the government and the black system, and in the afternoon they went to the city to race the newly acquired horse, and they were ambushed somewhere, and they were kidnapped along with their entourage."

There's a reason for that.

Zhao Gonglian engaged in the opening of the border and horse politics, supplemented by timing and various means, so that the horses of the Liao State could flow into the Great Song Dynasty in batches for the first time.

Cangzhou has a favorable location, and it is easier to get horses.

These children of Cangzhou high-ranking officials and wealthy businessmen are not short of money, and they are bored when they are full of food and well, so they are bored after eating and supporting the scourge, so they are driven by Zheng Juzhong's son's proposal to learn the same set of games as the children of the capital, so as to gamble on horses to show off their wealth and fighting spirit, and often compete with the convenience of winning horses.

Zheng Juzhong also knew about it, but he never forbade it.

Almost all the children of the powerful families of the Great Song Dynasty are good at this, and the activities of young people are carried out in the capital under the banner of practicing equestrianism and training the martial arts of the children of the powerful so that they can better serve the officials when the country has wars.

The emperor did not object, and sometimes when the mood came, he would secretly go out of the palace to participate in betting and playing two games for fun.

The point is that through horse racing, the son won a lot of money for the family.

Of course, this is not how good the son's riding skills are, but the bribery of the people involved in the horse race. One party gives gifts in a straightforward and ingenious way. The Zheng family collects money reasonably and legally, and is not afraid of people saying or investigating.

Not wanting to do good things has now become a loophole exploited by the kidnappers.

Outside the city, it is cold and freezing, and there is often no one in the four fields, and it is difficult to find witnesses, which is difficult to investigate.

Zheng Juzhong snorted and said angrily: "What happened in the city?" ”

The chief catcher wiped the cold sweat and continued: "Mrs. Fushang Ru and the ladies of each house disappeared while playing mahjong in the other courtyard under the black control.

There, the whole door was unconscious. And so it was with many of the servants in the court. The attendant also disappeared. The subordinates couldn't wake up the minions, and they couldn't trace valuable clues from this aspect for a while. Visits to neighbours have yielded no valuable information. ”

"The situation of the housekeepers of various provinces and some young masters in charge of the affairs is diverse.

Some are out drinking tea and talking about things. Some are wandering outside, coughing cough, and more are missing when drinking flower wine in a good home or building.

The location of the accident is either unconscious, or I don't know.

The subordinates were anxious and helpless, and the matter was very important, so they had to hurry up to Yu Fuzun to ask for guidance, so they disturbed the adults' meal. ”

Zheng Juzhong couldn't help but snort when he heard this.

He also knows that his housekeeper is good at everything, but he is as lustful as him but afraid of inside, and he doesn't dare to bring a good woman home, so he keeps it outside, and he doesn't dare to stay outside at night, and he can't stay out to serve his envoys, so he often goes to other rooms to mess around when he goes out to run errands during the day, and he doesn't want to, and this hobby has also become a loophole for the kidnappers to get started.

Zheng Juzhong read the letter again, and this time he read it in one go, but his brows furrowed even tighter, and his eyes shot fiercely.

The kidnappers unsurprisingly demanded a huge ransom, the amount of which was clearly listed according to the importance of the kidnapped head in each family.

For example, the three main members of his family who were kidnapped.

The price of the concubine is 10,000 yuan.

If he can successfully redeem his beloved concubine, Zheng Juzhong can accept this price, and he does not feel that this price is unreasonable, and he is willing to pay.

But his son's price price rose directly to 100,000 yuan. The price of the housekeeper soared to 300,000 yuan.

This made Zheng Juzhong both angry and painful.

The son he brought with him was not how much he loved, but mainly because he couldn't go on a smooth career, and he needed a reliable relative to help him do some unsightly things and make money in Cangzhou, so he was brought to office.

He has more than this one son, and this son can't inherit the family's heavy responsibilities, on the contrary, he often makes him angry and disappointed, just his own flesh and blood, there is no way, and now he has been kidnapped, if his son doesn't know some fatal secrets, he will simply let this son die, how can he take 100,000 yuan to ransom people.

For his own son, he is still like this, just a servant housekeeper, Zheng Juzhong doesn't care about his life or death.

It's just that the butler has more of his deadly secrets and has to try to save them.

In this way, the price is marked one by one, and the ransom amount has reached more than 2 million yuan.

If this amount is put into his own pocket, he doesn't think it's too big, but if he wants to sum it up and give it to outsiders, it feels too amazing.

The audacious kidnappers are determined to eat a fat man in one bite, and they are not afraid to die.

Zheng Ju was ruthless in the center: "You are good means, dare to be bold and blackmailing." I'm afraid that you won't have that blessing to enjoy. Hum! ”

He was anxious to see the address where the ransom was paid in exchange for the hostage, and his face turned pale and even gray again.

The kidnappers are cunning.

There was no address for the deposit on the letter, only an address and time for the next contact.

The address is a hillfront inn.

The kidnapper said he would leave a letter to the shopkeeper there. How to pay the ransom for substitution, you can know it in the letter, and said in a grinning tone, no waiting, no redemption, whatever you want. If you refuse to pay, I believe that there are people in this world who are willing to buy the goods in my hands at a high price.

What made Zheng Juzhong frightened was that the mountain was in the territory of Hebei West Road, not to mention Cangzhou, but also across Yingzhou Mansion.

That place is a place where the robbers and thieves who occupy the mountains are rampant, and they are constantly facing the threat of the rebel thieves Tian Hu.

This can't help but make Zheng Juzhong suspect that his previous judgment was wrong.

The kidnapper is not Cangzhao's person, it's not that Cangzhao wants to blackmail him by this means, but the bandit wants to bite hard and make a windfall?

To have the strength to do this thing so secretively, quickly and perfectly, is not something that ordinary bandits' hands can do.

This requires careful planning in advance, with capable men lurking in the city for a long time to reconnoiter in detail, and when the time comes, it is necessary to have capable manpower to complete the kidnapping and quietly complete the kidnapping and quietly get the hostages out of the city and hide them in a hidden place.

Hiss -

Those who can achieve this level are not strong unless they are powerful, and there is no shortage of high-level staff and armed masters, and other talents are bold and arrogant against thieves and tigers.

Could it be that Tian Hu did it against me?

Zheng Juzhong was shocked.

As soon as he thought that Tian Hu's subordinates had Li Bangyan, who was extremely familiar with high-ranking officials in Tokyo, the former Zai of the Great Song Dynasty, and then thought about Li Bangyan's mind and shameless behavior, he couldn't help but think that this matter was Li Bangyan's bad idea of meritorious service, and Tian Hu sent people to harm him.

Zheng Juzhong couldn't help but hate Li Bangyan, a scumbag, who was really harmful, and deceived people a lot.

God has no eyes, why didn't he accept this prodigal prime minister's crooked seed early?

He cursed Li Bangyan, but he didn't think about how God didn't clean up his crooked species of hypocrites like Li Bangyan.

This thing may not have been done by Cangzhao, and the game of pinching Cangzhao's neck is still played. But dealing with a murderous and cunning thief like Tian Hu is too dangerous, and it is too easy to fall into the trap. Zheng Juzhong didn't know for a moment that he should be happy or depressed about this new discovery.

The chief catcher said that in such a short period of time, the hostages should not have been transported out of Cangzhou, and ninety percent should be hidden somewhere in Cangzhou.

When Zheng Juzhong heard this, his eyes couldn't help but light up.

If you can find the clues within the time agreed in the letter, find the hostages in time, and get rid of the kidnappers who have mastered the secret of death, then the money will come out without pain, and the crisis will pass.

It was negligent before. Eat a debt, grow wise, and never give the kidnappers a chance in the future, and everything will be fine.

But in the blink of an eye, he was gloomy again.

How can I find it in time?

Today's Cangzhou capital city is not what it was when it first came.

Those who were familiar with Cangzhou were all fired, and they were replaced by followers sent by various families, who were proficient in bullying the people and looting money by relying on their official skins, but they were not familiar with Cangzhou, and they were not proficient in solving cases. Loyalty may be loyal, so that it is indeed convenient to evoke, but it is useless to do the right thing.

After the arrest, the main officials of the prefecture and city who were at odds with him were replaced.

Zheng Juzhong took advantage of the emperor's favor and trust in him, colluded with Cai Jing and other powerful ministers, and replaced all the key officials who had followed Zhao Gonglian except for Lao Tongju and Shi Fulian, and transferred the officials who were missing from various factions in the DPRK and China to come to Cangzhou to scrape the benefits.

didn't replace the old Tong sentence, Zheng Juzhong also needed an important person who was familiar with Cangzhou to help him master Cangzhou.

The old sentence is also sleek, although Zheng Juzhong is not very effective, but at least the old guy knows each other and is respectful and obedient, never doing it, in Zheng Juzhong's eyes, it is urgently needed and available.

As for the stone rune practice.

After this person is Xungui, although he is generally despised by the Great Song Dynasty turban, the surface face is to be given to Xungui. Shi Fu Lian also showed active cooperation, not in the way, no threat, then keep it.

If it is really changed, the emperor may not be willing.

The official family needs a loyal founding noble dog to help him watch the military power at the border pass.

The subsequent layoffs are those with low ranks, and there is no need to report to the central officials, and all of them are replaced with their own people or relevant recommended people.

At this move, the original officials of the various ministries of the prefecture and city either did not deal with the new officials, or could not be trusted, and resigned one after another in a few days, and the official affairs of the prefecture and city were suspended for a time, and Zheng Juzhong was in a hurry, and the talents of the various factions were barely able to survive the crisis.

At present, most of the officials in the prefecture and city are outsiders, and the time is short, and the specific situation of Cangzhou is almost completely blackened, and they have no prestige and convenience among the people.

These troops in exchange for Cheongju are even less useful.

Zheng Juzhong also knew very well that the officers and soldiers of the department were all unusable scoundrels.

If it weren't for recruiting Cangzhou locals as soldiers, it would not be conducive to dealing with Cangzhao, Zheng Juzhong would have already replaced these officers and soldiers.

Now let's look at Fucheng.

Zheng Juzhong once was proud of the convenience and ability of the new officialdom to be concocted by himself, and now he knows that the saying that there must be a cover is such an unforgettable saying. In the face of the kidnapping, he only scratched blind with both hands.

In the blink of an eye, he thought of Cangzhou's security issue again.

This is the border gate city under the deterrence of the Liao Kou soldiers.

The fact that Liao Kou did not come to attack the border last year does not mean that he will not come to fight the 'grass valley' this autumn.

However, with the new officialdom of Fucheng, the political and security environment that Zhao Gonglian had managed to rectify with great difficulty when he was in power deteriorated in an avalanche.

Zheng Juzhong took office, only stretched out his hand for local benefits, played some gray methods, and did not stretch out his black hand to be ruthless, only the mouth of the money bag was opened, the belt of his trousers was loosened, but the bad effect spread like dominoes, and the officials and wealthy gentry and profiteers below showed their fangs one after another.

The people and law-abiding traders in Fucheng could not stand the corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and they played all kinds of difficult and exploitative methods against the big brands of the government, and left Fucheng one after another.

People and animals are different in that people have brains.

People with brains and consciences were surprised to find that the Cangzhao family's restaurant and the only big sales store had been transferred to Cangzhou when the news of Zhao Gonglian's transfer to Qingzhou came out and was confirmed, and Cangzhou Mansion actually had no property of Cangzhou's leading figure Cangzhao family.

They left Cangzhou Mansion one step earlier, moved their family business to Qingzhou, and continued to live peacefully under the wing of Hou Ye.

At that time, Qingzhou City was large, but sparsely populated, Cangzhou Mansion sold the family business at a good price in advance, but it was very cheap to settle down in Qingzhou, which itself made a lot of money, and then a large number of people poured in, and the benefits brought by the rise in land prices alone were amazing.

Profit and glory will always belong to those who have brains and are one step ahead. (To be continued.) )