Since Liu Ximing dared to eat the salt market in several provinces, he naturally prepared for the worst.

The military bureaus in several provinces have been investigating the situation of the smuggling salt dealers in various places, and there is not much sense of secrecy among the people in these years, and the news that the smuggler in Henan wants to work against the Yamen of the capital salt envoy has already reached Liu Ximing's ears.

After Wei Jingguo finished speaking, he looked at a soldier of the salt guard team in the room, "Did our people follow?" ”

The soldier nodded heavily, "Don't worry, division commander, the brothers have already arranged it." ”

"Okay, go and gather people immediately, Lao Tzu is going to kill someone tonight."

With Wei Jingguo's order, the two thousand salt guards who were sent to Luoyang immediately took action.

At this time, several businesses that were set on fire in the East Market also woke up the other residents of the East Market, and the noise and crying suddenly made the not too big Luoyang City boil.

Many people in the city noticed that a group of men in strong suits were trotting along the street with knives and guns, but seeing that these people did not seem to have malicious intent, most of them thought that the officials and soldiers were preparing to maintain order in the city.

The group of black-clothed people who withdrew from Dongshi didn't expect that they would follow a lot of tails, and not long after the group quietly fled into a mansion in the south of Luoyang City, they heard a commotion outside the door.

"The Central Plains Governor Yamen is on an errand, and the idlers avoid it."

"Boom", "Boom"

Immediately after, several black iron bumps were thrown in from outside the wall, bursting into clusters of sparks.

With the sound of a violent explosion, the man in black who was still repairing in the courtyard suddenly suffered heavy casualties.

At least one-third of the soldiers of the salt protection team have been trained in turn in the ranks of Shao Derong and others, and they are several times more fierce than these smugglers in the battle.

Before the gang could wake up from the dizziness of the explosion, the gate was slammed open from the outside by the salt guards.

"Bang", "Bang"

Without any shouting and persuasion to surrender, the salt guards under Wei Jingguo's command raised their muskets and opened fire directly, and the fierce fire splashed sparks in the courtyard, and the gang of black-clothed people fell to the ground screaming one after another.

Soldiers from the rear of the courtyard alternated into the supplementary attack, and after a quarter of an hour, the sound of fighting in the whole courtyard gradually subsided.

It was only then that the soldiers of the salt guard team began to busily select some lightly wounded prisoners from the pile of dead as prisoners, and after these people were taken away, calm was restored in the courtyard south of Luoyang City.

Wei Jingguo was already waiting at another stronghold in Dongshi, and as soon as the captives arrived, someone immediately began to torture and interrogate.

In the yamen of the Luoyang prefect, the sleepy-eyed prefect Zhao Shizhong was awakened by a rapid knock on the door.

"Fuzun, the big thing is not good, the Lin family came to ask for help, saying that the people who transferred the salt envoys would kill people when they saw them, and they had already caused a big mess in the south of the city."

Zhao Shizhong, who had a fat head and big ears, was so frightened that he even rolled down from the pretty concubine, and he didn't have time to tidy up his clothes, he rushed to the door with an arrow and pulled the door open and grabbed the collar of the little guy outside the door.

"Dog, what are you talking about, say it again?"

The little guy in Tsing Yi and the hat outside the door had a bitter face, "Fuzun, the south of the city is in a mess, and the people from the Yamen of the Salt Industry Division are killing over there, and I heard that the houses have been pushed to a few buildings." ”

"These people are so daring", Zhao Shizhong's beard is all open, and private salt is related to the interests of many officials in Henan, and he, the prefect, is naturally not exempt from idleness.

Previously, the Lin family and other big private salt families had already greeted him and asked him to help him, otherwise how would these people dare to do it directly in the city.

Who knew that they were iron-headed, and the gang under Liu Xi's command was even more murderous, and they directly started a war in the city.

Zhao Shizhong put on his clothes and shouted: "Go and call all the servants and helpers in the palace, let's go to the scene and have a look." ”

However, no matter how fast the Luoyang prefect's yamen moved, it took most of the night to call a group of yamen to help.

When Zhao Shizhong was about to sit in the main hall, the leaders of the yamen came to report and prepare.

At this time, it was obviously useless to go to the south of the city again, so Zhao Shizhong had to snort angrily and rushed to the east of the city with hundreds of gangs.

Who knew that this place had long been guarded by hundreds of sergeants in navy blue robes and bowler felt hats, and no one could enter or leave.

Zhao Shizhong pushed away the former official with a look of shame and anger, and roared angrily at a young strong man who seemed to be the leader in the yamen of the capital transfer salt envoy:

"Zhao Shizhong, the prefect of Luoyang, who is the leader of you here, immediately call him out to meet the official, who gave you the power to dare to kill people in the city!"

After speaking, Zhao Shizhong shouted backwards, "Left and right, prepare to take people." ”

"I'll see who dares", without waiting for the people from the Luoyang Prefect's Yamen to make a move, Wei Jingguo walked out wearing a waist-length armor with fish scales and leaves, and a pointed iron helmet.

Seeing Zhao Shizhong in the red official uniform, Wei Jingguo squeezed out a smile and stepped forward to hug his fist and said:

"All the salt envoys of the Yamen Thousand Households, Wei Jingguo has seen the Fuzun."

Zhao Shizhong glanced Wei Jingguo up and down, but didn't take him seriously.

"Come on, take this person down and bring him to the government for interrogation."

"Yes", a group of prefects and yamen officials who are fake and mighty are about to step forward.

"Roar"

Seeing this, the soldiers of the Yamen immediately put up the muskets in their hands, and hundreds of people roared angrily, which frightened the idle legs of these yamen, and a few of the timid ones even fell directly.

"Bastard, are you going to rebel?"

Seeing that the people of the Yamen of the Imperial Salt Envoy still dared to resist, Zhao Shizhong, who was a civil official, shouted angrily.

Wei Jingguo sneered and took his hands back, "This general will be ordered by the new Anbo, the governor of the Central Plains, the left squire of the military department, the right deputy imperial envoy of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the transfer envoy of the salt industry of the six provinces. ”

"Xin Amber once made it clear that if the local officials dared to resist the law, the civil and military generals below the fourth rank could also be arrested together, and the new Amber himself would be impeached if the fourth rank was above the fourth grade."

After speaking, Wei Jingguo turned to the side and didn't look at Zhao Shizhong and said: "Your Majesty has already given Shang Fang the sword and the royal flag, if Zhao Governor wants to test the method, you can try it in person." ”

Give you a shame, if it is another Ming official, I am afraid that in the face of this kind of officialdom conflict, I am afraid that I will be polite, and everyone will discuss it.

But Liu Xi's life is not like this, firstly, he has the king's order, and secondly, all the salt guards are all his own people, and these local officials cannot affect him at all.

Zhao Shizhong was a four-grade prefect, and he was ignored by the martial artists, so he opened his mouth and scolded on the spot.

However, it was useless, all the soldiers of the salt guard team were only Wei Jingguo, and the people of the Luoyang Prefect's Yamen could only escort Zhao Shizhong all the way back to the Prefect's Yamen.

After sending Zhao Shizhong and his party back to the station, the person in charge of interrogation leaned into Wei Jingguo's ear and muttered: "Division commander, some people among the captives say that they are from the Zhou Palace, what should I do?" ”

Wei Jingguo's eyes froze, "Leave these people behind, escort them to Kaifeng Mansion, all the others will be slaughtered, and tonight I will arrest those Lin family and Wang family, these big private salt families." ”

In half a month, the whole of Henan did not know how many smugglers who wanted to work against Liu Xi's life were destroyed and destroyed.

The note on the impeachment of Liu Ximing also flew to the Beijing division like snowflakes, but because of one thing, Chongzhen not only did not reprimand Liu Ximing, but also issued an order to comfort him.

This has to start with the guards of the Zhou Palace, captured by Wei Jingguo.

On July 12, Liu Ximing, who returned to Kaifeng Mansion again, visited Zhou King Zhu Gongfang for the first time.

However, he did not come empty-handed, and he also brought a dozen blood-stained prisoners with him.

No matter how you look at this posture, it looks like going to the Zhou Palace, even if it attracts a group of Henan officials to send people to watch it in turn.

In the palace of King Zhou, Zhu Gongfang looked at Liu Ximing who was in the lower left hand and was also angry.

"What does New Amber mean by this, why did he bring a few prisoners to this king's mansion?"

Liu Ximing looked at the luxurious decoration of the gold carvings and jade carvings in the palace of King Zhou, and said with a smile while holding the teacup:

"Please also ask the prince to forgive me, in the past half a month, the salt envoy Si Yamen has been vigorously cracking down on the illegal salt in this province, and has caught a lot of criminals, but I didn't think that there are still a few people in this who keep saying that it is the people sent by the prince, which will inevitably damage the reputation of the prince, and the official brought these people over to ask the prince for verification."