I don't know if I don't count, and I'm shocked when I count it.

Despite all the preparations made before, the time and place were favorable, and all the people were occupied, nine still died, sixteen were seriously injured, and these sixteen probably did not live for a few days. There were more minor injuries, including Zhang Daring and Yu Youfu, so almost all of them hung the lottery, and only the big head was unscathed.

However, the harvest was also very large, not only did 16 boats of illicit salt be seized, nine smuggling salt dealers were captured, and a total of 22 were hacked to death or beaten to death by sticks in the fighting. More than 30 shipwrights and sailors were also captured, but whether they were selling coolies or not remains to be determined. In addition, Pan Er also led people to dig out a lot of silver from the captured smugglers, shipwrights and sailors, and dead smugglers, which were estimated to be more than 800 taels of silver.

The only regret is that everyone saw that the bandit leader was hit by a shotgun, but the river port is so big, the river is so deep, and the firebird gun that the bandit leader took when he shouted was fished up, but the body of the bandit leader was not fished out.

Han Xiufeng didn't want to stay in this gloomy mass grave anymore, nor did he want to see those who had just died, so he asked Baozheng and Jiachang in the village to find three boats, load the bodies on the boats and send them to Hai'an overnight, while he and Zhang Dadao took a large team of men and horses to escort the seized salt boat and the captured private man to Hai'an overnight.

The road was not far or close, and it was a night sailing, and it was not fast to get up, and it was already dawn when the fleet reached the gap in front of the City God Temple.

"Master Han, what about the salt?" Zhang Dadao asked with a smile.

"Just put it on the boat, there is no place to store so much salt on the shore," Han Xiufeng climbed ashore and turned around and said, "Big head, you take a few people to guard here." Uncle Yu, you take all these prisoners ashore. ”

"Yes!"

"Master Han, it's not a way to stay on the ship."

Without waiting for Han Xiufeng to speak, Xu Lequn smiled and said: "Master Zhang put it down, it won't be long enough, and this salt will turn into white silver early tomorrow morning at the latest." ”

"That's good," Zhang Daring thought about it and still didn't let it go, and also ordered: "Old Five, don't go back, you are also guarding here." ”

"Okay!"

"Uncle Yu, bring the prisoners up!"

With Han Xiufeng's order, the private lords and shipwrights and sailors captured at night were brought ashore one after another, followed by the seriously injured Splash Skin, then the dead Splash Skin, and finally the dead Splash Owl. The second day of the new year is the day of New Year's greetings, and the people in the town get up early, and as soon as they open the door, they see this formation, and it spreads after a while.

As soon as Chen Youdao heard the letter, he ran to the yamen, only to hear the neighbors pointing to the blood stains on the ground and talking.

"Master Han doesn't know where he got the news, a group of smuggling thieves transported salt from us, and it was too late to go to Taizhou to transfer troops, so he let those sloppy generals who were arrested a few years ago atone for their crimes, and help the Tongsoap Li archers to investigate. You know, all the outlaws, this battle was dark, the blood flowed like a river, and hundreds of people died! ”

"Lao Yang, has my family Jingjun gone?" Chen Youdao hurriedly squeezed in and asked.

"Dean Chen, the third child in your family...... Your third ......"

"Hurry up, what's wrong with my family Jingjun?"

"I saw it just now, and it was carried back. Dean Chen, don't worry, he was just injured, and it seemed to hurt his eyes. ”

As he was talking, Chu Chenggui walked out of the yamen with a notice and pasted the notice on the wall on the left.

A literate old man looked up at the notice, shook his head and read: "Acting Maritime Security Inspector Han Xi, there are canal bandits Li Zhaoshou and others who kill people and cross goods, traffic in illicit salt, and harass the locality, which is a heinous crime, and it is necessary to kill them painfully to show punishment." The prisoners Chen Jingjun and Ma Guozhong who were detained a few years ago are willing to change their past mistakes, atone for their crimes, and help their fellow officials to investigate and arrest the gang of thieves and bandits......"

A woman couldn't understand this, so she asked eagerly: "Second master, don't chew the words, what does the notice say?" ”

"There is a group of bandits from the canal to our place to sell illicit salt, those people arrested by the Yamen years ago are willing to atone for their crimes, they went to investigate with Master Han and Zhang Daring, and eleven were killed in the battle, Master Han said that they 'worked together to suppress the thieves and redouble their courage', not only did they not blame the previous crimes, but also gave each family three taels of silver to do the future."

"Eleven dead!"

"There are no eyes for knives and guns, but it's better to die like this than to die on the way to exile."

……

Chen Youdao didn't care about other people's discussions, carefully read the notice twice, and found that his son's name was not on the list of the dead, and just relieved, Chu Chenggui suddenly said: "Dean Chen, you came just in time, the third child of your family was a little injured, hurry up and take him home to recuperate." ”

Chen Youdao didn't care about the five taels of silver, but asked eagerly: "Chu Bantou, where is my Jingjun injured, is it seriously injured?" ”

"The injury is here, he was stabbed, whether he can survive depends on his creation."

"Ahh

"Hurry up, don't bother, the yamen has hired a bone-setting doctor, but a bone-setting doctor can't take care of so many injuries."

"Okay, okay, please lead the way."

The room was full of people, but all of them were captured during the night.

The courtyard was full of corpses, including those who had died in battle, those who had been hacked to death by officials and swordsmen, and the unlucky shipwrights and sailors.

The wounded ruffians were all placed in the lobby and the public houses on both sides of the lobby, and the bruiser doctor who had been hired on the way back was busy bandaging them, and a few archers beat him, and he heard a howl of pain from afar, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw that the ground was full of blood.

Pan Er sat on the side, and when he saw Chen Youdao running in with Chu Chenggui, he immediately took out a piece of silver and said expressionlessly: "Dean Chen, this is your son Chen Jingjun's reward, I will ask someone to help you carry him back, and you take care of him after you bring him back, and he will be fine with his life." ”

Chen Youdao took the silver by mistake, ran to Chen Jingjun's side, looked at the one-foot-long wound on Chen Jingjun's chest, and said with a sad face: "Why is it so badly injured, which cut!" ”

Pan Er covered his nose and said, "The thief who cut your son is dead, we have already avenged your son for this revenge, hurry up and carry him back." ”

Chen Youdao thought about what kind of hatred, if he didn't go with you, how could he be injured like this, but thinking that Chen Jingjun would definitely not survive if he stayed here, he hurriedly carried him home to ask for a doctor with excellent medical skills, maybe there was still a chance of life, so he couldn't care about complaining anymore, and hurriedly carried his son out of the hall with the door panel with the archers.

………

The second hall was also very lively, Zhang Daring and his three flood soldiers were helping Han Xiufeng interrogate the prisoners captured at night, and Xu Lequn was sitting on the side to help record.

This gang of smugglers has a lot of background, and it is very likely that the bandit leader surnamed Li, named Li Zhaoshou, was exiled for robbing houses and houses, and later ran back from the east, robbing houses and houses on the canal, doing all kinds of evil, and was wanted by the yamen of several places along the canal with a bounty. These are all credits, although Zhang Daring didn't sleep all night, the more he interrogated, the more energetic he became.

Han Xiufeng listened to the trial for a while, walked into the lobby to appease the injured scoundrel for a few words, and watched Pan Er finish giving them the reward, then returned to the signing room on the left side of the second hall, picked up the pen and wrote four letters in a row.

Just as he was about to send the archers to the post shop to call Wang Ruhai, Zhang Shiheng walked in with the corner of his clothes, and as soon as he entered the door, he brought the door and whispered in his ear: "Master Han, Zhongjiazhuang has also taken it, Young Master Zhang asked me to come back and report to you first, please stabilize the surname Xu first." ”

"Zhongjiazhuang is not far from Qilidian!"

"Just west of Qilidian, south of Hujiaji, as soon as their boat turned from the Yunyan River into the small river at the junction of Zhongjiazhuang and Xiaohuanzhuang, they were recognized by Li Xiucai. Because he was worried about the lack of manpower, he asked Master Yang of the Ningxiang Inspection Division, and Second Young Master Zhang sent someone to keep an eye on it, and it was not until noon that he led a large team of people to investigate. ”

Han Xiufeng stole through the crack in the door and glanced at the other side, then turned around and asked, "How many people did Second Young Master Zhang gather, and were there any deaths or injuries during the investigation?" ”

"More than 100 officials were gathered, and more than 200 young men were gathered. This gang of private tyrants is really difficult to deal with, obviously there are only more than 80 people, but the second young master Zhang has killed more than 40 officials and young people, and injured more than 100. In the end, when they couldn't run away and couldn't fight, the remaining ones actually overturned two boats of salt, but fortunately, the water was not deep, and it took a lot of effort to finally pick up dozens of bags. Zhang Shiheng paused, and then said: "Second Young Master Zhang asked me to bring you a message, saying that the casualties are too great, and the salt on his side can only be distributed to us in a boat, and when the good is done, he will send someone to send the salt." ”

How can private scoundrels be easy to deal with, not to mention that they are in a hurry to fight.

Han Xiufeng sighed secretly and muttered, "One boat is one boat, it's better than no boat." ”

"Then I'll go out first?"

"Wait." Han Xiufeng handed the letter he had just written to Zhang Shiheng and explained: "Although there are a lot of things here, you can't help much, just help me send these four letters to Wang Ruhai, and let them quickly send them to Anfeng, Fu'an, Jiaoxian and the Yamen of the Tea and Salt Division." ”

"Send the salt works?" Zhang Shiheng was confused.

"More than one million catties of salt have been seized on our side, dozens of private tyrants have been captured, and dozens of people have been killed and injured! Where did the salt come from, and if I couldn't buy it in the salt farm, would the smugglers come, they couldn't help but give me an explanation! ”

"But the salt is all leaking from Fuyasuba."

"We know that it was leaked from Fuyasu, they don't know, if they don't give us an explanation, then their officials don't plan to do it again."

Zhang Shiheng reacted suddenly, and couldn't help laughing: "If they don't give an explanation, then they won't be able to get out of the way, and a dereliction of duty can make them lose their officials!" ”

"Just know it, let's go." Han Xiufeng thought about it and admonished: "By the way, if someone inquires after going out, it will be said that our inspection department yamen can seize so many illegal salts and capture so many private tyrants, Mr. Xu Lequn Xu of Fu'an Field is the first to take the lead, and the news of the private scoundrel is what he inquired about, and he also led us to investigate." ”

"Why do you say that?"

"It was, to tell the truth." Han Xiufeng touched his nose and added: "After handing over the letter to Wang Ruhai, help me run again, and invite Dean Gu, Wang Jiansheng and other squires to invite them to drink celebration wine." They will definitely ask how they found out how these smugglers were found, you tell the truth, let everyone know that Mr. Xu has made a great contribution! ”