The hostage address is in a mountain range on Hebei West Road near Hejian Province.

Zheng Juzhong was suspicious, angry and frightened, for fear that the kidnappers would collect the ransom but not be trustworthy and play some tricks.

At this time, Hei Yongkang and other generals took responsibility, stepped forward, and took the initiative to apply to take someone to check and rescue the hostages, but they actually took the opportunity to run away and had other attempts.

Before, they wanted to privately trick the army into raiding Zhaojiazhuang with them, but they didn't want Shi Fu to practice stupidly, so they had already hindered their hands and personally sat in the military camp, destroying their calculations. At present, they can only give up the idea of harming Cangzhao and go to Li Bangyan first.

Zheng Juzhong didn't know what to do, and he was a little relieved that these generals finally dared to take responsibility.

In order to successfully rescue the hostages and prevent the pirates or Tian Hu's men from plotting again, he agreed to send Hei Yongkang's capable men from the army to the only 500 military horses in the army to verify the results as quickly as possible.

It was this order that Hei Yongkang wanted, and took the opportunity to pick out the officers and soldiers who had promoted him to control the army, and took all 500 people away.

Lu Caihou and Wang Baocheng, Li Baosen, who were beaten by Qingchi Wharf and half dead from cold and starvation, and the four commanders, pretended to be at home to recuperate from their injuries and could not show up, but in fact, they had secretly supported their injured bodies, and quietly led various private soldiers and thugs to protect people and Cai first to Tian Hu to join Li Bangyan.

Hei Yongkang and the others succeeded in coaxing and got out easily, and they were relaxed, leading the team in civilian clothes to rush to the wilderness and mountain where the kidnappers confessed, and really found the hidden hostages, but there were only children and grandchildren of each family, and there were no housekeepers and concubines of each family who were kidnapped.

Hei Yongkang waited and said: As expected. The kidnappers will not end the extortion so happily, there must be a follow-up.

They were glad that they had the opportunity to betray the Great Song Dynasty, otherwise they would have to lose their heads sooner or later if they were wantonly manipulated by the kidnappers.

The rescued twenty sons and young masters are in a worse state than those rich businessmen's children who were put back, completely missing the arrogant and arrogant image of the past, all of them are like demons in extreme fright, not only everyone is missing an ear, but also beaten to the skin, locked in a low cellar in the middle of the ground on the cold barren mountain, standing up and unable to straighten up, as if they will be crushed to death by the collapse at any time, and there is only a palm-length square opening on the narrow exit of the sealed narrow exit. The guards also threw some low-quality food and water from this hole to keep the hostages alive.

The hostages spread weeds as beds, eating, drinking, and lazing in this space.

Inside, not to mention starvation, physical pain, and boundless repressive fear, the filthy and smoky smell alone can make people crush.

Hei Yongkang and the others saw their children so miserable, thinking that it was very likely that Tian Hu's people were harmed, and they couldn't help but hate it, but for the sake of the overall future, they could only endure the humiliation and pretend that there was no such thing as this.

As for the unlucky children of Zheng Juzhong's officials and relatives, it is naturally impossible to send them back, and they will never let them go, and they will become hostages for them to carry out extortion.

Hei Yongkang has analyzed, don't look at Zheng Juzhong's official who is now being blackmailed by the kidnappers and his money bag is empty, but he must still have a lot of money at home in the capital.

Just say that Zheng Juzhong is the emperor's favorite minister, and he speaks well to the emperor, and there will be no fewer people who want to be promoted and progress and desperately befriend Zheng Juzhong. The gift money received by Zheng Juzhong's family in the capital is not a treasure of gold and pearls, and the ghost believes it.

Moreover, they have been in Cangzhou for nearly a year, and they know too well the wealth of Cangzhou, and they know too well the thickness of being an official in Cangzhou, and the income from smuggling alone makes people go crazy.

Zheng Juzhong, who is in power in Cangzhou, must be desperately trying to make up for the deficit caused by the kidnapping, and take advantage of his power to soon accumulate a huge amount of property.

Such a good blackmail target, how can you make a fortune if you don't make good use of hostages to make up for losses?

Hei Yongkang thought of the rolling money and joy and Zheng Juzhong's madness and frustration, and Zhu Xueren, Ji Xingliang, Wei Jianye and other rebel generals couldn't help but laugh triumphantly, forgetting the tragic experience of their children for a while.

With the rebels they followed, they secretly took hostages and smoothly entered Tian Hu's territory and took refuge in Li Bangyan.

Li Bangyan became Tian Hu's prime minister and embarked on another official career, although he has not yet been truly trusted by Tian Hu, and his real power is not big, but he has helped Tian Hu a lot by relying on his qualifications and knowledge as a high-ranking official in the Great Song Dynasty, and he is proud of it, but he has no military support around him, and he really needs help in the army, and he is ecstatic about the arrival of these old generals of Hei Yongkang, and soon found an opportunity to recommend it to Tian Hu, who has long been trusted.

Tian Hu was also overjoyed.

The rebellion lasted so long and occupied many state capitals, but it was the first time that the Jin army had surrendered to a presiding officer at the level of the Great Song Prefecture.

It was not that the generals of the Great Song Dynasty who lost the battle and lost the city were so loyal to the imperial court, and they would rather die than surrender, but they all left their army and rode away first as soon as they saw that the situation was not good. Tian Hu's Jin army had no chance of catching a state-level officer.

Hei Yongkang and others come to invest, don't care about the level of ability, whether it is of great use, this is of great significance in itself.

This shows that the rebellion of the newly established Jin State and his Jin King is deeply powerful, won the hearts of the people, and is favored by people for a bright future, so there are important members of the Great Song Dynasty who take the initiative to abandon the dark and surrender to the light.

Tian Hu has a lot of seals for Hei Yongkang and other officials, this is a captain, and that is a general, but naturally he will not really trust him so quickly, and the actual power given is very small, and most of the officers and soldiers and five hundred military horses brought by Hei Yongkang are also used by other cronies.

Hei Yongkang can also accept this, knowing that when he sets up a petition to vote, he shows his firm stance against the Great Song Dynasty, and then tries to curry favor with Tian Hu, Tian Hu will naturally reuse them.

What made them frightened and heartbroken was that the family members and relatives and the huge amount of money that were escorted by Yu Caihou were still nowhere to be found.

The result of the painstaking investigation along the way was actually nothing, only to know that the others did go deep into Hejian Mansion, and then everyone and things suddenly disappeared mysteriously.

Is it that Cai Caihou and others are not optimistic about Tian Hu in their hearts, they refuse to follow him as a thief, and they have no political way out, they want to find a rich man who is at large incognito, covet the huge amount of money from each family, and simply bewitch the private soldiers and thugs to follow him and kill the people who get in the way and swallow the money privately?

Or as soon as the kidnapping case happened, the cunning Lu Caihou realized that he couldn't get mixed up in the officialdom of the Great Song Dynasty and had to find another way out, so he got up early and secretly colluded with what forces not only cleverly deceived and annexed the ransom of the last time, but also endured by our side, and used this opportunity to completely kidnap the money and disappear?

Is it the greedy and daring man of the prefect of Hejian Mansion who has been eyeing fat meat since he learned of the kidnapping case, and has used the means to quietly kill people in the territory and forcibly seize the money?

Or are Tian Hu's people or kidnappers playing tricks?

Hei Yongkang and the others were shocked in extreme heartache and regret, but there was no way out at this point, so they could only accept their fate and continue to follow Tian Hu, and the matter was secretly and slowly investigated.

They were worried that Li Bangyan, who had bad conduct, was the murderer who tricked them, so they were secretly vigilant and knocked on the side by being drunk.

Judging from the results of the trial, Li Bangyan seems to know nothing about the kidnapping case. It should be trustworthy.

Since taking refuge, Tian Hu has not mentioned this aspect at all, and does not seem to know about the kidnapping case.

But in one of their temptations, Tian Hu drank too much in joy, but he once vaguely mentioned pirates.

In fact, Tian Hu really didn't know about the kidnapping case, but he already had a plan in his heart, if the rebellion failed, he would also retreat to the overseas islands to become the lord of the island country and the pirate king, but he would not say it to his subordinates now, so as not to shake people's hearts, let alone reveal his thoughts to people like Li Bangyan and Hei Yongkang, who were not confidants.

But this matter fell in the hearts of Hei Yongkang and others, but it became Tian Hu, and sure enough, there was another secret force at sea, and the kidnapping case may have been done by Tian Hu's secret force.

But everything is just speculation without a solid basis.

Hei Yongkang and the others had no clue, they were so depressed that they vomited blood, so they could only mix and start blackmailing Zheng Juzhong to vent their anger and make up for their losses.

At this time, the group of people was tested by the United States in World War II, and the world-famous Japanese on Nagasaki Island fought hard to save their lives.

They left Cangzhou smoothly all the way, and they did not encounter any trouble when they entered Hejian Mansion, but even if they maintained the necessary vigilance and precautions in a large old inn with a good reputation in the town, they were confused and fascinated, and the whole team, including the family members of Hei Yongkang and others, the relatives who had been following Zuo Zuofu, the private soldiers who were traveling with them, and the family members and subordinates of Cai Hou and others, a total of nearly 400 people were transferred back to the Cangzhou Sea by trucks in a coma.

The innocent Yahuan and other women were sent to South Asia by ship with the robbers of Cuiyun Mountain to start a new life, and the others, including the noblewomen, children and grandchildren of each family, were all thrown to the island.

Since they do not believe in the retribution of heaven, so they use their power to do evil wantonly, then whether they live or die depends on how the will of heaven decides.

These people woke up on the beach, bare-handed, and had nothing, only to understand the cruel teasing and punishment of fate for their many evils, frightened and desperate, but they had to drag their hungry and weak bodies to kneel and lick and beg the people on the island to take pity on them and take them in, but what they didn't want to encounter was the conspiracy to slaughter and loot in the humble bow of the Japanese people.

At this time, the Japanese people were very poor and backward compared to the Song people, and they only had dry eyes and envy for the rich and powerful Great Song Dynasty, and Nagasaki was even more so.

The islanders themselves lack food and clothing, and the coastal people are both fishermen and often incarnate as pirates, and they are even more cunning and fierce, and they only hate that they can't have the strength to go to the Great Song Dynasty to commit murder and loot to satisfy their desires/desires, how can they let so many Song people in distress eat white food.

In their eyes, these Song people are the treasures they need all over their bodies, and they are gifts from heaven to the door, and they must not be let go.

Clothes, shoes, etc., are to be taken off and possessed.

The wary Men of the Future, who were armed and scheming, sensed the greed and ferocity hidden in the eyes of the Japanese in their polite hospitality, and resisted in time.

Without blinding this group of Song people, the nearby widows suddenly showed their hideous faces, walking on their short legs, howling like wolves, waving various weapons and frantically rushing up to attack, intending to kill the old and useless and all the men in the group of Cai Caihou, and eradicate the burden and threat; scrambling to snatch younger women as tools for work and for the betterment of the human race; The old woman who is still able to work does not kill, but wants to stay as a slave, and the torture is used to die.

When Cai Caihou, Wang Baocheng, Li Baosen and others saw their old parents and young children and grandchildren who were still ignorant being ruthlessly killed by the Japanese people without the slightest hesitation and mercy, then they understood the different nature of the Japanese and the Song people.

Like the Song people, they believed in Buddhism and were also influenced by the Confucianism with benevolence as the core from the Central Plains, but the Japanese people skillfully integrated these with their own culture, forming a very hypocritical and deceptive, cohesive and offensive civilization.

The more and more the Japanese gathered, they all wanted to grab the benefits, and they pounced on them frantically.

At the critical juncture, the selfishness and shamelessness in the bones of Hua Caihou and others were fully exposed, how could he care about the life and death of his old boss, old colleagues, and masters, and even his own family members, relying on martial arts to break out of the encirclement, flee in a hurry, and since then he has become a struggling rogues on the island, completely letting go of his hands and feet as a scourge, which is very suitable for this kind of life.

Hei Yongkang and others didn't know that their family members and relatives were ruthlessly and unjustly abandoned by their colleagues and subordinates, and they became remnants of Tian Hu's subordinates.

Zheng Juzhong was like five thunderbolts.

Hei Yongkang and other important generals of the imperial court actually betrayed the imperial court and became thieves, and blackmailed them as hostages, Zheng Juzhong didn't know whether to be shocked or angry.

It turned out that the mastermind behind the kidnapping case was the huge pit conspiracy directed and acted by Hei Yongkang, these ill-intentioned dogs, who secretly took refuge in Li Bangyan and Tian Hu.

No wonder the last ransom was escorted by such a powerful force, but it disappeared inexplicably and is difficult to find.

It's no wonder that these dogs sold their shops and properties early and cried poor, and refused to take out the money to redeem their relatives.

No wonder these dogs knew that they couldn't beat Zhao Zhuang, but they had the courage to repeatedly instigate their officials to allow them to lead troops to attack Zhao Zhuang, completely ignoring the consequences

But he didn't care about dealing with these betrayers right now.

The military salary was misappropriated, and there was no old Qingzhou generals such as Hei Yongkang to suppress and appease the soldiers, and the military camp was about to riot.

The misappropriation of reserve food is also a serious crime, and the dogs cannot be used as a lever for blackmail.

Zheng Juzhong's eyes were red-eyed, and Shi Fulian, who had taken the opportunity to take over the army, hurriedly led his troops to arrest the rebels who were still in the city and the various departments of the yamen, and laid an IOU to force the rich merchants to borrow money and grain to go up to the hole first, and at the same time sent his cronies to hurry back to Beijing with other officials to transport the money from his family to pay off the debts, so as to appease the rich merchants living in the city.

However, another five thunderbolts descended.

The money urgently transported by the dignitaries of various prefectures and cities through the canal was robbed by whom, and it was another headless case.

The dignitaries of the city are completely blinded now.

Faced with the threat of the rich businessmen who turned their faces and blocked the door to ask for money and grain, they wanted to report and expose to the imperial court, Zheng Juzhong's officials were forced to be anxious, their hearts were dark, and they decided to kill them.

After communicating with Shi Fulian, they were charged with fornicating with Hei Yongkang and other traitors, and the wealthy businessmen involved in the kidnapping case were questioned and their homes were searched.

Got rid of these dozen wealthy businessmen with public power and violence, no debts, no hidden dangers, easy gains, and made a fortune.

Cangzhou people are indeed wealthy. These wealthy businessmen are even more rich, they have paid such a huge amount of ransom, paid military salaries and food, and still copied more than 3 million yuan of money.

And that's not even counting the real estate that is worth a lot of money and can't be sold for a while.

Zheng Juzhong was happy, but still worried.

These things can be hidden from others, but it is impossible to hide from Cangzhao, who has deep roots in Cangzhou.

Give up rescuing the hostages, ignore Hei Yongkang's endless extortion, and prevent Hei Yongkang from selling his handle to Cangzhao in exchange for benefits when he is angry and hopeless.

In order to avoid being taken advantage of by Wen Chenghou to take the opportunity to take fierce revenge, it is time to bow to Cangzhao and compromise.

Zheng Juzhong wrote a letter to Zhao Gonglian, in which he tactfully implied that you and I both understand that it is the emperor's intention to make things difficult for your family. He Zheng Juzhong is a gentleman, and he wants to talk about friendship and friendship, but he has to forgive, if there is a place where he can't live with his brother, please understand and forgive one or two, in the future, he will try his best to consider Cangzhao's interests in his hometown, and will make some compensation, Yunyun.

Zhao Gonglian replied quickly, but there were only three words on a big piece of paper: I know.

Zheng Juzhong looked at this courtesy salutation without a beginning, and there was no signature at the end, if he didn't know that it was sent by someone from the Yamen of the Qingzhou Prefect, he didn't know who wrote the letter, and his face instantly turned the color of pig liver.

Got it?

Got it?

Zhao Gonglian, do you think you are the emperor's critic? How dare you be so contemptuous of me?

But it's no use getting angry.

Obviously, Zhao Gonglian couldn't deal with the difficulties under the emperor's will, but his mother won the favor of God again like the proverbial Tokyo case, and easily got the handle from the series of events of the kidnapping case, and mastered the complete initiative.

Zheng Juzhong and the relevant officials were more than ten years old, and they couldn't live in fear.

After they calmed down, they thought about it again, and it was normal for Zhao Gonglian to reply like this.

If it were themselves, how would they respond?

Say I understand you and forgive you for cheating my family?

Say I don't care about you making shameless and despicable means against my family?

No matter how you say it, it is a euphemism complaining about the dissatisfaction with the emperor, and when it falls into the hands of Zheng Juzhong, it immediately becomes a weapon for countermeasures, and in a blink of an eye, it has been reduced from active to passive beating.

Zhao Gonglian is such a smart person, if he didn't even have this bit of knowledge, he would have been squeezed to death by officialdom, and he could still stand proudly and become a bigger and bigger official?

Only these simple three words without a beginning and an end are the most wonderful answers.

Thinking like this, Zheng Juzhong's heart calmed down a little and discussed with several officials. Don't take the windfall of the family alone.

This official, hello, I'm good, everyone, it's really good.

Honestly, divide the benefits among others, and apologize and make up for it euphemistically. It is hoped that the omnipotent money can alleviate the contradictions and resolve the current terrible crisis.

Several dignitaries gritted their teeth and endured the pain, took out some of the benefits of swallowing in their stomachs, made up 100,000 gold beads, and wrote a letter of flattery, and sent their cronies to Zhaozhuang.

The original second housekeeper who took over Zhao Zhuang heard the news and went to the gate of the city, did not let the cronies enter the door, took the letter, and opened the letter to the master very rudely, and then said to the cronies very modestly: "Please reply to your master, my master knows that your master is good at making money." But such a heavy gift, for no reason, my master did not dare to accept it. Zhaozhuang's business is collapsed, but my master still has land and can still eat. Don't dare to worry about your master. ”

Cangzhao is unwilling to back down and forgive.

Zheng Juzhong and the others felt that this was another five thunder bombardment, but they were afraid that Cangzhao's terrible revenge would come at any time, and he suddenly thought, did Cangzhao know that I had made a lot of money, and I thought that the money sent was less?

The more they pondered the steward's words, the more they felt justified.

Zheng Juzhong gritted his teeth and was embarrassed, this time he and several officials vomited blood and made up a million yuan, took out all the precious jewelry and gold, and led the team to personally come to the door to ask Cangzhao to give him a chance to kneel and lick.

This time, I don't know if the etiquette is heavy enough, or the face of these Cangzhou dignitaries is heavy enough, Mrs. Ning personally received their visit.

The old lady was kind and kind, and this time she spoke elegantly and kindly, and said that she would take everything back, and my family understands the difficulties of your waiting, and the business in this house will slowly stop by itself. You don't have to wait.

This is really joy falling from the sky, and the clouds are clearing.

Zheng Ju, who was tossed to death, really didn't have the strength to compete with Cangzhao anymore, and after listening to the words of the old lady, he was so grateful for a moment.

They dropped their gifts and forcibly took their leave. Cangzhao didn't really send it back. Zheng Juzhong and the others were greatly relieved.

accepted the gift, which means that Zhao Gonglian will not retaliate.

It's great that you can continue to make a fortune as an official in the wealthy Cangzhou.

Zheng Juzhong is even more full of expectations.

As long as Cang Zhao really weakens the commercial strength that has become an empty shell, then he can easily complete the task, and when the time comes, he will return to Tokyo to hand over the emperor's promotion.

He swore that as long as Cangzhao fulfilled his promise, he would never provoke Cangzhao to calculate Zhao Gonglian. In fact, I was really scared.

Cangzhao hasn't exerted his strength yet, he is already so miserable, he is really angry and determined to retaliate, can he still have a way to live?

It seems that we still have to stick to the famous adage: politics is compromise.

Zheng Juzhong became more and more convinced of this from then on, but he didn't know that Zhao Yue told the spy leader Liu Wen: "Brother Wen help me remember that when Zheng Juzhong loses his use value and is transferred, don't let him return to the capital alive." Such people should educate foreign races such as the Japanese or South Asians, and make due sacrifices and contributions to the improvement of the civility and politeness of the barbaric and ignorant peoples. ”

Liu Wen smiled solemnly and nodded solemnly and said, "The young master's suggestion is right. Don't worry, I will never forget this, and it will be done properly. (To be continued.) )