Wang Jingzhi (shēn) was an official of the imperial court, so he naturally knew about the existence of Ling Kun, an important minister of the imperial court, and also knew about Ling Kun's demotion as an official, but the news of his official reinstatement had not yet arrived.

So after a short period of stunned and panic, he immediately regained his self-confidence, walked up two steps and said to Zheng Siping: "General Zheng, you are mistaken, Ling Kun has long been demoted to a concubine, and he will never be used, he is now a chaotic minister and a thief, a murderer, you quickly call someone to arrest him." ”

Zheng Siping knelt on the ground and turned around and said: "Lord Wang, the last general just received the news from the capital the day before yesterday that the (diàn) marshal has been reinstated as an official and entered the lord Lingwei Gong, and he has been ordered by the emperor to clean up the sea troubles, and I have been waiting for the arrival of the handsome (diàn) for a long time." ”

"What, the official has been reinstated?" Wang Jingzhi suddenly lost his soul, couldn't help but kneel on the ground with a puff, and said tremblingly: "(diàn) Handsome, grandfather, the humble position has eyes and does not know Mount Tai, please raise your noble hand and spare the humble position." ”

Ling Kun looked at him with a playful expression, but he didn't speak.

However, the more he didn't speak, the more panicked the crowd became.

Chen Bingtian's face was like ashes, and he knelt on the ground softly, unable to speak. The Chen family was not clean in the first place, and this time it offended the first important minister of the court, can there still be a good death?

On the contrary, Zhou Jiaru was alive in her heart and said in a low voice: "Dad, you don't have to worry, maybe there is a way." ”

"What else can be done, it is estimated that there will not even be a whole corpse left." Chen Bingtian said blankly.

Zhou Jiaru no longer answered, but shouted to Ling Kun: "Ling ...... General, before we had eyes but didn't know Mount Tai, the key is that you don't say it, how can we know. I know you like Xi'er, I agree to marry Xi'er to you, you can be a wife and a concubine, isn't it Xi'er? ”

When Chen Xi'er, who was still stunned, heard this, she immediately had a pretty face, her eyes were blazing, she lowered her head and nodded lightly.

"Hahaha." Ling Kun laughed and said, "Don't you already have a husband, is it really good to be so happy that the water (xìng) Yang Hua is like this?" ”

"It's ......." Chen Xi'er's face immediately changed, and she argued: "I have nothing to do with him, I just met today." ”

"Yes, yes, we are nothing, I am stupid and should not fight with you." Wang Chongwu also said anxiously.

Ling Kun snorted coldly, no longer paying attention to these people, but said to Zheng Siping: "General Zheng, how long have you been in the East China Sea?" ”

"回 (diàn) handsome, half

It's been many months. ”

"So what are the achievements in coastal defense?"

Zheng Siping said with some embarrassment: "(diàn) Handsome, the last general is ashamed, pirates are rampant and cunning, and more than a thousand people such as me can't hold this thousand-mile coastline." ”

"Do you know that piracy is so rampant, and it is directly related to these jiān merchants in front of me, who collude with each other to make pirates both smuggle and plunder rampantly."

Zheng Siping was shocked, kowtowed, and said: "The subordinates are stupid, they only stare at the pirates, I didn't expect that there would be such a thing, please (diàn) Shuai punish the crime." ”

Ling Kun waved his hand and said: "Take down all the relevant people of the Wang family and the Chen family and put them in prison, seal all their belongings, and I will ask the emperor to send a supervisor to try this case." ”

"The last general will be ordered, please (diàn) Shuai to move the city to preside over coastal defense." Zheng Siping personally led the horse over and asked Ling Kun to get on the horse.

Ling Kun nodded and jumped off the pile, turned (shēn) on his horse, and was led by the guards to the city.

Zheng Siping immediately ordered to arrest the Chen family and the Wang family on the spot, and divided several teams to investigate and seal the property and related business of the two families.

Chen Xi'er felt that her intestines were blue at the moment, she burst into tears, and kept roaring: "Ling Kun, I was wrong, you forgive me, are we okay together?" ”

Ling Kun, who walked out, turned his head to look at Chen Xi'er and said, "Miss Xi'er, in fact, you should suffer like your aunt in order to understand what people live for." When you don't have a life like this soon, do it yourself. ”

After speaking, Ling Kun didn't look back and went away.

After a short time, I arrived at the city of Banqiao Town. This is a wharf about the same size as Chenjia Wharf, but it is not as noisy as Chenjia Wharf, and almost none of the past merchant ships entered the city to pay taxes.

At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, the city was in charge of the local yamen, so the Jiaozhou City Department was Wang Jingzhi's world.

At first, the city was still operating normally, paying a large amount of taxes and silver for the imperial court every year. Wang Jingzhi only indulged in the smuggling of some related households sporadically, and he took a certain amount of kickbacks from them. Slowly, getting stronger and stronger, the appetite is getting bigger and bigger, and with the cooperation of big merchants like the Chen family, the scale of smuggling is getting bigger and bigger, and the city has become useless.

Later, the pirates began to invade wantonly, but the imperial court had no time to take care of it, Wang Jingzhi was even more emboldened, and Suo (xìng) completely abandoned the city and all maritime transactions

All moved to Chenjia Wharf.

It wasn't until Zheng Siping's sailor arrived that he cleaned up again and became a little popular.

After Ling Kun arrived at the Sailor Tent, the first thing he did was to write a report to Zhao Heng.

He recounted the details (qíng) of Wang Jingzhi and the Chen family's collusion with Dongying pirates, wanton smuggling, and connivance at looting, and asked the emperor to send a superintendent to Jiaozhou to try the case.

In addition, he suggested that the emperor send officials from the capital to directly take charge of the local city shipping departments, and supervise each other with local officials and restrain each other's .......

After writing the recital, he sent someone to rush to the capital for 800 miles to deliver it.

At this time, Zheng Siping also came back and reported to Ling Kun that the relevant people of the Chen and Wang families had all been arrested and imprisoned, and all the property stores had been sealed.

Ling Kun nodded and said, "Let's do this first, wait for the imperial court to send someone to interrogate, our focus is still on cracking down on and preventing pirates...... By the way, Chen and Wang have been sealed, what happened to those house slaves? He suddenly remembered Chen Xunzong's mother and son, so he asked.

Zheng Siping said: "It has not been dealt with specifically, there is a special slum area for domestic slaves in Jiaozhou, and all of them will be resettled there for the time being." ”

"This matter must be dealt with immediately, you bring all the deeds of sale (shēn) of the Chen and Wang families, and we will restore their freedom (shēn)."

"Yes, (diàn) handsome." Zheng Siping turned (shēn) out, and soon came in with four people carrying two large boxes.

Ling Kun stood up and said, "Let's go, go to the slums." ”

Zheng Siping ordered a group of cavalry and escorted Ling Kun to the slums.

At this moment, the people of the Chen and Wang families who sold (shēn) as slaves are also in chaos, and the master's family has been arrested, what should they do?

Let's go, they have sold (shēn), and they can't go casually without taking out the deed of sale, otherwise they will be killed if they are caught by the government.

If you don't go, what do they eat and drink? In the past, there were two buckets of sorghum rice every month, but this time there is nothing.

Just when they were talking and panicking, they heard someone shouting outside: "(diàn) handsome is here." ”

Immediately afterwards, a team of brightly clad and majestic (jìn) military honor guards came into view.

Chen Xunzong looked at the honor guard enviously, and suddenly saw Ling Kun riding on a tall horse in the middle, and exclaimed: "It's Brother Ling, mother, look, it's really Brother Ling." ”