"There were five bodies fished downstream, and they were all brought back." Li Yi was busy sweating profusely, surrounded by more than 100 Zhuang Ding who were transferred from the official village, and counted them for three days of hard labor, and everyone was happy to close their mouths.

"How many?"

"Seventy-six corpses, several of which had their heads cut off, were put together." Li Yi was actually the first time to see such a big scene, a big battle, he was excited but also a little scared, and his voice was trembling when he spoke.

But there must be more excitement than fear, once this matter is resolved, there is no one to guide the way, and it is extremely unlikely that Chen Yutai will retaliate again in the short term. After all, if such a big thing happened, the Jiang Defense Battalion had to do it, and it was unlikely that Qishan thieves would come and fight hard.

In the Hou Mansion, the prestige of the prince was completely established through this incident, and the prince would really control the official village, and there were a large number of hidden households.

"It's set up, and someone from Fuzhou Mansion will show them in a while."

The fire at the stone bridge had long since subsided, and someone had covered it with earth.

Only the traces of the fire are still there, the battlefield is full of broken spears and thrown away barriers, as well as short spears inserted in the ground, the young men of the Hou Mansion are cleaning the battlefield under the leadership of Gao Shilai and others, putting away the intact and usable knives and short spears, and the broken ones are ready to be handed over to the blacksmith shop for repair.

Rows of corpses lay on the wasteland on the side of the avenue, and some nearby villagers rushed to see it, at least several thousand people, standing densely packed, and there were people everywhere watching this rare bustle.

I dared to run to see it up close, and I was scared and ran back.

Of course, the dead people are hideous, and many of them have round eyes and dead eyes, Qishan thieves are originally extremely vicious, and they have the breath of bandits on their bodies, and after death, their bodies are full of wounds and bloodstains, and many people also have broken hands and feet, which is even more terrifying.

The Zhuang Ke in the distance began to talk about Gao Shilai and Tian Heng and other teenagers again, at this time the sun was shining, and people could see very clearly, these were fifteen or sixteen-year-old young people, standing tall, with murderous eyes in both eyes...... In fact, the teenagers are novices, and they haven't recovered from last night's fierce fighting, so their murderous aura is exposed.

changed the Gushan thieves, and at this time, I was afraid that I was already drinking tea and listening to the drama quite leisurely, and I didn't take last night's events to heart.

The nearby officials and villages all came over to help, as well as the Lizheng set up by the imperial court, and there was an old villager in Nan'anji Town, who rushed over after hearing the news.

Of course, this kind of thing is a big deal, not only did Li Yi write an urgent official document and report it, but the local people did not dare to slack off, and they all hurriedly sent people to report to Sanshan County, Fuzhou Prefecture, the Department of Punishment and the Department of Envoys, the robbery case is not only a criminal case, but also related to military affairs, so someone reported it to the nearby Jiangfang Battalion at the first time, and also went to the Department of Institutional Mission.

Xu Zi first roughly settled here, and then rushed to the Pu Firm with Jin Jian and more than ten others.

In the early morning, the firm was surrounded, and then successfully copied out more than 1,000 taels of silver that Li Cheng put in the firm, which is a million dollars according to the current silver ratio, which is not a lot of wealth, of course, it is not a lot, and it is about worth a month's salary for the prime minister.

Whether Li Cheng really let these go, of course, the people who copied the trading house didn't care, and in the resentful eyes of the proprietor of the trading house and his family, more silver and goods were carried out.

Kong He stood aside to record the accounts, and after a while, he was already sweating profusely, and he whispered to Xu Zixian: "Shizi, this is more than 17,000 taels of silver, plus more than 20,000 goods. We only got more than a thousand taels, and many of them are Li Cheng's, which is too little, right? It's better to move a few thousand taels out, and we don't have to worry about the short silver within half a year. ”

"You can't take this silver," Xu Zixian also whispered: "If you want silver, I will find a way, don't worry about these thieves...... Let's worry, don't you think about those people on top? We left a few Li Cheng's clansmen as witnesses, these yamen above must be reviewed layer by layer, when the approximate amount of Chen Yutai's silver in this trading house is still found out, this silver is hot, and the top must be scrambling to grab it, we take less, no one will worry, if I really blacken this more than 10,000 taels of silver, I can't keep this identity, and I will be disgraced when the time comes, why bother. ”

Kong He listened with admiration, hugged his fists and said: "It's still the son of the world who thinks clearly, and it's far from being able to do it." ”

"Sir, you need to make the accounts clear." Xu Zixian smiled and said, "This hot thing is called dog bite dog." ”

More than 17,000 taels of silver is not a small wealth, worth more than 10 million dollars, this year overseas trade in the silver is not much, China's silver reserves have not yet reached the point of being able to implement the silver standard, according to Xu Zixian, the late Ming Dynasty silver is more than enough to implement the silver standard, mainly about one-third of the silver flows into China, Mexico and Japan account for the majority, this era of Japan's shallow ore silver mountain has not been explored, Mexico has not been colonized into the trade circle.

Most of the trade proceeds are precious goods from various countries that enter China, and a large amount of copper will come in, and China's copper coins will flow out, and gold and silver will also come in, but the amount is not too much.

Most of the silver in front of you is preserved in the form of silver cakes, which shine in the light of the morning sun and exude an attractive silver light.

Xu Zixian didn't take a few more looks, and a large number of goods were copied out of the trading house, which was also very valuable.

"The ledger has been copied out." Jin Jian was still barefoot, and he led people to rummage through the inside, and finally copied out the secret account book hidden in the compartment of the trading house.

Xu Zi took the account book first, flipped through it slightly, and said, "Very good, this time it is really out of their bezoar dog treasure!" ”

The merchant owner on the side originally looked unconvinced, but after the account book was copied out, his face was immediately like ashes.

The witness can not admit the account, or even bite back, after the account book and the goods and the deposit silver are matched, it is ironclad evidence, and no one can save him.

"Now we are waiting for the movement in Fuzhou City." Xu Zi first asked someone to find a recliner, took off his boots, and slowly lay down, and the fatigue of the night seemed to have been reduced a lot.

He looked at Jin Jian and said, "Your shoes were lost yesterday?" Put on my boots first, and then ask someone to send me another pair. ”

Jin Jian shook his head, then took Xu Zixian's boots, looked at them carefully, and then said, "Thank you, Shizi." ”

"Just a pair of boots." Xu Zixian smiled and said, "I will never treat the people who follow me badly." ”

……

Before noon, a few petty officials and officials came to the Criminal Division and the Jiang Defense Battalion, all of whom looked suspicious.

After all, the Qishan thieves are notorious, and the serious officers and soldiers are helpless against them, and the military village set up by the imperial court on Qishan Island is like a joke, just confronting the Qishan bandits, and there is no plan and strength to attack them at all.

Of course, the imperial court wanted to suppress the Qishan bandits, if it was placed in the Wuzong period, the army would have come over to kill them, and even in the Chengzong period, the Qishan bandits would not be allowed to threaten the important town of Fuzhou.

However, now it is the Chongde period, the internal and external difficulties, the north has been plagued for many years, Donghu enters the country every few years, and most of the national strength of the imperial court is consumed in the north, and there is nothing that can be done about the situation in the south, so it can only maintain the existing pattern as much as possible.

When these officials saw the corpses of the Qishan thieves with their own eyes, and then saw the very tragic battlefield, they couldn't help but believe that the report of the Nan'an Hou Mansion was completely true.

At noon, a large group of men and horses came out of Fuzhou City, and Zheng Liqi, the punishment envoy, first took a large group of men and horses out of the city, and then arranged for Han Bingzhong to lead a large group of cavalry to follow out of the city, and then patrolled Xiao Zan and Yang Shiwei, the prefect, to go out of the city in a sedan chair, and the sedan chair man carried the sedan chair like flying, and they all rushed in the direction of Nan'an Town.

Since the Hou Mansion established a courtyard in Nan'an Ji Town, this day is probably the most lively day.

At the same time, several of the most important officials along the way came, except for the appeasement that Lin Douyao's self-respecting identity did not come, and the transfer envoy did not have to come, almost all the officials in the city came.

The first to arrive was actually Zhang Tiansheng, the magistrate of Sanshan County, and the county magistrate, the county lieutenant and others, the county lieutenant Han De suspected that this matter would affect his future, and even if the court was angry, it might make people arrest him, and if he got it right, he would be locked up for a few years, and if he didn't get it right, his head might fall to the ground, his face was pale, and he couldn't believe his eyes.

The full official position of the prefect Yang Shiwei is called the military and state affairs of the Fuzhou Prefecture, that is to say, the civil affairs and armaments are under his control, and the city defense battalion and the river defense battalion under the Fuzhou Prefecture are responsible for the armaments in the prefecture.

Zhang Tiansheng, Han De and others surrounded Yang Shiwei, and everyone looked at the corpse and the battlefield first, and their faces were very ugly.

Han Dexian questioned: "The Hou Mansion reported that the prince ambushed the attacking Qishan bandits with his fangs, and defeated the two hundred bandits with a fire attack and a frontal attack, but the lower officials didn't believe it. I remember that in the seventh year of Chongde, the Qishan bandits invaded Sanshan County, and the city defense battalion and the river defense battalion dispatched more than 4,000 officers and soldiers, but they were defeated by the Qishan bandits. This incident happened together with the Zhangzhou fiasco, and the former pacification department, the envoy, and the prefect arrived in the edict prison that is still in Beijing...... More than 50 tooth general guards, mostly young people, defeated the 200 Qishan thieves head-on, and the lower officials had to believe it, but they didn't dare to believe it. ”

Han De's words were said in front of Xu Zixian, and he didn't care about Xu Zixian's feelings.

The clan of this dynasty was restricted everywhere for officials, and it was even worse in the Chongde period, and the clan officials were regarded as miscellaneous currents, and they were naturally inferior in the officialdom.

The officials who came up from the imperial examination naturally liked to suppress the clan and miscellaneous officials, and they had their own faction, even if they fought with each other, they had the same position to suppress the clan officials externally.

Han De is also from Jinshi, Dawei Jinshi is divided into Jinshi, Jinshi from Jinshi, and Tongjinshi from the third class, Han De is from the same Jinshi, as usual, starting with miscellaneous officials, the promotion is much slower than that of Jinshi and Jinshi, and if there is a robbery, it is more difficult to be promoted, so he is naturally full of resentment, and in terms of position, he does not have to save face for a sect disciple like Xu Zixian.

The general clan will not compete with the official two rankings of Jinshi, which will affect their own reputation, but Xu Zixian did not give an inch, pointed to the dead corpse in front of him and said to Han De: "Lord Han said that he can't believe it, may I ask if these corpses are from Qishan and sent me credit?" ”

Kong He laughed exaggeratedly on the side, what he hated most was these petty officials in the state and county, who were arrogant and did not look at the officials who had practical learning, Xu Zixian was very good at refutation, but Kong He was even more funny.