Zhou Yaowu was lying on the boat, and he didn't know how much water he had drunk, but he felt that his stomach was swollen and uncomfortable.

Watching the princess and Yin Shuang eat fish, he was also hungry. It's just that he has a watery stomach and a salty mouth.

For this he had to take the water in his mouth and spit it out when he was about to go. So he felt much better.

A fish was quickly eaten by the princess and Yin Shuang.

The boat was almost docked, and the fisherman and Luo Hui chatted freely.

Luo Hui felt that if he wanted to thoroughly understand the Ming Empire, he had to have a good chat with such an old man.

"Old man, what did you do when you were young?"

"The slender man in the canal, as well as the dock porter, this kind of work, I did it when I was young!"

"What do you think of these jobs?"

"Views? Young people, in fact, don't need a slender man at all, they only need to clean up the silt and dredge the river during the dry season every year, and they don't need a slender man at all. But those big men need it, they need the appropriation of the imperial court, and then leak something through their fingers to us tired slender men! And the canal is getting more and more blocked, and we slender men are getting more and more difficult, but no one has dredged the river, just holding a whip to squeeze us slender men! ”

Luo Hui's eyelids jumped, Caoyun is another group of sub-interest groups, and the ghosts in it are only very big.

No wonder there were so many officials who opposed the last discussion of abolishing the transportation and replacing it with shipping, these are their financial routes!

"Old man, after you changed to fishing, did the situation get better?"

The old fisherman shook his head: "It's almost the same, fishing also needs fish guides, that is, to pay a certain fishing tax to the government, barely enough to feed yourself!" Moreover, because there is a group of water bandits entrenched here, if the fisherman's family does not have relatives to be water bandits, they are not allowed to fish here! ”

Luo Hui's heart moved: "So, you also have relatives who have become water bandits!" ”

As soon as the old fisherman talked about this, he was a little sad: "Yes, my son was afraid that I would not be able to fish anymore, so he went to risk becoming a water bandit, not only my family, but almost all fishermen's families have people who are water bandits, otherwise they can't get along in this area?" ”

"Why? If you don't fish, it's good! "Luo Hui is very strange.

The old fisherman shook his head: "Those of us who have done fish attraction, even if we don't fish, the officials will come to us to collect taxes!" There's really no way out! ”

Luo Hui didn't feel good in his heart, because the water village was destroyed by him, maybe his son would die in his hands.

But he won't regret it, there is no way to do this kind of thing! At the same time, he also guessed the reason why the bandit leader forced the fisherman's relatives to become water bandits, so he wanted to tie the fisherman's family and the water bandits together in order to help the water bandits and deal with the government together.

I have to say, those water bandit leaders are really calculating!

"How's your son?"

Although Luo Hui felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, he still asked this sentence.

The old fisherman sighed: "Hey, he's okay, he went back to the government to suppress bandits, he was injured in the leg, and now he is still in prison!" ”

Luo Hui breathed a sigh of relief, he didn't die. His heart felt a little better.

Princess Changping looked at the old fisherman's sad appearance, and whispered in Luo Hui's ear: "Otherwise, you can tell the magistrate and let him release his son!" ”

Luo Hui shook his head, he could give the old fisherman more silver, but he couldn't interfere with the law casually. Because it's not fair to other people. Who knows if the old fisherman's son did anything bad when he was a water bandit.

"You can't let people go so easily!"

Princess Changping was a little unhappy again: "Then I want you to try it in person, so as not to have any unjust cases!" ”

"Okay, since the princess has a life, the lower officials dare to disobey her fate!"

Luo Hui didn't want to take care of these miscellaneous things, so he just left them to the magistrate.

But considering the situation of the old fisherman, there will indeed be many who are forced to become water bandits.

Needless to say, it's better not to have an unjust case if you're alive!

After the boat docked, Luo Hui and the four said goodbye to the boatman.

Get in the carriage and head back to Yangquan City.

Luo Hui felt a little strange, why didn't he see Wan Bi today. This old guy always bothered him and told him to leave early!

But he still had something to do, and Luo Hui went to the county office.

After he identified himself to the county magistrate of Yangquan, he asked him to seriously try the hundreds of water bandits.

It is necessary to separate them, punish the guilty, and punish the innocent who are forced to join the water village lightly.

The magistrate was very helpless, so he had to rearrange the sentences written. There are even some issues that have been re-addressed.

He didn't dare not listen to what Lord Qincha said!

The magistrate had no choice but to read all the bandits' files again, punished some people, released some people, and some of them were extremely vicious, and the generation of people who bore the murder cases were also sentenced to death!

Jiang Wucheng rushed back from Taiyuan non-stop, it took him a day to go to Taiyuan, but when he came back, it only took half a day.

It almost spurred the horse to run to the death, just because of a very important piece of information.

Jiang Wucheng had a feeling that if he told Luo Hui about this, something big would inevitably happen. But that wasn't what he should have thought about.

As soon as Jiang Wucheng's horse arrived in Yangquan County, he immediately went to find Luo Hui.

ran like a gust of wind, and with a hula, he arrived at the room where Luo Hui lived.

Luo Hui looked at Jiang Wucheng, who was sweating profusely, and poured him a glass of water.

Jiang Wucheng waved his hand: "My lord, I have something very important to tell you!" ”

After Jiang Wucheng finished speaking, he walked outside the door, looked at it, and only after making sure that there was no one did he close the doors and windows.

Only then did Luo Hui realize that it was not a trivial matter to be able to do this to Jiang Wucheng, this person had always been cautious!

After doing all this, Jiang Wucheng didn't care much, and directly wiped his sweat with his sleeve.

"My lord, what the next thing to say is very important, don't get excited!"

"Say, I can hold it down!"

"My lord, Xu Dingguo, the chief soldier of Shanxi, has dealings with the Manchu Qing Dynasty!"

"What?"

This sentence was like a thunderbolt that slashed at Luo Hui's head.

"Shhhh

Jiang Wucheng was very anxious, he was really afraid that Luo Hui would shout out and make it known to everyone!

Luo Hui tried to calm himself down: "You go on! ”

"The envoy of the Manchu Qing Dynasty is now in Xu Dingguo's mansion, and the two have had several secret talks, but Xu Dingguo is still wavering, and there is no clear intention!"

Luo Hui clenched his fists tightly, this Xu Dingguo, but he hadn't seen the situation clearly, once he saw that the Ming Dynasty was no longer good, he would immediately surrender to the Manchus.

"Maybe he's still negotiating with the Manchus!"

"No matter what, Xu Dingguo's secret communication with the Manchu Qing is a certainty!"

Luo Hui's eyes were cold, Taiyuan is such an important place. The general soldier actually secretly communicated with the Manchurians, this Xu Dingguo should be damned!