However, for those little minions, the two family members who are now characterized as 'pirates were recognized and escaped and captured', Zhang Yanfang and Wei Huo, don't care about them anymore, they only care about Li Jiqian. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 After they caught Li Jiqian on the first day of the first lunar month, they immediately interrogated Li Jiqian.

After Li Jiqian surrendered, it seemed that all mental defenses had been lost, and they answered whatever they asked, and Zhang Yanfang and Wei Huo also knew the reason for this incident, so they had a qualitative conclusion.

Zhang Yanfang and Wei Huo have not rested for the past two days, and in addition to arraigning Li Jiqian, they also interrogated many people. There are many people who have been captured, even pirates, there are many people who are not willing to die like this, not to mention that the exquisite torture skills of the old man in the yamen are enough to make anyone who is not dead speak.

Then Zhang Yanfang and Wei Huo found that there was actually nothing to interrogate, this time the matter was very clear, as for the previous things, such as how many goods Li Jiqian led people to rob, or how many officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were killed, it was all meaningless, and they couldn't remember it clearly.

So in the end, Zhang Yanfang asked a question: "Li Jiqian, you were prepared to go to your hometown in Suzhou before, and you were ready to die, so why did you surrender immediately after being found out that you couldn't run?" Zhang Yanfang has been puzzled by this problem.

Li Jiqian said: "I went to Suzhou to be discovered, and then I died, that was my own business, and I couldn't implicate anyone else; But in Shanghu County, everyone died with me. ”

Zhang Yanfang then asked: "Then why did you run away with people for a while after you suspected that you were recognized, and finally surrendered?" ”

Li Jiqian said: "At first, I was lucky, thinking that I might not necessarily be caught, until I later knew that I couldn't escape, so I surrendered. ”

Zhang Yanfang discussed with Wei Huo for a while, and felt that there was nothing more to ask, so he said to the jailer: "You take him down!" ”

"Slow!" At this time, Li Jiqian shouted this, and then asked: "Two officials of the Ming Dynasty, I want to ask, this time it is really not that you have known my identity in advance, so you have set up this plan to arrest me?" ”

In the process of questioning, Zhang Yanfang and Wei Huo already knew about Li Jiqian's huge brain supplement, so they were not surprised that he would ask this question; But they still think it's funny: it's incredible that a pirate on the list was caught by one coincidence or another.

Zhang Yanfang replied: "It's true that we didn't find out your identity before, in fact, we didn't know who you were or why you ran away until we caught you." ”

In the past two days, he had actually guessed this from Zhang Yanfang's questioning, but he was still unwilling, so he asked this question. Now that he knew the exact answer, he suddenly muttered to himself, "It's really damn me!" ”

Zhang Yanfang waved his hand again and asked the jailer to take him down.

After the interrogation, Zhang Yanfang immediately issued a strict order: not to insult the captured pirates, especially the women among them. He knew that some women had been insulted to varying degrees when they were arrested, and that what had happened did not need to be investigated, and it was difficult to pursue it, but it could not happen again in prison.

Then on how to deal with these people, Zhang Yanfang had a big conflict with Wei Huo. Wei Huo said: "Since it has been determined that they are pirates, the leaders and their families will report to the Beijing Master for disposal, and the rest of the minions can be beheaded!" ”

But Zhang Yanfang disagreed. He said: "Do you know the holy decree issued by His Majesty in August of the 31st year of Hongwu? In that decree, His Majesty pardoned all the sins of Zhang Shicheng and the rest of the people, and said that if there were no obvious bad deeds in the Ming Dynasty, they could be recruited. ”

Wei Huo said: "How can I not know what you said? But that's talking about Zhao'an, Li Jiqian was obviously caught, not Zhao'an, and it is not the same, how can it be in accordance with that holy decree? ”

He said this, of course, for his own purposes. If he finally follows the rules of Zhao'an, then he has been busy for several days, although he will not work in vain, but he can get not many benefits; If it is treated as a clearance of pirates, then his credit is not small, and he may be able to rise to the next level.

Although Zhang Yanfang's conduct is upright, it doesn't mean that he can't guess Wei Huo's thoughts, and he is suddenly a little annoyed: he only knows his own interests!

Zhang Yanfang had carefully pondered Yun Xi's intentions after Yun Xi's holy decree was issued, and felt that Yun Xi actually wanted to recruit all the pirates, and seemed to reveal that Yun Xi wanted to make any big moves at sea.

Therefore, Zhang Yan wanted to rely on Zhao'an for this matter.

Now seeing that their contradiction is huge, and there is no possibility of bridging it, Zhang Yanfang thought for a while and said, "Since you and I have different views, then report to Your Majesty!" It is up to His Majesty to decide. ”

Wei Huo looked at Zhang Yanfang with some surprise. Reporting such a matter to the emperor basically means that the opinions of local officials cannot be bridged at all, which is tantamount to making the contradiction public, which is very bad for the losing side, and it is not conducive to local unity, and the emperor generally does not like such a thing to happen.

But since Zhang Yanfang had already raised this matter, Wei Huo couldn't admit it. So Wei Huo said: "Then you and I will go back and write an excerpt to report to Your Majesty." ”

Zhang Yanfang realized that Wei Huo had misunderstood, and immediately said, "I didn't mean that. What I mean is that we will jointly submit an excerpt to your Majesty's decision, and will not mention your disagreement with me. ”

Wei Huo listened to Zhang Yanfang's words and realized that he didn't want to compete with him. Although this also means that there are different opinions and contradictions in the local government on the handling of this matter, a bunch of people will not expose the contradictions in a joint letter, and the two sides have not torn their faces.

Wei Huo suddenly realized that there was something wrong with his attitude just now, and hurriedly said, "Master Zhang, I was confused just now. Okay, then follow the meaning of Lord Zhang. ”

Then Zhang Yanfang personally drafted the excerpt, and after reading it, Wei Huo felt that it was no problem, impartial, and without saying a word, he stamped his own seal and signed it. Then they called other local officials, both civil and military, and asked them to sign their names as well. Naturally, they did not dare not sign their names.

Later, on the third day of the first lunar month, this fold was sent to the capital.

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Wang Rende immediately rushed to the City Division from home after knowing that such a big thing had happened to the City Division, and immediately asked Xiao Zhuo after arriving: "In the end, do we have anything to do in the end?" ”

Xiao Zhuo said with a bitter face: "Not only are we fine, but because we helped the government discover this big pirate named Li Jiqian, we have been praised by Zhang Yanfang, the secretary of Shanghai City." ”

Wang Rende asked puzzledly, "Why do you still approve of us?" We didn't take the initiative to ventilate? ”

Xiao Zhuo said: "You don't know this. This matter caught the pirates on the list, and it must be reported to the capital. If it is written truthfully, and it is written that they are Li Jiqian who was caught by mistake, then the credit will be much less; If you already knew it in advance, and Li Jiqian was caught with some arrangement, then the credit would be great. ”

"Then since you knew it in advance, then someone must have informed the government in advance, right? So many people saw us confronting them, this person who informed the government in advance didn't choose us, who else could he choose? Since we told the government in advance, how can we not approve of us? ”

After listening to Xiao Zhuo's explanation, Wang Rende understood this matter. But he immediately said, "But this doesn't do us any good, does it?" How many of these people who do business in Shanghai have no problems at all? If they know that we have reported to the government, I am afraid that many people will have doubts when doing business with us. ”

"We are not people who want to be officials, there is no big benefit to this, and the official care is only temporary, and I don't remember this matter when the next official is transferred, but the businessmen here estimate that they will remember it in five years or ten years. So it's bad for us. ”

Xiao Zhuo continued to cry and said, "I know it too, so I've been bitter all the time. Now this situation can only be explained to other people. They won't know for a while, so let the guys go around talking about it, hoping to salvage a little reputation. ”

Wang Rende has no other way but to do this.

Then he said, "I heard from the guys that it was because the one-eyed wolf stopped people from asking for a drink. "The news he got was very messy, so he wasn't sure to ask Xiao Zhuo.

Xiao Zhuo said: "That's true. ”

Wang Rende then said: "Then this person is too fond of trouble, and he can't continue to stay here." ”

Xiao Zhuo didn't want to give up on him like this, and said: "But the one-eyed wolf's martial arts are very powerful, and he has also made a lot of contributions when he was guarding. ”

Wang Rende said categorically: "If you have made a lot of meritorious service, you can reward you a lot, even if you reward a hundred taels of silver!" But the one-eyed wolf can't be left here. ”

Xiao Zhuo hesitated for a moment and said, "Okay, I'll go talk to him in the next few days." ”

Wang Rende said: "You can give him as much as he wants, but you must not let him stay in our shop." ”

Then Wang Rende remembered something again and asked, "And the person who spoke out at that time to provoke our relationship with Li Jiqian's people, what is going on?" ”

Xiao Zhuo said: "I also wonder! When he was interrogated later, he said that he didn't remember what he had done at that time, and he never took the initiative to provoke him. I don't look at his face like he's lying. ”

And even if he was lying, it would be strange that he was provocative. No matter which family he sent it, he still made provocative remarks when he was bound to be exposed, at most, he provoked us to fight with Li Jiqian, which is unreasonable. ”

Wang Rende also said: "I also feel that something is wrong. That person is also a person in charge of important things in our place, and he almost knows any secrets, so it is too uneconomical for such a person to be exposed like this. ”

Xiao Zhuo said: "So I ordered a thorough investigation, hoping to find out something. ”

Living in Hangzhou, where the Su family lives not far from Xiao Zhuo and them, they are also talking. The Su family in Hangzhou, whose main business is planting raw silk, accounts for nine of the 30 shops selling silk and raw silk in Shanghai, which is not as good as Wang Rende's business alliance, but it can be regarded as a giant.

Su Ying, who was left by the Su family in Shanghai City to deal with everything here, laughed and said, "Haha! The spy who was ambushed with them at the beginning was really the right one in ambush. You see, no one would have imagined that such a big thing would have something to do with us. ”

The people in front of him also laughed and said, "It's all young master, you are clever and can use the right people in the right place." ”

Su Ying said: "I was just sent as a spy because I didn't know how to use that person. After all, his hypnotic technique is not so easy to use, and not everyone can hypnotize. If anyone can hypnotize, then how can I send him out. ”

"But when I sent it out, I realized it was a really good idea. There are so many people there, there is always someone who can be hypnotized, although the hypnotized person does not say everything and do everything, if he confides in the secret, there is a possibility of waking up. But at such a time, it is still possible to control the hypnotized person to say something. ”

"Now, we can hypnotize whoever speaks to provoke each other when they are tense with the others, and let them fight, and we can make a profit."

The person in front of him then laughed and said, "That's also the young master's discernment." ”

Su Ying was even more happy, and said with a smile: "Pass the order, let the kitchen copy one more dish at night, and treat the guys." ”

Xiao Zhuo found the one-eyed wolf and told him that he couldn't let him stay here. Xiao Zhuo said: "You have contributed a lot to this place, and I will reward you with two hundred taels of silver." It's just that you really can't stay here anymore, so I'll arrange for someone to send you back to Jiaxing. ”

The one-eyed wolf listened quietly to his words, and said, "Since you don't want me to stay in your shop, it's okay." But I didn't go back to Jiaxing, so I stayed in Shanghai. ”

Xiao Zhuo said: "Then what about your livelihood? You can't sit back and eat. ”

The one-eyed wolf said, "Two hundred taels of silver is enough for me to spend a long time, so don't worry about it for the time being." And even if the money is spent, I can't find a job as a guard for a martial artist like me! ”

Xiao Zhuo also knew that the one-eyed wolf's martial arts were very high, although his temperament was not very good, but there were also many businessmen who were willing to hire such a person, so he didn't ask any questions.

However, Xiao Zhuo said again: "Then if Xinlin asks about you, I ......."

The one-eyed wolf immediately said: "If Xinlin asks me, you can say that I am in the Shanghai market, and there is no need to say anything else." I don't really have much friendship with Shinbayashi. ”

Xiao Zhuo was actually quite reluctant to let the one-eyed wolf go, he felt that the one-eyed wolf must have a lot of secrets, and he couldn't tell who he was. But since Wang Rende insisted so much, the people of the Zhao family in Huzhou and the Li family in Suzhou also felt that it was not suitable for people like the one-eyed wolf to continue to stay, so he could only let the one-eyed wolf go.

In the end, Xiao Zhuo couldn't help but ask, "What is your real name?" ”

The one-eyed wolf said, "My name is the one-eyed wolf." ”