Giving living allowances to unemployed weavers is a matter of money.

And wherever there is money, there are inevitably disputes and contradictions – even if it is a small amount of money.

Therefore, Ji Qingwen sent these weavers ten taels of silver each, and the total amount of money spent was only 20,000 taels of silver, but he was afraid that when the weavers received the silver, you would push me and make something extraordinary.

Fortunately, the "Ming Wu Army" brought by Ji Qingwen has a strong enough deterrent power, and Ge Sheng and others are also very old and thoughtful, and Ji Qingwen himself has more than enough silver, so the order of the weavers receiving the silver is also very neat, and no one dares to do things like cutting in line or taking risks.

Ji Qingwen also saw that Kou Shen, the prefect of Suzhou, had also brought three classes of officials to maintain order, so he didn't want to continue to stay here to watch people receive silver, so he beckoned Li Yan and Li Yuanyin to go back to the weaving yamen first to interrogate the few White Lotus disciples who had just been caught.

As for the soldiers of the "Ming Wu Army", they temporarily stayed in place to calm the scene, and when the money was all over, it was not too late to return to the camp to rest.

After returning to the weaving yamen in Suzhou, Ji Qingwen hastily picked up a few mouthfuls of food, and then went to the firewood room of the back yamen to interrogate these White Lotus disciples.

Ji Qingwen himself is a modern person who has traveled over from the 21st century, and he knows that extorting confessions by torture is a kind of illegal and criminal matter, so he can't do anything ruthless.

But Li Yuanyin beside him was an expert in extorting confessions and inducing confessions, and when he saw these White Lotus disciples, he first couldn't help but pull them over and beat them violently, and then gathered these people together, and beat them violently.

The previous beating was done equally, and the action was not light, to extinguish the prestige of these people and let them know the means of weaving the yamen in Suzhou. The subsequent beatings were of different severity, some were beaten half to death, some were just casually greeted twice, and one or two did not even touch their fingers.

This kind of differential treatment caused these White Lotus Sect disciples, who were originally monolithic, to split up in an instant, and they began to suspect each other, and their companions had betrayed themselves.

After such a clean up, it was much less difficult to interrogate these White Lotus Sect disciples again, and they reflected each other and stated the true nature of the matter.

It turned out that these guys were originally weavers in Nanjing, and they were not only peers with the weavers in Suzhou, but also had some connections in Pingsuli. Therefore, Xu Hongru, the leader of the White Lotus Sect, heard that something had happened to the weaving workshop in Suzhou City, and felt that there was an opportunity, so he sent these disciples to preach, thinking if he could find an opportunity to pick up the Suzhou weavers to start the incident, and he himself was so good at taking advantage of the fire and fishing in troubled waters.

Hearing the above situation, Ji Qingwen couldn't help but rejoice - he didn't expect that he would acquire the weaving workshop under the name of the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce, which not only formed the silk weaving industry in Suzhou

The monopoly position of the industry inadvertently thwarted Xu Hongru's plan again, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone, killing two birds with one stone, and killing two birds with one stone......

Therefore, Ji Qingwen said proudly: "Your Sect Master Xu has a good calculation. But this matter is not small, why didn't Sect Master Xu come over to handle it in person? ”

A White Lotus Sect member replied dumbfoundedly, "Sect Leader Xu was injured a little in Nanjing City, and he has not recovered until now, so it is difficult for him to make the trip for a while. Therefore, this important event was originally intended to invite the Holy Maiden and the Senior Brother to come and do it......"

"Wait." Ji Qingwen interrupted his words, "The holy daughter is Zhou Xiuying, I know, who is the senior brother?" ”

The White Lotus Sect didn't expect Ji Qingwen to know so much about the affairs of their sect, and he thought that he wouldn't be able to pass the test if he didn't tell the truth today, so he could only answer truthfully: "Senior brother's surname is Xu, and his name is clear......

Ji Qingwen was a little puzzled, and asked: "No, I know Xu Daoqing, he should have been under Xu Hongru for not many days, why did he become a senior brother?" ”

Another member hurriedly replied, "Your Excellency doesn't know anything. The seating arrangement of this religion is not in the order of joining the church, but to see who is capable and strong, and who is the senior brother. Senior Brother Xu is a disciple of Sect Master Xu, and naturally he has the greatest ability, so he has become our senior brother. ”

Ji Qingwen gasped and asked again, "Is this Xu Daoqing so powerful?" Even Miss Zhou Xiuying can't beat him now? ”

"No, no, no......" another White Lotus Sect disciple hurriedly denied, "The Holy Maiden is not among our senior brothers, she is considered half a master. And if it is really compared, I am afraid that if I fight a hundred times, Senior Brother Xu will lose a hundred times, and he is definitely not the opponent of the Holy Maiden. ”

Listening to the words of this disciple, Ji Qingwen became happy again, and thought: I really didn't see the wrong person, or Zhou Xiuying is capable, see when I accept her as my second wife, it can be regarded as finding me a personal guard who doesn't cost money.

Thinking of this, Ji Qingwen was in a good mood, and a smile began to appear on his face, and he said to the few dumbfounded White Lotus Sectists in front of him, "Okay, very good. Don't think that I don't know about this trivial matter, this official is just testing you to see if you are telling the truth. ”

He paused, and then said: "This official just listened to it, and you guys are quite honest, and you can be regarded as picking up half a life." ”

When these White Lotus Sect disciples heard this, they all breathed a sigh of relief, and a smile bloomed on their bruised faces.

But he heard Li Yuanyin scolding and asked, "What are you happy about?" Now you just picked up half a life and came back, and half a life is in the hands of Lord Ji! If you dare to tell half a lie, see how I tell you to survive

No, you can't die! ”

Li Yuanyin's methods of the brocade guard, those few White Lotus Sect disciples can be regarded as having understood, and when they were so frightened by him, the smile on their faces suddenly froze, and they hurriedly replied: "Don't dare, don't dare." Whatever Master Ji asks, we will answer honestly......"

Ji Qingwen nodded with satisfaction and said, "Okay, let me ask you, where did Xu Hongru go after he fled from Nanjing City?" And what did you do? ”

A White Lotus Sect disciple was afraid of being preempted by others, so he hurriedly spoke: "Sect Master Xu collected a lot of silver in Nanjing City, and after leaving the city, he looted nearby for a while, and took a lot of silver in his hand. With this money, Sect Leader Xu was busy recruiting troops and horses, and now he has fifty or sixty thousand people under his command......

"What? Fifty or sixty thousand? Ji Qingwen repeated almost in exclamation.

Li Yan, who was standing on the side shaking a folding fan, said, "Why should Brother Ji panic? Where did Xu Hongru get such a big ability to pull up such a big team in such a short time? Presumably this guy is bluffing and blowing conch, right? ”

The man was afraid that Ji Qingwen would think that he was not honest, so he hurriedly clarified: "Lord Ji, Lord Ji, this number should not be much worse." A few of us weavers are from the background, and we are responsible for preparing clothes for our brothers and sisters in the team, and we know very well how many people there are under Sect Master Xu. ”

Another White Lotus Sect disciple also chimed in, "Yes, yes. If you don't believe it, just send a few Jinyi Wei masters to take a look. ”

Ji Qingwen nodded, and suddenly became angry: "Okay, you two bold thieves, you know that this official only knows that Xu Hongru is making trouble in the southern mountains, and you don't know his exact location, so you came up with such an interface to humiliate your official." It's tolerable, it's unbearable! Li commanded and put the two White Lotus Sect demon bandits ...... Chop off all their fingers! ”

When the two White Lotus Sect disciples heard this, they immediately panicked, and immediately knelt down at the bottom, kowtowing like a chicken pecking rice, and hurriedly replied: "My lord, my lord, the little one has no such intention, never has this intention!" The master of the Xu Sect is now in the mountains where Zhejiang and Fujian meet, although this place is not easy to find, it is naturally difficult for Lord Ji to have a few powerful Jinyi Wei masters. ”

Although Ji Qingwen is not proficient in history, he also knows that at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, the two leaders of the uprising, could pull up tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, and hundreds of thousands of people from scratch to confront the Ming court. Xu Hongru used one-tenth of Wei Zhongxian's inheritance as the capital to recruit displaced people, and gathered more than 50,000 people in two months, which is considered a normal level, and there is nothing surprising about it.

Therefore, Ji Qingwen had more or less believed the confessions of these two White Lotus Sectists.

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