"Have you checked it all?"

"The shopkeeper has figured it all out."

The crowd in the dark room was dressed as a businessman, some were dressed as hawkers, some were dressed as men from the trading house, and some were dressed in the clothes of the pranksters in the trading house, but when they spoke, there was a smell of well-trained.

The men were as eloquent as they were, and each of them told the "treasurer" what he had learned.

"The shopkeeper, the Wu housekeeper who sent the money had already committed suicide when the official went to find out, and I asked people to find a chance to touch it, but found that the coffin was empty...... In other words, the person should not be dead. ”

"So, I asked people to secretly climb over the wall late at night, put drugs to stun the nurses, and tortured the heads of the family. Those men with fine skin and tender flesh began to bite their tongues and kill themselves, but I did..."

"What nonsense, the result is fast."

"Yes," the peddler nodded with a low brow, "and they bit out more and more, and we arrested people according to the list, and there were almost no mistakes." When I saw the torture tools that Jinyi Wei instructed us, everyone was so frightened that they were incontinent and confided. ”

"That housekeeper Wu didn't die at all, he was mixed in the car and bribed the soldiers guarding the city to transport him out of Nanjing City... I don't know where I've gone now, it's like a stone sinking into the sea. ”

A smile appeared on the corner of the shopkeeper's mouth, indeed, these torture instruments are really easy to use. Especially for those untrained rich families: bird guns with reduced charges, or tiger squat cannons with special projectiles, lead with crosses engraved, don't talk about it now, you can go to Hades!

Of course, these are not so much torture as executions, but they are of little use to those inferior people who want to die in the first place, and this is still a good messenger of the Zheng family.

Several other people also reported the results of their investigations, which roughly formed a line of events:

After the Qing army entered the Nanzhi territory, the commercial profits of these people were much lower. There were all kinds of merchants in the city, and it was difficult for a large city to satisfy this consumer market, and they still had little confidence in the army of the Min kings out of fear of the Manchurians. These people did not intend to "sit still", and naturally planned to show loyalty to the Manchurians in advance, at this time the Zheng family controlled the Yangtze River, and could not secretly transport grain to the north of the river, but it seemed that it was still a little feasible to do something on the city wall.

As a result, Comrade Zhu Chenggong's prestige was too great, and before he could say a few words, the junior officer who repaired the city wall directly poured beans into a bamboo tube and said all the beans......

It had been several days since the black guards had been arrested, and more and more big businessmen had been confiscated. The situation in the city of Nanjing has become more and more tense, the shopkeeper summed it up roughly, and ordered them to leave the dark room and report from another secret passage themselves, even though Nanjing has long been under martial law, but these local snakes have many connections, and they are always worried about who they can buy - the Zheng family wants to maintain the rule of Nanzhili, and cannot concentrate all their forces in Nanjing.

This dark passage is about a few feet long and consists of dozens of bluestone slab steps, and iron light stands are installed around the dark passage, which can provide enough lighting even at night. Several air holes are designed in the cracks of the wall to supply oxygen to the lantern.

The shopkeeper habitually takes every step quietly, which is a characteristic he has cultivated in intelligence work for many years. Suddenly, he felt the sound of whirring wind behind his ears, and subconsciously dodged and stretched out his hand. However, it was too late, and the shopkeeper's carotid artery was quickly cut, and he fell to the ground weakly with blood before he even let out a muffled snort...

Several black-clothed people quickly rushed out of the dark passage, lowered their bodies and rushed out to report the news. In a dark room, a group of people with a look of great looks are plotting.

They are the fish that slipped through the net before the families were caught, after all, the Zheng family is not a local snake, and they often can't cut the grass and eradicate the roots when they catch people, these people say all the good things, and do bad things, and they successfully buy off the next person and blend into this wing in the backyard of the Min Wangfu.

"At most, an hour will be noticed, and something is wrong in the wing. A few of them are just hurrying up. ”

A few of the leaders calmly made what may be the last analysis in their lives. There was a clanging sound in the thatch, and everyone was trying their best to hide the possible collision of metal with straw and the like.

Everyone knows very well that if they fail, then they can't even run out of the Min Wangfu, and only by killing the Min King with one blow can they escape from Nanjing or find those big families to hide when the dragons in the city are leaderless.

The merchants, who had intended to return to the Manchus in order to preserve their commercial interests, were devastated, and in this era, it was difficult for the merchants to fight for power. As those soldiers who did not understand Chinese came out of the barracks, most of the wealth accumulated by these merchants for several generations was instantly lost, and the goal of these people changed from obtaining greater commercial benefits to surviving in this "change", and fell from the fourth and fifth layers of Maslow's needs theory to the first layer in one fell in one go.

As for the state, the nation, and even the conscience, in their eyes, there is never.

"According to what those rough men said, this place is about forty or fifty steps away from Zhu Chenggong's dormitory, and it will definitely be too late to rush over, but it is difficult for us not to make a sound. What's more, Zhu Chenggong has always been vigilant, and he doesn't know how many secret whistles he has arranged..."

A family member with a weak family who was coerced and lured in complained about it.

"Phew! Now I know the problem, who colluded with my family to participate in the first place, and threatened us with Dongyu? Now that Dongyu has not come, the king of Min wants us to die! People die for money, birds die for food! ”

The person who replied tried his best to keep his voice down, and under the extremely urgent threat of death, he had nothing good to say about the Qing court, the great savior in his eyes.

The man didn't reply, but lowered his head and pondered, and everyone was silent, and no one wanted to speak. First, I can't think of a "perfect solution", and second, this dead silence seems to give people a sense of security.

Gradually, the atmosphere in this room gradually changed, and most of the people who could get in were rich children, and they hadn't even used scissors a few times, let alone entered this firewood room! The smell of wood chips, straw dust and mud mixed with nothing was really good for them.

"Ahh

A cough broke the silence, and the others picked up as if in tacit agreement.

"Bear with it! I want to die! "In the darkness, someone tried to silence the crowd.

"What sound?" A son from the Min Wangfu passed by the firewood house, remembered the haunted story of the day before yesterday, and walked over timidly.

I tried to push it, and found that the door was on the top door pole from the inside. I can't help but feel weird: on weekdays, I put firewood and straw, and I carry it in and come out, who has nothing to do and put a bar inside? Could it be a bar spirit?

Or is it something to be ashamed of?

With the innocence of the young man, he clenched his fist and knocked on the door panel a few times.

A few people made a look, carefully picked up their weapons, quickly pulled out the top door bar, and rushed out to face the frightened uh is a knife! The white knife went in, the red knife came out, and a few pairs of cloth shoes stepped on the blood, and jumped towards the porch.

"The matter has come to this, kill Zheng Wei with me!"

The sound of short spears and machetes clashing rang out. A few of the people who had been bought off also took weapons and led the way to these people.

After erasing several sentinels in a row, and quietly passing through a sandwich wall, these people soon touched the vicinity of the dormitory, and one by one seemed to flash out of thin air.