Chapter 465: Chasing

The time was pushed to a month ago, and Sima Tai, the head of the household department, still followed the normal rules of the past, and sent an envoy to the border town with the emperor to dismantle.

This matter is not urgent at all, and it will take two or three months to get a result, Sima Tai has been an official for so many years, and he has long been calm and generous, and he doesn't care too much. It's just that what makes him feel strange is that the people sent to Liaozhen to find out the news have not returned yet.

Even if it was delayed any longer, these people should have returned to the capital to reply, but there has been no news.

Until February, two officers from Liaozhen came to Beijing on business, and after the military department handed over the formalities, they had to come to the household department to handle it.

At this time, the squire can be said to be the appearance of the deputy prime minister, a high and powerful position, these two officers are also the identity of Qianhu, when they heard Sima Tai's appointment, they didn't know what was going on, they were nervous and cramped there, and when they were invited to the study, they didn't sit or stand.

Sima Tai was kind, arranged for someone to pour tea for them to arrange seats, these two officers reacted, and hurriedly kowtowed, this should be the etiquette, after the two sides ceremoniously said to each other, Sima Tai, the head of the household, asked a few Liaozhen generals about the gold mine, seemingly unintentionally said that they had recently been sent to Liaozhen on a business trip, whether they had seen it.

Sima Tai already knew in advance that these two officers were the officials in charge of the reception and management of the post station in Liaoyang City, so his envoy would definitely pass through this layer when he went.

However, it was in the name of the household department that day, and it was not easy for him to say that he cared too much, and the buttocks of the two officers were sitting recliningly next to the small half of the chair, and it may be the first time to see such a high-level civil official, they were a little nervous, and Sima Tai over there asked.

The busy two stood up, and after standing up, they looked at each other, and with a confused look on their faces, they replied:

"Since last year's Layue, there have been no officials from Beijing in Liaozhen......

Sima Tai was surprised in his heart, and there he let out an 'oh' there, and then asked again:

"You have a Sanjiang commercial house in Liaoyang City, and the head office is in Liaoyang, this business is not small, and I don't know if it is the general's industry."

After this question, the faces of the two Qianhu in Liaozhen were a little surprised, and Sima Tai over there saw the following scene, and did not urge, and said with a friendly smile there:

"It's okay, it's okay, don't hide it, the old man also has some industry in his family, and he earns some change to spend, but he saw that the business of the Sanjiang Commercial Bank was booming, so he asked."

The two officers were a little inexplicable, Sima Tai saw that what he said was completely useless, and he was not in a hurry, he took out the appearance of the old minister, looked at the scroll on his desk, and said slowly:

"The two of you are writing off the military salary and the income and expenditure of your military town, this is a complicated entry to be sent, I heard from the director below, there are some problems with this account......"

The two officers below were anxious when they heard this, they can sit in this position of managing revenue and expenditure reception, they must be the cronies of the general of Liaozhen, Liaozhen is such a big stall, they give it to themselves, to their generals, and they don't know how much silver they have made, this is the common practice of officialdom.

Everyone is up and down, this Sima Tai also has his own share of silver, why did he ask today, but this household servant happens to be the person in charge of this matter, if it is seriously investigated, it is really a crime, and suddenly being asked like this, both of them were stunned.

After reacting, I saw Sima Tai, the head of the household, still looking at them with a smile on it, where did the two of them dare to continue standing, and knelt down with a plop, and before they could confess, Sima Tai over there stretched his voice and said:

"Sanjiang Commercial Bank ......"

The two officers were a little confused, wasn't it to extort money, looking at it like this, it should be to ask about the Sanjiang Commercial Bank, one of them hesitated and said:

"Boss, it's not that the little ones don't say it, I think you always know about it, the general number of Sanjiang Commercial Bank is outside the Guan, that is, Jiangfeng of Huazhou."

Sima Tai was stunned for a moment, he knew a little bit about the affairs of Huazhou and Guanwai, and knew that it was a force that did not accept Wanghua, and it could also be said to be a force of rich oil, but he didn't expect that Sanjiang Commercial Bank turned out to be an industry in Huazhou, and that Jiang Feng knew this name for anyone who cared about the case of Lu Bing and Huang Jin back then.

What I heard later was how he was in North Korea, but the small court of North Korea did not react, and the bigwigs in the court also made a lot of cheap money in the sea trade more or less, so they didn't bother to pay attention to it.

Their view of Jiang Feng, that is, a rebellious general of the Ming army, is hateful but has already been punished, and he went to a wild place outside the world, and left a prosperous place like the Ming Dynasty, isn't it self-defeating?

Although Sima Tai, the head of the household, was shocked in his heart, his expression was not moved at all, and he nodded and said:

"It's not a big deal, don't be so nervous, wait a minute, I'll ask someone to lead you to do things, go back to Liaoyang as soon as possible!"

After saying that he served tea and sent off the guests, the two people were completely confused this time, and were sent out of the room in confusion, Sima Tai knocked on the table with his hand, although his face was calm, but there was some joy in his heart, the owner of the Sanjiang Commercial Bank was just a bandit leader, and this Jiang Huifeng, who came to Beijing before, was clearly a pseudonym, as long as he killed Jiang Feng, and then found some reason to swallow the Sanjiang Commercial Bank.

Thinking of this, he raised his voice and said:

"Next post, please go to the Zhongxin Pavilion at night for a small gathering in the East Factory."

The next morning, the East Factory, which had been idle for a long time, suddenly began to operate, and the monitors who had been planted by Sima Tai's side had no way of knowing what they had been talking about in the Loyal Faith Pavilion that night, and that Sima Tai had not necessarily sent people to do things through the people around him.

The efficient operation of the East Factory ended after a day, and the scene of idleness and decay was restored, and all those in the Jingshi who paid attention to it thought that this might be an accidental phenomenon, and no one thought that the order had been passed down the road to the south.

The factory guards are not divided, but the news that spread out is not to the east factory, but to the hands of the Jinyi guards along the way, each thousand households received this order, and immediately began to check in the local area, the carriage and horse shops and various checkpoints, although the Jinyi Wei is not as powerful as before, but the rotten ship still has three catties of nails, and the former means and prestige are still there.

The matter was done very quickly, and everyone who found the trace in all parts of the country immediately passed the order to the next place, and reported it to the capital.

The investigation report of such a station was transmitted, passing through Cangzhou, Qingzhou, Jinan, Jining, all the way to Yangzhou, and finally received the order, which was also the Jinyiwei who could mobilize the greatest strength, which was the commander of Nanjing Jinyiwei, and the person sitting in this position now was Xu Tianbiao.

Although the position is high, but it has also been sat on in the past two years, the golden years of Jinyiwei were when Lu Bing did not step down, what is it now, it is said to be a command, and the Lang officials of the six departments in Nanjing can give him a look, if it weren't for Jiang Feng and his silver every month, life would be even harder.

His nephew Xu Quan hurriedly ran in with an urgent report and handed it to him, Xu Tianbiao looked at this document, his face sank like water, and he didn't say anything, Xu Quan knew the relationship between their Xu family and Huazhou, and when he saw the above statement, it was actually aimed at Jiang Feng, and he was suddenly a little anxious, and came to his uncle to get an idea.

"Look at this, it should be in Yangzhou, Suzhou, uncle, we don't need to send someone to tell ...... Jiang"

"Ridiculous! Our glory and wealth are in the Ming Dynasty, what is that silver, as long as we really sit in this position, are we afraid of missing silver! ”

"What do you mean?"

"Sima Shilang is extremely powerful in Beijing, as long as this matter is done, we are not afraid that there will be no benefits, and when the time comes, as long as the commander of Nanjing's Jinyi Guard has real power, it will be enough."

Xu Quan and Jiang Feng just didn't have any feelings, but when they heard Xu Tianbiao's merciless words, after a little pondering, a cruel smile appeared on their faces, nodded heavily, and said in a rough voice:

"I'll go to the sailor to find Lao Zhao, and then I can get some business at sea."

The Thirteen Chamber of Commerce and the government are inextricably linked, and similarly, the actions of the Thirteen Chamber of Commerce to chase and kill Jiang Feng and his party were also known by Jinyiwei, and the time point when the news was known was when the leader known as the Third Master passed the news back after the war in the wilderness.

The people of Jinyiwei who got the news, and the Thirteen Chamber of Commerce who wanted to eliminate Jiang Feng and his party immediately sent out expedited fast horses through their fastest way, and notified them along the way.

After all, the speed of the horses is faster than the surface of the water, not to mention the expedited rotation of fast horses, all the ships that can be mobilized are mobilized, and they are chasing towards Jiang Feng who is about to go to sea with murderous energy, at this time, Jiang Feng is on the boat, the boatman said cautiously:

"Tomorrow at dawn in Songjiang into the sea."

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