Hearing this, the subordinate in charge of the perimeter guard hurriedly replied: "I saw him alone at that time, and there was nothing else. ”

However, Fan Wencheng was not at ease, turned his head to look at the strong man, and said with a sneer: "Friend, how many people have you come, it is best to tell the truth, otherwise you will tear your face and have to suffer!" ”

"Phew!" The strong man looked angry and shouted, "Who is friends with you ** thief!" Lao Tzu tells you, this time we have a lot of people, since you ** thieves have thrown themselves into the net, don't want to escape again! ”

His words made the faces of this group of traitors ugly. For a while, none of them could figure out whether this strong man came by himself or with his companions.

Fan Wencheng's face was gloomy, and he ordered a few of his men to search around, and then said to another person: "Serve him well and let him confess honestly!" ”

"Hahaha, do you think Lao Tzu is your group of boneless things?" When the strong man heard this, he didn't have a trace of fear, and roared loudly, "Come on, what tricks are there, use them on Lao Tzu, if Lao Tzu makes a sound, he is not a good man in the rivers and lakes!" ”

At this moment, even Fan Wencheng didn't seem to want to face this man's gaze, but just waved his hand and let his subordinates be tortured.

And not very far from here, in a mud hole under the slope, curled up to avoid the thin man, and also lost his figure, otherwise if he changed to a strong man, he would not be able to hide at all.

At this moment, he burst into tears.

Just before, he was accidentally discovered by those dog thieves, and it was the eldest brother who asked him to hide, but he himself took the initiative to show up to attract the attention of those dog thieves. Now the eldest brother's words are actually telling him again, reassuring him that he will not say it even if he dies.

I must live, I must tell the gang leader about this situation, the dog thief came to Yongping this time, there are still a lot of people, and horses, this matter must be wanted in the whole Jianghu, and the government will definitely not let them go. This time, no matter what, we must catch them, avenge the eldest brother, and avenge the Han people who were killed by their scourge!

At this moment, in his mind, he no longer thought about catching these dog thieves and making profits for his gang.

That night, the dog thieves quietly searched the surrounding area several times, and even on one occasion, they all stood on the top of the slope where he was hiding. But in the end, they did not find it, and it was not until it was light that the group of dog thieves rode south.

The thin man did not show up immediately, and the experience of the rivers and lakes told him that he must be cautious. These traitors are very secluded in their sentry at night when they rest, and they must be very cunning people.

He was right, and after a while, the sound of the horse's hoofs returned, and after a circle around him, he headed south again.

The thin man waited until the sun rose high and felt that the traitors would not return, and then he was ready to come out of the cave. But at this moment, his hands and feet were already cold and numb, and after recovering for a while under the winter sun, he could finally stumble to his feet.

As soon as he could, he found his eldest brother. There is no accident, the eldest brother proved that he is a good man, since the roar last night, there has been no sound, even if those traitors left so many scars on his body and used so many means, but the eldest brother did not make a sound until he died, let alone begging for mercy.

The thin man knelt down beside the strong man's corpse, stretched out his hand to help the eldest brother's eyes close with angry eyes, choked and swore: "Big brother, rest in peace, my hatred, and the hatred in your family, I remember it." I'll go and report first, and I won't let those traitors die well, and I won't let them escape, I swear! ”

After finishing speaking, he glanced at the strong man's corpse a little reluctantly, resolutely turned around, and stumbled towards Yongping Mansion City.

At the gate of Yongping Mansion, several soldiers guarding the gate were bored leaning against the wall to keep warm. Suddenly, I found that there was a person outside the city who was almost crawling to the city gate, and the person at the head looked at it carefully, and couldn't help laughing: "Look, isn't that Hou San, it is estimated that he spent the night in the wilderness, and he froze into the bird, haha!" ”

When the other soldiers heard this, they all laughed when they looked out, and they all laughed, looking at the purple lips, it seemed that their teeth were still fighting!

"Quick, please take me to my helper, there is a big reward!" Hou San tried to shout, but he fell to the ground again, but he immediately got up tremblingly and came to the city gate, "Five taels of silver, pay immediately!" ”

He knew that these soldiers would not help if they did not give benefits. The government will not care about the things in the order of chasing and killing, but that person is a traitor, so it is possible to take care of it. But the efficiency of the government is too low, and when the government reacts, those traitors don't know where to go.

Hou San naturally didn't know that the factory guards had already been dispatched in a big way, just to avoid startling the snakes, in addition to asking the Axe Gang to issue a Jianghu order, the yamen on the surface did not issue a wanted notice. Otherwise, I am afraid that as soon as Fan Wencheng and the others enter the territory of Daming, they will immediately run away as soon as they see the notice.

When the leader heard this, he was quite surprised, five taels of silver, that's a lot! He asked two of his men to help Hou San, but he stood there and asked, "Hou San, what happened to you?" I'll tell you, gang feuds, we can't get involved. ”

"I met the traitors in the chase order, if I don't report it to the gang leader immediately, those people will run away." Hou San hurriedly replied.

The order is not a trivial matter, and these soldiers have all heard of it. As soon as the leader heard this, he immediately understood what it was, and his face immediately showed surprise, and he hurriedly asked, "But Fan Wencheng, that traitor?" ”

"Exactly, help me with this, and all the money I saved will go to you." Hou San almost pleaded, "My eldest brother was killed by traitors outside, and he is still waiting for me to collect the body!" ”

The leader originally wanted to confirm again, but when he heard it at this time, he didn't doubt it anymore, and immediately ordered his subordinates: "Come on, help him go with me!" ”

"Big brother, what about this city gate?" When a subordinate saw it, he hurriedly asked. Now that it's on duty, one less person is not a big deal. But the leader is not there, and he takes a few of them, and if the top investigates it, it will be a big trouble.

But the officer didn't seem to care at all, but just replied: "You can watch it alone!" ”

With that, he turned and walked away. After walking a few steps, he saw that although Hou San was being helped, he still couldn't walk fast, so he immediately ordered: "Quick, carry him on your back and follow me." ”

Hou San wondered, so positive, it seems that the silver has worked.

However, he immediately found that the direction seemed to be wrong, this was walking towards a house near the city gate, so he hurriedly said: "I am going to see our helper, you are wrong!" ”

But the officer ignored him, walked quickly to the door, and broke in directly, and when he reached the courtyard, he stood respectfully and said loudly inside: "My lord, there is news of Fan Wencheng's traitor!" ”

As soon as these words were spoken, a person suddenly popped out of it, looking very strong, staring at the officer, and said with a little surprise: "Where?" ”

"He saw it." The officer immediately turned around to Hou San, and then reminded Hou Sandao, "This is Lord Liu of Jinyi Wei, who has been waiting for a long time in Yongping Mansion, and there is news of Fan Wencheng's traitor, hurry up, you must not hide anything!" ”

Hearing this, Hou San was taken aback, he didn't expect that it was Jinyiwei's people, and his ability to arrest was much higher than that of his own people who were messing around the rivers and lakes. Immediately, he told the story from beginning to end, and carefully described the image and final destination of Fan Wencheng and others.

When Lord Liu heard this, he didn't dare to delay any longer, and immediately ordered the officer to go somewhere to call someone, and then said to Hou San: "Can you still insist?" You've only seen those people, and I'm afraid we want you to go with us to arrest the criminals. ”

At this time, Hou San was actually in a very bad state. On such a cold day, I was forced to stay motionless and stay in the field for a day. But as soon as he heard Jinyiwei's words, he didn't say a word, and quickly nodded and said, "It's okay, I can do it." I can recognize those traitors at a glance! ”

It didn't take long for a bunch of people to suddenly appear in Yongping Mansion, obviously all of them were from Jinyiwei and his gang. They took Hou San and hurried out of the city and headed south. With the help of Hou San, he took the brothers in the gang to bring the body of the strong man back to the city. Looking at the strong men who were tortured and mutilated, and listening to the situation relayed by the guards guarding the door, almost all the gangs in Yongpyeong Province sent their own capable men and used their own channels to spread a big net to the entire land of Gyeonggi.

A little later, even Emperor Chongzhen in the Forbidden City got the news in the chat group.

This big traitor really came to Guannai. In that case, I don't believe it anymore, and I can escape.

Thinking so, he immediately issued an edict that the northern border should immediately step up inspections and not let people be smuggled out of the customs. Jinyiwei and Dongchang Fanzi in the land of Gyeonggi made every effort to search for Fan Wencheng's whereabouts. In the chat group, directly notify Wu Ergou to mobilize all the forces he can unleash, be sure to capture Fan Wencheng, and make it clear that he wants to live!

All of a sudden, the rivers and lakes were surging, and they could be seen everywhere, and a large number of people in the rivers and lakes hurried by, looking at no one's eyes. People who don't know the situation still think that there is a gang fight, and they are careful to avoid these people one by one. However, they are also a little stranger, in the past, if these people in the rivers and lakes made too much trouble, the government would immediately suppress it. But this time, it seems to be different, and the government has not reacted to this situation for a long time.

Fan Wencheng would die and would not have thought that the rivers and lakes would move for him. At this time, because of the abnormal situation on this side of Yongping Mansion City, for safety reasons, he ran far away and ran to Kaiping County, which is far away from Yongping Mansion City.

Although this county seat is located on the official road between Jingshi and Shanhaiguan, the scale is not large, and it is a small county town. Fan Wencheng learned the previous lesson, and when he went out, he tried his best to be a monk, and he didn't dare to be careless.

Here, he met the Kaiping Branch of the Metropolitan Inspection Academy, and also met the Kaiping Children's School, he was patient, carefully inquired about the news, and finally he figured out a lot of things that happened in the Ming Kingdom.

No, three days later, in the evening of a small temple outside the city, Fan Wencheng, who was here with an order, was calm, as if he was meditating and thinking for a long time. It was late at night that I cleared everything in my mind, and immediately began to write hard with the help of the light of the oil lamp.

In the letter, he described the changes in the Ming Kingdom that he had inquired about in the past few days. From the Ming Dynasty's national policy of opening up the sea, to the innovation of the military system of the guard, from the establishment of the Copyright and Patent Office, the invention of cement, to the emergence of the steam engine, as well as banks, paper money, etc., he wrote in detail, and even wrote not enough letterhead, and asked his subordinates to go to the temple to ask for some special monks.

At the end of these observations, Fan Wencheng commented with an unusually serious face: "The national strength of the Ming Kingdom, if it continues like this, will become more and more powerful. If it is not civil strife, I will have no chance again! Therefore, the slave planned to risk his life to go to Beijing to see if there was a chance to provoke the relationship between the monarch and the ministers of the Ming State, the relationship between the various factions in the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Kingdom, so as to create an opportunity for the Qing Dynasty. At present, there are the following strategies! ”

"First, although the scientific and technological knowledge of the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom is good, it has damaged the interests of the current scholars, so the slaves plan to start from this aspect, instigate the scholars to make trouble, and oppose this scientific and technological policy, no matter what the result is, they can distinguish the hearts of the monarchs and ministers of the country!"

Second, the imitation of Ming banknotes, no matter what the result is, always let the people of the Ming State doubt the credibility of their banknotes, when using paper money, suspicious, so that the financial policy of the Ming State is not running smoothly. This will affect people's livelihood and border gates. ”

"Third, the Ming Kingdom is carrying out the reform of the military system of the guard, and where there is innovation, there are those who have vested interests and those whose interests are damaged. The minions thought that if there was an opportunity for those whose interests were damaged to vent, it should hinder them from making innovations. Military affairs can still contain the energy of the monarchs and ministers of the Ming Kingdom. ”

Fourth, the Ming State's policy of opening up the sea greatly damaged the interests of the previous smugglers, and the bad relations with Xiyi also increased its own opponents. The slave is ready to go to the south and southeast of the country, and if there is a chance to contact him. Let the merchants who went to Nanyang to smuggle communicate with our Qing Dynasty, so that Xiyi and our Qing Dynasty will form an alliance to form an anti-Ming alliance! ”

“……”

Fan Wencheng aimed at the new deal of the Ming Dynasty, thinking about ways to deal with it one after another. I have to say that although some methods are unreliable, such as counterfeiting paper money, it is impossible to forge it at all with his Fan Wencheng's ability, but some of his strategies are still threatening.

For example, collusion with smugglers in the southeast and Xiyi. For the sake of profit, those smugglers will not care about the state at all, as long as there are enough interests, they will not care whether their compatriots live or die. And once they get in touch with the Dutch, I'm afraid that the Dutch will also cooperate with the Manchus.

When Fan Wencheng stopped writing, he looked at the dense stack of letter paper, and couldn't help but stretch his waist, looking up, before he knew it, the sky was already bright. But no matter what, I finally gave a little explanation to the emperor.

He was about to call his men in when he heard the faint sound of horses' hooves outside.