After Zhu Hongsan's restructuring, Jinyiwei was divided into 84,000 households in the inner six and outer offices, the inner six institutes were responsible for internal affairs such as finance, archives, and official promotions, and the outer eight institutes were responsible for torture, assassination, investigation and other dirty work, this Zhao Mengguan was the 1,000 households in charge of the investigation in the outer eight institutes, and Wang Xian, who was sent to Fujian, was responsible for the assassination of the 1,000 households in the outer eight institutes.

Ma Yu had already received the news that the Jinyi Wei Town Fu Division had sent a commissioner to Jiangxi to take charge of Jin Shenghuan's affairs, but he didn't expect that it was Zhao Qianhu from the Eighth Outer Institute. There are many thousand households in Jinyiwei, and the officials in charge of Jinyiwei in various provinces are all thousands, but this kind of thousand households is still far from the fourteen thousand households of the Zhenfu Division, not to mention that Zhao Mengguan is still a celebrity in front of Commander Qian.

After Ma Yu knew Zhao Mengguan's identity, he quickly knelt down on one knee and said, "Humble welcome Zhao Qianhu to Jiangxi!" ”

Zhao Mengguan hurriedly picked up Ma Yu and said: "Ma Qianhu, please get up, everyone is a colleague, you don't have to be like this!" ”

After Ma Yu got up, he and Zhao Meng sat down in the room.

Ma Yu asked: "Lord Zhao, I received a secret letter from Guangzhou, asking me to fully cooperate with Lord Zhao, I don't know what Lord Zhao commands!" ”

Zhao Mengguan nodded and said, "Okay, let's ask Ma Qianhu to talk about the situation in Nanchang first!" ”

Ma Yu organized the language and said: "My lord, Jin Shenghuan fled back to Nanchang after the defeat in Ganzhou, and Zhang Yutian, the governor of Jiangxi in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, coerced his money according to Dong Xuecheng, and I heard that hundreds of thousands of taels of silver were taken from Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren. Jin and Wang were very angry, and according to my secret agent report in Wang Deren's mansion, Wang Deren repeatedly threatened to kill Dong Xuecheng after drinking. ”

"Didn't Jin Shenghuan contact you after he came back?"

"Jin Shenghuan's son Jin Daoming has been here, but I didn't come forward, and the peripheral personnel sent to contact them, they are still the same old condition, I hope we can give them muskets!"

Zhao Mengguan shook his head and said: "This time, Your Majesty has issued a holy decree, the musket must not be given, and he has promised to give them 30,000 horses. ”

"My lord, then what do I say to Jin Daoming? Tell him the truth? ”

Zhao Mengguan thought about it, and Master Zhang hoped that Jin Shenghuan would do it as soon as possible, and telling him the truth could give him courage.

"Yes, you can leak this news to Jin Daoming! And how about the various factions in Nanchang City? You name it! ”

"Lord Hui, now Nanchang City is divided into three waves, and the strongest force is the Eight Banners of the Han Army of Governor Zhang Yutian, and there are some old, weak, sick and disabled people stationed in the Eight Banners. However, these old guys are veterans for many years, and their combat effectiveness should not be underestimated. There were more than 5,000 of these people. Jin Shenghuan still has nearly 10,000 people, but they are stationed in other places, and there are less than 5,000 people in Nanchang City, and the third wave is Wang Deren's people, this guy is even worse than Jin Shenghuan, and there are less than 2,000 people left. The two Jin Kings can have a total of seven or eight thousand people, but their combat effectiveness is not as strong as that of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, so they fight five or five times. ”

"Isn't there a contradiction between Jin Shenghuan's subordinates and the Eight Banners of Manchuria?"

Ma Yu said with a smile: "Why is there no contradiction, last month, a small officer of the Eight Banners of the Han Army and a guerrilla under Jin Shenghuan fought for a kiln sister. The guerrilla was heavier and vomited blood from the petty officer of the Han Army Banner. Unexpectedly, Zhang Yutian personally took action after knowing about it and forced Jin Shenghuan to kill the guerrilla. However, after this incident, Jin Shenghuan suppressed his subordinates and not to clash with the Han army. ”

Hearing Ma Yu say this, Zhao Mengguan sighed, this Jin Shenghuan is so timid and afraid, it seems that his task is difficult to complete.

"Ma Qianhu, this official received the emperor's secret order in Ganzhou, and he must force King Jin Shenghuan to be benevolent before the reinforcements arrive, do you see what a good way to do it?"

Hearing Zhao Mengguan say this, Ma Yu asked, "Lord Zhao, why do you want to rush before the reinforcements?" If Jin Shenghuan doesn't have enough strength, it will be easy to be driven out of the city by the Manchus! ”

Zhao Mengguan looked at Ma Yu and said, "The emperor's meaning is not something we can guess, we just need to implement it according to the emperor's will." ”

Ma Yu didn't dare to say anything when he heard Zhao Mengguan say this, it seems that the emperor doesn't want Jin Shenghuan to live. However, it is okay for a petty official to obey orders, and don't think about anything else.

Ma Yu lowered his head and thought for a while and said, "My lord, Jin Shenghuan suppresses the army, how about you start with their families?" ”

"You can think about it, you can talk about it!"

"My lord, Zhang Yutian, the governor of the Manchu Dynasty, is very greedy for money, and Dong Xuecheng is lustful in addition to being greedy for money, how about you start with these two points?"

Greedy for money and lustful? There is no way to be greedy for money, you can consider being lustful, if you let Dong Xuecheng and Jin Shenghuan have a conflict, it is a way.

Zhao Mengguan thought for a while and asked, "How are Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren?" ”

"Jin Shenghuan's father and son have family members in their families, and Jin Daoming's wife heard that it is quite powerful, I estimate that their father and son have no chance. Wang Deren is notoriously lustful, and he has already accepted more than a dozen wives at home, and he always goes in and out of Fengyue places outside. ”

"Okay, let's start with Wang Deren, you collect information about Wang Deren and Dong Xuecheng in the past few days, and then we are discussing what to do."

After the two discussed, they began to prepare separately, Ma Yu arranged for his own people to collect information on Wang Deren and Dong Xuecheng, and Zhao Mengguan led his subordinates to wander around Nanchang City and familiarize themselves with the terrain.

Qian Lide gave 10,000 taels of silver to Fujian and 5,000 taels of silver to Nanchang as activity funds, you must know that the entire system of Jinyiwei only has 500,000 yuan of funds per year. However, the policy is that the dead are alive, and the small treasury has already existed, and Jinyiwei has made a lot of money by smuggling salt, steel and other military materials with the help of Jinyiwei secret detectives in various provinces. In addition, Zhu Hongsan has always been generous with rewards for those who can work, so Zhao Mengguan and others still have a lot of pockets.

Five days later, Ma Yu came with the news that he had found out the information and asked Lord Zhao to meet at the inn tomorrow to discuss what to do next.

The next day, Ma Yu came to the inn early to meet Zhao Mengguan.

"Ma Qianhu, how is it? Have you figured out all the information? ”

"Back to Lord Zhao, I basically figured it out. Wang Deren has a good friend in Jinfeng Tower in Nancheng, called Little Peach. He just hooked up in the past few months, and I heard that he was going to prepare to redeem that kiln sister. ”

"What about Dong Xuecheng?"

"Dong Xuecheng may have received some news in the past few days, and he didn't go out, and he didn't go to the brothels he liked to go to the most."

Zhao Mengguan thought for a while, it was not easy for Dong Xuecheng to come out, and he and Wang Deren would not be able to cause a conflict if they did not meet.

"Ma Qianhu, do you have any way to make the two of them conflict?"

Ma Yu lowered his head and pondered for a long time, and said: "I have arranged a secret agent in Dong Xuecheng's mansion, but I can't contact Dong Xuecheng!" ”

"Dong Xuecheng doesn't have any fox friends?"

"If you want to say that there is really one like this, at that time, in order to make friends with Dong Xuecheng, I asked my brother-in-law to contact him, and the two still had some contacts!"

Zhao Mengguan is happy, it's good to have contact.

"Is your brother-in-law a member of the Jinyi Guard?"

"He's just a periphery."

"Okay, you go and arrange, let your brother-in-law must lead Dong Xuecheng to Jinfeng Tower, and after the matter is completed, I will tell Lord Qian and arrange a hundred households for your brother-in-law."

Ma Yu was overjoyed and hurried out to make arrangements.

In the Ming Dynasty, due to serious land annexation, a large number of peasants became landless and vagranted. These displaced people entered the city in order to live and became nomads active in small and medium-sized cities. Wanderers are in towns, the weak are trampled on, and the strong become criminals. The strongest of these nomads organized themselves and formed associations. This is the underworld of the Ming Dynasty.

The underworld of the Ming Dynasty can be said to be the originator of China's modern underworld, the Tiandihui and Hongmen in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and the Qingbang, Pao Ge, and Elder Brothers in the Qing Dynasty were deeply influenced by the Ming Dynasty.

These hooligans have no fixed occupation, and deception and robbery are the secret of their wealth, but the forms of deception and robbery are also different, not only originating from them, but also having successors. Shouting the holy name in his mouth, falling to the ground and splashing, this is the usual trick of ordinary incompetent hooligans, not counting any ability, more hooligans still change all kinds of tricks and take the opportunity to cheat.

Ma Yu's brother-in-law Zhang Chengcheng is such a person. Ma Yu's father-in-law is a local landlord and still has some money. But after the death of the old landlord Zhang, Zhang Cheng took over Lao Tzu's family business, and he made a big deal and made friends with some gangsters. In the end, all the property of the landlord Zhang's family was lost, and Zhang Cheng saw that there was a sister at home, so he sold his sister to Ma Yu for ten taels of silver.

Ma Yu had just received an order from Zhu Hongsan at that time to come to Nanchang to develop, and there was a shortage of people to serve.

Unexpectedly, Zhang's face was very long, and after a few years, he gave birth to a son, a daughter and two children to Ma Yu, and Ma Yu made him the main room.

At this time, Zhu Hongsan had already left Guangdong, and the order left to Ma Yu was to stay in Nanchang and lurk. Collecting intelligence is not the same as opening a shop, Ma Yu is eyes are black, and there is no way for Ma Yu to find his brother-in-law Zhang Cheng.

Zhang Cheng was unsatisfactory in the past few years, and his former friends were scattered without silver, but fortunately, there was a sister who received a few dollars of silver every month so that he would not starve to death. So when Ma Yu found Zhang Cheng, it was really a widow and a widower, and they hit it off. Ma Yu gave Zhang Cheng one hundred taels of silver every month to make friends, and Zhang Cheng collected some information for Ma Yu.

After returning home, Ma Yu asked the housekeeper to go to the city to find Zhang Cheng and said that he had something to do with him.

It wasn't until the afternoon that Zhang Cheng came over. When Ma Yu saw Zhang Cheng's two dark circles, he knew that this guy didn't do anything good last night.

After Zhang Cheng entered the house, he found a chair to sit down, yawned and asked, "Brother-in-law, why are you looking for me in such a hurry?" I just set up a gambling game with a few friends, and I thought I could make a few taels of silver, but you ruined the game. ”

Ma Yu knew that this guy went to "fry salt beans" to deceive Kaizi again, and he didn't want to care about him, so he asked, "Do you still have contact with Dong Xuecheng now?" ”