Chapter 274: One Step Away

Xiao Mu comforted his wife and those servants a little, and his master, the current Prince Chang Su of Chunnan, was immediately shocked and angry when he heard the news. He was shocked that what he wanted Feng Jiang to do, if people knew about it, it would be too big; And the anger is that when all kinds of things have happened in Yuhang over and over again, and the vigilance in the city has been raised to a fairly high level, such things still happen. Chang Su hurriedly sent his capable men to the Xiao Mansion for a detailed inspection, and asked all kinds of people around him who saw the situation and might see the situation, etc., and worked for almost two hours before finally confirming that from the beginning of the conflict on the street, until the invasion of the Xiao Mansion and the robbery of Feng Jiang, it was a conspiracy carefully drawn up by someone.

Although it was confirmed that someone had attacked, there was no consensus on who did it. The only people in Yuhang City who have the ability to do this now are naturally Ye Tao and the Chunnan Palace Guards...... However, it seems that everything is now business as usual in both places. From the time the incident happened to the night of the same day, Ye Tao didn't see any special circumstances. Except for the guards on duty, everyone else has free time, and in fact, there is no way to keep an eye on it. As for the guards of the Chunnan Palace, there was no change. Chang Su believes that he can still handle the forces here.

The problem is that there are different opinions. Because, some people don't believe that a master like Feng Jiang would be taken away silently and with all his beards and tails like this. A staff member beside Chang Su hesitantly asked, is it possible that Feng Jiang made it himself? If it was Feng Jiang's own thing, then he didn't need a very strong manpower, he could make this scene by working together inside and out. Abandoned a dozen subordinates who were not very good, but escaped from the grasp of Chang Su, and can continue to be free in the rivers and lakes from now on. Not to be dominated by the norm.

Although Chang Su felt that this was also a statement, he still sent someone to keep an eye on Ye Tao's side. But what he didn't expect was that Zhou Rui and his party were not ready to send Feng Jiang back to the place where Ye Tao had stayed, and those of them who participated in the action also passed through different roads one after another, pretending to go out to eat and drink, and came back at different times. Although it also aroused some suspicions, Ye Tao had always been so lenient with the people under him. It didn't attract much attention either.

Feng Jiang's importance to Chang Su seems to be underestimated. Xing Siming was going to hide Feng Jiang for a while in a house quietly purchased by a security bureau in a secluded alley before sending Feng Jiang out. If it weren't for the fact that it was inconvenient in Yuhang, Xing Siming would even want to interrogate Feng Jiang in Yuhang. However, not long after placing Feng Jiang in the house, he had added another dose of the drug after waking up from the drug, and before it was late that night, the situation on the street was already wrong. Ports, carriages, inns, and some large businesses with large quantities of goods entering and leaving have begun to undergo detailed inspections. Moreover, this time it seems that stuffing money into the sergeants will not solve the problem. Oddly enough. This time the inspection did not seem to be of much interest to the merchants in entrainment of tax evasion, but focused on finding a person...... Those who are seriously ill in the business travel procession, whose face injuries are covered up, and even those whose faces look strange, have unnatural expressions, are paralyzed, have the potential to be disguised, and even those who wear excessive makeup, will be paid special attention.

Xing Siming immediately knew that this was probably aimed at Feng Jiang. He hurriedly sent a few of his capable men out to inquire about the situation. Sure enough. There is something wrong with those who go around stopping and inspecting. Although each team is the original errand soldiers, city guards, etc., the leaders of the team are all forbidden army captains or palace guards and people from the prince's mansion. It's just that these people are all hidden behind and don't show up, and only come out to solve the problem when there is a situation.

Xing Siming thought for a moment. Now it seems to be very difficult to send it outside the city according to the original idea, and when Ye Tao leaves Yuhang, he will meet him, and then send him back to Danyang by land together. But what if you go by sea? Ye Tao will set off in about a few days and go directly back to Danyang. Although it is more difficult to walk from the ground than to take a boat back to Yicheng, now from Yicheng to Nanyang, the entire sea area is going on with the frenzied strangulation of all the pirate gangs by the Seven Seas Trading Company. The ground is a bit flatter. But Feng Jiangke doesn't have to enjoy the treatment of ensuring safety.

Xing Siming still had plenty of time from making up his mind to starting to act. Xing Siming first transferred Feng Jiang to another place, which was the warehouse of a Chunnan South merchant who had traded with the disguised identities of some people in the Intelligence Bureau. In the current situation, it is probably very reasonable for a businessman to be a little worried about the sensitive things in the goods he transports, and he is afraid that he will be robbed. Due to the long-term good cooperative relationship, the Chunnan merchant allowed a considerable batch of goods to be moved into his warehouse without asking too much. Ask a little. Not only was the southern merchant not afraid. On the contrary, I was surprised that these Dongping businessmen, who usually behave extremely honestly, have their hands and eyes open to the sky. It turned out that they had been purchasing all kinds of dried fruits and local products from themselves in large quantities to cover up their ongoing smuggling of ordnance.

Although Dongping's domestic sales and management of ordnance have been relatively lax. It is really not difficult to transport ordnance out of the country. But the question is, who exactly will need the ordnance? There will inevitably be no problem of purchasing ordnance in Dongping, although the bulk purchase of ordnance will still be investigated, but half of the wealthy families are used to arm their families, to train clansmen who are interested in joining the army, and even just to collect, unless what is needed is a large ordnance such as ballistas, catapults, and divine arm bows, or the varieties that are just needed and the orders of the Ministry of War, and several other ** accounting armies, otherwise it is basically taboo. And outside of Dongping, who needs to transport the ordnance after thousands of miles to come, the freight is higher than the local sales price in Dongping? These Dongping businessmen must have hooked up with some kind of force.

In order to make the play more like, several people from the intelligence bureau also arranged a quarrel in the corner of the warehouse about how to deal with the boss of the southern cargo store after the freight was sent out. The low and fierce conversation made the boss of the Southern Goods Bank tremble, but the final decision to bring him into the gang, make a fortune together, and make the business a little bigger, still sounded very pleasant. Then came Xing Siming's performance, Xing Siming pretended to be cautious and talked to the boss of the South Cargo Bank for most of the day, and then asked him very vaguely if he was interested in joining their "those goods" turnover......

The boss of the South Cargo Bank hesitated for a long time, not only agreed to join the company, but even showed his connections and role in the old book. In addition to the southern goods, he also does a small amount of business such as medicines and medicinal materials, as well as some so-called alchemy supplies, and these things are completely different from the taxation of southern goods. In this case, the owner of the southern cargo store also has his own channel to send goods on or off the ship, and that is through a local gang in Yuhang. The small gang has more than a dozen boats that ply the alleys of Yuhang to sell bits and pieces of small things and fruits and vegetables, but they also offer another service: picking up and dropping off customers. Just pay them and tell them which ship to send their goods to, and they will use small boats to weave around the harbor, navigating the gaps between the big ships and bringing the goods onto the ship. Naturally, this transportation does not include giving away. But Feng Jiang was firmly fixed in a large wooden box at this time, on which was a thin plate, on which were stacked weapons coated with anti-rust oil and some straw to slow down the impact.

The boss of the South Cargo Store called the leader of this small gang, and it took less than half an hour. This kind of efficiency also makes people sincerely sigh at the excellent service attitude of the local small gangs in Yuhang. Xing Siming's shot was quite generous, three hundred taels of silver, twenty knives, and two sets of armor, which made the little boss who came to negotiate business smile, not only did he guarantee that the service would be in place, but he even agreed to Xing Siming to send someone to escort the goods, which is a condition that would never be agreed to in normal times.

Although this may seem risky, if the other party makes up their minds to swallow the goods or carefully inspect the goods, there may be problems. But at the very least, it would avoid exposing the intelligence agency's own contingency measures. And it turned out that Xing Siming was right, this small gang had an excellent service attitude, not only did they deliver the goods to one of the Seven Seas Trading Company's cargo ship on the side of the dock within an hour and a half, but during the whole transportation process, those gangs did not ask a word, and even tried not to look at the four large boxes......

This small gang is so easy to use and professional, even Xing Siming wondered if he could support them a little in the future, and maybe he could help them in the future.

However, for the time being, Xing Siming is unable to achieve these visions for the future. After sending Feng Jiang onto the ship of the Seven Seas Trading Company, he fought against time in full swing, arranging all the way to sweep away all traces that might be left behind. Xing Siming didn't expect to be able to make everything he did go unnoticed, but it was still possible to cut off all the other clues that might allow people to trace the intelligence bureau's arrangements in Yuhang. As for himself, it doesn't seem to matter so much. After calmly doing all this, he walked back to the Yuhang branch of the Seven Seas Trading Company. There, several deacons from the Nanami Trading Company were waiting for him to tell him about all the arrangements he had done that night.

Chang Su's subordinates worked hard for nearly two days before finally picking out those Ye Tao's subordinates who participated in the raid on Xiao Mu's mansion from the thousands of portraits. In fact, from the speed of this investigation, the ability to extract the necessary clues from the huge and complex materials, it is already the best performance of Chang Su's staff team and his subordinates in several years, and it is a little extraordinary. However, at this time, Ye Tao had already packed his bags, and even participated in the practice of the Seven Seas Trading Company with his own deployment, gathered all the military forces he brought in the north of the city, and was ready to return.