In the afternoon, the Batavian sun is at its highest, and after a rain, the clouds and rain are clear, and the air is fresh.

The executive turned two alleys, stopped and looked around, made sure he wasn't being watched, and then dodged into a small and inconspicuous building on the side of the street.

After seeing the person entering the door, the two big men with meaty faces slowly inserted the half-drawn short knives into the scabbards, and knelt down to say hello to the executives.

The executive nodded and said, "Lord Alin is here?" ”

A big man replied: "If you go back to your lordship, Lord Alin is in the study, do you need a small one to pass it on?" ”

The senior executive shook his head and said, "No need, I have something important to tell the adults, you guard the door, unless there is an emergency, you must not be summoned, and you must not go in to disturb it." ”

The two big men responded at the same time, and the senior executives went upstairs along the stairs, and when they arrived at the door of the study, the senior executives carefully sorted out their clothes, and buckled the door and said: "Xiaguan Gao Yi, please see your lord!" Hearing a person in the door shouting "enter", Gao Yi pushed open the door, walked into the study and closed the door with his backhand, a mustachioed man in casual clothes sat behind the bookcase, looking through the report letter, and re-recording something on the paper on the side. Gao Yi knelt down on one knee towards the person behind the bookcase, and said solemnly: "Gao Yi see Lord Alin!" ”

The mustache stopped his pen, looked up, was a little surprised, and said in a deep voice: "Hehe, why are you here?" But what happened to the Zhu family? "If Zhu Wuming, the third master of the Zhu family, is here, he will definitely be surprised, because this mustache is not someone else, but the traditional Chinese medicine doctor invited by the Zhu Mansion - Su Jicai. However, his real name is Su Mu Cha Alin A, and he is the assistant leader of the Shangyu Reserve Office of the Internal Affairs Office of the Qing Empire, and he is in Manchuria under the Yellow Banner.

The Shangyu Reserve Office of the Internal Affairs Office, also known as the Sticky Pole Office, is not well known, on the surface it is a service organization that serves the royal family to catch dragonflies, catch dragonflies, fish and other games and entertainment, and its real function, the entire Qing Kingdom knows what kind of place it is, and the number of people is afraid that it will not exceed 100 people. In the forty-eighth year of Kangxi (1709), Kangxi's sons fought to the death for the chair in the Qianqing Palace, and they used all kinds of tricks except for not using force. At that time, the fourth elder brother Yinzhen had just received the award from "Dorobelle" and was awarded the title of "Prince Heshuoyong", he pretended to be indisputable on the surface, but secretly he actively organized the minions of the hidden mansion to formulate a political program and prepare to compete for the crown. In order to know himself and his opponent, Yinzhen set up a sticky pole in the palace in the name of his own joy and fear of the summer, and said that he was specialized in sticky cicadas insect repellent, bird hunting and fishing and other accompanying entertainment activities. The task of this group of people is to spy on information everywhere, and even secretly use force to eradicate dissidents. When Yinzhen ascended the throne and became emperor, the Yongzheng Emperor still relied heavily on this powerful spy agency, and the Shangyu Reserve Office was incorporated into the Internal Affairs Office, and the guards here were responsible for receiving the performance at the Inner Affairs Office every morning, and there were two officials responsible for inspection.

Five years ago, on the day of Qianlong's accession to the throne, Su Mucha Alin A, the assistant leader of the Shangyu Reserve Office, and Gao Yi, the sticky guard Gao Yi, were assigned the alias Su Jicai and Gao Demao to lead a team of sticky poles to quietly dispatch to Java to carry out the errand of intelligence gathering.

At this moment, Alin Ake did not look so timid and cowardly at all, and sat behind the bookcase, frowning and staring at the executives.

Gao Yi stood up and said, "It's not a big deal, it's just that the lower officials have recently gotten some strange news, and they don't know the truth in their hearts, and they are afraid of delaying the master's errand, so they have come to report to the adults." ”

"Oh?" Alin Ah got up and walked around the desk from the book case to the front of the case, led Gao Yi to sit left and right on the two chairs, and said, "You can talk about it." ”

"Xiaguan has been paying close attention to the movements of the Zhu family, in recent days, Zhu Wuming, the old fox, often has secret discussions with a Dongying businessman, but during the discussion between the two, the old fox's house will be blocked, so it is impossible to find out the truth, but Xiaguan has arranged for someone to follow the Dongying businessman, but found that this person is not only light, but also very good, and the people sent will be ......lost nine times out of ten."

"Nine times out of ten?" Alin Ah frowned and said, "That means it's still targeted?" ”

Gao Yi said: "The lower officials arranged for a master to follow and investigate, and found that every time the Dongying people left the Zhu Mansion, they would go to the Baming Gang in the east of the city!" ”

Alin asked, "What is that place?" ”

Gao Yi said: "It is a wasteland, it is said that it was originally a lumber yard, a few years ago there was a fire, and then it is no longer inhabited, and it is now a barren slope, at a glance, there is no way to hide people, the people under the lower officials often can't follow here in order not to startle the snake, but they unexpectedly saw a person who should not appear near there." ”

"Who is it?"

"Zhu Daluo, the son of Zhu Wuzhan's family!"

Alin A was taken aback and wondered: "Isn't the relationship between the third room and the long room always bad?" ”

Gao Yi also said puzzledly: "It's not just bad, now both sides are already tense. Zhu Wuming, the old fox, informed the Zhu family last month that all the rice shops, tea houses, department stores, silk villages and other shops in Bacheng would be transported to the Zhu Mansion in Bacheng every month from that day, and they were not allowed to distribute it to the fort. The old fox secretly hooked up with the concubine of the long house at this time, interspersed together, which is a bit unreasonable. Xia Guan has seen that concubine, he is a gentle and less decisive person, he has more than enough success and more than failure, with the old fox's style of doing things, he will not raise a waste that is useless to himself, so there must be a plan between the old fox and Zhu Daluo. ”

Alin Ah agreed: "Yes, there must be something between the old fox and Zhu Daluo, but what the purpose is, we have to find out." The master has confessed, and the Zhu family's every move must be vigilant, but they can't act rashly, let alone startle the snake, just record everything and write it down as an excerpt and submit it to the master for reading. Remember, what the master wants may be a thing or a person. ”

Gao Yi said in embarrassment: "My lord! Our manpower is really limited, we can't cover everything, if we want to investigate Zhu Daluo in depth, we must give up a few other unimportant places, the Gandarya Sugar Factory has been surprisingly clean recently, there is no major event, you see......"

Alin Ah interrupted Gao Yi and said: "Before you and I came out, the master had an explanation, although the remnants of the Heaven and Earth Society are not to be feared, they should not be despised either, this gang of thieves is the focus of the investigation, and they must not be given up, the Zhu family is a place that the master pays special attention to, but which is more important...... It's unpredictable! ”

Gao Yi was silent, he understood what Alin Ah meant, things in the world have always been like this, when nothing happens, the boss will not pay attention to your difficulties, when something really happens, the master will not look at your difficulties, only look at your results, in the absence of resources, whether you can achieve the results that the master wants depends on luck, and skills on the other. Unfortunately, Alin Ah and Gao Yi did this errand without much skill, only on how many resources they had. Gao Yi remembered the two things assigned by the emperor before leaving Beijing, and couldn't help but feel a little confused, and said suspiciously: "I thought that this Zhu family was just a wealthy businessman overseas, this kind of person is just a boogie in the eyes of the imperial court, and there is no need for us to stick to the pole, but in the past few years in the Zhu family, the lower officials have felt more and more that this Zhu family is not simple, how does the master understand it so clearly?" It's like an unpredictable prophet. ”

Alin said: "Have you forgotten the allusion to the east factory and the west factory?" ”

"Adults are talking about ......"

"The emperor is young and promising, eloquent and strategic, this is a lot of ears and eyes! The palace is inside, since it can accommodate a Shang Yu spare place, I am afraid that in the eyes of the emperor, there must be some individual yamen and us to contain each other! The balance is delicate, this is the emperor's strategy, and how can we speculate! Doing a good job for the emperor with heart is your duty and mine. Zhu Daluo's place, if he really can't spare the manpower, he can only temporarily put this thread, the old fox has some ghost idea in his heart, but I'm afraid that only he knows it. That's right! Didn't his son Zhu Dayu reveal a thing or two to you before he died? ”

Gao Yi bowed his head and said silently, and said sullenly for a long time: "How can that wall-top grass really take refuge in the imperial court, the Zhu family, the imperial court, and the Heaven and Earth Association are just bargaining chips in exchange for the inheritance of the third house in his heart." Besides, Zhu Dayu is a good material in the eyes of the old fox, but he has not entered the real inner circle of the Zhu family, and the secrets of the Zhu family, I am afraid that he is not very clear. Xiaguan originally wanted to muddy this sheepfold with a dog cub, just to fish in troubled waters, but he didn't want to look away, it was not a dog cub, but a little wolf. Last month, the old man of Changfang came to the Zhu family in Bacheng to ask for someone, only to know that it was the grandson of Changfang. ”

Ah Lin Ah closed his eyes and thought for a moment, and asked, "What has happened in the Zhu family's room recently?" ”

Gao Yi replied: "This is exactly the stranger place, Sanfang cut off all the financial resources of the shops in the Zhu family's city, the old man of the Changfang did not react at all, and all the shopkeepers who were dismissed by the Sanfang were all taken back to the fortress by the Changfang, and there was no action other than that." But Zhu Dayou is a little unusual, he has not shown up for dozens of days, and at the same time disappeared the Wang steward of the Zhu family fort, the subordinates sent by the lower officials to keep an eye on the subordinates all said that Zhu Dayou went to the Gandaliya Sugar Factory, and then a large number of Taixi spirits appeared on the Bacheng market, called Bacardi rum, Taixi Yi people were very happy, a jar sold fifteen Ess silver coins, and the dealers made great profits, according to the reports of the people below, Zhu Dayou had contact with the characters in the Heaven and Earth Society, and the lower officials suspected that the Zhu family's three rooms and long rooms were cooperating with the Heaven and Earth Society, However, the purpose of each may be different. ”

Alin Ah smiled: "It's not hard to guess, these Han people like to fight in the nest." Are there still fewer bullshit things in the previous dynasty? Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen and Ming Dynasty Zong Zhu Qiyu are brothers fighting for power and power, the younger brother took advantage of the false to seize the throne of the elder brother, and the elder brother came back from Tatar A few years later, he overthrew the younger brother and re-ascended the throne as the emperor in one fell swoop. Even if there is no scum like Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, and Wu Sangui who will bring disaster to the country and the people later, those party disputes in the previous dynasty will also be ruined. The emperor is not a carpenter, how can the emperor who has ignored the government for decades be compared with the previous emperor and the current saint? The Zhu family is only rich, most of the Tiandihui are mud legs, but they have strength, the Zhu family wants to prosper in Bacheng, this acre of three-point land, they must have strong military support, why did the group of thieves from the Tiandihui come to this Java Island? For the money! One is rich, the other is powerful, and each takes what he needs! ”

Gao Yi's heart moved, and asked, "Will there be a greater conspiracy if the Zhu family's three rooms and long rooms cooperate with the Heaven and Earth Society?" Like what...... Seize this city of Ba and use it as a base for his Japanese counteroffensive...... "He raised his eyes and looked at Alin'a, and saw that Alin'a's face had changed, how ugly it was.