Although the above orders are well arranged, it is difficult to achieve the word "proportion", and such a just right scale, that is, the old errand who has accumulated years, can grasp the three flavors.

Although Huang Ping was born in Jinyiwei, he is not the kind of errand that sits in the yamen to eat filial piety, and he also runs around outside all day long, I don't know the subtleties of these things, as for the other personnel of the Shandong Salt Gang, as well as the recruits of Zhangjiang, they are all men who have been in the rivers and lakes and the army for a long time.

These people are good at fighting and killing, but if they do anything detailed, it is really difficult for them.

However, this time the above urging was also in a hurry, and Huang Ping couldn't care so much, more than two hundred and eighty people took a big car or rode a horse sooner or later, or on foot, pretending to be businessmen who didn't know each other, and gathered together at the edge of the manor of the second son of Confucius.

Jining Prefecture, Ziyang City, Qufu these three places are almost the most prosperous and rich three places in Shandong, these three places are almost in a straight line, a month to Layue, the official road is very lively, many fine goods are trafficked here, the rich people of Jining Prefecture, the noble vassal king of Ziyang City, and the Confucian Mansion of Qufu.

Such a lively situation certainly makes it easy for Huang Ping and others to lurk, but there are too many people coming and going, and they must also beware of their whereabouts being seen by others, so they are more cautious in their actions.

At night, this group of talents slowly gathered together, to the gate of the manor, the manor of the Confucian Mansion here, mainly used for land income, not where the family lived, so the precaution is also very simple, that is, in the middle of the field with a fence encircled, which is inhabited by stewards and cadres, etc., and the gate is closed at night.

According to the guide sent by Kong Sande to lead the way. This Zhuangzi is a few changfu who wander around a few times at night, and there is no vigilance.

Hearing the other party's introduction, Huang Ping also knew in his heart, the only thing he was worried about was whether the dozens of Xuzhou salt lords were on guard, and the main resistance force in Zhuangzi was probably these people.

The only trouble at the moment is that the guide knows about the situation from a few days ago, and since the salt barons went in, they don't know what's inside.

But it doesn't matter, the last thing the soldiers of the Jiaozhou battalion are afraid of is fighting, and Zhuangzi has only two gates in total. A few people were arranged to guard the back door and other places, and a group of people directly took down the wooden ladder on the cart and erected it on the wall, and several people slowly climbed up with weapons in their hands.

It's simpler than they think. There are no guards behind the front door at all, maybe the people of Confucius never thought that someone would attack Kongfu, this is the supreme place.

The man flipped in. Open the front door, and wait until a dozen people have entered, and then the famous man feels that there is a strong man in this manor, but when he is now, the knife is already on his neck.

The husband smelled of alcohol. Drunken and asleep in the porter, he saw the knife on his neck. There is no need for Huang Ping to ask them, what do they say.

It is true that there are more than 60 people living in the north of Zhuangzi, that is, where the back gate is located, and it is said that the house has allocated silver taels, and these more than 60 people are responsible for the cost of eating and drinking.

And today is different from the past, the second young master led a few subordinates to this Zhuangzi, and personally invited those dozens of people to drink, and the people in the Zhuangzi all followed the profit sharing, and they were full of wine and food. Now it's almost all about sleeping.

The news of the arrival of the second prince of Confucius made Huang Ping hesitate slightly. He gave the order to do it and knew where the other party was. There are so many people that people are still worried about something, just go around and arrest people.

The resistance of these salt lords from Xuzhou was that when Huang Ping led people to rush into the house where they lived, several people ran out with knives in disheveled clothes, and before they could raise their knives, they were poked to death by Zhang Jiang's own soldiers with short spears, and the rest of the people and cats refused to come out in the house.

The two sides were deadlocked for a while, Huang Ping was also neat, and directly ordered people to take torches and prepare to burn the house, and these people in the house finally couldn't support it when the first fire was burned, and obediently dropped their weapons and surrendered in the courtyard.

Huang Ping's words made it clear that you sell salt, are boats, and are government documents, and you definitely can't do such a thing with dozens of you.

Trafficking in illicit salt is a big crime, and you have killed people on the dock again, and it is impossible to live by telling you to explain it, but an obedient confession can give you a good time.

These salt owls were pulled out of their sleep, originally thinking that they had the protection of the Confucian Mansion and were safe no matter what, who would have thought that the other party would take advantage of the open fire to kill them, and the last trace of support in their hearts also collapsed, and they had to confess all their frustration.

The content of the confession surprised Huang Ping, these people who had the audacity to sell illicit salt were actually soldiers from the Xuzhou Guard.

Xuzhou is the hub of the world, where the imperial court has always been stationed, but the soldiers in the world are suffering from arrears, and the same is true of the Xuzhou army, but Lianghuai has always had salt merchants, and salt merchants are rich in the world, but sometimes, someone is also needed to do some bloody work for them. ::::

In Xuzhou, these imperial court officers and soldiers are naturally the best choice, and this life is also very nourishing, but in recent years, it has been a bad year, first in Haizhou, defeated by pirates, and then inexplicably, Shandong soldiers and horses began to enter Lianghuai, and the salt merchants were also realistic, and immediately those filial piety routines were given to the Shandong soldiers and horses.

Although there were several repetitions, for example, the officers and soldiers of Xuzhou deliberately slackened their garrisons, allowing the horse thieves hired by the salt merchants to ambush the Shandong army in Huaibei through their defense area, the end was of course a failure.

As the situation in Huguang and Henan became more and more embarrassing, the Xuzhou army also continued to transfer troops and horses to Fengyang Mansion and Anqing, Luzhou border garrison, these people in Xuzhou are not valued inferior or third-class soldiers and horses, staying in Xuzhou, life is not easy.

But the Fang family in Yangzhou Mansion, especially Fang Yingzhong, the boss of the Fang family, has always had contacts with these officers and soldiers in Xuzhou, and almost a month and a half ago, Fang Yingzhong found the army that stayed in Xuzhou City. said that they wanted to do business in partnership, Fang Yingzhong came out of salt, and the Xuzhou army sent people out to sell salt to Shandong.

This is what these things are today, and the sale of illicit salt is also prudent for the Xuzhou Army, so the person who led the team is actually a thousand households, and this is more known.

Seeing that he couldn't ask anything anymore, he just went to cut off his head, and these soldiers couldn't talk about any toughness. It is inevitable to cry for mercy.

There are also hundreds of families in this manor, and there are nearly a thousand young and strong, but none of them dare to move, and Huang Ping's subordinates are after the fact. Riding a horse and shouting in the Zhuangzi:

"Looking for revenge on the green forest road, idlers don't have to come out, otherwise they will wash your Zhuangzi ......"

Hearing this, Confucius Zhuang Ding. Sure enough, none of them came out, they all stayed in the house honestly, and everyone knew in their hearts that this must be for those outsiders.

As for the second son of Confucius, he was taken and hidden in the cellar by several subordinates who accompanied him. trembling, I didn't dare to come out.

The manors of Confucius are all good land, and they are all convenient places for transportation. It's not far from the official road, it's late at night, and there is no one on the official road.

Under Huang Ping's order, these Xuzhou salt lords who cried and begged for mercy were all pressed and their heads were cut off neatly.

Huang Ping's understanding of the order from above, kill the salt lord, try not to alarm the Confucian Mansion, then don't kill people in the other party's manor. Just come out and cut off your head. And he didn't kill anyone in the Confucian Mansion. It should be regarded as a successful completion of the above explanation.

More than 60 bodies were placed on the side of the official road, and a bag of salt was taken from a cart. Sprinkling haphazardly on the corpses of these people, a group of them walked away.

It wasn't until noon the next day that the second son of Confucius dared to climb out of the cellar, there was nothing panicked in the Zhuangzi, anyway, it was not his own family who died, these outsiders were carried in the Zhuangzi, and they all looked like they were oily and slippery, and even their own daughters were not at ease to go out, and it was better to die, indicating that they were definitely not good people.

When he crawled out of the cellar, his whole body was trembling, although he was wearing a fox fur robe, and the sky was clear, he still felt a chill, he now relied on the glory of the Confucian Mansion and the thousand-year-old inheritance of the Confucian family, originally thought that this was an incomparably strong armor, but he didn't expect it to be so worthless.

There are dozens of corpses on the official road outside, and here is the main traffic artery, it is very convenient to come and go, and someone will definitely go to report to the official, on the side of the corpse, the only large-scale dwelling is the Zhuangzi of this Confucian Mansion, and someone must come to ask.

For Zhuang Tou, the highest status in this manor at the moment is Kong Side, the second son of Confucius, and the Zhuang head of this manor naturally wants to come over to ask Kong Side's judgment.

Kong Side, who was already frightened, could only be taken outside to watch by a few relatives, because the murderous incidents on the dock in the past few days had put a lot of pressure on the Yamen of Jining Prefecture, and Zhizhou also drove the officials below around.

Hearing that something was going on here, he immediately rushed over with the rare efficiency of the Jining Prefecture Yamen, and he was still sent to catch fast on horseback.

Shandong Chengping also has almost ten years, so there are a lot of idlers on this official road, and when the catch is about to come, the inner three layers and the outer three layers are surrounded by where to see the excitement, on the one hand, it is tsk who is so cruel, and on the other hand, it is looking here with great interest.

Kong Side was accompanied by his relatives, and he also watched in the crowd, and those who caught and dismounted began to disperse the crowd, but seeing Kong Side dressed luxuriously and accompanied by his relatives, he knew his status and dignitary, so he had to watch there

The corpses on the ground were still boasting to themselves yesterday, saying that this time they were just accidentally caught by the Jiaozhou battalion, and they would definitely not make the same mistake next time. Kong Side remembered that he also touched a glass of wine with the other party at that time, although he was the second son of Changfang, but after his brother became a knight, the benefits that other people got were not too big, at best, there was a Zhuangzi to make himself food and clothing worry-free.

If you want to live a better life, or have a good position in the Confucian Mansion, you still need to do something to prove your ability, the title of Confucius Mansion is not only a Yan Shenggong, Qufu Zhixian, but also some powerful positions. In addition to proving your ability, you also have to spend money to exercise.

It doesn't mean much for the children of Confucius to go out to be officials, and some of the fat shortages in Confucius are controlled by the brothers of Yan Shenggong, Kong Side has done a good job, at least the profits from the first trafficking of illicit salt have given him the power to be the head of Wenru Commercial Bank, and he thought that the next life would be high.

But I didn't expect those people to hide in their Zhuangzi, and at night they were still rushed in by the strongmen to pull everyone out, and they were killed on the edge of Zhuangzi so openly.

A chill spread over his limbs, and he couldn't hold back his trembling since he came out of the cellar. Looking at the corpses in front of me, I felt even more powerless.

The weather was cold, but the corpse was not decomposed, and the body was more or less sprinkled with some white powder. Those officials of Jining Prefecture circled around the corpse a few times, and these officials were all old servants who had accumulated years and had seen a lot of about these murders. One look at the wounds of these corpses, and you almost understand what is going on.

There was nothing shy about what they said, but they didn't expect to be heard clearly by Kong Side beside them.

"Looking at the stubble, it should have been cut by a soldier, well. Look at this bondage, it's not a trick. Old Five, hurry up, a few of us drew lots just now. ”

One of the servants bent down to endure the nausea, stretched out his finger and dipped it on the white crystal, put it in his mouth and licked it, and immediately spit out a few mouthfuls, and shouted at the people on the side:

"It's salt!!"

The more than a dozen officials who were staring at it all changed their faces, and they turned around and left without saying a word, and a relative next to Kong Side hurriedly followed. Grab a servant. The official was about to open his mouth to scold, but the man smiled and shoved a piece of broken silver into the officer's hand. Asked in a low voice:

"May I ask this poor master, someone saw it was salt just now, everyone, why don't you leave without saying a word!"

The officer shook the broken silver in his hand, and this time leaned over and whispered:

"Chop off the head and sprinkle salt, this is Li Dashuai's means of punishment, sometimes the barren mountains and wilderness are inconvenient for the Ming Dynasty to be punished, the salt dealer salt lord directly cut off his head and sprinkled salt on his body, brother, this matter is better to be less involved!!"

Hearing the news, Kong Side, the second son of the Holy Duke of Yan, his first reaction was not fear, but irrepressible anger, his Shandong general soldier Li Meng was just a martial artist, and he dared to do this to the descendants of the saint. The thousand-year-old inheritance and canonization of the Holy Lord acted like this.

In the end, there is no royal law in the eyes of this person, and whether he has put the Confucian family in his eyes, since Li Mengdi's power extended to Jinan and Yanzhou, he has always kept a certain distance from the Confucian Mansion and maintained respect as much as possible. This attitude made the sons of these families in the Confucian Mansion who only knew that they were enjoying wealth in a small world thought that Li Meng was afraid of their family, these people were born with the halo of descendants of saints, and they were destined to be rich and noble for a lifetime, and compared with other nobles, they were not affected by the change of dynasty.

Many of these children of the Confucian family are born, old, sick and die in this risk-free, prosperous and wealthy environment, and they have been passed down for more than ten generations, dozens of generations, and their knowledge is extremely shallow, and they are completely different from Kong Sande, who works hard and is well-informed.

Kong Sande, who was deprived of the status of the principal of Wenru Commercial Bank by the Confucian government, was really a little disheartened, so he simply moved his family to live in another business on the side of the canal in Jining.

When the Confucian Mansion made a decision this time, there was no big fat man from the side branch to make irresponsible remarks, and after the Confucian Mansion heard Kong Side's statement, from the Yan Shenggong to several elders in charge of the clan, they were all extremely angry, and they were determined to teach the reckless martial artist who had no sage to teach him a lesson.

Although the Confucian Mansion was furious, if you think about it, there are really few means to teach Li Meng, a martial artist, a lesson, and it is impossible to mobilize the Confucian Mansion Ding Qingzhuang to go to the Jiaozhou battalion of Zhendong General Li Meng to fight, which is to send the neck to someone else's knife to be slaughtered.

In the Ming Dynasty, the important ministers of the court were proud to marry their daughters into the Confucian Mansion, or marry the daughters of the Confucian Mansion, after all, this is the most peaceful and long-lasting place in the world.

Relying on this continuous marriage, although the Confucian Mansion enjoyed wealth in Qufu with peace of mind, he also had his network and influence in the court.

Recently, it was Chen Xinjia, the secretary of the military department, who asked the Confucian government for marriage, and the secretary of the military department was the minister who ruled the world for the Son of Heaven, so wouldn't it be just right to deal with Li Meng, the chief soldier of Shandong.

Yan Shenggong immediately repaired a letter and gave it to Chen Xinjia, the secretary of the military department. At the same time, he agreed to Chen Xinjia's proposal, anyway, he has a lot of sons, and it doesn't matter if he marries Chen Xinjia's daughter.

Those salt lords in Xuzhou actually did not have much interest in the Confucian Mansion, or it had nothing to do with it at all, these people were beheaded, and the Confucian Mansion did not lose anything except that their second son was frightened and the gate of the Zhuangzi was damaged in a few places.

But the reason why the people in the Confucian Mansion were so angry was that they wanted to use the relationship of the imperial court to move Li Meng, the general soldier of Shandong. In fact, he took a fancy to the profits of this illicit salt sale.

Wealth is moving, and it is money and interests that make people forget that they can't see the situation clearly, and this time the trafficking of illicit salt is only sold in the area of Ziyang City and Qufu City. There is also for home use, which is already a lot of money, if it can be sold in the entire Yanzhou Mansion. And how much money should be in the account?

The money came too easily and too quickly, and it was much simpler than merging land and planning and using tenant farmers for farming, and there was no contact with this illegal salt sale before. The Confucian Mansion didn't think it was like anything, after coming into contact with this big profit. Although it was only once, I was really reluctant to let go.

Li Meng has always been generous and tolerant to Confucius, this kind of lazy to pay attention to it, give yourself less trouble attitude, but by Confucius is considered by Confucius to be the fear and jealousy of the martial arts of Confucius, the Ming Dynasty has lasted for hundreds of years, Confucius as the sect of Shilin literati, naturally looks down on military generals.

After Zhu Yuanzhang, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, established the Ming Dynasty, he respected Confucianism. It is said that the Son of Heaven and the scholars rule the world together. As a result, when Emperor Jianwen was established, Huang Zicheng and Qi Tai were pure Confucians in control of the government. As a result, Ming Chengzu Zhu Di moved the battle of Jingjing, and the vassal kings of the world held the military power, but none of them sent troops to the king.

After that until the current Chongzhen years, Confucian scholars and ministers have been in the court to steadily overwhelm the generals and eunuchs, the Ming Dynasty generations of emperors, from the emperor to rule the world, to the emperor and scholars to rule the world, the current situation is almost the scholars to rule the world.

How to grasp the attitude and proportions towards the literati Lin is really a test for Li Meng, at least in the attitude towards Qufudi, his generosity and tolerance are regarded as awe. In this competition of interests, Confucius was dazzled by interests that did not belong to him, and began to carry out stupid provocations.

However, in this matter, the Confucian Mansion itself cannot make a big show to mobilize public opinion to fight against Li Meng, and the sage inherits it to traffic in illicit salt, which is simply a joke.

But some things are tacit secrets in the officialdom, since he agreed to the marriage of Chen Xinjiadi, the secretary of the Ministry of War, then this secretary of the Ministry of War will naturally do something.

Having said that, if Li Meng's reputation in Shandong is like Zuo Liangyu in Henan or He Renlong in Shaanxi, neither the Confucian Mansion nor Chen Xinjia, the secretary of the Ministry of War, will do anything to Li Meng, but now Li Meng's reputation in the world is "mediocre and conservative, still gentle and humble, and does not know the common things of officialdom". That is to say, he rarely does anything wrong, and he is still respectful and obedient to the court, but he is very ignorant of some rules in the officialdom.

What's more interesting is that now Li Meng is from a humble background, he is a military household that started by selling salt, this identity is of course despised, his current camp is still a eunuch who has lost power, and now it is the dictatorship of Wenchen, Donglin is the first, and the military generals who were promoted by eunuchs must be looked down upon by the people of the world. However, the eunuch he relied on was still a eunuch who had lost power, and was hostile to the most powerful chief eunuch and the eunuch of Nanjing.

Several items are superimposed, Li Meng's impression among the powerful class of the Ming Dynasty can be imagined, Liu Zeqing just rushed into Dengzhou City first, and he has the official titles of Zuodu Governor and Caozhou General Soldier.

Although the people who have dealt with Li Meng, as well as those who have seen Li Meng's military might, all know the strength of the other party and dare not offend it, most of the high-ranking officials generally think that Li Meng will not be able to last long at all in Shandong.

However, since Li Meng started his career, he has not left Shandong much, and has always been concentrating on running this small world, and he has not had any dealings with the central ministers at all, and the ministers of the DPRK and China only know about him in the newspapers of various ministries, and there is nothing unusual about him at all.

As for this Confucian Mansion, it belongs to the people who are in the Lushan Mountain, can't see the surroundings clearly, and regard the tolerance of others as a foolish person who is in awe, and there has never been a shortage of such foolish people in the world.

Wax Moon. Someone was sent to send the letter to Jingshi, who was also busy with the New Year in this lunar month, and it is estimated that even if there is any move, it will have to wait for the next year.

Shandong seems to have returned to temporary tranquility, but there is a major event in Nanzhili, and the reason why it is a major event is because all the officials in Nanjing are related to this major event.

The Fang clan of Yangzhou Wangzu sued the soldiers of the Xuzhou Guard for selling illicit salt, which violated the salt policy of the imperial court*......

The land is indeed a big deal, Yangzhou Wang's Fang family is a Yangzhou wealthy businessman who has undertaken the sale of official salt for generations, known as "Huai Salt Ten." The big boss of the Fang family five.

All the civil and military officials in Nanjing who can manage things, who have confiscated the usual filial piety of the Fang family, and there are also some officials who started from poor families, if they do not have the financial support of the Fang family in the early stage. How can there be today's subsidy.

The so-called hands of people are short, and the Fang family has this favor to throw here. There are also many relatives and friends who used to be officials in the court and in the local government, the so-called official and business giants, such a big family, in the south of the Zhili speaking is also very weighty, the Fang family came to sue. Then everyone has to pay attention.

What's more, the case he sued was really shocking. The soldiers of the Xuzhou Guard sell illicit salt, and it is not uncommon for the soldiers of the guard to do such a thing, not to mention that the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are selling smuggled salt, and there are many people who do bandits, but these things are rarely taken to the table to talk about.

But this time it was brought to the table to say, and it was the Fang family who came to sue, so it had to be taken seriously, and it was said that it was related to salt politics. You should go to the salt administration department in Haizhou to file a complaint. But what the Fang family is suing is the officers and soldiers of Xuzhou, and the Yan Administration Department has no jurisdiction at all. So the matter was pushed to Nanjing.

The people sued the official, and they were justified and convicted of three points, but when the Yangzhou Fang family sued like this, everyone automatically ignored this matter.

The officers and soldiers of Xuzhou were already disgraced after the defeat of the pirates in Haizhou City and the setback of the pursuit and suppression of the displaced people in Nanzhili, and after the Shandong soldiers and horses were stationed in Lianghuai, there were Shandong soldiers and horses stationed in the north and south of Xuzhou, and the use of these soldiers and horses in Xuzhou was not so great.

The situation in Henan and Huguang was urgent, and the Xuzhou garrison was not so important, so that the Nanjing Military Department Shangshu, the Nanjing Town Guard Eunuch and the Nanjing Garrison began to transfer Xuzhou's soldiers and horses to the critical places.

When this Wei fought with Yang Si's group of pirates in Haizhou, he suffered the greatest losses, because the troops in the south and Jiangbei have always been quite tense, so they have not been replenished, and when the troops are transferred, the bigwigs are not willing to move this not very effective Wei.

Xuzhou only has this army left, less than 2,000 people, but the act is a little lawless, Xuzhou County Yamen, the official report of the Dangshan Wei disturbing the people is like snowflakes, but according to the old rules of the Ming Dynasty, they are all pressed down and ignored.

The Fang family's complaint this time can really be said to be complete with human and physical evidence, looking at this evidence, it is really ironclad, and it can't be denied if you want to.

Every month of the year, it is a common practice to pay tribute to the money is not in vain, the local government reported it, and the officials in Nanjing ignored it, but when the Fang family reported it, everyone immediately became cautious and wanted to give a reply by collegiality.

The military officials in Nanjing City also went to ask the Fang family in private, saying that this matter is settled, so even if Dangshanwei desperately sells illicit salt, he can't catch up with your Fang family's income, so why bother about anything?

Who would have thought that the Fang family gritted their teeth this time and did not let go, saying that if the soldiers of Nanzhili all sold illicit salt, would our Fang family have any way to live, we must grasp this typical crime and give others a color.

The official who asked in private also took the benefits of the Fang family, and he was also the kind of person who had a lot of intimate relationships, and it was not easy to continue to advise after listening to what the benefactor said so categorically.

But the collegiate discussion of Nanjing officials could not come up with any regulations, and Lu Jiude, the eunuch of Nanjing, had stayed in Huguang and Fengyang, and knew that the soldiers and horses in Fengyang and Anqing could not move without permission, and similarly, the soldiers and horses in Nanjing could not be released.

The less than 2,000 Dangshan guards died in Xuzhou, pondering for a long time and actually had no choice, sending a civilian official to supervise this matter is not daring to think, at the moment these big soldiers, forced to be anxious but about to mutiny, in the end the court has nothing to do with the mutinous soldiers, but also to investigate the civil officials of the supervision.

The trick in officialdom is that no one is willing to express their opinions, so as not to take responsibility, the Fang family over there is urging tightly, and everyone here is in a stalemate, and the situation is embarrassing for a while......

At this time, Wu Jiawei, the squire of the Nanjing Military Department, who was speaking up, stood up again......