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In the box of Wang Ji's grocery store, a report letter was found, saying that Zhong Ding had a private residence in Daodong Back Street.

Lin Dajiang immediately led people to search and made a major discovery.

The things that were searched were roughly divided into three parts.

The first part is a variety of precious substances.

Including 4,000 taels of silver tickets, 120 mink skins, 70 otter skins, 70 yuan skins, about three catties of ginseng, more than 10 catties of deer antlers, 50 or 60 catties of monkey heads, and 78 catties of matsutake mushrooms. and other mountain treasures.

Coupled with the silver found last time, a small assistant collar turned out to have more than nine thousand taels of silver and so many precious materials, obviously, it did not match his normal income.

With all this money and material stuff alone, he couldn't explain it clearly. And once it's explained, it's a series of shady scenes. In this chain, there will be many people who will be implicated.

If that's all there is to it, it's just a corruption story.

However, this Zhong Ding seems to be a person who is afraid of small things, a small leader, and he does a big thing.

Compared with these big things, those silver tickets and mountain treasures are simply a small thing.

These major events are reflected in several letters and a gift list.

These letters turned out to be correspondence between him and the head of the Iron Buddha tribe. In the letter, his business activities with the Iron Buddha tribe were exposed.

It's not surprising to do some business, the problem is that he is in the pig iron business. That's a big problem.

In the northern part of Bukui, there are four relatively large fishing and hunting tribes, they are the Tiefo tribe, the Luoshun tribe, the Kaqi tribe and the Mailai tribe.

These four tribes are mainly fishing, hunting, nomadic herding, and also have some agricultural industries. The population of each tribe is about 30,000 to 70,000.

Among them, the Tiefo tribe is the largest, with more than 70,000 people, and the Mailai tribe is the smallest, with more than 30,000 people.

Although these tribes were nominally under the rule of the imperial court, the imperial court never exercised effective jurisdiction and governance over them.

When you are happy, hand over some things to the Bukui Yamen and pay some tribute to the imperial court. When he was unhappy, he ignored the imperial court, and even went out from time to time to rob passing merchants and loot near Bukui.

The garrison yamen sent troops to encircle and suppress, and they broke into pieces and hid in the deep mountains and old forests. As soon as the soldiers withdrew, they went on business as usual.

Therefore, the strategy adopted by the imperial court against them is also to suppress and appease. When they make a lot of trouble, they clean it up. When there is not much trouble, appeasement is implemented.

However, the inflow of strategic materials such as salt, tea, pig iron, ironware, sulfur, and saltpeter is strictly controlled. There is a certain quota every year.

Zhong Ding sold pig iron to the Iron Buddha tribe without permission, which was undoubtedly a big taboo. In peacetime, at least also smuggling. In times of war or even in times of poor relations between the two sides, this is a collaboration with the enemy and an enemy.

Regardless of the period, this is a felony. Based on this alone, the emperor can cut off his head.

The letter also revealed several of his accomplices, the merchant Kong Youxi, and his two subordinates, the two Xiao Riding Schools of the First Zuo.

Lin Dajiang immediately sent someone to arrest the two Xiao Riding School, but Kong Youxi was not in Bukui, so he escaped temporarily.

Another weapon with great lethality is the gift list. The handwriting of this gift list is Zhong Ding's, which is obviously written by him himself, which is an almost irrefutable evidence.

There were twenty-one names on the list, along with their official positions and locations.

There are those of General Ningguta's Mansion, those of Fengtianfu, and naturally those of the imperial capital. Other people's names, Jia Min is very unfamiliar. However, there are two names that he is familiar with.

One is Ma Qiming, the deputy envoy of the Beijing camp, and the other is Luo Qihua, a university scholar.

This Zhong Ding is really a character with some energy, no wonder he dares to be so arrogant.

Such an energetic figure, and the nephew of Ningguta General Han Tiankui, how could he be a small leader? Besides, still staying in a remote place like Bukui?

Previously, Bukui belonged to General Ningguta, and as long as his uncle said a word, he could go to a better place and become a bigger official.

This made Jia Min suspicious.

A more logical guess should be that Han Tiankui deliberately put him here.

The purpose of putting Zhong Ding here is to serve as his eyes and ears to monitor Bu Kui's movements, and secondly, to let him collect money here and make friends with officials from all walks of life.

Befriending officials from all walks of life, with Zhong Ding's identity and level, it seems that the weight is not enough. It should have appeared as Han Tiankui's agent.

It's just that there is no evidence of whether Zhong Ding has taken on other missions.

However, ignoring those silver and mountain treasures, with these two points alone, this case can be handled as an iron case.

Smuggling pig iron to the Iron Buddha is a certainty, and you can also rely on the enemy and the enemy.

It is also a major sin to befriend foreign officials and Beijing officials.

He wanted to weave a huge network of relationships, but this big net now backfires and traps himself.

"I put these letters here, and I kept him under strict guard, and no one was allowed to come into contact with him. Tomorrow I will interrogate him personally. ”

Lin Dajiang agreed and went out. Jia Min fell into deep thought.

Zhong Ding's belongings were seized, and the total was more than 10,000 taels of silver. This money is taken from Bu Kui and used by Bu Kui, and Jia Min is not ready to hand it over.

At the moment, he is ready to implement some reforms, and the money comes in handy.

Jia Min has made up his mind and is ready to deal with the high mortality rate and escape rate of exiles.

He can ignore the previous things, but if he can't solve this problem in the future, he will be responsible.

This is not only a question of being responsible for the imperial court and giving these prisoners a way to live, but also a problem of himself. If this problem is not solved well, it is a sword hanging over his head at all times.

If someone wants to hold him accountable for this issue, he really can't get out of it.

In order to solve the problem of the death and escape of prisoners, it is imperative to solve two problems.

One is to apprehend the fugitives as soon as possible. The other is to improve the living environment and living conditions of the displaced people, so that they have a chance to breathe and a space to survive, and not to drive them all to a dead end.

In fact, the requirements of the flow people are not high. It's nothing more than being able to eat enough, and on the basis of being full, it is better to be able to eat a little better.

The second is to dress warmly so that you don't freeze in winter. And then it's warmer. It's not freezing or too wet.

The other two points are to reduce the labor intensity and labor time as much as possible, so as not to overtime, super-physical strength, and super-power endless labor.

In the case of not changing the tasks handed in, this can actually be solved by improving tools and promoting labor enthusiasm and other ways to improve labor efficiency.

The second is to avoid bullying and exploitation by the head of the village and the cell boss as much as possible. This can actually be done.

However, it is not possible to rely on these old village leaders at present.

Although these old village leaders are soldiers, they are no different from bandits in many cases, and some are even worse than rogues, and the malignancy is deeper, they belong to parasites, sucking the blood of people endlessly.

Moreover, their ideological concepts are also destined to conflict with Jia Min's concepts. Due to the very scattered nature of the residences, it is not only difficult but also costly to supervise them.

The only quick and easy thing to do is to remove them from their position at the head of the village and replace them with their own people.

Only one's own people can fully comprehend their own intentions and carry out their own will.

On the surface, it's a battle of ideas. In fact, it is a conflict of interests hidden behind the concept.

Zhong Ding is just a leader, and he can amass so much wealth. What about the others? It doesn't have to be clean.

Relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the sea to eat the sea, and relying on the people to eat the people, it should be their basic interest ecology.

Of course, it is impossible for them to monopolize these benefits by themselves. Their superiors, unscrupulous businessmen outside, and even bandits and the four tribes could be the beneficiaries of this chain of interests.

Abundant property, fertile land, free labor, and the cost of feeding labor has been pushed down to the limit, coupled with low administrative costs and low cost of living. The salaries of officials and soldiers were also borne by the imperial court.

Just take a dog to be this Bu Kui guard, you can lie down and make money, and you can even make a deficit? It's the biggest joke in the world.

Who would believe that there is no massive, syndicate-style corruption and fraud?

Zhong Ding can collude with the Iron Buddha tribe, but what about the others? Unaware of Zhong Ding's behavior?

Others can't collude with other tribes? In Wulong Mountain at the foot of the Son of Heaven, Ma Qiming and Chen Jiayin can collude with bandits. In Bukui, where the emperor is far away from this mountain, there can't be anyone to collude with the bandits?

With so many officers and soldiers, they are helpless against a group of bandits, and let them endanger them for so many years, isn't it a copy of the scene of the Lu overlord of Wulong Mountain?

Now, taking Zhong Ding can be regarded as a deterrent to them, what attitude will others take?

Zhao Dahai is currently waiting, Feng Kui is waiting, and Xu Mingtao is also waiting. What are they waiting for?

What role did Bu Kui's other two leading figures, Yang Lin and Wu Minqiu, play in this ice and snow drama? Are they innocent? What are they thinking at the moment? Are you also waiting?

Are they all waiting for some kind of external force to intervene? If so, who is this external force?

Is it just a flower? After all, it's just a bandit, and if she wants to influence this big drama, her role is too light.

took down Zhong Ding, obtained important evidence, and unraveled a corner of a shady scene.

However, this shady scene is a bit bigger. The depth and breadth of the involvement are beyond imagination.

This evidence is actually a double-edged sword. An accident, causing the counterattack of the forces behind Zhong Ding, not only can't solve this black curtain, but may also put myself into it. These people can do everything.

Alas, this time, it seems that there is another big trouble.