The fire burned the sky, the smoke rose and dispersed for a long time, the wasteland was full of reeds, although flammable, but it burned quickly, the heat on the ground still choked people's faces, the breeze blew, and pieces of soot swirled in mid-air, choking people's eyes and noses.

Fifty Uchichang fans walked slowly from the mud pond with a layer of black ash on the shallow water that had burned out the reeds. The reeds in front of him had burned clean and turned into a pitch-black wasteland, and in the distance only a few hundred houses stood on the plain by the yamen of the customs department.

Zheng Baihu and dozens of fans in order to prevent ashes, everyone covered their faces with cloth toils and only showed a pair of eyes. Because the mud pond is full of reeds, the roots are grasping the mud, and it is not particularly difficult for the official boots to step on it, and finally set foot on the land, and the front is close to the fence of the Customs Department, Zheng Baihu stood in front of the fence with a knife and looked around cautiously, a pair of dark eyes faintly full of anxiety.

He looked at it for a moment and called in a low voice: "Wu Yong, everyone should have been fainted, you take thirty people in, and there are still people who can move, and he will be killed."

A masked man next to him answered, and hesitated: "The factory governor."

Zheng Baihu sighed and said, "I'll take people around to look for it, I'm afraid that the adults will be more than lucky."

The masked man paused, pulled his knife out of its sheath, and shouted: "Thirty people come with me, the customs department kills officials and rebels, the crime is unforgivable, and those who dare to resist will be killed!" ”

With a thunderous sound, thirty big men drew their swords out of their sheaths, murderously split the fence, and broke into it on a rampage, Zheng Baihu knew that he went in, I was afraid that many people who had been unconscious would also be killed, and he opened his mouth to stop it, but when the words came to his mouth and swallowed back, if the adults were really buried in the fire, how could he want to kill all the people in the Customs Department?

Zheng Baihu snorted coldly, raised his leg and kicked open a severed horizontal fence, and walked in quickly, and twenty big men followed, passing through those houses and rushing to the other side. On the way, I met some people who were lying on the ground with black faces, whether they were angry or not, the red-eyed fans "poofed" to the ground was a knife, and Zheng Baihu only did not see it.

Yang Ling asked someone to pretend to be a tax-paying merchant in advance, and he came to the Customs Department twice, this place was deserted on all sides, and if he approached rashly by other means, once he was discovered by the people of the Customs Department, it would inevitably make people suspicious, and only this method would be safer.

After careful investigation, they found that the people of the customs department and the yamen only gathered inside to gamble and play with women when they came back from collecting taxes, and there were more than a dozen tax-collecting ships on the wharf, and several shipwrights lived on them, and the surprise attack of a small group of officers and soldiers was enough to destroy the ships in one fell swoop.

Sure enough, Zheng Baihu cut off the back road and the work was very smooth, he destroyed the oars and sails, because there was a large area of reeds in front of him, if he attacked the Customs Department through the reeds, then the people who escaped from the Customs Department only had to hide inside, and his fifty people could not search at all, so he wanted to catch the fish that slipped through the net at the dock, and sent his cronie Wu Yong to quietly rush to the Customs Department to check the movement.

Wu Yong rushed to the Customs Department, and secretly went to the reeds to see Yuan Xiong's subordinates suppressing and setting fire to people, and immediately rushed back to Feibao in a horrified manner. Zheng Baihu is effective in suppressing bandits, and has been promoted to the Shenji Battalion as an official after a lot of merit, and he has a lot of experience in field warfare, so he gave the most rational battle order after a little calculation: The enemy has set fire, we are above the enemy's limelight, and we will also set fire!

Now Yang Ling's life is no longer something that his dozens of people can save, with his dozens of people, the only thing he can do is to destroy Yuan Xiong with fire, otherwise when Yuan Xiong leads people to kill him, there will be no one to avenge the factory governor.

Rushing to the other side of the firebreak, I saw many people lying on the ground, because the fireworks came so quickly, the customs department usually entered and exited by water, and there were no horses available, and most of these people, whether they fled into the house or hid in the corner of the ditch, were already fainted.

The red-eyed fans were carrying bloody steel knives, and were about to slash and kill them one by one, when Zheng Baihu suddenly shouted: "Stop!" Look at you, look there".

Zheng Baihu's voice was hoarse with a sense of ecstasy, his voice trembled, he originally expected that there was little hope of survival for the adult, if the person could still live after this fire, it would be a miracle of miracles, so although he rushed to this side with the hope of just in case, he had already prepared for the worst in his heart.

But when he got here, he was stunned to find that a mile away, the reeds were still there. Although the reeds that rose with the wind were already black, not to mention that the reeds were now like ink paintings, they were indeed a reed.

That reed wasn't burned, so how big is he? Zheng Baihu dragged his heavy boots and rushed into the burned reed field in ecstasy, a cloud of black ash rose under his feet, and he shouted loudly: "Quick, go and save the adult, the adult must still be alive!" ”

Twenty people waded all the way over, and a puff of black smoke rolled up on the flat ground, and they ran to the blackened reeds, and saw a small river in front of them, densely packed with people, and the outfits were those of the officers and soldiers of the inner factory and the guard station.

Zheng Baihu flipped open one casually, and ripped off the wet wipes on his face, the man's face was covered with black ash, his hair and eyebrows couldn't be seen clearly, although the wet wipes were cleaner, but his nostrils were also full of soot, Zheng Baihu tried that he was still breathing, and he couldn't help but increase his confidence, he left the guard and jumped up and shouted: "Find it immediately, find it for me immediately, find the factory superintendent's heavy reward!" ”

Without waiting for his orders, those fans were already frantically looking left and right. Yang Ling's people were surging back because of the fire, and the smoke was pouring back, which was lighter than the people who were smoky by the rich smoke of the damp reeds in the Customs Department, although they were a little semi-unconscious, and they woke up dizzy when they were shouted and touched, and they sobered up with the flowing river water, and quickly recovered their strength.

Zheng Baihu was anxiously searching, and a fan in the distance shouted: "I have found the factory superintendent, hahahaha, the lord is still alive!" ”

"Where? Where is it? Zheng Baihu was overjoyed, and several nearby fans crawled to the ground, only to see that Fanzi was holding a person in his arms, although it was smoked like the king of the stove, but the appearance of the clothes was still recognizable.

Zheng Baihu tried to snort, hurriedly ripped off a piece of his shirt and wiped it on his face soaked in river water, stimulated by the water, Yang Ling woke up slowly, he wanted to speak, but he felt that the fire in his throat was choking, first he coughed violently, put aside the floating ash on the water and drank two mouthfuls of water to moisten his throat, and then wiped the black ash accumulated on his face and the corners of his eyes casually, he stood up and looked around and asked, "Why are you here?" What about Yuan Xiong's people? ”

Zheng Baihu said diligently: "My lord is auspicious, I can be scared to death, my lord rest assured, Yuan Xiong set fire, and the lower officials also set fire, and the people in the Customs Department have been all stunned by the lower officials, even if there are still people who are sober, they can't resist."

Yang Ling's spirits perked up, and he hurriedly said: "Quick, wake everyone up, hurry up and control the yamen of the Customs Department, don't get away with people."

Yang Ling's 1,000 black officers and soldiers rushed to the Customs Department, stopped the thirty red-eyed fans, disarmed and tied up the rest of the people, and took over the silver treasury, and unexpectedly found that there were dozens of women among the faint people, and woke up for some interrogation, except for a few women who spent money to get back, either forced to pay off their debts, or forcibly snatched back by the Customs Department, Yuan Xiong's form was filled with a big crime.

When the Customs Department was searched, although no one dared to move the silver treasury, but none of the evil officials of the Customs Department had looted considerable property, and these officers and soldiers searched house by house, and there were not a few who took the sheep into their arms, Yang Ling saw it in his eyes, but how high could the army still make demands at this time? They are all people who have just been born and died with him, and Yang Ling can only pretend not to know.

Centralized the people to take care of them, sent someone to pick up Yang Ling sent someone to inform the local government, the magistrate heard that the supervisor of the inner factory was handling the case here, and took the people of the Customs Department, he couldn't help but be ecstatic, went to this big scourge, and he was a local official. But what prison can accommodate 2,000 prisoners? Yang Ling temporarily handed over the treasury of the Customs Department to the local government, and rushed back to Hangzhou with people to escort the prisoners.

Without the support of the Customs Department, there are many old and new cases of wicked people who have done evil, and naturally the government will hear and judge them one by one.

In Mofu, Yang Ling changed the bath water four times, and the color of the water was much cooler. His skin was red, and Yang Ling sat in the bathtub and closed his eyes comfortably.

Although Yuan Xiong almost killed the whole army here, fortunately, he survived in a desperate situation, but he did not spend a single soldier, and successfully arrested Yuan Xiong and a group of outlaws, Yang Ling is thinking about the aftermath.

As soon as he returned to Hangzhou, he immediately sent the official ship loaded with goods and property on the return trip to carry two prisoners back to Beijing, which greatly disappointed Mo Qinghe, who was waiting to greet his rival Yuan Gonggong.

Yang Ling had too many things to do now, and every single one had to be improvised, and he couldn't make a decision until he got further information. He still doesn't know what kind of conspiracy Mo Qinghe has, if he entrusts him with Jiangnan taxes, but this person is not a person who can be entrusted, then the territory that he has finally laid down is equivalent to entrusting the bandits by mistake, and he can't return to Beijing without finding out Mo Qinghe.

Yuan Xiong's people have been wiped out, but the Customs Department must still be set up and returned to the Ministry of Households? Emperor Zhengde will not agree, and all the other tax supervisors will also regard him as a revenge, so who will be sent to be the customs guard? This candidate must be considered first, and now that he is in charge of the Department of Tax Supervision, he cannot be left out of the use of human rights.

There is also the emperor's recent behavior, in addition to himself, the only ones who can affect the little emperor are Liu Jin and other Eight Tigers, what are their recent changes for? Is it because he has a lot of power in his hands that he has envy, and he wants to please the emperor and get an official, and according to the historical trend, he has become the eight powers that have upheld the government for many years, or is there another conspiracy? Why did the celebrant sit idly by?

Yang Ling thought of the headache, and couldn't help but sigh softly, and then a soft voice suddenly came from the side: "Master, is the water cold?" Do you want to add some water? ”

Yang Ling was startled, and when he opened his eyes, he saw Gao Wenxin holding two sleeves and a pair of white arms, standing next to him with a blushing face, but his eyes were drooping and he didn't dare to look at him at all.

Yang Ling brushed the ground and pulled down the towel on the side of the bucket, put it around his waist, and said deliciously: "What are you doing here?" I'll just wash it myself."

Gao Wenxin was already a little shy, Yang Ling was sitting in the bucket, and she couldn't see anything, but Yang Ling's desire to cover it up made her even more embarrassed.

Gao Wenxin replied shyly: "The maid should have waited for the adults to bathe and change clothes, I stayed outside, and the fans who went out to come in to deliver water looked very strange at my leisure, or the maid would help you rub your back."

Yang Ling smiled dryly: "It's okay, don't worry, what do you care about them?" Who dares to talk nonsense? I'm not a young master from a big family, and I'm really not used to letting women wait for a bath, so just wait for me in the outer room."

Gao Wenxin blushed, seeing that the expression seemed to be more nervous than him, when he heard him say this, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly said: "Then that servant is out", she took a few steps, suddenly remembered something, turned back, twisted her head and hurriedly threw something into the barrel.

Look at her appearance, Yang Ling's ass is not so afraid when she sees her every day, but somehow Yang Ling only has **'s chest and shoulders exposed on the water, but it makes her embarrassed and embarrassed.

Yang Ling stared straight at the needle-like thing that fluctuated in the mist and asked, "What kind of medicine is this?" ”

Gao Wenxin said: "This is not medicine, it is tea, put a little bit of it, it doesn't taste fragrant."

Yang Ling smiled, waved his hand and said: "Okay, a body of tea fragrance is better than a body of fire, hehe, let's do acupuncture after washing for a while, I have been running around all day, and I am scared half to death, I haven't felt that my body is so tired that I am about to fall apart for a long time, but unfortunately Yu'er is not there, she is very good at massaging."

Gao Wenxin had been ashamed and didn't dare to raise his head, but when he heard this, he raised his head suddenly, and said unconvinced: "The maid also knows the art of massage, and the imperial doctors in the massage department of the Tai Hospital are not as good as the maid, so the maid will go and prepare, and massage for the master in a while......

Yang Ling lay on the bed, drowsy and massaged by Gao Wenxin. Incense was burning in the room, and the Chinese were drunk. A cute and delicate girl gently massaged his head, neck and limbs.

Yutangchun's massage is not so much a massage, but it is more about stroking and coquettishness, but Gao Wenxin is really good at this, she first used a jade tooth comb through a layer of thin and smooth clothes along the spine to gently scrape from the neck to the waist, rejuvenate the blood vessels, and then meridian massage, acupoint massage, Yang Ling really felt that the whole body was comfortable, fluttering and immortal.

The massage technique of the Ming Dynasty was gathered in Dacheng, and Gao Wenxin can be described as a master of this way, Yang Ling couldn't help but close his sleepy eyes and said vaguely: "It's so comfortable, I don't know if it's okay to help me massage it every day after acupuncture in the future?" ”

Gao Wenxin raised his sleeve and wiped the fine fragrant sweat, and said with a smile: "Okay, the servant knows many techniques, so if you let the servant rub his back, I also have the kung fu I learned in the guide map, and I can show my skills."

Yang Ling laughed and said: "How can a woman rub a man's back, how can she have any strength, if it is replaced, it is almost the same, uh, if you step on the back, it is almost the same."

Gao Wenxin had already heard what he was going to say, and couldn't help blushing: This old man wants to say that he is bold, as if he is scared to let his maid wait for him to bathe, if he is said to be timid, sometimes he talks nonsense, which makes people's hearts itch.

Do men rub women's backs? He rubbed it for me

As soon as Gao Wenxin thought of this, the fingers pressed down suddenly seemed to be soft and weak, Yang Ling noticed that the fingers on his back were soft and weak, and he was itchy by her, so he couldn't help but smile, twisted his waist and said: "Look, I said that the woman's family is not strong, okay, I am getting more and more sleepy by you, I want to sleep."

Gao Wen glared at him hatefully, made a pinching motion behind his back, then stood up, gently put down the curtain for Yang Ling, walked to the front of the table to blow out the lights, and suddenly turned his head and said: "Master, now that Gonggong Yuan and they have been arrested, are we going to return to Beijing soon?" ”

Yang Ling turned his head, yawned and said, "What?" Want to go back? It's going to be soon, maybe I'll be back in a few days."

Gao Wenxin hesitated for a moment and said, "Then there should be nothing wrong these days, right?" Do you want to invite the Heavenly Senior Brother and Sister to come to the house as guests?"

Yang Ling was stunned and said, "Ah! You're right, Senior Brother and Sister Tian were invited away by his followers as soon as they came, I forgot about it, it's really rude not to invite back, huh! When you go back, you send someone to take my post to meet the Heavenly Master, and see when he is free, come to the house to talk."

Gao Wenxin responded diligently: "Yes, my lord, the servant is out, you have a good rest."

"What do you say? The people in the inner factory arrested Li Gui? Mo Qinghe, who had been happy and smiling for the past two days, had a blue face, a fierce look flashing in his eyes, and grabbed Steward Li's collar fiercely, and asked in a cruel voice.

"Yes, yes, sir, the inner factory arrested people, and the local government can't ask about it, the prefect of Suzhou and even the political envoy sent people to inquire, but they were all pushed back by the fan of the inner factory, and now what is the situation of Li Gui, we don't know at all. They insisted that Li Gui had hidden the forbidden object privately, and a huge 'gold brick' was placed there, but they couldn't argue with a hundred words", Steward Li said with a sad face.

"Smack!" A slap slapped him in the face, hitting Steward Li with a stagger, Mo Qinghe pointed at him and scolded: "Bastard! Your brother is usually flying and domineering, rampant in the township, I repeatedly asked him to give me some peace but didn't listen, that gold brick is a forbidden thing, this kind of thing should also be a rare thing to collect at home, isn't this a disaster for the master? ”

Steward Li said aggrievedly: "Master, there are some people who like rare things, and it is not for nothing that they collect gold bricks, but my brother doesn't know anything except gold and silver, how can he collect that thing?" The small ones thought that the people in the inner factory were the same as the east factory, and they were looking for excuses to plant dirt and eat big households, but they sent the money and accepted it, but the people didn't let it go! ”

Mo Qinghe raised his foot angrily and was about to kick again, but Mrs. Mo greeted him gracefully, stopped him and said: "Master is angry, this matter may really wronged Li Gui, now that the inner factory has just been established, and the factory supervisor is patrolling in our Jiangnan, even if the people in the inner factory want to blackmail big households, dare to do things in Jiangnan?" Without Yang Ling's consent, lend them the guts! ”

Mo Qinghe's eyes flashed, and he stared at her gloomily for a while, and his face slowly turned red: "You mean Yang Ling is beating my idea?" It can't be, it's impossible, how much appetite does he have? If he eats all the three major town guards in Jiangnan in one bite, who will give him his life? ”

Mrs. Mo smiled coldly and said: "He travels to Suzhou, Hangzhou, and everywhere in the mountains and rivers is not doing his job, have you ever seen him check Yuan Xiong?" But where is Yuan Xiong now? He has 5,000 outlaws, and he doesn't care about the heavens and the earth, who doesn't have a headache when he sees it? But Yang Ling first captured Bi Chun overnight with the strategy of drawing wages from the bottom of the kettle, and then raided Guan Ruisi, and used a thousand people to deal with several times the enemy, is this appetite big? ”

Mo Qinghe's face turned pale when he heard this, and Mrs. Mo said with a frosty face: "And he suddenly went to inspect Haining, did you know in advance?" This person looks very casual, as if the trip to Jiangnan is just a false thing, but who knows what he has in mind? Now that I think about it, if he hadn't been wary of the master, why didn't Yuan Xiong and Bi Chun stay for even a day, and immediately went to the capital? ”

Mo Qinghe's face was blue and red for a while, and he said angrily after a while: "I have decided to submit to him, and he still wants to kill me?" ”

Mrs. Mo waved her hand, Steward Li hurriedly retreated, and Mrs. Mo walked to Mo Qinghe's side and said in a low voice: "Master, is Li Gui reliable?" ”

Mo Qinghe heaved and said: "Tell him to scavenge money and property, let him sacrifice his life to keep secrets for others, and the pig can go up the tree, but even if Yang Ling wants to deal with me, what if he dares to treat my people without evidence?" ”

Mrs. Mo sneered: "Is Li Gui your person?" Lord Qincha doesn't know, he only knows that this person has a forbidden possession, which is worthy of the crime of killing the head, those people under you, hum! Is there anyone who can survive the torture of the factory guards? ”

Mrs. Mo said, her eyes rolled slyly, and she said, "How are those people at sea?" It's really not good", she twisted her willow eyebrows, and stretched out her slender palm to make a head-cutting motion.

Mo Qinghe's body suddenly trembled, he held on to the table, even the table was trembling, Mrs. Mo was taken aback, and hurriedly supported him and said, "Master, what's wrong with you?" ”

Mo Qinghe laughed miserably, his expression was a little crazy, he laughed and sat down, grabbed a teapot and threw it on the ground, gritted his teeth and cursed: "The two groups of pirates of Hizenshou and Chen Dong, I should have destroyed them a long time ago, just because they were there and could help me confuse the public, so I let them go, I didn't think that my big thing was bad in their hands."

Mrs. Mo said curiously: "What do those two bandits have to do with us? What about Jiro Komura's people? Tell him to bring people directly into Hangzhou, with us as the internal response, as long as the result of the chaotic army is Yang Ling"

Her beautiful eyebrows were raised, and she smiled and gently hugged Mo Qinghe and said: "As soon as Yang Ling dies, the inner factory will be nothing, and then we will help the east factory to reduce the strength of the inner factory, and your position as the master of ceremonies can go to the next level."

Mo Qinghe looked up to the sky and sighed: "It's late, it's late, it's heaven's will!" It's damn me! ”

He smiled bitterly and looked at the lady who was stunned, and said: "Jiro Komura's people can't get in, I only care about restraining Jiro Komura, who would have thought that Hizen Shou's gang of unsuccessful thieves would attack Haining at this time, and meet Qin Cha face to face?"

Since this happened, the commander of the envoy has deployed all the heavy troops of the naval division at the mouth of the sea, worried that the Japanese will come to intrude again at this time, and after returning to Beijing, it will be unfavorable for him to govern the sea and guard the border, so I want Komura Jiro to help me at this time at the risk of not coming back? He shook his head in despair.

Mrs. Mo has always been very calm, until she heard this, her face changed, she was stunned for a long time, and then said softly: "Master, then what should we do?" But it's going to be planned early, no one comes to check what's good, Yang Ling has already done it, and Li Gui can't keep it a secret, he knows everything about the master. ”

There was a sense of coldness in her voice: "Smuggling goods with the Japanese people, drawing maps for the Japanese people, informing the garrison in advance, leading the Japanese people to rob, and then giving usurious grain to the looted farmers, taking the opportunity to seize their fields, each of which is a capital crime, as well as devouring the brains of those children, more than 30 lives."

Mo Qinghe jumped up suddenly, his cheeks jumped suddenly, grabbed her hand and said: "Xiaolou, while the matter has not yet been revealed, why don't we go, escape far away, no matter how powerful he Yang Ling is, what can he do to me?" ”

Mrs. Mo was stunned for a moment, and said strangely: "Escape? Where to flee, under the whole world, it is not the king's land, can you flee to the poor countryside and hide your name".

Mo Qinghe shook his head and said: "No, we go to sea and flee to Yuben, with the wealth we have accumulated, no matter where we go, we can live well, there, we can be richer than the princes, can the Ming Dynasty chase me there?" ”

(To be continued)