Sending away the second room old man Jin Million, Li You shook his head and smiled bitterly, as soon as he entered the house and sat on the warm seat, he heard so much troublesome news. This is just Jin Million alone, and there must be more things waiting for him tomorrow. He couldn't help but suddenly miss the simple life on the embankment, at least not bothering about all kinds of idle things.

The few things that Jin Million said, the others are okay, but they are also reasonable, but his brother is in the Fucheng prison that makes him feel incomprehensible. No matter what, Yangzhou Mansion can't go to Xujiang County, Suzhou Prefecture to arrest people in vain, otherwise they will act like this, and the officialdom will be completely chaotic.

So after thinking about it, Li You judged that his brother must have arrived in Yangzhou for some reason, and then he was arrested by the government for some reason. The prefect of Naluo was not so stupid as to dare to arrest his brother Li You for no reason, there must be some reason for this.

The next day, Li You first went to the garrison battalion to inspect the non-commissioned officers in the battalion, and by the way, the team of guards who followed him to Sizhou were all promoted to the first level, and the non-commissioned officers were promoted to the captain, the captain was promoted to the captain, and the captain was promoted to the sentry commander. It's just that the promotion of the sentry commander still needs to report to the military department, but this time the mausoleum is meritorious, and the problem is not big.

Immediately, he went back to the county office, first convened the four masters to discuss the matter, and then instructed the officials who were more familiar with the government to inquire about the news. Since then, he has sat in the hall and occasionally received some door-to-door guests. Everything looks normal, without any unusual movements.

For two days, it was like that. After the prefect of the palace inquired about Lord Li's movements, he was anxious, this Li You is too calm, right? Don't you care about the life or death of your brother?

Governor Luo didn't understand, he had already revealed his brother's news to him, but why was he still so calm and unhurried?

Under normal circumstances, anyone who hears that their relatives have fallen into the hands of the opponent has to be very anxious and try to start the rescue. With Li You's surname, maybe he will lead the soldiers to go to the government to rob and save people, just like leading the troops to besiege the gate of the Salt Transportation Division. How could he not do that?

It is said that in the two months since Li You left Yangzhou, Luo Zhifu has reflected very carefully.

At first, his attempt was only to provoke a conflict, and use the famous Li You to brush up his reputation and win the idea of the DPRK and China. But he didn't expect Li You to be so good at fighting that he would suppress the government and breathless, which greatly surprised him.

Governor Luo never thought of paying such a heavy price from the beginning, which was seriously beyond his bottom line. The government test was lost, the regular money income fell sharply, the officials in the government centrifuged one after another, the salt merchants regarded him as a waste, and the evaluation of hundreds of thousands of people in Jiangdu County was far lower than that of a county in the same city. After researching, Luo Fuzun found that he and Li You fell behind in the fight, and it was not entirely because of Li You's hard background. He attacked repeatedly, but sometimes it was equivalent to giving away the handle in vain, so he, the prefect, was suppressed by Li You, the general judge and magistrate.

At the same time, Li You is really good at doing things, he seems to be arrogant, but it is difficult to be caught in the real handle, he is not afraid of making big mistakes and small mistakes, let alone punishing.

Looking at Li You's performance after taking office, he exerted the power in his hands to the limit, leaving no room for anything, so he was able to suppress the government. This is not something that everyone can do, or not everyone has the courage to do. For example, new policies such as looting salt merchants, other magistrates have the same power, but they don't dare to do it, only Master Li dares to be the first in the world.

And although Li You uses his power to the maximum, he seems to be domineering, but he is still within the scope of his authority, and he does not easily cross the invisible line, and does not leave too much truth for others.

In addition, things like cutting off the regular money for contributing to the government belong to the category of unspoken rules, and they cannot be said on the surface. As for the siege of the gate of the Salt Transportation Division, it was also someone else's fault first, which gave Master Li enough excuses.

Therefore, after summing up the lessons and lessons, Governor Luo felt that the top priority at the moment was to grasp some of Li You's real handles, and then use them to become a breakthrough.

At this time, someone else sent Li You's brother Li Zuo to the mansion, and after asking the reason, Luo Zhifu was like a treasure. not only strictly ordered not to leak it publicly, but also made people secretly pass on the news that Li Zuo was imprisoned in the government prison, and then waited for Li You to come to the door and rob people to make a mistake.

Although it is good to think about it, why doesn't Li You care about it? Luo Zhifu scolded angrily, Li You simply has no surname!

It's not that Li You underestimates the prefect of Luo, does the surnamed Luo really have the courage to kill his brother in prison? In that case, you will commit a taboo in officialdom, and wait for the blood debt to be repaid. On the contrary, Governor Luo must have specially instructed the prison to take good care of it and not to have problems.

So is Master Lee in a hurry? There is no hurry. The elder brother is rough-skinned and thick-skinned, and he is not a delicate woman, and he can see the world after suffering for a few days in prison.

Li You's other thought is that before he can't see the other party's intentions clearly, it is not necessarily a good idea to strike first, and it is likely to step into the trap with one foot. If you are confident enough, of course, you can choose to let the opponent make the first move and then strike later.

Late strikes require more strength than preemptive strikes, and the current Lord Li is no longer the Lord Li who first arrived in Yangzhou half a year ago. He has a morale, popularity, military power, financial resources, and is about to have a meritorious halo possession, and there are many means to use it, so why not be afraid of the clown?

If it was the Salt Transport Division, he might be nervous, but a prefect would not be necessary. Luo Zhifu calculated for a long time, and probably didn't expect that Master Li didn't take him seriously at all, so he was not in a hurry.

At this time, the person sent by Li You to inquire about the news also had a result. There is indeed a person named Li Zuo in the government prison, but no one in the government knows what happened to enter the government prison, as if he appeared in the government out of thin air. As a rule of thumb, he should have been transferred from elsewhere.

Li You thought about it, there are so many yamen in Yangzhou City, such as salt transportation, sub-patrol roads, government offices, county offices, and tax customs, who will transfer Li Zuo to the government office?

Of course, it is absolutely impossible for the county government. The sub-patrol road has always been slightly biased towards the county government, and it should not be done to send the county ya's cousin to the government jail, and the sub-patrol road has its own judicial power, and there is no need to take the initiative to hand over the prisoners to the government office.

Although the tax customs yamen is directly under the household department, the level is too low, and it is on the boundary of Jiangdu County, and the officials in Guanzhong are inspected by Jiangdu County, and they will not be idle and deliberately offend Jiangdu County if they have a little brain.

The last salt transportation division is not very similar, although his brother Li Zuo is not smart, but he can't go to Yangzhou to sell smuggled salt, and now the family is not short of money to spend. What's more, the Salt Transportation Division also has its own judicial powers, and there is no need to act through the government at all.

Li You felt more and more that the prefect of Naluo pretended to be mysterious and deliberately revealed the rumors, but he was afraid that he would be lured to the bait.

When he continued to inquire, there was new news that surprised Master Li. There are not only Li Zuo in Suzhou who are imprisoned in the government prison, but more than a dozen.

This is indeed very surprising, Li You always thought that his brother came to Yangzhou alone to find him, and he accidentally committed some mistakes by plotting, but now it seems that he is still committing a crime in a group. If his brother had the ability to lead more than a dozen people, then it should have been his brother who was sent to inherit the family business as a servant, and it would not be his turn Li You.

A dozen people is the obvious target. Li You immediately scattered hundreds of strong men and soldiers and visited the entire Yangzhou city. Let's see what happened to his brother.

However, another day passed, but nothing was found, and there was no trace of Li Zuo and others in the entire Yangzhou City. It seems that they have never been to Yangzhou City at all, and they just appeared in the government prison out of thin air.

This result made Li You very guessable. However, Master Cui, who has more experience in traveling from south to north, reminded that from Jiangnan to Jiangbei, if you want to cross the river from Jingkou Guazhou, the proprietor's brother must be the same. The Guazhoudu, which is forty miles away, is also under the jurisdiction of this county, so you might as well ask people to find out the news along the way.

This sentence woke up the dreamer, Li You only stared at the city of Yangzhou, but he didn't expect that the surrounding towns would send people to Guazhou quickly.

There was a reply that night, and there was an incident in the Hubu Shuici warehouse in Guazhou Town a while ago, and the owner of the warehouse had a conflict with more than a dozen Suzhou people who came to deliver grain. After that, the dozen or so Suzhou people were taken down by Cangding, and their whereabouts are unknown.

Master Li took the case, the problem must be here!

Speaking of this water warehouse, we must start with the luck that is related to the lifeblood of Jingshikou's food.

In the early years of the Dynasty, the grain supplied to the Beijing division was directly transported to the Beijing division by the local grain chiefs and rotating grain households, but it was not only laborious and costly, but also delayed agricultural affairs, so it was gradually changed to military transportation. That is, the officials and soldiers of Yangzhou Wei, Fengyang Wei and other guards along the canal are responsible for transportation, which is called Cao Jun, also called Yun Army. The Xuande Dynasty officially set the rules, the northern army was responsible for garrisoning the border, and the southern army was responsible for transportation.

However, when the Cao army transported grain, it was impossible for them to personally go to the peasant households to collect the grain from door to door, so the establishment of the water warehouse was established.

The so-called water warehouse is a granary set up at some transportation nodes along the imperial court canal, and the main purpose is to transfer grain. For example, Linqing, Xuzhou, Huai'an, Guazhou and other places are equipped with water warehouses. Each water sub-warehouse is directly managed by a member of the head of the warehouse supervisor directly assigned by the household department, and it is a grain depot directly under the state in the 21 st century.

On the one hand, households from all over the country can exchange grain to Shuicicang, and they don't have to go to Beijing; On the other hand, in accordance with the prescribed annual tasks, the Cao army exchanged grain from the water warehouse and transported it to the destination, and if it failed to complete the task, it would be punished.

This Guazhou is located in the place where the Jiangnan River must cross to the north, and it has been like this for thousands of years. Jiangnan is one of the most important sources of grain, so Guazhou Water Warehouse is the main warehouse for the exchange of grain in various counties in the south of the Yangtze River, and Suzhou Prefecture, which has the heaviest task of grain, is no exception, and Xujiang County is no exception.

Li You remembered that it was October after the autumn harvest, and it was the season to deliver grain, at this time, his brother had a conflict with Shuicicang in Guazhou, was he bullied when he came to exchange grain? When the warehouse official collected the grain, Li You understood it too well. But this kind of drudgery, how could it be his brother's turn, could it be that his father deliberately tempered him?

(To be continued)