As Zhang Sheng sent Lu Xing an official document to assist in the investigation of Zhao Dengyu, a fugitive from Zhao Wenju's smuggling salt case, the entire Yangzhou city immediately became noisy, and people from the Yangzhou Mansion, the Lianghuai Salt Road Yamen, and the Salt Merchants Association searched from house to house, causing chickens and dogs to jump in the city, and people were panicking.

Some slippery servants took advantage of this opportunity to extort money, and made a lot of oil and water from it, which also made the people miserable and complained.

It's a pity that even if those people turn Yangzhou City upside down, there is no trace of Zhao Dengyu, but they are not without gains, people who are familiar with Zhao Dengyu have seen Zhao Dengyu in a hurry and wearing a common man's clothes in the city.

If it weren't for the fact that the acquaintance was Fa Xiao, who grew up with Zhao Dengyu, he could hardly recognize Zhao Dengyu in disguise, and he also called Zhao Dengyu at that time, Zhao Dengyu glanced back at him and quickly disappeared into the crowd.

This statement was confirmed by several of the boys who were with the acquaintance at the time, and they all witnessed the situation, and the acquaintance called out to a young man in ordinary clothes, and the young man fled and left.

This information is extremely important to Chen Wenren, showing that Zhao Dengyu is indeed in Yangzhou City, and it is obvious that he is looking for an opportunity to get close to Li Yuntian, and the Yangzhou Department of Jiangwutang and the Yamen of Lianghuai Yandao have already been full of Chen Wenren's people, as long as Zhao Dengyu shows his head, he will be arrested, so Zhao Dengyu has to disguise himself to avoid people's eyes.

Chen Wenren felt that Zhao Dengyu had no place to hide in Yangzhou, first of all, the relatives and friends of the Zhao family, followed by the inn, and finally the place where the three sects and nine streams gathered.

In order to find Zhao Dengyu, Chen Wenren has already offered a reward of 10,000 taels of silver, as long as someone catches Zhao Dengyu, 10,000 taels for the dead and 15,000 taels for the living, causing people in Yangzhou City to go crazy and search for Zhao Dengyu's whereabouts.

Now that Zhao Dengyu has appeared in the city, it is obvious that it is not far from where he is hiding, so Chen Wenren ordered a strict investigation of the neighborhood where the acquaintance met Zhao Dengyu, and Zhao Dengyu is hiding nearby.

After nightfall, the streets and alleys of Yangzhou City were full of torches, and the people who searched for Zhao Dengyu from the government and the people searched vigorously from house to house, stirring up the miasma of smoke in the city, and the ghosts wept and howled.

Under the strong search efforts of the government and the people, some fugitives and black households hidden in the city were found out one after another and put in the prison of the Yangzhou Mansion, which can be regarded as an unexpected joy, which made the public security of Yangzhou Mansion improve rapidly.

Although the city is chaotic and chaotic, the Yangzhou Division of the Wutang is peaceful and quiet, not to mention that the Yangzhou Office of the Wutang is the direct yamen of the Jingshi Wutang, not the Yangzhou Mansion and the Lianghuai Yandao Yamen can be searched if they want to, and Li Yuntian's stay here alone has made the searchers prohibitive, and they retreated.

Besides, no one would have thought that Zhao Dengyu was hiding in the Yangzhou Affairs Office of Jiangwutang, so the Yangzhou Affairs Office of Jiangwutang has undoubtedly become the best hiding place for Zhao Dengyu.

The night is dark, and there is a wing room in the backyard of the Yangzhou Division of the Wutang Department.

Li Yuntian sat behind the desk and looked at the official documents in his hand in an orderly manner, although he seemed to be leisurely and idle during the day, but at night he had to hurry up and deal with the official business at hand.

At this moment, Li Yuntian was holding an official document from Fang Youjie, the factory supervisor of the Longjiang Shipyard under the jurisdiction of Jiangwutang, inviting Li Yuntian to attend the launching ceremony of the three-masted sailing ship produced by the Longjiang Shipyard in the spring of next year.

After more than three years of unremitting efforts, Longjiang Shipyard finally built a three-masted sailing ship that met his requirements in accordance with Li Yuntian's requirements, and the construction is expected to be completed in the spring of next year.

Li Yuntian has always paid attention to the construction of the sailor, so of course he has to attend the launching ceremony of the three-masted sailing ship, when the lecture martial arts will form the first sailor in the true sense of the Ming Dynasty, and the three-masted sailing ship will become the main warship of the sailor.

"Xianggong, he's here." Just as Li Yuntian was looking at the official document sent by Fang Youjie, Lei Ting walked in and said to him in a deep voice.

Li Yuntian raised his head when he heard this, put down the official document in his hand and bowed slightly to Lei Ting, who then led a young man in a guard service in.

"Sinner Zhao Dengyu knocked on the Hou Ye." The young man entered the door and fell to his knees with his legs bent, then kneeling with his head to the ground.

"Get up." Li Yuntian raised his hand upwards at Zhao Dengyu's void and said quietly.

These days, Zhao Dengyu has been hiding in the Yangzhou Department of Jiangwutang as Li Yuntian's guard, and according to Li Yuntian's request, he went around outside, deliberately being met by his acquaintance, in order to confuse Chen Wenren.

"Master Xie." Zhao Dengyu got up after hearing the words and gave Li Yuntian a kowtow, and stood there with his hands down, he had already seen Zhao Wenju, and Zhao Wenju asked him to obey Li Yuntian's arrangement in every matter.

Li Yuntian promised Zhao Wenju and Zhao Dengyu that as long as the two of them made great contributions in the Lianghuai Yandao case, then he would start Emperor Xuande to give the Zhao family a way out and secretly arrange for them to move to the Old Port Xuanwei Division.

"Tomorrow is the moment of decisive battle, success or failure in this move, tomorrow your report involves the two Huai Yandao Yamen, and the thirty killing sticks are probably inevitable." Li Yuntian pondered for a moment and looked at Zhao Dengyu with a stern expression.

Zhao Dengyu is a citizen, and the two Huaiyan Road Yamen are officials, according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, if the people sue the officials, whether they are justified or not, they will hit the 30 boards first.

Even though Li Yuntian wants to protect Zhao Dengyu, Chen Wenren will not give up, and will definitely use this law of the imperial court to make things difficult for Zhao Dengyu, and Zhao Dengyu will inevitably be beaten at that time.

"Master Hou, rest assured, the sinners are already mentally prepared, but they are just beaten by a board, as long as they can atone for their sins, it will cost my life." Zhao Dengyu bowed to Li Yuntian and replied solemnly, he knew some inside stories in the yamen, if the errand who started when he hit the board was beaten to death, he would definitely be more than lucky if the thirty boards went down.

"At that time, Ben Hou will let the people of Jinyi Wei execute, and you will inevitably suffer some flesh and skin." Li Yuntian saw Zhao Dengyu's look of death, so he smiled slightly and comforted him, those Jinyi guards will definitely fight, but it will only be a skin injury and will definitely not hurt his life.

Zhao Dengyu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he heard this, his expression became relaxed, as long as he could save a life, a little pain of flesh and skin could be nothing.

"Have you remembered everything you have been told?" Li Yuntian smiled when he saw this and asked.

"Remember clearly, tomorrow the sinners will act according to the plan." Zhao Dengyu bowed to Li Yuntian and replied seriously.

"What you want to do this time is not only to save your family, but also for the sake of the Ming Dynasty and the people of the world, you should know how much silver Daming loses in the salt tax every year, if the drawbacks of the Lianghuai Salt Road are not cleared, it will eventually become a major hidden danger for my Daming, and I don't know when it will endanger the safety of Daming, and the consequences will be unimaginable."

Li Yuntian pondered for a moment, and said to Zhao Dengyu with a stern expression, "Ben Hou believes that you were also a person with great ambitions once upon a time, and now Ben Hou gives you a chance to serve the country, I hope you can seize it." ”

"Don't worry, the sinners know what to do!" When Zhao Dengyu heard this, he immediately felt the importance of tomorrow's affairs, and at the same time felt a heavy responsibility on his shoulders, so he bowed his hand to Li Yuntian and replied in a deep voice.

Li Yuntian heard that a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he bowed slightly to Zhao Dengyu, he was very satisfied with his mental outlook, and only by strengthening his belief could he better deal with tomorrow's things.

After all, Li Yuntian is not ready to clash head-on with Chen Wenren in order to facilitate the aftermath in the future, which will make Zhao Dengyu under tremendous pressure at that time, so he must first cheer up Zhao Dengyu so that Zhao Dengyu is psychologically prepared to deal with all kinds of difficulties tomorrow.

Because the fate of the private salt will be decided the next day, this makes many people in the Lianghuai Salt Road and the Salt Merchants Association highly nervous, and they have insomnia at night, everyone knows that once this matter is revealed, it will be a shocking case, and I don't know how many people will fall to the ground.

Chen Guangzong followed the servants of the two Huaiyan Road Yamen to work in the city for most of the night before dragging his tired legs back to his residence, Zhao Dengyu seemed to have evaporated from the world, and the searchers had turned over Yangzhou City but could not find it, and they did not know where they were hiding.

"The eldest son!" In the living room of the backyard of Chen's house, Zijuan, who was napping on the chair with her hand on her forehead, heard the footsteps in the yard, opened her eyes and quickly got up, and walked forward to meet Chen Guangzong, who had been waiting for Chen Guangzong all night.

"Why haven't you slept yet?" Chen Guangzong, who was expressionless, forced a smile when he saw this, and a smile appeared on his face.

"The eldest prince must be tired after a busy day, so the concubine will pinch your shoulders." Zijuan knew that Chen Guangzong was in a bad mood now, and the private salt of Caoyun Yamen was hanging on Chen Guangzong's head like a knife, and it could fall at any time, so she smiled and said softly.

"Okay." Chen Guangzong is now physically and mentally exhausted, nodded when he heard the words, walked into the living room and sat on a chair in the living room, where he closed his eyes and recuperated, if he couldn't catch the scourge of Zhao Dengyu, the consequences would be unimaginable, even if he avoided the seizure of illicit salt, then it would bring big trouble in the future, after all, Zhao Dengyu knew too much inside information.

Zijuan stood behind Chen Guangzong and patiently pinched his shoulders carefully, making Chen Guangzong feel comfortable all over his body, Zijuan's massage techniques have been specially trained, specifically to please men, and the techniques are very superb.

"When this time is over, I will take you into the house and leave Yangzhou to settle in Hangzhou." After a long time, Chen Guangzong suddenly opened his mouth and said to Zijuan, who was massaging his legs.

Since Chen Wenren is no longer in charge of the power of salt enlargement, Chen Guangzong will naturally no longer be in charge of the Salt Merchants Association, and will become the liaison between the Salt Merchants Association and the Lianghuai Salt Road Yamen.

Although Yangzhou City is prosperous, Chen Guangzong must leave here to make room for his successor, which is also the so-called not in his position and not seeking his own government, if he stays in Yangzhou, it will inevitably cause many unnecessary reveries and misunderstandings to his successor.

Although Hangzhou is not as rich as Yangzhou, it is also a place full of flowers, Chen Guangzong has several lifetimes of money that can not be spent, and he can enjoy life in Hangzhou leisurely and comfortably in the future.

Zijuan's face was immediately happy when she heard this, since she entered Tianxiang Pavilion, she was looking forward to marrying into a good family, if she could become a concubine of a famous family like Chen Guangzong, she could also be regarded as fulfilling her wish and getting rid of this kind of laughing life.