"Thank you, sir!" Yang Shan thanked him, and then stood up from the ground.

"Mr. Yang, this official asks you, why did Wang Dong from the East Factory say that your Fuwei Dart Bureau smuggled and collaborated with the enemy and treason?" Meng Yan asked in a deep voice.

"Don't you know?"

"I've heard some of this, but I don't know much about it, I want to hear from you, what's going on here?"

"Lord Meng, the villain and the Fuwei Dart Bureau have been wronged, and we are smuggling and collaborating with the enemy at all!"

"Do you have business dealings with the tribes of the steppe?"

"If you want to say that there is business contacts, it is not wrong, our Fuwei Dart Bureau often carries some private goods, that is, some tea or something, and when it comes to the border and mutual market, we will trade with the Tatars and make some hard-earned money." Yang Shan said with a bitter face.

"Don't tell me this, the people in Dongchang want to find evidence, and they can turn your old bottom out in minutes, you people are bold and dare to do anything, right?" Meng Yan knew that even if Yang Shan and the others were wronged, they had a handle and were caught.

It is unlikely that these people would have collaborated with the enemy, but it is not new to sell contraband to the Tatars.

A profit of 300 percent can make people take risks, and the profit from smuggling contraband will definitely exceed that.

As long as there is a way, a small amount of smuggling contraband is smuggled, which is not a rare thing at the border gate.

This depends on how to treat the generals guarding the border, if you are strict, you can't take it out if you make a deal, if you loosen it up, this kind of small thing that can't change the overall situation, it will pass with one eye and one eye closed.

"In the past, we did trade privately with the Tatars, mainly with salt and iron."

"And now?"

"Now that the border inspection is very strict, we don't dare to do it for a long time, and if we catch it, we will kill our heads." Yang Shandao.

"So the border control is very strict?"

"Not really. They were very strict about our small amount of smuggling, but they did a big job of their own. Yang Shandao.

"Yang Shan, you are responsible for saying these words?" Meng Yan looked directly at Yang Shandao.

For the sake of smuggling interests, border generals crack down on private smuggling and monopolize smuggling in order to maximize profits.

The generals guarding the border not only failed to defend the country. also helped the enemy strengthen himself, which is much more hateful than Yang Shan's petty fights.

"Adult, villains are like this, the big deal is death, what else can I lie to you?" Yang Shandao.

"What else do you know?"

"I don't know about other places, but in Datong Town, almost one-third of the border generals are involved in smuggling."

"One-third, where did you get that number?" Meng Yan was shocked, and a third of the generals were rotten. That's not just a third of the combat power, that's half or more.

Doesn't the chief military officer of Datong know that he doesn't care?

"We sell a small amount of salt and iron, and we only need to bribe the generals who guard the customs to take them out, but if we transport a large amount of salt and iron out of the customs, it is too scattered in batches, and it is easy to be discovered, so. It's better to gather together and get out of the customs together. In this way, there will be more officials to deal with, and there will not be so many people who will directly and indirectly get the benefits? Yang Shan explained.

"Doesn't the supervision yamen know that they won't investigate and deal with it?"

"Of course I know, but if I want to check, do you know who is the biggest person behind the smuggling of salt and iron?" Yang Shan snorted.

"Who?"

"The eunuch guarding the Datong prison army. That's the person around the emperor, Huang Mingqin, who can reach the heavens, is extremely powerful, who dares to check him? ”

"This Mr. Yang knows everything. It seems that you are extraordinary! ”

"Don't dare, adults, villains, this is all heard, heard." Yang Shan said with a sneer.

"What is the relationship between Mr. Yang's dart head and Lord Tang Yu?" Meng Yan continued to ask.

"Master Tang is the villain's employer."

"Employer, what did he hire you for?" Meng Yan asked.

"Master Meng, don't you know, and you still ask the villain?" Yang Shan was in a hurry, this Lord Meng is young, how can he like to torture people, he knows it, and he has to ask it.

"This official knows and knows, if you don't say it, this nature is different, you say that it is a voluntary confession, and it is considered a voluntary surrender, understand?"

"Understood, understood, my lord, Lord Tang just wants to ask our dart bureau to escort his wife and children back to his father-in-law's house in the capital."

"Lord Tang's father-in-law is in the capital?" Meng Yan was taken aback, "Why are you just saying it now!" ”

"Sir, didn't you just ask?"

Meng Yan got up and opened the door: "Call you Lord Shen, I have something to look for him." ”

"The address of Lord Tang's father-in-law?"

"It seems to live in the white rice sloping street of Rizhongfang, and I don't know which villain it is." Yang Shandao.

"Didn't he tell you the exact address?"

"No, only Mrs. Chen knows the specific address, and after the people from the dart bureau escort it there, they will naturally be able to find it after listening to Mrs. Chen's instructions."

"This Lord Tang is very thoughtful, but it shouldn't be too difficult for Dongchang to know the address of his father-in-law's house." Meng Yan Road.

"My lord, what should I do, can't the old lady have anything to do?"

"Don't worry, Dongchang won't think so quickly that Master Tang has a mansion in Beijing?" Meng Yan asked.

"There is a house, which was purchased with all his net worth after the title of Lord Tang's gold list back then."

"Mr. Yang knows a lot."

"It's all Lord Tang himself suing the villain." Yang Shan said with an embarrassed face.

"Can you tell this official how you and Master Tang met, otherwise there are so many dart games, and you will be selected for your Fuwei dart game?" Meng Yan asked playfully.

"This matter is a long story, the year before last Mr. Tang went to Datong to take office, just the villain took a car of goods to Datong, this way to take care of each other, the villain saw that he talked and behaved extraordinary, he intended to make friends, when he knew that he was sent by the imperial court to Datong to inspect the imperial history, naturally more enthusiastic, we are darts, many friends and many roads, so the official road is good, the green forest, that is the object of friendship, this is not good. The future is a way to live, Lord Tang went to take office, and he brought an old housekeeper with him, no one else, to be honest, this Lord Tang didn't know how powerful the bandits were on the way......"

"Say so. Gang trouble along the way? ”

"My lord, you are at the foot of the Son of Heaven, that is the first good area, naturally I don't feel anything, but once you go out of the capital, then you have to be careful everywhere, this occupies the mountain as the king, and the grass is more into the cow's hair, we dart the dart, all the way to the filial piety. Just waiting to lose money! Yang Shan sighed.

"Are you darts still afraid of these, can't you beat them?"

"We are naturally not afraid of such bandits, and they don't dare to take the dart car lightly, and if they can't get their lives into it, they can make us have scruples about the dart game, and in general, nine mountains and thirteen villages!"

"Nine Mountains and Thirteen Villages?" It was not the first time Meng Yan had heard this title, he was hunted down. Among them are people from nine mountains and thirteen villages.

Jiang Feng and these people are also from the Nine Mountains and Thirteen Villages, and they are engaged in the business of killing people. Usually there is a lot of mobility, and it is very famous in the area of Taihang Mountain, otherwise, Guo Jing would not have instructed people to let them pick up this dark flower.

Jiang Feng suffered a lot of losses in the process of chasing and killing Meng Yan, and also killed many brothers, and was later surrendered by Meng Yan. It stands to reason that Meng Yan should be hated.

But they don't have a grudge, the murderer, the person kills him, and since they have embarked on this path, they have to bear this qiē.

Let alone. Killers don't necessarily have to be indistinguishable from black and white.

Jiang Feng and the others are very mysterious, and they do this to protect their relatives, and after settling down in the capital, they took their relatives over one after another, of course, there are also people who don't do this, but they just send property to their families every period of time.

They also have a resounding name: ghosts see sorrow.

Meng Yan also laughed at him, why did he come up with such a cheesy name, Jiang Feng was still embarrassed, and said, this is a friend in the Tao who gave him such a name, which is not their original meaning.

Since they are good, the ghosts and sorrows have disappeared from the nine mountains and thirteen villages, and there is no news of them on the rivers and lakes.

Even Guo Jing, who chased and killed Meng Yan with a lot of money, probably wouldn't have imagined that he would become Meng Yan's subordinate, right?

Jiang Feng and they all have hidden identities, which is all due to Jiang Xiaodie, otherwise their past would have been dug up long ago.

After Meng Yan knew it, he couldn't help but exclaim, this little woman's wisdom is really not to be underestimated, and she should have such foresight.

It is not easy for such a woman to disguise herself as a man, mix in a group of men all day long, and serve them as a military advisor, and break into such a big fame.

Sometimes Meng Yan also asked himself, did he dislike Jiang Xiaodie's identity as a murderer, why was he so fond of a beautiful woman, but he was not moved?

Maybe it's because fate hasn't arrived, maybe it's really no feeling.

"My lord, the strength of each house in these nine mountains and thirteen villages is quite strong, even the local government does not dare to provoke lightly, and they rarely go against the government directly, so the government will turn a blind eye, as long as they don't rebel and don't kill people indiscriminately, they won't care about it." Yang Shandao.

"Did you send officers and soldiers to encircle and suppress it?"

"How could there be not, there are also unwilling, who want to return one side of Qingning, send troops to encircle and suppress, see that there are many officers and soldiers, but people hide in the mountains, and there is not a single hair in sight, how can you suppress it?"

Meng Yan nodded, 100,000 mountains, if these dozens or hundreds of people are hidden, it is really difficult to find, it seems that our ancestors have already learned this guerrilla warfare.

"Let's not talk about this first, what this official wants to know is whether there is any evidence in the hands of Master Tang against Guo Jing, the eunuch of the Datong Prison Military Mansion, and if so, what is it?"

"This villain really doesn't know, the villain agreed to escort his wife and son back to Beijing because he had taken care of the dart bureau in Datong in the past two years." Yang Shandao.

"You can not say it, but the official may not be able to find out, but when the time comes, if the consequences are irreparable, then don't blame the official for not reminding you in advance." Meng Yan also guessed that even if Yang Shan knew, he wouldn't say it lightly.

Their trust in each other has not yet been established.

Of course, Meng Yan will not sue him lightly, Mrs. Chen and Tang Gongzi are in his hands, this is the biggest card he can play in his hand.

At least the East Factory doesn't know that yet. (To be continued......)