Under Li Yuntian's orders, the sergeants of the Xiaowu Army, the officers of the Yangzhou Mansion and the soldiers of the Yangzhou Guard went from house to house to search the whole city, looking for clues related to Zhao Xinyue.

Perhaps it has been searched by the government several times in the past few days, and the people of Yangzhou City seem calm and calm about the sudden search, and even find out who the person they are looking for this time is.

After learning that the government was looking for a missing female reporter of "Mingxin Daily" and that the Mingxin Newspaper Pavilion was hanging a thousand taels of gold, the entire Yangzhou City suddenly boiled.

Although Yangzhou is the richest place in the Ming Dynasty, the hanging red of a thousand taels of gold is still attractive enough, and it is an out-and-out huge amount of money for ordinary people.

What is particularly important is that when the people in the government conducted the search, there were already rumors on the market that the missing female reporter had a close relationship with Zhenwuhou, and lived in the Yangzhou Division of the Jiangwutang where Zhenwuhou stayed instead of the Mingxin Newspaper in Yangzhou City, which made this search shrouded in a layer of mystery.

The news of Zhao Xinyue's disappearance spread all over Yangzhou City overnight, and the people talked about the relationship between her and Li Yuntian, while the officialdom and people in the business world smelled a trace of unusual smell from it.

Yangzhou City is said to be very big, looking at countless prosperity and wealth, but it is also very small, the circle of high society is so big, and what is happening in Yangzhou City can soon spread in the circle.

The news that Li Yuntian wanted to report what happened to the Lianghuai Yandao Yamen to Emperor Xuande had already spread in the upper class social circles in Yangzhou, and the fact that Chen Wenren ate a closed-door soup at the Yangzhou Department of Jiangwutang was also known to many people in the circle, and everyone knew that Chen Wenren had been forced to a dead end, and that Zhao Xinyue's kidnapping was related to him nine times out of ten.

This kind of speculation is naturally not groundless, there are very few people who dare to trouble Li Yuntian in Yangzhou City, and have the ability to trouble Li Yuntian, and Chen Wenren is one of them, otherwise it is not easy to take Zhao Xinyue away from under the noses of those Xiaowu army.

At midnight, Li Yuntian leaned on the back of the chair and closed his eyes to recuperate, Lei Ting gently massaged his shoulders with both hands, and because there was no news of Zhao Xinyue, neither of them could sleep.

"Young master, it has been found out, the cloth shop has transported out an extra cart of cloth in the afternoon, and several people who transported the cloth have disappeared." Li Manshan walked into the room quickly, bowed down and said to Li Yuntian, the Xiaowu army in the cloth workshop did not pay attention to the cart of cloth at that time, and now it seems that Zhao Xinyue is likely to be hidden in the cloth.

"It seems that they were premeditated." Li Yuntian slowly opened his eyes when he heard this, a cold light flashed in his eyes, it seemed that he was still careless, but he didn't expect the other party to hit Zhao Xinyue with his idea.

"Young master, let me find a way to arrest that kid from Chen Guangzong, I don't believe that he can survive the punishment of Jinyiwei!" Li Manshan knew that Li Yuntian was worried about Zhao Xinyue's safety, so he said murderously.

"Now I'm afraid that Chen Guangzong doesn't know where Xinyue is, Chen Wenren, the old fox, must have hidden her."

Li Yuntian shook his head when he heard this, got up and paced back and forth in the room a few times, and then opened his mouth and instructed Li Manshan, "Miss Zhao has been sent out of the city nine times out of ten, and now that the time is so short, it is impossible for Miss Zhao to be sent far, you send someone out of the city overnight, and tell the officers, soldiers and errands who have set up cards in the counties around Yangzhou City to strictly check the pedestrians who go out, and let people who know Miss Zhao identify them at the checkpoint." ”

"Especially in the surrounding townships, you must search and visit carefully, Miss Zhao is likely to be hidden in a certain family's house." Saying that, Li Yuntian remembered something and solemnly instructed.

"Young master, don't worry, they won't be able to escape from those levels." Li Manshan bowed his hand to Li Yuntian and left in a hurry.

"Xianggong, do you want to let the brothers of the Cao Gang help find it, the Cao Gang is familiar here." After Li Manshan left, Lei Ting stepped forward and mentioned to Li Yuntian with concern.

"This is a personal grudge between the ministers, and the Cao Gang should not be involved in this kind of dispute." Li Yuntian knew that Lei Ting was worried about Zhao Xinyue, so he smiled slightly and took her in his arms, comforting, "They just want that batch of private salt, and they won't hurt Xinyue." ”

"Xianggong, if I just let go of that batch of private salt, I won't be reconciled." Lei Ting snuggled up to Li Yuntian's chest, bit her lip and said, she knew Li Yuntian very well who she was, and she would definitely exchange that batch of private salt for Zhao Xinyue's safety.

"After this incident, they have formed a relationship with Xianggong, and Xianggong can deal with them openly!" Li Yuntian's eyes flashed with a cold glint when he heard this, and he said coldly.

This is Li Yuntian provoked by Chen Wenren first, how can Li Yuntian not fight back? This is also the reason why he searched the whole city for Zhao Xinyue with great fanfare, the purpose was to tell the outside world that Chen Wenren provoked this war, and then those people in the six departments would have nothing to say, should he let his dignified Zhenwu Marquis swallow his anger?

If it weren't for the stability of the situation and to avoid triggering a frantic counterattack by the officials of the six ministries on the Lianghuai Salt Road, which would have led to a scuffle between the six ministries and the cabinet, Li Yuntian would have led people to break into Chen Wenren's residence and arrest him, but he had a lot of evidence in his hands against Chen Wenren for trafficking in illicit salt, so he would not believe that Chen Wenren's mouth could not be pried open under torture.

Early the next morning, a little beggar handed an envelope to the guard in front of the gate of the Yangzhou Division of Jiangwutang, and the envelope was written with five big characters "Zhenwu Marquis personally opened".

According to the little beggar, in the early hours of the morning, a masked man gave him five taels of silver and this letter, and asked him to send it to the Yangzhou Department of Wutang after dawn, but he did not see the other party's appearance clearly.

There was a letter and an earring in the envelope, and after Lei Ting's identification, the earring was one of the pair of earrings worn by Zhao Xinyue, indicating that Zhao Xinyue was in the hand of the masked man who sent the letter.

In the letter, the other party asked Li Yuntian to immediately issue an official document to the Caoyun Governor Yamen, asking the Caoyun Governor Yamen to release those overly Nanjing household cargo ships loaded with private salt, otherwise they would let Zhao Xinyue's life worse than death.

"Go, send troops to fence up the homes of the deacons of the General Salt Merchants' Association, and no one will be allowed to enter or leave!"

After learning the content of the letter, the corners of Li Yuntian's mouth showed a sneer of disdain, the other party just wanted to take away those illegal salts with a letter, which was too indifferent to him, so after a deep groan, he coldly ordered Li Manshan that he wanted to let the other party know that he was not at the mercy of others.

With Li Yuntian's order, including Yang Muen, the mansions of salt merchants at or above the rank of deacon of the Salt Merchants Association were all surrounded by Xiaowujun and Yangzhou Wei, and no one was allowed to enter or leave, on the grounds that they were assisting Li Yuntian in investigating the case.

This suddenly made the situation in Yangzhou City become tense all of a sudden, people are constantly speculating about this, there are different opinions, since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, no one has ever dared to treat those salt merchants with deep backgrounds like this, is the naivety of the two Huai Salt Road really going to change?

Chen's house.

"Dad, the Marquis of Zhenwu actually sent troops to surround the homes of those deacons of the Salt Merchants Association, will he be angry and attack us?"

After learning the news that the mansions of those salt merchants were besieged, Chen Guangzong hurriedly reported to Chen Wenren, the expression on his face was a little flustered, Li Yuntian's actions were beyond his imagination, and he was not sure that his arrest of Zhao Xinyue would be self-defeating.

After Li Yuntian came back from Hangzhou, Chen Guangzong learned from Zijuan that Li Yuntian and Zhao Xinyue had a close relationship, so he began to fight Zhao Xinyue's idea, after all, the case of private salt was too serious, and he had to leave a way back, and he could use Zhao Xinyue to protect himself at a critical moment.

In fact, when Li Yuntian sent the salt merchants of the Salt Merchants Association to the Lianghuai Salt Road Yamen two days ago to prepare for a confrontation with Zhao Wenju and Zhao Dengyu, Chen Guangzong had already decided to attack Zhao Xinyue, but later Li Yuntian unexpectedly released those salt merchants back, making him temporarily give up his action.

"No, Zhenwuhou's move is to send a warning, if Miss Zhao is injured in the slightest, he will start to deal with the Salt Merchants Association and the Lianghuai Salt Dao." Chen Wenren shook his head when he heard this, and said to Chen Guangzong lightly, "If the Marquis of Zhenwu didn't care about Miss Zhao's life or death, he wouldn't have ordered to set up cards to intercept the surrounding towns and villages, after all, he is the Hou Ye, how could he give in because of a letter?" ”

"Dad, now that Zhenwu Hou suspects that the person was tied up by us, shouldn't Wei Deguang be thrown out?" After listening to Chen Wenren's analysis, Chen Guangzong's heart calmed down a little, and he asked in a deep voice.

"Hmm." Chen Wenren nodded when he heard this, and then looked up at Chen Guangzong, "Is there any whereabouts of Wei Deguang?" ”

"According to the child's investigation, Wei Deguang is very likely to be hiding in Xiaowangzhuang outside the city, and he has a concubine there." Chen Guangzong thought for a moment and replied.

"The road out has been blocked, Wei Deguang can't leave Yangzhou at all, nine times out of ten it's in Xiaowangzhuang, you send someone to write a letter to Zhenwuhou, telling Zhenwuhou that if you don't let those cargo ships go within three days, then wait to receive a gift from that little girl!"

Chen Wenren groaned for a moment when he heard this, and said to Chen Guangzong in a deep voice that he already had a plan and was ready to blame Wei Deguang for this matter.

"Dad, if the Marquis of Zhenwu doesn't release those cargo ships, do you really want to move the Zhao family?" Chen Guangzong bowed slightly, and then asked tentatively, he was worried that this would anger Li Yuntian, and the matter of the Lianghuai Salt Dao would not end well.

Li Yuntian is different from the ordinary salt patrol envoys, not only has a close relationship with Emperor Xuande but also is a dignified marquis, behind him there is not only the noble group of the court, but also the cabinet elders, if they are really provoked, they will definitely turn the two Huai salt roads upside down.

"If he doesn't give us a way to live, we can't let him live happily." Chen Wenren's face showed a hideous look, he didn't know that doing so would make the already critical situation of the Lianghuai Salt Dao worse, but people don't kill the heavens and the earth for themselves, and now he can't manage so much, so he can only fight against the water.

"Son, let's do it." Chen Guangzong immediately understood that Chen Wenren was making a big gamble, betting that Li Yuntian was reluctant to Zhao Xinyue, so he bowed his hand to Chen Wenren and got up to arrange for someone to write a letter to Li Yuntian.

"Wait." When Chen Guangzong walked to the door, Chen Wenren suddenly remembered something, looked at him gloomily and said, "In order to let Zhenwuhou know that we are bound to get that batch of goods, I want to give him a small gift when I write a letter this time!" ”

"The child understands!" Chen Guangzong was slightly stunned when he heard this, and then left quickly, it seemed that Chen Wenren wanted to give Li Yuntian a dismount and force Li Yuntian to give in.