In the early morning of the next day, as soon as the sky was bright, the soldiers at the south gate of Yangzhou City yawned as usual and opened the city gate, rubbing their sleepy eyes and preparing to start the day's duty.

Before the soldiers could open the city gate, a group of people in black military uniforms poured in outside the gate, quickly took over the defense of the city gate, and gathered the soldiers guarding the city under the city gate.

"According to the order of the salt patrol envoy of the Lianghuai Salt Road, in order to arrest the serious offenders of the illegal salt of the Lianghuai Salt Road, the Xiaowu Army took over the defense of Yangzhou." A captain's military attache gave the order to the sleepy-eyed city gate officer with a blank expression.

"Private ...... Repeat offender? When the city gate official heard this, he suddenly had a cold war, and he was completely sleepy in an instant, and he never thought that Li Yuntian, who had already left Yangzhou City, would mention the matter of private salt again, and he looked menacing, could it be that the sky of the two Huai Salt Road was going to change?

Surrounded by everyone, Li Yuntian rushed to the Lianghuai Salt Road Yamen, preparing to interrogate the captured salt road officials and salt merchants in the hall of the Lianghuai Salt Road Yamen.

Although the street was deserted at this time, there were also some scattered pedestrians, looking at the sergeant of the Xiaowu Army in a hurry with a stunned expression, whispering in private, and discussing: If they are not mistaken, the Xiaowu Army should have left Yangzhou City.

The people of the Yangzhou Division of the Jiangwutang had already received Li Yuntian's secret order in advance, and they had already paid close attention to the movements of the officials of the Lianghuai Salt Road and the salt merchants of the Salt Merchants Association, and led the Xiaowu army into the city to get people, so that those criminals were arrested in the Qinglou and at home one after another.

For a while, the quiet Yangzhou City became noisy, and the soldiers of the Xiaowu Army and the guards of Yangzhou could be seen everywhere on the street.

Soon, the people of Yangzhou City knew that something had happened to the Lianghuai Salt Road, because those who were arrested were either officials of the Lianghuai Salt Road or salt merchants of the Salt Merchants Association, and it was clear that they were coming for the Lianghuai Salt Road.

This speculation was soon confirmed by a notice posted by the government, in which Li Yuntian, the chief envoy of the Lianghuai Salt Road and the Marquis of Zhenwu, announced in the notice that the officials of the Lianghuai Salt Road and the salt merchants of the General Association of Salt Merchants were involved in the transportation and trafficking of smuggled salt, which was of a bad nature and the responsibility was serious, so they were all arrested and examined.

With the appearance of this notice, Yangzhou City suddenly caused an uproar, and no one expected that Li Yuntian would actually kill a horse pistol, and attack the two Huai Yandao with the power of thunder.

"Master, no, the people of the Xiaowu Army rushed in." In Chen's Mansion, when Chen Wenren was sleeping on the bed with a young and beautiful singing and dancing girl in his arms, the anxious voice of the housekeeper suddenly came from outside the door.

"What?" Chen Wenren suddenly woke up from his sleep when he heard this, and sat up suddenly, his eyes showed a stunned look, and he didn't react for a while.

"Catch Chen Wenren, don't let him run away." At this moment, there was a sound of messy footsteps in the courtyard, and a rough voice rang out.

"How so?" Chen Wenren finally came back to his senses, and realized that the people of the Xiaowu Army actually broke into his house and came to arrest him, his expression couldn't help but change greatly, could it be that Li Yuntian wanted to take revenge on Zhao Xinyue regardless of Zhao Xinyue's life or death?

Before Chen Wenren could figure it out, the door had been rudely kicked open, and several Xiaowu soldiers in black uniforms broke in.

"Bold, this official is a third-grade official of the imperial court, what kind of crime should you be guilty of trespassing into the official's bedroom?" Seeing this, Chen Wenren's face sank, and he shouted to the sergeants of the Xiaowu Army with a fierce expression, wanting to shock them with his official position.

"Take it!" A trace of disdain flashed at the corner of the mouth of the leading lieutenant military attaché, pointed at Chen Wenren, and gave an order in a deep voice, and the sergeant of the Xiaowu Army beside him rushed over violently.

Just as Jinyiwei only obeyed the orders of Emperor Xuande and the commanders of Jinyiwei, the soldiers of the Xiaowu Army only had Emperor Xuande and Li Yuntian in their eyes, so Chen Wenren's official authority could not scare them at all.

"Ahh When a sergeant of the Xiaowu Army removed the brocade quilt covering Chen Wenren's body, the song and dance girl who was sleeping next to him suddenly screamed in shock, it turned out that Chen Wenren and the song and dance girl were not wearing clothes, and they were presented in front of everyone.

"Dress him." The lieutenant military attache frowned slightly, and gave an order in a deep voice, he couldn't just take Chen Wenren naked.

Several sergeants of the Xiaowu Army immediately pressed Chen Wenren on the bed and put clothes on his body, and the singing and dancing girl hid in the corner of the bed with both hands and shivered, she would never have imagined that the dignified Nanjing Hubu Zuo Shilang would be treated so rudely.

"You blind reckless men dare to offend this official, this official will definitely make you regret it, hey......"

When did Chen Wenren receive this kind of humiliation, he was so angry that he opened his mouth to threaten the sergeant of the Xiaowu Army, but as a result of a sergeant who pressed his hand hard, he bared his teeth in pain, and had to close his mouth so as not to ask for hardship, his eyes flashed and he thought about what to do, it was obvious that Li Yuntian was not good this time.

Like Chen Wenren, Chen Guangzong and Zhang Sheng were also dragged out of the bed by Xiaowujun, but the two were not at home but in the boudoir of the two red-card girls in Yixiangtang.

Last night, Chen Guangzong invited Zhang Sheng and others to a banquet in the east, and he kept laughing and playing until late at night before falling asleep, because he drank a lot of wine, he was still confused when he was dragged out of the bed by Xiaowujun, and he didn't know what was going on.

Yangzhou Governor Lu Xing and Yangzhou Wei Commander Han Hu hurriedly went to the Lianghuai Yandao Yamen after receiving Li Yuntian's message, and when the two arrived, Xie Heng and Han Liang had already arrived first, discussing something with Li Yuntian there.

"Two adults, Ben Hou has sent an official document to the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate Zuodu Yushi, Nanjing Dali Temple Siqing and Nanjing Criminal Department Shangshu, asking the three adults to come to Yangzhou to supervise the trial of the two Huai Salt Road embezzlement and private salt cases, during this period the market in Yangzhou will be handed over to the two adults to maintain."

Li Yuntian stretched out his hand and motioned for Lu Xing and Han Hu to sit down, and then said with a stern expression, as the chief envoy of the Lianghuai Salt Road, if he encounters a serious case on the salt road, he can request the Nanjing Three Law Division to supervise and review it to ensure the fairness of the case.

"Xia Guan understands." Hearing that Li Yuntian was going to invite the chief official of the Nanjing Three Law Divisions to come to Yangzhou to supervise the trial of the Lianghuai Salt Road case, Lu Xing and Han Hu finally understood that Li Yuntian was going to deal heavily with the Lianghuai Salt Road this time, and they were suddenly taken aback in their hearts.

Under Li Yuntian's surprise attack, the unsuspecting officials of the Lianghuai Salt Road and the salt merchants of the Salt Merchants Association in Yangzhou City were all arrested and imprisoned in the prisons of the Lianghuai Salt Road Yamen, the Yangzhou Mansion Yamen, and the Yangzhou Wei Command Envoy Yamen.

Due to the large number of people arrested this time, more than 100 houses were seized in Yangzhou City alone, so the military camp of Yangzhou Wei became a huge prison, holding the families of thousands of criminals involved in the case.

Li Yuntian did not interrogate those arrested criminals, but ordered their property to be confiscated and collect evidence of their crimes, and the entire Yangzhou City was shrouded in a tense and depressing atmosphere.

Compared with Yangzhou City, the officialdom in Nanjing City was sensationalized, and the Xiaowu army with Li Yuntian's warrant swarmed into Nanjing's household department, and arrested all the officials involved in salt affairs in front of Nanjing's household secretary, and their family property was also seized, and all the criminals and their families were locked in the prison of Jinyi Weinan Town, and they were forbidden to contact with the outside world.

Although the authority of the Nanjing Household Department is not as good as that of the Beijing Division, the rank of the two sides is the same, and Li Yuntian dared to attack the Nanjing Household Department this time, which really surprised the people in the Nanjing officialdom.

However, in the eyes of most of the high-ranking officials and dignitaries in Nanjing City, Li Yuntian's move is a reasonable thing, and everyone knows that not long ago, the Zuo Shilang of Nanjing's household department had just provoked Li Yuntian in the affairs of the Lianghuai Salt Road, and Li Yuntian would naturally not let him bully, and of course he would fight back.

But no one expected that Li Yuntian's counterattack would come so quickly, and the movement was beyond everyone's imagination.

Obviously, Li Yuntian arrested all the officials in Nanjing's household department who were related to the Lianghuai Salt Road, and raided their homes, making it clear that he wanted to find out the old bottom of the Lianghuai Salt Road, which was simply a crazy act.

At the same time, Li Yuntian once again issued an official letter to Xue Lu, the governor of Caoyun and the Marquis of Yangwu, asking him to detain all the Nanjing household merchant ships that were transporting illegal salt after they arrived at the destination wharf, and they would not be allowed to leave without his official documents.

Those illegal salts are now Li Yuntian's killer weapon to deal with the Lianghuai Salt Road, as long as he exerts the private salt until next year, then the salt shortage in various places and those things in the Lianghuai Salt Road will be revealed to the world without his trial.

Because of this, the Nanjing officialdom took a wait-and-see attitude towards what happened in Nanjing, and did not rashly express its opinions, and no one wanted to get caught up in this case.

Others can ignore it, but the Nanjing Hubu Shangshu can not turn a blind eye, and most of the officials of the Nanjing Hubu were arrested, which made the daily operation of the entire yamen affected by Yanzhòng, so he personally found the Jinyi Weinan Town Fusi to inquire about the situation.

A colonel and military attache of the Xiaowu Army was in charge of the arrest of the Nanjing Household Department, and lightly told him that those people in the Nanjing Household Department were involved in the Lianghuai Salt Road Illicit Salt Case and the Ink Corruption Case, and Li Yuntian had invited the Nanjing Three Law Division to supervise and interrogate them, and would give them a satisfactory explanation at that time.

Nanjing Hubu Shangshu was helpless, so he had to write a letter to the sixth department of the capital for help, he naturally knew about the matter of the two Huai Yan Dao, if Li Yuntian was allowed to investigate like this, there would be a big mess.

At the same time that the letter of the Nanjing Hubu Shangshu left Nanjing City, Pan Xingmin, the left attendant of the Nanjing Criminal Department, Zhang Tao, the left deputy capital of the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate, and Qin Ke, the left deputy capital of the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate, and Qin Ke, the left Shaoqing of the Nanjing Dali Temple, set off for Yangzhou City to prepare for the trial of Li Yuntian's trial of the Lianghuai Yandao case.

To tell the truth, the three of Pan Xingmin didn't want to go to Yangzhou City again, and the muddy water of the two Huai Salt Road was not easy to go, but they were also quite helpless, because Li Yuntian had already sent an official document to the Nanjing Criminal Department Shangshu, the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate Zuodu Yushi and the Nanjing Dali Temple Siqing in accordance with the process, and the chief officer of the Three Law Divisions knew the truth of Mingzhe's self-preservation, so they didn't want to intervene in this matter, so the three of them were extremely unlucky to be caught by the chief officer of the Three Law Divisions, and had to rush to Yangzhou City again on behalf of the Nanjing Three Law Divisions.