On the way back to Hangzhou, in a moving two-wheeled carriage, Li Yuntian quietly looked at Keiko Yamaguchi, who was sitting opposite with his head bowed.

He knew the intentions of Master Kumei, and hoped that he could improve his relations with the Wa Kingdom through Guò Yamaguchi Keiko, and then make the Wa State take measures to restrict the Wako, which can be described as well-intentioned.

At the same time, Li Yuntian also found that Keiko Yamaguchi was very wary of the outside world and had a very heavy heart, and her mind was far from the maturity of her peers.

"Xianggong, this little girl seems to be quite wary of us." Lei Ting sat next to Li Yuntian, glanced at Keiko Yamaguchi, and whispered in Li Yuntian's ear.

"I'll trouble Madame in the future." Li Yuntian smiled slightly when he heard this, and replied softly, he has never been afraid of meeting challenges, and he doesn't believe that he can't fight a seven or eight-year-old child.

"Don't worry, the concubine will take care of her." Lei Ting smiled disappreciatively, and then her eyes fell on Keiko Yamaguchi, she also wanted to know where this Keiko Yamaguchi came from.

Among Li Yuntian's wives, there are four who can speak Chinese, namely Chen Ningning, Zheng Wanrou, Lei Ting and Liu Wenqing, Chen Ningning and Zheng Wanrou learned many Chinese because of business needs, while Lei Ting and Liu Wenqing had to master multiple Chinese languages because of the needs of the Xiaowu Army's future wars.

It can be said that Chen Ningning, Zheng Wanrou, Lei Ting, and Liu Wenqing are Li Yuntian's important assistants in the external affairs of the Hou Mansion, and they are of great help to Li Yuntian.

Chen Ningning and Zheng Wanrou are busy with the business of the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce all day long, Li Yuntian is obviously impossible for the two to take care of Keiko Yamaguchi, and Liu Wenqing is also busy with official business now sitting in Longjiang Shipyard, so it is most appropriate to hand over Keiko Yamaguchi to Lei Ting, so that he can also find a way to find a breakthrough from Keiko Yamaguchi and learn its origin.

For Li Yuntian, Keiko Yamaguchi's matter can be discussed in the long run, and the most important thing at the moment is to solve Chen Yaozu's matter, and he doesn't want to let this case drag down when dealing with the Lianghuai Yandao matter.

After returning to Hangzhou City, Li Yuntian got a good news, as he had expected before, Liu Rende couldn't wait to agree to exchange Sancheng family property for Chen Yaozu and Liu Zhongfu, so that he would undoubtedly throw out the hot potato in his hand.

Since Liu Rende knew him so well, Li Yuntian naturally would not disappoint him, and immediately asked people to inform Hangzhou Governor Ma Yan that Chen Yaozu would be tried tomorrow, and specially instructed him to "do things according to the rules"!

As for what he meant by this, Yi Mayan's experience in officialdom must be able to understand it, and Li Yuntian doesn't need to bother with more words, after all, this kind of thing can only be understood and not spoken, and it will be meaningless to put it bluntly.

Ma Yan was wondering why Li Yuntian suddenly released those sons and brothers who were locked up in the Yamen of the Zhejiang Dusi today, but then Liu Rende suddenly came to visit and asked him to take more care of Chen Yaozu's interrogation.

Because Liu Rende's words were very vague, this made Ma Yan a little confused, after all, he had not received the news that he was going to interrogate Chen Yaozu, although Li Yuntian handed over Chen Yaozu to him for trial, but when to interrogate Chen Yaozu and how to interrogate Chen Yaozu need to be decided by Li Yuntian.

After Liu Rende left, Ma Yan had been pondering his intentions, and always felt that Liu Rende seemed to know something but did not sue him, and only after receiving Li Yuntian to let him try Chen Yaozu's case, he suddenly realized that Liu Rende had already known about it.

Therefore, the words "do things according to the rules" have attracted Ma Yan's attention, if Li Yuntian only said these four words, Ma Yan may not know Li Yuntian's attitude on Chen Yaozu's case, but Liu Rende's early visit made him immediately understand Li Yuntian's intentions, knowing that Li Yuntian wanted to let Chen Yaozu go, it seems that Liu Rende has worked hard for Chen Yaozu.

The next morning, Ma Yan personally interrogated Chen Yaozu in the lobby of the Yamen of the Hangzhou Prefecture.

Seeing this, Ma Yan immediately understood what was going on, but he knew that Chen Yaozu was fine last night, and his crazy behavior at this time must have been arranged by Liu Rende, so he didn't break it, and invited several famous doctors from Hangzhou City to come for diagnosis and treatment, but the doctors insisted that Chen Yaozu was crazy.

With the confessions of those doctors, Ma Yan immediately waved his pen and acquitted Chen Yaozu of offending Li Yuntian and Lian Xiang on the grounds that he had gone crazy when he was in the Yueyue Pavilion that day, and released him on the spot and handed him over to his family to take back to take care of.

Liu Rende, who had been waiting outside the lobby, immediately took Chen Yaozu home, and soon after, Liu Zhongfu also came out of the prison of the Dusi Yamen and was carried back on a stretcher.

Ma Yan then went to the Hangzhou Division of Jiangwutang with the verdict to report to Li Yuntian, and Li Yuntian had no objection to his verdict, which made him finally let go of his hanging heart and closed this difficult case.

In the evening, Liu Rende invited Hongluan's second brother Zhao Hai to a banquet in the Yueyue Pavilion, and handed over the silver tickets, gold tickets, and property deeds to Zhao Hai, and he spent a day to gather his own three-percent family property.

Although the other party didn't know what Liu Rende's family background was, Liu Rende didn't dare to play any tricks on the Sancheng family property, and the loss of wealth was small, if he angered the other party, it would be worth the loss.

Obviously, since the other party has the ability to release Chen Yaozu, there must be a way to make him suffer from prison again.

Zhao Hai was stunned by the golden tickets and house deeds placed in a delicate Nanmu box, he had never seen so much money when he was so big, and it felt like a dream.

Liu Rende called Zhao Hai a brother at the banquet, and his attitude was very affectionate, for him, if he could take the opportunity to catch Li Yuntian's line, it would be of great benefit to his future development, which made Zhao Hai flattered and drank a lot of wine at night.

At the same time, the backyard of the Hangzhou Division of Jiangwutang is a small courtyard with an elegant environment.

Li Yuntian stood in the courtyard, looking up at a crescent moon in the sky, with a thoughtful look on his face, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Xianggong, it's cold outside, let's go back to the room." Lei Ting walked out of the house, put a coat on Li Yuntian in her hand, and said with a concerned expression.

"It's a little stuffy in the room, and the husband comes out to breathe." Li Yuntian smiled at Lei Ting when he heard this, and said lightly.

"Xianggong, you have arranged the affairs of Huai'an, and it is absolutely foolproof." Lei Ting has been with Li Yuntian for so long, and she is Li Yuntian's right-hand man, so she naturally knows that Li Yuntian has something on her mind, so she comforted with a smile.

"The success or failure of the Lianghuai Salt Road case is in this move, and the Xianggong is inevitably a little apprehensive in his heart." Li Yuntian saw that Lei Ting saw what was on his mind, and smiled and took Lei Ting into his arms.

"Xianggong, those people in Nanjing's household department like to be flamboyant and unscrupulous on weekdays, Huai'an is so far away from Nanjing, they will definitely not converge, let alone take the people of Huai'an to heart." Lei Ting leaned on Li Yuntian's chest and whispered to Li Yuntian to analyze the shape.

"I hope so, as long as the people of the Caoyun Governor's Yamen do it, then the private salt of the Salt Merchants Association will have nowhere to hide." Li Yuntian stretched out his hand and stroked Lei Ting's soft hair, and the corners of his mouth showed a smug look, I am afraid that Chen Guangzong would never have imagined that he would set a trap in Huai'an.

For this trap in Huai'an, Li Yuntian can be said to have been preparing for a long time, and everything he did on his trip to Yangzhou this time was to promote this trap.

"I'm afraid that Yang Wuhou will be shocked." Lei Ting remembered something, couldn't help but smile, and looked up at Li Yuntian.

"Yang Wuhou has been in the officialdom for so many years, and he knows how to deal with this matter." Li Yuntian also laughed, in this trap he laid, Xue Lu, the governor of Caoyun and the Marquis of Yangwu, was the most important link.

At this time, Huai'an City, Caoyun Governor Yamen.

"Report, General Zhang asks to see!" Because it was getting late, Xue Lu was already ready to rest, and just as the concubine was untying his clothes, the voice of the guards came from outside the door.

Xue Lu's brows suddenly frowned slightly when he heard this, General Zhang was a general under him and his confidant, so he must have something important to do when he came so late, so he asked the concubine to put on his robe and go to the living room in the front yard to check.

In the living room in the front yard, a burly middle-aged general was pacing restlessly back and forth in the room, and in the open space of the room was a heavy sack, not knowing what it contained.

"What's going on?" As soon as Xue Lu entered the door, he saw the sack, frowned and asked the middle-aged general, he was General Zhang.

"Master Hou, look." Zhang Shenjiang took out his waist knife when he heard this, pierced it on the sack, stirred it in it with the blade of the knife a few times and pulled it out, and some white flowers like sugar particles rolled out from the gap in the sack, Zhang Shen grabbed a handful and handed it to Xue Lu.

"Caught the salt owl?" Xue Lu smelled those white particles, there was a salty smell, and immediately recognized that these white particles were salt, so he looked at General Zhang with some surprise, and he did not arrange the matter of attacking the salt lords in his impression.

"My lord, this bag of salt was taken from the ship that transported the goods from the household department, and after the humble inspection, the cargo ship of the household department was actually loaded with salt!" General Zhang shook his head and whispered to Xue Lu.

"What?" Xue Lu was taken aback when he heard this, he thought that these salts were sold by salt lords, but he never expected that they would come from the cargo ship of the household department.

As the governor of Caoyun, Xue Lu knew very well that the season of official salt transportation had already passed, and the person who held the salt had always been the official of the Lianghuai Salt Road, when it was the turn of the officials of the household department to escort it.

Obviously, the salt on the Hubu cargo ship is definitely not official salt, so it can only be called private salt, Xue Lu remembers very clearly, yesterday there was already a group of Hubu cargo ships through Guò Huai'an to the north, today the scale of this batch of cargo ships is similar to yesterday, there are nearly 100 boats, if it is loaded with private salt, it will be the first major private salt case since the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

"How did you know there was illicit salt on board?" In the face of such a big case, Xue Lu knew that trouble was coming, and it was obvious that this batch of illegal salt dared to pretend to be the goods of the household department was definitely not accidental, and there was a huge entanglement of interests involved, so he groaned for a while, frowned and asked General Zhang, who would definitely not search the cargo ship of the household department for no reason.

"Lord Hou, I received a report that there were weapons and other contraband hidden on the ship of the household department, so I went to check, and it turned out that the ship was full of salt." Hearing this, General Zhang showed a look of embarrassment on his face, and pretended to answer calmly.

"How many people know about this?" Xue Lu keenly noticed the panicked look in General Zhang's eyes, and knew that he was not telling the truth, but he was not ready to ask about the hidden truth, some things still knew as little as possible, and then asked quietly.

It has to be said that boarding and inspecting in the name of inspecting weapons is an excellent excuse, although the governor of Caoyun Yamen can not manage the affairs of the household department, but he has the full force to inspect the river, especially the prohibited goods such as weapons are the primary inspection target, and the cargo ship of the household department does not have the official document of the military department to transport weapons, so it is logical for Zhang Shen to inspect the ship this time, after all, this is his duty, and the outside world has nothing to blame for this.