Cai De gritted his teeth and stared at the people in the room, his hand clutched on the handle of the short knife, and he shrank in the corner of the wall without making a sound.

The sound of rumbling horses' hooves was getting closer and closer, and there was already a commotion in the Zhuangzi near the river in Xin'an Town, and Cai Kui shouted loudly: "Let the brothers stop messing up, watch us mess, and we won't have to pay the price in the future." ”

Before they could get out of the house, the sound of horses' hooves had stopped, and the commotion outside had subsided, and someone whispered in the house: "These rabbits are so timid." ”

"Let's eat on the water, who is not afraid to watch so many horseback riders!"

It is estimated that the people involved were frightened, and the people guarding the gate outside the courtyard and outside the gate did not say a word, and everyone only heard footsteps entering the courtyard and approaching.

The door of the house was slammed open, and a dozen young and strong men rushed in, holding stainless steel knives in their hands, followed by several young men in iron armor, vaguely looking like leaders.

This is not the dress of the Smelling Fragrance Sect, Cai Kui already felt that something was wrong, the young man at the head glanced at the room, and asked in a cold voice, "Who is Cai Kui?" ”

Cai Kui and the others subconsciously knew that they shouldn't answer, but they also subconsciously looked at Cai Kui.

The young man nodded and asked again, "Who is Cai De?" ”

Everyone didn't hesitate this time, they all pointed to Cai De, although they are all surnamed Cai, but the relationship between the two sides is very far, many of the ordinary people brought by Cai De are fishermen, and they all come from the north shore, and they have nothing to do with Cai Kui and everyone, and they don't do things all the way, and they often can't get used to it.

The young man waved his hand to Cai De and motioned for Cai De to go over, Cai De hesitated for a moment, but walked over quickly, and when Cai De passed, the young man said: "I am Zhao Jin, Xuzhou Zhao Jin, Cai Kui, your case on the Yellow River has been released, and the human and material evidence are there, come with us once!" ”

"What?" Cai Kui and several of his leaders were stunned, it was not Wenxiang who came, it was Zhao Jin who came! And what Zhao Jin actually said about the case, and the human and material evidence are there?

"That's not right!" After being stunned, someone immediately reacted, reached out to touch the knife, and the blade was placed on the edge of the stool, but as soon as he started here, two Pu knives slashed over, flashed the first, and the second did not dodge, stabbing straight in the chest, blood shot out from the back, splashing Cai Kui's face in the back.

"Enter the master and spare your life!" Cai Kui finally understood what was happening, looking at the corpses of his subordinates who fell softly in front of him, he only felt his heart was broken, his whole body was cold, and he didn't have the slightest intention of resisting, he only felt that his knees were weak, and he knelt on the ground, just stammering and begging for mercy.

Several others also knelt down, and one of them reached into his trouser leg as he knelt on the ground, and before he could make the next move, he slashed off his shoulder, and the arm holding the dagger fell to the ground, and then another knife, this time in the head.

The second human life made everyone dare not move, and knelt there obediently, what made them wonder was that Cai De bowed down and stood next to Zhao Jin, but he never knelt.

Everyone immediately understood, some people glared angrily, and some people showed begging expressions, Cai De didn't make a sound, Zhao Jin said again: "Last year, you helped the homeless people cross the river, this is really a great merit, Zhao has not had time to thank you, this time I can't miss it!" ”

Hearing this, Cai Kui's whole person was about to collapse, Zhao Jin actually knew about this matter, then it was all over, it must be this Cai De said, this miscellaneous beast who eats inside and out, he shouldn't have taken him in the first place, Cai Kui's face was distorted, but as soon as he opened his mouth, it became a begging for mercy: "Xiaode, for the sake of our same clan and clan, for the sake of the second uncle to take you in, beg for the second uncle, the second uncle's family, the second uncle's boats, all for you, all to the master, Xiaode, you owe the second uncle, you can't"

Zhao Jin and the others looked at Cai De, Cai De's face turned red, and he said in a sullen voice: "Second uncle, we are the same clan, but when did you treat me as the same clan, the fire on the water and the shore was not me leading the people to take the lead, and the things that were distributed afterwards were not the least on my side, when the people were bad, just because the people on my side did not follow together, you would make things difficult everywhere, the little loach didn't look at you and messed with people, and said a fair word, but he died on the river for no reason, he was stabbed in the back, and I also said last year, don't provoke the master, Don't follow that gang of thieves, Xuzhou has been harmed, and we won't be fine, what do you say! ”

As he spoke, his voice became hoarse, obviously excited, Zhao Jin didn't let him continue to complain, just waved his hand and said: "Wait a minute, you follow out of the Lu to pick people, what you have in your hand, and those who have no guilt left, and the rest must be taken away." ”

"Master Jin, spare your life, there is a small box hidden under the bed in the back bedroom, there are fifty taels of gold in it, spare the life of a small dog!" Cai Kui knelt there and kowtowed.

"Let's go to the government and say this!" Zhao Jin just replied briefly and strode out of the room.

Someone in the house went up to tie up and do it, the torches outside the house and outside the courtyard were bright, and the cavalry of the Zhao battalion and the horse team gathered in Xuzhou had already guarded the people gathered here.

Cai De saluted Zhao Jin respectfully, and then was taken to identify people, Chen Sheng never followed in, he presided over the overall situation outside, Chen Sheng's hand was always on the handle of the knife, and there were two people standing beside him, but they were all dressed as businessmen, with polite and humble faces.

"The last time it was such a purchase and sale, I won't interfere in Luoma Lake and Caoyun, and you don't stretch out your hand on the surface of the Yellow River in Xuzhou, there are rules for taking goods and boats." Zhao Jin looked at the two and said.

The two people had a smile on their faces, and one of them bowed down and said: "Jin Ye is right, we also know the rules of the road, last year it was really no way, their helmsman came to star, Xu Lao Er urged every day, this is how to use this Cai Kui, and this Cai Kui is on the pole to help, we didn't want to at that time." ”

Zhao Jin didn't say much, just pointed to the captives who had been held together, and said: "You go and pick out your own people, there are some things that you still have to say again, don't think about Zhao Ziying, if you are dug out by me, don't blame me for not being emotional." ”

"Please rest assured, we can save it, if you don't enter the master's wine, the brothers' lives are not so good, everyone knows how to do it!" The two of them said flattering and flattering words in succession, and went over there.

Watching the two of them leave, Chen Sheng put down the handle of the knife and said in surprise: "I thought that the people in the sect were all diehards, but I didn't expect there to be such businessmen." ”

"Cao grain for wine, plus to send materials to the village, smell the fragrance and teach the people and horses on the Cao Yun don't know how much benefit Lu Dao has made, there are such big benefits in front, of course, it is a businessman, but also because of our knives, they are afraid of killing, otherwise, they would have been thinking about swallowing us a long time ago." Zhao Jin said coldly.

Chen Sheng nodded, and said with a smile: "They are shameless, but they have saved us a lot of trouble." ”

It was not only Zhao Jin's men and horses who arrived in Xin'an Town this night, but also the Pizhou Yamen also sent their own catchers and errands, and the two sides politely divided the guests and stolen goods, and went back to various places.

Pizhou took 30% of the stolen silver and stolen goods, Zhao Jin took 60% of the stolen money, and the remaining 10% was divided equally between the yamen of the two sides as evidence.

Zhao Jin came to Xin'an Town, Pizhou this time, with the official document issued by the Xuzhou Prefecture Ya, to arrest the Jiangyang thief Cai Kui and his comrades

Guo Lao Liu, the fast catcher on the Pizhou side, is a local snake, and he knows the joints of Cai Kui's gang very well, and if he arranges the people who handle it below, he knows it well.

Cai Kui's subordinate Cai De and he were separated, Cai Kui was the incense head of the Smelling Fragrance Sect, and even where Cai Kui had been hiding, Guo Lao Liu inquired and understood, and it didn't take too much effort.

Zhao Jin directly arranged for someone to find the leader of the Wenxiang Sect in Yutou Town, although the relationship between the two sides was about to leave, but for such an inconspicuous little person, the Wenxiang Sect still said that he would give up, and by the way, he also asked about the matter of the salt market, the Wenxiang Sect has penetrated deeply in all aspects of Caoyun, and he also has a lot of private salt roads.

Wen Xiangjiao came forward, saying that he wanted to contain Cai Kui and his gang, and asked him to gather his subordinates to go to the Zhuangzi, and then Guo Laoliu sent people to see Cai De, who easily said that this young man who had long wanted to turn his face and break up the gang was moved.

After all the preparations were completed, Zhao Jin led the horse team to rush over, and with Cai De's people, everything was much easier.

In mid-April, a series of major cases on the Yellow River were exposed, Cai Kui and his cadres were sentenced to beheading, confiscated their homes, and some of them went bankrupt and wanted to live, but the government did not dare to relax in the slightest, because Zhao Jin sent people to keep an eye on both sides and never give a little loophole to exploit.

As soon as this case broke out, the two inspectors on the Yellow River in Pizhou and Xuzhou were naturally removed from their posts and investigated, and one of Dong Bingfeng's uncles went to Dong's house and Zhao's house to take a turn, and quickly took a patrol position.

Cai De took refuge under Zhao Ziying, and he had a total of more than 70 people in his hands, but there were nearly 150 large and small ships, which were naturally Cai Kui's gang.

In less than ten days, everyone suddenly discovered that the Yellow River from Xuzhou to Pizhou had been controlled by Zhao Jin.

When the plan of Yanshi was proposed, the Yellow River waterway must be controlled in his hands, and of course it was not possible to train sailors in temporary shipbuilding, so he naturally had to find an alternative means, originally arranged for Liu Yong to go to Luoma Lake in Yutou Town to investigate and see if there were any crew and sailors who could be used, and by the way, he learned about the Cai family's water thief.

In the past, Zhao Jin knew the power of the road, but he didn't bother to pay attention to it, and even Zhao Jin knew about them transporting thieves across the river, but at the moment, he didn't care about it at all, Zhao Ziying came and went to the two places, and the water thieves didn't dare to provoke, so naturally there was no obstacle, and it was not too late to destroy it when they were empty.