Chapter 238: The Divine Decree

Jia Cong's words made Bai Ruosong fall into an ice cellar.

looked at Jia Cong with a shocked face, how did he know? It is impossible for him to know, could it be Yunyi?

Yun Yi died unexpectedly, and he also went to see it, although he was a little puzzled, he didn't think too much.

Now that I think about it, eighty percent has something to do with this Jia Cong.

Yun Yi knew the poison of Lin Ruhai best, if it really fell into Jia Cong's hands, he really could have known, but as soon as Yun Yi died, it became a dead without proof.

Jia Cong was negligent for a while, but invisibly, he helped himself a lot.

Thinking of this, I immediately calmed down.

"Ning Guogong, don't you spew blood, wronged good people without evidence, do you really think that this is Shenjing City, this is Yangzhou, not a place for you to be wild, you had better be careful when you talk and do things."

Jia Cong smiled contemptuously, waved his hand, and immediately two guards rushed up, directly pressed Bai Ruosong to the ground, and tied him up.

Bai Ruosong has been held and respected by people since he was a child, where has he been humiliated.

Today, not only was he beaten with black eyes, but he was also pressed to the ground and rubbed, and even tied up, which was a great shame for him.

For a while, anger swelled up, and he said angrily: "Jia Cong, I am a member of the Bai family, you dare to do this to me, do you believe that I let you not leave Yangzhou City?"

Jia Cong hates being threatened the most, let alone an ant-like character.

stepped forward and stepped on Bai Ruosong's head on the ground with his foot.

Said coldly: "Although this is Yangzhou City, it is also the Yangzhou City of my Great Chu, and it is the Yangzhou City of Your Majesty, but it is not the Yangzhou City of your Bai family.

It's just a salt merchant, but there are just two stinky money, do you really think this Yangzhou is your world? With what you just threatened me, I could have your head removed."

Bai Ruosong's face was trampled under Jia Cong's feet, and he couldn't break free.

At this moment, he knew what was powerless, what was called a prisoner, and for a while, he was shocked and angry, hated and afraid, and humiliated, and fainted in anger.

Li Biao reminded, "Master, this guy fainted with fright."

Jia Cong raised his foot, kicked twice, and sure enough, there was no movement, shook his head and said, "That's it? How dare you threaten your own public with this virtue?"

The subordinates brought by Bai Ruosong were all lying on the ground and pretending to be dead, not even daring to let out a fart.

Ruyan and the old bustard were even more dumbfounded.

Bai Ruosong of the Bai family still has a great reputation in Yangzhou, at least in their eyes, it is a big man who can't afford to offend, and he is the top group of people in Yangzhou.

But in the hands of Ning Guogong, it was so unbearable, it was really shocking.

looked at Jia Cong's gaze, and was even more in awe.

This style is really worthy of a general who has won a hundred battles.

Jia Cong turned around and said, "Ruyan, you stay here for a few days first, I will pick you up when I find a house, if someone comes to find trouble, tell them directly, you are my Ning Guogong's person, if you dare to be presumptuous, Bai Ruosong and the Bai family will be their end."

Ruyan said obediently: "I know the master, the slave family is waiting for the master to pick me up."

….

Jia Cong nodded, and said to the old bustard, "Let Ruyan stay with you for a few days, take care of me, if something goes wrong, I will dismantle your Miaoyin Pavilion."

The old bustard hurriedly said, "Don't worry, Ning Guogong, the villain will definitely take care of Miss Ruyan, and nothing will go wrong."

Since Bai Ruosong bumped into him and fell into his hands, he couldn't let him go anymore.

It's just that in this way, it also disrupted his plan and wanted to act in advance.

Jia Cong led people back to the salt patrol yamen, and Lin Zhong greeted him.

"Grandpa Guo, there is an angel in the house, who is here to deliver a message to Grandpa Guo, Grandpa Guo will go to the front hall first."

Jia Cong asked, "Steward Lin, who is here?"

Lin Zhong said, "Country

Grandpa, it's a father-in-law with a team of royal guards."

Jia Cong nodded, followed Lin Zhong to the front hall, and saw that it was an acquaintance, it was Dai Quan's godson Xiao Li's father-in-law.

Seeing Jia Cong coming in, Xiao Li's father-in-law quickly stood up, arched his hand with a smile and said, "The little one has seen Ning Guogong, this time he is here to deliver the decree to Ning Guogong, Ning Guogong is ready to receive the decree."

Jia Cong said, "There is Lao Xiaoli's father-in-law."

Under Lin Zhong's arrangement, the eucalyptus was quickly arranged.

Jia Cong knelt in the front, the others knelt in the back, and Xiao Lizi stood in front with the holy decree.

"Fengtian carries the emperor, and the edict says:

The Salt Gang is bold and reckless, has no king's law, loots the official silver, and is like a rebellion, and must be severely punished, so as to set an example, and order Jia Cong, the Duke of Ningguo, to lead the troops to exterminate the Salt Gang bandits, deter Xiaoxiao, and declare the prestige of our country.

The local government and the garrison shall not interfere with or obstruct it, and those who disobey the order shall be punished with the same crime.

Admire!"

Jia Cong said respectfully: "Minister, Jia Cong, leader, long live my emperor, long live, long live."

Xiao Lizi stepped forward, helped Jia Cong up, and said with a smile: "Ning Guogong, please hurry up, this matter of begging for thieves, Ning Guogong should be more concerned."

Jia Cong stood up, took the holy decree, and gave Xiao Li's father-in-law a silver ticket, and the little eunuch had a smile on his face even more.

"Father-in-law Xiao Li came from afar, and he has worked hard all the way, Steward Lin, hurry up and set up the wine to wash the dust for Father-in-law Li."

The little eunuch smiled: "Ning Guogong is really polite, when I came, my godfather asked me to bring a message to Ning Guogong, Your Majesty did not send troops this time, let Ning Guogong solve it by himself."

Jia Cong groaned for a while, then nodded and said, "My father knows, please ask Xiao Li Gonggong to play back to Your Majesty, and this Gong will definitely exterminate the Salt Gang, eliminate the bandits, and complete Your Majesty's trust."

Eunuch Xiao Li did not leave immediately, he came from the capital, and he was quite tired on the way, so Jia Cong arranged for him to live in the yamen.

At the same time, the news that the Qin sent to inspect the salt yamen was quickly spread by the spies to the hands of the major salt merchants.

The news that Bai Ruosong of the Bai family was captured by Jia Cong, the Duke of Ningguo, also spread, and the Bai family soon got the news and were gathering together to discuss countermeasures.

Bai Yongxing, the head of the Bai family, frowned and asked, "Why is Wakamatsu so unwise? actually went to find trouble with Ning Guogong for the sake of a woman, it seems that everyone who has been going well in the past few years has been carried away.

I don't even remember such a simple reason that the people don't fight with the officials.

….

Ning Guogong is not only a respected position, but also a knight of military merits, a sword and a gun, a real commander of the army, such a person is not comparable to those ordinary officials."

Bai Yongxiang said: "Big brother, I heard from the people around Ruosong that last night, Zhen Erye's cronies came to Ruosong, and this matter has something to do with Zhen Erye, but I heard that Ruyan has always been protected by Zhen Erye."

Bai Yongxing snorted coldly and said, "What does Zhen Yingli mean? His Zhen family and Jia family are relatives, since they both gave that woman away, and let Ruosong run out to make people block, he is trying to stir up trouble."

Bai Yongxiang said suspiciously, "What does the eldest brother mean is that Zhen Yingli is using Ruosong to provoke a dispute between Jia Cong and my Bai family? What's in it for him to do that?"

Bai Yongxing said: "How do I know, Zhen Yingli has no bottom line for this guy to do things, if my guess is right, this guy must be unhappy with Jia Cong, because of the affection of his relatives, he wants our Bai family, or Yangzhou salt merchants, to teach Jia Cong a lesson."

Bai Yongxiang said, "Then what should we do? Is Wakamatsu still in Jia Cong's hands now? Gotta get him out of here."

Bai Yongxing pondered for a while and said, "Jia Cong and us have no entanglement of interests, we don't need to provoke Jia Cong and find an enemy for ourselves, it's purely to be full.

It's not a big deal to be jealous, Jia Cong shouldn't do anything to Ruosong, it's good to let Ruosong learn a lesson, lest he don't know that the sky is high and the earth is thick, and he will be a chess piece for others in vain."

Bai Yongxiang said, "Then what about Wakamatsu? We don't care?"

Bai Yong

Xing said: "Naturally, you can't ignore it, you take 50,000 taels of silver, go to Jia Cong, and say that Ruosong is young and ignorant, and he has been fooled, so let him not remember the villain's mistakes, and let Ruosong take a yard."

At the same time, tell Jia Cong about Zhen Yingli and let them fight by themselves."

Bai Yongxiang said with a smile: "It's still the eldest brother who has an idea, we not only sold it to Jia Cong, but also gave him white flowers, so naturally we won't be embarrassed, I'll go to Jia Cong later."

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Jia Cong looked at the holy decree in his hand and began to think about it.

There are a lot of people in the Salt Gang, most of them are bitter haha, and the real people who are extremely vicious are only a small number.

If they were all wiped out, it would not be possible.

It is impossible for Jia Cong to do that, after all, most people are trying to make a living, and they did not participate in the robbery of official silver, and almost all of the gangsters who robbed official silver were killed by Jia Cong.

and sent Qingwen to lead people to assassinate the high-ranking of the Salt Gang, as long as Qingwen succeeds, this messenger will be considered an envoy.

However, since the emperor gave himself a holy decree and put himself in charge of exterminating the Salt Gang, just like that, Emperor Longqing will definitely not be satisfied, exterminate the Salt Gang, and the seizure must also be handed over.

As for Qingwen's dozen or so people, no matter how much they seized, they can't bring it back, and there is almost no loot to speak of, so how can they hand it over.

It seems that he has to go to Jinling again, even if it is to give the emperor an errand, he must go there in person.

Since Zhen Yingjia has found himself, then this matter should be resolved through negotiation with him, and it should be regarded as selling him face.

….

immediately wrote a letter and told Zhen Yingjia that the emperor sent him to be responsible for the extermination of the Salt Gang, and he could sell him face and put the Salt Gang in the yard, but he also had to let himself hand in the errand.

After thinking about it, I added another sentence at the end.

'Brother Zhen, how can the deed of smoke be in Bai Ruosong's hands, what do you mean? ,

The letter was sealed, and a personal soldier was sent to Jinling in person.

After he finished delivering the letter, he went to the old mansion of Ningguo Mansion in Jinling, and notified the steward in charge of guarding the old mansion, asking him to clean up the old mansion and go back to live for a while.

As soon as he sent his own soldiers away, Li Biao walked in.

"Grandpa Guo, the people of the Bai family have handed over the post, they want to meet Grandpa Guo, do you want to see it or not?"

Jia Cong was stunned when he heard this, this came so quickly, it seems that the Bai family still cares about Bai Ruosong very much.

The Bai family will never let it go, and Bai Ruosong is even more unlikely to let it go.

But in order to paralyze them, let's meet them.

"Li Biao, who is here?"

Li Biao said: "If you return to the country, it is Bai Yongxiang, the second master of the Bai family, who also brought a lot of gifts."

Jia Cong said, "Since you're here, let's meet him, bring him to the study to see me."

"Yes, my subordinates will bring him in."

Not long after Li Biao went out, he took Bai Yongxiang in.

"Villain Bai Yongxiang, meet Ning Guogong."

Jia Cong got up with a smile and said, "Second Master Bai is here, I am far away, please take a seat."

Bai Yongxiang said with a smile on his face: "I have long heard that Ning Guogong is a young hero, and the barbarians who fought in Liaodong threw off their armor and raised the prestige of my great Chu country.

Jia Cong laughed and said, "Second Master Bai has won the award, as a soldier, defending the country and the border, that is his duty, not worth mentioning."

Bai Yongxiang praised: "Ning Guogong is in a high position, but he is so humble, it is really impressive, my nephew, although he is older, always does things for others.

This time I was instigated to go and cause trouble to Ning Guogong, my brother was very angry when he found out, and asked me to come and compensate Ning Guogong, this is a little bit of the Bai family's heart, and please accept Ning Guogong with a smile."

As he spoke, he pushed a list of gifts and a stack of silver tickets in front of Jia Cong.

Jia Cong glanced at the list, and the stack of silver tickets, he was really young and old, worthy of the Bai family of the eight major salt merchants, and he was rich.

Jia Cong smiled and said, "How embarrassing is this, let Second Master Bai break the bank, my nephew and I are just a little misunderstanding, and it will be okay to say it, I will let him go home and reunite with you tomorrow."

When Bai Yongxiang heard this, he said with a smile: "So thank you Grandpa Guo, this matter was all done by the second master of the Zhen family asked Ruosong, I heard that the two of you are still old relatives, and the second master Zhen should do this, but it shouldn't be."

Jia Cong said: "I also asked the people of Miaoyin Pavilion, I know that it was Second Brother Zhen who did it, I still wonder a little, this is the first time I have met him, I haven't offended him, I don't know what it means to do this?" I'll have to ask him another day."

Bai Yongxiang smiled secretly in his heart, this Ning Guogong is really direct, worthy of being a soldier, and he will not turn around at all.

"Ning Guogong doesn't know? Ruyan is the person that the second master of the Zhen family has taken a fancy to, and he has already released the wind to prevent people from touching Ruyan, which has been taken by you, and he must be uncomfortable in his heart, so he wants to add some blockage to you."

Jia Cong suddenly said, "So that's the case? I mean, this guy is a little stingy, I'll have to talk to him another day."

Bai Yongxiang saw that the purpose of this trip had been achieved, so he didn't stay long and left.

Li Biao said, "Grandpa Guo, are you really going to let Bai Rusong go?"

Jia Cong smiled: "When did I say that I let Bai Ruosong go, I just said that he would go home and reunite tomorrow. When it gets dark, you have someone to clean up all the spies in the vicinity, not a single one left.

In addition, inform Tiezhu that he will act tonight, and be the first to destroy the Bai family first, so that Bai Ruosong and his family can reunite, since they have promised others, they cannot break their promises. Then there is the Li family, the Zhang family, and strive to get it all done in one night."

Li Biao hugged his fists and said, "Yes, my subordinates obey orders."

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