The art of war cloud, taking advantage of its chaos, is weak and ownerless. With the obscurity into the feast, this is fishing in troubled waters.

After only half an hour, the river surface returned to calm, and compared to the previous noisy firefighting scene, the silence at the moment was a little weird.

The two boats that opened the way, and the fifty boats that followed at the end, were now not a single person on board.

No one knew what had just happened, only that in the chaos, there were fewer and fewer of them, and by the time they came back from the firefighting, only the twenty or so people on the boat remained.

Looking at the dark night, they were frightened, they originally liked to be unscrupulous in the night, but at this time they only felt that the dark night was like a ferocious beast, which became a lingering nightmare in their hearts.

Then a teenager came out of the darkness, smiled and asked them whether they wanted to live or die, until a big man took a knife and wanted to vent his fear, and the boy pointed at him and exploded his head, and they didn't know what had happened.

Looking at the crumbling appearance of the young man, surprisingly no one dared to move, because the previous big man was killed on the spot by this crumbling young man with a volley.

Half an hour later, the boy stood up and slapped a wisp of white mangs into their bodies, and then told them to go back the way they came, and return the salt from the ship to the yamen, otherwise the white mangs that had entered their bodies would blow their heads to pieces.

Seeing the young man's god-like methods, they were all afraid, more afraid than when they fought with those officers and soldiers before, more afraid than when they faced the torture of the gang, and more afraid than when they saw those demons and monsters in the script, so they turned around.

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The sky gradually became clearer, and he could already see the color of the river, and the smoke on the water was vast, Jia Chen returned to the boat and woke up the sleeping two.

"Clean up, it's time to go!"

The old man who was driving the boat moved his muscles and bones, rubbed his blackened eyes, looked at Jia Chen, who was not tired at all on his face, and wondered in his heart, he only slept in the second half of the night, and it stands to reason that the kid in front of him slept at least in the second half of the night, but it seemed that he had nothing to do at all.

When the first rays of sunshine pierced the sky, Yangzhou patrolled the salt yamen, and a servant hurriedly broke into the backyard and woke up Lin Ruhai, who had just fallen asleep.

"My lord!! What a strange thing!! The salt that was robbed last night was sent back!! ”

Lin Ruhai was rubbing his temples that were still a little swollen, and when he heard this, Huo De stood up suddenly, his head was no longer rising, and his body was not sore, only to hear Lin Ruhai ask urgently: "What is going on??" Come with me! ”

The person who came didn't dare to delay, and quickly told what he saw, after Lin Ruhai heard it, his face was shocked, "You mean that the five ships were sent back??" Is there anyone on board? ”

"Lord Hui, one of the ships has traces of being burned by fire, and there are four or five people on each ship, but those people don't seem to be normal, suspicious, it seems to be ~"

Speaking of this, the person who came paused slightly, Lin Ruhai was born as a scholar, and he has always been disgusted with ghosts and gods, he didn't want to scold, just like before, after Lin Daiyu was born, the leper monk and lame Taoist who appeared, talking about immortals and ghosts, were directly driven away by Lin Ruhai.

Seeing that there was something strange about the person coming, Lin Ruhai walked out and asked, "How does it seem??" To put it bluntly, this devastating master is anxious for you! ”

The person who came smiled awkwardly, followed behind Lin Ruhai, and said as he walked: "Forgive me, master, it's really those people who are very weird, and the small ones are not sure, you will know after a while!" ”

When Lin Ruhai heard this, a trace of deep meaning flashed in his eyes, so that the other party could say so, it seems that things must be different, but looking at his appearance, he shouldn't say it, and he won't force it, anyway, the salt has already returned, and other things don't matter.

But he didn't expect that things were not what he imagined, and those who remained on the ship were actually more important in a sense, because from the expressions of these people, more information could be obtained, and it was not as simple as the salt of five ships.

Jiangnan is rich and noble, since ancient times, it is the main source of tribute for most dynasties, and the land of several provinces can raise the entire imperial court.

In ancient times, salt is a profiteering industry, and it was monopolized by the government a long time ago, and it has been the case in all dynasties, but salt is a kind of product that is just needed, it is not good to eat, there is no substitute, and the refining technology is not mature, the cost is also high, the price of salt has been high, during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, the price of salt was changed to the current price, and it can even reach about 150 yuan a catty, which is jaw-dropping.

Among them, the interests are so great, it is natural that some people will take risks, not to mention those officials, who are full of private pockets, all of them are full of belly fat, and there are many big families who have the idea of salt, and even more so, there are some family lords who control behind the scenes, set up gangs, peddle illegal salt, and seek huge profits.

Last night's incident was like this, these 500 people are from the same force, the Salt Gang.

In a very luxurious area of Jinling East City, there is a luxury manor covering an area of dozens of acres, a middle-aged man sweating profusely, with wind under his feet, walked quickly towards the lobby, passed through several corridors, and spared two rockeries, he came to the front of a lobby called Dragon and Tiger Hall.

He said hello to the little guy standing guard at the door, and hurriedly walked in, there were already people waiting here in the house, led by a bearded man, unshaven beard, not particular at all, but no one dared to underestimate him, because he was the leader of the salt gang with more than 30,000 people under his command - Lu Yue.

There were five or six other people in the house, all of them were elders of the Salt Gang, they were men and women, their expressions were very solemn, and they didn't say a word, and when they saw the man pushing the door in, everyone couldn't help but go to him at the same time.

As soon as the man closed the door, Lu Yue didn't wait for him to take a seat, and asked directly, "Second brother, what's going on??" ”

The man's name is Yin Chang, he is the second elder of the salt gang, he has always been cautious in doing things, he has never made a mistake before, even if the government sends someone to chase him, he can also get through the difficulties again and again, but he waited at the dock for a long time today, and he didn't see the boat coming, and his subordinates knew that something was wrong, so they hurriedly reported to the top.

"Second brother! Didn't your men hide the goods!! ”

"That's right! Second brother, don't joke with your brothers, what the younger brother said a few days ago is all, if you make the second brother angry, the younger brother is willing to come to the door to make amends!! ”

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Then everyone began to talk word by word, because they had been doing it for more than ten years, and there was no problem, they didn't think about the ship being intercepted at all, they just thought that the ship was hidden by Yin Chang, and they wanted him to hand over the goods while talking.

Yin Chang's face sank, glanced at everyone present, and then hugged his fists and said coldly to Lu Yue: "The goods have been intercepted!" I don't know the specific situation yet, but there is a letter from Yangzhou, and the five ships were driven back by our people!! ”

As soon as these words came out, the people present were instantly dumbfounded, and for a while, everyone's faces were covered with incredible expressions, and they were driven back by their own people. It's not another joke, is it??