"Not a cellar?"

After coming down, Cao Xin realized that he had guessed wrong.

Coming in through the entrance under the bed in the bedroom, it was not a cellar at all, but an underground passage. Descending the ladder to the end, it is a small space, about the size of a thatched house.

Further out, there is a channel hooked up.

Cao Xin took out the torch from his personal space and leaned forward. After walking a distance of about seventy or eighty steps, we reached the end. If you look closely, there is a secret door at the end.

Push open the secret door.

It's pitch black.

"Here it is—"

Cao Xinyi was bold, and took a torch to shine around, and his heart was already clear: "This is a worry-free cave!" ”

……

"The ditch in Xijing is extremely deep and wide, and the outlaws hide in it, calling themselves 'worry-free caves'; From the beginning of the country to the prosperous era, there are often them, although they are talented. ”

……

"Sanssouci Cave."

"Ghost Fan Tower."

These two are mysterious and mysterious, and ordinary is ordinary.

The underground drainage system of Xijing City is deep and wide, and people can live in it, and there are many outlaws hiding in it, and they call this 'worry-free cave'.

There are also some traffickers who abduct women and children and hide here, also known as 'Ghost Fan Tower'.

It existed from the beginning of the dynasty to the prosperous years, and although the imperial court often sent people to clear it, it could not be eradicated.

With the passage of time and the evolution of the times, the 'Sanssouci Cave' has become synonymous with a place of dirt and lawlessness, and it is a place outside the law.

There are many villains hiding inside, chaotic and disorderly, a group of moles living in the shadows.

Order collapsed.

The strong are respected.

Some people go it alone and fight alone.

Some people are struggling to catch their breath and vassal the strong.

There are also strong alliances, bigger and stronger.

Among them, the latter is the most famous, 'Ghost Fan Tower'.

"There is a fan tower on the earth and the earth, which is a place of first-class pleasure."

Fan Lou!

This is a very famous entertainment place in Xijing City, the building is three floors high, the fifth floor is facing each other, can accommodate thousands of people, can eat and drink, can also sleep in flowers and willows, is a place to come and go to the wealthy businessmen, nobles, and the children of rich families in the city to find fun. Outsiders have entered the Beijing Division, and if they don't go to Fanlou to play, they won't see the world.

And the name of 'Ghost Fan Tower' is like this, you can imagine what kind of place it is.

A group of vicious people, based on Sanssouci Cave, specialize in lawlessness. Abducting children in the streets and alleys, commonly known as 'shooting flowers'. The family who lost the child is in a hurry to find it, but as long as they escape with the child into the underground channel, the child is gone.

Even if the parents went to the government to report the crime, the officials could not find their den.

How vast the Xijing City is, how big is this 'worry-free cave', which extends in all directions, like an underground city.

The abducted children grow up in it, receive the teachings of their 'predecessors', and their three views are distorted.

The boy becomes a beggar or pickpocket, and when he grows up, he will be a new batch of cadres in the 'Ghost Fan Building'.

The girl's fate is even more tragic -

The obedient ones are sold to the green buildings above, and the disobedient ones are left underground, and the same is the sale of fireworks and willow lanes.

The yamen at all levels and the soldiers and horses of the five cities in Xijing City have to be cleaned up several times a year, but it is difficult to deal a heavy blow.

There are too many difficulties!

The people of the 'Ghost Fan Tower' have lived here for a long time, and they are very familiar with the terrain inside, and they are well versed in the set of 'I run when the enemy comes, and I will return when the enemy retreats', and the officials who are not familiar with the terrain cannot find them at all.

Second, in addition to the channels under the Xijing City, there is also the ancient city of the Warring States Period, and the folk song says - 'Kaifeng City, the city stacks the city, and there are several cities buried underground', which undoubtedly increases the difficulty.

On the other hand, although there are many thieves and criminals such as 'Guifan Tower' in the 'Sanssouci Cave', more of them are homeless and poor people. To a certain extent, they are the hostages of the suspects, and the yamen does not dare to force them too hard.

Furthermore, if the purge is successful, what will happen to the people inside?

With so many people suddenly appearing, the court can't or is unwilling to take care of their food, clothing, housing and transportation, which will cause even greater chaos.

So, over time, let it go.

And these people in the 'Sanssouci Cave' are also very acquainted, and they only look for people with outstanding appearances in the people, and never look for eunuchs. If you commit a crime, you only dare to offend the people, and you don't dare to touch the government.

To a certain extent, it can be regarded as bullying the soft and fearing the hard.

However, there are also rumors that there is collusion between the 'Ghost Fan Building' and the official, there is a protective umbrella on it, a lot of silver money is honored, and there are the best 'thin horses' every year, and the background is not small.

Among the above-mentioned difficulties in clearing and suppressing, the so-called 'innocent people', 'hostages', and 'resettlement' are afraid that these corrupt officials and corrupt officials are dragging their feet in the blowing of the wind and noise.

……

"Appendage!"

"This is a stubborn disease!"

Cao Xin first heard the information about the 'Sanssouci Cave' and the 'Ghost Fan Building' from Tang Miao's mouth, and later explored it himself, and he became more and more aware that it was not easy to clear the 'Sanssouci Cave' and destroy the 'Ghost Fan Tower'.

The power of one person is even slimmer.

"Break inside, perhaps."

Powerful enemies tend to disintegrate more easily from within.

Cao Xin didn't stay in the underground culvert for long, and soon returned to the underground dark room and began to interrogate the two traffickers.

……

Dare to shoot flowers in Xijing City, these two have their own ability to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages.

Cao Xin interrogated the two separately and soon got to know them.

Both of them were not very old, in their early twenties.

The young man is called 'Li Liang', and the female is called 'Ren Xiaomei', and they are two people. I have been in this business for four or five years, specializing in selling good-looking, smart and lively children, and I have made a lot of profits.

But they are not the descendants of 'Ghost Fan Lou', they can only be regarded as supernumerary members. Above them is the regular army of the Ghost Fan Building-I grew up in the Ghost Fan Building, and most of them are practitioners.

For example, Li Liang's upline 'Shi Chuang' is the official disciple of Guifan Lou.

Li Liang and his wife abducted the child in Xijing City, and sent it to the underground Sanssouci Cave, and then their own 'Shi Chuang' came to connect and sent the child to the stronghold of the Ghost Fan Tower.

This is the upline.

In addition, Li Liang and Ren Xiaomei also had dealings with several beggars in Mahang Market, and these beggars were also from Guifan Lou and belonged to Shi Chuang.

Each beggar has dozens or hundreds of beggars, big and small, and looks for children by the way when begging, and then hands the news to Li Liang.

Li Liang and Ren Xiaomei followed up and visited, waiting for an opportunity to start.

After succeeding, it will be handed over to Shi Chuang and sent to Ghost Fan Tower.

In this way, an industrial chain is formed.

……

"Shocking!"

Li Liang and the two of them alone, in the past four or five years, no less than 30 children have been abducted and trafficked.

Think about it!

Think about it, for example, how much does Ghost Fan Lou have in total over channels like Li Liang? How many people will be harmed in a year?

It's really scary.

However, what is even more desperate is that even if human traffickers like Li Liang and Ren Xiaomei are caught, even if they force out the identities of 'Shi Chuang' and several beggars who provide information, they can even be taken down and killed.

But then, Ghost Fan Lou could easily launch one more disciple, appoint a few more beggars, and find a few more traffickers.

Stage a comeback.

As always.

Three or five people, one or two routes, this does not pose any threat at all to the ghost fan building, which has a large number of soldiers and generals.

"How can we get rid of it completely?"

Cao Xin pondered for a long time, and four or five plans suddenly popped up in his mind.

There are many ways to do this.

Some are light and some are heavy, some are urgent and some are slow, some are difficult and some are easy.

But how to operate it still needs to be studied again.

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