Cao Shunhe's orders were quickly passed down one by one, and the guards around Nanchang Mansion, and even the officials of the government, were all mobilized and began to search along the place where the bandits had been found before.

Not only that, but there are also many checkpoints along the way, as long as someone with suspicious deeds appears, they will be taken directly without saying anything.

And this movement naturally aroused the curiosity of the people in the city, and in a restaurant in the city, everyone began to discuss this matter.

"What the hell is going on, how can the government send so many officers and soldiers?"

"Shhhh

"Ah, this is a good thing, this group of unconscionable things colluded with those salt merchants at the beginning, deliberately capsized the ship transporting official salt, and transported all the thousands of catties of official salt on the ship to the warehouses of those salt merchants and sold them as private salt!"

"Yes, our common people have suffered a lot, and during that time, when the price of salt was the highest, it rose to 20 yuan!"

"But fortunately, the imperial court sent a large army to come later, and only then did they wipe out these unconscionable salt merchants, and I also heard that tens of millions of taels of silver were copied from the homes of these salt merchants!"

"Hey, so much silver, even if it's ten lifetimes, you can't spend it all!"

Soon, there were sharp-eyed people in the restaurant, and they saw the people gathered next to the bulletin board in the distance, and the officials who were posting notices.

"Eh, look, the people in the government seem to be posting notices on the bulletin board, let's go and see!"

Immediately afterwards, under the coaxing of well-intentioned people, the people in the restaurant quickly hurriedly checked out, and then rushed to the notice board.

At this moment, near the bulletin board, countless people have already gathered to watch the excitement.

After the official finished posting the notice, he immediately faced the many people present and said aloud.

"Not long ago, the government discovered the traces of the group of people who were in charge of escorting the official salt, and now they have posted a reward notice!"

"Those who can find the traces of the criminal and send it to the government will be rewarded with one hundred taels of silver, and those who can provide useful clues will be rewarded with five taels to ten taels of silver depending on their contribution after the criminal is arrested and brought to justice!"

"Ah, what, one hundred taels of silver, the government actually offered such a high reward!"

There is no doubt that the official's words will ignite the enthusiasm of the people present.

The reward of one hundred taels of silver offered by the government is undoubtedly a huge amount of money for many people present!

With this one hundred taels of silver, there is no need to worry about making a living.

This money can buy a fairly good house in the city, no matter how bad it is, you can also get the Chunxiang Building in the city to go chic, and it is not in vain!

In the crowd, another part of the people are eyeing the bounty that provides clues for the government.

They thought that since the government had offered a reward of one hundred taels of silver, these bandits must be quite tricky, and it was better to settle for the next best, five taels of silver, which could be regarded as a good reward.

In this way, the news spread from ten to hundred, and most of the people in the city learned about it.

And among them, there are also people who want to turn over by this matter, so there are many people who spontaneously participate in it, after all, if you hit the big luck, it will really turn over!

……

At this moment, Zhang Er and his companions from the Yamen were carefully searching near the bandits' traces before.

The companion on the side may have been bored, so he immediately stopped, turned around, and complained to Zhang Er.

"Alas, Zhang Er, you say, why is our life so bitter!"

"If the adults above move their mouths, we errand servants will have endless suffering."

"I don't understand, why do you have to come to this place where birds don't, search for bandits, it's been almost a day, let alone people, I haven't even seen a bird feather!"

After his companion finished complaining, Zhang Er also sighed helplessly, and followed closely with Ying Hedao.

"Yes, those adults don't care about the life or death of our errand soldiers, but they are Wenqu stars, and they are born to be superior to us, which is also a helpless thing."

"Alas, let's think about the benefits, if the two of us hit the big luck and catch those bandits, we can get three hundred taels of silver!"

"Three hundred taels of silver, enough for you to buy a big house in the city, and then order all the girls in Chunxianglou!"

When Zhang Er said this, his face was full of longing.

Just as the two were chatting, from the grass not far ahead, there was a sudden sound of rustling.

Seeing this, the two of them immediately raised their vigilance, and immediately pulled out the long knife at their waists, step by step, approaching the direction of the grass.

When the two of them came to the grass quite vigilantly, they realized that it was just a hare.

"What, it's just a hare!"

Just as the two of them relaxed their vigilance, a figure suddenly appeared from the grass not far away, and before they could react, the person disappeared.

After a while, I saw Zhang Er take the lead in reacting and shouted: "Come on, the bandits are here!" ”

And the guards and officials who were responsible for searching for the bandits around them, after hearing Zhang Er's shouts, also looked uplifted, and quickly approached the place where the two of them were.

After speaking, Zhang Er pulled his companion and followed the direction of the man's escape and embarked on the road of pursuit.

Perhaps because he hadn't eaten for a long time, the figure was escaping slower and slower, so he was soon caught up by Zhang Er and his companions.

Seeing that he was about to be caught up by the official, the figure was even more panicked, and he didn't notice it for a while, stepped on a small stone on the ground, his center of gravity was unstable, and he fell to the ground fiercely.

When this figure still wanted to struggle to get up from the ground and continue to escape, it was subdued by Zhang Er and his companions who arrived later.

After beating the man hard and venting the resentment in his heart, Zhang Er spat on the ground and scolded.

"Damn, run for Uncle Ben again!"

Seeing this, the companions on the side even trembled when they spoke: "Zhang Er, now we have made meritorious contributions!" ”

After that, the remaining bandits were all arrested.

……

In the palace, Cao Shunhe was in the room, pacing back and forth anxiously, and since he gave the order, the whole person was in a state of restlessness.

He desperately wanted to catch those bandits, and then learned from them the whereabouts of the people who were in charge of escorting the official salt in the first place, and this matter was about to become Cao Shunhe's heart disease!

Just then, there was a rush of footsteps from outside the door, and a guard pushed the door in, respectfully reporting.

"Your Excellency, those bandits have been caught!"

When Cao Shunhe heard this, he immediately came back to his senses, his face was full of excitement, and he immediately looked at the guard in front of him and asked.

"In that case, what about the bandits?"

Seeing that Cao Shunhe was so anxious about this matter, the guard immediately responded without thinking.

"Your Excellency the Governor, those bandits are currently on their way back to the official mansion, do you need to ......?"

When Cao Shunhe heard this, he immediately ordered categorically: "After escorting those bandits to the official mansion, they will be directly tortured, and the official must know from them where the burden containing the certificate of escorting the official salt came from!" ”

"Yes, Governor!"

(End of chapter)