There is an inn in Gangneung Castle called Dongyue Inn.

This inn is in the northwest corner of the city, the terrain is very bad, and there are not many merchants and travelers who come to stay on weekdays, so there are many people all day long.

However, what is strange is that although this inn does not have many customers, it is still "strong" and has not closed its doors because of bad business.

At this time, Yao Guangming was resting in a guest room on the second floor, which was a stronghold set up by the Military Intelligence Department in Jingzhou Mansion, which was specially used for the personnel of the Military Intelligence Department to rest and recuperate, as well as to transmit various information.

Yao Guangming pushed open the window, only to see that in the quiet alley outside, there was no one in sight, and there were no people in the surrounding houses, two of which were deserted, and two of which were in important locations, which were also bought by the Ministry of Military Intelligence, and there were no people living at this time.

"Well, the brothers here in Jingzhou Mansion are still reliable, and the location of this inn is very good."

Yao Guangming was thinking about it when he heard someone knocking on the door outside, and the frequency of the knock was exactly the code required by the Ministry of Military Intelligence.

"Come in."

The person who came was Zhang Haitai, Yao Guangming beckoned Zhang Haitai to sit down, and then asked, "Have eyebrows?" ”

Zhang Haitai nodded and said, "The Han family in the city!" ”

"The Han family?"

Yao Guangming frowned slightly, he had also heard of this Han family, which was a well-known and powerful man in the Jiangling area, not only doing business and having a grange, but also having close contacts with officials in Jingzhou Mansion.

"Is there any evidence?"

Zhang Haitai said: "Not yet, it's just a rumor among the people in the city." However, his subordinates have already sent people to secretly keep an eye on the Han family, and there should be news of the meeting in two days. ”

Yao Guang

Ming nodded slightly, thought for a moment, and said, "You have paid special attention to the Han family in the past two days, maybe the Han family is a key for us to open the situation." ”

"What do you mean, take the Han family?"

"Humph!"

Yao Guangming said: "Even if there is no evidence now, we can guess that the mastermind behind the tax resistance in various places should be a strong man like the Han family, and maybe some local officials." ”

"These people have deep roots in the local area, and it is not easy to get evidence that they instigated the people to make trouble, so when necessary, we should make an example of them!"

"As long as you scare those people's courage, they will definitely leak out, and then we will be able to follow the vine."

"My subordinates understand!"

"Just ......"

Zhang Haitai hesitated for a moment, and then asked: "If the Han family wakes up while on surveillance, or organizes tenants to make trouble again, how to deal with it?" ”

Yao Guangming sneered and said, "Isn't that right, arrest people and arrest them, how to deal with them, how to deal with them!" ”

"Yes, my subordinates understand!"

Two days later, at nightfall.

In an inconspicuous house to the south of the Han family's house, Zhang Haitai and two of his subordinates were keeping an eye on this side, and at this time, a small hole had been made in the back wall of the house to observe the situation on the street outside, and it was just right to see the movement of the Han family's house.

"My lord, there is a situation!"

Zhang Haitai heard the reminder of his subordinates, and hurriedly came over to check through the small hole, only to see that the door of the Han family's house slowly opened a crack, and a man walked out and got into the carriage parked at the door directly.

"That's ......, the housekeeper of the Han family

！ ”

After two days of watching, Zhang Haitai naturally recognized the main target of the Han family, and this housekeeper was one of them.

"You two keep an eye here, and I'll take someone to follow and have a look."

"Yes!"

After a while, Zhang Haitai took a few subordinates and quickly followed in the night.

The people did not dare to ride in the carriage or on horseback, but followed the butler's carriage from a distance, and chased it up from the alleys along the way, as long as they did not lose their target.

It didn't take long for Zhang Haitai and the others to stop, looking out at a hidden street corner, only to see that the carriage in which the Han family's housekeeper was riding had stopped at the east gate of Jiangling City, and the officers and soldiers guarding the city were talking to the housekeeper.

Then Zhang Haitai was surprised to see that the officers and soldiers guarding the city actually opened the city gate at night and let the Han housekeeper out of the city!

"The Han family is really hand-eyed in Jiangling City, and they can still enter and leave the city freely at night!"

"My lord, what shall we do?"

Zhang Haitai thought for a moment and asked, "Which of you remembers what industry the Han family has in the east outside the city?" ”

"There is the Han family's grange on the east side of the city, and the Han family's cultivated land is mainly concentrated in the east side of the city."

"Got it!"

Zhang Haitai said: "Let's wait here for dawn, after dawn, let's go directly to Hanjia Grange." ”

"Shall we not leave the city now?"

If Zhang Haitai and the others want to get out of the city, it is not difficult, everyone has the waist card of the Ministry of Military Intelligence, and they can enter and exit the city at will.

It's just that in this way, with the Han family's ears, eyes and relationships in Jiangling City, it won't take long to know about the existence of everyone, and it is difficult to guarantee that they will not be startled by the snake when the time comes.

"Don't go out of the city now, wait for dawn!"

That day

When the color was polished, the gate of Jiangling City also slowly opened, Zhang Haitai hurriedly led people out from the east city gate, and everyone walked all the way to the Hanjia Grange outside the city.

"Look, sir!"

After a while, everyone came to the periphery of the grange, only to see a huge grange, with at least tens of thousands of acres of cultivated land around, and hundreds of tenants here, including men, women and children.

"The housekeeper is fast enough, and he gathers hundreds of people in one night, where is this going?"

Then Zhang Haitai saw the housekeeper of the Han family at a glance, the housekeeper at this time had already changed his clothes, the satin green shirt he wore last night was gone, and it was replaced by a coarse cloth clothes, tattered, and the same as the tenants around him.

"Hmph, do a full set of plays, your mind is really delicate!"

"My lord, what shall we do?"

"Let's see."

Then Zhang Haitai and the others lay on their stomachs in a ditch outside the grange, quietly watching the movement of the crowd in the distance, only to see that under the instigation and leadership of the Han family's housekeeper, hundreds of tenants rushed towards Jiangling City.

"Can these people still enter the city? What do they think! ”

"Why can't you go into town?"

Zhang Haitai said with a solemn face: "Don't forget how the Han family's housekeeper came out!" ”

Several subordinates were taken aback, it seemed that the Han family wanted to come big and bring people directly into the city to make trouble, instead of gathering outside the city in the past.

"You rush back immediately to report to your lordship."

"A few of you immediately go to the barracks in the city, seal off the city in the name of the Ministry of Intelligence, and stop those people outside."

"Yes!"

Zhang Haitai sent several subordinates

After leaving, he thought for a while, and then said secretly: "I'm afraid it's too late, the defenders in the city have a lot to do with the Han family, and if they delay, those tenants will enter the city." Hundreds of people froze, and it was hard to figure out that Gangneung City would be chaotic! ”

Thinking of this, Zhang Haitai waved his hand to the only two remaining subordinates around him, and the three of them rushed out of the ditch where they were hiding, rushed to the front of hundreds of tenants in three steps and two steps, and then with a wave of their big hands, the three of them directly pulled out their sabers and stopped the crowd that was moving forward.

The housekeeper of the Han family was also taken aback, and then scolded loudly: "Who are you, you want to die, you dare to stop my Han family!" ”

Zhang Haitai took out his waist card with a cold face, and when the housekeeper of the Han family saw it, his face suddenly turned pale, and he stammered: "Military intelligence, ministry, ministry, you are Jinyi Guard!" ”

When the hundreds of tenants heard the words of Jinyiwei, they were all so frightened that they retreated again and again, and many women immediately let out a cry, just dragging their children, turning around and running.

In a few moments, a third of the hundreds of people had dispersed, and only a few men were still holding on in fear.

At this time, the housekeeper of the Han family turned pale, squeezed out a smile, and said, "I don't know what the three adults have to do, why did they stop the villain and others?" ”

Zhang Haitai said coldly: "Since I found you, it means that your Han family has happened!" ”

"What happened?"

The housekeeper of the Han family was beating a drum in his heart, his face was constantly changing, and his small eyes were turning left and right, thinking about something.

"Jin Yiwei is handling the case, will he come to the door without evidence?"

Zhang Haitai said coldly: "Now a large group of people have gone to the Han family, and we just came to stop people." No

Looking at these hundreds of people gathered by you, you must be the main culprit, how to explain in the future, how you decide, in a moment, Lao Tzu has no patience to wait! ”

"Your Excellency!"

Zhang Haitai originally wanted to say a few more words, but who would have thought that the housekeeper of the Han family called an adult directly, so he knelt on the ground with a plop of snot and tears: "It's all the persecution of the head of the family, the villain really doesn't dare to fight against the court, the previous tax resistance was all arranged by the head of the family, not the meaning of the villain!" ”

When the rest of the tenants saw this scene, they also lost their backbones, and knelt down with the Han family's housekeeper, kowtowing and begging for mercy, crying bitterly, for fear that they would be implicated by the Han family.

Zhang Haitai and his two subordinates immediately breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately, the Han family's subordinates were timid and did not make a move, otherwise they would really not be able to stop these hundreds of tenants with just three of them.

So Zhang Haitai asked: "So, you are just instructed by someone?" ”

"Yes!"

The housekeeper of the Han family said loudly: "The villain is just instructed by others!" ”

"Do you have proof?"

"Yes!"

The housekeeper of the Han family seemed to have grasped the life-saving straw, and hurriedly said: "The villain knew that the Han family was acting perversely, and he was worried that one day the East Window incident would happen, so he recorded the previous few tax resistances, together with which officials the head of the Han family contacted, and recorded them one by one. Also, what the Han family has done in the past that violated the law, the villains have also recorded them one by one. ”

Zhang Haitai's eyes lit up and asked, "Where is that thing?" ”

"It's in the villain's house!"

"Good!"

Then Zhang Haitai looked at the many tenants kneeling on the ground and said loudly: "Today."

There are no adverse consequences, this official will not care about you for the time being, and in the future, you must not be at the mercy of others, and act as a pawn of thieves against the imperial court, otherwise you will bear the consequences! ”

The tenants swore that they would never dare to confront the imperial court.

So Zhang Haitai immediately dismissed a group of tenants, and warned everyone to farm and live with peace of mind after they returned, and the imperial court would successively promulgate various new policies to benefit the people, so that everyone could wait with peace of mind.

The tenants then returned to the grange with great gratitude.

Here, Zhang Haitai said to the Han family's housekeeper: "Let's go, take this official to get the evidence of the Han family's crime, and you will be considered guilty and meritorious." ”

"Yes, please rest assured, the villain will definitely be guilty of meritorious service!"

In Jiangling City, Yao Guangming received the news sent by Zhang Haitai, and while he was surprised, he also began to deploy countermeasures.

"Immediately send someone to the garrison in the city with the warrant of this official, and transfer troops to surround the Han family!"

"Immediately block the gates of the city, and at the same time immediately replace the soldiers who were originally stationed at the gates!"

"Yes!"

Immediately, Yao Guangming took several subordinates of the Military Intelligence Department to the outside of the Han family's mansion, and when everyone arrived here, the garrison in the city had already arrived first, and surrounded the entire mansion.

"The last general, Jiangling garrison, Xu Fengran, to meet your lord!"

Yao Guangming is the commander of the Nanzhen Fu Division of the Ministry of Military Intelligence, and his rank is higher than that of this city's defense, so he naturally considers himself an official.

"Is there anyone in the Han family?"

"Please rest assured, the Han family's mansion can't fly out even if it's a fly!"

"Good!"

Suddenly, a small crack opened in the door of the house, and a man with a fat head and big ears squeezed out sideways, and the man saw the guard Xu Feng at a glance

However, he was stunned and said loudly: "Brother Xu, why are you here, didn't we say that we would go to Zuixianglou to drink flower wine tonight, why did you suddenly surround my house?" ”

At this time, Yao Guangming looked at Xu Fengran, the guard beside him, and saw Xu Fengran's face pale, gritting his teeth and looking at the man who was talking, looking like a cannibal.