When Xu He saw Qin Lie, Daozi and the others again, sure enough, Qin Lie had subsided because of the high fever, and asked a famous doctor in Fucheng to recuperate, and the situation was improving.

When the knife saw him, he asked, "Hey, who are you, why are you putting us under house arrest and not being able to move around at will?" ”

Xu He smiled: "Don't you know? My surname is Xu, and I am the new branch Xie Yuan of Nanzhili! ”

"What is Xie Yuan?" The knife looked Xu He up and down.

Xu He said with a smile: "Xie Yuan is not a ...... thing, uh, Xie Yuan is the first among the people!" ”

"What? Are you lifting? "The knife and the other big man were taken aback!

"Weng Zhengchun is just a talent who has fallen behind, I didn't expect you to be so young and a lifter? Are you fooling us? The knife said angrily.

Xu He smiled: "When your third brother caught me before, didn't you also call me Xie Yuanlang?" ”

The knife thought about it, as if Qin Lie had really called Xu He that, but he turned to say, "Then why are we under house arrest?" ”

Xu He didn't answer, but looked at Qin Lie and said, "If Qin Zhuangshi is in good health, where are you going to go?" ”

Daozi said in a natural tone: "It must be back to the lake!" ”

But as soon as he finished speaking, his face became gloomy.

fell out with Weng Zhengchun, some of them have small families in the village, but can they go back?

At this time, Xu He released another shocking news: "Now both sides of Taihu Lake are surrounded by the soldiers and horses of the Zhejiang Metropolitan Division and the Governor of Su Song, and even there are sailors in the lake to suppress the Japanese invaders, you can't go back!" ”

"Ahh The knife and the big man were shocked, and the two of them pulled out the knife and put it against Xu He's neck and said, "If I take you, they will let us go!" ”

Xu He looked at the knife and chuckled: "It's no problem to go, what I ask is, where can you go?" ”

The knife and the big man looked at each other, and they were all silent.

Yes, if the earth were big today, where else would they go?

Going ashore is the government's arrest, and going down to the lake is Weng Zhengchun's territory.

They didn't even have a place to go.

At this time, the knife suddenly realized: "You asked us to go ashore to treat the third brother's injuries, and this is the idea!" ”

Xu He didn't answer, that's right, this is Yangmou, it's worthless to say it, he just takes advantage of the situation, and everyone can't help it if they don't want to accept his plan.

As soon as he landed, the situation could be reversed in an instant, and he also changed from passive to active.

The knife said hatefully: "Sure enough, you are the same as that Weng Zhengchun, and you are a scholar with every good thing." ”

Speaking of this, Xu He, who was still light and breezy just now, said: "I am different from him, I, Xu He, was born in heaven and earth, ate the grain and rice of the people, and was determined to be an official in the future and ask for his life for the people." ”

"He, Weng Zhengchun, Liang Qiao, and so on, are just brutes who colluded with the Japanese and harmed my Chinese people! You compare me to him? It's ridiculous. ”

He said this so violently that the two knives were shocked at once.

Since they knew this young man, they had never seen Xu He speak so seriously and seriously.

For a while, the two looked at Xu He with complicated expressions, not knowing how to answer.

Xu He snorted coldly and said, "It's Qin Lie, although he is also your Taihu Lake bandit, I respect him as a man of flesh and blood." For the sake of the ugliness of the family, you can bloody the enemy, knowing that you will not be defeated when you return to the village, but you still have no regrets! ”

"So, just now I found the prefect of Huzhou and asked him to give you a way out!"

"As long as you take the official army to find the Japanese and Weng Zhengchun and others, and capture them, then your past will be written off!"

"Impossible!" The knife said angrily: "I don't do that kind of thing to betray my brother. ”

"The Wako is also your brother?"

"There are not only Wakou and Weng Zhengchun in the water village."

"Then you can't let your brothers and sisters follow the Japanese to do evil, this is called aiding and abetting, understand?"

……

Just as the two were arguing, suddenly a weak voice sounded: "Knife, listen to him, go find the thirteenth ......"

The knife that was fighting with Xu He just now was red-faced and red-eared when he heard the voice, and suddenly said in surprise: "Third brother, are you awake?" ”

Qin Lie moved his lips weakly.

Xu He said coldly: "Feed him some water!" ”

After drinking the water fed by the knife, Qin Lie really got better, but the whole person was still in that half-dead state.

After resting for a long time, he said: "Find Thirteen, go to Dadeng Island, he, they will definitely not stay in Shuizhai......"

After speaking, Qin Lie fainted again.

Xu He frowned and said, "Where is Dadeng Island?" ”

Daozi hesitated for a moment and said: "It is a small island in the west of the water village, it is not on the waterway, there are very few boats passing by on weekdays, and the island is very large, and people can be hidden in it, even if someone goes to search, it is not easy to find!" ”

Xu He nodded and said, "Your third brother has already said it, go ahead!" ”

The knife gritted his teeth, and finally muttered to the big man, who nodded and walked out.

Xu He asked someone to release him and returned to the house.

"Don't worry, I, Xu He, are true to my word, as long as you lead the officials and soldiers to find the Japanese Kou, you will be good citizens of Great Wei in the future! The government will never trouble you again! ”

The knife seemed to hate the government very much, and after listening to it, he snorted coldly and turned his head.

……

For the next few days, Xu He waited for news from the government office.

First of all, there was news from Taihu Lake, saying that the official army had broken through the water village of the Taihu Lake bandits, but many women, children, old and young people were killed, and many strong men also died.

As for Weng Zhengchun and others, under the identification of Thirteen, they were not found in the village.

The thirteenth and the others had already taken the sailors of the government to search island by island.

The focus of this is Dadeng Island, but this island is very large, even if there are thirteen people who are familiar with the local situation to lead the way, it will take some effort.

The second is that Tang Shunzhi received the latest report from the imperial court.

Xu He was a little surprised when he saw one of the messages.

It turned out that the newspaper said that Xu Song, a university scholar, asked for a ban on the sea.

Xu Song wrote to Xu He before mentioning this matter.

Part of the reason is that the interests of smuggling at sea are too great, and they plunder places for the purpose of smuggling, but the larger leaders of them are actually cooperating with the big households along the southeast coast, and they either collect the navigation protection fees of these big ships, or simply act as underwriting and transit dealers for these big households.

Xu Song's meaning is that instead of this, it is better to let go of the sea ban, so that these big households will no longer smuggle secretly, and do business openly.

The Japanese have no source of income for the big households, and naturally those who follow the trend are scattered because they are unprofitable.

However, he did not blindly propose and demand the full lifting of the maritime ban, but chose Songjiang to set up a city shipping department, like the Gangyun Law, to make a register to select maritime merchants.

If you want to be registered, you have to pay a deposit and taxes.

In this way, there will be much less resistance to the opening of the sea ban.

This is a national event, but Xu He thought of the four silk merchants in Nanxun who were wiped out!

He took the newspaper and turned his head to Tang Shunzhi: "Sir, I think I know who did the destruction of the four families that I said last time!" ”