In this era, smuggling, especially smuggling to enemy countries, is a capital crime, just like in Shuozhou City before, but because this smuggling is too serious, how many people have to be killed if you really kill, there is really no way but to relax.

A Yangtze River on both sides is the Southern Dynasty and the West Liang, it is dark to take a waterway to pass, although the Yangtze River is wide, but the water here is not urgent, the old boatman can cross the river even at night.

The high profits combined with the convenience of the way make many people take risks, and basically every once in a while a new smuggler will be caught.

Yang Guang stopped Xiao Cong's handling of the smuggler he had just caught, which made Xiao Cong quite puzzled.

"King Jin, why wait?"

"There is a lot of smuggling here, I have also seen it in Shuozhou, wherever there is a border pass, there are smugglers."

Xiao Cong sighed and said, "Hey, it's old and stubborn, so don't mention it." ”

"Uncle, we have been smuggling for a long time, so turn our heads and think about whether the other side has also been smuggling for a long time."

"If that's the case, it should be."

Looking at the problem from a different angle, the idea is suddenly different.

"What the enemy hates is what we should do, smuggling is like a bone appendage, you can't cut it all, you can't kill it, so what if we can put it in our hands and use it? Will it become a weapon to contain the other party? ”

Xiao Cong's face was embarrassed, if Yang Guang was just thinking ahead of his thoughts about the previous things, then today's matter is something he would never dare to think about.

"If you master smuggling, can you still call it smuggling? Isn't this disobeying your own rules? ”

"Uncle, what is the reason why you hate smuggling the most?"

"Tariffs are evaded, and most of the goods from the south are smuggled to us and make us money, and there is also the fact that this group of smugglers has no national interests, as long as there is money to make him, he will dare to sell weapons."

Yang Guang smiled slightly: "Uncle, is that okay, we control the smuggling group, and the tariffs over there have been leaked, and we will pay all the money on our own side, wouldn't it be good." ”

Xiao Cong looked at Yang Guang with a puzzled expression, unable to understand how this person's brain grew.

"Take me to see these smugglers, and I'll talk to them."

Xiao Cong then took Yang Guang to the prison where the smugglers were held.

There are no less than 100 people in this prison, this is the dungeon of the navy, and except for a few sailors who have committed crimes, they are smugglers.

Several people were brought to Yang Guang, and they didn't know who the two highnesses in front of the hall were.

The few people who were brought up were all young people, young and strong, and obviously suffered a lot of beatings, it stands to reason that such a young man can support himself by doing any work, but he still took risks under the high benefit.

"Who is your leader?"

Several people did not speak.

The sailor walked behind them and picked up the whip to whip it, and Yang Guang stretched out his hand to signal them to stop.

"His Royal Highness the King of Jin, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, these people are all stingy, doing smuggling and disorderly work, making money on the knife, how can there be any courtesy, righteousness and shame, no beating, no scolding, no disobedience at all."

A few smugglers kneeling, hearing that there were two highnesses sitting in front of the hall, they were immediately frightened, generally speaking, the higher the level of the judge, the bigger the matter, to the level of His Royal Highness the Prince, I am afraid that it is not my own group of people smuggling things behind them There are things they don't know, and now they are full of thinking that no matter what, they can't put themselves in.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, His Royal Highness the King of Jin, the little ones are just selling some silk from the Southern Dynasty, and they really haven't done anything else."

Seeing that people spoke, Yang Guang began to sing blackface: "Little things? Repeated orders not to allow smuggling, and blatant disobedience to orders is a trivial matter? Come on, drag it down and cut it down. ”

"Your Highness spares your life! The little one really didn't do anything else that hurt the heavens and reason, and the reselling of military intelligence was done by others. ”

As soon as these words came out, Xiao Cong and Yang Guang glanced at each other and deceited something unexpected.

"This son will be left alone, and the rest of the people will be taken down tomorrow to behead."

"Your Highness, Your Highness, I have news, I have news."

"I have it too."

A group of people with soft bones directly admitted their lives in front of their lives, and they all wanted to use the news to buy their lives.

"Take them all down, divide them into charges, and tell everything you know, and this king will order someone to excerpt it, and if there is anyone in or out, cut it!"

After the person was taken down, Xiao Cong was still surprised and said: "In this way, they confessed to reselling military information, it seems that ordinary investigation of smuggling is just routine official business, and there is no serious verification, but my father Emperor Kuanren has fueled their arrogance, and they even dare to resell military information." ”

Xiao Cong slapped his palm on the table.

Xiliang smuggling is serious, and it was also severely punished before, but the effect of severe punishment is not good, and finally the emperor ordered that no one can kill, and the emperor of Xiliang is lenient and benevolent, and he can't bear to see so many people killed.

The policy of leniency will naturally fuel their arrogance, anyway, there is no need to kill the head, if they are caught, they will be fined and imprisoned for a period of time, compared with the money earned, this risk is worth trying, but this also makes the people in the smuggling group change from the former outlaws to the current group of ordinary people who are just begging for a living.

Where can these people withstand the threat of death, and they confess what they know in a few words.

Originally, I was going to ask this group of people how they smuggled and see if they could collect it for their own use, but now it seems that it will have to be delayed, and it is obvious that the matter of reselling military intelligence is more important than this.

Soon, the confessions of several people were copied, and they could basically be corrected against the confessions of several people, but this group of people was only peripheral personnel of the smuggling group, and many things could only be seen and heard, and they could not participate in it.

But in their confessions, the entire smuggling process is clear at a glance.

Every ten days and half a month, there will be a big ship taking advantage of the Hoshino anchored in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, no man's land, they will rely on the small boat rowing to get close to the big boat, and then the big boat will give them items, the silk of the Southern Dynasty, robes and other goods that sell well in Xiliang or Dasui, and then they will sell them, and then collect money.

And what they said about reselling military intelligence is because at the time of the transaction, some of the people who got on the ship with them did not go to get the goods, but conveyed the news of the recent naval army change of Xiliang to the people on the ship, so that they could also choose the weak place of the defense of the Daliang naval army to carry out the next transaction.

Because they are familiar with the mix, their vigilance is lowered, so they don't seem to have any special secrets, and the people who smuggle in this group basically know about it.

According to the comprehensive confession, the matter should be conclusive, and this group of people has a low status, and they themselves do not have the ability to resell military intelligence.

Xiao Cong finished reading one of the confessions and specially handed it to Yang Guang: "Look at this." ”

Yang Guang took a look, and his eyes immediately became fierce.

"Sima dispelled the difficulty!"

(End of chapter)