The moon shines like water.

In the depths of Taipo Mountain in the middle of the night, ships slowly docked and docked, and boatloads of goods from overseas slowly entered the mainland from this harbor in Taipo Mountain.

A small harbor behind a mountain has become a haven for many smugglers at this time.

Just as many smugglers were still discussing how much money they would make without paying taxes this time, the sea in the middle of the night was quietly surrounded by countless looming warships.

In everyone's astonishment, the outside of the harbor has been tightly blocked by the warships of the East China Sea Fleet!

"Not good! The East China Sea Fleet is coming to the sea! Escape from the land! ”

"Not good! Someone from the government is here! ”

"Damn it, our shipload has just arrived!"

"Don't care about the goods, if you don't run away and get caught, your whole family will not end well!"

The sudden appearance of warships caused chaos in the entire Taipo Mountain Bay, and the merchants who were happily waiting for their fleet and a full ship of duty-free goods instantly ran away.

However, before these merchants who ran away escaped, in the surrounding mountains and forests of Taipo Mountain, a Song army wearing military uniforms suddenly appeared, blocking the retreat of this group of merchants.

It turned out that the local garrison of Haifu County had arrived.

For this siege, Zhou Zhongren specially borrowed 5,000 men and horses from the garrison of Haifu County to surround the entire Taipo Mountain Harbor.

"Not good! It's over! There are also officers and soldiers on land! The government is really here this time! Can't run away! ”

"Damn it! Doesn't it mean that several major families have inside information? Why are they all surrounded now, and I haven't seen any action from these big families? ”

"I knew that I wouldn't evade taxes, but now it's good, I'm dying here!"

"Woo woo woo ~ Our family just started today, and it turned out to crash in, obviously I haven't started to do anything yet, but I'm going to be arrested in the same way, and I'm going to die unjustly, woo woo woo ......"

There are hundreds of people, and the various smuggling merchants are beginning to regret it, and they are worried about the possible impact if they are discovered.

But no matter what they thought, the facts were already there, and they were found to be involved in smuggling on the spot.

The Taipo Mountain Bay area has also begun to be included in the patrol points of the East China Sea Fleet.

At the same time, the large-scale smuggling in the Taipo Mountain Bay Area has caught some merchants, which is completely insufficient for the dark guards.

It is true that after these merchants who evaded and smuggled taxes were caught, fined and dealt with, the revenue of the Maritime Taxation Department this quarter has indeed increased a lot.

But none of the masterminds behind this time have been caught.

Those people who were caught bitten in their mouths did not let go.

After learning that the smuggling had been discovered, the four major families of Haifu County, the Zhang family in Ningde, the Wanjia in Nanping, the Changjia family in Sanming, and the Anjia family in Jindao learned that the smuggling had been discovered, and immediately drew a clear line with the smuggling members who were found and removed the family.

At this time, Haifu County guarded the yamen.

Late at night, in the quiet back house of the Yamen, Lei Xingshan, the county guard of Haifu County, had just fallen asleep when he was suddenly awakened by a violent knock on the door.

When he was awakened and opened the back door, he saw his career standing at the door with an anxious face.

Looking at the look on his face, Lei Xingshan immediately judged that something must be wrong.

Immediately, he brought the people into a public room in the yamen.

As soon as he sat down, the master immediately told the news that had just come back from the Taipo Mountain Bay Area.

"Lord County Guard, just sent back the news from the Taipo Mountain Bay Area, the Maritime Taxation Division, together with the East China Sea Fleet and the garrison, conducted a surprise search of our smuggling port in Taipo Mountain, and found a large number of smuggled goods at once, and even caught many people on the spot.

Now that families are trying to dissociate themselves from the matter, students are worried that the matter may involve us. ”

As soon as the master heard the news that the smuggling had been detected, he immediately rushed to the government office non-stop, just worried that this matter would involve the county guard's office.

Don't look at him as just a master of the county guard, but as the so-called seven-rank official in front of the prime minister, as long as the county guard Lei Xingshan has been standing, in this Haifu County, he is an existence above 10,000 people under one person.

If Lei Xingshan loses his official hat because of smuggling, or even commits a crime, it will be a big loss.

However, to his surprise, after hearing the news, Lei Xingshan did not panic, on the contrary, he was far calmer than he imagined.

Seeing that he was flustered, he scolded him: "Okay, it's a big deal, it's not enough." ”

"Taishou-sama?"

The master was puzzled.

Lei Xingshan said with a smile: "I have long known that smuggling will not be able to hide from the imperial court for a long time, and I haven't thought about it for long.

As for the four major families, they are not so stupid, they will let the direct family do this, and they must have to deal with it around seven or eight hands, and now I am afraid that they have all cleared up the relationship.

Now, at most, there is a loss of income, and it does not affect us. ”

The master suddenly breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, but he still faintly felt a little uneasy and said, "Lord Taishou, is it really okay for us to arrange manpower in Taipo Mountain?" ”

Lei Xingshan said confidently: "Don't worry, their wives and children are in the hands of their own officials, and they know very well what they should do." ”

When the master heard this, his heart suddenly sank!

……

Smack! Smack! Bang Bang Bang!

Again and again, the salt-soaked leather whip was whipped the already scarred flesh, and the prisoners on the wooden frame continued to howl, but it could not prevent the whip from falling again.

"Say! Who the hell is the person behind you! ”

The jailer with the leather whip in his hand waved the leather whip in his hand viciously, and whipped it down on the prisoner in front of him to ask for information.

This group of prisoners were all captured by the garrison from Taipo Mountain Harbor, and when they raided Taipo Mountain Harbor, these people were maintaining order in Taipo Mountain Harbor, as if they were the management party here.

However, after they were caught, no matter how they used it, their mouths were as hard as stones, and they said that they had accidentally discovered this harbor, and in order to make money, they cooperated to build this private harbor, and earned a certain benefit so that other merchants could use it for smuggling.

Standing not far away, Zhou Zhongren took Wang Minghua and other officials of the Maritime Tax Department, and looked at the interrogation for a long time but no news came out, and his face was extremely ugly.

Seeing that the sky was almost dawn, Zhou Zhongren immediately said to Wang Minghua:

"In any case, we must find out the real mastermind behind them from their mouths, otherwise smuggling will not be truly banned!"

Wang Minghua said worriedly:

"Director, I have sent someone to check the relevant information of these people just now, all of them are from Xiamen, Haifu County, but their families all disappeared mysteriously half a month ago, and the lower officials guess that their families may be in the hands of the people behind the scenes, for the sake of their families, I'm afraid they won't open their mouths easily."

Hearing this, Zhou Zhongren's face became even more ugly, but after thinking of the information that he had not found and the waste of his subordinates from the mouth of the dark guard, he still gritted his teeth and said viciously:

"No matter how difficult it is, no matter how difficult it is, no matter how you do it! I just need one result! A result that will make me happy!

Otherwise......"

Saying that, Zhou Zhongren glanced at everyone present viciously and said coldly: "In this year's assessment, you are all waiting to be demoted!" ”

The officials' faces suddenly changed when they heard this!

However, Zhou Zhongren didn't care about them, turned his head and walked out of the prison, leaving a group of people looking at each other with a wry smile and no words.

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(End of chapter)

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