After hearing this, Heiichiro Oda said: "I didn't give you this recipe, it was a legend of Dongying that you invited me to drink, and I said it when I was drunk, it's just a legend!" ”

"But after you heard it, you went crazy and grabbed children everywhere, and even people like me thought you were cruel!"

Shen Zhengcong gritted his teeth and said: "You think I'm cruel, that's because you can't understand me, I want to be a complete man, my wife, so beautiful, but I can't enjoy her, isn't this the first tragic thing in the world?" ”

"As for those children, they are also miserable to live, it is better to die, at least they can make so much contribution to me, others will not remember them, but I will, I will always remember them!"

"I don't want you to catch children this time, but I want you to kill a few people, these people know the truth about the dam and the children, if these two things are poked out, I'm afraid you won't be able to hide it."

Shen Zheng took out a note from his arms as he spoke.

"It's just five people, and their official positions and addresses are written on it, and kill them! When the minister of the imperial court, King Han, is gone, I will send someone to send you to the port so that you can go home in a down-to-earth manner. ”

Shen Zheng got up to leave, Heiichiro Oda opened the note, looked at the addresses and names of the five people on it, and then he tore off the note bit by bit with his backhand and stuffed it into his mouth.

……

A few days later, Zhu Song received a message.

Five counties died in Zhejiang.

The five linear districts are Longyou County, Pujiang County, Tonglu County, Lin'an County, and Changshan County.

And it just so happens that the five that were blown up were all in these five counties.

Because Zhu Song had asked people to investigate in secret before, he did not arrest these five magistrates in prison for interrogation.

First, this is not their own territory, and second, if there is no edict to use, they can only use the prison in Hangzhou, but this will inevitably let the officials in Hangzhou know about it, and it is very likely that they will operate in secret.

But Zhu Song never expected that they were really so bold that they dared to kill people.

However, this also proves that Zhu Song is right in the direction of investigating the nine dikes.

Otherwise, those people wouldn't have been so anxious to kill people.

"Where are the bodies of these five magistrates?"

Lao Cao replied: "Your Highness, these five magistrates have been buried. ”

Zhu Song sneered: "The five court officials were suddenly killed, and they were buried without checking, which obviously didn't want people to know how the five of them died, which is obviously a thief." ”

"Have you found out who gave the order? Is it Zhou Tong or Wu Qian, or is it the prefect Fan Zhongping? ”

Lao Cao shook his head: "Your Royal Highness is not, the family members of these five magistrates chose not to report this matter as if they had discussed it, and after burying these five magistrates, the families of the five magistrates quickly packed their bags and left the local area, but they were all stopped by our people, and now they are being placed in a small village nearby." ”

Zhu Song nodded with satisfaction, and suddenly he remembered another person, the three divisions and the yamen, and there was also one who commanded the history division.

"It stands to reason that the commander can't stay in the barracks all the time, that Qin Tai did the opposite, his family is in the city, but he doesn't like to run to the city, he eats and lives with his soldiers every day, how are you getting along with him these days?"

After hearing this, Lao Cao stroked his beard and thought about it for a long time.

"Your Highness, the lower officials have been in contact with Qin Tai in the past few days, and this Qin Tai doesn't seem to have a good relationship with Wu Qianzhoutong and others, not only him, but also Fan Zhongping, the prefect of Hangzhou."

"Qin Tai doesn't like to go back to the city, it is precisely because Zhou Tong and Wu Qian always try their best to pull him into the gang, he said that once they almost fell in touch with their way, they sent a woman to his bed, if it weren't for Qin Tai's quick thinking, and brought the family to come over and make a big deal, I'm afraid that Qin Tai would have already entered their gang now."

After hearing this, Zhu Song nodded: "So, this commander in charge of the military is one of the few good people among the three of them?" ”

Lao Cao arched his hand and said: "Your Highness, Qin Tai is not a good person or not, but this is a matter of the embankment, and it should have nothing to do with him." ”

"Oh?" Zhu Song was overjoyed: "What did you find out?" ”

"Your Highness, the nine dikes should cut corners, but it won't be a heavy rainstorm that will collapse all nine dikes, and there is only one way to collapse all nine dikes, gunpowder."

"And there is only one place in the entire city of Hangzhou that can take out so much gunpowder at once, that is, in the military camp of the commander, and the gunpowder control is extremely strict, without the nod of the commander, this gunpowder will never be taken out."

"So Xia Guan thinks that Qin Tai is also involved, maybe he even came up with this idea, after all, only he has gunpowder."

After listening to this, Zhu Song thought about it carefully, and what Lao Cao said was very reasonable.

"Yes, why didn't this king think of it before. These nine dikes collapsed together, even if they cut corners, it would not be so uniform, and it is very likely to be blown up with gunpowder. ”

"If the matter of these nine dikes is found out, then it will not be enough to pay just a few million taels of silver back, but I am afraid that we will make a big fuss in Hangzhou."

"What do you think, Lao Cao, should we pretend that nothing happened, or should we report this matter to Your Majesty and let Your Majesty make a decision?"

After hearing this, Lao Cao thought for a long time: "Your Highness, the lower officials think that the matter of the nine dikes and the matter of the hundreds of children who disappeared should be known to His Majesty, if it really proves that the officials of Hangzhou are not good, even if Jinyiwei wants to arrest them, then His Majesty has to nod." ”

Zhu Song nodded, and then personally wrote a notebook, writing all the doubts in Hangzhou, and asking people to send them to Beijing in a hurry for 600 miles.

After Zhu Di finished reading Zhu Song's recital, he snapped it shut and paced back and forth in the imperial study angrily.

"What a guts! What a big dog guts! In order to be greedy for the salt tax of the Mo court, these officials in Hangzhou blew up the embankment! Destroy farmland! Thousands of people have been displaced! I also took advantage of the chaos to lose a few hundred children, where did these hundreds of children go? It's not their children, they don't feel distressed, right? ”

Zhu Di looked at the prince who was listening to him with a pen, and asked: "Boss, tell me what should I do about this matter, you always let me be lenient to the world and forgive the world, now that something like this has happened, what do you want to say?" Or is it benevolence? ”