Back at the teahouse, He Hong gathered all the guys, and Xiao Wenjun ordered: "From now on, reopen the soup kitchen, and the helpers will have a monthly rate of one tael of silver per person, but I have one request." ”

Xiao Wenjun's eyes swept over the guys standing below, and said solemnly: "All white rice porridge, chopsticks will not fall, gauze will not seep." ”

As soon as these words came out, the audience immediately resounded with a buzzing discussion, and the surprised looks on the faces of the guys were replaced by doubts.

An elderly man stood up and asked cautiously, "Boss, you need a lot of rice to do this, and these rice are far less than 2,500 catties, I'm afraid they won't last a few days?" ”

"It's okay, just do as I say, and you will carry out the orders I give in the future. If I do well, not only will I get the monthly silver, but I will also have another silver reward. ”

Only Xiao Wenjun and the others knew that new food would be sent soon.

Seeing that the owner is so determined, the guys can't say anything, after all, it's the uncle who pays the money.

Soon, they began to spread their hands and feet with their hands and feet.

……

At night, a few people slipped out of Huayang Building, and they took advantage of the night to divide into two ways, Ming Xiu and He Hong followed the owner of the rice shop who reached an agreement during the day, and Xiao Wenjun and Wang Jiuyuan sneaked directly into the mansion of the political envoy.

He Hong and the two first arrived at the rice shop, saw that the boss gave each of the two officers and soldiers a penny, and then took them all the way to the outskirts of the city, accompanied by a carriage and a horse pulling a cart.

When I got out of the city, I didn't take the official road, but instead entered a small road, which was just enough for the width of a carriage.

At the end of the road was an open square, in the center of which stood a warehouse four rooms wide and four or five meters high, surrounded by dense trees, and it would have been impossible to find a warehouse in this place unless you had approached it.

It seems that this is their secret place of food.

He Hong and the others had been quietly following behind, and they were also surprised when they saw this warehouse, and before they could make a move, their ears moved, and they heard the sound like someone was coming this way.

The two of them hurriedly held their breath and retracted into the darkness.

Sure enough, a number of carriages came one after another, and the people who got out of the carriages, dressed luxuriously, were all dressed as wealthy merchants, and listened to what they said, and found that they were all the owners of rice shops in the provincial capital, and they had united to monopolize all the rice shops in the city, and now they had come here to meet.

"Boss Guo, today I have lost my fortune and made a lot of windfall!" One of them said a little sourly.

"Brother Liu said with a smile, your business is big, how can you look at such a small business as Guo?" Boss Guo of Mipu Guo's big eyes flashed with a hint of mockery, and he said with a haha on his face.

"Eh, no matter how small the mosquito is, it's meat, and if you say it's good to make money together, you have to give us friends a little bit of color today, otherwise it will be difficult to continue to cooperate in the future!"

……

The wealthy businessmen were chatting here, but the two soldiers were moving grain in and out of the warehouse, and the five hundred catties of grain were quickly moved, so they walked to Boss Guo and reminded them in a low voice.

Boss Guo was too lazy to deal with them anymore, so he agreed to set up a banquet for them to eat the day after tomorrow, and he left alone with people until the end.

At this time, He Hong saw that the intelligence was almost done, and found a secret grain hiding point for them, so he took advantage of Boss Guo's order and made a decisive move.

He Hong pulled out the dagger on his cuffs, and the two jumps landed lightly on the board cart behind him, his feet stepped on the rice bag without making a sound, covering the soldier's mouth with one hand, and cutting his throat with the other hand, blood splattered, and before he could make a cry for help, he fell softly.

When the other person reacted, he was also solved by He Hong in the same way.

Ming Xiu flew to the carriage in front of him, stunned the coachman who was driving the carriage with one palm, and dodged into the carriage, the horse was frightened and ran quickly, Boss Guo couldn't escape, so he had to be captured.

In the blink of an eye, he disposed of a few people, threw the corpses into the carriage, changed into the clothes of the officials, and entered the city again by night, and after confirming that no one was following, he went straight to Huayang Tower.

These days, people are always coming from all directions, and the gates are not locked, but only people are left to guard the gates.

In the underground secret room of Huayang Building, Boss Guo was woken up by a basin of cold water, waiting for him was a series of torture tools in the Shadow Pavilion, He Hong has been in charge of the Shadow Pavilion for some days, and the interrogation methods are already a thousand miles away compared to those in Lanling.

There are two flowers, one on each branch.

The residence of the political envoy in Jiangnan.

The spacious and luxurious study room was lit with bright candles, and Pei Yangshu and Jiangnan Bu envoy sent by Yu Wenzhen sat in the inner room to discuss matters separately.

The political envoy surnamed Wu in Jiangnan has been in the Jiangnan territory for many years, so that he has never moved from a high-spirited middle-aged man to a return to his hometown. It stands to reason that a feudal official like him has reached the second rank in middle age, and he must have a bright future.

It is also very possible to enter the cabinet, even if he can't enter the cabinet, the term of office expires, and he will be transferred back to Kyoto after a few years, and he will enter the position again, this is the regular promotion routine of the official road of Daqi, but I didn't expect him to be stuck here for many years, and he has not been promoted, so he can't help but be a little frustrated and lazy, and he has a lot of slackness in government affairs.

Pei Yangshu hurried up, and only entered the Jiangnan realm tonight.

Along the way, his expression was a little sluggish, and he looked far from the vigor when he set off, so he didn't bother to freshen up and went straight to the mansion of the political envoy.

"Teacher, the student was ordered by the five princes to come to Jiangnan for disaster relief, this way, it is like hell on earth, the five princes are sympathetic to the suffering of the people, and the teacher must share the worries of the five princes!" Pei Yangshu opened his mouth and directly showed the hole cards.

Hearing this, Wu Buzheng was very unhappy in his heart, this was to use the five princes to suppress himself. But he didn't show half a point on his face, but showed a look of worrying about the country and the people, and threw out a problem that the other party could not solve for the time being.

"The flood in Daqi is the most serious in my Jiangnan Province, and the whereabouts of the relief grain ordered by His Majesty are still unknown, if it weren't for the fact that Benbu opened a private treasury and was generous and gave relief to the victims, Master Pei is afraid that the situation will be even worse."

Sure enough, Pei Yangshu's face was slightly embarrassed, and the words that he had considered in the future tense were revealed.

"The grain robbery incident on the border of Wanzhou, the five princes will definitely find out, I have also traveled a lot of places in the past few days, just this soup kitchen, there is no place in the country to do things according to the rules of Daqi."

After speaking, Pei Yangshu carefully observed the demeanor of Wu Bu's political envoy, wanting to find some abnormalities in it, but it disappointed him.

Wu Buzheng's face was not red and his heart was not beating, and he said with a frank and unrestrained appearance: "Do you know that since the flood, officials in various places have taken advantage of this to make money on a large scale, but only I, the prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River, have done their best and never dared to slack off. ”

is more scheming than the old man, Pei Yangshu can't catch up with Wu Bu's political envoy, and the other party's few fluttering words will make him break the defense!

This sentence undoubtedly ignited the fire running around in Pei Yangshu's heart, he blushed and stiffened his neck, and unconsciously raised his voice a few degrees, "I'm afraid it's not, right?" Along the way in the past few days, not only from the province south of the Yangtze River, but also from the north, there are countless of them. ”

Seeing Pei Yangshu like this, Wu Bu's political envoy's tone also cooled, "If it's just a disaster victim in Jiangnan Province, even if we don't wait for disaster relief food, our own will definitely be enough to eat." If it weren't for the envoy tightening his belt, opening the warehouse to release grain, and posting notices widely, how could they all come here? ”

Pei Yangshu, as one of the confidants of the five princes, has been with him all the year round, and he has been dealing with Beijing officials for a long time, because of the relationship between his cousins, everyone is polite to him. How to deal with this local official, the experience is a little insufficient.

Now he doesn't know how to be restrained, and he says everything.

"But teacher, your soup kitchen is too perfunctory......

Political envoy Wu Bu suddenly became furious and unceremoniously interrupted Pei Yangshu.

"Are you teaching me to do things? You don't want to think about who gave you your grades and your current status? In the twelfth year of Yongqing, you passed the exam, and six years later you won the Jinshi, but it was me! ”

"Do you need to be reminded of the dangers again?"