fast and ferocious

Chapter 122 Contest ([-]) Third Watch

With the arrest of these two high officials, how could the connection between the Cao Gang and the government be concealed?At this time, if he brought the stolen money to Lord Xiang to plead guilty, it would not be too late, but at this time someone told him in detail what the Jinghai arrester had done in Wuzhou, and told him that Lord Xiang valued this very much. Hurry up, he will bring him to Jinling in a few days, just for the case of the missing money in the river.

An emergency meeting was held within the gang again, with overwhelming support to kill arrester Jing Hai quickly. Thinking about it now, Huang Zongxing was said to be hot-headed at the time. The police found out the whereabouts of He Dao's silver, and the Cao Gang was afraid that it would really fall into the hands of the police!

This policeman has already messed up once, this time it will definitely not work!At that time, Huang Zongxing was full of these words.

Thinking about it again now, Huang Zongxing keenly felt that his brain seemed to have gone astray from the beginning, and the more he went astray, at the same time, he also found out in horror that something seemed wrong in the gang!

The change in Huang Zongxing's expression could not escape Qin Wubing's eyes, he almost lay down on the table and asked, "Have you figured it out?"

Huang Zongxing didn't dare to look into Qin Wubing's eyes, he lowered his head slowly.

"When will the silver be shipped back to me?"

"Two days later!"

"It's time to clean up the gang. You're the only one left. I'll find out the rest. Before that, I'll send someone to help you."

Huang Zongxing raised his head abruptly, with a fierce look in his eyes.

"You scare me again!" Qin Wubing straightened up: "Don't say it's for your own good. You can't blame others for what you have done. It's not fair to say that you have a bad mind, but there are bad people around you. You are well aware of this, at least one thing is good about the imperial court arranging people... They will not set you up, let alone force you to rebel!"

Huang Zongxing took a deep breath.

"Don't think that you can solve the problem just by killing a few people when you go back. I have to see how your brain is. Their brains are very good, otherwise they won't make you make mistakes again and again!" Qin Wubing raised his legs again: "That's not true. It can be planned by a few people, if the people behind are not removed, the Cao Gang will not have a peaceful life! This is not what the court wants to see, nor is it what the ancestors of the Huang gang leader want to see, how about it? Just be neat!"

Huang Zongxing pondered for a moment and asked: "In this way, my brother in prison can be released?"

Qin Wubing chuckled, and asked back: "Why do you think the imperial court doesn't use the water transportation yamen to organize water transportation?"

Huang Zongxing snorted coldly and said:

"Water transportation is not that simple. Before there was no water gang, it was not all the water transportation department. How is it doing? Seeing that you are young, I am afraid that you don't know what water transportation was like more than 100 years ago. You know that the cost of water transportation is borne by grain households. Including shipping fees, military rations, and ship repair fees, all were levied according to the increase in consumption of regular rations. The water administration was corrupt, and officials from all over the country were corrupt and accumulated. The burden on food households was extremely heavy. , The phenomenon of fleeing keeps appearing. The imperial court knows that this is not possible, so we have our Cao Gang! The grain transported by our Cao Gang accounts for [-]% of all the grain. The Cao Gang is in charge! To support the water transportation, if there is less money, it will not work, if there are fewer people, it will not work, and if there are fewer ships, what can the court do right now?"

"This is what you rely on for your nonsense, right? But it's a bit stubborn. Water transportation can't be changed to sea transportation. The Japanese pirates have been gone for decades. I think back when shipping was the most important time, whether it was money or people, then It’s more economical than water transportation!”

Huang Zongxing was not in a hurry, he said with a smile:
"In the third year of Emperor Wenzong's reign, the Governor of Water Transportation and the General Army of the South of the Yangtze River were in charge of the same management of water affairs. There were 12 troops transported, 600 ships transported, 7000 sailors, 350 sea-going ships, and full-time grain storage. Transportation, sea transportation is indeed cheaper than river transportation, saves money and time, aside from Japanese pirates, sea ships are not easy to build, even Wenzong vigorously promoted sea transportation, and did not completely abandon river transportation, not to mention restarting sea transportation to the point where it is possible to ship by sea. It can't be done in a year or two, what will the nobles in the capital eat these two days? What will the soldiers at the border eat?"

"You say you are stubborn and you still don't admit it! Water Transport wanted to leave you, but it didn't say that it wanted to leave those boats and people working at the bottom! You can just eat the same as whoever you are! You have done a lot of evil things on the canal all these years , besides you, I don’t know how many people clapped their hands and applauded!"

Huang Zongxing was a little anxious now: "Could it be that the imperial court really wants to destroy the Cao Gang?"

Qin Wubing frowned and asked: "What is extermination? Kill all of you and leave none behind? Or is it about rectifying the Cao Gang to see the effect?"

A kind of expectation burst out in Huang Zongxing's eyes.

Qin Wubing waved his hands and said:

"Flexible, you must know how to be flexible! Let me ask you, does the Cao Gang have to be named Huang? Not necessarily, those officials you have been familiar with before, can escape the clutches of Lord Xiang this time, no, those who escaped this investigation, no There will be too many, the court can speak for you, hmph, knowing what you have done, who else dares to speak? Don't worry, listen to me, your experience in water transportation is there, as long as it is Loyal, no one is more suitable than you, for this reason, you should not just read the last sentence, the most important thing is the first, loyal!"

"If you don't have this premise, what's the use of keeping you in the gang! Don't stare at me, the loyalty you want in your heart and the loyalty the emperor wants are not the same heart! Let's put it this way, since everything can change, you have always stuck to the rules and pretended to be smart You have done so many absurd things! Say you are rebellious, you are really wronged, but you can be said to be loyal, and it is not worthy of this word. If you really meet the real one, who will you destroy? Change your gang rules. Well, at least you have to be of one mind! When it’s time to change it, I’ll order someone to write it up and send it to you, your gang regulations are no longer applicable to the current Cao Gang.”

Huang Zongxing was stunned.

"What? I'm not right? You let the brothers in the gang only know the rules of the gang but don't know the law. How can their ideas be right at the critical moment? If things go on like this, there is no need for the court to do anything, and your gang will solve it yourself! Think about it, is this the case? The Cao Gang and the imperial court are like grasshoppers on the same rope, why do they have to face each other? You have seen the actions of Prince Xiang, and this is what the emperor meant. Well, those corrupt officials are old men, and the imperial court is stepping up efforts to rectify it, and your Cao Gang still wants to continue as before? Changing the rules of the gang is better than changing the surname of the gang leader!"

Huang Zongxing took a deep breath, he wanted to refute, but felt that what the official said was reasonable.

Qin Wubing secretly heaved a sigh of relief, four out of three have been completed, and the last one is actually the easiest.

(End of this chapter)