Detective Di Renjie's legend of Wu Dynasty

Chapter 631 Collusion between officials and bandits?

When the second finalist came to the table, Di Renjie pointed to the map and said, "This time Di Chun followed the Beigou fleet to Xuyi to deliver salt. This route should be the route of every large barge."

Zeng Tai and Lu Jiying looked at each other and said, "It should be."

Di Renjie said: "That is to say, the large barge sailed from Xuyi to Dacang in Beigou, and on the way it had to travel nearly [-] miles in the Hangou channel of the canal.

After loading the ship from Beigou Dacang and returning to Xuyi, it takes another two hundred miles to travel, and this round trip is four hundred miles.

Everyone knows that it takes at least five days to walk a [-]-mile waterway. "

Lu Jiying nodded and said, "Not bad."

Di Renjie said: "The Hangou is overturned, the river is closed, and the river patrol boats have to come and go every day for inspection. Don't the big barges transporting salt by the gangsters not be afraid of encountering the river patrol officers?"

Zeng Tai and Lu Jiying were stunned for a long time, then Lu Jiying said, "Maybe they are sailing at night to avoid the official boats patrolling the river."

Di Renjie shook his head and said: "As far as I know, the river patrol boats patrol day and night. Although there are not as many shifts at night as during the day, it is by no means non-existent. Moreover, how can it be possible for the four hundred miles of waterway to sail at night? It doesn't make sense."

Zeng Tai said: "Master, is there such a possibility that the river patrol officer conspired with the villain?"

Di Renjie said: "But have you ever thought about it? There are different river patrol officers on each official boat, and it is impossible for every river patrol officer to be an accomplice of the gangster.

Once they meet someone who is not an accomplice, they will definitely find a full load of official salt under investigation. Wouldn't their plot be exposed immediately? "

Zeng Tai nodded slowly and said, "It makes sense."

Lu Jiying said: "Mr. Ge, what do you mean..."

Di Renjie said: "In my opinion, they must be carrying amulets. It is of course best to avoid the river patrol boats. Once encountered, they can pass without hindrance as long as they show the amulets."

Lu Jiying asked puzzledly, "What do you mean by amulet?"

Di Renjie said: "Of course it is the official guidance issued by the Yangzhou Governor's Office and the Water Transport Yamen."

The two were shocked and said: "You mean, the Yangzhou government conspired with them?"

Di Renjie said: "Otherwise, how to explain this matter?"

Zeng Tai and Lu Jiying looked at each other and nodded slowly.

Di Renjie said: "If this is the case, Cui Liang, Yang Jiuzheng and others are evading in every possible way, refusing to transport salt for the people in the north of Xuyi, but privately issuing official guides to the villains. What does this mean?"

Zeng Tai blurted out: "It means that they participated in the villain's conspiracy!"

Di Renjie said: "There is no doubt about this. What I am saying is, what is their purpose in doing this?"

Zeng Tai and Lu Jiying looked at each other and shook their heads.

Di Renjie said: "Before, we have confirmed that the shipwreck in Hangou was a huge conspiracy carefully planned by Lin Yang and other gangsters.

The first step is to overturn the salt boat in Hangou; the second step is to salvage the official salt and store it in the Beigou warehouse, and then, a large barge from Xuyi transports the official salt to the Huaibei area. Think about it, What are they going to do after that? "

Zeng Tai and Lu Jiying looked at each other and said, "Hide the official salt."

Di Renjie said: "That's right. When we were in Yangzhou, we made such an inference.

But today, what I saw and heard during my visit to Xuyi made me feel that our initial judgment was wrong. "

Zeng Tai was startled and said, "Oh?"

Di Renjie said: "The gangsters must have transported the official salt to a safe place, and then distributed it to illegal salt merchants all over Huaibei to make huge profits!"

Zeng Tai asked, "It's like He Wuqi from Xuyi."

Di Renjie nodded.

Lu Jiying nodded and said, "It makes sense."

Di Renjie said: "If our hypothesis is correct, then the role played by Yangzhou governor Cui Liang and others in this conspiracy is to try every means to keep the official salt out of Xuyi Gate, so that the people in Huaibei area have no salt to eat, so they can only eat it with salt." Buy their private salt at a high price."

Zeng Tai nodded and said, "It's logical."

Di Renjie went on to say: "This can explain why Cui Liang and others, as governors of Yangzhou, put the blame in every possible way and refused to transport salt for the salt-deficient area.

"In Dacang, Beigou, County Magistrate Lu and Mrs. Li talked about the secret letter involving the corruption of Cui Liang and others, which led to the death of Li Han, Yuan Fang and Jing Yang.

And who hired those brutal and vicious Iron Hands killers?Can Cui Liang really get rid of the relationship?

If the hypothesis just now is true, and Yangzhou officials such as Cui Liang and Yang Jiucheng participated in the conspiracy, then the Iron Hands can never stay out of it.

If this is the case, then the shipwreck case in Hangou was a huge conspiracy carefully planned by the officials and bandits.

"Therefore, as long as it can be confirmed that the illegal salt that was rampant in Xuyi is a large number of official salt that disappeared from the shipwreck in Hangou, then the above hypothesis will be gradually confirmed.

And the culprit in this case will soon surface.So what we have to do now is to find out the source of private salt as soon as possible! "

Zeng Tai and Lu Jiying nodded deeply.

……

It was just dawn, and there was silence in the county town.

The back garden of He Yuan was foggy, with dew hanging on the flowers and plants on both sides, and there was no one in the garden.

Butler He Jing was walking along the corridor to Qianyuan.

Suddenly, a figure flashed behind him.

He Jing was taken aback, and hurriedly turned around.

I saw a person walking towards the back garden quickly by the corner gate not far away.

He actually hurriedly followed.

With a bang, the door of Mrs. He's room slammed open.

Mrs. He's face was pale, covered in blood, and she stumbled in.

The little girl Chun'er, who was dozing on the table, was awakened by the sound. Seeing the situation in front of her, she rushed forward with a cry of surprise, and helped Madam: "Madam, what's wrong with you?"

Madam said intermittently: "Don't, don't shout, close the door..."

Chun'er hurriedly freed her right hand to close the door, and asked in horror, "Ma'am, what happened?"

Madam shook her head and said softly: "Help me to the couch."

Chun'er hurriedly supported his wife to the bed and lay down.

Madam looked at Chun'er and said, "Chun'er, go find some medicine to treat the knife wound."

Chun'er nodded. ．
Madam stopped her again and said, "Don't let anyone know!"

Chun'er nodded and said, "I understand."

As he spoke, he gently opened the door, leaned out half of his body, and looked out.

Seeing that there was no movement around, he turned back and closed the door, and ran forward quickly.

Not far from the corner of the wall, He unexpectedly showed his head and followed him away.

The lady on the bed struggled to sit up, tore off a piece of silk cloth from her hem, wrapped it around her bleeding left shoulder with difficulty, bit the end of the cloth with her mouth and pulled it hard, the silk cloth strangled the wound, and the blood flow immediately slowed down.

Madam let out a long breath and leaned against the back of the bed.

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