Jinyi Town Mountains and Rivers

Chapter 141 The safest place is often the most dangerous place

He Liu borrowed three hundred Qi's army.A group of people came to Hangzhou mightily.

Hangzhou, a treasure land where the river flowers are more red than the fire at sunrise, and the river is as green as blue in spring.This is the seat of Zhejiang Governor's Yamen.After the great victory in Taizhou, Emperor Jiajing decreed that the Yamen of the governor of Zhejiang Province was also moved from Yangzhou to Hangzhou.

He Liu and Lao Hu had no intention of admiring the beautiful scenery of Suzhou and Hangzhou.Instead, he led 18 Qi's troops and went straight to the No. [-] cargo hold of Caobang Jiazi in the east of the city.

Lieutenant General Tang Yaochen of Qi's Army took a look at the big word "Cao" on the cargo hold, and suddenly frowned.

Deputy General Tang asked He Liu: "Master Liu, didn't you tell us to come to Hangzhou to assist you in investigating the felons who smuggled firearms? How did you find them in the warehouse of the Cao Gang?"

He Liu could hear Vice General Tang's voice seeming to be afraid of the Cao Gang.

He wondered, who in the world doesn't know?Brother Pao Ze of the Qi Family Army is neither greedy for money nor afraid of death.He didn't even blink his eyes in front of the Japanese pirate's samurai sword.Why be afraid of a Jianghu gang?
He Liu asked Deputy General Tang: "Why, do you still have connections with the Cao Gang?"

Deputy General Tang blurted out: "It's not that I have a relationship with the Cao Gang. It's that our Qi's army has a relationship with the Cao Gang! The Cao Gang has a great favor for the Qi's army!"

He Liuqi said: "The Cao Gang has a great favor for Qi's army? What kind of favor?"

Deputy General Tang said: "The Sixth Lord doesn't know something. In the battle of Taizhou, the military supplies that Hu Butang raised for us in Yangzhou and Hangzhou were all sent to the front line by the Cao Gang at the risk of the Japanese pirates' artillery! Everyone in the Cao Gang Loyalty. He risked his life to deliver supplies to our Qi family army, but he didn't take any money. In order to protect our food and grass, in Ningbo, two hundred brothers from the Cao Gang died at the hands of Japanese pirates. Two days ago, our General Qi specially wrote "Loyalty and Justice" in handwriting The four words are given to Chief Ding of the Cao Gang."

After Vice General Tang explained, He Liu was relieved.Fear, often out of respect.

Lao Hu said from the side: "Deputy General Tang, the criminals who delivered firearms to the Japanese pirates hid their firearms in the Cao Gang's warehouse, but it doesn't mean that those criminals are from the Cao Gang. We are looking for firearms and will The outlaws are being brought to justice precisely for the sake of repaying Cao Gang’s innocence.”

Deputy General Tang said: "Our General Qi said that this time it is all under the command of the Sixth Master. Sixth Master, you give the order."

He Liudao: "Okay, you send two hundred brothers to surround this warehouse. The remaining one hundred brothers follow me to pick up the stolen goods in the warehouse."

Everyone rushed into the warehouse.There was no one in the warehouse, just piles of high-quality mahogany.

Old Hu said: "Oops! It seems that those people learned that Lin Dasheng was arrested, and feared that he would confess, they have transferred the batch of firecrackers!"

He Liu was a little strange: "Although the mahogany in this warehouse is not as valuable as the firecrackers, a warehouse of mahogany is worth two or three thousand silver. Why didn't the Cao Gang send someone to guard it?"

Deputy General Tang explained: "Liu Ye, you don't know something. The Cao Gang has a very high status in the Jianghu, second only to the world's largest gang of beggars in terms of number. People mess with the goods of the Cao Gang. If anyone comes to steal things from the warehouse of the Cao Gang, they are afraid that the brothers of the Cao Gang will break their legs before the goods are shipped out of Hangzhou City."

Old Hu frowned: "It's broken! The clue to the Japanese case is broken. If those firecrackers are transported to the Japanese pirates along the coast of Fujian, it will definitely cause big trouble for the Qi family army who is about to go to Fujian."

He Liu didn't answer Lao Hu's words.Instead, he circled the mahogany three times.

Each of these mahogany trees is one arm thick, and there are about eighty or ninety.

He Liu suddenly realized, he smiled and said to Lao Hu: "Our opponent is really a conceited person! Another way to say conceited is to be smart!"

Old Hu was a little puzzled: "Why did you say that?"

He Liu asked Lao Hu: "Do you remember, my father used to have a catchphrase. Where is the safest place to hide things?"

Old Hu said: "I have been with your father for 20 years, of course I remember! The safest place is often the most dangerous place!"

He Liu nodded: "That's right! Where is the most dangerous place to hide firecrackers now? It's nothing more than here! In the warehouse of the Cao Gang! Because Lin Dasheng was arrested, our opponent knows that he is likely to give away this warehouse. "

Lao Hu took out the tin wine jug and took a sip of Xiliang wine: "You mean, the firecrackers are still hidden in this warehouse? Are there hidden compartments on the floor and walls? We are not here to raid the house, no Listen to the tiger on the wall and the ground, but you can't listen to the ground and scrape the wall!"

He Liudao: "I don't know if there are hidden compartments here. But I do know that the firecrackers are all hidden among these round redwoods!"

He Liu walked up to a piece of mahogany, pointed to a section in the middle of the mahogany: "Old Hu, look here."

Lao Hu took a closer look, and there was an imperceptible thin line on the mahogany.

He Liudao: "If my guess is correct, the inside of this mahogany is hollow. Under the thin line, there is a wedge."

He Liu asked four soldiers to line up at both ends of the mahogany.The soldiers at both ends pulled out vigorously.

"Pull." The thick mahogany actually broke!As He Liu said, the mahogany has been hollowed out, and there are more than a dozen exquisitely crafted wedges in the middle.

There are actually five firecrackers hidden in the hollow heart of the mahogany!

Lao Hu exclaimed: "What a delicate carpenter's work! Cut the mahogany into two pieces, hollow out the middle, and hide the firecracker. There is only one line at the junction of the wedge. It's a perfect fit! If you don't look carefully, you can't see it at all. Just don't notice it!"

He Liudao: "It's not surprising. Gardens in Suzhou and Hangzhou are the best in the world. If you want to build a garden, you must have a carpenter with excellent craftsmanship. There are many carpenters with such skills in Suzhou and Hangzhou."

More than 100 soldiers of the Qi family army demolished eighty or ninety big redwoods in a short time.There are five or six firecrackers hidden in the hollow of each piece of mahogany.Add up to 480!Adding in the twenty guns seized by Lin Dasheng by Qi's army, it happened to be five hundred firecrackers.

Deputy General Tang was overjoyed: "This batch of firecrackers, together with the five hundred captured in Huling, is enough for our Qi family army to form a firearms battalion!"

He Liu said with a smile: "Our opponent tried his best to transport a thousand firecrackers from Beijing to Jiangnan. How could he have thought that they all became Qi's army in the end! Deputy General Tang, send two hundred soldiers to escort the firecrackers back Xinhe Camp. The remaining 100 people will stay in Hangzhou and follow my instructions."

The three of them were talking, but they heard a loud commotion at the door of the warehouse.

He Liu, Lao Hu, and Deputy General Tang walked to the door of the warehouse.I saw hundreds of strong men confronting the soldiers of the Qi family army.

A lame man in his 40s stood among the strong men with a cane, and he seemed to be in charge.

The strong man said: "What? Don't tell me your Qi family army wants to meet the brothers of the Cao Gang?"

"The Imperial Envoy has an order that no one is allowed to enter this warehouse without permission!" A thousand households shouted.

The cripple said angrily: "This is the warehouse of my Cao Gang! We are not allowed to trespass?"

Seeing this, Deputy General Tang hurried over and ordered his soldiers to put down their swords and guns: "What are you doing! The Cao Gang is our own! Put them all down!"

Deputy General Tang walked up to the lame man, cupped his hands and said, "Master Ding, be polite!"

That cripple is the leader of the Cao Gang, Ding Sanjiao!
(End of this chapter)