When Yu Youfu escorted the Gu family's young master to Beijing, he walked on the same water route as Han Xiufeng came to Jiangsu to take office. He had seen the flag dating and sailors on the canal boat who were even more hateful than the "Bronze King".

People on the canal boats are marching the rivers, sun and rain, and after cold and heat, they are not allowed to rest all year round. When they encounter retrograde, strand, cross gates, cross dams, and even drag a boat full of canal rice with a rope. It is very hard. If the weather changes suddenly, there are still considerable risks. I don’t know how many boatmen and sailors will be buried in the fish’s belly in a year.

They are all miserable people, but there are not many good people among them.

The canal transport was originally all the flag servants, and they organized ship gangs in each canal. Each gang had more than a dozen or dozens of ships. Later, due to the lack of flag servants, the canal transport was difficult to maintain, so the boat gang hired sailors privately. Later, more and more sailors were hired. The court clearly ordered that except for only two flag servants left on each ship, the remaining dozen sailors were recruited.

The people who can survive will never abandon their families and run for a boat. They recruit all the unemployed vagrants, most of whom are bachelors, beggars, desperate gangsters and even thieves wanted by the court.

They walk with the gangs, gathering and dispersing impermanently. If there are too many people, they will naturally be inseparable from fighting. They often fight for the position of "head pole" and fight with "head pole". Gradually, in order to take care of each other, the trend of apprenticeship and discipleship is prosperous. Gangs and associations emerge. The internal hierarchy is strict, and only the head of the religion is to listen to the order. Those who disobey will use torture such as chopping fingers, amputation, and digging eyes.

They were aggressive and fighting. Not only did they fight with gangs, but they also harassed the merchants and people along the river, and even burned, killed, looted and looted!

On the way from the capital to Jiangning, we witnessed with our own eyes how they set up traps and extorted, either deliberately destroying the canal ship and colliding with the civil ships, extorting them in the name of destroying the official ships; or designing to dump the canal rice on the civil ships, and then blackmailing the fat in the name of stealing the official rice; or using the shallow waterway to transport the canal grain and occupy the civil ships arbitrarily, and the civil ships will not escape without paying money. What's more, they use the canal ships to block the river, and ask for "buy ferry money" from the passers-by civil ships and even the official ships, which is like cutting the path.

As Han Xiufeng said, if Xu Lequn and the people behind him really stick to their own affairs and hide on the boat, they would not have time to take in them. How could they take them in? Aren’t they worried about bringing the wolf into the house?

Yu Youfu realized that the next one was all the cruel and ruthless outlaws, and said worriedly: "Mr. Zhang will not live long after being sick, and Master Zhang Er should not miss this opportunity to get rich. But even if Master Zhang can be transferred to the army and catch up, I don't know where the group of private owls Xu Lequn will be arrested, and then where will Master Zhang Er go to arrest him?"

"Look for Chief Bao Zhengjia and ask Chief Bao Zhengjia from the villages near Chuanchang River and Yunyan River to help us pay attention?" Pan Er asked subconsciously.

"No?" Han Xiufeng said without hesitation.

"Why can't it?" Pan Er asked in confusion: "Fourth brother, they may not be willing to do it five days ago. But now it is not five days ago. Not to mention the chief of the Zhengjia, even Dean Gu and Mr. Wang are very convinced. I think they should help."

While signaling him to polish the ink, Han Xiufeng explained: "They probably will help pay attention, but this will easily leak the news. Compared to the group that Xu Lequn said, Xu Lequn and the group of people behind him are difficult to deal with. Although they are foreigners like us, they must have a lot of ears and ears for how long they have lived here, and the news will definitely be more informative than us."

"Or find someone reliable to go to the river to stare at him. Don't he have subordinates? It's okay to stare at his subordinates."

"No, what if you start a warning?"

"This is not OK, that is not OK, you can't guess!"

Han Xiufeng got up and walked to the desk, spread a piece of paper, and picked up a pen: "The people often say that the white path and the underworld are the officials now. We are naturally the white path. But in Hai'an, the local gentry and people and even the rogues who are locked in the class are all the white paths. The salt-related ones are the underworld. Naturally, we have to find people who are colluding with the underworld to investigate for things in the underworld, and there happened to be such a person in the yamen."

"Who?" Pan Er couldn't help asking.

"Li Xiucai!" Before Han Xiufeng could speak, Yu Youfu blurted out: "The person surnamed Xu wanted to tie us up on his pirate ship for two lives, and even planned to help them kill Li Xiucai. Why can't we let Li Xiucai deal with him? If we want to be familiar with Hai'an and Fu'an, can the salt merchants who live on the beach still have people living in Fu'an in Hai'an, and they are also familiar with Li Xiucai who makes money by colluding with private owls?"

"That's what I think. When I write the letter, I'll invite him over to talk."

...

Li Xiucai has been very frustrated these days. He used to do nothing when the Chinese New Year was approaching, and he could collect three to five hundred taels of silver while sitting in the yamen. But now those who sell private salt not only dare not come to the town, but even think that giving him money is useless.

In the afternoon, the two came directly from Taizhou and did not stop on the road. If they stopped in Baimi or Qutang and walked around the shore, they heard that the new inspector had arrested hundreds of rascals and rogues, they would definitely turn around.

He was lying on the bed and tossing and turning, not asleep at all. He wanted to deal with corrupt officials, but the honest officials named Han, who said he would not pay, but he would not deal with them. He was worried that the two private salt dealers would agree in the afternoon, but they might not help them...

Just as he was thinking about it, Yu Youfu's voice came from outside.

"Mr. Li, Mr. Li."

"Here, Yu Bantu, you haven't rested yet?"

"No," Yu Youfu coughed dryly and said with a smile: "Mr. Li, my young master asked me to ask if you have sobered up. If you wake up, please go to the second hall to discuss matters."

"I didn't drink too much, Yu Bantu, please report back to Mr. Han, I'll go put on my clothes."

"Okay, I'll report back now."

Li Xiucai was guilty and wondered if something had happened to the two private salt dealers. The more they thought about it, the more they became, the more they became, but they didn't dare not go. After a while, they put on their cotton jackets and walked into the sign-in room on the left side of the second hall as if calm.

"Master Han, you are looking for a late child so late..."

"Sit down and say." Han Xiufeng put a letter in the envelope and handed it to Zhang Shiheng, asking Zhang Shiheng to put it away. He immediately called him to sit opposite him and looked at him with a smile and asked, "Mr. Li, do you know why I went to lock up and take those rogues as soon as I took office?"

"Mr. Han is a purgatory of the atmosphere and gives the people a bright world."

“Yes, not.”

"Master Han, please be stupid later..."

"Don't have a night's life." Han Xiufeng and Zhang Shiheng walked out of the signing room, stared at him with a serious and serious look: "Mr. Li, I'm going to hide it from it. I'll use the rogues who do evil and rampant villages to slander the countryside to purify the customs and investigate and smuggle salt!"

"Investigate anti-smuggling salt?" Li Xiucai was shocked.

"Mr. Li, others don't know that you must have heard of it. Although I, Han Xiufeng, came from a donor, but there is not no one in the court. If you just want to be an official, you can't do it, but it's not difficult to be a county official."

"I believe." Li Xiucai asked, and knew very well that the person in front of him had a background and could even speak to the vassal state. Otherwise, Fang Shimei would not have been able to leave after only four months of handling the case.

"It doesn't matter if you don't believe it, you will know sooner or later." Han Xiufeng paused and then said, "When I went to the province to pay the official certificate, the National Taiwan Master, the National Taiwan Master, gave me an in-person opportunity and assigned an errand. After I took office, I summoned the young and strong people to investigate and smuggle salt, and block the leak!"

When a new official arrives in the province, he must go to the Governor of Liangjiang. If he does not, if he does not agree, he will not expect to take office even if he is a Jinshi. The Governor of Liangjiang is also in the management of Lianghuai Salt. It is normal for the Governor of Liangjiang to investigate and smuggle salt in front of him.

Li Xiucai believed it and pretended to be embarrassed and said, "Master Han, even if the Taiwan Master did not give him a face-to-face, you are still responsible for investigating anti-smugglers as a Hai'an inspector, but private salt is not that easy to investigate. You didn't know before you took office, but now you must know that there are dense water networks in Hai'an, with many Hong Kong banks. There are only two Zao Li and ten flood soldiers in the inspection office. Not to mention that it is difficult to find out the news about private owls, even if you can find out, you can't deal with them alone!"

"I have news about private owls, but I have the same officers who deal with private owls."

"Is there any news about the private owl?" Li Xiucai felt a little sad, thinking that the two private salt dealers who came to give him the New Year gift in the afternoon.

Han Xiufeng picked up the cup and drank a small sip of tea, and said with a gloomy face: "As the saying goes, if you don't know, you don't do it unless you do it yourself. It's ridiculous that those brave people thought that their actions were secret, and they had not known that they had been accused of the Taiwan Department. Knowing the law and breaking the law, the crime was higher than the top. It depends on how I gave them personal stolen goods. Now everything is ready, but the east wind is not available!"

Li Xiucai didn't think that his little character could alarm the Governor Liangjiang, so he breathed a little relieved. He thought about it and couldn't help asking: "Master Han, how do you plan to investigate? Do you have anything to tell Wansheng to do?"

"That's right, and this matter can only be relied on Mr. Li."

"Mr. Han is saying anything. If you have any questions, please give me instructions."

"Let me put it this way. After I took office, I first hired you as the Western Conference, and then asked you to bring your family to paralyze those illegal people who dared to traffic in private salt. Let them think that I don't believe you, and let them think that Mr. Li, you are already an insignificant person."

"Mr. Han, I..."

"Don't worry, listen to me after I finished talking." Han Xiufeng greeted him for tea and smiled: "I asked Changsheng to go out to inquire in the morning. The gentry and people in the town all thought that Mr. Li, you can't control the matter. Some people can't even remember you. It's really because the tea is cold before people leave. But this is a good thing. What I want is that they can't remember it. Only in this way can you help me do a big thing!"

"What's up?"

"You must know Bao Daijie in Fu'an. As a businessman, he was so kind to the emperor, and he broke the law and trafficked private salt in a large manner! Mr. Li, you are not only a friend of my official, but also a student of the court. In Hai'an, I only believe in you, and I can only ask you to go there and help me watch Bao Daijie in Fu'an!"

When cleaning up the business, Li Xiucai was happy to fall into this underground stone.
Chapter completed!