Jiang Quanyixun caught a few steps, raised his foot and kicked Huang Tuozi's butt, kicking Huang Tuozi in his mouth and gnawing on the mud, "What's crazy?"

Huang Tuozi didn't dare to contradict Jiang Quanyi, so he stood up and said angrily: "This dog official lied to me and almost harmed the prince and the adults, and it would not be an exaggeration to cut him down."

"Kill him now, it's a good idea. I have something to ask." Jiang Quanyi said calmly, "Come on, wake him up."

In this mid-winter, I was poured into a bucket of water in the middle of the night. As long as I was not dead, the reaction can be imagined.

Zheng Youde screamed like crazy and rushed up from the ground, but was pressed to the ground by the yamen runners.

Jiang Quanyi stepped forward and stepped on Zheng Youde's hand that was holding the ground intentionally or unintentionally.

Zheng Youde screamed again.

Jiang Quanyi said: "Tell me, what's going on in this case? Why did you collude with Chen Hongfan and Sun Zhengqiang?"

Zheng Youde looked around in panic

Huang Tuozi stepped forward and pointed at Zheng Youde and cursed: "Dog thief, I thought you just wanted to obtain the Zheng Rong family property in my name, so I promised you to take over the Zheng family's family destruction case. I didn't want you to hide evil intentions, so I colluded with the enemy and almost added the prince and the adults... I also answered Lord Jiang's questions honestly. If you dare not tell the truth, you will be cut alive with one knife!"

Seeing Huang Tuozi present, Zheng Youde knew that he could not hide anything, so he told the whole story from beginning to end.

Four years ago, Wu Zheng restored the three prefectures of Hangzhou, Jiaxing and Songjiang. Because the court was still in Shaoxing Prefecture at that time, most of them retained previous officials in the absence of suitable officials.

However, because Wu Zheng didn't like these retained officials very much, after the establishment of the General's Mansion, the promotion path for these retained officials was basically cut off.

In other words, if you do well, work your original position until you die, if you don’t do well, get out of here, be greedy and abuse your power, then you will be imprisoned.

Zheng Youde is such a retained official.

Before the Qing army advanced south, he was the county magistrate of the Ming Dynasty. He was the county magistrate of the Qing Dynasty. After Wu fought to recapture Jiaxing, he became the county magistrate of the Qingtai Dynasty and later the county magistrate of Xiushui in the Yixing Dynasty.

Zheng Youde's family is still rich. When he knew that he could never be promoted, Zheng Youde originally wanted to resign from his post and return to his hometown.

But at this time, Wu Zheng was negotiating with Hong Chengchou in Yingtian Prefecture. During this period, he "missed" and beat Chen Hongfan to abolish him. At that time, because Chen Hongfan was seriously injured, he had to treat him nearby, so he stayed in Jiangnan.

It was Chen Hong who was injured and needed several months to recuperate. Not only Wu Zheng, but also Yixingchao gradually forgot about this person.

As a result, after Chen Hongfan's injuries healed, he quietly came to Xiushui by Hong Chengchou's order.

Why choose Xiushui alone?

Because Zheng Youde was once a student of Hong Chengchou.

Of course, this student does not mean that he is studying at Hong Chengchou's house, but that before the passing of the imperial examination, Zheng Youde submitted a post to recommend himself and wanted to join Hong Chengchou's disciple. As long as Hong Chengchou nodded, he became a disciple.

This is a disadvantage that has gradually become popular since the imperial examination.

When the ministers take the exam, there are countless students, just like Zheng Sen (Zheng Chenggong) is Qian Qianyi's disciple.

After Chen Hongfan came to Zheng Youde, under Zheng Youde's protection, he changed his name invisibly, lost his name in Xiushui, and made a living by doing business.

Slowly, we began to connect with local merchants in Xiushui, and then formed a businessman group, and Zheng Rong was one of these local merchants.

This businessman group, by transporting government-banned materials to the north to make huge profits, and with the secret support of the Qing court and opening the door of convenience, its power grew rapidly in just two years.

The financial resources were even more inflated like snow. During this period, they made great efforts to bribe the county government and government officials around Xiushui, regardless of gains and losses.

It is also true that the government office and the surrounding county offices turned a blind eye to the regulations on the recruitment of caravans by Xiushui merchants and allowed them to grow wildly and grow stronger.

But they didn't know that none of the recruited guards were from Jiangnan, and they all came from the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty in the Qing Dynasty in the north.

Originally, a mere county naturally cannot become a climate, but the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal passes through Xiushui has become its natural advantage.

Even if the two dynasties fought, the trade between merchants would not have much impact. Both sides knew in their hearts that cutting off trade was a double-edged sword. The south needed coal, ore and other materials from the north, and the north needed food, tea and goods sold from the West, so the two sides almost chose to ignore trade between merchants.

This causes the canal to go south and north, and as long as the canal is opened, the inspection is almost useless.

Countless materials traveled between Jiangbei and Jiangnan in this way, turning into white silver.

When Zheng Youde said this, his lips began to become purple and frozen.

He trembled and begged Jiang Quanyi to give him a quilt, but Jiang Quanyi agreed.

After wrapping it in the quilt, Zheng Youde became warmer and continued to talk.

The growth of Chen Hongfan and others' strength indirectly led to Zheng Youde's loss of control over the governing power of Xiushui County.

But Zheng Youde didn't mind. Anyway, he had no way to promotion and could earn more money and comfort his lost heart.

Besides, in Zheng Youde's opinion, this matter is not too big. Even if it is a matter of fact, Ma Shiying, the prefect of Jiaxing, has been respected by him. He has paid a lot of money over the years.

Therefore, Zheng Youde agreed to Chen Hongfan and others for the Yueqiu breeze of Xiushui County. On weekdays, he was like a puppet, and even the third yamen was in the hands of Chen Hongfan and others.

But not long ago, the Qing court suddenly ordered Chen Hongfan to buy firearms from the southern merchants.

It is not difficult to buy firearms from foreign merchants, especially from the Dutch who occupy the Eastern Federation (Taiwan), as long as you have money.

In fact, since the Tianqi period, the Dongfan (Taiwan) was no longer under the control of the Ming Dynasty.

Instead, it was occupied by the Dutch, the infamous East India Company.

In the second year of the Apocalypse, the Dutch even captured Penghu.

In the fourth year of the Tianqi revelation, the Ming army recovered Penghu after eight months of fierce fighting and repelled the Dutch, but the Dutch always occupied the Dongfan (Taiwan).

At the same time, the Dutch East India Company also occupied the Strait of Malacca, which was originally occupied by Portugal.

In other words, basically, the ocean-going trade in Western Europe is controlled by the East India Company.

Chen Hongfan has money, so it is not difficult to buy a firearm, but the difficulty lies in the Beiyun.

Firearms are different from food, tea, etc. They are expressly prohibited goods.

This has caused officials who had already completed the canal level to start the price and extort more tolls.

Even though Chen Hong and Fan were rich and arrogant, they could not follow this kind of blackmail.

So he had to stock up on Xiushui the firearms he bought from the Dutch in batches. In this way, he would only pay a "toll" once to be shipped to reduce costs.

But the problem is that Ma Shiying has already noticed it.
Chapter completed!