: Shocking the Snake

The fire spreads the sky, and the smoke rises up and spreads for a long time. The wasteland is full of reeds. Although it is flammable, it burns quickly. The hot air on the ground is still choking. The breeze blows by, and the ashes are swirling in the air, choking the eyes and noses.

Fifty inner factory actors slowly walked from the black and gray mud pond on the shallow water. The reed marsh in front of them had burned clean and turned into a dark wasteland. In the distance, only hundreds of houses in the tax office stood on the plain.

In order to prevent dust, Zheng Baihu and dozens of fans covered their faces with cloth towels and only a pair of eyes were exposed. Because reeds were everywhere in the mud pond, the mud was tightened. It was not particularly difficult to step on the official boots inside. Finally, they stepped onto the land. The fence of the Customs Department was close to the tariff department in front of them. Zheng Baihu stood in front of the fence with a knife and looked around carefully. His dark eyes were faintly anxious.

He looked at it for a moment and called in a low voice: "Wu Yong, everyone should be fainted. If you bring thirty people in, and there are still those who can move, it will be a consequence of him."

A masked man next to him responded and hesitated: "Then... the factory supervisor..."

Zheng Baihu sighed and said, "I will take people around to search for it, I'm afraid... I'm afraid that sir is in danger..."

The masked man paused the heavy mud on his feet, drew his sword and unsheathed it, and shouted sternly: "Thirty people come with me, the tariff officials will rebel, and the crime will be unforgivable. Those who dare to resist will kill you and will not be punished!"

With a thunderous sound, thirty men drew their swords and unsheathed their sheaths, split the fence with murderous aura, and rushed in. Zheng Baihu knew that when he entered, many people who were already confused would be killed, so he opened his mouth to stop them. But he swallowed them back. If the lord was really buried in the fire, how could he want to kill all the people in the Customs Department?

Zheng Baihu snorted coldly, raised his leg and kicked a broken horizontal railing, and walked in quickly. Twenty big men followed behind and rushed straight to the other side. On the way, he encountered some people lying on the ground with black faces, regardless of whether they were angry or not. The red-eyed men cut a knife, and Zheng Baihu only said that he had never seen him.

Yang Ling asked someone to pretend to be a taxpayer in advance and came to the Customs Department twice. The place was deserted and uninhabited. If you approach it rashly by other means, once the people from the Customs Department discovered it, it would inevitably be suspicious. Only by using this method can it be safer.

After careful investigation, they found that the people from the Customs Department yamen who usually collect taxes and only gather in the room to gamble and play with women. On the dock, only a few ship workers lived on it. Using small groups of officers and soldiers to raid the ship in one fell swoop.

Sure enough, Zheng Baihu cut off the rear road and worked very smoothly. He destroyed the oars and sails. Because there was a large area of ​​reed marsh in front of him, if he ran to the Customs Department through the reed marsh, then the people who escaped from the Customs Department would just hide it inside, and his fifty people would not be able to search for it at all. So he wanted to catch the fish that had missed the net at the dock, so he sent his confidant Wu Yong to quietly rush to the Customs Department to check the movement.

Wu Yong rushed to the Customs Department and secretly lie down in the reed marsh and happened to see Yuan Xiong's guns suppressing people and setting fire to the fire. In a shock, he rushed back to Fei Bi. Zheng Baihu was able to suppress bandits and was promoted to the Shenji Camp to become an official. He had rich field combat experience. After a little calculation, he issued the most rational battle order: the enemy has set fire, and we are above the enemy's limelight. We also set fire!

Now Yangling's life is no longer something that his dozens of people can save. With his dozens of people, the only thing he can do is to attack and destroy Yuan Xiong with fire. Otherwise, when Yuan Xiong leads people to kill him, even the people who avenge the factory supervisor will be gone.

When they rushed to the fire belt on the other side, they saw many people lying on the ground. Because the fireworks came too quickly, the Customs Department usually entered and exited the waterway. There were no horses available. Whether these people escaped into the house or hid in the corners of the walls, most of them were fainted by people.

The men with red eyes were holding bloody steel knives and were about to kill one by one, Zheng Baihu suddenly shouted: "Stop it all! Look... look there..."

Zheng Baihu's voice was hoarse and ecstasy, and his voice trembled. He had expected that the hope of the adult's survival was slim. If this fire came to life, it would be a miracle. So although he rushed here with the hope of inadvertently, he had already made the worst plan in his heart.

But when he arrived here, he was shocked to find that the reeds were still there a mile away. Although the wind was swaying, the reeds rose with the wind were already black, not to mention that the reeds now looked like ink paintings, but that one was indeed a reed.

The reed was not burned, so he... Zheng Baihu dragged his heavy boots and rushed into the burned reed ground ecstatically. A ball of black gray rose under his feet. He shouted loudly: "Hurry up, go and save the adult, he must be alive!"

When the characters heard this, they were very energetic and left behind the dizzy and snatched the reeds from the reeds. Twenty people walked over and rolled up a burst of black smoke on the flat ground. They barely ran to the edge of the smoked reeds. They saw a small river in front of them, lying densely filled with people, looking at the outfits of the officers and soldiers of the inner factory and the garrison.

Zheng Baihu turned on one of them and pulled off the wet wipes from his face. The man was covered in black and gray, and his hair and eyebrows could not see clearly. Although the wipes were cleaner, his nostrils were full of smoke and ashes. Zheng Baihu still breathed when he tried it, and he couldn't help but feel confident. He left the guard and jumped up and shouted: "Look for me immediately, find me immediately, find the factory supervisor and give me a lot of rewards!"

Without waiting for his instructions, the characters were already searching around and around. Yangling's people were furiously reeling because of the fire, and the smoke was surging, which was lighter than those who were smoked by the rich smoke of the wet reeds. Although they were a little bit unconscious, they woke up in a daze when they were shouted and touched. They washed their faces and woke up quickly.

Zheng Baihu was searching anxiously, and a monk shouted in the distance: "I have found the factory supervisor, hahahaha, the lord is still alive!"

"Where? Where?" Zheng Baihu was overjoyed and snatched the monks with several nearby fans. He saw that monks were holding someone in his arms, although they were as frightened as the Kitchen God. But he could still recognize his clothes and appearance.

Zheng Baihu still had a breath when he tried it. He hurriedly pulled off a piece of his clothes and was soaked in the river water. He rubbed his face and rubbed it randomly. After being stimulated by the water, Yang Ling woke up slowly. He wanted to speak, but felt that his throat was choking. He first coughed violently, and he pushed away the floating ash from the water and drank two sips of water to moisten his throat. He wiped the black ash on his face and the corners of his eyes casually. He stood up and looked around and asked, "Why are you here? Where are Yuan Xiong's natives?"

Zheng Baihu said happily: "Old Master is lucky and the heavenly beings, so I can scare my humble posts to death. Don't worry, Yuan Xiong set fire, and the subordinate officials also set fire. The people in the Customs Department have been fainted by the subordinate officials, and even if there are still people who are awake, they can't resist."

Yang Ling was excited and hurriedly said, "Hurry up, wake everyone up, control the Tariff Department's yamen quickly, don't leave anyone."

A thousand black officers and soldiers from Yangling rushed to the Customs Department. They stopped thirty people who were killed, tied up the rest, and took the banknote. They unexpectedly found dozens of women among the fainted people. After stuttering, they found that there were dozens of women who were found to be dizzy. After stuttering, they found that a few prostitutes who were recovered for money were either forced to pay off their debts or the civilian women who were forcibly snatched back by the Customs Department, Yuan Xiong's lawsuit was filled with a serious crime.

When searching for the Customs Department, although no one dared to move the treasury, no one in the Customs Department's evil officials had plundered the land to be worthy of their property. These officers and soldiers searched the houses and there were quite a few people who were holding the sheep in their arms. Yang Ling saw it, but how high can the army put forward at this time? They were all people who had just followed him to die, so Yang Ling could only pretend not to know.

He concentrated all the people and sent people to pick them up. Yang Ling sent people to inform the local government. When the magistrate heard that the inner factory supervised the case here, he took the personnel of the Customs Department. He was so happy. He went to this disaster. He was also a local official. But which prison can live in the prison of No. 2,000 prisoners? Yang Ling temporarily handed over the bank of the Customs Department to the local government and took the prisoners all the way back to Hangzhou. When he saw the government, he stuffed people in it. When he returned to Hangzhou, he still handed over to the magistrate's office to more than 300 people, so that these people were completely handed over.

Without the support of the tariff department, there are dirt hidden here, which includes many evil people who commit crimes and commit crimes, and naturally, the government will make judgments one by one.

In the Mo Mansion, Yang Ling changed the bath water four times, and the color of the water became much cooler. Her skin was so hot that it was red. Yang Ling sat in the bathtub and closed her eyes comfortably.

This arrest operation was in danger, and Bi Chun was not bloody. Although Yuan Xiong almost killed the entire army, fortunately, he survived the desperate situation, and without any soldiers, he successfully arrested Yuan Xiong and a group of desperate people. Yang Ling was considering the aftermath.

Because he was suspicious of Mo Qinghe, Yang Ling did not dare to imprison Bi Chun and Yuan Xiong in the Mo Mansion. As soon as he returned to Hangzhou, he immediately sent the official ship full of return goods and property to take two prisoners to return to Beijing, which made Mo Qinghe, who was eager to welcome his enemy, Eunuch Yuan, was disappointed.

Yang Ling has too many things to do now, and each thing must be adapted to the situation and cannot be decided before further information is obtained. He still doesn't know what conspiracy Mo Qinghe has. If he entrusts Jiangnan taxes to him, but this person is not a person who can entrust him, then finally conquering the territory would be equivalent to entrusting the bandits. If Mo Qinghe is not found out, he will not be able to return to Beijing with confidence.

Yuan Xiong's people were all caught in one go, but the tariff department must be established and returned to the Ministry of Revenue. Emperor Zhengde would not agree, and all other tax bureaus would regard him as a enemy. So who should be sent to guard the tariff? This candidate must be considered first. Now he is in charge of the tax bureau and cannot be missed if he uses human rights.

There is also the recent actions of the emperor. In addition to himself, only the eight tigers including Liu Jin. What are their recent abnormal movements? Is it because they hold the most powerful power, so they become envious and want to please the emperor and get an official. According to the historical trend, they have become the eight major power traitors who have been upholding the government for many years, or are there any other conspiracy? Why do Silijian sit idly and watch?

Yang Ling was thinking about the headache and couldn't help but sigh softly. At this time, a gentle voice suddenly came from the side: "Master, is the water cold? Do you want to add some water?"

Yang Ling was startled and when he opened his eyes, he saw Gao Wenxin standing beside him with his sleeves, naked white arms, red face, but his eyes were hanging down and he didn't dare to look at him.

Yang Ling brushed the towel around the bucket and slapped the towel around her waist. He ate and said, "What are you...what are you doing here? I'll just wash it yourself."

Gao Wenxin was already a little shy. She couldn't see anything when Yang Ling sat in the bucket, but Yang Ling's desire to cover up made her even more embarrassed.

Gao Wenxin said shyly: "My maid... should have served the adults to take a bath and change clothes. I stayed outside. The man who went out to deliver water was very strange to see my leisurely look. Otherwise... I will rub your back for you."

Yang Ling smiled dryly and said, "It's okay. No need, what should I do? Who dares to talk nonsense? I'm not from a wealthy young master. I'm really not used to letting women take a bath. You... just wait for me in the outdoor room."

Gao Wenxin blushed, and saw that his expression seemed to be even more nervous than him. When she heard him say this, she immediately breathed a sigh of relief and said hurriedly: "Then... that maid is out." She took a few steps. Suddenly she remembered something, turned back, turned her head and hurriedly sprinkled into the wooden barrel.

Look at her appearance, Yang Ling's butt was not as afraid as she met her every day. Somehow, Yang Ling was exposed to the water only her naked chest and shoulders. But she was embarrassed and showed her embarrassment.

Yang Ling looked straight at the undulating needle tips in the mist and asked, "What kind of medicine is this?"

Gao Wenxin said: "This is not medicine, it is tea. Put it on a little. Um...it tastes fragrant."

Yang Ling smiled and waved his hand and said, "Okay, the fragrance of tea is better than the anger. Haha, let's get acupuncture after washing it later. I've been running around all day today, but I'm scared to death. I haven't felt like my body was so tired that I almost broke up. Unfortunately, Yu'er is not here, and she is very good at massage."

Gao Wenxin was so embarrassed that she didn't dare to look up. After hearing this, she raised her head and said unconvincedly: "My maid... I also know the techniques of massage. The imperial doctors in the massage department of the Imperial Hospital were not as good as those of me. I will prepare now and massage the master in a while."

Yang Ling was lying on the bed, drowsy after being massaged by Gao Wenxin. Incense was burning indoors. The middle-aged man was drunk. A pretty and cute girl gently massaged his head, neck and limbs.

Yu Tangchun's massage is more about stroking and acting cute than massage. However, Gao Wenxin is really good at this. She first combs her jade teeth and combs her hair through a layer of thin and smooth clothes along her spine, gently scraping it from her neck to the lower waist to relax her bloodline, and then massages the meridians and acupoints. Yang Ling really feels that her whole body is relaxed and floating like an immortal.

The massage technique in the Ming Dynasty was the time when it was completed. Gao Wenxin was a master of this. Yang Ling couldn't help but close his eyes and said vaguely: "It feels so comfortable, I didn't know... I will give me a massage after acupuncture every day, okay?"

Gao Wenxin raised her sleeve and wiped the fine sweat, smiled and said, "Okay, I know many techniques. Just now... If you ask me to rub my back, I also have the skills I learned from the guide map, and I can show my skills."

Yang Ling laughed and said, "Women rubbing men's backs, how can they have the strength to do? If they change it, would it be fine...uh...uh...uh...what if they step on the back."

Gao Wenxin could already hear what he was going to say, and couldn't help but blush: This master said he was brave, and he was scared to let his maid serve him in a bath. If he said he was timid, he would sometimes talk nonsense, which made people feel itchy.

Does a man rub his back for a woman? He...he rubs me...

When Gao Wenxin thought of this, his fingers pressed suddenly felt as if they had lost their strength as if they had tenses. Yang Ling noticed that the fingers on her back were soft and weak. She was pressed and itchy. She couldn't help but smile and twisted her waist and said, "Look, I said, women don't have any energy at home? Okay, I'm getting more and more sleepy when you pressed them. I want to fall asleep."

Gao Wen glared at him hatefully, and made a choke behind him. Then he stood up, gently lowered the curtain for Yang Ling, walked to the table and wanted to blow out the lights. Suddenly, he turned his head and said, "Master, now Eunuch Yuan and the others have been arrested. Are we... going to go back to Beijing soon?"

Yang Ling turned his head, yawned and said, "What? You want to go back? It's so fast, maybe... I'll go back in the next few days."

Gao Wenxin hesitated for a moment and said, "Then... there should be nothing wrong these days, right? Should I... invite Senior Brother and Sister Tian to visit the mansion?"

Yang Ling was stunned and said, "Ah! You are right. As soon as his brother and sister came, they were invited away by his believers. I forgot about this. It would be rude to not ask for it back. Well! Go back and send someone to take my post to see the Tianshi, and see when he has time to come to the mansion to talk to him."

Gao Wenxin responded happily: "Yes, sir. I'm out, so you can rest for a lifetime."

"What did you say? The people from the inner factory caught Li Gui?" Mo Qinghe had been very happy these two days, smiling happily, and his face turned pale, with a fierce look in his eyes. He grabbed Butler Li's collar and asked in a grim voice.

"Yes...yes, master, the inner factory arrested people, and the local government could not ask. The Suzhou prefect and even the governor sent someone to inquire, but they were all pushed back by the inner factory's manipulator. We don't know what Li Gui's situation is now. They insisted that Li Gui privately hid the forbidden objects, and a huge 'gold brick' was placed there. But there was no way to argue," Butler Li said with a sad face.

"Bang!" A slap in the face and stumbled on his face. Butler Li staggered. Mo Qinghe pointed at him and scolded sternly: "Bastard! Your brother is always domineering and rampant in the countryside. I asked him to give me some peace but I just didn't listen. The gold bricks are prohibited things, and this kind of thing is also a rare thing to search for. Isn't this bringing trouble to the master?"

Mr. Li said with grievance: "Master, some people like rare things, and there are also people who collect gold bricks, but my brother... He doesn't know anything except gold and silver. How could he search for that? The young man thought that the people in the inner factory were the same as those in the east factory. He was looking for excuses to get dirty and eat the big ones, but he gave the money... The money was accepted, but the people didn't let go!"

Mo Qinghe was so angry that he raised his foot and wanted to kick him again. Mrs. Mo came up gracefully and stopped him and said, "Don't calm down. This matter may really be wronged by Li Gui. Now that the inner factory has just been established, the factory supervisor is inspecting our Jiangnan again. Even if the inner factory people want to blackmail the big people. Dare to do business in Jiangnan? Without Yang Ling's consent, I will give them the courage!"

Mo Qinghe's eyes flashed. He stared at her gloomy for a while, and his face slowly turned red: "You mean... Yang Ling is trying to make me think? Is it impossible, this is impossible, how big is he? If he eats all the three major guards in Jiangnan in one bite, who will work hard for him?"

Mrs. Mo smiled coldly and said, "He traveled to Suzhou, Hangzhou, and was not doing his job. Have you ever seen him check Yuan Xiong? But where is Yuan Xiong now? His five thousand desperate people don't care about the sky and the earth. Who doesn't have a headache when they see it? But Yang Ling first captured Bi Chun by using a cauldron to remove firewood overnight, and then attacked Guan Ruisi, and used a thousand people to deal with several times of the enemy. Is this a big appetite?"

Mo Qinghe's face turned pale, and Mrs. Mo said with a frosty face: "And he suddenly went to inspect Haining. Do you know in advance? This person looks very casual, as if the trip to Jiangnan is just a false response, but who knows what he was thinking? Now that he thinks... If he hadn't been wary of the master, why would Yuan Xiong and Bi Chun go to the capital immediately without leaving for a day?"

Mo Qinghe's face turned blue and red, and after a while, he said furiously: "I have decided to surrender to him, but he still wants to kill me?"

Mrs. Mo waved her hand, and Butler Li quickly retreated. Mrs. Mo walked to Mo Qinghe and whispered: "Master, is Li Gui reliable?"

Mo Qinghe said with a roar, "I'm asking him to plunder money and let him sacrifice his life to keep the secret for others. The pig can climb a tree, but...even if Yang Ling wants to deal with me, how about he dare to take my people without any evidence?"

Mrs. Mo sneered: "Is Li Gui yours? The imperial envoy doesn't know that he only knows that this person has privately kept forbidden objects, which is enough to be the crime of beheading. Those of your men, hum! Is there anyone who can withstand the torture of the factory guards?"

As Mrs. Mo said, her eyes turned cunningly and said, "How are those people at sea...? It's really not possible..." She twisted her eyebrows and stretched out her hand to behead her head.

Mo Qinghe's body suddenly trembled. He held the table, and even the table was trembling. Mrs. Mo was shocked and hurriedly supported him and said, "Master, what's wrong with you?"

Mo Qinghe laughed a little terrified, and his expression was a little crazy. He laughed and sat down, grabbed a teapot and threw it on the ground, gritted his teeth and cursed: "Fat Qianshou, Chen Dong's two pirates, I should have destroyed them long ago. I let them go because they were there, and I could help me confuse the public. I didn't expect that my big thing would be ruined in their hands..."

Mrs. Mo said in surprise: "What does those two gangs of robbers who are not in a climate have to do with us? What about Jiro Komura? Ask him to bring people directly into Hangzhou, we are the ones who are the internal supporters. Yang Ling will be borne in the chaos..."

She raised her beautiful eyebrows, smiled and gently hugged Mo Qinghe and said in a nickname: "As soon as Yang Ling died, the inner factory will be nothing. At that time, we will help the Dongchang remove the inner factory's strength. Master... Your status in the Silijian can be further improved."

Mo Qinghe looked up at the sky with a look of earth and sighed: "It's too late, it's too late, God's will! This is God's death!"

He smiled wryly and looked at the wife who was stunned by the side, saying, "The people of Komura Jiro can't get in. I only care about restraining Komura Jiro. Who would have thought that the incompetent bandits of Himemasato would attack Haining at this time and meet the imperial envoy in person?

Since this happened, the Commander Command has deployed all the navy troops at the mouth of the sea, worried that the Japanese would come again to invade the enemy. After the imperial envoy returned to Beijing, he would participate in his control of the sea and guard the border, so he asked Jiro Komura to come to help me at this time in danger of coming and going?" He shook his head in despair.

Mrs. Mo was very calm until she heard this. She was stunned for a while before she said softly: "Master, what should we do? But we have to make plans early. No one will come to investigate. Since Yang Ling has taken action, Li Gui can't keep the secret. Master...he knows all the things."

There was a cold voice in her voice: "Smuggling goods with the Japanese, drawing maps for the Japanese, informing the situation of the troops in advance, leading the Japanese to rob, and then high-interested grain to the farmers who robbed them all, and taking the opportunity to seize their fields. Each one is a death sentence, and swallowing the brains of those children, and more than 30 lives..."

Mo Qinghe suddenly jumped up, his cheeks jumped apart, grabbed her hand and said, "Xiaolou, why don't we go while things have not been exposed yet, and escape far away. Yang Ling has great magical powers, what can he do to me?"

Mrs. Mo was stunned and said strangely: "Escape? Where to escape? All over the world, is it the king's land? Did you escape to a remote village and hide your name..."
Chapter completed!