Chapter 290: Ambush from All Sides(1/2)
"Prince Zheng, I don't understand it young," Li Yongde asked.
"You will understand," Zheng Lang said, and then said to Yier: "Madam Yi, can you borrow a zither?"
"I dare not take it," Yier bent down and bowed her to the gift, her face was even more radiant. Water could drip from her beautiful eyes, and another layer of fog was felt.
Zheng Lang came to the Guzheng and had it at home. Zheng Lang touched it very little. There were also significant differences between zithers and zithers. There were seven strings and zithers and zithers had thirteen strings, but the guqin was even more difficult to play because the thirteen emblem had many overtones and tunes when playing. The tone was subtle and deep, simple and elegant, just like Chinese freehand paintings. Some skilled people do not use seven strings, and can play any guqin song with just one string.
However, each string of the Guzheng is only one or two notes, and the range is wide. Compared with the nobleness of the literati and the coldness of the hermits, the Guzheng is more melodious and pleasant, and has a more common sense. Therefore, in ancient times, most of the Guzheng played the Guqin, people with status, knowledge, or elegant people. However, the Guzheng became the favorite of women, including beautiful prostitutes in various brothels, who mostly played the Guzheng instead of the Guqin.
Zheng Lang stroked the strings of the zither and recalled the past last night.
His plan is perfect, and there are still some negligence during the implementation process.
He calculated the place where the substitution was replaced, and the addition of Lu Er and Da Lu were unexpected. The tide also asked him to go in and would go around the sea and set up a flag, which was a stroke of genius.
Two accidents occurred in the middle.
First, he silenced his mouth. He did not expect the other party to be so cruel. This was in the Song Dynasty. To put it bluntly, as long as there was no major case, it was just smuggling and smuggling salt. He had the ability to throw himself into the temple like Lu Zhishen or Zhishan, and then waited for the imperial court to have the amnesty and could come out.
Of course, if there are murders. And there are several murders, then it will not be good.
Therefore, if the other party does not kill people, they can only use a fastboat to pick them up and use the sea cover to send them to Fujian or Lingnan areas further south. After a few years, the state will be amnesty and return to their hometown safely.
What happened later shocked him even more.
Several ships were about to surround them, but Zheng Lang was afraid of something unexpected, so he asked the injunction to shout and surrender and forgive his family.
The Imprisoners only knew what they were going to come after they arrived at sea. Zheng Lang was also very careful and did not ask the prisoners why they were stubborn in prison. Lu Gongbi and Han Jiang messed with the two young men, and they didn't understand the real situation at all.
When the case came to him, he brought in any message.
Including the injunction, if the ship is notified on the shore after the ship is out of the sea, it is estimated that the news will be spread before the ship has left the port.
But an accident happened again, and the people on the boat began to fight. Some wanted to surrender, and some wanted to burn the boat to commit suicide. Before the four ships caught up, the people on the boat began to kill each other. Some jumped off the boat. But the terrain here was complicated, with many dangerous reefs like wolf teeth standing on both sides, and the tide surged. No matter how good the water quality went, there was no way to survive. The boat finally started to burn, and with the force of the night wind, the whole boat became a big fireball.
This is another accident.
But he still got an important confession. One of them inserted a knife into his chest, covered his chest with his hands, jumped off the boat, and shouted when he jumped off: "The one who harmed us is the uncle."
It won't be Li Yonghe.
Li Yonghe is not such a person. If he wants money and wealth, why should he be alone?
It’s not that others don’t want it, but that Zhao Zhen doesn’t want it, but that others don’t want it. After Zhao Zhen gives it, it’s scattered to everyone, and Zheng Lang praised it for his character.
So who else is called the national uncle in Liangzhe?
Play.
The music was very dispersed and slowly, and suddenly it started to get faster and then suddenly stopped. Zheng Lang asked Yier: "Have you heard it?"
"I haven't heard of it," Yier replied carefully.
"You probably haven't heard it. This song is called "Ten-sided Ambush". There are ten paragraphs in total. The first six paragraphs can be barely done with the Guzheng, and the last four paragraphs are probably not easy to play."
There are ten ancient songs in later generations, including high mountains and flowing water, Guangling scattered, flat sand and falling geese, plum blossoms, ambush on ten sides, sunset flutes and drums, fishermen and woodcutters’ Q&A, eighteen beatings of Huzhu, autumn moon in the Han Palace, and white snow in the spring. But there are a few of these ten songs that cannot be played with the guqin. For example, the guqin in the Han Palace, the slippery and resentfulness and the sad and angry feelings of a girl, if played with the noble guqin, no matter which masterpiece comes from, it will not be played well. Even if the song is played, it will be very strange.
For example, when fishermen and woodcutters have to agree with Xiaosheng, they will have the association of the question and answer scene, otherwise they will be very monotonous and cannot hear the meaning of the song.
There are also ambushing on ten sides. When playing with the guqin, it is difficult to play many rapid musical notes in the song. The guqin is slightly better. Because there are many strings, the distance between the strings and the fingers will be shorter. Especially in later generations, it is changed to twenty-one strings, or even twenty-four strings and twenty-six strings. The distance is closer, and closer can make it easier to play this song.
If you play the seven-string guqin, you can barely play the "Pu'an Mantra" with continuous single notes, but if you play "Ten-sided Ambush", you won't know what the meaning of the song will look like.
"Why not talk about it?" Yier asked. Six sections can pop up, and this is the first section.
"Enough, let's set up a formation first," Zheng Lang stood up.
Two yamen runners rushed over, pressed Li Yongde down, and began to arrest him.
"Prince, what is the crime of a young man?"
"What a crime..." Zheng Lang thought for a while, he could say that he could not say that, but he would finally say that.
"That's slander."
"I can arrest you if it is slander or not." Zheng Lang said lightly. The 20 lives of more than 20 people are enough to be used as one of the evidence by the murderer's shout before his death. If there is no punishment, it may be arrested and torture. As for the evidence, although all the murderers are dead, what's the harm? As long as you arrest him, using Li Yongde's various actions, he can die ten or eight times.
Zheng Ping cried again, but more than a dozen people from the Zheng family came. The wet nurse lost her merits and untied her clothes without any disgust. She was feeding her in front of everyone. Zheng Ping was quiet. Zheng Lang said to Yier again: "This case is very involved. Yi Xiao Madam. I just said that I redeem you to be a maid. It was a slouching word, but can you please visit your humble house and avoid it for a while before going back?"
Today, I am playing the game of the second tigers in the competition for beauty. There are many other remnants behind it. The law serves as a warning. Once the killing is opened, it will be beneficial to private salt. Any killing can happen after it happens, and this beautiful prostitute will be the first to be affected.
Yier thought for a while, then bowed and said, "Thank you, Prefect Zheng."
She is just a little prostitute, where can she go?
As for taking a concubine, it was a joke. If Zheng Lang was willing, all the beautiful prostitutes in Hangzhou might want Zheng Lang to have this idea.
This is the real phoenix tail.
After walking out, Zheng Lang said to Lu Gongbi: "Come to my house and have a sip of tea."
"Yes, please obey the orders." Lu Gongbi said.
Zheng Lang smiled. He was very annoyed by what these two boys had done, but he was still very scheming. Otherwise, he would not have gone so far in the future, even if he had a family background.
The group returned to the Zheng family.
After sitting down, Zheng Lang said to Lu Gongbi: "County Magistrate Lu. The criminal will be left to you for interrogation. The Li family has done a lot of illegal things over the years. Since it is a suspect, you can also make a good trial. However, if you do not judge, you will still delay it like I did before."
“Why?”
"Why, you opened a box."
"What box."
"This box is filled with devils."
"The official still doesn't understand."
"I will talk about salt first. Before our dynasty, there were official salt, and private salt was also allowed to be made. The income of the court was mainly profit and tax. The population was not as good as that of our dynasty. There was enough salt in the lake, ze and well salt, and there was some salt boiling sea salt. However, because of the low salt and transportation costs, the scale of boiling salt was not large. Therefore, in the Tang Dynasty, at the lowest time, each bucket of salt was only ten cents. If this price was not enough for our dynasty to cook salt, the people would not use salt to make profits, and no one in the world made profits for salt. Starting from Liu Yan Diwuqi, the salt price was rising higher and higher, and every bucket was starting to
More than 200 coins were at the highest of 370 coins. Although the people suffered, the poor people were not eating salt, but they had a chance for the late Tang Dynasty. However, the Tinghu broke the law and sold privately, and the policemen were everywhere in prefectures and counties. Although our dynasty punished the salt administration of the Tang Dynasty, they did not give up their benefits. After all, with the scale of the late Tang Dynasty, five or six million coins were added to real profits, reaching a maximum of more than 6 million coins. So the Tinghu gave tools to plow oxen and eliminated it directly from the source. But profit is profit, eight times profit, nine times profit, and ten times profit. Killing is enough!"
Lu Gongbi frowned.
"Two times the profit is enough to make people willing to take the risk of beheading, and this profit is ultimately the crime of beheading. Our court is very generous to the literati. If the annual salary of officials is reduced by a little..." Zheng Lang shook his head. The private salt of the Song Dynasty was very serious, not as serious as it was later. There is nothing else. The real top-level powerful people don't intervene much, otherwise it will be even more chaotic. He took a sip of tea and said, "How much does the literati occupy the people? Private salt cannot be operated by one party. There are many checkpoints, starting from the pavilion households, to the trafficking of rivers, lakes and seas, to the small officials in charge of various management, to the major stores of the next family. Our dynasty has been established for more than 70 years, and this huge group has been secretly formed for a long time..."
"Don't you care?"
"I will manage it, but at this time, if they want to see some benefits, I have given them more benefits, which are far more benefits than private salt, which is encouraged and allowed by the national law. If they are operating private salt, then they are wrong and there are restrictions on shares... However, they have not seen the benefits yet, and they have invisible thought in their hearts that this is their industry, and it is not appropriate to manage it at this time."
"Then we..."
"You are not wrong, you are sincere," Zheng Lang shook his head again. This is not their problem, it is the problem of Lu Yijian and Han Yi. Did they not care about this when their son came to Hangzhou? In fact, the officials also took care of it before. After the trial, they killed some people who were directly dealing with it, closed the case, and settled the matter. It was not that they didn't investigate, and there was no way to continue to investigate. Once they investigated, they would stab the hornet's nest. They said: "And this matter has caused many bad bad things..."
Many people were killed, although these people would undoubtedly die once they were arrested, and the families of officials kidnapped and coerced the officials. The last layer of the net did not dare to tear them apart, and everything else was committed.
He also said: "This group of people may not be sent by Li Yongde."
"Why?"
"Think about it," Zheng Lang said, seeing off the guests. Lu Gongbi had to understand that he couldn't make trouble anymore, just click until next year. If he was tossing, you could do whatever you wanted, but this year he had to do things.
Zheng Ping fell asleep in Cui Xian's arms.
Cui Xian lost it and regained it. She hugged Zheng Ping tightly, reluctant to put her daughter in the shaking blue, and said, "Official, invite a few more humble guests."
"Okay..." Zheng Lang hesitated for a while and replied.
Normally, this kind of thing will not happen again, but the private salt is getting bigger and bigger. Not only will the private salt, wine, tea and alum be completely teared off, and it will cause big trouble.
The court was also doing some tricks. In addition to Yourong's scholars and officials, who released some of the benefits of salt, tea, wine and alum and implemented the buying and puffing system, it is probably a disguised way to conquer the powerful. Otherwise, this huge profit contrast will make the smuggling trend more and more intense.
Wang Anshi asked, "Doctor Zheng, why isn't it necessarily Li Yongde?"
"It's hard to say, even a living witness has not been obtained. Just a shouting can't prove anything."
Zheng Lang really ignored it and continued to see West Lake. West Lake had to be treated and inspected each county again.
There is a reliance on this, which is Fu Bi.
With Fu Bi's strong support from the rear, even if he intervened, his effect was not very great, but there were some troubles in each county. Go down and watch while assisting them in correcting it.
He is waiting for the key.
This time I didn't come back until mid-October.
In fact, this is the real capable person who works harder. Through this transformation, he not only gets more situation in Hangzhou. He also corrects some bad government orders and a few unfair cases one by one. "Great governance" has not come. Small governance has come first.
When he returned home, Yier gave a gift and said, "The prefect. I want to go back."
Over the past month, the case was first interrogated by Lu Gongbi, but later it was not allowed to be transferred to Fubi. The involvement was too great. The property of the Li family alone was as many as hundreds of thousands of yuan, including five private wine workshops, two in Hangzhou, and three in Xiuyue Lake.
The name of the uncle is still very useful.
However, if there was no such a major case, Zheng Lang would not care about it either. Can he manage it?
It does not conform to his doctrine of the mean, it is not the law of the Legalists. If you set a rule, you must abide by it, otherwise you will handle it according to the law.
It is fair to rule by law, but even if it is beautiful and fair, it is a utopian dream that cannot wake up.
In the end, Zheng Lang simply stopped believing the Legalists.
In his heart, everything has two sides. No matter how bad things are, they can be displayed by adjustments, and the bad side can be hidden.
To be continued...