Jiang Quanyi quickly caught up a few steps, raised his foot and kicked the yellow camel's buttocks, and kicked the yellow camel in the mouth and gnawed the mud, "What are you crazy about?" ”

The yellow camel didn't dare to contradict Jiang Quanyi, got up and said indignantly: "This dog official deceived me and almost hurt the prince and adults, and it is not an exaggeration to kill him." ”

"Kill him at this time, it's cheaper for him, I still have something to ask." Jiang Quanyi said with a calm face, "Come on, wake him up." ”

In the middle of winter, I was doused with a bucket of water in the middle of the night, and as long as I was not a dead person, the reaction could be imagined.

Zheng Youde screamed madly and jumped up from the ground, and was pressed to the ground by the officials.

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

Zheng Youde screamed again.

Jiang Quanyi said: "Let's talk about it, what's going on in this case?" How did you collude with Chen Hongfan and Sun Zhengqiang? ”

Zheng Youde looked left and right in horror

The yellow camel took a step forward, pointed at Zheng Youde and scolded: "Dog thief, I thought you were just trying to get the property of the Zheng Rong family in my name, so I promised you to take over the Zheng family's extermination case...... If you don't answer Lord Jiang's question honestly, if you dare not tell the truth, a knife will cut you alive! ”

Zheng Youde saw that the yellow camel was present and knew that he couldn't hide anything, so he told everything from beginning to end.

Four years ago, Wu Zhengguang restored Hangzhou, Jiaxing, and Songjiang, because the imperial court was still in Shaoxing Mansion at that time, and in the absence of suitable officials, most of the previous officials were retained.

However, because Wu Zheng did not like to see these retained officials, after the establishment of the General's Mansion, the promotion of these retained officials was basically cut off.

That is to say, if you do well, you will do your job until you die, if you don't do it well, get out, be corrupt and pervert the law, then you will go to prison.

Zheng Youde is such a retained official.

Before the Qing army went south, he was the county commander of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty died, he was the county commander of the Qing Dynasty, and after Wu Zheng recovered Jiaxing, he became the Qingtai Dynasty again, and later the Xiushui County Commander of the Yixing Dynasty.

Zheng Youde's family background is still rich, and when he knew that he could no longer be promoted, Zheng Youde originally wanted to resign and return to his hometown.

But at this time, it happened that Wu Zheng was negotiating with Hong Chengchou in Yingtianfu, during which he "missed" for a while and abolished Chen Hongfan.

It was also Chen Hongman's injuries that needed several months of recuperation, not only Wu Zheng, but even Yixing Dynasty gradually forgot about this person.

As a result, after Chen Hongfan's injury was healed, he quietly came to Xiushui on Hong Chengchou's order.

Why is it the only draft water?

Because Zheng Youde used to be a student of Hong Chengchou.

Of course, this student does not mean that he is really studying at Hong Chengchou's house, but that before the middle school, Zheng Youde posted a self-recommendation and wanted to worship Hong Chengchou, as long as Hong Chengchou nodded, he became a disciple.

This is a drawback that has gradually prevailed since the imperial examination.

The minister invigilated an exam, and there were countless protégés, just like Zheng Sen (Zheng Chenggong) was a disciple of Qian Qianyi.

After Chen Hongfan found Zheng Youde, under the protection of Zheng Youde, he changed his name incognito, settled in Xiushui, and made a living in business.

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

This group of merchants, who made huge profits by transporting goods forbidden by the government to the north, coupled with the covert support of the Qing court and the opening of convenient doors, grew rapidly in power in just two years.

The financial resources are even more swollen like snow, and during this period, the county officials and government officials around Xiushui are even more generous and bribed regardless of gains and losses.

It is precisely because of this that the government and the surrounding county government have turned a blind eye to the regulations on the recruitment of caravans by Xiushui merchants, allowing them to grow and grow savagely.

But how do they know that none of these recruited nurses are from Jiangnan, and they are all from the Han Eight Banners of the Qing court in the north.

Originally, just a county and a county, naturally could not become any climate, but the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal passed through Xiushui, which became its natural advantage.

Even if the two dynasties were at war, the mutual trade of merchants did not have much impact, and both sides understood in their hearts that cutting off trade was a double-edged sword, and the south needed coal, ore and other materials from the north, and the north needed grain, tea and goods trafficked from the West from the south, so the two sides almost unanimously chose to ignore the mutual trade of merchants.

As a result, the canal goes south and north, and as long as the checkpoints on the canal are opened, the inspection is almost useless.

In this way, countless materials traveled back and forth between Jiangbei and Jiangnan, turning into white silver.

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

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

After wrapping the quilt, Zheng Youde warmed up a little and continued to speak.

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

But Zheng Youde doesn't mind, anyway, there is no way to be promoted, he can earn more silver taels, and he can also soothe his lost heart.

Besides, in Zheng Youde's view, this matter is not too big, even if it happens, there is also Jiaxing prefect Ma Shiying on the top, and he has paid a lot of filial piety over the years.

Therefore, Zheng Youde acquiesced to Chen Hongfan and others' rebellion against the Xiushui County Ya, and he was like a puppet on weekdays, and even the third class of the 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 the merchants, especially from the Dutch who occupy the eastern part of the country, as long as they have silver.

In fact, since the Apocalypse, Dongfan (Taiwan) has been out of the control of the Ming Dynasty.

Instead, it was usurped by the Dutch, the notorious East India Company.

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

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

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

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

Chen Hongfan has money, and it is not difficult to buy firearms, but it is difficult to transport them in the north.

Unlike food, tea, etc., firearms are prohibited goods.

As a result, officials who had already opened the canal checkpoint sat on the ground and extorted more tolls.

Rao is Chen Hongfan is wealthy, and he can't follow this kind of blackmail.

Therefore, he had no choice but to hoard the firearms he had purchased from the Dutch in batches in Xiushui, so that he only had to pay a "toll" once for a single shipment, so as to reduce the cost.

But the problem is, Ma Shiying has already noticed it.