And in the past month, in the eyes of outsiders, Wu Shigong seemed to be so scared that he stayed at home and didn't even dare to step out of the door after being assassinated.

However, Wu Shigong issued a series of orders to his subordinates at home. In addition to issuing an order to the action team to assassinate the head of the Qi family through Xue Zhinong, he also asked Xue Zhinong to inquire about all the Yangzhou salt merchants in Runing Mansion and Guide Mansion. And Wu Shigong also issued a large-scale transfer order to his own army.

On the day when Zhang Rubao assassinated the head of the Qi family. That night, in the city of Runing Mansion, Wu Shigong's soldiers imposed a curfew throughout the city. According to Wu Shigong's soldiers, they had found clues about the Assassin's accomplices and were going to conduct a major manhunt throughout the city.

Qi Zhengyin is the big treasurer arranged by the Qi family in Runing Mansion City. That night, he had already made an appointment with a business partner to go to the Qinglou to contact him, but because of the curfew, he had to return to his residence in Runing Fucheng.

Seeing that Qi Zhengyin returned home so early, Qi Zhengyin's concubine was very strange, so she asked Qi Zhengyin: "Master, didn't you say that you might not come back tonight?" ”

Qi Zhengyin said helplessly: "That Wu garrison didn't know what kind of madness he was making, and sent soldiers to make the entire Runing Mansion City into a miasma. I had no choice but to go home, sir. Spend more time with you, little goblin. ”

The two of them were laughing when they heard a heavy knock at the door. And with the knock on the door, there were also people shouting loudly outside: "The government is searching, open the door quickly!" ”

As soon as the butler opened the door, he saw a group of soldiers rushing in......

Chen Gui and more than a dozen guards of the salt ship sat on the bow of the boat, drinking wine and eating meat. Chen Gui was a minor leader of the guards escorting the salt ship. Today, after their salt ship docked at the dock, their guards were ready to go to the town on the edge of the dock to have fun. And Chen Gui was unlucky, so he drew a lot, so he had to take his men to guard the salt boat.

And tonight, Chen Gui didn't worry about the salt boat he was taking care of at all, because this was already on the ground of Guide Mansion, and there was a town next to the wharf, and there were more residents, so there were no robbers coming over at all.

But just when Chen Gui was seven or eight minutes drunk, in the haze of drunken eyes, Chen Gui seemed to see a team of soldiers running to the dock. Those soldiers lined up in a line, all holding an iron rod in their hands and aiming at Chen Gui and them. Chen Gui heard someone shouting: "Launch!" Then the iron rods made a loud noise and spewed flames, and Chen Gui was surprised to find that the guards around him had all fallen in a pool of blood.

But Chen Gui was miraculously unharmed, and he sat there in a daze, feeling as if he had a nightmare. But then, Chen Gui saw that behind the row of soldiers with iron rods, a group of soldiers with spears came running, and they ran towards Chen Gui and them violently......

Wang Song was lying on the ground with a swollen nose and blue eyes, and his body was tied like a zongzi. But although Wang Song was covered in bruises, he didn't dare to let out a little moan.

Wang Song was in Runing Mansion, guarding a Zhuangzi who stored salt goods in Yangzhou salt merchants. Today, however, a group of bandits rushed into the Zhuangzi with a swagger and arrested all the people in the Zhuangzi.

When they learned that Wang Song was the head of this Zhuangzi, they immediately tortured Wang Song. Under the threat, Wang Song confided in the soft places where the gold and silver were hidden in the Zhuangzi, and Wang Song hoped that after the bandits took the money, they would let themselves live at that time.

However, after the bandits swept away the gold and silver, they conjured up many carts as if by magic, and they unhurriedly loaded the salt and grain in the village onto the carts and carried them out in an orderly manner.

When the warehouses in Zhuangzi were empty, the leader of the bandits walked up to Wang Song's side, and he drew his waist knife. slashed at Wang Song fiercely......

In the whole seventh month of the fourth year of Chongzhen, in the two prefectures of Runing and Guide in Henan, as long as it was owned by Yangzhou salt merchants, whether it was the salt goods transported on the salt ships or those stored in the warehouse, they were swept away by a group of people of "unknown origin".

What's even more terrifying is that those people are all black-hearted, those who guard the warehouse, those who guard the salt ship, and even the shipwrights on the salt ship are all killed by that group of people.

In addition, the shopkeepers and men arranged by the salt merchants in Yangzhou in these two prefectures, their whole families were wiped out by unknown bandits who rushed in, and all their belongings were robbed. And adding up all of them, the Yangzhou salt merchants lost a total of more than 400 people.

Moreover, the Yangzhou salt merchants who lost this time were not only the Qi family, as long as the Yangzhou salt merchants who provided salt goods to Runing Mansion and Guide Mansion, it could be said that the whole army was wiped out.

After that, all the local merchants who sold salt in Runing and Guide received a letter signed by the Four Seas Trading Company. In this letter, the Four Seas Commercial Bank politely asked those merchants not to take the salt goods from the Yangzhou salt merchants. If they need salt, they can go to the Four Seas Merchant House to buy it.

In these Four Seas Firm, it can be said that except for a few businessmen who are familiar with Wu Shigong, other businessmen don't know that there is such a firm at all. So strangely, these merchants also inquired about the background of this trading house. When these merchants learned that Wu Shigong was standing behind the Four Seas Commercial Bank, and then thought of the recent events that happened to the Yangzhou salt merchants in the two prefectures, those merchants immediately became terrified.

At this time, the officials of these two prefectures and the salt merchants in Yangzhou still couldn't see that it was Wu Shigong who was making trouble, so they must be blind. However, no one dared to question Wu Shigong in person about Wu Shigong's crazy move, so now those officials and Yangzhou salt merchants are unusually silent.

Even those civil officials who claim to be messengers of justice have collectively silenced themselves. At this time, they didn't dare to play any impeachment to provoke Wu Shigong.

In their opinion, it is understandable that after Wu Shigong was assassinated, he took some slightly unconventional revenge. But Wu Shigong made such an undisguised, fierce and cruel retaliatory action, then Wu Shigong must have lost his mind. If you ...... now, I'm afraid that this official will have no if in the future!

And those who were interested in the salt merchants in Yangzhou, they linked this incident with the assassination of the head of the Qi family, and later learned that Wu Shigong had been assassinated a month ago. These Yangzhou salt merchants think that what is happening now must have something to do with the Qi family.

Moreover, those salt merchants with great powers learned about the various things that had happened between the Qi family and Wu Shigong in the past through their connections, and they immediately became surprisingly angry. Your own prayer family is not authentic, but we salt merchants have suffered such a big loss, isn't this a disaster to the pond fish?

What's even more hateful is that why did the Qi family want to assassinate Wu Shigong? Do you still want to abide by the rules of this salt industry? After that, no matter how the new head of the Qi family explained to the salt merchants, the salt merchants refused to accept it. For those salt merchants, the evidence is also unimportant, and it is enough to have suspicions.

But now, if there are any problems, they have to be put aside. At present, the biggest problem is to make up for the relationship between Yangzhou salt merchants and Wu Shigong as soon as possible. Otherwise, the salt merchants' losses would have been even greater.