In the evening, Li Yuntian received the letter sent by Chen Guangzong, and the messenger handed the letter to a gambler in the casino, who got five taels of silver and sent the letter to the Yangzhou Department of Jiangwutang.

Li Yuntian immediately sneered after receiving the letter, and put it on a candle to light it, if Chen Wenren thought that everything would be fine after simply transporting that batch of illicit salt to the destination, it would be a big mistake, as long as he sent someone to seal those "accumulated salts" at that time, salt shortages in various places next year would be inevitable.

Originally, Li Yuntian didn't want to make such a big fuss, but since Chen Wenren took the initiative to provoke, then he had to let Chen Wenren know what would happen if he was angry.

"Xianggong, I already know the identity of the messenger, and the concubine has arranged for people to strictly monitor him." An hour later, when Li Yuntian was writing an official letter to Xue Lu, the governor of Caoyun and the Marquis of Yangwu, Lei Ting pushed the door and walked in, and said in a deep voice.

It turned out that there was an eyeliner arranged by Li Yuntian in the casino, eyeing the person who delivered the letter, and secretly followed him back to his residence, a guy from an inn.

"Do you think it's too easy to find him, the first two times he was very cautious, but this time he not only revealed his identity, but was also followed to the inn." Li Yuntian put down the brush in his hand, groaned for a while, and then looked up at Lei Ting.

"Xianggong, do you mean that he deliberately exposed his whereabouts?" Lei Ting was stunned for a moment and asked in surprise.

"Xianggong just thinks that he was too careless this time, and it is a little unreasonable." Li Yuntian shook his head, and then smiled at Lei Ting, "But that's okay, if you find him, you can find out the others." ”

As he spoke, Li Yuntian picked up the seal of the Imperial History of the Metropolitan Procuratorate on the side, stamped it on the official document, and waited for Chen Wenren and Zhang Sheng to sign it tomorrow and then send it to Xue Lu.

"Xianggong, they will send Xinyue back safe and sound, right?" Lei Ting helped Li Yuntian put away the seal, and asked worriedly, if there was any accident, it would be bad.

"It's up to people to make things happen, it's up to heaven to make things happen, we've done our best, and the rest depends on God's will." Li Yuntian smiled slightly when he heard this, and opened his mouth to comfort Lei Ting, Chen Wenren should know the consequences of angering him, there are some things that everyone knows, but they just tacitly know it.

The next morning, Li Yuntian called Chen Wenren and Zhang Sheng to the two Huaiyan Dao Yamen, asked them to sign and seal the official documents, and then sent people to quickly send the official documents to the Caoyun Governor Yamen in Huai'an, and asked Xue Lu to release the seized illegal salt.

At noon, Li Yuntian set up a banquet in the restaurant to see off Pan Xingmin, Zhang Tao and Qin Ke, the purpose of the three of them coming to Yangzhou was for those private salts, and now those private salts have the status of "accumulated salt", so they have no need to stay in Yangzhou, because they do not want to get involved in the grievances and entanglements between Li Yuntian and the two Huai Salt Road, so they left in a very hurry.

For Li Yuntian, although he was somewhat regrettable for failing to expose the shady scenes of the two Huai Yan Dao in front of Pan Xingmin and the three of them, with the three of them witnessing Chen Wenren's provocation against him, then he can let go of his hands and feet to deal with the two Huai Yan Dao in the future.

It is worth mentioning that Chen Wenren sent someone to send a generous gift after Pan Xingmin and the three returned to Nanjing, although the three of them almost ruined his big event, no matter how they were also the jury of the two Huai Yandao cases, so how could he offend them, so he naturally had to send benefits to gag them.

However, surprisingly, the three of Pan Xingmin politely rejected Chen Wenren's kindness, although Li Yuntian and Chen Wenren are now vain, but the three of them know that the two of them have become a fire and water because of Zhao Xinyue, but they don't want to cause any trouble.

With the return of the three of Pan Xingmin to Nanjing, the grievances between Li Yuntian and the two Huaiyan Dao quickly spread in Nanjing's officialdom and business circles, and many people knew that Li Yuntian was forced to release the private salt, and at the same time they were shocked and deeply sympathetic to Li Yuntian's plight.

In the eyes of everyone, Li Yuntian in Yangzhou is enough to give face to the two Huai Yan Dao, but it is the two Huai Yan Dao who are not angry and cause each other to kill each other internally, so that two sets of account books have been created, forcing Li Yuntian to report to Emperor Xuande, do you want Li Yuntian to bear the responsibility for the crime of private salt?

Moreover, in order to protect themselves, Lianghuai Yandao actually kidnapped Li Yuntian's woman and forced Li Yuntian to release those private salts, which was simply too deceitful and completely messed up the rules of officialdom.

Everyone knows that Li Yuntian and the Liangzi of the Lianghuai Salt Road are concluded, and the Lianghuai Salt Road provokes no one to touch Li Yuntian's moldy head, it seems that the private salt business in the future is not so easy to do, is Li Yuntian's Imperial History of the Metropolitan Procuratorate a decoration?

At the same time, the name of Li Yuntian's prodigal son in the love field is also spreading, among those civil and military ministers in the Ming Dynasty, I am afraid that no one except Li Yuntian will exchange those private salt for Zhao Xinyue, you must know that this move can ruin his career, those important ministers have a big family, who will take the risk lightly?

Originally, Chen Wenren was also supposed to leave Yangzhou and return to Nanjing, but he found a reason to stay in Yangzhou City, and guarded Li Yuntian in Yangzhou City for fear of any accidents.

Although the seized smuggled salt has been released, Li Yuntian still has a problem to solve, that is, the murder of Zhao Wenju.

Zhao Wenju is the mastermind of the previously discovered case of transporting and selling smuggled salt, and as soon as he dies, the smuggling salt case will become an unsolved case, because the current evidence is only Chen Youcai's private correspondence with Zhao Wenju, and there is no assassination of Zhao Wenju by him, and the key figure in the case, Hua Wu, is still missing.

On the third day after the official letter to the governor of Caoyun, the salt merchants of Yangzhou received good news that the governor of Caoyun, Yamen, had officially ordered the release of the illegal salt, and the fleet detained in Huai'an had set off.

After learning the news, the salt merchants were all overjoyed, and in the evening, they called their friends to gather in the Qinglou in Yangzhou, and spent a lot of money in the Qinglou, and had fun, just like the New Year.

Since those illegal salt were seized, the salt merchants in Yangzhou have all shrunk their heads and lived with trepidation every day, and now they can finally breathe a sigh of relief and continue to live their days of spending all day and wine, and at the same time, it is also announced to the outside world that the salt merchants will always survive the catastrophe in front of them.

"Xianggong, now all the green buildings in Yangzhou City have been contracted by salt merchants, and they are celebrating the transportation of those illegal salts."

In the evening, when Li Yuntian was reading the official document in the wing, Lei Ting walked in with a frosty mask.

"It's impossible to say who will have the last laugh." Seeing Lei Ting's puffed up appearance, Li Yuntian smiled slightly and asked, "How did that person react when he learned that the illicit salt was being transported away?" ”

"He took leave of absence from the innkeeper and prepared to go home." Lei Ting replied in a deep voice when she heard this, the person in her mouth was the guy from the inn, the person who sent the letter to Li Yuntian.

"Send someone to follow him and see where he's going." A smile appeared on the corner of Li Yuntian's mouth, he guessed that the guy would take action, and now it seems that this is the case, even if he can't find Zhao Xinyue, then he should gain something.

"Xianggong, how do you plan to end Zhao Wenju's case?" Lei Ting nodded and asked, Now that there is no news from Hua Wuqi, Li Yuntian can't wait in Yangzhou all the time, so that the people of Yangzhou can see his jokes.

"If Xianggong didn't guess wrong, tomorrow the guy at the inn will lead us to Wei Deguang, since the last person Hua Wu saw before he disappeared was Wei Deguang, then he will bear the black cauldron of Zhao Wenju's case." Li Yuntian pondered for a moment and smiled at Lei Ting.

"Is it Xinyue who Wei Deguang kidnapped?" Lei Ting was slightly stunned, and asked with some surprise, thinking that she could still involve Wei Deguang, whose whereabouts were unknown.

"Wei Deguang has already run away, Xinyue's matter has nothing to do with him, it is Chen Wenren who wants him to be a substitute for the dead ghost." Li Yuntian shook his head, sneered and said, "Chen Wenren also underestimated Xianggong too much, and his little tricks Xianggong saw through it at a glance. ”

"Xianggong, how did you guess that Chen Wenren was going to lead us to Wei Deguang?" Lei Ting looked at Li Yuntian suspiciously when she heard this, she didn't see the slightest flaw in it.

"Chen Wenren is in Yangzhou City, so he naturally knows the news that the illicit salt has been transported away, and there is no need for the guy from the inn to leave the city tomorrow, but he did it, which seems to be a superfluous move, the purpose is to lure us away."

Li Yuntian knew that Lei Ting had not yet figured out the causal relationship between various information, so he explained to her with a smile, "Wei Deguang would definitely come back if he knew that those private salts were fine, he was the last person to see Hua Wu, he would definitely be implicated in Zhao Wenju's case, Chen Wenren simply let him be a scapegoat, first, to end Zhao Wenju's case, secondly, to give an explanation to the outside world about the kidnapping of Xinyue, and third, to deter those salt merchants so that they would not dare to flee privately like Wei Deguang." ”

"The Salt Merchants Association has been operating in Yangzhou for decades, and when it comes to interpersonal relationships in Yangzhou, don't talk about you and me, even the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce can only look at it, Chen Wenren naturally has a way to find Wei Deguang than us, which is good, saving us a lot of effort." As he spoke, Li Yuntian put down the official document in his hand and pulled Lei Ting into his arms with a smile.

"Xianggong, I'm afraid Chen Wenren wouldn't have thought that Zhao Wenju's case was a bureau laid out by you." Only then did Lei Ting understand that Chen Wenren had already revealed such an obvious flaw, and then smiled at Li Yuntian.

"It's a pity that Hua Wu and Wei Deguang slipped away too fast, otherwise the salt merchant would have been taken down by Xianggong." Li Yuntian shook his head with some regret, if the charge of buying and killing Zhao Wenju was placed on Wei Deguang's head, then he could take advantage of the situation to drag the Salt Merchants Association into the water, and then expose the Salt Merchants Association's private salt business.

It turned out that in order to muddy the muddy waters of the Lianghuai Salt Road, Li Yuntian deliberately arranged for Zhao Wenju to be stabbed, and the person who shot Zhao Wenju's arrow was not Hua Wu's subordinate Sangou, but a sharpshooter of the Xiaowu Army.

This is why it took a few streets to block the three dogs, and on the way to the chase, they had already taken advantage of the chaos to steal the beams and change the pillars, and replaced the sharpshooter with the three dogs caught in advance, so that the three dogs had to die.

Zhao Wenju's injuries were naturally fake, and the situation was chaotic at that time, and no one could have imagined that he was pretending to be dead.

Although the matter of the Lianghuai Salt Road is not going smoothly now, since Li Yuntian promised to send Zhao Wenju's family to the Jiugang Xuanwei Division, then he will definitely do it, Zhao Wenju has been secretly sent by Li Yuntian to the Longjiang Shipyard to be handed over to Liu Wenqing to take care of, and let him reunite with his family after the matter of the Lianghuai Salt Road is over.

Therefore, when it comes to scheming, Chen Wenren is even worse than Li Yuntian, he has not seen through Li Yuntian's bureau until now, and thinks that Zhao Wenju's death is a case done by Wei Deguang.