Li Yan came back before the pearl painting boat, but Liu Han didn't use him, just asked him to answer outside, and didn't send him a new task afterwards, so he was on standby in the city, but when he went to look for him last time, he wasn't there, so this time he had to send him something anyway, otherwise, he might be suspicious.

"Alas, things are not going well. ”

Having said that, Liu Han's expression was smiling, and Li Yan smiled bitterly: "At least let's find out the nest of the Hundred Workshops." ”

"What's the use, the new order from the palace is here," Liu Han shook his head: "Let us assist Master Gu Wei, one to bring down Sheng Huai, and the other to try to find out the cause of Fang Zhen's death and let the Cao Gang be quiet." ”

"Be quiet?" Li Yan blinked, as if he was a little puzzled.

"The meaning of the palace is to let the Cao Gang stay quietly in Jiangnan. Liu Han picked up the teacup casually, took a sip and put it down, then got up, lifted the kettle to the stove, scooped a scoop of boiling water and poured it in, and then came over with the teapot.

"This Fang Jie is a tiger, but it's a little tiger," Liu Han sighed: "Fang Zhen is an old fox, the little tiger looks majestic, but it's actually easy to clean up, and the old fox is the real trouble." ”

Li Yan showed a hint of a smile: "What the eldest brother said is that Fang Zhen is dead, Xiao Lan has rebelled, and this Fang Shao gang leader doesn't want to think about it, what will he take to the north." ”

"Don't think like this, the Cao Gang has a history of hundreds of years, which is very rare in the Jianghu Gang," Liu Han said with a straight face, Li Yan looked at him thoughtfully, Liu Han smiled and explained: "Existence is the truth, the Cao Gang is like a big tree, the roots of this big tree are deeply rooted in the ground, even if the branches above are cut off, but if the roots are not broken, the tree can be rebuilt."

We need to be in awe of history, these historic gangs can always find something in a corner and cause us trouble. ”

Li Yan didn't understand much, but he also understood what Liu Han meant, it was not easy to bring down a gang like the Cao Gang.

"So what are we going to do?"

Liu Han shrugged: "You don't need to do anything for the time being, let's see first, the palace means to let the Cao Gang stay in Jiangnan, this sentence can be interpreted as long as the Cao Gang stays in Jiangnan, whether he is at war with Jiangnan, or to find Xiao Lan and turn Jiangnan upside down, it's okay." ”

Li Yan was slightly stunned, then nodded clearly, Liu Han said: "I have been to see Fang Zhen's corpse, it feels very strange, I feel that there is, well, Mo Kun is dead, and the tiger group he commands will be temporarily led by you, perhaps, they will be used after a while." ”

As he spoke, Liu Han handed him the list of members of the Tiger Group and their contact information, and Li Yan was about to put it away, when Liu Han immediately reminded him solemnly: "After writing it down, it will be burned." ”

Li Yan hurriedly looked at it carefully, and after confirming that he remembered it, he immediately threw the note into the stove, and the tongue of fire rolled up and turned into ashes.

"From tomorrow onwards, you have to contact them one by one, you have to observe them first, make sure they have no problems, and then contact them. Liu Han then instructed: "There is such a big problem with the internal guards in Yangzhou, these people may have no problems, or they may have problems." ”

Li Yan nodded understandingly, Liu Han stared at him, Li Yan nodded solemnly: "Don't worry, I will definitely complete the task." ”

"There are only five people in the Tiger Group now, if you meet someone who is sure, you can temporarily absorb it, but you must report it to me afterwards, and you must not reveal your identity as an internal guard until you get my approval. ”

Li Yan nodded again, Liu Han didn't give any more orders, and handed over the tiger group to Li Yan, so that he could find something to do and calm his mind;

Another task in the palace is to rebuild the internal guards in Yangzhou, as well as the internal guards within the Cao Gang, and he will not let Li Yan interfere with these.

After coming out of Li Yan, he went to the tea stall of Lin Huai of the Divine Eye to drink tea, and the palace did not give him any further orders, but gave him a few clues, Liu Han couldn't help but shake his head after seeing it.

"These corrupt officials should have been killed a long time ago. Lin Huai said in a low voice, his voice extremely cold.

Liu Han sighed, didn't answer, got up and threw down a few copper plates, and left the small tea stall.

Then I went to Xiaodao's place, and asked Xiaodao to pay close attention to the movements of Yangzhou rivers and lakes, and there were those strange Jianghu people in Yangzhou City.

Xiao Dao felt a little difficult, after all, the Shuanghu Mountain where he was located was a small gang, and it was very difficult to monitor Ruoda Yangzhou.

"It's okay, just take care of your part," Liu Han asked with a slight contemplation, "Do you have any dealings with the people in the Huaiyang Society?"

Xiaodao shook his head: "Our Shuanghu Village is a small gang, mainly operating casinos, and also doing private salt and grain business, not to mention me, even if the two tigers in the gang, the Huaiyang Association didn't take it to heart." Moreover, I haven't been in Yangzhou for long. ”

Liu Han nodded: "Okay, I know, you pay attention, let's see who will come to Yangzhou from Huaiyang Society and Jiangnan." ”

Xiaodao's reply did not surprise him, but the palace surprised him, maybe the Huaiyang Society was not eye-catching enough, and the palace did not have an internal line in the Huaiyang Society.

This discovery made Liu Han realize that the monitoring of the rivers and lakes in the palace was not as strict as imagined.

Liu Han did not go to look for Niu Fu Song's sister-in-law again, but observed in the city for two days before changing his clothes and Shi Shiran walked into the Changsheng Salt Number, which was the salt number of the three of them.

Jin Liang is not in the store, only the shopkeeper is in the shop, and the shopkeeper naturally knows Liu Han and knows everything about his problems.

The salt number opened not long ago, only more than half a month, the business is not good or bad, their strategy is to take the high-end route, not to sell coarse salt, only to sell refined salt, and the salt merchants who operate refined salt generally have a fixed purchase channel.

The shopkeeper told him that the biggest problem is that the output of refined salt is not high, and Jin Liang is stepping up the manufacture of the second set of salt-making equipment, and after the second set of equipment is made, the output is estimated to be enough.

"Wu Dongjia, even so, in the past half a month, our income has been very considerable, with more than seven hundred taels of silver, if our output can go up, it will definitely exceed one thousand taels per month. ”

The shopkeeper looked very excited, but Liu Han was not salty or light, just nodded frequently, asked a few more words and left.

Coming out of the salt number, he went straight to Gu's mansion, and met Gu Shuo at the gate of the mansion, and the two of them pretended to greet each other.

"Our salt number, I'm going to see it, no, it's not okay to go on like this. ”

"Brother Wu, don't worry, haven't we only been open for half a month," Gu Heng pulled him into the door with a smile, and the two of them went straight to the atrium, Gu Heng meant to talk in the study, but Liu Han motioned for him to change places, and Gu Heng went to the backyard after a little thought.

"Brother Wu, this business should be slow, in this half a month, our net profit will be more than 700 taels, and when the sales channel is really opened, there will be no problem with the daily progress. Gu Heng was very excited: "These days, I have seen the goods of several companies, Brother Wu, to be honest, our goods are the best, the salt, snow-white and delicate, definitely surpasses them, and our cost is still thirty to forty percent lower." ”

The two of them talked about the salt and went to the backyard, sat down under the yellowed rattan trellis, and after the two maids brought the tea, Gu Heng waved the maids away.

"Big," Liu Han frowned slightly, and Gu Heng hurriedly changed his words: "Brother Wu, the house has been cleaned, and there is no problem." ”

"It's not that there is no problem, this problem will always exist," Liu Han said with a straight face: "You have to learn from your father's lesson, why is your father not cautious, and what will be the result? In the past, it was said that there was no reason to prevent thieves for a thousand days, but to do this line of work is to prevent thieves for a thousand days, and if you are negligent, you will die and your family will be destroyed." ”

A layer of cold sweat broke out on Gu Heng's vest, and he hurriedly gave his hand: "Brother Wu is right, junior brother must remember that a thousand days to prevent thieves!"

Liu Han nodded: "Be cautious, in this line, no matter what, you can't go wrong, I'd rather be cautious than relax." ”

Gu Heng solemnly nodded again: "I understand, Brother Xie Wu pointed out." ”

"This time, in addition to looking at the salt number, the most important thing is that Huaiyang will be," Liu Han looked at Gu Heng and said, Gu Heng was very surprised, he thought that it would still target the people behind Gu Jian, but he didn't expect that it was actually Huaiyang Hui, and he couldn't help but be a little puzzled.

Liu Han frowned again: "You have to remember that an order is an order, no matter how doubtful or puzzled you are, once you receive an order, you must carry it out." ”

Gu Heng nodded hurriedly, and then asked in confusion: "Brother Wu wants to deal with the Huaiyang Society? These smugglers are all ruthless. ”

"No matter how ruthless we are, we can't be ruthless in our internal guards. Liu Han smiled proudly, Gu Heng secretly scolded himself for being stupid in his heart, is there anyone in this world who is as ruthless as an internal guard!

"However, this time, I just want to meet the president of the Huaiyang Association. Liu Han said: "Do you know that President Mei of the Huaiyang Society is usually active there?"

"Mei Hui of the Huaiyang Society Mei Siyuan rarely acts in public, he does not live in the city, but lives on Liyu Island in the west of the lake, this island is the base camp of the Huaiyang Society, about half of the islanders are in the Huaiyang Society, this is an open secret, on the island, Mei Hui's words are more effective than the emperor's holy decree. ”

Liu Han knew all these things, Lin Huai and Xiaodao had told him that this Liyu Island is the second largest island in Changchun Lake, located in the west of Changchun Lake, a little far away from the main route, not as close as the first largest island, Longxing Island, but Longxing Island is the station of the Changchun Lake Water Division, and there is also a salt inspection team.

"Won't he go out of the island?" Liu Han frowned and asked, "This courage is inevitably too small." ”

Gu Heng shook his head and said: "No, of course he will go out of the island, inside and outside Yangzhou City, he has a garden, the garden in the city is on the edge of Shou'an Temple, the garden outside the city is in the northwest of the city, close to Changchun Lake, called Hefeng Garden, no matter inside or outside the city, compared to me, the Gu Mansion is much more generous, only the area is more than three times larger, it's just that this Mei Hui's whereabouts are erratic, except for the people around him, no one knows where he is." ”

Liu Han nodded, slightly condensed, and was about to speak, when suddenly there was a melodious Dong Xiao, he looked up, his expression was slightly surprised, Gu Heng saw this and hurriedly explained: "This is my father's two concubines playing, Brother Wu still has a study of music." ”

Liu Han smiled bitterly in his heart, his rhythm was cultivated by women, he accompanied his girlfriend to enjoy concerts in his previous life, and in this life, he was influenced by Qingjin.

He didn't speak, the sound of the flute was low, sometimes high, and after a while, the zither, the zither, two zither sounds joined, and the zither sound was sometimes low, like two entangled butterflies, flying over.

The sound of the flute gradually rises and becomes joyful, and the sound of the zither also rises with pleasure. Butterflies are happy, chasing, and playing in the flowers;

Suddenly, the sound of the zither made a clattering sound, breaking the peace and tranquility, just like a vulture descending from the sky, the vulture's wide wings covered the sky, and the butterfly hid in the flowers in fright, looking at the vulture flying in the sky, the vulture roared triumphantly, and the whistling alarm the valley.

Among the flowers, under the green trees, several white rabbits fled in panic, and the vultures flew down in the air, and the white rabbits dodged left and right, and they were about to fall into the vulture's sharp claws.

A meteor flew in, and the white knight galloped on his horse, stretched out his bow and arrows, and the arrows were like meteors, and the vultures flew high in terror, and a few feathers fell.

Gu Heng paid attention to Liu Han, and saw that Liu Han was immersed in the sound of music, so he didn't bother, but he was a little curious, looking at Liu Han's appearance, it was not that he was elegant, but that he really understood.

The and the kite are all Gu Shuo's concubines, who are good at music, and when Gu Shuo is there, he often recruits him to play.

Could it be that this Liu Han likes music?

Just thinking about it, the sound of the flute changed again, and suddenly, the dark clouds rolled, the wind blew fiercely, the flowers swayed with the wind, the petals drifted away, the butterflies were blown away by the strong wind, and the butterflies were desperately struggling, flapping their wings hard, but they could not fight against the wind.

The sound of the zither is equally low, the wind is whimpering, the black clouds are rolling, and the butterflies are whimpering and calling.

The sound of the flute gradually faded away, the sound of the zither slowly faded, and the butterflies were nowhere to be found, leaving only a scar, broken flowers, broken branches, and all over the ground!

"Okay!" Liu Han blurted out and applauded lightly: "After the prosperity, only the white land remains, it's so clean!"

Gu Heng was slightly stunned, looking at him inexplicably, Liu Hanhao sighed: "I remember, alas, forget it, brother, has there been any recent action in the house?"

Gu Heng hesitated, and said with a wry smile: "My father's concubines, I want to send them to the women's temple, if you don't want to, you can also give them a sum of silver, but recently, money is very tight, and I can't take out a large amount of silver." ”

Liu Han nodded slightly, knowing in his heart that Gu Heng was afraid that he would not want to give out that amount of silver, and it would cost a lot of money to buy a salt field, open a salt number, and build equipment, and the cost of dismissing his father and concubine was not small.

Gu Heng was feeling dandruff in his heart, he had already dealt with a little concubine, the one who had an affair with Gu Wei, who was sunk into Changchun Lake.

"A woman has been sent out of the mansion, where can they go," Liu Han sighed softly, of course he understood, full of fear and panic, not knowing what the future holds.

Gu Heng was unexpected, and after a little thought, he said categorically: "What Brother Wu said is very true, so let's do it, according to their wishes, those who are willing to leave, each person will give a hundred taels of silver, and those who are unwilling to leave, they will stay." ”

Liu Han nodded: "That's fine," said Gu Heng and smiled self-deprecatingly: "This is your family matter, I shouldn't interfere,"

"What did Brother Wu say," Gu Heng hurriedly interrupted: "As the saying goes, family and everything is prosperous, I just feel that they are still young, I'm afraid they can't keep it, after leaving the house, they can remarry, it's better than dying in the mansion." ”

When Liu Han heard this, he couldn't help but think of that night, he looked at Gu Heng with a smile, looked at Gu Heng with a hairy look, and felt uneasy, Liu Han nodded slightly: "Well said, family and everything is prosperous." ”

Slightly contemplative: "In this way, I will live in a restaurant, you try to inquire about the whereabouts of that Mei Hui, I want to meet this person." ”

"What did Brother Wu say, since you are here, you can live in a restaurant, wouldn't that make people laugh at me Gu Heng has no hospitality, so he lives in my house. Gu Heng said, looking at Liu Han a little nervously.

Liu Han hesitated slightly, then nodded, Gu Heng was right, if he lived in a restaurant, it might arouse suspicion.

(End of chapter)

(Tianjin)