This person is extraordinary, Liu Han made a judgment in his heart, and the last glance before leaving showed that the entire battlefield situation was under his control, and his own hiding had been seen through by him, but he didn't care if he wasn't sure of his identity.

The courtyard was full of blood, three corpses fell in the courtyard, the room next to it was quiet, there was no movement, Liu Han decided to wait and see, first look at it.

After a while, the two businessmen in the next room opened the door tremblingly and came out, and the little two in the front yard also appeared outside the moon gate.

"Murdered!"

Liu Han couldn't help but smile, and then cautiously pushed the door out, the two businessmen stood in the courtyard for a while, and then quickly went back to the room to pack up their things, and Liu Han also returned to the room immediately and packed up his things.

Jianye is an important town in the south of the Yangtze River, and there are city defense troops patrolling the city at night, so when they packed up their things, the city defense army had already rushed over and stopped the three people who were pulling Xiao Er to check out.

The leader of the city defense army was a military commander, who looked to be in his thirties and had a lot of experience, and when he looked at the courtyard, he understood what was going on, and after interrogating Liu Han and the three of them, he didn't pay attention to them anymore, but he didn't let them go, and still detained them in the store.

The three of them did not want to go back to their original room anyway, so they sat down in the front hall and waited for dawn, made up their minds, and when it was dark, they immediately checked out and found another place to live.

In the boredom, the three of them gossiped, and the two businessmen were panicked and very worried about getting into a lawsuit.

Fortunately, after dawn, not long after, the official of Jianye Mansion also came, and the head catcher was a middle-aged man in his forties, who looked over and understood that it was a vendetta in the rivers and lakes, and asked Liu Han and the three of them, Liu Han and the three of them said something vaguely, and the two businessmen said more, and Liu Han just added on the side.

The three of them are not stupid, they didn't dare to say a word, and catching heads is just a routine, plus all three of them secretly stuffed red envelopes, and the head catcher took the money and told the three of them that it was okay, and the three of them hurriedly went to find Xiao Er to check out and return the money.

In this era, the hotel is to pay the money before staying in the hotel, stay for a few days and pay for a few days, if you check out early, the store will refund the money.

"Just let them go. A young official looked at the three people who were checking out and whispered to the headcatcher, his eyes shining eagerly.

"Do you see the dead ones? The helmsman of the Cao Gang, the guest secretary of the Lu family, the three women who left, and the people who were in plain clothes, are all famous figures in the rivers and lakes, and these three can be killed!" The head catcher replied in a low voice, and at the same time pinched the silver ticket in his hand: "We can't control this matter, so be it." ”

The young servant nodded slightly, and said in his heart, boy, if it weren't for your usual filial piety, Lao Tzu wouldn't pass on your hand, and he looked very majestic when he was on an errand in the public gate, but in fact, he was full of splint gas, the old man above, and the heroes of the rivers and lakes below, all of them couldn't be provoked, and the trick was not bright, and I didn't know that my life was lost that day.

Liu Han packed up his things and didn't stay in the city, he went to the dock to find a boat and went to Yangzhou, because it was a smooth water, the boat speed was very fast, and it took half a day to arrive.

Yangzhou is an important transportation hub in the downstream of Jianye, and it is the only place for the Grand Canal to go north, the shipping industry is extremely busy, and the market is also extremely prosperous.

However, Hanhai Trading Company has not yet set up a branch in Guangling, and when planning Jiangnan, Lao Huang strongly advocated setting up the head office of the Jiangnan branch in Yangzhou, but after Liu Han weighed it, he still decided to set it up in Jianye.

Jianye Tiger is located in Longpan, Zhong Lingyuxiu, Wuxian in the east, Jingxiang in the west, Yuzhang in the south, is the real center of Jiangnan, set up a point here, both east and west can be taken into account, although Yangzhou is developed, but more biased to the north, it is difficult to take care of the west and south of the Jiangnan, in addition, there are many Jianghu sects and business names here, the rudder of the Cao Gang is located here, and the general meeting of the Huaiyang Society is also located here, so once the Jiangnan head office is located here, it is likely to conflict with them, which alarms them, and is not conducive to the development of the trading company in Jiangnan.

Liu Han persuaded Lao Huang, Hanhai Commercial Company Jiangnan head office to choose Jianye, this trip to Jiangnan, proved that Liu Han's choice was not wrong, Jiangnan's gate valve family, disgusted with the north of the Yangtze River, and Yangzhou is north of the Yangtze River.

This water separation has formed two worlds, those in the north of the river look down on the south of the Yangtze River, and those in the south of the Yangtze River look down on the north of the river.

Liu Han stayed in Yangzhou for three days, took a look at the flowers, Yangzhou's wharf and its prosperity, more than five times the prosperity of Jianye, the ships from the south to the north stop here, Yangzhou's largest local commodity is salt, Yangzhou light salt has dozens, the wharf warehouse is full of white salt.

The imperial court has a salt capital in Yangzhou, with a captain and a captain, hundreds of salt dings, and the salt capital is subordinate to the degree of Cao, and the Yangzhou assassin has no right to govern.

In addition to salt, the most prosperous business in Yangzhou is the fireworks willow lane, businessmen from the south to the north need to rest, need entertainment, so here came into being the largest green building and painting boat in the north and south of the Yangtze River, Jianye can only bow his head compared with it.

The reason why he decided to stay in Yangzhou is that he promised Fang Zhen to set up a secret rudder in the imperial capital, and the promised time was three months later, but now, counting the time on the road, half a year has passed, and he must rush back to the imperial capital as soon as possible, but before returning to the imperial capital, he must meet Fang Zhen and explain why he was delayed, and he went there in the past few months.

The general rudder of the Cao Gang is located outside the city of Yangzhou, the Cao Tang on the side of the canal, the Cao Tang is a bit like a restaurant in the name, but in fact it is a manor, a flagpole is erected in front of the gate of the manor, and the flag of the Cao Gang is floating on the flagpole, with a red bottom and a white sail embroidered on it.

Looking at the majestic gate of the Cao Gang, Liu Han couldn't help but slander in his heart, although this gate was not violated, it was too ostentatious, and he didn't know how to hide it at all, no wonder, after all, the Cao Gang still had a semi-official identity.

Liu Han passed by the door and did not go in, but at this moment he changed his identity again and returned to Liu Mo.

After a hundred steps away from the Cao Gang, there is the Caotan Wharf, this wharf is like the Cao Tang, it is the private property of the Cao Gang, and it is also the largest wharf in Yangzhou.

Liu Han walked around the dock, called a beggar child, gave him a tael of silver, and asked him to deliver a letter to Caotang, and then turned around and left, disappearing into the crowd on the dock.

The little beggar took Liu Han's letter and sent it to Caotang, and the man in the concierge couldn't help but wonder a little when he took the letter, thought about it for a while, and decided to send it in, because the letter was written very clearly, and it was opened by the leader of the Cao Gang.

Fang Zhen's home is also placed in Caotang, Caotang is very large, covering an area of dozens of acres, divided into two parts, the front deals with the official affairs of the Cao Gang, the back is Fang Zhen's home, and the east and west sides are performing martial arts.

Liu Han's luck is good, Fang Zhen happened to be in the gang, yesterday, Jianye came with news that Liu Qing, the helmsman of the rudder, was killed, and the two guests of the Lu family were killed at the same time.

According to the description of the three women of Suyimen, it was done by the brotherhood. ”

The one who spoke was a middle-aged scribe, and the middle-aged scribe was Yan Qi, the military advisor of the Cao Gang, Yan Qi looked very thin, with a short goatee on his chin, and his eyes were very small.

After he finished speaking, he put the paperwork in his hand on the table, looked at Fang Zhen and said, "It seems that we have a wrong opinion about the three wolves of Hongshan, they are not dead people from the Jiangnan Society, they are people from the Brotherhood." ”

Fang Zhen's face was gloomy, Liu Qing was the helmsman of the Cao Gang Jianye Branch, and he was a member of the Cao Gang's right-hand man, judging from this report, he didn't even make a move in the hands of that mysterious person, he knew that Liu Qing's cultivation had already stepped into the martial arts and had the seven-grade cultivation of the martial artist, but he didn't even make a move, Fang Zhen judged that the mysterious person should have a grandmaster cultivation.

Brotherhood, Fang Zhen thought of these three words, Fang Zhen was very bitter in his heart, historically, the relationship between the Cao Gang and the Brotherhood was extremely bad, the two sides merged several times, a few years ago, the Cao Gang was also ordered by the imperial court to participate in the pursuit of the remnants of the Brotherhood, it can be said that the two sides have formed a mortal enemy, the Brotherhood is within the influence of the Cao Gang, and does not dare to act openly at all. Therefore, the mysterious man showed up and unceremoniously dealt a ruthless blow to Liu Qing.

Track down the brothers? Fang Zhen immediately rejected this idea, it was not appropriate at this time.

Since withdrawing from the north of Pengcheng, the Jiangnan will be ready to move again, the three wolves of Hongshan were also active in the Hongshan area of northwest Yangzhou, and suddenly went south, the Cao Gang received a secret report, the three wolves of Hongshan went south and the Jiangnan Association was related, so they ordered the Jiangnan rudder to clear the three clowns, so they designed to invite the three girls in plain clothes as a lure, and the reputation of picking flowers was deducted on the three wolves, and then killed them justifiably. didn't think about it, but was used by the Brotherhood and killed Liu Qing.

"Brotherhood, we don't have any clues," Yan Qi sighed, he knew what Fang Zhen was embarrassed about, the north lost the imperial capital Jizhou, the loss of the Cao Gang was great, Jiangnan will challenge again, maybe there will be the shadow of the internal guard behind, at this time to start a war with the Brotherhood, the timing is not right, as the military advisor in the gang, he must find a solution for Fang Zhen: "I think swallow a breath for the time being, the outside is loose and the inside is tight, the three wolves of Hongshan do not appear, as long as they appear, kill and decide, the important thing now is that Jiangnan will be." ”

Fang Zhen thought for a while, and sighed bitterly again: "Jiang Nan will stir up trouble at this time, I don't know if it is the meaning of the palace?"

Both of them didn't think about reporting to the internal guards, although the Brotherhood was the great enemy of the imperial court, but they were people in the rivers and lakes, and no matter how bad they were, they couldn't take refuge in the internal guards, not to mention that the internal guards had just forced them to withdraw from the north of Pengcheng and give up the imperial capital.

Yan Qi shook his head: "If it's difficult, we have to do it, we have already given up the north of Pengcheng, and we can't let Jiangnan anymore, we can only fight, even if the palace means, we can't take care of it." ”

"Fight, of course you have to fight," Fang Zhen said slowly: "But, Lao Yan, have you thought about it, if there is a meaning in the palace, will Fengyulou and Luoma Water Village take the opportunity to go south, and Huaiyang will also jump out?"

Yan Qi sighed: "Huaiyang will not be worried, but what is worrying is the wind and rain building, Xiao Yu is a masterpiece, the wind and rain building is powerful, and the imperial court is the backing, help the master, if they take the opportunity to go south, it will be troublesome." ”

Fang Zhen was silent for a while, and sighed heavily, although he reached an agreement with Fengyulou, would Fengyulou abide by the agreement, especially when the main force of the Cao Gang went south and Yangzhou was empty.

Yangzhou is a piece of fat, and no one is red-eyed.

As he was talking, someone knocked on the door, Fang Zhen frowned slightly, a little unhappy, Yan Qi got up and opened the door, outside the door was Fang Zhen's apprentice Ran Jun, who came in with a letter in his hand.

"Master, someone sent a letter. ”

"Who sent the letter?" Fang Zhen asked, Ran Jun shook his head and said, "The porter reported that it was sent by a little beggar, let me pass it on to you." ”

Fang Zhen couldn't help but be surprised, took the letter, opened it and looked at it, there was only one line of words on it: "Old man Lishi, please help the master go to Fang's teahouse to talk about it." "The sky is yellow

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