Early in the morning, Cheng Mingke, the guard of Heishipo, had just woken up.

The Heishipo Customs Office has one chief customs officer and twenty-eight deputy customs officers. Except for those who are on field work, all other staff members of the Customs Office eat and live in the Customs Office, and the customs officers are no exception.

Before Cheng Mingke had time to wash up, his secretary Tong Lingzhu reported an emergency: "Envoy Cheng, Jiang Xiangbang has lost contact."

"Who is missing?" Cheng Mingke thought his subordinates were talking about the new hall master Fu Botai. Fu Botai was going to contact the saint on Sage Peak these two days, so it was normal that he was not in the hall.

But Tong Lingzhu was not talking about the hall master Fu Botai: "The entire hall has lost contact, no one can be found, the two rudders in the city have also lost contact, only one rudder outside the city has people."

Cheng Mingke was surprised and asked, "What do you say about the rudder outside the city?"

“They don’t know anything.”

The helmsman outside the city did not lie about this matter. They only had one helmsman and one stickman.

No need to ask too much, you can tell what the status of these two people is. They are the most unwelcome in the gang and were exiled out of the city.

Although he is not welcome in the gang, he is blessed by fate. Yesterday, the hall received a message asking everyone to go to the warehouse and contact the saint together with the hall master.

This is a great opportunity to make a contribution. Who would think of these two people with such a good opportunity?

Just because they didn't think of them, these two people saved their lives.

The guard general Cheng Mingke looked solemn. He immediately ordered to cut off all external traffic of Heishipo and search the whole city for members of Heishipo.

As soon as the order was issued, trains and ferries stopped running and all checkpoints on the border were closed. This is the power of the border envoy.

There are boundaries everywhere in Provence, and you need a pass to go out. Normally, few people go out, so it stands to reason that closing the traffic will not have too much of an impact.

If this were Yaowanggou, closing it for a period of time wouldn't be a problem.

But Heishipo is very special. It is a pure industrial city.

Products from various factories were waiting to be shipped and were all piled up at the station.

Some raw materials are not produced in Heishipo and need to be transported from outside. Now that transportation is cut off, many factories have also stopped production.

This is not the most important thing.

There is limited food in Heishipo. There are several villages in the far suburbs outside the city. They grow a little food and are basically self-sufficient. All the food in Heishipo is bought from outside.

Once the transportation was cut off, Heishipo’s food source was cut off.

Is there no food supply in such a big city?

Yes, but these stored grains are not in the hands of the residents.

The residents of Heishipo do not store food at home and usually eat in the factory canteen. When they have money, a group of people go out to eat in a restaurant. But now that there is no source of food, the canteen is closed and the restaurant is closed, many people are going hungry.

The envoy Cheng Mingke had just arrived in Heishipo. His secretary Tong Lingzhu was worried that he didn't understand the situation, so she reminded him, "Envoy Cheng, the traffic in Heishipo can't be interrupted for too long. This city is different from other places."

Cheng Mingke said calmly: "I know that transportation is very important to Heishipao. Because of its importance, they should learn to cherish it.

An entire gang of people just disappeared like this. I don't believe that no one knows the clues, but after so many days of posting the notice, there has been no response at all, which proves that they don't take the Customs Office seriously at all."

Tong Lingzhu didn't dare to persuade her anymore, but clues were not that easy to find.

The Jiang Xiang Gang has no presence in Heishipo and usually acts in secret. Most of the gang members disguise themselves as charlatans, temple priests, vegetarian women, fortune tellers, and medicine vendors. How can ordinary people recognize them?

What's even worse is that the Customs Defense Bureau didn't want to have anything to do with Jiang Xiang's gang, so the notice was very vague, only saying that Fu Botai and others were missing. The people looked at the photos on the notice with confusion, and no one knew who Fu Botai was.

But Cheng Mingke was very confident. He firmly believed that the matter could be thoroughly investigated.

The situation in the city was tense, and the areas outside the city were also affected. The business of many large families was inseparable from Heishipo.

The Lu family's business in Heishipo was handed over to Li Banfeng and Ma Wu, but Ma Wu is not in the mood to take care of business matters now.

He was concentrating on editing films in Xiaoyaowu.

Cutting film is a technical job. One must be able to cut and glue. Ma Wu is not an expert in this area, but he has to cut this roll of film because it is the film brought back by Li Banfeng.

The film records the entire process of the shadow puppeteer kidnapping children in Liutang Village and contacting Fu Botai, the leader of the Jiang Xiang Gang.

That’s right, this hall master is Fu Botai.

Ma Wu compared the photo with the one on the notice repeatedly.

The reason why he edited the video himself was because Ma Wu didn't want to reveal Li Banfeng's whereabouts.

Three gangs of Jiang Xiang Gang were wiped out one after another. I never thought that it was Lao Qi who did it.

This thing is a bit crazy, but since it has been done, Ma Wu will naturally follow Lao Qi to the end.

After cutting the film, Ma Wu copied a copy and gave it to Chen Rongqing.

Shen Rongqing looked at the film and his veins jumped.

The film had no sound, but Shen Rongqing could see Fu Botai's lip shape.

"He said he couldn't see it. Great, this time we'll let the whole state see it! In the next few days, we'll print more copies in the newspapers!"

…

"Print more copies of the newspaper!" Bai Qiusheng ordered the editor of Night Jasmine. "Expose Fu Botai's past and everything Jiang Xiangbang has done over the years!"

Yu Wenqi was a little worried: "Now many families can hardly afford to eat, and the price of rice is rising rapidly. How many people can afford to buy newspapers?"

"No charge!" Bai Qiusheng slammed the newspaper on the table. "We're giving it away for free. We have to make this clear!"

…

The customs envoy Cheng Mingke slammed the newspaper on the table and said, "There are really people who want to stir up trouble. Close down this newspaper office."

Tong Lingzhu hurriedly dissuaded him: "Envoy Cheng, we cannot interfere in this matter. There is no precedent in Heishipo, and there is no precedent in the entire Pro Province."

"They have to learn to be reverent, and the precedent starts with me." Cheng Mingke's expression remained calm, looking out the window silently.

Downstairs of the Customs Office, Li Banfeng looked up at the building, lowered the brim of his hat, and left quietly.

That night, many families in the city received a small bag of rice.

There was not much rice, barely enough to eat for two or three days. Everyone was discussing who sent the rice, and some people actually saw the person who sent the rice.

"He said his last name was En, and his name was En Gong."

But where does this rice come from?

…

The next morning, before Cheng Mingke woke up, someone knocked on the door again.