On the other side, Yinreng was not idle either.

After all the officials involved were arrested, the port was also blocked.

Those people with connections inside are basically members of the White Lotus Sect.

Yinreng did not dare to be careless in the slightest.

After joining the cult for a long time, they were basically brainwashed. After they were controlled, Yinreng had no way to deal with them for the time being.

There were also those people who were relocated to the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas. Mr. Zhou, also known as Zhou Chongli, was the person in charge.

Zhou Chongli is Liu Qingzhou's deputy. He has followed Liu Qingzhou since the day Liu Qingzhou decided to do business here.

It can be said that Zhou Chongli is like a mobile intelligence library, carrying all the secrets that Yinreng wants to know.

It’s just that Zhou Chongli’s words are too hard.

Yinreng tried many ways, but none of them made him speak. Instead, he wanted to die.

Yinreng had no choice but to turn his attention to the county magistrate.

Nowadays, the term of office of a county magistrate is generally less than five years. If he has connections with higher-ups, he will usually be transferred after about three years, and after serving as a county magistrate for another three years, he can be promoted.

There are many people like Wei Hongling who have stayed in office for nearly four years.

It’s just that my network of contacts is not wide.

There is no way out.

But Yinreng didn't believe that Wei Hongling stayed here because he had no connections.

With his wealth, it was more than enough for him to bribe a governor. There was only one reason why he didn't leave, and that was that he chose to stay here on his own initiative.

But this is also what makes Yinreng strange.

Logically speaking, Liu Qingzhou had already bribed Wei Hongling and should have had something on him. Under this premise, Wei Hongling's rapid promotion would be most beneficial to Liu Qingzhou, but he did not move up.

Yinreng was puzzled.

Two hours later, Yinreng came out of the cell cursing again.

Except for his second son who appears smart but is actually a fool, everyone else around Liu Qingzhou is a tough guy.

He threatened Wei Hongling with his wife, children and elder relatives, but Wei Hongling was not affected at all.

Yinreng was puzzled. What kind of magic did Liu Qingzhou have that made them so devoted to him?

Yinreng knew very well that everyone has weaknesses. The reason he failed to pry open the two people's mouths was simply that he didn't find their weaknesses.

But now he doesn't have enough time to find the weaknesses of the two people. Liu Qingzhou is still in the city. The longer the time drags on, the greater the chance of him running away.

Yinreng had to treat it with caution.

Moreover, even if they didn't say it, Yinreng could still get the information he wanted from the believers who traveled between the farm and the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions. It would just take him a few more detours.

Yinreng assigned the task of confiscating the property to Yinzhen, and followed the clues to start a large-scale search in the county.

The Zhou family's business has undergone several thorough investigations by Dou Guangren, Chen Fei and others, but Yinreng's first focus is still Tuipi Street.

Yinreng personally inspected the dilapidated house where Liu Qingzhou lived, and found that there was not even a cellar to store the dishes.

That day, Liu Qingzhou went out to investigate the situation in the city, seemingly on a whim. The house was full of life, but there were no clues left to indicate where he had gone.

However, in a tavern not far from here, Yinreng found a handkerchief with exquisite embroidery.

The handkerchief was stuck in the gap of the bed, as if it had fallen there accidentally.

He took the handkerchief and asked all the waiters in the tavern, but in the end no one claimed it.

This tavern is a place where thieves exchange information. Normally, there are no women, not even female mosquitoes. The only person who can sleep on the bed in the backyard is Liu Qingzhou. So this handkerchief can only have been left there by Liu Qingzhou inadvertently.

Yinreng checked all the cloth shops in Dongcheng one by one, went into the cloth shops himself, and asked the shopkeepers to identify the source of the cloth.

After asking several cloth shops, all the shopkeepers pointed to Jinxiufang in the west of the city.

Coming to the conclusion, Yinreng directly led his troops to surround Jinxiufang and the mansion of the owner of Jinxiufang.

The shopkeeper of Jinxiufang is a woman over 30 years old, and the boss behind her is the wife of Mr. Wang, a wealthy man in the city.

Yinreng initially thought that the shopkeeper had some connection with Liu Qingzhou, but after checking, he found that the two had no connection at all.

However, Wang Yuanwai's wife, Mrs. Li, changed her expression when she saw the handkerchief.

Yinreng immediately ordered the Wang family's house to be dug three feet deep.

But it was still a step too late.

Liu Qingzhou actually escaped through the tunnel.

But now that he has appeared, it is simply a pipe dream for him to escape from the pursuit of the officers and soldiers.

So after struggling for a day and a half, Liu Qingzhou, also known as Sixth Master, was successfully imprisoned.

Yinreng had a bad taste in his mouth and locked Liu Qingzhou up next to Wang Yuanwai and his wife.

The result was obvious. Liu Qingzhou cursed at Li, calling her an ignorant and stupid woman.

Li was not a pushover either. She pointed at his nose and cursed him as a loser who couldn't even protect his own women and children, and yet he was the one who implicated her.

Mr. Wang, who was standing by, quickly figured out the whole story, and suddenly his eyes went dark.

He didn't expect that the youngest son he had loved for several years was actually the bastard of the bitch and the dog man in front of him.

Mr. Wang immediately jumped up and tried to strangle Li to death.

Yinreng ate the melon with gusto.

On the other hand, Yinzhen also looted a large amount of gold, silver and treasures from the mansions of Fuluguo Chong and others.

Their total value is no less than one million taels of silver.

Yinzhen's eyes turned into the shape of silver beans, and he would happily look for a house to plunder every day.

Yinreng was still worried about how to deal with the members of the White Lotus Sect.

There were more than 3,000 members of the White Lotus Society at the port, those who were active in the Tuipi Street in the city, those in Zhou Mansion, and those in several villages outside the city, not counting those who were transferred by Liu Qingzhou.

Three thousand people are more than enough for port labor.

It is impossible to kill.

He was a Manchu, and the Han people didn't like him. If he ordered them all to be killed, it would quickly arouse public resentment.

If we are misled by people with ulterior motives again, it may cause chaos.

Yinreng simply stuffed all those people into the port.

He is being held in custody temporarily.

Only one bowl of porridge is provided per day.

Keep them hanging so they won’t starve to death.

After the dust settles, we will decide whether to make them work to atone for their sins or send them to a cold and harsh place to build the frontier.

During this period, Liu Er, dressed in coarse linen clothes, went to the prison to see Liu Qingzhou.

Liu Qingzhou had been tortured and interrogated for a long time, and he didn't react much when he saw Liu Er.

However, when Liu Er mentioned Liu Dalang to him with a smile, Liu Qingzhou struggled to get up from the ground and lay on the prison door, looking like he wanted to eat Liu Er's flesh alive.