Outside the city, after receiving the order, Dachun immediately summoned his brothers and rushed to the county town under the cover of night.
In an hour, a team of more than 300 people gathered under the city wall.
There was a curfew at this time.
Chen Fei had been waiting on the city wall. When he saw that the leader was Dachun, he directly ordered the city gate to be opened.
Dachun and his men entered the city quietly.
Chen Fei came down from the tower and saluted Dachun respectfully.
"I pay my respects to you, sir."
Dachun dismounted and asked,
"How is His Royal Highness?"
"Your Excellency, the Crown Prince is safe."
Dachun's face was solemn.
"What's the situation in the city now?"
"There's no unusual movement for now. My brothers are keeping watch. There are spies all over the Zhou Mansion. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said to deal with the officials first, and then deal with the Zhou family tomorrow after everything is settled."
"Isn't the dinner over yet?"
"Yes."
Dachun thought for a moment and decided to wait.
Zhan Ming has not arrived yet. If we take action now, it is inevitable that someone will take advantage of the darkness to fish in troubled waters. Once the evidence is destroyed, it will take a lot of time to find it later.
The person behind the scenes can take the opportunity to escape.
From the day he learned that he was going to follow the prince, Dachun realized that he might make enemies everywhere.
But thunder, lightning, rain and dew are all grace from the emperor. Since he cannot refuse them, Dachun also wants to kill the person behind the scenes with a stick to avoid endless troubles.
After the dinner, those people will also return home, and that will be a good time to defeat them one by one.
After Dachun thought it through, he ordered,
"Pass the order down, wait for the banquet to end and don't alert the enemy!"
"yes!"
Zhan Ming also acted quickly, leading his troops to rush towards Tanggu like a tide. However, the distance between the two places was quite long, and it would take some time to reach Tanggu.
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Yinzhen stood up and kicked Liu Er on the leg.
“Ah…”
Liu Er howled halfway, but the rest was forced back by Yinzhen's cold face.
"You are worse than pigs and dogs!"
Yinzhen's face turned red with anger.
Just as Liu Er was about to reply, there was a noise at the door. The three of them turned around and saw a head sticking out of the door.
"Second Master, what happened?"
Liu Er waved his hand and said,
"I'm fine, just get out of here quickly, back off three meters!"
"Oh, okay!"
After the man walked away, Liu Er said to Yinzhen in a wronged tone,
"Young Master, you are wrongly accusing me. That was all Liu Qingzhou's doing. I have nothing to do with it!"
"I'm afraid you're not a good person either!"
Yinzhen was so angry that he blurted out what he heard.
When Liu Er heard this, he became anxious.
"Young Master, how can you slander a good person with empty words? My mother was originally a good woman, and my grandfather was a scholar. If he hadn't been robbed by that gang of thieves when he was taking the imperial examination, I wouldn't have been born with half dirty blood!"
As he spoke, Liu Er's eyes became a little red.
His mother told him this story before she died. He was ten years old at that time. Only then did he realize that the father he longed to be close to was actually a beast in human form.
In order to capture my mother as his concubine, he even killed his grandfather.
Even his uncle, who had been very kind to him when he was a child, became his victim after learning the truth.
Liu Erke has always remembered all of this clearly.
Yinzhen didn't know that he had such a past, and the anger in his heart suddenly eased a lot, and he even felt a little guilty for misunderstanding a good person.
"I'm...I'm sorry."
Liu Er forced a smile.
"It's okay. I just... want to find a way to make a living. I promised my mother that I would live a good life, marry, have children, and live a long life."
Yinzhen sighed, wanting to comfort her but not knowing where to start.
So I decisively changed the subject.
"You came to look for me today, aren't you afraid of being discovered by Liu Qingzhou?"
"Don't worry. The high-ranking official from the capital is hosting a banquet at the mansion tonight. Liu Qingzhou is probably waiting for news from the county magistrate and has no time to pay attention to what's happening at the port."
Yinzhen suddenly realized.
"Well, I need someone to go out of the harbor to deliver a message. Can you transfer all the spies in the harbor?"
"Can."
Liu Er agreed without hesitation.
The people brought in by the young master had not left the port for several days. The people who had been keeping an eye on them at the exit for the past two days were a little tired. He took this opportunity to call them all together for a drink.
In this way, Yinzhen felt more than half relieved.
If he hadn't heard it with his own ears, he wouldn't have believed that the situation at the port had become so bad.
In this era, it was not uncommon for corvée laborers to die on construction sites.
Therefore, the county magistrate and Liu Qingzhou had evil intentions.
Liu Qingzhou was ostensibly the second steward of the Zhou residence.
In fact, he is the actual helmsman of the Zhou Mansion.
Mr. Zhou was his deputy.
The two have been running the business here for more than ten years.
The county magistrate here is named Wei Hongling. As early as three years ago, when he came here to take up the post, he was bribed by Liu Qingzhou for a large sum of money.
When the port was first built last year, Liu Qingzhou and Wei Hongling began planning to rescue people and make money from it.
Those young and strong men who were taken away were first starved in the dungeon for two days, and then they were secretly taken away and transferred to a farm outside the city.
Taking advantage of their resentment towards the imperial court and bribing them with benefits, they brainwashed them and made them voluntarily join the White Lotus Sect.
They are all ordinary people at the bottom of society. How could they have seen so much real gold and silver, and...soft jade and warm fragrance?
So most of them joined the White Lotus Sect willingly.
As for those who were unwilling, they were killed and thrown into the mountains.
In just one year, Liu Qingzhou got thousands of able-bodied men from the port.
Feeding people requires food, and Liu Qingzhou couldn't possibly feed so many mouths out of his own pocket, so those people became cannon fodder for robbing traveling merchants.
He did not collect tolls, but instead killed all the caravan members he caught and took the goods to his farm.
The supplies that Liu Qingzhou used for his business with the county government all came from looting.
Because he only targeted small caravans and would leave no one alive once he took action, the news was well concealed.
The goods were resold to the port at a low price, and Forguo bought them at the original price and received high kickbacks.
Everyone who deals with it can have a taste of the soup.
Liu Qingzhou used all the money he earned from selling goods to bribe officials from the capital.
This kind of no-cost business has been going on for more than half a year.
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