Nanming Engineer

Chapter 47 Xu Dingguo's troubles
Xu Dingguo was on the horse, but his heart was still in Huai'an City. When Su Le, who was running ahead, came to the city, he was drinking tea and listening to an opera in the backyard of the General Army's Yamen, which was separated from the Water Transport Yamen by a wall.The opera troupe who fled from Nanjing is proficient in everything, especially Huadan, whose figure is really admirable, twisting and twisting on the stage makes people feel itchy. Thinking about getting this girl into bed tonight, Sule came.

This frustrated guy first went to the Water Transport Yamen, originally he wanted to transfer water transport soldiers to Hongze Lake, he had nothing to do with himself, but the grandsons of the Water Transport Yamen were scared when they heard that they wanted to go to the lake, lest they would run into water thieves, they were in a hurry Speech nonsense, exaggerating the water thieves on the lake like heavenly soldiers and generals, and also revealing the fact that Li Wancai, the inspector of the water transport, was ordered by Prince Yu to bring [-] water boats into the lake to go north to the canal. Su Le understood it as soon as he heard it. It was done by Ming Dynasty rebels pretending to be Wang Ling. Tu Hai has already been decapitated in Tiger Roaring Valley, where did another Tu Hai emerge?Clearly fake.Most likely Li Wancai was lured into the lake.

Then the situation is different. What is Li Tingyu's group of rebels trying to do in disguise and use the water boat to go north?Along the HB, SD is next to HB and moves its legs to the heart of the Central Plains, Beijing Pubei Zhili. What do they want to do? The general chaos in SD was initially established, and the people's hearts were unstable. The Ming Dynasty still exists along the coast. The 200 million taels of gold and silver were used to recruit soldiers and horses to form a team of tens of thousands. There was a huge hoard of troops in the Northern Manchu Qing Dynasty, and 1000 to [-] hastily recruited troops would not cause any major problems, but once the regent was alarmed, it would be a serious crime.As soon as Su Le thought of this, cold sweat came down his back. He turned his head and walked to the Huai'an Commander's Office in a few steps, and rushed in without waiting for the soldiers to report. During the ceremony in the living room, Su Le yelled at him and babbled about the whole story. Xu Dingguo panicked immediately. He quickly put on his horse, and more than [-] people followed Su Le towards the canal.

At this time, Xu Dingguo looked at Su Le's back in front of him and couldn't stop cursing in his heart: "These idiots did their job poorly and dragged me into the water. If you are not a Manchu, I will definitely report you." The imperial court, impeach your head!"

He also remembered that Huadan in the backyard of the house, sleeping alone with the green lamp tonight, was even more angry, scolding all the way, if words had lethality, Su Le would have been scolded to death by Xu Dingguo.

At this time, Su Le was even more remorseful. After returning from the Hongze Lake two days ago, the soldiers split into two groups, all the way to Huai'an City, and all the way back to Tiger Roaring Valley, while he went straight back to Prince Yu Duoduo In the army, he chased all the way outside the city of Nanjing, only to find Prince Yu's camp, and reported the news of the sudden change in the supply camp to Duoduo. The anger and murderous eyes on Duduo's face still make him shudder when he thinks about it. Fortunately, Duoduo did not lose his temper after staring at him for a long time. Instead, he issued a king's decree, asking him to commit crimes and make meritorious deeds.

Su Le took the order in a frenzy, and ran to Huai'an overnight. He went back and forth on the way, which was delayed for almost two days. The inspectors at the water gate searched slowly on the shore. Two days later, they didn't even search the lake in Huai'an.

Su Le was not polite, and rewarded those who did not do their job effectively with a whip, and then went to the water transport office and the general army office, got the information that Li Wancai entered the lake three days ago, and brought Xu Dingguo to the canal water pass .

The Huai'an Water Pass of the Canal is built on the river forty miles away from the city. Two pump boats stand in the middle of the river with a watchtower on top. There are docks on both sides of the bank. Ships traveling from south to north must dock and register at the dock one by one. It is an important checkpoint on the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal before it can be left until the river patrol soldiers conduct random inspections.

The inspection clipper shuttles back and forth on the river, and if suspicious ships are found, they can go directly to the ship for inspection.On both sides of the river, dozens of customs clearance ships are lined up densely, waiting for inspection and inspection, so as to obtain the clearance certificate before they can leave.

When Su Le and others arrived, they saw such a scene.

Xu Dingguo didn't dare to be negligent, and quickly called the inspector at the water gate to ask if there were any suspicious ships passing through the customs in the past two days.

The inspector was puzzled: "Suspicious ships? My lord, there are no suspicious ships. We have searched every ship and found nothing suspicious."

Suler looked at the river and saw a group of water boats queuing up to cross the border. The river patrol soldiers did not let this group of boats dock. Instead, they opened the river patrol boats and let them pass directly.So he pointed his horsewhip and asked with a straight face: "Why didn't that group of ships check?"

The inspector hurriedly followed the sound, and after looking at it, he respectfully replied: "Sir, that is a grain-carrying canal ship. They are all official ships. There is a flag of the canal transport yamen on the bow. In order not to delay the arrival of good rice to Beijing, press Cases do not need to be checked."

"Investigate! It must be investigated now!" Su Le roared: "Every ship must be investigated, go immediately!"

The patrol inspector was startled, shaken by the murderous intent in his tone, and hurriedly agreed: "Yes, yes, go check it out right away!"

He hurriedly turned around and yelled at the soldiers, and called the clippers to intercept them.

"Slow! Ask your subordinates to investigate, you wait." Su Le's eyes turned cold, and he turned to Xu Dingguo and said, "Li Wancai was transferred by inspector Li. How many tank boats are there?"

Li Wancai transferred the boats into the lake, Xu Dingguo heard what Su Le said, and hurriedly replied: "I heard that there are twenty boats under the bid."

Su Le asked the inspector again: "It's not the autumn harvest season now, and there should be a fixed number of tank ships moving north every day. Do you know what the fixed number is? Are there any ships passing by that are not within the fixed number?"

The inspector said: "The lower officer knows that it is May, and the increase is all grain storage. There is a ration of tank ships going north every day. Basically, [-] ships pass by every day. Usually at noon and Shen time, only today , twenty tank boats passed the customs early in the morning, not within the fixed number."

As soon as these words came out, the faces of Su Le and Xu Dingguo "brushed", and they all turned pale. They jumped up almost at the same time, grabbed the inspector's lapel, and sternly shouted together: "When did it pass? Tell me!"

"Yes, yes, it's the third quarter of the hour. At that time, I wondered why the food was delivered so early." The inspector stammered and replied with a frightened expression.

Su Le gritted his teeth, threw the inspector to the ground, and said a word between his teeth: "Chasing!" He turned around and jumped on the horse.

Xu Dingguo hurriedly followed, while beating his horse, he shouted to Su Le: "Master Su, don't be alarmed, the hour of the hour has passed in less than two hours, the tank boat is not fast, we can catch up!"

Before the words were finished, Su Le's horse had already run far away, only its buttocks were exposed in the smoke and dust. Xu Dingguo had no choice but to take the cavalry behind him and chased after him.

The frightened river inspector watched the cavalry leave suddenly, rubbed his neck and secretly made up his mind. Although the inspector had a lot of oil and water, he couldn't do it any longer. Compared with the past, it is quite different. It is too risky to wipe your neck if something is wrong.

(End of this chapter)