Reborn as a tyrant in the Ming Dynasty

The late night wind roared, and a few stars accompanied the shining bright moon. The silver-white moonlight sprinkled on the ground, the chirping of insects continued, and the leaves made sounds when they were blown.

A ruined temple.

The bonfire reflected the figures.

crackle.

Fang Zhenghua, who was sitting on the log, stared at the burning bonfire in front of him, but the slight frown reflected his inner thoughts at the moment.

"Who?!"

A voice suddenly sounded outside the temple, causing Fang Zhenghua to frown and look, and saw several more figures suddenly appearing outside the temple gate, and even the sound of drawing knives.

"it's me!!"

Under this situation, Li Ruolian walked out of the darkness, his cold eyes scanning left and right, holding a token in his hand, and at this moment, a person walked forward quickly.

Even though he could see Li Ruolian's face clearly, the man didn't hesitate at all when it came time to check the token.

"Mr. Fang Chang, you haven't gone to Shanxi yet?"

Ten breaths later, Li Ruolian walked into the temple, looked at Fang Zhenghua who was sitting to keep warm, and said calmly.

"Our family is a little worried."

Fang Zhenghua glanced at Li Ruolian, "Investigating this case is not enough to arrest those traitors. The important places involved in smuggling must be uprooted."

"Your Majesty's decree is for me to go to Jin to investigate this matter. However, during my trip to Jin, I have to send someone to resolve the issues in Xuanfu Town!"

"The situation in Zhangjiakou Fort is far more complicated than expected, and even involves more people."

Li Ruolian walked up to Fang Zhenghua and frowned slightly, "According to the secret investigation of our Luan Guard, Zhangjiakou Fort has been secretly maintaining contact with the outside world since the imperial court closed down the customs."

"It's exactly what our family thought."

Fang Zhenghua raised his eyebrows slightly and said: "The main roads to the grassland are one from Zhangjiakou Fort under the jurisdiction of Xuanfu Town, and the other from Shahukou Fort in Datong Town. The former can lead directly to the various tribes in the Monan Grassland. , the latter can go directly to Guihua City!"

"Although there are other ways to go outside the Ming Dynasty besides these two key passes, if you want to engage in large-scale smuggling, other ways are simply unrealistic, and it is extremely easy to be discovered! "

"When the emperor mentioned Zhangjiakou Fort, our family paid attention to this place. If our family guessed correctly, the people from Wanquan Sanwei were involved, right?"

"more than!"

Li Ruolian took out an envelope from his arms and handed it to Fang Zhenghua, "Perhaps the border army under the command of Yang Yingrui, the commander-in-chief of the Xuanfu, and those stationed in Wandu Division are also involved, and what worries me even more is, It is very likely that the Governor-General of Xuanda is aware of this matter, but it has never submitted this matter to the court before."

Fang Zhenghua looked serious and took the envelope in front of him.

When they were ordered to leave Beijing to investigate the case, the West Police Factory had a large number of factories under its jurisdiction. Under the leadership of Li Fengxiang, Chu Xianzhang, and Zhang Guoyuan, they secretly rushed to Shanxi in batches. The instructions they received were not to be exposed. Identity, first establish a foothold in various places under investigation, keep an eye on and find out the eight Shanxi merchants headed by the Fan family!

Although he went to Shanxi to secretly investigate the matter and his own emperor provided a list, Fang Zhenghua did not limit himself to this. In addition to Zhangjiakou Fort, he also ordered a team of people to secretly kill Hukou Fort. In a word, in Zhangjiakou Fort Before the situation is clarified, all the Xiji factories in Shanxi cannot act without authorization!

But the longer he stayed in Zhangjiakou Fort, the more uneasy Fang Zhenghua felt in his heart. Especially during this period, he received many urgent and secret reports, and learned about the situation from all over Shanxi. Fang Zhenghua became more and more anxious. Can't stand it anymore.

"How dare they!!!"

I don't know how long it took, but Fang Zhenghua's angry voice sounded in the ruined temple that had been silent for a long time.

Li Ruolian, who had his hands folded in front of his chest, couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart when he saw Fang Zhenghua like this.

Yes.

How dare they be so rampant.

Xuanfu Town is an important place to protect the capital, and it is the key point of the nine-sided town established by the imperial court. If anything happens to Xuanfu Town, the capital and capital will be exposed.

The frontier fortresses guarding the capital and Gyeonggi, one is Xuanfu Town and the other is Jizhou Town. These are like the two pincers of a crab, which can intimidate the frontier fortresses.

Changping, Huairou, Miyun, Pinggu, Sanhe and other places are where the Crab's front door is located. The imperial court even set up a large number of guard posts and border troops, just to prevent the two pliers from being cut off by the powerful enemy, and then to break through the front door in a roundabout way. Door!

"Not only are they selling customs clearance certificates in private, but there are also people pretending to be bandits to harass various places. If these are true, wouldn't the safety of the imperial court be in vain?"

Fang Zhenghua stood up suddenly, clutched the letter in his hand, glared at Li Ruolian and said: "If this kind of news spreads, it will be really ridiculous, and it will bring shame to the court!! "

As the current situation in Liaodong becomes increasingly tense, attention from the central government to local governments is focused on the Liaoqian area, even the adjacent Jizhou Town, Shanhaiguan Town and other places, but instead Xuanfu Town, Datong Town and other places , although there were occasional border raids by Mongolian and Tatar invaders, the damage caused was basically far less than that of Jianlu, which also caused not much attention from the center to the local areas.

It is precisely this that makes some situations condense in the dark.

Perhaps when it comes to Xuanfu Town, many people in the Ming Dynasty don’t know much about it, but in a place under the jurisdiction of Xuanfu Town, everyone in the Ming Dynasty knows about it!

Earthen fort! ! !

"It's more than that."

Li Ruolian said in a low voice: "Most of the guards and border troops under the rule of Xuanfu Town are laxly armed, and there are even a lot of vacancies. These things have not been reported to the center. We, Luanwei, have arranged a lot of manpower, and in some places During local inspections, we found that the number of teams stationed in many places was seriously insufficient.”

Eating empty pay and drinking soldiers' blood?

Fang Zhenghua's heartbeat accelerated a lot, and there was an expression of disbelief on his face. How dare they be so lawless. He thought that investigating an important case only involved smuggling. Even if it involved local areas, it was still a part of it, but The situation detected now is far more serious than expected.

How to check this!

If we continue to investigate this, wouldn’t it break the whole world!

At this moment, Fang Zhenghua's hanging hands trembled slightly.

This couldn't help but remind Fang Zhenghua of what his emperor said in the palace. When cockroaches appear in a place, they are already in groups in invisible places, and they can only be trampled to death. If you don’t kill all the cockroaches you can see, there will be no quiet time! !

But if the investigation continues, a slight mistake may lead to great changes in Xuanfu Town. Fang Zhenghua feels fear deep in his heart. This is the first time he has felt fear since he was the admiral of the West Police Factory. , because the things he investigated involved too many levels...