Pawn Crossing the River

Inland navigation is different from sea navigation. Sea navigation is always full of dangers. You will encounter all kinds of strange monsters and murderous pirates. If you go to the far sea, you may even encounter dragons that are almost extinct on land. The dragons can set off huge storms and waves at sea, and even armored ships may be capsized. The only thing that needs to be taken care of in inland rivers is the various checkpoints.

If the imperial court issued a sea arrest document, these hurdles would become insurmountable, like a series of knives cutting off all hopes of the Jiangyang thieves.

Because of Pei Xiaolou's relationship with the county prince's palace, neither the imperial court nor the Taoist sect ordered the arrest of Wei Wugui, so Qi Xuansu is still considered innocent now. Not the innocence of a woman, but the innocence of a woman without a criminal record.

As he spoke, a border crossing was already in front of him. Passing ships had to pay commercial taxes here. There were also police officers, Qingluan guards and men in black stationed at the crossing to conduct interrogations on passing ships based on various maritime capture documents.

As for why there are Qingluan Guards everywhere, we have to mention the responsibilities of the local Qingluan Guards.

One is responsible for monitoring local areas and collecting intelligence. The second is responsible for monitoring various overseas visitors with sensitive identities. The third is responsible for apprehending members of secret societies. The fourth is responsible for arresting bandits and detecting various special cases, such as local officials' corruption, river embankments in disrepair, tax money theft, and serial murders.

As for the various cases that need to be dealt with ordinary people, such as theft, robbery, adultery, murder, and fights, Qingluan Guards does not care. That is the responsibility of the local Prosecution and Prosecution Department. In fact, there are only a few major cases after all. On the contrary, there are countless such ordinary cases, which are closely related to the interests of the people.

There is not much overlap between the Qingluan Guard and the Procuratorate of Tixing. The Qingluan Guard is not of a high rank, but it belongs to the Pro-Army Duwei Mansion. It is known as the Emperor's pro-army and belongs directly to the Emperor. Even the cabinet cannot interfere. The Department of Punishment and Prosecution is connected with the Ministry of Punishment, and the Ministry of Punishment follows the orders of the cabinet.

However, sometimes, in order to deal with certain major and important cases, the two parties will jointly handle the case, usually led by the Qingluan Guard, and the local arresters will obey the command of the Qingluan Guard. During this period, ordinary arrests will Kuai Ye temporarily possesses the identity and power of Qingluan Guard, and can temporarily wear Qing Yi to handle cases and arrest people across borders.

Generally speaking, with the same rank and qualifications, the treatment of Qingluan Guard is much better, which makes many agents want to be transferred to Qingluan Guard. Qingluan Guard will also appropriately absorb some experienced veteran agents. However, Qingluan Guard's favorite thing is the men in black. A considerable number of today's Qingluan Guards have retired from the men in black. Many men in black want to transfer from Wu to Wen, and they also regard Qingluan Guard as the middle man. springboard.

In the previous dynasty, there were clear distinctions between civil and military officials. How could a crude military man still want to be a civil servant? That is absolutely impossible. However, after the Taoist sect defeated the Confucian sect, it broke many of the rules established by the Confucian sect, deliberately downplayed the difference between civil and military affairs, and promoted generals and ministers. This has become the norm.

The Qingluan Guards and the police officers do not belong to each other, but there are some secret differences of superiority and inferiority. It is always the local police officers who want to be transferred to the Qingluan Guards, and very few Qingluan Guards want to be the police officers. There was no distinction between the men in black and the Qingluan Guards, and there was frequent turnover.

As for the relationship between the men in black and the Qingluan Guards, the men in black do not obey the orders of the Qingluan Guards, nor are they inferior to the Qingluan Guards, but they often assist the Qingluan Guards in dealing with some difficult enemies. Probably the Qingluan Guards collected intelligence, determined the target, and found that they couldn't defeat them, so they applied for support. Then the men in black came forward, and the heavy firearms and heavy cavalry were destroyed, so the relationship between the two families was not bad.

Therefore, we can often see the three families of the police, Qingluan Guards, and men in black acting together. If a secret association is involved, Taoist priests and spiritual officials from the Taoist sect may even be added. People from the imperial court join the Taoist sect, or people from the Taoist sect transfer to the imperial court. Many opportunities arise from these joint actions.

Xu Kou is an example.

What a coincidence, today when I passed the Liguan Pass, I encountered an inspection by the Qingluan Guard. After the iron ship docked, a man in black holding a gun stood on the shore. The Qingluan Guard came to the ship with the policemen and began to carry out the inspection one by one. Inquiry.

The investigation was soon carried out to Qi Xuansu and Xu Kou. The leader of the Qingluan Guards, Baihu, saw Qi Xuansu carrying a gun. At first, he felt like he was facing a formidable enemy, until the two men showed the man in black's waistband and Tiangangtang respectively. ’s waist card, and his attitude suddenly became warm.

They are all their own people.

Xu Kou handed over a paper flue-cured cigarette passed down from the West and asked, "How did you create such a huge formation that even alerted the men in black?"

Qingluan Wei tried Baihu to take the flue-cured tobacco, put it under his nose, sniffed it, and lowered his voice slightly: "They are all my own family, so I won't hide it. It's a Japanese pirate attack."

Qi Xuansu's first reaction was disbelief: "My Daxuan Navy spans all over the world, and only the Western countries can compete with it. How can a mere Japanese become such a powerful force?"

"Hey, they say they are Japanese pirates, but they are actually pirates. They are all from the Central Plains. They have hired many Japanese wanderers to act as thugs and accomplices. They usually roam the sea and rob merchant ships. This time they were surrounded by our navy. They became turtles in an urn and sparrows in a cage. They lost their minds and actually fled to the land. As soon as they landed, they were defeated and dispersed by the men in black. "The tester took out the fire folds and lit the flue-cured tobacco. "It's just this group of pirates. Unlike those lustful people, who all look similar to us. After being scattered, they burrow into the crowd and hide. It is really difficult to distinguish them. We can only use this stupid method to slowly investigate, and I don’t know how much effort it takes. ”

Qi Xuansu and Xu Kou looked at each other and understood immediately.

This is the job of the men in black, but the Japanese pirates have blended in among the people, and it is difficult to distinguish the men in black. This requires the Qingluan Guards and the police to come forward, especially the police from all over the country. Not only are they rich in experience, but the key is to know the local The situation is very familiar to him, the three religions and nine streams all have intersections, and he also has his own informants, so it is not difficult to find people.

At this moment, a loud noise was heard from a cargo ship in front that was also docked for inspection, and then a shirtless man was seen jumping into the canal.

Immediately afterwards, men in black holding fire cannons appeared on top of the boxes of goods, and fired the cannons at the rolling river water from a high position.

After a while, there was blood on the river.

Then the Qingluan Guards, armed with powerful crossbows, shot crossbow arrows with ropes into the river, and in conjunction with the fishing net, fished out the man injured by the fire gun from the river.

"Brother, your wait today is not in vain." Xu Kou said with a smile.

There was also a smile on the face of Qingluan Guard Baihu: "No matter how big the fish is, it is better than returning empty-handed. If we continue to get nothing, it will not be easy to explain to the superiors."

Qi Xuansu asked: "Speaking of which, when will we catch him?"

"It is said that there is a big fish among this group of pirates, but we haven't found it yet. As long as we find the big fish, we can almost do business." Zhan Baihu exhaled a puff of smoke, feeling much better than before.

Qi Xuansu understood somewhat.

This group of pirates is not simple.

They were able to be surrounded and suppressed by the imperial navy, and they were able to break through the naval siege and land on land. Although they were defeated by the men in black in an instant, some people still escaped.

This is not something ordinary pirates can do.

Thinking back to the "big fish" statement, the reason why the Navy targeted this group of pirates was probably not just to suppress the bandits, but because there were important figures in this group of pirates.

After the Daxuan court abolished Xijing, only 19 prefectures and Zhili were left, with a total of 12 admiral-general military officers, 36 garrison-general officers, and nearly a hundred deputy garrison-general officers. Among them, there are nine land admirals and general military affairs officers, and three water admirals and general military affairs officers, namely the Beihai Navy, Donghai Navy, and Nanhai Navy, who are controlled by the three governors of Liaodong, Gyeonggi, and Jiangnan respectively.

Luzhou happens to be located at the junction of the Donghai Navy and the Nanhai Navy. It is just unknown whether the Donghai Navy or the Nanhai Navy came forward to suppress the bandits at sea.

The Donghai Navy is inextricably linked to the Li family of Taiping Road, because the predecessor of the Donghai Navy is the Li family's fleet.

The Nanhai Navy is inextricably linked to the Zhengdao Cihang lineage, and its predecessor was the fleet of the Cihang lineage.

This also made Qi Xuansu think of a possibility.

Could this annihilation of pirates be related to the case of the Yanqing Chamber of Commerce?

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