Walking in front of Gu Mu and the others, Brother Hu carefully glanced at them and then lowered his head.

Gu Mu asked aloud: "Who are you and what is your name?"

Brother Hu bent over and said, "The younger one's surname is Li, and the single name is the word Hu."

Master Tong glanced at him in surprise. Li Hu's body looked very thin and he was about 40 to [-] years old. He was the "Uncle Tiger" who sent Lin Nanshan's child out for help?

Gu Mu doesn't think it's a coincidence. If the Uncle Hu mentioned by Lin He has a good prestige here, it is impossible for him to be unaware at night. Then he will personally or send someone to inquire about the situation early in the morning. The possibility of coming in person bigger.

Gu Mu didn't make any detours, and found out the situation here as soon as possible, so he said, "You sent Lin He and Lin Hui out for help? Are you the Uncle Tiger they are talking about?"

The three of them were startled, Lin He and Lin Hui fell into their hands, panic flashed in the eyes of the two behind them, Li Hu boldly asked: "May I ask you two adults..."

"I'm Gu Mu, and this is Lord Jiangnan Guard Boy."

Li Hu was pleasantly surprised: "It's Viscount Pingnan, Master Gu?"

"Yes, it was me. Lin He and Lin Hui were lucky enough to stop Mr. Gu, the acting magistrate of the south of the Yangtze River. The entire salt field fell into our hands last night. Now we need to count the situation here. It is best if someone comes forward to help. Let's appease the people here, and where is Lin He and Lin Hui's mother, the doctor has invited him to find someone to guide him and ensure his safety."

"Yes, yes, my lord!" Li Hu was overjoyed, and the other two also showed unbelievable ecstasy. They were really saved?Can arrange for a doctor to see Lin He's mother, does it mean that the adult who came here really came to save them?

"A Niu, hurry up and take the doctor to the Lin family to see Mrs. Lin."

"Okay, Brother Hu, where's the doctor?"

The doctor just came down from the top, and after getting Gu Mu's order, he carried the medicine box and left with the man named A Niu.

After the doctor left, Li Hu boldly asked again: "Dare to ask my lord, what will happen to the master behind this salt field?"

Master Tong glanced at him in surprise: "You are quite courageous."

Gu Mu glanced at him, and said: "Of course, those who should be arrested should be arrested, and those who should be killed should be killed. This world is still the world of His Majesty, and it is not up to others to make decisions."

Mr. Tong said in his heart, look at this flatterer, no wonder this Viscount Pingnan has been favored by His Majesty for many years, seeing how good he is at talking, how comforting it is for His Majesty to hear this, he is just stupid and can't speak, but this The kid is murderous enough.

However, this sentence gave Li Hu a reassurance. As soon as Gu Mu finished his murderous words, he knelt on the ground with a thump, his head resting on the ground, and said in a choked voice: "Thank you, my lord, for coming to rescue, Li Hu! The tiger is willing to be a pawn of the adults!"

"Get up, it's up to you to do the mobilization work."

"Yes, my lord."

Mr. Tong just watched from the sidelines, sighing with emotion in his heart. He felt more and more that the Southwest King was blind and confused, but fortunately, otherwise, if this kid took the position of the Southwest King and was trained by the Southwest King to succeed him, he should worry about it It should be His Majesty.

Li Hu got up and wiped away his tears, saluted Master Gu Mutong, and then turned around to gather the manpower.

As soon as he returned, he was surrounded by many people who asked him questions in a hurry. Just now, A Niu brought a doctor to Lin Xiucai's house, so what is the situation now.

Li Hu excitedly said: "It was Lin He and his brother and sister who found someone to send the letter, and sent Lin Xiucai's certificate to the person who should send it. Last night, Viscount Pingnan and the local guard Tong took down all the people outside. Now let us cooperate with their work to count the situation of salt workers here."

"Brother Hu, is this true? There was not much movement last night, and those dogs and bastards were not caught?"

"Brother Hu, is there any fraud?"

"Fuck you, in our situation, what good plans do they have? Listen to me, call everyone to the arena, wait for the adults to give orders, and tell everyone that the rescuer has come, we can leave This is the hell place."

"Really? Can you really leave?"

"Of course I can leave. I, Li Hu, will guarantee it with my head!" Looking at Gu Mu's calm eyes before, Li Hu knew he had found the right person this time. Even Wan Hongjing was killed. What counts?

"Brother Hu, we believe in you!"

It would be troublesome for Gu Mu to do the mobilization work, but Li Hu's words convinced everyone. Many of them, if it wasn't for Li Hu, might have died here long ago, and the former Lin Xiucai, That was also the person who convinced them. Unfortunately, Lin Xiucai was unlucky. He didn't wait until today to appear. He disappeared a year ago, and ended up with most of the people who came here.

At dawn, the salt workers in the saltworks get up early in the morning and prepare to go to work. If they are one step late and fail to complete the task of the day, how much salt they boil, what awaits them is the whip, and many salt workers have already become numb. When they heard that they were asked to go to the field to gather and the people from the government came to rescue them, many people couldn't believe their ears.

And people from the government?Aren't the people in the government and those salt merchant bullies in the same group, and the people in the government can make decisions for them?

Anyway, only half an hour later, everyone gathered on the field, looking at the salt workers who looked like people fleeing famine, Mr. Tong couldn't bear to look at them, and scolded those salt merchants and Wan Hongjing in his heart Shower.

Would Wan Hongjing not know?He and those salt merchants are basically in the same group. If Lin Nanshan's family will appear here, Wan Hongjing will not know about it?It was too cheap for him to just die.

Gu Mu set up several pots on the field, and asked people to heat up the fire to cook porridge. These salt workers lack food and drink, but the guards here eat and drink all day long, and the food stored there can be used. .

When the smell of boiled rice wafted over the floor, the salt workers who came over stared at the big pots with green eyes, and the skinny children kept swallowing their saliva.

"Eat your fill before doing anything." Gu Mu confessed.

"Thank you, my lord." Li Hu couldn't hold back his throat moving a bit. It's been a long time since he had a mouthful of rice porridge. If he had known that his lord would let them eat with an open stomach, the salt workers would have come here without mobilization. .

Also because of this sticky rice porridge, the order on the site did not become chaotic, so the next work was carried out very smoothly. There are a total of how many salt workers, including the old and the young, of course, the oldest is only 40 There are many people, and few people can survive, and the youngest is just born.

Where did these salt workers come from? Some were arrested and sent here for committing crimes, and some were bullied and framed by bullies and thrown here on unfounded charges. They were arrested and sent here. There were a lot of people at that time, but half of them died in the past few years.

Another family was actually a merchant in a surrounding county, but his family's business was targeted by the relatives of the salt merchant, and the robbery failed, so the whole family was sent here, and the shop business naturally became a bully.

Some were kidnapped and trafficked, and some even directly arrested villagers in the surrounding countryside. As for the outside, they were covered up under the name of being attacked by water bandits, and all the missing people died at the hands of water bandits.

Li Hu even gave Gu Mu an account book. According to his knowledge, how many years this private salt farm has existed and how much private salt it produces every day. How much silver is the profit.

The number was astonishingly large, and the emperor would be so enraged that he dragged all the people out and cut them down.

"Master Tong, I leave this place to you."

"Don't worry, you can go back, but be careful, those salt merchants must still have people in their hands, and they may not be caught without a fight." Mrs. Tong reminded Gu Mu to be careful of those salt merchants jumping over the wall.

"I see."

Gu Mu took the soldier talisman and set off again, and the salt workers in the saltworks exchanged in low voices, an adult left with someone, what did he go for?

"Brother Hu, do you know what the lord did?"

Li Hu's eyes are full of pleasure: "What else can we do? Of course, we should arrest those salt merchants and find our place. None of those salt merchants can escape. We are the evidence of their illegal salt sales, and there are so many lives. inside."

"Really? Can we avenge our revenge?"

"Of course I can report it!" Li Hu's eyes were also full of tears. He was the only one left in his family. He was arrested and sent here just because he offended a dog leg. He spent more time here than Lin Xiucai. It's still long, he kept telling himself to persevere, and one day he would be able to take revenge on those bastards.

Gu Zhao didn't close his eyes all night, guessing where Gu Mu's actions had come, but after dawn the next day, he washed up and went to the yamen to work as usual, as if everything was normal and nothing happened.

When he received the letter from outside the city, Gu Zhao knew that the private salt farm had been taken down, and he only sent a few people to watch the movements of the salt merchants, especially the Jin family.

Estimating the time, Gu Zhao called someone over: "Go to Jin's house and invite Master Jin over."

After a while, another group of people was sent, "Go and arrest Sun Jinhu."

"My lord, this is..." Master Fu left, and his replacement was a candidate surnamed Fan from Wensi Academy. He didn't make it to the list in the three exams, so he gave up this idea. He opened a school at home to teach students. After answering the letter from the former master, he thought about it and went to Gu Zhaolai again and again.

Fan Juren still doesn't know about Lin He and Lin Hui's brothers and sisters, but it doesn't matter now. Gu Zhao took out a complaint and said: "Yesterday, I received a complaint against Sun Jinhu and the Jin family. Brother Fan can take a look. The official just invited them to come and interrogate the case."

Fan Juren was startled when he heard this, Your lord is going to attack the Jin family?He quickly lowered his head to look at the certificate, the content of the certificate shocked him, and then he was filled with righteous indignation, the dignified scholar was actually run away by the Jin family and sent to a private salt farm.

Fan Juren is also a scholar. How can a scholar not be angry when he is trampled on by a merchant of the Jin family, but he is also worried: "My lord, this is the private salt factory of the Jin family..."

"Don't worry, these illegal salt sellers can't escape." Gu Zhao said calmly.

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