Jin Yiwei is on duty, signing Fengshen Legs at the beginning

Arriving at Jinyiwei Yamen, Huang Shaojie went directly to the lobby to ask to see Niu Ren.

“Niu Qianhu, the Governor’s Mansion was attacked last night.”

After saluting, Huang Shaojie first reported the attack on the Governor’s Mansion.

Niu Ren nodded slightly: “I knew about this this morning, and Cao Renqi also led people to rescue him.”

As the supreme commander of Suzhou Jinyiwei, he naturally learned of such a big thing happening very quickly.

Huang Shaojie cupped his hands and said, “Sir, this is what I’m worried about.”

“Oh?” Niu Ren raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at Huang Shaojie, “What do you mean by this?”

Huang Shaojie said: “Cao Renqi brought dozens of guards to the rescue. He left these dozens of guards in the governor’s mansion to protect the governor, but he only brought a few guards back to Cao’s mansion to continue sleeping. Isn’t he afraid? Are those people coming to attack Cao Mansion?”

Niu Ren frowned slightly and thought: “That’s right. Logically speaking, when the governor’s mansion was attacked, Cao Renqi should be more afraid that his own mansion would also be attacked, but he left all his guards in the governor’s mansion, and he could still be in the mansion. It’s unnatural to sleep peacefully.”

Huang Shaojie answered: “It would make sense if Cao Renqi was a loyal and courageous general, but Cao Renqi had a secret meeting with Japanese pirate spies the night before yesterday. It is difficult not to make people doubt his motives for this move.”

Niu Ren’s expression changed slightly, he stood up suddenly, and said in a deep voice: “No, there must be Japanese assassins among the dozens of guards left by Cao Renqi in the governor’s mansion. Governor Luo is in danger at any time!”

He said coldly: “It seems that we can’t delay any longer, we must arrest Cao Renqi immediately!”

“Send an order to inform all officials above the general banner to come to the lobby immediately to discuss matters!”

Niu Ren made a prompt decision and issued the order.

The two guards took the order and left.

Huang Shaojie raised his hands to Niu Ren and said, “To Qianhu, I have something to report.”

Niu Ren sat down again, “What’s the matter?”

Huang Shaojie said: “Yesterday morning, Cao Renqi sent his trusted lieutenant and a thousand soldiers to the seaside of Yancheng to escort a batch of goods to the Dongsheng Chamber of Commerce warehouse.”

“Going to the east coast to escort the goods?” Niu Ren’s eyes flashed coldly and he snorted, “It seems that Cao Renqi must be helping the Japanese pirates to escort the goods.”

Huang Shaojie said: “My subordinates guessed that the Japanese president that Cao Renqi met in the secret room of Fountain Pavilion the night before yesterday must be the president of Dongsheng Chamber of Commerce. And the content of their secret conversation must be these two things.”

“The first is to arrange Japanese warriors in the governor’s mansion to assassinate or threaten to kidnap the governor at any time. The second is to help the Japanese pirates transport military supplies to Suzhou.”

Huang Shaojie expressed his speculation.

He was absolutely right about the first point.

But he guessed wrong on the second point. Unexpectedly, what Cao Renqi helped Dongsheng Chamber of Commerce escort was actually sea salt shipped from Japan.

The salt in Dachu is controlled by the government, and the price is extremely high, in order to make huge profits and increase the revenue of the state treasury.

If salt merchants want to operate official salt, they must pay high prices to buy salt. Only then can they use salt to buy officially mined salt.

In short, 80% of the profits are obtained by the government. Excluding some silver coins used to manage relationships, the salt merchants can only earn 10% of the profits at most.

Dongsheng Chamber of Commerce has naturally obtained the qualification to operate official salt.

If they send sea salt from Japan to Dachu to sell, they can make huge profits and earn all their wasted money back to Japan.

After listening to Huang Shaojie’s analysis, Niu Ren nodded in agreement.

At this time, all officials above the general banner came to the lobby.

After some bowing of hands and salutes.

Niu Ren said with a serious look: “Suzhou’s military commander Cao Renqi colluded with the Japanese pirates in order to control the governor of Luo, control all the soldiers and horses in Suzhou, and capture the coastal areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.”

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the lobby widened their eyes in shock and looked at each other in disbelief.

The dignified military attache of the fourth rank actually secretly colluded with the Japanese pirates, controlled the governor, and captured Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces?

Damn it, is this Cao Renjie going to shake things up?

Zhao Baihu looked puzzled, cupped his hands and said, “Sir, this matter is not trivial. I wonder if the news is reliable?”

Others in the lobby were also secretly surprised, wondering where Niu Qianhu suddenly got the news.

Niu Ren said: “This is the clue that Huang Shaojie secretly monitored Cao Renqi and investigated. It is absolutely reliable! Okay, now the situation is critical. We Jin Yiwei must arrest Cao Renqi immediately.”

“Zhao Baihu, you lead the Jinyi Guards from the 1st, 24th and 4th Guards to the Duwei Mansion, arrest Cao Renqi and his cronies, and take them back to the Jinyi Guards’ prison.”

“Follow the order!”

Zhao Baihu bowed his head and led the three commanders of the 1st, 2nd and 4th Guards out of the lobby, and went to gather the men to set off.

Niu Ren looked at another Baihu and said loudly: “Li Baihu.”

Li Baihu bowed his hands and said, “Subordinate

exist! ”

Niu Ren said: “You and three trial households will lead the Jinyi Guards from the 56th, 78th and 8th Guards to the Dongsheng Chamber of Commerce and arrest all of them. Any violation will be punished with death!”

Suzhou Jinyiwei has a total of two hundred households and three trial hundred households. The weakest trial hundred households have all reached the ninth level of innate realm.

Now Niu Ren directly dispatched one hundred households, three trial hundred households, and all the Jinyi guards from four guard stations were dispatched, which showed that he attached great importance to Dongsheng Chamber of Commerce.

To arrest Cao Renqi, Niu Ren only sent Zhao Baihu and three Jinyi guards from the guardhouse, which was enough.

Cao Renqi has the cultivation level of a first-grade grandmaster, while Zhao Baihu has the cultivation level of a second-grade grandmaster, so he can easily defeat him.

Although Cao Renqi was a fourth-grade military attache with tens of thousands of troops and horses, he could not mobilize those tens of thousands of troops to resist the arrest when the Jinyi Guards went to arrest them.

Unless all these tens of thousands of soldiers become Cao Renqi’s cronies and are willing to follow him to rebel.

This is obviously unlikely.

It’s possible with a dozen cronies.

However, Zhao Baihu led three general bannermen, nine small bannermen, and more than a hundred captains to subdue them.

“I obey my orders!”

Li Baihu and the other three trial households all accepted the order, took four general banners and went out of the hall to summon people.

“Huang Shaojie, Xiao Qiuyue.”

“My subordinates are here.” Huang Shaojie and Xiao Qiuyue said in unison, cupping their hands.

Niu Ren said: “The two of you will go to Fountain Pavilion with the Jinyi Guards from our guard station and arrest everyone in Fountain Pavilion.”

In Niu Ren’s view, although Fountain Pavilion is just a brothel, it is a Japanese spy base after all, and there must be many masters there.

Therefore, Huang Shaojie and Xiao Qiuyue, the two most powerful generals, must be sent to lead the way.

Huang Shaojie and Xiao Qiuyue took the order and left.

“General Gao Qi, General He Qi, you lead the 10th and 11th guards to the governor’s office quickly, report Cao Renqi’s collusion with Japanese pirates, and assist Governor Luo to arrest all the dozens of guards left by Cao Renqi last night. Arrested for interrogation.”

“Follow the order.”

The two commander-in-chiefs took the order and left.

Niu Ren finally looked at the 12th Guards Station, the inspector general congratulated Lu, and said:

“He Lu, you lead fifty captains and a hundred warriors to Cao’s Mansion and arrest everyone in Cao’s Mansion. And search Cao’s Mansion, not letting go of any corner.”

He Lu bowed his hands and said, “Yes, sir.”