Zhu Ping'an spent a lot of effort to make a table to statistically classify the information collected by Baojia from various places, and marked the amount of Baojia's summary information from each county, town, and village on a huge map, making it clear at a glance.
This huge map was also drawn by Zhu Pingan himself. It took several days to accurately reach each village.
After the first map was drawn, Zhu Ping'an asked his clerk to copy several copies for backup. The map now hanging in the study is a copy.
Regarding the specific information reported by Baojia from various places, Zhu Ping'an has concealed the information of the informants and assigned them one by one to the corresponding prefecture and county officials, who will verify and deal with them according to the situation. They must not tolerate adultery.
In order to prevent the local government from being perfunctory, Zhu Pingan ordered them to verify and respond to the situation one by one.
After marking the map, Zhu Pingan moved a chair and sat in front of the map, studying it carefully.
After studying the map for a long time, Zhu Ping'an stood up, took out a charcoal pen from his sleeve, reached out and lightly outlined thirty-three locations on the map, and highlighted six of them.
The thirty-three locations listed by Zhu Pingan are all suspicious places, and there are zero reports for these thirty-three places.
There are dozens of Baojia in each place, but there is no report information at all. In other places, there are dozens or hundreds of reports. These thirty-three places have not reported any information, not even one. Something abnormal must happen.
Damn it, they didn't even report a single piece of information. Either the ten-household protection law was not implemented well, or there were some unexplained problems in these places.
The ten-household protection law has been implemented for such a long time. In order to protect themselves, people from all over the country have reported more and more reports.
There is not even one of these places, which is so abnormal.
The reason why Zhu Ping'an highlighted the six places was that, in addition to the zero reports mentioned above, these six places had also been reported by the nearby local Baojia. The reported information was more or less, or there were suspicious persons entering, or
There are rumors about someone having an affair with Japanese pirates, or about someone getting rich without any reason, etc.
Of these six places, two are in northern Zhejiang and four are along the southern coast of Zhejiang.
There are two locations in northern Zhejiang, one is Douopu, not far from Wangjiangjing, about 20 miles northwest of Wangjiangjing; the other is Fuchun Bay, located more than 80 miles northeast of Jiaxing City.
The four locations in southern Zhejiang are Dahaiwan Village in Zhenhai, Baofeng Village in Beicang, Nanwang Village and Beichong Village in Fenghua.
Both Dou Dou Pu and Fuchun Bay are near the upcoming battle of Wang Jiangjing, especially Dou Dou Pu is too close to Wang Jiangjing.
In such a critical position, even the slightest suspicion must be taken seriously.
Four places in southern Zhejiang are very close to Zhoushan Ligang, and they are all within the sphere of influence of the Wangzhi Japanese pirates.
Zhu Ping'an even suspected that these six places were involved in collective conspiracy with Japanese invaders.
It is necessary to investigate but not to alert the enemy.
Zhu Pingan asked people to secretly keep an eye on these villages 24 hours a day to see if they had discovered anything.
After watching for three consecutive days, all the people watching responded that there was nothing unusual about these villages.
These villages all have normal daily routines. They are not closed off like other villages and can interact with other villages normally.
Visiting people, visiting relatives, wandering the streets, herding sheep and cattle, going to the fields, and doing work are all normal.
Zhu Pingan compiled the tracking information, put it on the table, and read it over and over again. It was indeed normal.
But, this is not normal.
Perhaps the time was too short, or perhaps it was not in-depth enough. Zhu Pingan continued to stare at him while thinking about how to investigate further.
In order to further investigate the situation in these villages, Zhu Ping'an specially found a soldier from the Zhejiang Army who had worked as a salesman, and asked him to return to his old profession and roam the streets from northern Zhejiang to southern Zhejiang, passing through these villages.
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The role of a salesman is not something that ordinary people can play. In ancient times, a salesman not only held a drum and sold needles, threads, brains, and daily necessities, but also served as a messenger, ghostwriter, fortune teller, and doctor. He was also versatile.
You need to be eloquent, and you also need to be able to sing and shout out, and even sell different things with different shouting songs.
It would be better if you can do acrobatics.
At Dou Dou Pu, the sun was rising, and a man carrying two loads filled with toys such as bamboo dragonflies and wooden knives that attracted children came walking slowly.
The salesman shook the double-sided drum while shouting a ditty, "variegated ribbons with red threads, Boshan glazed hairpins. And there are pink rouge pieces from Peach Blossom Palace, soft emerald corollas, red and green woven cloth, Hangzhou velvet quilt, and small agate ears."
Circles. Some of them are wooden combs and ink grates, white copper tips, shoe awls, high-soled plum blossom petals, and Bingzhou willow leaf scissors."
When a salesman enters Pukou, he is a eloquent person who can sell to anyone he meets.
"Sister, aunt, aunt, you don't have to go to the market today. Rouge, hairpins, shoe awls, whatever you want is available."
"Brother, uncle, lord, come here, look here, this medicinal powder of mine is really wonderful. I take it during the day to make my body strong, and at night I take it to make my whole body strong."
"Don't worry, kids, I'm here to eat and play."
The salesman was a good talker and immediately became the center of the village when he put down his load. Many people came to watch, even if they didn't buy anything, they just wanted to watch the fun. A few impatient children dragged the adults hard and pointed at the things on the load.
He cried and clamored to buy it, which made the impatient adults give him a beating.
Suddenly it became more and more lively.
While the salesman was selling things there, he was observing everyone and every place without leaving a trace.
"Auntie, I'm thirsty. Can you go into the house and ask for a bowl of water?"
When the sales were almost finished, the salesman went to an old woman's house to ask for a bowl of water on the pretext of being thirsty. After drinking the water, as a token of his gratitude, the salesman gave the old woman a needle and took the opportunity to chat about home affairs for a while.
While the salesmen were walking around the streets, a messenger arrived at the Zhejiang Governor's Yamen with orders from Governor Zhang Jing to meet Zhu Ping'an.
"The governor has an order. In order to ensure the military supplies of the wolf soldiers, spearmen and other guest soldiers, Zhejiang is ordered to transfer 10,000 shi of grain from the barn and 500 shi of salt from the salt warehouse to Jiaxing for handover. The escorts will arrive within ten days without any mistakes.
Those who violate orders will be dealt with according to military law."
The messenger knelt on one knee, raised his hands, and handed a lacquered letter to Zhu Pingan, giving a concise and clear order.
Zhu Pingan read it carefully and found that the content was consistent with what the messenger said. He asked for food, grass and salt to be brought to Jiaxing City for delivery.
Hasn't Governor Zhang already raised a lot of grain and grass? Why does he need to bring grain and grass from various places to Jiaxing in such a hurry?
Zhu Ping'an was stunned for a few seconds, then raised his eyes and realized that Governor Zhang was finally going to take action.
Wang Jiangjing is about to start.
"Please reply to the Governor, Zhejiang will escort 10,000 shi of grain and grass and 500 shi of salt into Jiaxing within ten days."
Zhu Pingan raised his hands and said to the messenger.
"No. I still have some errands to attend to, so I'll take my leave now." After receiving the reply, the messenger clasped his fists and left. ()