This was the summer of the fourth year of Chongzhen. After Wu Shigong sent away Li Pengfei and the royal guards, he immediately sent people to Lu Yunhuan and issued an order: Lu Yunhuan was forbidden to go back to the Qi family to get salt products. From now on, the salt products sold by Lu Yunhuan
, you have to go to Wu Shigong to get it. Of course, the price will be higher. But Wu Shigong also promised Lu Yunhuan that he would support Lu Yunhuan in raising the price of salt in his sales area.
Regarding Wu Shigong's order, Lu Yunhuan didn't even dare to let go, so he agreed. Lu Yunhuan knew Wu Shigong's methods very well, and he could only sigh at home. Why did Wu Shigong refuse to accept a woman from his clan?
What? This way Lu Yunhuan can talk easier!
Wu Shigong didn't know that the Qi family had done so many tricks in Henan's officialdom until Li Pengfei arrived. Of course Wu Shigong wanted to teach the Qi family a lesson. Of course, Wu Shigong didn't do everything right, and he didn't touch the Qi family.
The salt sales in other places in Runing Prefecture only affected the salt sales area that Wang Mi was responsible for.
Wu Shigong just wants to suppress the Qi family. If the Qi family is more sensible and allows Wu Shigong's salt farm to transport salt to Henan, Wu Shigong may make some concessions to the Qi family accordingly.
Wang Mi saw that the area he was responsible for was completely occupied by the salt shipped by Wu Shigong from Changlu. Now, he no longer had any need to stay in Henan, so Wang Mi also arranged his salutes.
Prepare to return to Yangzhou.
But at this time, one of Wang Mi's guards found him. This guard was a guard who was familiar with the local situation in Runing Prefecture and was hired by Wang Mi when he went to contact Li Yaozi about the salt business.
Because Wang Mi was leaving Runing Mansion, just a few days ago, Wang Mi also settled the accounts with this guard and fired him. And this guard had to return to the world because he lost his job.
He was living a precarious life, so he really wanted Wang Mi to start selling salt and stay in Runing Mansion.
After the guard found Wang Mi, he said to Wang Mi: "Sir, actually I have a way to get rid of Wu Shoubei. Do you want to give it a try?"
"What solution?" Wang Mi asked in confusion. He couldn't figure out how this guard could solve the problem that even his own Qi family couldn't solve.
"Just hire someone to kill him!" the guard whispered in Wang Mi's ear.
The guard's words shocked Wang Mi. You know, the Qi family has done this illegal method to seize the market, but they often deal with ordinary people with no background.
And if you want to assassinate an official, once it is exposed, it will definitely be a catastrophic disaster, so this kind of behavior will never be allowed in their Qi family.
So Wang Mi immediately shook his head and said, "This won't work."
The guard was not discouraged, and continued to persuade him unyieldingly: "Master, I know that you have not made any mistakes, but this time when I return to Yangzhou, I will have a big meal at Qi's house. But I only want to have a big meal at Qi's house.
After solving the big problem of Wu Shou Bei, I still have a chance to make a comeback. Besides, I have thought carefully about small matters, and I will never let the assassination of Wu Shou Bei involve you, master."
The guard's words moved Wang Mi's heart. He frowned and said, "Then tell me, what are you going to do?"
"Master, we are..." The guard still lowered his voice and spoke in Wang Mi's ear for a long time.
The more Wang Mi listened, the more excited he became. After asking the guard a few questions, Wang Mi gritted his teeth and made up his mind: "Just do what you said. Remember, I can give you the money first, but you have to wait until I
You can take action again after leaving Henan."
In the early morning, after Wu Shigong's morning exercises, accompanied by more than a dozen guards, he took his men Laifeng and Xiaopian out for a walk. Wu Shigong chatted and laughed with the guards and followed a familiar route and turned into an alley. This alley is also relatively small.
It is spacious. At the entrance of the alley, there is a stall selling hot dry noodles. Some people who got up early are squatting and eating hot dry noodles.
Ma Jiu squatted on the ground and ate hot dry noodles. He tasted nothing but mechanically put the noodles into his mouth with the chopsticks in his hands. Ma Jiu knew that this might be the last meal he would eat, because he had already
He saw his enemy turn into the alley.
Ma Jiu also joined the Holy Spirit Society at that time, and later took his whole family to join the rebellion with Master Mou. However, a group of Ming troops later came and defeated the Holy Spirit Society, and Master Mou was trampled to death by a random horse.
Ma Jiu fled with his whole family at that time, but during the escape process, Ma Jiu's old mother, several children and wives were separated one after another. In the end, Ma Jiu fled with his father and only remaining son.
Got out.
If it was just like this, Ma Jiu might have accepted her fate. But after that, after asking about the whereabouts of her family, Ma Jiu learned that her mother and several other children were missing, and her wife was killed in front of her.
This dog officer was sold to the dog officer’s subordinates and became a concubine.
At that time, Ma Jiu also met several people who had the same experience and wanted to rescue his wife. However, when those people arrived on the territory of this dog official, they were reported and captured one after another, and were later regarded as remnants of the Holy Spirit Society.
Her head was chopped off. Seeing this situation, Ma Jiu had to resist his urge to save his wife.
But later on, Ma Jiu fell into trouble and became a bandit, but his bandit cottage was broken by the dog official in front of him, and in the process, Ma Jiu's father also lost his life.
Ma Jiu, who escaped again, had no choice but to take his son with him and follow a relationship he had made when he was a bandit. He came to Runing Fucheng and worked as a thug.
Because Ma Jiu had seen blood when he was a bandit, he quickly gained a reputation in the gang. But in the end, Ma Jiu was just a thug, and his life was still tight.
But a few days ago, Ma Jiu met a friend in the martial arts world who came to find Ma Jiu and introduced Ma Jiu to a business of assassinating people. For this business, Ma Jiu was offered two thousand taels of silver.
That friend also promised that as long as Ma Jiu succeeded, even if something happened to Ma Jiu, that friend would bring Ma Jiu's son to Jiangnan to raise him and make his son read and write.
It should be said that the price of these two thousand taels of silver had already made Ma Jiu excited. In addition, when he learned that the person who wanted to assassinate was the dog official who sold his wife, Ma Jiu immediately agreed to the deal.
Ma Jiu knew that she had little hope of surviving after assassinating the dog officer, but as long as she killed him, not only would she be able to avenge the hatred of taking his wife away, but she would also be able to leave a lifetime of worry-free money for her son.
Besides, Ma Jiu has been in Runing Fucheng for a long time and is familiar with the roads in this city. If he is lucky, he can still escape through the newly opened city gate. Then why not take a chance?
When he saw Wu Shigong's group of people approaching, Ma Jiu took a mouthful of noodles and swallowed what might be the last bite of rice in his life. Then he put the rice bowl on the ground and took out the sharp knife in his arms.
, rushed over in one stride.
Ma Jiu pushed away the guard beside Wu Shigong who was caught off guard, aimed at Wu Shigong's lower abdomen, and stabbed the sharp knife fiercely.