Xie Jin, a soldier of the Huben Army, hid behind a bush and looked at the fishermen's wharf in front of him.
The pier is some distance from the nearby fishermen's village and looks very secluded.
This is Rizhao County, Shandong Province, the southernmost point of the Shandong coastline. At this time, there are more than a dozen large fishing boats docked at the fishermen's wharf. At first glance, there is nothing wrong with those large fishing boats. They seem to be the fishing boats of local fishermen.
But if you understand the people's sentiments in Shandong, you will find a problem. Due to the emergence of steamships in the past two years, old-fashioned fishing boats have rarely gone to sea. These dozen large fishing boats are also old-fashioned fishing boats that have been eliminated and should have been towed ashore.
, why would it be parked on the pier and let the wind and rain blow?
If you observe carefully, you can see that the dozens of large fishing boats seem to be filled with heavy cargo, and they are parked motionless on the dock.
Xie Jin knew that it was the boat of the counterfeit banknote thieves. The boat was heavy and filled with goods exchanged for counterfeit banknotes.
Since Duke Guo sealed the border, there have been a lot less counterfeit banknotes in Shandong and Tianjin. In the past ten days, Xie Jin had not heard of any new counterfeit banknotes coming out. Obviously, counterfeit banknotes enter Shandong via land.
They have all been blocked by the Tiger Army.
But in the past few days, counterfeit banknotes have appeared on the market.
There is no doubt that thieves brought counterfeit money via water.
Xie Jin heard that the new counterfeit banknotes made Zheng Hui, the governor of Shandong, overjoyed. Because transporting goods by waterway, it is much more difficult to hide the whereabouts than by land routes. If you use ships to transport goods, you must find a dock that can dock.
It is impossible not to interact with the local people in Shandong.
If it were in other parts of the Ming Dynasty, maybe you could spend some money to bribe local fishermen and transport goods to a remote fishing village at will. The people in other parts of the Ming Dynasty were suffering from bullying by the officials and gentry, and there was no way to protect the officials.
Awareness of family interests.
But in Shandong, this kind of bribery in broad daylight is not feasible.
The people of Shandong have been greatly blessed by the Duke of Jin. Take this small fishing village for example. They bought steam fishing boats on credit from the Duke of Jin over the years and immediately became rich. The fishing industry in this era was originally all about casting nets offshore.
, the fishery resources in the distant sea are completely undeveloped and surprisingly rich. Every time the fishing boats go out to sea, they always return with a full load, carrying thousands of kilograms of fish to the dock.
Although the price of seafood has plummeted to the point where everyone can afford to eat fish, the fishermen are still bulging their pockets. Now the income of the fishermen in this small fishing village can be directly matched by the soldiers of the Tiger Army.
Jin Guogong has turned the lives of fishermen upside down, and the fishermen will naturally be grateful to Jin Guogong.
The criminals who transported counterfeit banknotes spent a lot of money to bribe the head of the fishing village, thinking that they could sit back and relax. But they didn't know that the world in Shandong was different from that in South Zhili. More than a hundred fishermen in this fishing village were Li.
Planted eyes.
The traitor's boat only docked in the fishing village for two days. The Rizhao County magistrate appointed by Li Zhi immediately learned of the situation and immediately dispatched a platoon of the Huben Army and a hundred local police to arrest him.
Xie Jin has been lying in ambush here for a whole day. According to the platoon leader's plan, the soldiers will catch all the traitors in one fell swoop when they finish the acquisition and return to the fleet to prepare for sailing. No fish that slips through the net will be let go.
In the bushes, Xie Jin looked at the platoon leader and asked again: "Platoon leader, if we kill the thieves in one pot this time, how much silver reward can each of us share?"
The platoon leader was a little tired of Xie Jin's verbosity. He glared at Xie Jin and cursed: "Poor soldier, didn't you allocate a farm in Liaodong? Why are you so short of money?"
Xie Jin said seriously: "Platoon leader, my small farm is contracted to the service team, and I only earn thirty taels a year. My sister will get married in December, and I need to prepare a dowry for her."
"These days, people in Tianjin are getting richer and richer. In our county, it would be embarrassing to tell anyone without a dowry of eighty taels."
The platoon leader sneered and said, "You are a very righteous brother!"
"It's not that I'm righteous, my sister is really pitiful. As the saying goes, an elder brother is like a father."
While Xie Jin was chattering there, the platoon leader suddenly slapped Xie Jin on the head and shouted: "Stop talking, the thief is coming."
Two hundred meters away, the thieves drove more than a dozen four-wheeled carriages towards the fishing village dock. Xie Jin's face froze and he bowed his body.
The platoon leader waved his hand to signal Xie Jin to calm down.
"Wait a little longer, wait until they are all standing on the pier with no way to escape, then rush out and catch them all in one pot."
Xie Jin looked at the platoon leader and felt that Qiu Ba was really calm.
When the thieves arrived at the pier, they were all very happy to see that the big fishing boat on the pier was safe and sound. They parked the carriage in front of the pier and began to unload the goods from the carriage. All the silks, satins and bronzes that the thieves bought with counterfeit money were
The most valuable goods.
Just as the thieves were loading cargo onto the ship, there was a crisp "pop!" sound in the bushes, and the platoon leader fired a shot into the air.
"Charge! Catch them! Don't let any of them go!"
Forty Tiger Army soldiers and a hundred policemen rushed down the mountain like tigers towards the traitor 200 meters away.
The soldiers of the Huben Army were okay. They held rifles in their hands and were not so powerful. The thirty senior police officers equipped with handguns were much more powerful. They charged quickly with handguns and could really shoot at any time.
More than a hundred traitors suddenly became a mess.
Some people hugged their heads and ran away, leaving the carriage behind, trying to escape from this small fishing village. But as soon as they saw the traitors trying to escape, forty soldiers of the Tiger Army stopped, squatted on the ground, took aim and fired. Those who escaped
All the green-skinned scoundrels who had gone out dozens of meters were shot and fell to the ground one after another, twitching and rolling on the ground.
Seeing that they could not escape on land, the other people fled to the boat. They fled to the fishing boat, quickly put away the anchor, and tried to sail away.
But how could it be so easy to start this sailboat? Before they could put away the anchor, Xie Jin's platoon leader had already led more than a hundred people to attack the dock.
Those policemen were even more excited than the soldiers of the Huben Army. Probably because they usually have less monthly money, the high bounty in this operation stimulated these policemen. Of course, the more important thing is the merit points. The policemen are no more excited than the soldiers of the Huben Army.
Soldiers don't have the opportunity to accumulate so many merit points at once.
These days, the merit points are the farm in Liaodong, and the money is white.
The thirty policemen with guns were in full charge and climbed onto the fishing boat along the rope net on the fishing boat.
The gangsters on the fishing boat still wanted to resist, but the police had already opened fire.
"Pah! Pah! Pah!"
The clear sound of gunfire rang out, and the criminals on the fishing boat were shot one by one and fell to the ground, bleeding profusely.
The greedy and lazy green-skinned scoundrels were no match for the police and soldiers. After a while, the police and soldiers took control of more than a dozen fishing boats and held down more than a hundred traitors.
The platoon leader climbed onto the largest fishing boat and found the leader of more than a hundred traitors.
The platoon leader kicked the traitor on the head one by one, causing the traitor leader to roll on the fishing boat while he was kneeling on the ground.
"Don't kick me! Don't kick me! I'm a gangster too."
"Tell me! Who asked you to spread counterfeit money!"
"Master, it's Ruan Dacheng! Ruan Dacheng asked us to come!"
"Isn't Ruan Dacheng an opera writer?"
"It's really Ruan Dacheng!"
The platoon leader snorted coldly and asked: "Where did you print the counterfeit money?"
"In Fucheng, Anqing Prefecture! Ruan Dacheng is in charge there!"
