On November 29, Li Zhi was listening to Zheng Hui's report in the Tianjin Duke's Mansion.
After Zheng Hui caught the traitor smuggling counterfeit banknotes in Rizhao, he immediately began interrogation. The arrested gangsters unanimously confessed that Ruan Dacheng was the culprit of the counterfeit banknote incident.
Zheng Hui felt that this information was very important, so he rushed from Jinan to Tianjin and reported the results of the interrogation to Li Zhi.
Li Zhi frowned and said nothing.
Li Xing sat aside and listened for a long time, and couldn't help cursing: "Ruan Dacheng is a shameless villain. He took the hiding address of the gentry from Luzhou Prefecture to defect to us, and he wanted to find an official position with us. As a result,
He didn't get an official position here, so he immediately went to seek refuge with Shi Kefa, and even conspired to attack our currency system."
Li Laosi pondered and said: "Ruan Dacheng's attack on our currency system was deliberate, ruthless and accurate. If the Duke of Guo had not made a decisive decision and promptly admitted the counterfeit currency and bore all the losses for the people, I am afraid that the currency systems of Tianjin and Shandong would have been destroyed.
It will collapse, and even all banks will close."
Li Laosi said: "My boss, this Ruan Dacheng has committed a serious crime, we must not let him off lightly!"
Zhong Feng laughed loudly and said, "You don't need to worry. As long as the commander gives the order, I, Zhong Feng, will lead five thousand cavalry south quickly and guarantee to capture Anqing Mansion within a month."
Li Xing spat: "Commander Zhong, I'm afraid that as soon as your cavalry leaves Shandong, all the scholars in the south of the Yangtze River will know about it. When the time comes, Ruan Dacheng will flee south with the silver and printing equipment. Not to mention catching Ruan Dacheng, even the Ruan family will
I can’t catch a hair on it.”
Zhong Feng spat: "Of course I can't catch Ruan Dacheng, but what can you, Li Xing, do?"
Li Xing said: "I can't help it, but my eldest brother certainly can."
Zheng Kaicheng interrupted the bickering between Zhong Feng and Li Xing, raised his hands and said: "Master Guo, this Ruan Dacheng is really a treacherous villain. Fortunately, Duke Guo saw through this person's face at the beginning, otherwise we would not let such a person sneak into our community.
Among the officials, the daily planning and planning may bring a catastrophe to our entire system."
After hearing Zheng Kaicheng's words, everyone was in awe. This Ruan Dacheng was so good at sneaking into the camp, and he did not have any information about Tianjin to cause such a big thing, forcing people in four provinces and one town to suffer for a month. If such a person is allowed to
Sneaking into the officialdom of Tianjin and allowing him to gain a deeper understanding of the reality of Tianjin and Shandong might cause a disaster a hundred times more serious than counterfeit banknotes.
Zheng Hui quickly flattered Li Zhi, stood up and said, "The Duke of Guo has a far-sighted vision and his eyes are as bright as a torch. The subordinates admire him!"
Hong Chengchou also stood up and sang: "The Duke is wise!"
When Li Xing and others saw that everyone was flattering Li Zhi, they quickly stood up and said, "Brother is wise!"
“My boss is wise!”
Li Zhi did not respond to everyone's compliments. He looked directly at the towering gate of the third hall of the Duke's Mansion and said coldly: "Ruan Dacheng repeatedly acted like a villain and boldly attacked our financial system in Tianjin. He almost caused chaos in four provinces and one town. His crime is
Unforgivable."
"Li Laosi!"
"The end is here!"
Li Zhi waved his hand and said: "I order you to select a hundred elite troops to prepare to go south. I will give you fifty rockets, and I want you to blow up all the people printing counterfeit money."
"The last general takes command!"
"Ruan Dacheng is a cunning and cunning man who must be eliminated. If we don't kill him, the world will not know what I, Li Zhi, can do. Li Laosi, I will give you another two hundred rockets, and I want you to kill Ruan Dacheng's entire family.
Don’t let anyone go!”
Li Laosi said loudly: "Here!"
When everyone heard Li Zhi's murderous words, they all felt that the atmosphere was a bit chilly, and no one dared to speak for a while.
Li Zhi looked at everyone and was about to get up and leave, but he heard Li Dao, the governor of Jilin, slapped his thigh and said: "What a pity! What a pity!"
Li Xing quickly asked: "What's the pity?"
Li Dao shook his head and said: "It's a pity that Ruan Dacheng, a talented man whose talent shocked the whole country, spent his whole life working for fame and fortune, ended up like this."
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On the tenth day of the twelfth lunar month in Anqing Prefecture, Huben Army company commander Zhang Yu led twenty Tiger Army soldiers on the roofs of two inns, each holding a rocket launcher newly built by Jin Guogong.
These are two inns connected together, even the roofs are connected together. But one is higher and the other is lower.
From the roof of the inn, you can climb to the roof of a nearby house, and then jump off the house to enter a remote alley. It is easy to retreat.
It was already seven or eight o'clock in the evening, and the night sky in Anqing Mansion was dark. There were no bright electric lights in this era, and there were no street lights on the roads. It was pitch dark at night, and no one noticed the two inns standing on the roof.
There are more than twenty people.
Zhang Yu wants to take away Ruan Dacheng's counterfeit banknote printing den.
At the end of November, Ruan Dacheng was determined to smuggle counterfeit banknotes into Shandong on a fishing boat. He was caught by the Duke of Jin, who strictly ordered all areas to strengthen security. Li Zhi ordered Li Laosi, the commander-in-chief of Tianjin, to kill the traitors who made counterfeit banknotes.
Li Laosi made repeated choices and finally selected Zhang Yu, Li Zhi's former personal guard platoon leader.
Zhang Yu is a calm and calm person, suitable for carrying out such an assassination mission.
With the help of Han Jinxin's secret guards, Zhang Yu found out the place where the counterfeit banknotes were printed as soon as he entered Anqing Fucheng. It was a small courtyard in the west of the city. There were two entrances in and out. The first entrance was faked by Ruan Dacheng as a dyeing workshop, and there were piles of
Various printing and dyeing materials. The five rooms at the back are counterfeit banknote factories.
Zhang Yu conducted detective work for two days and discovered that Ruan Dacheng was extremely greedy. Although there was currently no channel to continue delivering counterfeit money to Tianjin and Shandong, he still had the counterfeit banknote factory running day and night for printing, and he only stopped the machine until midnight every day.
Obviously, Ruan Dacheng planned to continue to use counterfeit banknotes to defraud money from one town in four provinces under Li Zhi's command.
Those workers who printed counterfeit banknotes did not know how much money they received from Ruan Dacheng, and they worked until midnight every day without feeling tired. Zhang Yu found two double-decker inns next to the counterfeit banknote factory, and observed them on the roof of the inns for two days, and found that every day
At night, many candles and lanterns were lit in the counterfeit banknote factory.
In order to print counterfeit banknotes without eliminating any leaks, all the rooms in the factory were brightly lit at night, which was the best time for Zhang Yu to launch an attack.
So Zhang Yu chose to take action tonight.
Zhang Yu was observing the counterfeit banknote factory in front of him for the last time when he suddenly heard the voice of the innkeeper from under the tiles.
"Why are there constant sounds of footsteps on the roof? Could it be a thief? Huang Er, go up and have a look."
Hearing this voice, the faces of the soldiers on the roof changed, and they all looked at Zhang Yu.
The soldiers are currently on a mission in Anqing Mansion, which is controlled by the gentry, and are hiding on the rooftops to launch attacks. If they are seen and reported to Anqing Mansion for inspection, they may be caught and beaten to death by the gentry.
Escape is not a good option. Friendly forces will attack elsewhere today, and Anqing Prefecture will be stormy tomorrow, making it even more difficult to take action by then.
Zhang Yu frowned, raised his index finger and made a quiet gesture to the soldiers. Then he took out a dagger from behind and stood on the roof waiting for the innkeeper and the waiter who climbed up.
Under the bright moonlight, the dagger in Zhang Yu's hand shone coldly and became even sharper.
However, the boy downstairs was unwilling to climb to the roof.
"Shopkeeper, you have bad ears! Where is the sound? Don't send me out for nothing. If you think there is a thief, climb up there yourself!"
Without waiting for the innkeeper to speak, the boy walked downstairs in three steps and two steps, and the footsteps disappeared around the corner.
The innkeeper was over fifty years old and walked slowly. How could he climb to the roof? Hearing what the inn boy said, the Tiger Soldiers on the roof looked at each other and let out a long sigh of relief.
