After Meng Xuemin received Qiyou's letter, he went to the palace to see Qihao.
After reading the letter, Qi Hao smiled and said: "Since King You wants you to send him the portraits of the wanted criminals, then send them!" Outsiders don't know, Qi Hao cleared them. But he would never forget anyone Qiyou met. Come to think of it, this time I saw a wanted criminal hiding in Yangzhou City in Yangzhou.
Meng Xuemin hesitated and said, "The emperor, the minister is thinking whether it is time to send Duan to catch them to Yangzhou to assist King You." Although King You is not active as a errand, he knows his skills. It is estimated that the traces of the wanted criminals were found, and I asked him for the portraits of the wanted criminals over the years.
However, these people are desperate and murderous desperadoes, and he is afraid that Qiyou will be in danger when they catch them. Therefore, I want to send the best arrest and assistance from the Criminal Department’s Yamen.
Qi Hao shook his head and said, "No. If you sent a catcher to go there, you will start to stun the snake. This will destroy Qiyou's plan." If Qiyou had this request, he would have raised it long ago. I didn't mention it, I thought I was sure to catch this person.
Five days later, a thick stack of images of wanted criminals arrived in Qiyou's hands. At this time, Qiyou's illness was cured.
After seeing these images, Qiyou immediately wrote a letter to Lu Fei and asked the personal guards to send it. Then, Qiyou made an invitation and invited Rong Tongji to come to dinner.
Sitting at the dinner table looking at the wine on it, Rong Tongji said, "Master, you are in good health, so stop drinking!"
Qiyou smiled and said, "I won't drink too much this time, just have a drink. But before I return to Beijing, I will definitely have to go to the painting boat again, and then we will not be drunk."
Zhao Qian picked up the jug and poured wine for Qiyou first, and then for Rong Tongji.
Qiyou picked up the wine glass and said with a smile: "Master Rong, come, my king, thank you for your last hospitality. I haven't had such a great time growing up at this age."
Anyway, he is now a poor man who is too harshly controlled by his parents and has no freedom in life. Such a person can easily reduce the vigilance of others.
Rong Tongji was also very bold. He picked up the wine glass and killed it in one sip: "Master, you are free."
Qiyou's mouth was dipped into the wine glass, and he took a small sip: "Pour another glass for Master Rong..."
After drinking the second glass of wine, Rong Tongji felt dizzy. As soon as he felt that his body was not right, he said, "Master, I have a terrible headache. Master, I want to go home and drink the wine next time."
Qiyou said with a look of concern: "It just happened to be fine, why is it a headache all of a sudden."
With his head getting heavier and heavier, Rong Tongji said with difficulty: "It should be an old illness. Lord, I have medicine at home, and I just take the medicine when I go home..." Before the good words were finished, people fell to the ground with a thump. Up.
Zhao Qian asked: "Lord, Rong Tongji is also a number one mission in Yangzhou. If we arrest him like this without evidence, it will definitely make Yangzhou people panic."
Qi You gave Zhao Qian a blank look and said, "If you don't speak, I won't treat you as dumb." How could he not understand the truth that Zhao Qian understood.
Zhao Qian said oh, and he dared not speak any more.
About two quarters later, Yan Simao, who was covered in blood and fainted, was tied up by Lu Fei's confidant Li Donglai and carried him to Qiyou.
Li Donglai said to Qiyou: "Master, this man has a very high martial arts, and hurt five of us. Lord, what is the origin of this man?" They were crowded and arranged early, but he also injured five others. , This person is really a very difficult role.
Qiyou didn't have the patience to solve Li Donglai's confusion, and asked directly: "Did you do what I asked you to do?"
Li Donglai straightened his waist and said, "According to your order from the prince, we have surrounded the Rong family and the Yan family. We only waited for the prince to give an order and arrested them."
"You can't let one go, you must catch all of them."
Li Donglai nodded and said, "The prince can rest assured that even a fly can't escape."
When Rong Tongji woke up, he found that his hands and feet were locked by chains.
Looking at Qiyou sitting in front of him, Rong Tongji's complexion changed drastically: "King You, what are you doing?"
Qiyou leaned on all the time and said with a smile: "Black Face, I really admire you when you say it. Who would have thought that Black Face, who had been tracking by the Criminal Ministry for ten years, turned out to be a big salt merchant in Yangzhou. Hidden in the city, you have the true meaning of these words."
Li Donglai was dumbfounded when he heard this. Hei Mian was the leader of the biggest bandit gang on the Grand Canal 20 years ago. Because he wore a mask every time he appeared, many people gave him the nickname Hei Mian. This person was cruel and murdered countless people. At that time, the whole Jiangnan talked about it.
How could Rong Tongji admit: "I don't know what your Royal Highness King You are talking about?"
Qiyou laughed and said: "If I am not sure, how dare I call your nickname. Blackface, I have to say that you are really a character."
"You Wang, you used such a despicable means to swallow my millions of wealth. You Wang, you wantonly planted the life of the grass, are you afraid that the Emperor and Queen Mother will know that you will be punished heavily at this time?" , Rong Tongji knew he was stupid. What Youwang said before, I'm afraid I was doing a show with him.
Qiyou laughed straightly: "You are very clever, knowing to use rich businessmen as a cover for yourself. Unfortunately, bad luck, you met me." He has seen the portraits of Rong Tongji and Yan Simao, but as long as he has seen people or portraits, he does not Will forget.
Of course, Rong Tongji changed a lot. Although he felt that the other party seemed familiar, he didn't think about that. It was not until he met Yan Simao that he affirmed that his identity was fraudulent.
Rong Tongji refused to admit it.
Qiyou didn't expect him to confess in a few words, because that would be too small to look down upon the black face.
"You slowly think about it, when will I figure out this king will come to see you again." This is just a rhetoric. What Qiyou has to wait for is Yan Simao's confession and what Yan Rong's family found out.
An hour and a half later, Li Donglai took a box and handed it to Qiyou: "Master, we found these from Rong Tongji's wife's room."
"His wife?"
Li Dong said: "Yes, I found it in the main room. Lord, the Rong family's main courtyard and Rong Tongji's study have no secret rooms. I dug the Rong's home three feet away and found something."
Qiyou opened the box and saw that it was all silver notes. Just forget it, there should be more than one million taels of silver.
"Besides these, can there be other things?" Hei Mian has been a bandit for more than ten years, and it is impossible for him to do this.
Li Donglai shook his head and said, "That's it."
"What about other things?" Qiyou's face looked a little ugly when he heard nothing else found.
After a while, Qiyou smiled and said: "If the black face is so easy to deal with, it is impossible for him to escape the court's pursuit and become a big salt merchant." Such a means and courage, if used on the right way, must be a personal thing. .
Li Donglai hesitated and said, "Master, would you have made a mistake? I just asked a subordinate who participated in the suppression of bandits in the past. He said that Heimian is dead." Furthermore, even if he is not dead, he should go to the old forest deep in the mountains. How dare you run to Yangzhou to do business and become a rich businessman? This accidentally exposed the stuff, so he felt that something must be wrong.
Qiyou smiled and said, "How can I arrest people without knowing such a big thing."
When Li Donglai saw this, he didn't say anything.
Two quarters later, Pan Shengyuan came over: "Yan Simao confessed, he said Rong Tongji is indeed a black face."
Pan Shengyuan is a master of torture, and unless the prisoner in his hands is really wronged, there is no way he will not be recruited.
It took Yan Simao two hours to confess, which can be regarded as hard bones.
Li Donglai asked, "Then what identity is Yan Simao?"
Pan Shengyuan said: "This Yan Simao is the nigger back then, but he once saved Heimian's life, so Heimian took him with him when he escaped."
Winning or losing does not matter. The nigga saved Heimian's life back then, and now Heimian will die because of him.
With Yan Simao's confession still in front of Rong Tongji, Qiyou asked, "What else can I say now?"
Yan Simao kept them anonymous after escaping from Heihe, and after the wind had passed, they pretended to be ordinary wealthy businessmen and came to Yangzhou.
Rong Tongji read this confession, his face was ashamed. After a long time, Rong Tongji asked, "I want to know, how did you recognize us?" He was tall and thin back then, and he didn't show his true colors. And because the nigger is engaged in the errand of inquiring about the news, very few people have met him. Now, both of them have changed a lot. Especially him, it can be said that he is different from before. Unless it is a very familiar person, you really can't recognize him.
Li Donglai and Pan Shengyuan also looked at Qiyou with piercing eyes, wanting to know the answer.
Qiyou didn't answer the conversation. Instead, he asked: "Who is behind you?" No one behind it, it is impossible to become a salt merchant.
Of course, Qiyou now knows that not all of Rong Tongji's wealth is derived from the sale of salt, and most of it is ill-gotten wealth. However, he still needs to know who is behind the scenes to help Rong Tongji.
"Bai Zhenghu."
Qiyou smiled and said, "Bai Zhenghu only came the year before, but you were in Yangzhou eight years ago, and you became a salt merchant in Yangzhou the following year." Even if Bai Zhenghu colluded with Rong Tongji, it was in the past two years. .
Rong Tongji raised his head to look at Qiyou, and said, "You Wang, I really missed him." Thinking of his wise life, he ended up in the hands of a hairy boy. However, Yun Qiyou's scheming is deep and superb, and he can only admit it.
Qiyou smiled and said: "For the sins you committed, you can't be slashed a thousand times. But if you are willing to recruit the people behind the scenes, I can give you a happy one."
Rong Tongji said: "If you want to kill, you have to pluck it. It's easy to listen to it."
Just now Qiyou didn't let Pan Shengyuan torture him because he knew that he would not be able to recognize his identity with the torture. Others have said that if the ants are surviving, they must grit their teeth and deny it. Under severe punishment, it was someone else who made him confess. Qiyou didn't believe it, he would bite and say nothing.
Qiyou said to the executioner holding the knife, "I'll leave it to you." This is the best chopstickman in Jinling, and he is looking for Fu Minglang.
His chopsticks stared at Rong Tongji and said, "Don't worry, if he doesn't confess, he will cost three hundred and sixty-five dollars, and he won't be less." This kind of person would die. Therefore, he hopes that Rong Tongji's bones will be harder and he will be recruited later.
Qiyou was not interested in observing torture, so he told Pan Shengyuan to guard him, and he left the torture room.