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 the clerk to copy several copies for backup. The map now hanging in the study is a copy.
For the specific information reported by Baojia in various places, Zhu Ping'an has concealed the informant's information and arranged it one by one to the corresponding prefecture and county officials, who will verify and deal with it according to the situation. They must not tolerate adultery.
In order to prevent the local government from being perfunctory, Zhu Pingan ordered them to respond to the verification and handling 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 Pingan 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. location.
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 must be wrong when something goes wrong. 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 Pingan highlighted the six places is that in addition to the zero reports mentioned above, these six places have also been reported by neighboring local Baojia. The reported information is more or less, or there are traces. Suspicious people enter, or there are rumors that someone has an affair with Japanese pirates, or someone gets rich for no reason, etc.
Of these six places, two are in northern Zhejiang and four are on 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 location.
The four locations in southern Zhejiang are Dahaiwan Village in Zhenhai, Baofeng Village in Beicang, Nanwang Village and Beichong Village in Fenghua.
Both Douduopu and Fuchun Bay are near the upcoming battle of Wangjiangjing, especially Douduopu is too close to Wangjiangjing.
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 communication with the Japanese.
It is necessary to investigate but not to alert the snake.
Zhu Ping'an secretly kept an eye on these villages 24 hours a day to see if he had discovered anything.
After three consecutive days of watching, all the people watching responded that there was nothing unusual about these villages.
These villages have normal daily routines, just like other villages. They are not closed off 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 summarized 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. While people continued to stare, Zhu Pingan thought 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 been a salesman, and asked him to return to his old profession and roam the streets all the way from northern Zhejiang to Zhejiang. South, passing through these villages.
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, a ghostwriter, a fortune teller, and a doctor. He also had many talents.
You need to be good at eloquence, and you also need to be able to sing and shout. You even need to have different shouting songs to sell different things.
It would be better if you can juggle.
In Dou Dou Pu, the sun was rising, and a salesman carrying two loads filled with bamboo dragonflies, wooden knives and other toys 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 the Peach Blossom Palace, soft emerald corollas. Red and green woven cloth, Hangzhou velvet quilt, small agate earrings. There are many wooden combs, ink grates, white copper tips, shoe awls, high-soled plum petals, and Bingzhou willow leaf scissors.” I can give him some sales.
“Sister, aunt, aunt, you don’t have to go to the market today. Rouge, hairpins, awls for shoes, whatever you want is available.”
"Brother, uncle, lord, come here, look here. This medicinal powder of mine is really amazing. 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've got some. It’s time to play”
The salesman can speak well and put After unloading the load, it immediately became the center of the village. 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, crying and making trouble. He wanted to buy it, which made the impatient adult 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 I go into my house and beg for a bowl of water?"
When the sales were almost done, the seller went to an old woman's house to beg for a bowl of water on the pretext of being thirsty. After drinking the water Later, in order to express his gratitude, the salesman gave the old lady a needle and took the opportunity to chat for a while.
While the salesman was wandering the streets, a messenger arrived at the Zhejiang Governor's Yamen with orders from Governor Zhang to meet with Zhu Ping'an.
"The governor has an order. In order to ensure the military needs of the wolf soldiers, spearmen and other guest soldiers, Zhejiang is ordered to transfer 10,000 shi from the granary and 500 shi from the salt warehouse to Jiaxing for handover and escort within ten days. When arriving, there must be no mistakes. Anyone who disobeys the order 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 Ping'an read it carefully and found that the content was consistent with what the messenger said. He asked for grain, grass and salt to be delivered to Jiaxing City.
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, and then raised his eyes. It was clear 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 Ping'an 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. (End of this chapter)