In the evening, Tan Zong did not go out and deliberately waited for poetry in the study.

"Brother, come to me." Shi Shi didn't come back until late at night. She seemed to have drunk a lot of wine, her cheeks were flushing, and she walked into the door with a smile.

"Things of the Grain Merchants Chamber of Commerce are going well!" Tan Zong looked at Shi Shi, got up and poured a cup of tea, and handed it to her with a smile.

"Yeah!" Shi Shi took a sip of tea and smiled at Tan Zong. "I have visited several capitals these days, and have also walked around with the grain merchants below, and have gained a lot."

Looking at Shi Shi who was smiling sweetly, Tan Zong couldn't help but feel moved. How difficult it would be for a girl to show up and deal with a large group of men.

"Sit down." After Shi Shi finished drinking the tea, Tan Zong took the tea cup and said, "I sniffing at the chair beside him."

Shi Shi was stunned when she heard this. Although she was a little confused, she still did what Tan Zong said.

Tan Zong walked behind Shi Shi, reached out and pressed his hand on her shoulder, and gently rubbed it. This was the only thing he could do for Shi Shi.

"Brother, I can't do it." Shi Shi was shocked when she saw this. How could she ask Tan Zong to massage her? So she was about to stand up.

"Sit honestly." Tan Zong used his hands and Shi Shi's body was pressed on the chair, and he said slowly, "I have already talked with Zhao Ren today. If there is no accident, the Cao Gang will exchange ten large ships for Tian Kailin. We can use their dock to load and unload the goods at that time."

"Congratulations to brother!" Shi Shi looked happy when she heard this. She had never heard of anyone who could take advantage of the Cao Gang, let alone such a tiger's snatch food from the tiger's mouth.

"I'll meet the people from your Second Lady's family today." Tan Zong rubbed Shi Shi's shoulders and said with a smile, "When the ship is in place, we will have our own fleet. If they are willing to do the canal transportation work, they can come and help."

"Brother..." Shi Shi became anxious as soon as she heard this. It must be something that Er Niang said to Tan Zong.

"I understand what you mean, but now the situation is special. It is the stage of expanding territory. It is just a need for manpower. Our own people are always more trustworthy than outsiders." Before Shi Shi finished speaking, Tan Zong interrupted her, "After several years of training, the best will be superior to the inferior, and they will have no complaints at that time."

"Thank you, brother." Shi Shi couldn't help but feel warm in her heart and said sweetly.

She knew that Tan Zong did this for herself, so that the relatives would have nothing to complain about. At the same time, Tan Zong's move was undoubtedly a decentralization of power, allowing Shi Shi to install people in the fleet at will.

"It's my elder brother, thank you." Tan Zong laughed, "If it weren't for you, my elder brother's affairs in Yangzhou City would never be as organized as it is now."

"This is what my little sister should do." Two blush suddenly surged on Shi Shi's face. She was already satisfied by hearing Tan Zong's personal praise.

"Brother, it's not good. 'Hou Dehai' is dead." At this moment, Zheng Hu suddenly hurried in and said to Tan Zong in a deep voice.

"What?" Tan Zong couldn't help but frowned slightly when he heard this. He was sure that this was done by Bi Shijie.

"How did he die?" Tan Zong pondered for a moment, looked up at Zheng Hu, with a serious expression. He was really amazing in the prison with such strict defense.

"According to the people who came to report the news in the prison, tonight, Manager Tong was punished by "Hou Dehai" according to Lord Zhou's instructions. After chopping off half of "Hou Dehai"'s finger, the prison guard suddenly chopped off his head with an axe." Zheng Hu replied in a deep voice when he heard this.

"Has that jailer caught it?" Tan Zong frowned even deeper, and he had a bad premonition.

"Manager Tong took him down on the spot." Zheng Hu nodded, "After the jailer's instructions, someone kidnapped his family. If he doesn't kill 'Hou Dehai' today, then he will be ready to collect the body of his family."

As expected, after hearing Zheng Hu's explanation, Tan Zong's brows unwillingly stretched. He had already guessed that the person who killed "Hou Dehai" was not the person from Bishijie. Because Bishijie's level was too high, there was no need or the intention to install a person in the prison. It could be handed over to Aunt Mei to do this. There was no one on the list provided by Aunt Mei in the prison, which was not of great value to the organization.

For Aunt Mei, if she wants someone in the prison to die, she only needs to spend money to bribe the prison head and the prison guard, and there is no need to put in the work hard.

Moreover, Bi Shijie will never attack "Hou Dehai" through Aunt Mei. For him, the fewer people on Aunt Mei's side know the better relationship between the organization and "Hou Dehai".

Tan Zong knew that Tong Shiqing was very strict with "Hou Dehai". Except for his few confidants, other prisoners were not allowed to approach "Hou Dehai". If he wanted to attack "Hou Dehai" during the Breeze, he could only start with those confidants of Tong Shiqing.

The solution is very simple and has been tried and done every time, that is, use your relatives to threaten the other party.

"I'm going to go." Tan Zong took his hands away from Shi Shi's shoulders and said apologetically. He originally wanted to give Shi Shi a good massage tonight.

"The big thing is important." Shi Shi stood up and shook her head at Tan Zong with a smile.

Tan Zong smiled at Shi Shi, strode away from the room, and Zheng Hu hurriedly followed him.

Shi Shi stood outside the door and watched Tan Zong leave. When Tan Zong disappeared from the gate of the courtyard, she looked at the gate and became dazed, her eyes were blurred, and she didn't know what she was thinking.

When Tan Zong rushed to the Yangzhou Prefecture Prison, the door of the prison was already full of Yangzhou Prefecture Dukes holding torches, each holding a knife in his hands, with a serious expression, and as if he was facing a great enemy.

The gatekeeper knew Tan Zong, and urged him and Zheng Hu in.

"Brother Huang!" Before Tan Zong could step into the door, a man who was riding a horse called him.

Tan Zong turned his head and saw that it was Gu Tianyi, and he was also one of the jury. It seemed that the people in the prison had also notified him.

Tan Zong knew that the reason why Gu Tianyi was fortunate to be a jury for the "Hou Dehai" incident was that in addition to Gu Tianyi's arrest of "Hou Dehai" with the sergeant of the Inspection Department, the officials wanted to win over Gu Tianyi and use it to check and balance the power of the Salt Tax Department in Bishishi.

Gu Tianyi's face was flushed and he was covered in alcohol. Before he came, he and several of the inspectors were drinking in Piaoxiangyuan.

These leaders were all under the three whistlemen promoted by Bi Shiqi. Gu Tianyi knew that the team under the three whistlemen might not be easy to move, so he started from the grassroots leaders and secretly won over these whistlemen, and at the critical moment, he underwent the three whistlemen.

"Brother Huang, such a big thing happened, how can we explain to the official family?" After getting off the horse, Gu Tianyi rushed to Tan Zong's side in three or two steps, and asked in a low voice with a nervous expression, looking a little frightened.

After all, this is a case sent by the government to supervise the imperial envoy. Now that nothing has been heard, this "Hou Dehai" will die. If the government is angry, he will be afraid that the black veil that had just been worn on his head would fly again.

"Watch the change!" Tan Zong felt the fear in Gu Tianyi's heart, so he smiled at him, stood up and walked into the prison. Gu Tianyi followed behind anxiously.

When Tan Zong and Gu Tianyi walked into the punishment room, Zhou Dunran, Lu Weimin, Han Tian and Bi Shijie were all there, and they were all as heavy as water. Two tall and big soldiers were tied up a prisoner to a pillar and whipped it with a whip. The prisoner was so beaten that he was so tired that he cried and called his parents.

Tong Shiqing knelt in front of Zhou Dunran with a dead face. Not far behind him was the corpse of "Hou Dehai". His head and body had been separated, and a large pool of blood flowed on the ground.

Under the whip of the two soldiers, the tortured jailer was beaten to faint soon after. A soldier brought a bucket of cold water and poured it on him. The soldier then woke up leisurely.

"Say, who ordered you to do it?" A black-faced sergeant who was executing the execution reached out and grabbed the prisoner's chin and asked coldly.

"Big... sir, little... the little one really doesn't know who they are. They... They rushed into the little one's house last night and tied up the little one's family. If the little one didn't... don't kill 'hou Dehai' today, they would... kill the little one's whole family." The jailer came to his senses, used all his strength, begged Zhou Dunran, "Sir, please spare your life, the little one doesn't want to. Just at noon today, they... they cut one of the ears of the little one's son."

The black-faced soldier looked at Zhou Dunran and saw Zhou Dunran standing there with expressionless face, so he pulled out the red-hot iron from the stove and swayed in front of the prison guard with a grim smile, "Do you say it or not? Who instructed you to do it!"

"Sir, please spare me, please spare me!" Seeing this, the prison guard was so scared that he was completely shattered. His body kept struggling and begging for mercy to Zhou Dunran.

The black-faced soldier looked at Zhou Dunran and pressed the soldering iron on the jailer's chest. The jailer screamed, tilted his head and fainted.

Accompanied by the sizzling sound of the soldering iron when it came into contact with the skin, the room suddenly felt the smell of roasted pig skin. Tan Zong couldn't help but sniff and looked at the unlucky jailer expressionlessly. He knew that even if he killed the jailer who was used by Bi Shijie, the jailer did not know the identity of the instructor.

"Sir, the criminal's family has brought it." At this moment, the door of the torture room opened. A soldier bowed his hand to Zhou Dunran and waved his hand outside the door. A group of men and women, young and old, were brought in by vicious soldiers. Looking around, there were about a dozen people.

"Son~~" When an old woman saw the prison guard tied to a pillar, she shouted, her body shook and fell to the ground. The two women beside her hurried over to support the old woman, but were stopped by the soldiers beside her.

Except for the old woman who fainted, everyone knelt in front of Zhou Dunran at the request of the soldiers around them, each of whom was frightened and trembled all over.

There were three children in the crowd, and a little boy had gauze wrapped around his left ear, as if he had lost his ears. They were frightened by the horrific scene in the torture room and cried.

The woman kneeling beside them quickly reached out and covered the mouths of the three children, for fear of annoying the adults in front of them.

Zhou Dunran glanced at the little boy with gauze wrapped in his left ear and winked at the Hei Zhuang Soldier, so the Hei Zhuang Soldier picked up a bucket of cold water and poured it on the tortured jailer.

"I ask you again, who instructed you to do this?" After the prison guard woke up, Zhou Dunran looked at him expressionlessly.

"Big... sir, small... sir, really don't know." The prison guard was shocked when he saw that his family was in the punishment room and begged Zhou Dunran, "Sir... sir, please, please, let them go."

"This should be your wife, right?" Zhou Dunran frowned slightly, got up and walked to the woman who covered her left ear with a little boy wrapped in gauze. He bent down, reached out to hook the woman's chin and looked at it, turned his head to look at the prison guard.

The woman had a pretty face and was quite pretty. Seeing that Zhou Dunran actually hooked her chin, she was immediately frightened to death and her chest was very upturned.

"Big... sir, no... it's not their business. Everything is borne by the young one. sir... sir, you... let them go." The prison guard was immediately excited. He had been in this prison for so long, of course he knew how the people in the prison would deal with the female family members of the prisoners. Otherwise, Tan Zong would not have given Tong Shiqing money, and then protected Shen Bainian's wife and concubine, which made Shen Bainian very grateful before his death.

"Come here, bring five death row prisoners here!" Zhou Dunran sneered, turned his head and ordered a sergeant beside him.

The soldier responded with his fists and hurriedly left. Soon, five tall and powerful death row prisoners were brought in.

These five death row prisoners were robbers who robbed their families and were sentenced to beheading and were executed in the autumn.

Zhou Dunran waved his hand at the pretty woman. The two soldiers immediately stepped forward, dragged her up and left. The male relatives beside him just wanted to get up to stop him, and a few bright steel knives were placed on their necks, making them able to watch the pretty woman being taken to the five death row prisoners.

"I will ask you again last time, who instructed you?" Zhou Dunran looked at the prison guard in a cold look, his voice was full of no sense, just like a cold voice coming from the bottomless abyss, which made people shudder. Tan Zong felt that Gu Tianyi, who was standing beside him, could not help but fight a cold war.

"Sir... Sir, little... I really don't know. Please, please let her go!" The prison guard who was sentenced to death had already known what was going to happen next, struggled desperately, shouting at the top of his lungs.

"Hmph!" Zhou Dunran snorted coldly, turned to look at the five prisoners staring at the pretty women greedily, "Listen, I will reward you with this woman, you can be happy as you want."
Chapter completed!