Jiangtou Town, southern Fujian.

This is the first stop Mo Ziming chose.

This town is close to the sea and surrounded by mountains, which is a typical place where the emperor is far away from the mountains.

According to reports, pirates in Jiangtou Town have been frequent recently. Not only do they plunder fishermen who go out to sea to fish, but they even rob people of wealth and women, and the people are suffering.

Therefore, the Meiling County government applied to the imperial court to send troops to suppress the country to ensure safety.

On the surface, such a demand is reasonable.

After all, local garrisons are limited, but pirates have no place to live and are elusive, so they can only adopt large-scale encirclement and suppression methods.

However, for the court, mobilizing a large army is not a trivial matter.

As the saying goes, before the troops move, food and grass will come first, and even if the pirates are encircled and suppressed, warships must be mobilized.

What will it cost to go through manpower and material resources and treasury?

Therefore, the final result is likely to be that the court allocates a sum of money to allow local governments to recruit soldiers locally to deal with pirates.

This may be the result that the other party wants.

Because of this, Mo Ziming chose this place as his first stop.

Of course, you can also go home and pick up your wife, just like going out for a trip.

This time, Mo Ziming dressed up as a businessman, and Bai Suzhen also changed a little, pretending to be a friend.

Not far from entering the town, the couple walked into a tavern on the street, wanting to inquire about the news first.

There was no customer in the tavern. There was only a woman in her thirties sitting by the counter in a daze. She seemed to be the owner of the tavern.

"Oh, please sit down, two guests."

When the boss saw a guest entering the door, the boss's wife suddenly felt refreshed and came forward with a smile.

Since they were all in, Mo Ziming had no choice but to sit down: "Boss, come and have a pot of wine, and have two dishes to serve."

"Okay, come soon."

The proprietress turned around and walked towards the back hall, and soon brought the wine and food out.

"Did you come from afar?"

The boss asked casually while serving dishes.

"Yes, I wanted to come over to do some business, but I heard that you are having pirates here? There are still many lives?"

When the boss's wife heard this, she changed her face and she was about to speak.

A beard suddenly walked in outside the door, carrying a wine gourd in his hand.

As soon as he entered the door, he shouted: "Arong, come and make a pot of wine for me."

"Here you come~" Arong responded, and then said to Mo Ziming and the others: "Two guests should drink slowly, just give me instructions if you need anything."

After saying that, he turned around and walked towards the counter.

The beard followed and suddenly reached out to grab a hand behind...

“Ah~”

Arong screamed in surprise, subconsciously raised his hand to cover it, and turned to the side with shame and annoyance: "San brother, what are you doing? Didn't you see any guests?"

"Hahaha, what's up to me?"

The beard became more and more vigorous. He hugged Arong's waist tightly, and opened his mouth and leaned forward.

Arong tried his best to hide and struggled: "Third brother, don't do this..."

"What are you pretending? Do you think you dare to throw my face away when you get along with me now?"

"San brother, what are you talking about? You and Liuzi are both masters, so how can I afford to offend me?"

"Dog X's slippery son was just a dog under my command before. Now he has climbed up a high branch and even my woman dares to move.

Arong, wait and see, I will kill him sooner or later.”

"San brother, there are guests here."

"No need to remind me, I have seen it long ago... Okay, hurry up and give me a drink."

Arong didn't say anything, took the wine gourd and poured the wine.

At this time, Beard turned around and walked over.

Walking to the table, he stepped on one leg on the bench, staring at Mo Ziming and asked, "Where did you call me?"

"Jiangnan."

"Come here to do business?"

"That's right."

"Don't blame me for not reminding you. If you want to do business here, you must first visit the dock."

Mo Ziming smiled: "Where are you praying?"

He smiled proudly: "You know your appearance, so I still have something to do now. You will come here tomorrow morning, so let's talk slowly."

"It must be certain."

Mo Ziming pretended to cooperate.

When the guy left with the wine, Arong hesitated for a while, finally came over and whispered: "I advise the two guests to leave here quickly and don't expect to do any business here."

"Oh? Why is this?"

"Don't ask too much, I'm right."

At this time, Bai Suzhen couldn't help but smile and realized: "It seems that you are quite familiar with the man just now, why are you still talking to us?"

"Forget it if you don't listen, I've reminded you anyway."

After saying that, Arong turned around and wanted to leave.

"Wait, boss lady, I know you are a kind-hearted person.

But if we do business with integrity, they will never be bold and seek money and kill people, right?"

"I can only tell you that Jiangtou Town is not an ordinary place. The water here is much deeper than you think. Let's leave as soon as possible."

At this time, Mo Ziming subconsciously looked at Bai Suzhen.

Bai Suzhen understood it intently and smiled at the boss lady and said, "Boss, sit down and tell us everything you know."

In extraordinary times, extraordinary means must be used naturally.

Sure enough, Arong sat down obediently and began to talk about the secret matters of Jiangtou Town in a vain way.

I really don’t know if I don’t say it, I’m shocked when I say it.

This Jiangtou Town and even the entire Meiling County are simply a bandit nest.

The county magistrate, county magistrate, and the main officials of the three county government offices actually donated officials, and they also had a close interest relationship with local bandits, bandits and pirates.

"How did you know these things?"

Mo Ziming couldn't help asking.

"Guo San and Liuzi are their tycoons, so they naturally know these things."

"Who is Guo San?"

"It's the man who bought wine before."

"What is your relationship with them?"

"What can it be? I am a widow. They are bullies. They can't afford to provoke them or hide them. They just think they were suppressed by ghosts..."

There was a lot of helplessness in the words.

After asking a few more questions, Bai Suzhen took back the spell.

Arong woke up suddenly, rubbed his forehead, and said in surprise: "I...what did I say to you just now?"

"nothing."

Mo Ziming smiled.

"Oh, those two guests drink slowly..."

As soon as she left, Bai Suzhen used her spiritual sense to communicate with Mo Ziming.

"My husband, what should I do next?"

"I think what Arong said should be true, that's simple. We can lead the snake out of the hole!"

Bai Suzhen: "Hmm?"

"Well, madam, I mean to use a trick to lure the other party out and let them show their own strength."

"But if things go on, will it attract the attention of other places?"
To be continued...