Chapter 2075 It’s Finally About to Begin

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.

Regarding the specific information reported by Baojia from 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 situations 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 Ping'an 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.

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 abnormal. Damn it, 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 Ping'an highlighted the six places was that, in addition to the zero reports mentioned above, these six places had also been reported by the nearby local Baojia. The reported information was more or less, or there were suspicious people entering, or It was rumored that someone had an affair with Japanese pirates, or someone got rich without any reason, etc.

Of these six locations, two are in northern Zhejiang and four are along the southern coast of Zhejiang.

There are two locations in northern Zhejiang. One is Douopu, which is not far from Wangjiangjing and is about 20 miles northwest of Wangjiangjing; the other is Fuchun Bay, which is located more than 80 miles northeast of Jiaxing City.

The four locations in southern Zhejiang are Dahaiwan Village in Zhenhai, Baofeng Village in Beicang, Nanwang Village and Beichong Village in Fenghua.

Both Dou Dou Pu and Fuchun Bay are near the upcoming battle of Wang Jiangjing, especially Dou Dou Pu is too close to Wang Jiangjing.

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 Japanese treason.

Investigate but don't alert the enemy.

Zhu Ping'an secretly kept an eye on these villages 24 hours a day to see if he had discovered anything.

After watching for three consecutive days, all the people watching responded that there was nothing unusual about these villages.

These villages have normal daily routines. They are not closed off like other villages and can interact with other villages normally.

Those who visit the house, visit relatives, wander the streets, herd sheep and cattle, go to the fields, and do work are all normal.

Zhu Pingan compiled 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. Zhu Pingan continued to stare at him while thinking 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 worked as a salesman, and asked him to return to his old profession and roam the streets from northern Zhejiang to southern Zhejiang, 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 out, and you even need to have different shout-out songs to sell different things.

It would be better if you can do acrobatics.

In Dou Dou Pu, the sun was rising, and a salesman came walking slowly, carrying two loads filled with bamboo dragonflies, wooden knives and other toys that attracted children.

The salesman shook the double-sided drum while shouting a ditty, "variegated ribbons with red threads, Boshan glazed hairpins. And there, Peach Blossom Palace pink rouge pieces, soft emerald corollas. Red and green tassel cloth, Hangzhou velvet quilt, agate earrings Circles. Some of them are wooden combs with ink grates, white copper tips, shoe awls, high-soled plum blossom petals, and Bingzhou willow leaf scissors."

When a salesman enters Pukou, he is a eloquent person who can sell to anyone he meets.

"Sister, aunt, eldest aunt, you don't have to go to the market today. Rouge, hairpins, shoe awls, whatever you want is available."

"Brother, uncle, lord, come this way, 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'm here to eat and play."

The salesman was a good talker and immediately became the center of the village when he put down his load. Many people came to watch, even if they didn't buy anything, they wanted to watch the fun. A few impatient children dragged the adults hard and pointed at the things on the load. He cried and clamored to buy it, which made the impatient adults give him a beating.

It suddenly 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 you go into the house and ask for a bowl of water?"

When the sales were almost finished, the salesman went to an old lady's house to ask for a bowl of water on the pretext of being thirsty. After drinking the water, 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 Jing to meet with Zhu Ping'an.

"The governor has an order. In order to ensure the military supplies of the wolf soldiers, spearmen and other guest soldiers, Zhejiang is ordered to transfer 10,000 shi of grain from the barn and 500 shi of salt from the salt warehouse to Jiaxing for handover. The escorts will arrive within ten days without any mistakes. Those who violate orders 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, requiring grain, grass, and salt to be brought to Jiaxing City for delivery.

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 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 chapter)