On the sixth day of the twelfth lunar month, Southern Zhili Huai'an Prefecture, Southern Zhili Governor Zhu Dadian visited here.

It has been three months since Zhu Dadian was appointed governor of Southern Zhili by Zhu Cihong. His work can be said to be diligent and he has put a lot of effort into checking the hidden fields in Southern Zhili and promoting the promotion of land sharing.

After Zhu Dadian's strong suppression, the Nanzhili's policy of sharing land and land was going very smoothly. He also provided relief and comfort to the disaster-stricken areas, which made the disaster situation in Songjiang Prefecture, Changzhou Prefecture and other places improve, and they quickly regained their vitality.

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After Zhu Dadian solved the land conflicts and disasters in southern Zhili, he began to free up his hands to rectify the most notorious water transportation and Jiangnan salt affairs in the Ming Dynasty. He required that all salt fields must be under the control of the government, suppressed private salt fields, or purchased or sealed them.

However, this matter is not as easy as dividing the land into acres. Sun Yingyuan, who led the army and was stationed in Yangzhou Prefecture, helped with the land matter, which seemed to be very smooth. However, the water transportation and salt affairs were the power of the nobles, and the interests involved were very important.

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Although Wei Guogong and other Nanjing dignitaries have now been suppressed and silenced by Zhu Cixiang, they still have considerable strength, and Zhu Cixiang has no chance to take action for a while.

Zhu Dadian worked as the governor of water transportation for several years, and he knew very well how dark the water transportation was. It kept eating away at the blood of the Ming Dynasty until it was drained dry.

Zhu Dadian himself had benefited a lot from it. Now he followed the crown prince, knowing that sooner or later the prince would take action against the Nanjing nobles and the Cao Movement, and the prince had already warned him.

Zhu Dadian naturally wanted to take this opportunity to further attack the Nanjing nobles and cut off their financial resources, so that they would have nothing to show off.

The current governor of water transportation is Funing Marquis Zhu Guobi, who is the backbone of Nanjing's nobles. In order to get money, he does whatever he can to get money. He brings in large amounts of grain and sells grain in minor ways. He resells grain. Now it can be said that he has a huge deficit.

At the same time, Zhu Guobi also bribed a group of salt transporters and several small officials in a salt factory, using the convenience of water transportation to bring in private salt.

If these were found out, it would be a U-turn crime. In addition, Zhu Dadian was an expert, so Zhu Guobi, the governor of water transportation, was not willing to let Zhu Dadian investigate anyway.

Zhu Dadian brought a group of officials to the Huai'an Water Transport Yamen and prepared to check the accounts. However, after arriving at the Water Transport Yamen, the concierge said that the Governor of Water Transport, Zhu Guobi, had gone to Nanjing, and the person in charge of the accounts had gone to the Water Transport Terminal.

Zhu Dadian finished drinking a pot of tea at Caoyun Yamen but did not see the person in charge come back, and felt very unhappy.

Yan Yingyuan, who followed Zhu Dadian, said: "Sir, I feel that the Marquis of Funing deliberately hid from you, and the supervisor of the Caoyun Yamen took away the account books and other items, so that you can't investigate."

Zhu Dadian thought for a while and said: "It is possible, but he can escape from the first day of the junior high school, but he cannot escape from the fifteenth day. I am already here, so I am determined not to give up!"

Yan Yingyuan said with some worry: "Sir, it's better for me to be more careful when looking at this matter. The Tianwu Army is stationed in Yangzhou Mansion. Why don't you ask Uncle Jingwu to mobilize some troops to help you investigate this case? After all, there are tens of thousands of guards and soldiers in the canal transport."

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As the richest official in the Ming Dynasty, the Governor of Water Transport also had great authority. He had over 200 civilian and military generals with different levels and responsibilities, such as those who participated in the administration of water, patrolled the water, censors, doctors, supervisors, managers of punishments, and chief officers.

There are more than 70 people under the jurisdiction of warehousing, shipbuilding, and more than 20,000 garrison troops.

Moreover, the Governor-General of Water Transport has great authority and has personal jurisdiction over the armed forces and the naval battalion. The "Caobiao" under his personal jurisdiction is divided into seven battalions: left, middle, right, city guard, and navy, with more than 3,400 troops.

, and control the grain and grain health stations in eight provinces: Lu, Henan, Su, Hui, Gan, Zhejiang, Hubei, and Hunan.

Zhu Dadian said with a smile: "I have been the governor of water transportation, and now I am the governor of Southern Zhili. I dare not do anything excessive in spite of them. If they don't know what to do, I have no choice but to ignore the old friendship.

Please invite His Highness's personal troops to scare these people!"

Not long after, Zhu Dadian took people directly to the water transport terminal not far outside the city.

Water transportation is a lifeline that maintains the normal operation of the country. It also drives the economy on both sides of the canal. The area around the water transportation dock is quite prosperous. There are rows of water ships parked on the shore. There is a bustling flow of people on the dock. In addition to workers loading goods, there are many

Trackers are pulling the boat.

Zhu Dadian sent someone to summon the person in charge and directly explained his intention.

The person in charge was an old subordinate of Zhu Dadian. He did not dare to neglect at the moment and said: "Sir, I will go get the accounts now. Please wait a moment."

Seeing that the chief officer did not delay, Zhu Dadian nodded and walked a few steps to the canal, doing some inspection on the way.

At this moment, someone on the pier shouted: "He is Zhu Dadian, the governor of South Zhili. He is the one who cut off the livelihood of many people in South Zhili, and now he has come to cut off our livelihood!"

When the people on the water transport dock heard this, they all showed angry expressions and gathered around with shouts and curses. Yan Yingyuan and the Yamen servants of Yingtian Mansion quickly stood in front of Zhu Dadian.

Suddenly being surrounded by water transport workers, and even asking himself to give them a way to survive, Zhu Dadian was puzzled, why did he cut off your way of survival? You are not gentry, nor are you officials, where do you start talking about this?

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When Zhu Dadian was confused, he saw a man suddenly jump out from the crowd, holding a dagger in his hand, and stabbed him directly in the heart.

Zhu Dadian covered his chest with both hands, with a look of disbelief on his face. Why did the person in front of me want to assassinate me? Is this a conspiracy?

Zhu Dadian shook his body and fell to the ground. At this time, he was very unwilling. He still had many things that he had not accomplished. South Zhili had just started, and this was all filled with his own hard work...

The officers and soldiers of the Yingtian Mansion who were guarding Zhu Dadian were stunned when they saw that the governor had a knife in his mouth. This kind of assassination of a court official was so sudden that no one had ever encountered it in their lives.

Yan Yingyuan picked up the fallen Zhu Dadian and shouted to the stunned officers and soldiers around him: "Catch the assassin!"

After hearing Yan Yingyuan's shouting, the officers and soldiers reacted and gathered around to get the person.

The assassin dressed as a water transport worker did not escape after assassinating Zhu Dadian. Instead, he shouted loudly: "Dog officer, if I kill you, I, Li Dahai, can be considered as having eliminated harm for the people. Eighteen years later, I will become a good man again."

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The officers and soldiers tied up the man who called himself Li Dahai, then lifted Zhu Dadian up and ran to the governor's office of water transportation, and dispersed to look for famous doctors in Huai'an city.

When the group hurried back to the Governor's Yamen, Zhu Dadian had already lost his breath. Yan Yingyuan and other officials at the Governor's Yamen panicked and quickly sent a 600-mile rush to Huizhou Prefecture, and also sent them to the garrison at Huizhou Prefecture.
Chapter completed!