Chapter 5: The City of Sorrow in Nanjing (2)

After Tang Shilong and Yan Mingtai's defeat, the secret envoy of the Later Jin Dynasty and the Liaodong merchant Lin Rong disappeared inexplicably. Cui Ningxiu was also missing. All the secret agreements agreed upon before have become a vague one, and the Ming court in Nanjing thought that the last life-saving straw also sank.

The heavy hatch door was pulled open with force, and a dazzling light lit up. Two dark and curled figures inside raised their heads like frightened birds.

"Who?" Lin Rong was still a little brave and got up and asked at the door.

"Boss Lin, it's been a long time." A clear voice sounded.

Lin Rong raised his head and looked at him. A crimson official robe came into his eyes. In an instant, his heart seemed to fall into a deep abyss. At the same time, he also heard who the owner of the voice was.

"Mr. Huang, why are you?"

The visitor was Huang Dingchen. After successfully persuading Yu Guangjie, he was soon appreciated by Zhu Yinglong. After sucking in the shadows, he was entrusted with important tasks and promoted to Lifanyuan Domain, responsible for the work of the Intelligence Branch of the Lifanyuan. He also shouldered the responsibility of an anti-enemy spy. The arrest of Lin Rong was the first task he took over the new appointment.

"Boss Lin is rich and I didn't expect to remember this official." Huang Dingchen smiled and bent over and walked into the low cabin.

"Master Huang is the new Tanhualang, the disciple of the emperor. Rong will never meet him on weekdays, so how dare he look for him?" Although he was in trouble, he had already guessed his possible fate. His identity was exposed, and Lin Rong's expression and behavior became much calmer. Instead, Cui Ningxiu looked in a frightened face, and his eyes were occasionally staring at Huang Dingchen's face.

"Mr. Lin enjoys his fortune in Beijing. Why do you come to this chaotic Jiangnan?" Huang Dingchen no longer had Wu Xia Ameng, and asked indifferently.

"Rong is a businessman, born with a hard life, and he will naturally go wherever he has money." Lin Rong said.

"So, has Boss Lin come to Jiangnan to negotiate a big business?" Huang Dingchen said in a pun.

"The business has been negotiated, but the conditions for doing business are not mature." Lin Rong replied. Under Fan Wencheng's training, Lin Rong's urgent wisdom and eloquence are the best choices, and he will not be at all inferior when dealing with it.

"Oh, what business can I get involved in this business?" Huang Dingchen said with great interest.

Lin Rong looked at Huang Dingchen up and down, and could not guess what the Tanhualang was thinking for a moment, and said: "Mr. Huang is already a fourth-rank official. According to the Ming Dynasty's laws, officials above the fourth-rank are prohibited from engaging in business. Master Huang is familiar with the law and order, so he wouldn't know?"

Huang Dingchen smiled calmly and said, "The law is determined by people. Boss Lin, what do you think?" After the words, Lin Rong also gave a meaningful look.

Lin Rong's heart beats violently, but he has not lost his due calmness yet. The dignified Tanhualang is not an ignorant and incompetent person. Could it be that his identities and Cui Ningxiu have not been exposed? This is impossible. As a spy elite carefully cultivated by Fan Wencheng, he is very clear about the power of the Ming Dynasty, especially the abilities of some special hidden departments.

"Master Huang, Rong is just a duty businessman. Rong dares not do illegal things, nor can he do them. Please forgive Rong for not agreeing to the request of the master." Lin Rong was a little confused and could not tell whether he and Cui Ningxiu had been exposed. Even if Cui Ningxiu was exposed, he still had a remark. Anyway, the court has not yet caught his pain for this, and he has always been a duty businessman. Therefore, he no longer felt as if he was in the abyss. Instead, he was calm and more calm in dealing with it.

Huang Dingchen sneered in his heart, and the businessman who was the duty, suddenly turned apart and said coldly: "Is it also the duty businessman who is the intentional businessman who is the intentional businessman?"

Lin Rong was speechless and smuggling and tax evasion were simply a common problem of merchants making huge profits. He was not alone in doing so, but if he was really caught by the court, he could only be considered unlucky. This was his only flaw.

He could not ask anything directly to force Lin Rong to confess. Huang Dingchen knew very well, so he could only make other mistakes. Smuggling and tax evasion was Lin Rong's only painful foot and the only breakthrough to break through Lin Rong's psychological defense line.

"Boss Lin, what happened before is not counted. You won't know how much you smuggled and evacuated taxes in the past year, right?" Huang Dingchen turned around and took a thick account book from the guard behind him, handed it to Lin Rong, who was sweating on his forehead, and said, "Boss Lin, do you want to take a look?"

Lin Rong stretched out his trembling hands and took the account book. After turning a page, he was sweating all over. Every time the smuggling time, place, executioner, ship, buyer of the transaction, type, quantity, price of goods was recorded clearly, and it was not bad at all. He began to doubt whether the court had monitored his every move long ago. Then the secret of his connection with the Jin people had been known by the court, but why did he still let himself go so far and knew that he had just started to take action now?

"Mr. Huang, save me!" Lin Rong suddenly knelt down.

"Boss Lin, it's useless to ask for this official. I am an official from the Lifan Academy. Sentence is the matter of the Ministry of Justice." Huang Dingchen said lightly.

"Mr. Huang, you must save me, otherwise I will die." Lin Rong said.

"Boss Lin, you also know that the crime you committed is enough to die ten times according to the Ming Dynasty law. I am unable to do such a serious crime even if I have the will." Huang Dingchen said with a compassionate look.

"Master Huang, you must save me, sure..." Lin Rong was not stupid. On the contrary, he was very smart. Otherwise, he would not have been selected by Fan Wencheng and was entrusted with the important task of collecting intelligence. However, Fan Wencheng ignored his identity as a businessman and also ignored the corrosion under money, sensuality, and the importance of profit, and fear of death. It is the true nature of a businessman. Money, women, glory and wealth are nothing compared to life. After all, these can only be enjoyed by retaining their lives. At this moment, Lin Rong betrayed.

Huang Dingchen smiled, showed a smile of accomplishment, and said, "Boss Lin is a smart person. What is my official's request now?"

"Don't worry, Lord Huang, Rong will do whatever he wants." Lin Rong nodded continuously.

"That's good, so I will take on this beheading relationship and suppress you!" Huang Dingchen said. Then he ordered someone to get a brazier and burn the account book in front of Lin Rong.

"Now we are our own people, so Boss Lin shouldn't have concealed anything from me, right?" Huang Dingchen still had an incredible smile.

"What does Lord Huang mean? Do you have any secrets to hide from you?" Lin Rong pretended to be stupid and said in a daze.

"Boss Lin doesn't think that I am confused, right?" Huang Dingchen said.

"I dare not, I dare not." Lin Rong knew that his identity had been known by the court, and what investment was, and what was his own people. In fact, he was tied up by the court. He would not naively think that Huang Dingchen, a new Tanhua, had such great energy, could find so much evidence of his smuggling, even clearer than what he remembered in his heart. Behind Huang Dingchen was the court, and everything was instructed by the court. Huang Dingchen's meaning was already very clear. He continued to collect information for the Later Jin Dynasty and also collected information from the Later Jin Dynasty for the Ming Dynasty, but the master changed from Fan Wencheng to Huang Dingchen, and Huang Dingchen was directly responsible for Zhu Yinglong.
Chapter completed!