Chapter 21 The Spy
When Zhang Longfei learned that Ding Chenggong was about to go out to purchase supplies, he immediately took action.
Immediately ordered that the capable personnel from the baggage battalion were dispatched to help Ding Chenggong carefully wrap the porcelain with soft cloth and store it in the box.
The purchased furs were added in a simple process and properly packed. After tidying up all of them, they packed a total of 50 large wooden boxes!
"Mr. Ding, how can you transport so many supplies alone?"
After seeing so many heavy boxes, Zhang Longfei couldn't help but worry about Ding Chenggong and said with concern: "Let's do this, I'll call you a team of donkey carts and ox carts, and then send a few loyal and capable people to deliver the goods to the place with you?"
"That's not necessary." Ding Chenggong smiled slightly and said, "You just need to send someone to send a car and help me deliver the things outside the Maolushan control area."
Hearing Ding Chenggong's words, Zhang Longfei couldn't help but ask worriedly: "What's going on after that? How can so many supplies be delivered to the Tartars' controlled area safe?"
"I will solve the rest of the matter." Ding Chenggong smiled indifferently and said, "Don't worry, I have a way to solve it. There will be no mistakes!"
"Is it really not necessary for us to send someone to escort you?" Zhang Longfei was still worried. He thought about it and reminded Ding Chenggong seriously: "Mr. Ding, the previous few times you brought were all gold. It was small in size and small in goals, so it was safer. This time, what you brought was just a fur. It was not easy to hide these things from the eyes of those dog officials and officers!"
"Zhang Dusi, I know everything you said!" Knowing that Zhang Longfei was considering himself, Ding Chenggong explained patiently: "I do have a way and a sure thing to send these things out safely! Zhang Dusi, you don't have to worry about me!"
Ding Chenggong's attitude was so firm, so Zhang Longfei couldn't say anything. After thinking about it carefully, he smiled and said, "Mr. Ding, you have been in business for so many years and can bring us so many scarce supplies. This is a big deal. I just worried about it. Don't be angry, don't be as knowledgeable as a rough person!"
"How is that possible? We are old friends!"
Ding Chenggong smiled heartily, stretched out his big hand, and gently patted Zhang Longfei on the shoulder: "That's what I don't treat me as a friend!"
While speaking, Zhang Longfei had already dispatched a total of 16 donkey carts to Ding Chenggong, brought an entire 100-man elite infantry, and escorted Ding Chenggong to leave the Maolu Mountain Old Camp.
"This kid Ding Chenggong is out!" Fang Jinlong took out the spy who was following him, and immediately took his three subordinates to disguise themselves as ordinary vendors, carried the peddler's load, and followed him down the mountain area tightly!
After a while, the convoy arrived at the junction with the Qing army-controlled area.
"Mr. Ding, we can only send you here!"
The head of the guard team stopped, bowed to Ding Chenggong, and said apologetically: "Be careful in the next road! If you enter the forest, don't stop, you must pass as soon as possible! Be more careful and beware of bandits who robbed the road and spies sent by the Tartars!"
"I know, don't worry!" Ding Chenggong smiled gratefully, bowed to the boss, and said goodbye and left.
I took the convoy and walked a short distance to enter the dense forest in the mountains. After walking a long way along the forest path, I arrived outside the mountain temple where I passed by last time.
"Okay, let's take me here!" When we arrived at the gate of the Mountain God Temple, Ding Chenggong asked the coachmen to stop the car.
"Walk further and out of the forest, you'll reach a place with people."
Seeing the coachmen parked the car, Ding Chenggong smiled and said, "When there is a crowded place, you will encounter investigations by the Tartar soldiers. There is no need for everyone to take that risk. In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, everyone will leave the car first and go back first!"
Hearing Ding Chenggong's words, the coachmen immediately breathed a sigh of relief. Their faces suddenly became relaxed.
The middle-aged coachman at the beginning said hesitantly: "Mr. Ding, then this car and this donkey..."
"Even if I, Ding, bought this car and donkey successfully!"
Ding Chenggong immediately took out 130 taels of silver and handed it to the coachman: "Of course 120 taels are the money for these 16 cars and donkeys, and the remaining ten taels are the wages of several masters. Take it and see how to share it with everyone!"
"Thank you, Mr. Ding!" The price given by Ding Chenggong can be said to be very fair!
These coachmen are all ordinary farmers in Maolu Mountain and are temporarily retracted to undertake transportation services.
To put it bluntly, they went out for transportation this time and were volunteering. There would be no reward at all!
Ding Chenggong not only bought their donkeys and vehicles at a high price, but also gave them a full 10 taels of silver to pay, so how could he not be excited?
"Everyone should not be so polite anymore. Take the money and leave quickly!"
Seeing that the sun had set westward, Ding Chenggong was a little anxious and urged: "Otherwise it would be unsafe in the woods all night!"
"You guys will say goodbye first!" Seeing Ding Chenggong's anxiety, the middle-aged coachman didn't dare to say much, and immediately said to Ding Chenggong: "Mr. Ding, be careful all the way!"
Seeing the 16 drivers walking away, Ding Chenggong looked at the 16 donkey carts in front of him and 16 donkeys, and couldn't help but frown secretly: "I know if these dozen donkeys can be put into my portable space and taken away successfully? If they can't fit in, what should I do?"
At this moment, a slight sound of footsteps suddenly came from the forest outside the mountain temple!
Ding Chenggong couldn't help but frown! He pretended to be nothing, walked into the mountain temple, took out the prepared engineer shovel and hid it at his hand. He widened his eyes and stared at the movement outside the door with vigilance.
Sure enough, two little businessmen dressed as guys, carrying the peddler's burden, sneaked out of the forest and slowly came outside the mountain temple!
"This kid is so relieved that he put 16 donkey carts here?"
The first one was a young man in his 20s. Seeing Ding Chenggong walking into the mountain temple like this, he immediately put down the peddler's shoulders and took off his hat.
While fanning with a hat, he smiled relaxedly: "I'm always out there, I don't have any intention at all. I have just such a little ability. I really don't know where he got so many good things!"
"This kid has always been a smart man. Why is he so careless this time, putting the car outside the door and boldly entering the mountain temple?"
Another guy, short and older, said in confusion: "Can you find us? Is it possible that the flaws that we have exposed?"
"I said brother, you think too much of him, right?" The young peddler immediately smiled coldly: "That boy Ding Chenggong is only in his early 20s! He is white and clean, and he has never encountered anything at first sight. He has passed through any world! How could he easily see us?"
"That's right!" The middle-aged peddler thought about it and smiled disapprovingly, but he still persuaded carefully: "But be careful! Let's do this, I pretend to be going to take a rest first, and touch it first when I go in!"
"What are you going to touch? This guy, 16 donkey carts are placed at the door. I'm sorry if I don't take so many goods away!" The young peddler smiled disapprovingly, reached out and unloaded a box from the car. After opening it, his eyes lit up: "It's all good fur! Brother, look, this box of fur alone is worth at least five or six thousand taels of silver!"
"Does this fur look good?" A smile immediately rang.
"It's really good!" The young peddler said greedyly, suddenly noticed that the sound was wrong. He was about to raise his head, but his right arm suddenly numb! Then, his whole person was tied up tightly!
"Who are you? Why do you tie me up!" The young peddler turned around and looked at Ding Chenggong nervously. He shouted with a look of reluctance.
Ding Chenggong smiled indifferently and did not answer. He grabbed the boy and dragged her into the mountain temple.
When he walked into the temple gate, he threw it at the door. The young peddler then realized that the one he was tied around him was his accomplice!
"Tell me, you two guys, what do you want to do with me?"
Ding Chenggong sat in front of the two of them calmly, playing with the daggers that were found from the two of them in his hands, and asked with a sneer: "Who sent you here?"
"We are the little peddlers who go down the mountain to release goods!" said the middle-aged peddler with a serious look on his face: "When you see your donkey cart, you shouldn't have been greedy for a moment and steal your things! You're here to compensate you! Please give us your best friend and let us brothers go!"
"You two are coaxing ghosts!" Ding Chenggong pulled out the dagger in his hand: "Will an ordinary peddler carry such a good dagger?"
"I...we are ordinary peddlers!" The young peddler was still stubborn, and Ding Chenggong immediately rushed over, used a trick of the broken bone-shaking hand, and removed his right arm!
The boy screamed in pain, shivered all over, and sweated coldly!
"Who sent you here!" Ding Chenggong shouted sternly: "If you don't tell the truth, take off your other arm!"
"I said, I said it all!" The young peddler opened his mouth and was about to say it, but was immediately interrupted by the middle-aged peddler: "You can't say it!"
"I told you to talk nonsense!" Ding Chenggong didn't say anything, and flew with a knife and hit him in the throat!
After killing the middle-aged peddler, Ding Chenggong looked at the young peddler coldly and then asked: "Tell me, who sent you here? If you don't tell the truth, I will let you go with him!"
"It was Fang Jinlong who sent us here!" The young peddler was so scared that his face was pale and said hurriedly without hesitation: "He and I are both servants of Fang Jinlong who sent us! He ran errands for Fang Jinlong who sent us to find out the news and make a living! He sent us here this time to follow the hero, to see where you sell these porcelain and fur. See clearly your sales and supply!"
"So it's this fat man Fang Jinlong!" Ding Chenggong smiled coldly and said, "She is still far from plotting against me!"
As he spoke, Ding Chenggong raised his right hand suddenly, and the dagger in his hand came out of the air, hitting the boy's throat!
"I didn't expect that Fang Jinlong really planned to plot against me!"
After dealing with these two corpses cleanly, Ding Chenggong couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and thought to himself: "If you openly send someone to inquire about my supply, you can basically conclude that this guy has defected to the Qing Dynasty! The news of improving the firearms and the news that I provided sulfur saltpeter will definitely have made him reveal it! The Qing army must have begun to strengthen its defense!"
"In this way, there is not much time left for Maolushan to prepare for the war!"
Thinking of this, Ding Chenggong couldn't help but frown!
Chapter completed!