The early spring breeze in the northwest is rolling sand and the sun is shining.

King Jin, Yan Jinxuan, and Liu Chengze rode their horses along the field full of poplars.

They crossed the vast Gobi, high sand dunes, and rushing rivers, and ran for nearly an hour before they came to the Changlu Great Salt Field.

Looking up, I saw that the snow-white salt was piled up into small hills, and the workers were busy loading and carrying salt beside the salt piles, and not far away were the buyers who came to pull the salt.

"King Jin, how much salt does your salt farm produce in the country's total salt production," Yan Jinxuan asked.

"About a quarter." King Jin said proudly.

"No wonder people here live so well," Yan Jinxuan smiled.

With such a favorable geographical environment and such a considerable income, there is no need to pay taxes.

Yan Jinxuan immediately understood why the emperor was a little unaccustomed to King Jin.

"King Jin, there is a suggestion below, I don't know whether to talk about it or not." Yan Jinxuan looked at the pile of white flowers and salt.

"Lord Yan, but it doesn't hurt to say it."

"If King Jin is willing to pay a tribute to the imperial court every month, I think the emperor will be very happy."

King Jin was slightly stunned, thinking that this was the emperor's intention in sending them

"Then Lord Yan thinks it's appropriate to pay a monthly tribute," King Jin asked after thinking about it.

"The next time King Jin goes to court, he can learn about the person in charge of salt, and guess that it shouldn't exceed 1,000 catties. Even if it is a thousand catties per month, it is nothing to you, but you can get the emperor's favor because of this. Yan Jinxuan said with a smile to King Jin.

King Jin understood it and said boldly: "Lord Yan, this is a good idea. That king will make this matter clear to the emperor when he goes to court next month. ”

Then King Jin said, "Lord Yan, Lord Liu, this king will take you to the city tomorrow to have a look, and I hope you can give more valuable advice." ”

"Okay." Yan Jinxuan and Liu Chengze hurriedly bowed their hands.

In this way, for the next three whole days, King Jin took Yan Jinxuan and Liu Chengze to travel between various cities.

Although King Jin deliberately concealed it, Yan Jinxuan and Liu Chengze still discovered his recruitment of troops and horses and the recruitment of dead soldiers through various means, and they also found that his army had reached nearly 30,000, accounting for one-tenth of the population of his entire fiefdom. Moreover, he also had a very close relationship with the princes of the surrounding fiefdoms.

"This king recruits troops and horses and recruits dead soldiers to protect the safety of the people in the fiefdom, you may not know that since the people here have been living better, people have often come to make trouble, so this king has to take precautions." King Jin explained to the two on the way back.

The two of them repeatedly expressed their understanding on the surface. Naturally, I have my own set of judgments in my heart.

Three days later, they returned to King Jin's palace. King Jin hosted a banquet for them.

During the banquet, someone hurried over to King Jin and said, "Lord Wang, the envoy Pang has arrived and is waiting for you in the west living room." ”

King Jin nodded, but Yan Jinxuan's heart chuckled, isn't the imperial envoy Pang Dongdong the person who was placed in the palace by the sixth prince, judging from the expression on King Jin's face when he learned of his arrival just now, they seem to have been in contact from time to time. So, will King Jin also know the whereabouts of the Sixth Prince, Yan Jinxuan couldn't help but pay attention.

Liu Chengze and Yan Jinxuan exchanged glances. They then pretended to be casual and drank as if nothing had happened.

"Let him wait a little bit over there." King Jin said to the comer.

Immediately, King Jin turned his head to Yan Jinxuan and Liu Chengze and said, "Imperial Envoy Pang happened to pass by here on official business. When the king goes to see him, he comes. ”

"There you go." The two of them hurriedly said.

After King Jin left, Yan Jinxuan immediately motioned to Li Zhitong with his eyes.

"You and the Sixth Court take turns walking around the window, keeping an eye on Imperial Envoy Pang's whereabouts."

"Yes."

After about a quarter of an hour, King Jin returned. There was still a faint smile on his face.

"Didn't King Jin invite Imperial Envoy Pang over for a drink?" asked Liu Chengze.

"He said he was in a hurry, so he didn't come to drink." King Jin said.

After the banquet was dispersed, Li Zhitong said to Yan Jinxuan: "I didn't see Imperial Envoy Pang leave the palace. ”

Yan Jinxuan pondered for a moment and then said, "Go find out which room he lives in, and then take turns tracking his whereabouts with Lord Liu's entourage." ”

"Yes."

That night, Yan Jinxuan was about to lie down and rest when Li Zhitong knocked on the door and came in and whispered, "My lord, Imperial Envoy Pang left the palace just now." ”

"How many people go in which direction"

"Go west, and six people will follow."

Walking to the west is the direction of going to another fiefdom, and Yan Jinxuan, who has added an entourage, immediately thought of something, and immediately said to Li Zhitong: "Let's go, let's go and have a look." ”

With that, he changed into black clothes and covered his face, and flew out with his sword to break the wooden bolt of the back window, leaping over the tall trees from the house, and chasing along the mountain road to the west.

After a while, the two of them saw six people galloping on their horses.

So Yan Jinxuan and Li Zhitong threw a few stones at their backs, they were attacked and hurriedly turned their heads to look around, Yan Jinxuan, who was ambushed in the bushes, immediately looked at their faces, and sure enough, one of them was the imperial envoy Pang, and the other person was not only covered but also wearing a hat, so he could only see his eyes.

"Who," one of the six shouted.

Yan Jinxuan and Li Zhitong did not make a sound, and still lay in ambush in the bushes.

When the six of them saw that there was no movement, they immediately quickened their pace and ran forward.

Yan Jinxuan threw a rope from behind and tied up the man with the hat and covered face, and the man was lifted from the horse and fell to the ground.

"Someone is attacking" one of the six shouted, and everyone hurriedly reined in their horses to look back, but the person who was captured had already been pulled to the tree by Yan Jinxuan.

With a swoop, Yan Jinxuan tore open the cloth covering his face, and looked at it, this person was the sixth prince.

So as soon as the rope was loosened, he was thrown to the ground, and he and Li Zhitong flew away.

"I really fucking want to get him alive." Li Zhitong said.

"Do you think we captured him alive and can get out of here safely," Yan Jinxuan asked calmly.

This is the fief of King Jin, and it is obvious that there is a close connection between the six princes and King Jin.

"That's right. So what do we do next?"

"Rush back to Beijing to report the matter to the emperor. As soon as dawn we left. ”

"Okay."

So after dawn, Yan Jinxuan and his party said goodbye to King Jin and quickly left King Jin's fiefdom.

Naturally, King Jin didn't know what happened last night, and the sixth prince didn't know who tore off his face cloth.

It was already five days after they arrived in the capital, and Yan Jinxuan and Liu Chengze went directly to the palace to see the emperor without even returning home.

When he learned that the six princes were now in the fiefdoms of King Jin and King Bing, the emperor immediately summoned his ministers to discuss countermeasures.

"Your Majesty, you must not send troops, now the total number of soldiers of King Jin, King Bing, and King Run is 150,000, if we act recklessly, not only will we not be able to catch the sixth prince, but we will suffer heavy losses." University scholar Gu Bing hurriedly stopped.

Gu Bing has a close relationship with the Sixth Prince in private, which others don't know, but Yan Jinxuan knows. To be continued

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