Jiangxia Street is one of the most famous streets in Jiangxia City.

Shops on both sides gathered, and the flow of people was endless.

Although there is no way to compare with the east and west markets of Chang'an City, it is also the most prosperous place in Ezhou.

Li Kuan was dressed in regular clothes and walked on this street wantonly.

The natural variety of wooden buildings does not need the kind of old-fashioned technology in the film and television city in later generations, and it itself presents a natural sense of vicissitudes.

"Lord Wang, this Jiangxia City is actually rich in products, and if many things are transported to other places, they should also be very marketable."

Wang Fugui followed behind Li Kuan and Wang Xuance, and his little eyes purred and kept looking at the shops on both sides of the street.

As a businessman who is not successful but is also successful in a sense, Wang Fugui is also well-known in the business district of Chang'an City.

No matter who says the king of the Chu Palace, they all know that it is Wang Fugui.

"Along the way, I saw that the most sold are all kinds of fresh lotus root and related products, it seems that this Ezhou is rich in lotus roots."

Wang Xuance also paid attention to the situation around him.

"Ezhou is full of lakes, and it is normal for lotus roots to be suitable for planting. However, this lotus root should not be kept, although the yield is not small, but there is no large-scale planting significance. ”

In later generations, the lotus root of Honghu Lake can be said to be famous all over the world, and the lotus root pork rib soup is a local must.

Although Honghu is not under the rule of Ezhou, it also indirectly shows that the generation of Ezhou is actually very suitable for planting lotus roots.

"Lord be careful!"

Just as Li Kuan and Wang Xuance were talking, Xi Junmai suddenly drew his knife to block the front.

I saw a horse-drawn carriage parked next to an alley in the street, and from the carriage rushed out a dozen guys covered with black cloth and wearing night clothes.

I don't know how a small carriage hides more than a dozen big men.

"Big brother, why did they find us as soon as we showed up?"

"yes, aren't we already masked, and we're wearing night clothes."

"You're stupid, it's not dark yet, of course people can find out about your swarthy outfit."

When he went out, Xi Junmai specially arranged for those guards dressed in casual clothes to follow nearby, so that people could not see that there were too many guards around Li Kuan.

It's just that he didn't expect Wang Xuanwu to find a few living treasures from nowhere, and at such a level, he would also assassinate the prince?

However, he who does not know is not guilty.

These seem to be assassins who give credit to others, and under this appearance, it is easier for the people of Jiangxia County to know that His Royal Highness the King of Chu has been assassinated as quickly as possible.

"Big brother, no matter how much, this is a fat sheep, the man said, as long as you kill these people, give me a hundred gold coins, my big knife is already hungry and thirsty."

These people obviously don't know Li Kuan's identity, and they really think that this is a rich man from other places.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Ahh

The guards of the Chu Palace's surrounding area had unconsciously surrounded Li Kuan in the middle, and those masked people had just rushed over, and before they could figure out the situation, they were put in half by Xi Jun under the shadow of a sword and sword.

As soon as the rest of the people saw that something was wrong, they immediately turned around and ran.

Yes, just ran.

What brotherhood, what loyalty, at this time, is not as important as one's own life.

"Don't chase it yet, it's important to protect the prince."

Xi Junmai knew that these people should be Wang Xuanwu who didn't know where to find them, so there was no need to continue chasing.

Anyway, there are already a few unlucky people in front of me, and if you try it casually, you will know the identities of these people.

No matter where these people came from in the end, His Royal Highness the King of Chu was assassinated in Jiangxia City, and this matter can be regarded as solid.

When the time comes, it doesn't matter if they are beaten into tricks, or whether they are framed or framed, anyway, these assassins must have been instructed by Wang Feng, the commander of Jiangxia County.

In this kind of major assassination case, it is not his turn to ask any questions from a county order.

As long as his mind is still clear, at this time, Wang Feng should kneel in front of Li Kuan, explain his past affairs, and strive to be light.

Otherwise, the fate of a family ruined is almost predictable.

……

"What, His Royal Highness the King of Chu was assassinated?"

Before Fang Wei could swallow a mouthful of hot tea in his mouth, he heard someone hurriedly report to him what happened on Jiangxia Street.

"It's true, now those assassins have been half captured and half escaped. It is said that His Royal Highness the King of Chu has ordered the guards of the Zhichong Mansion outside the city to enter the city to hunt down the Assassins. ”

The guards of the Zhichong Mansion are not so easy to mobilize.

However, this time Li Kuan left Beijing, and Li Shimin specifically authorized him to mobilize the troops of a Zhichong Mansion.

The strength of Zhichong Mansion is at most 1,200 people, and Li Shimin is not worried that Li Kuan will do anything rebellious when he mobilizes these soldiers and horses.

"All the guards of the Zhichong Mansion have been mobilized?"

Fang Wei immediately realized that His Royal Highness the King of Chu had made a big move.

Although he felt that this assassination incident was full of weirdness, it was obviously a good thing for him Fang Wei personally.

There has just happened in Ezhou Mansion where farmers gathered to stop His Royal Highness the King of Chu, and then the granary of Jiangxia County caught fire, and now His Royal Highness the King of Chu has been assassinated, no one will think that the current situation in Jiangxia County is still calm.

"That's right, it is estimated that in half an hour, Captain Zhichong will probably lead the guards into the city."

"This Wang Feng, is it really so crazy?"

Fang Wei had some doubts in his heart.

Whether it is encroaching on fertile land or withholding money and food from immigrants, it is an act of crime that does not lead to death.

But to assassinate His Royal Highness the King of Chu......

Fang Wei shook his head, feeling that he couldn't understand Wang Feng's behavior at all.

It's good that he didn't fight him before, otherwise he might have made some big moves against him.

"Prepare the horse, I want to see His Royal Highness the King of Chu again."

At this time, Fang Wei, the assassin of Ezhou, must go to visit His Royal Highness the King of Chu, who has just been "frightened".

……

"Bang!"

Jiangxia County Ya, Wang Feng slammed the exquisite teacup in his hand to the ground.

"Idiots, a bunch of idiots. Wang Zhijian, you really didn't do this? ”

Wang Feng's eyes spewed out devouring sunlight, and his chest continued to rise and fall, obviously angry.

"Big brother, I really didn't arrange it. Assassinate His Royal Highness the King of Chu, without your instructions, where would I have the courage to do this. ”

Wang Zhijian felt that he was so wronged, he had just heard about this, why did his eldest brother think that he arranged it himself?

"What? Do you mean that I instructed you to do this? ”

"No, absolutely not. Big brother, could this be done secretly behind our backs? As long as His Royal Highness the King of Chu is killed in Jiangxia City, the most unlucky person will definitely be Ezhou Assassin Shi Fangwei, of course, we will have some responsibilities, but we must not be guilty of death, and the starting point of Shopkeeper Xu is also to relieve the crisis for us."

At the critical moment, Wang Zhijian came to a disaster.

Dead friends do not die poor.

Don't look at the fact that you and Xu Jia often mingle with each other, looking like two good brothers.

But when it comes to the critical moment, where does it care so much about you?

"Xu Jia? He shouldn't have that much guts, right? ”

Wang Feng showed an unconfident expression on his face.

This Xu Jia has known each other for several years.

He seems to be more daring than he thought.

Whether it was the initial encroachment on fertile land, or the recent interception of grain and grass subsidized by the imperial court, it was his own idea.

If His Royal Highness the King of Chu died in Jiangxia, he would be a businessman, and there would definitely be nothing going on.

Thinking like this, Wang Feng's face became ugly.

"Zhijian, you go and call Xu Jia over, I want to ask him."

……

The people of Jiangxia County ate a big melon today.

I saw that those children of the Wang family, the county officials, who were usually high, were now driven to the Zhichong Mansion outside the city like sheep.

Especially the businessmen in Jiangxia County, not to mention how happy they were when they saw that Xu Banjie was actually planted.

But as long as there is a profitable business in Jiangxia County, there is no one that Xu Jia does not interfere with.

In the past few years, it is not an exaggeration to say that public resentment is boiling.

"Wang County Order, if you don't want to suffer from flesh and skin, it's best to confess honestly."

Wang Xuance saw the fat Wang Feng in front of him, and his face was expressionless.

Several people in Jiangxia County were tried separately to prevent them from colluding in confessions.

"Steward Wang, even if I ate the gall of a leopard, I didn't dare to assassinate His Royal Highness the King of Chu, I was wronged. For the sake of the family's life 500 years ago, you can spare me. ”

Although Wang Feng's face was pale at this time, he really didn't send someone to assassinate, so his face was barely calm.

"Really? But Jiangxia County Lieutenant Wang Zhijian didn't say so. You two have different confessions, who do you want me to believe? ”

"Huh?"

Wang Feng was stunned for a moment.

Wang Zhijian is his distant relative, could it be that he sees things wrong and is ready to throw the pot on his head?

What did he confess?

"His Royal Highness the King of Chu's patience is limited, if you don't confess truthfully, don't blame me for being unkind."

"Steward Wang, I really didn't arrange someone to assassinate His Royal Highness the King of Chu, you have to believe me."

"You said you really didn't arrange for someone to set fire to the granary, and I chose to believe you. You said that you did not arrange for people to encroach on the fertile land of immigrants, and I choose to believe you. If you say that you didn't send someone to assassinate His Royal Highness the King of Chu, I also believe you. Then let me ask you, do I still want His Royal Highness the King of Chu to believe me? ”

Wang Xuance glanced at Wang Feng with disdain.

The granary was on fire until now, and Wang Feng heard for the first time that someone was pursuing the matter, and there was a trace of panic on his face.

This matter, due to the hurry of the start, there are more than one or two insiders, and it is really difficult to completely clean it up if you really want to track it down.

However, compared with the assassination of His Royal Highness the King of Chu, as long as he insisted that the people below did it in his own name, and he only found out about it after the fact, then it was not a big deal.

At least compared to the assassination, it's not a big deal.

It's a big deal that you don't do this county order.

"The king's stewardship, the conscience of heaven and earth, the assassination of His Royal Highness the King of Chu is really not what I did. As for the fields and the grain and grass, I confess that I was overlooked. ”

Wang Feng thought about it for a while, and tentatively started a new conversation with Wang Xuance.

"Negligence? Wang County Order, you are so careless, you will make tens of thousands of acres of fertile land into the land of the Wang family, and a word of negligence will make the imperial court's Nanyang rice promotion plan suffer heavy losses, do you think this world is the world of your Wang family? ”

"Steward Wang laughed, this matter ...... This was all done by Wang Zhijian and Xu Jia in private, and there are many things I really don't know. I'm not afraid of the king's jokes, in the past few years, I have been more busy eating, drinking and having fun in Jiangxia County, and rarely bothered about political affairs......"

Now, Wang Feng doesn't care what the sequelae of belittling himself like this will be, let's pass the current situation first.

At the same time, Wang Xuanwu next to him was interrogating Wang Zhijian, and Wu Meiniang was interrogating Xu Jia.

As for the assassination, no one is stupid, and naturally no one admits it.

Of course, this is not the real focus of the investigation.

The parties have already confessed, and this matter is easy to handle.

Soon, Li Kuan called Fang Wei to him and asked him to temporarily serve as the county commander of Jiangxia County, as for some other positions, Fang Wei has always had some of his own team in Ezhou for so many years, but Li Kuan doesn't have to worry about it.

Of course, taking this opportunity, Wang Fugui also came forward to buy several shops at a low price, preparing for the East China Sea fishery, northwest trade and other industries of the Chu Wangfu to enter Ezhou.

Even that Gu Panpan didn't stay idle, and let the people around him follow Wang Fugui to buy a bunch of shops.

It was only a few days of hard work, and the rich family of Xu Banjie was confiscated, and the cheap sale was swept away.

As a result of this operation, officials in several other counties in Ezhou were frightened enough, and all kinds of things such as returning the fields and redistributing corn were implemented in the shortest possible time.

The local people thought that the sun was coming out of the west.

And Li Kuan's attack on Wang Feng was not really to kill all the officials in Ezhou.

Although he knows that there are many people who are as unclean as Wang Feng, but this kind of person can't be caught, the key is to let them converge and really do a good job of the things explained by the court.

The rest can only be drawn slowly.

When the students of Guanshishan Academy and other academies have stepped into various states and counties of Datang, they will naturally usher in a new situation.

……

"I heard that there are hundreds of people in the Nawang County Ling family, and all of them have been exiled to Yazhou."

"Not only that, but the old and young people in Xu Banjie and many officials in Jiangxia County, as well as those who take care of the granary, have all been sent to Yazhou with their families."

"This is retribution, these people have done a lot of evil in Jiangxia County, and they deserve to be sent to Yazhou."

"His Royal Highness the King of Chu is simply the great benefactor of our Jiangxia people."

"I heard that Nayazhou is thousands of miles away from Ezhou, and now, they have no way to harm us anymore."

……

The quick knife was a mess for a while, but it was only a few days of effort, and Wang Feng and his party were sent to the ship to Yazhou.

In order to avoid the situation of too many casualties on the way out of this group of "free laborers", Li Kuan also specially asked the escort officials to send the people to Hangzhou and then hand them over to the Hangzhou City Bo Division.

Then the water department of the city department arranged for the boat to transport them to Yazhou.

As an important supply port in the South China Sea, Yazhou is also a supply point for the key construction of the East China Sea fishery in the past two years.

Originally, Li Kuan wanted to send these people directly to Puluo, but considering that this place theoretically did not belong to the territory of the Tang Dynasty, this exile plan was inevitably criticized.

So I made a compromise.

Anyway, Wang Feng and the others don't think that they will have the opportunity to return to the Tang Dynasty in their lives, so let's educate the natives in the south.