Guo Song didn't ask questions, he knew that Aunt Gongsun would explain it to him.

After a moment of silence, Aunt Gongsun said slowly: "This matter is actually related to Yuan Zai!" ”

"Wonjae?"

Aunt Gongsun nodded, "Lu Sigong has unscrupulously fished for money in Lingnan, and it has reached the point of lawlessness, and the complaint letter sent from Lingnan flew to Chang'an like snowflakes, all of which were detained and hidden by Yuan Zai, and many people who went to the capital to complain died in vain, and everyone suspected that they were assassinated by Yuan Zai. ”

"My aunt is saying that Lu Sigong and Yuan Zai are in collusion."

"Exactly! It is said that Yuan Zai's condition is that Lu Sigong's greedy property will be divided into half to him, and there are rumors that Yuan Zai persuaded Lu Sigong to divide Lingnan and become a Lingnan domain town, of course, these are just rumors, we have no evidence, and the task given to me by the Son of Heaven is to find evidence that Yuan Zai colluded with Lu Sigong, and control Lu Sigong and his property. ”

Only then did Guo Song understand the true meaning of the Son of Heaven telling him to forbear, the Son of Heaven had secretly investigated the evidence that was enough to make Yuan Zai fatal, and Lu Sigong was the best entry point, it seemed that the Son of Heaven not only wanted to depose Yuan Zai, but also completely eradicate him.

It is easy for the Son of Heaven to depose Won Jae, but to put on a charge that completely makes it difficult for Won Zai to turn over, or to directly get rid of Won Zai's charge, it will require evidence that convinces hundreds of officials, especially young officials, Won Zai's prestige among young officials is still quite high.

Guo Song's spirits perked up, and he smiled again: "It is not easy to complete this task. ”

"It's really not easy, the key is to find Yuan Zai's evidence, and not to startle the snake, Lu Sigong has a thousand soldiers, and the defense is very tight, no one under my command can do it at present, even Li Shiniang can't do it."

Guo Song pondered for a moment and said: "The south bank of the Yellow River is the territory of Li Zhengji, the envoy of the Ziqing Festival, and the north bank of the Yellow River is the territory of Tian Chenghei, the envoy of Wei Bojiedu, will they watch this large amount of wealth pass by in front of their eyes?" ”

Aunt Gongsun shook her head lightly and said: "That's because you don't understand the situation, Lu Sigong didn't go to the Yangtze River, and then went north from Bianhe to the north for a reason, Huaixi Jiedu made Li Zhongchen have a naval army in his hands, and he will intercept him on the water, and Li Zheng and Tian Chengsi have not yet established a naval army, each only has dozens of sentinel boats, if they fight on the Yellow River, they are really not Lu Sigong's opponents, and there is another reason, have you encountered inspection checkpoints in Bozhou and Qizhou?" ”

Guo Song shook his head, "The journey was smooth, there were no levels." ”

"Li Zhengji and Tian Chengsi were not allowed to set up checkpoints, they encouraged commerce, and the status of merchants here was very high, and they were extremely free, so that the commerce of the Weibo prefectures and the Ziqing prefectures was very prosperous, and Li Zhengzheng and Tian Chengsi also obtained a large amount of commercial taxes, which became an important source of military spending for them."

Guo Song nodded silently, he understood why the big businessman surnamed Cui could take a luxury carriage, the key was that he could provide a large amount of business taxes to Li Zhengji every year, and Li Zhengji of course regarded him as a guest.

Aunt Gongsun said: "The boats on the Yellow River come and go like a carp, Li Zhengji and Tian Chengsi will never go to investigate, it is safer, so Lu Sigong will choose to take the Yellow River waterway." ”

Guo Song remembered an important question again and asked, "Where is Lu Sigong's fleet now?" ”

Aunt Gongsun said slowly: "The latest pigeon letter I got this morning, their ship was in Dengzhou yesterday to replenish fresh water, and arrived in Qizhou in four days at the latest. ”

This task is indeed very tricky, Lu Sigong is escorted by a thousand sailors, and it is necessary to obtain evidence of Lu Sigong's collusion with Yuan Zai, to arrest Lu Sigong, and to ensure the safety of 10 million yuan of money.

This means that they must defeat a thousand soldiers, which is not ordinarily difficult for Gongsun Auntie's Hidden Sword Pavilion, no wonder Gongsun Auntie wants to ask the Son of Heaven for help.

Mo said that for Aunt Gongsun, even if it was him Guo Song, this task would be difficult to complete.

Guo Song was silent for a moment, and then asked, "Lu Sigong should have our people by his side!" ”

This is also an extremely critical question, if there is no one around Lu Sigong, how can Aunt Gongsun know so much information, and also know that Lu Sigong and Yuan Zai are colluding?

Aunt Gongsun nodded, "There is indeed one of our people beside him, a little maid who brings tea and water, and I heard a little bit of information by chance." ”

Guo Song then said goodbye and left, and Aunt Gongsun settled them in the Baofeng Inn next door, the female proprietor of Baofeng Restaurant and the inn was the apprentice of Aunt Gongsun, very safe, and all kinds of conditions were also very comfortable.

In the afternoon, Guo Song and the military doctor Xue Changshou went out to hang out, this was the first time Guo Song came to the territory of the feudal town, most of the information he had contacted before was relatively negative, and today he wanted to see it with his own eyes.

The fang where they are located is called Yuquan Fang, Licheng County is the Jinan of later generations, it is famous for its many springs, the Licheng springs of the Tang Dynasty are indeed more, there are hundreds of large and small springs, among which there are twenty or thirty famous springs, almost all of them are encircled in the private garden by the wealthy families, and most of the ordinary springs become the washing and washing places of the people.

The business in Yuquanfang is very prosperous, the shops on both sides of the main square street are dense, restaurants, inns, brothels, and shops are next to each other, and all kinds of shop signs are dizzying.

"Changshi, I thought that the people of the feudal town were living in dire straits, but now it looks like it's not bad!" Xue Changshou sighed.

Guo Song smiled faintly: "These are just appearances, Li Zhengji's 150,000 army has to rely on these people to feed, every moonlight soldiers, food and clothing expenses, and tens of thousands of war horses, these expenses add up to at least one million yuan, as well as their armor and equipment, the money invested is unimaginable, where does the money come from?" The imperial court allocated very little money, and could only rely on itself, selling illicit salt and developing commerce, which was a convenient way to get money, as long as it could provide finance and taxes for the army, merchants could be supplied to the sky. ”

Speaking of this, Guo Song suddenly had a realization that the reason why the commerce of the Song Dynasty was more developed than all previous dynasties was probably the origin of the practices of various feudal towns.

At this time, there was a commotion behind him, Guo Song turned around, and saw a man who looked like an officer at the door of Baofeng Restaurant was drunk and crazy, making a lot of noise, and faintly heard him shouting: "Is there no money to bully Lao Tzu?" Lao Tzu stopped a few boats on the Yellow River casually, and a lot of silver came......."

Guo Song's heart moved, and he walked over quickly, and several bartenders persuaded the officer, who broke free of their hands and sat down at the gate, "Bring another pot of wine, otherwise Lao Tzu will sleep here tonight!" ”

"General Ma, you're drunk, you can't drink anymore!" The bartender persuaded.

"Drunk! Do you want to bring wine? ”

The bartender had no choice but to report to the shopkeeper, who came out and looked at it, frowning, "Go and get him a jar of wine and record it in his account." ”

"But he already owes a lot of ......"

"Go!"

The bartender had no choice but to run to get the wine, Guo Song stepped forward and asked the shopkeeper in a low voice, "Who is this?" ”

The shopkeeper smiled bitterly and said, "His name is Ma Ying, he is a brigade commander in the water patrol camp, he is good at drinking and gambling, and he pays credit everywhere, and our Baofeng Restaurant alone owes more than 30 yuan of wine money, and I heard that he also owes a lot of gambling debts, and even his mother-in-law was sold to a brothel by him." ”

"With such a rotten character, Li Zheng will already tolerate him?"

"Li Zhengji doesn't care about this kind of trivial matter, unless he really intercepts a merchant ship to extort property, and is sued by a merchant to the military office, Li Zhengji will take him to the knife, and he doesn't care about ordinary things."

At this time, the bartender brought a jar of wine, and Guo Song said to the shopkeeper: "This jar of wine is mine, I invite him to drink!" ”

"Why do you want to ..... Want to invite me to drink? The officer glared at Guo Song and asked.

"Let's make a friend!"

"Make friends with me?"

The officer snorted, "Do you have any money?" ”

Guo Song took out a few ingots of gold and held them in his hand, Huang Chengcheng's gold was two or three hundred taels, the officer's eyes lit up, and he immediately stood up and asked with a smile: "May I ask the surname of the virtuous brother?" ”

The bartenders next to him rolled their eyes, this bastard was not drunk at all, he was pretending to be drunk just now.

.......

By the window on the second floor, Guo Song ordered seven or eight dishes, asked for two pots of good wine, and invited this Ma Ying to drink, perhaps to show off his ability, two glasses of wine, Ma Ying leaked all the information of Li Zhengji's surface army.

The Ziqing Army had a total of 40 patrol boats and 400 soldiers, divided into four teams, responsible for patrolling the Yellow River and Jishui, and this Ma Ying was responsible for patrolling the Yellow River in the third team, he served as the brigade commander, with 100 soldiers and 10 patrol boats of 50 stones.

Their task is different from that of the Jishui Patrol, which is responsible for maintaining order on the surface and protecting merchant ships, while the Yellow River Patrol is responsible for monitoring Tian Chenghe's army on the other side.

"Brother Guo, just say it clearly! If you need my brother's help, as long as I can do it, I will do my best to help. ”

It looks refreshing, but in fact, it is a foreshadowing for money, and he only said that he was willing to help, but did not say that he would help for free.

Guo Song picked up his wine glass and smiled slightly: "I really need my brother to help me with something!" ”