Tian Yue had to explain: "Your fleet came out of Youzhou, and it was rumored outside that you were transporting gold and silver, and all kinds of thieves moved when they heard the wind, just now it should be the bandit Li Bao of Taihang Mountain, only he can gather thousands of people to loot in this area, and I will send troops to exterminate them as soon as possible." ”

Zhang Lianliang said lightly: "Please tell those thieves that the real gold and silver have already been shipped away, and they don't have to worry about it anymore." ”

Tian Yue was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly turned around and ordered: "Go up a few people, go and confirm the other party's body!" ”

Immediately rushed up dozens of people to carefully confirm the bodies of the killed robbers, Tian Yue was really annoyed, his people had already withdrawn, who wanted to fish in troubled waters here?

At this time, the severed ships had been reconnected, and the Jin soldiers boarded the ships one after another, and Zhang Lianliang arched his hand to Tian Yue, "If there is nothing else, we will leave." ”

Tian Yue sighed and said to Zhang Lianliang: "Please tell His Royal Highness the King of Jin that the Wei State has absolutely no intention of intercepting the official ship, and the perpetrators of the crime tonight are either the bandits of Taihang Mountain, or the subordinates of Liyang Zhu Jun, who framed us, or maybe my subordinates did it without authorization, I will definitely find out and give an explanation to His Royal Highness the King of Jin." ”

"Then thank you, Your Highness!"

Zhang Lianliang turned around and got on the boat, and the slender men regathered and continued to pull the boat south.

Tian Yue looked at the sand boats passing by, at this time, a boat caught his attention, this was a looted ship, the tarpaulin was chopped to pieces, more than a dozen sacks were also split, under the bright moonlight, you can see snow-white salt rustling from the sacks, several soldiers are trying to plug the bag that leaks salt.

Tian Yue was secretly glad that he had sent someone to stop this operation in time, otherwise he would have really lost his face this time.

At this time, several soldiers rushed over and whispered a few words in Tian Yue's ear, and Tian Yue's face suddenly became very ugly.

.........

After a busy night, Tian Yue dragged his busy and tired body back to the palace, and then someone came to report that the general Tian Xu was here.

"Let him in!"

Although Tian Yue was very tired, the anger in his heart still lifted his spirits.

After a while, Tian Xu hurriedly came to the courtyard and knelt down in front of the steps of the lobby, he already knew that Wang Yu had returned, everything had been revealed, Xu Shi advised him to strike first, and hurriedly came over to confess, fought for Tian Yue's forgiveness, and taught him a set of rhetoric.

"Look at what you've done!"

Tian Yue threw a stack of accusations in front of Tian Xu's eyes and scolded fiercely: "You have completely destroyed Dizhou, made my people lose their hearts, and seriously damaged my reputation!" ”

"Brother Wang, don't be angry, listen to me finish the matter, and Brother Wang will understand."

"What else do you have to explain?"

"Yes, I killed a lot of people in Dizhou, but why should I kill them, just to get them wealth? This is by no means the case, Li Na has been operating in Dizhou for many years, and there are many people who support him, basically all of them are wealthy families in Dizhou, and they all have weapons hidden at home, and once Li Na's army returns, they will respond immediately.

In order to eradicate Li Na's foundation, I connected the rich households in Dizhou to the pot, maybe there were some manslaughters in it, but I would rather kill by mistake than let go, the means are a little ruthless, but this is an extraordinary means in extraordinary times, and only by doing so can Li Na's power be uprooted from Dizhou. ”

After Tian Xu finished speaking, Tian Yue's originally gloomy face softened slightly, and he asked again: "Wang Chong's granddaughter, how do you explain it?" ”

Tian Xu tore off his clothes, revealing a scar on his right shoulder, and said hatefully: "Although I, Tian Xu, am lustful, I won't go on when I see a woman, if she doesn't stab me with this sword, will I let her go?" ”

The scar on his shoulder socket was actually injured by a stray arrow, but it was used by Tian Xu, Tian Yue stepped forward to take a closer look, and it was indeed a new scar not long ago, but after all, after a few months, it was no longer possible to tell whether it was an arrow wound or a sword wound?

"What's going on?"

"Her brother may have been killed by me as Li Na's spy, she has always held a grudge and waited for an opportunity to take revenge, I went to report to Enguo Temple to burn incense, she got the news, hid under the offering table in advance, and stabbed out with a sword while I bowed, fortunately I dodged quickly, or was stabbed in the shoulder, I took her back to the house in a fit of rage, and severely punished her, but I still didn't kill her, but let her go, she hanged herself herself, what does it have to do with me?"

Tian Xu's words are true or false, Wang Chong's granddaughter was indeed taken away by him from Bao'enguo Temple, but he did not assassinate him, just because of her beauty.

"Are you telling the truth?"

"What I said is true, Brother Wang can send someone to investigate."

"Alright! I'll send someone to verify it when I go back, and I'll ask you again, why did you attack the official ship of the Jin Kingdom last night? Tian Yue glared at him again and said.

Tian Xu sighed and said: "Our Wei State is in financial difficulties, and the military is very nervous, I estimate that my brother will not be able to do it, so I will be a villain, intercept two or three hundred ships of gold and silver, and solve the problem of military personnel, but I didn't expect that the other party was transporting salt, which made me so disappointed." ”

This is a very clever explanation, just like stealing money and filial piety, although stealing is a dishonorable act, but his intentions are good, so that Tian Yue has nothing to say, and the anger in his heart gradually disappears.

In the end, Tian Yue had no choice but to sigh helplessly and said: "In the future, don't act recklessly in this kind of thing, let alone intercept the official ships of the Jin State, otherwise a war will break out." ”

"Brother knows his mistake!"

After all, they were brothers, and Tian Yue didn't want to embarrass him too much, so he waved his hand and let him go down, and Tian Xu passed this hurdle.

As soon as Tian Xu left, Wang Yu hurried over.

"Your Highness has seen Tian Xu just now?" Wang Yu asked.

"I've seen it, he admitted that he was dizzy, couldn't resist the temptation of gold and silver, and took people to attack the official ship of the Jin State last night, but he didn't succeed, and I scolded him fiercely."

"The prince didn't punish him?"

"His intentions are good, he wants to make some military spending, not for personal gain."

"The prince believes his words?"

"He's my brother after all, how can I not believe him?"

Wang Yu was speechless, since ancient times, there have been fewer cases of younger brothers killing brothers and seizing the throne? It is estimated that the matter of Dizhou was also fooled by him.

Wang Yu knew Tian Yue very well, if he wanted to punish Tian Xu, he would have ordered it just now, since he let Tian Xu go, it was useless to say anything about himself, he said too much, Tian Yue still thought that he was provoking the relationship between their brothers.

Wang Yu was really a little disheartened, and he couldn't say a word for a long time.

Tian Yue didn't want to mention Tian Xu's matter anymore, so he changed the topic and said: "It's strange, the fleet came from Youzhou yesterday, how could it be salt?" ”

Wang Yu had already heard about this, he shook his head and said: "Guo Song is very cunning, if I guess correctly, this fleet has gone to the salt field with gold and silver before, and the ship was changed in the salt field, and the last salt ship had already transported the silver and gold, so this time it was salt." ”

Tian Yue patted his head, "I said!" Only 200,000 stone salt were transported more than ten days ago, how can hundreds of thousands of stone salt be transported, and the speed of salt production may not be too fast. ”

"Lord Wang, it's not like this, Zhu Tao should have a lot of salt in reserve, and it's not a big problem to transport salt a few more times, this time it should be deliberately luring us to be fooled, and he will have an excuse to send troops to suppress the bandits."

Tian Yue was really ashamed, he bowed long and bowed, "Thank you, Mr. for coming back in time, otherwise I would have made a big mistake." ”

Wang Yu nodded, "Xu Shi is not right-minded, everything he does is a villain's mind, and he can't get on the stage, the prince must listen to his advice less in the future, and he can't be mistaken!" ”

Tian Yue smiled bitterly awkwardly and said: "He wants to solve the financial shortage, I am also too anxious, it is my responsibility, there will be more things to discuss in the future." ”

"Lord Wang, the formula of Iron Fire Thunder is difficult to steal, it is better to negotiate directly with Zhu Zhu, the two families will develop it together, and we will send him a few iron shells."

"Will Zhu Jun agree?"

"I don't know, but we can give it a try, and if we succeed, we can give him the recipe too."

Tian Yue thought for a while and said: "It's better to let Xu Shize negotiate in this matter, he can speak well, and being a lobbyist is his forte." ”

Wang Yu didn't want Xu Shize to stay with Tian Yue, so he readily agreed.