The arguments between the two of them, how could the people in the house not hear it, they were all deliberately leading this case to each other, but in Xi Yuanxiu's eyes, the two were still like children who fought under the trees in the imperial garden because of a string of sugar gourds.

In those years, there were constant wars at the border passes, but they were all provoked by Jingguo on their own initiative, and the reasons for starting the war were very simple.

It's just that today, there is a Xiliang caravan entering the country that does not abide by the rule of law, and tomorrow it is the fishermen of East Vietnam who catch the perch of Jingguo, which sounds ridiculous and a little funny, but at that time, it was not a good joke for the two countries that had not yet been destroyed.

Because Jingguo is the most reasonable and unreasonable, it is not so much that Jingguo is in an emergency, but that His Majesty the emperor is ambitious.

Therefore, when His Majesty the Emperor led the troops to recruit in person, Xi Yuanxiu did not go back to Yunwu Mountain to study again, but worked as a gentleman for several little princes in the palace for a few years.

The collapse of Dongyue was entirely due to the slow production efficiency of well salt, resulting in insufficient domestic salt to eat, and could only be bought and sold in Dongyue.

And Jingguo is in the same situation as the above Weiguo, so after more than ten years of operating the salt industry in Dongyue, the national strength slowly threatens the two countries.

So, on behalf of Jing Guo, Xi Fang sent an envoy to Beiwei thousands of miles away to discuss the attack on Dongyue with the then King Wei, and promised King Wei that after the matter was completed, Dongyue would be divided into two, which is now the two states of Qingyang.

However, His Majesty the Emperor of Jingguo wanted more, and it was a weak country to divide it into two, so he deliberately personally took command of the expedition to the west and went to Xiliang, giving Beiwei an illusion, so that King Wei could do his best to attack Dongyue without worries.

And when the army of Dongyue was north of Qingzhou and resisted the Northern Guard army, Xi Fang directly led the army from west to east, first sinking to Jingzhou near Yangzhou, and after the war in the north officially began, it took nearly half a year to completely eat Yangzhou, and then from the south to the north, directly approaching Qingzhou.

In the end, it was the eldest son of His Majesty the Emperor that he ate the entire Dongyue.

After capturing Qingzhou, he also easily blocked Beiwei out of Qingzhou, so that Beiwei could not advance another half a step.

Wei Guo naturally knew that he had been deceived, but even if Jingguo's 300,000 troops were all eaten, they would lose both, and they might be found by Nanzhao to have the opportunity to go north, so he immediately made a decision and turned to the Ningchuan Plain, taking advantage of the fact that there was no one in the north of Jingguo, crossed the Golden Tent and headed towards Chang'an.

If there was no Song Hong at that time, maybe Chang'an would have really been lost!

Because in Li Wei and Xi Fang's plan, an agreement had been reached with the Golden Horde, and the Golden Horde would do its best to help them block the Northern Guard army for seven days, and the reward was that Jing Guo would give them a part of the Xiliang State for their development.

However, it may be that the Northern Guard army was killing at that time, and the Golden Horde was afraid that the flames of war would burn on their heads.

Only a few squads were sent, and they were all indecent infantry, but they were casual and did not stop them as agreed.

So after Jing Guo relieved his breath, Song Hong led the team and almost drove the Golden Horde to another land.

This also led to the fact that the Golden Horde now sends envoys to Jingguo every year to pay tribute to cattle and sheep.

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The prince now feels that seeing the face of King Xian is already an annoying thing, since he was a child, he has looked at his younger brother unpleasantly, because he really does not look like a man, his face is feminine, and his every move looks so weak and weak.

And with that kind of innate feeling, that is, the kind of disgust that Li Yuanqing didn't know how to say, but the eldest brother liked him, and he couldn't say anything.

Later, the eldest brother of the emperor died in the battle on the land under his feet, but there was another most proud gelding dog around his father to take care of him, and later after being crowned the prince, he joined him in the auxiliary government, and now he doesn't like everything Li Yuanhuan does.

The room was so quiet that even the sound of breathing could be heard clearly.

Zhou Wenbin couldn't stand it anymore as he sat on the sidelines, and felt that since he was here to investigate the case, he couldn't let these two princes fight here.

So he looked at the two people who were looking at each other and said, "Two highnesses, let's take a look at the situation of the prisoner first, after all, it has been more than half a month since we arrived in Yangzhou, and we should always give Your Majesty some answers." ”

The prince nodded, and motioned for his subordinates to turn Zhao Benliu's body over, and Xiao Ye, who was closest to the bed, also came over to help.

Zhao Benliu originally wanted to listen to more child's play in bed, but he didn't expect that these two highnesses would end in a few words, and they would be so soon.

However, his injuries in prison were too serious, not only his thigh and leg bones were broken, but also several ribs on his body were broken, and now he can only listen to others, but his mouth cannot be opened.

After inspecting Zhao Benliu's condition, the doctor who came with Zhao Benliu said respectfully to the prince: "Your Highness, this prisoner still can't speak, and he may have to wait a few more days!" ”

Li Yuanqing nodded, waved his hand, motioned for the doctor to step back, and then said to Xiao Ye: "In recent days, is that gang of smuggling salt dealers still active?" ”

Xiao Ye took out a booklet from his arms, pointed at it with his finger for a while, and then said to Li Yuanqing: "Your Highness, judging from the sales of official salt in recent days, it seems that the sale of illegal salt has stopped. ”

Li Yuanqing frowned, looking not very satisfied with Xiao Ye's words, because this meant that the Salt Gang had disappeared now, and coupled with the current situation, trying to find this group of people was like looking for a needle in a haystack.

"I said..."Xi Yuanxiu paused for a moment, but decided to say it: "Otherwise, please ask the two highnesses to seal the Xinghua Courtyard first, so that you can find the people behind the Xinghua Courtyard along this line!" ”

"Never!"

Everyone's eyes were attracted by this sentence, and it was Xue Luping, who had been standing by the door, who spoke.

"Oh, why is that?" Zhou Wenbin was very strange, because this prefect should have just learned about the news, so he kept looking at him and asked: "Why did Lord Xue say that it must not be, since Lord Xi has already found clues about the illegal salt in the Qinglou in Scoop City, why don't you directly send troops to arrest it, at least it is more important than the corpses in the fire case that day?" ”

Xue Luping squinted at Zhou Wenbin, and did not pay attention to Zhou Wenbin, but looked at the prince and said: "If the two highnesses go to seize the Qinglou now, it will be tantamount to startling the snake, if you know that your illegal salt stronghold has been seized, in this way, those illegal salt dealers will hide deeper, and we will not be able to catch it, this is like fishing at sea, if you don't succeed once, you will lose all your efforts!" ”

Xi Yuanxiu looked at Xue Luping with a playful expression, touched the soft sword pinned to his waist and said: "My lord's metaphor is not bad, but it is impossible for my lord not to know that under such a profit drive, for these people who use their lives to make a fortune, this business is as tempting as bait, even if the first fish has been hooked, but those remaining fish will not have a long memory, they will only bite the hook one after another, because in front of interests, no one can control themselves!" ”

Xue Luping suddenly felt a little annoyed, he looked at Xi Yuanxiu coldly and said: "But the fish eat the bait not because of those small profits, but because those fish want to live, do you think those people will not even want their lives because of the current interests?" ”

After saying this, he realized that he might have said the wrong thing, because it sounded like he was buying time for those smugglers to sell the stolen goods, but how could he take it back when the words had already been spoken.

However, the strange thing is that except for Xi Yuanxiu and the four of them, the two highnesses did not react at all, as if they had expected this a long time ago.

Xi Yuanxiu and Zhou Wenbin glanced at each other, feeling that something might not be right, because now Xue Luping's reaction could be pulled out for interrogation, but the two didn't seem to hear it.

Zhou Wenbin thought in his heart: Could it be that these two highnesses have found other clues, don't they feel that this matter is indeed not weighty, and it may really be as Xue Luping said, it will startle the snake.

This embarrassing situation didn't last long, because the guy arranged by Xi Yuanxiu last night came to deliver snacks and added water to the teapot in the house.

Xi Yuanxiu knew that this person from Chichao was doing chores in the back kitchen, and he was not doing the job of serving tea and pouring water, so he must have come to the door to give him news.

Xi Yuanxiu pretended to ask this person for some towels and other miscellaneous items, and wanted to choose them himself, and then said hello to everyone in the house, and took Liu Xiao downstairs with the guy.

The three of them went back to Xi Yuanxiu's room, and when the guy saw that there was no one around, he closed the door, and then whispered under the gaze of Xi Yuanxiu and Liu Xiao: "Back to the shopkeeper, that ghost is in this building now, do you want to take this person down." ”

Xi Yuanxiu shook his head and said, "Don't worry, you just follow suit!" ”

The guy nodded, as if he had thought of something, and took out a letter in his arms and handed it to Xi Yuanxiu, saying that it was from Huangcheng.

Xi Yuanxiu asked Liu Xiao to pay two coins of silver out of his own pocket, and then touched Liu Xiao's somewhat reluctant face, and said: "In the future, the intoxicating incense will be yours, do you still care about this money?" ”

It turned out that the restaurant that Xi Yuanxiu bought in the capital was the one where he and Xu Lai met, but it was not because it was to be kept as a souvenir, but because the location of the restaurant was really good.

After Xi Yuanxiu opened the letter, he felt a little puzzled when he saw the content of the letter, and not only made an incredible "um" sound.

Liu Xiao thought something had happened to Xu Lai, and hurriedly asked what was wrong.

Xi Yuanxiu clutched the letter in his hand and said, "Cao Cheng said that the leader of the Chenghua Gang has found it!" ”

Liu Xiao saw that the expression on Xi Yuanxiu's face was not too good, so he asked, "This is not a good thing, why is your face so ugly?" ”

Xi Yuanxiu unfolded the letter again, stared at the word "mighty" on it, and said in a trembling tone: "It's the head of the mighty dart game, Wang Shichang!" ”