In Yangzhou City, the floating breeze in the early morning is not very big, but it is enough to blow the window open, and there is no coolness, only the warmth of the noisy hawkers' shouting, listening to these sounds, it also makes people want to enjoy more in the quilt.

Xi Yuanxiu and Liu Xiao, who came to Yangzhou last night, today's breakfast is very simple, a tea egg, a bowl of gruel, and half a drawer of buns, of course, this is Xi Yuanxiu's, Liu Xiao's needless to say, more than twice as much as this!

And last night in Zhou Wenbin's room, when everyone left, Xi Yuanxiu had already explained to Liu Xiao and asked him to tell Zhou Wenbin to go to the yamen today to see Zhou Wenbin's body.

After Liu Xiao stuffed the last oily meat bun into his mouth, he would be considered to have eaten it early.

Because before going to sleep last night, Xi Yuanxiu practiced again, causing him to be a little groggy today, Zhou Wenbin came to his room and called several times before he reacted.

Xi Yuanxiu smiled bitterly in embarrassment, and then the group talked briefly for a few words, then went downstairs and set off towards the morgue of the Yangzhou Mansion!

In this group of people, plus Zhou Wenbin's entourage, there are exactly four people, enough to play a table of finch cards, but this is Liu Xiao's idea that he has not been on the gambling table for many days.

As this Lord Qincha observed the people's situation along the way, it took a while for the Yangzhou Mansion, which was not far from Guangxing Building, to arrive.

A few people arrived at the yamen, but I don't know whether it was a coincidence or not, the gate of the Yangzhou government was closed, and it stands to reason that the officials of the state government should open the door to accept cases and accept petitions from the people, as if someone knew that they were coming, and there was no one to watch the door.

Zhou Wenbin couldn't help frowning and said, "Could it be that I drank too much of this foolish thing last night." ”

Xi Yuanxiu didn't show any impatience about this, but asked Zhou Wenbin: "Why don't you go to the Salt and Iron Division, as far as I know, you don't seem to have visited there yet?" ”

Zhou Wenbin was a little red-faced by Xi Yuanxiu, because since he arrived in Yangzhou, he has always been guided by others to handle the case, except for the first interrogation of Zhao Benliu, the rest of the things seem to have been completed with the help of Xi Yuanxiu.

And the clues he found were burned all by the fire case.

However, he thought that after all, they were all handling cases for the imperial court, as long as there was a result, these were nothing, and no one's credit was within Zhou Wenbin's consideration, so he didn't think about it anymore.

And the Yangzhou Mansion is not far from the Salt and Iron Division, and several people were led by Liu Xiao, and they turned two alleys to the door of the Salt and Iron Division.

The first thing that catches your eye is the plaque of the Salt and Iron Division, three gilded characters "Salt and Iron Division" are hung high on the door, the stone carvings located on both sides of the door are lifelike, and the newly painted vermilion paint on the door, all of which show the word rich and magnificent, at first glance I thought it was the door of a large family.

Liu Xiao looked at the gate of the Salt and Iron Division, and said in surprise: "It is said that this Salt and Iron Division is in charge of the Salt and Iron Division, and it is a famous and wealthy yamen, I didn't expect it to be so rich, you look at the lion, you look at the plaque, I thought I came to the palace!" ”

As the name suggests, the Salt and Iron Division is in charge of salt and iron, salt is a daily necessity for the common people and even the nobles of the imperial palace, and iron is the key to smelting the weapons of marching and fighting, so theoretically speaking, iron is more important than salt.

And the salt and iron division is such a special yamen organ, which is also directly under the supervision of His Majesty the Emperor, and is at the same level as the state capitals in various places, and is also a third-grade official, and it also has the implication of pressing half of the prefects in various places.

After hearing this, Zhou Wenbin snorted coldly on the side and said: "He bent the salt and iron of the salt and iron division so that he didn't dare to make this like this so blatantly, it was the Xue Zhifu who was sympathetic to his colleagues, and said that he wanted the bosses in Yangzhou City to see that the salt and iron division was in a hurry because of the recent private salt case, and hoped that the merchants in the city would share the worries of the country and let them pay out of their own pockets to rebuild this salt and iron division!" ”

Even Xi Yuanxiu not only sighed secretly, this Xue Luping is really a big deal, this is a total of down, but it is not a lot of money, this Xue Luping did not put it in his pocket, but he sent it to others, he beat the autumn wind, he is really a little too sympathetic to his colleagues!

However, as far as Xi Yuanxiu knows, although these two people are both working in Yangzhou, they don't have any actual interactions on the surface, so after the start of this case, there was too much contact!

The two top officials of the state capital hooked up together, and such a result was not liked by His Majesty the Emperor, but I don't know if the one who was far away in Chang'an could know.

Xi Yuanxiu didn't inform Zhou Wenbin of these inferences, according to the character of this Lord Zhou, I don't know when he was angry, so he said it, which embarrassed everyone.

Before they could go up and knock on the door, the door opened first, and the person who appeared inside was Li Yuanhuan, who left last night, and that Lord Xiao Ye Xiao.

Xiao Ye was standing behind Li Yuanhuan at this time, and he happened to see the four people at the door, looking at these people with expressionless faces.

Li Yuanhuan stepped forward with a smile and said, "Lord Zhou and my brother are here to ask about the case?" ”

"I've seen Your Highness!" After Zhou Wenbin saluted, he said: "I didn't expect His Royal Highness to come so early, why didn't you inform the lower officials?" ”

After Zhou Wenbin said this, Xi Yuanxiu felt that this Lord Zhou was also a fool who read the book of death, he was a prince, why did he still notify you of this Qincha, and he really regarded the appointment decree with a few words written on it as the imperial decree to supervise the society.

However, Zhou Wenbin is indeed the kind of official that Xi Yuanxiu's father likes the most, he only cares about things, regardless of people's feelings!

Li Yuanhuan was still the same as before, but he didn't show any displeasure, but his tone was not too good, and he said: "Lord Zhou's words seem to mean that this king must tell you what he does first!" ”

After all, Li Yuanhuan is now the prince of Guiwei, not the prince who lives in the deep courtyard of the palace, and has to go to the emperor every day to ask for peace, and he may become the king of a country in the future, so it is naturally impossible to treat officials who are officials in the court like that, then he is not a child of the Li family!

Zhou Wenbin was not too stupid, he reacted quickly, and hurriedly said: "The lower official has no such intention, please don't take it to heart Your Highness!" ”

Li Yuanhuan ignored him, but whispered to Xi Yuanxiu, who was standing aside watching the play: "Brother, Yuanhuan has already learned enough about Lord Yantie Sixiao, why don't we go back to the inn and talk in detail?" ”

In fact, Xi Yuanxiu didn't want to come to Yantiesi, he just wanted to see Ma Anbang's corpse now, as well as Zhao Benliu, who was lying in the hospital hall and didn't know whether he was alive or dead.

As for the news provided by the Salt and Iron Division, it doesn't matter at all, if it is useful, it will have been found out who is making up the private salt business, so there is no need to send Qin from the court.

Xi Yuanxiu Zhou Wenbin came today, just to put some pressure on the salt and iron division, to assist in the investigation of the case, and to stop doing nothing, and today Li Yuanhuan seems to have done this matter first.

With so many people here, Xi Yuanxiu did not object to Li Yuanhuan's suggestion, nodded, made a gesture of please, and motioned to go back to the inn and said.

However, when he was on the road, Xi Yuanxiu whispered to Li Yuanhuan that he wanted to go to see Ma Anbang's body first, Li Yuanhuan seemed to have known about it for a long time, smiled faintly, and pointed to Xi Yuanxiu with his hand.

It turned out that Li Yuanhuan didn't plan to go back to the inn, it seems that he didn't plan to talk about coming to Yangzhou Mansion in front of Xiao Ye, of course, it may be that he didn't want to go to Guangxing Tower to see His Royal Highness the Prince!

With this dedication to the king, things are naturally much easier, just go up and smash the door of the mansion, after Bian Ying knocked one after another, after a while, a government official who had not yet put on his clothes came over and opened the door, and before he could speak, he was directly put on the ground by Bian Ying.

Li Yuanhuan walked up the steps slowly, looked at the official who was pressed under Bian Ying's body, and asked, "Is that why you Xue Governor's Mansion asked you to be such an errand?" ”

The man who was pressed under the bottom raised his head only to find that it was Li Yuanhuan, and hurriedly admitted his mistake, then turned his head hard, and shouted to the back: "His Royal Highness Xianwang has arrived, come and greet him, come and greet him!" ”

After waiting for a while, Xue Luping ran to Li Yuanhuan as if he was being driven from behind, and knelt down directly without standing firmly.

Liu Xiao couldn't hold back his laughter at this time, in order not to make this adult hate himself even more, he turned his head over, Zhou Wenbin and Xi Yuanxiu were fine, there was no expression.

Because Jingguo did not bow down, he was really embarrassed this time, Li Yuanhuan looked at Xue Luping, who got up in a hurry, and asked, "It seems that Lord Xue didn't rest well last night?" ”

Xue Luping wiped the soil on his clothes, and replied with some embarrassment: "Back to Your Highness, the lower official was busy with official business last night, so he slept a little late!" ”

Li Yuanhuan looked at these people in the courtyard, not only laughed angrily, but said, "So these people in your yamen were busy with you last night!" ”

Xue Luping looked back at the cadres under his hands, dressed neatly, holding official hats in their hands, and running out of the ropes only wearing middle coats, standing scattered, not as neat as those grass robbers who went up the mountain to be bandits.

Xue Luping knew that training his subordinates now could not save the situation, so he stood there respectfully and waited for Li Yuanhuan to fall.

Li Yuanhuan didn't say anything, he knew that Yangzhou had always been like this, so he just asked Xue Luping to take him to the morgue, and Xue Luping hurriedly asked the official in the back who didn't even wear pants to take Li Yuanhuan and his party to the morgue!

After everyone came to the morgue, Liu Xiao said to let Bian Ying stay outside with him for a while, after all, it has not been too long since what happened in the Scoop City casino last time, and the appearance of several corpses that night is still lingering in Liu Xiao's heart.

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