The ancients had a poem: fireworks go down to Yangzhou in March

However, September in Yangzhou City is also a beautiful scenery in the world, this rich ancient city located in the east of Jingguo, this is the thirteenth year that it has existed in the land of Jingguo.

However, it is not young at all, because Yangzhou City is like a stepmother's child to Jingguo, but this mother has special affection for her child, and it is not like her own child, Liangcheng, who can only look at Chang'an City from afar.

Compared with Chang'an City, Yangzhou City is more like the back garden of dignitaries, because it is far away from the constraints in the palace, and the officials who come here can enjoy themselves and indulge themselves.

The youngest son raised by the stepmother has finally ushered in its own September, and in Yangzhou City in this season, most people's faces are filled with happy expressions.

With such cool weather, pedestrians walking on the road, shop owners along the streets, and street vendors all feel the charm of this September day!

But not everyone is so happy, such as Ma Anbang, who thought he could glorify his ancestors at the city gate that day.

On the day he arrested Zhao Benliu, because the place where he was injured by Zhao Benliu was really painful.

But he was anxious to take this great credit, so he casually pasted a few bullshit plasters in the medical hall, and then happily went to Yangzhou Yamen to receive the reward.

Even Ma Anbang, who is not quick in his thinking, can think that as long as he tells the above about this big case that has caused a sensation in the whole country, he can be promoted and make a fortune immediately, and then get the appreciation from above.

Lao Ma's family will finally be able to get an ancestral hall or something like that in the future, no worse than those big families.

The current prefect of Yangzhou, Xue Luping, this Lord Xue is the youngest son in Yangzhou City, and the day after he arrived in the arms of his stepmother, he took over the entire Yangzhou.

It is said that this adult may have served in the Dongqiao Army, so he can become the governor of a state in one fell swoop from an ordinary unknown.

Xue Luping inquired about Ma Anbang's whole incident, and then learned about the situation in detail, and then thought about it, and indeed did not treat Ma Anbang badly.

Xue Luping is not a good boss, and he gave Ma Anbang a month's long vacation, so he didn't have to patrol the city, and of course he didn't have to receive this month's salary.

Zhao Benliu, who was arrested by Ma Anbang, was personally interrogated by the prefect, but Zhao Benliu flatly denied that he was transporting smuggled salt, and insisted that the fruit in the car was changed by others.

When he resisted arrest on the street and injured officers and soldiers, he refused to admit it, and the prefect seemed to want to be at ease, not to investigate deeply, but to put him in prison and serve him with good food and drink.

"Old horse, open the door!"

Outside Ma Anbang's house, Zhu Wuye looked displeased, because he had knocked on the door for almost half an hour, but Ma Anbang inside was like his ears were plugged by donkey hair, and he couldn't hear the shouts and knocks outside.

With a "bang", the already dilapidated wooden door was kicked open by Zhu Wuye.

He went in and saw Ma Anbang, who was leaning against the table and drunk, he ran over and shook Ma Anbang vigorously, and Ma Anbang, who was dazed, looked up at Zhu Wuye.

This tall man, at this time, did not have the chic bearing of the Yangzhou City Gate that day, and the whole person seemed to have been plucked out of his hair, ready to be used to make Yangzhou style chicken, full of decadence.

"Lao Zhu, do we have a tomorrow in Jingguo?"

Ma Anbang's words made Zhu Wuye, who originally wanted to persuade him to cheer up, speechless for a while, he never thought that a man who had partnered with him for so many years, who greeted other people's parents with one mouth, and who didn't know a few words, could say such a thing!

"First of all, the prime minister who did his best for Jingguo could be sent to prison for such a ridiculous reason by the current saint who sat on his throne without worries. Now there is such a big case with this confused dog official, and he will not investigate it. I think if this matter hadn't been known to the court, this dog official would have let that kid go directly, Lao Zhu, we don't care, we don't have any skills, it's a big deal not to go back to the countryside to make a living. But it's just that the men who are fighting at the border are suffering, and it is this stupid emperor and corrupt officials who have been protecting them! ”

At this time, Ma Anbang's eyes were almost filled with tears in his hands, and the eight-foot-tall man was so sad to cry, but the words that came out of his mouth sounded even more chilling!

Zhu Wuye also picked up the bowl, poured it full of wine, and then dried it down, and said: "Old Ma, cheer up, although it is true that our Emperor His Majesty has done something that is not very pleasant, but you can rest assured, such a serious matter of private salt, Your Majesty will not be confused, Lord Zhou Wenbin, the servant of the Ministry sent by the court, will arrive in Yangzhou today, and His Royal Highness the King of Xian is estimated to have arrived at this time!" ”

Ma Anbang sighed, he was almost completely disappointed at this time, got up and went to the cabinet to get the wine, and said, "I hope!" ”

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"Your Highness, this Yangzhou City is really pleasant, and it is not a loss that it can be as famous as Suzhou and Hangzhou!"

After Li Yuanhuan and Xi Yuanxiu said goodbye that night, they had been in Yangzhou for four days, but the strange thing is. He did not live directly in the official post in Yangzhou, but found an ordinary inn with Bian Ying to live in, as if he was afraid that others would know his traces.

"Bian Ying, do you think the third brother will come with the people in the court or will he arrive first?" Li Yuanhuan said to Bian Ying, who was haggling with a fruit vendor on the street.

Li Yuanhuan, who had just learned that he had been appointed to assist in the investigation of the case, was hanging out with Bian Ying in Yangzhou City.

Bian Ying wiped the apple he had just bought with the handkerchief in his arms and handed it to Li Yuanhuan, and when he saw him take it, he said: "The subordinates guessed that the prince was already on the road before the Asali Qincha set off!" ”

Li Yuanhuan played with the apple in his hand, a smile appeared on his face, and asked, "How can you see this, let's hear it!" ”

"Your subordinates are bold and outspoken, please don't be surprised, now the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty know that you and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince are fighting the fiercest, Your Majesty has sent someone to tell Your Highness that you are here to handle the case, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince must have just received the appointment from the court and rushed here overnight, for fear that you will steal the limelight!"

Bian Ying finished with a little pride on his face, and then began to wipe the apple in his hand with his cuff.

Li Yuanhuan shook his head with a smile, and asked again: "The prince will come if he wants to come, I am not afraid that he will rob me of this credit, but what have you found in Yangzhou in the past two days?" ”

Bian Ying thought about it carefully, and then said to Li Yuanhuan: "I hope Your Highness forgives me, Bian Ying hasn't found anything in the past few days, the people here have eaten and drunk, and everyone is overjoyed, I really don't feel anything special!" ”

"Didn't you find that everyone was indifferent to this case of private salt, and no one even talked about it, as if this incident didn't happen here at all!"

"If Your Highness says that, I feel a little bit of it!"

Li Yuanhuan paused, looked at the city gate with the word "Yangzhou" written on it, and said: "In fact, they prefer someone to sell salt, after the prime minister was imprisoned, the ministers of the court are writing more and more outrageous, and the father doesn't know if he is really confused, or if he has other plans, he doesn't even think about raising the price of salt, and he directly gives it to the people below." Even I can't stand it anymore, that's why I took you from the capital to the south for so long! ”

"So, in fact, this matter is good for the people?" Bian Ying threw aside the eaten pit and asked Li Yuanhuan.

"That's right, but for the country, this is robbing the interests of the country, and it is in the big scene where the rule of law is so strict, but the big man that the smuggler said, I'm very interested!"

"Which one does Your Highness think is in the court?"

"You kid have doubts about yourself and don't say it, let me, Your Highness, say it, lest you fall into the truth?"

The two of them walked while talking, and they were almost at the door of the inn where they lived, the two glanced at each other, interrupted the conversation, went upstairs, and after closing the door, Bian Ying began to say again: "The subordinates think that Chai Hou Ye is the most suspicious, and everyone in the court knows that Chai Hou Ye is a person, and a few new officials in the capital do not go to his place to worship the pier, and there was Xi Xiangguo at the beginning, and now there is only one Wang Xiangye in the capital who can be on an equal footing with him!" ”

Li Yuanhuan smiled, did not speak, but took out a dagger, divided the apple that he hadn't eaten just now into four petals, and then ate it slowly, but he finally left two petals on the table for the guests who came from afar.

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After nearly half a month, our Lord Zhou is finally going to the foot of the city wall in Yangzhou.

He grew up in Kyoto, and he never thought that he would be like this when he first went out, although he rode in a carriage and did not ride a horse, but after all, the road was far away and too bumpy.

After half a month of hard work, the whole person is already a little yellow and thin, not at all like the officials who volunteered in the court that day, but like the victims who just escaped from the disaster area.

The guards who came with him had already seen this adult vomit for the third time today, and there were no less than twenty times along the way, so it was not surprising.

When Zhou Wenbin didn't get up after vomiting, a man on horseback came, and said to Zhou Wenbin that the prefect had sent them to pick them up, and he just went to the place where he lived.

Zhou Wenbin agreed, but he thought in his heart that he had just arrived in Yangzhou, and someone came out to pick me up before he even entered the city gate, which shows how many people are being watched along the way, and this Yangzhou will not look shallower than the capital!

It's just that he didn't know that at the same place where he vomited under the city wall just now, directly above him, there was a man in a black satin robe, standing on the city wall very early, frowning, looking at him for a long, long time!

It's like when Zhou Wenbin left the capital, he kept watching like this!