Smuggling trade exists in almost all border areas, and Gwangju, Minju, Chuzhou, Sizhou, Xinyangjun and other places are particularly rampant, and they are the main places for a large amount of smuggling trade.

In addition to border smugglers, there are also people secretly carrying out some smuggling activities in the town, such as merchants, officials, and wealthy families, using various means to smuggle prohibited items out of the country for trading.

It can be said that the figures of all walks of life in the Great Song Dynasty formed a huge trading group mainly composed of merchants, including court envoys, officials at all levels, down to border soldiers and ordinary people.

The impact of the various conflicts between the Great Song Dynasty and the Jin State was very small, almost negligible, and even when there was a large-scale war between the two countries, even the battle of Niushou Mountain a few years ago, the smuggling trade was not affected much, and even because of the tense situation during the war, the Jin and Song courts were more active because of the embargo of materials.

"Salt, tea, cloud brocade, grain, livestock, medicinal herbs, copper coins, and even all kinds of books are willing to be sold to the gold people privately." Tao Qian followed behind Ye Qing, already numb to Ye Qing's action of tearing the seal.

Along the way, from the beginning of entering the mansion, the seals on the doors of almost every room they passed through were ruthlessly torn off and scattered all over the ground because Ye Qing wanted to go in and have a look, forming an extremely obvious "crime scene".

"And now new sticks, soaps and other items are even more sought-after, and they are also sold at unbelievable prices in the hands of smugglers." Tao Qian continued to follow Ye Qing and told Ye Qing what he had seen and heard in Jiankang all these years.

While listening to Tao Qian's words, he looked at it and touched it, as if he had arrived at his own home, but in Zhong Qing's eyes, all Ye Qing's seemingly random movements were no longer so simple in Tao Qian's eyes.

As a person from the Imperial City Division, they have their own unique means for some ways and methods of investigation, and Ye Qing's every move in each room seems to be random, but in fact, he is in full view of everyone, and he already knows the entire small mansion, as well as the owner's hobbies, etc.

"Looks like you're in a hurry." Ye Qing looked at it casually in the study, and some of the trading documents mixed with the bright books would fall to the ground like snow.

"What's in a hurry?" At this time, Zhong Qing finally asked.

Ye Qing handed over the documents that Mo Xiaobao picked up to Zhong Qing, and then casually flipped through the documents that Zhong Ping had reviewed on weekdays, and after looking at them, he handed them to Zhong Qing together: "Princess Xin, you might as well see what is different first." ”

The documents, letters and other things in Princess Xin's hand, Tao Qian on the side was also extremely curious, but even if he borrowed a few more guts, he didn't dare to come to Zhong Qing's side to look at those things.

"Before mentioning the prison seal here, obviously someone has already been here, I'm afraid that even Zhong Ping himself doesn't know about these things, right?" Ye Qing looked at Tao Qian's gaze at Zhong Qing, who had been frowning, and poked Tao Qian's arm and asked.

"It was sealed five days ago, so to speak." Tao Qian was stunned for a moment, but hurriedly answered Ye Qing's words.

"No wonder." Ye Qing nodded, looked up and down in the study, there was a calligraphy and painting on the wall, Ye Qing stared at it a few times again, and then saw Mo Xiaobao looking at him, until he nodded, Mo Xiaobao immediately walked out with a serious expression.

"What are you doing?" Tao Qian looked at the back of Mo Xiaobao, who was leaving quickly, and asked again in a daze.

Without waiting for Ye Qing to speak, Zhong Qing, who had been looking at the documents Ye Qing gave her, frowned at Ye Qing and shook her head and said, "I don't see anything, is there anything wrong?" ”

Ye Qing didn't even look at it, and directly picked two copies from the many documents in Zhong Qing's hand, and the two copies he picked happened to be the documents that he had privately traded with Jin Ren last month, and Zhong Ping's name was written in the lower right corner of the black and white letters.

handed the two documents in his hand to Tao Qian: "Look at what's wrong." ”

Wu Juan and Zhao Qi'er led the thirty guards of the Imperial City Division, and when Mo Xiaobao had just stepped out of the mansion, they happened to come to the door.

"What about the Commander?" Wu Juan asked with a serious expression.

"It's still in there." Mo Xiaobao turned his head and glanced behind him.

Wu Juan looked behind Mo Xiaobao with some anxiety, then looked at the seals that were still scattered on the ground, and said, "Pacify Yang Jian will arrive here soon, you go and tell the commander immediately, let him prepare early." ”

"So fast?" Mo Xiaobao's eyes widened, and he was about to run inside, but he was dragged by the military judge again, and handed over a secret letter in his hand, and the military judge who only listened said: "Give this letter to the commander immediately, and ask him to check it immediately." ”

Mo Xiaobao nodded, and then quickly ran to the study where Ye Qing and the three of them were.

Tao Qian and Zhong Qing in the study looked at Ye Qing with a hint of confusion, not knowing what was wrong with the documents written by Zhong Ping himself that Ye Qing said.

Quietly looking at the copied calligraphy and painting on the wall, he suddenly looked at Zhong Qing and asked, "This is the "Lingfei Sutra", right?" It should be the book of Xiao Zhong Yueguo, and this one on the wall, looking at the handwriting below is also imitating the handwriting of the small regular script is Zhong Lin, don't you think there is anything wrong? ”

The Zhong family did not have many celebrity ancestors with prominent identities and statuses, and Zhong Shaojing, that is, the Yue Guogong who was called Xiao Zhong by the calligraphy world, the first prime minister of Jiangnan, became the most prominent person in the Zhong family.

With the late Han Dynasty Three Kingdoms Zhong Xuan, that is, the more ancient ancestor of the Zhong family, is called: big bell, small bell.

One of the famous Xiaokai of "Lingfei Sutra", the name of the Taoist scripture, and this one on the wall is obviously given to Zhong Ping after Zhong Lin copied it.

Ye Qing, as a layman in calligraphy, went from not being able to read to seeing the doorway, and was completely forced out by Bai Chun, after all, if he didn't finish writing a word, he couldn't go to bed, or he had to go to Yan Chengcheng's boudoir, but the conditions were more harsh, and he had to read the book "Mengxi Writing Talk" he bought for half an hour.

"The same bell?" Zhong Qing looked at the bell character written by Zhong Ping in his hand, and then looked at Zhong Lin's own signature on the wall, and said with a surprised face.

"I think so, what do you think?" Ye Qing didn't answer Zhong Qing's words, but looked at Tao Qian and asked.

"When you say that, it's really ......." Tao Qian compared the almost identical bell characters, even if the descendants of the great calligraphers are copying the calligraphy of their ancestors, but when writing the proud surname, they naturally like to add some charm and muscles to it that they understand.

Ignoring Tao Qian's analysis of Zhong Zi, he took the secret letter in Mo Xiaobao's hand that had been opened by the military judge, and after reading it quickly, he nodded and signaled that Mo Xiaobao knew it.

Tao Qian, who was calling himself a slave again in front of Zhong Qing, watched Ye Qing quietly read the secret letter and handed it to Mo Xiaobao, a bad premonition instantly rose in his heart, and he no longer cared about the identity of Princess Zhong Qing, and blurted out, "What's wrong?" But was discovered? ”

"That's right, Yang Jian is rushing here." Ye Qing showed a smile at Tao Qian and said lightly.

"Let's go." Tao subconsciously wanted to go out.

Mo Xiaobao's eyes were quick, and he directly blocked Tao Qian's front with an arrow step, and then said to Ye Qing: "You can go through the back door, and Xu Qing will answer at the back door." ”

Ye Qing nodded at Princess Xin, and then walked up to Tao Qian, with a hint of schadenfreude, and said, "If you have work, the matter here will be handed over to you." ”

"Hey......." Tao Qian was in a hurry, and instantly understood in his heart that he had fallen for Ye Qing again, and he was still a thief ship that could never get off again, obviously now he was going to use himself to block Yang Jian's arrow.

But Ye Qing didn't give him a chance to continue talking, and walked to the back door with Zhong Qing.

Xu Qing at the back door had been waiting for a long time, and after Zhong Qing entered the carriage and Ye Qing sat down on the other side, the carriage immediately turned into another alley.

Zhong Qing in the carriage still didn't seem to understand at this time, and he guessed some reasons in his heart for Ye Qing suddenly avoiding appeasing Yang Jian and going through the back door.

After all, he is the princess of Xin, and he is a person who believes in the palace, and the grievances and grievances between Ye Qing and the king of Xin, and the open and secret battles are well known, obviously Ye Qing doesn't want people to misunderstand the relationship between him and the palace.

Zhong Qing, who was sitting in the carriage, was in a complicated mood, and reached out several times to knock on the carriage, but every time he stretched out his hand, he froze in the air for a long time, but he hesitated and put it down.

To appease Yang Jian, Yang Jian, the secretary of the ministry, Ye Qing avoided him obviously because he took into account the feelings of the Han family, and now he asked Ye Qing to help him find out his younger brother who was in prison, whether it was a false accusation or a real thing, obviously putting Ye Qing in a dilemma.

Between contradiction and hesitation, I only heard a sudden knock on the carriage board outside, and Ye Qing's voice sounded outside at this time: "I'm afraid you have to plan hard, or prepare for the worst." ”

"What do you mean?" Zhong Qing almost couldn't wait to blurt out her debut, and her heart was tightly pinched all of a sudden, is there really no way to do Zhong Ping's matter?

Only the sound of the carriage came to Zhong Qing's ears, but Ye Qing seemed to have disappeared and never answered her words.

Zhong Qing, who was sitting in the carriage, looked worried and anxious, looking at the curtain of the carriage, hoping that Ye Qing would immediately tell her what had happened.

"How much do you know about the king?" Ye Qing, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly lifted the curtain from outside, leaned his face to the car window and asked.

"Ah......h Zhong Qing, who was defenseless, was taken aback by Ye Qing's solemn appearance with a tight frown, put one hand on his chest, his expression was complicated, and after glancing at Ye Qing, he lowered his head and said, "What do you want to know?" ”

"Is there any holiday between King Xin and Zhao Ruyu?" Ye Qing asked.

"I ...... I don't know, I've never asked about these things. Zhong Qing's body sitting in the carriage couldn't help but stiffen, and he didn't even have the courage to look at Ye Qing.

Looking at Zhong Qing, who obviously avoided his questioning, Ye Qing held the car curtain with one hand, paused, and said: "Yang Jian came with Wang Gongwu, the commander of the Nankang Army, to put it bluntly, Zhong Ping's matter is not aimed at your Zhong family, but against King Xin, and even more than one person is targeting him, and Zhong Ping is just an introduction." ”