"Right now, the Wa Kingdom feels that it has climbed the big tree of the Jin Kingdom, so it doesn't take the suzerainty country in its eyes?" Zhao Huan said with a sigh.

For the Wa State, the Great Song Dynasty was its suzerain, and there was no problem at all, after all, Zhao Huan had personally issued an edict and canonized Emperor Chongde of the Wa State as the King of Chongde, a fact that was recognized by the Wa State.

But now, Emperor Toba decided that the Great Song Dynasty had accepted King Chongde, a political criminal of the Wa Kingdom, and also accepted the Jin people, and intended to get rid of the control of the Great Song Dynasty.

However, the entry of the Jin people did not bring stability to the Wa Kingdom, on the contrary, it put the Wa Kingdom in a state of turmoil.

The power of the plague surpassed the knowledge of Emperor Toba. That's why I came to the Great Song Dynasty with the 30 million taels of silver, of course, with the intention of currying favor with the Great Song Dynasty.

The wavering Wa Kingdom is destined to suffer in this plague that is enough to destroy the country and slaughter the country.

This is Zhao Huan's cognition, and it is also the cognition of the princes in the court.

"Let's not talk about the Wa Kingdom, the Si Zheng of the Bo Division of Tangkou City wants to close the wharf to prevent the plague of the Wa Kingdom from entering the Great Song Dynasty, and I rejected his Zai." Zhao Huan took out a notebook and handed it to Zhao Ying, asking the courtiers to take a look at it together.

After reading the notebook, Li Mixun asked with a puzzled face, "No?" ”

"No, it's a one-size-fits-all lazy policy."

"I think about it, because the cold winter is coming, the sea is frozen, the ships are impassable, it doesn't matter if it is closed or not, but Tangkou has become the only sea trade entrance of the Great Song City, a large number of merchants are doing business at sea, tens of thousands of Song people are still drifting on the sea, if the dock is closed, how can they come back?" Zhao Huan nodded and said.

He made this decision, in fact, he also took a great risk, if the plague really spread to the Great Song Dynasty through Tangkou, the situation would become even more difficult to control.

But it has to be like this, is it possible to let the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty float on the sea like this?

The Wa Kingdom, Goryeo, Champong, and Wanli Haitang had frequent trade and trade, and a large number of Song people went to sea to trade.

"The officials are benevolent, and the ministers think that although the closure of the country is conducive to epidemic prevention, the closure of legal access channels will make those who intend to come to the Great Song Dynasty take risks. The increase in the number of illegal passages will make it more difficult to contain, leading to the further spread of the plague. Li Gang praised the official family and expressed his opinion.

Will closing the docks stop the Great Song merchants and the Fan people who want to come to the Great Song Dynasty from the Wa Kingdom, Goryeo, Champong, and Wanli Haitang? Obviously not, once the illegal passage starts, the Great Song Dynasty will face a more serious threat.

Controllable and uncontrollable are two completely opposite outcomes.

"Let's go back to Chen Zimei. How does Lee Dazai think it is good? Zhao Huan asked with a smile, looking at Li Gang's face, he needed to reach a consensus with Li Gang first.

Li Gang thought for a while and said: "The Chen family is gone, and there are still the Tang family, the Wang family, and the Liu family, but if the law of the country is messed up, the country will not be a country. ”

Zhao Huan nodded, waved his hand, and motioned for the courtiers to leave the Wende Palace, he rubbed his slightly swollen temples, for the Chen family, who was very handy, of course Zhao Huan had a little bit of the mentality of catching Chen Zimei's hand, otherwise he would not have issued an edict to transfer to prison.

Xing Prison's transfer to Dali Temple means that this matter will have more room for maneuver, and it also represents his own attitude.

However, Song Shiqing stopped him, and Li Gang said the same now. If Chen Zimei is not right, then what should be done.

"The minister thinks that this matter still needs to be investigated and then conclusive, and it is not easy for the Chen family." Li Gang also said a good word to the Chen family.

After all, since the Chen family ascended the throne from the official family, except for sending thin horses to the official family and the emperor, there has been no misconduct, and the thin horses are not liked by the official family, and the Chen family immediately stopped raising thin horses.

The personnel specially dispatched to investigate the case have already traveled to Jingzhou, and after the officials got off the road, they were actually ceremoniously entertained by the local prefect, and the officials led by Cheng Chu directly shirked the hospitality of the Jingzhou prefect on the grounds that the officials were there.

But it was still delayed for some time, and it was transferred to Ezhou Mansion the next day. This made Cheng Chu slightly dissatisfied.

"What? The death of the shopkeeper of Anjifang? Cheng Chu looked at Zong Ze dumbfounded, if the most important person was killed, then there would be no way to investigate this case.

Zong Ze frowned, nodded a little helplessly, and said, "This person died very strangely. Come with me. ”

Zong Ze took Cheng Chu, who had not yet been repaired, to the Ezhou Water Prison, which was extremely well guarded, and of course Zong Ze knew the role of the Chen family to the official family, so he naturally asked Yang Mi to send the elite guards of the Jinghu Water Army.

But people, still dead.

"The face is yellow and vomits blood, the seven orifices bleed, the excretion is turbid, and he died of the poison of arsenic, when the Jinghu Navy felt that something was wrong, he opened the prison door and invited Wang Shan to treat him, but in the end he didn't save his life, and the amount he took was too big." Zong Ze gave Cheng Chu the case file for the post-autopsy.

Cheng Chu stood next to the corpse, looking at the high skylight, which was a very small window bar made for ventilation, and he pointed to where and asked, "Is it arsenic thrown in from there?" ”

The water prison is built along the mountains and rivers, and when it is heavily guarded, there are people patrolling it constantly, how can arsenic still enter the cell?

"It's not. There were no signs of climbing outside the skylight, the cobwebs were still there, and it was not poisoned from there, it was supposed that someone in the guards was entrusted to bring arsenic into the cell. Zong Ze shook his head and said.

Cheng Chu nodded and said, "Inner ghost." ”

It is not surprising why even the criminals who are valued by the official family can die violently.

"The officials who gathered all the guards in the past few days found a person who had escaped from the camp, and after chasing and searching, he found this person in Wuchongxi, but he was already dead." Zong Ze took Cheng Chu to look at the criminals who had escaped from the camp.

A servant stepped forward and said: "I was stabbed four times on my back, I was stabbed in the heart, and finally I was stabbed in the throat, and the fatal wound was a knife in the heart, and there was no splash in the throat, and the knife in the throat was made up after death." ”

Cheng Chu carefully observed the corpse with the clothes removed, which was completely consistent with what he said, and among the relics, he also found a bag package, but it was the outfit of the camp.

The most important thing was that a whole bag of about 1,000 silver dollars was on his body, proving that this man had fled the camp with a large amount of money.

Although the Great Song Dynasty army was not bad and the treatment was unprecedentedly good, it had not yet reached the point where he could own the assets of the Chinese family after serving in the army for three or five years.

A thousand silver dollars is a great fortune.

"There are very obvious traces of fighting at the scene of Wuchongxi, about more than 1,000 steps, the murderer is not for money, these more than 1,000 silver dollars were sprinkled on the ground at that time, and they were not picked up. After verification, 130 of them were paid by the Jinghu Naval Army, and the remaining 1,000 were not issued by the Jinghu Naval Army. Zong Ze said with a sigh.

Man dies for money, and birds die for food.