This red-faced man is the uncle of Empress Changsun, Sun Shunde, the general of Zuo Xiaowei, the prince of Xue Guogong, who is currently the governor of Luoyang and the assassin of Luozhou, with military and political power in one, holding 30,000 heavy soldiers, and is a feudal official that Li Shimin relies on very much.

In front of him were Luoyang Changshi Wei Stork and Luoyang Sima Ma Wengui, one thin and tall, the other short and fat, who were his second generals.

Changshi Wei Stork said: "Yes, His Royal Highness the King of Qi was originally just passing through Luokou, and he didn't know where the robbers came from, so he pretended to be His Royal Highness the King of Qi. It was probably this incident that angered him, so he wanted to investigate. ”

Sima Ma Wengui said disapprerovingly: "He is a foreigner, what can he find when passing by here?" I think he'll leave in a few days, and if he can't find anything. ”

Wei Stork said: "This matter must not be careless. The identity of the gang of robbers has not yet been determined, and the key is that the tax supervisor Chen Jun at the Luokou toll station was taken away by them. This Chen Jun knows most of the secrets on the river, and if he tells the secrets and His Royal Highness the King of Qi knows, it will be a big disaster. ”

The eldest grandson Shunde said: "Li You, this kid is not simple, don't look at his youth, he was able to pacify Tuyuhun and the grassland, and also laid down the Western Regions for the imperial court. It is said that he holds the Imperial Gold Medal in his hand. The most important thing is that he is at odds with King Wei, and it is best not to let him grasp any tricks in this matter. ”

When the eldest grandson Shunde said this, he asked Ma Wengui: "You are in charge of public security, tell me, who are those robbers?" ”

Ma Wengui said: "The river has always had a deep contradiction with Caokou, and this matter is eighty percent related to them. ”

Wei Stork said: "Let's find that Chen Jun quickly, and we can't let him see His Royal Highness King Qi." ”

The eldest grandson Shunde said: "If you find that Chen Jun, don't leave it alive." ”

Ma Wengui said: "Xue Guogong, leave this matter to the lower officials." My opinion is that we are making a big show of arresting the robbers for His Royal Highness King Qi, deliberately causing a storm in the city, claiming that we will severely punish those robbers, so that those robbers will not dare to show their faces, and prevent them from coming into contact with His Royal Highness King Qi.

The lower officials will secretly send someone to investigate Chenjun's affairs, warn his family and those who may be related to him, and prevent them from providing clues to His Royal Highness King Qi. ”

Wei Stork said: "This is not enough, we must send someone to keep an eye on His Royal Highness King Qi's every move, to see who he is in contact with, if necessary, to get rid of those who want to approach him, kill the chickens and monkeys, so that he can't get a clue." ”

The eldest grandson Shunde said: "It makes sense. In this way, in order to prevent Li You from staying here for a long time, I sent someone to Chang'an, so that the King of Wei could try to remind His Majesty that Li You was interfering with local government affairs in Luoyang and harassing the people. Let His Majesty force him to leave Luoyang as soon as possible and go to Yangzhou to take up his post. ”

Wei Stork said: "Let's take a three-pronged approach, the lower officials will leave for Luokou, one is to go to the toll booth to plug the possible loopholes inside." The second is to go and meet His Royal Highness the King of Qi, and in the name of assisting in the case, we will install our own people by his side. ”

The eldest grandson Shunde said; "Okay, that's it. Remember, don't drag things up, you must do it neatly, and you must resolutely get rid of anyone who may leak secrets. ”

"Yes, Xue Guogong, the lower officials will go on an errand." Wei Stork and Ma Wengui said.

The night is vast, and the moonlight is like water.

On the wharf of Luohe Sanlizhuang, there is a large mansion at the east end of the wharf, which has twenty houses, and at the door of the house, there are several fierce guards. This is the old nest of the Luoyang notch.

In a room in the backyard, a large man sits on the edge of the kang, and a table is placed on the edge of the kang, on which some wine and food are placed. This person is about 40 years old, with a square face, a wide head, a high nose bridge, and thick eyebrows. The temperature in Luoyang at the beginning of April is not high, and the temperature at night is even lower. However, he wore only a sweatshirt on his upper body, revealing his shoulders and two muscular arms.

He is Luoyang's notch Huang Laoba, known as Ba Ye.

At this moment, he held the wine glass in one hand and asked, "Xiao Qi, how could Xiu Gu pretend to be that King of Qi?" "Aunt Xiu is the daughter of Ba Ye, she has been growing up with her grandmother in the countryside, and she only came to the city at the beginning of the year, and she caused such a big trouble when she went out for the first time.

Standing in front of him was a young man with a small nose and eyes, who looked very clever. His name is Lu Xiaoqi, and he is the personal entourage of Ba Ye.

He said: "Master Ba, that day Xiugu took a few small people to Hanjia to escort the grain ship, and met a group of people there, those men and women, wearing very luxurious clothes, looked like some big people.

Xiu Gu asked people to inquire about it, and said that those people were the prince of Qi from Chang'an.

We escorted the grain ship, and the next stop was the Luokou toll gate, and you know that the ship was carrying private salt. Xiu Gu heard that recently, the tax supervisor Chen Jun has always been looking for trouble with our notch. She was worried that Luokou would encounter his difficulties, so she thought about pretending to be the King of Qi.

Xiugu let the small one spend the same money, bought a fake waist card, and spent another 100 Wen, so that people carved a 'Qi' character on it.

Feilong's appearance and height are a bit similar to that King of Qi, so he pretended to be the King of Qi, and Xiugu pretended to be his daughter-in-law, so he went to Luokou.

At the toll booth, that Chen Jun probably heard that King Qi was going to pass by here, and he hadn't seen King Qi and his waist card, so he didn't suspect it.

Originally, Chen Jun had already been released, but I didn't know what Xiu Gu thought, so she suddenly asked that Chen Jun to follow south.

Later, we locked that Chen Jun in the cave of Jiming Mountain. ”

Ba Ye scratched his scalp and said helplessly: "This kid is willful when he is young, and he always doesn't know the importance of doing things. This is also to blame me, her aunt died early, and her grandmother was used to her, which made her such a troublesome character. ”

Lu Xiaoqi said: "Recently, there has been a lot of commotion outside, and the government is investigating this matter. What do you say? ”

Ba Ye said: "You go and tell Xiu Gu that they have been hiding there recently, don't come out." Let's wait until the limelight is over. ”

……

Dongwang Village, the eastern suburb of Cishui County.

Miao Cuilin, the uncle of Miao Xiting of Xishui County, is 58 years old this year, and he looks quite sturdy, and there is a middle-aged man next to him, who is the son of the old man.

Li You accompanied him to talk about Caoyun, the old man was very talkative, and talked about many interesting things on the rivers and lakes, but when he talked about Caoyun taxes and other issues, the old man diverted the topic.

The old man's son stopped talking, and he was about to say something, but was interrupted by the old man.

Li You and the others basically found nothing. Li You and the others had no choice but to say goodbye and leave.

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