"No, look at it, now this Dharma Protector He is panting, and he doesn't have serious external injuries on his body, but he is a big living person who is in good health. But as long as he leaves the gate of our Imperial Horse Prison, even if he dies immediately, it has nothing to do with us! ”

The little eunuch who spoke was the cheerful and sunny lively eunuch who was brought up by Qiao Yuanan. He took the surname of his father-in-law Qiao Yuanan and gave himself a name, called Qiao Hai.

Qiao Hai got Lu Xiangyin's handwritten codex brought by Liu Zhi, and untied Qiao Yuanan, who was half alive and half dead, from the wooden shelf. After some changing clothes and washing, he was half-dragged and half-dragged on the chair in the main hall of the Imperial Horse Supervisor.

Sun Baizhi saw He Wendao's appearance of unknown life and death, and hurriedly stepped forward to investigate carefully. But the results of the investigation surprised him very much: that's right, as Qiao Hai said, at this time, on He Wendao's body, except for the blood marks strangled by the hemp rope, there were no obvious external injuries at all. Although it is not clear what kind of inhuman torture he has suffered, one thing is certain, that is, He Wendao's current state is really only one breath more than a living person.

“……… After all, I am a doctor, and although I don't know what you Imperial Horse Supervisor has used, his current physical condition cannot be hidden from me...... It's okay, I'll take him back to heal first, and if he comes back to life, it's fine; But he He Wendao only needs to die......"

Sun Baizhi turned around, stretched out her index finger, and pointed to Lu Xiangyin, who was sitting on the Taishi's chair with his eyes closed:

"As long as he He Wendao dies, I dare to guarantee that Supervisor Lu will be his first burial! You don't need to doubt my abilities, because I just have to sit on the sidelines and watch to get this result! ”

After speaking, Sun Baizhi put He Wendao's lowered hands on his shoulders, barely supported his figure, and staggered towards the gate of the Imperial Horse Supervisor.

"Someone, send Dr. Sun Er......"

"Not necessarily!"

Lu Xiangyin's kindness was rejected by him, and he was not annoyed or angry, but just looked at the trembling backs of Sun Baizhi and He Wendao with a smile, and his eyes were full of appreciation.

Inside the Shen Mansion on Hezhong Street, Shen Gui and a group of goddesses and wizards who came from all over the country were anxiously waiting for Sun Baizhi to "return triumphantly". But what everyone didn't expect was that the first person to come back to "make a difference" turned out to be Fu Yi!

Of course, at this time, Fu Yi should have been scattered in all corners of Fengjing City with the Winter Solstice people led by the Fourteenth to observe abnormal movements.

And now that he didn't need to say it, Shen Gui also knew that they had indeed discovered an unusual movement—because Shan Qingquan was standing behind Fu Yi, with a steel knife stretched out in his right hand, tightly against Fu Yi's neck:

"I said, Lao Dan, are you a fool? Hasn't the relationship between our two been pretty good lately? Why are you still holding Xiaoyi? It's easy to say anything, you put the knife down first. And don't forget, I don't know when I will become your Li family's Chenglong fast son-in-law! ”

Shan Qingquan looked relaxed, and patted Fu Yi's face with the blade of the knife, and said in a helpless tone:

"If I don't restrain him, I won't be able to get here safely! Ask yourself, how many men and horses did he ambush near my Li family? Tell me about my, I think you're sick! What are you doing sending someone to squat in our Prime Minister's Mansion? ”

Shan Qingquan's words also stunned Shen Guiwen, he tilted his head and asked Fu Yi:

“…… Oh, yes...... That's right...... Xiaoyi, why did you take the winter solstice to squat at the door of the Prime Minister's Mansion? What can you do there? ”

Fu Yi also said helplessly:

"I said Shen Gui, you dare to trust Li Deng so much because of a girl? If you think about it carefully, in such a short period of time, the characters of Fengjing City, large and small, have appeared to a greater or lesser extent, only his Li family silently sat on the mountain and watched the tiger fight; After Liu Blind made another fuss, you and "that one" completely stood on the opposite side. Do you want me to tell you a story about a sandpiper and a clam competing for a fisherman's profit? If this is the dowry you gave to Miss Li, it is really a bit too expensive, right? ”

Shen Gui also scratched his head when he heard his "secret". He looked left and right at the shamans in the room, and only smiled:

"And what did you find? …… In addition to being pinched by the neck of the single hero? In fact, you don't need to look to know that the reason why the Prime Minister's Mansion has fallen into a period of silence recently is not because he wants to reap the benefits at all, but because he is busy dealing with Zhang Huangling...... Or rather, the trouble caused by the prince. ”

The trouble in Shen Gui's mouth is that before the ancestor worship ceremony, the prince borrowed troops from Zhang Huangling, the commander of the Flying Tiger Army, to "rob" the Northern Yan caravan, and finally met the winter solstice and led to the annihilation of the entire army. And they also folded on Zhongshan Road, that is, Pei Ya's territory. Needless to say, I also know that the number one person responsible for this incident must be Zhang Huangling, the commander of the Flying Tiger Army; And Pei Ya, the new governor of Zhongshan Road, was inevitably implicated.

However, a discerning person can naturally see clearly: In this incident, the opponents standing on both sides of the battlefield are actually Li Deng and Yan Hunt. Although Zhang Huangling is a little wavering in his attitude, at present, he is still undoubtedly a member of the Dongyou Li family; And Pei Ya, the second person responsible for this matter, and the initiator of the crown prince Yan Day, are also the hardcore henchmen of Emperor Xuande.

Last time, the emperor sent Li Deng, but because the ancestor worship ceremony was imminent, he didn't have time to entangle more, but just ordered Li Deng to find out the case in secret. Because the characters involved in this case are either the commanders of the first army, or the governors all the way, or even coerced the crown prince of the dynasty, it is really not appropriate to make a big show.

That is, after Yan Hunt and Shen Gui kept trying, and even Liu Banxian's "one force to reduce ten meetings" operation to break into the palace, all the minions of the entire prime minister's system focused on this incident. Of course, such efforts are not for nothing.

It is also strange to say that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Yan Tian privately mobilized the soldiers and horses of the Flying Tiger Army, and the ultimate goal was to destroy the trade route from Beiyan to the Mobei grassland!

Most of the people in the Mobei grassland make a living from nomadism. With the exception of livestock, horses, skins and dairy products, there are simply no high value-added products that can be traded. The so-called "increase in the amount of food in the famine year", in such a perennial bitter cold place, if you want to live, there are many necessities! Whether it is grain or tea, cloth or tools, and even the most important iron tools, they can only be exchanged from others by trade; And they even hold the pricing power of their own goods in the hands of others.

Previously, Mobei and Beiyan attacked from both sides, and they were surrounded by the border of Youbei, and the two sides formed a horn and relied on each other. In fact, that time was a speculative action with a lot of thunder and rain, but it left a deep shadow in the hearts of Yan Hunt and Yan Day's father and son. If you let ordinary people come to see, if you change the emperor at will, isn't it still the same to hand over the emperor's grain? Whether it is Youbei, Beiyan or Nankang, everyone has the same clan, the same race and the same culture, who will be the emperor in the end, and what does it have to do with me, a common man?

But the father and son of the Yan family obviously can't think like this. After Yan Hunt personally taught him one day, he left an assignment for himself, the "apprentice son": how to defend against this two-sided situation, or how to break the situation.

After several nights of hard thinking and meditation, the crown prince Yan Tian finally came up with a "clever plan".

Although Youbei Third Road produces grain, due to weather and geological reasons, it does not produce tea or silk, and the smelting process is only at an ordinary level. Because of this, the bulk commodity trade with the Mobei grassland, except for the grain trade because of the closer distance, all other trades were purchased by passing through the trade routes in Youbei and going to Nankang and Beiyan.

For example, it's like a customer borrowing the back door of your store every day, going to the next store to buy something at a high price, and only in the end only when he borrows home to symbolically buy some worthless gadgets in passing.

is like this, in the eyes of the Yan family's father and son, they are simply angry and greedy: Your business is in full swing, I want to raise some business taxes to prevent your army from knocking, you can eat meat and chirp, now you don't even want to leave me soup, and want to join forces and smash my pot, it's really "tolerable or unbearable"!

So, the good way that the prince came up with with painstakingly was to seconded the Flying Tiger sergeants to pretend to be bandits, and then intercept and kill the horse gangs of the Mobei Grassland and various forces, and destroy the trade routes to and fro. In this way, what you need in Mobei, I will go to other places to buy it at a low price, and then sell it to the grassland at a high price. In the eyes of the prince, these two dealers are the fattest and most idle errands in the world.

But he didn't know that his little actions, his little thoughts, were really implemented, and they seemed so naïve and ridiculous to others.