Zhao Junsheng waved his hand and said: "Your Excellency don't worry, raising tariffs is also a decision that my country has to make at present, but this situation will not last forever, it is just a product of a historical period, waiting for this special period to pass, China's import and export tariffs will return to normal, which will not cause much loss to your country!" In order to apologize, my country is willing to bear the full cost of the study and living of 39 children studying abroad in your country. ”

Arletst didn't think he could change Zhao Junsheng's decision, and he had no way to retract this decision, and now Qianguo said that he could bear the study and living expenses of the children studying abroad, which was also a kind of concession in a sense, and it was better to know how to advance and retreat, so he saluted and said: "Okay, I will communicate with those businessmen in my country!" ”

After sending away the pressure, Zhao Junsheng asked Kang Yide: "Have Li Shan and King Jing set off?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, they will leave tomorrow!"

Zhao Junsheng thought for a while and said to Kang Yide: "Tomorrow, you will send them on my behalf, and tell Li Shan and King Jing that you will have a few more eyes on the way, the incident of the Yellow River bursting the embankment and causing millions of victims in the year before last sounded the alarm bell for us, although the law of Daqian has been gradually improved in these years, there are still officials who dare to resist the law and violate the law as traitors. If there is no problem, the official will be reinstated later! ”

"The old slave obeys!"

Listen to the wind in the courtyard.

This is the residence arranged by the Qianguo official for the princess of Nanjun and the concubine Chu Yuan of the Southern Dynasty.

The princess of Nanjun went out to visit friends and returned in a carriage, the carriage stopped in the courtyard, and the two maids got down from the carriage, took a wooden ladder and put it on the carriage, and the princess of Nanjun stepped on the wooden ladder and walked down.

A few maids and housekeepers came out of the house and saluted, "See the princess!" ”

Princess Nanjun nodded and asked, "What about the colt?" ”

"Back to the princess, the colt is reading in the study!"

"Is dinner ready?"

"It's ready, the colt has been waiting for the princess to come back and dine together!"

"Okay, let's go and bring dinner to the table, I'll wash up and come out with the ponies to eat!"

"No!"

Princess Nanjun quickly finished washing, and she came to the outside of the study and shouted, "Husband? ”

Chu Yuan looked up, got up and said with a smile on his face, "The princess is back?" ”

Princess Nanjun was disgusted: "Husband, I have said many times not to call me a princess, it seems too raw, so let's call it Xian'er!" ”

Chu Yuan smiled and nodded, "That's okay, Xian'er came back early today!" ”

Liu Xian listened attentively for a few breaths, and knew that there was no one outside the study, so he immediately said: "I heard a news today, King Jing will go out tomorrow as the deputy envoy of the Qin Mission to inspect the renovation of farmland water conservancy and irrigation facilities, ditches and river dredging in various places!" ”

"Oh?" Chu Yuan was stunned for a moment, and then said: "It seems that we can't go with us, let alone meet King Jing outside of Chang'an, otherwise the traces and intentions to approach King Jing will be too obvious!" As long as the Southern Dynasty did not send people to the rescue, we could only stay in Chang'an with peace of mind, and try to make as many friends as possible before King Jing returned to Beijing, and we could not deliberately make friends with the ministers of the Qianguo, now that there are people staring at us, we must act carefully, and we cannot expect that the Qianguo side will always be courteous to us, as long as they discover our purpose and intentions, we are afraid that they will immediately attack us! ”

Liu Xianxiu frowned: "Husband, is there no one else for us to choose except King Jing, we must choose him?" ”

Chu Yuan couldn't help but smile bitterly when he heard this: "If we are not the princess and concubine of the Great Song Dynasty, we have a lot of choices, and every prince can be our alternative, but our identity is destined that we can only choose King Jing!" There is no shortage of talents and ministers around the prince, and he must be respectful and distant from us, the King of Shu is too deep in his mind, I can't figure out his bottom a little, except for King Jing, the other princes are not yet adults······"

Liu Xian sighed: "It seems that it can only be like this!" ”

Chu Yuan said at this time: "Today I have gone to visit King Jing for the third time, but I still haven't seen him, which further confirms my guess, I'm afraid that he has been warned by the Emperor!" ”

When Liu Xian heard this, he began to worry: "If you say this, won't we have no chance?" ”

Chu Yuan smiled: "Not necessarily, don't worry, don't worry, this kind of thing can't be in a hurry, we have a lot of time, and we have to wait for the opportunity slowly!" As the saying goes, things are man-made, and in the absence of opportunities, we can also use some people to create opportunities, such as this ······"

Liu Xian hurriedly asked, "What is the husband's plan?" ”

"There's no urgency, I already have a general idea, but I still need to think about it carefully!"

After Zhao Junsheng's edict was issued, the local government was not surprised when they received the edict, because the Qianguo and the Bada had already become enemies, and the Sogdian merchants were under the rule of the Bada people, and if the Sogdian merchants were allowed to come and go freely in the territory of the Great Qian, not to mention the economic losses, even the military movements of the Great Cadres would not necessarily be able to conceal those Sogdian merchants who were good at camping.

The local government took urgent action and immediately notified the Sogdian merchants in their jurisdictions that they must leave the territory of the Daqian Empire within a month, otherwise all property will be confiscated and forcibly repatriated.

These Sogdian merchants had suffered too great losses, and many Sogdian merchants were purchasing goods in Qingzhou, Youzhou, Liaodong, and Liaoxi, so how could they leave the territory of Daqian within a month?

Seeing that there was no hope of leaving the Western Regions in such a short time, some Sogdian merchants had no choice but to find a way to find a ship to go to the Song Kingdom in the south by sea, and then keep their possessions first.

The Sogdian merchants from all over the country had no time to dispose of their estates, so they gathered up their belongings and marched westward with their escorts, day and night.

During this period, some officials who had previously accepted bribes from Sogdian merchants secretly provided shelter to certain Sogdian merchants, concealed their whereabouts, and concealed their deeds on their behalf.

But how can they guard against the all-pervasive Imperial City Division spies? Now that the relationship between the Bada and the Great Qian Empire was hostile, and the Sogdian merchants should be regarded as enemies to some extent, the actions of these officials constituted in fact a suspicion of collaborating with the enemy, and these were within the purview of the Imperial City Division.

The branches of the Imperial City Division in various localities were dispatched one after another, not only to arrest those Sogdian merchants who had colluded with the officials, but also to arrest those officials together, and more than a dozen large and small officials were arrested along with several Sogdian merchants, which shook the entire Daqian court and officialdom for a time.

On 29 February, the officials who committed the crime were escorted to Beijing along with the Sogdian merchants who had plotted against the law, and after interrogation, the interrogation records and the prisoners were handed over to the Dali Monastery.

According to the law of the Daqian Dynasty, the Dali Temple judged how it should be judged, and there was no mercy, and many people lost their heads because of this, and for a time no one in the officialdom of the Daqian Empire dared to have anything to do with the Sogdian merchants, and they regarded the Sogdian merchants as enemies and snakes and scorpions.

East Palace.

The atmosphere in the council hall was a little dull, the crown prince Zhao Dong sat on the main seat with his eyes slightly closed, and several other officials of the East Palace knelt on both sides and were silent, everyone was waiting for news.

Soon, the prince's family ordered Cheng Hu Lüguang to walk quickly into the council hall from the outside, Hu Lüguang is a naturalized Rouran person, from his grandfather's generation from Mobei into Pingcheng, he was born in Pingcheng, educated in Han culture.

Hearing the footsteps, the officials of the East Palace turned their heads to look out, and Zhao Dong also opened his eyes.

Hu Luguang walked to the middle of the council hall and saluted Zhao Dong: "Your Highness, I have inquired clearly, Jing Min was sentenced to be beheaded after the autumn!" ”

Jing Min was the Taishou of Tianshui County, and the Imperial City Division suspected that he secretly accepted bribes from the Sogdian merchant Shi Dayou, and used his power to benefit Shi Dayou, violating the emperor's edict and not expelling Shi Dayou within the specified time limit.

Jing Min secretly voted to the prince a year ago, this official's worship post can not be cast casually, the special object is still the prince, which shows that he has the intention of contributing, the prince received his post, after the investigation to meet him, expressed his approval, which is equivalent to officially acknowledging that Jing Min is a member of the prince's line.

The crown prince washed the horse Liu Xian hurriedly stood up and bowed to Zhao Dong and said: "Your Highness don't worry, although Dali Temple has been sentenced, it still needs to be handed over to the Criminal Department for review, we can think of a way in this regard!" ”

Although Jing Min is a prince, Zhao Dong was not angry, and he did not go to Dali Temple at the first time, he had to find out what kind of level Jing Min was in this case.

"The Criminal Department doesn't need to be too anxious, Lone just wants to know whether Jing Min was wronged, or if he has a problem himself, as the so-called no wind and no waves, if he has a problem, then how deep is he in? If he really colluded with the Bada people for personal gain and betrayed the interests of my big business, Mr. Gu couldn't save him, right? Lonely is not so confused! ”

After Zhao Dong finished speaking, he swept his eyes and looked at the crown prince.

Seeing this, Lu Xie stood up and saluted Zhao Dong and said: "Your Highness, the minister knows Jing Min's personality quite well, when the two of us participated in the scientific examination together, we got along for more than half a year, after the high school jinshi, I and Jing Min also had two years of colleague experience, Jing Min will never be so confused, he may be informal, made some mistakes, but in the face of the big right and wrong, he should still be able to hold on!" ”

Zhao Dong thought about it for a moment and said, "Lu Xie, I want you to find a way to go into the heavenly prison to see Jing Min and probe his tone!" ”

"No!"

Zhao Dong instructed Chen Fang, the prince's housekeeper: "Chen Fang, Gu wants you to investigate this matter, Gu wants to know how deeply Jing Min is involved in this case!" ”

"Your Highness, rest assured, the minister will immediately set off for Tianshui, and he will definitely find out in the shortest possible time!"

The prince's right guard led Bai Yaodong to stand up and salute: "Your Highness, as far as the minister knows, the person in charge of the trial of the Jing Min case is Zheng Lulin of Dali Temple, and this person has taken refuge in the King of Shu!" ”

Zhao Dong frowned and said, "You mean it's the third child who wants to kill Jing Min?" ”