There was a big case in Bianliang City, overnight, the three people who came to catch the exam disappeared, and they were all celebrities in this imperial examination, this is simply the first major case of the founding of the country, Zhao Ji got the news and dropped two cups in a row, and strictly ordered Kaifeng Mansion to solve the case within ten days, and the results were checked and checked, and it was found that there were Westerners haunted by the three lifters that night, so needless to say, now the Western Army is fighting with the Western Xia, this is obviously the treacherous plan of the Western Xia to assassinate the future backbone of my Great Song Dynasty!

The case is solved, and no one can catch it, and Zhao Ji has no energy to care about this matter, because he has encountered more tricky things now.

At this time, countless ministers' folds were piled up on Zhao Ji's desk, if it was an ordinary twist, Cai Jing and others would have helped him do it, but now these desk twists and turns are something that no one dares to suppress, and they have only one theme, that is, to establish a prince.

Zhao Ji walked round and round, and finally sighed, Zhao Huan is not a big mistake, the matter of abolishing Chang Liyu has been a way to take trouble since ancient times, Zhao Ji sat down slowly and sighed, even if he is a little selfish, there is no reason to waste Chang Liyu like this, and he is still young, who can say what will happen later? He slowly began to polish his writing, and an edict appeared in his own handwriting.

In February of the fifth year of Zhenghe, Zhao Ji issued an edict to crown Zhao Huan as the crown prince and grant amnesty to the world.

- Yunzhou Prison

"The official family canonized the prince and amnesty the world! Come out quickly! Remember the kindness of the officials! A big man heard the shouting inside, his eyes lit up, and he ran to the door of the cell with a few pops and shouted, "Really? Amnesty for the world? Will I be able to get out? ”

The section level looked at the person and said with a smile, "I said that outside of Master Li, you will die of this heart, you are suspected of fornicating with Liangshan thieves, that is the heinous crime, the crime is unforgivable, you will stay in prison honestly!" ”

It turned out that the person who was locked up here was Li Ying, he returned home after coming down from Liangshan, thinking that this trip was finally over, but he was taken down by a group of public servants just after entering the village, and when he looked back, his official Du Xing and his wife were already kneeling on the side, the steel knife was shining, and he didn't dare to resist, and then he knew that someone reported to the prefect of Yunzhou, saying that he had secretly communicated with the Liangshan thieves and broke Zhujiazhuang, and now he was going to arrest him and close the case.

Li Ying was about to be mad, but he didn't give in to Liang Shan desperately, why do you now say that you are Liang Shan's fellow party, besides, are you all blind as a public servant? There is still a battle flag of Liangshan on the original Zhujiazhuang, and there are many people in the Hujiazhuang who went to Liangshan, and they didn't arrest them, but they came to arrest me Li Ying, what is the reason.

What is the truth? To put it simply, those two Zhuangzi really voted for Liangshan, and they wanted to arrest people, and they were not allowed to lead the people of Liangshan to Yunzhou City, and you Li Ying... It doesn't seem to have really taken refuge in Liangshan, it's okay if you get caught, you can still copy your whole family, who wouldn't count this kind of business.

Li Ying was stunned by such officialdom logic, and he had been in prison for more than a month at this time.

"Could it be that I, Li Ying, am really going to die here? If I knew today, it would be better to descend to that Liang Mountain! Li Ying patted the cell door and said hatefully.

"What a bold Li Ying, I don't believe it when others say that you fornicated with Liangshan, but today it seems that it is really true, what else do you have to say?" A voice came out, which frightened Li Ying, and hurriedly looked, only to see a person dressed in a head walking over, Li Ying hurriedly said, "This is all villain nonsense, I can't count it, please spare your life!" ”

"Humph! You are such a prank, and I don't know why I provoked others to beg me to seek a chance for you! Nadu snorted, and then said, "Listen, there is a noble man who has made money and wants me to release you, tomorrow on the third watch, there will be a fire outside the prison door, and then someone will naturally release you, you knock that person unconscious, change into that person's clothes, and then run to the west gate, where someone answers, do you understand?" ”

Li Ying hesitated for a moment, but he knew that this escape from prison was both innocent and guilty, and seeing that Li Ying was still hesitating, he said impatiently, "Think about it yourself, I will tell you the truth, the current prefect Cheng Wan turned out to be Tong Guan's disciple, you can guess for yourself, your family's money is all given to him, and he will not let you go, after all, if you die here, Li Jiazhuang will naturally change his surname to Cheng." ”

Li Ying didn't hesitate anymore, and said at the moment, "Thank you for saving the hero, I, Li Ying, will definitely act according to the plan." ”

Late the next night, the Yunzhou prison suddenly caught fire, the sound of gongs and drums was everywhere, sure enough, someone opened the prison door for Li Ying, and then pointed to his neck, Li Ying thanked him first, and then knocked him unconscious with a palm, changed his clothes, and ran to the west gate, running halfway, suddenly a person shouted behind him, "Who are you?" There is a fire in the prison, why don't you go and put out the fire? ”

Li Ying swallowed his saliva, didn't dare to look back, and said loudly, "There is a fire in the prison, I am going to report to Lord Taishou, I heard that Lord Taishou is at the West Gate, so I went there." ”

The man nodded and said, "I see, let's go..."

Li Ying thanked him, and hurriedly continued to run forward, and after taking a few steps, the man suddenly laughed and said, "I was almost blinded by you, Taishou is obviously in the mansion, where is in the West Gate, you must be a spy, don't go, go see Taishou with me!" ”

Li Ying heard the sound of horses' hooves, hurriedly turned around, and saw a person, holding two double dragon water guns, handsome, with two small flags on his back, and he couldn't see what was written clearly in the dark, just a shot stabbed, Li Ying hurriedly dodged and dodged, the man sighed, and his left hand was smashed again, Li Ying had no pure iron, and was shot at the moment, and was knocked to the ground, the man took a closer look, and said with a smile, "Look at your scars, you must be a fugitive, just right, catch it and give it to Taishou to make a credit." ”

The man grabbed Li Ying and came to the Zhizhou Yamen, saw that it was brightly lit, and guessed that it was probably for the fire in the prison door, so he smiled and said, "Hurry up and report it, my soldiers and horses are in charge of Dong Ping, and I have caught a fine work!" ”

Li Ying heard that the person who arrested him was the Commander of Soldiers and Horses, and asked in surprise, "Are you the Commander of Soldiers and Horses?" What about the original Du Du Eunuch? ”

Dong Ping snorted, "That Du Du Prison sat and watched Liangshan soldiers and horses become bigger, and he was deposed last month, and today's soldiers and horses in Yunzhou are Dong Ping, but I am Dong Ping!" ”

"The prefect has an order, let Dong Ping come in!"

Dong Ping pressed Li Ying and walked in, and saw that the prefect Cheng Wan was sitting on it, and the chief bookkeeper and the top people next to him were there, Cheng Wan looked at Dong Ping and snorted, "Dong Ping, you are the prisoner of the soldiers and horses, and you should be in the military camp at this time, why did you appear in the city?" ”

Dong Ping wanted to invite merit, but he didn't expect Cheng Wan to ask for guilt as soon as he came up, so he was stunned, but he didn't know that this was Cheng Wan's way of using soldiers to learn from Tong Guan, first to coerce him, and then slowly appease him.

Dong Ping bowed his head and said, "Xia Guan went to the city to eat and drink tonight, heard the fire, and was afraid that there would be a thief, so he came to the rescue, and caught this spy on the way." ”

Cheng Wan glanced at the man, was startled and said, "Li Ying, how did you escape?" ”

Li Ying gritted his teeth and looked at Cheng Wan, then glanced at the head next to him who didn't seem to know anything, and said, "I saw the fire, so I found an opportunity to knock out the guards and escaped." ”

Cheng Wan smiled and said, "That's it, I don't care how you escaped, originally you colluded with Liangshan, the official was still embarrassed and there was no ironclad evidence, but now you escaped from prison but there is ironclad evidence, come on, put you on death row, wait for me to play the court, and bring it to justice!" ”

The official next to him immediately stepped forward and escorted Li Ying to go out, Li Ying was shocked, broke free, knelt down to Cheng Wan and said, "Lord Cheng, I, Li Ying, did not collude with Liangshan, just ask the Zhuang guest of my village to know this matter, I am also homesick to escape from prison this time, my lord, I still have some small wealth in my family, and I am willing to sacrifice it to atone for my sins!" ”

"Hahaha!" Before Li Ying's words fell, Cheng Wan laughed, Li Ying looked at Cheng Wan who was laughing, for some reason, Cheng Wan looked at Li Ying, and said after a while, "I said Master Li, how naïve you are, when you die, aren't all your Li Jiazhuang's belongings me... Oh, are they all from the imperial court? ”

Li Ying looked at Cheng Wan in a daze, how did he know how black and dirty the hearts of these officials were, not to mention him, it was Song Jiang, the first thick black green forest in the Water Margin, and in the end, he was killed by Cai Jing and others, who were even thicker.

Dong Ping saw that Li Ying was escorted down, and said to Cheng Wan, "My lord, the last general has one more thing to ask for." ”

Cheng Wan squinted at Dong Ping, coughed and said, "General Dong, let's talk about it." ”

Dong Ping said, "A month ago, I occasionally saw Miss Guifu, and I was shocked for a while, and then the food was tasteless, and I couldn't sleep, only..."

"Bold!" Cheng Wan didn't wait for Dong Ping to finish speaking, he shouted, he pointed at Dong Ping and scolded, "Erector puppet, you are just a red guy, no credit to the community, how dare you have such greed, don't you hear that the tiger girl does not marry a dog?" Thinking that you are young and young, I don't know the general situation, this official will not punish you this time, get out of here now! ”

Dong Ping was ashamed and annoyed, his face was flushed, and his eyes looked at Cheng Wan with murderous intentions, Dong Ping originally came from the Hebei border army, and was famous for his courage to fight, but because Song Liao had no war in recent years, he was transferred to Yunzhou, where there were thieves, to serve as the supervisor of soldiers and horses.

Dong Ping arched his hand, bowed his head and left, and the master came out and said to Cheng Wan, "My lord, this Dong Ping is the prisoner of the soldiers and horses of Benzhou after all, so insulting, I'm afraid it chills his heart, don't you hear about Qin Ming in the past?" ”

Cheng Wan sighed, got up and said, "How can I not know, but this Dong Ping is out of the side and doesn't understand etiquette, if you don't use Wei to add his body, how can I make it use for me, don't you see?" He has already hit my daughter with his idea, and if he wants to give it again, that is, he will give my daughter away!

But what you said is also reasonable, now Liangshan is very difficult to control, there is chaos in the south of the court, there is war in the west, and I can't take care of it here for a while, Dong Ping, the prisoner of soldiers and horses, is still useful, wait a few days, I will invite him to have a drink, that is, okay, there is a lack of tonight, go down! ”

Several people glanced at each other, stopped talking, and retreated.

The news that Li Ying was put on death row quickly spread to Liangshan, and Chao Gai, who was temporarily in charge of Liangshan's affairs, saw the letter, snorted and threw the express report to the ground, scolding, "Pifu, you dare to ruin my Liangshan's affairs." ”

Xu Guanzhong and Jiang De went out, Wu Yong left Goryeo and did not return, the two remaining military divisions on Liangshan were Gongsun Sheng and Zhu Wu, Gongsun Sheng glanced at Zhu Wu, came out and said, "Deputy village master, the village owner has an order before leaving, and we must rescue Li Zhuang in the future, and now I am afraid it will not be easy to release people with Neiying, I think this matter can only wait for Li Ying to be assassinated, and rob people in the middle." ”

Chao Gai sighed and said, "The military advisor is wrong, let's not talk about when it will be, what if the thief officer decides to kill Master Li?" I don't think it's too late! ”

Zhu Wu asked, "What do you want to do with the deputy village?" ”

Chao Gai clenched his fists and said, "There are only 3,000 soldiers and horses in Yunzhou City, and I have 10,000 soldiers and horses in Liangshan. ”

Gongsun Sheng frowned and said, "In this way, I am worried that the court will pay more attention to us, and the gains will outweigh the losses, the owner of the village has said before that we still need to continue to develop for some time." ”

Chao Gai waved his hand and said: "Most of my Liangshan's soldiers, horses, money and grain come from the surrounding states and counties, if Yunzhou disobeys my Liangshan, how can my Liangshan grow?" ”

Gongsun Sheng nodded, unable to say anything for a while, Chao Gai continued, "This matter is decided, Yunzhou City is not far from my Liangshan, go and go back quickly, come here, beat the drum and pass the general!" ”

Chao Gai watched the generals enter, explained the reason, and began to order the generals, and ordered a total of five generals to accompany the army, divided into Luan Tingyu, Liu Tang, Huang Xin, Xu Ning, Qin Ming, and ordered 4,000 soldiers and horses, including one battalion each of the Golden Spear Regiment and the Cavalry Regiment, and Zhu Wu went down the mountain with the army.

Gongsun Sheng looked at Chao Gai, who was going down the mountain, and said worriedly, "The deputy owner of the village acts like this, I am quite uneasy in my heart, Dai Zong, you immediately inform the owner of the village about it." ”

Dai Zong responded and immediately went down to make arrangements.

- Bianjing

"What? Chao Gai led his troops to fight Yunzhou Mansion? Jiang De almost didn't drink a mouthful of water and squirted out.

Xu Guanzhong nodded and said, "Yes, lord, the war should have started now, and I don't know how to win or lose." ”

Jiang De thought for a while and said, "There shouldn't be any generals in the Yunzhou Mansion who can fight well, I think it shouldn't be a big problem, but in this way, I'm afraid that the attention of the imperial court will be attracted by us again, which is not good." ”

Jiang De thought about it for a while, and then said, "That Cheng Wannai is a disciple of Tong Guan, he has always been mediocre, our Liangshan can be bigger, and he is also indispensable, if it is excepted, wouldn't it be a pity?" ”

Xu Guanzhong said with a smile, "It's just counting the time, maybe this Cheng Governor's head has been taken off." ”

Jiang De sighed and said, "In that case, we have to find a suitable person to replace this person... By the way, where are those three people? ”

Xu Guanzhong replied: "What did the lord say about He Li and others? They must have arrived at Tianxiang Academy by now. ”

Jiang De got up and said, "Let's go, let's go meet them and go back to Liangshan by the way, thanks to the proximity of the road, it is convenient for us to run around like this." ”