Cangxian County, Hebei Province.

On the way to Cangxian, a team of people and horses marched forward with banners.

The one who opened the road in front was the wrestler of Jinyiwei, and there were many rangers on horseback on both sides. In the center of the procession were several carriages, which at a glance knew that the cost was not low.

Many of the guards were on horseback, and when passers-by saw this, they all let them go to both sides of the road.

Sitting in a carriage, Wang Yongji put down the curtain in his hand and sighed very melancholy. It's not because this team of people is very disturbed, in fact, along the way, Wang Yongji found that these people are still very well-behaved.

Wang Yongji is not confident in investigating the case, so many people, with such fanfare, to investigate illegal salt, if they can find it, there will be ghosts.

Who are the salt sellers, how can they be caught by you easily, it's not easy for you to catch them so publicly.

Wang Yongji also talked to Sun Piyang a few times, but Sun Piyang always talked about him left and right, and didn't get to the point at all. That imperial envoy Cao Yikui has a straight face all day long, and all salt sellers are local chickens and dogs.

The people of Dongchang and Jinyiwei are even more unreliable, the prince of Dongchang seems to have not been out of the palace for many years, and he is interested in local food wherever he goes, and he always runs to taste it.

Xing Shangzhi, the thousand-household of Jinyiwei, was even more excessive, accompanying Wang Gonggong beside him, and the two of them talked and laughed along the way.

Last night, he actually said that he wanted to eat wild meat, and he scattered a lot of people out to hunt, but only a few rabbits were hunted, and finally he bought two sheep from the people, and even then he really lit a bonfire to eat roast lamb legs at night.

Wang Yongji is really depressed, are you people sure that you are handling the case?

Just when Wang Yongji lamented that his fate was not good, there was a sudden commotion in front.

Wang Yongji was stunned, what's wrong? Along the way, the people who dared to collide with this team did not appear. The car also stopped at this time, and Wang pulled the curtain with a ji, poked his head out and looked out.

As a result, it was too far away from the front, and he couldn't see anything, so Wang Yongji could only helplessly put down the curtain.

"My lord, someone in front of you is coming to report!" At this time, the Jinyi guard, who was driving the car, lifted the curtain of the car and said to Wang Yongji: "My lord, I said earlier that I found a smuggler of salt, do you want to come out and have a look?" ”

Wang Yongji was stunned for a moment, this is the discovery of the smuggler of salt? Are smugglers stupid?

Don't talk about taking the official road openly, you actually hit your own team headlong, are you doing death? Wang Yongji didn't believe it at all, and jumped directly from the carriage.

When Wang Yongji came down, several other people also came down, and Sun Piyang had a straight face, and he couldn't see anything.

Eunuch Wang was sleepy, and he could see that he was napping in the car just now, and he drank too much last night. Xing Shangzhi of Jinyiwei was excited, and pulled Jinyiwei who came to report the news: "Found a smuggler of salt? ”

"Yes, my lord, our rangers have spotted a sneaky convoy ahead."

"Ten wagons, loaded with goods, tried to run when they saw our rangers, but the rangers chased after them when they thought it was inappropriate, and then intercepted them. The rangers found that all ten wagons were filled with salt, and it was assumed that these men were smugglers. ”

Xing Shangzhi laughed, touched his bald head and said, "Look, how lucky you are, let's go over and see what virtues these smugglers have." ”

Eunuch Wang pouted and said: "What kind of luck, this is the emperor's blessing, we have the emperor's blessing to intercept the private salt here." Thousands of households, do you think what our family said is right? ”

Looking at Eunuch Wang's face, Wang Yongji was tired for a while, you said so, who dares to say that it's wrong!

Sure enough, Xing Shangzhi hurriedly smiled and said: "Yes, yes, the prince is right, look at my broken mouth, thanks to the emperor's blessings, thanks to the emperor's blessings, we can intercept the smuggler of salt." ”

Wang Yongji was really too lazy to look at their faces, and said directly: "Let's go to the front and have a look!" ”

In fact, Wang Yongji didn't believe that he had intercepted the smuggler at all, and it was probably because those people were directly frightened after seeing Jinyiwei, so they turned around and ran. Jinyiwei doesn't have any good reviews among the people, and he has long been demonized.

The imperial envoy Cao Yikui also nodded: "Yes, let's go ahead and have a look, the official has already said that these smuggler salt dealers are all local chickens and dogs!" ”

Wang Yongji is also speechless, how did the court elect you?

When the group came to the front, Wang Yongji really saw ten carriages, each carriage was full of sacks, some of the sacks had been taken down by Jinyiwei, and after the mouth of the bag was opened, it was really full of salt.

Cao Yikui walked over, reached out and grabbed a small handful, then stretched out his tongue and licked it: "Sure enough, it's private salt." ”

As he spoke, he threw the salt in his hand back into the bag, turned his head and said to the Jinyi guard beside him: "Bring people to the official, and the official will ask them, in broad daylight, Lang Lang Qiankun, dare to sell illegal salt, don't you even want your head?" ”

Wang Yongji was speechless for a moment, who dared to admit that he was selling illicit salt, but he was also very curious about these people.

First of all, these people pulled the salt, and when they saw the Jinyi guard, they ran away, which was not like transporting official salt. But to say that they are selling smuggled salt, that is simple, right? Sent to the door yourself to be caught? How did this IQ do this kind of business of selling smuggled salt?

It didn't take long for two people to be pressed up by Jinyiwei, one was an old man in his fifties, and the other was a young man in his twenties.

"This official asks you, who is your surname, where are you, and what do you do for a living?" Sun Piyang also stood up at this time, and asked loudly: "Why don't you hurry up and recruit from the truth, waiting for the official to be punished?" ”

Wang Yongji looked at Sun Piyang, how did you, the left deputy capital of the Imperial Palace, become the imperial historian of the Metropolitan Procuratorate? Your case is really unprofessional.

"Back to my lord, the little old man Wang Laofu, this is my son Wang San, we are from Cangxian County." The old man kowtowed as he spoke: "We are driving a big car, and the people in the convoy are all from our village." ”

"This official asked you, why did you run away when you saw Jinyiwei?" Sun Piyang nodded and asked.

"Back to my lord, it's not that we are running, we are afraid, and when we hear the sound of horses' hooves, we think we have made a robber." Wang Laofu begged for mercy: "My lord, my lord, we didn't run on purpose, please be aware of it!" ”

Sun Piyang nodded again: "Where did the salt in your car come from?" ”

"Back to my lord, we don't know!" Wang Laofu said with a look of grievance: "We are all driving big cars, we will send whatever the employer asks us to send, and we dare not ask!" ”

Wang Yongji sighed, sure enough, this is like this, I'm afraid this big oolong will not end well.

What Wang Yongji didn't expect was that the young Wang San on the side spoke: "My lord, these are all private salts." ”