Chapter 168: The Backbone

There is no sound of sharp arrows whistling that should have appeared, and there is no ambush and assassination that should have appeared as "the lion fights the rabbit with all his strength" and kills with one blow. Similarly, whether it is Jia Yidao or Mo Ye, someone will choose such a strange place and such an opportunity to make a move.

What if he didn't take Mo Ye into this alley today, but still walked the avenue? So, what should the assassin do? Do you want to be a street assassin or just stop there? Such a thought flashed in Jia Yidao's mind.

At this moment, the entire world seemed to have come to a sudden standstill, only the cold light was unmoved, and it was firmly rushing towards Jia Nidao's face.

Mo Ye, who was disturbed by Jia Nidao's sudden pull, seemed to be dissatisfied, reached out and directly pressed Jia Nidao's poked head back, and then took a diagonal step with his left foot, and his right hand robe sleeve was blowing away with a strong wind against the cold light.

"Poof!" There was a soft sound, followed by a sound of gold and iron, but there was already a deep hole in the wall of Xiangmo in the sound, and the cold light did not enter the wall, only the tail feathers were still trembling freely.

There was a soft sound from the shadow in front of the alley, and then the figure shook, and a black-clothed masked man turned over and climbed over the alley with agility and disappeared in an instant. Missed the blow and left, but the assassin did not stop at all.

Pulling Mo Ye, who wanted to catch up, Jia Rudao shook his head, and at the same time, Jia Rudao quietly took back his right hand that stretched out into his waist and abdomen.

If it weren't for Mo Ye's good martial arts, it is estimated that he would have been planted here today. Of course, then again, if it weren't for Mo Ye, Jia Rudao would not have gone to this alley without taking a sedan chair.

No matter where he came from, it was Mo Ye who saved his life today.

At this moment, the assassin has fled, and Mo Ye has chased after him, and it is still two to say whether he will chase or not. But if the assassin was not alone, but someone else hiding in the shadows, then if Mo Ye chased after him, it would be just as they wanted. With that thing, it is not certain who will live and who will die, but if the assassin does not come out and hide in the shadows and come with a few hidden arrows like the one just now, he will really die and cannot die again.

Although it is an old-fashioned drama, such an old-fashioned drama is extremely effective in many cases. Jia Rudao didn't want to escape from the tiger's mouth just now, and Mo Ye walked away and entered the wolf's den.

Mo Ye glanced at Jia Yidao suspiciously, and no longer insisted, and then lowered his head to look at the sleeve of his robe used to flick the arrow in his right hand. A long big mouth at the cuffs of the brocade robe was impressive, and then looked at the sleeve arrow that was deep into the wall and only showed a small tail, Jia Rudao frowned slightly.

This is much smaller than a crossbow, but the power of the dark arrow is unusually large.

"Poison on the arrow!"

Mo Ye squatted down and looked at the sleeve arrow that showed his inch-long buttocks, and said softly with a tense face.

With the power of this small arrow and then quenching the poison that sealed the throat with blood, it was obvious that someone directly wanted Jia Nidao's life.

"Thorny ......"

"Shut up!"

Jia Quan'er, who had just come back to his senses and was about to shout miserably, was interrupted by Jia Yidao's reprimand. The breath that had been transported to him for a long time was directly blocked in his throat, and his eyes rolled wildly, and he almost didn't lose his breath.

"Can you take it off?"

Squatting down and poking the sleeve arrow with a short dead wood, Jia Rudao glanced at Mo Ye with a grim face.

"It's hard!"

"Don't be so nervous."

"Someone is going to kill you!" Mo Ye's voice was slightly raised, and he looked at Jia Rudao.

"I know. Jia Quan'er, you go to Lin'an Mansion and bring some people over in the Qiang Nian. Jia Rudao smiled and patted Mo Ye's shoulder, dropped the dead wood in his hand and got up and said to Jia Quan'er.

Qiang Nian was a servant of Lin'an Mansion that Jia Rudao knew when he wanted Sun Kui and others before, and after some investigation, he was also one of the few officials in Lin'an Mansion that he could trust.

"Yes, Childe!"

"Remember, keep that mouth in your hands. If you talk nonsense, go back and see that I don't let people tear you apart. ”

Jia Quan'er trembled involuntarily and trotted away.

"Then why aren't you worried at all?"

After listening to the conversation between the master and servant silently, Mo Ye got up and turned his head to look around, and said softly.

"I'm nervous, I'm afraid, I'm afraid, won't those who want me die kill me?" Jia seems to be spreading his hands.

“…… So, what do you want to do? ”

"What to do? The soldiers will block the water and cover the earth. And then...... Dig them all out before they kill me...... Kill them all, and that's it. Jia Rudao looked at Mo Ye and said with a smile.

The smile was unusually cold.

In fact, he was not at all angry that someone had sent an assassin to kill him, and he was even a little happy. For what? Because this shows that if those who hide in the shadows are already exhausted.

If those people were even the slightest bit sure that they could deal with him in other ways, then they would certainly not choose such an extreme way. After all, Jia Yidao is no longer an ordinary jinshi who was beaten by Nalan Yu on the West Lake and almost drowned.

From the third rank, from the actual position of the third rank, it is not very high, but it is definitely already one of the important ministers who can enter the Great Song Dynasty. What's more, he is not only an important minister, as the younger brother of Jia Guifei, but also just perfectly solved the more than one million displaced people outside Lin'an City, all kinds of things add up, if he is really assassinated, then the shock to the Great Song Dynasty will definitely far exceed the assassination of Meng Hui.

With Jia Guifei urging and Zhao Yun staring, the court will definitely not give up. In this case, if you show a little flaw, you will pull out the radish and bring out the mud, and maybe you will really put those people into it in the end.

As long as you have a little brain, you will not choose such a thankless thing.

Therefore, the only explanation can only be that those people saw that they could no longer restrain themselves in the court, so they had to choose the most extreme and unfavorable way to gamble, intending to solve the trouble once and for all.

Jia Rudao's domineering words made Mo Ye involuntarily look sideways. However, this side gaze didn't last long, and Jia Yidao's next sentence made his domineering image in Mo Ye's eyes collapse.

"By the way, you hide it every day, are you embarrassed to show off in front of me because you can't get home? Look, it's just a palm-sized sleeve arrow, and you haven't broken your sleeve...... Don't stare at me, I'm telling the truth......"

"But I saved your life."

Mo Ye glared at Jia Yidao and emphasized loudly.

“…… Well, thank you. Jia seemed to be stunned for a moment, and then put his arm around Mo Ye's shoulder, "I said, you saved my life, but what does this have to do with your bad martial arts?" ”

“……”

Mo Ye silently picked up Jia Yidao's arm on his shoulder, squatted down and quietly looked at the half-sleeved arrow. He suddenly regretted that he hadn't let the arrow stick directly into his mouth.

In the alley, it suddenly fell silent.

"You have to be careful."

"Don't worry."

After a while, the two silent people said in unison.

Glancing at each other, Jia Yidao and Mo Ye laughed at the same time.

Mo Yezhi said that Jia Yidao's seemingly sarcastic words actually didn't want him to worry too much; But Jia Rudao was obviously because Mo Ye was very worried, so he would ridicule him for his low martial arts skills in such a gag.

When the mood was strong, the chaotic footsteps came, but Jia Quan'er had already returned.

Qiang Nian is cheap to patrol the streets, Jia Quan'er.

Seeing the dark blue sleeve arrow that was deep in the wall, Qiang Nian's face changed involuntarily. And before, the long opening on the sleeve of Mo Ye's robe that Mo Ye had deliberately concealed, Qiang Nian had already seen it.

Someone wants to assassinate the envoy of Dali?

Qiang Nian instantly sketched such a result in his mind. For Mo Ye, he naturally knows it.

Seeing that Jia Rudao didn't mean to explain, Qiang Nian naturally knew that there were some things that he shouldn't ask, but he was still extremely excited to be called by Lord Fuzun on such a thing.

If he knew that the real target of the sleeve arrow was Jia Nidao and not Mo Ye at all, he would definitely not be so calm with a knife pouting his ass and digging the wall.

Holding the wrapped blue sleeved arrow, Jia Qidao asked Jia Quan'er to give the ingot of silver to Qiang Nian, and then left with Mo Ye and went straight to the ordnance prison.

When they arrived at the Ordnance Prison, Sun Wei, Yang Shuo and others were all very happy when they saw Jia Rudao. These days, although Jia Rudao has not come to this ordnance supervisor every day as before, he has given the ordnance supervisor a lot of work to do. They also got a lot of benefits, especially when the price of grain in Lin'an City was more expensive than the sky, Jia Rudao even ordered people to send ten stone of grain to these old craftsmen, although it was not much, but plus the silver given by Jia Nidao, it was enough for the whole family, and they were naturally very grateful to Jia Nidao.

Throwing the blue sleeved arrow to Sun Wei and Yang Shuo, Jia Rudao said a few words of advice, and then left in a hurry. He didn't tell Sun Wei and the others the origin of this sleeve arrow, but just asked Sun Wei and others to help find out the ingredients of this sleeve arrow and where it could be found.

The production of iron tools in the Great Song Dynasty had strict regulations, and the iron materials produced in various places also had their own characteristics. So Jia Yidao is not worried that he will not be able to find the source.

Although I thought that the assassin dared to use it like this, I must not be worried that I would find it from the Hidden Arrow, but it was finally a clue, wasn't it?

In fact, there is a better place for this hidden arrow, and that is the Detective Division. Although Jia Rudao has many dissatisfaction with the Detective Division, after all, it is also the only one of the top spy agencies in the Great Song Dynasty, isn't it? It would be much more efficient to hand them over the Hidden Arrow than to the Arms Warden.

However, although Jia Yidao is the nominal leader of the Detective Division, in fact, so far, because he is busy with disaster relief, although he is also paying attention to the Detective Division, he really does not have a trustworthy person in the Detective Division. The people inside, except for Prince Rong Zhao and Keqing Yuanjing in Rui's mansion, there are only Zhao Yun's people left.

If the Hidden Arrow is handed over to the Detective Division, he will inevitably tell part of the origin of the Hidden Arrow, and he can naturally not say it, but it will arouse the curiosity of Yuan Jing and the others. If this news reaches Zhao Yun's ears, it won't be very fun.

Therefore, after thinking about it, Jia Rudao still brought this sleeve arrow to the ordnance prison. Although Sun Wei and others are slow to analyze, a confidential benefit is enough.

Leaving the Hidden Arrow, Jia Rudao led Mo Ye around the weapons prison at will, and then left. Now the ordnance supervisor has long stopped casting ordnance, so it is not a violation to take Mo Ye around.

……

Just returned to Jiafu, and before he had changed his clothes, Jia Quan'er came in to report that Yu Tianxi had visited. He followed Jia Yidao with a front and back foot.

"Please! Forget it, I'll go and meet it myself. ”

didn't have time to think about how Yu Tianxi would come to the door directly, Jia Rudao hurriedly put on his clothes and greeted him.

According to reason, even if Jia Rudao and Yu Tianxi are only one grade apart now, it will not be Yu Tianxi's turn to come to visit him directly. If there is really something, Yu Tianxi only needs to ask someone to come to the door to ask for a call.

But today, Yu Tianxi came directly to the door in person, which in itself revealed unusual meaning. Even if Jia Yidao and Yu Tianxi have a deep friendship because of Yu Ci and other reasons, it is obviously not to such a point.

Entering the lobby, under Yu Tianxi's signal, Jia Rudao retreated.

"Shi Xian can know that the old man has just come out of His Majesty." Yu Tianxi seemed to be extremely tired, leaning on the Taishi chair and half-squinting his eyes.

"But what happened? Yu Gong! Jia Rudao sighed in his heart.

"Your Majesty ordered the old man to meet another 10 million yuan, with the intention of buying food."

"Buying grain? Where can I buy food under Your Majesty? Jia Rudao's face changed.

Yu Tianxi opened his eyes and looked at Jia Rudao, slowly stretched out three fingers and said, "The Wen family and the Qian family are willing to use Huizi to sell three million stone grain to the imperial court." Your Majesty, it has been allowed. Moreover, His Majesty also exempted five families such as Wen and Qian, paid land taxes for three years, and gave a banquet in the palace after the same day, including Wen Qian, oh, by the way, Zheng Mingxuan was also among the banquets. ”

"This must not happen!" Jia seemed to be enlightened.

Yu Tianxi waved his hand a little tiredly and motioned for Jia Rudao to sit down.

He is the most aware of Jia Yidao's plans, after all, as the head of the household department and the head of the household department, it can be said that he alone has the final say on the money bags of the Great Song Dynasty. Although this money bag is actually empty, it can't be empty anymore.

If Jia Rudao wants to deal with Wen Qian and others who hoard grain, buy low and sell high, he naturally has to get Yu Tianxi's support first. Of course, he can also directly raid those houses on trumped-up charges. It's not that he hasn't thought about it. After all, it's the quickest way to do it.

However, how could he do what Zhao Yun didn't do? He believes that if he can, Zhao Yun will definitely not be soft. After all, Zhao Yun was able to promise him the right to give Zheng Mingxuan the right to monopolize salt and iron for food and money, and even give him the authority to re-establish the general department of the city, just for the millions of taels of silver that Jia Yidao promised to hand over every year, how could he be willing to watch Wen Qian and the others make a fortune?

Now it seems that Wen Qian and the others are far more cunning than he imagined. What's more, what he knows is obviously only the tip of the iceberg of the two backers of Wen Qian.

The atmosphere in the hall was almost frozen.

Jia Yidao can understand Zhao Yun's mood. Huizi is not worth anything at all, everyone knows it. How could Zhao Yun, as the emperor, not know? The money printed on paper, Zhao Yun can have as much as he wants. Being able to exchange some blank paper for three million stone of grain, what could be cheaper than this for the current Great Song Dynasty? Zhao Yun naturally would not refuse.

The key is, who is the matchmaker between Zhao Yun and Wen Qian and others?

"Duke Yu knows, who persuaded His Majesty to buy these grains with Huizi?" Jia Rudao sat down and said slowly.

At this time, he also understood that it was useless to be anxious.

With such a big ****, Zhao Yun couldn't refuse, Qiao Xingjian couldn't refuse, and no one in the Song Dynasty could refuse. Obviously, this is already a foregone conclusion.

Yu Tianxi was very pleased that Jia Rudao was able to calm down so quickly and grasp the crux of the problem immediately. glanced at Jia Yidao appreciatively and said with a smile: "It's Li Mingfu." ”

"Impossible."

"Hehe, the old man also thinks it's impossible."

Qiao Xingjian's face was a little helpless.

Wen Lianggong and the others are not fools, as businessmen, how can they not know that Lu Dao Huizi is actually equal to a blank slate? Wen Qian and the others may exchange 10 million guanhuizi for silver, but it takes time. Moreover, there will be a lot of profit and loss in this. If Li Mingfu could have such a great ability to persuade Wen Qian and the others, he wouldn't have to wait until today.

Hearing Qiao Xingjian's words, Jia Rudao understood, and even he didn't know who Lu Dao really was matchmaking.

Jia Yidao's face was extremely ugly.

He has been planning hard for too long, just to give Wen Lianggong and the others a good look. now