An He, with a group of murderous guards, has been guarding the lobby of the Assassin Yamen. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Outside the info yamen, there are hundreds of soldiers from the Shenji battalion who surround the yamen. And the officials in charge of the state were tied back to back and stood in a corner of the lobby.

He was waiting for news from Feng Yue. In the evening, Feng Yue finally led the men and horses into Qizhou.

Feng Yue's men were ambushed on the mountain beams on both wings of the Meridian Valley in advance, and as soon as the horse thieves entered the valley, they immediately blocked their forward and retreat routes, and at the same time, rockets from both wings fired at the horse thieves in the valley. Although the "combat effectiveness" of these hundreds of horse thieves is not bad, the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion are tempered from the battlefield of the Eastern Expedition to Goryeo, and they are equipped with sophisticated firearms, and the number of them is nearly ten times that of the horse thieves, so there is no suspense in this battle at all, and the battle ended in less than an hour.

Feng Yue was covered in dust, strode in, and bowed, "Master Pony, Feng Yue is fortunate to live up to his mission, and none of the horse thieves have slipped through the net." Nearly 100 people were killed, and more than 10 people were captured. All the prisoners were escorted outside the yamen, and the master of the horse was asked to make it clear. ”

"General Feng has worked hard. Have you ever seen Li He among the horse thieves? An He happily stood up from his seat and said with a smile.

"Back to Master Ma, Feng Yue took a closer look, there is no Li He in this gang of horse thieves." Feng Yue bowed again.

"Oh. In this way, send someone to interrogate these criminals, and no matter what method you can think of, you must pry open their mouths and find out their details and where they came from. Bring men with me. Let's go to the Hou Mansion of Qizhou. An He frowned, flicked the sleeves of his robe, and strode away. Feng Yue was silent. Get up and follow closely.

In addition to the 3,000 soldiers in the Shenji camp, 1,000 people were assigned to take over the defense of Qizhou, and the rest surrounded the Qizhou Hou Mansion with three layers inside and three layers outside. An He came to him, and Gao Hu hurriedly came over to salute. "Master Horse, there is a quiet ...... in the Hou Mansion"

An He pondered for a while, then waved his hand, "Mr. Gao Hu, bring someone into the house with me!" Immediately search the house, even if you turn over the ground, you must find Li He for me. ”

The soldiers slammed open the gate and swarmed in. Torches are held high in the Hou Mansion. The lights were bright, and all the maids, domestic servants, etc., gathered in the front yard, as if they had been waiting for Ann to arrive. Li Tassel is dressed in white. There was a hint of despair on Junxiu's face, she looked at An He, who slowly walked into the mansion, and said in a low voice: "Master Pony, don't search it." Li He is here. ”

Behind him, a domestic servant pushed out the bound Li He. Now! Li He's face was devoid of the calm and arrogant he used to be. With a deep fear on the vulture's face, he turned around and shouted, "Li Tassel, you'll regret it!" ”

"Horse rider, come, tassels collude with bandits and rob death row prisoners, and you know that the death penalty is inevitable. However, Wangfu looked at the face of the same Tang clan and left some dignity for the tassels. Li Liusu stretched out his white and pink hands and closed his eyes slightly.

"Don't search. After taking Li He down, you can step aside. An He smiled indifferently and waved his hand to Feng Yue and Gao Hu.

The soldiers escorted Li He out of the house. An He looked up at the bright moon that had just risen in the sky, took two steps forward, and said loudly! "Tassel County Lord, so far, haven't you told An He the truth?"

Li Liusu suddenly opened his eyes, his pure and sad gaze fell on An He's back, and sighed, "Master Horse, this Li He, formerly known as Shi Nadong, is the younger brother of a very powerful group of horse thieves in Minzhou. The year before last, Tassel came to Qizhou with his brother Li Chen, occasionally wandering the streets, and was met by this guy, he was entangled in Tassel and was captured by his brother's guards. Who would have thought, at night, dozens of snitches entered the Hou Mansion at night and took my brother to Minzhou as a hostage, and put forward two conditions! First, to take over the business of my Daowang lineage, and second, to ask me to marry that Shi Nadong. ”

"Although my father has three sons under his knees, the eldest brother and the second brother are not successful, only the third brother Li Chen is deeply loved by his father, and he is expected to inherit the throne in the future. My father wanted to play the emperor and send troops to clean up this gang of thieves and rescue the third brother, but who knows, their power is huge, and they have actually infiltrated Chang'an, and even my father's favorite concubine Liu was poisoned by them. Under all kinds of coercion, my father had no choice but to agree to their request...... In the past few years, this Qizhou Hou Mansion has simply become a stronghold for their bandits, they do whatever they want, crazy to accumulate money......" Li Liusu paused, and said, "And I, too, was coerced by them here, pretending to be my royal brother, and making a fake Qizhou Marquis to respond to the scene." And Na Shi Nadong persecuted me day and night, if it weren't for my sworn disobedience, plus his brother still had plans for my Dao King's lineage, tassels...... I'm afraid the tassel ......"

Li tassel sorrow comes from it! Two tears slipped out of his eyes, and his body trembled slightly.

Ann and silently, everything! It was a slight difference from what he had guessed. He had long expected that the reason why this Wang Yimai was so subservient to a minion must be controlled by others. He smiled, "Tassel County Lord!" Qizhou bandits are rampant, could it be that the assassin Yamen was also bought by them? ”

"Nope. Guan Ping is an official, and he is still incorruptible. But my father was gracious to him as a steward, and his mother is still in our house...... So...... Guan Ping can only open one eye and close one eye......" Li Tassel shook his head, and continued, "I don't know what Lord Pony is going to do with Tassel and Dao King lineage?" ”

An He smiled faintly and turned away, "Tassel County Lord, the stakes are very high, An He can't make a decision, wait for the emperor's will." ”

Night shrouded Qizhou. The city was quiet and peaceful, but even the people could smell a hint of tension in the air.

The shops, farms, and lands that Shi Nadong pretended to occupy in the name of the Marquis of Qizhou were all preserved one by one, and those horse thieves had already confessed that they were indeed from Minzhou, and Shi Nadong was the younger brother of their big leader. At this point, the water has come to light and the dust has settled.

An He knew that this case involved the prince, and although he had the right to make his own decisions, he still couldn't make his own decisions. He wrote down the story of the incident in detail as a recital, and then sent someone to gallop to Chang'an and report to the East Palace, which was forwarded by Li Zhi to Li Shimin. At the same time, he also wrote a secret letter to Li Zhi, asking him to transfer manpower to strengthen the defense of his mansion and ensure the absolute safety of the four daughters of Yuzhang. He didn't want to be "fighting" in front and being "set on fire" in the backyard.

Qizhou is away from Chang'an, and you can make a round trip for 3 days without a whip. An He pondered, in about 7 days, Li Shimin's will should come down. In the days of waiting for Li Shimin's will, he was not idle, and basically made the affairs of Qizhou clear.

Gong Liang's mother was forcibly occupied by Shi Nadong and hid in a farm outside the city, where there were several women from good families who had the same experience. The mother of Gong Liang, who was rescued, cried with Gong Liang into a pair of tears, which made Yingge and Sun Yanzhen on the side sad.

Guan Ping and other officials were imprisoned together, Li Liusu was placed under house arrest in the palace, waiting for the handling of the holy decree, and all government affairs in Qizhou were temporarily handled by An He.

And Li Wei, taking this opportunity, found a store in a prime location in Qizhou City, stepped up preparations, and the Qizhou branch of Xue's Commercial Bank is about to be put into business! Moreover, he also found an open-pit coal mine vein on the hills outside the city of Qizhou. An He was overjoyed, and secretly asked Li Wei to find a way to prepare for the barren hills to be included in the name of the Xue family's industry, and the matter was left to Li Wei to handle, as for what means he used to obtain this mineral, he did not ask. There are many ways here, as long as you don't openly violate the laws of the Tang Dynasty! It is up to him to "operate". With the banner of An He and the four princesses, Levi's "tiger skin" is easy to pull.

He considered that Xue's firm was growing day by day, and it was necessary to change its main business from flower dew elixir and gas generator, two commodities that could not be promoted on a large scale, to popular materials. Therefore, he asked Levi to further reduce the production and sales of flower elixir, raise the price, and try to make it a "luxury" that only a few people can afford. As for the development and utilization of coal, in addition to asking local branches to further search for coal veins, he decided to design a stove that was simpler than a gas generator - similar to the boxy cooking and heating stoves used in rural households in modern society.

This kind of stove design is much easier to make! Although it was easy for others to follow suit, Anwa eventually decided to promote this simple stove as soon as possible. The stove is easy to imitate, but the coal is hard to find. As long as the fuel source is still in the hands of Xue, it is not afraid of imitation. After all, under the conditions of Datang, underground coal veins cannot be mined at all, and only a small amount of open-pit ore veins can be developed and collected. Open-pit veins are relatively rare. He believes that if it weren't for the fact that Li Wei had a "prospecting manual" that he had spent several days writing in detail, recording the characteristics of the open-pit coal veins and how to collect and excavate them, he would not have been able to find the veins of the open-pit coal mines.

Many of Anhe's "instructions" on commercial banks and commercial trade operations were transmitted to the head office in Chang'an through Li Wei and through the flying pigeon transmission system of Yingge spy business guards, and then dispersed from the head office of Chang'an to various branches.

During this period of time, the news sent by the spy Shang Wei and the secret guard from the bandits in Minzhou also spread to Qizhou in a steady stream. An He understood that no matter how the Holy Decree dealt with Li Liusu and other ordinary people, he would inevitably have to deal with this group of bandits.

On the afternoon of the 6th, the sunset slipped down with a faint afterglow in the autumn wind. A fast horse galloped into Qizhou City, galloping all the way to the outside of the Assassin's Yamen, and immediately a dusty inner guard flew off his horse, holding high the holy decree while marching inside, while shouting: "Your Majesty has a decree, the whole world will patrol the envoys, and the divine machine will be Ma An and receive the decree!" (To be continued.) )