Chapter 154: Tight Planning
Qi Wanxiang hurriedly bowed down and said with a smile: "Master Liu, he's here." ”
Qi Wei stepped out of the carriage, he looked at the man in front of him suspiciously, turned around and asked Qi Wanxiang, "Sixth uncle, who is he?" What is this place? ”
The man stepped forward to give a salute and said with a smile: "My name is Liu Sijun, it was Uncle Shen Guo who sent me to see you, and we hope that the Qi family can return to Chang'an." ”
"Uncle Shen?"
Qi Wei took a step back, this person will find himself out at night, nothing good will happen!
"I don't have anything to say to Uncle Shen."
Liu Sijun expected him to say this, of course he couldn't say that he was the envoy of King Qi, since this Qi Wei supported Uncle Shen, then it didn't hurt for him to pretend that Uncle Shen Guo was special, and more importantly, there were only two people in the Qi Mansion who knew the anti-counterfeiting secret of Qi Ruifu's silver ticket, one was Qi Wannian, and the other was Qi Wei, who had been in charge of Qi Dafu for nearly ten years, and this Qi Wei was very important to his plan.
He smiled slightly: "How do you know if there is a good thing without talking about it?" Second son of Qi, Uncle Shen has always attached great importance to you, he will not let you down, and I hope you will not let him down. ”
Although Qi Wei resented his father for depriving him of his power, he was not as unprincipled as the sixth uncle Qi Wanxiang, he was very shrewd, and he had already realized that he was lured out by the sixth uncle.
He immediately arched his hand and said: "Of course you can talk about it, but not tonight, tonight you have to formally hand over power to the fourth brother, and early tomorrow morning, I will come to visit Mr. Liu." ”
After speaking, he turned around and got into the carriage, how could Liu Sijun let him go, he glanced at the people on both sides, and the four guards rushed up and grabbed Qi Wei.
Qi Wei struggled desperately, "What are you doing, let go of me!" ”
As soon as he shouted two sentences, a big man knocked him unconscious with one palm, and the four of them dragged Qi Wei into the house like wolves and tigers, and even the coachman was arrested together, Qi Wanxiang didn't expect this, he was stunned for a moment, his face showed melancholy, Liu Sijun patted him on the shoulder, and comforted him with a smile, "Don't worry!" As long as he is willing to tell the secret, your benefits will not be less than a penny. ”
......... After Wujin returned to his mansion, he explained a few words to his wife, and immediately rushed to find Shi Zhouxin, the governor of the capital, although he had military forces in his hands, he had only been in Jiangning for two days, and he was not familiar with the situation in Jiangning Mansion, he needed help, and Zhou Xin, who had been the governor of Chuzhou for five years, was the best candidate, and he wanted to send a letter to Su Hanzhen, and he could only borrow the pigeon letter station of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion.
Zhou Xin's mansion is in the backyard of the Dadu Governor's Mansion, not far from the Wujin Mansion, only two miles apart, at this time Zhou Xin was reading in the study, and his wife's voice came from outside the door, "Master, someone outside the mansion is looking for you, saying that there is an emergency." ”
Zhou Xin's wife is the cousin of Shen Guo's uncle, after her husband died thirteen years ago, she was only twenty-six years old, three years after being widowed, she was matched by Shen Guifei at that time, and then married Zhou Xin, who also died of his wife, although Zhou Xin was ten years older than her, and already had two sons, but he still loved her more, so that Shen had a good life in the past ten years, and gave birth to a daughter to him, and both mother and daughter lived in Jiangning Mansion with Zhou Xin.
"Who is looking for me?" Zhou Xin put down the book and asked.
"It's a young man surnamed Huangfu, and he said I'm with you today."
Although Shen is the sister of Shen Guo's uncle, she is more honest and never cares about court affairs, and she doesn't know who Huangfu Wujin is?
Zhou Xin was startled, and said repeatedly: "Invite him in, hey!" Forget it, I'm out. ”
He put on his shoes and ran out, and Shen hurriedly caught up with him and put on a piece of clothing for him, "Master, it's cold outside, don't catch a cold." ”
Zhou Xin hurriedly put on his clothes and ran outside the door, and when he saw Wu Jin standing in front of the steps with his hands behind his back, he stepped forward and said apologetically: "Your Highness, the insider is rude, so Your Highness has been waiting outside for a long time." ”
Wu Jin waved his hand and smiled: "It's me who refuses to go in, and it has nothing to do with Madame." ”
"It's so late, is there something wrong with Your Highness?"
Wu Jin pointed to the carriage, "Get in the carriage first, I do have something important to look for you." ”
Zhou Xin turned around and instructed his family: "Tell Madame, I'll go out for a while." ”
He followed Wu Jin into the carriage, and Wu Jin smiled and said, "It seems that you have a good relationship." ”
Zhou Xin nodded, "Although she is Uncle Shen's cousin, she is very conservative and never asks about outside matters, even the Shen family in Jiangning rarely goes back, and she never contacts Uncle Shen, so she doesn't even know who you are." ”
"It's best this way, and the pressure of the long history is also less."
"Is there something wrong with Your Highness looking for me?"
Wu Jin smiled and took out a tube of pigeon letters, "I want to ask the adults to send this pigeon letter to Su Hanzhen for me, it is very urgent, can Changshi do it?" ”
"That's fine, I can send it with a pigeon letter from the Metropolitan Governor's Palace."
Zhou Xin took the pigeon letter, and he asked suspiciously, "What happened?" ”
"Baifu Commercial Bank and Donglai Commercial Bank jointly attacked Qi Ruifu, and there was a run on Qi Dafu Qian Zhuang in Weiyang County......"
Wu Jin briefly told Zhou Xin what had happened, and finally said with a smile: "This is a good opportunity to win the trust of the Qi family, and I plan to help the Qi family survive this crisis." ”
Zhou Xin thought for a while and said: "If you can win the Qi family to Jin'an, it will be a big help, I don't know how Your Highness is going to help the Qi family?" ”
"What I lack most now is a spy who is familiar with the situation in Chuzhou, I know that the Phoenix Society has an intelligence point in Weiyang, then Jiangning Mansion must also have it, does Zhou Changshi know where it is?"
One sentence reminded Zhou Xin, and he laughed, "Your Highness didn't say that I forgot about it, there is, it is the Donghai Restaurant at the gate of the West Market, the shopkeeper there is surnamed Yang, he is the intelligence head of the Phoenix Society in Jiangning Mansion, you can find him directly, and you can give them this carrier pigeon, they can send it to Weiyang County tonight, and I have to wait for tomorrow to send it to Jiangbei." ”
Wu Jin took the pigeon letter and said: "There is one more thing, does Changshi know the prince's intelligence point in Jiangning County?" ”
Yesterday, the prince's people came to look for him, and when he left, he told him a news, saying that the envoy of the king of Qi was coming, and Wu Jin did not realize the relationship between this information and him at that time, and now he reacted, it is very likely that this envoy of the king of Qi is the mastermind behind this time to deal with Qi Ruifu, and he must find this person as soon as possible.
Zhou Xin nodded, "I know, I've been keeping an eye on them, just in the Zhuangyuan Lane next to the North City Gate, there are at least three hidden warriors in that gang. ”
Zhou Xin wanted to ask Wujin what he was looking for the prince, but in the end he still didn't ask, and he didn't want to ask too much about some things.
He muttered and said: "I also want to remind Your Highness that if this matter really involves Donglai Commercial Bank, it must be the mastermind of King Qi, and Your Highness should be careful of the embroidered guards in Jiangbei." ”
"I know, I'll arrange it tonight."
Speaking of the embroidered guards in Jiangbei, Wu Jin remembered something, so he asked: "Zhou Changshi, obediently Jiangning Mansion City Gate Army is under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, can you give me a night pass card to go out of the city?" ”
Zhou Xin took a silver medal from his waist and handed it to him with a smile, "Actually, you are the heir, you can enter and leave the city at will outside the capital, but the defenders are not familiar with you, this will be given to you first." ”
The two said a few more words, and Zhou Xin got out of the carriage and went back, and Wujin didn't need his help in other things, and the carriage ran all the way to Xishi.
......... Like the North City of Weiyang County, the West Market of Jiangning County is also the material distribution center of the entire Jiangning Prefecture, with more than 1,000 shops, covering a large area, surrounded by city walls, like a city within a city, there are dozens of wine shops, green buildings and gambling halls at the gate of the West Market, among which the largest restaurant is still Baifu Restaurant, followed by Donghai Restaurant.
As soon as the carriage arrived at the gate of the West Market, Wu Jin saw the huge Donghai Restaurant at a glance, covering an area of five acres and four floors high.
At this time, the hour had passed, the restaurant had just closed, dozens of men and maids were cleaning in the restaurant, and more than a dozen wine ladies and music girls came out of the store and got into the carriage waiting at the door.
Wu Jin's carriage slowly stopped at the door of the restaurant, and Wu Jin smiled at the coachman: "Go back!" Thank you very much. ”
The coachman agreed, drove back to Qi Mansion, Wujin waited for the carriage to go away, he turned around and pushed the door into the restaurant, a guy greeted him and said with a smile: "Guest officer, I'm sorry, the restaurant has closed." ”
"Are you shopkeeper Yang here? I'm looking for him. ”
The man turned around and shouted, "Shopkeeper, someone is looking for you at the door!" ”
He hurriedly asked Wu Jin to sit down, and after a while, a man in his thirties, quite shrewd and capable, hurriedly came, "Who is looking for me?" ”
When he saw Wu Jin at a glance, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, his expression seemed to be a little familiar.
"This guest, I seem to have seen you somewhere."
In fact, Wu Jin didn't have any impression of him, but he could guess that this person must have seen him on Ryukyu Island.
Wu Jin saw that the guys next to him were busy, and there was no one beside him, so he took out the black phoenix gold medal from his arms and shook it lightly at him.
Shopkeeper Yang's face changed suddenly, he quickly glanced at both sides, and said in a low voice: "Please follow me!" ”
They went up to the fourth floor, and the shopkeeper Yang took the key to open the door of the top room, but there was still a door inside, he opened the door again, and lit the candle at the door, "Please come in!" ”
Wu Jin walked into the room, the air in the room was not very good, there was a moldy and cold smell, this was obviously not a room for eating, there were a dozen chairs against the wall, and there was a table by the window.
Shopkeeper Yang put the candle on the table, he suddenly remembered, and looked back at Wu Jin, "You are the prince of the emperor." ”
He immediately reacted and fell to his knees, "It turned out that His Highness had arrived, I have no eyes, please forgive Your Highness!" ”
At this time, Wu Jin suddenly thought of a question, it seems that many people in the Phoenix Society know that his name is Huangfu Wujin, if so, then the relationship between him and the Phoenix Society will be easy to spread, generally speaking, Huangfu Xuande must have placed spies in the Phoenix Society, so doesn't Huangfu Xuande know that he will have a relationship with Phoenix?
Could it be that Huangfu Xuande sent himself to Donghai County to be the governor of the Chuzhou Naval Army, just so that he could attack the Phoenix Society? If this assumption is true, then Huangfu Xuande is a little too risky, and the governor of Chuzhou's naval army is really powerful! He didn't have to take such a risk.
This reason made Wujin puzzled.
(To be continued)