When Xiao Jin returned to Ziwei Pavilion, the afternoon government affairs began, and Ziwei Pavilion was busy, and from time to time you could see people hurriedly walking through the corridor with thick scriptures, their steps light and fast.

As soon as Xiao Sheng sat down in his seat, he saw Pei Qingsong pointing to the back room to him, Xiao Jin hurriedly got up and asked, "Is His Highness looking for me?" ”

"Come on in! I've been looking for you twice. ”

Xiao Jin didn't dare to slack off, tidied up his clothes, walked quickly to the door of the official room of the King of Chu, and knocked on the door, "Your Highness, it's me!" ”

"Come in!"

Xiao Jin pushed the door and walked in, in the room, Yang Yuanqing was squinting and carefully looking at a jade Buddha on the table, the jade Buddha was pale green, it was a complete chalcedony carving, green and round, without a trace of flaws.

"This Li Chongshou is very generous!"

Yang Yuanqing turned around and smiled at Xiao Fu: "I asked the shopkeeper of Daxingji Jewelry Shop to appraise this jade Buddha, and he said that it is a rare treasure, worth at least five hundred taels of gold, it seems that they attach great importance to you." ”

Xiao Jin smiled bitterly, "Your Highness, they don't attach importance to me, they attach importance to my position, if I change positions, don't talk about the Jade Buddha, I'm afraid even the Bronze Buddha won't give it to me." ”

Yang Yuanqing nodded and said lightly: "You can take this one!" Even if I reward you. ”

Xiao Jin was taken aback, "Your Highness, this Jade Buddha is too precious, and I dare not accept it." ”

Yang Yuanqing looked at him six times, "This is my reward for you, what dare you not accept, I know that your mother is also a person who believes in Buddhism, and this jade Buddha will be given to her old man." ”

Xiao Shan was grateful in her heart, and gave a deep salute, "Thank you for your humble duties, Your Highness!" ”

Yang Yuanqing sat down, took a cup of tea, took a sip of tea, and asked, "How is your relationship with him now?" ”

"Back to His Royal Highness, our relationship is progressing rapidly, and the day after tomorrow will be closed, and the two families will go to Anjin Temple to burn incense together."

"Yes, then go and burn incense with him, the relationship is a little better, you can worship as brothers with different surnames." Yang Yuanqing's smile carried a hint of teasing.

Xiao Jin was stunned for a moment, and said helplessly for a while: "Your Highness spent such a big price on this matter, isn't it a bit ......?"

"Isn't that a bit crazy, is it?"

Yang Yuanqing smiled and said earnestly: "This is not a trivial matter, the weakness of any dynasty starts from the inside, and before the world is calm, they will begin to compete for the throne with brothers, which is a good thing for us!" It's our duty to add some fuel to them and make their fight a little more violent, you know? This is called military strategy. ”

"The humble duty understands, the brothers fight, the family is in turmoil, the prince is fighting, and the country is in trouble, and the humble duty will definitely try its best to cooperate with His Royal Highness to complete this plan."

"It's good that you understand, I estimate that the time for them to start is almost up, and they may wronged you then, and I will compensate you afterwards."

"I am willing to serve His Highness!"

"Go ahead! Take this Jade Buddha home and bring it to your mother. ”

Xiao Jin picked up the Jade Buddha and was about to leave, he suddenly remembered something again, and hurriedly said: "I met Feng Deyi in the Bafang Wine Store today, and he said that he had just escaped from Li Mi and was willing to serve His Highness. ”

"Feng Deyi?"

Yang Yuanqing was a little surprised, this eight-sided old man actually came to take refuge in himself, Yang Yuanqing pondered for a while, and asked again: "Where is he now?" ”

"Back to His Highness, he is now in the Sui Pavilion Elect."

"I see, you go first!"

"Retire from your duties." Xiao Jin saluted and slowly retreated.

Yang Yuanqing stood in front of the window with his hands in his hands and pondered for a long time, Feng Deyi came at the right time, maybe he could help him complete a big thing.

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The county governance of Yan'an County is not in Yan'an County, but in Fushi County, the Qingshui River runs through the whole city, Fushi County is a middle county, with a population of more than 2,000 households, the circumference of the city is less than 20 miles, and there are 5,000 garrisons.

Although the permanent population is not large, the commerce is very developed, and almost all the goods of the six counties in Guanbei are concentrated in Yan'an County and the merchants of Guanzhong in the south for trading, mainly leather goods and medicinal materials.

Xiao Yuansong was concerned about Chang'an's business, and hurried back to Guanzhong, he only stayed in Fushi County for two days, he brought a caravan composed of two hundred camels, and transported hundreds of loads of tea, when he went back, the tea was replaced with medicinal materials, this came and went, the net profit was enough to have 8,000 hanging money, if you can save taxes, in this way, the net profit will be tens of thousands of hanging money.

Xiao Yuansong is a businessman, if he can earn a point, he will never let go, of course, the business of coming to Yan'an has also been done, he used a big gourd to buy a full gourd of fire oil on the black market.

However, the seller also told him that this was not the same as the Sui army's oil oil, which had to go through several precipitations to be clearer, and this oil was directly collected from the oil well, which was relatively viscous, but could be used to treat skin diseases.

Xiao Yuansong didn't care about this, and the palace governor didn't ask for it, as long as he had a small risk, it was not what he wanted to do to seek Sui military oil, and more importantly, he didn't want to trouble his nephew Xiao Jiong.

Xiao Yuansong had already bought all the goods, and at noon, the caravan set off from the inn, accompanied by the crisp sound of camel bells, and slowly headed towards the south city gate.

There are more than 100 soldiers standing on both sides of the city gate, because of the integration of the Guannan, a large number of merchants in the south of the Guannan come and go in the north of the Guan, and there are also a lot of enemy spies mixed in it, so the inventory is very strict, but only by the inventory is not able to catch any spies, the inventory is mainly to check the contraband, hot oil, pig iron, grain, coal, gold and silver, jujube wood poles and copper ingots and other strategic materials are not allowed to go south.

As soon as the caravan arrived at the gate of the city, a soldier stepped forward to block the way, "Where is the caravan?" A lieutenant snapped and asked.

Xiao Yuansong hurriedly arched his hand and said, "Report to the military master, we are from Guanzhong." ”

"The caravan in Guanzhong must be strictly investigated."

The lieutenant waved his hand, "Search for me!" ”

Dozens of soldiers stepped forward to search for the goods, Xiao Yuansong hurriedly gave the steward a look, and the steward immediately stepped forward and secretly stuffed a silver ingot weighing ten taels into the captain's hand.

Silver does not prevent searches, but it can prevent soldiers from damaging goods, and can also avoid the pain of searching, which has long been a practice, the captain smiled, and ordered: "Be light, don't damage other people's goods." ”

The brutal search of the soldiers immediately became gentle, and instead of piercing the goods with spears, they opened the bags and looked through them, and the body search was avoided.

There was a big gourd hanging on the horse that Xiao Yuansong was riding, and naturally no one paid attention to it, the goods were all medicinal herbs and furs, and the inspection was completed in a quarter of an hour.

"Report to the captain, there is no contraband!"

The lieutenant waved his hand, "Release!" ”

The camels began to slowly move out of the city, and at that moment, someone in the distance shouted, "Stop them!" ”

I saw dozens of soldiers galloping on horseback in the distance, their helmets were all made of red copper, different from ordinary soldiers, the captain's face changed, this was the internal guard army coming, he didn't dare to disobey, and immediately shouted: "Stop this caravan!" ”

At the same time, he quickly stuffed the silver back into the deacon's hand, and when he was inspected by the internal guards, even if he had great courage, he did not dare to take a bribe, which would be beheaded.

The caravan that was just about to leave the city was stopped again, and Xiao Yuansong beat a drum in his heart, not knowing where he had a problem.

In a moment, dozens of internal guard soldiers galloped over, led by a brigade commander, who had an even more stern attitude, and asked with a whip: "Who is the leader?" ”

Xiao Yuansong said that he came out of the team and arched his hand: "It's down there!" ”

The brigade commander waved his hand, "Grab it!" ”

Rushing up, more than a dozen internal security soldiers dragged Xiao Yuansong down from their horses and tied him back, Xiao Yuansong struggled and shouted: "I didn't break the law, what are you doing with me?" ”

The brigade marshal sneered, reached out and took off the gourd from Xiao Yuansong, opened the lid and sniffed it, and whipped him violently, "You still said that you didn't break the law, what are you?" ”

The brigade commander poured out a puddle of fire oil from the sound of the gourd, startling the soldiers guarding the city, and the captain's face turned white, and he almost made a big mistake by hiding the fire oil.

Xiao Yuansong was in the bush, how did the other party know that this gourd was fire oil? Could it be that the black marketeers who sell fire oil have betrayed themselves, it should be impossible! There are rules to the industry, and it is impossible for a black marketeer to do such a thing, so who will it be?

At this time, the internal guard soldiers searched the Qin Wangfu token from his arms and shouted: "Brigade commander, he is really a Tang Dynasty spy." ”

The brigade commander took the token and looked at it, his eyes showed a fierce light, and he stared at Xiao Yuansong viciously, "It turned out to be Tang Feng's person, I almost lost my eyes." ”

"Warehouse! , He pulled out the snowy horizontal knife, Xiao Yuansong was so frightened that his soul was not possessed, he faintly recalled, this token is probably not as simple as the token of Qin Wangfu, he had seen with his own eyes the situation of catching the spy and beheading him on the street, that kind of terrifying scene......

He was so shocked that he shouted desperately: "I'm not a Tang Dynasty spy, I'm just an ordinary businessman, my nephew is Sima Xiaojiong of Yan'an County, he can testify for me!" ”

When people are in danger, they often look for a sense of security, and Xiao Yuansong is no exception, he didn't want to trouble his nephew, but when it came to his own life, he couldn't care about it.

The brigade commander was stunned, and a more gloomy smile appeared in his eyes, it turned out that Xiao Sima had a relationship, and the stakes were very high, so he didn't dare to be careless, and immediately ordered him to leave and right, "Arrest them all back to the military office for torture!" ”

Under severe torture, Xiao Yuansong finally confessed that he was entrusted by the Qin Wangfu to come to Yan'an County to buy hot oil, but he did not admit that he was an intelligence spy of the Tang Dynasty, but he had a Tang style waist card on him, and more importantly, this person was also related to Sima of Yan'an County.

Moreover, Xiao Shan, who joined the army in the Chu Dynasty's royal family, was also a member of this Tang Dynasty spy, and the head of the internal security of Yan'an County felt that the matter was very important, so he did not dare to be careless, and immediately sent someone to escort Xiao Yuansong to Taiyuan.

There was no news about this matter afterwards, but a few days later, the imperial court issued an order to remove Sima Xiao Jiong of Yan'an County from his post on the grounds of incompetence, and at the same time, on the grounds of normal transfer, he was dismissed from the post of Xiao Shan, who joined the army in the Chu royal office, and was reappointed as Langzhong of the Ministry of Rites.

This incident immediately caused a discussion in the imperial court, and the reasons given by the imperial court were obviously unconvincing, and everyone speculated about the inside story, the Xiao brothers were dismissed and demoted, there must be a problem, especially Xiao Jin, who was dismissed from the post of secretary to join the army, there must be a major reason for this.

But Ziwei Pavilion kept silent, which made this matter even more mysterious.