Yangzhou Taishou Lu Lian's house was behind the state office, and just after the third watch, he was awakened by a fierce knock on the door.

"What's the matter?" Lu Lian asked in a daze.

"Envoy, it's not good, there's something big going on in the warehouse."

'Warehouse! Lu Jian suddenly sobered up, and he's Teng! He sat up, didn't even put on his shoes, and rushed to the door and asked, "What's going on in the warehouse?" ”

The property that Li Qing'an handed over to him was worth more than 100,000 yuan, but it was all in the treasury, and he was still thinking last night that he would store this batch of property in the treasury of the Dadu Governor's Mansion today, but nothing should happen.

"What's going on in the storeroom?"

"Envoy, nearly 100 people rushed into the warehouse and robbed the Du family's property, and the brothers were killed and five injured!"

"Ahh Lu Jian was stunned.

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The warehouse of the state capital had been controlled by a large number of officials who had rushed to hear the news, and in the hazy morning mist, the courtyard was in disarray, full of broken cages and bloodstains, a slain official was lying in the corner of the wall, wrapped in a roll of mats, and several wounded were leaning against the wall to receive treatment.

"Envoy, they came too suddenly, and when they came in, the brothers happened to be in the house to hand over, and the subordinates are sure that there is an inside line among us."

Lu Jian walked into the warehouse with a gloomy face, the light was lit, it was originally filled with the Du family's belongings, but now it was empty, less than one percent of the remaining belongings and dozens of ingots of silver fell during the looting, which had been moved to another room, and the room was filled with a faint smell of rotten wood.

Lu Jian sighed softly, needless to say, he also knew who did it, Yangzhou City and even the entire Tang Dynasty, can maintain so many dead soldiers, besides King Qing, who else will there be?

At this time, his staff member Fang Wuzhen also rushed to hear the news, and the scene in front of him was also surprising to him, and only after half a sound did he say: "Envoy, while the city gate is not open now, we should search it immediately, and maybe we can find them back." ”

"Do you want me to turn against King Qing?" Lu Jian asked coldly.

"But、But if you lose more than 100,000 pieces of property, how can Taishou explain to the imperial court?"

Fang Wuzhen saw that Lu Jian was silent, and persuaded him in a low voice: "Even if you can't move King Qing, at least you must have some evidence, and when the court investigates in the future, the prince will have an excuse to explain." ”

Lu Jian nodded, Fang Wuzhen was reasonable, no matter what, he had to search, otherwise he really couldn't explain.

"But we are short of manpower, even if we mobilize the people of the county government, it is not enough to check the whole city of Jiangdu, and now it is almost the fourth watch, and the city gate must be opened by the fifth watch at the latest."

"We ask for the army's help!"

"It's useless, only the Ministry of War has the right to mobilize troops."

"Envoy, go find Li Qingan for help, I heard that they came back last night."

"Well, without further ado, I'll go to the barracks right away."

In a moment, Lu Jian was surrounded by more than a dozen officials, rode to the north city gate, the city gate was specially opened for Taishou, the horses ran out of the city gate, and galloped straight to the station of the regimental training camp.

In less than a quarter of an hour, Lu Jian rushed to the front of the barracks, and in the distance, a sentry shouted: "Stop! Otherwise, we'll shoot our bows and arrows. ”

"Don't let go of the arrows, I'm Yangzhou Lu Taishou, and I have an urgent matter to see your general."

"Lu Taishou, please wait a moment."

A sentry ran down the tower and rushed towards Li Qing'an's residence, Li Qing'an was woken up, he had only returned from riding and shooting yesterday evening, and he was extremely tired.

He hurriedly put on his military uniform and came out, "What's wrong?" ”

"General, Lu Taishou has something urgent to find."

Li Qingan looked at the sky, it was just four watches, what would happen so early?

He strode to the gate of the camp, and when the anxious Lu Lian saw him come out, he hurriedly stepped forward and saluted: "General Li, just now, the property of the Du family kept in the treasury was robbed by a group of people of unknown origin, and I implore General Li to send troops to search for me." ”

Li Qingan was stunned, "Could it be that the money worth hundreds of thousands of yuan has been robbed?" ”

"That's right, they came with nearly a hundred people, very fierce, twenty officials were killed and five were injured, and most of the money and goods were robbed."

"Don't say any more, I'll send troops to help you!"

The bell for the emergency assembly rang, and after nearly a month of intensive training, the emergency response ability of the soldiers of the regimental training battalion was incomparable to that of ordinary troops, and they put on their clothes and armor as quickly as possible, took their weapons and went straight to the stables, and in less than a cup of tea, 500 soldiers lined up and left the camp in a neat line.

Lu Lian, who looked at this speed, was dumbfounded, Li Qingan turned over his horse, and pointed at the Jiangdu City with a horsewhip, "Enter the Jiangdu City immediately and start a city-wide search!" ”

Before dawn, Jiangdu City was awakened by the rapid sound of horses' hooves on the street, and the 500 Tang troops were divided into 50 teams, and the officials of the state and county governments also formed 20 teams, and began to knock on doors and search from house to house.

A lamp was lit, and the cursing of various houses could be heard everywhere, as well as the screams and cries of children, Lu Jian felt guilty and rode around on horseback, he knew that it was pointless to search ordinary people's homes, but if it wasn't a city-wide search, what reason would he have to search King Qing's mansion.

"Envoy, do you feel that General Li is a little extra willing to help today?" Fang Wuzhen reminded in a whisper behind him.

"It seems that there is a little, I thought he still refused to agree, but I didn't expect him to be so happy."

A few days ago, for the sake of Du Bosheng, Lu Jian went to Li Qingan twice to negotiate, but Li Qingan refused, and when he went for the third time, Li Qingan went out to train, but he didn't think that Li Qingan would agree to help as soon as he came back today, which was really beyond his expectations.

Lu Jian glanced back at Fang Wuzhen and smiled, "Did you find anything?" ”

Fang Wuzhen nodded and said, "The subordinates are thinking, what is the use of Du Bosheng to Li Qing'an?" He has nothing to do with Yangzhou, why did he work so hard to arrest Du Bosheng, and now we all know that the person is in his hands, why does he refuse to hand it over, what kind of medicine is sold in his gourd? ”

Lu Jian pondered for a moment and then said, "Do you mean that he waits for the price to sell?" ”

"It's a bit of a meaning, Du Bosheng is the core figure of the competition between the two factions in Yangzhou, isn't this the purpose of him pinching his hands?"

"And what does he want?" Lu Jian really couldn't understand Li Qingan's intentions.

"The subordinates thought he didn't really want anything."

Fang Wuzhen smiled slowly: "If I'm not mistaken, this Li Qingan is choosing the master, on one side is the crown prince, on the other side is the king of Qing, he is choosing who he should turn to." ”

"But Colliers is his backstage, and he should be more inclined to the prince."

"It should be like this, that's why he handed over the Du family's property to the envoy, not Liu Changyun, today he is willing to help the envoy search the city, in fact, he is giving the envoy a hint, he is waiting for the envoy to give him a promise."

Lu Lian's eyes slowly lit up, if this is the case, then he will have a seventy percent victory in the stalemate in Yangzhou, and this Li Qingan is indeed very good, very capable, and the prince happens to be too weak in the military, if he can be pulled into the prince's camp, in time, Li Qingan will become the prince's right-hand man.

"I understand, this matter can't be delayed any longer, I'll go and talk to him, if Li Qing'an is pulled over by Li Li's blood, it will be a pity."

After speaking, Lu Lian turned his horse's head and headed towards Nanshi.

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The time to open the city gate has passed, Jiangdu City only opened the south gate at the moment, and thirty officials guarded the gate to strictly check, every carriage out of the city and every burden were repeatedly searched, and the time for the opening of the city in the south market has passed, but the market is still closed, no one is allowed to enter or exit, Li Qingan personally led ten teams to search in the south market, the south city is a place where merchants from all over the world are concentrated, and there are a lot of various valuable property in the warehouse, which are basically loaded with cages, so the search of the south city is also extremely careful, and the account books must be checked one by one, The shopkeeper will explain the extra items, and those who can't explain it will all detain the items.

At this time, Li Qingan was checking a Huren jewelry store in Lingxi, and there were many jewels and jade in the Du family's belongings.

The sharp-nosed and blue-eyed proprietor of the jewelry store nodded and said, "General, we are all law-abiding businessmen, all items have been taxed, and there is absolutely no tax money leaked from Datang."

"I didn't say that you leaked taxes, but there were special circumstances to search, and besides, you are not completely clean, like you only have eighteen men in your inventory, but we have counted twenty-six people, and where did eight people come from, can you not hide slaves?"

Li Qing'an just said casually, but he didn't see the proprietor explain for a long time, he couldn't help but look at him strangely, only to see that he looked nervous, his hands were trembling slightly, Li Qing'an's doubts increased greatly, and he ordered sharply as soon as he collected the inventory: "Call everyone in your store out and accept inspection." ”

The proprietor of the Hu people turned pale and stammered: "Will... Army, nothing. ”

"Someone! Let me go into the bunk and get all the people out. ”

More than a dozen Tang soldiers rushed into the shop and drove the people in the store out, when a Tang soldier reported: "General, there is a person in the shop who claims to be the prince of Shi, and he wants to see you." ”

Li Qingan was stunned for a moment, and then he smiled slowly, could it be really such a coincidence, did that Yuan En also come to Yangzhou?

"Bring him here!"

Li Qingan turned over and waited for the arrival of Prince Shi, and soon, eight Hu people walked out of the shop, and the leader was Na Suning, who had a relationship with Bahuan two years ago.

"General Li, we are destined to meet thousands of miles away! Do you remember me? That Suning bowed to Li Qingan and said.

"Huh! It's really an old friend, the Suning who almost let me have a fortune, how could I not remember you? ”

Li Qing'an smiled and looked at Yuan En next to him, vaguely the prince he had seen in the Qiuzi wine shop, and he smiled in Turkic language: "Your Royal Highness Yuan En, this is the second time we have met." ”

Yuan En was stunned, he didn't have the impression that he had met Li Qingan, "General Li, you remember wrong!" When did we meet? ”

"You haven't seen me, but I've seen you, in the liquor shop in Qiuzi, when you asked the guys about the whereabouts of Ruby, do you still remember a drunken officer? That's me. ”

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(To be continued)