Chapter 106: The Yellow River Gang, the King of the Yellow River
They are now in the Weizhou River section, which is Li Tai's fiefdom, although Li Tai did not come to take office, but there are still many officials of the Wei Palace, Li Tai's influence here is indeed very great, if there is anyone here in Weizhou who can arrange thousands of people to attack Li Su's fleet without knowing it? The first object of suspicion was Li Tai, the king of Wei.
However, for Li Tai, the object of suspicion, whether it is Yanbei or Li Su, they are the first to be ruled out, and there are many reasons, but the main reason is Li Tai himself. First, Li Tai is not so stupid, the Yellow River is so long, where to do it, he has to choose his fiefdom Weizhou, as long as he is a person, he will not do such a stupid thing.
Second, with Li Su and Yanbei's understanding of Li Tai, he would never be able to do such a thing. Speaking of which, the relationship between Li Su and his fourth brother is not very good, and they fought when they met for the second time, and later with Li Su's favor, Li Tai regarded him as the biggest threat in his life. However, although Li Tai is a little hostile to Li Su, but to put it bluntly, he is actually a little fat man who reads too much, and even a little stupid to read, in addition to slapping Li Shimin, the relationship with other brothers, ministers and others is extremely bad, and he is even more arrogant, but it is also this arrogance in his bones that also makes Li Su and Yanbei affirm that Li Tai does not bother to do this kind of thing to attack Li Su's fleet.
If Li Tai is excluded, then among the remaining people, the most likely is Li Chengqian. If it is really calculated, it is not easy for Li Chengqian, the prince, to be the prince, first there is Li Tai, his own brother, competing for favor, and there are constant small actions in the open and secret, and then Li Su has suddenly emerged, not only is he not favored by Li Tai, but compared to Li Tai's inability to be a man, Li Su is much stronger, and the civil and military ministers in the court have a very good impression of Li Su. There are even many who have close interests with them. That's why. Li Su is actually a greater threat to him than Li Tai.
For the sake of the throne, Li Chengqian had enough reasons to kill Li Su, and he also had the courage to do such a thing. Li Su remembered that in history, Li Chengqian once assassinated Li Tai, but unfortunately it was unsuccessful. Later, I also remembered that the soldiers rebelled, but they failed again. Such a reasonable, powerful, and courageous person is indeed the biggest suspect after eliminating Li Tai.
'Papapa~' The leather whip in the hands of Hu Li and Zhou Long was whipped like raindrops on the bearded man and the deputies, and the other party screamed loudly in pain, among which the bearded man was the object of the two people's key care, and the skin on his body had already been smoked, but he still held on and refused to speak.
"Don't, sir...... Stop it. Villain...... The villain is recruited! At this moment, at last, a thin man could not be tortured, and he begged for mercy loudly. Li Su looked at the other party carefully. The man was found to have long sharp-beaked monkey gills. He was so thin that he looked like a big horse monkey.
"Water monkeys. You bastard! ”
"your grandma!"
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As soon as the other party's words came out, he immediately caused other people to scold, and the bearded man also glared at him angrily, and it seemed that he wanted to slap him to death, but unfortunately his body was tied to the shelf with ropes and couldn't move at all.
"Bring him up!" Li Su smiled and hooked his hand, the guy who confessed had a slippery gaze, and at first glance he was not a strong-willed person, and it was best to find a breakthrough in this kind of person. Hearing Li Su's order, Zhou Long untied the rope of this guy called the water monkey, and brought it to Li Su with only his hands tied, while he personally guarded beside him, and Hu Li continued to teach these people who refused to recruit.
"The villain sees the two adults!" This guy named Water Monkey surrendered completely, and when he saw Li Su and Yan Bei, he immediately bowed down and saluted, but his arms were tied, which looked a little ridiculous.
"Humph! Tell me, who is your name, where did you come from, and by whom did you instruct you? Li Su didn't look at the other party at all, and everything was handled by Yanbei.
"Lord Qiyu, nicknamed Hou, was originally a person from Huazhou, because he was thin and had been begging for a living on the water for many years, so others generally called me Water Monkey, we are all members of the Yellow River Gang, and the bearded man who was tortured is named Wang Dulong, who is the leader of the Yellow River Gang, because the Yellow River Gang is the most powerful on the Yellow River, so most people call him the King of the Yellow River." The water monkey replied very respectfully.
"The King of the Yellow River? What a big breath! Li Su snorted coldly, and it was no wonder that he was unhappy to be the king in front of him, the prince.
The water monkey didn't know Li Su, but with experience, he quickly judged that the other party was mainly this youngest boy, and when he saw that he was unhappy, his face turned pale with fright, and he didn't dare to say any more. Li Su found that the other party stopped, glanced at him coldly and said, "Go on!" ”
"Yes yes~, the villain was originally one of the eight deputy gang leaders of the Yellow River Gang, and the person in charge was the section of the river in Weizhou, some time ago, the Wang gang leader found me with the elite of the gang, saying that he wanted to do a vote on the river, and promised a very rich reward, the villain was confused for a while, so he followed him to do it, please see the small honest confession, just spare the villain this time!" When the water monkey said this, he fell to his knees and kept knocking his head.
"Hmph, no wonder, I said who can have such a great ability to send more than a thousand people on the Yellow River to attack us, it turned out to be a good thing done by the Yellow River Gang!" Yan Bei sneered again and again after hearing this, he was not like Li Su, who didn't know anything about the Yellow River Gang. Just now, he was still speculating about which force could arrange thousands of people to attack the fleet, but now when he heard that the other party was the Yellow River Gang, he immediately stopped feeling strange.
"Why, this Yellow River Gang is very powerful, why haven't I heard of it?" Li Su asked strangely.
"It's just an underworld gang with people behind it, no matter how powerful it is, how can it get into the eyes of you, His Royal Highness the King of Qi?" Yan Bei said with some disdain. Don't look at the water monkey and say that the Yellow River Gang is the most powerful on the Yellow River, but in the eyes of these nobles in Yanbei, it is just a lackey of others, and there is no threat at all, if he is not in charge of Dengzhou commerce and is very familiar with the situation of various trade routes, he will not hear the name of the Yellow River Gang at all.
Qi ...... Even...... King Qi! As soon as Yan Bei's words came out, the water monkey who was kneeling on the ground and kowtowing just now suddenly jumped up like an electric shock, staring at Li Su with a frightened face, as if he had seen the most terrifying thing in the world. And among the few people who were being beaten, except for the bearded man Wang Dulong, the others were also full of disbelief, as if they didn't know Li Su's identity at all.
Seeing the surprised expressions of the water monkeys, Li Su immediately guessed something, and asked with a sinking face: "You dare to attack this king, but you still don't know the identity of this king?" ”
"Enlightenment...... Your Highness, the villain...... The little people really don't know! The water monkey trembled all over his body and stammered, but when he said this, he suddenly came to his senses, turned around and ran towards Wang Dulong, scolding as he ran: "The surname Wang, Lao Tzu fucks your whole family, didn't you say that the other party is just a thorn in the history......"
Li Su and Yan Bei didn't expect the water monkey to react in this way, Zhou Long and Hu Li saw that the other party was not unfavorable to His Royal Highness, and they did not stop it, but the water monkey ran to Wang Dulong, went up and scolded while kicking, but unfortunately his hands were tied, and he really didn't understand the hatred with his feet, and finally opened his mouth to bite the other party's face, as a result, Wang Dulong screamed, and when Hu Li pulled the water monkey away, his face had become blurred with flesh and blood, and it seemed that several pieces of meat had been bitten off, and several deputies who were very hard just now were like deflated balls. All of them looked dead, and at the same time, they saw that Wang Dulong's eyes also had a bit of bitter resentment.
"Your Royal Highness, the villain knows that he will die, I just ask His Highness to see that the villain is the first to surrender, don't punish the villain's family and relatives, the villain kowtows to you~ kowtow......" After the water monkey was pulled away by the tiger force, he was stunned for a moment and immediately reacted, and ran to Li Su to kneel down and kowtow, this time he was really afraid, his head was knocked louder than one by one, and his forehead had been broken in the blink of an eye, and the blood flowed and his face was still non-stop.
Seeing the performance of the water monkey, Wang Dulong's other subordinates also begged for mercy, saying that they were deceived by Wang Dulong, and they didn't know that it was His Royal Highness the King of Qi who was going to attack, and also said that they wanted to abandon the darkness and actively cooperate with Li Yu's investigation, and at the same time only begged him to kill only himself, and never even punish his relatives and friends.
In fact, it's no wonder that they are afraid, if only one of them is killed, since eating this bite of severed rice, they have long planned to die, but what they didn't expect was that the boss just told them to attack a thorn history, and the other party had no background, plus Wang Dulong also said that the person behind the scenes is monstrous, and there will naturally be someone to help deal with it afterwards, and no one will find them here at all.
Wang Dulong usually has a very high prestige in the gang, and he is the most righteous, and he has always been a man of his word, so they have no doubts about the water monkeys, and they are afraid of the generous reward, so their brains are dry, but they didn't expect that this thorn history has a great background, it turned out to be His Royal Highness the King of Qi in Dengzhou, which is the most favored prince of His Majesty today, and at the same time, he has something to do with various families in Chang'an City, and now they dare to attack him, it is not a simple death, but even the relatives, friends and even families behind them, will be implicated.
Li Su is most afraid of this situation, it seems that among all of them, only Wang Dulong knows the mastermind behind the scenes, but this Wang Dulong dares to attack even though he knows his identity, he is obviously a first-class person, and it is difficult to get the truth from the mouth of this kind of person.
"Brother Yan, didn't you just say that there are people behind the Yellow River Gang......
Li Su just wanted to ask who the people behind the Yellow River Gang were, but suddenly heard Hu Li yell: "Not good! This kid has something in his mouth! ”