Chapter 31: Arrows in the Boat

The atmosphere in Qi County was a little tense, but there was no martial law, there were still pedestrians coming and going on the streets, the liquor stores were crowded with customers, all talking about the murder of the county magistrate, and from time to time you could see armed officials patrolling the streets, watching every young woman in red clothes.

The county government and the back house have been controlled by the soldiers brought by Yang Yuanqing, and the square in front of the county government is crowded with the villagers and elders in the county, everyone is looking up at the top of the flagpole, only to see Shen Guang quickly climb to the top of the flagpole like an ape, and there is a small black dot on the top of the five-zhang high flagpole, which is the head of the county order Linghu Shou.

Shen Guang untied the head, holding the rope in his hand and flew down like a big bird, attracting an amazement from nearly a thousand people, Shen Guang turned a heel and landed steadily, winning warm applause, he bowed triumphantly to everyone, and walked quickly to Yang Yuanqing, and presented the head, "Sure enough, it is the head of the county, and there is a piece of paper!"

Yang Yuanqing followed the note, and he suddenly sighed in his heart, and the handwriting that he had been extremely familiar with since he was a child appeared in front of him, and it was really her.

The note was written in 16 words, 'Drive the people to death, loot the people's fat, violate the oath of heaven, behead for heaven!' ’

"General!" Su Lie stepped forward quickly and bowed, "Report to the general, we have found a contract of three thousand taels of gold and eight thousand acres of land in the mezzanine of the wall of the county commander's bedroom. ”

This result made Yang Yuanqing breathe a sigh of relief, killing court officials without permission is a big crime no matter what, and now that he has caught Ling Hushou's handle, he can at least have an explanation to the court.

He turned back to Sima Jiang and said, "Sima Taishou, you will write a report to the court on this matter, and I will report it to the saint separately." ”

Sima Jiang was secretly annoyed in his heart, in fact, he knew very well where Ling Hushou's money came from? It should be the income from the sacrifice, the saint travels south, and he needs to offer food to the counties along the way, which is basically apportioned to the people, and more importantly, this kind of sacrifice has no account to check, and the saint will not pursue it, it is a good opportunity for various magistrates to feast their own pockets, including himself, isn't it also a windfall, how can he check?

Sima Jiang had a headache for a while, but Ling Hushou's concubine was not bad, quite beautiful, Sima Jiang's mind turned, and he thought of a pleasant thing, he nodded and said solemnly: "Please Yang Yushi, the lower officials will definitely investigate this matter strictly and give the court an explanation." ”

Yang Yuanqing stayed in Qi County for only one hour, then returned to the dock and continued south.

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The night shrouded the river, the black waves rose and fell slightly in the night wind, flashing sparkling waves, a team of official boats slowly in the canal, on both sides of the canal were endless fields, the originally fertile fields became desolate and dilapidated, and there were no people for twenty miles. ＊

In the cabin, Yang Yuanqing stared at the small iron arrow on the table, and sighed infinitely in his heart, almost two years have passed, and I don't know what she has become now, if she knows that she is going south, will she come to see herself? Perhaps she wasn't tired enough to come to see her.

Yang Yuanqing held the iron arrow in his hand, stroked it gently, his eyes shot deep thoughts, he pushed open the window, the cold river wind rushed in his face, staring at the dark night, his heart swelled with endless loneliness.

"Niu Niu!" He finally shouted into the night sky.

On the top of the mast of the third big ship, there was a slender black shadow squatting, she was hiding extremely hidden, the huge sail tightly covered her figure, from her position, you could clearly see the first official ship, and even Yang Yuanqing's figure in the cabin.

She silently looked at Yang Yuanqing's figure, her eyes were full of tenderness, this was the lover she would never forget for the rest of her life, although he had married another woman, but she had no hatred in her heart, only deep regret for him.

Suddenly, she heard Yang Yuanqing's shout in the night sky, her delicate body shook violently, a stream of crystal tears welled up in her eyes, tears flowed down her fair face, she could hear that the shouts were so lonely, so full of longing.

She couldn't restrain the excitement in her heart any longer, and was just about to jump off the mast, but saw a personal guard walk into Yang Yuanqing's room, and suddenly pulled her back to reality, she thought of what she was going to do, bit her lip, restrained her inner excitement, and slowly took the bow and arrow from her back, and inserted a thick letter into the shaft of the arrow.

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In the cabin, Yang Yuanqing had already regained his senses, he quickly put the iron arrow into his arms, turned around and sat down, Yang Shilang just got on the boat, stepped forward and saluted: "Childe, the humble position has been investigated." ”

"Say, what's going on?"

"General Hui, the reason is that Wan Ji Shipping Company controlled the canal cargo far...."

"Wait a minute, let's start with Wanji Boat Company."

Yang Yuanqing interrupted Yang Shilang's words, he felt that this Wanji boat company had more background.

"Yes! The head office of this Wanji shipping company is in Jiangdu City, and it and another shipping company, Qianji Shipping Company, control the freight of the entire Tongji Canal, and I didn't inquire about the background of Qianji Shipping Company, but this Wanji Shipping Company seems to be backed by the Zhang family. ”

Yang Yuanqing sneered, "It is estimated that it is not as simple as the backstage, it is simply the Zhang family's industry, just like Yao Ji Mixing, otherwise how could the Taishou of Pengcheng County stand up for it." ”

"Go on!"

Yang Shilang continued: "Wanji Shipping Company controlled Caoyun, they raised a large number of thugs, patrolled along the canal, dared to rob their business, they destroyed the ship and grabbed the goods, and the attack was extremely ruthless, this time it was a Zhangqiu County merchant who was killed and caused the incident......

Yang Shilang told what he knew in detail, Yang Yuanqing stood in front of the window with his hands behind his back, and listened to it word for word, he remembered a deep conversation with Pei Ju before leaving, and then he understood the deep meaning of Yang Guang's order for him to come to Jiangdu, which was to deal with Zhang Jin.

Zhang Jin is an extremely important role in the Guanlong aristocracy, it can be said that it is the military advisor of the Guanlong nobles, the glue of the two factions of the Guanlong nobles, and the key person who can unite the Guanlong nobles.

In the capital, Zhang Jin did not have any handle, he was very smart, he did not have the Zhang family's property in the capital, but put the family's interests in other places, part of it was in Bashu, and the other part was in Jiangnan, and his eldest son Zhang Yunyi served as the Taishou of Jiangdu.

Yang Yuanqing sighed softly, this Zhang Yunyi is the person he Yang Yuanqing is going to deal with this time, find out Zhang Jin's handle from him, this is what Yang Guang means, but if it is just to deal with a Zhang Jin, it is easy for an emperor, such as transferring Zhang Jin to Lingnan, Jiaozhi or the Western Regions to be an official, so that the connection between him and the Guanlong Group can be severed.

Therefore, Yang Yuanqing felt that Yang Guang had a deeper meaning, that is, to completely eradicate the Guanlong forces from Jianghuai and Jiangnan, including officialdom and shopping malls, Jianghuai and Jiangnan are places that Yang Guang relies on, and he will never allow the Guanlong forces to infiltrate.

Where do you start? Cao Yun? A small Caoyun monopoly can't bring down the Zhang family, maybe he can gradually dig out deeper clues from Caoyun, but he doesn't have any clues and clues in his hands.

That's when it's like, 'Click! With a soft sound, an arrow shot in from the window and nailed to the table, Yang Shilang was taken aback, drew his knife and was about to rush out, Yang Yuanqing stopped him, "Don't panic!" ”

He stared at the arrow shaft tightly, there was a letter tied to the arrow shaft, Yang Yuanqing stepped forward and pulled out the letter, you can see that there are five words written on the letter, 'Yang Yuanqing personally opened', Yang Yuanqing turned his head suddenly, stepped forward and pushed open the back window, the arrow was shot from the direction of the mast, but the dark mast was empty, and there was no figure in sight.

"Niu Niu!" He let out a low sigh.

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Jiangdu City, several knights galloped to a big mansion and stopped, a young man turned over and dismounted, ran up the steps and knocked on the door, this is the official residence of Jiangdu Taishou Zhang Yunyi, the door opened a crack, and the porter immediately recognized the person.

"Ahh It's Childe who is here. ”

"Is my father here?"

"In! Childe, please come in. ”

The young man was Zhang Yunyi's eldest son Zhang Qi, who came to Jiangdu to deliver a letter on the order of his grandfather, he flashed into the mansion and walked directly to his father's study.

In the study, Zhang Yunyi had just received a letter from the imperial court, and the new imperial historian Yang Yuanqing came to inspect Caoyun, this news made him stunned for a long time, Yang Yuanqing is coming, isn't this person a military general? What did he do in Gangnam?

Zhang Yunyi's impression of Yang Yuanqing is that he is the first arrow in the world, Dali City, and the development of the Western Regions, and he doesn't know much about anything else, and he also knows that the He Ruobi case caused by Yang Yuanqing has caused heavy losses to the Guanlong nobles.

Zhang Yunyi couldn't think of what Yang Yuanqing was doing in Jiangdu? However, since he was inspecting the transport, he had to be careful, and he had to restrain the two ships and not let them go too far.

At this time, a sound of footsteps sounded outside the door, "The eldest son is here!" "Someone reported it.

"Ahh

Zhang Yunyi was pleasantly surprised, is his son here? He hurriedly stood up and ordered, "Come in!" ”

Zhang Qi walked in, he knelt down on his knees, kowtowed to his father, "The child sees his father!" ”

"Hurry up!"

Zhang Yunyi hurriedly helped his son up and said with a smile: "How can you have time to come to Jiangdu?" ”

"Back to my father, it was my grandfather who asked the child to come to Jiangdu, and there is something important."

Zhang Qi took out a letter from his grandfather and presented it to his father, "Father read the letter first!" ”

Zhang Yunyi took the letter and sat down slowly, he had already guessed a few clues, which should be related to Yang Yuanqing's visit to the south.

He opened the letter and read it carefully, his face gradually became solemn, his father Zhang Jin wrote a very long letter to him, and he told him in detail about the court struggle that happened in the capital not long ago, Zhang Yunyi was secretly surprised, is Yang Yuanqing so powerful?

"Does your grandfather have any other message?" Zhang Yunyi put down the letter and asked.

Zhang Qi nodded, "Grandfather said that Yang Yuanqing is the best at grasping the weakness of his opponent to win the initiative, and grandfather asked his father to temporarily stop the business in Jiangnan." ”

"And...."

"What else?" Zhang Yunyi looked at his son.

"Also, my grandfather wants my father to strike first!"

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