On the seventh day of October, the Yangzhou wharf was crowded with people, and all the dignitaries and nobles of Yangzhou City came to the wharf to see off Li Yuntian, attracting many people to come and see the excitement.

After saying goodbye to everyone on the dock, Li Yuntian led Lei Ting and the others to board the double-decker boat they were on and slowly left the dock.

"Xianggong, let's just leave?" In the cabin, Lei Ting glanced at the dock in the distance outside the window, and said to Li Yuntian, who was sitting at the table reading a book, quite unwillingly.

"The mountains don't turn around, and when Xinyue comes back, the guild will make them regret it." Li Yuntian smiled slightly when he heard this, and opened his mouth to comfort her.

"Xianggong, Duoyan Sanwei is not easy to deal with, you don't want to be distracted by the matter of the two Huai Salt Road." Lei Ting remembered something, and said with a concerned expression after sitting opposite Li Yuntian.

"The conquest of Duoyan Sanwei will at least wait until March next year when the spring flowers bloom, as long as Xinyue comes back to Xianggong and will do something to the Lianghuai Salt Road, he will definitely be able to rush back before the army goes out." Li Yuntian smiled and replied disappreciatively.

Although the affairs of the Lianghuai Salt Road are complex and involve a wide range of issues, Li Yuntian's target is the Lianghuai Salt Road, the Salt Merchants Association, and the Nanjing Household Department, and he is not prepared to implicate the officials of the yamen of other ministries, plus Emperor Xuande has decided to only investigate the responsibility of the corresponding officials of the Lianghuai Salt Road and the Nanjing Household Department since the Xuande period, which invisibly makes things much simpler, Li Yuntian only needs to take down the two Huai Salt Road and the Nanjing Household Department Those who are involved in the case, and the rest of the things will be handed over to the people below.

Therefore, if he can finish the affairs at hand in March and rush back to the capital from Yangzhou, he can really postpone it until April and then send troops outside the pass, anyway, Li Yuntian is not in a hurry to start a war with Duoyan Sanwei.

"Xianggong, this time you are going to personally lead the army to Guanwai?" Lei Ting also knew that Duoyan Sanwei was not easy to provoke, so she couldn't help but ask with some concern.

Although the three guards of Duoyan were nominally only three guards and horses, they were actually a combination of northern nomads, including many nomads, and their cavalry was particularly powerful.

When Emperor Yongle went north to conquer the Mongol Tatar and Warat tribes, he repeatedly requisitioned the cavalry of Duoyan Sanwei to deal with the cavalry of the Tatar and Warat tribes, and caused a lot of damage to the Tatars and Warats.

"Xianggong is not worried about handing over the Xiaowu Army to someone else to take charge, and if Xianggong doesn't go, the emperor will not agree to let the Xiaowu Army recover Daning City." Li Yuntian knew that Lei Ting was worried about his safety, so he explained to her with a smile.

Lei Ting naturally knew this truth, and shook her head a little helplessly, a wry smile appeared at the corner of her mouth, she knew that Li Yuntian had to send troops outside the border this time, not only to recover Daning City, but also to fight a quick battle, so as to ensure that Emperor Xuande's national policy of recuperation would not be destroyed, otherwise once the war dragged on for a long time, it would definitely cost the people and money.

"Young master, madam, there is a small boat blocking the road ahead, I don't know what is going on." At noon, when Li Yuntian and Lei Ting were eating in the cabin, Li Manshan suddenly walked in quickly, bowed to the two and said.

"Barricades?" Li Yuntian suddenly felt a little surprised when he heard this, could it be that he wanted to file a complaint?

"Xianggong, it's not easy for you to get involved in local affairs." Lei Ting put down the chopsticks in her hand and persuaded softly, at this time, the people blocking the road are going to find Li Yuntian to complain, although Li Yuntian's Zuo Yushi of the Imperial Procuratorate does not have the power to supervise the local yamen when he comes to Yangzhou this time, and rashly intervening in this matter is easy to cause criticism from the outside world.

Li Yuntian groaned for a moment when he heard this, and then bowed his head slightly, the so-called not in his position is not in his position, and now the matter of Lianghuai Yandao is enough for him to be annoyed, and he doesn't want to have other incidents.

Li Manshan then rushed to the bow of the ship, instructed the Jinyi guard to drive the boat that blocked the way away, and if he wanted to file a complaint, he went to the imperial history of the patrol of Nanzhili or the governor of Nanzhili.

"Young master, madam, the person who blocked the way claimed that it was not a complaint, and there was something important to report to the young master." Not long after, Li Manshan walked briskly into the cabin again and bowed down to say goodbye.

"Oh?" Li Yuntian felt a little strange, and after thinking about it, he got up and walked out of the cabin, wanting to see what the other party was planning, Lei Ting and Li Manshan hurriedly followed behind him.

On the deck of the bow of the ship, more than a dozen captains of the brocade guards pointed their bows and arrows or crossbows at a small boat in front of them, which looked a little shabby, and a young woman in an ordinary blue dress stood anxiously on the bow of the boat, looking up at the big ship anxiously.

"Who are you? What are you looking for? Li Yuntian glanced at the woman in the blue dress and asked quietly.

"The folk girl knocks to see the Hou Ye." When the woman in the blue dress heard this, she knew that the young man on the bow of the boat who was surrounded by everyone was the Marquis of Zhenwu, so she quickly knelt down and held an item wrapped in a handkerchief in her hand with both hands, "When the Hou Ye saw this object, he knew the intention of the people's daughter." ”

Li Yuntian's brows furrowed, he didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in the gourd of the woman in the blue skirt, and then bowed slightly to Li Manshan, so Li Manshan asked people to put down the hanging basket and hoist the item wrapped in a handkerchief onto the boat.

"Master Hou, look." Li Manshan opened the handkerchief and found that it was a delicate and small silver longevity lock, engraved with a dragon and phoenix auspicious pattern, and a "moon" character on the back, so he handed it to Li Yuntian.

Li Yuntian felt that this longevity lock was a little familiar, as if he had seen it there, but he couldn't remember it for a while, and looked at it with a slight frown.

"Xianggong, this seems to be Xinyue's!" Just as Li Yuntian was concentrating on his recollection, Lei Ting on the side suddenly showed a surprised look on his face and whispered in his ear.

"Take her aboard." Li Yuntian's eyes lit up when he heard this, and then he ordered Li Manshan in a deep voice.

When Zhao Xinyue was almost **** by Jiningwei's deputy Qianhu, Li Yuntian saw the longevity lock hanging around her neck, but because it had been five or six years, Li Yuntian's impression was already a little vague, if it wasn't for Lei Ting's reminder, it would have been really difficult for him to remember, after all, he had just glanced at it a few times in a hurry.

Lei Ting and Zhao Xinyue once bathed in the pool together after coming to Yangzhou, and naturally knew that Zhao Xinyue was wearing the longevity lock, not only the rich and noble families in ancient times, but even many ordinary people also wore longevity locks for their children to keep them safe.

With Li Yuntian's order, the woman in the blue dress sat in a big bamboo basket and was pulled onto the boat by the captain of the Jinyi Guard, Li Manshan led her into the cabin, Li Yuntian and Lei Ting sat on the chair and looked at her quietly.

"What's going on?" After Li Manshan closed the door of the cabin, Lei Ting picked up Zhao Xinyue's longevity lock and looked at the woman in the blue dress with a cold expression.

"My lord, the folk girl is a descendant of the Lu family's old man's family, Miss Zhao is in the attic of the second miss of the Lu family, you go and save her." Hearing this, the woman in the blue dress hurriedly knelt on the ground and said to Zhao Xinyue with an anxious expression.

"What?" Zhao Xinyue was taken aback, and couldn't help but look at Li Yuntian with some surprise, if Zhao Xinyue was really in the Lu family, it would help Li Yuntian solve the current predicament.

"Ben Hou asked you, why did you want to help Miss Zhao deliver the message?" Li Yuntian's eyes lit up and asked quietly.

"Lord Hou, the father and eldest brother of the people's daughter were beheaded by them for framing and selling smuggled salt, and the people's daughter did this to avenge them and let them get the punishment they deserved!" The woman in the blue dress couldn't help but show a sad and indignant look on her face, and replied in a resolute tone.

"Will your report this time alert the Lu family?" The "they" in the mouth of the woman in the blue dress naturally refers to the people of the Lianghuai Salt Road, every year the Lianghuai Salt Road has to catch some illegal salt dealers and report to the imperial court, many of which have happened to kill the good and take the merits, Li Yuntian felt that she didn't seem to be lying, so he asked with a stern expression.

If the people of the Lu family knew that the woman in the blue dress was missing, they would definitely transfer Zhao Xinyue away, so he would have to work in vain, and he would also startle the snake.

"Hou Ye rest assured, the maid is not Miss Lu Er's maid, a maid named Er Ya next to her is from the same village as the maid, and she told the minnu about Miss Zhao, and the minnu knew that Miss Zhao was locked up there. When the folk girl left the Lu Mansion, in order not to make the Lu family suspicious, she deliberately asked her fellow villagers to report that the folk girl's grandfather was critically ill, so she took a leave of absence. The woman in the blue dress hurriedly shook her head and opened her mouth to explain to Li Yuntian.

"Man Shan, you can arrange it, get off the boat with Ben Hou and go to Lujiaji at night!" Hearing this, Li Yuntian's expression on his face softened, and after a deep groan, he commanded Li Manshan murderously, "In addition, inform Lei Lie to let him camp on the spot, as long as Ben Hou gives an order, he will return to Yangzhou City, and capture all the people from the Lianghuai Salt Road and the Salt Merchants Association!" ”

The so-called feng shui takes turns, I am afraid Chen Wenren could never have imagined that the wind direction in Yangzhou would change so quickly.

In the early morning, Lujiaji, a town of nearly 2,000 inhabitants, is the largest in Yangzhou.

Suddenly, the silence of the night was broken by the sound of horses' hooves, and a dozen fast horses broke through the night and appeared at the entrance of the town, all of whom were dressed in civilian clothes, and most notably carrying a crossbow and a saber with an oblique scabbard hanging from their waists.

"Dismount." After arriving at the entrance of the town, the leading knight gave an order in a deep voice, so everyone turned over and fell off their horses.

Through the moonlight in the sky, it can be seen that the leading knight is Li Yuntian, Lei Ting and Li Manshan led more than a dozen guards to follow him closely into the town, and went straight to the mansion of Master Lu, the patriarch of the Lu family.

According to the clues provided by the woman in the blue dress, there were only two big men who sent Zhao Xinyue to guard Zhao Xinyue, so Li Yuntian decided to use a surprise attack to save Zhao Xinyue.

Master Lu's mansion is located in the south of Lujiaji, with a high-walled compound with red bricks and green tiles, which is very magnificent even at night.

The woman in the blue dress had already drawn a topographical map of the Lu Mansion, so Li Yuntian led everyone from the backyard over the wall into the Lu Mansion, and came to a small courtyard with an elegant environment - the boudoir where the second lady of the Lu family lived without leaving the pavilion.

If the information of the woman in the blue dress is correct, Zhao Xinyue is now locked up in a room on the third floor of the three-story attic in the small courtyard.

The room is a suite-like structure, divided into an inner and outer room, and the windows have been nailed with planks from the inside,

Zhao Xinyue naturally lived in the inner room, and Miss Lu Er's two personal maids took turns serving her in the inner room, and they were also monitoring her, while the two big men who sent Zhao Xinyue lived in the outer room.

Jin Yiwei once brought people to Lu Mansion to search, and he didn't even let go of Miss Lu Er's boudoir, but unfortunately Zhao Xinyue was tied up and hid after being tied, and the searcher was concealed, making her return in vain.