Zhou An went out to run errands this time, and brought a total of more than 20 people.

Among them, there are five people in the Earth Evil Realm, all of whom are old eunuchs in the inner court, and the youngest is almost fifty years old, led by the Divine Palace Eunuch, who has been with Zhou An for a period of time, and is responsible for protecting Zhou An's powerhouse - Deng Yu.

This old man is short in stature, and his appearance is not good, but he has the temperament of an old housekeeper.

Deng Yu is in the Earth Shatter Perfection Realm, and his strength is afraid to be on par with Gao Hong, but he is not as young as Gao Hong, and his physical strength and energy are not as good as Gao Hong, and in addition to him, the other four old eunuchs in the Earth Shatter Realm are two middle-grade Earth Hells Realm, and two lower-grade ones.

These five people can be said to be the core force of Zhou An's outings this time.

The others, including Pan Yuanyu, are all in the congenital realm, and half of them are congenital perfections, only a few of them are young eunuchs in Dongchang, and the others are all secret guards, and they are the "old men" of the secret guards, and they know some things about the secret guards in the local area.

When he went out this time, Zhou An didn't bring his most trusted small pavilion.

The strength of the small pavilion is too weak on the one hand, on the other hand, Zhou An didn't take him because he trusted him, Zhou An couldn't return to Beijing in a short time, the big and small things in the capital, Zhou An needed to get first-hand information, especially some things in the palace, even if it was just some rumors, as long as it was important enough, Zhou An needed to know.

The small pavilion is Zhou An's eyes and ears.

He is the only one who dares to pass on those news that cannot be passed on to Zhou An as soon as possible, even if the empress does not want to spread it because of some taboos, he dares to send a message to Zhou An.

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In the year 373, the fourth day of the first month.

Liangzhou, Sheung Shui County.

Liangzhou is located in the north of the Sichuan River, and Zhongzhou is only separated by a river, and Zhongzhou is particularly huge, compared to the ordinary three or four states, so Liangzhou is not the only state in the north that is connected with Zhongzhou, the north of Zhongzhou, there are a total of three states, all of which are separated from Zhongzhou only by a river, Liangzhou is one of them, and is in the middle of the one.

Extrapolating from the time, it is most likely that Prince Ning is in Liangzhou at present.

Although Prince Ning may also detour to other states, but that would really have to go far away, only by crossing the river from Liangzhou into Zhongzhou, can he go directly to the "Central Sichuan Corridor", if you don't take this route, enter Zhongzhou from the other two states, but you need to bypass a few mountains to turn into the Central Sichuan Corridor.

And if Prince Ning didn't go through the Central Sichuan Corridor, then he would have to bypass half of Zhongzhou and walk for at least another month before he could get to Qianjing.

Come to think of it, it is impossible for Prince Ning to make such a detour.

The longer he spends on the road, the more dangerous it becomes.

In fact, even if Prince Ning is really in Liangzhou now, Zhou An will not be able to find him directly, Liangzhou is only several times smaller than Zhongzhou, compared with other states, it is not small, compared to the area of a medium-sized province in Zhou An's previous life, wanting to find a person in such a huge Liangzhou territory, without any clues, is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack.

However, Zhou An came to Liangzhou not just because he inferred that Prince Ning was in Liangzhou.

Although he did not have direct information on Prince Ning's whereabouts, he had information about the Pure Land Sect, and he could use the Pure Land Sect as a breakthrough to track down Prince Ning.

Sankou County, Shangshui County.

Midday.

In the cold winter, Sankou County is a miserable color in winter, you can see frozen corpses on the streets, ragged homeless people shivering in the ice and snow, and yellow-faced and skinny beggars knocking on doors...... Here, there is no New Year's atmosphere in sight, only cold corpses and indifferent passers-by in a hurry.

On the second floor of the inn, Zhou An stood by the window with a big coat, opened the window a crack, and looked out at the street.

It's miserable!

However, this is not the worst, the drought in the north of Dongqian has lasted for several years, although Liangzhou is a rich land, but there is no guarantee that everyone can have enough to eat, there are still some victims, especially in Sankou County, there are more victims.

Sankou County is also a remote place in Liangzhou.

Squeak!

Zhou An looked out expressionlessly, and there was a gentle sound of opening the door from behind, Pan Yuanyu, who was dressed in disguise and sticky beard, entered the door, hurriedly came behind Zhou An, and said respectfully: "Son, Qiaojiabao has posted a notice in the grain shop, and Qiaojiabao will hold a soup soup meeting this afternoon to help the victims." ”

"How many times?" Zhou An asked without replying.

"It's the fifth time we've entered winter, and the longest one lasted seven days." Pan Yuanyu replied.

"Hmm......" Zhou An responded to the nasal voice, groaned, and said, "Go and prepare." ”

"Yes." After Pan Yuanyu finished reporting to Zhou An, he went out, and someone passed by him and entered the room.

The person who came was Deng Yu, who was dressed as an old servant.

"Childe, the picture you wanted." Deng Yu came to Zhou An's side, took out a rolled picture from his robe and handed it to Zhou An.

Zhou An took it and unfolded it to look at it.

It is the topographic layout map of Qiaojiabao, which Deng Yu personally explored.

The Sankou Qiao family is a very famous family in the entire Sheung Shui County, and it is also the largest landlord in Sankou County, and forty percent of the land around Sankou County belongs to the Qiao family.

The Qiao family is prosperous, and there are more than two hundred people living in Qiaojiabao alone, and in addition to the men, women and children of the Qiao's family, there are at least three hundred nursing homes in Qiaojiabao, among which there are many masters recruited from the rivers and lakes, which can be regarded as private soldiers.

Zhou An wants to move Qiaojiabao, to put it bluntly, he wants to kill their whole family!

Killing them is naturally not because of the problem of private soldiers, because the current Dongqian court acquiesces in the existence of this kind of private soldiers, and the high-ranking families must have some people who take care of the home after all, although there are too many people in Qiaojiabao's nursing home, but they are not the most, and Qiaojiabao does not have any notoriety, on the contrary, it can be said that it is well-known.

At present, the head of the Qiao family is named Qiao Shenghu.

He was originally the uncle of the Qiao family, he practiced a skill when he was young, he walked the rivers and lakes for many years, and also made a lot of fame in the rivers and lakes, six years ago the old man of the Qiao family passed away, Qiao Shenghu returned home after the funeral, and then became the head of the family.

The old man of the Qiao family has been doing good deeds for decades, and he is a well-known good man, after Qiao Shenghu became the head of the family, the same is true, especially in the past few years, the drought in the north has been repeated, the victims who can't afford to eat, and the displaced people from other places have increased, and the Qiao family has repeatedly opened warehouses to release grain, set up sheds and soup porridge, and his strength in doing good is more ruthless than his father!

Because of this, in the current Sankou County, I don't know how many people have Qiao Shenghu's tablet, and they burn incense and kowtow to him every day to pray for blessings. Qiao Shenghu is even more of a master in Sankou County, and even the county magistrate is polite to him, because of Qiao Shenghu's relationship, it has been connected to Sheung Shui County.

Money can make ghosts grind, Qiao Shenghu is not only rich, but also a good man praised by everyone...... And it's such a person, but Zhou An wants to kill him!

Because he believes in the Pure Land religion!

He is not an ordinary believer, he secretly joined the Pure Land Sect when he was in the early years, more than 20 years ago, and now, he is the altar master of the Liangzhou branch of the Pure Land Sect and the subordinate Shangshui County Branch.

Ever since he returned home and became the head of his family, he has been a missionary in the area.

Zhou An needed the memories in his head.

Zhou An wanted to use this to track down the possible news about Prince Ning.