Horse-drawn carriages, with a delicate appearance;

But its real feature lies in the inside, there is a mechanism inside, and if you pull it, it will instantly become an iron cage with strong defense.

In addition, there is a mezzanine at the bottom of the carriage that can accommodate a person to lie into.

So, the carriage is obviously very heavy,

Pixiu led six horses and pulled the carriage in front of him.

It's not that Marquis Zheng wants to abuse his mount, but this thing wants to experience the feeling of being the boss by himself, so it's up to him.

Therefore, sometimes Marquis Zheng feels a little funny;

Obviously, everyone is very busy and has a lot of things to do, but at this extremely busy moment, he first set up a guard of honor for himself, and then made himself a carriage that will inevitably take a long time to make;

In the end,

It can only be said that this damn aesthetic.

No matter how urgent the things outside are, no matter how many tasks at hand,

I still have little bourgeois when I was a little bourgeoisie.

Not bad

Xue San should have added some shock absorber design to the carriage, lying inside, with tea warm on the small stove, which was quite comfortable.

It's a pity that there is no Osawa fragrant tongue.

There is no special difference between other teas, Zheng Houye, not that the taste and aroma cannot be distinguished, but the feeling is almost the same, and you can drink anything;

Only this Osawa fragrant tongue is most suitable for this time,

What a wonderful thing it must have been to sleep soundly all the way through the journey.

But it turns out that Marquis Zheng thinks too much.

Although he doesn't have to be like his eldest brother, he needs to review all kinds of folds wherever he goes, because the power of Marquis Zheng is completely decentralized, and the blind man will not mention it first, the power that Siniang holds in the Hou Mansion can simply make Empress Lu, Wu Zhaoyi, and Cixi bow down when the man is not dead.

however

First of all, the news from Yingdu was constantly summarized.

Part of it is the news that Xiao Liuzi's people came from there.

Although Zheng Fan has been a little bit less interested in Xiao Liuzi since he was crowned marquis;

But after the seller's market became a buyer's market, Xiao Liuzi's side became more attentive to Pingxi Houfu.

The intelligence network is always there, and the news will be transmitted to this side.

The other part is the follow-up news from Sun Youdao there.

The last part is the news from the Hou Mansion in Yingdu's own field, but because the Hou Mansion's foundation in Yingdu is too shallow, this part of the news can be ignored directly.

thing

It is far from as simple as the assassination of a fifth prince;

The fifth prince was stabbed while attending a banquet, which summoned the treasurers of the major chambers of commerce in Yingdu and the speakers of the nearby big families inside and outside;

It's not about eating, drinking, and being merry,

Rather, it is to raise money and food to settle the victims, which is equivalent to a charity dinner for future generations.

And then

During the feast,

Someone poisoned the drink.

For a while, there were many fallen guests, and even Mao Mingcai, who was too guarded, was also poisoned.

The five princes did not have the poison in the wine, because as the prince, he set up an altar to pray for the people of Sanjin a year ago, and prayed for good weather in the coming year.

Therefore, according to the number of rituals, he had to eat fast and be an ascetic during this period, and he could not touch the wine and meat, at least, openly.

Therefore, at the banquet, he probably replaced the wine with tea.

But when something happened at the banquet, the five princes were protected by the guards around them and were about to leave, but they were attacked by a group of assassins, and the assassins' kung fu was very high, and the five princes were still stabbed under the protection.

It's fine if you don't drink, but the knife is quenched with poison.

So

The fifth prince was seriously injured and fell into a coma, and he has not yet turned around.

Now, the people in the yamen of the Yingdu Secret Spy Division have completely taken over the defense of this prince, and no one is allowed to visit.

So

It was a premeditated and extremely cleverly choreographed event;

Let's not talk about the five princes,

At that night's banquet, there were thirty-seven nobles who died of alcohol poisoning.

You must know that the people who can participate in a banquet of that level must not have a low status, and they were poisoned to thirty-seven at once, no wonder Prince Cheng's mansion will send an official letter to his side in a hurry.

Because this is no longer an assassination in the simple sense, the damage it caused is no less than that of Yingdu experiencing another coup d'état.

Just imagine, those powerful people were originally high up and consciously did not eat the fireworks of the world;

Suddenly, so many of the same kind died at once, how could you not panic?

Who knows what the people behind this will do?

More than 30 big shopkeepers or big family people died at once, and there are many like Mao Mingcai, who are not dead but lying down, that is, when Zheng Houye took the opportunity to make trouble in Yingdu because of the imperial examination fraud case, he led the Jingnan Army into the city to arrest people and take people, and it seems that many families have been broken, and it seems that many heads have been cut off, but in fact, most of them are middle and lower-class minions, real high-level, people disdain to cheat for their own children in the imperial examination, and people have other channels.

Therefore, in the eyes of the people of Yingdu, this time the incident is much smaller than what the uncle did last time and the current Hou Ye did.

But the elite class of Yingdu really felt that they were frightened this time.

They are now in desperate need of a needle of the sea,

Even if he comes and does nothing,

But as long as he is here,

You can also suppress the shock!

There is probably a summary of the news about Yingdu, knowing that the magnates over there are looking forward to him, but Marquis Zheng is still not in a hurry, and his Pixiu is still happily pulling the cart with a group of horses;

Because next,

Zheng Fan accepted Gong Wang's request and Gongsun Zhi's request.

Two of its departments have also sent soldiers and horses, one echoes the team of Zheng Houye's advance, and the other is to move closer to Yupancheng, and at the same time, according to the instructions given by the Hou Mansion in advance, wipe it on the Wangjiang side;

Although it is nominally not his own defense area, under the banner of opening the way for the Marquis of Pingxi, he can still cross the line a little.

The boundaries are clear, if you don't wipe it, it will always be clear, and if you wipe it often, it will be blurred.

After the meeting, the two chief soldiers went to see their son who had placed them beside Marquis Zheng, and then returned to their respective headquarters.

Zheng Houye's team continued to maintain the previous speed and went west without hurry.

When the team arrives at Yupan City,

On the side of Yingdu, Prince Cheng's Mansion, Taishou Mansion and many other yamen actually sent people to wait here, they were like quails waiting to be fed, and they were desperately waiting for the Marquis of Pingxi to come to Yingdu as soon as possible.

Marquis Zheng met with the people from Prince Cheng's Mansion and Taishou Mansion, and none of the other people were seen.

It's the first two,

Marquis Zheng only listened to them for a short time, didn't let them take the words back, waved his hand, and signaled that they could leave.

subsequently

The team of the Marquis of Pingxi stayed overnight in Yupan City;

Zheng Fan himself also took a bath.

This prosperous city of Jindi, which was once a "two-legged sheep", has begun to gradually recover some of its former prosperity after several years of cultivation.

The gambling houses and green buildings in the city have once again become pillar industries.

The popularity gathers quickly, and the money comes quickly,

In many cases, this is a situation that inevitably arises when there is no solution.

Correspondingly, there are skinny refugees huddled in the corners of the wall outside Yupan City.

Refugees, there should have been more, after all, this is still a part of the remnants of the efforts of the Pingxi Hou Mansion in Jindong to absorb some of them.

However, perhaps the blind man himself still underestimated the terrible impact of the flood and the continuous war on this area, and originally happily thought of raising more refugees to absorb them, but in the end, he began to order Gongwang Gongsun Zhibu to set up a card to block the flow of refugees to the land of Jindong, and at the same time, the original propaganda mouth also stopped launching and no longer encouraged the refugees to go east.

Because, Hou Fu, he has already eaten.

In order to cope with this food crisis, the blind man carried out the grain storage plan early, and now, at least the people of Jindong can have two meals of mashed potatoes a day, but if there are more refugees, the Hou Mansion will no longer be able to resettle.

Population is an extremely valuable asset, but everything is too much, and if you absorb too many people and you can't afford to settle and feed them, all kinds of problems will immediately arise.

Therefore, we still have to wait, wait until the Hou Mansion's development of the land of Jindong enters the next pass, and wait for the most difficult breath to go down, and it is not too late to slowly absorb it.

According to the blind man,

After the most difficult winter and spring have passed,

The old, weak, sick and disabled are all screened out in a batch, and the rest is more convenient to pick and choose.

Cold-blooded no?

Cold-blooded.

But in the land of Jindong, many displaced refugees who came early heard that this mashed potato paste was planted in advance by a blind staff member under Hou Ye.

Many people began to set up signs and worship the blind.

In the refugee camp,

It is even rumored that the reason why "Mr. North" is blind is because he can't see the suffering of the world.

To this end,

The blind man also deliberately reported this matter to Zheng Fan, the lord. Book bar

It wasn't something he made, and he didn't think about creating a light for himself.

Zheng Fan also laughed, and even asked the blind man, after a few hundred years, will their temple be spread here?

Sitting on the first seat, the law is solemn, under the lotus stage, a group of boys, in front of the fight, is a blind boy, and the face is compassionate.

The blind man deliberately reported it, which is a kind of rule that he thinks and a process that must be followed;

But in fact,

Whether it is Zheng Fan or a blind man, he will not be suspicious because of this kind of thing, just a kind of after-dinner chat.

……

In the courtyard of the mansion where the night stays,

Chen Daxia asked with some curiosity:

"The people on the other side of the river are obviously waiting for him, why is he still so leisurely?"

Chen Daxia rarely used honorific titles for Marquis Zheng;

Because in Chen Daxia's simple worldview, Zheng Fan is not the military hero of Yan State who is the world-shattering, but still the small garrison in Yinlang County that he once misunderstood, a person who was almost killed by him, but finally repaid his grievances with virtue...... Well, dear friend.

The swordmaster wearing a hat sat in the courtyard, and Long Yuan was hidden under a cloth wrap;

And then

Looking at his son Liu Dahu, leading a group of young men to chop firewood, boil hot water, and take a bath for the Marquis of Pingxi with great excitement and seriousness.

At this time, the Sword Saint and the Sword Saint at home are completely different in temperament, plus they don't show their true faces, so Liu Dahu doesn't know that the white-clothed knight sitting in the pavilion in the distance is actually his father who has always been in poor health.

Seeing his son so serious and solemn busy just to serve that person,

I still feel a sense of sacred mission,

The Juggernaut is depressed,

I can't help but say:

"It's stupid."

"........." Chen Daxia.

Chen Daxia lowered his head in shame, the master said this about him, he was categorically impossible to talk back.

Sitting on the side together, Gou Moli, who habitually likes to have a relationship with the Sword Saint Lala, smiled at this time;

"This is called the card, this is called the identity, rushed to the hurry, but lost the pomp, this pomp, many times seems to be useless, but at the critical time, there is it, in fact, it can solve a lot of trouble.

Moreover, this is the first time that our marquis has officially gone out after he was crowned a marquis, and the style has to be set by himself first, and it will be able to become a rule in the future, and there is no reason to lower his own style.

This is the first time it has fallen, and after that, it is really difficult to mention it again.

again

It's been so long since the assassination, the assassin and the main messenger behind the scenes, if they could have been caught, they would have been caught a long time ago, and those people in Yingdu are definitely not wine bags and rice bags, and they are still involved, no, when they have threatened their own lives, they are very smart.

Therefore, our Hou Ye went to Yingdu on this trip, not to catch assassins, Hou Ye is Pingxi Hou, and he is not in charge of the Criminal Department or Dali Temple or anything.

You see

Hurry to go, there is no benefit at all, why not be more leisurely? ”

Hearing this, Chen Daxia nodded, and said:

"You know, I understand."

"Thank you."

At this moment, He Chunlai walked over.

Without waiting for him to speak, Gou Moli got up, left the gazebo, and walked into the room with him.

In the room,

Zheng Houye, who had already finished bathing, was wearing the leopard print pajamas that Siniang had made for him when he was in Hutou City, and was lying there, playing with a snuffbox given to him by Xiao Liuzi in his hand.

He can't smoke a snuffbox, but it's not bad to play with it in his hand.

He Chunlai stood aside, and Gou Moli consciously sat down on the chair below.

Hou Ye didn't speak,

The atmosphere was somewhat silent,

The big guy can have the power to be cold, but the people below can't sit back and watch the scene be cold.

So

In order to liven up the atmosphere,

Gou Moli looked at He Chunlai and asked;

"Xiao He, did you say that this assassination was done by your people?"

"........." He Chunlai.

"Huh?" Gou Moli asked again.

He Chunlai spoke; "I've already broken ties with that side."

Earlier, the Yan State annexed the land of the Three Jin Dynasty, and the righteous people of the Jin Dynasty began a rebellion, and its nature was similar to that of the Heaven and Earth Society, and He Chunlai came from there.

It's just that when he disguised himself as a vendor selling sugar gourds, Yu Yingdu handed over the information, he was captured by Fan Li and taken away to make sugar gourds for the sword maid to eat.

"Hey, why are you breaking it, it's such a waste." Gou Moli was heartbroken, "You think, our master is the marquis of Dayan, and he is holding a rebellious line in his hand, how comfortable it is to be an official and a bandit." ”

"I ........."

He Chunlai wanted to say that he didn't bother to do this kind of thing, but he couldn't say it.

There are some things that you can think like this in your heart, Mr. Bei and the Hou Ye who was lying there without speaking actually knew what he was thinking, and they didn't mind;

But if you say it stupidly, you will be uninteresting.

He Chunlai could only say:

"I think it shouldn't have been them, the last time the Hou Ye was in Yingdu, it had already hurt the vitality of their latent forces in Yingdu, this time, the hand was very big, and the poisoning was another story, but just the group of masters who assassinated the five princes should not be what they can prepare now."

"Not necessarily, I've always heard that there are many heroes in the land of Sanjin." Gou Moli said.

He has dealt with the Jin people for half his life.

"But among us, there are many factions, and they can't be integrated at all, some are the remnants of the Situ family, and they want to recover the Situ family, some are the remnants of the Helian family, some are the remnants of the Wen family, and some want to support the Yu family, and there are still small factions under the remnants of each faction, they can't gather together at all, and sometimes when they meet, they will fight and kill themselves because of who they want to help."

"Heh......"

Hou Ye Zheng, who was lying there, laughed, this is really nothing new under the sun.

Looking at this attack on Chu, Dayan raised the strength of the whole country, but only took Zhennan Pass, captured Shanggu County, and had to withdraw after taking the offensive and defensive initiative in his hands;

Back then, when he fought against the country, he hit the upper capital, and in the end, didn't he also withdraw it?

Only the Jin Kingdom was defeated, and in the final analysis, it was because of the division of the three Jin families, which led to the inability to integrate and unify internally.

Right now

The Jin people still maintain their good tradition of infighting.

After Marquis Zheng spoke up, Gou Moli stopped teasing He Chun.

"Prince Cheng?"

Zheng Houye said.

Gou Mo left his mouth and said: "It's not suitable, you have to save a little face, and it's too abrupt, it's best to take it step by step." ”

Marquis Zheng nodded, "Taishou Mansion? ”

"Master Hou, Mao Mingcai is still lying down now."

Marquis Zheng shook his head.

He Chunlai, who was standing on the side, tried to listen and think;

And then

Suddenly, I felt that cooking seemed to be more suitable for me.

At this time, a guard outside came up to give a message, saying that Ma Changshan, the prefect of Yupan City, was here.

Marquis Zheng stretched out his hand and pointed at He Chunlai,

He Chunlai came to meet and went out to see the situation.

It didn't take long for

He Chunlai is back and forth.

"Master Hou, Ma Changshan asks to see you."

"Nope."

"Master Hou, Ma Changshan brought gifts, seven virgins, saying that it was the right way to sell his body, and he carefully selected it from among the refugees outside the city."

Refugees sell their children and daughters together, that's the norm.

Zheng Fan waved his hand,

"Ten lashes and throw them out."

"In addition to the seven virgins, there is also their mother, who is washed and clothed, and who kneels outside, and is to be given together."

Zheng Fan smiled and looked at Gou Moli,

Gou Moli also smiled, "It's just right, Master Hou." ”

Zheng Fan nodded,

To He Chunlai:

"Thank you for Benhou, Governor Ma."

"Yes, Master Hou."

Then he stripped him of his clothes and hung them on the wall.