"Childe...... It won't be food!! ”

"Hmm."

"Childe! That's impossible! ”

"While we are constantly transporting grain, there is also a giant rat, from the other direction, opening its mouth, is also silently stealing grain...... Well, it's very interesting to think about that scene, two people, underground, from two directions, each racing against time to transport the grain...... Xiao Zhen will always be so smart......"

"Childe! Now that you have already guessed, why did she allow her to steal food! Why don't you stop the grain transportation team of Jiasan from being transferred away by Mao Lao, which will affect us to grab time! ”

"Because...... I need to be deflated. ”

"Childe ......"

The sage sat in the small building and said for a long time, he should have been recuperating for a long time, shouldn't he? It's a pity that this group of old elders, all of them are old and ambitious, but they are cautious by nature, and they are always rubbing fire behind their backs. It's easy to wait until they suspect me, jump out to grab the main thing, then let them grab it, now because of the old age, the grain can not be all transported back to northern Sichuan, we have less important chips that can be exchanged for the clouded leopard, I think that after this incident, the sages can really live in peace. ”

Gentle and smiling voices dispersed in the wind, and everyone bowed their heads deeply again.

The sages of the Tang family's small building, all along, relying on the strong strength of their seniority and years of operation, have a lot of constraints on the son, but they are all well versed in the way of concealment, and they often refuse to come forward directly, always acting in secret, so slippery that people can not find a trace. Originally, Gongzi was in charge of almost all the power of the Tang family, as long as these people showed their feet a little, with the ability of Gongzi, they could clean them up, but those old foxes shrank their heads very quickly every time, and they were free until now.

Unexpectedly, this time, Gongzi actually used the so-called "private relationship" with Huzhou to reveal the intention of letting go of the water and withholding it, first deliberately put his allies together, and then took advantage of the dissatisfaction of his allies to arouse the suspicion of Mao Lao. The temptation of "Tang Xianzhi betraying the family for a woman" is too great, and it even caused Mao Lao to be unable to hold back, afraid that Gongzi would really give up the Fengbaocang plan for Wen Zhen, snatch the main control of Huzhou affairs, and eat the marrow to know the taste, was tempted, and stretched out his hand to Gongzi's close entourage and the grain transportation team.

If the situation is really as Gongzi said, Huzhou Thorn Shi has also noticed the secret of the grain, and has been rushing for time to grab the grain, then Mao Lao transferred the grain transportation team, which led to the fact that the grain was not transported in time in the end, which affected the family's plan to change the name of the grain in Qianhu to the horse, then this sin is enough for Gongzi to behead a group of old guys led by Mao Lao under the horse, and from then on, he will completely clear the internal obstacles and take charge of the Tang family alone.

The advantage of this is that it is worth it to exchange Huzhou's taxes for three years, not to mention just a little grain.

Thinking that the plan to exchange grain and horses for horses was also proposed by Gongzi, everyone's hearts were slightly cold, and they couldn't help but wonder, is this move a move, starting from a very early stage, everything, including the actions of Huzhou Thorn History, has already been counted in Gongzi's Yi?

It's just that there are still unanswered questions.

"Childe, if Huzhou Thorn Shi can really snatch some of the grain, he can escape the big crime, wouldn't it be cheaper for her? In case Mao Lao and others attack you with this, you are afraid that you will also be in trouble. ”

"From her appointment, I ordered someone to transport away the grain of Fengbao Cang, Fengbao Cang before she came, has transported six or seven tenths, after she came to inspect Fengbao Cang, I noticed that I was afraid that Jia San and others would be caught, so I ordered Jia San to slow down the speed of grain transportation, leaving the two or three tenths to her. But it's not for free. ”

"Subordinates are stupid ......"

Anyway, to Childe, I always say such things often. Jia Si lowered his head, thinking if Gongzi should still pity the fragrance and cherish the jade, right?

"Since Feng Baocang has been snatched back by her, she has already cleared her of responsibility, and the emperor should not blame her in order to retain her talent, after all, she still needs to contribute to the stability and taxation of Huzhou in the future. But if Fengbaocang has too little grain in stock, Wen Zhen will have a reason to write to ask for Huzhou's tax reduction this year. There is too much grain stored in Fengbao warehouse, and Huzhou's taxes are no problem. Only by leaving two or three out of ten, and the fact that our Tang family took away six or seven out of ten grains, will make His Majesty more thirsty for food, and the emperor and ministers who are eager to enrich the treasury will have a sense of urgency, and will not agree to Wen Zhen's tax reduction, but will ask her to fill the deficit of Fengbao Warehouse to more than half as much as possible...... And this year is bound to be a big drought, grain production reduction is a certainty, even if the imperial court calculates the reset of taxes, compared with previous years, but Fengbao warehouse can not be filled as soon as possible, otherwise once there is a close war, it will collapse in one fell swoop...... So the taxes will still be heavy in the end. ”

Everyone listened to it and their hearts gasped for a while.

Childe's calculations have been so precise that he can take a hundred steps at a time, and the intelligence and scheming of the Huzhou female assassin are amazing enough, but Childe's strategy can still drag this vulgar woman into the quagmire step by step.

Jia Si said softly: "It is rumored in the market that Thorn Shi has already written a request for tax reduction and exemption in Huzhou, and this year's tax quota should be half lower than in previous years, and the people have been jubilant about it for a long time. ”

Tang Xianzhi glanced at him with a smile.

Jia Si understood that there were people in the Assassin's Mansion who had this rumor, but if the people knew about it, it must be that Gongzi had arranged for someone to spread the news and dig a pit for Assassin Shi in advance.

"Also." Tang Xianzhi's long fingers swept over the strings, the moonlight and the sound of the piano flowed under his fingers, and his voice was devoid of fireworks, "When I return to northern Sichuan, I will join Yi Ming and arrange some movements in the border states of Huzhou to add fire to our Lord Thorn Shi." ”

Jia Si received the order, knowing that once the Tang family and the Yi family united that there was a change, the imperial court would inevitably be nervous, and once it was nervous, the desire to fill the Fengbao warehouse would be even stronger, and it would be even more impossible to reduce the Huzhou tax this year.

Childe will never have only one move.

It's just that...... Jia Si sighed in his heart, and wanted to slap himself just now - what kind of pity and cherishing jade, does this thing have it?

In Childe's heart, most of the things he cares about are the woman's life, and as for winning or losing, it must be won.

Thinking about it, looking back at the burning over there, which was almost reflected in the fire on the Hongjiang River, he still couldn't help asking: "Childe, the fire over there in Fengbaocang is too big, and the old man will definitely leave no way out, do you want to ......?"

"Don't."

A four shut up. The slap that didn't come out just now finally slapped hard in my heart.

"Feng Baocang is not without a way out, didn't she find it a long time ago. Otherwise, it wouldn't be worthy of playing with me in Huzhou. Tang Xianzhi's fingers turned down, and there was a lively and cheerful sound, and his voice was also very harmonious and quiet in the sound of the piano, "I'm still waiting, she has a sword and a sword, and she will fight with me for this world." ”

Jiasi didn't dare to answer, quietly listening to the sound of the piano, bright and clear, but soft and soft, like a pool of water gurgling, like a mist dissolving, like a spring waterfall full of flowers, like the shadow of a fish chewing on the falling flowers at the bottom of the water, and then being dispersed by a sweet smile.

For example, on the river at night, the high boat sails far away, the guqin snow fingers, and the lonely light and cold moon reflect the bleak and cold half of the river, and half of the river is red.

……

"Guess where this passage leads?"

As soon as he asked, everyone was asked, only Su Xun's eyes flashed, but he didn't speak, Zhang Yue looked at Wen Zhen and couldn't help but smile: "It's not going to be a good meeting." ”

Wen Zhen smiled at him.

Zhang Yue smiled.

Wen Zhen continued to smile.

Zhang Yue's smile gradually faded.

A moment later, his mind passed over the huge courtyard where he had met.

Zhang Yue: "......"

He stammered, "That...... That yard ......"

Wen Zhen smiled and stretched out his hand, and led everyone into the tunnel, not a long way to finish, crawling out of a hole, in front of everyone was a wide courtyard, the courtyard wall was extremely high, and the houses in the courtyard were open at the moment, and there were huge barns inside, which were innumerable, standing full of them in the dark, full of people's amazed vision, and behind the courtyard, the river was surging, and the waves were endless.

Zhang Yue: What happened when you suddenly wanted to kneel down to Lord Thorn Shi?

It's so ruthless!

It's so unexpected!

Separate from the enemy to grab food in the ground! Amazing!

Wen Zhen's voice sounded softly beside him: "The second day after I found that there was a problem with Fengbao Cang, I stepped up the construction when we met, and the first day of construction was not to lay the foundation, but to circle this huge yard, while building a barn, while digging tunnels, building here and stealing there, racing against time to grab so much grain from Fengbao Cang." ”

She looked back and said to several warehouse directors: "A few adults had a good meeting to dine before, and said that the rice was not good, and it was not worthy of the exquisite dishes, naturally because the ingredients were carefully selected, but the rice was local ordinary brown rice, which was taken from this barn. ”

Zhang Yue only knew at this time why the adults suddenly proposed to go to dinner before, it turned out that he was waiting here, while kneeling and thinking that the adults really have a deep meaning in everything, and they were very human, while looking back at the principals, several people came back from the shock, and bowed their heads in shame, but one of them couldn't help but say: "Lord Thorn Shi, it's me who misunderstood, your hard work is not easy, but since you know that someone is stealing grain, as the Thorn History of Huzhou, why don't you stop ......"

Wen Zhen looked in the other direction and said, "I know that in the other direction, there are people who are also transporting food, but I didn't have soldiers at that time, and I couldn't stop it because of my lack of manpower. And once I start to startle the snake, it is very likely that I will not be able to save even three-tenths of the food, and the other party is afraid that he will simply destroy it if he leaves evidence, so I have to consider the rations of the people of Huzhou this year......"

She smiled, thinking that there is another reason why I can't tell you, the old lady just wants to see what these rats want to do, and I like to see what they do in the end, I still can't help the old lady's appearance, what's the matter?

Of course, this reason is enough at the moment, because Lord Thorn Shi's expression of worrying about the country and the people at the moment is embarrassing, the principals bowed their heads in shame, Su Xun turned his face, and looked at the faint lone sail on the river, his eyes flickered slightly, and the light under Zhang Yue's eyes was brighter than the starlight, and the light only shone on his face of Lord Thorn Shi.

After a while, Zhang Yue sighed and said: "Huzhou has a big man, and the people are lucky." ”

After a pause, he said, "It's also a blessing for me to follow your lordship." ”

Wen Zhen smiled: "Yes, rain and water, fire and knife surrounding, heaven and earth, Lord Zhang, I have only been with me for a few months, and I have already suffered all the hardships I have not suffered in the past few decades, do you still think it is lucky?" ”

Zhang Yue stared at her with a serious expression: "Three lives are lucky." ”

Wen Zhen's eyes immediately slipped from his fiery eyes - she had found out that every time she got something done, Lord Zhang's eyes slid in the direction of fervent worship, and the human skin could no longer resist his burning worship universe, not even a variety as thick as a city wall like her.

She turned her head to a few principals and said, "Tonight's incident, from the suicide of the cangist to the abduction of Lang Zhong and several other principals, is a series of conspiracies against the official, the purpose of which is to convict the official and put the people of Huzhou in trouble...... Now Lang Zhong and those principals must have misunderstood the official, and asked a few adults to clarify on their behalf. ”

Several people responded in awe. Wen Zhen said again: "At the moment, this official may be in some trouble, and it may not be convenient to take care of you next, and Huzhou must not be too stable, so please leave tonight." With a wave of his hand, his subordinates rushed over, with the bags that had been prepared to eat and silver, and opened the gate of the backyard of the meeting, behind the courtyard was the river, and there was already a boat waiting at the ferry, Wen Zhen personally sent a few people on the boat, and ordered someone to escort him, and immediately the boat set sail and returned to Tianjing from the waterway.

Sending people away resolutely, Wen Zhen turned around and said with a smile: "Okay, it's time to wait for the next good show." ”

……

On the river, Gao Zhou was about to travel far away, and Jia Si looked at the shore with a foreign lookout glass, and suddenly said: "It seems that His Royal Highness King Ding has arrived." ”

Tang Xianzhi had already prepared to return to the cabin with the qin, but when he heard this, he immediately turned around and said, "Old man, they notified you?" ”

Jia Si said: "According to the report of our people lurking over there, Mao Lao has not been in contact with King Ding, but that one has had one or two contacts with King Ding, but today he has been in Fengbaocang, and it seems that he has no chance to inform King Ding." ”

"Who is that......" Tang Xianzhi suddenly said, "It's not good." ”

Jia Si rarely heard Childe say these two words, so he was startled and looked at him blankly.

"You immediately take someone off the boat, no matter what method you use, stop Yan Jue and don't let him embarrass Wen Zhen."

Jia Siyi thought in a daze, could it be that at this moment, the precious quality of "pity the fragrance and cherish the jade" has returned to the perfect brain of our son?

"But Childe, His Royal Highness King Dingwang doesn't deal with Thorn History, wouldn't it be better for him to take down Thorn History......" After Jia Si's eyes touched Tang Xianzhi's smile, he didn't dare to finish his words after all, threw out the hook, took people off the boat, and drove straight to King Ding's car.

But it backfired - in the process of his rushing, he was blocked by two groups of people one after another, the first group of people was unidentified, but he was led to the second group of people, but the second group of people was the old man's people, presumably those people thought that it was beneficial for the Tang family to stir up His Royal Highness Dingwang, so they mistook Jia Si and others for Wen Zhen's people, and the two sides fought, Jia Si knew that Gongzi had not made trouble for Mao Lao at this time, and if the matter of the rush was transmitted back to the Tang family, it might ruin Gongzi's plan, so he gritted his teeth and simply destroyed the entire Mao Lao's subordinate team.

When he wiped out everyone and rushed over again, he had already seen Yan Jue meet Wen Zhen.

He had to go back to report, Tang Xianzhi listened to him explain the whole story, his face showed a look of "sure enough", he wanted to say something, but looking at the sky, thinking about rushing back to northern Sichuan to arrange the matter of pulling Mao Lao off the horse in one fell swoop, it was to get a glimpse of Wen Zhen's next countermeasures, and it was too late to make another move.

Finally he sighed, "Providence." ”

……

Wen Zhen took a few people out and turned to the outside of Fengbao Cang, at this moment there was a lot of noise outside, and the people nearby came to put out the fire, Wen Zhen arrived with a good meeting, and ordered to eradicate the weeds around Fengbao Cang and clear the open space, the fire in Fengbao Cang could not be saved, but it could not spread and affect the surrounding houses. As for the good encounter, not only has all the grass and shrubs been removed a long time ago, but the wall adjacent to Fengbaocang has also dug a ditch, which will never be affected by it.

This side has just cleared out the fire belt, and there is a guard of honor, and someone shouted: "His Royal Highness King Ding has arrived!" ”

As soon as Wen Zhen turned around, he saw Yan Jue couldn't wait to get out of the sedan chair, and next to him stood the warehouse manager with a sad and angry expression.

As soon as the principal saw her, he shouted: "Your Highness, Lord Assassin Shi has filled his pockets, cheated the grain store, forced the warehouse supervisor to death, and caused the entire destruction of the storehouse, the crime is unforgivable, please immediately arrest and enter Beijing to ask for the crime!" ”

Yan Jue's eyes flashed, and he said, "Wen Zhen, what else do you have to say?" ”

Zhang Yue was about to speak, but as soon as Wen Zhen raised his hand, Zhang Yue immediately shut up.

Wen Zhen smiled: "Your Highness came down so quickly. ”

Yan Jue intuitively felt that this was ill-intentioned, so he didn't answer, and only stared at Wen Zhen with a cold face.

Wen Zhen looked back at Feng Baocang, sighed, and said, "There is nothing to say." ”

Yan Jue smiled: "Indeed." You should know that no matter what the reason, as long as Fengbao is destroyed, you will be responsible! Come on, take her! ”

"Wait!"

Yan Jue squinted at Zhang Yue: "Lord Zhang, do you think you can stay out of the matter?" ”

Zhang Yue straightened his waist and arched his hand: "Naturally not." His Royal Highness Dingwang, the lower official just reminded His Highness of two things. One is that Lord Wen is guilty, and you can only be convicted when you go to the court and be decided by the central government, and then your majesty will personally investigate and then issue a clear decree, and no one has the right to be guilty of the crime before that; Second, the subordinate asked for the same crime and responsibility as the adult. ”

Yan Jue said with a smile: "Yo, you are so anxious to show your loyalty, who said that you will not be convicted of the same crime?" This king tells you - not a single one can escape! But—" he pointed at Wen Zhen, "although I have no right to dispose of the honorable Lord Thorn, but Lord Thorn Shi is guilty of a certain investigation, right?" During the period when Lord Assassin is guilty and pending, the person with the highest status in Huzhou should take over the responsibility of assassinating the history, right? ”

Wen Zhen frowned and said, "Your Highness, you are not a local official-"

Yan Jue: "I'm the prince!" Wen Zhen, if you try to stop you again, be careful that I slap your mouth-"

Before Wen Zhen could speak, Su Xun suddenly said, "Return to Your Highness." Article 37 of the Dongtang Law stipulates that no one shall be lynched until an official of the third rank or higher has been convicted. ”

Yan Jue Huo Ran turned his head to look at him, as if he had just discovered him, Su Xun had already lowered his eyes, and did not answer his gaze at all, Yan Jue said gloomily: "Around Master Wen, one by one, they are all familiar with officialdom...... Hey, this figure looks a little familiar......"

Zhang Yue was about to take a step forward to block him, and he was also surprised in his heart how Su Xun, who had never been inconspicuous, suddenly came out today, but his understanding was that Su Xun must not be able to see adults being wronged like him, but Su Xun took a step forward, very close to Yan Jue, he was taller than Yan Jue, this look was almost a bit of a downward look, he looked at Yan Jue in this posture, and before Yan Jue became angry, he said softly: "Your Highness, you once humiliated my face, you said, if His Royal Highness King Yi knows, what will he do to you?" ”

Yan Jue was stunned, and then became furious: "It's you!" ”

Su Xun said calmly: "Lord Wen won't tell His Royal Highness King Yi such a disgusting thing, but I don't mind. ”

Yan Jue stared at him, like a poisonous snake staring at another snake, and said for a while: "What do you want?" ”

Su Xun smiled, but the smile was not in his eyes: "How dare you ask Your Highness for anything, just suggest Your Highness, don't be too embarrassed to stab Master Shi, otherwise, you will regret it." ”

Yan Jue snorted, glanced at Wen Zhen, and suddenly said angrily: "Get out!" ”

Su Xun retreated, and Yan Jue said irritably: "A man on the left, a man on the right, Yan Sui's head is almost green into a grassland, and he is still dead for this woman!" Sick! All are sick! ”

He completely forgot that he had chased Wen Zhen a while ago, and he didn't realize that he had put himself in the category of being sick, sneered, and said with compassion: "Then please ask Lord Assassin Shi to be grounded in the Assassin's Mansion, withdraw the guards of the Assassin's Mansion, and let the king's personal guards take care of the Assassin's Mansion. Lord Thorn, please—"

Wen Zhen smiled and stretched out his hand, as if it was not to be seized power and placed under house arrest, but to make an appointment with Yan Jue, Si Swenwen: "You also please-"

Yan Jue glared, obviously had the upper hand, but somehow he felt even more depressed, he wanted to have a seizure but there was no reason, so he had to "puff" for a while, turn his head and leave.

Wen Zhen then got into the sedan chair, and her guards obediently stepped out of the way and handed over their weapons.

Wen Zhen glanced back in the sedan chair.

The flames of Fengbaocang have gradually been extinguished, and the ruins of a charred black wall are silent among the barren smoke and vines.

Farther along the river, there are high boats sailing, gradually submerging into the snow-colored mist of the river in the morning.

……

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