Chapter Eighty-Nine: Killing Two Birds with One Stone
"Your Highness, this person is not an ordinary businessman, but a protΓ©gΓ© raised by His Royal Highness."
The man who defended it? Wei Sa raised his eyebrows, and things suddenly became tricky. In the current situation, he doesn't really want to have any conflict with Wei Cheng, his time has not yet come, and it is not good to act too early. The eyebrows condensed a little, and then expanded, and the good-looking eyes glanced at the crowd in the distance, and returned to their usual leisurely demeanor. "Let's go, go over and have a look."
He got off the horse and walked to the crowd with the guards, there was a very sturdy man in the circle who was arguing with the team leader who started the work, scolding and scolding in his mouth, and from time to time he stretched out his hand to push the team leader, the team leader seemed to be not very old, and in the face of such an arrogant and unreasonable person, he obviously remembered Wei Sa's policy, and he definitely couldn't fight back, scolded and didn't fight back, and was pushed by the man until he retreated to the side of the crowd, and he didn't get angry, just ...... His clenched fists already showed that the young man had gathered enough strength.
Wei Sa gently asked Yuan Xing beside him, "Who is the team leader?" "This man was wearing a helmet, and his face was very unfamiliar.
"His name is Huang Qing, he has been in the army for less than a year, and his performance has been very good." The appreciation in Wei Sa's eyes did not escape Yuan Xing's eyes, and he smiled implicitly, "You must not have thought that he is the son of Mr. Huang Chengyuan." β
"Oh?" Wei Sa was really interested, "I seem to remember that there is only one son in Huang's family. It was not easy for him to be willing to let him be a soldier. β
Yuan Xing also smiled, Huang Chengyuan was his original enlightenment teacher, he was very funny, and he had a lot of ghost ideas, and he obeyed Wei Sa, a little naughty bag, and it was precisely because of his weirdness that Wei Sa respected and feared him, for fear that he would come up with some tricks to tease himself and make himself ugly, so every time he assigned his homework was honestly completed, he didn't dare to slack off half a point, and he was also a loser, otherwise he might really be a mediocre prince who lingered in flowers and had no ink on his chest.
"What Huang Lao said most often in his life is that he is useless and is a scholar, so it is not novel for him to want to call his son Congrong." Yuan Xing explained, in fact, he had been wondering if Wei Sa's incomprehensible temperament was also the true inheritance of Huang Chengyuan at the beginning.
Wei Sa smiled, now is not the time for them to discuss the issue of other people's sons in depth, the man over there just slapped his fist on Huang Qing's face, seeing Wei Sa frowning, Yuan Xing asked inquiringly, "Do you want to go over and stop it?" β
"No, you don't." Wei Sa waved his hand and stopped him, with a sneer, "Tell him to fight, I'm afraid he won't make trouble." Yuan Xing understood what he meant, lowered his eyes and stopped looking at him, even after knowing that this young man was the only son of his mentor, he could still watch so calmly, and this determination and ruthlessness were beyond the reach of others.
In fact, there is nothing more infuriating than arguing with a dumb person, the man scolded himself and was tired, the leader still didn't speak, pushed him and kicked him without reacting, and didn't fight back, his anger is getting bigger and bigger, how to say that he is also the person of the great prince, in this countryside far away from Kyoto, the person who can get involved with the royal family is simply a crane in the flock, the gold that can walk, who sees him does not nod his head and waist, does not flatter, even the local magistrate sees him and is polite, if it is not for the golden sign of the great prince, It is impossible for him to occupy the farmland to plant tea trees and make huge profits from them every year. Today, such a raw melon egg was drilled out of the ground. Zi, after a few simple words, he commanded his minions to start digging the pit, which clearly didn't take him seriously.
The anger in the chest was great, the man raised his fist and punched the door in front of the leader, the young man who led the team seemed to have been prepared, but he didn't dodge at all, and directly took a solid punch, this punch hit the bridge of his nose, and immediately the blood stained his face, his injury was not necessarily heavy, but the appearance of the face covered with blood was really terrifying, the surrounding villagers couldn't look at it, waved their arms and shouted for the man to stop, several soldiers in the squad he led threw away the hoe in their hands, and ran over to pull away the happy man who was beating, They all glared angrily, but no one stepped forward to make a move.
Seeing that the fire was almost over, Wei Sa beckoned, and Yuan Xing squeezed through the crowd and walked in.
"You are Du Ruhui?" Yuan Xingguan was full of arrogance and looked at him from head to toe. The man straightened out his clothes and broke free from the soldiers, who seemed to be dressed extraordinarily, knowing that he was an identity, and snorted, "Yes, it's Lao Tzu." Where did you go? β
Yuan Xing didn't care about his vulgar words, but smiled and clenched his fists, "I am the main person in charge of this demolition of the tea garden, I think my subordinates have made it clear to you just now, the tea garden is not demolished for nothing, we are willing to pay some money as compensation." β
"You compensate? How do you compensate, do you compensate? Du Ruhui pointed to his tea garden with his nostrils facing the sky, "The silver of the annual net income of this garden is stacked higher than ten of you, and you poor soldiers, what compensation will you get?" β
Yuan Xing sneered, "Boss Du, you occupy such a large amount of land to open up a tea garden and don't grow food, which in itself is not in line with the king's law." β
"Hmph, Wang Fa." Du Ruhui came to his senses, "You go to Zhizhou to ask if my land package is legal." "Don't need him to look for it, the dog legs under his hand have already run to find Zhizhou, Zhizhou heard that his family had something to do, and he didn't dare to delay at all and stayed The soldiers in the yamen rushed over, and they were talking at this time, and he brought people to arrive.
When Du Ruhui saw Zhizhou present, he was more confident, "Lord Zhizhou, you tell him if I am in line with the king's law." After he finished speaking, he turned his face and stopped looking at Yuan Xing at all.
Zhizhou had already received the news from above, saying that the three princes were going to come to the disaster relief in person recently, and he was waiting left and left in the mansion and not coming, and he was anxious and anxious, which happened to him. Zhizhou wiped the sweat on his face and took out some official authority, "Why did you send someone to forcibly demolish people's tea gardens?" β
"Open the way to release the ice and release the water." Yuan Xing replied lightly.
Zhizhou buzzed in his head, looked at Yuan Xing carefully, felt a little uneasy in his heart, and swallowed his saliva, "Nonsense, as a magistrate, how come this official doesn't know about today's water leak?" Boss Du is a serious businessman, what is wrong with opening a tea garden to do business. β
"Do you hear me? Lao Tzu's tea garden has been open for six years, paying tribute to the court every year, abiding by the law, and now I want to see which one dares to demolish Lao Tzu's garden! β
"I don't know if my Lao Tzu's order can demolish your Lao Tzu's tea garden." Nice, tepid male voice came, and a few people looked up, and saw a noble man walking into the crowd, and behind him, two teams of royal forest guards followed suit.
Yuan Xing sighed, this highness was really willing to come forward only if he had to watch the show enough, took two steps forward, bowed and saluted, "Third Highness." β
Zhizhou's big face turned pale in an instant, and his fat flesh shook a few times, then he knelt on the ground and shook into a ball, "Three...... Your Highness? Someone brought a stool to Wei Sa, Wei Sa shook his clothes and sat down, habitually bent one leg and put his arm up, and there was no joy or anger on his evil face, "Let them move neatly, the dam won't last long." The guards ran to pass the word, and the soldiers who had just stopped plowing the ground saw that it was Wei Sa coming, and they were all in good spirits and continued to work hard.
Du Ruhui's face turned pale, looked Wei Sa up and down, and reluctantly knelt down to salute, after all, he was a dignified man, and even if he had His Royal Highness to protect him, he might not necessarily retreat.
"This garden looks very good, and you want to use it?" Wei Sa didn't look at him at all.
Du Ruhui knew the truth that heroes don't suffer losses in front of them, gritted his teeth, and nodded, "Yes." β
Wei Sa was very satisfied, he lowered his legs and leaned over to look at him, "You are only willing now?" It's late. His expression suddenly froze, and he pointed to Huang Qing, who was holding a strip of cloth to stop the bleeding, and said, "Disobey official duties and injure my soldiers, how can this battle be counted?" β
Du Ruhui's face turned black instantly, "I am willing to be punished." β
"Okay, know the times." Wei Sa slapped his hand, "Then copy all the branches of your trading houses in Lingnan, hand over the gold and silver, sell them in kind, and how will the men in the family be assigned to the army?" Yuan Xing glanced at Wei Sa, this trick is amazing.
Sure enough, Du Ruhui jumped up, like a rabbit that had been forced to be anxious, with red eyes, "Don't push people too much, do you know who I am?" Lao Tzu is a person of His Royal Highness the Great Prince, if you dare to touch Lao Tzu, you are ......"
"Presumptuous," Wei Sa's expression was awe-inspiring, "How can you tarnish the dignity of the royal family at will?" It is a capital crime to occupy land without permission, and he dares to speak nonsense and slander the prince, and come to take the king's sword. "Left and right immediately presented a golden red gold dragon scale pattern of the sword, this is when Wei Sa traveled, Wei Ying personally gave him the sword, said that Shang Fang's sword is similar, his hand shook, a sword flower as fast as lightning pierced Du Ruhui's throat, he didn't have time to say the wildness overflowed from the neck with blood.
The onlookers took a cool breath, and after a moment of silence, they suddenly applauded and shouted, probably this Du Ruhui has reached the limit of the pressure on the people on weekdays, and his dead body has not yet been planted, and this group of people began to celebrate. I don't know who took the lead in shouting, "The old and young masters all copy the guys to dig a ditch for the Third Highness!"
Suddenly, the onlookers picked up the guy and ran to the tea garden to hoe and hoe and do, just now it seemed that the speed of digging the ditch was slow, but now it has doubled several times.
Yuan Xing calculated the time, and at this speed, he should be able to complete it before the embankment bursts. He glanced at Wei Sa, who was lying on the chair with his eyes closed, if he didn't come to such a hand just now, I'm afraid that these grassroots people would not listen to his command at all, let alone start such a spontaneous construction, it turned out that his deliberate delay just now was not simply to watch the play, but he had already made up his mind, and everything was in his plan.
Huang Qing's blood had stopped, he wiped his hands, and he was about to go over to help, Wei Sa suddenly spoke, "Is Old Man Huang okay now?" β
Huang Qing was stunned, Old Man Huang ...... Are you talking about your father Huang Chengyuan? Wei Sa slowly opened his eyes, the gentle light overflowed, and it was particularly dazzling on his handsome face, Huang Qing lowered his head and saluted in a proper manner, "My father is in good health, Your Highness Xie is worried." He did hear from his family that his father had been a prince's companion.
"That's good, his temper, I haven't seen him all these years, this king really misses him a little, and one day invite him back to the palace to sit down."
Huang Qing knelt on the ground, "My subordinates must bring His Royal Highness's kindness to my father, and my subordinates will thank His Highness for his kindness first." β
"Alright, your dad doesn't have as many rules as you." Wei Sa waved his hand, Huang Qing blushed and stood up, "After returning to the palace, let's go to the Forgotten Soul Hall on an errand, Yuan Xing, are there still any guards in the palace?" β
If you don't have it, you have to have it, Yuan Xing glanced at Wei Sa's face, and hurriedly said, "There is a lack of a deputy commander among the guards in front of you." β
"Well, that's it."
"Thank you, Your Highness, for your kindness, it's just that my father ......"
"Come on, you go back and tell your father that Huang Chengyuan's son is a small soldier, which is too embarrassing for the old Huang family, so he will say that this is what this king said." Wei Sa said it with great ease, he looked at the ditch that had been dug seven or eight points, and stood up, "Now take people to evacuate the people, and if there are those who pick quarrels and provoke trouble, they will be dealt with directly." When he passed by Zhizhou, who was trembling, he waved his hand, and a guard immediately dragged him away.
"Your Highness, if the embankment is going to fail, please retreat to a high level." Huang Qing evacuated the people and came back to meet him. Wei Sa stood on the high hill with him and the people, watching the levee collapse under the impact of the ice, and the dust was submerged in the ice before it could fly, and large chunks of ice rushed all the way to the southeast along the predetermined route. Wei Sa narrowed his eyes slightly, and touched the red gold dragon scale sword in his waist, he knew that he and Wei Cheng's beam was deeper.