"Alas, the Tiangao Emperor is far away, and it is next to the border, under the jurisdiction of Ningzhou Mansion, and the prefect of Ningzhou Mansion is also fascinated by a beautiful concubine, where is there still energy to take care of the affairs of Lancheng. These officials do nothing wrong, and it is only the people who suffer, but fortunately, Lord Nawei only harms the rich, and as long as he does not increase taxes, his accumulation of wealth is not the business of our ordinary people. ”

"This is true, and besides, it is the court's business not to increase taxes, and he doesn't have this power as a governor."

Bai Heran listened to these words, and his heart was thoughtful.

What kind of beauty can fascinate two prefects like this? Counting up, it seems that the time for the two adults to take concubines is about the same, both more than three months ago, after taking a concubine, one opened the country, and the other wantonly made money, could it be a coincidence? Could there be any connection between the two?

She subconsciously glanced into the cabin, the lady was the sister of Lancheng Mansion Yin, and it was said that she was going to Lancheng to visit relatives, so would she also know about this matter?

People were still discussing, and silently asked: "Lord Wei took a concubine with the gift of a wife, but is the wife still there?" How can you swallow this breath? ”

Some people who knew about this sighed again and again when they heard this, "The wife has been angry to death, and the concubine died before she entered the door." It is said that Lord Wei still wanted to straighten out the concubine, but the old lady in their family did not agree, so that's it. ”

Bai Heran remembered that he had heard about Lancheng before, and he had also read it from the classics.

There is no Hades Palace in Lancheng, not only in Lancheng, but also in Ningzhou.

In fact, Lancheng is divided according to the administrative region, and it is not under the jurisdiction of Ningzhou Prefecture, it belongs to the Shuzhou Prefecture area. But because of this long river, Lancheng is the last place to enter the sea, so a large wharf was set up, and because of this big wharf became a seaport, it prospered the economy and trade of Lancheng and broadened the horizons of Lancheng people.

The status of Lancheng increased day by day, and finally broke away from its original jurisdiction decades ago. The previous magistrate had proposed to promote Lancheng to Lanzhou Prefecture and establish it side by side with Shuzhou Prefecture, but the imperial court did not agree to it. However, although he did not agree, he also set up a prefect for Lancheng, which means that it is already on the same level as Shuzhou Mansion in terms of actual status.

After Emperor Tianhe ascended the throne, he didn't want to make Lancheng too special, but he couldn't take back what the first emperor had given out. So he came up with a countermeasure, he made Lancheng independent from Shuzhou Mansion, the prefect is still the prefect, and everything in the official government and yamen is set up according to the state capital, but it must be managed by the Ningzhou government. Whether you agree with it or not, this is the decision of the imperial court anyway.

This matter is complicated to say, in fact, to put it bluntly, Lancheng does not belong to any state capital in terms of administrative region, it is independent, but it has to listen to the words of the prefect of Ningzhou.

You have to ask Lan Cheng if he can agree? If it doesn't agree, it has to agree, because its arms can't twist its thighs, and Ningzhou Mansion is a giant. Lancheng dared to disobey the Shuzhou Mansion in the past, and the Lancheng magistrate dared to argue with the Shuzhou Governor, but he never dared to offend the prefect of Ningzhou Mansion. Because that's a ruthless person, and he's never sick, I'll whip you if you talk nonsense to me.

It is precisely because it is under the management of Ningzhou Mansion that Lancheng has not set up the Hades Palace, of course, this is not because Ningzhou Mansion already has the Hades Palace, on the contrary, Ningzhou Mansion does not have it, and the Hades Palace is extinct in this place.

This is not a normal phenomenon, since the Nine Emperors founded the Hades Palace, the branches of the Hades Palace have spread all over the Eastern Qin, but they have not been set up in Ningzhou Mansion. Even though Ningzhou Mansion was next to Gebu and Luo Ye, the Hades Palace still did not interfere.

Strange as it sounds, of course, there must be a reason for this.

The reason is that the prefect of Naning Prefecture, Lord Kang Xuewen Kang, is the brother-in-law of a brother who died early in the current saint.

When the prince seized the throne, Emperor Tianhe was framed several times, and the most critical one was fortunate to save his life with the help of the imperial brother.

His royal brother was sick in the womb, and he was weak since he was born, so he had an absolute fate with the throne, so he did not fall into disputes. He loves Jun Li's younger brother very much, so he will help as much as he can, that is, in that crisis, Tianhe Emperor was helped by his brother to avoid death, and his brother's wife, who is now the sister of Kang Xuewen, the prefect of Ningzhou, lost her life in that incident, as well as the child in her belly.

The royal brother is weak, and the child has to be conceived for more than ten years, and the baby is tight. Seeing that she was about to give birth in four months, she didn't expect that because she helped Jun Li block a catastrophe, she was stabbed through her heart and killed her with one corpse.

Emperor Tianhe was full of guilt about this, and his imperial brother died of depression in less than a year because of this incident.

There was nowhere to repay it, until the emperor's sister-in-law's younger brother Jinbang High School, he was so happy that he pointed to the Ningzhou Mansion to give Na Kang Xuewen at that time, making Kang Xuewen a generation of feudal officials. And in the years when the Hades Palace was established and expanded, he also warned the Nine Emperor Princes not to reach out to Ningzhou Mansion, but to give Kang Xuewen absolute trust.

After so many years, Kang Xuewen has actually done a good job, not only governing Ningzhou Mansion in a stable and orderly manner, but also never had a major dispute with Gebu and Luo Ye. And pay taxes on time every year, and strictly abide by the laws and laws of the Eastern Qin Dynasty, not to mention the Emperor of Heaven and Emperor, even the Hades Palace secretly investigated, and did not find out that Kang Xuewen was too bad. At most, it is to drink a meal of flower wine once in a while, and then occasionally be greedy for a small profit.

But this is also harmless, and the greed for money is not enough to be worthy of the attention of the Hades Palace. For the border officials, this is not bad, you can't force it too much, so as not to turn things around.

For many years, Ningzhou Mansion has never produced a demon child, and Emperor Tianhe sometimes sighs, saying that it was the right choice to choose this way to repay his kindness, and Kang Xuewen is trustworthy.

But I didn't expect such a thing to happen now, Kang Xuewen actually opened the copper city without telling the imperial court, and had such close contact with Gebu. What the hell is this for? Isn't that Kang Xuewen also anti?

Bai Heran thought that he would have to talk to Jun Murin for a while about what he heard, that guy was dressed as lame, and he slept in the house all day long, sleeping during the day and sleeping at night, but he made up for all the sleep he owed when he led the troops to the expedition a few years ago.

It was darker, the river breeze was cooler, and the waves were stronger. After a little while, the boatmen came and told them to hurry back to the house, for it was too windy at night for anyone to stand on deck.

People couldn't get enough of talking, but they also had to go back to their houses. Bai Heran was supported by Mo Yu and walked into the cabin, and while walking, someone told her: "Big sister, if you don't hurry home when you get off the boat from Lancheng, you can stay in Lancheng for a few days, and maybe you can catch up with Lord Wei and set up a banquet." At that time, the rich people will go to Weifu in a hurry, but it will be lively! ”

Hakuzuru responded vaguely, and walked inside without stopping. Because except for Mrs. Yuanwai, her room is the innermost room, so when she walked to the door, there was no one behind her. Then the little boatman Pingzi was standing in front of the door of the foreign lady, constantly raising her hand and knocking on the door, muttering in wonder as she knocked, "Where have all the people gone?" Didn't you see you on deck? Why didn't anyone answer the word? I can't sleep so early! ”

As soon as he turned around, he saw Bai Heran and Moyu coming back, so he greeted him with a smile: "Madam, you're back!" It's almost time to get to Lancheng, and the waves will be very strong when the river is about to enter the sea, so Madame should be early and late! Don't worry if the boat rocks hard at night, our boat boss has been sailing for more than 20 years, and he has a lot of experience and is foolproof. ”

Bai Heran also smiled at him, and then pointed to the room of the lady outside the staff and asked him, "What, is there no one?" ”

Pingzi nodded, "It seems that there is no one, I have been knocking for a long time and no one has opened the door." But I just went to the plate to take a look, and the people in this house didn't go to the deck either! I don't know where they went. ”

Bai Heran said: "Maybe I went to someone else's house to talk, or maybe the boat shook so badly that they all fell asleep, it's all possible." Is this going to send charcoal? She glanced at the silver charcoal in Pingzi's hand and said, "If it's just to send charcoal, don't open the door if you don't open the door, anyway, if they need to add charcoal, they will definitely take the initiative to call you." After all, no one is stupid, and they don't know if they want charcoal when it's cold. I also kindly mentioned that if there is no important matter, you don't have to keep knocking it down, otherwise the people in the other room will hear the movement and will be scolded again, and it is not worth scolding. ”

She said sincerely, and Pingzi also felt reasonable, so she nodded at her, thanked her, and then looked at the room that Bai Heran had opened, and couldn't bear it, and wanted to hand the silver charcoal in her hand forward, but she was still reluctant after all.

"Madame has a good heart, Pingzi knows that it must be very cold in the house, and Pingzi also knows, but this charcoal is silver charcoal, it is too expensive, I can't be the master, so ......" His face was embarrassed, "If Madame doesn't dislike it, I'll give you some charcoal in a while!" ”

Bai Heran smiled and waved his hand, "No need, I'm not a squeamish person, and my family is not as solid as my wife, it's common to be cold or something, and I've long been used to it." You don't have to worry about me, I'm going to be busy with you, I'm a little dizzy from being shaken at this moment, and I want to rest early. Ming'er bothered the little brother to bring us some hot water early in the morning, and Ming'er's breakfast had to be bought on the boat, and we really didn't have dry food. As she spoke, she took out a few pieces of silver from her sleeve pocket, counted them, kept a small piece for herself, and stuffed the rest to Pingzi, "See how much you can buy and eat, give us as much as you want, there's really no money." ”

Pingzi nodded, "Madame, don't worry, this silver is enough to last until Lancheng gets off the boat, the small one will be picked up for you tomorrow morning, and you don't have to worry about Madame's dinner in the evening and the aftermath, you can send it over." ”

Ping Zile walked away, and Bai Heran turned around to look at him for a while, until he was gone, and then he screwed up a pair of beautiful eyebrows tightly.

Something was wrong with the lady's room, and she smelled blood and poison through the crack in the door......