+++++++++++++++++++ Brother and Sister Love (II) (Middle) Dividing Line

Xinyang had just returned to the Tang family's old house after duty, and he didn't find the eldest brother, so he first took a comfortable hot bath, ate something, and saw Xinye and the eldest brother go to his yard together.

"After receiving your letter, our people have searched the area around the accident and the horse, and there is no trace of the horse, but the broken reins have been found on the edge of the cliff half a mile away." The cloth bag brought by the new heaven was opened, and inside was a set of worn bridles.

Xinyang just wanted to reach out and take it for a closer inspection, but was stopped by Xintian.

"Don't touch it, and don't get too close to it, there is medicine on it, and if you get closer, you will inhale it more, and both people and horses will be manic. The fracture looks like it's broken, but it's also a human hand, and it's been pre-sharpened, and after the horse is startled, it will break with a little force. The amount of medicine was very accurate, and the horse came out of the palace, and only occurred when the car came to the dangerous road of the West Mountain. ”

"Since they are so accurate, why don't they know that the horse is not on the queen mother's car, but on the main car of Yixian County?" Xinyang was confused. After the autumn hunting incident, the emperor and the queen mother rarely went out of the palace, since they found this kind of opportunity, why did they choose the wrong horse? This kind of error is too low-level.

"I don't understand it either." Xintian frowned.

"Maybe their target was not the Queen Mother in the first place." Xinye raised his eyebrows: "If the person who made the move is among the several princes, no matter which one succeeds to the throne, they are all the blood of the queen mother." In their current state, there is no practical benefit to them in attacking the Queen Mother. Rather, it increases their own risk. In today's situation, if it weren't for the presence of the fifth brother and feeling strange, the other forbidden army commanders might just treat it as a surprise horse, after all, it was only the county lord of Yi Hui. So far, there is no one in the Forbidden Army. ”

"The forbidden army did not arrange a follow-up investigation, and reported that the horses were unexpectedly frightened without passing through the steep mountain roads." Xinyang thought as he spoke.

"That's right." Shinno took a breath, "Maybe they wanted to attack the county lord in the first place, and they didn't make a mistake with the horse. ”

"An eleven or twelve-year-old county lord, with no power or power, and no intention of marrying his relatives, why did they bother so much?" Xintian was puzzled.

"If it is said that it is for the parents and brother of the county lord, it is not worth it, Shi Tianen's position in the army is not high, and the princess has nothing special except for the affection of the queen and the queen mother. And she never gets involved in politics. Every time Xinyang saw the princess, she was just talking about some trivial things.

"The princess and the princess don't, but what about the colt? He's very precious to his daughter. ”

"Shi Juma is just a young man in the Taifu Temple, and most of the time the temple is in charge."

"But he is in charge of the issuance of the supply and allocation of military horses, and the placement of subordinate shepherds." Yoyo sentence, are all brothers, and they are very transparent with each other, although Xinye is the youngest among the brothers, but he has a lot of experience.

Because Yi Cheng was frightened, the queen mother and the queen mother in the palace both gave medicinal materials to calm the nerves and nourish the body, and Fu Yuan rewarded the waiter who sent things, and went to Yi Cheng's courtyard. When the servants saw the princess come in, they were stopped by Fu Yuan as soon as they wanted to speak, she had taken tranquilizers when she came before, and if nothing happened, it was time to sleep now.

The close-fitting girl lifted the curtain, but when she went in, she saw Yihui sitting on the kang in a daze. Yi Cheng has been cold and afraid of cold since she was a child, and Fu Yuan let people sit in each room in her yard to put on the kang, and every year one month earlier than the average person, the kang cage is burned warm, no matter day or night, Yi Cheng nests on the kang as soon as she enters the house. Yi Cheng is quiet and introverted, and she can sit on the kang. But there aren't many times like being in a daze.

"Why don't you sleep for a while after you just took the medicine, it will hurt you to wake up with the power of the medicine forcibly."

Yihui didn't seem to hear it, but still sat there and didn't move, Fuyuan's heart sank, and she reached out and hugged her: "Child, don't scare your mother, you are frightened and can't pay off." ”

Yi Ji came to her senses and shook her head weakly: "It's the daughter who is not good, scaring the mother." ”

"Silly boy, don't say stupid things, what do you think now?"

"Nothing for my daughter. Although it was thrilling this time, the Tang guards rescued it in time, and the daughter didn't know what was going on at the time, and when she reacted, she had already been saved by him. As he spoke, his face flushed with a flush and his eyes sparkled.

Fu Yuan is a person who has come over, I don't understand why this kind of shyness, but the other party is not a good son-in-law in her mind, so she has to sigh: "Tang Xinyang's skills seem to be very good, and their Tang family disciples have nothing to say about this kung fu poem." It's just a pity that he is still a third-class shrimp, an ordinary banner leader of the forbidden army, and he is afraid that he will have years to survive if he wants to be mixed with the commander of the forbidden army. ”

Fu Yuan didn't say the latter words, Yi Ji also understood that although she was not very old, she was born in the royal family, and she still knew the truth of being the right person. The marriage between civil officials and military attaches and the royal family is different, marrying a princess and county lord, Wenchen does not need to have a high position when he is young, as long as he has a good reputation, For example, his father, who had no official position back then, but Tanhualang, has a bright future in the eyes of many people. Military attachés, unless they have military merits, or are born in noble families and have titles, ordinary military generals, if they want to rise step by step to the level of not dishonoring the royal family, they are generally already past the age of marriage.

Yi Cheng lowered her head and frowned, biting her lower lip: "My daughter is very envious of those small families, although they are not rich, but the family is intimate and affectionate together, and there are not so many rules." ”

Fu Yuan didn't know what to say, the royal rules didn't just restrict her daughter, the horse wanted to see her, she needed to report, and whether she could see it or not depends on the face of the grandmother next to her. She sometimes wondered if the colt would have treated her better if she hadn't been a princess, or if she had gotten along with her like Lin. It's been like this in her life, and she can't bear to see her daughter unhappy. Maybe when the time comes, I can beg the Queen Mother to raise Tang Xinyang, the Queen Mother has always been kind to her sister's Tang family.

In the old mansion of the Tang family, Tang Xinyang didn't know that he had been tricked by Princess Fuyuan, and was still discussing with his brothers how to find out who was behind the scenes. Suddenly sneezed twice, Xintian thought that he had suffered a wind on the mountain today, and was about to let him go to rest early, but he saw the steward of the outer courtyard come in to report that the big shopkeeper of the safe warehouse in Gyeonggi Province had come.

Although Ping An Inn and Ping An Inn are both Tang Men business, but the shopkeepers have a fixed day to reconcile, at this time it is almost the time to hold the lamp, Lin Da shopkeeper suddenly came, there must be something important.

"Our colleagues in Xilindao recently noticed a suspicious group of people who transported air-dried meat from outside the border to Gyeonggi Province. It stands to reason that this year is approaching, there are many people here to do New Year's goods, and there are many beef and mutton on the barbarian's side, and the price is cheap. They started shipping two months ago when it was just autumn, and they sent different people to ship from different branches of ours in Xilin Road. On the Gyeonggi side of the province, there are also different companies receiving goods. It stands to reason that the New Year is approaching, it is normal to do air-dried meat business, if it is done by the same family, or one or two large commercial houses, it is understandable, as long as the funds are abundant and there are channels to sell, this is a good business for the season. The key is that these people hide their heads and tails, always trying to cover up their tracks, if it weren't for the fact that several of our shopkeepers in Xilin Road are eye-catching people, and they see that the same group of people are disguised many times, they will not be bothered.

And their shipments are scattered, and each time they send goods is thousands to thousands of catties, but if you look at the general ledger, you will find that we have continued to receive this kind of business in the past two months, and I transferred the general ledger books of the three states and seven counties of Gyeonggi Province yesterday and today, and there are 2560,000 catties that have been shipped to Gyeonggi Province in the past two months. They also commissioned other cargo companies to bring the goods, and we also heard from Maolin and Yongheng that there were similar goods. Even if we are the largest cargo store in Xilin Road, plus other warehouses, I am afraid that there are only four or five hundred thousand catties. But judging from the cost of this transaction, even if the cost of collecting these meats outside the customs is low, such a large amount is still a big deal. But we don't see so many dry goods on the market in Beijing, or we don't know where to store them.

Just to be on the safe side, I'll let the guy follow the pick-up guy to take a look. I followed a few shops, and although they all sold some air-dried meat, there were no big deals in the store, and it didn't look like it could sell as much. This morning another batch arrived, because it was difficult to travel on the road, and some of the straw ropes outside the baskets were broken, and when the men unloaded the baskets, the baskets were scattered, revealing only a few dried meats inside, and the baskets were covered with very thick cowhide on all sides. This skin is worth a lot more than dried meat. After I finished the delivery, I asked the guy to open a few more baskets to see, and most of them were cowhide and leather ropes and stuff. The quality of the leather is not worse than that purchased by the Ministry of War. If they had shipped baskets like this, the contents could have been made into more than 5,000 sets of harness or armor. ”

These things are sold in small quantities among the people, just as iron can be used to make weapons and agricultural tools, but this kind of texture and such a large number of them are obviously not used by ordinary people to make boots or anything like that. The sale of more than 10 sets of harness is required to be filed with the government, not to mention the leather ropes that can be used for armor making.

If these things are shipped elsewhere, even if there are rebels or hidden forces, they can be slowly observed and disposed of, but this is to Gyeonggi-do. If it weren't for the fact that people were already here, they would never have taken such a big risk to transport things to the most heavily guarded place in the Celestial Empire to make them. The only explanation is that these people are already in Gyeonggi Province or will be assembled in Gyeonggi Province.

"If it's just about to assemble, you can send things to individuals on the periphery and bring them with you, so you don't have to transport them like this." Shinno didn't think that made sense.

Xinyang said: "Whether it is five thousand light cavalry or heavy armored soldiers, they should be selected and trained in the way of the army. Such a soldier should not be trained in the way of killers or elite guards, and it must focus on the ability to march and arrange the formation, but not the skills of personal hidden changes. If you have these skills, you will not be a soldier. It is already very difficult to bring thousands or even tens of thousands of such people to Gyeonggi-do without missing their tracks, and if they are allowed to bring heavy armor and weapons, it will be easier to be exposed on the road. ”

"After all, our fifth brother is a little general, and he knows these things better than me." Shinno smiled mischievously.

"Who is it who has gathered so many people so much?"

The Yixiang Rebellion has just subsided, and the emperor's health is even more worrying after this time. If tens of thousands of unknown soldiers gather in Gyeonggi Province, the situation is worrying.

"Whoever it is, he is a rich man, and he has to feed so many people, and the silver is gone. If it is really assembled, so many people will have to eat and drink, and there will always be wind, not to mention so many horses. There are many people in the capital, and there are many gangs, and people may be able to hide, but it is not so easy to hide if there are too many animals. ”

"Let our people in Qianzhuang and the grain store cheer up and see which big households have changed recently." The elders are not in Kyoto, and Shintian is the head, dispatching the various forces of the family.

"We understand this truth, and of course the other party also knows that the big entry and exit in the short term will inevitably attract attention. This only happened to transport some dried meat that attracted our attention, not to mention that these things were often purchased at the end of the year. If it weren't for the shopkeepers' vigilance, where would the average businessman know. ”

Of course, those shopkeepers were vigilant, Xinye silently thought in his heart, Xilin Road is a sensitive place, and the strength of the Tang family in the army also has a large part of Xilin Road, in order to cooperate with the actions in the army, the business shop in Xilin Road has more tasks to collect intelligence, protect on the perimeter, ensure the safety of the Tang family's children there, and once there is a change, they can assist them to escape. Therefore, all the shopkeepers are carefully selected, one by one capable people.