"Since the princess knows that Yuncheng is the place where official salt must pass, she must also be able to guess that someone will inevitably hijack the official salt escorted by the Yuncheng official mansion, although hijacking official salt is a big crime, but there are still many people who take risks."

Yang Linshan saw that Qianfan was very interested in this, so he said carefully: "Maybe it's a coincidence, maybe it's the will of heaven, the successive Yuncheng County Commanders are all civilian officials, so they always have the idea of persuasion for these people, and later killed a person named Zhu Tao, this person was originally a common man who killed pigs in the vegetable market for a living, and I don't know which master he did, so he recruited many brothers to follow him to subdue the bandits who robbed houses on the canal." ”

"According to what you mean, these bandits are all hard to mess with, how could that Zhu Tao be so powerful and take everyone under his command?" Qian Fan puffed out his cheeks and asked with a frown: "And after he subdues everyone, is all the official salt he has robbed at his disposal?" ”

"He sent someone to rob the official salt, and then the government bought it at a high price," Yang Linshan said this, but laughed, shook his head and said: "But the successive county commanders think that this Zhu Tao is good, although it is necessary to buy the salt back at a high price, but each ship that escorts the official salt Zhu Tao only hijacks once, and only hijacks six ships a day, such a rule is much better than the original loss of official salt and the repeated robbery of official salt, so the rules are slowly formed." ”

Qianfan calculated in his heart, no wonder the salt in the capital will be so expensive, it turns out that these official salts have been hijacked, and Yuncheng should have been the city with the most tariffs, but it has been in deficit year after year, and sometimes it needs to be subsidized by the national treasury, presumably the emperor also knew about it back then, but why didn't he directly send troops to protect the ships that escorted the official salt? Instead, let this happen?

"Then what do you mean by mixed fish and dragons?" Qian Fan didn't understand, but he made up his mind to take a look, and felt that he should know more, and then asked: "Since Zhu Tao has already brought all the forces on the river under his command, why is it so chaotic?" ”

"Presumably, the princess also thought of it, this kind of thing Yuncheng County Order must be reported to the court, but no one has ever come to solve this matter, that is to say, someone in the capital is deliberately resigned to it, and even said that these twists and turns may not reach the Holy Hearing," Yang Linshan said with a serious face: "Those civil officials don't have the courage to fight those people, and Yuncheng has a peculiar custom, that is, every family has a man to be a bandit, Zhu Tao told them that this is called not to blame the public." ”

"This Zhu Tao is really scheming, even if the imperial court has the intention to suppress bandits, it is worried that it will cause public resentment, but do you know who is controlling Zhu Tao and these people in the capital?" Qian Fan raised his eyes to look at Yang Linshan, and suddenly asked with some puzzlement: "It stands to reason that you have been locked up for so long, why do you know so much about the affairs of Yuncheng?" ”

"Because the current county commander of Yuncheng is Feng Hao, a classmate and friend of the next year," Yang Linshan smiled bitterly and took out a crumpled letterhead and handed it to Qian Fan, and said helplessly: "He is a typical sour literati, he knew that Qin Cha was here, and he heard that I was rescued, so he secretly wrote to me, and this letter was hidden on the old man who sent night incense so that it was not discovered." ”

"He's being watched?" Qian Fan unfolded the letter and asked with some surprise: "It's good that there are still people who can believe it, and it's already his luck that the old man didn't betray him and helped him deliver the letter." ”

"That old man is actually the master he brought at the beginning, but now he has been reduced to a person who pours night incense, the princess, the people around him are all arranged by the capital, when he first arrived in Yuncheng, he also thought that he could be different from his predecessors, but when he was really in it, he realized that he couldn't help himself at all." Yang Linshan saw that Qianfan's attention had been focused on the letter, so he kept silent.

"Brother Zilin (Yang Linshan's character): I heard that the Qincha was in Cunzhou, and Wanwang told the Qincha what was written in the letter, so that they could come to Yuncheng to save the people from fire and water. If this trend is not eliminated, the country will be in danger! Qian Fan looked at this long letterhead, and couldn't help but secretly say: "These literati are really pedantic, they still have time to write so long on life-saving letterheads, but they are really powerful, and they are not afraid of being discovered......"

Secretly sighed and sighed, but Qian Fan could see that this Feng Hao was also an official who was worried about the country and the people, and the letter wrote freely about the hardships of the people who only ate salt once every half a month because the price of salt was too high, and also wrote about his own helplessness, and also mentioned three people, Zhu Tao, Lu Yuan and Zhang He.

"This Zhu Tao is the overlord on the water, so who are this Lu Yuan and Zhang He?" Qian Fan asked strangely, "It seems that their identities are not written in his letter, do you know?" ”

"The distance between Cunzhou and Yuncheng is only a dozen days away, and it is only seven days to say that it is not far away, so I have heard of these two people," Yang Linshan poured another cup of tea for Qianfan, and then said: "That Lu Yuan is a famous good man in Yuncheng, and he is also the only person in Yuncheng who is licensed to buy and sell official salt, and he will buy a large amount of official salt almost every month, and then give it to the poor people for free." ”

"That's a good guy, right?" Qian Fan frowned, and asked with some incomprehension: "Since he is a good person, why does this Feng Hao still mention him?" ”

"But this person has a particularly disgusting preference," Yang Linshan frowned deeper, and said with great disgust, "He likes to eat the heart of a young girl, and he has to eat it once a month." ”

"Those people know?" After hearing this, Qian Fan directly marked this person on his own blacklist, and asked with a murderous face: "Or are they deceived?" ”

"Where do those poor people know that, they only know that this Lu Yuan is a great good person, he will distribute salt and food every other month, and then take away a little girl, those people think that even if they enter the Lu Mansion and become a girl, it is much better than following themselves to endure hardship, so many people have specially brought their own girls there to receive food." Yang Linshan gritted his teeth with hatred and said: "Feng Hao once went there to remind the people, but no one believed him, he was beaten half to death by a group of people in the middle of the night, and he almost met Lord Yan." ”

"What about that Zhang He?" Qian Fan pointed to another person on the letterhead and said, "He also doesn't do evil?" ”

"This person is a mountain bandit," Yang Linshan looked much better on his face, and said calmly: "But this person is affectionate and righteous, and he also has a way to steal, never robs the poor, does not harm the innocent, does not rob the people's daughters, only robs Zhu Tao's people." ”

"So Zhang He and Zhu Tao are obviously two people?" When Qian Fan heard this, he slowly had a complicated relationship diagram in his heart, but he still asked curiously: "Is there someone behind this Zhang He?" Otherwise, how could he fight against Zhu Tao? ”

"That's natural, it's just that petty officials like us have no way of knowing who it is, the princess, I know that the prince is definitely not a thing in the pool, and I implore the two of you to save the people of Yun City!" Yang Linshan said, suddenly got up and knelt opposite Qianfan with his robe, and said seriously: "On behalf of Brother Feng, I will thank the prince and the princess first!" ”

"You get up, I know you have good intentions, and we always have to pass through Yuncheng, these things naturally have to be solved," Qian Fan nodded, and saw him stand up before saying: "Some time ago, we received a secret letter from the emperor, and we also mentioned the high price of salt, it seems that there are still so many problems in it." ”

After pondering for a long time, Qian Fan spoke again: "Yang Linshan, I recommend you as the Assassin of the Prefecture because we believe in you, presumably the holy decree will come in a while, I hope you can not forget your original intention." ”

"Lin Shan is taught!" Yang Linshan said respectfully: "In the future, Lin Shan will definitely put the people first, but he will be worthy of his heart!" ”

"Well, I believe you!" Qian Fan nodded, got up and said: "It's not too early, I'll go back first, you let out the news, just say that Qin Cha has escorted the sinner back to the capital, and we have our own arrangements for the rest." ”

"Yes, I don't know when the prince and the princess will leave?" Yang Linshan responded: "After the prince and the princess are gone, I don't know if we can still see each other in this life, Lin Shan must practice well for the prince and the princess." ”

"No need," Qian Fan smiled and said, "Besides, we have already returned to the capital, if you practice it for us, wouldn't it arouse suspicion?" Lin Shan, the friendship between gentlemen is as light as water, President Xu of the Chamber of Commerce is a safe person, if there is anything to discuss with him at any time, we will have a period later! ”

Looking at Qianfan's back drifting away, Yang Linshan suddenly felt how fortunate he was to be alive to see today, no matter what Qianfan said, for Yang Linshan, Nalan Minhao and Qianfan were his life-saving benefactors, and he could only be worthy of their great kindness if he continued to do practical things for the people of Cunzhou, so that the people of Cunzhou could live and work in peace and contentment.

What Qianfan didn't know was that what she said to Yang Linshan today didn't take long to put it in front of Luo Langkong, looking at Qianfan's "own brother" Luo Langkong smiled from the bottom of his heart and said to General Yun: "Grandpa, do you believe them now?" ”

"It's the old minister who spends the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain!" General Yun didn't expect that Qianfan, Nalan Minhao and Luo Langkong could still trust each other as always, but wouldn't it be better this way? At least his grandson won't lose everything just because he sits in that position, thinking of this, General Yun said with a smile: "The old minister immediately withdraws all the people who are monitoring them, the emperor can rest assured!" ”

In fact, Luo Langkong also saw these things before he knew that his grandfather had sent someone to spy on Qianfan and Nalan Minhao, he knew that General Yun was for his good, so he couldn't bear to blame, and he also believed that even if Qianfan and Nalan Minhao knew all this, they would understand General Yun's painstaking efforts, and believe in himself as much as he believed in them.

Of course, Qianfan naturally didn't know this, and when she returned to the inn, she saw Nalan Minhao sitting in the gazebo playing chess with Xiao Bai'er, Wei Zhiyang saw her come back and said with a smile: "Are you hungry?" Would you like something to eat? ”

"Big brother, can you already see with your eyes?" Qian Fan waved his hand, and when he saw Wei Zhiyang looking at him with a smile, he immediately said excitedly: "Big brother, are you really okay?" Have you asked a doctor to check it out? Is there anything else I need to pay attention to? ”