The state of the Tiger Prison City in Northern Yuzhou is an important passage in and out of Heluo in Henan, and it is also one of the famous fortresses in the world, so the people who sit in this realm are often the famous ministers and generals in the Northern Qi State.

Today's Northern Yuzhou Assassin Sima is the son-in-law of Emperor Shenwu Gao Huan, the son of Sima Ziru, one of the four nobles of the Eastern Wei Dynasty.

However, although Sima has a deep background, the actual situation is not as calm and comfortable as it seems on the surface.

First of all, although his father Sima Ziru had a close personal relationship with Emperor Shenwu Gao Huan, and was also in charge of the Eastern Wei Dynasty for a time during the Eastern Wei Dynasty, this honor did not last forever. When Emperor Wenxiang Gao Cheng entered the reign of a general, he imposed sanctions on Sima Ziru as the object of his prestige, which greatly damaged Sima Ziru's prestige.

When the current Qi lord Gao Yang usurped Wei and became independent, Sima Ziru was also treated coldly because his attitude was not positive enough, and he did not receive the honor of being crowned king, but he only took care of his deep qualifications and the old relationship with Emperor Shenwu and raised the court until Tianbao died of illness in the third year.

Sima's family background is no longer as strong as it seems, and his own family relationship is not harmonious, so that his wife often complains about the current emperor, and as the Qi lord has become more and more tyrannical in recent years, Sima is also worried.

There is another thing that makes Sima Xiaonan feel sad, that is, he has a good personal relationship with Gao Lian, the king of the Shangdang. Gao Lian was detained in Jinyang in the old year, and since then he has disappeared, and it is rumored that he has been executed a long time ago, and there are rumors that he is still imprisoned in Jinyang Palace. This matter has not been decided for a day, and Sima has been worried about whether he will be implicated.

For fear of being punished by the current emperor for no reason, Sima has been cautious in recent years, in addition to welcoming his wife at home, he has also shown favor to his subordinates and protégés, and is cautious and buys people's hearts, just hoping to live in peace.

As an important town in Henan, Beiyuzhou itself is not too military. One is because the first line of the east-west confrontation is now on the Yiyang line in western Henan, and northern Yuzhou does not belong to the front-line military town. The second is that because Gao Zhongmi also surrendered to the Western Wei Dynasty when he served as the assassin of Northern Yuzhou in the old years, the Yedu court deliberately reduced the military functions of Northern Yuzhou.

At present, the most important function of this place is to serve as a supporting part of the Luozhou Theater, and to continuously transport the money, food, supplies and labor force from the Henan region to the Heluo area, so as to maintain the military consumption of the entire Heluo area.

There are always tens of thousands of garrisons in Heluo and Heyang, plus the soldiers assigned from all over the country, it is the scale of the town of more than 100,000 people. With such a large population, it is obvious that the ruined land of Heluo can not be satisfied with the current reclamation and cultivation, and the money, grain and materials collected from Shandong to Henan need to be transported to Heluo through the Tiger Prison in Northern Yuzhou.

Therefore, as the assassin of Northern Yuzhou, although Sima Xiaonan did not have much authority to control the military aircraft, he also had a lot of power and had to deal with many important affairs every day.

Due to the distribution and transfer of a large number of money, grain and materials, the commerce and trade of Northern Yuzhou is also quite prosperous, and all parties of the business travel with the help of the relatively perfect logistics roads and warehouse facilities around the Tiger Prison City, etc., sell seasonal goods here, exchange what is available, and make the Tiger Prison City more prosperous.

In order to obtain sufficient profits, businessmen often engage in some illegal activities, and even smuggle foreign enemies for profit.

Sima Xiaonan himself is not keen on business for profit, unlike some noble sons in the Northern Qi Kingdom, his family is also regarded as a retired eunuch, and his father Sima Ziru is even more extensive, so Sima Xiaonan is also quite a bit of a friendly and lazy aristocratic son's character, and he does not like to personally manage these mundane affairs.

It's just that Sima Xiaonan himself has provided for a lot of protégés, and his family has a lot of expenses, and there is no shortage of officials in Beiyu Prefecture who operate smuggling business to make profits, and Sima Xiaonan does not want to strictly investigate this matter to see evil colleagues, and he is gradually involved in it.

When the imperial history from Yecheng arrived in Tiger Prison City, Sima Xiaonan happened to be not in the city, but went to Xixuan Temple in Chenggao to play. The assassin is not in the city, which is just convenient for the imperial history to do things.

Although Gao Yang, the lord of Qi, is keen on pleasure,

But for the internal and external officials are not low, the imperial history as the eyes and ears of the inspectors, also has a lot of power, go to the state and county to collect wind and correct mistakes, although it has a great effect on the state and county officials, but at the same time, it is inevitably accompanied by a lot of prestige, fish and meat local behavior.

This time, Yushi came to Northern Yuzhou, originally in the name of Shangfeng to borrow the topic to play, and after entering the city, he was naturally even more polite. After they entered the city, they first found the governor of Zhencheng with a warrant and asked Zhencheng to mobilize a team of armor soldiers to cooperate.

The governor of the town is named Fu Jingyuan, and he did not dare to slack off after verifying that the talisman was correct, even if he summoned five hundred armor soldiers from the military camp to deliver it to the imperial history. After the imperial history requisitioned the local armor soldiers, even if he went straight to the assassin's mansion, he detained all the officials who belonged to the palace, including some of the documents related to the money and grain of the warehouse, and took them to the requisitioned military camp in the city to guard them.

"Aya, something is wrong, something is wrong......

After the accident, Sima Tan, the son of Sima Xiao, was busy riding out of the city to find his father, and when he saw Sima Zhen in Xixuan Temple, Sima Tan said in a hurried and loud tone.

Sima Xiaonan was accompanied by the monks in the temple to select the cliff wall, preparing to dig a cave statue to pray for blessings and disasters, seeing his son in a hurry and shouting, even if he frowned and said unhappily: "Not young, but still have no calm at all, why is it so alarmed?"

"Yes, yes, Ye all have imperial history into the state, and the people of the town and city are recruited to enter the government to detain people, and the master of Liu, Zhang Dian, and all the protégés have been locked up......

Sima Tan heard his father's reprimand, and hurriedly restrained the panic on his face a little, but he still said in a hurried tone.

"W-What...... What and what is it that is so hasty......

After Sima Xiaonan heard this, his face changed even more seriously than his son, if it weren't for the quick help of the monks on the side, the whole person was afraid that he would fall to the ground.

He had been worried about being persecuted, but now that the imperial history of Yedu was coming violently, he was shocked, and he immediately couldn't care about digging a cave to worship the Buddha, and hurriedly gathered a group of followers to rush to the Tiger Prison City. Because Sima Tan didn't find out what happened to the imperial history, he was also repeatedly reprimanded and complained by Sima along the way.

"No, no, I can't, I can't, I can't go back to the city easily! If the one who really came is not good, but I don't know it, I am not throwing myself into the net?"

Halfway through the journey, Sima stopped suddenly, and was too frightened to return to the city, so he asked his subordinates to return to inspect the situation first, while he turned to a nearby alternative outside the city to hide.

At this time, there was also a lot of chaos in the Tiger Prison City because of the arrival of the imperial history. After detaining a subordinate protégé of Sima Xiao, the imperial historians began to interrogate harshly, and soon some people could not bear the pressure and confessed some things related to Sima Xiao's subordinates participating in smuggling.

These imperial historians have also handled many similar cases, and after initially grasping some of the crimes, even if they decided to go their separate ways, some people were left here to watch and continue to interrogate these people, and the others went separately to investigate and collect evidence according to the explanations of these people.

Tiger Prison City was originally a prosperous city with frequent exchanges of goods and goods, and if these imperial historians wanted to search and collect evidence, of course, they would inevitably close some warehouses and warehouses, and search and detain relevant personnel. This inevitably caused a lot of disruption to the flow of people and goods in the city, and many people were terrified by it.

The imperial historians searched and investigated everywhere in the city, and there was a lot of trouble, but Sima Xiaonan, who was hiding in other businesses outside the city, was secretly relieved after learning the purpose of the imperial historians, and said with a smile: "Bi Yiyun, this dog thief, is really hateful, but he is also really stupid, and it is ridiculous to want to harm the minister with this matter!"

If Yushi came to Beiyu Prefecture for something else this time, he would inevitably be frightened, but if he just wanted to make trouble on the charge of business smuggling, Sima Xiaonan felt that it would be difficult to hurt him.

It is not uncommon for the high-ranking officials and elites of the Northern Qi State to be questioned for their private business smuggling, but the punishment is often just to seize the official position and fine the stolen goods, and a little reprimand is enough, and it is rare to receive substantive punishment.

What's more, Sima Xiaojing did not personally operate this matter at all, and as far as he knew, he was not the only powerful person involved in this matter, his brother-in-law Cheng Gaogong

But Zhu Hun Tianhe was also involved in this matter. If Yu Shi really wants to pursue it accordingly, he will only commit public anger. Rong Favor such as the second Cui back then was degraded for offending the anger of the public, and a mere Bi Yiyun is nothing.

So Sima Xiaojing no longer hid, and swaggered back to the Tiger Prison City surrounded by his entourage, and after returning to the Assassin's Mansion, he also gathered a group of officials, glared and ordered them to cooperate with the imperial history, and not to deliberately conceal and cover up the crime.

Because he knew very well in his heart that the more so-called incriminating evidence these royal historians found, the safer he would be. He doesn't even need to come forward himself, his own Yedu magnates will not be able to bear the loss of interests and teach this group of mad dogs a lesson, and then he just needs to stand aside and watch the show.

But Sima's good mood did not last long, after he returned home, he just drank a few glasses of water and wine at dinner to suppress his shock, and then took advantage of this slightly drunk to prepare to go to bed, but just lying on the bed, his son's urging shout sounded outside the door: "Aya, something is not good, something is not good...... Imperial historian Zhang Zijie searched an official warehouse in the south of the city, but was violently slashed and killed by the thieves hiding in it!"

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