"Jiangnan Dao is the richest of the five Dao in Ningguo, and it is also a Dao that Ji Tai has been cultivating for many years!"

Peach Blossom Villa, Zhong Lisu's face was a little worried.

"Guangling Prefecture is under the jurisdiction of Jiangnan Province, but Guangling Prefecture is located in the northernmost part of Jiangnan Province, and among the fifteen prefectures under the jurisdiction of Jiangnan Province, Guangling Prefecture is the most remote one."

"If you go to Shuzhou, if you go by land, you will pass through the three states of Jiangnan Road!"

"Why don't you wait for the thaw next year and take the waterway into Shuzhou?"

Li Chenan shook his head.

"Then I have to wait for three or four months, I want to go to Shuzhou as soon as possible, and I can take Ruoshui to Yueguo in early summer next year."

Zhong Lisu pondered for a moment, "Jiangnan Daotai is more than ten thousand branches, and he has been placed in the position of Jiangnan Daotai from Ji Taideng's phase!" ”

"In the past ten years, Yu Wanzhi's cronies in the states south of the Yangtze River have not been all, but at least six or seven percent of them are his people!"

"The merchant, the current Jiangnan Shang clan, is not the Shang clan of the Shang Prime Minister a hundred years ago."

"Also...... Gangnam Province is rich, and there are more than 30,000 soldiers in various state capitals! ”

"Song Shiming, the governor of Jiangnan Province in charge of soldiers and horses, was once the general of the Eastern Frontier Army and the slave of the second prince...... Did you really kill the second prince in Shuangjiao Mountain? ”

It's a mystery.

Li Chen'an returned to Kyoto from Shuangjiao Mountain and did not bring back the body of the second prince Ning Zhixing.

But it is true that the second prince did not return to Kyoto.

No one dared to ask about it.

Because killing the prince is a matter of great condemnation in the world.

Li Chen'an brought back Ji Tai's eldest son Ji An, but he did not hand Ji An over to the Criminal Department for interrogation, but put him in the Imperial City Division and imprisoned him in the cell of MI7.

At this moment, Zhong Lisu asked about the second prince Ning Zhixing, Li Chenan pondered for a moment, raised his eyes, and whispered: "After all, the battle for the throne is a big trouble, and there is one less person to fight, which will always be less of an obstacle to the return of the eldest son of the emperor." ”

This is ambiguous.

He didn't answer whether Ning Zhixing was dead or alive, Zhong Lisu was a person who understood, and of course he couldn't ask again.

Regarding the affairs of Jiangnan, Li Chenan actually knows a lot.

Because there is a lot of news from the states in the Jiangnan Province in the Imperial City Division, and Wen Zhuanyu has also been the chief housekeeper of the Shang family in Pingjiang City for three years.

The twenty years that the eldest grandson Jinghong lay in the Imperial City Division were not in vain.

As the top priority of the five realms of Ningguo, Ji Tai is deeply cultivated, and the eldest grandson Jinghong is not idle.

It's just that the emperor ignores state affairs, and the Imperial City Division has caught the braids of many officials, but it can't be reported to the emperor, so that those officials can be punished as they deserve.

You can't leave it to Jitai!

This has become Ji Tai's power growing wantonly throughout the Jiangnan, and what the Imperial City Division has done is just silently remembering.

As for Jiangnan Shang's, Wen Zhuoyu specially reminded Li Chen'an, because the Shang family was able to develop by leaps and bounds in Jiangnan, which has a great relationship with Jiangnan Daotai Yu Wanzhi-

The Shang family and the Yu family are sons and daughters!

Wen Zhuoyu also said that Shang's account books are very complicated, especially when it comes to Caoyun's account books.

In the entire Jiangnan Cao Yun, except for the Yuguang Canal, which was not controlled by the Shang family because of the Shuangjiao Lake water bandits, all the rest of the Cao Yun belonged to the Shang family.

And even if he was the Shang family's chief butler, he couldn't touch Cao Yun's account books.

But he was able to access the books of the rest of the business.

From the receipts and expenditures of those books, he saw something wrong -

The silk and satin business run by the Shang family has been very sluggish in recent years because of the economic depression of the entire Ningguo.

But the cost of the entire Shang clan is huge!

If the meager profits made from the silk business alone were not enough to support the merchants' expenses.

Then it is obvious that the real industries that the Shang clan has made money in these years are not those silk businesses, but those boats in their hands!

Wen Zhuoyu believes that with the speed of Shang's wealth accumulation, if Caoyun is doing a legitimate livelihood, it will not be able to earn that huge profit.

Because the recession of the country's economy will inevitably lead to the shrinking of the scale of business of those big businessmen, the large number of commodities that need to be transported by boats will naturally decrease, and the profits brought by boats will naturally decline.

But instead of being affected, the Shang family has been outstanding among the three wealthy families in Jiangnan over the years!

Wen Zhuoyu suspects that half of Shang's ship is probably doing shady business-

For example, smuggling ordnance, such as privately selling salt and grain from Jiangnan to other places, and so on.

His reason is the Wangjiang Wharf in Pingjiang City, and it is not Pingjiang City's fast catchers who are responsible for safety, but a group of Jianghu masters!

That place was extremely well defended, and the person who was stationed at Wangjiang Wharf was the eldest son of Shang Chunqiu, the head of the Shang family, and Shang Zhongxun, the next head of the Shang family!

In this regard, Li Chenan checked the file in the Black Building of the Imperial City again, and there was no information about Wangjiang Wharf in it, but there was one news that made him pay attention-

From the Yangtze River, you can reach the sea.

There is an island called Dongli for three days out to sea.

Naining is a lonely territory hanging in the sea, there are people on it, and there are also cities, which is the ancestral home of the Huai family!

Wyeth!

That's Huai Guogong's Huaishi!

During the Kyoto Revolution, Huai Guogong led his troops to surround the gathering of Besano...... It is said that the Huaiguo Mansion, one of the five major princes, was lonely ten years ago, and now it has faded out of everyone's vision.

But he brought so many soldiers!

So will there be more soldiers on Dongli Island?

Raising a soldier requires a lot of material.

their weapons, armor, food, and so on...... Could it be that it was transported by Shang's ship?

This matter is now under secret investigation by the Imperial City Division's MI3.

"Since you dare to borrow Jiangnan, you must also have a way to deal with it, and my uncle won't say more."

Zhong Lisu quickly revealed the matter of the second prince Ning Zhixing, and did not say anything about the situation in Jiangnan Province, "The sixth princess recruited Huo Shufan of Huo Mansion as a concubine, has it been implemented now?" ”

Li Chenan nodded, "Nothing will happen in general, but after the prince died, Huo Shufan's father was Huo Baiyang, the former prince's close minister, but his whereabouts are unknown." ”

Zhong Li's eyebrows frowned slightly, "This Huo Baiyang rarely returns to Guangling City, listening to the news from Kyoto, is this person from Ji Tai or His Royal Highness the Crown Prince...... No one seems to be able to say for sure. ”

"What? Are you a little suspicious of him? ”

"Well, because the prince is ...... It's not suicide! ”

Zhong Lisu was shocked, wasn't it suicide? That's what he killed!

"Do you suspect Huo Baiyang?"

"It doesn't make sense!"

Zhong Lisu said to himself: "Whether he is a person from His Royal Highness the Crown Prince or a person from Ji Tai, he has no reason to kill the Prince!" ”

This is also what the little nephew doubts...... Regardless of him, let's talk about it, the death of the crown prince will make it a big trouble for the eldest son of the emperor to return to the dynasty and ascend the throne! ”

"This matter will stop here, uncle, if you know."

"Well, by the way, do you know what happened to Shen Qianshan's Shen family?"

"The defeat of the autumn grain in Jiangnan, the Shen family ...... It's gone! ”

Li Chenan smiled slightly: "That's the Shen family's own fault, but the Shen family is still there, these days are busy, I forgot that Shen Qiaodie Shen girl." ”

"I remember that Shen Qianshan also had a son, and I beat him up at the beginning, called ...... Call Shen Jiye here? ”