Chapter 217: Murder with a knife

After a few pleasantries, Whelan asked people to make tea. Ouyang got to the point: "In the past few years of Huilan, has anything unusual happened to Jin and Liao in the news?" "There is a lot of news from the reporters who have fed back, but not many can be in the Royal Newspaper. And almost all the news was reviewed by Whelan himself.

Whelan said: "Zhan Ming asked as soon as he came back, but he didn't say what it was. I didn't know it was an adult. ”

Ouyang smiled and said, "Zhanming and I have a good heart. ”

Zhan Ming nodded and said, "I think adults may be able to use it." ”

Ouyang said: "There is no need to keep it secret with Huilan, in fact, I want to find out Yan Lan's information." ”

"Wan Yanlan?" Huilan thought about it for a while and said: "The year before last, it should be the year before last, it may be around June There was news that Wan Yanlan came out of the Golden Palace angrily. Since there is no follow-up and nothing to explore, the news is not publishable at all. In addition, in the autumn and winter of last year, Jin sent people to come to the Great Song Dynasty on the merchant ship of the Chamber of Commerce, deliberately looking for Wan Yanlan. I remember that there was a report before, after saying that Yan Yan died in battle, Princess Wanyan returned to Song from Jin, and it was only a month or two away. So he specially sent a reporter to find out the purpose of Jin's mission, but there was no result, so the person talked to Yan Lan for a quarter of an hour, and then went to Hangzhou by water, borrowing a Hangzhou merchant ship to return Jin. ”

Ouyang asked, "Where is Wan Yanlan lately?" ”

"Since Wan Yan Yan's death, Wan Yan Lan has been in Song. And most of them live on ships. The Wei River, the Huai River, and the canal have all been discovered. However, most of the time is in Yangzhou and Hangzhou. The monthly supply is sent to Hangzhou Mansion by Ouchi, and Wanyanlan sends someone to get it. Whelan said: "Actually, it's okay if you don't say it, speaking of which, in the past two years, I have reviewed the news from various places, and there is always a bit of an indescribable taste, but I can't say anything wrong with careful checking." ”

Kindness? Ouyang knew that this feeling was a lot of common sense and explainable corner clues, which seemed to be unrelated, but once a main line appeared, everything was clear. Just like in Operation Tiger and Tiger, the Japanese army had already arranged a plan to bomb Pearl Harbor, but the US military intelligence agencies could not form the main line of the fragmentary intelligence collected, let alone guess that the US military would be attacked by the Japanese army. Since then, the U.S. military intelligence agencies have begun to attach importance to intelligence analysis, and a special research room has been used to sort out a large amount of information that is fed back every day.

The next day, Ouyang went to the newspaper's archives and began to slowly flip through the dusty news collected by reporters from all over the world. According to him, there is nothing wrong with international news. However, there was a recent news that attracted Ouyang, and Wanyan seemed to be sick. Both government and military affairs were taken care of by his son, Wanyan Wu, who was begging for money. Wanyan Wu beggars is Wanyan's biological father.

In addition, the Jin Kingdom abandoned the Tokyo occupation after the Battle of Gobu Gangda and moved its population and wealth to the east of Hwangryong Province. And the main forces are all assembled on the front line of Huanglong Mansion. Another change was that Wanyan Wu Qimai temporarily abolished the system of all people being soldiers, and instead withdrew women and 45-year-old Jurchens from the ranks of combat to carry out farming, hunting, breeding, fishing and other production.

This is a very wise decision, since it is impossible to eliminate the target in a short time, it can only be a guarantee for continuous fighting. There were already many mature policies to promote the quantitative and qualitative growth of the population, and this practice of defending and cultivating people's livelihood can be said to be a major strategic victory.

If you look at the international ones, you will look at the domestic ones, and if you don't see them, you don't know, and you will be shocked when you see them. Especially the Tokyo Society, under the leadership of Li Yifeng, poached the privacy of the whole family when there was nothing to do. It's okay to look at privacy, but there is a piece of news that makes Ouyang angry. Then Wang Huang, who served as deputy minister with Wang Min. Three years before the fall of Song Huizong, this guy broke the Great Song Dynasty rule, and went from the eighth level of the special Jin Lianfei to the vice minister of the young minister. And openly sold the official beard, under the pretext of military supplies to loot the people's wealth, life was extremely luxurious and rotten, and the mansion used gold and jade as a screen, and Cuiqi as an account. Any woman he fancies will not escape his clutches. In order to take away people's concubines, they even fabricated charges to send people to the border.

Ouyang thought that these officials would be greedy for money, but he didn't want to be so arrogant. Ouyang actually knew the person who was sent to the frontier, and that person was currently a court official sent by the Northwest Military Road. Ouyang put the report in front of Whelan and said, "This special issue has to be issued." ”

Whelan was puzzled, it has always been a tacit understanding to send fewer officials and not to publish negative reports on big officials, so she dissuaded: "My lord, now that Cai Jing's matter is not settled, if it is published now, it will inevitably be indignant." It is easy to expose the influence of the royal newspaper, and it is likely that there will be several internal guards around the reviewers in the future. ”

"Don't worry, just because Cai Jing is doing such a thing, it is difficult for the emperor to step down. I sent a secret letter to Zhang Xuanming and asked him to forward it to the emperor. Wang Hao must have been unlucky. There is also the Li Bangyan who was demoted to an official, and now he is slowly rising back, this person has always been on the wrong path with me, collect information and give it to me. ”

Huilan said: "My lord, you have never cared about the affairs of courtiers. How did you ...... today?"

"This bitter lord has some friendship with me." This is certainly not entirely the case. Wang Hao and Li Bangyan, especially Li Bangyan, were only in power after Cai Jing, even if they were demoted, their vitality was still tenacious. After Cai Jing left, these two people were the representatives of the old school of the imperial court, and if these two people were eliminated, they would be able to lay a better foundation for a possible revolution in the future. Originally, he thought that Zhao Yu was not suspicious, and Ouyang's rhythm slowed down. But after knowing that Jin San had nothing to do with the case, Zhao Yu's suspicion returned, and of course Ouyang had to prepare.

And this time, Cai Jing's arrogant return to his hometown made Zhao Yu a laughing stock in everyone's hearts, which made Zhao Yu, who thought he was the first emperor of the ages, very, very unhappy and very, very faceless. At this time, Wang Hao and Li Bangyan were sent to Zhao Yu to operate, and Zhao Yu was very willing.

Among the officials who are bribed by the Chamber of Commerce with money or marriages, Wang Hao is difficult to buy at the S-level, one of the reasons is that he has a great appetite and does not give money to do things. The fact that other ministers are paid to do things seems to be a relatively equal employment relationship. The most fearful thing about doing business is to meet people who don't give money and don't do things. It is said that in the early years, a businessman in Fujian brought 1.5 million yuan to X to invest in factories. Within half a year, it cost a million to send and invite food, but even the land was not approved. So the businessman gave a group of leaders to run away with a middle finger each, and swore that his next three generations would never do even a dollar of business. Therefore, people like Wang Hao and Li Bangyan are definitely not easy to buy. Doing things with such people is a real loss of money.

Although Huilan felt that Ouyang was prevaricating herself with a reason that was not a reason, she didn't ask much, she knew that Ouyang was doing things in a measured way. So it's just a matter of asking the details: "How to describe it?" ”

"You must be objective, and don't put your feelings into it when you say this kind of thing. For example, hatred of corrupt officials, and so on. We are like a spinning wheel. No matter if the best person in the world is the best person in the world, or the first evil person in the world, we will not make better or worse spinning threads because of his identity. ”

"Adults mean to use the identity of a bystander to do this topic?"

"Well, you can just treat this incident as if it happened in Dali or Liao." Ouyang said: "Collect materials first, and don't publish them for the time being." ”

"Good!"

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After Ouyang came out of the head office, he went to Xiang Village. Xiangjun is a small village where the Xiangjun mainly lives and supplies the consumption of the Xiangjun. Due to the low rent in this area, many people from other places choose to live here. It has also indirectly led to a relatively unsatisfactory situation of local governance. There were 40 officials in Xiangcun to maintain law and order, and the two heads of the yamen also took turns to take charge. The 6,000-odd residents here spend on the allocation of pure law and order maintenance is equivalent to the allocation of 30,000 residents in Baiyun District, not counting the township soldiers whose garrisons and training grounds are just a few miles away.

Most of the van army is of a labor nature, so although there is a unified settlement, there is no unified management. Due to the tight working hours, the Yangping Military Factory adopted a 12-hour system, and all the van troops here had a shift change system. Coupled with the Yamen's monthly subsidy of each person's consistent extra salary, the Xiangjun here is still relatively wealthy.

Ouyang rarely comes here, even if he goes to the military factory, he takes another official lane, and the road is specially used to transport materials in and out, and ordinary people are not allowed to use it. Ouyang came down to lead the horse, he was still embarrassed in his heart, as a local parent official, he would not come to this place more than twice, let alone go to the countryside, he could count it with one pair of hands after being in office for so long.

Outside the village, the word Xiangcun is erected, and there is a row of wooden houses when you walk in, after all, the wooden houses are built by the yamen uniformly, so they are relatively neat, but the things on the door are not neat. Half of the first row of houses in the village were hung with signs. Ouyang knew that this was a sign of private prostitution. There are guests on the front and idle on the back. Although Yangping provides a lot of labor opportunities, many weak women can only make a living in this way in terms of physical comparison.

Prostitution is not an offence in the HKSAR, but it is possible to be charged with soliciting unethical dealing. Ouyang's attitude towards prostitutes is also relatively relaxed, and Yangping has a special person in charge of the management of prostitutes. There will also be lectures to teach hygiene. Otherwise, STDs will be transmitted from one to two and two to four, which will be quite detrimental to family and social stability. In addition, there are certain requirements for age, health, etc.

Walking into the most lively street, the shops on both sides are doing business, and there are also itinerant merchants who pay a certain management fee. The Xiang army is the main consumer in this place. Ouyang tied his horse to the bolted horse post of one and only inn and walked into the inn. Immediately, Xiao Er greeted him attentively: "The guest officer is still staying in the hotel." "There are many relatives who come to visit Xiangjun who live here.