Chapter 211, The Secret of Bai Qi's Death
Concubine Yan found the line of sight behind her, turned her head and saw the three little ones at the door, and a trace of surprise flashed in her eyes when she saw Xiao Yu, although Xiao Yu's appearance has not yet grown, but it is enough to see the future appearance, she is definitely a complete beauty.
Concubine Yan looked at the two teenagers beside Xiao Yu again, a gleam appeared in her eyes, and she turned around and continued to talk to Flame Lingji about buying silk.
"Shopkeeper, those three at the door are your guests, right? You entertain first, and we'll see for ourselves. Concubine Yan said lightly.
"Okay, take your time, if you need anything, just say, Madame has already ordered, just take whatever you want." The shopkeeper said that after Concubine Yan and the three entered his shop, Widow Qing's guards came and asked him to entertain the three distinguished guests.
"Ma'am? But Mrs. Qing? Concubine Yan asked.
"Yes, it is Mrs. Qing, the villain is a shopkeeper under the Ba Chamber of Commerce, yesterday Mrs. was able to have no danger Thanks to Master Wang, if there are three distinguished customers in the small shop, even if you take it, this is a little bit of the Ba Chamber of Commerce." The shopkeeper said with a smile.
Yesterday's city gate matter has been publicized in Chengdu City, the envoy is Qin Wang teacher, the world-famous Mr. Ziyou, has a lot of opinions on the bandits in Shu County, and thinks that this is the dereliction of duty of the Shu County Shou Quyi, this matter has spread and has become a common conversation after dinner, the same Qin Wang Shi personally came to reward them Ba Chamber of Commerce Mrs. Qing This made the entire Ba Chamber of Commerce feel honored, the status of merchants in Qin is very low, and now Wang Shi personally rewarded it, which is tantamount to saying that the businessmen of their Ba Chamber of Commerce are different from other businessmen.
These shopkeepers of the Babbitt Chamber of Commerce will feel superior to their peers in the future.
"Let me ask the shopkeeper, who are those three children?" Concubine Yan asked.
Hearing Concubine Yan's words, Flame Lingji glanced at the three children at the door with her spare eyes, and a touch of surprise appeared in her eyes, although the three children looked no different, but if you look closely, you will find that the two teenagers have practiced martial arts, and they are also good hands, especially the girl in the middle, Flame Lingji can feel that its internal strength is quite deep, which is not at all what an eleven or twelve-year-old girl should have.
"In addition to buying some things, my small shop will also collect some goods, such as the fur of some beasts or medicinal herbs, and someone will come to send me some furs and rare medicinal materials every year today, these medicinal materials are unique to Shu Mountain, and some are grown on the cliffs, which are not collected by ordinary people, and we have become acquaintances.
In the past, adults brought children to recognize the way, and the three of them should have come in place of adults. The children in the mountains have long been in charge, and it should be that the family has something to delay, so they let the three children come over. The shopkeeper said disapprerovingly, this kind of thing has happened before, so he is not surprised.
"You go get busy first." Concubine Yan said.
The shopkeeper bowed to Concubine Yan and walked towards the three children, Concubine Yan and Flame Lingji glanced at each other, Shao Si Ming nodded at the two, and the three of them did not continue to look at it, turned their heads and left the small shop, and returned directly to the post house, Ziyou put down the book in his hand, looked at the three people who came back empty-handed and asked
"Aren't you going to buy something?"
"We found people from Shushan in the store of the Bab Chamber of Commerce." Concubine Yan said.
"Oh? Let's talk about it carefully. Ziyou said with a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes.
Flame Spirit Ji told the story of the three children she had just met at the store.
"People who can pick medicinal materials on the cliffs of Shu Mountain and practice martial arts have deep internal strength, if they are not Yu Yuan's guards, it would be a little too much to say." Ziyou touched his chin and said, "Ink crow! ”
"Sir." The crow appeared in the courtyard in an instant.
"You take five guards to secretly follow these three children, be careful, don't be discovered, if my guess is right, these three children should have adults to follow, follow them to find out the way to Shangshu Mountain." Ziyou said.
"No!" Ink Raven said.
Mo Crow went to another courtyard and left the post house with five guards, and Mo Crow and the people just went out when they saw Sima Chang walking with a middle-aged man.
"Ink Tube." Sima Chang saluted to the ink crow, although the ink crow was not an official of the Qin State, but he was Ziyou's coachman, the seven-rank official in front of the prime minister, not to mention the personal coachman of the ink crow.
"Lord Sima, what is this?" Mo Crow looked at Sima Su and asked.
"This is my father, and I brought my father to meet my lord." Sima Chang said.
Sima Su arched his hand at the ink crow.
"Master Sima, Lord Sima, Mr. is reading in the courtyard, I need to go out, please take a trip." The crow returned the salute.
"Then don't bother the ink pipe." Sima Chang said.
Mo Crow left the post station with people, and Sima Su looked at the back of Mo Crow leaving
"It seems that Master Wang is already preparing to make a move against Shu County, so it's not who is the first."
"I hope it won't be our Sima family." Sima Chang said.
Sima Chang took Sima Su to the courtyard, and saluted after seeing Ziyou
"My lord, this is my father."
"Sima Su visits Wang Shi." Sima Su saluted and said.
"Master Sima doesn't have to be polite, please take a seat." Ziyou said.
After Sima Su and Sima Chang took their seats, Ziyou put down the bamboo slip and said to Sima Su
"I like the bamboo slips that the Sima family master gave me, and the things in it are exactly what I need, thank you Sima family master."
"This is what I should do, it can be useful to Master Wang, this time, there is no other meaning, just thank you for letting my dog go home to visit, to be honest, I miss him every day." Sima Su said.
"No thanks, it's just a convenient matter, what does the Sima family master think about tomorrow's Chamber of Commerce Alliance?" Ziyou looked at Sima Su and asked.
Sima Su and Sima Chang's hearts sank, they knew that the opportunity had come.
"Although the Sima family did not set up a chamber of commerce, but also has a caravan, has been hanging under the banner of the Bashi Chamber of Commerce, following them to do business, so I also know the matter of the Chamber of Commerce Alliance, the two counties of Bashu are rich in products, but there are many caravans, in order to prevent internal friction, led by Mrs. Qing and the large and small chambers of commerce in the two counties of Bashu together to establish this Bashu Chamber of Commerce Alliance, one is to use the Chamber of Commerce Alliance to let everyone do transactions, on the other hand, it is also to redivide the business routes, materials, etc. of Shu County to prevent disorderly competition.
In general, this is a good thing, after the alliance from the Chamber of Commerce, the big chamber of commerce has less unnecessary competition, and the small chamber of commerce also has hope of survival, which was a very good thing before, but over the years, the resurgence of the business bandits has made some caravans suffer, although there is no problem in general, but in the long run, the caravans of Shu County may no longer dare to go out. Sima Su said with a sigh.
Ziyou glanced at Sima Su, and had some appreciation in his heart, he was worthy of being the head of the family, he asked about the Chamber of Commerce, and he was brought to the trouble by Sima Su.
"I have already told the county guard of Quyi about the banditry, this is a matter that has endangered the people of Shu County for many years, and the people of Shu County will never be at peace, what does the head of the Sima family think about the banditry?" Ziyou said with a smile.
Hearing Ziyou ask, Sima Su didn't know how to answer for a while. Looking at Sima Su's hesitant face, Ziyou spread out the bamboo slip in his hand, which was the last record of the Shu royal family, King Qin Zhaoxiang sent Sima to Zhu Shu Hou Xuan, and named his son Juan as the Shu Marquis. The Shu people buried the Marquis of Shu outside Guo. King Zhaoxiang of Qin heard that the Marquis of Shu died unjustly without guilt, so that the funeral was buried in Guonei. The Shu people set up a shrine for the Marquis of Shu. King Qin Zhaoxiang suspected that the Marquis of Shu rebelled, punished him, removed the Shu State, and established Shu County.
Sima Su's expression stabilized after seeing the bamboo slips, and he arched his hand to Ziyou and said
"My lord, the bandits in Shu County are not outside, but inside, I can assert that there are definitely complices in Chengdu City who rebelled against Shushan."
"How do you know?" Ziyou looked at Sima Su and asked curiously.
"The three rebellions in Shu were all caused by the ancestor Sima Coo, and the last time the ancestor entered the palace of the king of Shu and killed most of the royal family, but one of them was missing, the prince of Shu. The ancestors sent people to look around, and finally found that the prince of Shu was sent to Shushan with a part of the Shu royal family by his henchmen, and then there was a large army to besiege Shushan.
Shushan faced the siege of the army, even with the protection of the Shushan Mountain Protection Array, it was only a matter of time before it was breached, so he sent people to make peace with the ancestors. Shu has rebelled many times, and King Zhaoxiang has ordered that it must be completely resolved, and the root of the rebellion is in the Shu royal family, so the request put forward by the ancestors is to hand over the Shu royal family, otherwise there will be no grass in Shu Mountain.
Shushan Yuyuan and the Shu royal family have a deep relationship, unwilling to hand over the prince of Shu, hoping to leave him to sacrifice blood for the Shu royal family, neither side is willing to retreat, just when the war is about to start, Zhang Yi, the son of the prime minister at that time, came to Shu County with the order of the king of Qin, and took over the negotiation from the hands of the ancestors.
I don't know why, Zhang Zi signed an alliance with the great elder of Shushan Yuyuan, and the Shu royal family never came out of Shushan, gave up the restoration of the country, and came out of seclusion, and the army of Qin also gave up besieging Shushan, and since then there has been no rebellion in Shu, and later Shushan has bandits.
Shushan bandits are two kinds of people, at the beginning of Shushan bandits refer to Shushan Yuyuan, Shushan Yuyuan lives on Shushan, mainly relying on the worship of the ancient Shu country, the ancient Shu country was destroyed, the king of Qin canonized the marquis of Shu, no longer worship Shushan Yuyuan, because Shushan Yuyuan because of life and the Shu royal family, robbed the road in Shudao, they just intercepted the army's food.
Later, the army besieged Shushan again, killing hundreds of Yu Yuan's guards who pretended to be mountain bandits, and at the suggestion of Zhang Zi, the ancestors gave Yu Yuan seeds, farming tools and techniques, which made the bandits disappear.
After that, the bandits are the bandits after the destruction of the Shu royal family, most of these bandits are the people of Shu, because the king of Shu swears, some people regard themselves as Shu people, refuse to return to Qin, and flee to Shu Mountain, which leads to continuous banditry,
After that, the ancestor relied on the contact information left by Zhang Zi at the beginning to contact Yu Yuan's guards and exterminate most of the bandits. Later, relying on the governance of the ancestors, Zhang Ruo, and Li Taishou for three generations, Shu County was completely stabilized, and the bandits in Shushan gradually stopped, but for some reason bandits have become rampant again in recent years.
The siege of the army was fruitless, and everyone who could know the movement of the army knew that there was a traitor within Shu County, but this traitor had been investigated by the county guards for generations, but they were all fruitless, and there was no evidence. Sima Su said.
"I didn't expect that there is such a history, and the people who can inform the movement of the mountain bandit army in time are either the county guard or the army." Ziyou looked at Sima Su and said, the army has always been in the hands of the Sima family, and the county guard is assigned by the King of Qin, and there is no doubt about loyalty, and he is not a native of Shu County, so the suspicion is very small.
"Why do you want to humiliate my Sima family!? My Sima family is an authentic old Qin people, the ancestors followed King Huiwen and King Zhaoxiang to fight in the south and north, destroy Bashu, quell the rebellion, and attack the Chu State, and the ancestor followed Wu Anjun Baiqi, after 72 battles of all sizes, I don't know how much blood has flowed for the Qin State, and no matter how much my Sima family declines, it is impossible to become a raccoon dog with the mountain bandits. Sima Su immediately stood up and said angrily.
"The head of the Sima family is too worried, I don't suspect the Sima family, the Sima family's loyalty to the Qin State can be learned, no one dares to doubt it, what I am talking about is other people, there are not only people from the Sima family in the county guard and the army, but also other people." Ziyou stood up and saluted and said.
Seeing his father's sudden anger, Sima Chang was already stunned, and when he saw Ziyou admit his mistake, he hurriedly signaled Sima Su with his eyes, and accepted it when he saw it.
"My lord, forgive me, I am offended, the Sima family has the gift of the King of Qin to have today, because of the matter of the father, the Sima family has been away from the court of the Qin State since then, but we did not hate the country on this, it was the father who chose to die with Wu Anjun, this is the father's own choice." Sima Su said with a sigh.
"Oh? Didn't King Zhaoxiang kill Wu Anjun and Ling Zun at the beginning? Ziyou asked curiously, although the death of Wu Anjun was full of mysteries, but the death of the deputy general Sima Jin was very clear, but it was given death by suspicion.
This is just an outsider's opinion, when Wu Anjun and his father killed 400,000 soldiers of the Zhao army, they were already full of resentment and were hated by the people of the world, and there were countless people in the rivers and lakes who wanted to assassinate Wu Anjun and his father, and even his family was implicated at the beginning.
Later, Fan Sui caused King Zhaoxiang to suspect Wu Anjun's rebellion, and the Six Kingdoms also spread the news of Wu Anjun's rebellion in order to get rid of Wu Anjun, but how eloquent King Zhaoxiang was, Wu Anjun was already old, and the people in the rivers and lakes continued to assassinate, and King Zhaoxiang wanted to take back the military power, so there was a matter of giving death.
The letter sent by the ancestor clearly said that he and Wu Anjun entered the palace of Qin together, Wu Anjun inhaled the secret medicine, and his whole body strength was suppressed and he fell into a coma, and the father was the same, and when they woke up again, they were already on the way to Du You, and there was a letter from King Zhaoxiang in the car, which read: Wu Anjun Bai Qi and the deputy general Sima Jin were given to die in Du You.
Later, on the way back to Du You, as rumored in the rivers and lakes, the six elders of the farmer family used the twenty-four large arrays of the farmer's land to besiege and kill Wu Anjun, but are they also worthy? A group of people from the rivers and lakes, Wu Anjun killed five people, and finally in order to completely block the mouths of the people in the world and exchange stability for the Bai family and the Sima family, Wu Anjun faked his death again, and his father also followed the fake death.
Later, Wu Anjun and his late father returned to Du Post, so they wrote this letter to explain the cause and effect, and later my eldest brother and I went to Du Post to visit Wu Anjun and my late father. Two years after we came back, I don't know what the reason was that Wu Anjun and his father killed themselves, and the letter that came back was only one sentence, full of resentment, 400,000 resentful spirits, and now they are consoling the resentful spirits with their deaths. Sima Su said with a sigh.
"I see, I really didn't expect there to be such a secret, back to the topic, who do you think the traitor in the city might be?" Ziyou asked.
I was in the hospital all day today, and after the examination, I said that I had a nervous breakdown, and told me to rest well, not to be so stressed, etc., and prescribed me some medicine.
Ay. It's really a house leak that happened to rain overnight.,The update will always be updated.,I'll do my best every day.,But that's it for today.。
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