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Chapter 726

Wanzhou.

Li Xia was sitting in the post house, reading a book in his hand, while listening to the report of the situation by the spies from the Public Opinion Department.

"On that day, after we made inquiries around Jiangyuan, we returned to Qujiang Lane and gathered at the stronghold to discuss matters. We were just surrounded by people from Jiangling Mansion, and all the foreigners in the vicinity were arrested. All 27 members of the Public Opinion Department were captured..."

Li Xia closed the book in his hand, his eyes became serious, and he said, "Where's Jiang Fan?"

"Sishi Jiang and I have two brothers. They hid in the home of Xuezheng Wang Yisun in Jiangling Mansion. They lied to Wang Yisun that he was a merchant from other places. He was persecuted by Qin Jiushao and asked him to protect him. Wang Yisun believed him and hid Jiang Sishi at home. .”

"Why didn't Jiang Fan withdraw first?"

"The envoy said that Qin Jiushao has only been in Jiangling for two months. The officials and the people hate him for being greedy and violent. They want to stay and see if they can use this to deal with him. I beg the king of the county to give him another chance."

Li Xia said: "Understood, you go to rest first, and tomorrow I will send someone to follow you to Jiangling."

What he held in his hand was "Nine Chapters of the Book of Numbers", which looked like a math book.

But mathematics is only one of the chapters. Dayan, Tianshi, Tianyu, Surveying, Taxation, Money and Valley, Construction, Army, and Marketplace, Qin Jiushao also prefaced his ten-year military career.

This guy seems to be just a master of arithmetic, but in fact, when he was a general, he was better than most generals in the world, and when he was a strategist, he was better than most of the strategists in the world.

Only sending Jiang Fan over, really underestimated him...

~~
After the spy left, Li Xia thought about it and asked the shogunate officials to come and discuss.

He didn't shy away from this failure, saying: "The man I sent to Jiangling to destroy the counterfeit certificates was taken away by Qin Jiushao..."

Li Ye was not surprised, and snorted heavily.

"The old man has already said that this is a temporary solution. It is to prevent Song Guo from forging coupons in Jiangling Mansion. Song Guo can still forge coupons in Jiangning, Lin'an and other places and send people to find them In the past?! Anti-counterfeiting is fundamental!"

"What Lord Jingzhai said is true."

"But the county king won't listen!" Li Ye said: "If there are criminals who forge in the land under his rule, they should be swept away with the force of thunder. However, in the land of Jinghu, the county king has no foundation, so he rashly sends people there, why not? fall?"

"Yes, if you don't listen to the old man's words, you will suffer in front of your eyes."

Just as Li Ye calmed down, he stroked his beard and pondered for a moment before making a suggestion.

"Send the merchants to Jiangling Mansion again to redeem the people."

"Back by redemption?" Yan Yunyun was very surprised.

Li Xia understood the meaning of Li Ye's words.

This time, it is impossible to continue to extend its hand to Jiangling like when it took Chongqing.

Chongqing was originally under the rule of Li Xia, and he was famous for dealing with Ma Qian at that time.Jiangling was different. If Li Xia took care of Jiangling's affairs and didn't use force, the Jinghu officials would definitely ignore him.

If force is used, it is equivalent to going to war with Song Ting.A small group of people were sent over, but Qin Jiushao had already taken them away.

And if you send a large force... without a navy, you can't fight.

In western Sichuan, Li Xia was able to defeat Ma Qian's infantry one by one with a small number of cavalry.Conversely, under the terrain like Jiangling, Song Ting's navy could beat Li Xia to the point where he couldn't find the north.

I had no intention of going to war.

On the surface, Jiangling Mansion cannot be ordered to release people in the name of the county king, but the person secretly sent was captured again, and there is no plan to use troops, so it is indeed the safest way to redeem him.

"According to what Lord Jingzhai said." Li Xia said to Yan Yunyun: "Go and redeem our people first."

"But, can the Jiangling Mansion agree?"

~~
"Hahaha! Well, I promise you all!"

In Jiangyuan, Qin Jiushao casually picked up a bunch of copper coins, looked at them, threw them back into the box, and said, "Go back and tell the person in charge behind you, if you dare to send someone to steal chickens and dogs, I'm afraid you will lose everything. By the way, you hide I also accept the firearms and ordnance outside the city, haha..."

He waved his hand, and ordered his men to release the captives, escort them to the boat, and return to Chongqing Mansion with the merchant who came to redeem them.

After finishing these, Qin Jiushao lay down on the couch and put on a fox fur, quite comfortable.

Unfortunately, it didn't take long for Yu Desheng to come and make noise again.

"How could you let go of those details?!"

"Mr. Yu is also an aide of the Pingzhang Duke's mansion, so he should be able to figure it out."

"I can't figure it out!"

Only then did Qin Jiushao patiently explain: "Ping Zhanggong doesn't intend to force Li Ni to rebel now, so what's the use of killing a few of him? I was ordered to come here because Li Ni raised money in private."

"So what if Li Ni sends someone again?!"

"This is Jiangling Mansion. What if we hide in the high walls and heavy guards of the strong city, and then send people over? Unless Li Ni personally leads [-] sailors to the south, what can I do? Come and catch one."

"Then there is no reason to catch and release!"

"Why is it 'released'? It's 'redemption', my Mr. Yu..."

Yu Desheng was furious, and shouted: "You see that Qian's eyes are so open!"

"Oh, why doesn't Mr. Yu understand?"

Qin Jiushao casually picked up the paper on the side of the case and shook it, then said: "Did you see it? After solving the anti-counterfeiting number behind it, I can run on the Sichuan-Shaanxi bond, that's enough. So Li Ni jumped the wall in a hurry and sent someone to kill me. Can’t kill me, ha, that’s it.”

"Can you solve it?"

"Come on, come on." Qin Jiushao said: "Li Ni's subordinates have masters in mathematics, who are really good, but not as good as me; Li Ni's subordinates have people who are smart in the market, who have some methods, but not as good as me; Li Ni's subordinates also have some Espionage is not as good as me."

As far as Qin Jiushao is concerned, when he came to Jiangling, with Jiangnan's financial and material resources and his own talents, he could slowly destroy the Sichuan-Shanxi currency, it's as simple as that.

He is better than Jia Sidao, the only difference is that he does not have a good sister.

~~
Jiang Fan no longer dared to inquire about Jiang Yuan. After being sheltered by Wang Yisun, he only dared to hide in a private house in Jiangling Mansion...

"Commander, the county king asks you, are you really confident to deal with Qin Jiushao? If you are not sure, you can withdraw first, and he will personally arrange it."

"I'm sure, can you promise to give me another chance?"

"Since that's the case, this is the letter from Secretary Yan, and there are still a few boxes of goods to look at..."

Jiang Fan read the letter first, and then opened the big box to take a look, only to see that it was full of Huizi and Guanzi.

~~
Lin'an, a dwelling near Zhongwazi.

Lu Xiaoyou and Wang Cui sat in the secret room for a long time before seeing Lu Shulao come back.

"Xiuhuan is gone."

After Lushu Lao entered the door, he spoke directly.

"At that time, Jia Sidao was the first to arrive at the Princess Mansion. Later, someone saw several maids in the Princess Mansion, all of whom were taken back to the Jia Mansion. The rest of the servants were given grace and were sent back to their hometowns..."

Wang Cui became excited and asked, "Then Xiuhuan is in Jia's residence?!"

"No, the person the old man asked is a high-ranking official of the Song Dynasty. He also had contacts with Jia Sidao. He went to Jia's residence to inquire, but no one had seen Xiuhuan."

"Where did she go?"

"I don't know, let the old man check again."

Lu Xiaoyou was ordered to come here mainly to be in charge of killing people, how to investigate the matter is still in charge of Guilu Shu Lao.But he remembered Li Xia's instructions, so he asked, "What about the other clue? Can the princess use the medicine?"

"Yes!" Wang Cui said urgently: "There must be something wrong with the medicine, Xiuhuan won't talk nonsense..."

"You girl, you are very noisy." Lu Shu shook his head, and said slowly: "You said that the doctor who gave the princess medicine was Xiao Shiyan, right? This person fell to his death not long ago."

"Fell to death?!"

"When I went out, I stepped on the air, rolled down the steps and fell to my death."

"This……"

"Right now, no one in Lin'an says that the princess was killed. They all say that she died of illness. The clues are all broken." Lu Shu said: "I speculated with that senior official. only……"

"Jia Sidao? Ren Mei was also killed by him, it really was him!"

Wang Cui shouted and rushed out of the house.

Lu Xiaoyou grabbed her and said, "Don't worry, you haven't found out yet. By the way, did Jia Sidao reply to the county king?"

"No." Lu Shu said: "He is not in Lin'an recently, he returned to his hometown to worship his ancestors."

"Returning to your hometown to worship your ancestors?" Lu Xiaoyou was quite surprised, "When did you leave?"

"It was probably two days before the imperial doctor Xiao Shiyan died."

"Let's go to Taizhou too." Wang Cui said, "Jia Sidao must be the real murderer. It just so happens that he is not in Lin'an, so let's go to Taizhou and kill him!"

Lu Xiaoyou was a little embarrassed, and said: "Don't worry, let me think about it."

Li Xia never suspected that Jia Sidao was the murderer, Lu Xiaoyou could feel this, because Yan Yunyun tried to get rid of Jia Sidao at that time, but failed, but this trip did not make such preparations.

Lu Xiaoyou even felt that he wanted Jia Sidao to help seek justice for Princess Ruiguo.

But the matter of Lin'an is obviously uncertain, this time the task is to kill the murderer.

"Are you sure it's Jia Sidao?"

Lu Laoshu pointed at Wang Cui with his chin, and said, "The girl has already said that Ren Mei was killed by Jia Sidao. This should be true. Don't all the clues point to him?"

"But this... Jia Sidao is not easy to kill."

The old Lushu sneered slightly, and said: "Didn't he go to Tiantai County? It's a rare opportunity. It can't be that Jia Sidao predicted that you, a kid, would kill him, and made a special arrangement to lure you."

"That can't be done." Lu Xiaoyou scratched his head, "He definitely didn't go to Taizhou because of me."

Anyway, Lu Shulao was following Zhang Wulang's orders to work for the King of Pingling County.

If you ask him to check, he will check. He has tried his best to find out these things.

Wang Cui is considered half a sufferer, he doesn't bother to kill whoever he likes.

"In short, you two children can figure it out."

"It must be Jia Sidao, I want to kill him." Wang Cui said.

Lu Xiaoyou had no choice but to say: "Okay then, but you have to listen to my arrangement, and retreat immediately if you fail in one blow."

~~
November [-]th.

Taizhou, Tiantai County.

Tiantai Mountain, Tongbai Palace.

Jia Sidao is sitting by the Jinting Lake breathing and recuperating.

He has been recuperating in his hometown for more than ten days, and his complexion has improved a lot.

Although the person is not in the center, his control over the court is not diminished.

Living in the countryside, I calmed down and thought about it, and I became more aware of the state affairs in recent years.

In my mind, a lingering figure is Li Xia.

In the past, what Li Xia competed with was military exploits and tactics.

In terms of military merit, they have never fought against each other, and they have always used their abilities, one for the power of the center, and the other for the power of the town.

In terms of strategy, he lost to Li Xia twice, because he was not bold enough, and because he couldn't work together with the courtiers.

At present, the comparison is the ability to govern the local area.He leveled the important military and state affairs, and was in charge of the entire southeast of the Song Dynasty; Li Xia separated Sichuan and Shanxi, and established the government for self-government.

Govern separately, of course there will not be many intersections.

Sending Li Zengbo to Longxi, and Wang Cui to Shu, failed to get rid of Li Xia, and there were even fewer methods available.

The only intersection today is currency commerce.

This is the only way left to control Sichuan and Shaanxi.

Can't lose anymore.

If you lose again, it's really tantamount to letting Li Xia go, and the political situation in Sichuan and Shaanxi is clear, and the official style is clean...

Then they still have their own governance?

It must be curbed!

Therefore, Jia Sidao even endured his hatred for Qin Jiushao and promoted him again.

Compared with him, Qin Jiushao only lacked in knowing how to be promoted in the officialdom.

Such a person presides over the suppression of Sichuan-Shanxi currency and trade, and suppresses...

"who?!"

Suddenly he heard a loud roar from the guards, Jia Sidao turned his head, and saw more than a dozen men dressed as mountain people rushing towards this side, holding something in their hands, smoking...

"Protect Duke Pingzhang!"

"go!"

There were no more than eight guards nearby, they quickly protected Jia Sidao and rushed towards Tongbai Palace.

There are only a large number of guards in Tongbai Palace.

"boom!"

The stone railing in front has been shattered, and gravel and smoke are flying together.

"boom!"

"Go this way!"

The guards didn't dare to run forward, turned around quickly, hugged Jia Sidao and ran towards Jinting Lake again, and boarded the boat in a panic.

With a strong push, the boat left the shore of the lake and quickly rowed towards the center of the lake.

"boom!"

The rocks on the shore soared, and a killer threw a thunderbolt cannon at this side, but it fell silent when it entered the water.

"Release the crossbow!"

When the arrow came, Jia Sidao quickly got down on the ground.

There was also a killer's cry from the shore.

"Keep the cannon, let the crossbow go!"

"Don't jump!"

"kill him!"

Just hearing a "plop", a killer has jumped into the winter lake and swam over with all his might.

"All according to my arrangement! There is still a boat over there, chase after it..."

"..."

a mess.

"Damn, where did you go up the mountain?"

Only now did Jia Sidao recover from the chaos of being attacked, and looked to the north.

Those killers obviously had people who were good at commanding, so they took all the boats by the lake in a leisurely manner and rowed towards this side.

Jinting Lake is very big, even bigger than Tiantai County. At this time, Jia Sidao's large number of guards are still in the Tongbai Palace in the north, but he has only one small boat to row south.

There were only two guards left on the boat.

Things are getting worse.

Jia Sidao, however, seemed to have encountered something very interesting, and burst out laughing.

"Huh? What is this? Thunderbolt Cannon? Li Xia sent someone to kill me? Kill me? The dog jumped the wall in a hurry. Did you see it?! Li Ni sent someone to kill me, and that's all he can do! Ha..."

"Mr. Pingzhang, the assassins are forcing us over, what should we do?"

"What should I do? Let's escape to the other side of the lake first... Heh, I'm in a hurry to jump over the wall. An incompetent person only knows these little tricks..."

~~
On this day, the seventeen spies redeemed from Jiangling returned to Wanzhou in disgrace.

They are all the most elite group of people in the Public Opinion Department, and this is the first time in their lives that they have suffered such setbacks.

The merchant who was in charge of redeeming them walked into the hall and reported with a bitter face: "Jun Wang, that Qin Tong judge wants me to bring a few words."

"Say."

"He said...it's not very interesting to use dirty tricks all the time. Could it be that he doesn't dare to fight him openly..."

Hearing this, Li Xia only sneered slightly.

In the hall, Li Ye had already opened his mouth and shouted: "It is an upright contest, why should I be afraid of him?!"

"Jingzhai axiom, what is he doing?"

Li Xia said: "We have been waiting for more than half a year for the Song court to attack the Han River and the Yangtze River. We issued coupons to guide and govern Sichuan and Shu. How did we ever forge the Eighteenth Realm Meeting and the Jinyinguanzi? Did we Isn't it waiting for them to trade with us openly to see whose coins are more credible and reliable?
Who in the end sent people to assassinate repeatedly?Who in the end forged coupons and disrupted prices in Sichuan and Sichuan?We have done all the stealthy things, but tell us not to use any more indiscriminate methods?

I think Song Ting is used to infighting and indiscriminate behavior, and he just takes it for granted.Buying people's rations in the folk and issuing banknotes indiscriminately, and occupying people's land; planting, blaming, and spreading rumors in the court, poisoning the elderly who are nearly seventy years old, poisoning the young girl who is ignorant of the world, turning around, thinking that Qing Gao, do you think you are upright?He raises his hand and accuses others of being obscene..."

(End of this chapter)