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Chapter 879 A piece of wood

Dong Wenbing didn't think that the Eagle Guards could prevent smuggling between Henan and Guanzhong.

Because since Mongolia took the Central Plains, local governance has been very loose. It is not just today that princes, gentry, and powerful people from all over the world start doing business.

The problem now is that when Li Xia's rapid rise made Kublai Khan realize that the past loose, herding-like governance was no longer enough to deal with it, so he began to take power.

If Mongolia destroyed gold, it would be a process of changing from strict to lenient towards local tyrants, but now it is from lenient to strict.

I'm afraid this will not be easy, and it will inevitably cause some confusion.

In chaos, can smuggling really be banned?

But on the other hand, Dong Wenbing also understands that his Majesty the Great Yuan Emperor must start to take power, and there is no second choice.

When facing the Song and Jin kingdoms, the simpler the Mongolian system, the more beneficial it is, but once faced with an emerging force like Li Xia, Mongolia's simple and beneficial system is like a broken net that is about to lose its prey.

Can't make it up...

Dong Wenbing didn't dare to think deeply about this matter.

He didn't know how long it would take for the Eagle Guard to find out Guo Hongjing. Out of love for talents, he only gave a reminder today.

Guo Hongjing got this reminder, but felt very disappointed.

He knew that His Majesty and Zhongshu Sheng must want to repair water conservancy, irrigate acres of land, promote farming, and increase money and food.This will allow his elder brother and Prime Minister Zhang to go to Xixia to farm, and at the same time send him to Henan.

But in recent years, it seems that fighting Li Xia is the most important thing compared to repairing canals and farming.

Especially after the First World War in Hancheng, it was said everywhere that there were princes collaborating with the enemy and they must be strictly investigated, so everyone was in danger.

Guo Hongjing didn't bother to think about this anymore, and he didn't intend to give up Junzhou's water conservancy as Dong Wenbing said.

He simply rode out of the city alone.

There is an ancient canal outside the city of Junzhou, called the main canal, which has long been abandoned due to the war.

According to Guo Hongjing's plan, rebuilding the main canal can initially irrigate tens of thousands of hectares of fertile land and improve the water quality in the city.

Braving the wind and snow to come to Yuezhuang Village again, there is no trace of construction work along the main canal.

Yuezhuang Village is still the same as when we came here, and it seems to be even more dilapidated.

There was a thin figure walking slowly at the entrance of the village with a bundle of firewood on his back. Guo Hongjingce went right away and tried to call: "Uncle Yue?"

The old man carrying the firewood turned his head to look, smiled happily, and shouted: "Guo Xianggong is back!"

This is a local person he met when he came to investigate back then, and Guo Hongjing became acquainted with him, and said, "It's really Uncle Yue, why haven't you started repairing the main canal?"

"What?! It's windy and snowy outside, Mr. Guo, hurry up and go inside..."

In fact, the house is also leaking air.

Fortunately, throwing the firewood into the stove and burning it, Guo Hongjing and Yue Bo's family surrounded the stove, so it wasn't too cold.

"Guo Xianggong, take a look at this." Yue Bo tremblingly took out a big piece of wood, and said, "You wrote this, Guo Xianggong, and the little old man was always reluctant to burn it."

Having said that, he smirked a bit, laughing at himself for being stupid.He said again: "But the little old man forgot what you read, Mr. Guo, and you couldn't understand it."

Guo Hongjing looked at it, and said in a low voice: "Dayu's eternal merit lies in the water, and the new canal will benefit the people forever."

This is exactly the sentence he wrote with charcoal in high spirits when he was planning the canal.

"Why haven't you repaired this canal?" Guo Hongjing asked.

"I don't know, I don't know, maybe it will be repaired next year." Yue Bo laughed.

"Where's Brother Yue?"

"I have accepted the corvee, and I will come back today."

"If he doesn't cultivate, what is he going to do with corvee?"

"It is said that it is to build a big house for the official of Aulu." Yue Bo shook his head and sighed: "Oh, when it comes to this boss, he dares to borrow even a lamb..."

"Lamb Lee?"

Guo Hongjing frowned, knowing that if the family's harvest this year was not borrowed, they would not survive the year.

Like this, he can help one family, but how many families can he help?Only by building canals can we help hundreds of families at a time.

Turning his head to look into the house, he didn't see any belongings, not even a table for eating, but saw two buckets in the corner of the house.

Both buckets were broken, and the planks were tied up with vines.

"Uncle Yue." Guo Hongjing sighed and asked, "Do you still carry water to the river two miles away?"

"What's the use?" Yue Bo laughed, "Isn't it snowing now? I haven't fetched water for a while. It's hard to collect firewood in winter, and it's very cold at night when there is no firewood..."

Guo Hongjing was taken aback, and said with a wry smile: "Then next year to irrigate the fields, you will have to carry buckets of water from two miles away, right?"

"Does Guo Xianggong know that the canal can be built next year? If we can catch up, won't there be water to irrigate the fields in the next year? If the canal is built, the little old man can serve corvee, it will be happier than carrying water..."

Guo Hongjing listened, and when he saw the words "Xinqu will benefit the people forever" on the firewood in Uncle Yue's hand, he suddenly felt his nose ache.

He grabbed the firewood abruptly and threw it into the stove.

"Guo Xianggong? How did this happen!"

Yue Bo quickly grabbed the firewood and wiped it twice with his hands, not afraid of being cut by the thorns on it.

"Guo Xianggong's calligraphy, how can it be burned? A while ago, the scholar from the neighboring village said that this calligraphy is the best, a good hand..."

"It burns." Guo Hongjing said, "It's just a piece of wood."

He patted his knees dejectedly, and talked to himself again, whether he was talking about the firewood or himself.

"It's just a piece of wood."

……

suddenly.

"Someone ran away!"

"Take him!"

Shouts came from outside.

"Boss is back?" Yue Bo muttered to himself, still holding the firewood in his hand, he got up and pushed open the door.

Guo Hongjing, who was sitting by the stove, looked up, only to see Uncle Yue's eldest son had just walked to the gate of the courtyard, then turned and ran away.

But two people rushed out from near the house and chased after him.

Guo Hongjing didn't understand what was going on in this situation.

I saw the two people who were chasing Boss Yue wearing thick soap clothes with a piece of leather sewn on their shoulders, shouting while chasing.

"Take it!"

"To live..."

With this cry, one of them raised a crossbow.

"puff."

The eldest brother of the Yue family who was still running fell to the ground with blood on his back.

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"do you died?"

"Be careful that he counterattacks by feigning death."

After Liu Qiantong explained his next sentence, he turned around and walked towards the house again.

He followed Guo Hongjing today.

If it is said that there are officials in Henan collaborating with the enemy, Guo Hongjing is obviously the most suspicious one, especially if he went out of the city alone today, he must meet the secret work of the Military Intelligence Department.

Liu Qiantong led his men to follow him from a distance, and when he entered a private house, he quietly went over to eavesdrop.

After sticking it to the window, I heard that Guo Hongjing was going to burn something inside.

Immediately afterwards, I saw a man who was about to join the meeting turned around and fled when he spotted him.

It is basically confirmed that the collaborator is indeed Zhang's son-in-law and Li Xia's brother-in-law Guo Hongjing.

As for why this case was exposed by Zhang Erlang?It was nothing more than being discovered by Jiuba, and he was looking for an excuse.

As the commander said, only Jiu Ba is the most loyal in the Zhang family...

Thinking about this, Liu Qiantong slowly drew out his knife and walked towards Guo Hongjing.

"Who are you guys?! What are you doing?!"

Guo Hongjing also strode towards Liu Qiantong.

He has already recognized it, this is one of the guards who came to Dong Wenbing's side recently, and it is actually the rumored Eagle Guard.

"Do you still have Wang Fa in your eyes?!"

"Guo Hongjing, is that you? Collaborating with the enemy and treason."

"I've never……"

In the middle of Guo Hongjing's speech, he suddenly felt something swaying beside him.Then he saw Uncle Yue rushing towards Liu Qiantong with the firewood in his hand.

"puff."

With a soft sound, the old man fell to the ground.

The firewood also fell in the snow.

Another spy who controlled the Eagle Guard came out from behind, stepped on the corpse on the ground, pulled out the knife, turned around and walked into the house.

Guo Hongjing was frightened, and wanted to rush over to stop him, his back hurt, and Liu Qiantong pinned him to the ground.

The snow is cold, and his heart is even colder.

"no!"

Guo Hongjing hurriedly shouted: "Listen to me! I didn't collaborate with the enemy...he ran away with the help of a lamb...don't..."

"It doesn't matter if you don't recruit, I will take you to meet someone, and you will recruit sooner or later."

"not us!"

With the sound of "Gada", Liu Qiantong had twisted Guo Hongjing's jaw out of its socket, bound him and dragged him out.

There were several screams in the room, but they quickly calmed down.

Guo Hongjing tried his best to look back, but he could only see blood flowing across the floor of that room, and a weak hand fell down.

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"I told you not to startle the snake."

In the woods, Liu Luo, who was looking at the horses, frowned when he saw that Liu Qiantong had captured Guo Hongjing, and said, "Baihu will take this opportunity to send people to sneak into Tongguan."

"When I thought so? I happened to be caught by the spy of the Military Intelligence Department, so I had to take him down and hand him over to Baihu."

"Okay, let's go back to the city first, Mo was met by Dong Wenbing's people."

"I think Dong Wenbing is also suspected. They met this morning."

"You will know after the trial."

Soon, the other two spies also came this way, entered the woods, but whispered first: "There seems to be no sign that this family is from the Military Intelligence Department."

"Impossible, Guo Hongjing is absolutely suspicious."

"I see that there are many suspicious people, and Guo Hongjing is the best one to deal with."

"I think we should have a trial first before handing over the person to Baihu?"

"Trial."

The young man from Yanjing didn't know how to do things properly, and said again: "If you say you made a mistake, you can kill it with one knife."

"You are also an official, and you are still the son-in-law of the Zhang family. Have we passed today?"

"What are you afraid of, you are still the emperor's guard."

"Do you know? Li Xia also killed Zhang's son-in-law back then, and then replaced him with himself. I should follow suit..."

Soon, a torture began in the woods.

There was a lot of snow on the top of the tree, which pressed the branches and leaves very low, which made the woods a little dark.

Liu Luo leaned over and pressed Guo Hongjing's chin, put it back in place, and asked, "When did you collude with Li Xia?"

"puff."

Someone turned out from behind a big tree and stabbed Liu Qiantong's throat with a sword.

The blood dripped on Liu Luo's neck and side face, and it was a little warm. He looked up, and heard another "poof", and another person rushed out, smashing another spy of the Eagle Guard with a knife.

"..."

Soon, another torture began in the woods.

"The clothes are very conspicuous, do all Eagle Guards wear them like this?"

"You damned...uh...damn...don't ask me to recruit...ah! ah..."

"A few people from Junzhou Iron Smelting Workshop are missing, where are they?"

"Uh...in Junzhou City...there is a private salt shop in Fudong Lane..."

(End of this chapter)