The First Young Master of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 1011
While Xuan Shijing was busy cleaning up the mess left by Li Zhi in the government office, at this time, a team of about 300 people in Liangzhou was slowly moving forward. The team moved very slowly, probably because the boxes on the ox cart were too heavy.

The door curtain of the carriage walking in front was lifted, and Li Zhi poked his head out and asked, "Master Zhang, where are we now, and how long will it take for us to reach Jinzhou?"

"Your Highness, don't worry. We are still in Liangzhou. It will take five or six days to enter Jinzhou at our current speed." Zhang Xingcheng said while sitting on the wheel of the car.

"It's still five or six days away, it's really too late." Li Zhi sighed.

It has been more than ten days since he received the imperial decree in Minzhou, packed his things and set off for Jinzhou. After spending such a long time on the road, Li Zhi has become a little impatient.

"There is no way to do it. If we travel lightly, we would have already entered the territory of Jinzhou. We have too many things, so we can only walk slowly." Zhang Xingcheng said.

Li Zhi nodded when he heard the words, then put down the curtain of the carriage, and sat back in the carriage again.

Sitting in the carriage was Jin Wangfei.

"My lord, is it really okay for us to bring so many things? If the succeeding official of Minzhou finds something abnormal in the warehouse in the government office, he will write a note and report it to His Majesty, wouldn't it be?"

"This king is a prince after all." Li Zhi said: "He is the son of the royal father, who would risk offending this king to write a book for the little money in the warehouse, and what's more, Minzhou native Just barren, even if the king has been in Minzhou for three years, how much money can he save in these three years? It is already benevolent of the king to leave those copper coins in the treasury. If it were someone else, even the money would be accumulated in three years No more."

Li Zhi didn't know that after he left, the person who was transferred by His Majesty Li Er to Minzhou to temporarily take over Minzhou to resist Tuyuhun was Xuan Shijing.

If Li Zhi knew that Xuan Shijing was taking over, he would not dare to blatantly search for the money and run away, at least leave all the things in the caravan.

As for His Majesty Li Er who said at the banquet on the Mid-Autumn Festival that he would send people to Minzhou to investigate the caravan, Li Zhi had already made complete preparations, but now because of an imperial decree to transfer away from Minzhou, there is no such thing. It is useful, but this is also good, Li Zhi thought to himself, he got a lot of money for nothing, which is much better than relying on it in Minzhou. As for the investigation, let them investigate and leave two This little official is Li Zhi's scapegoat.

No matter what was found, as long as Li Zhi killed him and refused to admit it, then only those two petty officials would be unlucky. As for the life and death of those two, Li Zhi would not care.

Now Xuan Shijing is almost racing against time to deal with the accumulated affairs in Minzhou overnight. After all the troubles, it is already midnight. Someone from the army in the state will definitely come to ask for military pay. Li Zhi took care of all these things, so when Li Zhi left, it fell on Xuan Shijing. Nothing to do with it, but here in Minzhou, or the entire western part of the Tang Dynasty, each prefecture and county bordering Fanbang is different. It is necessary to guard against Tuyuhun, Tubo, and scattered ministries in the south.

The main problem now is that there is no money. Where can I get money in a short while?

Xuan Shijing was a little lost.

"Master Hou, it's late at night, what's the matter, let's think about it tomorrow." Qin Bingyue stood up and stretched her body, and said to Xuan Shijing.

"I can't sleep, you don't know, I went to the warehouse to check during the day, and even the copper coins in the warehouse were scraped out, but I couldn't make up a thousand coins, and the army in Minzhou has not paid the army for three months. People come to ask for money, and in a short time, where will I get the money? If you don't pay the army, if Tuyuhun comes and commits an attack, how will you fight this battle?" Xuan Shijing said with a helpless wry smile: "Now that the autumn harvest is over, Tuyuhun is eyeing the tiger, and in order to live a better winter, he may invade the Tang Dynasty at any time and enter the country to plunder."

Qin Bingyue had no choice but to hear the words.

"Master Hou, did His Royal Highness take away all the money in the treasury?" Qin Bingyue asked.

Xuan Shijing nodded: "It should be, even the things that our family's caravan lost in Minzhou are all gone. This King Jin really tricked me."

"King Jin brought so many things to Jinzhou to take office, I'm afraid he won't leave too fast." Qin Bingyue said: "Master Hou, why don't you send someone to stop King Jin, and then get the stolen goods."

Hearing this, Xuan Shijing's eyes lit up, what he said was very reasonable.

"Go and call Chang Le over here." Xuan Shijing also didn't care that it was midnight, some things needed to be raced against time.

Xuan Shijing waited in the hall for a while, and Chang Le followed Qin Bingyue in.

Xuan Shijing untied a jade pendant from his waist and threw it to Chang Le: "Go, find our chamber of commerce here in Minzhou City, and let the chamber of commerce fly pigeons to send letters to various places overnight to find the whereabouts of Jin Wang Li Zhi. Inform Gao Yuan, let Gao Yuan take the people in Qinling to rob Li Zhi's team, don't reveal your identity!"

"Yes!" Chang Le responded.

Chang Le took Xuan Shijing's token and left to find the chamber of commerce, while Xuan Shijing was standing in the hall with a sneer on his face.

"Master Hou, what do you want?" Qin Bingyue looked at Xuan Shijing.

"Robbery, robbery without revealing your identity." Xuan Shijing smiled and said, "Let Li Zhi suffer from being dumb. Li Zhi left Minzhou with so many things, so the speed of travel must be very slow. By now, he must be far away from Jinzhou." There is a long distance, as long as there is enough time, Li Zhi's team will be robbed on the way, and then hide in the Qinling with things, Li Zhi can only suffer from being dumb." Xuan Shijing explained: "And My papers on impeaching Li Zhi have been rushed to Chang'an four hundred miles away. After reading it, His Majesty will definitely order Li Zhi to return the money in the Minzhou government office and the goods of our caravan to us. At this time, Li Zhishang Where can we find something to exchange for us, and don’t we have to suffer from being dumb?”

After listening to Xuan Shijing's words, Qin Bingyue suddenly felt that her master Hou's heart was really dark, he cheated people, and made people speechless. At that time, Li Zhi said that the things were not in her hands , was snatched away, who would believe it, His Majesty would only think that Li Zhi had something wrong with it, and he would only distrust Li Zhi even more.

(End of this chapter)