People in the early Tang Dynasty: I compete with Wu Zhao for the throne

Chapter 615 The Bank Was Stolen
In the deep night, the sound of killing had already stopped, and Li Xuan slowly walked up to the highest point of the watchtower.

Inside the watchtower, the ground was full of traces of footsteps. Quivers were piled up on the back side. There were hundreds of them on several floors, and most of them were empty.

Standing at the window, looking up wishing, you can clearly see clusters of fires flickering on the edge of Taihu Lake on the west side.

Above the sky, where human eyes cannot see, a red-bellied eagle soars high in the sky.

No, within the sight of the red-bellied eagle, there is no entry about Wen Xu jumping up.

"Huh!" Li Xuan felt a little surprised, this guy, he won't be here tonight.

No, Li Xuan immediately denied her thoughts.

Although not all of Wushengheizu arrived tonight, at least over 600 people arrived before and after.

How could he be reconciled if Wen Xu didn't personally sit in command, and all the six hundred dead black soldiers died here.

So, he must come.

There is no sight of the red-bellied eagle, which means that he is hiding out of the sight of the red-bellied eagle. There is no such thing in the surrounding suburbs, so he can only hide in a certain building in the city of Hangzhou.

It's a pity that the ability to prompt entries can only be used within the line of sight, once out of sight, it will no longer work.

With a thought in Li Xuan's mind, the red-bellied eagle quickly flew westward, directly flying towards the direction where the lifeless black pawns were fleeing.

As long as he can keep an eye on those lifeless black soldiers, then Wen Xu will show up sooner or later.

With the cold wind blowing, Li Xuan turned and went downstairs.

As soon as he arrived downstairs, Li Xuan turned sideways to Sima Yuan Yi and said: "Send a message to all the families and clans to order them to send servants and guards into Tianmu Mountain to cooperate with the officers and soldiers to strangle lifeless black soldiers. Military exploits."

Yuan Yi was a little reluctant at first, but when he heard Li Xuan's words about military merit, his expression immediately became happy, and he cupped his hands and said, "I will obey the order."

Seeing Yuan Yi leaving quickly, Lai Sui stood behind Li Xuan, and said softly, "My lord is going to completely push the big families to the opposite of the King of the East China Sea!"

Li Xuan glanced at Sui from the side, nodded calmly, and said: "Brother Lai has a clear vision, Brother Yu did this, firstly, the major families are more familiar with Tianmu Mountain, and secondly, they also want to see, the major families are more familiar with Tianmu Mountain. How strong or weak, the third time I come, I just want to see who is working hard and who is not, so that we can see a clue of who is involved with the King of the East China Sea."

Looking at Li Xuan's brighter eyes, Lai Sui immediately understood that Li Xuan already had a whole set of plans in mind to identify the trusted aides of the Hangzhou family in the Middle East.

Now someone is going to be unlucky, more than once someone has used their life to prove Li Xuan's ingenuity and strategy, and now it is another time.

"27 Lang's methods are fierce, Brother Yu admires him." Lai Sui sincerely sighed.

If they can really distinguish the inside line of the king of the East China Sea, then they will not only be able to explain to the court, but also be appreciated by the empress.

At this moment, Yu Ze whispered behind Li Xuan: "My lord, the governor is here."

Li Xuan raised her head, and suddenly saw dozens of officials from the state government on the dark street on the north side, and the police officers hurried over with torches.

At the forefront of the escort, it was the governor of Hangzhou who came to devote himself to his work.

Li Xuan hurriedly went up to meet him, first cupped his hands and said: "Xuan has met the envoy."

"Nephew, you don't have to be polite. If there is no good nephew to strategize this time, I'm afraid it will be difficult to completely wipe out these rebels." Lai Jingye looked very excited. When he first came to Hangzhou, he can have such achievements. How could Lai Jingye be unhappy.

Li Xuan smiled lightly, shook her head calmly and said, "My nephew is just making a few remarks, but it's my uncle who really planned the strategy and took command."

"My nephew is polite, so I am ashamed to accept it as an uncle." Lai Jingye was very rude, because he really needed the credit.

Yuan Jiazuo was promoted to the governor of Yuezhou, Duan Baoxuan was promoted to Dali Temple minister and guest of the prince, and Zhang Wenguan was promoted to serve as a servant.

Although Lai Jingye is not envious, he still hopes to replicate this path and brighten the door.

Although his uncle Lai Heng is already a servant of the sect, he is not the third rank of Zhongshu's sect, and he is still one step away from the prime minister.

In particular, Lai Heng is now 67 years old.

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"Although everything is going well today, but for the sake of the mountain, we must not fall short. In the end, there will be a small number of people fleeing to the deep mountains. Uncle Shi will be a large dispatch soldier. Officials will go to the deep mountains to search for them. Rewards can also be issued, calculated in terms of money and military merit. , Completely wipe out the Wusheng black pawns, this way you can give an account to the center, and secondly, you can avoid being caught wrong and criticized." Li Xuan's words were particularly sincere.

"Nephew's words are reasonable." Lai Jingye nodded slightly in agreement, looked sideways at Sima Yuan Yi, and said in a deep voice, "Sima, I will entrust this matter to you."

"I will obey the order." Yuan Yi immediately cupped his hands, and at the same time glanced sideways at Li Xuan.

If what he said just now was just Li Xuan's personal order, now his order has been endorsed by the Hangzhou Governor's Office.

Li Xuan smiled, and asked again: "Tonight's slaughter is extremely prosperous, Uncle Shi sits in the Governor's Mansion, I don't know..."

Lai Jingye shook his head and said: "There is nothing wrong with the governor's mansion, but some thieves broke into the door and went the wrong way, and now they have all been murdered by the sword. The torch is just a false alarm."

Every city must have some rogues, and they would come out to take advantage of the fire when it happened last night, but unfortunately, last night was a trap for Wusheng black soldiers and Zhoushan pirates.

Those hooligans were beaten like rabbits, and they were all cleaned up.

Li Xuan suddenly felt something was wrong, raised her head to look at her dedication, and asked with a frown, "Uncle Shi, you said that someone threw more than a dozen torches into the governor's mansion, but nothing happened in the end?"

"It can't be regarded as nothing. There was indeed some movement at the time." Speaking of this, Lai Jingye also keenly sensed that something was wrong.

Someone wants to do something to the Governor's Mansion, and since he has this idea, it is impossible for that person to do nothing.

Li Xuan pressed the center of his eyebrows, thinking softly: "Torch, torch, the front yard, someone is attracting the attention of everyone in the mansion to the front yard... Uncle Shi, what is there in the back yard of the governor's mansion?"

"There's nothing in the backyard, the backyard of the Governor's Mansion. The family members are still on the way and haven't arrived yet. Apart from the residence, it's just..."

"Bank!" Li Xuan preemptively uttered a word, and in an instant, the expressions of Lai Jingye and everyone present couldn't help but change.

The next moment, Lai Jingye turned around quickly, and all the people present rushed towards the governor's mansion at the same time.

"Uncle Shi, immediately give an order to completely seal all the city gates of Hangzhou, without Uncle Shi's warrant, no city gate can be opened." After Li Xuan finished speaking, Lai Jingye slapped his forehead, and immediately said: "Look at me, I'm a little confused. "

Lai Jingye immediately stopped and turned around, looked at everyone and said: "Sima, you go to the central watchtower to command and command everything, Zhang Canjun, and immediately send an order to block the city gate. It is enough for Cao Canjun and Xu Butou to accompany me to the prefectural office."

"Here!" Without the slightest hesitation in the field, he immediately handed over the promise, and then quickly moved towards all parties.

The expressions on everyone's faces were very tense. If something happened to the state government bank, then all of them would be in bad luck.

At this time, Lai Sui stood behind Li Xuan and said softly, "Thank you, Lang 27."

Li Xuan smiled slightly and said, "My brother, you don't have to do this!"

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In the backyard of the Governor's Mansion, a group of arresters had already completely sealed off the entire backyard, and only a few people stood in front of the bank door on the side.

The six knife-wielding guards at the gate of the bank have all fallen to the ground and died at this moment, and the door of the bank was wide open.

Standing in front of Kumen, Lai Jingye only felt cold hands and feet.

At this moment, he didn't even dare to take a step forward, he didn't dare to step into the bank, and when he looked back, he saw the empty space inside.

Standing behind Lai Jingye, Li Xuan said softly: "Uncle Shi, Wusheng bandits attacked Hangzhou City. Apart from hindering the army's eastward march, I am afraid it is more for the money in the treasury. Thousands of people are hiding in the mountains. It’s okay, but after a long time, there will be an extreme shortage of food, water, clothes, and other necessities, and at this time, money will be needed.”

Lai Jingye nodded slightly, but his face was still very ugly.

Li Xuan said softly: "Uncle Shi, most of the Tianyin thieves are blocked outside the watchtower and the east gate, so the number of people who sneaked into the governor's mansion is definitely not many. Even if they can steal a certain amount of gold and silver, the number will definitely not be too much." big.

Especially tonight's battle is a pre-set trap by us, and he will have even less free time.

Uncle Shi, everything is still under control, as long as it is retrieved in time, it will be fine. "

Get it back in time, no problem.

Recovering from the thief is retrieving, and retrieving from other places is also retrieving.

If the number is really not much, it is not a bad idea to come to the house to fill it up yourself.

Hearing what Li Xuan said, Lai Jingye breathed a sigh of relief.

"Let's go, go first and see what's going on, and then think about how to find it." Li Xuan took the lead and walked into the bank with a calm expression, without any worry.

Compared with others, he could see more clearly that even if Wen Xu came to the bank and stole the bank, he must still be in Hangzhou now.

As long as he is still in the city, Ku Yin will definitely be able to find him.

In the empty silver vault, only a few were opened in the deepest part, and there was a box of copper coins in the box, as if someone had grabbed it, and there was nothing else.

Seeing this scene, everyone present breathed a sigh of relief.

"It seems that they didn't even have time to take away all the copper coins that were used to pay the salary, and the treasury silver that was sent to the household department should not be moved." Li Xuan's face was slightly relaxed at the same time.

The silver treasury of prefectural and county government offices is generally divided into two layers. The upper layer is used to distribute the salaries of officials, policemen, soldiers, and sergeants on weekdays. The lower underground layer is used to send tax money to the Ministry of Households every year , the latter is the big head, and it is even more terrible.

Cao Canjun, who was behind, immediately stepped forward and walked to the center of the silver vault. He lowered his body and did not know where to press it. A wooden board slid away, revealing two huge copper rings locked by a giant lock.

Ku Cao joined the army and quickly used the key to unlock the giant lock, moved the giant lock away, and then called two sergeants to come forward.

Two strong men with big arms and round waists held the two rings on the ground at the same time, and pulled them upwards vigorously. The next moment, a hole with a radius of one meter appeared in front of everyone's eyes.

Seeing the densely packed boxes below, everyone felt completely relaxed.

Although the salaries and salaries of Yangzhou officials for two months were robbed, but the tax money paid to the household department was not stolen, so their official hats were at least kept.

The two strong men immediately climbed down the ladder, and then opened the boxes one by one, and the silver inside was immediately revealed to everyone.

The silver light was shining, and everyone's eyes were rare, not greedy, but more fortunate.

"Now, the next thing to do is to recover the stolen salary." With Li Xuan's words, all the people present looked at him with piercing eyes.

(End of this chapter)