Lord Moyu was forced to open

Bianjing.

royal palace.

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty! There is news!"

Wang Huaien jogged all the way to Funing Palace early in the morning.

It's rare to take a break today and not have to go to court to get this shout.

have to! No need to sleep!

Who understands the pain of beating a worker?

Zhao Jun had no choice but to get up, wash up, sit on his seat and drink tea, and asked: "What is the news? That makes you so excited?"

Wang Huaien hurriedly said there: "Your Majesty, didn't you ask the secret guards to check those eight families before?

The secret guard found a clue! "

Zhao Jun stopped drinking tea and his expression became serious.

Putting down the tea cup, Zhao Jun asked: "What did you find out?"

Wang Huaien immediately replied:

"After you gave the order, Your Majesty, I immediately asked the secret guards to focus on the Eighth Family. It was nothing at first, but recently, for some reason, the Eighth Family's actions suddenly became louder, and all kinds of gold and silver were transferred frequently.

They seemed to be raising money, so that the Wang family accidentally found some of the supplies that had been robbed from that village on the market, and they hadn't cleared the source yet.

The secret guard used this thing to trace the Wang family.

Then following the line, the secret guards found out that they had received this batch of goods not long ago, just after the Xiongnu came out of customs.

Later, we followed the Wang family's guys who specialized in handling these goods, and found that they actually went to the grassland through the pass through the Qingshan Plateau close to the east of the river. "

"Aoyama Plateau?"

Zhao Jun immediately got up and came to the study room of Funing Palace. There was a northern border defense map hanging there. Zhao Jun looked along the entire border defense map and saw a plateau standing there in the east, west and south of the river.

There is exactly a blank area in the border area.

But there is a reason for this.

Since the highest altitude of the Qingshan Plateau is nearly 5,000 meters, and even on average it is close to 3,000 meters, Song people would suffer from altitude sickness as soon as they went there. Even the Huns could not avoid it, so the court did not pay much attention there. Attention only set up a small military fort with less than fifty people to watch.

Unexpectedly, the eight major families actually transported supplies to outside the customs through here?

But...it is the Qingshan Plateau with an average altitude of nearly three thousand meters. Not only pulling cargo up and down, but also how they overcome the altitude sickness on the Qingshan Plateau is a mystery!

Zhao Jun raised his question, and Wang Huaien immediately explained: "According to the investigation, the Eight Families seem to have developed a drug that can immunize against altitude sickness, so that their associates will not have that fatal reaction.

Moreover, their trade route is very secretive. Although it is also on the Qingshan Plateau, it is at the lowest point of altitude. As long as you are careful, there will be no accidents.

The secret guards are already investigating the doctor who provided them with that medicine, and it won't be long before they get news. "

Wang Huai'en knew his emperor well and knew that the emperor would be interested in this medicine, so he arranged for secret guards to investigate early.

As expected, Zhao Jun was very satisfied after hearing this, and then asked: "Then what is going on that has exposed the Eighth Families recently?"

Wang Huaien frowned and thought for a while, "I feel like they are preparing to escape."

"Escape!"

Zhao Jun's eyes narrowed, and he immediately understood something, and immediately said: "I'm afraid your actions may have given them clues, so I'll order you down immediately and ask the border officials to cooperate with you, so that we can't let them escape.

A few days ago, news came from Huo Qubing that he had begun to clean up the Xiongnu tribes in the entire grassland along the border.

When they come back from the grassland, I will escort the heads of the Eight Families to Beijing! "

"promise!"

Wang Huaien nodded and retreated, looking at the falling autumn leaves outside the window. Zhao Jun's eyes slowly narrowed.

"You killed thousands of my people, and now you want to run away when you realize something is wrong? What a beautiful dream you had!"

“Don’t even think about running away!”…

"Hurry up! The head of the family said we have to get to the foot of Qingshan Mountain before dark! Someone has been arranged to pick us up there, please work harder!"

Less than fifty miles away from Qingshan, a huge motorcade was slowly moving forward. The eight luxury carriages in the motorcade were unusually conspicuous.

Suddenly the curtain of a carriage was opened, and a young man in brocade clothes opened the curtain and stood on the shaft of the carriage, looking at the endless wilderness and said dissatisfiedly:

"It's been almost five days. How long will it take for us to reach the foot of Qingshan?"

The servant driving the car quickly comforted him: "Master, please go back and rest first. At most, we will be there before dark today."

But the young master shook his head: "I've been resting for so many days, and my bones are almost falling apart. Let me find a horse for me. I don't want to ride in the car anymore!"

"This……"

The servant hesitated.

However, the young master's eyes widened, and the servant hurriedly called for preparations.

After people went to prepare, the servant couldn't help but persuade: "Master, why do you want to go out to ride a horse in the wilderness and suffer? If you encounter a robber or something, I will block you with an arrow without saying a word." There is no place for it.”

When the young master heard this, he immediately slapped the man on the back of the head and cursed:

"You are cursing me, young master, right? Believe it or not, master, I will let you be buried here right now?!"

The servant hurriedly stopped talking. He knew that his young master was not joking. His young master had always had a hot temper. He usually acted like a noble man, but when he was angry, it was difficult for anyone to do anything.

Many servants did not survive the next day just because they offended the young master without knowing the consequences.

The young master's surname is Fan, and his name is Fan Qing. He is the second son of Fan Fa.

This time, in order to prevent their own families from being targeted by the court, each family sent their second sons to go to Nanyang via the grasslands.

As for the legitimate son of the family, he must keep it. If nothing happens, the legitimate son will inherit the family property. Besides, who knows if anything will happen on the way to Nanyang. Naturally, the legitimate son cannot be allowed to take such a risk.

The final result was naturally that this group of losers in the family who had no inheritance rights and only knew how to eat, drink and have fun were given away.

Fan Qing was very resistant to this. He was eating, drinking and having fun in Daliang City and was a waste, and his life was very comfortable.

It turned out to be good now, being sent to eat sand in the wilderness!

We will soon have to cross the Qingshan Plateau, which is said to be deserted for hundreds of miles.

How could he be willing?

However, it was not up to him to make the decision.

The biggest advantage of being a waste is that you are old and have little ability.

The consequence of this is that he has no ability or right to resist the arrangements at home.

In the end, he could only bid farewell to Xiaohong Xiaocui and Xiaohuang Xiaozi in Yihong Mansion with his mother's tears in his eyes, and followed the unlucky ones from the other eight families on the motorcade leading to the unknown.

But it had only been less than five days since the journey started, and he couldn't stand it anymore.

After staying in the carriage all day without seeing the sun, he had long been panicking, so he came out to take a breath and decided to get a horse for a run.

Before he could get on the horse, the curtain of another luxury carriage next to him was also lifted.

A tall, thin man with a sinister face walked out. This man was Wang Yong, the second son of the Wang family.

Unlike his father Wang Ku, this boy doesn't look like the Wang family at all. All the Wang family members are fat, but this boy is tall and thin, so he is not loved by Wang Ku. He is like an outsider in the Wang family.

As soon as Wang Yong came out, he saw Fan Qing waiting on the carriage next door. He was a little surprised and then said with a smile:

"Fan Qing, what's wrong? You can't sit still anymore?"

...(End of chapter)