Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 128 Shopping (Part [-])
Ye Chen watched the woman being repelled by Zhan Xiongwu, and thought that the woman's internal strength should not be as good as that of Yu Daoxiang and Si Luoyi. What is amazing is her ghostly body skills and the silk thread in her hand. The weirdness and the poisonous horror just now, especially the chilling scheming and calculations shown in the whole fighting process from the beginning of making the young man blind but not killing him.

Ye Chen's hearing is far superior to that of ordinary people. From the people in the middle of the three days, he knew that the monk who kidnapped him that day was Shangguan Bingyun, the Xiaoming King of Maitreya. He also heard the conversation between the woman and these people just now. If the woman If it is really Shangguan Bingyun, then her most frightening means are probably not the ones mentioned above, but the astonishing means of turning those Puzhaowang Temple monks into puppets like collective hypnosis.

"Maybe it's collective hypnosis." Ye Chen thought in his heart.Then his clothes were instantly smashed into pieces by the sword in Zhan Xiongwu's hand, and he was grabbed naked by Zhan Xiongwu, and jumped down from the steep slope beside the road.Apparently, although Zhan Xiongwu didn't know why Ye Chen wasn't poisoned, he also saw the poison on Ye Chen's clothes.

The woman screamed coquettishly, turned into an afterimage, and rushed towards the two, but she was still a moment too late, watching Zhan Xiongwu fall into the river below the steep slope with Ye Chen in his arms.

The river was very fast, so the woman jumped into the river without any hesitation.

After half a stick of incense, Zhan Xiongwu and the woman with ugly faces emerged from the river a mile away almost at the same time. The distance between the two was three or four feet away, each took a sharp breath, and then dived into the water again.

In this way, the two drilled out three times in a row, getting farther and farther away from the place where they first entered the water.But the two were always together, and each had injuries.

"Smelly Niangmen, I don't care if you are the Xiaoming King taught by Maitreya, but it is not so easy for you to enter the water and still want to kill Lao Tzu. Isn't your agility very fast? You can still be so fast in the water if you have the ability !" Zhan Xiongwu spat out a mouthful of blood and cursed.

The woman said with a gloomy face, "Just let him go like this, let him be washed away by the river, and then cling to me, so you won't be afraid that he will drown in this river."

Zhan Xiongwu snorted coldly, and said, "You and I know very well in our hearts that Xiang Fu Bo will never drown. But as long as he is in this water today, you can't take him away, let alone now we don't know where he floated to. I went. So, I advise you to go ashore and leave."

The woman was silent for a while, looked deeply at Zhan Xiongwu and said: "One day, our Maitreya Church will let the Jianghuai gang do nothing."

As soon as the words fell, she jumped out of the water, stepped on the surface of the water, and shot at Zhan Xiongwu. Zhan Xiongwu's expression changed, and he quickly sank under the water.

The woman scolded a coward, and went ashore like a dragonfly.

Seeing this, Zhan Xiongwu breathed a sigh of relief, and didn't dare to delay. He swam downstream along the river for a full half a day, looking for Ye Chen, but he couldn't find Ye Chen until he couldn't hold on and got ashore.

Hu Zhengyi and Dou Shihai, the magistrate of Sizhou, were asked to go to Beijing immediately to meet the emperor's will. Although it took eight hundred miles to expedite, it would take at least three days to reach Sizhou.But these three days were enough for Hu Zhengyi and Wang Xin to do a lot of things.

Hu Zheng sent people to escort the big housekeeper of Chuzhou's big grain gentry to Chuzhou overnight, and handed it over to Wang Xin at the same time.He personally led people to interrogate the big housekeeper of Sizhou Wang's family in the cellar of Puzhaowang Temple.

Sizhou Daliangshen Wang's housekeeper did not survive the ten tortures in Kaifeng Mansion, and confessed all of them.It's just that he participated in the hoarding of food throughout the whole process, and he also knew that the magistrate was behind the matter, but he didn't have direct evidence that Dou Shihai, the prefect of Sizhou, was involved in this matter.

Naturally, Dou Shihai would not be idle, and he sent someone overnight to arrest Wang Hongtao in the magistrate's prison in the name of Wang Hongtao hoarding food without permission.

The people sent by Hu Zhengyi went to the Wang's house for nothing, and then he personally rushed to the magistrate's office and Dou Shihai's dignitaries, only to be told that Wang Hongtao committed suicide in prison in fear of crime.In a fit of rage, Hu Zhengyi led people to surround Wang's house and searched extensively. As a result, an account book was found in a secret compartment in Wang Hongtao's bedroom.

In the backyard of the magistrate's yamen, Dou Shihai was anxious and silent, regretting his negligence and not sending someone to search the Wang's house, when Li Zenglei, the governor of Sizhou, came with Zaoli who was observing the yamen.The relationship between the prefects and the general judges has always been tense, because the general judges are responsible for supervising the prefects. Although this is only the responsibility of the general judges, it has also created a gap between the prefects and the general judges.Of course, there are exceptions, such as Chuzhou, the magistrate and the judge are the same.

Seeing that the verdict was coming, Dou Shihai's heart skipped a beat and sank.

Dou Shihai hurriedly got up pretending to be calm and said: "Li Tongpan, why did you come to the Yamen and why didn't anyone tell you? Come, come, show Li Tongpan a seat."

Li Tongpan saluted him with a straight face: "I will see the magistrate, I have business to do, so I won't sit down."

Dou Shihai was stunned, and asked, "What business?"

Chen Tongpan said expressionlessly: "Master Hu of the Kaifeng Mansion held the imperial envoy His Royal Highness King Wei's badge and gave orders to the subordinate officials, so the subordinate officials are ordered by the imperial envoy to ask the magistrate to come and ask questions!"

Dou Shihai changed his expression and said, "Li Tongju... what does this mean?"

Li Zenglei cupped his hands with a smile on his face and said: "The lower officials are also obeying orders, and I ask the magistrate to forgive me, it's best not to resist!"

Dou Shihai's face turned pale, and he was escorted away by the slaves brought by Li Zenglei.

Two days later, the emperor's decree came. After Hu Zhengyi consulted Zhao Dezhao, the king of Wei, he took all the materials and evidence of Sizhou's grain hoarding case, and directly escorted Dou Shihai to the capital to meet the emperor.

Hu Zhengyi sent people to escort Huang Dongming's big shopkeeper, a big grain gentry in Chuzhou, to Chuzhou and hand it over to Wang Xin.Wang Xin led people to start the trial.

Like the chief steward of the Wang family in Sizhou, this big shopkeeper of the Huang family did not survive the ten tortures in Kaifeng Mansion, and confessed all of them.Huang Dongming got the news and was about to take people to escape, but he was arrested and brought to justice by the Kaifeng mansion arrester who had sent people to watch the sentry in advance.

With Huang Dongming's arrest, the Chuzhou government finally couldn't sit still. Unlike Sizhou, almost the entire officialdom in Chuzhou participated, including the observers and judges.

And even Wang Xin didn't expect this situation, let alone Wei Wang Zhao Dezhao didn't think about it at all.

Speaking of Wei Wang Zhao Dezhao, these days are quite happy to miss Shu.

One day, Zhao Dezhao and Zheng Lan'er, the daughter of the prefect of Chuzhou, met by chance in the backyard under the arrangement of a caring person.

At that time, Zhao Dezhao saw Zheng Lan'er looking back lightly in the back garden. Zhao Dezhao's feet were like stepping on clouds, and his soul was floating, so he stayed there immediately.

What a beauty, the white plain is the lower skirt, and the moon is the upper jacket, which makes her look like a beautiful jade carving. The narrow-sleeved short jacket, the long skirt that stretches the floor, and the tight half-arm jacket with peacock patterns and brocade brocade. A bead is just on the protruding part of her delicate chest, and she wears a green unadorned shirt embroidered with partridges on her shoulders, as if she just came back from outside.

Her appearance is not the stunning beauty, but she has the charm of a Jiangnan woman, with slender and long moon eyebrows, a small nose, and thin red lips.Standing there pretty and alive, it seems to be a scroll on the bookshelf that still exudes the fragrance of ink.

And Zheng Lan'er looked back, and saw a handsome young man with hairpin in a bun, wearing a golden crown with jeweled pearls, and a light-white gown with silver trim, embroidered with a four-clawed python dragon, standing at the entrance of the hall with a smile on his pretty face. red.

Looking at each other for an instant, both men and women felt a sense of shock.

Under Zheng Chenggong's and his wife's intentional connivance, and Zhao Dezhao is also a bold master when it comes to matters between men and women.And Zheng Lan'er also fell in love with Zhao Dezhao.From then on, the couple secretly met in the backyard of Zheng's mansion regardless of the secular etiquette.After a few days, the effort has become gluey.

Therefore, when Zhao Dezhao saw the evidence Wang Xin got from Huang Dongming, he was surprised and at the same time felt embarrassed.Because the prefect of Sizhou colluded with the local big grain gentry Wang Hongtao to hoard grain, the evidence has been solid, and the purpose of killing everyone is achieved.And because of Zhao Pu and Zheng Lan'er, deep down in his heart, he really didn't want to deal with the officials of Chuzhou anymore.

However, under Chen Dongyang's persuasion, Zhao Dezhao finally hurried back to the imperial envoy ship with Chen Dongyang, Huangfutong, Li You and others.

Just when Zhao Dezhao was thinking about how to excuse the officials of Chuzhou and make the big thing into a small one.The accident finally happened.

First, Wang Xin sent people to lock him up on the official ship, and the closely guarded grain gentry Huang Dongming and his big shopkeeper both died inexplicably. Then Wang Xin took people to find the secret warehouse where the grain was hoarded. People are transported away.

At this time, all the witnesses and material evidences were lost. The confession obtained by Wang Xin alone was far from enough to make things happen. Moreover, under the schemes of Huangfutong and Li You behind the scenes, the prefect of Chuzhou finally couldn't bear it, and jointly signed all the officials of Chuzhou to submit a letter to the court. , impeached and sued Wang Xin of Kaifeng Mansion for being domineering in Chuzhou, oppressing the people, wantonly tortured and extorted confessions, and caused the death of a commoner and a ninth-rank official.

The imperial envoy Zhao Dezhao was furious and sent someone to escort Wang Xin to Kaifeng and hand it over to the imperial court.

So far, on the surface, the "battle" between Zhao Pu and Zhao Guangyi in Jianghuai seems to be a tie.

And at this time, 20 days have passed since Ye Chen left Kaifeng.

On this day, Zhao Dezhao, Chen Dongyang, Huangfutong, and Li You were meeting on the official ship to discuss the follow-up matters.

"The grain gentry and officials from all over the Jianghuai River were lured by profit, and they were more or less illegal. The arrest of Dou Shihai, the prefect of Sizhou, and the two major grain gentry of Sizhou and Chuzhou, must have shocked those people. Come on, now as long as Kaifeng does not prohibit price increases due to lack of grain, they will either have a way to transport their grain to the capital to make a fortune, or they will have to sell the grain to the government at a low price. There are probably very few people who still control the grain market and oppose the court Not much." Chen Dongyang said.

(End of this chapter)