Chapter 110: Fighting the cattle across the mountain

At this time, a guard reported: "Little Prince, Liu Transportation Envoy has brought Li Qing'an."

"Ah! Let them in."

After a moment, Liu Changyun led Li Qing'an into the room. Li Qi smiled and greeted him, "General Li, are you okay?"

Li Qingan smiled and gave a gift, "I met many old friends in Jiangnan these days, which makes people feel that the world is actually very small."

"Why, General Li met someone from another capital?"

"It's nothing. I just met Cui Ping, the former Minister of State in Xuyi County, Sizhou, so I felt a little touched."

"Come on! Come on! General Li, please sit down."

Li Qiu had already ordered a full table of dishes. He personally poured a glass of wine for Li Qing'an, then raised his glass and smiled, "This glass of wine is for us to meet in Yangzhou, everyone will drink it."

"Drink! Drink!" Several people raised their glasses and drank them all.

After eating a few bites of the dishes, Li Qiu asked with concern: "General Li, did you hear that you were assassinated when you first came to Yangzhou and were injured?"

Li Qingan picked up the wine glass and said, "It's not a matter of injury to get rid of some skin, but I think that assassination was very strange."

"What a strange method?"

"There was no sign before coming, but after the incident, it disappeared without a trace. It has been almost a month since then, and nothing has happened again, so I just wanted to have a dream."

"Li Qiu drank the wine in the glass and said, "General Li, I might as well tell you the truth. We have found out who this person who assassinated you."

"Who is it?"

Li Qiu did not answer, he smiled slightly and asked back, "Can General Li tell me, did you catch Du Bosheng?"

The atmosphere at the dining table suddenly became tense, and even Yan Kai did not expect that Li Qiu asked so frankly and directly. He looked at Liu Changyun, and his face showed a hint of embarrassment.

Li Qingan held the wine glass and pondered without saying a word. After a while, he sighed softly, "The prince is indeed a powerful person!"

Li Qiu was excited and asked hurriedly: "Did General Li really catch him?"

Li Qing'an shook his head and said, "Since I have said this, I don't have to hide it. Yes, I have received information. Du Bosheng is probably hiding in Qua County, Runzhou. I went south day and night. When I arrived at Qua County, I was still one step late. Du Bosheng had already escaped first. His uncle Mei Fanghe denied that he had hidden Du Bosheng, which is extremely regrettable."

Li Qiu looked at Li Qing'an for a while, and couldn't help but become very depressed. This time, Du Bosheng ran away, and it would be difficult to catch him again.

At this time, Yan Kai suddenly asked, "Since Du Bosheng ran away in a hurry, his property documents should still be there?"

"Yes! General Li, can you get the property and documents of the Du family?"

When Li Qiu left, he received his father's repeated advice, that no matter how he regained his own batch of gold, or the records of private salt trafficking, he would also destroy it. These two major events made King Qing Li Cong unable to sleep or eat.

He looked at Li Qing'an with hope, but Li Qing'an shook his head, "Since I haven't found Du Bosheng, I have no evidence that the Mei family's wealth is from the Du family. Don't mention it, I won a great victory in Liangshan, but I returned in Qu'a County."

Speaking of this, he took out a list of books and handed them to Li Qiu and said, "I have handed over some of the money intercepted by Liangshan to the Yangzhou government. This is a list of books. Please check it out."

Li Qiu quickly took it over and looked carefully. It was written in all kinds of gold, silver and jewelry, and it was very vague. He couldn't tell the words of 100,000 taels of gold. He wanted to ask anxiously, but he couldn't say this, so he could only sigh and said, "Thank you, General Li, for confessing."

Li Qingan smiled and asked, "The person who assassinated me is"

"We infer that it may be related to the Yangzhou Grand Governor's Office."

In Chang'an, a carriage was slowly parked next to Li Linfu's mansion. Two servants helped Li Cong, the fat King of Qing, walk down from the carriage. Li Linfu, who had already been waiting on the steps, came down.

"Your Highness comes here in person, I can't afford it."

"If you have something to ask for, Xiao Wang comes to the door with shamelessness."

Li Linfu quickly invited Li Cong into the mansion. The two walked into the study and sat down. The maid brought two cups of fragrant tea.

"The Prime Minister, Xiao Wang came to ask for help from Yangzhou."

Li Cong explained his purpose immediately after he opened the door. Li Linfu looked puzzled, "Yangzhou? What happened to Your Highness in Yangzhou?"

Li Cong sneered in his heart, but smiled on his face and said, "The Prime Minister should know that it was the matter of Du Bosheng, the great salt owl. My son Li Qiu has already rushed to Yangzhou."

"Oh!" Li Linfu showed a sudden enlightenment on his face, and he hurriedly said, "Didn't that matter have calmed down? Gao Lishi has already criticized the emperor and the matter is temporarily put on hold."

"Oh! Li Xiangguo may not know that this matter has not subsided. Recently, there has been a stir. Li Qingan became the Jiangdu Tuan Training Commissioner and muddled the pool of water again."

"Li Qing'an?" Li Linfu snorted heavily, "I am very disgusted with this person. He is just a small fourth-rank general. With the support of Gao Lishi, he was in the capital. Last New Year's Eve, I was responsible for the inspection camp and suggested that the emperor dismiss him. Unexpectedly, he held a grudge and said bad things about me in front of Gao Lishi several times. I don't know the depth of the officialdom, but now I am restless in Yangzhou. It seems that if I don't give him some pain, he doesn't know how to deal with people!"

Li Cong himself disliked Li Qing'an very much, but first recommended by his aide Yan Kai, and his son Li Qi's beautiful words, he was a little shaken and he was hesitant and he hesitated between collecting and not collecting. If Li Linfu praised Li Qing'an for his youth and promising, he might have decided to bring Li Qing'an into his camp. However, Li Linfu had a gloomy face and angrily scolded Li Qing'an for his ungratefulness. This was undoubtedly adding a lot of chips to Li Cong's peace. He offended Li Linfu to take Li Qing'an for his capital. This was a deal to lose his capital. At this moment, he closed the door to Li Qing'an in his heart.

"I don't like Li Qing'an, so I don't want to talk about him. The Prime Minister, the matter in Yangzhou is indeed related to me. My son Li Qi is not updating. He was used by the salt lord Du Bosheng and sold private salt several times. This time the Yangzhou salt case broke out, my son may be involved, and maybe even I will be involved, so I came to beg the Prime Minister if he could hide it from the Emperor."

As he said that, Li Cong dragged his fat body to get up and salute. Li Linfu hurriedly supported him, "Your Highness is so serious, please sit down quickly!"

Seeing that Li Linfu was silent, Li Cong took out his handkerchief and wiped the corners of his eyes and said, "I pity my only son. He is young and has caused a big disaster. I beg the Prime Minister to give my son a chance to reform himself because of Xiao Wang's face."

Li Linfu sighed and said, "Your Highness, of course I am willing to help you, but Yangzhou salt lord Du Bosheng sold private salt and leaked 200,000 jin of salt taxes, which was too huge. In this case, I must find a person who was guilty. I can only get rid of your highness for his crime."

"Li Xiangguo means"

"How could Liu Changyun, who had been trafficked in private salt for a long time, be able to protect himself? If you want to get rid of your highness's responsibility, you can only let this person take the blame."

Li Cong lowered his head and said nothing. Liu Changyun was his confidant, who brought him a lot of benefits and had a close relationship with him. He could not bear this heart no matter how he did.

Li Linfu glanced at him and said lightly: "If your highness is in a dilemma, I will pretend that I didn't say anything tonight."

"Oh well!"

Li Cong sighed deeply, "It's up to the way Li Xiangguo wants."

Yangzhou is only a river from Runzhou. After crossing the river, it is the boundary of Runzhou. Two days later, what happened in Pingdu Town and Qua County spread to Yangzhou. The Du Bosheng case, which had been silent for several months, had another turbulence, but the whereabouts of the salt ox, Du Bosheng, was still unknown, making the case confusing.

Li Qing'an's Liangshan bandit suppression and Qu'a's pursuit were not secretly carried out. As time went by, many details that occurred in the middle emerged. Whether it was Li Qi or Lu Huan, based on all the clues, they all unanimously inferred that Li Qing'an might have captured Du Bosheng, but there was no evidence. Li Qing'an himself denied it. Not long after, he led the army out for training and left the two factions in the air. His ambiguous attitude really made Li Qi and Lu Huan anxious.

Although the situation in Yangzhou is still calm, there is an undercurrent under the calmness. Both groups of people are ready to fight, waiting for their last fight with each other.

Late at night, the moon did not come out, and the night was particularly deep. The mist of early spring covered the streets of Jiangdu, and pedestrians were no longer seen within a dozen steps. The warehouse of the prefecture was about a hundred steps away from the prefecture yamen. It was located in an alley. There were four yamen runners on duty every night to patrol the warehouse. However, in the past two days, due to the huge amount of property from the Du family, the prefecture yamen sent additional personnel to increase the patrol yamen runners to twenty.

At the third update, the streets in Jiangdu were silent.

‘Bang! Bangbang! The weather is dry, be careful of the fire and candle.’

Only the voice of the updater echoed on the street. Suddenly, several black shadows appeared dozens of steps away from the warehouse. They observed the movement of the warehouse gate.

After a while, someone threw a stone here, indicating that there was no one at the warehouse gate. A tall black shadow waved his hand, and nearly a hundred black shadows rushed over not far away.

"Listen, the thing is in the warehouse of No. 3, which is the innermost room on the left after entering the gate. You must be ruthless when you attack. If someone stops you, kill them. After you get the thing, everyone will quickly evacuate."

At this time, a low barking from the warehouse came from the barn. This was a signal, "Go!"

With a command, nearly a hundred black shadows rushed towards the warehouse. They were all agile and fast, and rushed to the front of the warehouse gate in a moment. The gate was locked from the inside. They didn't enter the door, and immediately took seven or eight ladders and climbed into the wall.

A shout suddenly came from the yard, "There are thieves! There are thieves-ah!"

The shout turned into a scream and stopped, followed by a fight, and the shouts were loud, "Come here, a thief robbed the government warehouse!"

Twenty yamen runners were far from the opponent of the man in black. They fought and retreated, and were forced into a large warehouse, but were locked in it by the man in black.

The warehouse where the Du family's money and goods was buried open, and it was filled with boxes of all sizes, all with seals from the government, "Hurry up! Everyone, take them away."

Nearly a hundred black shadows moved very quickly. They moved the boxes and cages. In less than a cup of tea, most of the supplies in the warehouse were removed.
Chapter completed!