Wei Tong looked at the seized printing equipment and printed items in the county office with a dark face, his face as gloomy as water. It's your business to fool Wang Bo, but you also fooled me, Wei Tong, do you think I'm an idiot?
Pay someone to play with you?
The more Wei Tong thought about it, the angrier he became, and he kicked it away hard, 'Wow!' A printing press fell down, shattering the city into four or five pieces.
"Where is your Wangzhi County?" Wei Tong turned around and asked fiercely.
Staff member Jia Yingfang stepped forward and said tremblingly: "The county prince has just been summoned by Qin Xiangguo."
One sentence reminded Wei Tong that Wang Bo was Qin Hui's nephew. Maybe this was Qin Hui's idea to fool the emperor.
At this moment, he realized whether he could catch Qin Hui?
He looked at Jia Yingfang and immediately had an idea in his mind. He smiled and asked, "Are you Mr. Jia?"
Jia Yingfang was startled, and quickly bowed and said: "I don't dare, I am Jia Yingfang."
Wei Tong stepped forward and whispered: "The new tea at the Liuweiju Teahouse near you is pretty good. Let's go taste it together. I'll go ahead and go to the teahouse to wait for Mr. Jia."
Wei Tong chuckled and led the people away. Jia Yingfang blushed and felt warm, as if she had heard the most sultry love words.
He walked around and saw that no one was paying attention to him, so he ran towards the teahouse.
After a few glasses of wine, Jia Yingfang gained some courage. She waved her hands with a smile and said, "Uncle Guo thinks so highly of this dandy magistrate that he doesn't even know that he has been deceived. Yesterday he moved back happily and even ran to fetch Qin Xianggong."
Please come and take a look, and you will be scolded by Qin Xianggong on the spot."
"Then what?"
"Then Xianggong Qin asked him to replace two usable printing machines, and then he reviewed his report and asked him to submit it to Lin'an Mansion."
"What do you mean?" Wei Tong asked quickly.
"Uncle Wei Guo, don't you understand? The Prime Minister of Qin has approved the report, how dare the Lin'an Prefecture disapprove of it? In this way, the Lin'an Prefecture Yin was also brought in, and then the Lin'an Prefecture Yin reported to the emperor that the "Beijing News" had been destroyed.
Lin'an's lair, this matter is settled."
"But what if the Beijing News appears on the streets of Lin'an again?"
Jia Yingfang laughed, "If the Beijing News appears again, do you think the emperor will know about it? Even if he knows, can it be interpreted as the Beijing News making a comeback?"
"well said!"
Wei Tong was so impressed that he filled a glass of wine for him and asked, "What are your county officials busy with recently?"
"Our county magistrate has received a new task from Prime Minister Qin and has been monitoring Chen Qing and his men recently."
Wei Tong suddenly became interested, "What's the gain?"
"Yesterday he told me that the subordinate named Zhou sent by Chen Qing lives in a VIP post house outside the city, and his guards are all cavalry. It would be easy to assassinate him."
Wei Tong's heart moved, and a vicious thought jumped into his heart.
He took out twenty taels of gold, put it on the table and pushed it to Jia Yingfang, "Report to me any situation in the future, and I guarantee that you will become the head of a county within three years."
Zhou Kuan had nothing to do today. He spent the day learning about the construction of the city wall in Lin'an. In fact, this information had been obtained through the intelligence point stationed in Lin'an. Zhou Kuan just wanted to verify it himself.
There was originally a city wall between Lin'an City and West Lake. However, in order to build official residences, the walls were demolished, leaving only a few city gates.
The original plan of the Lin'an government was to demolish the old city wall and then build a city wall around the West Lake to turn the West Lake into an inner city lake. However, eight years after the old city wall was demolished, the new city wall was still on the drawing board. The annual military expenditures overwhelmed the court.
He was so angry that he had no financial resources to build a new city wall.
The original plan was to expand Lin'an City to the Qiantang River, but there is still no movement.
After walking around, Zhou Kuan knew in his mind that Lin'an was completely undefended on this side of the West Lake. It would be easy for the army to invade Lin'an City.
At night, Zhou Kuan sat under the lamp and wrote hard. He had many thoughts along the way, and it was only now that he had time to write them down. Jinghu South Road is intertwined with water networks, and the fertile fields are thousands of miles away. It is a rich land of fish and rice.
, but the imperial court did not pay attention to it. The Western Army must seize this rich land and manage it well, and they will definitely get unexpected surprises.
At this moment, an arrow shot through the window with a 'whoosh!', passed over his head, and was nailed to the wall. Zhou Kuan was so frightened that his face turned pale, and he suddenly squatted under the table and stretched out his hand.
Grab the sword next to you.
Then there was the sound of fierce fighting in the yard, and screams were heard from time to time.
"Bang!" The door was knocked open, and a man in blue warrior uniform rolled in, holding a crossbow, blocking Zhou Kuan with his back, and raised the crossbow to shoot out of the door. A man in black could not dodge.
An arrow hit his chest, and he screamed and fell out.
Zhou Kuan wanted to stab the blue warrior in the back with his sword, but suddenly realized something was wrong. He stopped his sword and asked, "Who are you?"
"Counselor Zhou, don't stand up!"
The warrior in blue kicked the chair, and the chair hit a man in black. The warrior in blue seized this momentary opportunity, jumped up, and pierced the chair with his sharp sword.
It hit the chest of the man in black behind him.
At this moment, more than thirty of Zhou Kuan's guards came and someone in the yard shouted in Jurchen language: "The wind is tight, go quickly!"
The few remaining men in black jumped onto the roof and ran away into the distance.
Zhou Kuan had already guessed who the warriors in blue were. They actually called themselves Counselor Zhou, so they must be people from the Lin'an Intelligence Point. At this time, Zhou Kuan calmed down, stood up and asked, "Are you Dong Qun's subordinates?"
The blue-clothed warrior who had been protecting him clasped his fists and said, "My lord, Wei Yanzong, all the scouts under Manager Dong were stunned, and Counselor Zhou was frightened."
"Very good! Very good! Thank you for protecting me today."
At this time, a cavalry leader rushed in and saw that Zhou Kuan was fine. He was relieved and quickly knelt down on one knee to plead guilty, "The low-level guard was ineffective and almost caused a catastrophe. Please punish Counselor Zhou!"
"Hey! You are battlefield guards, not personal guards. It is not your responsibility. Get up!"
Zhou Kuan knew in his heart that thirty cavalrymen would have no problem protecting him on the battlefield, but they were really not good at guarding against assassins.
Zhou Kuan walked to the yard and saw five or six corpses lying in the yard, plus the two corpses in the room, a total of eight people died.
"Are these assassins?"
Wei Yanzong, the leader of the scouts, stepped forward and said sadly: "Two of our men were unfortunately killed in battle. The other six were assassins, but none of them survived. We specially left two injured assassins, and they also committed suicide by taking poison.
"
Zhou Kuan frowned, "Are there any clues? Can we find out who did it?"
"Reporting to Counselor Zhou, I just looked at them and there are no clues about them, but..."
"But what?" Zhou Kuan asked.
"But half an hour ago, someone dropped a note at our residence. The note said, 'Someone is going to assassinate Zhou Kuan tonight.' So we hurried over and stopped the assassin in time."
"ah!"
Zhou Kuan was surprised, "Who is this person?"
Wei Yanzong shook his head, "We were also shocked. The other party actually knew that Ruyi Teahouse was our intelligence point, but this person should not have any malicious intentions, and thanks to him reporting the information in time."
Zhou Kuan thought for a while and said: "The situation in Lin'an is unpredictable. I estimate that he will come again in the next two days. You can set up an ambush and you should be able to catch this person, but don't hurt him. He saved my life."
"
"I understand the humble position!"
Wei Yanzong exchanged a few words with the cavalry leader and left with the bodies of his fallen men.
"Counsellor, why don't we go back to Huzhou? It's too unsafe here."
Zhou Kuan shook his head, "The king will arrive tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. At this critical moment, I can't leave in anger. This will only be detrimental to the king. Tomorrow I will ask Li Xianggong for an explanation. He must ensure my safety.
"
"Then I and my subordinates will strengthen the security tonight so that no more accidents can happen."
Zhou Kuan smiled and said: "I probably won't come tonight."
Having said that, the cavalry were divided into two squads to keep vigil throughout the night, and indeed no assassins came to harass them.
