Chapter 274 The fish that slipped through the net
The capital, somewhere in a house.
"Are you sure?"
"It's absolutely true! His Majesty woke up last night and coughed violently after saying a few words. Then he passed out and has not woken up yet!"
The speaker's tone was flattering and joyful, as if something good was about to happen.
"Well...I understand, you can go down."
"Yes, sir!"
In the dark study room, there was a figure sitting in the shadows, meditating. I don’t know how long it took before he got up again.
"Come here, go and send a message to Mr. Qian and Mr. Zhang. It's almost time."
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Lingzhou, Congxing Fucheng.
This trip almost perfectly solved the native problem, and Chen Ping was in a good mood. When he returned to Fucheng, he found that Tang Hao was not in the city, so he came to find Yang Anguo to find out.
"Hey, aren't these the county magistrates down there? Some of them are accomplices of the thieves. The investigation was not going well, so Mr. Tang led his troops to come and ask questions one by one."
After Yang Anguo saw Chen Ping return safely, he was shocked, but he didn't show it on his face.
After casually chatting with Chen Ping about what happened in the past few days when he went to Mulu, he began to ask Chen Ping about his experiences along the way.
"You went to see Mulu Chieftain? What did he say?"
"Can you promise not to collude with the thieves? How did you convince him?"
Chen Ping looked at Yang Anguo, who was already in his fifties, like a child who didn't know anything at the moment, asking questions to himself, and couldn't help but feel a little funny.
He stretched out his clothes and explained the matter.
"The student met Mulu Chieftain. He didn't take the initiative to say what he wanted to stop cooperating with the thieves. It was the student who spoke first."
Yang Anguo slapped his thigh and sighed: "Hey! Isn't that passive? How can you speak first?"
"But the student finally convinced him, as for the method..."
Chen Ping gave it up first and then asked about the progress of the investigation of the smuggling case.
Yang Anguo was impatient and said hastily: "The Qianling Road Supervisory Censor and the Jiangnan Governor have promised to cooperate with the neighboring states. I also sent people to trace the past, but because it involves a lot of things at this time, it will take more time to find useful clues.
A lot of time."
"Speak quickly, don't hide it!"
Chen Ping pondered deeply, and based on the time it took him to go to Mulu and come back, he estimated that he would have to wait until the year of the monkey and the month of the horse to slowly track it down.
You have to rely on yourself for everything!
"Don't worry, Mr. Yang, let me tell you, the methods used by students are just that, they are just to find some business suitable for these toasts and let them do it, and then they can be a fan and help us sell Dayu's products.
To Dali and other countries."
Chen Ping laughed and said it very easily, but Yang Anguo looked suspicious, obviously not quite believing what he said.
Even though he was getting goosebumps from being stared at, Chen Ping still smiled. He had no choice but to ask him to provide another suggestion to Mulu Tusi?
Being a mercenary was out of the question, not to mention that the imperial court had never recruited local soldiers before. The final result was that because the court had no money or did not want to pay, the local soldiers turned around instead of fighting the enemy.
The people who looted Dayu.
It can be said that I lost my wife and lost my troops.
If the imperial court had no money to hire local soldiers, then who would hire them?
Chen Ping said that fate is wonderful. What a coincidence. He happens to be the person behind Kowloon Hall and Tianxiang Pavilion. What a coincidence!
Naturally, there was no way to explain this to Yang Anguo in detail, so in the end Yang Anguo didn't even think about how Chen Ping managed to defeat Mulu Tusi.
Back at Congxing Mansion, the dozens of local soldiers sent by Mu Cangba, Mulu Xuanwei's envoy, completed their mission, said goodbye to Chen Ping and left. Chen Ping, Zhao Jinluoli and others had been traveling for six or seven days.
On the mountain road, you can take a break now.
The next day, it wasn't until three o'clock in the morning that Chen Ping woke up and his previous fatigue was gone.
As usual, he went out for a walk and had lunch. As soon as he hit the street, he found that notices from the prefecture's Yamen had been posted all over the city, and many people in Congxing Prefecture were also discussing the matter.
"Master Fu Zun said that the natives will not come. Can you keep it true?"
"What a native, they are bandits! I think it is half true and half false. We ordinary people have to be careful."
"Hmm, that's good, be careful!"
It was true that the notice was posted, but the people did not let down all their guard because of this. Chen Ping also understood and returned to the Yamen after shopping around.
"Brother Zhao, prepare to take a trip."
Chen Ping found Zhao Jin and said to him, with a very kind smile on his face. When Zhao Jin heard what Chen Ping said, he swallowed.
This guy just came back from Mulu and just had a night's rest. What is he going to do now?
"What are you doing, where are you going?"
"Let's go and see if there are any fish that have slipped through the net."
"A fish that slipped through the net?" Zhao Jin scratched his head, why didn't he find that there was a fish that slipped through the net? Is this guy playing a trick on me?
When Zhao Jin came to the door of a deserted house, she couldn't help but frown, pointed at the plaque named "Gong Mansion" and asked: "Is this what you said slipped through the net?"
Chen Ping didn't answer, but booed Zhao Jin and walked forward.
"Dong dong dong! Is the Gong family's sister-in-law here?"
"Squeak——! Dare, dare I ask which official?"
Through the crack in the door, Chen Ping saw a woman in her early thirties. She was wearing a plain hairpin and some makeup on her head. Her thin eyebrows were slightly furrowed, and she looked attractive.
Ouch! I didn’t expect that Gong Heng would leave behind such a beautiful wife. It’s a pity that he is now a widow.
"Oh, I am the nephew of Mr. Tang, the governor of the state. I am here to express my condolences to the Gong family on behalf of the government."
Chen Ping lied without a blush on his face, while Zhao Jin looked at him dumbfounded. When did this kid become so skilled at lying?
When she heard that Chen Ping was Tang Hao's cousin, the widow was a little scared and quickly opened the door and invited the two of them in.
Not long after, Chen Ping and Zhao Jin walked through the abandoned courtyard and came to the main hall. They learned from the widow that after Gong Heng was silenced, the Gong family dispersed, except for her, a pair of children and a few old servants.
Here, all the other servants dispersed, and all the valuable things in the house were moved away.
"Poor, very pitiful!"
Chen Ping sighed for a while, expressing his sympathy for the current life of this pretty widow in her early thirties.
This scene made Zhao Jin couldn't help but swallow. Doesn't this kid have any special quirks?
"Although it was said that your husband was caught working for a thief, he confessed the truth to the government and was silenced by the thief in the end. Now that the orphans and widowers have ended up like this, the prefect feels it is necessary to lend a helping hand."
"However... if you give money and food directly, I'm afraid it will arouse criticism from outsiders and damage your reputation, right?"
The pretty widow nodded blankly when she heard this, and then she felt that there was something wrong with a weak woman being alone with two strange men.
"So, I think it would be more appropriate to trade something, what do you think?"
Chen Ping took out a silver ingot from his arms and said to the pretty widow.