Chapter 141 What should I do if I heard something I shouldn't have heard?
"The plan is coming?"
Zhu Han was stunned when he heard this, and then asked excitedly: "Zhi Cai, but there is no harm in talking!"
"The six of them are not monolithic. In recent years, they have often attacked each other in order to seize Jizhou's resources!"
Xi Zhicai put the six bowls on the table and said: "Now that they are synaesthetized, they seem to be connected by the same spirit, but in fact they are not. As long as we observe carefully, we can discover the subtle relationship between them. "
"Liu Hao and Old Liu Xu have been in office for thirty or forty years, and they have become mature with age. The city is very deep, and we have to be on guard. If my prediction is correct, the six kings traveling together this time must have been planned by one of them!"
Xi Zhicai pressed the two bowls with his fingers and moved them forward, separated them from the other four bowls, and continued: "What's more coincidental is that neither of them has any heirs. They are the princes of the dynasty, and their fiefdom is even more important." A county is as big as a county, the late emperor treated him so favorably, his power was so great, and he is so old, how could he have no heirs?"
"You mean, it's not that these two people have no heirs, but that they hide their descendants from outsiders?"
Zhu Han frowned and analyzed: "Or are they all dead?"
"We are new here! We can't make any assumptions about this kind of thing!" Xi Zhicai said with a sullen face and gritted his teeth: "But now, even if we don't dare, we can only take a gamble! Because the only way is to follow them Only after the other four companies are separated will we have a chance to make a comeback."
"Betting? How to bet?"
Zhu Han spread his hands and said helplessly: "It would be a coincidence if both of their heirs died young, right?" Suddenly, Zhu Han suddenly woke up, looked at Xi Zhicai with his eyes wide open, and asked : "You mean... to frame someone up?"
"Yes, and no! We have to wait until Mr. Ma comes before we can make a conclusion!" Xi Zhicai said in apology: "I invited Mr. Ma without permission, please forgive me!"
"Alas! You are also devoted to me!"
Zhu Han smiled bitterly and said: "What crime is there? But if he, the head of a county-level family, knows this kind of lucky secret, wouldn't it mean that everyone in Jizhou knows it?"
"It's better than the two of us catching people blind here, right? What if he knows something? Who can say for sure?"
Xi Zhicai also treated a dead horse as a living horse doctor, so he was good at making opinions and invited Ma Yuan.
Not long after, Ma Yuan arrived at the Yamen.
"Sir, why did you summon me here in such a hurry? Aren't you accompanying the six princes?" Ma Yuan asked with an unsightly look on his face as he sat in an old manner.
"Mr. Ma, as for inviting you here in such a hurry, it is a helpless act!"
Zhu Han first told Ma Yuan what had just happened, and then said with a wry smile: "I have no choice but to watch the industry that I have worked so hard to create go to others, right?"
"Haha, sir, it's not surprising that you have such thoughts!" Ma Yuan laughed twice, patted his chest and said with a smile: "In this current situation, sir, you can think of me. It seems that you don't think so. I am an outsider! I am also expressing my position here. If my Ma family can help me, I will never refuse! Please tell me clearly what you want me to do."
"I just want to ask Mr. Ma to tell me about the past affairs of the two princes Liu Hao and Liu Xu. After all, you have been rooted in this county for decades, so you must know some secrets of the prince's palace, right?"
Zhu Han asked anxiously.
"What about this?" Ma Yuan held Bai Xi's hand and asked calmly: "When I was young, I worked as a guard in Prince Anping's palace. I wonder what you want to know about the old prince?"
Zhu Han was overjoyed when he heard this. He didn't have much hope at first, but he never expected that Ma Yuan actually served as a guard for Liu Xu. If he was a personal guard, then what Ma Yuan knew would be of great help to Zhu Han.
He hurriedly asked: "Then let Mr. Ma talk about Liu Xu's heirs! He must be over sixty years old, right? How could he have no heirs? Isn't this consistent with common sense?"
"This is what happened!"
Ma Yuan hesitated for a moment, lingering there with some embarrassment, looking east and west from time to time.
"Mr. Ma, as long as you tell this matter, I promise to give the Ma family half of the shares of the escort agency. From now on, the Ma family's caravan can give priority to the products produced by my workshop and transport them. How about that?"
As soon as he saw Ma Yuan's appearance, Zhu Han suddenly became furious and thought to himself, in the past, he had seen this old guy being so arrogant and happy with his grudges, but he didn't expect that he was also a man who never let go of rabbits before he saw them, so he immediately endured the pain.
Cut some meat out.
"Oh, how can this be done, how can it be done!"
When Ma Yuan heard this, his old face immediately burst into laughter, and he said a little embarrassedly: "I was just thinking about where to start, but I didn't expect that you misunderstood me!"
"It's okay. Mr. Ma has also contributed to the development of our county. This share should have been given to Mr. Ma early, but I didn't consider it carefully!"
Zhu Han twitched the corners of his mouth, cursed the old bastard secretly, and smiled.
"Then I accept this favor from you, sir!"
Ma Yuan was afraid that Zhu Han would regret it, so he quickly nodded and agreed. His enthusiasm was in sharp contrast to the pushback and resistance just now, and Zhu Han once again muttered something wrong with this old guy in his heart.
"Haha, it should be, it should be!"
Zhu Han kept smiling, nodded and smiled.
"Actually! I was present when these six princes were conferred. In the blink of an eye, most of their lives have passed!" Ma Yuan sighed with emotion, as if he was recalling the past, and after a while he continued: "
Back then, I was young and energetic, and had good martial arts skills. I always wanted to stand out. When I just came out of the family to practice, I went to work as a guard in Prince Anping's Mansion. Because of my outstanding martial arts skills, I became Prince Anping's personal bodyguard in just one year.
, that year happened to be when the little prince was born!"
"So, Liu Xu does have an heir?"
Xi Zhicai frowned and interrupted: "But why do you declare to the outside world that he has no heirs?"
"Zhicai, don't interrupt! Listen to Mr. Ma first!"
Zhu Han frowned and blamed.
"Ah, I am so anxious that I interrupted Mr. Ma's speech. Please atone for my sin!"
Xi Zhicai quickly handed over his hand to Ma Yuan and confessed.
"It doesn't matter!" Ma Yuan waved his hand casually and said: "After having children, the old prince began to become ambitious. He wanted to get involved in everything, maybe because he wanted to leave a bigger fortune to his children.
Family business! In those years, all the county magistrates in the entire Anping Kingdom came from the Anping Palace. Except for the position of the Prime Minister, which was always controlled by the Zhu family, all other officials, large and small, had inexplicable relations with the Anping Palace.
Unknown relationship! It is no exaggeration to say that in those years, as long as Prince Anping sneezed, the entire Anping Kingdom would be shaken three times! "
"Such power! Tsk tsk!"
Zhu Han whispered enviously.
"Then why is the power of the Anping Palace declining year by year?"
Regarding Liu Xu's family background, Xi Zhicai had done some homework. He frowned and asked, "Did something happen in the process?"
"Haha, what the Prime Minister of Xi County said is true. Among them! Several big things happened!" Ma Yuan thought about it carefully and said, "This first one, I remember, happened when the young prince was about to be three years old.
At that time, the imperial court suddenly ordered the old prince to take the young prince to Beijing to meet the saint! That year, not only King Anping went, but King Changshan also went, and the two families even made an appointment to go together!"
"But just when our motorcade left Jizhou and entered the border of Sili!" Ma Yuan's face suddenly showed a look of lingering fear, and even his body trembled slightly. It was obvious that he did not want to mention the old events of that year.
, I saw him saying this: "It was a dark and windy night, and our camp was attacked by the barbarians!"
"Hu people? Aren't they in Sili territory? How come there are barbarians?"
Zhu Han's heart suddenly thumped. He was a little unwilling to listen to Ma Yuan's story anymore. He felt like he was looking for death when he searched for such secrets. If Ma Yuan said that he was a bandit and a robber, he didn't have much idea, but
Ma Yuan insisted that the barbarians had robbed their camp. This kind of thing was too involved!
If you want to know where the boundary of Sili is? It was the location of the capital of the Han Dynasty. There is Bingzhou in the north, Liangzhou in the west, Jizhou in the east, and the hinterland of the Han Dynasty in the south. How did these barbarians appear? How did they do it?
Arrive at Sili without alerting the local garrison or guarding the garrison at each pass? How can ordinary people do it if they are not people with hands and eyes that are astonishing?
Even Xi Zhicai had a solemn look on his face, obviously he and Zhu Han had thought of going together. After the two looked at each other, they could see helplessness in each other's eyes, but now Ma Yuan had said it,
They had to continue listening.
"Master Zhu, don't you believe it?"
Ma Yuan was a little angry and said: "I saw it with my own eyes. Not only did those people wear Hu people's clothes, but their accents were also Hu people, and they also had the unique appearance of the Hu people. These things cannot be changed! At first, I also told you, Mr. Zhu.
I had the same idea, maybe bandits and robbers came from somewhere and pretended to be barbarians to attack the camp! But after thinking about it carefully, our convoy was escorted by hundreds of armored and sharp guards. How could ordinary bandits dare to attack the camp? "
"Mr. Ma misunderstood, I didn't mean that! Please continue, Mr. Ma!"
Zhu Han gave a bitter smile and said with a smile.
"The size of that group of barbarians was about one to two thousand people. They all rode tall horses and held scimitars. As soon as they entered the camp, they killed everyone they met! Their bloodthirsty appearance still makes me a little scared to this day!"
Ma Yuan's face showed an expression of fear again, and his lips trembled as he said: "I am the personal bodyguard of Prince Anping, so naturally I want to ensure the safety of the prince! That night of fighting will be something I will never forget for the rest of my life.
Because of that battle, I was severely injured and the root of my illness began to fall, so I had to leave the palace after the incident!"
"Then what's the ending? How did you escape, Mr. Ma?"
Zhu Han was a little puzzled and thought to himself, since they can mobilize Hu people to enter the country to work for him, it can be seen that they are determined to eradicate them. How can they still let them escape? He asked in confusion.
Ma Yuan's eyes suddenly showed a look of horror. He hesitated for a long time and then said quietly: "Except me and the two princes, everyone is dead!"