Xie Yuan headed south with 130,000 troops, but was stopped by Xu Chong at the border of Nanhai County.
"The governor brought such troops and horses to our Nanhai County with great fanfare. I don't know why?" Xu Chong bowed with a smile.
"Someone reported anonymously, saying that the prefect of Nanhai County colluded with the Xu family, a prominent local family, to secretly mine salt mines, sell private salt, and make huge profits. Someone even reported that the Xu family had evil intentions - I am the governor of Yangzhou, and I am leading the charge this time. As the army marched south, Governor Xu asked why I came here?"
Xie Yuan looked pale.
Xu Chong's eyelids twitched.
Sure enough, I came here for this matter.
"Today my army is withdrawing. You must stop Xie Yuan at the border. If my army is too late to withdraw and delays the important event decided by the ancestors of the Xu family, I will skin you first to sacrifice to my ancestors!"
Thinking of Taigong Xu's warning to him this morning, Xu Chong shivered, and looked at Xie Yuan with an even bigger smile——
"Everything must be supported by evidence. If the governor rashly leads his troops into our Nanhai County, it will only cause unrest among the people. What's more, they will even say that the governor intends to raise troops here. With such a conspiracy, it is impossible to come to the governor. Do you want to hear it?"
Oh yo, a threat?
Xie Yuan raised his eyebrows.
The thing he fears least is threats.
"Yuzhi." Xie Yuan glanced sideways.
Cui Heng signaled and took out a piece of linen cloth from his sleeve.
There was a letter written in blood on the linen. The blood had dried long ago, and it looked dark and scary.
"Last month, I received anonymous reports in blood from some common people. They claimed to have escaped from the mines, and begged me to rescue the young men and slaves who were captured as slave laborers, and to rescue the civilian women and girls who were captured and used as military prostitutes. "
Xie Yuan stroked the little donkey gnawing grass under him, smiled and said,
"Whether it's true or not, I want to find out. If the governor doesn't give way, he will be obstructing official duties. If he delays the matter, he will be accused of selling illegal salt and treason... can the prefect afford it? ——”
Xu Chong's breathing stagnated for a moment.
Just as Xie Yuan said, the Xu family began to prepare for rebellion ten years ago because they could not understand the behavior of the Jin emperor.
Taigong Xu was ordered by his ancestors to overthrow the Jin Dynasty and find someone else to be king.
They have been looking at the Central Plains in the Lingnan area for many years, and have been quietly cultivating talents for the Central Plains and sending talents to the Central Plains.
But what they got in exchange was the Central Plains Emperor's contempt and fear for their Lingnan family——
He felt that they were born in a remote and remote area and were real bumpkins. For a bumpkin like this to be entrenched in Lingnan and to be the leader here, you must want to rebel.
But they never thought that their ancestors were ordered to migrate from the Qin and Han Dynasties, and that their ancestors were all descendants of the princes of various countries in the Spring and Autumn Period - in terms of status and dignity, those so-called aristocratic families may not even be as good as them.
Therefore, after Emperor Tianwu founded the country, seeing that the lives of the people in the Central Plains had not improved, the Xu family's ancestors saw clearly the ugly faces of these people, and they were finally disappointed.
Don't you want me to rebel? Then I will fulfill your wish and solidify my reputation as a rebel.
Otherwise, I would be very sorry for your suspicions from generation to generation, right?
Gathering the thoughts in his mind, Xu Chong raised a bright smile on his face: "It's just some sackcloth for the common people, just a few words, so the governor wants to come to our Nanhai County with such a big fanfare and disrupt the public order of our Nanhai County? I wonder what the governor's intention is?"
"You want to delay the evacuation of Taigong Xu and Xu's private soldiers," Xie Yuan suddenly said.
Xu Chong's face paused, and his smile returned: "I don't know what the governor is talking about."
"I already know about your use of salt mines to cover up iron mines. After Old Master Xu learned that I had killed the Japanese pirates, he expected that I would reorganize the troops and lead the army south to thoroughly investigate the sale of illegal salt. And they were preparing to evacuate the army.
There was a rebellion in other places, catching the Jin Dynasty by surprise. So..."
Xie Yuan slowly changed the topic, and his gentle eyes fell on Xu Chong, like a sharp knife,
"He sent you to delay time, didn't he, Prefect Xu?"
His worries were revealed, and Taigong Xu's complexion instantly turned pale.
He recalled what Taigong Xu once said to him.
This Xie Yuan, despite his young age, looks gentle and easy to bully, but he is actually extremely smart, tolerant and insightful of everything. That's why he was able to assist the Huo family and his son to win successive victories in the Northern Expedition, and that's why he was able to help the Qi family reverse the case——
When he actually takes action, they may not have a chance to fight back.
So Xie Yuan had to be stopped halfway.
Xu Chong trembled with his mouth and wanted to say something, but was speechless.
"Unjust." Xie Yuan turned his head and looked at Huo Qubing.
Huo Qubing was stunned. Seeing the cold look in Xie Yuan's eyes, he understood and took the long bow and arrows from his side and handed them over.
The young man stretched his bow and string, and shot an arrow at Xu Chong.
The arrow went straight into Xu Chong's heart. He was stunned for a moment, vomited a large mouthful of blood, and fell off his horse.
When the soldiers brought nearby saw this, they all wanted to turn around and run away, but Huo Qubing and Cui Heng ordered them all to be shot.
The young man rode a donkey and passed by Xu Chong. Seeing the regret in his eyes, he smiled slightly——
"The person you should regret is not me, but those innocent people."
Then he stepped over the prefect and led his army directly into Nanhai County.
With Xie Yuan's leadership, everyone quickly found the location of the salt mine.
They also discovered iron ore beneath the salt mine.
When everyone was astonished, Xie Yuan had already written a memorial and submitted it to the court, and then ordered the pursuit of the Xu family on the grounds that the Xu family was disobedient and intended to rebel against the breakfast.
They chased for a whole day and night, and finally caught up with Xu Taigong and his 100,000 soldiers at the border of Xin'an County.
Seeing Xie Yuan chasing after him, Taigong Xu was only slightly surprised, and then his face darkened: "I am training my troops and horses, what is the governor doing?"
"Xu Chong, the prefect of Nanhai County, colluded with the Xu family to sell private salt and mine iron ore and salt mines. He was punished for several crimes and regarded as treason. Now I would like to perform my duties on behalf of Your Majesty and arrest the Xu family." Xie Yuan said calmly,
The sound spread across the wilderness,
"Mr. Xu, if you don't want to cause casualties, I advise you to just surrender."
Seeing that his thoughts were revealed, Taigong Xu no longer concealed himself and simply showed his true face.
He looked up to the sky and laughed for a while, then suddenly looked at Xie Yuan and asked loudly -
"The imperial court of the Jin Dynasty was extravagant and did not care about the life and death of the people. The nobles and nobles from poor families were at odds with each other, and ordinary people would never get ahead - are you willing to serve such a person, Xie Yuan?"
Xie Yuan's heart moved.
Naturally, he was unwilling to do so.
But now is not the time to change this situation.
The young man's expression did not change and he said calmly: "As a minister of the Jin Dynasty, I only do what is within my duties. Old Mrs. Xu, please don't be stubborn."
Taigong Xu chuckled: "So what if I'm stubborn?"
Everyone in the Xu family must overthrow the Jin Dynasty! This chapter has been completed!