Prince Yan has a strong body and many years of military service, making his whole body look as sharp as a javelin.
But at this time, his bronze face was already so dark that it was almost dripping with water.
The third prince was openly intercepted and killed by thieves in Youzhou Mansion. There were thousands of thieves. This was a slap in Prince Yan's face.
After comforting his nephew, Prince Yan raised the military tent overnight, and all of a sudden the army and cavalry came out in all directions to search for Youzhou Prefecture.
Regardless of whether it is related to the interception and killing of the third prince, all thieves and bandits will be wiped out.
At the same time, Hong Ling was dispatched to retaliate against Tianfu.
If this matter had happened elsewhere, Prince Yan might even have regarded it as a joke, but if it had happened in his territory, he would have had to give an explanation to Yingtian Mansion and an explanation to the Third Prince.
In fact, there is no need to analyze too much. Those who want the third prince's life are nothing more than a few other princes, and the most suspicious one is the fourth prince who lives in the neighboring Jizhou Mansion.
However, suspicion is nothing but suspicion without evidence. Mr. Ding and the dead man in black did not survive, so they died without any evidence. Even if the two bandit leaders were found, their knowledge is probably extremely limited.
The most important thing is that the fourth prince is in Jizhou and holds military power. Moreover, the fourth prince's grandfather, Ji Guogong, is the commander-in-chief of the Jizhou Prefecture. He is equivalent to the commander-in-chief of the military region of Jizhou Prefecture. He is more powerful than Prince Yan in You. The status of the state capital does not make much difference.
Under such circumstances, it is impossible to arrest him and investigate him.
Although I knew that no results would be found if I continued to investigate this matter, the Prince Yan process still had to go through.
Let’s not talk about how big the storm was in Youzhou Mansion. When the news came to Tianfu, the government and the public were shocked. It is said that after His Majesty the Emperor left the court, he went into a rage in his study and cursed the officials he summoned.
Then the imperial court sent out documents to arrest the two bandit leaders from all over the world.
When Yang Xuan learned the news, he was also shocked. Later, he was relieved when he heard that his eldest brother was fine.
Prince Hui did not go into details, but Yang Xuan also guessed that this matter was simply due to interests. Even His Majesty the Emperor was a shareholder, but there were still people who dared to cause trouble. The person behind the scenes must not be simple.
Yang Xuan was unable to find out who was behind the scenes, so he could only put the matter aside for the time being and wait for his elder brother to come back before questioning him in detail.
However, there is also a good thing about this, that is, Prince Yan has no obstacles in opening a salt mine workshop, and he even provides money to help him.
It is estimated that they will be back soon.
Although Yang Xuan was in a bad mood, he still had to do the things on his schedule.
With his character, it is impossible for him to suffer such a big loss without taking revenge, but there is only one thing he can do, and that is to strengthen his own strength.
Whether it's for my eldest brother or for Lu Fengxian.
Seeing that the third day of March is approaching, the horse-drawn carriage racing is about to begin.
There are hundreds of people who signed up to participate this time.
Of course, not only carriages made by Shunfengxing were participating in the competition, but several other carriage houses also made carriages and signed up for the competition.
It can be seen from the booming sales of carriages during this period that being in the limelight in this competition is tantamount to gaining a reputation.
For this kind of saturated market, the only thing that can be done is to open up new customer sources. Yang Xuan has opened up this channel, and then it will be up to the shopkeepers of the horse and carriage shops to show their talents.
Yang Xuan also formulated a lot of rules for this competition. The most important one is that the driver of the carriage must be the applicant himself.
In other words, all young masters participating in the competition must drive their cars to compete in person.
Yang Xuan, who has experienced it personally, knows that only by driving a car himself can he experience the passion brought by speed. As long as these young men have experienced it personally, they can appreciate the charm.
At first, those young men were a little scornful of this rule. Driving was the driver's business. How could they, who were delicate and expensive, do such a lowly job?
But when they saw Lu Jingqi, the eldest son of Prince Hui's palace, driving off the track himself, they all had no objections.
The competition venue outside the city has become a daily place for young men to play.
Anyone who has a carriage will definitely come to the track to try it. Being driven by a coachman is really different from driving in person. There are young men with carriages whizzing past the track all day long.
A small market spontaneously formed in the open space in the middle of the track. Vendors shuttled among the young men selling goods. The young men were generous and made a lot of money every day.
The track is such a large venue, and there are many young men testing cars on the track every day. Soon there are private challengers, each driving a carriage to compete.
Later, I don’t know which young man came to race the car and brought the fantou brought from Qinhuai River, and let the fantou sit in the back seat to compete.
This move immediately aroused imitation, and within a few days, if the person sitting in the back seat of the car was not a brothel girl, there would be no one to compete with you.
If there is a competition, there will be a prize, and the prize for these gentlemen is the brothel girl in the back seat of the car. The pink head that the loser brings out with money will belong to the winner on the same day.
Of course, Yang Xuan stipulates that during official competitions, fans are not allowed in the back seat of the car.
The sport of horse racing and carriages soon became popular among the young masters of Yingtianfu. Not only did they need to buy carriages, they also needed to modify them.
Shunfengxing's carriages have various modifications. What can be seen from the appearance have been learned by other carriages and horses. They also imitate the same and follow the modifications, such as using small and widened wheels, lowering the chassis and also
Reduced weight.
Of course, the bamboo shock-absorbing system is well shielded and has not been learned by others yet.
Yang Xuan also knew that this thing did not have much technical content and would be imitated sooner or later, so he was already working on spring steel.
However, spring steel was not so easy to successfully develop. Yang Xuan just added a blast furnace at the racecourse to refine steel to see if he could refine better steel.
Refining steel requires a higher temperature than firing glass. Yang Xuan only knew this, leaving the rest to the craftsmen to study.
Due to the large number of participants, the schedule of the competition had to be extended. Starting from the third day of March, the competition will last for three days.
This competition was named an amateur competition by Yang Xuan, and the participants were all young men from wealthy aristocrats. The seven carriage and horse racing firms did not participate in the competition themselves, but the participating carriages were basically from these seven carriage and horse racing firms.
The largest number of them came from carriages traveling with the wind, accounting for almost half.
This competition can be said to be unprecedentedly grand, with many contestants and even more spectators. In addition, vendors doing business and even many officials came to watch the competition.
Seeing such a situation, Yang Xuan knew that he had started this trend.