Chapter 18: A lot of worries (2)

Beiping, Yan Wang Mansion. Under the layers of eaves are magnificent palaces. The reflection of glazed tiles under the sun makes the entire palace shine.

This was once the imperial palace of the former Yuan Dynasty. Among the many vassal kings, perhaps the palace of the King of Yan was majestic and spectacular.

The camera pulls to the depths of a palace, and the sun shines through the window edges in the room, projecting a monumental shadow on the ground.

One foot stepped on it and destroyed the exquisite pattern. The owner of the foot stood facing the house, and the sun shone behind him, and his majestic body outlined a circle of light. A thick alto was emitted in the light: "Look at Isdao, how much does Lao Fifteen know?"

In the shadow of the majestic body, a bald monk sat with his eyes closed, and the Buddhist beads in his hand kept turning. Hearing the question from the light, the Buddhist beads suddenly stopped, his voice hoarse and sharp: "I know that they don't know, I don't know that they are knowledge."

The person in front of the window was Zhu Yuanzhang's fourth son, Zhu Zhi's fourth brother - King Yan Zhu Di; and the one who didn't need on his lips in the shadow was the chief adviser of the King Yan's mute, whose surname was Yao, his name was Guangxiao and his courtesy name was Sidao. Some people also called him the monk Daoyan.

Zhu Di said: "Shidao, stop playing puzzles with me. You have read the letter from Lao Fifteen. Isn't he clearly challenging him?"

Yao Guangxiao said: "Your Highness, you only need to answer one question. What would you do if it were you?"

Zhu Di said: "If I have evidence, I will go to my father to study his book. If I don't have any, I will try my best to find evidence."

Yao Guangxiao said: "Your Highness, you cannot stand from the perspective of the King of Yan, but from the perspective of the King of Liao."

Zhu Di took a deep breath, walked slowly to the table and sat down, took a sip of tea and said, "You mean, Zhu Zhi may not want to defeat me?"

Yao Guangxiao said: "Your Highness is clear about it. Your Highness is different from the King of Liao and the King of Liao. The King of Liao is a chess piece that the prince ambushed behind you. Your Highness does not move, and the King of Liao will never move; but Your Highness moves.

The King of Liao could immediately go out of Shanhaiguan and head straight to Beiping. Therefore, the King of Liao was like a dagger on his back, and His Royal Highness would have to get rid of it and be quick.

But what about Your Highness to the King of Liao? It is a big tree that shades the sun! Among the many vassal kings, His Highness is the strongest and most hated by the Emperor's grandson. If the Emperor goes west in the future, the first person he will have to deal with after the Prince of Liao ascends the throne is His Highness, not his King of Liao; but once His Highness falls.

The Liao King first had no shade from the big trees, and then he became a rabbit to cook a dog when he died. The monk thought that with Yang Rong's ability, if he could not see this, he would be called Yang Mianren. So this is to know what he knows, and not knows what he knows.

Zhu Di said: "Si Dao means that Lao Fifteen pretends to be confused because he understands it, but he would rather be confused than understand?"

Yao Guangxiao said: "That's right! No matter how much evidence the King of Liao has, he will not and cannot defeat His Highness. So for the King of Liao, he can only know what he is but not what he is.

But this letter was unknown. Even though he knew that he would not overthrow His Highness, he deliberately revealed to His Highness that he knew about this, just to make His Highness worried and to make His Highness afraid of him. He was also warning His Highness.

Don't try to be enemies with him, he will throw this piece at all times."

Zhu Di said: "From my understanding of Lao Fifteen, this must not be his idea."

Yao Guangxiao said: "Of course it was Yang Rongdi's idea. The last time the prince's dispute in the court was a good thing. His Highness was a bad note. This person is the wings of the King of Liao and his great enemy. His Highness has to be guarded against."

Zhu Di said: "I said Lao Fifteen was a frivolous person. When will he have such a deep cunning?"

Yao Guangxiao said: "Your Highness, he is right now and then. I have carefully studied all the information about the Liao king in the past two years and found that he seemed to have become a different person than before.

First, he secretly protected the grandson and made good friends with scholars from all over the world; then he bought people's hearts and controlled the military power in the capital; finally he suppressed the Lan Yu rebellion and won the favor of the emperor; now he has made drastic reforms in Liaodong to tax military affairs, and he has not given the emperor a pretext to remove Zhang Lian.

Since his enthronement in Liao, with the assistance of Yang Rong, he immigrated, helped commerce, and built warships, and his power has increased steadily. There is another thing: in the second year of Liaodong, the King of Liao used all the silver granted by the emperor to build a government and military.

He only lived in the simplest place. He was born with a simple nature. But where did the money saved behind his back go? The King of Liao had no ambitions and the poor monks didn't believe it. At this time, the King of Liao had already formed his wings. Wen had Yang Rong and Yao Shan; Wu had Tie Xuan and Qu Neng.

In my opinion, the power of the Liao King is not at the left of His Highness.”

Zhu Di frowned and knocked on the table and said, "Then how should I deal with it?"

Yao Guangxiao said: "Your Highness, don't be in a hurry. Since the King of Liao works hard to govern, then your Highness might as well keep a low profile.

The wood is fascinated by the forest, and the wind avoids it. After all, the King of Liao is young and does not know how to hide his ambitions. At this time, he still needs the emperor's trust because the Taisun Party has not felt his ambitions yet, otherwise there will naturally be someone who will make trouble with the emperor.

So your Highness doesn’t have to worry. Instead, your Highness should actively seek evidence of the Liao King’s ambition. Once the party of the Taisun in the court launches, it is the time when your Highness launches it.”

Zhu Di nodded while listening: "What Si Dao said is extremely true, but after all, this evidence is mastered by him, and I am always afraid of it."

Yao Guangxiao said: "Your Highness, have you ever thought about why the King of Liao wrote to you, which shows that he is not rich now, and it is because he is afraid of Your Highness in his heart.

On the other hand, as long as someone in the court frames him, his Highness will definitely not be able to fight back."

Zhu Di smiled and said, "This is a good plan, and I have received the teachings. But Liu Heng is useful to me. How should his nephew Liu Shuang deal with it?"

Yao Guangxiao closed his eyes and began to turn the Buddhist beads again: "Amitabha Buddha, eternal reincarnation, and surrender to the Pure Land."

Zhu Di leaned on the chair, half of his body shining with sunshine, half of his face clear, half of his face dark, a trace of fierce light flashed in his eyes, and it was gone.

"It's time to go, it's time to go." A fire broke out in a gatehouse on Xiguan Street, Beiping. A large number of people holding buckets emerged from somewhere, surrounded this room, and people who were standing on the left and right sides wanted to put out the fire could not be approached.

The fire spread around, and five yards on Xiguan Street were burned to white ground.

Dianshen Liu Heng got up in the morning and heard the front hall crying. Liu Heng was fat and came down from the floor. Just as he was about to go out, his wife had already entered the house: "Official, it's not good, Liu Shuang's eldest nephew, he is dead."

Liu Heng was so scared that his face turned pale when he said this. He said tremblingly: "What, how did you die?"

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Liu Heng's mind was a mess, how could this happen? What did Liu Shuang do? Of course he knew that he had a secret mission from the King of Yan and found Liu Shuang to start this rice shop, which was always a shameful business.

Now that there was a sudden accident, Liu Heng thought of it as much as it was. He settled his family and quickly put on his clothes and went to the palace to see the King of Yan.

Zhu Di yawned and met Liu Heng: "Changyu, I came to find me so early. What's the matter?"

Liu Heng sobbed and said, "Your Highness, let's make the decision for Xiaochen. Last night, a fire burned the Liujia rice shop on Xiguan Street to white land. Xiaochen's nephew, his family was trapped in a fire and had no life. Woo... "

Zhu Di pretended to be surprised. He stood up quickly: "What?! Such a thing happened!!"

Liu Heng said: "Yes, today my younger brother came to report the funeral of the land. Your Highness, there must be something strange about this. Please investigate clearly!"

Zhu Di said oh, sat down and said, "In your opinion, what's wrong with it."

Liu Heng snatched his mouth: "It must be a private matter..."

Zhu Di's eyes suddenly shone brightly and he glared at him fiercely: "Yeah! Is it a personal grudge?"

Liu Heng realized that he had lost his words and said, "Oh, yes, it's a personal grudge. It's not normal for the whole family to die in the fire."

Zhu Di took a teacup expressionlessly. He glanced at the tea leaves with the cover of the bowl, waved his hand, and let the left and right go out, leaving only two people in the room. Then he said slowly: "Maybe he has fallen asleep, don't worry, I will make the decision on these things for you."

Liu Heng leaned closer and said, "Your Highness, can you see, is there something wrong with that kind of business?"

Zhu Di said: "Oh? I wonder how much money has not been shipped into the mansion yet?"

Liu Heng said: "I paid once yesterday and just sent 20,000 taels of silver into the palace. Your Highness..."

Zhu Di interrupted him and said, "It may be that he had a dirty relationship with the north. Didn't you say that the north was too expensive last time?"

Liu Heng said: "It's impossible. The price was negotiated last time."

Zhu Di still said expressionlessly: "Okay, you go down. I will definitely investigate this matter thoroughly. In addition, don't handle this transaction anymore. You can hand over any account book or other things in your hand.

From then on, those things have never happened to you before. Do you understand?" After that, Zhu Di's eyes rolled, and Liu Heng's eyes touched him, and suddenly he felt cold.

After a moment, Liu Heng nodded: "Yes, Your Highness."

When he left the palace, Liu Heng seemed to be a different life. Zhu Di had a cold look when he was about to leave the house. On the street, teams of soldiers from the left guard of Yanshan were as if they were facing a great enemy, saying that they were capturing the murderer from Xiguan Street last night.

Liu Heng returned home step by step and locked himself in the study alone.

Take a Zizhi Tongjian from the bookshelf, open the cover, and it is lined up on it, where is Zizhi Tongjian? The record is all about the business in and out of the business that sells private salt for the past five years.

He put the book into his sleeve, closed his eyes and took a deep breath, then pushed it under the desk, opened a secret lattice, pulled out a silk syll as thin as a cicada's wing, and it was written densely in small characters in fly heads. Liu Heng read the silk syll from beginning to end, and then carefully stuffed it into a corner of his belt. Liu Heng patted his waist and felt a little calm.

Then he got up and went out, and headed to the Yan Prince's Mansion.

On the dark night, a carriage ran on the road at night. The middle-aged fat man in the car tied his hands and feet with his hands and feet, his eyes were blocked, and he was still struggling. The masked man next to him cut the fat man's neck hard, and the fat man fainted and stopped moving.

The masked man shouted to the outside of the car: "Hurry, you must rush to the beach before dawn."

"On July 15th, Liu Ji rice shop was burned to white ground, and the shopkeeper's family members were thirty-eight of them were killed in the fire. The city was closed on the capital for three days, and the guards of the Yan Prince's Mansion were in Dasuo City."

Yang Rong looked at the information handed over by Peiping and sneered: "The King of Yan killed someone to silence him. He pretended to be a big shot in Beijing and sent guards instead of sending police officers. It was really obvious that he was searching for fish that had leaked the net from the rice shop."

Zhu Zhi said: "The clues are all broken, and we have no evidence in our hands."

Yang Rong smiled and said, "It may not be possible. Rong has a gift to you."

Zhu Zhi said: "Oh? What gift?"

Yang Rong said: "Liu Heng!"

Zhu Zhi was surprised and said, "What does it mean?!"

Yang Rong said: "I believe that King Yan will use this method, so I ordered Wujian to take advantage of the chaos after the incident. I'm afraid he is on the boat to Liaodong at present."

Zhu Zhiteng sat up from the chair, stared at Yang Rong with surprise and said, "Mianren, Mianren, why don't you discuss it with me?"

Yang Rong said: "At that time, Your Highness was busy with Jurchen military affairs in Liaoyang, and the soldiers were very fast. If you report again, the time would be missed, so my subordinates dared to make a decision. Please forgive me."

I still trust Yang Rong and Zhu Zhi. Since the matter has been done, there must be his reason. Zhu Zhi said: "This matter is very important. Liu Heng is the official appointed by the court. If the court finds out, how can I take responsibility for it."

Yang Rong seemed confident: "There are only four members of Wujian participating in this operation. After these four people completed this task, I arranged for them to work in Goryeo. In addition, the pickup ship had no idea who was picking up and dropping off.

So the possibility of things being exposed from our side is very slim.

Secondly, as the King of Yan, even if he thought that this person might be kidnapped by us, he would not be able to make a statement. Besides, Liu Heng might be afraid that the King of Yan would escape alone; furthermore, as the King of Yan, he might think that this is a huge opportunity. As long as the case breaks out in the future, all the blame will be hit on Liu Heng.

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After listening to Yang Rong's analysis, Zhu Zhi suddenly felt very reasonable. Unless a mole appeared inside Wujian, it would be impossible for the King of Yan to know about it. He said: "Why did Mianren take this dangerous chess?"

Yang Rong said: "My subordinates think that just a letter cannot make the King of Yan really worry. Liu Heng has connected with the King of Yan and his nephew, and must have some evidence in his hand. Taking him over and imprisoning him is a shadow that enveloped the King of Yan's heart.

Your Highness, please see. In a few days, news will come from the King of Yan who captured Liu Heng’s family. And the family must be safe and sound. The King of Yan will use his family as a threat.”

Zhu Zhi smiled knowingly and said, "Even if the court finds out in the future, I would like to investigate the private salt case. I can only ask Liu Heng, who is involved in this case, to help with the investigation, and to inform the King of Yan in advance."

Yang Rong said: "Yes, that's true. Even if the court really investigates, Your Highness still has enough reason to get rid of the relationship."

At Songshan Fort Pier, the moon is dark and the wind is high. A small boat is slowly mooring to the shore. Yang Rong led a few people to a carriage for a long time.

Seeing that the boat was anchored, Yang Rong quickly walked into the boat and went down the cabin to the bottom. Four men in black were watching over a fat man in blue in the cabin. Yang Rong closed the cabin door and bowed to the four people, "Thank you for your hard work." The four of them hurriedly replied.

Yang Rong kicked the man in blue and said, "What's your name?"

The man in blue said in horror: "I am the official, Liu Heng, the official, the emperor of the Yan King's Mansion, please spare my life."
Chapter completed!