In a house in Jiangdu County, Li Zhi and his father quarreled over the same thing.

"I told you a long time ago, you can't get involved in a power struggle in this business, you will be imprisoned at the least, and you will lose your life at the worst, you just don't listen, it's good now, you actually agree to this kind of request, you are confused!"

Li Zhi's father was so angry that he slapped the table, he had been a broker for thirty years, how experienced he was, when his son said that there were guests who asked him to investigate forty-two salt and iron judges, he immediately guessed that this matter must be related to the recent situation in Yangzhou, what a dangerous trap, his son actually stepped into it, how could he not be angry?

Li Zhi sat at the table with his legs crossed, he was quite unimpressed by his father's fierce reaction, of course he knew that there were risks in it, but wealth and wealth were in danger, and people had to pay him a total of 600 yuan! That's his income for at least eight years, how could he give it up?

Li Zhi threw a fruit into his mouth and said with a sneer: "Father hasn't asked the other party how much money he gave me!" ”

"It's not about money......"

"It's a matter of money, guess how much he gave me?"

"How much can I give you? I'll give you a maximum of fifty dollars. ”

Li Zhi sneered, "It's only fifty runs, hum!" Tell you, it's 600 times. ”

"Ahh

Li Zhi's father was also stunned, and after a while, he hesitated and asked, "Really.... Really give six hundred? ”

Li Zhi took out five major ingots of silver and put them on the table, "This is two hundred and fifty taels of silver, which was given to me as a deposit, and I will report the investigation to him in ten days, and the rest of the silver will be paid in one lump sum." ”

Bai Huahua's silver took Li Zhi's father's eyes off, and he swallowed and said, "You can do it for him, but the premise is that he must keep it secret and can't betray our father and son." ”

"Father, don't worry! As long as something is true, then everything is easy to say, but the point is that my ability is limited, and I have to ask my father to come out in this matter. ”

"I said! How can you possibly do this, in the end, it still depends on me. ”

Li Zhi's father snorted, "When does he want it?" ”

"Give it to him in ten days."

"This time is a bit tight, I have some of the judges' information over there, I'll sort it out first, see what is missing, and I'll add it."

At this time, someone outside the door asked, "Excuse me, is this Li Dazui's house?" ”

Li Zhi hurriedly walked out and saw a young man standing at the door, which he had never seen before.

"I'm Li Dazui, what's the matter with you?"

The young man smiled and said, "My surname is Sun, my name is Sun Xiaozhen, didn't my uncle ask you to help investigate today?" Five hundred dollars for that ......"

Li Zhi suddenly realized, "Please come in!" ”

Sun Xiaozhen walked in, and Li Zhi smiled: "Your uncle is young enough." ”

"There's no way, he's actually a year younger than me, but the seniority is here, and I can only call him uncle."

"Brother Sun Xian is looking for me?"

Sun Xiaozhen nodded, "I want you to know more about the situation of the Salt Gang." ”

The two sat down, and Li Zhi said with a smile: "If you have any ideas, you might as well tell me directly, I have a tacit understanding with your uncle, and he will tell me directly if he wants any information." ”

Sun Xiaozhen thought for a while and said, "Actually, I just want to know one thing, such as what happened, will cause a serious conflict between the salt gangs?" ”

.........

At dusk, a large passenger ship left the boundary of Xuzhou and entered Sizhou.

"Taking a boat to Yangzhou is the stupidest decision I have made in recent years!"

A man with a slender face drank the wine from his glass and slammed it on the table, very annoyed, "If we had ridden a horse, we would have arrived a long time ago." ”

This man is Yu Chaoen's third son, Yu Lingxuan, who was ordered to go to Yangzhou to take over the position of Yangzhou Governor, he is tall, with a horse face, and a scorched face, nicknamed 'Sick San Lang'.

In the Yu family, blood relatives are the most valued, such as Yu Chaoen's brother Yu Chao'an, who was originally just a butcher in Luzhou, but now he is the official general of Qianniuwei and the title of Duke of Anyang County.

Another example is Yu Chao'an's two sons, Yu Linghui and Yu Lingwu, Yu Linghui passed to Yu Chaoen, became Yu Chaoen's eldest son, and was appointed as a waiter in the Ministry of Rites.

Yu Lingwu served as the general of the Shence Army, and because the general of the Shence Army was concurrently served by Yu Chaoen, Yu Lingwu became one of the actual commanders of the Shence Army.

Although Yu Lingxuan is also Yu Chaoen's nephew, his ability is slightly weaker, and more importantly, he is illiterate, so he is not very valued by Yu Chaoen, and he did not serve as a court official, but let him be in charge of Tianyuan Pavilion.

But even if he is in charge of Tianyuan Pavilion, the person who gives the order is still Yu Chaoen, and the internal management is in the hands of the eunuch Li Enping, and Yu Lingxuan only plays the role of a supervisor.

This time he was sent to Yangzhou as a lieutenant, and it was also the reward of his ten years of loyalty, and he finally began to enter the official career after the age of thirty.

Yu Lingxuan wanted to fly to Yangzhou with wings, but he chose to take a boat, which was very slow, which made him anxious.

The person sitting opposite Yu Lingxuan was Wu Yue, the chief warrior of Tianyuan Tower, who ranked third in Chang'an martial arts, and was highly valued by Yu Chaoen, and his status in Tianyuan Pavilion even surpassed Yu Lingxuan.

This time, Wu Yue took ten Tianyuan Pavilion warriors to escort Yu Lingxuan to Yangzhou, also because Yu Lingxuan's appointment as the governor of Yangzhou was a crucial part of Yu Chaoen's seizure of control of the salt tax, and there was no room for error.

Wu Yue glanced at the sky outside, and smiled at Yu Lingxuan: "It's getting dark, or just rest on the shore!" ”

"A bunch of useless bastards, why can't you sail at night?"

Yu Lingxuan scolded and scolded, but he also knew that the boatman generally did not sail at night, and the boatman had to rest, and the slender man had to rest, otherwise he would not be able to sail tomorrow.

"It's fucking boring!"

Yu Lingxuan stood up and staggered out of the cabin, "Don't drink, I'm going to sleep!" ”

Looking at Yu Lingxuan's back in the distance, Wu Yue shook his head, where is this guy going to sleep?

Yu Lingxuan made a big fuss in a brothel after drinking in Pengcheng County, and later wrapped a powder head and actually brought it on the boat, this bastard must have gone to find that woman to be happy, if Weng's father knew, he didn't know how to scold himself.

Yu Lingxuan followed the rules in the capital, and did not dare to exceed the rules, but he didn't expect that as soon as he left the capital, his nature was exposed, eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling were a lot, and there was a lot of movement all the way south.

It really made Wu Yue's heart full of worry.

Such a person will only be toyed with by others in applause when he goes to Yangzhou, where can he complete the task given to him by his father, and there is a Yu Chao'an, relying on himself to be Yu Chaoen's brother, arrogant, rude and arrogant, but simple-minded, he gave himself a nickname called 'Chang'an Butcher', completely a bastard who doesn't know whether to live or die, and he is actually the general of Qianniuwei, and he is knighted as the Duke of Anyang County.

The more Wu Yue thought about it, the more disgusting he became, he actually worked hard for such a person, he really lived like a dog.

As the night wore on, and the porter and the boatman fell asleep, the four warriors on duty stood on the bow, stern, and shore, watching warily as the ship docked on the shore, and the river breeze gently proppelled the boat up and down.

At this moment, a dark figure in the water silently approached the boat, and Guo Song slowly poked his head out of the water and looked at the samurai at the stern of the boat.

Guo Song found the traces of Yu Lingxuan and his entourage in Pengcheng County, Yu Lingxuan made a big fuss in the brothel, alarming the government, although the county order sent them out of the city respectfully, but exposed the traces of Yu Lingxuan and his party.

The samurai at the bow of the boat couldn't see him, but the samurai at the stern of the boat was facing the Cao River, and if he made the slightest movement, he would be discovered.

After waiting for a while, the samurai at the stern of the boat stretched his waist and turned around and walked to the other side, Guo Song seized the opportunity and got on the boat, fortunately, the river pushed the boat to rise and fall, and the shaking of his getting on the boat was disguised.

Guo Song leaned in lightly again, and climbed to the second-floor cabin, he followed all the way, he already knew Yu Lingxuan's cabin seat, Guo Song took out a dagger, gently pried open a window, and went in as soon as he jumped in.

The moonlight poured in through the window of the ship, covering the cabin with a layer of silver, and in the cabin fell asleep a man and a woman, ugly cuddled together, sleeping soundly.

Guo Song sneered, waved the dagger in his hand, blood splashed, Yu Lingxuan suddenly died in a deep sleep, Guo Song casually ripped off a piece of beautiful jade from Yu Lingxuan's neck, this is an old dragon pattern jade, the style is simple, is a symbol of status.

Twenty years ago, Emperor Li Longji gave Yu Chaoen, and Yu Chaoen gave Yu Lingxuan, which has always been worn by Yu Lingxuan, and now it has become Guo Song's trophy.

Guo Song slapped the woman's face with a dagger again, and the woman slowly opened her eyes and found a strange man standing in front of her, next to Yu Lingxuan's neck had been cut, and blood was gushing out.

The woman screamed in fright, Guo Song punched her on the head, and the woman fainted instantly.......

Wu Yue slept next door, he was suddenly awakened by the woman's scream, he sat up suddenly, grabbed his sword and ran out.

At this time, two samurai also heard the screams and ran over.

"Chief, what happened, it was like hearing a woman's screams."

"I don't know what's going on!"

Wu Yue knocked on the cabin door hard, but no one responded inside, his uneasy feeling became stronger and stronger, and his heart became impatient, and he kicked open the cabin door and rushed in.

I saw the woman fainting to the side, while Yu Ling Xuan and Yi were lying on the floor, with their backs to themselves, covered in blood.

Wu Yue was anxious, stepped forward and turned Yu Lingxuan over, only to see that Yu Lingxuan's face was full of blood, Wu Yue touched his snort, "Third son, how are you?" ”

At this time, Wu Yue suddenly seemed to feel that something was wrong, and saw Yu Lingxuan open his eyes slightly and smile strangely at himself.

Wu Yue only felt a pain in his chest, and a dagger was inserted into his chest, Wu Yue screamed, and in a moment before he died, he suddenly understood that something was wrong, Yu Lingxuan was notoriously long-faced, and the other party was not.

Wu Yue was pierced through the chest by a dagger and was killed on the spot, several warriors were stunned, only to see a black shadow flash, and the fish on the ground Ling Xuan jumped up and flew out of the window of the ship accurately, 'Plop! He fell into the water and disappeared like a fish.

"The third son is here!"

The samurai found Yu Lingxuan wrapped in the quilt, only to see that the blood in his throat had coagulated, and he had already died of anger, and the samurai looked at the leader who was stabbed to death, and everyone was stunned, they didn't know what to do?