Huaiyin City.

At this time, Sima Jian was in a temporary station outside the city, looking at the map in front of him and having a headache.

Soon after, after Huaiyin, go a distance upstream, that is, Zhongli, the upstream of Zhongli is Yinling Daze, and the south of Daze is Yinling. The northwest of Yinling is Quyang, the southeast is Dongcheng, and a large area to the west is Shou County.

Therefore, the land of Yin Ling is surrounded by Zhongli, Dongcheng, Quyang, and Shouxian. Among them, the largest and richest is Shou County, which is directly under the command of the King of Chu, Shou County is nominally a county, but its strength exceeds that of ordinary counties.

In addition to Shou County, the other three places are all fiefdoms of feudal monarchs, among which Quyang is the strongest, Dongcheng is the second, and Zhongli is the second.

According to the normal path, he should first lead the army to the Yin Tomb, and then start with the simplest Zhongli.

And according to the king's order, he needs to search the people of Yinling from house to house.

However, he knew in his heart that among the current Chu State, which nobleman did not hide the land of the people and evade taxes?

It's just a more or less problem.

This problem, even he himself is no exception, of course, not to mention Zhong Lijun, Dongcheng Jun, Quyang Jun, the three feudal monarchs who are far away from Yingdu, they must also hide a large number of people's private land.

Even, Sima Jian also suspected that except for Ling Yin Zhaoju in the Chu State, no one else was exempt from vulgarity, even the Zuo disciple Qu Yuan was no exception.

Sima Jian believes that with Qu Yuan's character, he should not take the initiative to hide the people, but in the past 20 years, he has successively received 2,000 households, so many people, among them, there must be people who secretly hide the land of men.

As for the reason why Ling Yin Zhaoju didn't, it was because since Zhao Ju asked for Sheyang, the people of Sheyang have been in a state of loss, and even Zhao Ju himself didn't bother to take care of Sheyang, but just handed over everything to Ling Yin, who was sent by the king.

In this case, it would be good if Sheyang could keep the people from losing, where could the people be hidden.

Therefore, he went to check Zhongli, Dongcheng, and Quyang next, not to check the three of them, but to make enemies of all the nobles of Chu State.

This kind of thing, even the toughest leftist Qu Yuan didn't dare to touch, and he didn't dare to defeat a newly appointed division.

Once he found out Zhong Lijun and the others, he would definitely be torn apart by the angry nobles afterwards.

What's more, when he came to Jianghuai this time, all the 3,000 soldiers under his command were brought, but with such a small number of people, he was afraid that he would not be able to handle even the weakest Zhong Lijun, let alone the strongest Qu Yangjun.

In case...

But the key problem is that he can't disobey the orders of the king of Chu.

After all, if the nobles want to tear him apart, they have to ask the king of Chu to give an order through intrigue and trickery, and if the king of Chu wants to kill him, he just orders directly.

Thinking about it, Sima Jian frowned deeply.

It's embarrassing, it's too embarrassing.

Just when Sima Jian was entangled, the deputy general Zhao Gai walked in: "Si defeated, I just got the news in Xia, just yesterday, Quyang Junlong, who had just ascended the throne, ordered the people to be recruited on the grounds of thoroughly investigating the people of Yinling, and asked the soldiers to block the passage of Quyang. ”

"Demonstrations? Or intimidation? Or is it something else? Sima Jian was shocked, before he reached the Yin Tomb, those feudal monarchs began to act.

At this time, Zhao Gai continued: "Also, on Zhongli's side, although Zhonglijun has not yet ordered the people to be recruited, Zhonglijun has also sent soldiers to block the road in and out of Zhongli. ”

"This..." Sima Jian was stunned, thought for a while, and said: "General Zhao, tell me to go down, after the army sets off tomorrow, we will go straight to Shou County, and we will not go to Zhongli." ”

When Zhao Gai heard this, he immediately arched his hand and said: "The defeat is wise." ”

Yingdu.

"Jianghuai Fengjun began to pay large-scale bribes, and Sima Jian's deputy general Zhao Gai received a generous gift from Dongcheng Jun. The Jianghuai aristocratic doorman has come to Yingdu with a heavy courtier. ”

"Hmph, that's to be expected." Xiong Huai snorted lightly, it was not surprising that the Jianghuai nobles would bribe a lot.

Then, Xiong Huai picked up another piece of information.

"Jianghuai nobles and guests go to various countries to pay bribes with heavy gifts?"

"This..." Xiong Huai's face stiffened slightly, although he had expected that the nobleman might take this step, but when the nobleman really took this step, he was still on fire in his heart.

The feudal lords of all regions have all the authority of the monarch, except for diplomacy, which all feudal monarchs cannot touch.

Diplomacy, this is the power that belongs to him as the king of Chu.

However, now the nobles of Jianghuai let people go to other countries with heavy gifts.

What did they send people for?

Xiong Huai can think of it with his feet.

"Quyangjun recruits the people..."

Just picked up a piece of information, Xiong Huai immediately frowned.

"The widow thought that Qu Long had just ascended the throne, and he should be very timid, but he didn't expect that his courage was really fat. Even what his elder son Qu Luan didn't dare to do, he dared to do.

Well, there is a kind. ”

As he spoke, Xiong Huai put down the information in his hand and picked up a piece of information again.

"Jianghuai Fengjun has taken collective action, whether he has been implicated or not, he has begun to contribute money and efforts, all of them want to find out the real culprit and get rid of it as soon as possible."

Seeing this, Xiong Huai's heart tightened.

All the previous news was not as bad as this one.

Where those people went, he knew better than everyone else, and he had sent them to Sheyang.

That's right, it is Ling Yin Zhaoju's fiefdom, not far from the mouth of Huaishui.

Previously, because of the continuous wars of the Three Kingdoms of Qi, Chu and Yue around Huaishui, there were not many people in Sheyang as a battlefield, and Sheyang was already barren, which led to the people of Sheyang running out in recent years, so that even Zhaoju, who was a landlord, never managed and operated.

Therefore, Sheyang is a very easy place to hide people.

However, although most of the Sheyang Baili are barren and uninhabited, there are hundreds of nobles in the land of Jianghuai, and so many nobles are looking for them at the same time, and it will not take long to find Sheyang.

Once the news that the people are shooting Yang leaks, then this news will definitely blow up the entire Chu State.

He, the king of Chu, may be fine, but if Yin Zhaoju even has Qu Yuan and others, it may be over.

Thinking of this, Xiong Huai's heart suddenly became heavy.

"It looks like the widow is going to speed things up."

Two days later.

Jiezi returned from Hanbei County, and after Xiong Huai got the news, he summoned Jiezi as soon as possible.

A small pavilion in the palace.

Xiong Huai sits opposite the slicer.

At this time, Xiong Huai personally poured the wine glass in front of the pick-up with wine, and then sat on the table and raised the wine glass and said: "When Mr. returns, the widow's heart is very happy, and please Mr. drink this cup full." ”

"Your Majesty, please!" The receiver immediately raised his glass and took the lead in taking a drink.

After finishing the reminiscence, Xiong Huai said with a heavy face: "Mr. has returned this time, I think I must have understood the intention of the widow to invite Mr. back to Yingdu from Hanbei." ”

The receiver nodded.

Although Qu Yuan enacted the law, the law enforcers had always been partial to the aristocracy and had always implemented the old law.

Especially the matter of the previous feudal monarch's recruitment of the people, and the big scandal of the former court manager Sun Hao accepting bribes from the feudal monarch also broke out.

Now that he has returned to Yingdu to take over as Tingli, he is going to reverse this situation.

It's just...

Jiezi looked at the King of Chu in front of him at this time, but he was a little worried in his heart.

Not because of other things, but because of the biggest news in the Chu State now, the Yin Ling Yin clan was wiped out.

If he is still like the previous edict of the king of Chu, he will go to Jianghuai to thoroughly investigate the case of Fengjun recruiting the people.

The case of Fengjun recruiting the people, the case of the Yin Clan's extermination of the Yin Clan, this shocking case is superimposed together...

This is likely to be too much.

Thinking about it, Jiezi looked at the king of Chu cautiously and asked, "Dare to ask the king, if the minister went to Jianghuai······ Is the king ready? ”

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