Li Yanqing walked into the room and sat down and asked, "What happened to the Cao family?" ”

"A box army in Chenliu County seized Baoyanzhai's fleet, and the ships were all from the inner mansion of the Cao Mansion, as well as more than 20 clansmen from the Cao family."

This news made Li Yanqing slightly stunned, it was okay to intercept Baoyanzhai's fleet, but he dared to intercept the Cao family's materials and clansmen, and it was the Cao family's house, that was the Cao family's savings for a hundred years, who was so bold?

"When was it?"

"I just received the news that the interception should have happened at noon, but the situation is unknown now!"

Li Yanqing paced back and forth in the room with his hands in his hands, a small box army actually dared to challenge himself and the Cao family, if there was no one behind him, it would be hell.

Could that be behind it?

Li Yanqing's first reaction was Wang Hao, Wang Hao was avenging the suspension of the court, but Li Yanqing felt that as a dignified Xiangguo, it was not too stupid to do such a self-damaging thing, although he could embarrass himself for a while, but when the news spread, his aura of Xiangguo was about to be tarnished.

Li Yanqing believed that Wang Hao hated himself to the bone, but Wang Hao would definitely not use this kind of subordinate means to take revenge on himself, and offending the Cao family would also offend the entire meritorious family.

If it wasn't Wang Huang, who would it be? Who can mobilize the army to intercept the fleet? At this time, Li Yanqing suddenly thought of someone, could it be him?

"Fu Yin, what should we do?" Cao Ying asked in a low voice on the side.

"Let's go to Cao's house first!"

Of course, Li Yanqing knew that the Cao family sent someone to inform Cao Ying, in fact, he was looking for him, he did not delay, he immediately got up and walked out, and several pro-soldiers who were resting also led their horses out.

This time, Li Yanqing took one hundred and nine personal soldiers to the south, of which 100 people have been incorporated into the New Northern Army as low-level generals, and one person serves as a messenger to communicate between the New Taipei Army and the capital, and the remaining eight people are his personal guards.

Eight soldiers followed the gallop towards Cao's mansion, and Cao Ying also rode a horse to follow behind, and after a while, the group rushed to Cao's mansion.

As soon as he arrived at the gate of Cao's Mansion, he was confronted by the concubine Cao Sheng and walked out angrily.

"Yanqing, you also got the news?" Cao Sheng saw that Li Yanqing was in a hurry, and knew that he must have also gotten the news that the Cao family had been intercepted.

Li Yanqing nodded, "What's going on?" Li Yanqing asked.

"Damn Tong Guan!" Cao Sheng gritted his teeth and scolded.

"Tong Guan?"

Li Yanqing's footsteps hesitated slightly, he also thought that it was Tong Guan, but he didn't expect Cao Sheng to say it so surely.

"Can Uncle Xiao Qi be sure?"

Cao Sheng sneered, "It was Fei Hong who led his subordinates to intercept, isn't Fei Hong Tong Guan's adopted son?" ”

Cao Sheng turned over and said viciously: "Since you want to go against my Cao family, I want to see how capable Tong Guan is?" Let's go! ”

Cao Sheng hit his horse and left, galloping south with a group of horseback riders, Li Yanqing also urged the horse to follow, and in a moment, a group of people disappeared at the end of the road.

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Li Yanqing urged Ma all the way south, but he couldn't figure it out, why did Tong Guan do this? He obviously offended himself and the Cao family by doing this, so what is there to brag about him?

And what is the basis for his henchmen to seize the fleet like this? Isn't he afraid that the Cao family will sue him fiercely in front of the Son of Heaven, so that he can't eat and walk around?

The more he thought about it, the more strange Li Yanqing felt, he suddenly reined in the war horse and shouted, "Little Uncle Seven, wait a minute!" ”

Cao Sheng restrained the war horse, "What's wrong?" ”

Li Yanqing asked in a deep voice: "Tell me first, is it that the imperial court has forbidden officials from leaving Beijing?" ”

This was the only reason Li Yanqing could think of, otherwise Tong Guan would not dare to send someone to intercept the Cao family so blatantly.

Cao Sheng also calmed down a little at this time, he groaned, nodded slowly, Li Yanqing was stunned, "It's true?" ”

Cao Sheng sighed, "Two months ago, on the third day of the prince's imprisonment, the official family issued a holy decree, strictly prohibiting the relocation of family members and property from Beijing, but in fact, this decree did not have any effect, and the senior officials of the imperial court still used various methods to move their property south, as for their families, many officials' wives and children used excuses to go out to play, and the imperial court had no choice. ”

"What about the fleet?" Li Yanqing asked again.

"The imperial court has long issued a ship requisition order, requisitioning all civilian ships in Kaifeng Mansion and Hebei Province for transporting military materials, so ships generally do not dare to enter the capital, and can only park in the counties of Kaifeng Prefecture.

The doubts in Li Yanqing's heart were solved, and the unspoken rules became explicit rules, or it was the reason why Tong Guan had no fear, Li Yanqing also vaguely guessed why Tong Guan wanted to play this hand, and the reason was that the imperial court formed the New Northern Army, and this opportunity was especially important for Tong Guan, who had lost his military power.

However, Tong Guan actually used the Cao family and him Li Yanqing to sharpen his knives, and he really pinched them as soft persimmons.

Li Yanqing snorted coldly, "Go to Chenliu County first!" ”

Everyone picked up speed again and rushed along the official road in the direction of Chenliu County in the night.

In fact, Li Yanqing was right, the establishment of the New Taipei Army involved a total of three forces, one is the Gao Yu force, the other is the East Palace force, and the other is Li Yanqing's force, if Tong Guan wants to put his hand into the New Taipei Army, he needs to knock out one of the three forces, of course, Tong Guan can only attack Li Yanqing, who is the weakest, as for the Cao family, Tong Guan really didn't take the famous and powerless Cao family to heart.

Li Yanqing and Cao Sheng rushed overnight, and finally arrived in Chenliu County at the third watch.

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On the bank of the Bianhe River, which is about five miles away from Chenliu County, there are about 20 cargo ships, the largest two are large cargo ships of 1000 stones, and the rest are medium-sized cargo ships of 500 stones.

This fleet was the Baoyanzhai fleet detained by the Chenliu County garrison, transporting the Cao family's property and some of the clansmen to Hangzhou, at this time there were more than 1,000 soldiers on the shore, all of them were van soldiers, and they strictly guarded this fleet and strictly forbade them to leave.

The boatman and most of the Cao clan went to Chenliu County, and only a few Cao clansmen remained, including Li Yanqing's father-in-law, Cao Xuan.

Cao Xuan is the person in charge of the Cao family's southward journey this time, escorting the wealth accumulated by the Cao family for decades, of course, these gold and silver are packed in large wooden boxes and locked in the cabin, unless these soldiers rob openly and smash the ship, otherwise the wealth of the Cao family will be fine for the time being.

But even so, Cao Xuan was still very angry in his heart, this was the wealth of the Cao family, a small commander of the box army actually dared to intercept it, could it be that he really ate the bear's heart and leopard gall and wanted to rob the Cao family's wealth?

Of course, this is just an idea under annoyance, even if Cao Xuan is not usually involved in officialdom, he also understands that this Fei Hong is just a knife in someone's hand, daring to intercept the wealth of the Cao family, and the person behind the scenes is at least a high-ranking official at the level of prime minister.

"General Fei, this confrontation is not a way, I know you can't be the master, please go and report to the person who can call the shots immediately, otherwise we will find that there are fewer things on the ship, I'm afraid it will be difficult for you to explain." Cao Xuan coldly threatened one of the generals standing on the shore.

The general on the shore didn't seem to hear anything, there was no expression on his face, this general was Fei Hong, the commander of the Xiang Army, about thirty years old, a native of Zhaozhou, he was also favored by Tong Guan at the same time as Li Yanqing, but he followed Tong Guan directly, and was adopted by Tong Guan as an adopted son.

Fei Hong was already about to be promoted to general, but the fiasco of Tong Guan's Northern Expedition to Liao also caused Fei Hong to be punished jointly and severally, and he was demoted to the commander of the Caizhou Xiang Army.

Of course, Fei Hong knew that the Cao family was not a family that he could afford to provoke, but he had to carry out his father's orders to the letter, and the only way was to pretend to be deaf and dumb and complete his task.

"Humph! Do you think that if you don't speak, you don't have to take responsibility? ”

Cao Xuan snorted coldly and said: "I might as well tell you clearly, the ships are full of the wealth of the Cao family, if you dare to touch them, I guarantee that the Cao family will let you and the people behind you walk around without eating!" ”

Fei Hong still didn't say anything, and at this moment, there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves in the distance, and Li Yanqing and Cao Sheng finally arrived at the place where the fleet was seized.