Although Wu Zhen looked down on these Qiu Eight Martial Artists very much, after all, he was under the low eaves, and he didn't dare to fully reveal his feelings, so he had to stare at Li Shuangcai and ask: "You, what do you want to do?" ”

Li Shuangcai smiled: "The mansion is a distinguished guest, so naturally you want to be entertained, please come with the villain!" ”

Looking at Li Shuangcai, who was descriptive and smiling badly in front of him, Wu Zhen's heart couldn't help but beat a drum, isn't this guy playing some bad ideas? Considering the official's appearance, he was afraid that these Qiu Ba would make some moths, thinking in his heart, he was thinking about how to refuse, but unexpectedly, Li Shuangcai had already grabbed his arm and pulled him out.

Seeing that the wood had become a boat, he secretly said that this Qiu Bawufu was afraid that he would not be able to refuse, if he had been unbearable in the past, he would be reprimanded. But for the sake of the task assigned by Zhang Gelao, he had to swallow his anger, reluctantly follow the reality, and kept saying: "General, come slowly, come slowly, I will go with you!" ”

Li Shuangcai laughed in his mouth, and his tone was politely tight, but this content made Wu Zhen cry and laugh: "Don't let go of the mansion, if I let go, you will slip ......away."

"You let go quickly, this official will do what he says, if you don't leave!"

It's just that no matter how Wu Zhen swore to the sky, Li Shuangcai didn't believe it, and dragged his sleeve along the way, turned around in the east of the barracks and came to a side tent. Wu Zhen stepped into the tent with his front feet, only to feel the heat on his face, and the aroma of wine and meat immediately filled his nose. I breathed a sigh of relief in my heart, it turned out that these Qiu Ba really prepared wine and meat and wanted to treat themselves. Although he was drinking at the same table with these martial artists, he thought that as long as he could complete the tasks assigned by Zhang Ge Lao, what would it matter if he handed it over?

Wu Zhen was not a coquettish person, although his temper was a little irritable and narrow-minded, but he couldn't get rid of the shadow of straightforwardness and cheerfulness after all, so he laughed for a while and gladly accepted the invitation.

Li Xin was not idle after leaving in a hurry, and the scouts sent out to investigate the case of the Chen family brothers had already returned to his life, and he was naturally inconvenient to talk to Wu Zhen about it. As for what he said, the idea of postponing Zhang Fangyan's entry into Nanjing was also the first step in the plan, and he tried to contact the officials in Nanjing as late as possible, so that he could leave them alone and calmly make arrangements for the periphery, and it would not be too late to enter Beijing after the matter had become clear.

"Lord Hou, the local people seem to be very taboo about the affairs of the Chen family, and most of them keep their mouths shut. The villain searched for no less than 100 people, and only one or two vaguely said a few words, I don't know if it is useful to Hou Ye! "These scouts are all sturdy refugees who were collected when they first entered the territory of Nanzhili, and they are under the command of Li Shuangcai. Because the dialect accent is relatively close to Ying Tianfu, he undertook the task of finding out the news.

It's just that this scout is really verbose, picking up some irrelevant words and paving endlessly, Li Xin directly interrupted him and asked him to get to the point. The scout only told him what he had inquired about.

It turns out that nearly 30% of the land in the vicinity of this Yingtian does not grow grain, but only cotton. The vast majority of these cotton fields belong to Chen Naijin, a large cloth merchant, who grows cotton and then weaves cotton cloth into cotton cloth by small workshops scattered in various villages.

Li Xin nodded and listened silently.

"Regarding the reputation of the Chen family, the villain is also strange. But where there are big landlords in the locality, the people will curse more and praise less. This Ying Tian people are just the opposite, although they refuse to speak when talking about Chen Naijin's bandit case. can ask him about his personality, and repeatedly praise Master Chen for being a rare good man in many years. ”

The scout suddenly slapped his head at this point, "By the way, and! The tenants of these cotton fields have received an edict from the government to ban the cultivation of cotton and replace it with rice from next year. The villain is also strange, even if the Chen family loses, but if the Nuoda industry left by his family is taken over, he will have to make money every year, and the ideas of these officials and masters are a bit confusing, and the villain can't understand the truth. ”

"The Imperial Decree? Is it under the Ying Tianfu, or is it deployed by Nanzhili? ”

"Back to the Hou Ye, the villain is near Longtan County, and most people say that it is the edict issued by the county lord of Longtan County."

Li Xin picked up a few important points and asked a few more words, but when he saw that he could no longer ask anything, he sent the scout out, and when he was the only one left in the tent, he fell into deep contemplation. It seems that Chen, the county magistrate of Longtan County, also knows the inside story, but ignores this important person. Li Xin was not polite, and immediately sent his own soldiers into the city to give orders.

The Chen County Order of Longtan County and Li Xin are not subordinate to each other, even if Li Xin's Jun Order is rejected, it is not necessary. However, Chen Xianling may have been timid by nature, and after finishing his official business, he left the city early the next morning and rushed to the camp of the Three Guards outside the city. Up to now, he was afraid and impressed by this captive marquis. This person really managed the army well, and he said that he would do what he said if he did not commit any crime with the local Qiu, and all the soldiers of the Three Guards had not even taken a stitch or thread from the people. After Chen County Ling got the news of the county's return from the soap, he also sighed unconsciously, this kind of general with troops in the Ming Dynasty is not one in a hundred, and there is no one in ten thousand.

But as soon as he entered the Chinese military tent, he found that he had thought about the purpose of coming here today, Li Xinmian pondered that the water did not look half smiling, and even the seat was not served, and it was clear that there was a tendency to ask for guilt, so he regretted that he should not come lightly, but since the wood was already in the boat, it was too late to say anything, so he had to pinch his nose and endure it.

Li Xin also did not greet him, and directly mentioned where the imperial decree issued by the county government to convert cotton fields to rice fields came from. When Chen Xianling heard that the Marquis of Zhenyu called him to ask about this matter, a big stone in his heart fell to the ground again, which was naturally issued according to the official document of Fengtianfu, and he really didn't know the inside story.

Li Xin was disappointed by Chen County's answer, but he only looked at the surface of his feet and did not dare to look at him, for fear that there should be incompleteness in what he said. Li Xin wanted to ask a few words, but suddenly there was a real commotion outside the tent of the Chinese army, and he immediately heard it, which was sometimes high and sometimes low was the voice of Wu Zhen, the prefect of Yangzhou.

In a moment, the wooden door of the Chinese army's tent was pushed open from the outside, and a drunk man rushed in. saw that this drunk man was shirtless, and on his face and chest were ink stains of unknown patterns of dragons flying and phoenix dances. Li Xingang wanted to insert the drunk out left and right to sober up, but he recognized from his muffled voice at a glance that this person turned out to be Wu Zhen, the prefect of Yangzhou.

Wu Zhen staggered under his feet, pointed at Li Xin's nose and jumped to his feet and scolded, saying that he deceived people too much, and it was unbearable to insult himself so much. Before he finished a few words, he stumbled under his feet again, and fell straight to the. I saw that he struggled a few times and didn't get up, and in the blink of an eye, he snored like thunder, and he was already asleep!

Seeing Wu Zhen's appearance, Li Xin almost couldn't hold back his laughter, and said in his heart that this must be Li Shuangcai's masterpiece, and seeing Chen County's frightened look, he couldn't help himself, and laughed at him a few times, "The prank of the people in the camp made the county Zunjian laugh......"

Without waiting for Li Xin's words to finish, the Chen County Commander said with interest: "If the Marquis of Zhenyu has no other instructions, the lower officials will leave first......

"Wait!" Chen Xian Lingben had already walked quickly to the door, and when he heard Li Xin calling him, he couldn't help but shudder, and turned around and asked Li Xin what else he could teach.

"Today, today's county respects the power and should have never seen anything......" Hearing that Li Xin was relieved only for this matter, he even made repeated promises, and ran out of the Chinese army tent as if he fled, for some reason he was also afraid of this town captive marquis.

Li Xin didn't know if this Chen County Order denied that the person in front of him was Wu Zhen, and if this matter was spread, he was afraid that he would insult Wu Zhen's official reputation, and if he was impeached by someone else, it would be unseemly, and even the official would have to be lost. He believed that with his own warning, even if Chen Xianling recognized Wu Zhen, he would not dare to say it lightly.

The soldiers carried out Wu Zhen, who was drunk, and Li Xin ordered them to take care of him, and secretly thought that he would wake up early tomorrow morning and look at all these things. At the same time, he felt that Li Shuangcai had gone too far this time, so he called him to scold him with his head and face.

Li Shuangcai smiled shyly: "It's not Zhang Fangyan who came today, otherwise it will be the old man who will be embarrassed." The villain is doing this to give a bad breath for the big guy for Hou Ye, as for violating the military discipline to kill and chop, please don't be soft. ”

Li Xin couldn't help but want to laugh when he saw that he looked like a dead pig who was not afraid of boiling water, but he immediately straightened his face and reprimanded: "Drinking at will in the camp has violated military law, so go to the military justice department to receive punishment!" ”

Li Shuangcai happily agreed, retreated to the door of the Chinese military tent, and strode away, as if he had just won a game of cockfighting.

Sun Ji had already returned to Nanjing, and his personal staff Jing Fengwu rushed over again, as if there was heavy news, and he was in a hurry to speak before he could catch his breath.

"Wei Guogong mobilized the rear army to assemble outside Nanjing, saying yes, saying that it was going to be a drill. Sun Butang sent a villain to warn Hou Ye, to be careful of this person, saying that he did not enter the oil and salt, but he was afraid that it would be difficult to fight. ”

Li Xin sneered, he was only afraid that someone would deceive him in secret, but he was not afraid if he did it in the open. So he asked Jing Fengwu to go back and tell Sun Ji that there was no need to make a fuss, just closely monitor the internal and external movements immediately.

"Villain Mi Yan, ask to see the Marquis of Zhenju!"

The voice came from outside the tent of the Chinese army, Li Xin was suddenly startled, Mi Yan had been stranded in Zhang Fangyan's governor line due to his injuries. Since Fengyang, the two sides have fallen out, and Mi Yan, Li Da and others have been placed under house arrest by Zhang Fangyan in disguise......

The voice fell, and I saw that Mi Yan was full of energy, pushed open the door of the Chinese army's tent, and as soon as he lifted the cotton curtain, he flashed into the Chinese army's tent. I only heard Mi Yan Lang say in a loud voice: "The villain heard that the marquis of Zhenyu encountered a big case, and he made a special trip back just to solve his doubts!" ”