"You spitting blood, how can there be a fake gold medal for avoiding death at home?"
"Since that's the case, Jiang Zhizhou shouldn't mind letting us search it?" Zhou Xu said with a smile.
"No, you have no right to search without a search warrant, not even the prince." Jiang Qifang's expression began to twist.
"That's why I asked your opinion just now." Zhou Xu was still smiling, but no one could see a trace of a smile in that smile.
"I disagree."
"I'm sorry," Zhou Xu said, "Your servants have been driven away by us. In this room, there are only me, the prince, you, and these guards. Do you think we will listen to you?" ?”
Jiang Qi was so angry that his seven orifices were filled with smoke, but he couldn't move because his hands were already fixed by the prince's guards.
The prince gave an order: "Search."
"yes."
A group of people quickly launched a search in Zhizhou Mansion. In just one stick of incense, the guards came out with the remaining six death-free gold medals.
"You guys are slandering me. I have a real death-free gold medal, why use a fake one."
"Really? The piece you took out just now?" the prince asked coldly.
Jiang Qifang didn't say a word, because the real gold medal for avoiding death had been stolen last night, and his gold medals were indeed fake.
The crown prince picked up the death-prevention gold medal and looked it over carefully. His voice was as piercing as the cold wind of the twelfth lunar month, "My royal seal, do you think you can't recognize it alone? The big seal on your death-prevention gold medal, why is there this word in the corner?" Is it seal script instead of official script?"
Jiang Qifang's face turned red in an instant, and the crown prince continued: "Jiang Zhizhou, I heard that you have the gold medal for avoiding death from the late emperor. If you take it out, I will not punish you. If you can't take it out, then you just lose the gold medal for avoiding death." , you will be in prison."
"You guys, you spout blood."
"Bloody mouth? Then how did the prefect Qin die? Why did your nursing home appear behind the yamen before the prefect Qin died?"
Jiang Qifang's face turned pale again, he hesitated, but he couldn't find an excuse, because the gold medal for avoiding death was indeed lost, and Qin Shuqiang was indeed killed by him, because he knew that Qin Shuqiang might want to collect charges and evidence, Sue him.
The atmosphere was stagnant. Just when Zhou Xu thought that Jiang Qifang would also kneel down and beg for mercy, he suddenly threw out a smoke bomb, and within three minutes the entire room could not be seen. When the sight was clear, Jiang Qifang's other servants and guards had already rushed away. Come.
With a sneer, Jiang Qifang said, "Kill me and leave no one behind."
Zhou Xu and the crown prince have also been prepared. After all, the seventeen charges all show that Jiang Qifang is a corrupt person who perverts the law. This kind of person will not respect him because of his status as the crown prince. On the contrary, if the crown prince blocks After following his way, he can still turn his face and deny anyone.
The fight between the two sides was very tense, one was that Jiang Qi released too many people, and the other was that among those people, twenty or so were indeed masters, almost at the same level as the prince's guards.
After a quarter of an hour, the prince finally couldn't wait any longer and drew his sword to join the battle. At the same time, Zhou Xu directly controlled Jiang Qifang while everyone was not paying attention.
Jiang Qifang thought that Zhou Xu was a scholar, but he didn't expect that he was also a master.
Zhou Xu forced Jiang Qifang to order his subordinates to stop, but instead of listening, Jiang Qifang yelled: "I will kill them all. After killing them all, I will reward them all."
With a sinister smile, Zhou Xu thought to himself that the reason why he still has this courage is because you didn't really feel the pain.
Holding the soft sword in his hand all the time, Zhou Xu didn't hesitate at all this time, and directly chopped off a piece of Jiang Qi's thigh.
Blood splattered, and Jiang Qifang's wailing sound was extremely terrifying.
"ah… "
Zhou Xu's soft sword was put on Jiang Qifang's other leg, the corner of his mouth was slanted, his eyes were indifferent, and he said: "Tell your people to stop."
Jiang Qifang stared at Zhou Xu, Zhou Xu smiled slightly and said, "I count to three, one, two..."
"Stop! Stop! Stop!" Jiang Qifang finally spoke.
Zhou Xu continued, "Three."
The soft sword cuts iron like mud, let alone cuts flesh.
Jiang Qifang cried out in pain again, "You... you didn't mean..."
Smiling slightly, Zhou Xu said: "You are in my hands now, no matter what I say you have to listen, and you have to accept what I do, you should do it right away after I just said it, and let me count to two, This is your punishment."
There was a trace of coldness in the flirtatious eyebrows, Jiang Qi passed out after a few seconds, his subordinates were also restrained, and the paper with seventeen charges on the table lay quietly.
Jiang Qifang was captured, and at the same time his gold medal for avoiding death has been lost. In addition to his other seventeen charges, Jiang Qifang must die.
However, before releasing Jiang Qi to the officials, the prince first ransacked his home. All the copied money was used for the relief of the victims. At the same time, the prince found another clue, that is, when Jiang Qi released the guards, more than 20 of them were sent by people from Beijing, and the time of sending them was just before the prince went to the south of the Yangtze River.
However, the other party did it very covertly. Although the prince can guess who did it, there is no evidence after all.
The disaster relief work was carried out in an orderly manner, and the poor people suffering from hunger and cold finally had some hope. Even if they had porridge and pickles every day, at least they would not starve to death.
After receiving Jiang Qi's family property, each household was also given a penny, which was not much, but it was enough for them to eat several meals of meat.
Within five months, the prince visited the disaster area all over the place, resettled the victims, distributed food and winter clothes, all day long.
In addition, at the same time as the disaster relief, the prince either executed all the officials who corrupted and accepted bribes from the fish and meat people on the spot, or quietly recorded them down. After all, some people have a close relationship with Beijing, so it is impossible for him to kill all these people at once. To win, he has to wait for the opportunity, and at this time, it is best not to provoke the emperor, otherwise no one can bear any unexpected consequences.
Five months later, in March, at the time of the Waking of Insects, the prince distributed the seeds to the people in the disaster area, and at the same time provided enough food supply before the harvest, and then the prince quietly went to southern Fujian.
This time he only brought Zhou Xu and Ye Qi, because he went to southern Fujian for unannounced visits, and most importantly, to find evidence to prove that those private soldiers were raised by the third prince.
After arriving in southern Fujian, Zhou Xu's spies who stayed in the capital came to report that the emperor's health was no longer good, and even if he persisted, he could last half a year at most.
The third prince was also in a hurry, several assassinations were unsuccessful, but now luckily, no one could be found.
In fact, the third prince thought about killing the emperor directly and forging a will, but before the prince left, he completely protected the emperor. He couldn't find an opportunity, so he could only work hard on assassinating the prince.
And now the third prince has also realized that Jiangnan is too close to southern Fujian, if the prince goes to southern Fujian, then everything will be over.
An urgent letter was sent to Hu Yue in southern Fujian and Zhou Zonghan who was newly transferred. The third prince asked them to handle the matter of raising soldiers. At the same time, the third prince also sent another letter to Hu Yue. Unexpectedly, all the blame was placed on Zhou Zonghan.
Attached to the letter was a strand of black hair and a child's bracelet, which were obviously used to threaten Zhou Zonghan, but unfortunately Zhou Zonghan didn't know it, and thought he had taken refuge in the Ming Lord, so he was full of thoughts about how to succeed and how to get revenge on Zhou Xu .
In the past few years, the harvest in southern Fujian has been good, so it is relatively rich, and basically every family has surplus food every year. The third prince raises private soldiers here, but he has never touched the people here. After all, rabbits don't eat the grass beside the nest, and he is breaking the law and discipline, the more low-key the better.
The magistrates in southern Fujian are also members of the third prince, so naturally they listen to the third prince in everything.
However, the fact that there is an army here is not a secret locally. After all, there are so many soldiers in such a big place, and they can't hide it if they want to. The third prince doesn't need any excuses at all, because who would think of "private soldiers" For one thing, most people think that this is the official royal soldier.
Changing himself and the prince into a middle-aged old couple, Ye Qi into their son, Zhou Xu and his party went to the most prosperous area in southern Fujian.
Zhou Xu's appearance is naturally a woman's appearance, but because she is middle-aged, she has a lot of wrinkles on her face, and it can be seen that she must have been pretty when she was young. The prince is a middle-aged man, half of his hair has turned white.
After finishing dressing up, the prince looked at Zhou Xu, and it took him a long time to say, "I like everything you look like."
Smiling slightly, Zhou Xu replied: "You look like this, it's not bad, it suits my taste."
The three of them took only a few steps before they were stopped by two patrol officers.
"For what? Local?"
"The ones who came to see relatives are not from the local area, but from Lubei." Zhou Xu replied with a strong Lubei accent.
"Go to relatives? All right, hurry up, don't wander around here in the middle of the night, we are looking for someone here."
"Master Guan, who are you looking for? We are all good people." Zhou Xu's voice was hoarse, and he didn't sound like a middle-aged man, but an old man.
"Why do you ask so many questions, let's go quickly."
"Oh, okay, let me ask how to get to my relative's house. He said it was in Heyin District in southern Fujian, but we couldn't find it after searching for a whole day."
"Heyin District, how did you find this place? Go over there, okay, stop talking nonsense, and go quickly. By the way, if you hear someone with a capital accent, remember to report to the official."
"Yes, thank you, Mr. Guan." Zhou Xu pretended to be grateful, and continued, "Speaking of which, Mr. Guan, we did hear a few men with a capital accent just now. I don't know if you are looking for them. people."
"Huh? Where did you see it? What does it look like?"
"I saw it at the intersection in front of me. Then we walked towards it, and they walked towards that alley over there. It looks so handsome, just like the characters in the painting. It looks good. You haven't seen it yet. pass..."
Zhou Xu also said that the two patrolling men had already chased in the direction he pointed.
Standing up a little bit, Zhou Xu said to the prince, "My wife, you saw it too, right?"
"Yes, old woman." After the silver-haired prince finished speaking, he took the old woman's hand and left.
A few people found a restaurant, ordered some small dishes casually, and started eating quietly.
For some reason, Zhou Xu suddenly thought of a joke in modern society, that is, someone asked what to pay attention to when opening a restaurant in ancient times, and one answer was to write a warning "Please go out and fight". Thinking of this, Zhou Xu smiled slightly and told the prince Said, "Be careful."
"What?"
Zhou Xu raised his hand, and took a stool leg that flew to the prince's ear.
"Be careful of indoor fighting, tables and chairs hurt people."
When the prince saw the stool leg, he naturally knew what was going on. Ye Qi guarded the two of them and walked towards the corner, while the two groups of people who had already fought in the hall didn't seem to care at all, and continued to fight like a raging fire.
Zhou Xu, the prince and Ye Qi also hid in the corner with the others, while hiding from Zhou Xu, they pinched their throats and asked, "Young master, what are they fighting for?"
The man called son was the clerk in the store, and Zhou Xu, the "auntie", seemed to be very friendly, so he started to talk like beans in a bamboo tube: "You can't be local at first glance, they are from the King of Zhennan Fighting with the Dingmin army here, they have never been used to each other and fight every day."
"Ah? Didn't you say that King Zhennan and Dingmin Army are in the same group?"
"It's a group, but they're not fighting now. They're fighting against each other. One side wants to push the other down. Isn't that normal?"
"Oh, there's another thing, we just came here, so we really don't know."
"Well, in fact, Minnan is pretty good, as long as you don't offend Min Jun and the people in Zhennan Palace."
"But if they fight, what will you do with the lost tables and chairs in your store?"
The clerk laughed and said, "What's the matter, anyway, when they leave, they will leave a few ingots of silver, and our store still makes a net profit of one or two ingots."
Nodding his head, Zhou Xu expressed his understanding. At the same time, they also knew about the situation in southern Fujian. Since there was a conflict between the prince's private soldiers and the King of Zhennan, it would be easy to handle. Turn the small conflict into a big one, and stimulate it a little later. Maybe Zhennan King can solve it.
As for the Dingmin Army, they can either be recruited into the regular army, or directly sent to the Zhennan King who is being used. No matter what I do, the private soldier of the third prince can be used by me, which is very good.
What Zhou Xu thought of, the prince also thought of, the two of them looked at each other and understood each other's meaning.
"Whatever the fuss, stop it." A familiar voice sounded, Zhou Xu looked up, no wonder the voice was very familiar, it turned out that the person who came was none other than Zhou Zonghan.