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At this time, a soldier hurried over to report, "To Dutong, Dali Temple has re-examined Gu Yanxin's body and confirmed that the body is a 60-year-old man who was a jailer before his death."

Yang Yizhong sneered, what else could Qin Hui say now?

Yang Yizhong still felt that the letter was not convincing enough as evidence, it was not dated, and it was not certain when it was written, so he asked Dali Temple for help to dig out the body of Gu Yanxin who hanged himself to directly prove that Qin Hui's report was a lie.

Of course, it was Hu Yun who told him that Gu Yanxin was not dead, which made him think of this method, otherwise he would really not be able to catch Qin Hui for a while, and it would be difficult to deal with this bastard.

With the testimony of the corpse, it's time for Qin Hui to shut up.

Chapter 42

Qin Hui listened to his nephew Wang Bo's report with a livid face. Wang Bo brought him two pieces of news. The first piece of news was that Yang Yizhong had found the old nest of the Western Army's intelligence station, which turned out to be Liuwei Teahouse. More than a dozen people, and finally the teahouse was burned down by a fire.

"Uncle Qi, the old nest of the Western Army Intelligence Station should be real. My nephew went to see it. There is also a cave leading to the river. Normal shops don't have such a cave."

"Hmph! I know it's true, but this scene is too fake. Yang Yizhong already knew where the opponent's lair is? But he hasn't done anything for a long time. I simply suspect that he is in collusion with Chen Qing."

Wang Bo was taken aback, "Uncle, Yang Yizhong is the official's confidant, and it is unlikely that he will have any collusion with Chen Qing."

"What do you want to say?" Qin Hui stared at his nephew sternly.

Wang Bo lowered his head and said in a low voice for a while, "Yang Yizhong has a lot of power. If we get into a stalemate with him, it may be bad for us, especially since the officials trust him so much."

Qin Hui's stern gaze slowly eased, "Nephew is right, if the officials had to choose between myself and Yang Yizhong, they would definitely choose Yang Yizhong, and I almost lost my mind."

He asked again, "What's the second news?"

"The second news is that the head of the county told my nephew that Dali Temple dug up Gu Yanxin's tomb this morning and re-examined the body."

"What?" Qin Hui was taken aback, and the other party re-examined the autopsy, what do you mean?

As soon as he thought about it, he realized that this was Yang Yizhong looking for trouble for himself!To prove that the investigation report he submitted to the officials was false, Gu Yanxin was not dead, and Wan Qixi deliberately falsified to fool the emperor.

Dali Temple Minister Liu Yan was recommended by Xu Xiantu, and he has a very good relationship with Yang Yizhong. Needless to say, this must be Yang Yizhong asking Liu Yan for help. You are about to be unlucky.

Qin Hui cursed secretly, this Yang Yizhong is really not easy to mess with, of course Qin Hui understood what Yang Yizhong meant, he was just warning himself not to interfere with his investigation, otherwise he would shake off the false report, Everyone is having a hard time.

"I know, you go!"

Qin Hui felt extremely depressed, and waved his hand to let Wang Bo go.

At this time, his wife Wang came out from the room and said, "Master, why are you provoking Yang Yizhong?"

Qin Hui said sullenly: "I didn't want to provoke him, but I usually ask him to do something, and it's really annoying."

"No matter how unhappy you are, you can't provoke him. This man is rough on the surface, but in fact he is extremely delicate. He often follows the emperor. I'm afraid that he will be in trouble if he says something unfavorable to the officials at a critical moment."

Qin Hui sighed, he had to admit that his wife was right, he could pinch a martial artist like Yue Fei who had no background, but he really couldn't provoke a martial artist with a strong background like Yang Yizhong casually.

"Thank you Madam for reminding me, I know what to do!"

……

In just three days, Yang Yizhong submitted a job to the emperor Zhao Gou. Looking at the pile of evidence in front of him, Zhao Gou picked up the letter of appointment, looked at it, and asked, "Who is this Dong An?"

"It should be the head of the Lin'an Intelligence Station. This box of information was left behind when they fled hastily."

Zhao Gou suddenly asked in dissatisfaction: "General Yang knew that this teahouse is the intelligence base of the other party?"

Yang Yizhong quickly explained: "Reporting to Your Majesty, I have indeed suspected it for a long time. It's just that I didn't try to scare the snake out. I have been monitoring the other party, and I completely took over the other party's lair the night before yesterday."

"Huh! Since we have been monitoring, why is there still a fire in Yangzhou?"

Yang Yizhong hesitated for a moment and said: "Returning to Your Majesty, there is a saying that I don't know if I should say it or not."

"Just say it, did I gag you?"

"I believe that the fire in Yangzhou was not caused by the Lin'an intelligence station. At most they got fake documents, but the specific arson has nothing to do with them. The surveillance is very strict. They can't get the fleet. I suspect that the Western Army still has a stronghold near the Yangtze River. .”

Zhao Gou pondered for a while, then nodded, "Your suspicion is justified, I will let you pass this time, you continue to investigate another stronghold of the Western Army on the Yangtze River, and you must find it out for me!"

"Humble post obeys the order!"

Yang Yizhong was about to resign, but Zhao Gou stopped him, "Wait a minute!"

"Your Majesty please order!"

"Has Hu Yun approached you about the Six Flavors Teahouse?"

"no!"

"Then have you questioned Hu Yun?"

Yang Yizhong shook his head, "I haven't gone yet, but I have asked His Majesty for instructions. Do I need to question Hu Yun?"

Zhao Gou thought for a while and said: "It's enough for both parties to know each other well, don't go looking for him deliberately."

"Retire from humble position!"

"Go! Take these away, I don't want to see these." Zhao Gou pointed to a box on the table.

Yang Yizhong hurried out with the box in his arms.

Zhao Gou walked to the window with his hands behind his back, feeling really helpless in his heart, the Yangzhou arson case was just gone, and Chen Qing's strength really made him helpless.

"Dang! Dang!" The sound of the clock chiming noon came from afar.

Zhao Gou suddenly remembered something, and quickly shouted: "Kangshun!"

The eunuch Kang Shun rushed in, "Your Majesty, please give me instructions!"

"Where's today's newspaper?"

Kang Shun chirped, "Slave...the slave didn't pay attention."

"Nonsense! Hurry up and get it for me."

"The slave is going!"

Kang Shun ran away, brought a newspaper after a while, and presented it to Zhao Gou tremblingly.

Zhao Gou unfolded the newspaper and glanced at it. His eyes darkened and he almost fell to the ground. Kang Shun was already prepared and quickly supported him, "Your Majesty! Your Majesty!"

Zhao Gou slowly opened his eyes, and glanced at the newspaper again, only to see a line of big characters on the front page, "There are brocade books in the cloud, warmly celebrate the Western Army's recovery of Bianliang!" '

Bianliang was still taken back by Chen Qing, Zhao Gou groaned in his heart, the thing he feared most finally happened.

……

A man rushed out of the restaurant, knelt on the ground and looked up to the sky, shouting: "Recovered! My hometown has been recovered!"

Immediately afterwards, several men also ran out, jumping and jumping, crying and shouting: "Bianliang has recovered! We can go home!"

Excited, several men hugged their heads and cried...

This scene was staged in many places, especially when a large number of common people and nobles who fled from Bianliang cried bitterly after reading the news in the newspaper.

Soon, the sound of gongs and drums began to appear in various parts of Lin'an, and the sound of gongs and drums became more and more. Groups of people spontaneously walked out of their homes and danced the traditional Han people's step songs. The people sang and danced to the sound of gongs and drums.

Countless teams gathered, 10,000+ gathered on the Royal Street, with a huge momentum. In the team, groups of young men and women held hands, stepped on their feet and sang together, and marched while walking, expressing the joy in their hearts.

In the evening, the people spontaneously organized a grand torch parade again. 10,000+ people held torches and paraded around the West Lake, pushing the celebration of the recovery of Bianliang to a climax.

……

At this time, Chen Qing was no longer in Bianliang, and he continued to march eastward in two ways. On the one hand, Yang Zaixing led an army of [-] to march into Puzhou and Caozhou, and on the other hand, Chen Qing led an army of [-] to recover Suizhou and Guide. government.

Jin Bing had built a raft bridge and retreated to Shandong Road on the east bank of the New Yellow River, abandoning the Central Plains area on the west bank of the Yellow River. Although the two sides did not communicate, they actually agreed to use the New Yellow River Road as the boundary.

Many states here are divided into two, such as Puzhou, Caozhou, Xuzhou, Pizhou, Suzhou, etc., the Yellow River divides them into two, but there is a wasteland within tens of miles on both sides of the Yellow River, with no farmland and no population. , there is no grass growing in many places, and there is a dead silence that can't be seen at a glance.

More than ten years have passed since the Yellow River was diverted, but there is still no sign of recovery, and there will not be much improvement in decades or even a century.

This morning, Chen Qing led an army of [-] to Songcheng County in Guide Mansion.

Chapter 43 Song City

Guide Mansion was formerly Yingtian Mansion. It was also called Yingtian Mansion in the Song Dynasty, but it was renamed Guide Mansion by the Puppet Qi and Jin Kingdoms. On Chen Qing’s map, it was also renamed Guide Mansion, but it was noted next to it. Click: Qianying Tianfu.

Guide Mansion is one of the most important state capitals in the Central Plains. It was Liangzhou in the past. Before Jianyan two years ago, its grain production ranked ahead of Yingchang Mansion, second only to Kaifeng Mansion. Large production state.

However, in the second year of Jianyan, the Yellow River was diverted, and the eastern part of Guide Mansion was swallowed by the flood of the Yellow River. The homes of countless people were destroyed, tens of thousands of people died, and 10,000+ people were affected. After the flood of the Yellow River receded, the new course of the Yellow River appeared, and the eastern part of Guide Mansion became barren.

Songcheng County is the former Nanjing of the Northern Song Dynasty. Nanjing no longer exists, but Songcheng County is still preserved. It is located on the west bank of the New Yellow River. Although it was not swallowed by the Yellow River, the flood also entered the city. , The water receded after a few days and nights. After the flood, there was a plague. Songcheng County was also severely affected, and its population dropped by 40%. Withered and poor, the people are worse than Bianliang.

However, Song City has an advantage. It is an important ferry for the New Road of the Yellow River, so it still has a bit of a commercial atmosphere. Jin Guo does not exploit it too much, and barely maintains a little bit of business.

Chen Qing's army was marching on the official road, and there were endless wilderness on both sides. Although there were still farmland, the soil was very dry, barren, and infertile. Chen Qing shook his head. In order to stop the golden soldiers, Du Chong, who stayed behind in Tokyo Digging up the embankment of the Yellow River is really a sinner through the ages. We must make a statue of him and kneel on the bank of the Yellow River.

At this time, Chen Qing saw an old farmer digging the ground not far away, so he urged his horse to get off the official road, and a dozen of his own soldiers hurriedly followed.

The old farmer was trembling with fear, wanted to run but didn't dare to run, he hurriedly bowed his hands to Chen Qing, "Master Jun, I'm almost sixty, I can no longer join the army!"

Chen Qing waved his hands and said with a smile: "Don't worry, old man. I don't want to arrest young men, but I just want to ask about the farming situation."

Hearing that it wasn't for the young man, the old man put down his heart and said, "I understand farming, what does the general want to ask?"

"I don't see any villages nearby. Where is the old man's house?"

"My family is in the county seat, and there are no villages around here. These farmlands are planted by the people in the city. Everyone lives on this little food!"

"How much wheat is produced per mu now?"

The old farmer sighed, "I can harvest less than 1000 catties of wheat per mu this year. I have harvested more than 700 catties of grain for more than a dozen mu of land, and I will soon have to pay [-] catties of grain. I will have more than [-] catties of grain left to feed my family." Five bites, it was too difficult, so I wondered if I could plant a crop of beans."

"Do all the people in the city come out to farm?"

"Almost! If you don't farm and can't afford food, the whole family will starve to death. There were quite a lot of bean growers. Seeing you coming, they all ran away for fear of being caught."

Chen Qing raised his head and looked into the distance. There were indeed crowds of people standing a mile or two away, and they all seemed to be looking in this direction.

"Other than farming, what income does my husband's family have?" Chen Qing asked again.

"My son works as a waiter in a restaurant and earns 100 Wen a day. You must know that during the Xuanhe period, I delivered goods to others and earned more than [-] Wen a day. Now I am exhausted and only get [-] Wen a day. And it's enviable, what kind of world is this!"

"Don't worry, old man! We are the Western Army. When the Western Army comes, the world will change."

At this time, someone shouted on the official road: "Your Highness, the state officials and county officials have left the city!"

"Understood, I'll go right now."

Chen Qing got on his horse, clasped his fists to the old man and said, "Thank you very much!"

Immediately, surrounded by the crowd, he hurried to the official road and accelerated towards the county seat.

The old man was so excited that he couldn't close his mouth from ear to ear, and said to himself: "They are the Western Army! The Western Army doesn't pay taxes when they come, so I don't have to pay my three hundred catties of wheat?"

Not long after, people from far away came back one after another, "Brother Wang, who was that just now!"

"It's the general of the Western Army! What's your name, Your Highness..."

"Brother, Your Highness is the title of Prince, you are confused, that person is probably King Yong!"

When everyone heard that it was King Yong, they all asked the old man a lot of questions, but the old man was stunned. He suddenly slapped his forehead and said in horror: "Damn me! I didn't kneel down to King Yong just now!" salute."

He quickly knelt down and kowtowed in the direction Chen Qingyuan was going, "His Royal Highness, Xiaomin Wang Shun kowtowed to you!"

Seeing his funny appearance, everyone couldn't help laughing.

……

When Chen Qing arrived in Songcheng County, the army had already begun to station camp outside the county seat. The prefect Liu Sheng, the prefect Li Hun, and the prefect Han Junsheng all came outside the city to welcome His Royal Highness King Yong.

These officials were all officials at first, and later became officials of the Puppet Qi, and then officials of the Jin Kingdom, but generally speaking, they were not too bad.

Most of the officials who survived under Wanyan Wushu's iron fist had no bad deeds, and it was precisely because of this that Chen Qing did not carry out a large-scale purge in the Central Plains, but only purged a group of corrupt officials from the puppet Qi and confiscated countless money.

"See Your Highness!" Everyone saluted.

"You don't have to be too polite!"

Chen Qing got off his horse and asked, "Who is the county magistrate?"

The county magistrate Han Junsheng hurried forward to salute, "Han Junsheng, the current magistrate of Songcheng!"

Chen Qing said with a smile: "My fleet will dock by the Yellow River tomorrow, they are not familiar with this area, please ask the county magistrate to arrange someone who is familiar with the river to guide them."

"I'm going to make arrangements now!" Han Junsheng hurried to find someone.

Chen Qing asked again: "Who is the magistrate?"

The magistrate Liu Sheng, who was about fifty years old, took a step forward, "Your Majesty, Liu Sheng, the prefect of Guide, sees you!"

Chen Qing pointed to the large area of ​​land around him and said, "I want to know how much summer wheat there is in Guide Mansion this year? How much was taken by the golden soldiers?"