I am Li Shen and Li Shimin, the free kings of the Tang Dynasty

This place is called Xiejiazhuang, which existed in the pre-Sui Dynasty. Xie Zhi'an's ancestors fled here and built Xiejiazhuang.

Later, there were several county magistrates in the clan, and the family began to slowly rise.

In fact, although it is called Xiejiazhuang, there are not many people named Xie in this village.

They are all refugees who came here to escape.

The Xie family developed a lot of industries with the help of several officials. After the founding of the Tang Dynasty, there were no officials in their family.

After Xie Zhi'an took charge of the family, although he worked conscientiously, he could not afford to sit back and take advantage of the family with too many people, so Xie Zhi'an decided to find some ways to make a fortune.

It happened that the business environment in the Tang Dynasty was good in recent years, so he went to Kyoto, that is, Chang'an City. By chance, he purchased a batch of fine wine from the Boutique Pavilion and made a lot of money when he came back.

This made Xie Zhi'an more confident and started to open a local store to sell Boutique Pavilion's products.

The products in the Boutique Pavilion are all high-quality products, and they are all sold to dignitaries and wealthy people, so the Xie family makes a lot of money.

He also began to slowly become famous in Cangzhou.

In the past few years, the Xie family has accumulated wealth that many people are jealous of. Even though Xie Zhi'an built bridges and roads and built charity halls after he became rich, many people are still jealous.

As the saying goes, people are afraid of being famous just as pigs are afraid of being strong. Xie Zhian himself also knows that money touches people's hearts, so he hired dozens of housekeepers to care for the home.

Moreover, Xie Zhi'an also joined the First Chamber of Commerce of the Tang Dynasty and donated money to the chamber of commerce, just to get protection when he was in trouble.

Even so, people were still concerned about him. An official under the governor's office in Cangzhou was named Li Dabian. He relied on his power to plunder and bribe his family.

In Cangzhou Prefecture, he bullies men and dominates women, and does all kinds of evil.

Money was plundered everywhere and unknown taxes were levied. The local people complained and suffered unspeakably.

Li Dabian took a fancy to the Xie family's property, but he also knew that he couldn't manage it. If he took it all away, he might not be able to make as much as the Xie family.

So he came to the door and tried to force the Xie family to give up [-]% of their dividends to him.

Of course the Xie family refused, so Li Dabian began to harass him endlessly.

Borrowing his identity and abusing his power, he closed down the Xie family's shop and injured many people in the Xie family. Among them, Xie Zhi'an's youngest son had a broken leg and is still bedridden.

Xie Zhi'an said, and Li Shen couldn't help but interrupt:

"You didn't report it to the official, but you allowed this thief to be so rampant?"

"Back to the prince, the villain has reported to the official. Of course the villain has to report to the official for this kind of thing and let the court make the decision for the villain, but... alas~~" Xie Zhi'an sighed and continued.

Of course Xie Zhi'an would not compromise and could not give up, so he went to Cangzhou Governor's Office to file a complaint.

As a result, Xi Bian, the governor of Cangzhou, beat Xie Zhi'an's eldest son with thirty sticks on the grounds that there was insufficient evidence and the people sued the officials, which was not consistent with the law. He was almost beaten to death.

Xie Zhi'an also has a stubborn temper and plans to go to the capital to ask for help from the First Chamber of Commerce of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Dabian knew the news, so he brought more than 100 men with him today to prepare for a bloodbath in the Xie family manor.

Fortunately, Xie Zhi'an had hired many guards before, and he treated these guards very kindly.

So when Li Dabian led his men to rush in, the guards used the terrain to resist desperately. Li Dabian ordered the house to be burned to death.

If Li Shen hadn't arrived in time, Xie Zhi'an would have been burned to death by now.

At this point, Li Shen basically understood what was going on.

However, he did not believe that a mere Li Dabian could be so rampant in Cangzhou. There must be someone behind him, and this person was most likely Xi Bian, the governor of Cangzhou.

At this time, the guard who went out to boil water came in with a kettle. Chunxiang skillfully took out Li Shen's teacup from the bag and placed the tea leaves on the table.

Dongmei scalded Li Shen's teacup with boiling water and put in the tea leaves. Chunxiang took the kettle and poured it into the cup.

The movements of the two of them were smooth and flowing, without any artificiality. At first glance, they seemed to be doing this all the time.

This made Xie Zhi'an and others stunned. It turned out that the prince's life was like this, which made him even more guess Li Shen's identity.

In fact, he still doesn't know who Li Shen is, he only knows that he is a prince, but there are many princes in the court.

Judging from Li Shen's age, he should be a nephew, most likely the king of the county.

After Chunxiang made tea, she poured a small cup for Li Shen and handed it to Li Shen with a smile.

Li Shen took it, blew on it, and took a sip.

"Is this Li coming today?" Li Shen asked.

"My lord, I'm here, but I don't know where I am now. Maybe I ran away." Xie Zhi'an replied.

"Impossible, I have set up a dragnet outside, and he can't fly out even with his wings." Li Shen said confidently.

"Come here, gather all the prisoners in the open space and let the Xie family identify them."

Soon dozens of people were escorted to the open space of the courtyard. 37 people were captured inside the courtyard and a dozen more were captured outside the courtyard.

"Xie Zhi'an, go and identify the person and find that Li or something for me." Li Shen continued to take a sip of tea and said.

"Yes, my lord."

When Xie Zhi'an came to the crowd, torches were already lit all around. Xie Zhi'an looked at each one carefully.

He knew that Li Dabian had to be captured, otherwise when the prince left, their family would have to move, or they would all die.

Soon Xie Zhi'an saw a familiar figure in the crowd, hiding inside.

"That's him." Xie Zhi'an shouted.

After hearing this, the man pushed through the crowd and rushed to Xie Zhi'an. He grabbed Xie Zhi'an's neck with one hand and hugged Xie Zhi'an from behind with the other hand.

"Don't move. I will break the neck of anyone who moves. Get out of the way and let me go." The man shouted.

The guards around him had expressionless faces and didn't take him seriously at all.

It's not that they are careless, but they don't care at all. If Li Shen were standing next to Xie Zhi'an, let alone meeting Li Shen,

The guards would chop him to death if he even made the slightest move.

In their eyes, no one's life is as important as Li Shen's.

Li Shen was stunned when he saw this scene, oh, shall I go? Why is there such a thing as a hostage in this era?

This immediately made Li Shen interested.

Li Shen even wanted to shout, "You are surrounded. Quickly let go of the hostages and surrender. Isn't this how Hong Kong movies are played?"

Li Shen stood up and walked slowly to the door and said contemptuously:

"Are you that shit? Why did you come up with such a disgusting name? This makes me really don't want to mention your name."

Li Dabian did not react to Li Shen's words, but he still yelled at Li Shen:

"I don't care what kind of bullshit prince you are, you are going to die today anyway. If you dare to come up, I will break Xie Zhi'an's neck and let him be buried with me.

If you don't want him to die, then get out of my way and give me a horse. I want a good horse from outside. "

(Note: Li Dabian and Xi Bian are both real events.

I don't know why they have such disgusting names. )