Rebirth of the Merchant Woman's Revenge

After seeing Li Junze off, Wang Zhuo finally realized that something was wrong. Why didn't Sun Xingzhi follow him this time?

He called Ji Ping over again, "Why didn't you see Xingzhi just now?"

Ji Ping shook his head. "When I went to the Third Prince's residence, His Highness had already gone to bed. He only got up after hearing the news, and did not see Sun Tanhua."

Wang Zhuo nodded. It was reasonable. After all, it was so late, Zhier should have returned to his own yard.

Early in the morning of the second day, as soon as the city gate was opened, a team of Jingji soldiers in full armor, led by Yang Jinzhong, came straight to the gate of the Third Prince's mansion.

Wen Jiaxiang had received the order and was waiting at the door in advance. When he saw them coming, he walked up to them with a smile on his face and greeted them. Then he said,

"Commander Yang, His Highness is already waiting for you in the mansion. Please come in."

Yang Jinzhong didn't say a word and took two deputies into the mansion, while the other guards were left outside the mansion.

Sure enough, Li Junze had already prepared hot tea and was waiting for them in the living room.

As soon as Yang Jinzhong entered the room, he took the lead in greeting Li Junze and said, "Greetings to His Royal Highness the Third Prince."

"Commander Yang, please don't be polite. Are you here today because of what happened last night?"

Li Junze went straight to the point and asked without waiting for the other party to speak.

Yang Jinzhong nodded. He was not good at speaking and had no technique when speaking. He could be said to have rushed his way to his current position.

Of course, the family background and super strong combat power behind her also gave her a lot of help.

"Your Highness, please explain why there are so many people from Yanbei at the hot spring manor, and almost all of them have no identity documents. What is Your Highness trying to do?"

Yang Jinzhong did not mean to be tactful and asked questions directly, as if he had already started an interrogation.

After hearing this, Li Junze's face had already turned ugly, and he clenched his hands in his sleeves, but he quickly adjusted his expression and tone, and still smiled gently and said,

"Commander Yang, so this is because of this matter, ahem..." He seemed very surprised and asked Wen Jiaxiang to help him explain to Yang Jinzhong.

Wen Jiaxiang hurriedly took two steps forward, then bowed to Yang Jinzhong and said, "Commander Yang, I am in charge of this matter. I entrusted a caravan to purchase slaves from Yanbei. I plan to use them to do some hard labor in the future."

"As for their identity documents, they were all slaves before they came here, so they didn't have the appropriate identity documents. I was just planning to apply for them."

Wen Jiaxiang's explanation seemed to make some sense. Yang Jinzhong frowned, "Slave? Coolie? I don't look like one."

He hadn't slept all night last night, serving those people, but no matter how he interrogated them, none of them could spit out any useful information.

In the end, it was Old Man Yu who stepped in personally and knocked the two men’s mouths open.

But unfortunately, they are just the lowest-level soldiers and don’t know much. Even if everything is told to them, there won’t be much useful information.

So, they came to Li Junze early this morning to see what was going on.

However, the explanation given by Wen Jiaxiang could not convince him. Even if they were slaves, even if they were purchased, it was impossible for all of them to be without identity documents.

It was a document issued by the government to all the people of Da Chu to prove their identity, and it had been with them since they were born.

If he was a slave, he would be handed over to his master.

Wen Jiaxiang just smiled and said, "Commander Yang, it doesn't look like it. What do you mean?"

Yang Jinzhong glanced at him, then turned his gaze to Li Junze, "Your Highness, those men are all very strong, and their hands have calluses from long-term grasping of weapons. They are obviously from the military camp."

Some even had marks of caning on their backs from being punished in the military camp.

Wen Jiaxiang nodded and said, "Commander Yang is right. Some of them are indeed from the military camp, but they are all retired and they made serious mistakes in the military camp."

After Yang Jinzhong heard this, he immediately asked, "If that's the case, then I wonder if Your Highness has any documents about their mistakes?"

If one commits a serious mistake in the military camp, he may indeed be demoted to a slave, but the military camp needs to issue relevant documents before their status can be completely changed.

"Yes, Commander Yang, please wait a moment." After Wen Jiaxiang said this, he turned around and asked a servant to go to the study in the mansion to get the document that Yang Jinzhong mentioned.

Yang Jinzhong's face was full of confusion. He took the document that Wen Jiaxiang mentioned and was stunned when he took a look at it. This document actually came from the military camp, the Northern Yan military camp.

On it are the seals of King Yan Li Xingxian and the Northern Yan military camp.

This was also prepared in advance by Li Xingxian, who has always been cautious, in case of emergency. Unexpectedly, it would actually be used today.

Were those people really slaves who were expelled from the Northern Yan military camp as Wen Jiaxiang said?

"Where are the other people in Zhuangzi?" he asked without giving up.

He was talking about the secret guards that Li Junze had always arranged there. They would train in the dark room on weekdays and only come out for some fresh air at night.

It is the dark power he has quietly cultivated and his last trump card.

Wen Jiaxiang continued to speak calmly, "These people are the palace soldiers. Because there are so many slaves all of a sudden, they were sent over to arrange the handling."

"What about the cellars and dark rooms? When the village caught fire, many of them ran out from the cellars and dark rooms.

Moreover, when they saw us coming over to help put out the fire, instead of being grateful, they tried to attack us, and even ran away. This situation seems to be somewhat different from what you said, right?"

"The ones who ran away should be the slaves we newly bought, right?" Li Junze asked Wen Jiaxiang as if it was normal.

"This..., Your Highness, since no one came to the mansion to reply last night, I am not too clear about the specific situation, but I think it should be as Your Highness said.

Those who took action probably didn’t understand the situation clearly, and they took action first when they saw someone running away.”

In other words, what happened last night was actually a misunderstanding?

"Cells? Where are those cellars?" Yang Jinzhong saw that they were talking about the cellars with details, but he still insisted on talking about the cellars. However, the more he asked, the uglier his expression became.

Talking nonsense in a serious manner, that's probably what they are like now.