Your Highness, please detour when you see this seat

Mo Wang walked down the stone steps, and the moment he disappeared, the stone bed instantly returned to its original position without making any sound, except for the messy bedding on the bed, everything remained the same as before.

The dark room is not too big, slightly larger than Yuwentang's inner room, and the furnishings are not much different from those of the inner room. The wooden tables and chairs are all simply cut from tree trunks. The only difference is that there is a wooden table on the wooden table. A simple sand table with flags made of red, white and blue cloth strips inserted on the sand table. There are handwritings on the cloth strips. Next to the sand table is a set of pens and inks, regardless of the style and material, which is exactly the same as the one placed on Si Jiyun's golden silk nanmu table.

Mo Wang was displeased when he saw the set of pens and inks, he stepped forward and glanced at the cloth strip, wanting to see what was written on it.

Western territory?East?South?Does the southeast refer to the Dongduo and Southern Qiang or the two regions in the southeast?

Mo Huanxin was startled, and his breath suddenly became cold. No matter what Yu Wentang's intentions were when he wrote these words, but these words on a sand table at the same time had to make him vigilant.

He carefully observed the layout of the sand table. The sand table was very common and simple in the direction of the Jiulong Mountains. Any general who knew the shape of the Beique West Territory could simulate the direction of the mountains.

What does Yu Wentang mean?

Mo Wang didn't have time to think about it, so he could only press these questions, and re-observed the dark room. Although he found the sand table was different, for some reason, Mo Wang still felt that the dark room was too simple, and the simplicity was extremely unusual.

Is it really so simple and clear for a Yu Wentang who can force Yu Wenster away to control the Jiulong Mountains and provoke Si Jichong and Qi Bin without a trace?

Don't believe it!

Unknowingly, Mo Wang used his power to use his eyes, and suddenly all the details in the dark room fell into his eyes.

He scanned it inch by inch, and after two or three times, he finally stopped his gaze on the wall directly opposite the sand table, where there was an extremely small hole. will find the hole.

The round hole is as deep as a silver needle, and a horizontal slit the width of a fingernail passes through the round hole.

Mo Zhuang raised his eyebrows, is this the key?Is there another darkroom behind this darkroom?But what is this key?

"Si Jichong is here!"

Ouyang Yue's voice came again, and he didn't care about taking a last look at the "key" shape and quickly returned to the ground. He doesn't have a key now, so he can only take a look when he finds the key.

He restored the stone bed to its original state, and when he got out of the cave, he found that the mottled light spots among the leaves had disappeared. It was getting late, and the light on the mountain was even dimmer.

Si Jichong!

Mo Wang turned his footsteps and he was already behind Si Jichong among the people around him, and his face also changed slightly, but none of the people around Si Jichong noticed that there was another person beside him, just like him It was originally among them.

When Si Jichong came to Yu Wentang's residence, he took the main seat of course, flipping through some papers on the table nonchalantly.

"Where did Yu Wentang go?"

The guards at the entrance of the cave stepped forward to salute in fear and said, "The general and Sect Master Qi are going to inquire about the movements of the Xitang Army."

Si Jichong pursed his lips and felt pain in his heart. Qi Bin was his favorite person and he was the descendant of the martial arts supreme Qi Xiaotian, and there was another sect behind him to support him. Unfortunately, his father Qi Yangcheng took refuge in Qin Yifan.

"Damn it, Si Jiyun robbed me of my prince's crown prince position, and then robbed my prince's favorite person. Damn it!"

Si Jichong patted the table in front of him hard with hatred, and shook his hands vigorously because of the pain from the too hard beating, without seeing Mo Wang's cold gaze behind him at all.

"When will you come back? My prince has something important to ask him." Si Jichong angrily aimed at the innocent guards.

"Humble... I don't know about my humble position, general... general... never... no... don't say..." The guard trembled so badly that he couldn't say a word, fearing that the third prince would be unhappy and throw himself Pull it out and chop it.

"Go away! Useless things!"

As the saying goes, it depends on the owner to beat a dog. After all, Yu Wenxi is his greatest assistant. He can't kill Yu Wentang's people for a trivial matter, although he really wants to kill him.

Si Jichong waited for a while but still did not see Yu Wentang coming back, looked around boredly with his hands behind his back, went to the inner room again, glanced disdainfully at Yu Wentang's rudimentary arrangement, and finally left with a group of people sullenly .

Mo Huan, who was walking at the back, took a deep look at the guard standing at the entrance of the cave. Although the guard looked very scared just now, but with such skill, he found that this man's heartbeat hardly changed from the beginning to the end, and all his fears disappeared. It's a fake.

Not only Yu Wentang, but even the people around him are all secrets!

He landed at the end and disappeared into the line without a trace, then turned around and went to Si Jiyun.He originally wanted to try to find out something from Si Jichong, but unfortunately this Si Jichong was too stupid, even if he got information from him, he couldn't tell whether the news was true, so he gave up this plan in the end.

After Si Jichong's interruption, the sky has completely darkened, and I don't know if Si Jiyun will wait anxiously.

And Si Jiyun, who had been waiting since dinner, sat behind the eye-catching golden nanmu table and tapped the table with his right hand again and again, knocking urgently and heavily. I'm in a bad mood now.

He deliberately didn't eat much for dinner, just to be able to eat something with Mo Wang, unexpectedly he had waited for a long time and the lord lord that he said hadn't arrived yet.

"Tong Fang!" Si Jiyun closed his eyes and said calmly.

Tong Fang reluctantly stepped forward and said in a low voice: "Your Highness, the people in the dark hall are sure that Palace Master Mo has left Bishui Palace before dark."

"They really don't know where Wang'er went?"

"I've been on the mountain!" Mo Wang appeared abruptly, picked up the rose cake on the table and stuffed it into Si Jiyun's mouth.

"Uh... Crazy! Woo..."

Si Jiyun quickly stood up, unexpectedly got up too quickly, the rose cake slid directly into his stomach... He choked!

While drinking water, he waved Tong Fang out, Mo Wang finally came and he didn't want anyone to disturb them.

"You said you've been on the mountain?"

Si Jiyun took Mo Wang with one hand and sat next to him, and with the other he picked up a rose cake to feed him. The stone chair was very big and the two men sat down without being crowded.Since last night, Si Jiyun found that he likes getting along with the two of them so that they are like ordinary couples.

Unexpectedly, he swallowed the pastry along his hand with his thoughts, took a sip of hot tea and nodded, "Yu Wentang has many doubts, I'll investigate."

"Yuwentang..." Si Jiyun whispered but didn't ask further.

The abnormal behavior caused Mo Wang to turn his eyes from Rose Cake to him and frowned: "You have suspected him for a long time?"

Si Jiyun lightly pecked him on the lips: "I have been in contact with Yu Wentang these days, and I found that he knows me very well, and I also feel a sense of familiarity with him."

"Familiar feeling?" Mo Wang thought of the identical set of pens and inks found in the dark room, and then picked up the pen in front of him and said, "He has the same set of pens and inks in his dark room."

"It's so sour!" Sensing the annoyance in his tone, Si Jiyun teased, and before he got angry, he laughed again: "Except for this?"

"A sand table of the trend of the Jiulong Mountains, red, white and blue cloth strips, writing, west, east and south"

"Southeast?" Si Jiyun heard the two words flashing and said seriously: "Guess what news I received today?"

"Huh? It's related to the capital? Could it be related to Guan Dongduo and Nan Qiang?" At this time, Mo Wang could only think about it.

"The national treasury is tight, and the emperor decided to directly reduce the food and payment allocated to the west by half."

"What!" Mo Wang was furious and murderous: "Xidu Chen has 30 soldiers, but Si Kou has reduced his military pay at this time. Once Xitang sends troops, how will these soldiers fight against the enemy? The defense line formed by these elites in the Jiulong Mountains is running out. Without these noises, he wants to cause mutiny, so isn't he afraid of the collapse of the western defense line?"

"Calm down." Si Jiyun patted his forehead reassuringly and said with a smile, "Wang'er, don't you think this matter is full of doubts?"

suspicious?

indeed!

Since Si Kou ascended the throne, he has attached great importance to the recasting of civil and military frontier defense, especially the particularity of the Jiulong Mountains, and the successive emperors of Beique paid the most attention.Now that the Nine Dragons Mountains are gradually out of the control of the imperial court, even if it is not for the people behind the Nine Dragons Mountains and for the consolidation of his throne, it is absolutely impossible for Si Kou to reduce the food and payment at this time.

Treasury tight?

In the past 18 years, Beique has not said that the weather has been smooth, but there have been no major disasters. How can it be possible that the treasury is tight?

and many more!

treasury?southeast?

Mo Wang raised his head and said in astonishment: "Is there a problem with the taxation of the two borders in the southeast?"

Since the establishment of the Beique Empire, salt tax, land tax and commercial tax have been the mainstays. With the rapid development of the empire, the royal family has paid more and more attention to commercial tax.

The two borders in the southeast are bordered by Dongduo and Nanqiang. The two countries have rich products and exquisite utensils that have always been loved by the Beique royal family. Merchants often gather in the southeast and southeast borders, and the two borders have gradually become the richest places in Beique. These two places are also merchants. most important source of taxes.

If Si Kou is not lying and the national treasury is really tight, then only the southeast borders have tax problems.

Sure enough, Si Jiyun nodded: "I asked them to investigate the situation over the past few years. The tax revenue in the southeast and the south has been decreasing year by year in the past few years, and the loss has been nearly half in the past three years."

"It's not like Si Kou to let him develop." Mo Wang said flatly.

"Among those businessmen, the emperor arranged people early in the morning. On the one hand, he spied on the news of Dongduo and Nanqiang to prevent the two countries from harming Beique. Failed."

"Failed!" Seeing Si Jiyun's complex expression, Mo immediately understood who was manipulating all this: "The mantis catches the cicada and the oriole is behind, Si Jixun!"

Si Jiyun smiled bitterly and sighed with half admiration and half helplessness: "When we all focused on military power, only Ji Xun focused on Beique's taxation. He knew that even if Yu Wenster handed over the military power, the father would It is impossible to hand it over to anyone, he sees it better than me."

"How do you know it's him?"

"As soon as I received the news, I asked people to investigate the two regions in the southeast. Guess what I found?" Si Jiyun smiled mysteriously.

"what?"

"Do you still remember the last time when the teacher sued the Qin family for robbing the daughters of the people, the father took the opportunity to dispose of the two merchants who were regarded as abandoned by the uncle?"

Mo Wan frowned and thought for a moment, uncertain: "Pang...Fei's family?"

"Exactly!" Si Jiyun said as he pulled out a slender bamboo tube from his sleeve and handed it to Mo Wang. After he read the secret letter, he continued: "It turns out that the Pangfei family has always been arranged by Ji Xun By my side, I can use the name of Wenxiang to make money without exposing myself, and it was Ji Xun's intention to let my uncle give up the Pangfei family last time."