There was silence in the city and herds' mansion.

Since Sun Ce entered the city and returned to the mansion, not only the city and hermitage mansion, but also the entire Zhanying city was filled with a depressing and solemn atmosphere of wind storm.

During these days when Sun Ce was not in the city, the entire Zhanying city was completely in chaos.

Sun Su issued an order under the name of the City Maid Mansion, listing seventeen crimes, including salt merchants buying murders, illegally enclosing land, and selling private salt. Each one is a foregone death penalty in the law of doing big things.

After issuing the order, before the government office was tried, Sun Su directly ordered the left line army of the patrol battalion to start arresting the salt merchants in Zhanying City in the city. In less than a day, the prison in Zhanying City was crowded with people, and the Zhanying City was in a panic and everyone was in danger.

There is still an interesting thing about the Zhanying City prison: In fact, Sun Su arrested less than 20 salt merchants in total, and the other prisoners in the prison were the guards and entourages of those salt merchants.

The salt merchants in Zhanying City like to compete for wealth and wealth, and most of them are from muddy legs, let alone identify and sly words, and abide by the law. When they travel, they will be happy and rush to the market.

What's more, the salt farm outside Zhanying City is the lifeblood of salt merchants. The number of salt farms that have determines how much salt each salt merchant can produce every year. Whenever he fights for the salt farm, each salt merchant will send dozens of hospital guards and hundreds of hospital guards to grab the salt farm. Dozens of hospital guards will die in each battle. The dead people will generally give their families enough pensions, and then the salt merchant will throw the body into the sea. The people will not sue the officials or punish them, and they will be left alone.

Therefore, the guards under these salt merchants are openly followers, but they are actually thugs. They usually drink and eat meat and serve them enough. Once something happens to the master's family, they will have to take over them at any time. Moreover, these thugs are mostly walking in the north alley and are from a side door. No one except the boss can cure these rogues.

When I heard that the master's family was sent to jail, what's wrong?

The more than 20 salt merchants in front of the foot had just been imprisoned, but Zhanying was in chaos in the city.

Countless thugs flocked to the streets, violated laws and regulations, smashed shops, and even beat pedestrians, just to be arrested and protected their own home.

So an extremely dramatic scene appeared in the Zhanying City prison. There were more than 20 salt merchants imprisoned in the entire prison, but at least thirty or forty entourages of the hospital were imprisoned in the cells around each salt merchant.

As the saying goes, cats have cat paths, rats have rats. Although these scoundrels are not good at home, they also have their own tricks. As soon as they entered the prison, they became brothers and brothers in the prison. In less than two hours, brothers from outside brought in good wine and food.

For a moment, the prison was filled with joy, and the guards and prisoners ate meat and drank wine together, looking like they were having fun with the people.

But since Sun Ce returned, the city's maid's mansion has been completely opposite to the Zhanying City Prison.

In Sun Ce's study, there was a good table of banquets, and the dishes were cold and hot, which were all delicious delicacies; the two pots of hot wine were all red from the daughter of thirty years old.

Sun Ce is just in his forties this year. He is wearing a green robe. He is handsome and handsome, with fair skin and white temples. With his every move, he has a gentle and elegant atmosphere.

Sitting opposite Sun Ce was a slightly shabby old man with fluffy and messy white hair and bronze wrinkles on his skin. The old man was extremely thin and covered with a sheepskin coat that was not satisfied with the patch. Looking at his appearance, he was probably of the same age as the old man.

But no matter how sloppy or poor the old man was, no one dared to underestimate him by being on par with Cheng Mu Sun Ce.

Sun Ce put his left hand on the hem of the sleeve of the right arm to avoid sweeping the dishes. He held a chopstick of fried sea fish in his right hand and put it in his mouth. While chewing slowly, he said softly: "If you want to talk about this sea fish, it is better to be authentic in Zhanying City. Although Luoyun City is the capital of our Daoping County, the chefs there make sea fish, which is far worse than ours. When I go out these days, what I think most is the sea fish in Zhanying City."

"Bad!" The old man didn't even raise his eyelids, but he directly swears. His expression didn't respect Cheng Mu at all. "It's just that the famous chef in Luoyun City is not as good as your private kitchen in Sun Chengmu's own home cooking."

Sun Ce smiled, not only turned a blind eye to the old man's swear words, but instead got up and poured a cup of daughter red for the old man, chuckled and said, "Old Chen is worthy of being a scholarly master in Zhanying City. You can see at a glance that I am whining without any illness."

Chen Yunfeng was originally an official in the capital. He was exiled from the capital eight years ago for offending a powerful figure. After that, he had no official or title and was poor. However, no one in Zhanying City dared to underestimate this sloppy old man, because although this old man was penniless, he lived in the Chengmu Mansion. He was not only a scholarly giant of Confucianism, but also the confidant of Chengmu Sun Ce!

Chen Yunfeng threw away the chopsticks and stretched out his right hand as thin as a chicken's feet to pick up a spicy rabbit head on the plate. While eating it with great flavor, he said vaguely: "A few days ago, the son of Jingzhao Yin Youfufeng died in the affairs of our Zhanying City, can you do it?"

Sun Ce took a chopstick of mutton and chewed it slowly, whispering: "Oh, you said this playboy is so dying, but he died in our Zhanying City. His father was also a Beijing official after all. It is said that he had already written to His Majesty and cried bitterly in the court. He wanted to investigate thoroughly..."

"Stop complaining, talk about serious matters!" Chen Yunfeng glared at Sun Ce and spit out the rabbit bone in his mouth.

Sun Ce also had a good temper. After nodding slightly, he said in a deep voice: "I spent 40,000 taels of silver in Luoyun City. All the relationships that can be moved are moved, so I barely suppressed this matter."

Chen Yunfeng's movements of eating stopped slightly, and he looked up and asked, "Press down? Not solved?"

Sun Ce smiled bitterly: "Not only did not solve it, but he fell deeper and deeper."

Chen Yunfeng threw away half of the rabbit head in his hand, picked up the silk handkerchief beside him, wiped his hands, and sat upright: "What's going on?"

"Did Mr. Chen know about Mr. Xiao Yue and Mr. Xiao?"

Chen Yunfeng thought for a moment, then nodded slowly and said, "Xiao Yue, the General Office of Guangdong and Guangxi Weaving, the General Office of Guangdong and Guangxi Weaving, has been in charge of Guangdong and Guangxi Weaving for 13 years. The Zhao family in Chang'an City is intimate. The Weaving Bureau is buying silk products for Chang'an, but in fact, collecting local information for Chang'an City. Everyone knows this. Xiao Yue is a mature man, but Guangdong and Guangxi are thousands of miles away from our Zhanying City. What do you think of him?"

Sun Ce's eyes were bright: "Mr. Xiao retired six months ago and now... lives in Luoyun City."

Chen Yunfeng frowned, then sighed: "It seems that this matter is troublesome..."

"Isn't it the same?" Sun Ce smiled helplessly, "Chang'an City and Dongling Road have been calm for seventeen years and are close to the limit of Chang'an City, but I didn't expect that there... would use me as a swordstone over there."

"Xiao Yue is looking for you?"

"I have visited Xiao Yue in Luoyun City, but he only talked to me about poetry, songs and the customs and customs of Chang'an, and did not have a deep conversation with me." Sun Ce picked up the wine cup and covered his face with a sleeve robe and drank it all. "But on the way after I left Luoyun City, Xiao Yue sent his personal concubine to stop me and talked to me a few words."

"I'm cunning and doing things without any trace. This is indeed the style of that old man Xiao Yue." Chen Yunfeng pondered for a moment and continued, "That concubine didn't say anything practical to you, right?"

Sun Ce put down the wine cup and nodded, "Old Chen expected that it is not bad. The concubine just told me that if there is any trouble in Zhanying City in the future, there is no need to worry about coming to Luoyun City for activities. He will directly compile a letter and send it to Lord Xiao of Luoyun City's residence. Although Lord Xiao is old, at least some disciples and some things can be solved in the court."

"The drunkard's intention is not to drink. It seems that they want to use the incident of Ruan Jinyuan's death to make you fall to Chang'an, thus breaking the iron plate of Dongling Road."

Sun Ce looked at Chen Yunfeng opposite him meaningfully: "I have seen Chu Zuo's autopsy work. Although Ruan Jinyuan was seriously injured, there were fresh ruts passing by on the small road not far away. However, the carriage turned on the fork road not far away from Ruan Jinyuan, but immediately turned the front of the carriage, looking at the messy footprints around it, it seemed... more than one person."

Chen Yunfeng shook his head: "No matter what, Ruan Jinyuan is indeed dead. Since he is dead, no matter who told him to die, it doesn't matter. How to minimize the losses is the issue that you, the city herd of Zhanying City, should consider."

Sun Ce gritted his teeth and whispered: "The biggest Buddha I can move is Lord Liu, our Dongling Daodao Yin. Lord Liu has given me the right words. As long as we can kill you, there will be no big problems. He is 40% sure that he can go to the Bookstore Prince to take our Zhanying City out of this matter. After all, although this matter started from our Zhanying City, the place where he died was not Zhanying City."

"The fourth in commander of Dongling Road... the surname Sun, you can actually invite this big Buddha. It seems that you are not simple." Chen Yunfeng picked up the wine cup and shook it with his expression. "Stand on Chang'an, this matter will definitely be solved successfully. You may even move the seat under your butt before burying it in the soil. Standing on the side of Dongling, you will not have much confidence in the solution, but you will win in stability. Even if there is something wrong, it will be damaged at most and you will not be able to make any big mistakes. However, this team is not easy to stand. No matter which side you stand, you will offend the other side. If you can't handle it well, this is a matter of losing your head and destroying the nine clans."

Sun Ce smiled: "It seems that Chang'an and Dongling really want to put me on the fire and roast me."

"I am a fish and meat for others. What are you going to do if you roast you?"

"What can I do? The situation is better than the people, so let's just bear it honestly."

"Then you have decided which team to stand?"

Sun Ce stood up and smiled calmly: "Which team should be on the side depends on my sensible nephew, and where did I do things for me."
Chapter completed!