Regardless of whether Han Qian arranged for someone to do something secretly, since he saw the boat carrying Wang Yu's coffin capsized on the river beach in Wuling County on the way, Han Daoxun ignored it, which was too cool for the world.
Han Daoxun had nothing to avoid, so he and Han Qian got off the boat and walked to the river beach in front, surrounded by Fan Xicheng, Zhao Kuo, Zhao Wuji, Yang Qin, Tian Cheng, Gao Shao and others.
The wupeng boat tilted sideways on the river beach, half of the boat was sunk under the water, and the other half was exposed on the water. The coffin was carried to the beach, guarded by six or seven soldiers and people who looked like boatmen, and a man wearing a
The young woman in silk clothes was quite desperate and depressed, sitting on the river beach.
Seeing Han Daoxun and others approaching, the young woman did not greet them. Instead, she stood up and stepped aside. However, an old man with a withered cheek and dressed like a soldier came over and saluted: "The ship is old and leaky, okay?"
There was too much water in Wuling and we had to temporarily dock to prevent my lord’s coffin from sinking into the river. Please forgive me if I bump into you.”
"I am Han Daoxun, the new governor of Xuzhou. In front of me is Lord Wang Yu's coffin?" Han Daoxun stepped forward and asked.
"Young man Yu Cheng has seen Mr. Han, and that's my lord's coffin over there." The soldier from his hometown replied.
Fan Xicheng looked at the young woman who was getting out of the way. Although she looked very haggard and was wearing silk clothes and no makeup, she could not hide the beauty between her eyebrows. He thought that if this woman was Wang Yu's widow, she should not retreat.
The family soldiers came forward to greet them, but if she was not a member of Wang Yu's family, why would she be wearing mourning clothes and accompanying Wang Yu's coffin all the way?
Zhao Kuo glanced at Han Qian and saw that he had no doubts. Instead, he listened patiently to Wang Yu's hometown soldiers telling Han Daoxun about the hardships after Wang Yu's death. He thought that he should have passed through the eyes of secret cao Zuo Si.
, already know the identity of this woman.
Of course, Fan Xicheng, Zhao Kuo and the others were not confused for too long. They listened to the soldiers from Wang Yu's hometown complaining about what happened before and after the funeral.
Eight years before Tianyou's reign, Wang Yu was a young minister of Dali Temple who was in the fourth rank.
When Da Chu annexed Yuezhou and other areas in eastern Zhejiang, Wang Yu, Liyang Marquis Yang En and others petitioned Emperor Tianyou to spare the Yue King Dong Chang's tribe. However, Emperor Tianyou demoted him to Xuzhou as governor and never returned. As a result, he was defeated in February.
He died of miasma and took office.
Wang Yu's eldest son died in the battle and left no heirs; the second son Wang Ye was working as a scribe in the Yuezhou governor's account at the time and learned of the death of his father Wang Yu. However, he was seriously ill and could not rush to Xuzhou to collect Wang Yu's body and return home for burial.
However, Wang Ye's descendants were all young, so they could only write letters and entrust everything to their hometown soldiers Yu Cheng and others.
Wang Yu was an honest official and had no money left after his death. The life of his soldiers was also very poor and they could not even raise money for a coffin.
Wang Yu was appointed governor of Xuzhou and offended many local powerful people. When he was about to die, no one dared to come forward to raise funds to donate the coffin. Finally, Zhou Yourui, the chief executive of Xuzhou government, remembered Wang Yu's kindness to her and funded the purchase of a coffin and hired a ship.
A black-topped boat was used to transport Wang Yu's body back to his hometown.
I just didn't expect that when the boat sailed to Wuling County, such a mess would happen again.
At that time, in addition to the teaching halls in the capital to collect the wives and daughters of guilty ministers to serve as official courtesans, the local states also set up music camps, also called public halls.
Yu Cheng, a soldier of Wang Yu's family, said that Zhou Yourui was the head of the public service, which also means the leader of the officials in Xuzhou Leying.
It is extremely desolate to think that as a governor, he died of illness and was impoverished, and because of the obstruction of local powerful people, he could not even raise the funds to transport the coffin back home.
Under the pressure of powerful men, she was not as heroic and courageous as a Leying woman. Han Daoxun was also filled with emotions and bowed deeply to Zhou Yourui who retreated to the side.
Zhou Yourui was a little surprised and returned the gift from a distance.
Han Daoxun then told Yu Cheng, a soldier from his hometown: "The prince was a noble and honest official. Unfortunately, he died of illness while taking office. Since I met him, I should pay my respects to him."
Yu Cheng returned the gift and returned to prepare.
Han Daoxun stared at Wang Yu's coffin for a while, then turned to ask Han Qian: "Did the personnel you sent to Xuzhou really find any suspicious points?"
Han Daoxun had not thought that Wang Yu's death might be problematic, but when he wanted to know about it, that is, when Han Qian proposed the conditions to Xinchang Marquis Lipu, Wang Yu had already died of illness two months ago, and he didn't know if Han Qian would be alive again.
Send people to Xuzhou to investigate, and see what else can be found.
Han Qian whispered: "Of course there are doubts, but Xuzhou is high in mountains and far away from the river, and the local people are relatively isolated. Even if I sent people to Xuzhou almost a month in advance, there was no chance to contact Wang Yu's soldiers, let alone
Even if I have to see with my own eyes whether there is any abnormality in Wang Yu's body, the information that can be collected is relatively limited."
"Even if you force the coffin ship to run aground midway, more than three months have passed since Wang Yu died of illness. Even if you open the coffin and perform an autopsy, nothing can be found." Han Daoxun stared at his son Han Qian.
With a cunning look, he suddenly understood and asked in a low voice, "Is your intention not to think that I can see anything, but to make some people mistakenly think that I can see something?"
"The only way to scare the snake out of its hole is to scare the snake out of its hole." Han Qian said with a slight smile. He didn't think it was evil at all to send someone to sink someone else's coffin ship.
"If there is no snake, how can a snake be frightened?" Han Daoxun asked.
After Wang Yu's death, there were so many officials and assistants in Xuzhou that no one came forward to raise funds to donate a coffin to help his body return home. Someone must have been obstructing this; at the same time, he did not mean to show it to the new governor.
It's just that Wang Yuzhen died of illness, not someone else's murder. No matter how many tricks they used, they couldn't scare any snakes.
"The third prince and I took three months' leave. It has already been a month. I cannot lead Zuosi's men to guard my father for too long. Even if there are no venomous snakes in Xuzhou, this venomous snake Ji Kun is a thief."
If you don't die, it's better to scare it out as soon as possible," Han Qian said, "It might be better to lure the snake out of its hole."
At that time, people in the world had limited knowledge of miasma and miasma, but Han Qian knew that the so-called miasma and miasma were actually falciparum malaria transmitted by mosquitoes.
As early as five or six hundred years ago, Ge Hong proposed Artemisia annua, a key drug for the treatment of falciparum malaria, in "Emergency Prescriptions". However, the method of decoction of Artemisia annua and its use as medicine was improper, resulting in the ineffectiveness of Artemisia annua in treating falciparum malaria.
It's just ideal.
The peak incidence of falciparum malaria in hot and humid areas is during the hot season when mosquitoes breed. However, Wang Yu died of illness in Xuzhou at the end of February. It was mid-spring and the weather was still a bit chilly.
There was no need to send anyone to investigate. Based on this alone, Han Qian suspected that Wang Yu's death was not as simple as imagined.
But for this reason, Han Qian couldn't explain it clearly.
However, to put it bluntly, even if Han Qian did not see any doubts, even if Wang Yu really fell ill and died and no one in the area harmed him, Ji Kun, the fox, had no way to confirm this.
At this time, as long as they show that they have some evidence, even if they cannot scare the local venomous snakes in Xuzhou, they can still lure Ji Kun to bite the hook.
Although Ji Kun's plot was foiled twice in a row, Ji Kun shouldered the heavy responsibility entrusted to him by Zhao Mingting. As long as Ji Kun himself was not caught, it was obviously impossible for Han Qian to think that Ji Kun had given up and returned to Jinling.
, most of them are still lurking in the dark, watching their every move.
The overall strength directly controlled by Zifangsi is naturally far greater than that of Secret Cao Zuosi, but the problem is that even the Anning Palace does not dare to openly mobilize hundreds of elite scouts to attack the imperial officials. Ji Kun can directly
The power used was extremely limited, not even as many as the manpower Han Qian could call upon at this time.
If Ji Kun still wants to continue to carry out the "important tasks" entrusted to him by Zhao Mingting, the feasible way is undoubtedly to use local power.
What Han Qian has to do is to make Ji Kun believe that there is already a mastermind in the local area who has been caught by them, and urge Ji Kun to contact the mastermind as soon as possible to deal with them.
In this case, with a manpower like Zuo Si still in Xuzhou, he would naturally be able to carry out targeted defenses.
If he doesn't do anything at this time, Ji Kun has the patience to lurk in Xuzhou for two or three more months, and he will inevitably return to Jinling within two or three months. At that time, if Ji Kun chooses to take action, he will
We may not be able to take care of the situation here.
Therefore, Han Qian arranged for people to secretly destroy the coffin transport ship and force Wang Yu's coffin to be parked in Wuling County. The purpose was two-fold. The first was to scare the snakes and scare out the local venomous snakes in Xuzhou. The second was to lure the snakes out of their holes and lure them into hiding.
Ji Kun's whereabouts in the dark were revealed again.
Han Daoxun was not sure that the first point could be achieved, but he could still understand the second point that his son Han Qian wanted to lure the poisonous snake Ji Kun out of the cave, and he felt that it was only one more day of delay and it was worth doing.
At this time, Han Qian smiled and asked Fan Xicheng, Zhao Kuo, Yang Qin, Tian Cheng, Gao Shao and others: "What do you think we can do to make Ji Kun think that my father wanted to do something from Wang Yu's body after seeing it?"
Where is the article?”
"We should set up a memorial hall in the city posthouse and invite Lord Wang Yu's coffin to worship." Fan Xicheng said.
Han Qian has already accomplished this step. If Fan Xicheng and the others can't figure out what to do next, then all their food for so many years will be in vain.
Han Daoxun pondered for a while, then signaled Fan Xicheng to go over and discuss with Wang Yu's family and Zhou Yourui, who had invested in buying a coffin and hiring a boat to send Wang Yu's body back home, to set up a memorial hall to worship first, and then wait until he invested in repairing the awning boat.
Set off to transport Wang Yu's body to his hometown.
Yu Cheng and others never thought of Han Daoxun. Han Qian and his son had a deeper plan. Wang Yu was the governor of Xuzhou and was so desolate after his death. Yu Cheng was also deeply aware of the harshness of the world. He did not expect that Han Daoxun not only did not shy away from taboos, but was also so polite. These two
The pain and sorrow that had been pent up in my heart for three months suddenly burst out, and I knelt down on the ground with tears streaming down my face, and saluted Han Daoxun again.
Zhou Yourui glanced over with some doubts, and then followed Yu Cheng and others to kneel down and worship.
After settling the matter, Han Daoxun asked Fan Xicheng and Zhao Kuo to take his invitation to see the officials of Wuling County so that they could use the posthouse in the city to set up a sacrificial hall to temporarily place Wang Yu's coffin.
"I have been to Wuling County before and know the way. I will accompany Mr. Fan and Mr. Zhao to go to the city first to submit the name card." Yang Qin said quite proactively.
