"Ah? What do you want to say?" Liu Jian suddenly leaned out of the car window, reached out and grabbed Tian Qi's shoulders, and shouted: "Speak! I order you, you must speak!"
"Your Highness, please let go quickly, it's so dangerous..." Tian Qi quickly dissuaded him, fearing that Liu Jian would fall out.
But Liu Jian refused to let go, and Tian Qi had no choice but to say: "I say, I say, that's all I say..."
Liu Jian then let go and retracted his body, frowning and staring at Tian Qi.
Tian Qi looked around him and whispered to Liu Jian: "Your Highness, why are you showing kindness to him? Chai Yan is the person who saved the prince's life. You... you are not doing this...
....Isn’t it a waste of effort?”
Liu Jian was stunned in the car with just one sentence.
Tian Qi hurriedly asked: "Your Highness, are you okay?"
For a long time, Liu Jian slowly shook his head, and then began to nod again, but his expression gradually lost: "Yes! If you didn't tell me, I would have forgotten it! I am no longer a wise king in the capital. This is in Yaozhou. In the future
This king is destined to be an idle vassal king. Once the prince ascends the throne and becomes the emperor, Chai Yan's future will naturally be unlimited. How could he be stupid enough to accept my overtures? Alas..."
At the end, Liu Jian sighed, then lowered the car curtains, and then the car became silent.
Just when Tian Qi was a little worried about Liu Jian, the car curtains were suddenly opened again.
"Tian Qi!" Liu Jian called angrily.
"What's wrong? Your Highness..." Tian Qi was startled.
"Go, find someone to demolish Shunxin Tower immediately!" Liu Jian said.
Hearing this, Tian Qi immediately looked stunned: "Your Highness, are you really cheating?"
"Boom!" It felt like Liu Jian had stomped hard inside the car.
Then, Liu Jian shouted loudly: "Demolish it! It must be demolished! What kind of bullshit Shunxin Building is it? How is it going well? It's not going well at all!"
Tian Qi: "......"
--------------------------
An hour later, Chai Yan returned to Huguangju, accompanied by Wang Wangzhou.
"Madam, I'm back..." Chai Yan called.
Soon, there was a sound behind the door, and then the door opened, and the kite appeared inside.
When Wang Wangzhou saw Yuan, he immediately raised his hands and saluted, "Wang Wangzhou has met Mrs. Chai."
Yuan Yuan did not speak, but nodded slightly.
Chai Yan held a bag of pastries in his hand. When he walked through the door, he handed it to Yuan Yuan and said, "Madam, on the way back, I saw a pastry shop doing a lot of business. I thought it tasted good, so I bought some for you."
, you try it..."
Yuanyuan took the snack, nodded and said, "Yes."
Then, Yuan Yuan went to the back carrying the snacks.
Chai Yan invited: "Sir Wang, please sit in the room."
Wang Wangzhou politely handed over his hand and followed Chai Yan to the main room and sat down.
After Wang Wangzhou looked around at the decorations in the house, he praised: "Sir Chai, you are doing well..."
Chai Yan smiled and said: "It was all done with the help of my friends, and I didn't have much to do with it, haha..."
The two chatted for a while, and Yuan Yuan brought freshly brewed hot tea to the main room.
"Thank you, Mrs. Chai." Wang Wangzhou stood up quickly and thanked her.
"You're welcome, Secretary Wang." Yuan Yuan said calmly, then looked at Chai Yan: "You guys can chat, I'm going to the back..."
Chai Yan smiled and nodded, watching Yuan Yuan leave the main room with light steps.
After Yuan Yuan left, Wang Wangzhou asked, "When does Secretary Chai plan to leave for Ganquan County?"
Chai Yan asked: "Have all the matters on Secretary Wang's side been settled?"
"Most of it has been dealt with. I can leave the remaining twigs and leaves to the people below to deal with." Wang Wangzhou nodded.
After hearing what Wang Wangzhou said, Chai Yan said: "Then let's set off tomorrow!"
"Okay." Wang Wangzhou responded.
Next, Chai Yan and Wang Wangzhou discussed some details about going to Ganquan County. As they talked, they talked about the rogue bandits who were causing trouble.
Chai Yan couldn't help but ask: "Sir Wang, I have a question that I don't understand..."
Wang Wangzhou looked at Chai Yan seriously: "Sir Chai, please tell me..."
Chai Yan asked in confusion: "Secretary Wang, when my wife and I came to Yaozhou from the capital, we heard that there were rogue bandits in Yaozhou. But why has no one gone to exterminate the rogue bandits for such a long time?"
Wang Wangzhou said: "Sir Chai, it's not that no one went to suppress the bandits, it's that we went... but couldn't find the bandits..."
"Can't find it?" Chai Yan said in surprise: "Why is this happening?"
Wang Wangzhou said: "Secretary Chai, you may not know much about the situation in Yaozhou. The terrain in Yaozhou is complex, with many mountains and dense forests. As long as the bandits burrow into the mountains and forests, our people will not dare to pursue them deeply. If they forcefully
If you pursue it deeply, you will suffer big losses..."
After listening to Wang Wangzhou's words for a while, Chai Yan understood that these bandits were using the complex terrain as cover, and would come out to rob villages and passers-by from time to time, without any head-on confrontation with the officers and soldiers who went to suppress the bandits.
Chai Yan asked again: "By the way, who is the person responsible for suppressing the bandits?"
"Yaozhou Guard Camp, General Jiang Yong Shuangjiang!" Wang Wangzhou said a name.
"How many troops does the Yaozhou Guard Camp have?" Chai Yan continued to ask.
Wang Wangzhou said: "The establishment is five thousand, but the actual strength is less than two thousand..."
"Why so few?" Chai Yan felt strange.
Wang Wangzhou shook his head and said: "I don't know the specific situation very well, but I heard from people at the Yaozhou Guard Camp that they recruit soldiers every year, but they recruit very few recruits... No one wants to be a soldier.
Soldiers!"
"Is that so..." Chai Yan frowned and asked, "Is it because the military pay is too low, so we can't recruit people?"
"I don't know..." Wang Wangzhou shook his head again.
After hearing about the situation of the Yaozhou Guard Camp, Chai Yan was a little helpless. There were only about two thousand troops stationed in such a large area as Yaozhou Prefecture. Excluding the troops left behind in the camp, there were not many who could be sent out to suppress the bandits.
After burning a stick of incense, Wang Wangzhou said goodbye and left Huguangju.
As soon as Chai Yan saw Wang Wangzhou off, he turned around and saw Yuan Yuan coming out.
Chai Yan immediately said: "Madam, I have just agreed with Secretary Wang that we will leave for Ganquan County early tomorrow morning."
Yuan nodded and said, "I understand."
"By the way, madam, guess who we met when we went to Shunxin Tower today?" Chai Yan said suddenly.
Yuan asked curiously: "Who did you meet?"
"Do you still remember the young man we saw by the lake on the night of the Lantern Festival?" Chai Yan said.
Yuan Yuan immediately remembered it and said slightly surprised: "You mean, you met the wise king today?"
"good......"
Chai Yan immediately told the story of how he met King Xian at Shunxin Tower.
Yuan Yuan frowned and said: "The King Xian is young and ignorant after all. He has always cared about the construction of other courtyards, but he is actually indifferent to the rogue bandits in his own land who are causing chaos everywhere!"
Chai Yan couldn't help but shake his head and said: "As expected of my wife, she has exactly the same thoughts as I did at that time!"