Chapter 121 The Unjust Death of Celebrities 【Seeking Monthly Pass】
The ship traveled hundreds of miles in a single night with smooth sailing. At dawn, Hangzhou merged into the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. With the help of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal built by Yang Guang, Hangzhou was even more prosperous than Nanjing.
On the canal, boats came and went. As soon as they entered the canal section, Chu Yi and others clearly felt how much this grand canal connecting the north and the south played in the integration between the north and the south.
Not to mention anything else, just by opening this grand canal, Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty can be said to have made great contributions to the present and will benefit the future.
As the starting point of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, Hangzhou City naturally occupies the right time and place. Ships come and go, and north-south transportation creates the prosperity of Hangzhou City.
Five official ships sailed into the canal and docked slowly at the pier. Even if Chu Yi was in a hurry to return to Beijing, he could not keep going. He could bear it, but others on the ship may not be able to bear it.
Besides, the water and food on the ship must be replenished. Even though he knew that docking for supplies would provide opportunities for interested people, Chu Yi really wasn't worried.
What is supposed to come will always come, and even Chu Yi hopes that someone will jump out, so that he can scare the monkeys.
Qi Hu and Cao Shaoqin personally took people off the ship to supervise the water supply and food replenishment. Both Qi Hu and Cao Shaoqin were very thoughtful people. Chu Yi really wasn't worried about anything going wrong.
Not long after the ship docked, the prefect of Hangzhou received the news. He immediately summoned his confidants to hand over a secret letter and said: "Send this letter immediately."
The confidant came close to the Hangzhou magistrate's ear, heard the other person whispering, nodded slightly and said: "Don't worry, sir, I will definitely deliver the letter as soon as possible."
Soon they saw the Hangzhou prefect, surrounded by a group of government officials, arriving at the location of the ship and asking to see Chu Yi.
Chu Yi was not prepared to disembark and waste time, so he simply sent Chu Fang to send him away. Unexpectedly, the Hangzhou magistrate refused to leave and insisted on seeing Chu Yi.
Chu Fang had no choice but to return to the ship and report the situation to Chu Yi. Chu Yi couldn't help but be stunned. Normally, unless they were officials who were ready to attach themselves to him, given his current reputation among literati, these officials would not shy away from him.
That's good, but I don't know why the Hangzhou magistrate is so diligent.
Gently tapping the table with one hand, Chu Yi slowly raised his head and said, "Invite the Hangzhou magistrate here. I want to see what's going on with him!"
If the other party really wants to be attached to him, then after a closer inspection, Chu Yi would not mind having more subordinates. After all, the other party can secure his position as the prefect of Hangzhou, and his abilities are not too bad.
Soon Wang Heng, the prefect of Hangzhou, was taken to the big ship. When he saw Chu Yi, Wang Heng quickly stepped forward and saluted: "Wang Heng, the prefect of Hangzhou, has met the imperial envoy Chu Governor."
Chu Yi nodded slightly and looked at the Hangzhou magistrate. He was in his forties, his eyes were clear, and there was no flattery in his expression, but Chu Yi gave him a high look.
"Oh, I wonder why the prefect Wang wants to see this governor?"
Wang Heng looked calmly and said: "I heard that the governor was coming, so I prepared a small amount of wine in the restaurant to welcome the governor to Hangzhou Mansion, thinking that the governor would wash away the dust!"
Chu Yi raised his brows, glanced at Wang Heng indifferently and said, "If the prefect Wang wants to help Chu, that's fine. I have been ordered by the emperor to return to the capital, but it is inconvenient to stop on the way."
Wang Heng showed a bit of disappointment and said: "It seems that the lower official is not so lucky!"
Chu Yi picked up the tea cup. Wang Heng saw this and bowed slowly: "Now that I have resigned, I would like to wish the governor a safe journey."
Chu Yi nodded slightly and said, "Chu Fang, help the prefect get off the boat for me."
Watching Wang Heng, the prefect of Hangzhou, leave, Chu Yi said to Yuhuatian beside him: "Yuhuatian, what do you think of the prefect of Hangzhou?"
Yu Huatian pondered for a moment and said slowly: "In my opinion, the behavior of the Hangzhou magistrate is a bit suspicious. He is not coming to rely on the governor, but instead looks like he wants to keep the governor in Hangzhou for a while."
Chu Yi sighed softly: "Yes, his ultimate goal is to hope that the governor can suspend his stay in Hangzhou."
"Someone wants to hijack a ship in Hangzhou Prefecture?"
Yuhuatian exclaimed, obviously realizing the purpose of the Hangzhou prefect.
Chu Yi chuckled: "Although this inference is a bit arbitrary, consider that there are tens of millions of taels of silver on this ship, which is enough to blind some people's minds, and it is not surprising to react in any way."
Yuhuatian was silent. It was only on the day of shipment that he learned that Chu Yi had confiscated families and exterminated people in this land south of the Yangtze River, shaving off tens of millions of taels of silver.
This is not tens of thousands of taels, not a million taels, but tens of millions of taels. Even Yuhuatian can realize that this journey will definitely not be so peaceful.
Tens of millions of taels of silver is enough to drive countless people crazy. Just like Chu Yi said, no matter what kind of behavior anyone does, it is not surprising.
Chu Fang, who was sending Wang Heng off the boat, returned just in time to hear Yu Huatian's exclamation. When he heard what Chu Yi said, Chu Fang immediately realized that Wang Heng might have a problem and couldn't help but said: "Supervisor, do you want me to go check it out?"
This is Wang Heng."
Chu Yi shook his head and said: "Since Wang Heng dared to come, he must have erased all traces. With just the few manpower Dongchang has in Hangzhou, I'm afraid nothing can be found."
"But……"
Chu Yi waved his hand and said: "The most important thing for us right now is to reach the capital smoothly. As for these people with ulterior motives, Wang Heng will not be the first or the last one along the way. There is no evidence
Under this situation, I have no time to pay attention to them."
When Cao Shaoqin and Qi Hu returned, half a day had passed.
Cao Shaoqin looked at Chu Yi with an angry look on his face and said: "Lord Governor, there must be a ghost in this city of Hangzhou. Qi Dong and I couldn't buy fresh vegetables with money. In the end, our family couldn't bear it anymore and killed a hider.
Only by secretly threatening those vegetable farmers can we collect enough fresh vegetables."
Chu Yi was not surprised and comforted Cao Shaoqin: "Just think about it, we have tens of millions of taels of silver on the ship. For these silvers, some people can do anything. If I were you, those fresh vegetables would be the best thing for me."
It will definitely be thrown into the river."
"What... Lord, are you saying that there is something wrong with the vegetable farmers and that the vegetables we buy have been tampered with by them?"
Cao Shaoqin exclaimed, and even Qi Hu beside him couldn't help but look horrified.
Chu Yi said calmly: "Is there any problem? Is it tampered with? You can go check it out and you will know, right?"
Cao Shaoqin's figure flashed and disappeared in front of everyone. Soon he was seen taking some fresh vegetables he bought and inspecting them one by one. Soon Cao Shaoqin's expression became extremely ugly. He slapped the vegetables to pieces and screamed:
"Damn it, they are really poisonous, let's kill them!"
Just when Cao Shaoqin was about to get off the boat to find those vegetable farmers to kill, Chu Yi said: "Instruct us to go down and set off immediately. There are experts in Hangzhou. In this case, we won't play with them."
Cao Shaoqin was stunned for a moment, then calmed down and bowed to Chu Yi and said: "This slave is guilty and almost fell into the trap of those people."
Obviously, after Cao Shaoqin calmed down, he realized that the other party might have done this on purpose, just to anger them, and then divert the tiger away from the mountain to attract their attention to the city of Hangzhou. Then they would naturally have the idea of tatting silver on the ship.
After all, the method of poisoning vegetables is too obvious and easy to detect. The other party has never thought of using poisoning to deal with Chu Yi and others. Its purpose is nothing more than to anger Chu Yi and others.
That’s all.
Chu Yi has seen through this. If there were not these silver patterns on the ship and Zhu Houzhao's secret edict, Chu Yi would not mind playing with some people in Hangzhou. It's a pity that he is eager to return home now, so he sees through it.
After some people's calculations, Chu Yi immediately lifted the chessboard, and I won't play with you anymore.
In a restaurant next to the pier, a scribe in blue shirt was sitting there, and several strong men with evil spirits all over their bodies were sitting there drinking wine and eating meat. From time to time, they complimented the scribe in blue shirt: "Thank you.
Sir, he is indeed one of the most famous people in our Hangzhou Province. With a little trick, he can trick Chu Yi, the eunuch, into playing around. I think it won’t be long before they find out that the vegetables we sent to sell to them have been tampered with."
A man exposed his breasts and was chewing a chicken leg. He said: "It's a pity that the brother was killed. If the play hadn't been acted more like, how could he have watched that brother helplessly?"
Lost his life."
A trace of disdain flashed in the eyes of the green-shirted scribe, obviously he didn't have a good impression of these Jianghu gangsters hanging around the canal, but they had to deal with Chu Yi, and these Jianghu gangsters couldn't be easier to use.
"Everyone, if Xie's prediction is true, Chu Yi will definitely send people into Hangzhou City to arrest people in anger soon. When the time comes, everyone will take advantage of the weakened defense force on the ship to swarm up and kill Chu Yi and others, tens of millions of people.
Two pieces of silver can be everything for us."
Faced with the bright prospects described by Mr.
They worked so hard on the canal that they could only accumulate tens of thousands of taels of silver, but now the large ships docked at the pier are loaded with tens of millions of taels. If
If they can snatch the Wen Yin as Mr. Xie said, wouldn't they enjoy endless glory and wealth throughout their lives?
As for the risks involved, whether one will lose one's life, it is nothing to these Jianghu gangs who have been fighting for their lives all year round.
You might lose your life in any gang conflict, but now it's worth losing your life for tens of millions of taels of silver.
A pair of red eyes with infinite greed stared through the window at the large ships in the distance. If they were not afraid of the officers and soldiers on the big ships, they would have sent people to rush aboard.
Now we are looking forward to the fact that some people from the big ship can enter Hangzhou City. When the time comes, they will swarm up and try their best to capture the big ship.
But at this moment, several gang leaders opened their eyes wide with astonishment, and said in a trembling voice: "This... this is not right, Mr. Xie, why did they pull the anchor and leave..."
At this moment, the confident expression on Xie Tianming's face suddenly froze. The folding fan that was originally shaking in his hand fell to the ground with a clatter. He looked stupidly at the ship that was gradually going away, and murmured in his mouth: "That's not the case.
Yes, it shouldn’t be like this..."
A reckless man's eyes were red. He grabbed Xie Tianming's shirt and lifted him up. His ferocious face was almost close to Xie Tianming's and he yelled: "Tell me what the hell is going on. Aren't you destined to be castrated?"
Will the dogs divide their troops?”
Xie Tianming roared with anger on his face: "How do I know that this gelding doesn't act according to common sense? Why are you yelling at me? If you don't let me go, I will kill you without a burial place!"
"Want to kill me? Then go and die!"
The reckless man lifted Xie Tianming with great force and slammed it down on the table. Only then did the leaders of the gangs and gangs around him react, and their expressions changed greatly when they saw this.
This reckless man is the leader of the Black Fish Gang. He is simply a reckless man without much brains. There are only a dozen members of the Black Fish Gang including him. It can be said that he is just here to make up the numbers. Everyone sees that he has no brains, so they tricked him into doing it.
As cannon fodder, even the man killed by Cao Shaoqin earlier was also a member of the Blackfish Gang.
As a result, Chu Yi's reaction at this moment was completely different from what Xie Tianming said. The Blackfish Gang was naturally angry for helping Chen Heiyu.
"Stop him quickly!"
With a bang, Xie Tianming's head was smashed into pieces by Chen Heiyu like a smashed watermelon. The gang leaders looked at Xie Tianming whose head exploded, and then looked at the ferocious-looking Chen Heiyu.
They all looked at each other, looked at each other and turned around to leave.
Damn it, what is this? After all, Xie Tianming is also a famous scholar in Hangzhou Prefecture. To be thrown to death like this, it can be expected that the literati in Hangzhou Prefecture will never let them go. If they don't run away at this time, I'm afraid
I can't run away.
Chu Yi never expected that he was too lazy to play some conspiracy with Xie Tianming and just flipped the chessboard. The result was that Xie Tianming, a famous teacher, lost his life.
Of course, just one Xie Tianming is not enough to gather more than a dozen vicious gang leaders. There are naturally other people behind them who control the overall situation, and Xie Tianming is nothing more than a chess piece.
It's good to succeed, but even if it fails, the only ones who will die will be Xie Tianming and the leaders of these Jianghu gangs.
The big ship went down the canal and gradually moved away from Hangzhou. The canal waterway was not as turbulent as the river, so the speed of the ship was not slow. Even to catch up with certain sections of the river, river workers had to rely on the river workers to drag the big ship forward.
Several times when the big boat was being towed by river workers, Chu Yi was a little worried that someone would take the opportunity to come out. After all, this was definitely an excellent time.
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