Chapter 824 Who to assassinate?
Yingtian Prefecture.
The Great Zhou Emperor propped his head up with his hands, looked at the birds on the branches outside the window, and asked lazily, "Have you arranged everything?"
Lord Yan: "Please rest assured, with Yulang here, Kyoto will definitely not be at peace."
Yulang, this knife was sharpened by the late emperor himself, and blood will flow as soon as it is unsheathed.
Emperor of Great Zhou: "Kill Gu Nanxi at all costs!"
"Yes, sir!"
The Emperor of the Great Zhou stood up, walked to the window, grabbed a handful of millet and spread out his palm.
The little birds in the yard were used to being fed, so they jumped into the palm of my hand without any preparation and pecked at the rice.
Suddenly, the palms of my hands closed together and squeezed tighter and tighter.
The little bird struggled weakly, but after a moment, it became motionless.
The Emperor of the Great Zhou had a blank expression on his face. The warmth in his palms gradually faded away, and finally only coldness remained.
Gu Nanxi, there is a road to heaven but you don’t take it, but you insist on breaking into hell even though there is no door.
If you stay in Yunzhou quietly, the emperor is far away and we really can't do anything to you.
But you are greedy and covet Kyoto, so I can only send you to the underground to accompany Gu’s family!
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In Kyoto, dark clouds covered the city and the air was filled with a sense of impending storm.
Yulang is serious about the assassination.
The Imperial City Bureau that remained in Kyoto has completely taken action!
"Yu Lang has an order..."
"Codename Dawn!"
"Activate the detectives in the palace and the marquis' mansion!"
As the orders were given one after another, even Shuyin noticed that something was wrong.
She found Su Xuanming and said, "Su Dalang, is someone trying to cause trouble? Why not ask Duke Yun to go back to Yunzhou first?"
Yunzhou is the base of Duke Yun, and it is the safest place.
Su Xuanming shook his head: "Mother won't be willing to go back. Don't worry, we have a plan. By the way, do you want to be sent to Hezhong County? Your eldest son has been transferred to Hezhong County."
Shuyin was moved, hesitated for a moment, and refused: "Thank you for your kindness, Dalang, but I haven't finished the work in my hands. I will consider this matter after I finish it."
"OK."
This is a competition that both sides are aware of.
Su Xuanming and Song Zhizhou were like firefighters putting out fires everywhere and did not dare to slack off even for a moment.
Each time they put out a small fire, it was obvious that the other party wanted to use these small accidents to divert their attention, waste their energy, and tire their nerves.
But Su Xuanming didn't dare to gamble, as the small fire would turn into a raging flame in an instant.
Gu Nanxi, on the other hand, remained calm and did not change his schedule because of the elusive Imperial City Bureau and the accidents that occurred everywhere.
She still visits Kyoto to inspect the reconstruction work and to visit orphanages for children who have lost their families.
She would also go to the market, like an ordinary woman, ask the prices of vegetables, and buy some delicious dishes.
"Madam, why don't you buy some freshly picked pumpkin flowers? Put them in a steamer and sprinkle some sugar or honey on them and mix them. They will be sweet and delicious."
Gu Nanxi paused, then squatted down and looked through the pumpkin flowers in the basket.
It is bright yellow and looks like a small trumpet.
"Sugar is so expensive, you can't eat it like that. How much do you sell your pumpkin flowers for?"
The vegetable seller was a skinny woman carrying a sleepy baby on her back.
A little girl about two or three years old sat next to her, opening her big, ignorant eyes and looking blankly at the passers-by.
She looked sad, but still managed a forced smile: "Madam is right. Pumpkin flowers are not expensive, only fifteen cents a pound."
The price is really not expensive. The pumpkin flowers don’t weigh you down, and a basket that big weighs less than three pounds.
"Okay, I'll take them all." Gu Nanxi took out the money and took out a piece of candy from her purse and gave it to the well-behaved little girl.
"No! We can't have it, it's too expensive!"
Gu Nanxi smiled and said, "It's okay. No one in my family likes to eat candy. If you feel bad, just chat with me."
The woman hesitated, looked down at her eldest daughter with eyes full of longing, and said through gritted teeth, "Okay, whatever Madam wants to ask, I will tell you everything I know."
"Haha, relax. I haven't been out for a long time. This is my first time in Kyoto, so I want to get some information from you."
Gu Nanxi was not afraid of getting dirty and sat down next to the little girl.
The woman stood there awkwardly, as if she felt it was not a good idea for her to stand while others were sitting, so she squatted down.
Gu Nanxi asked as if she was chatting with her family: "You are the only three of you, mother and daughter? Where is the husband?"
"Dead. My family lived in the suburbs of Beijing, and we didn't have time to enter the city before the rebels came. They were all captured by the rebels and drowned in the moat. That day, my child and I were at my mother's house, and we luckily escaped."
When the woman said this, her expression was numb, neither sad nor happy.
Gu Nanxi sighed silently: "It's not easy for you to raise two children by yourself! I heard that the government wants to recruit people to do things, and people like you are given priority. Why didn't you go?"
The woman's feet were numb from squatting. Seeing that the guest was kind, she sat down on the ground and said, "How could such a good opportunity come to us? It has already been chosen by the village master."
Recruitment is delegated to each village and neighborhood and is the responsibility of the grassroots.
Obviously, this gives grassroots officials considerable room for maneuver.
Gu Nanxi pursed her lips, it was still a problem of lack of manpower.
“Is it enough to live on selling pumpkin blossoms every day?”
"It's enough. Duke Yun is kind-hearted and limits the purchase of one bushel of affordable rice per person per day. With this bushel of rice, we will not starve to death."
"Hmm? Isn't it two buckets per person?"
The woman was surprised: "It's one bucket, did you remember it wrong?"
"Oh, maybe I remembered it wrong." Gu Nanxi took this matter to heart. As soon as he put his hand into the common people's grain bag, he must be chopped off!
It was mid-day and not many people came out to buy groceries.
Several vegetable vendors around started chatting casually.
"The Yunzhou Weekly praised the Duke of Yun to the skies. From what I can see, after she came to Kyoto, Kyoto hasn't changed much."
"It's OK. At least the entrance fee and stall fee are waived."
"What's the use? Isn't it still the same for the poor to get poorer and the rich to get richer? I just don't know how to divide the land outside the city! The officials and nobles are gone, and there is such a large piece of land. It would be great if we could buy one or two acres."
"You're just daydreaming! Many people are trying to get it. By the time you know about it, it will be gone."
"What do you mean? It's already available for sale?"
"That's not the case. We can use our connections to get the ownerless land into the name of someone in Kyoto. Even if Duke Yun wants to take back all the land in the future, he has to compensate them, otherwise, it will be hard to convince the public."
"Oh my god, isn't this just a free-for-all? Is there really someone who does this?"
"Plenty!"
Gu Nanxi raised an eyebrow. If you don’t go to the grassroots level, you really won’t know how strong a person’s ability to find loopholes is!
Not far away, a thin woman watched Gu Nanxi mingling with the vegetable vendors and said with a curled lip, "Just pretending. Yulang, the higher-ups have sent someone to urge us to start. When are we going to start?"
Yu Lang ate beans, lying on the window sill, looking at Gu Nanxi with interest: "Tonight! I will go meet her in person."
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