Chapter 135 The Case of the Provincial Governor's Corruption (1)
"Your Highness! Apart from the news of Cen Wenben's death, did His Majesty say anything else?" Du He asked.
Du He did not believe that Li Er's urgent secret letter was just to tell the prince about the death of a minister. This was too absurd! There must
be something else in the secret letter, but the prince did not say it!
"Xu Jingzong!" Li Chengqian shouted.
Xu Jingzong hurriedly stood up and saluted, saying, "I am here!"
Xu Jingzong could more or less guess that this secret letter should be related to him, but he did not know what His Majesty Li Er said in the secret letter.
"My father wants to summon you to Youzhou to take over Cen Wenben's job and appoint you as the Inspector of the Secretariat. Are you willing to go to Youzhou?" Li Chengqian said.
Xu Jingzong glanced at Li Chengqian and hesitated. The emperor summoned him to Youzhou and entrusted him with an important task, which was an opportunity for him.
However, he, Xu Jingzong, was the prince of the Eastern Palace. If the prince disagreed, he would give up this opportunity.
After all, compared with the future, the opportunity in front of him was nothing. This was the only way to prove his loyalty to the prince.
Li Chengqian saw through Xu Jingzong's thoughts at a glance and said, "In my opinion, Xu Qing should go to Youzhou. If there is no suitable person to manage the logistics, the expenses of hundreds of thousands of troops will be a problem."
"If there is any mistake, the failure of the Eastern Expedition is a small matter, but hundreds of thousands of people will never come back, which is a big deal."
"What's more, if there is no confidant to handle the logistics of the Eastern Expedition, I will always be worried."
Xu Jingzong's mind turned, and he immediately guessed what Li Chengqian meant!
"I am willing to go to Youzhou to serve your majesty!" Xu Jingzong saluted.
"Okay! In this case, Xu Qing should go back and pack up and set off for Youzhou."
"That's all for today, everyone go back first!" Li Chengqian said to Xu Jingzong while talking to everyone.
"Yes!" Everyone retreated.
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On the official road leading to Chang'an, several men in black stared at the passers-by, seemingly looking for someone.
"There!"
"Don't let him get away."
"Chase him!" The man in black found the target, shouted immediately, and rushed towards the target.
"Master, hurry up!" The servant hurriedly pushed a middle-aged man in gray and drew his sword to meet him.
The middle-aged man in gray hurriedly ran to the woods next to him, looking back from time to time, his eyes full of fear.
"Chase! The superiors have ordered that he cannot be allowed to enter Chang'an alive." The man in black dealt with all the servants, and saw the man in gray sneaking into the woods, and hurriedly called other brothers to chase him.
When the man in black rushed into the woods, the man in gray had already used the trees in the forest as cover and was escaping.
"Two people form a group and go to look for him separately. We must kill him before he enters Chang'an!" the leading man in black ordered.
The other men in black nodded and immediately dispersed to conduct a carpet search. They kept their eyes on all directions, kept an eye on the movements in the forest, and moved forward slowly.
Just as the men in black were searching the forest, a carriage stopped not far from the forest under the escort of a team of guards.
"Princess! Do we really need to come here for a picnic?" Du He stretched out his hand to the door of the carriage and said.
"My husband, do you not want to be alone with me?"
A slender hand stretched out from the carriage and placed on Du He's hand, and a beautiful woman walked out.
Du He helped his wife, Princess Chengyang, get off the carriage.
"What are you talking about, Princess? Du He wishes he could be with her every day and can't miss her even once."
"As long as I leave her for half a step, I will feel uneasy. If I don't see her for a moment, I will miss her very much." Du He said with a smile.
He, Du He, is not a person who doesn't know how to have fun. He just feels that he doesn't want to stay in Chang'an City, and he has to run to this wilderness.
"You are just a mouthful." Princess Chengyang blushed after hearing this.
"Who is it?" The guard suddenly found someone sneaking around in the forest, and shouted, and immediately protected the princess and her husband.
Du He's face was ashen. He finally had the opportunity to go out and relax, but he encountered such a thing.
The princess was immediately frightened and pale. Du He stepped forward to protect Princess Chengyang behind him, and turned back to smile at the princess.
Looking at that spring-like smile, Princess Chengyang felt relieved.
Several guards immediately drew their bows and arrows, fearing that the people in the forest might harm the princess and her husband, and shot several arrows into the forest.
The bowstrings trembled, and the sharp arrows whizzed into the forest, startling the birds in the forest and flew up.
"Ah!" A scream rang out, and the sneaky figure was shot in the arm by a sharp arrow.
The man in gray felt that he was unlucky enough, as he had just gotten rid of the pursuers behind him, and now he was ambushed again!
He didn't even know if he could enter Chang'an alive and sue the governor to the court.
"You guys go and take a look." The leader of the guards waved to several of his men.
The guard who was called hurriedly nodded and walked slowly towards the forest. After searching for a while, he found the man in gray in a bush.
The guard immediately stepped forward to capture him and brought him to Du He and the princess.
"Who are you? Why are you sneaking around? What are you trying to do? Who sent you here?" Du He looked up and down at the man in gray who was being held by the guard and asked.
Although the man in gray didn't know who was standing in front of him, he could guess from his gorgeous clothes that he must be a noble.
"I'm from Cangzhou. I'm the Censor in charge of inspecting Hebei Province. I reported to the Governor of Cangzhou that his subordinate, Li Taibian, the Magistrate of Changlu County
, had accepted bribes." "Who would have thought that Li Taibian actually bribed the Governor of Cangzhou, Xi Bian. They were in cahoots
with each other. I had planned to go to Beijing to sue them both." "They actually dared to assassinate me in broad daylight. My servants all died to cover me from their clutches!"
"I finally escaped here. I just stopped to rest for a while and then I heard the sound of breaking air. I knew something was wrong. Then several sharp arrows were shot at me. I couldn't dodge and was hit by one." said the gray-clothed Censor.
Everyone knew what happened next, without him having to say it.
"You keep saying that the governor of Cangzhou accepted bribes. Do you have any evidence?" Du He asked.
He couldn't just believe a few words from the person in front of him. You have to know that slandering the governor is a serious crime.
"Yes, it's in my pocket. There are evidence and certificates of the private exchange between the two of them. I also have witnesses in Cangzhou."
"If I wasn't worried that the other party would kill me on the road, I would definitely bring the witnesses to Chang'an." The Censor said.
"I can't believe your words before I see the evidence. Search him." Du He said, and then asked the guards to search him. In the end, they found several things on him.
"Young Master!" The guard placed several things in front of Du He. Du He picked up the account book and looked through it carefully. The more he looked, the angrier he became.