Chapter 126 Fan Xian was assassinated! Thoroughly investigate Shijia Town! (23)

Zhuang Mohan died before Li Changan left Northern Qi.

He passed away peacefully holding the annotations he had just completed for the collection of poems.

Zhuang Mohan also left all his collection of books to Li Changan, which was regarded as the inheritance of a literary giant.

However, Li Changan did not accept it, but left it to Zhuang Mohan's disciple.

Li Changan doesn't want to spend too much energy on cultural classics and history, so it is more appropriate to leave these things to professionals.

With the famous poems copied from another world, Li Changan's status as a literary giant will never be shaken in his lifetime.

Afterwards, Li Changan took Zhan Pianpian and left Northern Qi.

Not long after leaving Shangjing City, various news from Nanqing also arrived.

Fan Wujiu even relayed almost all of the conversation between Li Yunrui and Li Chengze.

The little alpaca is in some danger. He is forced by Li Yunrui to join the chariot against Fan Xian. Fan Xian's fathers are not people he can shake.

Of course, the one who screwed Li Chengze the most was his father, Emperor Qing. The artistic young man was used as a whetstone.

Li Changan and Li Chengze have been good friends since childhood, and Li Changan does not want Li Chengze to end up like that.

Therefore, Li Changan will use his own methods to squeeze Li Chengze out of the circle of competing for the throne.

The specific approach is also very simple, just get him out of the game early.

Let him give up the idea early so that he won't be too obsessed in the end.

As for the Drama Prince and Li Yunrui, Li Changan did not have much good impression of them. They ended up committing suicide, which was what they got.

Then, Li Changan arranged for Teng Zijing to go to Shijia Town, Cangzhou first.

That was the place where Li Yunrui and Li Chengze gathered the goods they smuggled from the inner warehouse, and a lot of evidence should be found there.

The two major marketers of Neiku, the Cui family smuggled to Northern Qi by land, and the Ming family smuggled to Dongyi City by sea.

Li Changan originally had the order to investigate the Junshan Society. The origin of this smuggling business still came from the exchange of interests among the top leaders of the Junshan Society.

In fact, the duty of the Shadow Secret Guard is to monitor the world. As long as Li Changan wants to do something, he can find a legal basis.

By mobilizing some local Luowang personnel by Teng Zijing, we should be able to find out the smuggling channels and facts of the Cui family.

Li Changan himself left Wang Qinian as a presentable figure and went to the Western Qin Kingdom.

In the imperial palace of Western Qin, Li Changan met Zhao Gao, Shen Wansan, Han Xin, and more than 20 important civil and military officials of Western Qin.

All of these important officials were talents discovered by Li Changan from the grassroots level in the past, and then received rigorous training by Zhao Gao. They are now the backbone of the Western Qin court.

The royal family of Western Qin is now nothing more than birds in a cage, a group of mascots.

Luowang's training center has been in operation for more than three years, and the talents who have completed the training have gone to Luowang in various places for employment.

Zhao Gao bowed and reported, "Your Highness, the Western Qin State has trained a total of 100,000 elite soldiers, including 30,000 cavalry and 70,000 infantry."

"All the army's armor and weapons were built according to the models and materials provided by Shen Wansan.

Although it is expensive, it is at least twice as strong as the armies of Northern Qi and Southern Qing."

Shen Wansan was the God of Wealth and also an arms dealer of the Ming Dynasty. He was very clear about the production of armaments.

"Now, the army, food, and armaments have made final preparations, and we are just waiting for the order from His Highness."

Li Changan said, "This time I came here to see your military, political and intelligence preparations."

"The first step in starting an army is to occupy all of Northern Qi's vassal states in the west and quickly gain a foothold in the west."

These vassal states were previously part of the Northern Wei Dynasty. Although they were not incorporated into the Northern Qi Dynasty after the fall of the Northern Wei Dynasty, they were all vassal states of the Northern Qi Dynasty.

"The second step is to consider forming an alliance with Northern Qi and capture the state that Southern Qing seized from Northern Qi."

"As for the matter of the Grand Master, this king has reached an agreement with Ku He that he will no longer interfere with the rise of Xi Qin."

Upon hearing the news, all the civil and military officials in the hall were excited!
"Congratulations, Your Highness, on becoming a Grand Master!"

With a grandmaster, Western Qin now has the capital to stand on equal footing with Southern Qing and Northern Qi!

At the very least, Shen Wansan’s huge business network in the other two countries will be protected.

At this time, Han Xin said excitedly, "Your Highness, Northern Qi is threatened by the Snow Region Northern Barbarians to the north and Southern Qing to the south."

"Their military strength in the western vassal states will not exceed 100,000. With the current military strength of our Western Qin, as long as the Grand Master does not interfere, we can expand our territory by a thousand miles within a month!"

After listening to the civil and military officials in the hall talk about the preparations of Western Qin, Li Changan, Zhao Gao, Shen Wansan, and Han Xin went to inspect the armory and armory of Western Qin together.

Li Changan said meaningfully, "Zhao Gao, Shen Wansan, and Han Xin, the three of you will be in charge of government affairs, finance, and military affairs."

"Although Zhao Gao has an overall view of the situation, you should mainly take care of intelligence and talent training, and let other ministers share more of the specific government affairs."

Considering that Zhao Gao had once brought down the Qin Dynasty, Li Changan still made a special reminder.

However, Zhao Gao, who traveled through the heavens, was very self-aware. "Don't worry, Your Highness. I understand!"

"All the talents that Your Highness has discovered are extremely talented. They can handle government affairs with twice the result with half the effort. This relieves me of my worries."

Li Changan continued, "I brought a lot of intelligence information about the various vassal states from the Jinyiwei, which should be useful to you."

Upon hearing the intelligence, Zhao Gao's eyes lit up immediately, "The burning of the Jinyiwei government office was indeed the work of His Highness!"

"With this intelligence, the founding battle of Western Qin will go smoothly!"

Li Changan was still relieved after handing the intelligence to Zhao Gao. "If you encounter any major issues, the three of you can discuss it together."

"If the three of you are undecided about anything, you can use a codeword carrier pigeon to report to me for judgment."

Li Changan looked at the shining swords and spears in the armory, as well as the neatly arranged Ming army armor, and he felt completely relieved.

At the weapons workshop, various siege crossbows, catapults, strong bows, and arrows were being produced and stockpiled.

In the newest workshop, they even started the research and development of artillery and muskets, and Li Changan also provided a lot of help using the memories in his brain.

There are no hot weapons in Ye Qingmei's inner storehouse. On the one hand, it is due to the current technological limitations, and on the other hand, she herself is unwilling to research and develop them.

Moreover, in the past, once humans showed signs of inventing firearms, the temple would send messengers to intervene in a timely manner.

After all, the artificial intelligence in the temple claims to control the direction of human history for the overall benefit of mankind.

In Li Changan's opinion, this is simply nonsense.

Li Changan has always believed that human development does not require the intervention of gods and immortals.

Can the temple's intervention definitely prevent human destruction? Not necessarily.

Without the intervention and control of the temple, will humanity be destroyed? Not necessarily.

Therefore, what belongs to the earth belongs to the earth, and what belongs to the heaven belongs to the heaven.

The overall interests of humanity should be left to be chosen by humanity as a whole.

The right way is to destroy them all, or to break into outer space and let them develop freely.

Afterwards, Li Changan went to see the army’s training.

Most of the mid-level officers in the army have undergone Luowang training, and they are all command talents discovered by Li Changan.

Even Han Xin couldn't help but sigh that the quality of the officers and colonels in this army was amazing! For three whole days, Li Changan checked all the key points related to the uprising.

The key talents of Western Qin State were all discovered by him personally.

This is the greatest impact he has brought since he came into this world.

This is also the wealth he has accumulated over more than ten years, so of course he has to check it carefully.

"Three of you, after I leave, you can start your army immediately!"

Zhao Gao asked, "Your Highness, should we change the name of the country, Western Qin?"

Li Changan smiled and said, "No need to choose again, Qin is good enough!"

"Da Qin! It sounds much more powerful than Da Qi and Da Qing!"

Soon, this new country will stand side by side with Northern Qi and Southern Qing!
South Qing border.

Fan Xian also received information from the Inspection Institute, and his background was already known to the world.

He really couldn't imagine who had revealed his background.

As soon as they entered the border, the five hundred black cavalry sent by Chen Pingping arrived.

Not long after, ten inner court guards whose cultivation was no less powerful than Gaoda's also came to protect Fan Xian.

This opened the eyes of Yan Bingyun and Guo Baokun. This was the honor of being a prince!

With such strong protection, even assassins would return empty-handed.

But what they could not have imagined was that there was actually an assassin who was reckless enough to kill Fan Xian.

There are more than a dozen masters in total, half of them are at the eighth level.

Although they were fearless and brave, they were soon killed by the inner court guards and the black cavalry.

What Fan Xian could not have imagined was that such assassinations had already happened six times!
Fan Xian knew that Li Yunrui was constantly sacrificing lives to express his hatred and irreconcilable hostility towards Fan Xian!
"I never thought that the disclosure of the illegitimate prince's identity would bring such a huge risk!"

"Dean Chen is right. There are as many people who love my mother as there are people who hate her!"

"I have to be extra careful when I return to Beijing this time. Although there are more people protecting me, it is more dangerous than when I first entered Beijing."

Fan Xian knew that the murderer who killed Ye Qingmei, the maternal family of the Queen and the Queen Mother, had all been purged by Chen Pingping and Fan Jian.

However, there are still some forces hidden in the dark that have never been investigated.

The most troublesome are people like Li Yunrui. Although he didn't take any action back then, he still hates Ye Qingmei to the core.

Fan Xian knew very well that the life-and-death feud between him and Li Yunrui could never be resolved.

Through the intelligence from the Inspection Institute, Fan Xian also learned that the person who was truly in the same party with Li Yunrui was Li Chengze.

Therefore, Fan Xian is destined to become irreconcilable enemies with Li Yunrui and Li Chengze!
Unlike the original drama, because Fan Xian was not designated to control the inner treasury, the conflict between Li Chengze and Fan Xian was not that intense.

Also, because Fan Xian did not know how to manage the inner treasury, he did not get any clues about Li Chengze's smuggling through Shen Zhong, and Li Chengze did not send anyone to rob and kill the envoys.

After inspecting the Western Qin State, Li Changan also rushed back to the convoy day and night.

A few days after he came back, just as the convoy had left Cangzhou, Teng Zijing came back.

In the tent after nightfall, Li Changan called Teng Zijing and Wang Qinian.

"Teng Zijing, how is the investigation going on in Shijia Town?"

Teng Zijing said excitedly, "Your Highness, according to the intelligence information from the Royal Guards, I have already found out all the channels of the Cui family's smuggling on land."

On the night when the Jinyiwei government office was burned down, Li Changan did ask the Shadow Secret Guard to retrieve a lot of intelligence information.

Li Changan certainly had no interest in some old archives and files from the Northern Qi Dynasty.

The information brought back by the Shadow Secret Guards was basically related to the vassal states such as Nanqing and Xiqin.

Among these, of course, are the channels and routes for smuggling goods from the domestic warehouses.

Teng Zijing continued, “Your Highness, all the goods in the inner treasury are produced by the three major workshops in Jiangnan.

But over the past decade or so, the three major districts have been severely infiltrated by the local Ming family."

There are two major marketers in Neiku, the Cui family and the Ming family, but the Ming family’s roots are in Jiangnan where the three major districts are located.

The huge profits from marketing the goods in the Neiku made the Ming family rich enough to rival a country, and it was not difficult for them to corrupt and infiltrate the three major workshops in the Neiku.

“The Ming family was able to take the goods directly from the three major transport offices, and then privately sell them to the Cui family to smuggle to Qi, or smuggle them to Dongyi City themselves.”

Li Changan knew that this was the most brutal and worst form of corruption.

The silver in the inner treasury paid for the cost of the products, but the amount of goods produced was much less.

Li Yunrui then smoothed out the accounts through the Ming family, and all the profits from the smuggling of goods went into the eldest princess's pocket through the Ming family.

From the account book, the inner treasury's silver income was not enough to cover the expenditure, so naturally there was a huge loss!
Li Changan asked, "Have you got all the witnesses and physical evidence?"

Teng Zijing replied, "I have fulfilled my mission and captured the second son of the Cui family who is in charge of smuggling."

"The accountants of several of the largest smuggling shops have all been detained, and their accounts have all been preserved as evidence."

"My subordinates did it very secretly. The Cui family and Li Yunrui will not know it was us."

Li Changan said, "They will know sooner or later, but not now."

"We are doing it in a more covert way now, just to make them get into confusion. Once they are in confusion, they will make stupid moves!"

After talking about the events in Shijia Town, Wang Qinian reported the news from Kyoto.

The current Kyoto has become a little chaotic due to the disclosure of Fan Xian's identity.

Li Chengze had already begun planning to deal with Fan Xian, but the Baoyue Tower incident still happened.

The difference this time is that Sang Wen, who was forced to sell himself and enter Baoyue Tower, has become an elite spy of Luowang.

Therefore, Li Changan was very clear about everything that was happening inside Baoyue Tower.

The owners of Baoyue Tower are the confused Fan Sizhe and the third prince Li Chengping, both of whom are nephews of Li Changan.

The real person in charge of Baoyue Tower is Yuan Meng, who was once punished by Li Changan.

The one who really manipulated Yuan Meng was not her lover, the victim Li Hongcheng, but Li Chengze.

Wang Qinian said, "Because Sang Wen received training from Luowang headquarters last year, his abilities in all aspects have improved by leaps and bounds, and he has become Yuan Meng's assistant."

After Li Changan met Sang Wen last year, Sang Wen was sent to Langya Mountain for training.

He had just returned to Kyoto at the beginning of this year when he encountered the incident of Yuan Mengqiang buying an oiran, and happened to enter Baoyue Tower as an insider.

"Your Highness, thanks to Sang Wen's persuasion, no one has been killed in Baoyue Tower so far."

"But there have been many cases of people of good character being forced into prostitution."

"Although this matter involves the Second Prince, the Third Prince, and Fan Sizhe, it does not endanger Your Highness, so Lord Jingwei did not let Sang Wen interfere too much."

Li Changan nodded and said, "Jingwei is right. I am not in Kyoto, and this matter is not directed against me. It is right to wait and see what happens."

"But, I want to get rid of the little alpaca as soon as possible, and then the matter of Baoyue Tower should be over!"

(End of this chapter)