Chapter 253 The truth
Because Pingyang Jun has been sentenced to justice, Handan's ban was also cancelled.
However, no one was in a hurry to leave Handan. Long Yangjun stood at the door of the mansion and personally cleaned the road in front of the mansion. Some people who knew about it said that this was the preparation made by Long Yangjun to welcome the sages. It is not difficult to guess that this sage who is about to come is Ma Fujun from Zhao. When Ma Fujun arrived here, Long Yangjun looked a little guilty. He leaned over and bowed and said, "I learned that I had lost my composure after drinking. I told you some unethical words. Please forgive my crimes."
Zhao Kuo shook his head and chuckled, "How could I blame you?... You said you had something important to treat me, it was not just for this matter, right?"
"I really have to discuss something important with you."
Long Yang Jun asked Ma Fujun to walk into the inner room, and he walked to the Wei warriors by the door and said seriously: "Buy me a sheep..." The warrior nodded and was about to leave. However, Long Yang Jun grabbed his hand again, lowered his voice, and smiled and ordered: "Get close to his men and horses in the name of Zhao Bao, kill them, and take Ma Fuzi directly to Wei State..."
The warrior smiled and walked out of here.
Zhao Kuo sat in the inner room and waited for a while. Long Yangjun came in and sat beside him. Long Yangjun looked a little solemn. He said seriously: "I invite you to come this time because of Wei State... Your "Horse Costume Book" is very popular in Wei State. Wei State also wants to reduce tax rates and reduce labor service, but I don't know how to set a tax rate suitable for Wei State..."
Hearing this sentence, Zhao Kuo immediately became energetic. This is a good thing. He thought seriously for a moment before saying: "If Wei State is willing to change the tax rate and make changes, he has to send someone to investigate the agricultural production and cultivated land area of Wei State, and also check the household registration. The new tax rate I implemented in Zhao State is calculated based on the arable land output... In addition, it has to be calculated as the country's economic strength? If the tax revenue is too low, it may affect the country's finances? This is not possible."
Zhao Kuo started to tell? Long Yangjun picked up a pen to record it. Zhao Kuo said again: "I heard that the nobles of Wei State have a lot of arable land and a large number of people depend on their commands? This distribution is wrong? Wei State even has refugees. Why doesn't Wei State organize these refugees to reclaim land? Why aren't the people allowed to reclaim land by themselves?"
Time passed very quickly. In addition to the tax rate questions, Longyang Jun asked questions about water conservancy? Administration and other issues? Zhao Kuo also answered with sincerity. He really hoped that the people of Wei could live a better life. At this time, the prison gate of Mafu Township, Zhao Fu? Wang Fan and the other two rushed into Handan City. They hurried to Dong Chengzi's mansion? Asked about Mafujun's whereabouts.
But Ma Fujun was not here, so they went to Pang Gong's mansion again? They went to Xinlingjun's mansion again and searched for most of the day? Finally, they met Di on the road? Di saw them so anxious? He hurriedly took them to the courtyard where Long Yangjun lived.
Zhao Kuo stood up in surprise. Seeing the panic-looking appearance of the three people in front of him, he immediately understood that something big happened to the horse.
"Ma Fujun...a group of knights came earlier..." Zhao Quhe told Zhao Kuo everything he knew and observed truthfully. Zhao Kuo's whole body trembled, his face turned extremely pale, and Long Yangjun on the side also widened his eyes, extremely shocked. Zhao Kuo staggered a few steps and almost fell to the ground. Di hurriedly supported him.
"Mother...Yi...Ge..." Zhao Kuo whispered, and he suddenly woke up and said, "I'm going back to the horse suit now..." As he said, he rushed out of here without saying goodbye to Long Yangjun. The guests followed him and rushed out together. Di was still comforting: "Head of the family, please don't worry, and Yang Duanhe follows, Yang Duan and that kid can fight..."
Although he was persuading Zhao Kuo not to worry, he was also a little dazed, and he didn't know where to put his hands, looking around blankly. When they rushed out, Long Yangjun frowned, stepped on his feet suddenly, and hurriedly called a warrior, saying, "Let our people evacuate quickly! You must not be encountered by others!" As he said that, he hurriedly left here.
Li Yu suggested telling Xinlingjun about this and asking Xinlingjun to help. Zhao Kuo did not refuse. He rushed to Mafu himself and asked Li Yu to find Wei Wuji. Xinlingjun, who was drinking with his guests in the courtyard, heard from Li Yu that Mafujun's little family was kidnapped by a villain, and he immediately jumped up. He shouted angrily. Suddenly, Xinlingjun's guests went out everywhere, hundreds of people set out from Handan, and then more guests left Handan.
Wei Wuji sent someone to inform Lian Po. Lian Po hurriedly reported to King Zhao. King Zhao was also very surprised by this incident and asked Lian Po to go to help. Lian Po hurriedly sent all the soldiers in Handan to search the whereabouts of the criminals. In this way, the whole of Handan became chaotic because of this incident. The soldiers were seen everywhere in investigation, and the knights were constantly patrolling the road. It was precisely because of this that the knights sent by Longyang Jun were not suspected.
They said that Long Yangjun sent him to help search.
Even the knights brought by Jiangqu were searching everywhere, one village after another, and even the abandoned towns in the wild, were not left behind. Roads were blocked everywhere and no entry or exit were allowed. At this time, Zhao Kuo also returned to Mafu Township. The disciples seemed a little anxious, and many people spontaneously went out to explore. The Mafu Township looked empty, and only Xunzi, Zhan and a few old people stayed here.
Of course, there are still many Confucian scholars who stay here to protect the horses and clothes here.
Zhao Kuo looked dazed. He hurried to Pinggong's mansion. As soon as he opened the door, he saw Zhao Zheng curled up in Pinggong's arms. Zhao Zheng looked very scared. Around them, there were more than a dozen Confucian scholars holding sharp blades. These people looked around and looked very alert. When they saw Ma Fujun walking in, they put down their guard.
"Father..." Zhao Zheng cried, broke free from Pinggong's arms, and ran all the way into Zhao Kuo's arms. Zhao Kuo bent down and picked him up. Zhao Zheng snuggled in his arms and started crying. He cried and said, "Mother...the eldest mother...they don't want me anymore..." Zhao Kuo took a deep breath, hugged him tightly, and said, "Don't be afraid, they won't want you, they won't."
Zhao Kuo's eyes were red, and he looked around and looked at Han Fei again. He said, "Fei, be optimistic about the politics, I want to go out."
Han Fei was silent all the way. At this moment, when he heard Zhao Kuo's orders, he nodded, took Zhao Zheng from his arms, and said to Zhao Zheng gently: "You are here waiting with me, wait for the teacher to take your mother and eldest mother back." Zhao Zheng nodded, got out of Han Fei's arms, held his hand, wiped his tears, and couldn't help sobbing.
Zhao Kuo walked out of here and was about to go out when he saw the trembling Xunzi, Zou Yan, Gongsun Long and Zhan coming over. They felt a little uncomfortable when they saw Zhao Kuo with red eyes. Xunzi walked up and said straight to the point: "This matter is inseparable from the four people. The first is King Zhao, the second is King Pingyang, the third is King Longyang, and the fourth is King Qin."
"However, I prefer that all four of them took action... Yang Duanhe suddenly asked to follow. Yang Duanhe was a Qin, and the cavalry that took your family away was well-trained and not as equipped as the second one. I think this is probably the man who was sent by Qin. They want to force you to join Qin through your family. Please take people to explore all the roads that can go to Qin and the villages along the road."
"However, please don't worry too much. If the Qin people, as I guess, will never hurt your family..."
Zhao Kuo frowned, but still didn't say anything. He was silent for a moment, then nodded to Xunzi and hurriedly left the place. Zhao Kuo rode a fast horse, quickly rushed out of his horse suit, and ran towards Shangdang. He sent a fortune to inform Lian Po and asked him to help block the important roads leading to Qin, such as those leading to Shangdang, or those leading to Hanoi.
Just when the entire Handan County was in chaos, the Zhao Palace was surprisingly peaceful.
King Zhao sat with Zhao Bao on his face. Just now, King Zhao announced his punishment for Zhao Bao, that is, to exempt him from his title and demote him to a commoner. From today on, there will be no Pingyang Lord in Zhao State, only one commoner Bao. Bao is indifferent to this king. What he pursues is not power, what he pursues is not his own wealth, what he pursues is the stability of the throne, which is the responsibility of every royal family.
Bao said to King Zhao seriously: "The people I sent have achieved their goals."
King Zhao nodded and said, "Liang Po found me. He said, Ma Fujun's family was kidnapped by evil people. I gave you more than 20 elite soldiers. Unexpectedly, you not only planned to do Ma Fujun, but even Ma Fujun's family took them away..." King Zhao narrowed his eyes, took another sip of wine, and said, "But this is good, but you can't hurt Ma Fujun's family... I will treat them well."
"Family? No, Lian Po was probably wrong. The people I sent were going to take Ma Fuzi hostage."
King Zhao was also confused, thought for a moment, nodded, and said, "All those who know this matter must be eliminated. The dead soldiers I gave you are not known to others. Their families are all elsewhere, and they dare not betray me. Are you ready?"
"Of course, I have arranged the evidence they came from Qin and their Qin officials... Thanks to Lou Yan. Fortunately, you were not in a hurry to execute Lou Yan at that time. He was very familiar with many things in Qin. He forged a list of more than 20 people. As long as Lian Po searched carefully, they could find out their identities... These people are undoubtedly Qin people, and some people even prove that they had seen these people."
"Even the places where they rest on weekdays have detailed records."
"Where is the building slow?"
"After he arranged these things for me, I killed him."
A trace of unbearableness flashed across King Zhao's face and said, "Then no one else knows about this?"
"The Long Yangjun of Wei State once found me and gave me a crossbow from Xinlingjun's house. He wanted to cooperate with me. His purpose was to force Xinlingjun to return to Wei State." As soon as Bao spoke, King Zhao stood up angrily and said, "How can you force my Xinlingjun to leave?" Bao said helplessly: "I don't want to drive him away. I just agreed to Long Yangjun for the time being. He also helped me a lot in this matter."
"He is informed?" King Zhao's eyes gradually became cold. He looked at Bao coldly and said with a sneer: "Okay, next, he will tell Ma Fujun what he knows. Everyone in the world will know that it was you who killed Ma Fujun, and Zhao State will be destroyed... Haha, you are really worthy of being my relative, and you are thinking about me in everything..."
Facing King Zhao's sarcasm, Bao was still not angry. He shook his head and said, "Please rest assured. Lord Long Yang does not know the detailed situation and cannot produce any evidence. If he wants to do something, it just happened that this matter could be done by him. The purpose is to disrupt Zhao and express his dissatisfaction with Zhao's annexation of Wei State... I have made all arrangements and Lou Yan, who proposed this plan, has died and no one will know about it."
Zhao Kuo was like crazy, running back and forth on various important roads in Handan. He didn't eat or drink, and kept running along the road. The horses under his crotch were changed one after another, but he gained nothing. Looking at Zhao Kuo's appearance, his disciples and disciples were very worried. Zhao Kuo did not eat or drink, and even had no rest for two consecutive days, just running back and forth between places, looking for the whereabouts of the knights.
But these people seemed to have evaporated from the world and could no longer find any news about them.
Zhao Kuo sat on the muddy ground, and the guests stood around him. Zhao Kuo lowered his head and said nothing, with a trembling corner of his mouth. Di looked at the guests around him and signaled them to leave. Then he sat beside him, "Master of the family... don't worry, you can find them, but in one day, where can they escape? General Lian Po investigated the dead soldiers who died in horse suits and found that they all came from Qin..."
"They came from Shangdang in the name of merchants and were waiting for an opportunity in Wu'an City... I think the King of Qin respects you so much, and he will definitely not hurt..."
"I shouldn't have left...Yi is pregnant...How can I withstand a long journey...My mother is old, so how can I persevere? Ge's legs hurt when they encounter the cold wind. So what's going on now? And Yang Duanhe, he is so young..." Zhao Kuo covered his face, and tears couldn't help falling.
"I shouldn't have left them."
Chapter completed!