Traveling through the early Tang Dynasty starts with hanging

Chapter 699 Doubt
After asking several times carefully, Li Shan focused on Rong Jiusi's whereabouts in the past six months. Fan Feng answered each one very clearly, and Fan Shiyi occasionally reminded him a few words. Relatively speaking, he knew the whole story better .

The original target was Feng Lun, because he was the most important person, but at the beginning of the year, Li Shansheng was afraid of accidents, so he changed his target to Rong Jiusi.

"What do you do for a living?" Li Shan suddenly changed the subject.

Fan Shiyi said with a smile: "He is usually a shopkeeper, walking around the streets and alleys, and often in the villages around Chang'an. He also visits Zhuangzi once a month."

Fan Feng's mother lived in Sun Moon Lake, and she came here once a month as a shopkeeper, apparently to visit her.

"Yeah." Li Shan smiled, "Let's live in Chang'an for the time being... Change your job, and someone will explain to you later."

"Yes."

"Stop for now." Li Shan added: "If you have something important to do and Fan Shiru is not here, you can go straight to Qu Silang."

"Yes."

Watching Fan Shiyi lead Fan Feng out, Li Shan got up and paced back and forth in the study, gradually lost in thought. In his mind, a faint line gradually emerged, but there was one thing he couldn't figure out.

For Zhao Yuankai, although many people mentioned it in a contemptuous tone, Li Shan didn't have any special feelings... There will be such people in any era, who wouldn't want to climb up?

In order to climb up, are there fewer shameless people?
Not to mention the example of Li Dewu is still in front of us, even Li Shan himself, didn't he try his best to climb up again and again in his previous life?
Li Shan felt the same for Zhao Yuankai. When he knew that the Prince and the King of Qin would not accept this person because of his bad reputation, he even thought about using this person... If he is not involved in seizing the throne, his reputation will be ruined, as long as he can do things. .

But just before assuming the new post, after hearing from Cui Xin that Zhao Yuankai was in charge of grain storage and warehouse management, Li Shan was keenly aware of something and made some vague guesses.

This is just intuition, without any evidence, but when Li Shan took office on the first day, he had some temptations, and mentioned that he intends to inspect the granary in the customs... Unexpectedly, Zhao Yuankai really made a move, at least he expressed it under conditioned reflex Resistance to Li Shan.

Li Shan immediately noticed something strange.

The reason why Zhao Yuankai's reputation has been ruined is largely because this person does not hesitate to flatter him in order to climb up, why he clings to the East Palace or the King of Qin is nothing more than to climb a thigh.

Now the East Palace and Prince Qin's Mansion do not accept it. For Zhao Yuankai, to be included in the clan, to be named the county king, and to be famous all over the world requires the trust of a sage. With the support of Princess Pingyang, Li Shan, the king of Handan County, is not a thigh in front of him. ?

Don't you want such thighs?

Not only does he not want it, but he also rejects it... This is not Zhao Yuankai's temperament, unless he has something to hide.

What is the unspeakable secret?
Either Zhao Yuankai has a better choice... But this is impossible, the East Palace and Qin Wangfu are unwilling to take it, so can he still fall into Li Yuan's eyes?
Or, Zhao Yuankai has already made other choices.

Li Shan stared at the dancing candlelight with a gloomy gaze. In the past ten days, he had rejected three waves of explanations for Zhao Yuankai. Fortunately, Cui Xin and Li Qianyou were not persuaded, otherwise he would have been somewhat passive.

Just two days ago, Zhao Yuankai didn't know what kind of relationship he had, but actually invited Liu Jun from the Hedong Liu family who fought side by side with Li Shan in Shandong.

Li Shan had enough reasons to refuse Liu Jun's explanation. After all, he was the one who saved Liu Jun, not Liu Jun who saved him. Set off in the next day to inspect the granary in the pass.

In this case, Zhao Yuankai invited Rong Jiusi.

And it's not above board, but sneaking to find Rong Jiusi in the middle of the night.

Rong Jiusi has some reputation in Chang'an, but he is not outstanding in all aspects, and there is nothing special about him, except for one thing, he is the confidant of Qi Wang Li Yuanji.

Li Shan picked up the cup and drank a few sips of water, thinking that his intuition was right at the time, Zhao Yuankai was not accepted by Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin, so driven by all kinds of helplessness or other factors, he finally chose Li Yuanji.

This time he pushed Zhao Yuankai to a dead end, and the other party finally contacted Rong Jiusi...or Qi Wang Li Yuanji arranged for Rong Jiusi to come forward.

Zhao Yuankai is Li Yuanji's man, this matter is not a big deal, Li Yuanji, as Li Yuan's son-in-law, founded the government and established teeth, although his leadership ability and character were criticized by others, but he has to admit that he has the possibility of inheriting the throne.

If Li Shimin could defeat Li Jiancheng and get Li Yuan's permission to enter the East Palace, he should never rely on his military exploits, so in terms of qualifications, Li Yuanji was not inferior to Li Shimin.

But in the eyes of a traveler, this is not a trivial matter... According to historical records, when he was fighting against King Qin, Crown Prince Li Jiancheng once promised Qi King Li Yuanji to make him the emperor's younger brother.

Sometimes history books are no more credible than unofficial histories, but one thing is for sure, Li Yuanji must have the heart to seize the throne.

Li Shan has so many associations, so many... Naturally there is a reason.

That day when Cui Xin mentioned that Zhao Yuankai was in charge of grain storage and warehouse management, the name Li Yuanji suddenly jumped into Li Shan's mind.

It all started with the Yuhuchun incident that year, when Wang Renyou made a head start, Du Yan rushed forward and invited Wei Qingsi, the prince's family order, to take action. In the end, Li Shan directly brought the matter to Du Ruhui before it was resolved. .

Although the matter was settled, he and Du Yan finally became enemies, because Du Ruhui gave Li Shan a large shop in the west market... and that shop was left by Du Yan's mother, Mrs. Guo , Du Ruhui's father and Du Yan are half brothers.

Not to mention that Ling Jing took Du Yan's position before, and it was Fang Xuanling who let Xiancai solve it afterwards. There is also a grievance between Du Yan and Ling Jing.

Under such circumstances, Li Shan kept a close eye on Du Yan, and Fan Shiyi was in charge of this matter at the time.

Soon Li Shan discovered the abnormality. After Du Yan took over Yuhuchun, the sage issued a prohibition order. Although it didn't have much binding force on Jingzhao Du's family, he still had to impose heavy taxes, but Yuhuchun The sales volume is increasing day by day.

Where did Du Yan get so much food to make wine?

The price of rice in Guanzhong is rising day by day. If there is no cheap grain, wine making may be a loss-making business.

Fan Shiyi found Fangzhou along this line, and also found that Du Yan and Feng Lun had no relationship on the surface, but they often communicated after the curfew.

But after that, Fan Shiyi followed Li Shan to the north and went to Daizhou. Before leaving, he recommended his clan brother Fan Feng. This ordinary middle-aged man has stayed in Chang'an for more than a year, watching over several people for Li Shan.

(End of this chapter)