Conspiracy

Chapter 344

I thought that saving the people along the way and exterminating bandits would definitely delay the progress, but who knows, Shang Yuchen has already prepared a decision.

It turned out that the emperor allocated only five thousand soldiers to Shang Yuchen, and the rest were Xiao Chuhong's Xiao family army.

Three days ago, Li Jiu sent someone to send Xiao's military order, saying that it was ordered by Xiao Chuhong to help the disaster.

Tao Yongji, the county magistrate of Liting Town, waited outside the town gate early on, followed by the master and a group of government servants.

When the crown prince and others approached on horseback, they immediately bent down and wanted to kneel down to salute.

"My subordinate Tao Yongji is meeting His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"

"Okay, okay! No courtesy, no need to be more polite."

Shang Yuchen frowned and stopped them from saluting. The accumulated water on the ground had reached the ankles, and it had not been cleaned up after several days, and it had already emitted a foul smell.

Although everyone stepped on clogs, the bottom of their trousers was still soaked in sewage.

Shang Yuchen and the others had taken the medicine given by the young master before they came. Apart from that, they were also packed extremely tightly like them. They couldn't see their faces clearly at all, and their voices sounded a bit dull.

Shang Yuchen pointed to the people around him and introduced them one by one, "Master Tao, the person next to me is Imperial Physician Pei Lixin, the order of the imperial hospital, with superb art. The people next to him are Mr. Gu Jianggu, a cabinet bachelor, This is Mr. Wenlu, Minister of the Household Department, and this is Jin Lianjin, a hundred households of the Siwei Mansion."

Tao Yongji and everyone bowed their hands again, "See Imperial Physician Pei, Lord Gu, Lord Wen, and Baihu Jin. I would like to thank you all for not being afraid of the plague and coming to save thousands of people in Jiangdu. The official has already arranged for His Highness and adults outside the town. Well, there will be absolutely no plague in the house where we are staying.”

Shang Yuchen waved his hand to stop him from talking, and swept towards the densely packed fence in front of the town gate, "Open it, we are going to enter the city."

"Ah? Entering the city? No way!"

Seeing his panic-stricken appearance, Shang Yuchen didn't feel much in his heart. In the face of death, greed for life and fear of death are instinctive.

Along the way, he has long been familiar with it.

"Open the gates!"

"Your Highness, the plague has become more and more serious in our town in the past two days. If something happens to you if you go in rashly, the officials and the others will have a hundred heads and it is not enough to give the emperor an account!"

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Tao Yongji saw that Shang Yuchen frowned and said nothing, and wanted to persuade him a few more words, but Jin Lian had already understood the prince's eyes, drew out his waist saber, and flew up from the horse.Flying over the heads of many yamen servants, he raised his sword and slashed across the wooden fence with sword energy, only to hear a few "click" and "bang bang bang", and the obstacles blocking their way were immediately scattered with sawdust and shattered.

Among the sawdust all over the sky, Jin Lian stepped on the shoulders of those yamen servants and flew back to his horse, "You don't understand what His Royal Highness said?"

Everyone received Jin Lianman's murderous eyes, and their legs immediately went limp. Tao Yongji gritted his teeth, beckoned, and quickly stepped back a few steps to make way for them.The soldiers guarding the city behind the city gate looked at each other, quickly pulled out the wooden peg, and opened the city gate wide.

Shang Yuchen, who was dressed in black clothes, cast a sidelong glance at Tao Yongji, clamped the horse's belly with his legs, and held the reins to steer the horse into the city.

The others walked all the way, rarely rested, and were already physically and mentally exhausted.

Carriages entered Liting Town one after another. In addition to the supplies from the imperial treasury, the relief items were also donated by the ministers of the court and the merchants.

In addition, many rivers and lakes forces and rangers also extended a helping hand to the common people.

Although they didn't like the imperial court, they could tell the difference between the serious and the serious at the same time when the flood and the plague broke out at the same time.

Before Shang Yuchen and others arrived, a large amount of relief supplies had already been sent to various towns under Jiangdu by various sects.

Shang Yuchen had already heard about this matter, but according to Kuai Ma Lai, all the donations from the imperial court and Jiang Hu sect seemed to have disappeared.

Now they are in Liting Town, which is located on the outskirts of Jiangdu, but their city gates are closed, which arouses his suspicion.

Liting Town is neither small nor big, with horses' hoofs stepping over and carriage wheels slowly passing by, Shang Yuchen entered the city with only hundreds of people and relief supplies.

Because the carriage is too heavy, it always gets stuck in it from time to time when passing through stagnant water, and it is full of mud.

The sewage splashed into the cattail grass on the side of the road. Tao Yongji watched them move forward and waved his hand. His master immediately stepped forward and asked in a low voice, "My lord, what are your orders?"

"Keep an eye on the prince, don't let him notice anything."

"Yes, my lord, don't worry, everything is in order. They alone, don't even think about leaving Jiangdu."

"It's best to take it easy. They came all the way with a high profile, and they didn't even think about restraining themselves. Countless people wanted to ask for disaster relief money, and none of them survived."

"Just look at it, my lord, just relax."

"Ok!"

Tao Yongji nodded, and led the master and yamen servants away with the prince.

Tang Yinchen and Yang Huanzhi, who sneaked around along the way and even changed into officers and soldiers' clothes to hide their identities, suffered a lot.

The two mingled among the officers and soldiers, watching the magistrate and master sneaking around, muttering together as if they were plotting something.

Tang Yinchen approached Yang Huanzhi quietly stepping on the mud, covered his face with a saber, and glanced around, "Old Yang, look at the county magistrate, he looks like a villain, he must have been killed by King Qin You bought it, and you want to harm His Highness the Crown Prince?"

"I don't know." Yang Huanzhi's tone was light and slightly disgusted.

"Why don't we follow and have a look?"

"Don't go."

"Let's go! Let's go!"

"You're annoying."

"." Tang Yinchen rolled his eyes at him, and continued to mutter in a low voice, "Lao Yang, Lao Yang, we haven't reunited with Zhenzi yet, don't you want to beat him once?"

"No, I don't want to, it's boring."

Tang Yinchen may have been rebellious by nature, the colder Yang Huanzhi was to him, the more energetic he was, "You are too boring, as you are like, which beautiful girl, who is as beautiful as jade, would marry you?"

"You are so talkative, no girl should look up to you."

"That's just right, we two brothers work together, and we will live a lifetime."

Yang Huanzhi took the first step and pulled off the arm he wanted to climb on his shoulder, "It's boring."

While the two of you were coming and going, they finally stepped into the city gate.

The streets and alleys in the city are made of bluestone slabs. Although there is still water, it is much better than the mud outside the city.

Rows of houses are well arranged, the corners of the eaves are raised, and the simple and simple materials feel the vicissitudes of life.

Under the stone bridge that has existed for hundreds of years, the originally emerald green water has become filthy, and the accumulated water is more than twice as much as before.Dirty clothes and dead branches float across the water from time to time, and occasionally a few chickens and ducks that have been soaked to rot can be seen.

The facades of the street shops on the street have long been closed, and the people who occasionally pass by are also in a hurry.He didn't even pay much attention to the prince and others, and only wanted to return home as soon as possible.

(End of this chapter)