Since leaving Yangzhou Prefecture, Kang Jinlong and Fang Ritu have been moving forward all the time. Finally, they have only taken only one month to arrive at Quanzhou Prefecture.

Funing Road Quanzhou Prefecture.

It has been a famous port in Jiuzhou since nearly a thousand years ago, and it was even more prosperous by the Song Dynasty and the previous dynasties.

Unfortunately, Emperor Taizu of this dynasty issued a ban on seas, and Quanzhou Port became Quanzhou Guard, and from a good port to a place of coastal defense.

Moreover, it is no different from the smuggled harbors near Jiangnan. Because Quanzhou is "famous", and there are Quanzhou Guards responsible for coastal defense stations in the territory, even those smuggling merchants avoid Quanzhou Prefecture as much as possible, which undoubtedly makes Quanzhou Prefecture more and more desolate.

However, even though Quanzhou Prefecture has withered, the accumulation of hundreds of years before can still be considered prosperous.

At least it is much better than those neighbors who are full of mountains, hills and not many fertile fields in their territory.

...

But for Kang Jinlong and Fang Ritu, they obviously did not care whether Quanzhou Prefecture was prosperous or whether the days were much worse than in the past because of the ban on sea. They traveled thousands of miles to Quanzhou Prefecture for only one person.

Hua Linlang!

If you want to find news related to Hua Linlang, the best way is naturally to ask the other person involved in the news they heard before, except Hua Linlang, Zhenhai Gang.

As the saying goes.

"There is no tiger in the mountains, and the monkey is called the king!"

In Quanzhou Prefecture, which has no famous sects, or even in Funing Dao, it is just a second-rate sect in the world, but it can be regarded as a "big figure" in Quanzhou Prefecture.

As the saying goes, "The strong dragon cannot defeat the local snake." Although Kang Jinlong and Fang Ritu look down on the small Zhenhai Gang in their hearts, when the two came alone and without any help from Funing Dao, the two obviously could not go directly and domineeringly to ask the leader of the Zhenhai Gang Chao Wangtian for information about Hua Linlang.

So the two had to find a room to live in and slowly search for it.

...

While Kang Jinlong and Fang Ritu racked their brains in Quanzhou Prefecture to think about how to get close to Chao Wangtian and asked about Hua Linlang from him, in the capital thousands of miles away, the emperor finally spent the New Year in a little nervous. After a few dozen days of anxiety, he finally got the news about Zhu Jinxuan, a young girl who escaped from home.

However, after reading the letter written by Zhu Jinxuan from Hu Xiaolin in his hand, the emperor's anxiety and anger not only did not decrease, but became more and more serious.

Nonsense!

These two words were the first thought that popped up in his mind after reading Zhu Jinxuan's letter.

As a royal family and a princess with a title, she just escaped from the palace by herself, but she even made a lifelong decision with a lowly corpse in the world, and even gave up everything for this.

How can this prevent him from getting angry?

The only thing that could make him feel a little relieved was the only one mentioned in the letter that she and Bai Shier were investigating the suicide case of the Yangzhou prefect, and some progress had been made.

Although this was far beyond the scope of her duties as a princess, he could still fully understand her desire to share the worries of his elder brother.

Moreover, seeing the reminder in Zhu Jinxuan's letter, he couldn't help but think of the major case that made him angry and ordered an investigation, but was eventually punished by several minor officials.

"Summon the factory minister."

...

Jiang Zong has grown up very quickly in the past year. In theory, he was promoted to the governor of the Dongchang and became one of the powerful eunuchs. He should be proud and powerful. However, unlike those governors before, Jiang Zong didn't know that the feng shui of the ancestral tomb in his family was not good, or that he had violated Tai Sui. Since he was promoted to the governor of the Dongchang, he has been writing words.

First, because the emperor was disgusted with the secret yamen such as the Dongchang and Jinyiwei, he was alienated and compressed the personnel and money of these two yamen. After finally waiting for the emperor to take power for a long time, he realized the necessity of the existence of these two yamen and slowly restored them to normal. He encountered several major cases one after another.

If Princess Xianyou quietly left Beijing to Jiangnan under the arrangement of the emperor, because he didn't know that he was not involved too much, then the Dongchang played an incompetent role in the case of the royal treasures in the Zen Temple being robbed or the case of the greater impact and worse nature of the Yangzhou prefect who committed suicide and was brutally destroyed, the Dongchang played an incompetent role in it.

If it weren't for the emperor's concern for his old love, he would have been taken down a year ago as the position of governor of the East Factory.

The successive major cases made Jiang Zhun breathless, especially in the case of the suicide of the Yangzhou prefect, he was called to question by the emperor countless times.

Although the case was finally closed early, in secret, both his Dongchang and Jinyiwei were actually investigating, but they had never found anything.

Fortunately, the Jinyiwei was in the same situation as him, so the pressure on him was not too great.

But his bad luck did not end there.

Only after Princess Zhu Jinxuan of Xianyou escaped from the palace did his nightmare truly come.

Because this matter concerns the majesty of the Tian family and the safety and reputation of the emperor's sister Princess Xianyou, he is destined to not be made public and searched for it.

So, the chore fell on him.

The world is so big and the population is so large. To find someone from it is equivalent to finding a needle in a haystack, not to mention that various reasons are equivalent to binding his Dongchang's hands and feet in advance.

So much so that even if he was angry with his opponents, he would not dare to punish him easily.

After all, with limited manpower, he punished one person, which was equivalent to missing a pair of eyes that might have discovered Zhu Jinxuan's traces.

He could only treat his subordinates in the way the emperor treated him.

Scolding, angrily scolding, and cursing in different ways.

...

Standing at the entrance of Qianqing Palace, Jiang Zhun's face was full of bitterness.

He could not remember how many times the emperor summoned him this month, but he had already known the purpose of the emperor summoning him.

After all, every time he was summoned by the emperor this month, it was because of the same thing, and of course, it was also because of that thing.

However, this time he guessed wrongly.

...

"Have there been new progress in the case of Yangzhou Prefect?"

When Jiang Zhuang lowered his head tightly, sighed in his heart, ready to accept the emperor's angry scolding and scolding again, the emperor asked another thing calmly, so that Jiang Zhuang almost thought he had auditory hallucinations.

"Your Majesty, there is a slight progress."

Fortunately, he still came back to his senses in time and answered quickly.

"oh?"

The emperor thought that Zhu Jinxuan's letter was just to excuse her, so he deliberately exaggerated it, but he did not expect that this unsolved case, which he thought would not make any progress, actually made new progress. This made him look a little surprised and curious.

"Report to Your Majesty, I just received the news from the eunuch Lu Zhongxing, the governor of Yingtian, today. His subordinates caught a key figure and were being interrogated urgently."

Although he didn't know where the emperor learned the news, Jiang Zhun did not dare to hide or hesitate at all, and immediately reported it.

"If everything goes well and pry open this person's mouth, you will know from this person who hired the group of Japanese killers."

"oh?!"

This time, the emperor's tone became expectant.

"Have Lu Zhongxing reported where he caught the prisoner?"

However, when the emperor glanced at Hu Xiaolin's secret letter sent with Zhu Jinxuan's letter, he couldn't help but feel moved. He no longer asked when he could pry open the prisoner's mouth, but asked another question he was concerned about.

"Although Lu Zhongxing has not explained this in detail, it should be within the territory of the Fujian Provincial Administration."

Although he was wondering why the emperor asked about such "small details" in detail, Jiang Zong still gave the answer after trying hard to recall it.

"hehe."

After hearing Jiang Zong's answer, the emperor finally couldn't help but smile, but the smile looked really strange, a little helpless, a little relieved and a little thankful.

Obviously, because of the previous "experience", this time, the emperor also recorded the contribution of the East Factory to Bai Shier and Zhu Jinxuan for finding and capturing Shen Wan'an.

Although Jiang Zhun, who was standing bent, was deeply puzzled by the smile on the emperor's face, he naturally did not dare to ask too much. On the contrary, at this moment, he was looking at his nose and his heart, and he was as light as possible, and even wished he could invisible or disappear.

"Changchen."

I don't know how long it took, but the emperor finally spoke again.

"The slave is here."

Jiang Zhun quickly recovered from the previous state of air filling and bowed and replied.

"Order the order that everyone in the East Factory temporarily put down the task of tracking the news about Princess Xianyou."

A trace of entanglement flashed across the emperor's face, but finally sighed softly, leaned on the back of the chair, and ordered weakly.

"ah?"

This time, Jiang Zhun was really scared, so he couldn't control his emotions and mouth. He did not immediately bow his head to take the order, but instead let out an inappropriate scream.

"Slave deserves to die, please punish him!"

But he immediately reacted and immediately knelt down on the ground with a "thump" sound, pressing his head to the ground, as if he had done something extremely evil and asked the emperor for forgiveness or punishment.

"When did I say I'd punish you? Get up?"

Naturally, the emperor would not punish him for thinking that this little thing was. In fact, perhaps even he was shocked after saying that.

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Jiang Zhun obviously knew that the kind-hearted emperor would not punish him, but he still bowed respectfully before slowly getting up from the ground and continued to bow and stand there.

However, he seemed to have not heard the emperor's order just now, and stood there silently without saying a word.

"Let everyone under your command focus all their energy on that prisoner and the case of the Yangzhou prefect committing suicide. Since you have caught the clue by chance, don't let the clue be cut off again. I want the truth of the case."

The emperor obviously understood Jiang Zhun's silence.

As the emperor, he could not take back his words, so Jiang Zhun was silent because he was worried that the emperor would regret it, so he deliberately pretended not to hear it. If the emperor really regretted it and wanted to take it back to life, he would completely forget everything just now.

However, although the emperor was also shocked by his order just now, he still had no intention of remorse, and then the order just now issued a new order again.
To be continued...