Traveling through ancient times.

Chapter 145 Something Happened at the Grain Station

Jiang Yizhou knew that if he wanted to become bigger and stronger, he couldn't do it alone.

Not to mention this era, even in her original world, she must have support from the government.

She wanted to cooperate with the court, but not with any forces or individuals within the court.

But she couldn't leave now, she couldn't contact those people, and she didn't know how the court's power structure operated.

I had previously used mind reading to read Zhang and Fu's thoughts and got a rough idea of ​​what they were thinking, but it was still very limited in terms of gaining insight into the entire power of the court.

However, she still got some fragments of information from China:

The emperor was old and confused, and he indulged in pleasure.

Originally, the crown prince was almost removed from his position as crown prince because he advocated war and strengthening the army to resist border threats. However, he was advised by the censors that he was too warlike, cruel, and unsympathetic to the people.

How could the other four princes be indifferent to the throne?

In other words, the fact that the crown prince is now under house arrest and almost exiled to guard the mausoleum is the result of the manipulation of these princes.

As long as the crown prince's position is vacated, they will have a chance.

Right now, these princes all have their own supporters, and they are all ready to make a move.

After all, for officials in the court, those at the fourth rank want to be promoted to the third rank, and those at the second rank want to be prime minister.

How can we further consolidate and enhance our power?

The best way is to choose a wise leader - if you bet on the right thing, you will be able to follow the dragon.

It can be said that the entire court was basically divided among the forces of these princes.

Now Jiang Yizhou is asked to choose one of these forces to rely on. What's the difference between that and betting?

She was afraid that her newly-started business would be crushed and swallowed up by those people in the power struggle before it could benefit more people at the bottom of the world.

Because of these, Jiang Yizhou can only develop his career conservatively for now.

For all kinds of conspiracy, we can only use the method of "if soldiers come, soldiers will block them, if water comes, earth will cover them up"...

…Jiang Yizhou sat on a stool and drank ginseng tea while thinking about the problem.

She found that taking ginseng and Ganoderma lucidum after practicing every day was more effective in restoring the body's vital energy.

She told Wei Ke in detail all the things she thought of that might be used by others to write articles.

Wei Ke nodded in agreement and said, "I've got that in mind." Then he immediately turned around to make arrangements.

Half a month had passed since the last "bandit" incident, and things in Zhuangzi had calmed down.

Magistrate Zhang interrogated those people and said they were refugees who had nowhere else to go and had resorted to such an act. All of them were exiled.

Jiang Yizhou certainly knew that the other party was just pretending to stop people from talking.

In fact, it was taken away secretly.

Of course, this was also a loophole she deliberately left for Zhang Tao - when she crippled those people, she also deliberately smeared their faces and stripped their clothes, so it would be difficult to recognize them unless they were close to them.

In this way, she gave the other party room to maneuver, and she could also quickly suppress the matter.

As for whether those people in the end can escape this disaster, the answer is affirmative - death!

Five days ago, when those people were about to take them away and change their appearance, she killed them with her own hands.

One can imagine the anger of Zhang Tao and Huo Yuting. They knew who did it, but they had to swallow their anger again.

Because, in order to get these people to return again in the future, the whole process is just a show to fool ordinary people.

There was no formal documentation, not even a case file left behind.

Anyway, ordinary people have no possibility and no qualifications to look through their files.

But precisely because of this, these people encountered robbers on the way to exile, and they could not produce the documents that proved that these people were serving their sentences.

The two of them and the relatives of those who died hated Jiang Yizhou bitterly.

But no matter how unhappy you are, you have to be patient.

Without sufficient evidence, I dare not touch Tianshui easily.

Even if they have evidence, they dare not send people to arrest people at random.

Just waiting for the superiors to speak.

…The end of the year is approaching and everything is bleak.

The dry and bone-chilling cold wind from the northern border blows across the vast land of Tianshui.

Outside the manor, the sound of galloping horses came. A young man with blood on his body and wounds on his face jumped off his horse and stumbled towards Jiang Yizhou's yard.

"The Patriarch is in trouble, the Patriarch——"

When Jiang Yizhou heard the noise outside, his heart, which had been hanging for a long time, finally skipped a beat and calmed down.

——What she worried about finally happened.

She hurried to the front yard, and when she saw the other person's miserable appearance, something in her head started throbbing.

"Xiaoshan, what's wrong with you? What happened?"

As she asked, she helped the other person sit down on the stone bench next to her, and waved to the maid to bring tea and wet cotton towels.

Xiaoshan was a clerk at the Yunshan Grain Station in the county seat of Jiang'an County. He was selected by Jiang Yizhou from the Yunshan Farm at that time. He was a very lively and agile young man.

Xiao Shan burst into tears when she saw Jiang Yizhou: "Master, they confiscated our store, saying that we were selling illegal salt..."

Jiang Yizhou repeated: "Private salt?"

She had long wanted to exchange her salt-making and salt-purification technology, but she had not found a suitable opportunity and did not have the relevant procedures.

Before getting the documents, she ordered all shops not to sell those things.

She asked Wei Ke to arrange people to conduct secret inspections on these shops from time to time, so it was absolutely impossible for her shop to sell contraband salt.

The only explanation is that someone framed him.

But it's such a big store, with a manager and three or four employees in total, how could someone easily frame them?

Xiaoshan was crying as she explained, "Those people... a large group of them rushed into the store and bought a bunch of Yunshan specialties. Then one of them suddenly started yelling, asking why the salt here was so expensive, and wanted to sue us..."

"We were confused at the time. We were clearly selling them grain, how could it be salt? I don't know why, but a group of people came into the store again, pointing at us and saying we were selling illegal salt at such a high price, and they wanted to sue us... Just then, someone took out a bag from the shelf, and there was actually salt in it..."

"Soon, the government runners came and formed a circle outside the store. They pointed at us and said they had bought salt from us. They also said how they trusted us before and thought we sold official salt, but they didn't expect it was private salt... The government runners rushed into the store and found three or four bags of salt. With those people testifying, they wanted to arrest us on the spot."

"We tried our best to explain that the salt was not ours and that someone must have framed us... But the yamen runners held us down and beat us, saying that we were resisting arrest..."

"Woo woo, Uncle Yu said that these people were in collusion and were determined to punish us, so I pushed a yamen runner away with all my strength and let me run out through the back door..."