Chapter 207: The Disaster of Mountain and Yue

Zhong Cheng hurriedly knocked on the door of Zhao Yunan's study room. Seeing Zhao Yunan who was writing hard on the desk, he wanted to come back later, but the news in his hand was very important. When Cao Qiaomu came, he said that he would hand it over to Zhao Yunan as soon as possible. However, how dare he disturb Zhao Yunan in office work? He was hesitating, but Zhao Yunan had already raised his head to see him.

Seeing the anxious expression on Zhong Cheng's face, Zhao Yunan frowned unconsciously became deeper: "Zhong Cheng, what's the matter? But is there news from Lord Cao?"

When Wang Ren accidentally fell into the water, Zhao Yunan was right next to him. Moreover, the two people were very close, not even more than two meters. But the distance between these two meters made Wang Ren, the fourth-rank prefect who was considered the number one figure in the entire Dashun Dynasty, fall into the water cleanly, so Zhao Yunan didn't have time to pull it up.

Zhao Yunan still remembers that the turbulent water flow just made such a whirlpool in the gap, and Wang Ren's body was rolled away without a trace. By this time, Zhao Yunan had sent all the guards under his command and the public who could be pulled out of Nanjing Mansion to the flood and the low-flow areas, and ordered that Wang Ren be retrieved. However, at this time, there was no good news. At this time, there was already some private rumors that Wang Ren was probably buried under the water.

However, Zhao Yunan had another thought about Wang Ren's fall into the water. He clearly remembered that he and Wang Ren were discussing on the river embankment how to block the river embankment, but at this time, a servant from the Wang family suddenly came over. Out of respect, Zhao Yunan deliberately walked away two meters away - in such a noisy environment, the distance of two meters was enough for others to say private words.

Of course, this is not the point. The point is that shortly after the servant left, Wang Ren was like absent-minded, and actually walked to the edge of the river bank by himself. When everyone could not have expected it, he stepped on the air and then fell into the river.

Wang Ren's strange behavior made Zhao Yunan more cautious. Although he ordered the guards to search and rescue Wang Ren on the spot, he immediately contacted Cao Qiaomu, who reappeared in Nanjing City in private, hoping to use the power of Cao Qiaomu's supervisory mansion to find out the reason why Wang Ren was lost.

Zhong Cheng's anxious expression slightly stopped and he responded: "Prince, there is no news from Lord Wang yet. However, Lord Cao sent someone to bring the news from Wuxi, saying that it was an emergency, so the prince must deal with it as soon as possible."

"Wuxi?" Zhao Yunan was slightly stunned when he heard this. He didn't know what else could be next to Wuxi.

"Is it because the water rise in Taihu Lake affecting Lihu Lake, making the water situation in Wuxi County dangerous?" Zhao Yunan muttered himself, and Zhong Cheng next to him did not hear it. Although he was a figure at the level of deputy commander of the guard, he could not interfere at will. This is a taboo thing.

After a brief look at the note that Zhong Cheng handed over, Zhao Yunan, who was in a hurry, took the note and flashed the note with a palm, and he began to get angry. Compared with the robbery of Wuxi County, which was written on the note, Wang Ren's accidental fall into the water was simply a small wave, and even the prefect of Suzhou was kidnapped by the Shanyue people, it seemed much insignificant.

Shanyue people, who had disappeared for hundreds or thousands of years in the long river of history, suddenly appeared and even robbed Wuxi County!

Looking at Zhao Yunan walking around in the study, Zhong Cheng also felt a little worried. Whether it was the tone of the person in the Supervision Office who delivered the message on behalf of Cao Qiaomu or the seriousness on the face of that person, Zhong Cheng knew that this time a major incident had definitely happened.

But before he could figure it out, someone knocked on the door behind him and came in. The person came was Zhong Cheng's subordinate. Seeing Zhong Cheng here, the man seemed to have no surprise. He just handed the letter in his hand to Zhao Yunan and immediately left the room.

After reading it roughly again, Zhao Yunan's brows were slightly loose. This time the letter said that Tan Zong was at the meeting and led the Wuxi County Duke to repel the Shanyue people several miles outside the Wuxi County Town. Both sides suffered heavy casualties, but fortunately, the Shanyue barbarians were finally shocked and retreated by the Suzhou patrol station that came to rescue.

Although the letter was very simple, Zhao Yunan could imagine how tragic this battle of hundreds or thousands of people was. However, what made Zhao Yunan feel a little relieved was that Dashun's regular army obviously had a very high deterrence to the Shanyue barbarians, otherwise they would not have retreated in a hurry when they saw the patrol. At the same time, although Tan Zong was only mentioned a few words, Zhao Yunan saw the importance of Tan Zong in this encounter.

Zhao Yunan flicked the sticky note with his finger and said with relief: "Fortunately, Tan Zong and these men from Wuxi County finally saved some of their faces for me, Dashun Dynasty. Otherwise, the fact that my Dashun Dynasty was robbed by these Shanyue barbarians would be spread. I am afraid that the vassal states around us would be restless!"

After saying that, he carefully folded the letter and stuffed it back into the envelope. Obviously, Zhao Yunan attached great importance to this letter.

Zhong Cheng, who was beside him, took Zhao Yunan's actions and thought more. For this sixth-rank guerrilla Tan Zong, who suddenly appeared in Nanjing City, Zhong Cheng had never understood how this person was favored and valued by the prince in front of him. Moreover, Zhong Cheng didn't care about this Tan Zong, who was circulating in the folk in Nanjing City, because it was rumored about some romance.

But no matter what, Zhong Cheng knew that as long as what was said in the letter was not too much, Tan Zong had indeed made great contributions. Even the cabinet masters jointly protested, it would be useless. With this great contribution, Tan Zong's future career would probably be much smoother.

However, in the Supervision Office system, it seems not so easy to rise from the sixth rank. Unless Tan Zong...

Zhong Cheng thought of the very open news that was circulating inside the capital. Although it seemed a bit far-fetched, anyone with a discerning eye knew that the senior officials of the Supervision Office were indeed royal people: either they had royal blood or married women of royal blood.

While Zhong Cheng was thinking about it, another person suddenly broke in. However, this time the person who came here was not someone else, but the dragon in Nanjing was in the city of Shenlong. It was rumored that Cao Qiaomu had already left Nanjing.

Seeing Cao Qiaomumao rashly breaking in, Zhao Yunan was first surprised and said, "Qiaomu, why do you look like this? Is there anything urgent?" Wuxi County was robbed, which is already a huge matter. But Cao Qiaomu can no longer come forward in person, but Zhao Yunan now looks at Cao Qiaomu's color again, but now he feels that something is really bad.

"The news just came from Suzhou." Cao Qiaomu grabbed a pigeon from his sleeve, took the tied note from the legs of the pigeon and handed it to Zhao Yunan: "Suzhou Prefecture has expedited the news, and there were three pigeons in total, but only one of them came. Moreover, this one was injured, and he flew back stumbled."

Seeing Cao Qiaomu's eyes as he said, Zhao Yunan quickly took apart the note and read it. The few dozen small characters on the note made Zhao Yunan feel cold all over his body, and he wished he could hold a stove to warm up his body.

Wuxi, Huzhou and other counties around Taihu Lake were all robbed!

Moreover, from the note, these Shanyue barbarians obviously divided the labor in an orderly manner. For wealthy counties like Wuxi County, they probably sent nearly a thousand people, but for some poor counties with a small population, they only sent a hundred people. It was obviously not aimless plunder, but they had plans, and they were preparing a few months ago. Moreover, if they slightly unify the numbers, it was not difficult for Zhao Yunan to find that the total number of these Shanyue people was probably not about five thousand.

Although compared with the entire Dashun Dynasty's military strength, the about 5,000 Shanyue people were just a drop in the sea, but the two prefectures in Jiangsu and Zhejiang were important places for the Dashun Dynasty to collect taxes and silver. If they were robbed by the Shanyue people several times, the entire Dashun Dynasty's finances would be affected. Jieshi was afraid that the entire Dashun Dynasty's internal and external strategies would change.

What's more, the news from the Supervision Office may have been that these Shanyue barbarians had obviously had some training, but before that, the entire Dashun Dynasty and the Supervision Office had not heard any news. This was simply slapping the Supervision Office in the face and Dashun Dynasty in the face! If you think about it worse, Zhao Yunan even had to consider whether there would be support from the northern barbarians behind the Shanyue barbarians, otherwise where did the armed forces of thousands of people come from!

Although Zhao Yunan was a prince, the princes of the Dashun Dynasty were never popular. They were lazy and waited for others to serve. Almost everyone had some expertise and had to do something about government affairs and military affairs. Therefore, Zhao Yunan knew very well that behind the army of 5,000 people, it meant the population base of tens of thousands and the annual expenses of hundreds of thousands.

Even except for the part produced and sold by Shanyue people, the salt and iron alone would probably cost about 100,000 taels of silver every year. But before that, Dashun was up and down, but he didn't see any trace of Shanyue people. Even if someone dared to take the risk of beheading and doing business with Shanyue people, how could such a large business be guaranteed to not leak even a little news!

It's absolutely impossible! Zhao Yunan almost subconsciously made this decision.
Chapter completed!