In the evening of that day, Qin Huaiyi's memorial to impeach Zhou Jin was sent to Dai Zhide's desk in Yichuan County.

Dai Zhide took Qin Huaiyi's memorial and looked over and over again several times. Finally, he sighed and finally made up his mind and said to the outside: "People come prepare horses for me, and I will return to Luoyang overnight."

"Affect the order." The servant who was serving outside left.

"Go and invite the magistrate Zhang to see me." Dai Zhide ordered again.

After a while, Yichuan County Magistrate Zhang Qiang came in, and he had been waiting for Dai Zhide to summon him in the outer courtyard.

When Dai Zhide saw Zhang Qiang arrive, he quickly raised his hand to stop him and said, "No need to be polite." When Zhang Qiang approached, he looked solemnly: "Now things have developed in the direction we expected, and Zhou Jin sent by the prince is also very well-off. I want to go back to Luoyang immediately to ask Your descending order to arrest Zhou Jin and Luoyang, and find that the purpose is not to build canals and reservoirs in Yichuan and Songxian.

You have to watch Dou Luyan lead the family soldiers of the gentry of Yichuan to attack the prince. No matter who wins or loses, you have to pretend that you don’t know that the prince is in Yichuan County.”

Zhang Qiang couldn't understand it and asked in confusion: "Why didn't the governor report to know Your Majesty? The prince is in Yichuan?"

Dai Zhide didn't want to say it, because now he was trying to explain: "The prince came to Yichuan, and he had to wait until the matter was a little bigger before letting His Majesty know."

After hearing this, Zhang Qiang understood that if Li Shimin issued an order tomorrow morning and no longer built canals and reservoirs in Yichuan and Songxian, the people of the two counties would still rebel. Later, he found out that Li Chengqian had quietly led his troops into Yichuan and fought a war with the local gentry. The responsibility for the chaos in the two counties would be entirely on Li Chengqian alone.

After Dai Zhide explained the matter, a servant came in and went back and forth: the horse was ready, Dai Zhide hurriedly set out to Luoyang.

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When Zhou Jin heard that Qin Huaiyi was hiding, he sent someone to deliver a letter to Ma Jiu, asking him to help find Qin Huaiyi.

But as soon as the letter was sent out, there was no further information. It was late at night when Zhou Jin was reading a book in the county government office and checking the documents when he suddenly heard someone clapping his high fives outside the yard. He remembered that it was the secret code he had agreed with Ma Jiu, so he hurriedly got up and walked out of the house.

Zhou Jin walked out of the house and saw that the guards sent by Li Chengqian were guarding the door, and whispered:

"Follow me to go out and have a look."

Several people walked out of the yard, and the guards protected Zhou Jin in the center, stroked the hilt of the knife, and looked around vigilantly.

With the dim light at the entrance of the courtyard, Zhou Jin saw two people walking around from the shadows in the corner of the wall.

"But County Magistrate Zhou?" a figure asked in a low voice.

When Zhou Jin saw the visitor appear, he pulled out the guard and walked out. Zhou Jin, who was four feet tall, stood there like a Yuezhi in Yuanting. He said in a deep voice: "I am Zhou Jin, who are you?"

"Xiaodao Ma Liu has met Lord Zhou!"

The two men saluted Zhou Jin again.

Then, without waiting for Zhou Jin to speak, he stepped forward and took a few steps, lowered his voice and said, "The master of the Guan Dynasty sent us to inform the magistrate of Zhou. Cai Wenying was crazy. She sent someone to kidnap the Dao King and proclaimed himself Emperor Wenjia.

Tonight, the Sanming Immortal Sect will send people to attack Songxian County. Now, there are people from the Sanming Immortal Sect inside and outside of Songxian County. The master of the Guanshi ordered us to escort Zhou County Magistrate to leave quickly."

"What?" Even though Zhou Jin was prepared for a long time, he was shocked when he heard this.

Who would have thought that Cai Wenying would dare to be emperor?

"Isn't Cai Wenying a woman?"

Although the situation was urgent, Zhou Jin couldn't help but ask.

When talking about Cai Wenying's gender, Ma Liu and another Taoist priest also looked unlucky and said in a muffled voice: "Isn't it a woman?"

Obviously, these two Taoist priests were also depressed that Cai Wenying was elected as emperor.

"Since that's the case, we should report to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." An escort whispered to Zhou Jin.

Zhou Jin nodded and asked Ma Liu again: "I wonder if Qin Huaiyi has been found?"

"The magistrate of Qin has also found it, and now we are being taken outside the city by our people. Please leave the city with us, and we will naturally leave it to the adults to take it with us." Ma Liudao.

Zhou Jin turned around and looked at several guards. Seeing that there were no objections to the few people, he turned to Ma Liu and said, "Master Laoma wait a moment, I'll go in and get some things."

"Sir, please." Ma Liudao.

Zhou Jin glanced at the leading guard, and the guard entered the yard with him.

As soon as the two entered the room, Zhou Jin found a cloak and whispered to the guards: "This is urgent. Don't believe all these Taoists. You can leave quietly after leaving the county government. Hiding in the county town of Songxian, and wait until tomorrow to see if Cai Wenying really became emperor, and then leave and send the news to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

"Follow the order."

After saying that, the two walked out of the county government with Ma Liu.

The entire Song County was indeed infiltrated by the Sanming Immortal Sect. Ma Liu led Zhou Jin and others to leave the Song County Town in the name of Ma Jiu.

After leaving the county town, Ma Liu led Zhou Jin to a small inn next to the Avenue, where there were horses and dry food prepared by Ma Liu, as well as Qin Huaiyi who was tied up in a large variety of ways.

Qin Huaiyi thought he had hidden himself tightly, and forgot that his appearance was also a regular visitor to Master Ma Jiu. He knew everything about Master Ma Jiu in Song County.

Seeing Qin Huaiyi and Zhou Jin confirming that Ma Liu and others really surrendered to the court, they immediately said to another guard: "You ride on a fast horse and go to see His Royal Highness the Prince."

"Sir, don't you go to see His Highness the Crown Prince?" the guard asked in confusion.

"I am going to Luoyang to see Your Majesty." Zhou Jin said resolutely.

Li Shimin didn't like Zhou Jin. Everyone in the East Palace knew that in the past, Zhou Jin did not arrange for Zhou Jin to do anything about the East Palace that he had to contact Li Shimin or even Tai Chi Palace.

"Sir, let's go to see His Highness the Crown Prince first, and wait for His Highness to make a decision." The guard advised.

Zhou Jin said solemnly when he heard this: "Yichuan, the matter in Songxian has reached this point. I have probably guessed what the Crown Prince wants to do, but Your Majesty is now in Luoyang and there are many slanderous ministers around him. If Your Majesty does not observe the slander and issue an order to stop Your Majesty from doing things, Your Majesty will become the target of public criticism."

"In order not to let this happen, I will first meet Your Majesty, at least let Your Majesty doubt the slanderous ministers and buy time for His Highness the Crown Prince."

Although the guard could not understand Zhou Jin's words, he could also hear that Zhou Jin was planning for Li Chengqian. He would not say more and solemnly clasped his fists at him, and turned over to find Li Chengqian.

Watching the guard go away,

The remaining guards and Ma Liu and more than ten Taoist priests also boarded the horse and followed Zhou Jin to Luoyang.

The horse was whipping up all night, and at the end of the second day, Zhou Jin and his group finally arrived in Luoyang.

"Zhou Jin, the secretary of the East Palace, was ordered by His Royal Highness, and asked to see Liu Zhongshu. Please go in and pass it on your behalf!" Zhou Jin stood at the door and spoke kindly, facing the guards at the door.

The guard was tall and stood there looking at Zhou Jin's head, looking disdainful, and didn't even hear clearly what Zhou Jin said.

Seeing that Zhou Jin had no intention of giving money, he said impatiently: "We are the imperial guards in front of you, guarding the gate for Your Majesty. If you see Liu Zhongshu, just wait for him to come out."

"You!" Zhou Jin's face turned pale with anger.
Chapter completed!