Uncle Detective Di Renjie, I build a crime-solving team

Prince Ying Yuanqi is the leader of the Iron Hand Group.

In the third part of Detective Di Renjie, this guy colluded with officials from all levels in Yangzhou and set up a boat capsizing case in the Han Canal!

As a result, there was no affordable official salt in Yangzhou, and the common people were forced to spend a lot of money to buy local private salt to eat.

But is private salt really private salt?

No, no, no, private salt is actually official salt fished out of the water, and the price has increased like crazy!

The upper-level officials and clan leaders in Yangzhou made a fortune by taking the money directly from the imperial court!

However, according to the timeline, the Handangou boat capsizing case occurred 698 years after the Jiangzhou case, and after the Black Society incident.

Moreover, this case occurred two and a half years before Di Renjie took over.

If we trace back more carefully, the actual start time of the Hangou boat capsizing incident was actually the winter of 695!

That year, the Snake Spirit Case was solved. Di Renjie knew that he was more powerful than his master, so he chose to resign and go home, thus missing the case.

It was not until two and a half years later, in the summer of 698, that I officially came into contact with this case.

Li Cunxi quickly went over the events of this plot in his mind and finally felt relieved.

"Tao Gan, seriously, your master is not lying to you. If it weren't for the two capable men under Prince Yuan Qi of Yangzhou, your master wouldn't be willing to deal with this idiot."

"What, sir, why do you call Prince Ying Yuanqi?"

"Idiot!" Li Cunxi said angrily, "If you do things without considering the consequences, what else can you be but an idiot?"

"Sir, why have I never heard of the term 'idiot' before?"

"Then don't worry about it." Li Cunxi ate a piece of mung bean cake, "By the way, where's Qiao Tai?"

"Qiao Tai went shopping and asked me to stay here to look after the young master." Tao Gan replied.

"Oh, since I have nothing to do anyway, I'll tell you a few more words. Do you know the origins of Ying Wang Yuanqi?"

"Sir, you know me. I'm from the north." Tao Gan scratched his head and smiled awkwardly.

"I forgot, the year Xu Jingye rebelled, you might have been eating dust in Bingzhou." Li Cunxi slapped his thigh, "The year when the King of Yue started a rebellion, my family was also framed. That was the first year of Kaiyao. Three years later, it was the first year of Guangzhai, the year 684 that everyone knows."

"What happened that year?"

"The heirs of the Li clan were brutally executed by the Wu family. Seeing the population of the Li Tang clan drastically reduced, our Li Tang's Duke Ying and the Grand Commander of Yangzhou, Xu Jingye, started a rebellion in Yangzhou."

In January 684, it snowed heavily!

Xu Jingye, the Duke of Yingzhou, who had been given the surname Li, wrote a letter to Prime Minister Pei Yan, with the only two words "Qinge" on the letter.

After opening it, it means "December, I am alone"!

A rebellion that was planned 11 months in advance, just to kill the Wu clan and restore the Li Tang dynasty!

However, the news spread quickly and Pei Yan was arrested and imprisoned. Wu Zetian determined that Xu Jingye was a wanted criminal based on the two words "green goose" and began to purge Xu Jingye's accomplices in the court.

One disaster, thousands of people died!

Knowing that the conspiracy had been exposed, Xu Jingye had no choice but to bring the deposed Prince Zhanghuai Li Xian from Bazhou to Yangzhou in advance, raised the banner of anti-Wu, and was willing to gamble his life with Wu Zetian!

However, Wu Zetian immediately sent her general Li Xiaoyi to lead an army of 300,000 to attack Xu Jingye!

then……

It was a spectacular and tragic defeat!

After talking about Xu Jingye's miserable defeat, Li Cunxi looked helplessly at Qiao Tai who had just returned.

"You're back, what did you buy?"

"Of course it's the mung bean cake that the young master likes the most. I was afraid that if I went too late, they would have all been sold out, so I asked Tao Gan to look after the young master while I went to buy it myself."

Qiao Tai held a bag of mung bean cakes and placed them on the tea table.

Li Cunxi picked up a piece and put it in his mouth. This mung bean cake was really sweet.

"Sir, I just heard you say something about Xu Jingye's rebellion?"

"Well, I was originally going to talk to Tao Gan about Ying Wang Yuanqi, but if I want to talk about Ying Wang Yuanqi, I definitely can't avoid Xu Jingye."

"why?"

"Because the history of Prince Ying Yuanqi's rise to power began when he made great contributions during Li Xiaoyi's suppression of the rebellion!"

Tao Gan and Qiao Tai's expressions changed immediately.

No wonder Li Cunxi had driven a nail into the Iron Hand Group from the very beginning. It turns out there were these things involved.

In order to restore the Li Tang dynasty, whoever attacked Xu Jingye must be an enemy of the Li clan, like Li Cunxi.

"Our Majesty was still the Queen Mother at that time, and the Majesty during that period was our current Crown Prince Li Xian. Our Majesty, who was eager to win over the hearts of the people, made Yuan Qi the Prince of Ying."

"Now, it is very likely that he will regret it. Yuan Qi secretly established the Iron Hand Group to recruit martial arts masters."

"What is he going to do by recruiting martial arts masters? Even if I use my butt to think, I can guess that he must be doing something extremely dangerous."

Tao Gan and Qiao Tai looked at each other.

After a long while, Tao Gan clasped his fists and said:

"Don't worry, sir. I will tell you any news as soon as possible."

"But, can the guy from the Iron Hand Group really help us defeat the Iron Hand Group?"

Li Cunxi nodded seriously.

The nails he planted in the Iron Hand Group are no joke. As long as that nail is willing to exert its strength, it may even be able to wipe out the Iron Hand Group at a critical moment!

Even if we only talk about individual fighting power, the entire Iron Hand Group is among the best.

Looking at the entire world of Detective Di Renjie, there are few rivals for him.

In addition to Li Yuanfang, Kui Wenzhong, Yuan Qi, Hu Jinghui and Wulezhi who are stable in the top five, there are also the two bug-like blood spirits Xiaomei and Xiaofeng.

Among the others, the only one who could fight with him was Yufeng, a general under Jin Mulan.

Even the demon spirit ranked fourth among the snake spirits, who dared to challenge that person, could only end up being slowly cut by a knife.

"It's almost dinner time. Ask the waiter to bring up some good wine and meat."

"Tao Gan, I called you back because I have a mission for you. Let's talk about it in detail after dinner."

Tao Gan, who had been thinking of taking a few days off, gave a bitter smile.

"I will obey your orders!"

Qiao Tai bowed and said, "Sir, I will go out and tell the waiter."

"Okay, Qiao Tai, you go." Li Cunxi watched Qiao Tai leave, then turned to Tao Gan, "Ever since I left Taiyuan three years ago and went south to Jiangzhou, where I met you and took you in as my followers, I have always intended to promote your strengths and avoid your weaknesses."

The same rhetoric was used to deal with Ma Rong last night and was repeated to Tao Gan today.

Tao Gan also showed the same expression as Ma Rong.

As the one with the highest IQ among Li Cunxi's three close companions, Tao Gan not only failed to realize that Li Cunxi was trying to trick him, but he also felt that a man would die for his confidant, and a woman would dress up for the man who pleases her!

In less than three minutes, Tao Gan was already in tears and stood up to express his loyalty to Li Cunxi.

Qiao Tai pushed open the door and came in: "Master, I'm back..."

Tao Gan's eyes were blurred with tears, and he held Li Cunxi's right hand: "Don't worry, sir, I will bring that person back to Huaiyang no matter what!"