The leader was a man from Baihu, dressed in military attaché robes and rushing over quickly with a long sword in his hand.
There were dozens of city patrol soldiers behind him.
The two strong men and the woman suddenly surrounded them with a roar.
Baihu frowned and said angrily: "You are a bold bandit who dares to commit murder in the city in the middle of the night. Are you tired of living?"
The woman then howled and cried, "Sir, help me, these beasts suddenly broke into my house and killed my parents. They also bullied the slave family. Please save me!"
Just as Baihu was about to start beating him up, a malicious voice suddenly came from behind him.
"Is it Jia Baihu from the city patrol army?"
Baihu turned around suddenly, and a figure appeared at the door, naked to the waist, with a sinister look on his face, and slowly walked over.
"boom!"
A money bag was thrown at the feet of hundreds of households, and then several fierce and strong men in brocade clothes also walked out of the houses. They all had long knives on their waists and their eyes were vicious. At first glance, they were not good people.
The strong man at the head snorted coldly, "This is what Prince Shou meant. Do you want to continue investigating?"
In front of these city patrol soldiers, he knocked the woman unconscious and dragged her back to the house like a dead dog.
Baihu had a look of fear on his face, "It turns out to be the young alliance leader. I'm disrespectful and disrespectful."
The leader of the strong man grinned, with sharp teeth and cold eyes, "Jia Baihu, you have been in the city patrol army for a long time. It seems that it is time to move. I will tell the prince later to move for you." A thousand households.”
Jia Baihu nodded and thanked him, but he didn't dare to take the money because he was really conscience-stricken.
At this time, the strong man said: "What are you afraid of? This is Jiangnan Province, the territory of Prince Shou. The mountains are high and the emperor is far away. No one from the court will come. Even if they come, what will happen?"
Then, he kicked the money bag and said, "Old Jia, take it, you're welcome."
"Okay, thank you young leader." Jia Baihu stretched out his hand and picked up the money bag, as if it was very heavy.
"Young leader, please don't kill anyone in the middle of the night. Otherwise, the brothers will come to drag out the corpse early in the morning tomorrow."
The strong man's face turned cold, "Old Jia, are you teaching me how to do things?"
"Don't dare!" Baihu changed his face immediately, regretting a little bit for talking too much, but he was thinking, please don't offend this person.
"Hahaha!" The strong man laughed and said, "Old Jia, you are an honest man, okay, I promise you, I will spare that woman's life and send you back later."
Then, he turned around and closed the door, but the women's cries for help and screams still didn't stop.
If Li Yi were present, he would definitely be furious, kill people wantonly, and rob civilian girls, which is a serious crime of exterminating a family.
But these people were so bold that they broke into houses casually, killed people, set fires, and insulted women.
Baihu sighed and threw the money bag to the soldiers behind him, "Here you go."
"Thank you, sir." Several soldiers were ecstatic.
But Baihu was hesitant, these Jianghu Alliance people had gone too far.
There was nothing they dared not do, including murder, arson, and rape of women.
You're just robbing money, how can you kill and humiliate women?
He looked up at the sky and said slowly: "It's a pity that Jiangnan Province is too far away from the capital, otherwise we wouldn't be able to end up like this."
He also heard about what happened in the capital. The emperor was furious, and all the civil and military officials in the dynasty were purged. Tens of thousands of heads fell to the ground, and all the corrupt officials in the capital were killed.
If His Majesty knew that Jiangnan Province was like this, he would definitely kill all these bastards.
at this time.
Li Yi and his party rushed all the way from the capital to Jiangnan Province without stopping, and finally arrived at the capital of Jiangnan Province.
Jiangnan Province is indeed a prosperous place, and the city has been built at great cost. The scale of the city is comparable to that of the capital, and it is equipped with arrow towers and turrets.
This is the capital of Jiangnan.
But Li Yi looked very ugly at the moment. When so many people arrived at the city gate tower, the officers and soldiers guarding the city were nowhere to be seen, and no one even asked questions.
If the grassland tribes came to attack this city, it would be easy to capture the city as if it were undefended.
From this point of view, the corruption of the Gale Dynasty is really deep to the core.
At this time, someone finally discovered the people under the city.
"Someone!"
"Bold, who are you?"
A few torches appeared on the top of the city, and all kinds of curses and noises abounded.
By the light of the fire, Li Yi saw that the soldiers on the top of the city were half-clothed, some were drunk, and there were even women.
"who!"
"That bastard dares to disturb my dream!"
A drunken general was shirtless and scolded him condescendingly.
Li Yi winked at Cao Qingyan. He rode out and replied loudly: "We are residents of the city. We need to go to the city for urgent matters. Please be patient."
"fart!"
The general scolded him directly, "You're going into a shitty city at night. We'll talk about it tomorrow. Get out of here, or don't blame me for sending you to prison. Get out of here!"
Li Yi raised his hand and picked up a money bag, "Sir, a little money here is not a sign of respect. Please be accommodating. I will personally come to thank you someday."
"Oh, there is money!" The general's tone immediately changed, "What the hell, if you have money, you didn't tell me earlier. If you have money, you can enter."
"Open the city gate!"
When Suoyi saw this, he angrily cursed, "These bastards have nothing but money in their eyes. They are beasts. If the dragoons hadn't been around, I would have killed them!"
Li Yi glared at him and said, "Suoyi, you forgot what we came here to do, calm down your temper, don't worry, none of these moths can escape, I will uproot them."
"Nuo, Chen... I understand my guilt."
After paying the money, a group of them entered the city in a relaxed manner. The curfew of the Gale Dynasty was nothing here.
Inside the city.
Xuanwu has arranged the restaurant in advance and has been waiting for a long time.
As soon as he entered the door, Xuanwu and many officials from more than 1,000 households of the Internal Machinery Supervisor knelt down, "Commander of the Internal Machinery Supervision of Jiangnan Province, Xuanwu, pays homage to Your Majesty, long live my emperor!"
"Get up!" Li Yi said coldly. He was very dissatisfied with Xuanwu's management in Jiangnan Province.
A small alliance of rivers and lakes has been unable to find out clearly for a day or two.
However, the Shou Prince's Mansion has done a good job. Now every move of the Shou Prince is under Li Yi's eyes.
But through recent intelligence, Li Yi discovered a problem. This King Shou did nothing but take bribes and embezzle property.
To put it vulgarly, in addition to making money, it is making money.
Li Yi felt that his brother might be just a puppet, even the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce.
And the leader of the Jianghu Alliance may be the real old ghost behind this.
As for whether there is anything else behind the old ghost, that is unknown.
This can only be known by digging step by step.
"Has there been any movement in the Chao family recently?" Li Yi was worried about alerting others. After all, the eldest son of the family was missing, so the Chao family was not in a hurry.
"Your Majesty, there is no movement in the Chao family. Chao Yuyang often leaves home alone for several months. I guess the Chao family also thinks that Chao Yuyang has gone out to play." Xuanwu replied.
Li Yi nodded, "Don't rush into this matter for now. It needs to be done step by step. This Chao Yuyang is the breakthrough."
"Where's Chao Yuyang?"
"In the dungeon." Xuanwu said.
Li Yi waved his hand and said, "Let's go, take me to see you."
Xuanwu was stunned and said hurriedly: "Your Majesty, would you like to have dinner first? I have already prepared it."
"No, take me to see you first." Li Yi's eyes moved.
Underground in the restaurant is a huge dungeon with three floors, almost hollowing out the ground.
This dungeon is a hundred times more terrifying than the imperial prison in the capital.
"Greetings to Your Majesty!" All the internal machine supervisors in the dungeon knelt down and paid homage.
Li Yi nodded slightly, and under Xuanwu's guidance, entered the lowest level of the dungeon. In the dungeon inside, there were more than a dozen cells closely protected by internal machine surveillance experts.
On the floor of the cell, a young man was lying on the ground, out of breath. He had even breathed out a lot and breathed in less. His whole body was covered with dense wounds. Only the occasional twitching of his eyelids showed that he was still alive.
Li Yi walked in slowly. Under the candlelight, his face was full of murderous intent, and he said coldly: "Master Chao, do you still recognize me?"
Xuanwu nodded, and two masters of internal machine monitoring went over and dragged Chao Yuyang up, pulled his hair, and made his face face Li Yi. He opened his eyes slightly and saw Li Yi's face clearly.
"Is...is it you?"
"Did you do this?"
Li Yi nodded, noncommittal.
Chao Yuyang trembled on his lips, "Okay, if you are ruthless, I will fall into your hands."
"Kill or behead, it's up to you."
"Who said I want to kill you?" Li Yi smiled, "Do you know who I am?"
Chao Yuyang shook his head, "You...are you the young master from that aristocratic family?"
Li Yi said calmly: "I am today's emperor Li Yi."
"What?" Chao Yuyang's face changed drastically, and he looked incredulous, "You...what did you say, you are the emperor?"
