allonlinenovel Chapter 233 Chen 9’s identity
Chapter 233 Chen 9’s identity
Jiangzhou City.
After being busy for half a day, Lord Jiang finally opened the letter sent by the empress.
Ignoring the first half of Jiang Zuo's indifferent advice, only the content in the latter part caught Jiang Zuo's attention.
"I have sent the Ninth Prince to Jiangzhou. I hope you can cooperate well and jointly plan to destroy Chen."
Ninth Prince?
Jiang Zuo raised his eyebrows, and the man who called himself Chen Jiu suddenly appeared in his mind.
"Could he be the Ninth Prince?"
Jiang Zuo guessed in his heart.
The last name is Chen, and the number is nine.
This is definitely the Ninth Prince!
Jiang Zuo suddenly realized.
"No wonder he kept asking me all sorts of questions. It turns out he was trying to test me. Hehe, no one can fool me. Since the Ninth Prince wants to test me so much, why don't I take advantage of his trick..."
Jiang Zuo put away the letter in his hand and fell into thought.
I had some contact with the Ninth Prince before, but I didn't know what his temperament was like or whether he was easy to get along with.
As for any plan to destroy Chen, there is still no news from the Qin family of the Chen State.
Jiang Zuo didn't want to lead his troops to attack personally.
After all, Yan and Chen had just signed a peace agreement not long ago, so they naturally could not gather troops to attack so obviously.
Jiang Zuo has always believed that if one wants to destroy Chen, one must first disrupt its internal situation so that it will be easier to start.
Qin Yu is already actively contacting the Qin family. I believe that if there is any news, Jiang Zuo will be informed as soon as possible.
Let’s put the matter of Chen State aside for now. What Jiang Zuo needs to solve now is to find out the true identity of Chen Jiu, whether he is the Ninth Prince.
After a moment, he called Master Guo and asked, "Any news about the identities of those two people?"
Master Guo replied, "Sir, not yet. But please rest assured, I will send someone to monitor them at all times."
Jiang Zuo was silent for a while before he said, "It seems that I have stepped on the identity of one of them."
Master Guo asked curiously, "Who is he?"
Jiang Zuo whispered, "Ninth Prince."
Hearing this, Master Guo was surprised and asked, "How did you know that, sir?"
"The Emperor told me."
Jiang Zuo took out the letter.
"Since he is the Ninth Prince, why does he want to hide his identity?"
Master Guo didn't understand.
Jiang Zuo said: "Then they must be here to monitor us."
Master Guo nodded slightly, thinking it made sense, and said, "So it's just like the governor of the Six Garrisons before."
"I called you here now so that you can tell the people below not to let the Ninth Prince discover our secret."
Master Guo nodded repeatedly: "I understand, I understand."
The next day.
The sky was hazy.
The rain stopped.
The streets of Jiangzhou City are becoming more prosperous.
Chen Xiu and Meng Cheng walked on the street, secretly observing everything.
They dressed casually, trying not to attract attention from others.
"Master, how long do we have to hide our identities?"
Meng Cheng asked.
Chen Xiu said in a low voice: "I will not reveal my identity until I have found out Jiang Zuo's crimes."
There is an inexplicable persistence in his heart.
"Master, we visited so many people yesterday, but not one person said anything bad about Jiang Zuo. Could it be that he is really a good official?"
Even Meng Cheng began to doubt that if Jiang Zuo was really a corrupt official who committed all kinds of evil, someone would definitely report him to the court, but no one has done so yet.
There are no longer so many doubts in Meng Cheng's heart.
Although yesterday's meeting with Jiang Zuo was not so pleasant and most of the topics we talked about were about money, it does not prove that Jiang Zuo is a person who recklessly makes money on a daily basis.
Chen Xiu said: "Maybe this person disguises himself very well on weekdays and deceived the people."
Just as I was thinking about that, I suddenly heard someone shouting in front of me.
“The money has been distributed.”
"The government has distributed money. Please come and collect your money with your receipts."
"Pick up the money?"
Hearing this, Chen Xiu became curious and walked forward to take a look.
There was a large group of people gathered in the open space in the square ahead. Chen Xiu finally squeezed into a corner and just saw what was happening inside.
As soon as he saw the situation inside, Chen Xiu frowned.
Standing in the middle of the crowd was Jiang Zuo.
"What is he going to do again?"
Chen Xiu was quite confused.
At this time, Jiang Zuo said, "Thanks to the support of the people of Jiangzhou City, our demolition has been so smooth. Now we have to fulfill our government's promise and distribute the demolition money to everyone. Please line up and come with your receipts to collect it."
"Good good."
The people watching were all very excited.
"Bring the money up here."
Jiang Zuo ordered.
Then, a group of people carried boxes and moved them to the center of the open space.
When I opened it, it was full of gold and silver.
Chen Xiu was stunned by the boxes of gold, silver and treasures.
How could a court official have so much wealth?
In Chen Xiu's opinion, the only possibility is that this money was obtained by taking bribes and exploiting the people!
Ill-gotten gains!
But why did Jiang Zuo distribute this money to the people?
Chen Xiu was extremely confused.
"It seems that he wants to buy people's hearts with money, and it turns out to be true."
Chen Xiu speculated.
As for what the demolition compensation was, Chen Xiu didn't want to know at all.
After an unknown amount of time, the gold and silver in the box had almost been distributed.
At this moment, Jiang Zuo even personally took action to distribute the gold and silver in the boxes to the people.
This little money is nothing to Jiang Zuo.
As long as Jiangzhou City can develop in the future, Jiangzhou can get dozens of times the return.
While busy, Jiang Zuo's eyes suddenly noticed Chen Xiu in the corner.
"Oh my god, why is this guy here again?"
Jiang Zuo was shocked.
This Chen Jiu was definitely sent by the empress, otherwise he wouldn't be keeping an eye on Jiang Zuo like this.
Jiang Zuo has already figured out his identity.
It’s okay, just let him continue to monitor. Jiang Zuo is fearless anyway.
Chen Xiu noticed Jiang Zuo's gaze, so he turned his head and looked at the people on the side.
When these people received the silver distributed by Jiangzuo, they all looked happy and said excitedly: "I didn't expect that the demolition compensation would be distributed to us so quickly."
"Master Jiang is truly our second parent. Without him, we would still be living in that shabby little house."
"Yes, once Lord Jiang came, we became rich."
"Great Lord Jiang, you have led our Jiangzhou City to prosperity!"
Hearing the people's words of praise, Chen Xiu frowned.
Meng Cheng on the side said: "Master, this is really strange. The whole Jiangzhou City is saying good things about Jiang Zuo. Maybe we really misunderstood him."
Chen Xiu remained silent, his brows furrowed.
"Since the people say so, Master, I don't think it's necessary to investigate further."
Meng Cheng said again.
"Impossible, absolutely impossible, the entire Jiangzhou City is just trying to flatter him!"
Chen Xiu gritted his teeth.
No matter what, he must expose Jiang Zuo's hypocritical mask.
Maybe this scene was deliberately performed for the Ninth Prince to see.