Rule over Ming Dynasty

Chapter 143 Network Collection 5
Li Zhiqing was a Jinshi in Chenghua for 11 years. He was first appointed as the head of the household department and later promoted to be a doctor of the household department.

Wang Yue is working at the border, and Li Zhiqing is in the capital, so it is said that there will be no intersection between the two.It's just that the Ministry of Households has always been responsible for supervising the payment. Whenever money and food are to be sent to the border, they are escorted by officials of the Ministry of Households.

Maybe Wang Yue didn't remember a small household official, but it was impossible for Li Zhiqing to forget Wang Yue.At that time, Wang Yue was the minister of the local military department who ruled the three sides. Later, he was named Wei Ningbo because of his meritorious service. He was a real big man.

Although Wang Yue's face is now covered with ashes, he has already recognized the beheaded Wang who made his comeback last year and became famous all over the world just by giving a hint.

boom!
When Li Zhiqing was about to call out Wang Yue's name, he felt a sudden darkness in front of his eyes.

Wang Yue had already realized from Li Zhiqing's reaction that the other party had seen through his identity, so in order not to put himself in danger, he had no choice but to act first.

Originally, I just wanted to land safely, so why did I have to force myself to make a move?

"You?" The big man who had been escorting Wang Yue had just saluted, only to see Li Zhiqing lying on his back, and immediately turned to look at Wang Yue in shock.

boom!
Wang Yue simply kept on doing nothing, and threw another punch at the strong man's face.

The strong man felt a series of gold stars popping out of his eyes, and then fell to the ground.

Wang Yue immediately wanted to go down the stairs, planning to dive from the deck to escape here, but there was a rush of footsteps on the stairs, but it blocked his escape route.

Seeing that the strong man on the ground was not completely unconscious, he was still thinking about struggling to stand up, and immediately kicked the opponent's nose fiercely.

After the strong man felt a piercing pain from the bridge of his nose, he completely fainted, hating this despicable old man who sneaked up on him.

"What happened? Master Li!" Several guards who heard the movement and ran up to check the situation shouted in shock when they saw Li Zhiqing lying on the ground.

After Yang Zhifu heard the commotion outside, he no longer stayed on the bed, but hurriedly put on his clothes and came out to check. Seeing Li Zhiqing who was in a coma, he was shocked and said: "What's going on?"

"Lord Zhifu, it should be that Hu Yuanwai knocked out Lord Li and the guard and escaped!" A guard speculated when he saw the unconscious companion on the other side.

"He...he is so daring! What are you doing in a daze, find him immediately, and the government will kill him!" Knowing that Wang Yue did this, Yang Zhifu immediately roared, gnashing his teeth angrily.

At this moment, the woman's voice came from the room: "Ah... it's flooded! It's flooded!"

"What are you doing in a daze, put out the fire!" Yang Zhifu immediately ordered angrily to these pig-like subordinates when he learned that his room was on fire.

The few people present couldn't help but look at each other. They received two orders one after another. So are they going to find the prisoner or put out the water?
In the end, under the murderous eyes of Zhifu Yang, they realized that it is more important to put out the fire now, otherwise the whole crew of them might be playing tricks.

"It's out of water, it's out of fire!"

"Where is the water tank, put out the fire!"

"Don't stand still, stupid pigs, quickly send water up!"

……

The fire came suddenly, and it was in a state of burning more and more vigorously, causing many people to shout in panic.

Although there was a large water tank ready to be used to extinguish the fire, it had already started to burn violently and the official ship appeared to be very chaotic, so the effect of extinguishing the fire was not very good.

"The official ship has arrived at the pier, everyone, get off the ship!" Someone shouted happily when they saw that the official ship had returned to the Yangzhou pier.

The trackers on the shore have already started to work, helping to pull their hull to the side of the pier.

Wang Yue wrapped his face in a cloth and came to the deck, and found that the official ship had really returned to the pier, he couldn't help but secretly happy.Originally, I wanted to escape by jumping into the river while I was in chaos, but now it seems that I don't need it.

"Everyone goes to the pier below, but no one is allowed to leave privately, and they all stay there honestly!" Yang Zhifu saw that the room above was still billowing with smoke, and immediately made arrangements.

Naturally, the salt merchants had no objection, they just wanted to escape from this dangerous place at the moment.

After the release, all of them covered their mouths and noses, hurriedly got off the official ship, and then came to this wide pier.

"You..." Su Bancheng just fled to the pier with the flow of people, and was shocked when he saw that the person standing beside him was Wang Yue.

Wang Yue glanced at the fat man, but he was considering whether to punch him.

"No, I won't say it!" Su Bancheng felt the murderous aura on Wang Yue's body, and immediately raised his hand in surrender.

Although he didn't say anything, Wang Yue had already been exposed. A strong man who was in charge of guarding Wang Yue earlier pointed at Wang Yue on the boat and said, "Catcher Liu, it's him, catch him quickly!"

Liu Butou searched in the direction pointed by the strong man, and when Dang Shi put the chain he brought on Wang Yue's neck, he said fiercely: "Go, follow Ben Butou to see the Lord Fu Zun!"

Seeing the chain around his neck, Wang Yue hesitated for a moment, but followed the head catcher and walked towards Li Zhiqing and Li Zhifu over there.

Li Zhiqing opened his eyes leisurely, but looked at the blue sky in front of him with lingering fear, the nightmare he had was too terrifying.

In the world under his control, Wang Yue, the imperial envoy, has been played around by himself, and he is still visiting Taixing County on his micro-service privately, looking for the private salt field that he deliberately spread.

It's just that he just saw Wang Yue on the boat in his dream, and Wang Yue had already lurked beside them, and he saw their activities clearly.

If this was not a dream, then no matter how many contacts Li Zhiqing had in the capital, it would be of no use. His ten heads might not be enough for the king to chop off.

"Master, are you awake? How do you feel?" The attendants at the side saw that Li Zhiqing finally woke up, and they were very happy and concerned.

Li Zhiqing's mind was buzzing, but he waved his hands and asked in confusion, "What's going on? Where am I?"

"Master, did you forget? Just now you were attacked by that villain on the boat, and you fainted, but that villain has been caught by the prefect Yang!" Tell what happened.

"Evil person?" Li Zhiqing said with a pale face when he recalled the scene just happened when he heard this word, and realized that he was not dreaming at all.

Seeing that his subordinates had captured the man, Yang Zhifu waved his hand and said: "Captain Liu, bring him over and hand it over to Mr. Li!"

If it was just for the sake of money, he would let Hu Yuan out, but now he must kill this daring person for Li Zhiqing.

Li Zhiqing hoped that he was thinking too much, or that he had hallucinations before he fell into a coma, so he looked towards Liu Butou expectantly.

"Master Li, are you all right?" Wang Yue greeted Li Zhiqing with a smile when he saw Li Zhiqing who was already awake.

After a serious recollection just now, he also remembered that he had indeed met Li Zhiqing who was Xie Yunliang in Datong back then, but he didn't expect that the other party would still remember him.

"How...how is it possible? Wang Yue, how could you be here?" Li Zhiqing asked in shock when he saw Wang Yue really appearing in front of him.

Wang... Wang Yue?
Yang Zhifu and Zhang Yushi who had just arrived knew that since the murderer in front of them was the famous Wang Beheaded, they opened their mouths slightly and looked at the tall old man in shock.

At this moment, their hearts undoubtedly sank to the bottom.

Since this Hu member is Wang Yue, Wang Yue knows everything they did, and they are doomed now.

All of their participants will lose their heads simply by embezzling a huge amount of salt.

What puzzled them was that, according to their intelligence network, Wang Yue should still be in Taixing County this time, so why did he suddenly appear here as a Hu Yuanwai?
"Why can't this imperial envoy be here? In order to catch you all, this imperial envoy has suffered a lot during this time!" Wang Yue met the shocked gazes of the three people, but said with emotion.

After being assassinated on the way to Yangzhou at the end of last year, he chose to use his tactics, pretending to be injured and drowned, but in fact he had quietly come to the boundary of Yangzhou Prefecture to investigate the private salt farm.

It's just that even though he forced his grandson to work as a coolie at the pier, he found nothing after nearly a month of investigation, and was almost killed by a group of mysterious officers and soldiers in the end.

This time, in order to be able to board the ship smoothly, it took a lot of effort, not only to enter the tiger's den with personal risk, but also to go through a game of cat and mouse just now.

Now that his merits and virtues are finally complete, he has obtained the criminal evidence of these officials, but he can wipe out these people in one go.

Li Yiqing's eyes immediately flashed a stern look, but he suddenly pointed at Wang Yue and said, "This person is a rebel! You don't want to confuse the crowd with your lies here, and strangle him to death!"

Liu Butou was a little confused, but he knew that Li Zhiqing was the real owner of Yangzhou City, so he immediately used his hands to strangle the old man to death.

"You dare!" Lu Song had already appeared, but pointed a knife at Liu Butou and threatened.

When Liu Butou saw the knife almost reaching his throat, he immediately let go of his hand to save his life.

When he saw Lu Song wearing Jinyiwei attire, he knew that the old man in front of him was not a rebel, but the rumored imperial envoy Wang Yue.

But judging from the current situation, Li Zhiqing and his group of officials are really in danger.

"Master Li, are you jumping over the wall in a hurry to kill someone? You are really brave. Assassinating an imperial envoy is a serious crime to punish the nine clans. Do you really want your whole family to be buried with you?" Wang Yue hung it around his neck He took off the chains on his body, but said with a bit of sarcasm.

How to do?
Yang Zhifu and Zhang Yushi found that the imperial envoy had already grasped their handles, and they couldn't help but looked to their backbone Li Zhiqing for help, hoping that Li Zhiqing could find a way to resolve the crisis.

Seeing that the imperial guards had appeared here, Li Zhiqing sighed helplessly.

Even if he is not afraid of being punished by the Nine Clans and dares to kill people, but they are not strong enough to fight against the imperial guards at all, so now they can only resign themselves to their fate.

"Lu Baihu!" Wang Yue looked at the panic-stricken salt merchants and officials around him, but his face darkened.

Lu Song liked the days when he obeyed Wang Yue's orders, so he immediately said respectfully: "My lord, please give me instructions!"

"Immediately arrest everyone here, and send someone to seal up Jiangdu Qiansi. This imperial envoy will clean up the Yangzhou officials' embezzlement of salt!" Wang Yue knew that the stolen goods must be captured now, so he gave an order.

Lu Song waited for this moment for too long, Dang even cupped his hands and said: "Obey!"

"Wait a minute!"

At this time, a large number of officers and soldiers poured in from the direction of the city gate, as many as 1000, and the leader was Yang Kang, the commander of the Yangzhou Guard.

The imperial guards led by Lu Song were less than a hundred people at all, and now seeing Yang Kang, the commander of the Yangzhou Guards, leading 1000 people, he was on guard.

Once there is a conflict, they are likely to be wiped out here.

"Commander Yang, what do you intend to bring so many soldiers here?" Wang Yue asked coldly when he saw that the visitor was not friendly.

Although there is no evidence in hand now, judging from Yang Kang's arrogant attitude, the massacre of the refugees by the soldiers that he saw that night was probably done by these Yangzhou guards.

Now that teachers are mobilizing people to come, it must be impossible to come to help themselves.

"The commander has just received a secret report! Someone is pretending to be an imperial envoy here to bluff and deceive. The real imperial envoy has not arrived in Yangzhou yet, so you are the group of fake imperial envoys?" Yang Kang sat on the horse and said with a smile on his face.

Huh?
However, Lu Song did not expect that a small commander would have such courage to openly question the identity of the imperial envoy.

"This imperial envoy is here in the imperial decree. If you have any doubts, you can watch the imperial decree!" Wang Yue sensed Yang Kang's killing intent, and said solemnly.

It's not that he is willing to back down, but that this army has obviously seen blood, and now it is mobilizing troops, but it cannot be ruled out that the commander wants to kill people to silence them.

In the end, the criminal evidence I have obtained can kill the officials in the entire Yangzhou officialdom, and killing them to silence me is probably the only way to survive.

Yang Kang exchanged glances with Li Zhiqing, but he was too lazy to look at the imperial decree and said: "The imperial decree can also be forged. In order to ensure the stability of Yangzhou City, you all go back with this commander to accept the investigation!"

"I am Lu Song from a hundred households of Jinyiwei, the captain of the imperial guard this time, are you going to kill yourself?" Lu Song realized the danger, and immediately revealed his identity.

Yang Kang looked at Lu Song, but he said coldly: "A bunch of daring criminals! Come, take them all back to the guard. Anyone who dares to resist will be shot!"

Seeing Yang Kang being so tough, Li Zhiqing, Yang Mingyuan and Zhang Huangshan couldn't help secretly heaving a sigh of relief. After all, this place belongs to them, and now Wang Yue, the mighty dragon, will also be cut off by them.

boom!
Suddenly there was a gunshot not far away, and Yang Kang, the commander of the Yangzhou Guard who was showing off his power just now, fell from his horse and fell into a pool of blood.

(End of this chapter)