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Chapter 358 You brag, I brag too
  The three words "He Huanfeng" made Chen Bokang feel dazed for a while.

This name is a person that many important ministers of the Zhou Dynasty do not want to mention and have complicated emotions when they think of it.

Twelve years ago, the Dingwei Rebellion occurred, which has humiliated the Zhou Kingdom to this day.

At that time, the process of the puppet Qi occupying the north of the Huai River was not smooth sailing. Since the first year of Fuchang of the puppet Qi, anti-Qi uprisings broke out in Huaibei, Zhongyuan, and Shandong Road.

The newly established Puppet Qi was almost unable to suppress it. The next year, Liu Yu asked the Jin Kingdom to send troops.

At that time, the Jin Kingdom first destroyed the Liao Kingdom and then conquered Tokyo in just a dozen years, and it was at the peak of its military power.

In the autumn of the second year of Fuchang, the two armies of the Jin Kingdom marched south again, threatening to destroy the country. The East Route Army, with Wanyan Zongbi as the main general and Yin Shuke as the deputy general, led a Jin army of [-]. The puppet Qi Dynasty's Dan Ninggui and Li Qiong led two retinues of the Han army. Ten thousand, turned into thousands of miles in two months, pushed across to the north bank of the Huaihe River.

The Huaibei Zhongyi Society rebel army united with the Zhou Dynasty official army to resist for more than a month, but was defeated.

The official army of the Zhou Dynasty retreated south, and most of the Zhongyi Society withdrew to Huainan, while the remaining troops were scattered in the Tongbai Mountains.

The West Route Army was led by Nianhan as the main general and Lou Shi as the deputy general. The initial stage of the war was quite smooth. They first subdued the Zhou Dynasty officers and soldiers on the Shandong Road and returned to the rebel army, but then suffered a loss in Sizhou.

In November of the second year of Fuchang, Jin general Wanyan Xujia led a small group of troops to plunder Guihe Town at the foot of Liangshan Mountain, fifty miles south of Sizhou, and was suddenly besieged by a group of men dressed as Jianghu people.

Caught off guard, Wanyan Xujia was beheaded, and his body was placed in a kneeling position facing Tokyo.

As a member of the royal family, Wanyan Xujia was also the murderer who humiliated a concubine and a princess of the Zhou Kingdom to death during the Ding Wei Rebellion. The news of his death naturally made the entire Zhou Kingdom extremely happy.

With this, Huaidong Green Forest's reputation for attacking Wanyan Xujia rose to prominence. In just a few months, more than [-] defeated soldiers and heroes gathered together.

He Huanfeng was one of the leaders at that time
  The royal family died, and Nianhan, the leader of the West Route Army, was furious.

Under the all-out encirclement and suppression, although the Huaidong Green Forest was occasionally defeated, they took advantage of the familiar terrain to gather and disperse, sometimes retreating to the mountains and forests, and sometimes coming out to attack.

The two sides were entangled for more than a year. It was not until the fourth year of Fuchang in the Puppet Qi Dynasty and the third year of Shaoxing in the Great Zhou Dynasty that Huaidong Green Forest was struggling under the joint efforts of the Jin Army and the Puppet Qi Dynasty. Then they had no choice but to retreat to Huainan and accept the adaptation of the Zhou Dynasty court. .

When the news came back to the Kingdom of Jin, the Kingdom of Jin, which had already signed a peace agreement with the Kingdom of Zhou, immediately sent envoys to the Zhou Dynasty. The envoys scolded the Emperor of Zhou in person, scolding the Emperor of Zhou for allowing Liu to kill the murderer of the royal family, which was unbelief and unrighteousness.

He asked the State of Zhou to hand over the leader of the Green Forest Rebel Army in Huaidong, and threatened: If you dare to protect the murderer, the heavenly soldiers will arrive immediately. Whether it is war or peace, it all depends on you and others.

The main war faction in the DPRK is naturally unwilling to make friends. In this case, who in the homeland of the Central Plains dares to regard the Zhou Dynasty as the orthodoxy of the world? Wouldn't it chill the hearts of the righteous people in Jiangbei?

However, the Zhuhe faction headed by Qin Huizhi firmly believed that they should not provoke the country to send troops for a little recklessness.

When he fled south in embarrassment, Emperor Zhou had already been intimidated by the Jin army. He was extremely unwilling to fight with the Jin again, but he did not dare to say anything about handing over the Huaidong Green Forest righteous soldiers to the Jin.

When the two sides were in a stalemate, Qin Huizhi, who was good at figuring out what was going on, secretly ordered Wan Qixi, the military supervisor of Guangde Army on Jiangnan East Road, to lead his army to hunt down and kill the [-] leaders of Huaidong Green Forest.
  At that time, after the Green Forest Rebel Army returned to the Great Zhou Dynasty, the military power had been taken away by the court in the name of reorganization, and all [-] families were raised in Gui'an Mansion.

So when the officers and soldiers came, these men who still wanted to be loyal to the country could not put up any resistance at all.

Twenty-seven leaders and their families, a total of more than [-] people, whether they were immobile octogenarians or infants, were all killed overnight.

Only He Huanfeng, nicknamed Dajiangjian, escaped alone, while his wife and six-year-old daughter died.

Afterwards, the warring ministers in the imperial court came to the table one after another, demanding severe punishment for Wanqixi's private deployment of troops, and he could be executed according to law!
  Wan Qixi went to the court to defend himself, saying that he discovered that Huaidong Lulin was secretly colluding with the puppet Qi to incite the army to surrender to the Qi. He was so anxious that he did not report to the Ming court, so he came up with the matter of arbitrarily deploying the army. He also took out an undisclosed letter. True and false letters serve as evidence.

This statement is full of loopholes, but there is no way to investigate. After all, everyone is dead.

Emperor Zhou's attitude became the key. In order to calm the anger of the main war faction, Emperor Zhou demoted Wan Qixi to Guangnan East Road.
  Such a big crime, but the punishment is so light!

The main war faction was dissatisfied, but Qin Huizhi used this to completely confirm Zhou Emperor's attitude.

After confirming our eyes, you and I are on the same page.

Okay, next, Qin Huizhi personally went to the Kingdom of Jin to send the head of the leader of Huaidong Green Forest to Huanglong Mansion to calm the anger of the upper country.

Subsequently, this pair of monarchs and ministers cooperated in a tacit understanding, and spent two years demoting and retreating the main war faction in the DPRK, leaving only Chen Bokang, who took the initiative to move closer to the Prime Minister of Qin.

Then, Wan Qixi was transferred back from Guangnan East Road to serve as the third-rank minister of Dali Temple.

This was regarded as compensation from Emperor Zhou. After all, Wan Qixi did something for Emperor Zhou that he wanted to do but could not say.

But the reason why Ma Chao and Tian Qinghou could say the name of "Da Jiang Jian He Huan Feng" so accurately was because of another incident.
  After the death of the Huaidong martyrs, everyone in the Zhou Kingdom seemed to feel that the matter was done unfairly, and no one mentioned these people in the court again.

Even the archived official documents of their return to the Great Zhou Dynasty were taken out and modified to hide the names of these people.

It is sad to say that the life stories of a group of men with simple feelings about their family and country have been completely deleted.

If this continues, in another ten or twenty years, these people will most likely be forgotten.

It wasn't until the spring of the seventh year of Fuchang in the Puppet Qi Dynasty and the sixth year of Shaoxing in the Great Zhou Dynasty that Emperor Zhou came out of the palace and encountered an assassin in Lin'an City!

There was only one assassin, He Huanfeng.
  The emperor, as the center of the country, was heavily guarded, so it was naturally difficult for He Huanfeng to succeed alone.

But what is shocking is that after He Huanfeng was injured, he escaped from the pursuit of the guards.

For a time, the emperor was furious. Lin'an City was rarely closed for ten days, and the whole city was searched. Because of this big news, He Huanfeng's life story was naturally revealed by the good guys, and many people remembered this name at that time.

Most people who heard what happened to this man lamented and lamented, but he assassinated the emperor. No matter how sympathetic He Huanfeng was, no one dared to show it at all.

The king of heaven and earth is the master. Apart from heaven and earth, there is the king!
  Even if the king is at fault, the ministers cannot assassinate and disobey them!

Most traditional scholars think this way
  Therefore, you can imagine how shocked and complicated Chen Bokang and Tian Qinghou were when they first heard the name "He Huanfeng".

Here, the hesitant scene of Chen Bokang and others finally attracted the attention of Da Baojian under the shade of the tree. He raised his head and looked over here.

Although they were more than ten feet away, that sharp gaze was like a condensed entity, making the hairs on Ma Chao's back, who was also a warrior, stand up.

Chen Bokang smiled and raised his hand towards the big sword, and asked in a low voice, "Captain Ma, do you know him, does he know you?"

"When I was still serving in the army, I stood on the roadside and watched the Huaidong green forest return to the city. He probably didn't know me."

Ma Chao replied in a low voice.

Chen Bokang nodded and said to himself: "Interesting."

After saying that, he walked over there. Ma Chao quickly followed, wanting to remind Chen Bokang not to get close. If the opponent was really He Huanfeng, he could retreat before safety, which shows that he was very skilled.

He was afraid that if the other party got angry, he would not be able to protect Chen Jinglue.

Chen Bokang turned around and said with a smile: "You guys just wait for me where you are."

"How can that happen!" For such a fierce person, wouldn't it be more dangerous without guards around him?

Chen Bokang said: "It doesn't matter, you are also a martial artist. When you are surprised and suspicious, you will inevitably be on guard. If he is He Huanfeng, he will be able to detect it. Qinghou and I are powerless, so he will not be suspicious."

Chen Bokang handed the donkey's reins to Ma Chao and walked over slowly and calmly. Ma Chao and others admired him for his calm demeanor.

When Dabaojian saw two men dressed as scholars, one old and one young, walking forward, he couldn't help calling Chen Chu in a low voice. Chen Chu took off the bamboo hat covering his face, sat up, and looked at Chen Bokang from the bottom up, confused. Said: "Sir, what's wrong with you?"

"I dare to ask, little brother, what are you doing?"

When Chen Bokang spoke, it was not the Jiangnan Mandarin he usually spoke, but an authentic Huaibei Yingchuan accent.

Chen Chu didn't find it strange either. After all, the Huaibei merchant gang traveled everywhere. It was not surprising to meet fellow Huaibei people in Huainan.

"Our boss asked us to come here to treat crop diseases and earn some money," Chen Chu roughly explained.

When Chen Bokang heard about the treatment of crop diseases, he immediately became interested, but the first priority was to find out whether the silent man on the side was He Huanfeng.
  He was bold but not reckless, so naturally he couldn't show too much interest in the big sword, so he chose this honest young man with a handsome face as his breakthrough point.

"Brother is also from Huaibei?"

"You too?"

"Haha, my hometown is Yingchuan." This is not a lie. His ancestral home is indeed Yingchuan. But when he mentioned this, Chen Bokang had an idea. Since this group of people are from Huaibei, they must know about Chen Jingyan, the prefect of Caizhou, so they thought Inducing this young man to go to the Chen family in Yingchuan to gain trust.

"My surname is Chen." Chen Bokang nodded again.

"Your surname is Chen? Our prefect is also surnamed Chen, and he is also from Yingchuan. You are not related, are you?" Chen Chu said in surprise.

"Haha, that's my brother. Now I'm coming to Huainan to do some things. Don't make any noise, little brother."

Chen Bokang sat down next to Chen Chu and said mysteriously, which really made Chen Chu's eyes widen in shock. He couldn't help but lower his voice, like an underground party associate, and whispered: "Sir, he is actually the compatriot of our prefect. Brother? Dare I ask your name?"

"Haha, I'm not very talented. My name is Jing'an, and my name is Liuchuan. What's your surname?"

Chen Bokang moved his head closer to Chen Chu. The atmosphere of mystery and tension was fully created.

Chen Chu knew he shouldn't, but couldn't hold it back and replied: "I am Chen Jingyan! Brother, don't you recognize me? Hahaha."

"." Chen Bokang paused, and then he realized that the farmer boy in front of him was making fun of him, but he also laughed, "Brother, don't talk nonsense, if you were Chen Jingyan, I would drink all the water from the Huaihe River!"

"Hahaha, if you were Chen Jingan, I would fill the Huaihe River with urine!" Chen Chu laughed while lying on the ground and rubbing his stomach.

"You young man, why are you talking nonsense?"

"You old man, you were the one who started talking nonsense."

Tian Qinghou, who was standing next to him, frowned when he saw this young farmer being disrespectful to his teacher. Chen Bokang was repeatedly troubled by this young man, so he couldn't help but lose his temper and said half-truthfully and half-falsely: "I'll tell you the truth. , I am the Huainan Economic Strategy and Comforting Envoy."

"Hahaha, old man, if you are the envoy of Huainan Economic Strategy, then I will be the King of Chu in Huaibei."

"Young man, I advise you to stop talking nonsense."

"Old sir, I advise you to stop bragging."

(End of this chapter)