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Chapter 434 The Night Before the Storm
February twelve.

The situation in the city of Yuzhou on Zhongjing Road in the Kingdom of Jin is delicate and sensitive, like a powder keg that can explode at any time with a spark.

Since Wanyan Quan led two fierce Anheza troops into the city last month, the garrison troops from Guihua, Enzhou, Lizhou, Jianzhou and other prefectures have followed the imperial edict and come to serve the king.

In mid-January, Nanjing Road Commander Han Qi led a total of more than 5,000 troops from his headquarters and the Hejian Army to Yuzhou.

Coupled with the local Han army, for a time, large armies gathered near Yuzhou, but they belonged to the four forces.

Yuzhou has always been barren and unable to support nearly 30,000 troops.

The Yuzhou government office could not supply food and grass, so the foreign troops could only turn their attention to the nearby people.

At this time, all the gentry and common people within a radius of dozens of miles suffered.

But searching for food and grass is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and inefficient. It is far better to grab it from friendly forces than never!

In early February, the naturalized army spent more than ten days and finally collected thousands of loads of grain.

When Shuhu learned about this, he was furious. Although there was no evidence, he insisted that it was the Lizhou Army Yu Wenxuzhong who had entanglements with the Jianzhou Army.

Li Ke smiled.

Inside, it was Li Ke, the head of the military command stall, and Su Shengye, the person in charge of the Jin Kingdom region.

Zhang Chuangen wanted to salute according to his position, but Li Ke had already stood up and stepped forward, grabbed Old Zhang's arm, and said with a hearty smile: "I don't dare to accept the salute from Brother Zhang! The prince has told me about the golden land." , Brother Zhang deserves the first credit! Your Majesty has set up a village for you near Caizhou and prepared the Yunhui Medal. As long as Brother Zhang returns home, you can become a happy and wealthy man! Hahaha."

In the next few days, Yuzhou City turned into a gladiatorial arena at night, with the two sides coming and going, making it very lively.

After passing the notice, the father and son entered.

The four of them sat down and exchanged pleasantries, but they did not hear Li Ke mention the reason why they were summoned here today. Zhang Chuangen couldn't help but ask, but Li Ke said mysteriously: "Waiting for a distinguished guest."

On February 12, the four armies had strictly ordered their soldiers not to leave the camp. At the same time, the generals did not take off their armor or horses, and they seemed to be waiting for the storm to come.

The military combatants who had been entangled with the Jin spies for more than ten days suddenly stopped their activities.

Zhang Chuangen did not show any excitement when he heard this. Instead, he looked a little disappointed and said: "Li Baotou, the prince and Bujuntong don't want me anymore? Old man, I can still work for another ten years!"

We waited until it was completely dark.

"The prince actually knows about me?" Zhang Xiaoyin couldn't help but be excited.

At the end of the Youshi hour, a guard suddenly knocked on the door and said, "We've arrived at the stall."

"It's three full acres and covers an area of ​​more than three acres. I'll hurry up and marry a beautiful girl when I get back. Otherwise, how will you be able to live in such a big yard by yourself, hahaha."

On the eighth day of February, a commander of the Shuhu Division of the Jianzhou Jin Army entered the city with two companions to have fun. After getting drunk, they had a conflict with several Han soldiers. After a fight, the Han soldiers fled.

In the evening of that day, there was a very clear view in the city.

Zhang Chuangen was relieved and said with a smile: "How big is the village that the prince bought for the old man?"

Seeing this, Su Shengye also walked over with a smile, "Brother Zhang, what did you say? Didn't the prince understand that you just suffered a lot, and wanted you to take good care of yourself after you go back. If you are ambitious, please take good care of yourself." Of course you can leave the mountain again!"

No one knows whether Gao Cunfu can solve the case in five days, but if Shuhu is not satisfied after five days, something big will happen in Yuzhou City.

The anxious Gao Cunfu came forward again and vowed to solve the case within five days and give Shu Hu an explanation.

Every morning the next morning, there would always be a few more unclaimed bodies in some remote streets and alleys in Yuzhou City.

Within the military command, there is also a self-examination mechanism, including the matter of Zhang Chuangen and Zhang Xiaoyin's mother, which has long been reported to Li Ke.

Zhang Chuangen's still pale face showed a very satisfied smile, but he glanced at Zhang Xiaoyin subconsciously, and then continued: "Two entrances are enough, one to live with Xiao Yin's mother, and one to marry Xiao Yin. Three entrances are too big”

In the Jin Kingdom, the Jin people were superior to everyone, and Chigu was the emperor's personal commander in the Jin army. Yelu Guangde had no way to redress his injustice even if he wanted to ask for an explanation.

Zhang Xiaoyin accompanied his recently recovered godfather Zhang Chuangen into the backyard of Taiqingguan. Although the backyard was slightly dilapidated and deserted, there were several well-dressed men patrolling around.

"Oh, it's too big, it's too big."

The already delicate situation became even more fragile due to the arrival of the Jin envoys Li Chu and Tang Kuo in late January, and the arrival of Li Ke and Dabao Jian from Qi in early February.

On the same night, a man in black sneaked into the residence of Taoist Master Tongxuan, the national master, with the intention of assassinating him. He was discovered by the big sword. The two sides chased each other in the dark night of Yuzhou, and the big sword killed them both.

Li Ke and others entered the city secretly. They were in the dark and the Jin envoy was in the open.

However, Yu Wenxuzhong had a bad temper and immediately led his people to the Jianzhou Army camp to ask for it. The two sides almost went to war with each other because of this. Finally, Gao Cunfu, who stayed at Zhongjing Road, came forward to make peace and promised to quickly raise food and grass to distribute to the armies, so he was relieved. A conflict.

"Ouch!"

On the fifth day of February, the grain transport team led by Yu Wenxuzhong, the commander of the Han army in Lizhou, was intercepted by Shuhu, the golden general of the Jianzhou army.

On the night of the first day of February, military commanders tried to spy on the Jin ambassador's station, but were noticed by the other side. As soon as the two sides took over, they smelled similar smells on each other.

However, Li Ke thought it was the first time he heard about it and said with surprise: "What a good thing! Hahaha, the last secret letter I sent to the prince also mentioned Xiao Yin's performance in the New Year's Eve mutiny. The prince asked Xiao Yin to be Yin Dang is my son from Huaibei and has been trained with all my heart! Now it’s better, let’s get closer to each other, hahaha.”

Unexpectedly, the three of them stayed away all night that night, and were found dead in a ditch the next day, with their hearts and livers cut out.

At this point, Li Ke has determined that there are also secret spies and assassins in the Jin Kingdom mission.

In such an atmosphere, although the armies gathered in Yuzhou in the name of King Qin, they were wary of each other.

The next day, Hezha's pro-army troops were all heavily loaded with Chigu, and they broke into the naturalized army camp and arbitrarily stole the latter's rations.

Such a paradoxical situation only intensified the tension.

The commander of the naturalized army, Yelu Guangde, was furious, but there was nothing he could do.

"That's natural! Everything and everyone in this world is in the prince's heart."

Before Li Ke could say the words 'please come in', a magnetic chant was heard outside the door, "Heavenly Lord of Infinite Blessings and Longevity."

Just hearing this voice, Li Ke couldn't help laughing, stood up and walked to the door to greet him: "Please come in!"

After the words fell, the door opened.

But he saw a Taoist priest standing outside. He looked to be in his thirties, with thick black hair styled into a Taoist bun. Although there were small lines on his face, he could not hide his handsome and elegant appearance. He wore bright yellow Taoist robes and looked like an immortal!
Li Ke raised his hands from a distance and said with a smile: "Taoist priest, long time no see, your style is still the same, even better than before!"

Who is coming?

Naturally, he is the junior disciple of Taoist Priest Wugen. Taoist Taixu came to the Kingdom of Jin in the ninth year of Fuchang. He is now the national master of the Kingdom of Jin, a master of Tongxuan Immortal who is good at yin and yang picking and mending the house, and is proficient in elixir refining.
This is also the first time the two have met since they were separated five or six years ago.

Today he can meet with Li Ke in person, and he must be planning something big.

Sure enough, after a few simple greetings, Taixu got straight to the point, "I've already found the person."

Taixu's words were meaningless, but Li Ke asked directly: "Oh? Who is it?"

It seems that the two had contacted each other many times before the meeting.

Taixu said again: "Chai Yuanyi"

"Last name is Chai? Princess of Zhou Kingdom?"

"Yes! Ding Wei was only ten years old when he was kidnapped. In the third year of Fuchang, Emperor Jin brought 13-year-old Chai Yuanyi into the harem. She was quite popular with Emperor Jin. Now she has been named Zhaorong." Taixu said, Li Ke thought for a moment, nodded and said, "Okay, the Taoist Master will draw a picture of her residence for me later."

"I've drawn it and brought it here."

Taixu took out a piece of paper from the sleeve of his wide robe, handed it over, and said: "Li Stall, I can do these things, but how to smuggle people into a room full of Chigu, I still need you. Someone will do it.”

Li Ke unfolded the paper with the map and looked at it. He raised his head and gave Taixu a confident smile, "Don't worry! Naturally, I won't trouble the Taoist priest about this matter anymore."

At the second moment of Xu Shi, after some conspiracy, the two sides decided on what they had to do.

Today, Wanyan Dan is not only inseparable from the pills refined by Taixu, but also from him as a person. Taixu cannot stay out for too long. After a quick meeting, he has to rush back to Wanyan Dan's residence in Yuzhou.

Before leaving, Taixu suddenly became embarrassed and made a ruthless request, "Dadatou, Yuzhou is in turmoil. It goes without saying that Pindao will stay and go with the big stall to go to the big plan, but Pindao wants to invite the big stall." The leader secretly sent the poor beauty to Huaibei for resettlement, temporarily leaving the land of right and wrong."

Oops, he is still a poor person who knows how to love others.

Knowing that chaos was about to break out in Yuzhou, I still thought about sending my best friend back.

Now that Yuzhou is under the control of Pang Panggu, Ding Guozhong and others, it is not difficult to secretly send people out of the city. Li Ke responded with a joke, "The Taoist priest is so considerate, and men also have tenderness! Haha, don't worry, I will be there tomorrow." The Taoist priest was sent out of the city."

Unexpectedly, Taixu did not show any joy when he heard this. Instead, he said: "Big stall owner, you are mistaken. Pindao is not the same beauty."

"It doesn't matter if there are two or three. One carriage is enough."

"Ahem, it's not just two or three. When Pindao came here today, he calculated that there were nineteen people in total."

"Pfft~cough cough cough."

Zhang Chuangen, who was drinking tea, choked and coughed for a while before he could calm down. Then he looked at this handsome Taoist with immortal demeanor in astonishment and said subconsciously: "Oh my god, nineteen? I was in the city when I was young. I can’t even raise so many pigs at home, Taoist priest, can you handle it?”

Upon hearing this, Taixu was unhappy. He glared at Lao Zhang, a rough guy, and said displeasedly and seriously: "What do you call 'playing'? They and I are both true love. Naturally, a rough guy like you doesn't understand!"

Well, Lao Zhang, you don’t understand love!
While Taiqingguan was plotting, a small meeting was also being held in the Jianzhou Army barracks outside the city.

The leaders were Zhizhigao Li Chou, Daiguo's princess consort Tang Kuo, and Hezha's pro-army all carrying Man Chigu, and Jianzhou Jin army commander Shu Hu.

As a former close minister of Wanyan, Li Chou was silent most of the time, but it was Tang Kuo who spoke the most.

After the two came to Yuzhou, they requested to see Emperor Jin several times.

But they were repeatedly blocked by the Tongxuan Demon Way. On the seventh day of the lunar month, they finally met once. Seeing Emperor Jin's expression of confusion, the two of them did not dare to ask the emperor to return to the capital. They only said: "This matter is purely a villain's instigation." , King Hailing has no intention of turning back."

Wanyan Dan didn't know what kind of ecstasy soup he had been fed by the demon, so he said: "In that case, you will go back and let King Hailing ride to Yuzhou alone to pay his respects."

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This suggestion is pure fart. Considering the situation where Emperor Jin and King Hailing are facing each other, how could King Hailing have a chance to survive if he came alone.

If they return to Huanglong Mansion and invite King Hailing to go south to Yuzhou, Wanyan Liang will definitely think that they are cooperating with Wanyan Dan to kill him!
In addition, in recent days, the secret agents of the Jin Kingdom who came with Tang Kuo had fought several times with a group of mysterious people who were elusive and highly skilled in martial arts. He was very sure that the recent turmoil and rain in Yuzhou must be related to this group of people. relationship.

Even Tang Kuan was 80% certain that these people came from Qi State in the south.

Over the past few days, Tang Kuo asked Jin's spies to collect a lot of clues, mainly information about the Yuzhou New Year's Eve mutiny.

But at the same time, I happened to get a shocking inside story. Last year in the Hebei prisoner-of-war camp, many Han, Liao and Bo troops participated in a riot that massacred the Jin people on Nanjing Road and Zhongjing Road!
Therefore, he did not inform any generals of the Han, Liao and Bo clans about this secret meeting.

With the information, he was confident. Tang Kuo took the lead and threw a stack of paper full of handwriting on the public case. He looked around the two golden generals and said solemnly: "Two generals, everything about Yuzhou is weird. Hai Hai King Ling has already noticed something strange! The Han army is named King Qin, but in fact it has already surrendered to Qi. The leaders of the three tribes of Han, Liao and Bo cannot be trusted!"

Tang Kuo and even the silent Li Chou were both Han, but the former didn't feel any discomfort at all when he said this.

Li Chou looked embarrassed.

Shu Hu, who had a grudge against the Lizhou Army, said: "Three days ago, three soldiers of our army had their hearts torn out in the city! They must have been killed by Yu Wenxuzhong, and this person must be killed!"

By now, Tang Kuo had roughly guessed that the three Jianzhou Jin soldiers should have been killed by Qi spies, but he deliberately did not correct Shu Hu's idea, and instead looked at Tuoman Chigu.

As the commander of Hezha's personal army, Chigu was extremely loyal to the Jin Emperor. After looking at each other and Tang Kuo, he said coldly: "Consort, what do you want to do by calling us here?"

Tang Kuo pondered for a moment, but still had the courage to say: "Two generals! Our emperor is in Yuzhou, just like he is in a tiger's den! At this time of life and death, we can no longer hesitate! The generals of Zhu Yaodao and the three tribes will support the emperor and return to the capital. !”

"Bold! Tang Kuo, do you want to rebel?"

Chi Gu stood up and glared angrily at Tang Kuo to see if the generals of the three tribes had any rebellious intentions. Chi Gu didn't know, after all, Tang Kuo was only talking one-sidedly at this moment.

However, Chi Gu knew that Emperor Jin did not dare to return to the capital. Otherwise, Wanyan Dan would not have been so embarrassed on the second day of the first lunar month.

Chigu was very suspicious that Tang Kuo had taken refuge with King Hailing and deceived Emperor Jin into returning to the capital.

Even though Tang Kuo was a consort, he was not a big deal in the eyes of Chi Gu, who was loyal to the Jin Emperor. If it was determined that he had defected to King Hailing, Chi Gu would kill him on the spot without hesitation.

Tang Kuo naturally saw the murderous intention in the other party's eyes, but he didn't dare to say anything.

Li Chuan, who had been silent until now, finally sighed and spoke, "General Chigu, please calm down. My consort and I are traveling here out of our common conscience for Dajin! With the current situation, Your Majesty is uneasy and King Hailing is terrified. We will wait for you again if If you make the wrong move, the danger of the breakup of Dajin is imminent."

Chigu was loyal to Emperor Jin, and naturally he was also loyal to the Kingdom of Jin. He was also quite heartbroken by the current situation. After hearing this, he slowly sat down, but his unkind eyes still stayed on Tang Kuo's face.

Seeing that Chi Gu still knew the righteousness, Li Chu felt relieved and said: "What the consort said is true, Yuzhou is indeed a place surrounded by tigers and wolves. If we want to save the emperor, we must first capture the generals of the three tribes, and let the two Only by personally taking charge of the soldiers of all races can we avoid crises."

Li Chu originally wanted to say 'get rid of the generals of the three tribes', but killing generals without orders was tantamount to rebellion, so he used the word 'capture' and removed the word 'tong', which was originally on the killing list and was extremely favored by the Jin Emperor. mysterious.

Li Chu then continued: "As for the fate of the generals of the three tribes and whether the emperor returns to the capital, it is entirely up to the emperor to decide. General Chigu, what do you think?"

This statement is indeed much easier for Chi Gu to accept.

As long as the safety of the emperor can be guaranteed, Chi Gu naturally wants to quickly quell the internal disputes in the Jin Kingdom. After a few moments of silence, Chi Gu finally said: "Okay. I will meet with your majesty tomorrow. Please do not act without authorization. Wait until I meet with your majesty. After that, if we can’t be persuaded, we will take action tomorrow night.”

Late at night, at the residence where Imperial Master Tongxuan was temporarily staying, nineteen women and girls of different heights, short, fat, and thin, ranging in age from forty to sixteen or seventeen, gathered together.

Suddenly, they learned that the imperial master was going to send them to Nanjing temporarily tomorrow. They burst into tears and were reluctant to leave.

The immortal, who had always been gentle and calm, kissed this one and hugged that one, but he actually shed a few tears.

Zhang Xiaoyin, Hu San and others who were staying here, waiting to be sent out of the city early tomorrow morning, were stunned.

"Third brother, is this love?"

"Hey, third brother doesn't understand either, it looks really touching."

That night.

When Zhaorong Chai Yuanyi went to bed, she found a letter under her pillow. She opened it and took a look at it. Chai Yuanyi couldn't stop crying and saw her father's handwriting. She naturally recognized it.

A few dozen feet away, the commander of Hezha's army, who had returned to his residence, was carrying Chigu on his back, but he was still worried about the situation in the Kingdom of Jin and could not sleep.

Most people in the city have already fallen asleep.

Yuzhou, which has been in turmoil since New Year's Eve last year, actually ushered in the most peaceful night.

The men in black who scaled the walls and climbed into the houses were gone, as were the soldiers of various races who often started provocations after drinking.

It was rare for the people of Yuzhou to get a good night's sleep.

The night before a storm is the quietest.
(End of this chapter)