Back to Ming Dynasty as Zhu Biao

Chapter 375
I slept in the Chang'an county government all night, and when I woke up, it was already the next day. Zhu Biao immediately took everyone to the destination, waiting for today's temple fair.

"Foretelling...Foretelling."

"Sell melons, sell melons~"

Standing on top of a four-storey restaurant, Zhu Biao looked at the crowd below: "Don't disturb them, I want to see how powerful this White Lotus Sect really is. My Ming people were bewitched and knelt on the ground begging for help. God has given food, even this year's fields have been abandoned, which is destroying the foundation of Ming Dynasty."

"The foundation of Ming Dynasty cannot be destroyed." Wang Guangyang said standing beside him.

Yang Xian said with a smile: "His Royal Highness is standing in this restaurant, waiting for the minister to take down the White Lotus Sect."

Zhu Biao gave a thumbs up and motioned them to look around the street corner.

At the corner of the street, many people had already gathered, but the Empress Bailian they had been waiting for for a long time did not come.

Everyone chattered a few words there, and left dejectedly.

"Come on, go down and have a look." Zhu Biao pointed to the guard next to him.

"Why not? Could it be that they got wind of it?" Wang Guangyang wondered.

The White Lotus Sect is going to bring Empress Bailian to preach the teachings on the street today, why suddenly there is no news at all.

The reason for this is very simple, an insider leaked their plan for today.

The guard who came back reported that the Bailian Niangniang meeting that was scheduled for today was suddenly cancelled.

Zhu Biao was more clear about his previous guess, looked around, and said in a cold voice: "Wang Guangyang, Yang Xian, who is the traitor, what should we do, don't you need to teach alone?"

Obviously the soldiers and horses have been arranged, just waiting for someone to catch the turtle, and by the way, educate the people and break the superstition of the White Lotus Sect.

Now it seems that they are hiding and refusing to come out.

"Go back to His Royal Highness, I understand." Yang Xian left with a dark face.

Zhu Biao sat at the table and glanced at Wei Shouzheng next to him: "When did King Zhou and Du Dongting go to the suburbs of Chang'an County?"

"Returning to Your Highness, King Zhou and Du Dongting went to the place yesterday early this morning to arrest the nest of Bailian thieves."

While drinking tea, Zhu Biao was not in a hurry at all, Jin Yiwei was the best at finding traitors.

He simply chatted with Wei Shouzheng.

Soon, he found out about Wei Shouzheng's family affairs.There is a child and a wife who is a mess. He has always been obsessed with craftsmanship, but later he was scolded by his family as a strange skill, so he worked hard and went all the way to the capital.

"You said Du Dongting hates women?" Zhu Biao shook his head in disbelief: "It depends on whether he knows anything. Could it be that he only hates ugly women?"

Wei Shouzheng shook his head: "Brother Du was deceived by a woman at the beginning, using... When he was in the capital, he almost gave up the exam and went home. Later, it was Miss Shen who went to him and persuaded him..."

"Gu knows about this matter, but you told Gu the specifics. It seems that Gu's woman is not bad." Zhu Biao put down his teacup and watched the people coming and going downstairs.

For the past five or six days, he hasn't been in the government office of Xi'an Mansion. Last time he knew that she had a bad stomach, he hasn't seen her in the past few days.

The doctor only went there when Zhu Di said he was leaving.

Wei Shouzheng nodded, and began to talk about Empress Bailian. These people originally only wanted to cheat food and money.

Later, some people who didn't believe in Bailian could be punished by using well water and pills.

"Your Highness, according to my opinion, the last resort for those people who believe in Empress Bailian is to execute them all." Wei Shouzheng said doubtfully.

"The people were just deceived. The so-called cold water explosion was just for another reason. When Du Dongting and Zhu Di come back, Gu will let you have a look at Bailian's magic method to confuse the people."

"Because of the explosion of the well water, the people around spread the word to ten, ten to hundreds. I don't know who said that they sat under the tree and picked up several pots of wheat in wooden pots..."

Zhu Biao smiled contemptuously: "It's just that there are many nurses of the White Lotus Sect. If they meet an orphan, it's bad luck for the Bailian Empress."

Zhu Di and Du Dongting brought a lot of people to find the camp, but the people arranged by Yang Xian stayed put because the temple fair hadn't started yet.

This time, what could have been solved quickly was broken by this "insider".

In the east of Chang'an County, there are nine large incense burners in the courtyard of a secluded private house. Inside are not incense ash, but copper coins, silver, and banknotes.

In front of several small incense burners, the common people knelt there and held wooden basins, piously begging for blessings.

"Prefect Sun, I'm sorry to trouble you this time. Please accept the money with a smile." The leading Taoist woman held a few gold leaves to Sun Xuan, the prefect of Xi'an.

Sun Xuan put the gold leaf in his patched official robe, hid it and said: "The limelight is getting tight these days, so don't go out, I will make it easier for everyone in a few days."

Sun Xuan turned around and came out, and when he was about to reach the gate of the Chang'an County Yamen, he paused again, touched the gold leaf, then turned and left.

The two Jin Yiwei felt that Sun Xuan was suspicious.He picked up the burden and followed.

……

It was getting dark, and the night in the distance was like a curtain.

Zhu Biao glanced at the woman who came: "Are you the singer of Meixiang Building in Xi'an Mansion?"

The woman nodded.

Wei Shouzheng saw that it was inconvenient for him to stand here, so he followed the guards to a distance.

Zhu Biao lowered his voice and ate the pastry: "There is a taste in the world is Qinghuan."

The woman suddenly raised her head: "This life is for knowing and not regretting."

"Say."

"A few days ago, Sun Xuan, the magistrate of Xi'an Prefecture, rewarded me with a golden leaf and asked me not to tell other people. After careful investigation today, I found that there is something wrong with Sun Xuan."

"Understood, let's go." Zhu Biao squinted his eyes after finishing speaking, and two more people came up, saying that they found the place where Sun Xuan's silver was buried.

Zhu Biao smiled wryly and said, "Even Gu was deceived by this patched magistrate. Immediately order someone to capture the prefect Sun Xuan."

"Subordinates obey."

Looking at the distance, Zhu Biao shook his head: "I still want to play with me, and be a Jin Yiwei to eat dry food!"

In the middle of the night, Yang Xian and Wang Guangyang all came back, only saying that Sun Xuanzhao had recruited, they went to search the yard, and found that there was no one in the yard, and the White Lotus Sect had moved.

The next step was to interrogate Sun Xuan, and Sun Xuan was recruited immediately to avoid torture.

Seeing that everyone had arrived, Zhu Biao didn't wait for Zhu Di and Du Dongting, and said directly: "There is a reason why the people are bewitched. As long as we break this trick, we can talk about other things."

Wang Guangyang, Yang Xian, Wei Shouzheng and others present all wanted to know that drinking well water and pills would cause their bodies to explode.

Wei Shouzheng was puzzled.

Zhu Biao said: "The pill you mentioned is stored in lamp oil and can explode when mixed with cold water. It's not Empress Bailian's supernatural power, but something else."

"These people who drank the "explosive cold water" all suffered internal organ injuries, and then died of incurable diseases.

Because they're using those alchemist stuff called sodium.If you don't understand, just know that it is easy to explode and burn when it meets water. "

"Cold water won't explode, it will explode when it encounters sodium, and those people have their mouths wide open, which is more likely to cause it."

The people were ignorant, thinking that the cold water was cast by the Bailian Empress, so it exploded.

They were deceived and believed in this fake fairy lady.

Only then did everyone understand, but they didn't know what sodium was.

Zhu Biao knew that before the Ming Dynasty, warlocks who extracted sodium and other elements had already mastered simple methods.

It's not surprising that someone made it.

Can't do it.Also normal.

After all, the National Academy of Scholars failed to develop an extraction method.

But if there is such a warlock among the people, it is not difficult to make it.

Wei Shouzheng was the most fascinated by what he heard, and he already wanted to have a good discussion with the academicians of the National Academy of Scholars after returning to Beijing.

After talking about this, Zhu Biao ordered Sun Xuan to be detained and brought back to Nanjing to wait for Lao Zhu to be released.

After all, Lao Zhu should receive the letter he sent soon, and those criminal magistrates who are still working on crimes will also be dealt with.

Zhu Biao told them the reason in the common language of Ming Dynasty, and asked them to explain it to the people in the future.

"Brother, we came back and captured Empress Bailian." Zhu Di smiled.

"She's not, she's not." Du Dongting followed behind and shouted out of breath.

　If there is a typo, I will correct it tomorrow.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)