Liu Kun's ribs were hit, a sharp pain came from his heart, his body was crooked, his head was hit again, and the whole person fell down softly, and when he woke up, he was already in the dark and gloomy dungeon.

Liu Kun was tied to a wooden frame, his clothes and armor were all stripped off, and several strong men with cold eyebrows held torture instruments in their hands, and asked Liu Kun commandingly: "Say it quickly, what is the conspiracy of the Taishi to connive at the Huns?"

As soon as these words came out, Liu Kun suddenly became enlightened, his feelings were to frame the Taishi, Liu Kun wanted to understand this section, sneered and said nothing, he must not become a breakthrough for the Taishi to be framed.

Seeing that Liu Kun was silent, one person stepped forward and said: "We have done a lot of officials in the capital who are bigger than you, if you explain honestly, it will be convenient for us, if you are obsessed and delay the time of the masters, don't blame me for not recognizing the fire chopsticks in my hand." ”

"A despicable villain who hurts people with hidden arrows has the ability to fight with real knives and guns on the battlefield. ”

"That's good, I will fulfill you!"

The torturer took out the red-hot chopsticks from the stove and poked them on Liu Kun's chest, and suddenly a smell of burnt flesh and skin permeated the dungeon, Liu Kun's face was pale, his lips were bitten and bloody, and he still didn't say a word.

The punishment took more than a dozen, but Liu Kun still didn't spit out, he was already dying, but he still held his unyielding head high.

A few of the torturers were gone, and a few heads came together and muttered.

"What should I do, this guy doesn't seem to be able to say anything, if he can't get a confession, how can we explain to King Langya?"

"Yes, this guy doesn't get in the oil and salt, the big punishment is not a big deal at all, and we don't have his wife and children to threaten at hand, so there is really nothing to do for a while. ”

"Then what can we do, when Tianming has not confessed, we will be punished. ”

Several people were at a loss, and suddenly someone whispered: "I have a solution, don't you know if it's feasible?"

Everyone hurriedly asked, and the man said: "When we came, I saw that the meaning of King Langya was not in this person, but in Taishi, the most important thing is to be able to give the people in Beijing an excuse to engage in Taishi, and the confession is just an excuse, Liu Kun is unwilling to recruit, let's help him......"

In this way, several people said yes, found paper and pen, wrote hundreds of words freely, and made it up according to the meaning of King Langya, cooperating with the Taishi, colluding with foreign enemies, intending to rebel, greedy for military salaries, arbitrary, and can write a lot of them casually.

After the confession was written, someone walked behind Liu Kun and knocked him unconscious with a stick, and the rest grabbed his hand, which had been caught by a bamboo stick, and pressed a blood-red handprint on the confession.

The confession was handed over to King Langya overnight, Sima Rui was overjoyed, with this, An Guogong was afraid that he would not be able to jump for a few days, and he could just take advantage of this opportunity to completely solve the lowly Hanmen clan.

The torturer left happily, leaving Liu Kun alone in the dungeon, and soon several black shadows opened the dungeon, with the slightest smell of blood on their bodies, and they freed Liu Kun and disappeared into the dark night before dawn.

......

The new army camp, a group of people from outside the Yuanmen, playing the banner of the Royal Forest Army and the forbidden army, after entering the camp, the holy decree was read, the army was in an uproar, it turned out that the emperor of Luoyang had dismissed Liu Kun's military power, and even the officers were all together, and directly parachuted a group of generals from Luoyang to take over the new army.

Although I have already received the rumor that someone will replace me, but it really happened, the barracks suddenly opened the pot, suddenly changed the commander and general, and promoted a group of people without qualifications and prestige to the post, how to convince the soldiers, if it is usual, it is just that, but the new army created miracles one by one under the command of the original officers, raised the arrogance of a strong army, and became more and more wild, and suddenly made a fuss......

At midnight, the dismissed officers lay in their respective tents tossing and turning, difficult to sleep, they were all promoted from the homeless and ordinary civilians, and now they were suddenly removed from their posts, the Taishi went to Luoyang and there was no news, and General Liu, who temporarily acted for military affairs, went to the big tent of the Chinese army and did not come back, the dragons had no leader, and they had no clue what to do next.

Suddenly, a noisy sound came, everyone's door was kicked open, the torches were bright, the knives and guns were dazzling, and in the rough shouting and scolding, everyone was escorted out without even putting on their clothes, lined up outside the barracks, and forcibly pressed to the ground, and a soldier stood behind each person, wiping the shiny steel knife.

Just as the steel knife was raised and was about to be chopped down, there was a whistling sound from far and near, and the knife and axe hand behind him let out a painful muffled snort, and when the generals looked up, they saw that the forbidden troops surrounding them had fallen one after another, and a crossbow arrow was inserted in their hearts.

A group of burly men in black quietly appeared from the darkness, some of them mended the knives of the forbidden army who were not yet dead, and some of them untied the officers, and the officers suddenly discovered that it was Liu Kun and Niu Yi, the main general of the black cavalry, who rescued them.

"General Liu, you have also seen that the emperor of Luoyang not only wants to remove us from our official position, but also wants our lives. ”

Liu Kun was silent, this is really a good bird to hide, a cunning rabbit and a dead lackey, as a person who has also followed Sima Shu from Yecheng, he also knows Sima Shu's character, cleaning the new army is not the ultimate goal, the ultimate goal is An Guogong, because An Guogong's credit is too great, which makes the emperor uneasy.

"General Niu, what should we do next?"

"The emperor's ultimate goal is An Guogong, I want to take five thousand black horsemen south to Luoyang, and I must rescue him. ”

The black horse is a product created by Yang Pingfan and Zhang Xiaoming in private, and it is not in the official establishment, so neither Luoyang nor Sima Rui, who was parachuted, knew about its existence, and it was this backhand who saved the life of the new army.

Niu Yi's words were like rebellion, Liu Kun sneered, and finally swallowed back the original words, and said in a muffled voice: "What about me?"

Taishi said that the new army is a barrier to block Liu Yao's Huns from going south, and they can't let this gang of gentlemen be ruined, and these colleagues in front of them can't do without the new army, you know how to do it, right?"

Liu Kun was silent for a moment, nodded, looked back at the commanders of the rescued New Army at all levels, and saw that they were all staring at him with blazing eyes, and when he heard Yang Pingfan's name, his eyes flashed with fanatical light, and he sighed, "If Your Majesty is deceived and listens to slander, what will Master Taishi do?"

Niu Yi was stunned for a moment and shook his head, "I don't know, but Taishi told me that everything is for Dajin." ”

Liu Kun stopped talking, turned around and began to arrange for the officers, he knew that from this moment on, his future and life would be bound to the Taishi.

On the other hand, the new annexed army formed by Liu Yuan's surrendered army, and the imperial court also appointed a large number of new generals, who arrogantly took over the military power of the new annexed army, which made the soldiers who had already run in with the Hanmen officers very resentful.

You must know that in this era, soldiers are soldiers, officials are officials, and there are clear hierarchies, but the officers of the Hanmen Shu clan trained by Yang Pingfan do not have this set of class ideas, and the officers and new attached soldiers trained with the militia training manual stay together every day, eat big pot rice, go out for training, and denounce the corruption of the powerful together, and the seeds of resistance have sprouted in the hearts of the soldiers.

But to eat food and become a soldier, you have to swallow your anger, and besides, the soldiers have no leader, and they can't make any trouble, seeing that the new annexed army is about to be digested and absorbed, a piece of news suddenly broke the peace.

General Liu, who stayed behind to temporarily command the newly attached army, was imprisoned on charges of rebellion and attempted rebellion, and the person everyone respected the most, heard that the Taishi who returned to Luoyang was also imprisoned by the emperor on charges of plotting to usurp the throne, and his life and death are unknown at present.

When the news spread, the soldiers blew up the nest, and no one believed that the beloved Taishi would rebel, and the soldiers shouted noisily and gathered on the school grounds.

"What a quarrel! Quarrel again with military law!"

King Langya, who led the soldiers in a hurry, roared angrily, but no one bought his account, he waved his hand, and more than a dozen fierce soldiers rushed into the crowd with horsewhips, and pressed the troops with a random breath, but without much effort, these soldiers were thrown out, all of them were beaten and broken, and their noses were blue and their faces were swollen.

"Brothers, avenge the Taishi!

Someone raised his arms and shouted, there were countless followers, and the deafening sound sounded, and the king of Langya was so frightened that the two trembled, and hurriedly ordered the archers to release their arrows.

A round of arrows rained over, just put down dozens of soldiers in the front row, but aroused the anger of the soldiers, immediately someone took out a musket and fired, after a round of gunfire, where the archers were the opponents of the musketeers, they were all knocked over in an instant, Langya Wang just wanted to take the road and go, a gust of wind sounded, a dull stick knocked him over.

Liu Kun appeared on the school field and shouted, "Brothers, soldiers!"

The organized Hanmen officers mixed in the crowd to stir up trouble, and they did it by firing cold guns, killing all the children of the family sent by the imperial court, detaining the king of Langya, and the new annexed army and the new army rebelled.

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Yang Pingfan was named the Duke of the Kingdom, and actually seized military power, Zhang Xiaoming was made a marquis, and the position of the secretary of the Ministry of Industry was also canceled.

The newly appointed Ministry of Industry Shangshu Xie An inspected the Ministry of Industry, in front of a row of people all hung their heads, just this morning, the smoke exhaust hole of the brick kiln was blocked by furnace ash, a furnace of 100,000 bricks were all scrapped, yesterday afternoon, the glass factory bubble blowing device deflated, resulting in high-temperature silicate molten slurry splashing, burned dozens of people, this is the sequelae of Zhang Xiaoming transferred from the Ministry of Industry, although he taught skills without reservation, those craftsmen also learned how to operate, but they know it but do not know why, if nothing happens, it will not be fair.

Burning bricks and glass, I really can't do it and can put it aside, but some workshops can't, especially the production of artillery, which is the emperor's killer weapon to restore the world, and now the Huns and Xianbei are ready to move, and the new army of the Great Jin Dynasty can suppress them, all relying on these sharp firearms, but after Zhang Xiaoming was transferred, the work of the ordnance institute also fell into a semi-standstill, and the quality of the steel smelted was not good, and the downstream production was all affected.

Just when Xie An was thinking nonsense, there was another commotion outside, and Xie An frowned, "What's the matter?"

Someone next to him reported, "Back to my lord, it was the dismissed craftsman who was dissatisfied, gathering to make trouble, and demanding justice." ”

"Oh? ”

There was a problem in the production of various workshops, Xie An didn't want to solve the problem, but to solve the people, brick factory, glass factory, soap factory, perfume factory, etc., after the family took over, they wantonly divided the inventory, and they had already hoarded enough inventory for their own use.

The craftsmen working in these workshops were stunned all of a sudden, before Zhang Xiaoming gave them generous treatment, many people settled near Luoyang, and now they have cut off their source of livelihood all of a sudden, and they are angry, and under the instigation of people with intentions, they have gathered in front of the armory workshop to ask for justice.