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Bianjing, as the capital of the Eastern Song Empire, has a towering city wall, solid and heavy, an imperial city inside, a majestic momentum, a resident population of millions, as a political and economic center, of course, it is extremely prosperous.

The ultimatum was changed and the city donation was handed over. Chen An did not choose to return to the bumpy carriage, but followed the carriage and the two school officers who came with him into the city gate on foot.

It is not the first time that Chen An has come, every year after Shuying City, he is ordered by Bai Rong to send the account books and related documents to the capital, and he himself has to do the dictation of the accounts to the household department. This errand does not pay much but has a lot of responsibility, but it can go to the capital once a year, and that is also a position that everyone in Shuying City yearns for.

Chen An is a native of Shuying City, thin and tall, in his thirties and unmarried. Ben is a poor and sour talent, can read and hyphenation, and can also write well. A few years ago, his parents passed away one after another, leaving him alone to guard a small courtyard. This scholar lost his father's income and had a hard time, so he asked someone to make some connections and set up a stall on Anping Street in Shuying City near the West City Gate. Give people to copy and write to earn some food.

Perennial mixed in the prosperous area, and because of the face of the birth is quite handsome, weekdays are long shirts and boots, clean and elegant scholars dress up quite magnanimous, and gradually have some popularity. Someone recommended him to be a temporary clerk in the city. And because of his intelligence and understanding of human feelings, he obtained this enviable position through various operations.

Although it is not so above board, it can be regarded as more than competent after taking office. Every year, the escort is on time, and the negotiation with the household department is also smooth. Bai Rong also praised in front of people, and Chen An's position was secure.

Chen An has a lively brain, not as pedantic as ordinary literati and scholars. Know how to use the tolerance of going back and forth to the capital for personal gain. Soon, he took the initiative to find some rouge shops, pharmacies, and silk villages in Shuying City and reached cooperation. You must know that Shuying City is located on the border, and the goods in the capital are in great demand here.

One in and one out is very profitable, and naturally Chen An, who is in the middle, will get a considerable commission. Chen An is greedy for money, but he also knows the general situation. Set your own rules, and there are three things not to sell: do not sell tobacco and drugs, do not sell children and prostitutes, and do not sell military aircraft and weapons.

This time I came to Bianjing again, and according to the usual practice, after Chen An and the two school officials entered the city, they should go to the reception office set up by the household department in Dongcheng as soon as possible, submit the documents, and then check into the arranged post house, waiting for the notice of the household department to report on their work. Sometimes if you are lucky, someone will come to announce it the next day, and if you are not lucky, it will be three or four days.

The sooner you finish the work of the household department, you can complete those other "errands" in Bianjing City. The huge horse-drawn carriage that came all the way was used for this purpose, and every time it returned, it was full of goods. But this time, Chen An and the three came to the reception early, but they saw that the door of the reception was closed, and there was not even a guard at the door.

"This old brother, has this small yamen moved elsewhere?" Chen An sat down at the roadside tea stall at the yamen, intending to inquire with the boss.

"This little yamen hasn't been open for more than half a month, and I haven't heard that it has moved elsewhere. Half a month ago, early that morning, I just saw someone from the yamen lock the door, and led the yamen to leave, and we ordinary people didn't dare to ask, I originally thought that it would be two days later, but it turned out that there was no movement for so long. You said that the façade of this inn restaurant, the business is at a loss, I have seen a lot of closed doors, and this yamen is also closed, which is really rare... ”

The old man has been watching the tea stall all year round, and people from the south and north have stopped here, and they have seen and heard a lot of things. However, the old man was a commoner, and he did not mix in the conversation of the guests. It's just that in the seemingly busy scene, the old man is really lonely. Over time, the old man got used to talking to himself, and sometimes he was talking back and forth between his tables, but his mouth was foaming at the mouth, completely ignoring whether anyone was listening. Chen An inquired, and the old man answered the first few sentences, but then he opened the conversation box like a chatterbox, and chatted on his own.

Chen An looked around and saw an inn nearby, so he got up and went over to inquire. Sure enough, there were some foreign merchants and officials who were also waiting here for unknown reasons. I inquired and went, but there was no useful news.

After a cup of tea, Chen An returned to the tea stall with a helpless face and called the two school officials away. The three of them stayed at this inn, and after having lunch in the store, Chen An went out alone. He decided to go to Suncheonfu and ask. The yamen of Bianjing City are concentrated in Dongcheng, so the distance is not far, and it will be there quickly.

From a distance, he saw the sergeants in front of the Shuntian Mansion lined up, and the scene of the neighing of the war horses made him stop in shock. Subconsciously felt that something was wrong, so he took a slight detour and took a look at it from a distance on the edge of the imperial city. Sure enough, no, the defenders of the imperial city are tense!

An ominous feeling welled up in his heart, and he stumbled back to the inn. Pull up the school officer, put on the car and go straight out of the city. Staying at the nearest post house outside the city, Chen An told the school officials to wait for the time being. A day later, Chen An watched several cavalrymen with red tassels on their backs come to the post house one evening, and after changing horses at the post house, each of them galloped in different directions with two horses.

"This is the red tassel officer used to transmit emergency military reports in wartime, and they can only be called by eight hundred miles of urgent military reports. But the emergency military reports were sent to the capital, and now they are sent out from the capital... ”

Thinking of this, Chen An no longer hesitated, and explained to the school officer and hurriedly drove the carriage away. He used Bai Rong's documents to transfer a horse from the post station, and galloped away, hoping to rush back to Shuying City as soon as possible.

However, Chen An's uneasiness was not wrong, on the contrary, it can be said that his prediction was very accurate. Shortly after he rode away on his own, a group of masked black-clad knights caught up with the two officers who were driving the carriage.

After forcing the carriage to stop, the four big men went up and pulled the two school officers out of the carriage and put them aside, and two steel knives that shimmered in the moonlight were on their necks. Then a big man who looked like a leader rode up to the two of them, staring at them condescendingly.

"Search!"

"Yes!" two more dismounted and searched their bodies. And the ultimatum documents of Baifu were found from the two of them, and they were killed immediately.

"In the register of the city guards, there are three people in their line. The tall and thin man who took the lead is not here, so keep chasing me!"

The leader rode out first.

It is said that Chen An, who rode alone, did not choose to take the pipeline because he felt a strong uneasiness inexplicably, which saved his life. It can be seen that he is born with a keen anticipation of danger, and this person has another encounter later, first press the table, and then there will be a narrative.

The team of knights chased after three days before reluctantly returning to their lives.

"The subordinates are incompetent!"

The knight leader fell to the ground in terror.

"Forget it, it's no wonder you, the person named Chen An found out that he ran away after entering the city for less than three hours, and he must be very alert. If you don't catch up, you haven't caught up, although this person has suspicions, but he hasn't received any useful information, I think he ran fast just to save his life. I'll excuse you on King Chen's side, you can go down." A strange male voice sounded opposite the black-clad leader, who was sitting on the back of a chair, his face dimly lit.

"Gonggong Liu's Mingjian! The small Xie Gonggong Liu cultivates, this is the small filial piety of the white goods. . . Small.. Small retirements. ”

The black-clothed leader placed a heavy small cloth bag on the coffee table in front of him and crawled out of the dark room. Before he could stabilize his mind and get up, he felt a pain in his vest, and a sharp blade came out through his chest, and in a moment the person was already weak and fell to the ground.

"This little thing can't be done properly, what's the use of leaving you? If you don't do your job wholeheartedly, even if your godfather and his old man don't punish him, I, Liu Quanbao, will have to kill you! You all remember it for me!"

The sharp and unpleasant voice sounded again. As he spoke, the owner of the voice leaned forward, reached out and grabbed the white goods that the 'dead man' had just honored and stuffed them into his sleeve. The candlelight on the coffee table was printed on his face, and he saw that this person was born with a sharp-eared monkey cheek, with no beard on his thin mouth, and slender eight-figure eyebrows horizontally, and a sinister and cunning face.

Counting it up, the day when Chen An fled to Shuying City was the same day as the day when Bai Qingzuo said goodbye to his father and went to the border. The changes in the capital, no one knows about Shuying City, and no one knows about Baifu. And only three days later, in a walled city only 50 miles away from Yangping Pass, the first stop in the Baiqing trial plan, a cavalryman with a red tassel on his back had arrived.

The sergeant on duty at the gate obviously recognized the outfit of the person, and the gate was opened from a distance. This 'red tassel officer' rode his horse all the way to the main account, and the jujube red war horse jumped down under his feet.

Although the war horse is a divine horse, it is exhausted at this time, and it has been spurred all the way to this point, which is already beyond the limit of its body. was trampled on by the man who commanded the horse, and fell to the ground with a bang. The sergeants in the village came forward and saw the horse's mouth foaming and panting.

Someone called the old horse herd in the army and told him to hurry up and see the horse. After a sigh, the old man stroked the neck of the jujube red war horse, tore off the corner of his clothes and wiped the white foam from the corner of the horse's mouth, and looked at the war horse that was gradually losing its vitality. After a while, the crowd dispersed, leaving only the old man who loved the horse sad.

He didn't know that every Hongying official who came out of the capital post house carried two horses, and when most of them arrived, there was only one left. It can be seen that how urgent is the military order? Only then can such divine horses be regarded as grass mustard! Is it because heaven and earth are unkind, or is it because people's hearts are cruel?

Running into the main tent without looking back, the red tassel officer took out the locked iron box in his backpack, handed it to the general on the main seat in the tent, and then retreated aside. At this time, he took a fixed look, and saw five or six ironclad generals on the left and right of the tent seated, all staring at the iron box in the hands of the person sitting in the main seat with bated breath.

"The Red Tassel Officer has worked hard all the way, let's go down and rest first. ”

So men came from the right and left to take away the messengers. Hongyingguan wanted to take a hot bath and eat and drink again. Unexpectedly, as soon as he walked out of the account, there was a cold light in front of him. Then his head was on the ground, but his eyes saw his body slowly falling on the other side, and his vision gradually blurred into darkness, and his body was in a different place.

Everyone in the tent didn't care about what was going on outside, and they all stared nervously at the main general. The master will untie the hemp rope around his neck, and then insert the key into the lock hole of the tin box on the hemp rope and rotate. "Click" twice, and the tin box was opened smoothly.

When a proverb is finished, the Lord will throw it into the brazier and burn it all, and turn to look at the generals below. Seeing that the faces of the generals were full of surprise, they were very satisfied.

"I didn't expect that King Chen would implement the Jingzhong plan so quickly. Next, it's up to us to see how we progress in this part!"

The main general, Chen Chang, straightened his waist and said.

"General Chen, our respective armies have made the preparations that should be made, even if there is a disturbance now, the Bai family can only be arrested. ”

"Yes, General Chen, our brothers have been dormant for three years, and we are waiting for King Chen's order to gather so many forces in the army!"

"Hey, that's a mistake! General Chen, although you and King Chen are brothers in the clan, we respond to King Chen, and we really obey your orders!"

The "excitement" in the tent made Chen Chang very happy, and the king of Chen, who was acting in the capital, was his distant relative, and because of this relationship, the task of contacting everyone was given to him. And the generals he contacted heard about his relationship with King Chen, so they naturally regarded him as the main general.

"Okay, it's been three hundred years since the Eastern Song Dynasty was established, and it's time to change you and my brother, hahahaha, come, everyone drinks this cup full, today is good wine and meat, don't get drunk and don't return!"

The crowd began to indulge in wine and meat.

During the banquet, although Chen Chang hooked shoulders with others and pushed cups to change lamps, he also quietly restrained himself and kept his sobriety. After everyone in the tent staggered, Chen Chang got up and returned to his tent. wiped his face, sat behind the desk, took out the arming map, and turned on the oil lamp a few points.

It turns out that this seemingly rugged general is not useless. The so-called King Chen in the mouths of the crowd chose this person to carry out this rebellious thing, and he was not hot-headed.

In fact, as here, on the western border of the Eastern Song Dynasty, there were many walled cities selected by King Chen. The many red-tasseled officials that Chen An had seen at the post station had already arrived one after another.

It was also at the same time that the high-spirited Young Master Bai Qing, under the leadership of Mu An, came to the western border, which was already surging with undercurrents, and stationed in Yangping Pass.

Danger does not always come without warning, but this sudden change in the situation of the Eastern Song Dynasty should have been foreseen in advance by Chen An, a small person, so that the Bai family was prepared, but everything did not progress like this.

Just because Chen An, who had escaped the pursuit and should have arrived smoothly, seemed to be destined, he met a group of people on the way. For some reason, I didn't return to Shuying City for a long time, and I regretted that I missed the opportunity to report the news!