Among the thousands of households in Pukou Village, eastern Zhejiang, Chen Xuan had just taken off his armor and wanted to relax, and he had already led the sergeants to fight for two days in a row before he repelled the hundreds of Japanese robbers entrenched in this grassland.

He swallowed two mouthfuls of hot porridge, and suddenly heard a report from his own soldiers: "Uncle, someone came to the office, saying that he wanted to see Uncle." ”

Chen Xuan unfolded the prayer post and glanced at it, suddenly his eyes froze, and he suddenly shouted: "Where is the person, please come in!" ”

The man who came was a personable but thin man, he was young, but his face was really sickly, and in the May weather, he still had to wear a big coat, but it was more and more unpredictable.

Chen Xuan said: "May I ask, who is Mr. from?" ”

"Among the scattered princes, I have seen Pingjiangbo." Wang Du smiled slightly.

Chen Xuan touched the name and said, "Mr. Wang has been looking up for a long time." He invited Wang Du to sit down, looked at the prayer post in his hand again, pointed to the seal on it, and said, "Where is Mr. Wang?" What does it have to do with this one? ”

Wang Du used Zhang Qi's seal and said: "The student is his guest, and he is the student's Dongweng." ”

Chen Xuan nodded, he waved his hand to let people retreat, Wang Du also asked the little guy who followed him to put away his big hat, and in this house, there were only two people left who tested each other.

"Your Dong Weng sent you," Chen Xuan said, "what is the matter?" Although I have admired his name for a long time, I have never seen him, and I am at sea, and I may not know about the affairs of the court for a long time. ”

Wang Du said with a smile: "My lord has worked hard, traveled far to the sea, fought against the Japanese invaders, and there is no day in the court that he does not praise the merits of the Japanese invaders. Although I have never met my lord, I know my lord's merits, and I would like to thank you for your kindness in escorting my ship. ”

Chen Xuan sank his face: "Thank you for your family's Dong Weng, I really don't dare to be it!" Not long ago, when I was patrolling the sea, I hunted down the Japanese and smashed their lair, but I found your ship following in a suspicious manner, and sure enough, I found 200 guns on the ship, I don't know what explanation? It is related to the general interests of the country, I dare not hide it at all, I can only play according to the facts, I heard that there is a Jinyi guard in the DPRK and China to investigate the case, and it has not yet been distinguished, but I don't know what Mr. is going to do when he appears here today? ”

Wang Du is still like this, and his expression remains unchanged at all: "Since the adult has explained what he said, the student will also say it directly, and it is precisely for this reason that he has come." Fifteen days ago, the adults pursued the Japanese and entered the island, and found the Qingyuan merchant ship cruising, the flag was unknown, and I thanked the adults for not directly convicting them in the middle of the song, and did not explicitly say such a thing as communicating with the Japanese invaders, so that there was still room for reconciliation. ”

"Although the shape of your ship was suspicious at that time," Chen Xuan snorted and said: "But it is true that I have not had direct contact with the Japanese Kou, if I had seen a Japanese man on his ship, I, Chen Xuan, would have already participated in his Zhang Shengli's communication with foreign countries and betrayed China!" Since I haven't seen it, I naturally won't make false accusations. ”

"But now there are people who want to frame such a crime with empty white teeth," Wang Du said: "Jinyi Wei commanded Ji Gang, and the emperor handed over this case to him, but he has a grievance with the Zhang family!" ”

Chen Xuan lowered his eyes and said, "Jinyiwei is only loyal to the emperor, and I am not surprised that he has offended anyone." ”

"Jinyiwei executes the emperor's will, so that people don't dare to hate Jinyiwei, but hate such a person who started it," Wang Du said with a smile: "Your lord, you have to be careful, you are a sincere patriotic heart, I am afraid that you will also be used as a gunman and pierced others." ”

Chen Xuan Huo Ran said: "How do you say this? ”

"Where are the people who led the adults to the island in the first place?" Wang Du said.

Chen Xuan couldn't help but be shocked, at that time he exterminated the pirates and seized the Qingyuan boat, but there were still a lot of questions in his heart, and he wanted to recruit the fisherman who showed the way, but the fisherman was gone, and he couldn't find it after that. Now hearing Wang Du's words, he can't help but feel that this case is indeed shocking.

"My lord, this case is deep, and now it involves many people, I'm afraid you don't know yet," Wang Du said: "Some people want to do a big case, and you don't have the right time." ”

"How much is involved now?" Chen Xuan seemed to have the memories of the difficulty of Renwu again, and he suppressed his voice and said, "Weapons Bureau, right?" It is impossible not to investigate the source of this firecracker, who else? ”

"There are also the Shenji Battalion and the City Division, and even the Ministry of Industry." Wang Du said: "Maybe it will be investigated." ”

"Impossible, impossible," Chen Xuan said in shock: "What does the Shenji Battalion have to do with this case?" ”

"Zhang Sheng didn't admit that he was a conspirator, he only admitted that he bought a firecracker," Wang Du said: "I bought it from Tan Guang, the deputy general of the Shenji Battalion, and it was an old gun." My lord also saw the guards on the Qingyuan merchant ship, did they have guns in their hands, and they were old guns? ”

Chen Xuan nodded, the guns in the hands of these guards were produced by the Ordnance Bureau, but they were all relatively old, he only thought that it had been used for a long time, and he didn't think about it carefully, but now it seems that there are really doubts, Zhang Sheng has a new gun to sell to the Japanese Kou, but his own ship guards are holding old guns? This is clearly counterintuitive.

"His gun was bought from the Divine Machine Battalion, not stolen from the Ordnance Bureau?" Chen Xuan felt incredible: "The guns of the Shenji Battalion have inscribed inscriptions, and the 200 guns on his ship have no inscriptions, and they can only be in the Ordnance Bureau——"

"That's right," Wang Du said: "Zhang Sheng's guns are all old guns purchased from the Shenji Battalion, and these guns have inscriptions, which clearly say the Shenji Battalion." And those 200 new guns were the private work of the craftsmen of the Ordnance Bureau, who made guns privately and sold them to ......."

After Wang Du finished speaking, Chen Xuan's head had begun to drip beads of sweat, and he quickly remembered that when he was fighting fiercely with the Japanese Invaders, he found that the Japanese Invaders also had bowls of cannons on their ships, and at that time he thought that the Japanese Invaders had captured the coastal Weapons Bureau, or the guard house, and stole them from it, and later thought that Zhang Sheng had provided it by the Wai Kou, and now he knew that it was actually a group of Zi Xungui who were stealing and selling firearms, and only they had the courage to even get the cannon outIt's as easy for them to get it out as it is to dig into a bag.

And the Zhang family seems to be a noble, but in fact a relative, but Zhang Sheng can bring them too many benefits, and they originally planned to bring Zhang Sheng into their group - it's just that the Zhang family "doesn't know what to do" and rejected the marriage of Bofu and Houfu.

Chen Xuan was stunned for a while before he said, "Among these people, who wants Zhang Sheng to have a hard time?" ”

Wang Du saw that he was very smart, and couldn't help but say: "My lord really understands everything." This person, my family Dong Weng already has some eyebrows, many of these personal grievances, can't be put on the table, but this person used such a method, actually colluded with Jinyiwei, and had to put people to death, and the adult was in the unknown truth, but he became his accomplice, I really feel sorry for the adult. ”

Chen Xuan has always been a smart person who leaves a way back for himself, otherwise he would not have surrendered at a fairly good time when he was in trouble. And this time, after he went to the sparse, he had been restless, and it was also because he didn't want to offend the prince of the East Palace at all, so the arrival of Wang Du pointed out a way for him.

"Sir is really my great benefactor!" Chen Xuan took Wang Du's hand and expressed his heartfelt excitement and gratitude.

Wang Du refused his hospitality, and braved the heavy rain to walk out of the Thousand Households—he suddenly stood on the steps and stopped, and looked at the hundreds of huge ships on the shore in the rain, which were the warships that had let King Yan cross the river out of thin air, and a trace of deep sorrow flashed in his gaze, as if he wanted to remember this moment in his heart, and no one saw the tears in his eyes—he soon walked into the pouring rain.