CHAPTER XXI
After Wei Zhang entered the door, he looked down at a few people leaning crookedly on the floor, frowned and asked, "Who is Tang Ru Town?" β
"Uh...... Xia Guan is. Tang Ruding hurriedly got up and burped by the way.
Wei Zhang glanced at him coldly, his gaze was too cold and sharp, and Tang Ruding subconsciously shrank back with a shudder in his heart.
"Let's go." Wei Zhang's cold chin swung towards the door.
"Huh?" Tang Ruding glanced at the door stupidly and turned his head to look at Wei Zhang, but he didn't react directly: "Go?" Where to go? β
Wei Zhang was angry with Tang Ruding's wretch, didn't he say that the civil officials of the Dayun Dynasty all had literati temperament, but the bricks on the edge of the pit were smelly and hard? Why is there a soft egg here? So he shouted angrily: "Go back to your county office, what should you do!" β
"Uh, it's good ......" Tang Rucho got up without saying a word and got out. It's not that he's timid and afraid of things as a county magistrate, it's really that person's eyes are too terrifying! Compared with him, the fierce gods and evil spirits are so gentle and considerate!
It's just that as soon as he went out, he was drenched in the rain and suddenly remembered something, so he shrank back again: "That...... My lord? β
"Huh?" Wei Zhang's cold eyes swept over, and Tang County's order was frightened, but in order to survive, Tang Ruding still stubbornly asked: "The poison on the lower official's body...... Haven't solved it yet, do you look at the antidote? β
Wei Zhang knew that last night among these people was not a deadly poison at all, it just made their stomachs ache all night, so he snorted coldly: "Someone will send you an antidote in three days." But if you go out and talk nonsense and ruin the general's big business, just wait to die in your gut. β
"Uh...... Yes, the lower officials would never dare. Tang Ruding didn't dare to talk nonsense anymore, so he hurriedly got out.
Tang County's entourage saw that the master was gone, and hurriedly walked out, but was stopped by Wei Zhang's foot: "Stop!" Why are you going?! β
"Ugh! Back to the eldest master, the slave is the entourage of our county master......" The entourage pulled out the eight generations of the ancestors of Tang Ru Town in his heart and greeted him, and he had to give his hand to the fierce god in front of him, "Since the adults in our family can go, so can the slaves...... , right? β
Wei Zhang looked down on the servile people the most, but he also disdained anything to worry about with a minion, so he took back the long legs that stretched out and rewarded him with a word: "Get out." β
Tang County ordered the master and servant to leave, leaving only Chen Yuanjing and the two Fang Wai masters who specialized in studying the news of the institution.
Judging from the clothes alone, Chen Yuanjing was different from the other two, so there was no need to ask, Wei Zhang raised his chin towards Chen Yuanjing, and said indifferently: "Chen Yuanjing, write a letter to your family." β
After Yun Yao's torture last night, coupled with Tang Ruding's performance just now, and a slight observation of the person in front of him, Chen Yuanjing wisely gave up resistance and asked respectfully: "I don't know what the adults asked the grass people to write?" β
Wei Zhang stretched out his hand and pulled over a chair, sat down with the corner of his robe, and said, "Write to your eldest prince and ask him to sell all the grain you have in the granaries in Huguang at the price of a month ago." β
When Chen Yuanjing heard this, his face immediately turned as white as paper, and he hurriedly arched his hand and said, "This ...... The stakes are very high, the business of the grass people's family is a partnership of several major shareholders, and the grass people can't be the master alone! β
"Oh. All right. Wei Zhang nodded, and sneered again: "Since this is the case, then I will announce in the name of Qincha: Chen Yuanjing colluded with bandits, manipulated grain prices, and amassed huge amounts of money, intending to seek rebellion." This official shall be sentenced to scraping according to the law of the Great Cloud......"
"Spare your life!" Chen Yuanjing didn't wait for Wei Zhang to finish speaking, then he fell to his knees, kowtowing again and again while shouting for mercy.
"There are two ways, the first is to write to your son and ask him to release all the grain in the granary. You should be glad that Ben didn't let you give away all your ill-gotten gains. Second, Ben will raid your house in the name of the Qincha and put all your family's grain as the public property of the imperial court. Which path do you think is better? Wei Zhang smiled coldly, "That's it, just open the skylight with you and say something, it will be Wei Zhang who came to Huguang to bring the eldest prince back to Beijing for questioning by the emperor's holy decree." Ben will have no authority to raid your home, you should be clear. β
"I write! I wrote...... "Chen Yuanjing was already lying on the ground and couldn't get up." This is the legendary auxiliary general Wei Zhang! swept through the northern and western frontiers of Mobei, and even the Gaoli tribe could be destroyed, not to mention that he was a businessman.
Wei Zhang clapped his hands, and someone immediately brought paper and pen in.
Chen Yuanjing was already lying on the ground and couldn't get up, Wei Zhang glanced at the subordinates who sent the pen and paper in, and the Fierce Eagle Guard stepped forward and picked up Chen Yuanjing and threw it over.
Chen Da Grain Merchant was lying on the long table, holding a brush and writing a letter tremblingly, and the good handwriting in the past was more ugly than a dog's crawl. Fortunately, the content of the letter was not much, and he explained the matter clearly in a few words, and after writing it, Chen Yuanjing put the letter with both hands and asked respectfully: "General, do you think this is possible?" β
Wei Zhang smiled indifferently, shook his head and said, "Of course this can't be done. β
"Huh?" Chen Yuanjing thought that his wording was inappropriate, and was about to explain, when he saw General Wei raise his hand and draw his sword, and the sword fell with a 'Zheng' sound, Chen Yuanjing felt that the top of his head was cold, and he suddenly screamed in fright, holding his head and slumping to the ground.
After a bun of gray hair and an ice jade hairpin fell into Wei Zhang's hand, Fang smiled again: "It's almost the same with this." β
At this time, Chen Yuanjing's eyes were dull, his gray hair was unkempt and scattered, and there was no trace of excitement in the whole person.
Wei Zhang glanced at the stupid Chen Yuanjing, and snorted softly: "Just dare to follow others to make trouble?" After speaking, his gaze swept over Chen Yuanjing's face, and turned to the two foreign masters in the corner next to him: "You two...... What can be done for General Ben? β
"Back to the general, the small one is good at ambushes, the message is set, the general is driven, and the small one doesn't dare to disobey!"
"Back to the general, the small one is well versed in the formation of Qimen Dunjia, if the general is in need, the small one is willing to serve the general!"
The two so-called Fang Wai masters have long been frightened by this physical and psychological torture, where can they still have the heart to resist at this time? You must know that if there is no antidote to the poison on their bodies after three days, it will definitely wear a rotten stomach!
"It's a pity, these generals you will don't need. Moreover, now that the food is so tight, it is better to have a sword result than to keep the two of you waste, but it is worry-free. Wei Zhang said, the long sword in his hand slowly raised, and measured the light of the window.
"The general spares his life! The general spares his life! The one who knew the news of the organ was so frightened that he kowtowed again and again, "The little one knows the stockade where the prince is stationed, and the general just said that he was going to escort the eldest prince back to Beijing for questioning by the holy decree of the emperor long live, and the little one is willing to be a guide for the general!" β
Wei Zhang sneered: "Although the terrain of that village is complicated, in the final analysis, it is still the land of my big clouds. Could it be that General Ben is still afraid of that group of rabble? β
"Back to the general! The village where the eldest prince is stationed is in the deep mountains and dense forests, and that area is where the She, Li and She people live together. β
Wei Zhang was indeed stunned when he heard the word 'Gu Poison', but he had already developed the ability to collapse Mount Tai before he did not change color, so although these two people said that the village was like a tiger's den in Longtan, he was still silent.
Seeing this, the two masters immediately became anxious, for fear that they would become useless people and be clicked by the black-faced general's sword, so one of them grabbed the pen that Chen Yuanjing put down, spread out the paper and began to draw.
This master who is good at organ information does have two strokes, not to mention that the drawing skills are very exquisite, but seeing that he walked with the dragon, he drew an accurate topographic map with three strokes and five divided by two, and then began to mark some special symbols one by one. In just a quarter of an hour, the topographic map was densely packed with all kinds of strange symbols.
"General, this area is set up with rolling thunder and flint, this area is set up with crossbowmen, this area is Skynet, and this area is tripping horses and horseshoe knives......" The writer and painter explained while explaining that Yun Jin was stationed in the front and back of the ambush.
Wei Zhang listened to this Dao Bo for a long time without saying a word, and saw that his mouth was dry and his throat was hoarse, so he said lightly: "It's a little interesting." I'll just spare you your life for the time being. After speaking, I looked at another master who was good at Qimen Dunjia.
This one was suddenly a little dumbfounded, because his Qimen Dunjia technique really couldn't be compared with the previous one, at least he couldn't write and paint like others.
"Someone." General Wei had a look of pride on his face, slowly stood up, and said, "Drag this person out for me and cut it down." β
"The general spares his life! The little one is a child and daughter of the Miao family, and she helped the general to persuade the grass mother-in-law to leave the prince and go back to Miaojiang! β
Wei Zhang waved his hand to stop the Fierce Eagle Guard, who stepped forward to pull the master out, turned to look at the guy with beads of sweat on his face, and said in a cold voice: "If you can't do it, General Ben naturally has a way to let you taste the pain of that Gu poison." After speaking, he took out a brown pill from his bosom and threw it over: "This pill can control the poison in your body for seven days." After seven days, you find a way to get the antidote from General Ben. β
"Yes, little General Xie." The man picked up the pill and swallowed it without thinking about it, but he didn't know that what he swallowed was a chronic poison newly made by Yao Yanyu.
Wei Zhang saw that he had swallowed the medicine, so he waved his hand and said gracefully, "You can go back." β
"Ah...... General Xie! The little ones will do what they say! The guy quickly kowtowed his head and showed his loyalty, then rushed out of the door and disappeared into the rainforest.
"General, little one...... The antidote? The master of drawing looked at Wei Zhang.
Wei Zhang frowned and said: "You two can't go, just stay here and wait, three days later, before the poison attacks, General Ben will decide whether to give you an antidote or not depending on the situation." After saying that, General Wei turned around and walked away, leaving two stupid geese lying on the ground stupidly.
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The rain was a little lighter, and the momentum of the balls splashing jade was gone, turning into a hazy rain mist.
On the platform on the second floor of the small bamboo building, Mrs. Yao, who was dressed in a snow-white robe, leaned on a rattan chair and listened to General Wei talk about the interrogation.
Ge Hai, who came in from outside in a cloak, couldn't help but turn his head to Zhao Dafeng beside him and sighed when he heard this laughter: "Listening to our wife laughing so happily, it seems that the general must be in a good mood." β
Zhao Dafeng immediately quickened his pace, and kindly reminded Ge Hai: "Hurry up, take advantage of the general's good mood to report this bad thing, and the two of us can eat a few fewer cold-eyed knives." β
On the platform, Yao Yanyu laughed enough, and Fang sighed in a low voice: "I didn't expect them to find the Miao grass mother-in-law to help." β
"Yes! That's where I'm most worried. Wei Zhang leaned on the rattan chair and looked at the woman in front of him who was laughing and messing with her hair, resisted the urge to pull the person into her arms and rub it, and asked in a low voice, "Do you have any good ideas?" β
Yao Yanyu smiled and pondered: "There is a way, I flipped through the ancient medical books a while ago and saw a dose of medicinal powder that can prevent Gu worms from getting close, but there are two rare medicinal materials in the formula, and I don't have them in my hands." However, it is recorded that these two herbs are grown in rainy and ventilated areas, and I think they can be found in the nearby mountains. β
Wei Zhang nodded: "Then I'll accompany you to find it when the rain stops." β
Yao Yanyu waved her hand hurriedly and smiled easily: "How can you come forward for this kind of thing?" I'll just take two of them. You're busy with your business. β
"You're my business." Wei Zhang said, leaned forward and took his wife's hand and held it gently.
"You assigned the county lord to the Chen family, but you stayed here...... Yao Yanyu pulled her hand back and glared at Wei Zhang, "I'm not afraid that Jinlin Wei's people will go back to King Cheng to sue you!" β
"It's clear that she has to go, how can she complain about me?" General Wei flattened his mouth aggrievedly.
Yao Yanyu glared at him, thinking to herself, you have been lying here with me for the past two days, why can't you say it? But she couldn't be ruthless when she drove people awayβit was still raining outside!
"General!" Ge Hai and Zhao Dafeng went up to the bamboo tower one after another.
"Hmm." Wei Zhang glanced up at them and asked, "How is the situation?" β
Zhao Dafeng glanced at Ge Hai, plucked up the courage and replied in a low voice: "The Jiazhou section of the Qingjiang River was destroyed by the embankment, the river leaked, the Jiazhou City was completely destroyed, and countless casualties were inflicted. Moreover, the leakage of the river has caused the river to become shallow, making it impassable for large ships. Lord Yao and dozens of grain ships were blocked east of Jiazhou. β
"Bastard thing! He disregarded the life and death of the people! Wei Zhang's fingers pinched the armrests of the bamboo rattan chair, and unconsciously squeezed the armrests of the chair.
"Is he crazy? To do such a thing! Yao Yanyu was also very surprised, that was the first river in the big clouds! It's the rainy season again, and the water flow is as big as you can imagine. And Yun Jin, in order to block the grain transported from the two rivers, actually dug the embankment regardless of the life and death of the people!
Let the river pour for thousands of miles, and tens of thousands of lives will be paid for the flood!
Wei Zhang slapped the bamboo chair with a 'snap', got up and walked out while instructing Zhao Dafeng and Ge Hai: "You two come with me." β
Zhao Dafeng and Ge Hai didn't dare to slack off and hurriedly followed, Yao Yanyu leaned on the bamboo chair and raised her head, feeling the cool breeze with the rain, took a deep breath, and shouted: "Xiangzhi? β
"The slave is here." Xiang Xue hurriedly walked out of the bamboo building.
Yao Yanyu slowly closed her eyes and commanded in a low voice: "Pack up your things, bring all the wound medicine and the Huoxiang pills I just made, and prepare to go to Jiazhou." β
Xiang Zhi asked strangely: "Madam, what are we going to Jiazhou for?" β
"Save people." Yao Yanyu said with a long sigh.
"Yes." Seeing his wife's face, Xiangzhi didn't dare to ask any more questions, and hurriedly went back to pack up the medicinal herbs and change of clothes with him. These things have been done many times, and everyone has long been very familiar with them, and it didn't take long for a few maids to clean up together.
Over there, Wei Zhang and Ge Hai and Zhao Dafeng discussed the countermeasures, and when they came out, they happened to meet Yao Yanyu who was dressed in ink-colored oil clothes and a hat, and the four personal maids behind her who were also dressed in rain, as well as Bai Ko, Yuguo'er and Xu Shiyang and his wife.
"Are you going to Jiazhou?" Wei Zhang immediately guessed Yao Yanyu's thoughts.
"Well, you're busy. It's enough for me to take them. Yao Yanyu looked at him firmly.
Wei Zhang is naturally a thousand and ten thousand uneasy, but he also knows that he can't stop this matter, and he can't stop it. I had to sigh and glance at Zhao Dafeng: "Don't wait, take someone to Jiazhou with your wife." β
Originally, Wei Zhang arranged for Zhao Dafeng to go to Jiazhou, firstly to pick up the sailors mobilized by Tang Xiaoyi from Liangjiang to enter Huzhou, and secondly, to assist Yao Yanen and the magistrate of Jiazhou to catch the rebels who destroyed the Qingjiang embankment. This time, Yao Yanyu wanted to take people to treat the people affected by the disaster, but he happened to follow him all the way.
"Okay, without further ado, my subordinates will take their leave." Zhao Dafeng was not ambiguous, and as soon as he arched his hand towards Wei Zhang, he turned around and went down.
Wei Zhang glanced at Yao Yanyu reluctantly, raised his hand and pinched her emaciated shoulder, and whispered: "Take care of yourself." β
"I know. You take care too. Yao Yanyu raised her hand and stroked the big hand on her shoulder, pinched it gently, then broke it off her shoulder, and stuffed a note into his palm, "This is the recipe for restraining Gu worms, you can get all these herbs as soon as possible, grind them into powder, put them in a cloth and take them on your body." After saying that, he pushed him away, twisted around and hurried away.
The maids blessed Wei Zhang together, followed Yao Yanyu's back and left, Xu Shiyang was the last to follow, and bowed his hand to Wei Zhang: "General rest assured." β
Wei Zhang nodded, and watched as the group each led the horses and stirruped on the horses, stepping all the way through the rain-soaked meadows, splashing all the way to the mud and disappearing into the green bamboo.
"Leave a few people here to guard, the two people in the bamboo building are not allowed to have any mistakes, in addition, this building is full of Mrs. things, especially those books, pharmacopoeias and Mrs. manuscripts, etc., be sure to protect me, not to have the slightest mistake." In addition, send a few henchmen to get these medicinal herbs, and the rest of the people will come with me!" Wei Zhang collected the thoughts in his heart, glanced at the note left by Yao Yanyu, and handed it to Ge Hai.
"Yes." Ge Hai answered, turned around and went down to arrange.
Just now, Wei Zhang took out the detailed map drawn by the master of the map locked in the bamboo building and showed it to Zhao Dafeng and Ge Hai, and the three of them discussed an offensive route. In Wei Zhang's opinion, if he didn't force Yun Jin into the mountains as soon as possible, he would keep creating incidents. For the safety of the people in the Huguang area, they could no longer wait.
At some point, the rain quietly fell again. The whole mountain forest was soaked in water. In a bamboo building shaded by a cluster of lush greenery, Yun Jin impatiently punched the window and whispered: "I don't want to wait for a moment!" β
"My lord, be patient, wait. Maybe news will come soon. Mr. Guangling stood behind Yun Jin and persuaded him.
"Those people went in and didn't come out! Who knows now whether they are dead or alive! That damn Huzhou county order is simply stepping on two boats! He is the old fox of Feng Zongye, and he is used to disobeying the yang and the yin! And that Chen Yuanjing is also a money-greedy villain! Maybe you'll be scared by others! "Ever since he got the news that dozens of boatloads of grain had been transported to Huguang from the other side of the two rivers, Yun Jin began to go crazy. Ignoring Mr. Guangling's dissuasion, he insisted on going his own way and sent people to destroy the Qingjiang embankment, causing the entire Jiazhou County to be flooded, and the whole person fell into a state of half-turbulence and half-madness.
Mr. Guangling continued to persuade: "My lord, Chen Yuanjing's entire estate is under the control of my lord, and he won't betray it so easily. Besides, his daughter is the concubine of the lord, and the interests of his whole family have long been tied to the lord! β
Yun Jin took a deep breath, and just as he was about to stabilize his emotions, someone came in to report: "Lord Qiqi! Our people found out that there was a team of Jinlin guards going to Anlu Chen's house! Although Yun Jin was stripped of his title of prince, in this generation, people are still used to calling him the prince, and since he has the intention to dominate the world, he naturally does not care about the honorific title of the people below him.
"What?" Yun Jin was stunned, "What are they going to do at Chen's house?" β
"Some of the subordinates are already secretly following them, and they will report to the prince as soon as there is news!"
"Don't hurry up and find out!" Yun Jin shouted violently.
"Yes!" The spy hurriedly agreed and hurried back.
Watching the figure of the spy disappear into the rain, Yun Jin pounded the window and muttered, "It's the opposite!" Chen Yuanjing's guy seems to be anti-water! β
"Don't worry, my lord, the matter has not yet been decided. At present, there is still a shortage of food in various parts of Huguang, and many of our people have been arrested, but the common people really have no food to eat. There is also no food at all in the north. It was not surprising that they detained Chen Yuanjing and went to Chen's house to ask for food. However, the Chen family may not dare to give them food. In addition, in his humble opinion, the prince simply did not stop doing anything, and directly sent our elite division to the cemetery to arrest the two women back, and all the troubles could be solved. β
Yun Jin pondered for a moment after hearing this, and nodded slightly: "This is also a good way." β
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