Chapter 398: Night Exploration of the Palace's Mansion (4)
At this time, the man in black pressed the switch on the stone wall of the secret passage with his hand and opened the stone door, and then a person came out of it, and said with both hands: "Meet the butler!" The shipment has been rushed out, when will it be shipped away? ”
It turned out to be just a housekeeper, Fang Lei thought it was the King of Lingnan himself!
The man in black said: "The lord ordered that it be shipped away tomorrow night, are they all packed?" ”
"All in a wooden box, two thousand broadswords, two thousand spears, ready to be shipped!" The man said.
The man in black nodded and said, "Very good!" But don't slacken, by the end of the year, we will train 10,000 elite soldiers, weapons are the most important, without weapons, can we still train? ”
Fang Lei knew that the man in black was going to go back after explaining the task, and immediately retreated along the secret path, jumped into the air in the open space of the courtyard, and went straight to the mountain behind the palace.
He estimated that this underground weapons manufacturing workshop was located in the back mountain, where there must be a tunnel entrance, and the guns could be transported out by horse-drawn carriage, and as long as the entrance to the basement was found, he could understand the situation inside in detail.
So when he fell to the top of the mountain, he carried light work, and under the cover of the jungle, quickly rushed down the mountain, and sure enough, at the foot of the mountain, he found a mountain road hidden in the shade of the trees, which could drive a carriage, and at the end of the road, there was a cave mouth locked with a large iron door, which should be the entrance to the underground weapons manufacturing workshop.
He originally wanted to go in to see what was going on, but in order not to startle the snake, he held back and decided to explore the palace again to see if there were any unexpected gains, so he jumped into the air and went straight to the bedroom of the king of Lingnan and hidden.
He landed lightly on the tile, uncovered the rubble and took a look, this look didn't matter, even he himself was frightened, why?
But seeing that the king of Lingnan was holding a sharp dagger in his right hand and the back collar of a young woman in his twenties in his left hand, the dagger was placed on the woman's snow-white neck, and he shouted: "Are you an undercover agent sent by Jinyiwei?" I'm not afraid to sue you, as long as this king uses a little force, your throat will be cut, the old man is not a kind person, when he was on the northern expedition, he once killed a foreign enemy on his back, and the blood flowed like a river, the old man is not a person who pities the fragrance and cherishes the jade, in order to keep the secret, even his own wife can be poisoned to death, why don't you marry the fifth aunt for a year? ”
The woman avoided the topic and said: "Ma Jingkui, you old thief, you are really ruthless enough, in order to achieve your dream of dominating one side, support the army and self-respect, and make weapons privately, aren't you afraid that the emperor will take your head and punish your nine clans?" ”
"So what? Emperor Shangao is far away, haven't you already got the old man's account book and want to hand it over to Zhu Chongba, the monk emperor? The result? Still can't escape the palm of my hand? Lingnan Wang said.
The woman said miserably: "Today fell into the hands of you, a dog thief, I have nothing to say, if you want to kill or chop, whatever you want, just advise you, don't rebel against the court, fantasize about an independent party, this matter has always been known by the emperor one day, send a large number of soldiers down to suppress, your 300,000 soldiers and horses, undoubtedly with eggs to hit stones!" ”
"I also know that Zhu Chongba has always been on guard against me, as soon as the war in Northern Xinjiang ended, he took back the old man's handsome seal, relieved me of my military power, sealed a Lingnan king, rewarded thousands of hectares of good land, built a royal mansion, said that the Northern Expedition is meritorious, let me recuperate for the rest of my life, enjoy the joy of family, this is all an excuse, release the military power, disarm and return to the field, this is his true intention, the old man is not convinced, so recruit mercenaries, dominate one side, let him see the strength of the old man, it is also a great pleasure!" Ma Jingkui said.
The woman said: "You are taking the lives of the whole family, you are gambling with the emperor, it seems that you will not die if you don't see the Yellow River, and you won't shed tears if you don't see the coffin, so you can do it yourself, right?" ”
As he spoke, he suddenly turned around and let the sharp dagger cut his throat, and then slowly fell into a pool of blood, Fang Lei saw it, and he was also a little sympathetic, and the woman also strongly persuaded the king of Lingnan to let go of his rebellion before seeking death.
It turned out that the woman was indeed an undercover agent sent by Jinyiwei, called Qing'er, a year ago, she was ordered to infiltrate the palace to investigate the collusion of the king of Lingnan and still do not believe it, and in the name of the general military mansion, she raised mercenaries privately, and the original food and salary allocated by the imperial court was a quota of 5,000 people, but now she has more than 30,000 people.
As the saying goes: There is no wall in the world, the emperor Lao'er received a secret report and ordered Jinyiwei to be responsible for investigating the matter, because Ma Jingkui, the king of Lingnan, is a distant relative of Queen Ma, so the emperor Lao'er is very cautious, there is no conclusive evidence, he will not be moved, Qing'er's task this time is to get the account book, which records the expenses of funding the remnants of the Yuan soldiers, as well as the expenses of recruiting mercenaries and privately setting up weapons manufacturing workshops, so that Queen Ma is convinced that Ma Jingkui is guilty of rebelling against the court and shaking the country's capital. to put him to death.
Qing'er began to serve the king of Lingnan as a maid, and then she couldn't stand her teasing in every way, and she turned the phoenix upside down, and later was accepted as the fifth aunt, and she was favored by the dictatorship, and accompanied her day and night, and it took nearly a year to find out where the account book was collected.
After careful consideration, Qing'er decided to steal the account book, leave the Lingnan Palace, and return to the Jinyiwei headquarters to make a business, just when Fang Lei visited the palace at night, Qing'er fell into the tea with ** medicine, and when the Lingnan King fell asleep, he opened the closet, pressed the mechanism, and took out the account book from the hole in the wall.
It turned out that Ma Jingkui was not only ruthless, but also suspicious, before drinking tea and drinking, he secretly took the antidote pill, pretended to sleep in order to lure the snake out of the hole, and then hit it seven inches, Qing'er actually fell for him and became a victim.
When the king of Lingnan dragged Qing'er into the basement, Fang Lei saw the ledger placed on the cover, as long as he jumped down, it was within reach, but he didn't want to do this, once the king of Lingnan knew that the ledger was missing, he would take all kinds of actions, and even quickly retreated into the deep mountains and dense forests with the soldiers, just like the remnants of the Yuan soldiers, it took Emperor Lao'er ten years to eliminate them.
Fang Lei lay motionless on the tile surface, waited for King Lingnan to dispose of the corpse, then returned to the bedroom, put the account book into the wall hole, and then pressed the mechanism, closed the wall hole, locked the cabinet door, and said proudly: "From now on, who dares to worry about the old man's account book?" ”
"What this son wants is your kind of mentality, and when you are imprisoned in the prison in the future, and then regret not keeping the account book, it will be too late!" Fang Lei sneered in his heart.
Under the watchful eye of the King of Lingnan, will he be able to obtain the ledger?