Pengcheng.

Before the time came, the clouds were like lead, and every house in the city was already brightly lit. There were few pedestrians on the street, and the occasional passer-by shrank and shrank in the icy snow wind.

Xu Xing's ancestor Junyan is particularly prominent, he is a sharp scribe, and Xue Daoheng was friendly in his early years, when Xue Daoheng recommended it to Emperor Wen, Emperor Wen was deeply pleased with his talent, but after asking about his family background, Emperor Wen was deeply disgusted. The reason is that Zu Junyan was burdened by his father Zu Ting.

Zu Ting is a rare all-round talent in history, but his character is despicable, in addition to corruption, flattery, bullying, forming a party for personal gain, selling official positions, framing loyalty, or a gentleman on the Liang who likes to steal things, the famous general Hu Luguang of the Northern Qi Dynasty looks down on Zu Ting's personality, and once saw and scolded "a troublesome begging villain, how to count!" After Zu Ting found out, he held a grudge and finally framed the famous general.

The consequences of Zu Ting's framing of Qu and killing Hu Luguang finally appeared in the Sui Dynasty, causing his son Zu Junyan to never have a career in the civil and military period.

Zu Junyan, who was depressed, later simply joined the Wagang Army, and was entrusted by Li Mi to the post of secretary, although the grade of the record office is not high, but it is extremely important, specializing in drafting documents, documents, battle plans, etc., and all the core secrets are touched, only Li Mi's henchmen can be served, Zu Junyan finally has a platform to display his talents!

He has recently been obsessed with Cuizhu, a Qingqi man in Jinfeng Tower, and today he wants to redeem this girl, although with his status today, Cuizhu is not to mention his wife, even if he is a concubine, it is absolutely impossible, but when his outer room is better than being in the dust, right?

But to Zu Junyan's disappointment, Cuizhu refused, she didn't want anyone's mercy and charity, Zu Junyan was not angry, but admired this strange woman even more.

In fact, it is not that he can't give his identity, but he suffers from his father's notoriety, and he has been mediocre for half his life, so he doesn't want future generations to taste the consequences of his own evil. Therefore, Zu Junyan decided not to come to Jinfeng Tower in the future, and it was only sad to see each other.

"Alas!"

For a while, Zu Junyan sighed with emotion in his heart, and forcibly endured the thought of going back to look at Cuizhu again, reluctantly speeding up his pace, and gradually disappeared into the heavy snow.

"Poof~"

Just as he arrived at the door of his house, a crossbow arrow pierced his throat without Zu Junyan responding, and the two soldiers who were responsible for protecting him didn't have time to react at all, so they followed in Zu Junyan's footsteps.

Blood stained the snow red in the screams of passers-by, and it was extremely beautiful.

"Quick, inform the king!"

Amid the screams of household servants and passers-by, a group of passing patrol soldiers rushed to this side, frantically leading people to search around, but they did not get anything except a hand crossbow that was thrown on the ground.

The crossbow was soon sent to Li Mi's desk with the news of Zu Junyan's death.

This is the first important strategist under Li Mi to die of assassination, and it belongs to Li Mi who attaches great importance to relying on strategists.

Regarding the death of Zu Junyan, Li Mi roared like thunder.

Bing Yuanzhen picked up the crossbow that Li Mi threw on the ground, looked at it carefully, and then said to Li Mi: "King, the assassin retreated very calmly, and this crossbow was obviously deliberately dropped to show his identity. ”

"The assassin was sent by Yang Dong!" There was a coldness in Li Mi's voice, and when this crossbow was presented to him, he found the 'bow and crossbow workshop system' engraved on the crossbow, which was the military crossbow of the Great Sui, which was difficult for ordinary people to obtain.

"I don't rule out the possibility of blame, there is no need for the other party to leave this crossbow behind." Fang Xuanzao sighed.

In fact, he also knew that this was unlikely, because Li Mi first united with the Pei family and Liu Heimin to calculate the Great Sui royal family, and then sent a skilled fighter to Yecheng to try to kill Yang Qi and blame Yang Tong, and even let the Pei family assassinate Yang Tong himself. This series of light and dark calculations is replaced by the fact that he will also be angry, let alone Yang Tong, who has a strong temperament? Moreover, the unwritten law of war of 'disaster will not hurt the family' was broken by Li Mi by his next means, and Yang Tong had no reason not to fight back.

Li Mi didn't expect that the combination of light and dark attack means would not be able to hurt Yang Tong without a single shot, and the counterattack means would come so quickly and so ruthlessly!

Zu Junyan!

That is the third strategist after Fang Xuanzao and Bing Yuanzhen, and his status is still above Jia Jifu.

"Check! At least find out the murderer! Li Mi said in a deep voice.

"Whoa!" Bing Yuanzhen and Fang Xuanzao nodded, although they knew that even if they found out, it would only be a few small fish, but if they didn't investigate, they really couldn't explain to the living.

The two of them looked solemn, and walked out of the palace one after the other, and when they arrived at the square, Fang Xuanzao suddenly said, "What do you think?" ”

Although the two were political enemies, after using Liu Heimin to assassinate Pei Qinghua failed, both strongly advised Li Mi to stop here, try to repair the relationship, and then throw the notoriety on the family.

However, Li Mi was too deeply bewitched by the Pei family and the Zheng family, or Li Mi, who was born in the aristocracy, cared too much about the investment of the family, and when he saw the great adjustment of the Great Sui army, he thought that Yang Tong was temporarily unable to go south, and he felt that he had torn his face, so he must beat Yang Tong to death, lest he turn back and deal with himself. Because of this, Li Mi didn't listen to the opinions of the two at all.

"The Sui army, which stopped the foreign war, combined with the strength of Li Yuan, Wang Shichong, and Dou Jiande, it was difficult to achieve the final victory. And we all know that Emperor Shengwu has the intention of sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, and when I met with him, I also felt his kindness, but King Wei went to provoke this tiger. "Bing Yuan is really annoyed, is the Great Sui Dynasty, which has no internal and external troubles, like other forces? I don't think about the situation after tearing my face, if I don't understand, forget it, but all the factions of Great Wei are all against it, but Li Mi turned a deaf ear and insisted on going his own way.

From this incident, Bing Yuanzhen was keenly aware of the aristocratic arrogance contained in the bones of Li Mi, who was born in the aristocracy, and when he was weak, he could still get along well with these reckless civil and military people who were not of high background, but with the founding of the Great Wei Dynasty and long-term contact with the morale of the Kanto region, this kind of arrogant atmosphere was slowly revealed, maybe he didn't want to hide it.

"Well, how is that good?" Fang Xuanzao is resourceful, and what Bing Yuan really thinks of, he can naturally think of it.

"I thought Zu Junyan was a beginning, not an end. Maybe you're next, maybe it's me...... In short, cherish each one. Bing Yuanzhen suddenly smiled.

"Treasure each other." Fang Xuanzao responded with a wry smile.

As expected.

Zu Junyan's death was just the beginning, and in the following time, a wave of assassination swept across Pengcheng, and Li Mi's important advisers and generals were all in danger.

That same evening.

When Fang Xuanzao was eating, the food was highly poisoned, if it wasn't for the servant who served the dishes and ate a few chopsticks and died between the kitchen and the dining room, then it was Fang Xuanzao's family who died;

Bing Yuanzhen slept until midnight, and a poisonous snake suddenly appeared in the quilt, and the poisonous snake that was covered in warmth almost bit him to death;

Yang Defang and Du Caigan were cut throats with a knife and died silently in their own homes.

Hao Xiaode was shot to death at home by an arrow, and his death was miserable.

Meng Rang was also shot, although he was rescued by the guards, but Meng Rang was also seriously injured, the assassin was surrounded and suppressed by the army and the family who rushed to hear the news, but there was not a single survivor, more than a dozen assassins, after killing hundreds of enemies, resolutely committed suicide.

In the early morning of the next day, Zhao Tuo's body was fished up from the latrine by the domestic servants, and his hands and feet were tied, and he was choked to death.

Pei Hong, the servant of the Ministry of Officials, and Wang Ruxin, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, were assassinated one after another, but Wang Ruxin was luckier than Pei Hong, and was desperately saved by the guards, but Pei Hong was hacked to death by someone with a knife.

On the third day, Shan Xiongxin, Xu Shiji, Sun Changle, Wang Bodang, Zhang Tongren, Chen Zhiluo, Li Junxian and other generals were assassinated. At night, most of the Wei Palace's palace was set on fire, and Li Mi escaped by luck, but even so, he was shocked.

On the fourth day, an assassin broke into Pei Shiqing's mansion, and his nephews, servants, and maidservants died, Pei Shiqing's ass was shot through, and his life was almost gone.

For a while, Pengcheng was in a big voice, and the Wei officials with a little status were all cowered at home and did not dare to go out; Officials who have to go out will bring guards with them, and even eat and go to the toilet, Li Mi directly transferred Shan Xiongxin and Wang Bodang to protect themselves, and the whole city was under martial law.

If it's just Li Mi and the civil and military ministers, it's okay to say, but the main target of this assassination is the Pei family, the Zheng family and other entire scholar class, in just five days, more than 300 children of the family died under this assassination, the assassination method is so weird, the means are so ruthless, even if it is an old Jianghu like Li Mi, the first thing he does when he gets up every day is to touch his neck to see if his head is still there.

Seven days later, just when Li Mi thought that the assassination turmoil was over, an even more terrifying assassination unfolded in various parts of the Wei state.

This time, the target of the assassination was the grassroots officials, and all the county and county commanders under Li Mi's rule were assassinated on the same day, and the death rate was terrifying to eighty percent, and even several Taishou were assassinated. The entire Wei local government was almost paralyzed, even if Li Mi had more and more children of the Kwantung family, but the grassroots officials were slaughtered all of a sudden, and he was so busy that he was so busy that he constantly sent troops to exterminate the assassins, and even went to inquire one by one, but in the troubled times, the people came and went frequently, and there was no accurate household registration at all, so how could the assassins be found through the people? But the people suffered, after all, there are many small hills under Li Mi's command, and many people are difficult to change, so how can they miss this opportunity to make a fortune?