Chapter 473: The Imperial Expedition

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, this mansion is in the name of Madam Fengsheng's younger brother Keguangxian."

The man said tremblingly.

"Where are the residents?"

Apocalypse shouted with a very wrong expression.

The man looked at the general A.

"Return, go back to Long Live Lord, it is a group of tenants from Yiwu, brought by the Hakka housekeeper, I don't know anything else, people are brought by Hakka, how dare the small one be troublesome, but the road guide is from Yiwu, but I don't know if it's true or not, I don't know anything else about the small one, the Hakka family is the sky in the capital, and the small one really doesn't dare to ask anything else."

Zongjia lay on the ground and said tremblingly.

That's true.

In the Ming Dynasty, the forgery of road guides was actually a very prosperous industry, and its prosperity was comparable to the small advertisements on the walls of the toilets of modern railway stations.

"Humph!"

Apocalypse walked straight into the door with a gloomy face.

Yang Xin also followed without saying a word.

The inside has been completely controlled by the guards, and several dead bodies are still inserted there, but there is still one alive, the one who escaped first, he is obviously too poor in physique, and others successfully escaped, but he couldn't climb the wall and was directly dragged down by those guards. At this time, he was lying on the ground like a muddy beach, with more than a dozen spears pressed on his body and around him, and Zong Jia glanced at him, and finally gritted his teeth and stepped forward......

"Long live the Lord, he is a Hakka."

He whispered.

Apocalypse didn't speak, and walked straight into the second gate surrounded by guards.

Inside, too, are guards.

The doors of the wings on both sides had been opened, and inside the door was similar to a large bunk, and the room was full of wood for support, and on the other side was the kitchen, but it was also full of all kinds of tools, and even some that had been broken for a long time and thrown inside.

The apocalypse continues to move forward.

The door of the main room was also opened, along with the two transepts.

This is according to the normal household arrangement, obviously in case someone comes.

Outsiders in the back house will not go, and no one will go if the wings on both sides are locked, even if there is a general armor or even a shop chief and the like, at most he will be invited to the main room, and the main room will not be abnormal, and the apocalypse will immediately go to the backyard, and as soon as he enters, a brocade guard will meet him and kneel at his feet.

"Long live Lord, the entrance of the cave is in the main room, it is south-west, and someone has already entered."

He said.

"South by West, it won't be my house again, right?"

Yang Xin said in amazement.

At this moment, there was chaos inside, and then a brocade guard covered in mud dragged out two dead bodies with the guards.

"Long live the Lord, the thieves who did not escape inside committed suicide in fear of sin, and the tunnel inside has been dug out ten zhang long, which can accommodate a person to crawl on his knees inside, all supported by wood."

He said as he lay at the feet of the Apocalypse.

"Drag that dog thing over here."

Apocalypse said.

Yang Xin glanced at him, and the Jinyi guard immediately went out, and dragged the Hakka man over with the guards, the latter was already paralyzed, it is estimated that he knew the apocalypse, and he lay directly on the ground and kept shivering, like a toad that had been stepped on, and then His Majesty the Emperor did step on his back......

"Make it clear, I will spare you from dying, otherwise I will punish your nine clans."

Apocalypse shouted.

"Long live the lord, the little one only knows that they dug tunnels to blow up the river, and they don't know anything else.

The small ones were just ordered to send them things, and they looked for the small ones if they lacked anything, and today they said that the excavated soil was almost out of place, so let the small ones figure out a way, and the small ones came to see. These are said to be miners hired by Yiwu, Feng Sanyuan and Feng Longyou are the ones who took them, and they are in charge of other things. ”

The man wept.

"How long have you been digging?"

Apocalypse shouted.

"It's been since the tenth of the lunar month."

The man said in a trembling voice.

"After digging for more than 20 days, who will supply the gunpowder?"

Apocalypse kicked him and shouted viciously.

The man stopped talking.

"Pass the decree, Keguang first, Hou Guoxing will be imprisoned, don't use Jinyiwei, let Dongchang arrest it!"

Apocalypse shouted.

A brocade guard hurriedly ran to deliver the message.

Apocalypse then walked inside, looking at the entrance of the cave in front of him with Yang Xin, Apocalypse waved his hand and motioned for the guards to go out, and soon there were only two of them left.

"I'll give my brother an explanation."

Apocalypse said gloomily.

"Your Majesty, Mrs. Fengsheng should not know, maybe it was Keguang who made his own assertions, with the intention of the minister, Hou Guoxing should not be implicated, he is the son of Mrs. Fengsheng after all, and he didn't really dig up the minister, and maybe he was seduced. Although there is a conflict between the minister and the Hakka, it can't reach this level, not to mention that these people are Yiwu miners, and the Hakka should have nothing to do with Yiwu, so why not hire miners in Xishan, but have to go to Yiwu? Even if you are afraid of hiring Xishan miners to leak, this is a coal kiln, where you can't hire a few miners, these people dare to commit suicide, it is also a dead man, not just a hiring, this matter may not be so simple.

The minister still said that, it's not that the minister looks down on those Hakka people, they don't have the ability.

It's just a group of gentlemen who take advantage of the power of the Holy Lady, others have sold them, maybe they have to count the money for others, look at this house slave outside, can the Hakka raise this kind of dead man?

Those who follow the Hakka are some of the inflammatory.

They can't be dead. ”

Yang Xin said.

Apocalypse nodded.

He is also in a dilemma now, on the one hand, the Hakka clan is the most important assistant minister who is also his teacher and friend, killing Ke Guangxian and Hou Guoxing, the Hakka clan is afraid that he will be so angry that he will commit suicide, and if he does not punish them severely, Yang Xin must be chilled. Now Yang Xin is so reasonable, but he is embarrassed, and Yang Xin's meaning is very clear, that is, to find another person for the first offender, that is, to hire these miners, it is these people who deliberately lure and deceive the Hakka.

Although the Hakka participated, Keguang was not the mastermind, at most he was an accomplice, and this matter was a murder in nature, and it was attempted, so that Hakka did not have to kill first, and Hou Guoxing should not have participated.

And the accomplice to the attempted murder is just a hanging.

It's easy to hang.

This is redeemable.

Of course, it is still necessary to punish severely, such as a cane and then exile, so that it is okay, and the Hakka family also sent it over, and also showed his attitude towards Yang Xin.

"These dogs are too daring!"

His Majesty the Emperor said hatefully.

But at this moment, he suddenly showed a puzzled expression.

"More than 20 days and ten zhang, is it so slow to dig tunnels? Looking at this tunnel, this tunnel is not too big. ”

He said.

"This is a little strange, it is said that since these people are miners, it should not be so slow, digging tunnels this kind of thing, in fact, has been used since ancient times, the last time Jiannu was to blow up the city wall of Shenyang with digging tunnels, fortunately the minister was there at the time, that time Jiannu spent a few days, digging out a tunnel more than fifty zhang long.

Even if these people can't besiege a city, it won't take a few days to pass through a ten-zhang tunnel.

This is easy to do, the minister went in and checked it again, maybe it was dark inside, and the brocade guard didn't find it out. ”

Yang Xin said.

That's when he realized something was wrong.

It is not difficult to dig tunnels, such as the North China Plain, continuous relay excavation, the speed is actually very fast, otherwise the Northern Song Dynasty would not have built hundreds of miles of underground Great Wall, and in winter it has been frozen out of a layer of frozen soil, and even without support can barely maintain, in this place a tunnel that can make people kneel and crawl can dig more than ten meters a day.

More than twenty days.

It's almost time to dig up to his house.

But before Jin Yiwei said that it was ten zhang long.

"There's another way."

Apocalypse said.

After saying that, he walked out directly.

Well, he went to calculate the volume of the soil dug up in the garden outside, Yang Xin visually estimated the area of the accumulation area for him, and the soil was evenly sprinkled in a rectangular garden, and then dug out the original ground underground, to see how thick they were piled up, and His Majesty the Emperor immediately calculated the approximate volume.

Then there are the tunnel sections.

As soon as the two numbers were divided, Apocalypse immediately got the true tunnel length.

"No, this is at least more than fifty zhang dug!"

Apocalypse said.

"Ma, these two dead men dug up and cut it off before they died, and there is still a long section in it, and there are things that they can protect from death."

Yang Xin couldn't help but scold.

The two dead soldiers in the tunnel dug a section before they died, and then blocked the inside behind the collapse area, and the brocade guards were inexperienced, and they couldn't see clearly, thinking that they had dug this point. The two men must have done so for a purpose, and there was something in the section they had cut off, and it was something that had to be protected by death.

"A few people follow me."

Yang Xin said.

Then he picked up a small shovel and went straight into the hole.

The apocalypse then beckoned someone to go down with him with a candle.

Yang Xin, who drilled this kind of thing for the first time, quickly crawled forward inside, and a little candlelight behind him was enough to provide him with illumination, and soon he climbed to the blocked collapse area. With his eyesight, he could immediately see that this was indeed deliberately excavated, and it was simply disguised, but he didn't dare to dig it, this was a collapsed layer of soil, and it was not known if it had also collapsed. As soon as he dug into it, it might continue to collapse downward, and if he was not careful, he would even be buried alive in it, so he immediately ordered it to be returned.

After coming out, he didn't bother to speak, he went straight out and climbed onto the roof, and quickly determined the location according to the direction and distance.

"Over there!"

Yang Xin pointed to a courtyard in front of him and shouted.

The two brocade-clothed guards grabbed the general armor and carried him and the guards of the brigade to hurry up, and Yang Xin immediately came down and walked to the side of the apocalypse.

"Your Majesty, it's really truncated, this thing is not right, they don't have to do this, even if it is found out that they are dug up to the minister, they are just a murder, but an accomplice, and it will not even be a capital crime, there is no need to do this and commit suicide, unless they are afraid of the family, the minister suspects that this tunnel does not lead to the minister."

Yang Xin said.

"Where does it lead?"

Apocalypse was stunned.

Yang Xin slowly raised his hand and pointed to the east.

Tianqi immediately raised his head and followed his finger to see his Rabbit Mountain Observatory standing impressively on the walls of the imperial city......