Unlike the vassal kings and the nobles and officials who were not in the capital shouted in the air to protest, the nobles and officials in Beijing had a lot of means.

On this day, Yang Hongzhang came out of the yamen and met Tian Hongyu's housekeeper standing next to the carriage and greeted Yang Hongzhang from afar. When I got closer, I realized that Tian Hongyu was in the carriage, and he came here to wait for Yang Hongzhang.

Yang Hongzhang only learned from this time that Tian Guifei had been seriously ill for a while, and the imperial doctors had nothing to do about it, Tian Hongyu was so active in the matter of tax rate reform, it was nothing more than that he was worried that Tian Guifei would have no backer after she died, and wanted to take advantage of the present to leave a good impression on the emperor and have a good relationship with the celebrities around the emperor. Thinking of this, Yang Hongzhang was also relieved, afraid that he would not be able to see what others were planning, Tian Hongyu was actually easier to get along with people with a clear purpose.

Tian Hongyu specially came to invite Yang Hongzhang to Linlang Pavilion for recreation. Linlang Pavilion was bought by Tian Hongyu from the imperial court after Uncle Yuan Guo's uncle was expelled from the capital, and it was opened directly without decoration at all. invited Yang Hongzhang many times, Yang Hongzhang was busy with official business, and Tian Hongyu had no choice but to come to the yamen to block people. This made Yang Hongzhang a little crying and laughing, the dignified old man in his fifties had to associate with a twenty-year-old person like him, and he had to go to Linlang Pavilion to a place like this kind of fireworks.

However, putting aside Tian Hongyu's identity, his performance in this tax rate reform did make Zhu Youzhen and Yang Hongzhang very satisfied. Just because Tian Hongyu invited guests to Linlang Pavilion, it was inconvenient for Yang Sheng to follow with more than a dozen people on standby, Yang Hongzhang asked them to go back to the mansion directly, and he got into the carriage that Tian Hongyu had prepared a long time ago. Yang Sheng was not at ease, but still called three people to follow behind the carriage with him.

The two carriages went towards Guangqu Gate one after the other, because it was already November, it was dark early, it was already dark when Yang Hongzhang gave his father, with the carriage turning around, the sky was finally completely dark, and the city of Beijing, which was not harassed by the Qing army, quickly returned to its former prosperity, and there were even a lot of shouting on the streets.

Just when there were two streets away from Linlang Pavilion, the carriage passed through a small alley, Tian Hongyu's car was in front, Yang Hongzhang's carriage was in the back, the two cars just entered the alley, and they heard two screams, Yang Hongzhang habitually opened the curtain and found that the driver had been hit by an arrow and fell to the side, and the horse pulling the carriage seemed to be frightened. Whoosh, just as Yang Hongzhang was about to jump off the carriage, whistling sounds came from all directions, and Yang Hongzhang instinctively lay on the floor of the carriage. Soon there was the shouting of Yang Sheng and the others in his ears, obviously handing over hands with the other party.

Yang Hongzhang carefully inspected the structure of the carriage and then looked at the situation outside, and found an opportunity to jump down from the position of the driver's back in front of the carriage, and then quickly came to Tian Hongyu's carriage, and found that the emperor's father-in-law was kneeling on the floor of the carriage with the middle-aged butler like himself, and the middle-aged butler was also hit by an arrow in the shoulder, and the blood had flowed out of the wound and stained a large area red. It's just that both of them are very scared, their bodies are trembling, and the housekeeper doesn't dare to scream, and gritted his teeth and holds on.

Yang Hongzhang smiled bitterly in his heart, he and this Tian Hongyu are really fateful, the last time the other party invited him to come over to the house, he saved his life, this time I don't know if it is counted as two carriages to distract those people's attention, and he hid himself very well. In the final analysis, it may be that he has affected Tian Hongyu. After today, this guy should be hiding from himself.

Tian Hongyu saw that someone outside the car just wanted to get up, and found that it was Yang Hongzhang, and was stunned again, and when he saw that Yang Hongzhang was fine, he wanted to beckon him to get into his carriage.

"Don't move here yet, I'll come when I go." Yang Hongzhang turned around and looked at the open space between the two carriages, and found that Yang Sheng and the four of them had been surrounded by more than 20 people, and the two carriages were full of feather arrows. Even the person next to Yang Sheng had one. Fortunately, the opponent seems to have given up on the bow and arrow, opting for a melee attack.

Someone found that Yang Hongzhang got out of the carriage from the other side, so someone quickly surrounded him, and Yang Hongzhang saw that the other party was all dressed in black, masked, and carrying a big knife, obviously prepared.

However, apparently they underestimated Yang Hongzhang's melee ability, only to see him touch his waist and then bang A man in black who tried to get close to him fell in response, Yang Hongzhang immediately reached out and grabbed the other party's knife and slashed towards another man in black, the knife fell, and the man in black fell to the ground, and then the third man in black, almost less than two breaths, and the three men in black who tried to come over and surround Yang Hongzhang all lay on the ground.

The gunfire here also attracted those who surrounded Yang Sheng, and Yang Sheng and the others had a chance to breathe, and then they heard the sound of gunshots, and the short muskets carried by the four people finally had a chance to pull out and aim at the man in black opposite.

Almost all of the men in black were taken aback, they originally thought that these people were unarmed, so after wasting a lot of bows and arrows, they surrounded several people and prepared to besiege them.

But obviously they underestimated Yang Hongzhang, and also underestimated Yang Sheng and others, these four people are the best among many sailors, the key is to have seen the world, and they are not in danger to be qualified to protect Yang Hongzhang.

It was the short-term panic of the man in black that made Yang Hongzhang calmly pick up the big knife on the ground, then approached Yang Sheng and the others, and handed over the other two big knives. The next battle lost suspense again, and the five people with the big knife in their hands, especially Yang Hongzhang, simply ignored the opponent's numerical advantage, and saw him rush into the crowd of black-clothed people with a knife, almost taking people's lives with a knife. Yang Sheng and the others have instead become the ones who can be raised. said that it was too late, but in a moment, more than a dozen people in black had already been lying down, and the rest scattered and fled when they saw that the situation was not good.

Yang Sheng wanted to chase but was stopped by Yang Hongzhang. Several people on his side were hit by arrows, and the rest were injured and needed to be treated as soon as possible. What's more, chasing Kou is a matter of the yamen catching fast, he just needs to ensure his own safety.

Yang Hongzhang looked back at Tian Hongyu's carriage and found that the old man was trembling at the door of the carriage and watching everything that was happening outside. Obviously, he had heard of Yang Hongzhang's murderous name before, but he didn't have the opportunity to see it with his own eyes, although it was night now, but the scene of Yang Hongzhang rushing into the crowd with a knife and falling on the head with a knife did frighten the emperor's father-in-law.

Yang Hongzhang smiled bitterly: "It's Hongzhang who has affected Lord Tian." It seems that there are a lot of people I have offended in this Beijing city, and it is not peaceful to go there, so Linlang Pavilion will not go or go home and rest. Lord Tian, lend me this carriage first. ”

"Don't, don't, don't hurry. You went to the palace with the old man, these bastards are too arrogant, and this is not over. This time, we must lock the capital and dig three feet into the ground to find out these people and their masterminds! The old man must not let them get away with it! ”

Yang Hongzhang shook his head, the emperor is the biggest in the palace, but only those who have soldiers in Beijing have the final say when they leave the palace. Zhu Youzhen himself knew this, and this was the practice of letting Yang Hongzhang select a thousand people to be stationed in the city at the beginning. It's just because Yang Hongzhang is an ordinary civil official, it is impossible to station a thousand troops in the mansion, and he travels with a maximum of twenty or thirty followers.

As for where to go to the emperor to complain, Tian Hongyu can go, even if people don't go, once Tian Guifei knows about tonight's events, it is estimated that she will cry in front of the emperor, so Zhu Youzhen will naturally take care of it. As for himself, there is no need to join in the fun, and Tian Hongyu is most likely affected by himself.

After rejecting Tian Hongyu's proposal to go to the palace to complain, Yang Hongzhang did not leave the scene immediately, but let the two seriously injured entourages get into the carriage, and he and Yang Sheng came to the black-clothed man who was cut down and squatted, and then tore the other party's masked cloth, inspected the other party's appearance, and groped on his body for a while, and then Yang Sheng quickly swept the other party away.

Yang Sheng had already learned a lot from Yang Hongzhang, and after finding that Yang Hongzhang seemed to have made a discovery, he turned the corpse around, looked at the back, and then checked the teeth and wrists of the other corpses...... The behavior of the master and servant saw that Tian Hongyu was terrified, and hurriedly jumped into the carriage to say goodbye.

From the dark facial skin and not too thin body, the bow and arrows he carried, the calluses on his palms, and the strangulation marks between his shoulders and chest, it seems that the other party is not like an ordinary charlatan, but more like a professional soldier.

Obviously, the person who shot was still as crazy as the last time, and it had reached the point of blatantness in order to cause Yang Hongzhang's death. The last time seventy or eighty people were used, I think Liu Yuliang should not have tried his best, otherwise there would have been a result a long time ago. But this time Tian Hongyu was present, and he was not afraid that the kid would not care, Tian Guifei's level was not so easy.

Then in Tian Hongyu's surprise, Yang Sheng loaded the body of a man in black into the carriage, what he didn't know was that Yang Hongzhang was going to the post station to ask Lu Xiangsheng who was recuperating from his injuries, were these people from the Beijing camp or the border army? was attacked twice in a row and almost died, and I still don't know who the opponent is, and it's really a bit passive.

Tian Hongyu's energy is really extraordinary, Yang Hongzhang has not returned to the mansion from the post station where Lu Xiangsheng came out, and the patrol soldiers and horses on the streets of Beijing City have increased significantly, and the investigation has also begun to be strict, and more importantly, Beijing City has been closed for the first time, and he can only enter and exit until the murderer is caught!

As a direct consequence, the news of Tian Hongyu and Yang Hongzhang's assassination in the downtown area was like spreading its wings, and the whole city of Beijing soon became aware of it. In particular, Yang Hongzhang was once again calculated and became the talk of the diehards. Many people speculate that this brave and warlike general turned into a jinshi and a foreigner, how will he deal with this kind of heartwarming thing after repeatedly encountering it? Especially those who know that there are still Yang Hongzhang's 1,000 men in Beijing are wondering if this guy will be angry and lead the people to directly level the black hands behind the scenes.