Chapter Thirty-Eight: Candidates for the Ceremony of Exterminating the Qiankun Gate

Li Zhi's more than 20 people who specialized in dealing with Qiankun Gate came to the vicinity of Jinbao Mountain and inquired about the situation of this cottage. However, because their cottage is far away from the surrounding villages, the people in their cottage rarely have contact with the surrounding villages, and the information they get is very limited. However, when they stayed in a nearby village, they still learned a little about the people of the village. The people in the village have a good impression of this cottage, and they know that the people in the cottage often practice literature and martial arts in the mountains, and there are also horse teams that go out to do business. When they passed through the village, they spoke very kindly, and it was reasonable to buy and sell something. It is said that there are several thousand people in their village, and the outside of the village is all land that they have cultivated. Self-sufficiency and not socializing with outsiders can be understood. In troubled times, if you can cause less trouble, you will cause less trouble.

Because it was inconvenient to go to this cottage to investigate during the day, Li Zhi's people quietly left the village at night and wanted to investigate in front of the cottage.

But before they reached the stockade, they suddenly heard the sound of hurried footsteps running in front of them. They are all practitioners, and they listened carefully and judged that someone was running and someone was chasing. They quietly lifted their breath and tried not to make a sound, and hurried forward. After a while, by the light of the moon, they saw that four men had caught up with one of them and surrounded him, and they could not hear what they were saying, and then they saw them fighting. Obviously, this man was no match for the four people, and soon he had multiple wounds on his body and staggered.

Something was wrong, and more than 20 of Li Zhi's people suddenly appeared and surrounded them. The four besieging men were taken aback, and stabbed them with their swords. Li Zhi's people shouted: "We are the Yaogang police, you commit murder in the night, put down your weapons and spare you from death!" ”

Unexpectedly, as soon as their words fell, the four of them immediately jumped up and rushed towards them with a pair of eyes. Li Zhi's people knew that the Qiankun Sect was strong in martial arts, and they didn't dare to slack off, and the **** in their hands shot at them together, although these four people were almost beaten into a sieve, but the hidden weapon they shot still injured one of them, but fortunately, the injury was not serious. However, they jumped up and shot at them at the secret weapon that besieged the man, but the man was seriously injured. They gathered around and knew that this person was no good, but they also pointed to stop the blood spurting out, applied some hemostatic medicine, and poured hemostatic medicine into him.

The man gasped, knowing that his time was running out, and said intermittently: "Give, wrap, Xiaoyu!" ”

Li Zhi's people asked, "Is it from this village?" ”

The man nodded.

"Okay! We'll help you, and you can help us too. I know that you are Qiankun," Li Zhi's people observed this person when he spoke, and when this person heard the three words of Qiankun, he was shocked suddenly, obviously surprised, and saw that his words had an effect, and he said, "We have known about you for a long time. It's just that there are too many old and young people in your village, and we can't bear to do it. Can you tell me what's going on with you? ”

After listening to the questioning, the man knew that they were already in the situation, so he talked about himself in a fit-on.

This person is the person on the cottage, and this cottage was built here after the Qiankun Gate escaped. All the people in the village are Qiankun people, they generally do not have contact with outsiders, but they all practice literature and martial arts. The day is much stronger than the outsiders, so they are also very cohesive, and they know from an early age that they will defend the Qiankun Gate to the death. If they are killed or injured on a mission, they will be compensated in the village, and their families will be taken care of. This man went out to do business with the caravan and learned about the outside world, and he also went to the kiln. Because of his youth, he is unwilling to be trapped in the village for the rest of his life. It happened that I went up the mountain once and met Xiaoyu, the daughter of the Orion in the village in front of me, and the two of them got along quietly. This is absolutely not allowed in the stockade, and if it is discovered, the hunter will also be destroyed. But young people don't care about anything when they fall in love, they always date quietly. On several occasions they were discussing elopement.

Some time ago, the people of Yaogang wanted to enter the village several times, and the elders of Qiankun Sect found that things were not good and began to choose a new relocation location. After choosing the location, these days the families in the village are asked to pack up their things and prepare to move out suddenly. This person told his family that he would not leave, how could the family agree, saying that if you don't leave alone, the whole family will be implicated.

There was no way, this man packed up his things, quietly climbed out of the wall, and wanted to escape with Xiaoyu in the village in front of him. But they didn't expect to be discovered by their families, so in order not to implicate the whole family, they had to report to the elders in the village. The elders were shocked and immediately sent four masters to chase after them. The requirement is to see people alive and corpses to die.

The man barely finished his sentence and choked.

In order not to startle the snakes, they covered the traces of the scene with dry soil, took the five corpses with them, and when they returned to the village, it was already dawn, and in order not to reveal their whereabouts, they waited for the villagers to go out to work after breakfast. The matter was too important, in order to implement the situation, they came to Xiaoyu's house, but Xiaoyu also went out to work. waited until after noon before Xiaoyu came back. As soon as Xiaoyu told Xiaoyu about the matter, Xiaoyu cried and fainted. handed Xiaoyu over to their family, and Li Zhi's people dared to send a telegram to their family. The family dared to delay, so they immediately called Li Zhi to tell him.

At first, although the people in the village did not wait for the people who came back to chase them out, they were not too anxious. Because the person who ran out was also a master, he ran in front and chased behind, and he didn't know when he was going to chase him, so it was not strange to come back later. But when they found out that the wait was too long, and the situation was not right, the stockade was already surrounded.

This cottage is backed by the mountain to the west, there are three walled walls in the southeast, north and south, and the direction of the Luohe River to the north, and there is a walled gate only in the direction of the east. The two 130 cannons of the kiln gang have blown a big gap in the wall next to the wall, and the soldiers of the kiln gang were about to go forward to the gap to investigate the situation, and found that there was smoke and fire inside and there was a cry, Chen Yufeng immediately stopped the soldiers who came forward.

Gonggong Li was a little impatient, "I said Chen Yingying!" Let the boys go over and see how it goes! ”

"I don't want the brothers to take risks, this is a boiled duck, what are we anxious about?" Chen Yufeng said while looking through a telescope in the direction of the gap and the walled gate. Needless to say, the soldiers went up to shoot bows and arrows, even if they dropped a stone casually, they were easily injured. There was a sudden change in the stockade, and the situation was unknown, and Chen Yufeng was unwilling to let the brothers go up and take risks.

Suddenly, Chen Yufeng said to Li Zhi and Yang Jing: "If they break through in a while, don't kill them all, you must leave a few horsebacks." ”

Li Zhi and Yang Jing glanced at each other, but neither spoke. They all felt that they were not very good at this matter, and if the soldiers were allowed to shoot, there would be no guarantee that they would be left behind.

Chen Yufeng understood what they meant, "Stupid, just leave the last five people behind." ”

Li Zhi and Yang Jing were both happy and immediately ordered.

Chen Yufeng turned back to Gonggong Li, Li Wei, and Yang Jing and said, "Let's deal with this alive together!" ”

"Huh!" Gonggong Li smiled and asked, "How can you guarantee that they will rush out?" If we don't go in, they won't wait until the evening to talk about it, don't they know that rushing out like this is sending them to death? ”

"Oops! You are also an old man, and I am ashamed of what I said! Chen Yufeng squeezed Gonggong Li and said, "Didn't you hear that the Qiankun Gate has begun to kill people?" They can't wait for the night. ”

"Hey!" Gonggong Li patted his head and was convinced.

Qiankun Gate is a centuries-old brand, it is really not comparable to the ordinary bandit cottage, and when it was found that the cottage was surrounded, the emergency plan was immediately activated. They have their own intelligence system and are well aware of the combat effectiveness of the Yaogang army. In particular, the firearms of the kiln people will blow the strong walls flat. But the elders of the Qiankun need to buy some time to complete the aftermath. Their men all hid behind cover and did not show their heads at all, because they knew that their bows and arrows in long-range combat were far inferior to the rifles of the kiln people, and only when the kiln people were close could their martial arts advantages be brought into play. When they saw the kiln gang people push out the cannon, they lit the bowl on the wall, although it also hit the smoke billowing around the opponent's cannon, but the black ** they made was really limited in addition to the smoke. When the earth-shattering cannonballs of the kiln gang exploded on the wall, the people who were not stunned on the wall of the wall crawled down.

The elders in the village also knew that the kiln people did not bombard their gate because they were bound to win, and they had to keep the gate for entry and exit. Otherwise, they will blow the door open with one shot.

The elders ordered all the men to dress uniformly and assemble on standby. The guards of Qiankun Gate drove the old girls, children and more than 2,000 people in the village into the ancestral compound. Seeing that the ancestral hall compound was full of firewood and grass, and the firewood and grass still smelled of oil, everyone who entered the ancestral hall understood that the last moment had come. They did not panic, and they all spoke calmly to their relatives.

But when the door of the ancestral hall was closed and fires were lit everywhere, the people inside began to cry and scream.

It's not that the elders of the Qiankun Sect don't want to wait until it gets dark at night to break through, but they are afraid that Yaogang will attack first, so their plan will not be carried out.

Sure enough, as Chen Yufeng expected, the gate of the cottage in front of him suddenly opened, hundreds of fast horses rushed out of it, and hundreds of people jumped out of the gap in the wall, all of them were dressed in black and covered with black pants, only showing their eyes, and when they came out, they kept pulling their bows and shooting arrows.

The Kiln Gunner, who was a little impatient to wait, opened fire first.

These hundreds of men and hundreds of horses, that was enough for the kiln gang people to fight, and the rifles of those kiln gang soldiers barely fired a few shots, and these brave masked men and their war horses became piles of meat that fell to the ground. The last people who came out wanted to go back when they saw that the situation was not good. But the Kiln Gunners blocked their way back with bullets.

At this time, the kiln soldiers immediately got up and leaned towards the cottage.

Those few people who were not killed and could not retreat back, when they saw the soldiers of the kiln gang surrounding, they took poison and fell to the ground. Chen Yu stomped his feet angrily and immediately said a few words in Li Zhi's ear. Li Zhi immediately ordered people to search for those who were injured but not dead. Li Zhi's people found a few injured people who did not die, took away the poison on their bodies, and immediately carried out emergency treatment, and then immediately sent them back to Yaogang in a steel spring carriage for rescue.

Gonggong Li was still there and said, "Oops! It's all like that, and you can't live if you send it back. Didn't you see, did all the injured and able people take poison? However, after Gonggong Li finished speaking, he also understood in his heart, this kind of thing, the kiln gang people themselves also understand. Are they going to play again?

When the kiln soldiers entered the stockade, they never found a single person alive. The soldiers tied the deformed ancestral hall gate with ropes, pulled hard, and the gate collapsed with a bang, followed by countless charred corpses crowded in front of the door. When these battle-hardened soldiers saw the tragedy, they couldn't stop bending over and vomiting.

Chen Yufeng said to Li Wei, Li Zhi, and Yang Jing: "Don't you think it's a little strange? ”

"Uncle Shi, what do you say is strange?" Li Wei said.

"Don't you think that those men in black who rushed out came out on purpose to send them to death?" Chen Yufeng asked.

Li Zhi said: "Yes, the Qiankun should know our military strength. ”

"I see, they're playing with a golden cicada shell." Chen Yufeng said, "Whether it is the black-clothed people outside the village or the people inside the ancestral hall, they all want us to know that the people of Qiankun Sect are dead." I think some of them must have escaped. Let's search carefully to see if there are any tunnels to escape. ”

Gonggong Li also came over and said: "Qiankun Gate will be destroyed at any time, they should have their own way to escape." But we can't find a living person, it's hard for us to find it ourselves! ”

"Try your luck!" Chen Yufeng couldn't help it.

However, after careful searching, a secret vault was discovered, and more than 50,000 taels of silver and more than 5,000 taels of gold were found, and no trace of the Tibetans or any traces of escape routes were found.

Chen Yufeng said to everyone: "Today's work is not clean. The Qiankun Gate has attacked us several times, and we will definitely not earn such a little gold and silver. This vault is obviously also left for us to see, and if the official army comes to attack the cottage, it may be useful for them to report the merits and reap some benefits. But for us, in this way, they expose the traces of the scene that was made. ”

"However, we really didn't find any trace of them escaping!" Gonggong Li was a little skeptical.

"If we can easily find their secret passages, then they will not be Qiankun Gate, and they will not survive for hundreds of years!" Chen Yufeng said, "Anyway, this time the Qiankun Gate is also a big injury, and there will be nothing to be done in a short period of time." Where is the base they want to move to, we have to find out in secret. ”

After Chen Yufeng rushed back to Yaogang, he reported in detail in the newspaper how Qiankun Gate was completely annihilated. Of course, it was reported that none of the Qiankun Gate had missed the net, and only four injured people had been robbed of poison by the kiln gang, but only two people were successfully rescued after being sent to the kiln gang.

This report once again shocked the entire Ming Dynasty. People are talking everywhere.

Xiao Hongyu also saw a business opportunity and said to Zhang Zhimu: "I will immediately organize someone to write this matter into a script." It's even more appealing to make a movie about it. ”

Zhang Zhimu also agreed and said: "Okay! This is a real business opportunity. ”

The woman next to Zhang Zhimu, if you want to say that she has business acumen, she should also talk about this little red jade. Although Huang Yukun is no one to compare with the accounting, she has long been no interested in making money. Yang Yulin's mind is also on the children, as well as the children brought by Zhangjiakou. Maybe it's because I never worried about silver when I was young, and I didn't pay much attention to making money. Xiao Hongyu followed her master in the wind and rain, and knew the hardships of not having silver, so she also practiced her business acumen.

In fact, when the so-called wounded people were transported away, they were basically dead. This is Chen Yufeng arranged for Li Zhi to show Li Gonggong, there is no live mouth, when Zhang Zhimu saw Emperor Chongzhen, he could not say that there was definite evidence to prove that Zheng Zhilong hired Qiankunmen to attack the kiln people. Such a thing, although Gonggong Li was a little puzzled at that time, how could he have imagined it on the spot.

After returning to Yaogang, Zhang Xianzhong listened to Chen Yufeng's introduction, and also said that this was a trick of Qiankunmen to play a trick of golden silkworm shelling. However, Zhang Xianzhong said with emotion: "I originally thought that I was ruthless enough to open my hands, but I didn't expect that Qiankun Gate was even more poisonous!" ”

Chen Yufeng said: "Qiankun Gate will not leave a living mouth, which is also their ability to survive and save their lives for hundreds of years." They must have left some elders and young disciples as seeds, and after a few decades in another place, they could ease their strength. They also have a large amount of gold and silver in their hands, and it is easy for them to recover wherever they go. ”

Emperor Chongzhen heard from the radio about the report about Qiankun Gate, and happily sent a telegram to Zhang Zhimu to congratulate him. Because the Qiankun Gate has been strictly eradicated since Taizu, but it has not been able to do so.

Of course, Emperor Chongzhen also knew from Gonggong Li's report that there must be people from the Qiankun Sect who slipped through the net. But this time it is also a good thing to hit the Qiankun Gate hard. The kiln gang people report like this, which also has the meaning of deterring those who are not convinced.

When Zhang Zhimu called back to the emperor to thank him, he told the emperor that Yaogang would send a latest-style passenger ship to dock on the bank of the Yellow River to serve as a temporary palace for the emperor who participated in the opening ceremony of the new river.

This news made Emperor Chongzhen very happy, he had long heard that the passenger ship in Yaogang had cold wind in summer and heating in winter. This time, Zhang Zhimu can propose to use a passenger ship to make a temporary palace for himself, so such a ship must be bad.

Emperor Chongzhen was happy, and when he returned to the harem, he told him about it. As a result, the three sons of Emperor Chongzhen all went to the Yellow River construction site with the emperor to attend the opening ceremony of the new river. Emperor Chongzhen didn't agree, but Princess Kunxing (Princess Changping), whom Emperor Chongzhen has always loved, knew about it and asked to follow her father out of the palace to see. Princess Kunxing (Princess Changping) is the only princess of the six princesses of Emperor Chongzhen who grew up, at this time there are nineteen, although the horse Zhou Shixian has been selected, because the Ming Dynasty has been ups and downs over the years, the princess's marriage has been delayed, so Emperor Chongzhen feels very sorry for this daughter. was so worn out that there was no way, and Emperor Chongzhen had to agree to take Princess Changping to attend the ceremony.

Now, there are not many places that the Ming Dynasty can manage, and Emperor Chongzhen has fewer things to worry about. Because the kiln people lent him a lot of silver, not only did he borrow a lot of silver in the past two years, but also borrowed a lot of silver for various reasons. made Emperor Chongzhen feel that the pressure on silver was a lot less. In particular, Zhang Zhimu of Yaogang is very understanding, and every time he sends silver to Taichang Treasury, he does not forget to send silver to Emperor Chongzhen for his own use. In this way, Emperor Chongzhen can also be more disobedient to the harem.

Now, the best things in the harem are all obtained from the kiln, and they used to like silk and satin, etc., but now they have to use the silk specially produced by the kiln gang. It is said that the thing is more comfortable to wear on the body, more structured, and saggies better. Emperor Chongzhen didn't understand this, but he knew that it was good to walk with a radio in his hand. Although Emperor Chongzhen didn't want the harem to listen to the radio, the harem was secretly listening, and Emperor Chongzhen turned a blind eye. Because now it's easy to buy semiconductor radios in the harem. This also made Emperor Chongzhen feel a little less superior to his own radio. However, Emperor Chongzhen also saw that the new things made by the kiln gang people would definitely be all over the street, so that they could earn more silver. Emperor Chongzhen doesn't care about these now, and puts his heart down, but is a lot more relaxed.

In fact, as soon as Emperor Chongzhen took Princess Changping on the road, Li Zhi and them got information.

This made Chen Yufeng and Ouyang He breathe a sigh of relief. Because, if Emperor Chongzhen wanted to make any small moves, he would not take Princess Changping with him.

In order to receive Emperor Chongzhen, Yaogang sent a new passenger ship that had been carefully arranged, and arrived in Kaifeng first, where he waited for Emperor Chongzhen and his party.

The newspapers and radio stations in Yaogang also publicized the news that the new channel of the Yellow River was about to be opened, and people from all walks of life were concerned about this matter. I also know that there is going to be a grand ceremony there. Of course, Emperor Chongzhen's participation in the ceremony is still strictly confidential. In this way, it will bring trouble to Zhang Zhimu. The acting king and the king of Zhou, as well as those Mongolian princes and thousands of households, all asked to attend the ceremony, and Zhang Xianzhong, the eighth king, did not want to miss it when he heard about it. Zhang Zhimu knew that Emperor Chongzhen was attending the ceremony, and it was really inconvenient for these people to come over. But I can't tell them about Emperor Chongzhen's participation.

After studying with Chen Yufeng and Ouyang He, it was decided not to refuse anyone now, and not to say the news that Emperor Chongzhen was going to participate, because in that case, the security work would be very troublesome.

For such a face-showing, Xiao Hongyu also has to participate. Zhang Zhimu said: "Your stomach is already inconvenient, just rest at home!" ”

But Xiao Hongyu had already thought about it, and said, "I won't get off the boat when I go, so I'll follow you to see the excitement." It's not in your way. ”

There was no way, Zhang Zhimu had to agree. Xiaoqing and Xiaohu heard about it and wanted to follow. Their reason is that although there is no holiday now, they have already finished the exam, and they will be on vacation immediately, so they will not delay the course. Xiao Hongyu also interceded for her sister and brother. Zhang Zhimu had no choice but to say, don't go by yourself, bring Gao Yinfeng and Gao Guixiang with you.

The children, of course, were happy.

The main leaders of the kiln gang here also had to go over to attend the ceremony together. Because there are two new passenger ships, one for the emperor to make a temporary palace, and the other for the people attending the ceremony in Yaogang.

It wasn't until before the departure that Zhang Zhimu personally told the two princes and Zhang Xianzhong the truth that Emperor Chongzhen was going to participate in the ceremony of the Yellow River.

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Mt. Fuji erupted, Japan was earthquaked. --Progress of "Memories of the Southern Song Dynasty".