Chapter 193: Touching the Melons with the Vine
Huo Chonglou reacted very quickly, and he quickly stopped in front of Qin Lin, with five fingers in both hands, and he wanted to catch the poisonous arrows with the powerful eagle claw skills that he had practiced hard with his palms for twenty years.
Seeing the strange change, Lu Fatzi and the others were taken aback, and Zhang Zixuan also exclaimed in surprise: "Brother Qin's heart"
Qin Lin was not in a hurry, his smile was still bright, just like someone who had nothing to do.
Because Brother Pi couldn't send crossbow arrows at all, at the moment when he leveled the short crossbow and aimed at Qin Lin, I don't know how many pairs of strong and powerful hands stretched out from all directions, pressed his arm, grabbed his collar, choked his neck, and clasped his wrist............ There was no time to shè out of the crossbow arrow, this guy was already restrained, except for his eyelids that could move, his whole body couldn't move at all.
In the past, the trust and admiration of the Caogong brothers for Brother Pi had long since turned into anger and hatred.
Why, why? Brother Pi looked angrily at these Cao Gong who used to call him brothers, but in his mind, it was this group of people who betrayed him, but he didn't want to think that from the beginning he was intent on using the blood and lives of the poor Cao Gong as a sacrifice for rebellion.
"We work hard to eat, sweat and work hard when we are busy, drink a bowl of coarse tea in our spare time, accompany our wives and children, although we live poorly, it is much better than fighting with the officers and soldiers of the court with our heads ......", a middle-aged cao worker who is usually very close to Brother Pi said very seriously, "So, we don't want to rebel, we really don't want to." ”
Brother Pi's lips trembled, and he had nothing to say.
Another young cao worker threw three coins of silver at the feet of Brother Pi, with a face full of disdain: "This is the yào money you gave me last time my mother was sick, and now I will give it back to you~ Although my life is not worth much, it is not only sold for three coins of silver."
The workers caught Brother Pi and the guy who had just incited Luàn, and sacrificed them to the bottom of the Yuan, and let the soldiers bind them.
Qin Lin wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and ordered the workers to search each other, and all those with weapons on their bodies were arrested, "There will be a lot of rewards for finding out the whistleblowers."
The Cao workers cheered and immediately started, although they didn't understand any big truths, but they hated the White Lotus Sect who framed the Cao Gang and tried to sacrifice everyone's lives to rebel, and they heard Qin Lin say that there was a bounty, so don't mention the careful search.
Those White Lotus Sectists who were hiding in the crowd suddenly had nothing to hide, and they were arrested one after another, and the weapons that were found were clinked and thrown on the ground.
Niu Dali and several sailors under Ge Run" also dragged the black-clothed man who was knocked unconscious over and explained the situation, and the Cao workers even gritted their teeth and scolded the White Lotus Sect for being sinister and vicious, and taking everyone's lives seriously.
At this time, "Li Qiu and Huang Gonggong knew that the overall situation had been decided, so they let out a long sigh of relief, "Thinking that if the White Lotus Sect instigated thousands of workers to rush into the empty line of defense, would their own lives still exist?" It's like coming back from the brink of life and death.
I was embarrassed to admit that I was incompetent and relied on Qin Lin to solve the whole case, and I felt too reluctant to go without saying a few words of thanks, so Li Qiu arched his hand and praised from the side: "Just a thousand shots, General Qin is not an inch in the face of strong crossbows and poisonous arrows, and sure enough, there is the wind of a general who has collapsed in front of Mount Tai and sè remains unchanged, admire, admire", he is really worthy of being a civil official who has been in the officialdom for a long time, even if he slaps his swollen face, he can't lose his share, look at how tactful this is?
Zhang Zixuan also looked at Qin Lin with appreciation, she was also scared a lot just now, but Qin Lin was calm and unimminent, and was not afraid of danger, "It's really amazing, although her beautiful and flawless face was painted sallow" A pair of deep eyes were full of expectations.
Zhang Maoxiu praised loudly: "Brother Qin Shi's heart is really firm, and Brother Xiǎo reads Mr. Yangming's book, and sees the words and sentences of seeing the heart and mind, the heart is unreasonable, and there is nothing outside the heart" I always feel that my words are exaggerated, and today I see that Brother Qin can still face the same at the moment of life and death, and I know that the ancients are honest and not deceive"
Qin Lin laughed dryly, where is he with nothing outside his heart? It's just that you can't do other reactions, it's good to be pointed at by a short crossbow poison arrow, if you don't move, there is a master of the East Factory Huo Chonglou in front of you to block it, if Luàn dodges Luàn moves, and is an arrow by someone else's chōu empty son, wouldn't it be very wronged?
"He has nothing outside his heart, Lao Tzu's back is full of cold sweat, but he can't see the thickness of his clothes in winter" Qin Lin scolded in his heart, of course, his face was silent, and he was full of confidence and blowing the conch: "The Holy Son of Heaven of the Ming Dynasty is in power, the first assistant Zhang Xianggong is wise and decisive, and now the four seas are peaceful, and the people live and work in peace and contentment, I expect that Cao Gong has no intention of rebelling, even if the White Lotus Sect demon bandits break out, they will definitely be subdued by Cao Gong immediately." ”
When everyone heard this, they naturally said cháo Yong, xiǎo half at Emperor Wanli, and most of them ran towards Zhang Juzheng's ears of Wanli who couldn't reach Yangzhou, but Zhang Juzheng's second son and one NV are here, it's a good time to pat on the back. ,
Li Qiu, Qiu Baihu and the prefect of Yangzhou and others were secretly grateful to Qin Lin, this time they made a mistake on the ground about the theft of silver and the rebellion of the White Lotus Sect, but they were afraid that the imperial court would punish them, Qin Lin provoked the conversation and asked everyone to make a big slap in front of Zhang Juzheng'er, and it was logical, not abrupt and disgusting, this intention is commendable
Huo Zhong admired it so much that he was worried in vain, Chief Qin is Cheng Zhu, calm and unhurried, everything is under control, but his actions just now were not in vain, this loyal and courageous act of dedication and self-sacrifice, forgive Chief Qin and all the adults also saw it.
Listening to the words such as cháo, Zhang Jingxiu was gentle and polite to the officials, and Zhang Maoxiu was so happy that he couldn't keep his mouth shut, and he was quite proud of his father's way of governing.
Zhang Zixuan glanced at Qin Lin and smiled.
The current situation, of course, is not as good as Qin Lin said, if it is really a world of peace in the four seas, why did the land clearance work in Xingguo Prefecture make a big malpractice and cause human deaths? Why do Mayang Jin Daoists and the White Lotus Sect still want to be luàn, and many forces on the border are still stupid?
Of course, it is not as dark and terrifying as the White Lotus Sect propagandizes, at least the Altan Khan in the north pays tribute every year, the nine sides have become more like a border trade market from the military frontier, and the Japanese who have plagued the southeast coast for hundreds of years have been flattened in one fell swoop, and the south of the Yangtze River has regained prosperity, and under the encouragement of a whip law and the examination method, the treasury has also achieved an unprecedented surplus, and the new-style army trained by Qi Jiguang in Jizhen is also quite jīng sharp, and Liaodong Zhufan, Duoyan Sanwei and Mobei Mongolia do not dare to enter the Kou"............ At least the ordinary people in the southeast are absolutely unwilling to rebel, as evidenced by the performance of Caogong today.
If you give the current Ming Dynasty a pertinent evaluation, then it is what Zhang Juzheng said: "The outside of the house in the Ming Dynasty still looks bright and brilliant with red walls and yellow tiles, but many of the pillars inside are eaten by termites, and the house is soaked by rainwater.
But if you have the heart of following the path, look at it for the time being, let it go, and enjoy the happiness in front of you, then decades later, the pillar will be hollowed out, and the horizontal sorghum will decay "At that time, even if there is a pillar of optimus and a golden sorghum in the sea, I am afraid that the building will fall, and it will be difficult to support it alone", Zhang Zixuan played xiǎo son grew up in the Jiangling Xiangfu "When she was born, her father was already the hot right chūn fang right Yude and Guozijian Siye of the Jiajing Dynasty, she was quite the true inheritance of her father, and she was very familiar with the way of politics and the Ming Dynasty. But I don't know much about the people's suffering and the dark side of the government.
This time I left home, "I first saw the official eunuchs and squires in Xingguo Prefecture taking the opportunity of clearing the acres of land to oppress the people, and then I saw that the so-called Qingliu Wang Bengu was despicable and shameless, although I heard my father say that "I can use the officials, I don't need to clean the officials...... I just said that the Qingliu Eye Master has no real ability, and there is no problem with Taoism, but Wang Bengu is so bad.
Zhang Zixuan didn't reveal anything on the surface, but she really had some doubts about her father's new policy in her heart, Qin, Han, Tang and Song dynasties, all had a time of prosperity and decline, and the Ming Dynasty could not be eternal......
It wasn't until he heard Qin Lin's analysis that "I saw with my own eyes that the extremely poor Caogong was still loyal to the imperial court" Zhang Zixuan was relieved: from ancient times to the present, the people's heart is precious, and it is only by virtue of the boat's overturning
"Brother Qin, thank you for your advice", Zhang Zixuan smiled at Qin Linyan.
Pointing out what? Qin Lin scratched his scalp, his first job was to dig deep and investigate the vines and find out all the White Lotus Sects involved in it.
"Brother, I'm still telling the truth", Qin Lin looked at Master Bai with pity: "You also know that Jinyiwei and Dongchang each have eighteen sets of criminal laws, which are called large-scale hells, and idlers can't afford it." ”
Phew, Master Bai spat on the ground. Bloody spit, when he was about to commit suicide by taking poison just now, Huo Chonglou knocked out a few teeth, and his speech was a little leaky: "Don't be afraid of death, what criminal law are you afraid of?" ”
Huo Chonglou and Han Feilian were furious, ready to teach him a lesson.
Over there, the fat man Lu who interrogated Big Brother Pi didn't get any useful clues, and this White Lotus Sectist also had a granite head that had been washed clean by the cult and was full of crooked reasoning and heresies, so the fat man had no choice but to cast a gaze for help.
Except for the two incense lord-level leaders, the other grassroots disciples did not know the contact information of their superiors, and even if they were willing to confess, they could not provide useful clues. ,
So, is criminal law really useful for people who are bent on death? Huo Chonglou and Han Feilian observed Master Bai's gods, and they were secretly surprised: it seems that this guy is really hard-boned, even if he tortures him, he can only vent his anger, and if he wants to confess the truth, I'm afraid it won't be easy
But can this stump Qin Lin?
Our Qin Chief Lao Jihan laughed cunningly, and the laughter made Master Bai and Brother Pi involuntarily feel cold.
"There's no need to torture, someone has taken us to his superiors" Qin Lin said, clapping his hands unhurriedly, Niu Dali, who had disappeared after dragging the black-clothed crossbowman who had been knocked unconscious just now, walked out of the line, still holding Master Bai's pigeon cage in his hand.
Master Bai is in Huxùe, and he is a very high-level hidden spy, but he is in the middle of Chen Wangmo's line, and it will be inconvenient to use him as the command center.
Moreover, in this era, some people fight and walk horses, some people raise thrushes and parrots, and it is not uncommon for literati to raise a few pigeons, but it is too eye-catching to raise a large group and carry it with you.
Therefore, Master Bai only dared to raise four pigeons in a cage that was only two feet long and wide, and relied on these pigeons to contact the entire White Lotus Sect in Nanzhili in a timely manner, as well as the last time Qin Lin found out the clues, he promptly notified the hidden pile on the Zhenjiang side to kill Cui Sicang and extinguish the mouth, which was not enough.
Then the only explanation is that not far from here, there is another command center set up by the White Lotus Sect, and Master Bai uses carrier pigeons to keep in touch with them, and there are a large number of manpower and carrier pigeons over there, and they can make timely deployment for xìng according to the situation reported by Master Bai.
With carrier pigeons, it is easy to find there.
"If you don't guess wrong, there will be a big man there", Qin Lin looked at Bai Ye like a cat and mouse, and his gentle smile looked extremely terrifying in the eyes of the captive.
"You, you're simply a devil", Master Bai hissed and shouted, the jīng god was about to collapse, the White Lotus Sect's hidden stakes on this side were all wiped out, no one reported the news of the failure of the operation in time, and the sectarians over there had no time to escape...... Don't dare to think about it anymore, Master Bai cursed angrily: "Qin Lin" You will go to hell, and the old mother will not let you go, "The great sage of this sect, the most holy and enlightened sect master, will not let you go", Qin Lin's face sank, and he said: "I'll wait"
Flying up and kicking Master Bai's mouth, so that he couldn't howl anymore, Qin Lin slapped his face, and directly gave an order in the tone of the supreme commander: "All the cavalry in Xingyuan got on their horses, the swords were unsheathed, the bows were wound, Han Feilian, Lu Fatzi, and Huo Chonglou also rode to follow, and the rest of the soldiers sorted out their armaments, guarded the Xingyuan, and guarded against the White Lotus Sect's large-scale attack on the Yangzhou prefect to mobilize the officials to arrest the people and strong, and blockade the cities on all sides. Send a 700-mile urgent military order to all guards, offices, prefectures, prefectures, and counties ......"
Although Qin Lin's actual official position was almost the most Xiǎo here, and even the Yangzhou prefect was bigger than him, all the officials, including Li Qiu, the governor of Fengyang, the governor of Caoyun, and Huang Gonggong, the deputy envoy of the Qin Mission, "all bowed down to obey the order, and none of them dared to disobey it.
Even if he is a minister with the title of minister, he is not as majestic as Qin Lin at this moment
Qin Lin saw that the preparations had been decided, so he ordered Niu to vigorously open the pigeon cage, and the three pigeons inside flapped their wings and flew out, circled in mid-air, and flew westward.
"Drive", Qin Lin whipped the horse's buttocks, and the military horse immediately screamed, and the four hooves flew and rushed out.
Huo Chonglou, Niu Dali, Han Feilian, and Lu Yuanzhi each rode horses to cover the front and back, and hundreds of cavalry members followed closely behind, only to hear a muffled thunder like the sound of horses' hooves gradually heading to the west.
Zhang Maoxiu pursed his lips with envy, which man doesn't have a heart of blood and a heart? He couldn't wait to follow the horse team to charge and kill the enemy, but it was a pity that the literature he learned did not know how to fight on the battlefield.
Zhang Jingxiu, who has always been steady and silent, couldn't help but praise: "If the commander is determined to lose Xiao Cao, he has the art of judging yīn breaking the sun, and the art of war, the Ming Dynasty has this young hero, the blessing of the true court, and the blessing of the society", Zhang Zixuan laughed when she heard this, and said happily: "I only said that if the commander is determined to lose Xiao Cao, the eldest brother didn't meet in advance with the sentence "See Yilu between the princes" A while ago, someone used this sentence to praise his father. Zhang Jingxiu smiled slightly, Zhang Maoxiu wanted to endure it, but his face was so red that he couldn't hold back: "Sure enough, NV is outgoing, this is compared to Brother Qin and his father, hahahaha...... However, there is nothing wrong with following the father at home and marrying from the husband, and the xiǎo sister is planning for a rainy day. ”,
"The third brother really hates the big brother, you don't care about him", Zhang Zixuan pouted, lowered her head and stopped talking, her hanging face couldn't be seen, and her pink neck was already red.
The officials who were busy listening to the movement here with their ears pricked up, but listening to these words in their ears was a different situation.
"Seeing Yilu between the uncles, if the commander is determined to lose Xiao Cao" was originally to praise Zhuge Liang, the brothers and sisters of the Zhang family used the previous sentence to compare Zhang Juzheng, which is indeed appropriate, and the latter sentence came to praise Qin Lin, doesn't it faintly mean to compare him with Zhang Juzheng? Although it is not explicitly stated, it is also a shunning for the Son of Man
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If someone else said this, Li Qiu and the others, who were eager to perform, would have jumped up and reprimanded them with a strong face, but this was said by Sister Xiǎo, the son of the Zhang family, but it was different.
Could it be that Qin Lin has become the young master of Yuanfu Zhang Taiyue Qingmu, about to leap into the dragon and turn the hidden dragon into a flying dragon in the sky?
All the officials led by Li Qiu secretly made up their minds to eliminate all difficulties, to go up if there were difficulties, and to create difficulties if there were difficulties, and to do everything possible to establish a good relationship with Qin Lin.
On the other side, Qin Lin led the crowd to chase out seven or eight miles, and it was almost to the twenty-fourth bridge.
The pigeons were flying in the sky, the people and horses were chasing on the ground, and they were afraid of losing them, and they were tired enough in a short time, but everyone thought that in one fell swoop, the command center of the White Lotus Sect completely cracked the important case of the theft of silver and sedition, and the court would definitely reward them generously and promote them for meritorious service, so everyone was eager to be the first.
Especially Huo Chonglou, who is eager for meritorious service, with his outstanding martial arts, he has been mixed in Dongchang for 20 years and is still a Xiǎoxiǎo secretary, he has long wanted to be promoted and is about to go crazy, this case itself is extremely concerned by the imperial court, once he makes meritorious service, it is very likely to reach the heavens, Qin Lin is immeasurable, and there is always a reward for following him, and he couldn't be happier.
So Huo Sifang, the master of the East Factory, followed Qin Lin closely on his horse, only letting one horse's head before and after, making a look of full vigilance, and the expression of loyalty and dedication to serve the country was simply written on the face covered with beard
Qin Lin nodded at him with a sideways face, and secretly said that Lao Huo was becoming more and more enlightened.
Thinking of the first time I saw Huo Chonglou, I couldn't help but laugh dumbly, this guy would have been so sensible a long time ago, let alone just a room?
"Lowered, lowered", someone pointed to the pigeon in the air, and the three carrier pigeons were circling to lower the altitude.
The enemy is nearby
Qin Lin and all the soldiers were at the same time.
But he saw the three pigeons fly into a house in the distance.