Chapter Seventy-Five: Please Enter the Cage
Ziyi was afraid that Cheng Jia would regret it, so she fled as quickly as a lost dog. Despite this, Ziyi's favorite beautiful concubine has to find Zhong Wuregret in front of the car every day to say a few words and ask about the situation. This made Ziyi feel very uncomfortable, talking to this lewd thief, wasn't he like a mouse, feeding the cat to the cat's mouth? If it weren't for the fact that this might make his beautiful concubine feel relieved, he would have asked the soldiers to come forward, and he would have looked for his teeth without regrets.
Seeing that he was about to reach the territory of Young Master Jia Song, and seeing Jia Da who came to greet him, Ziyi breathed a sigh of relief.
But to his heartache, when he woke up that morning, he found that the carriage loaded with treasure was unknowingly missing five. However, he can't help it, it's important to escape, how can he have time to track it down.
However, when he arrived in Jason's capital, he was even more saddened, and many of the carriages were loaded with stones, and the treasures in them were gone. He even suspected that his government soldiers were taking advantage of the fire to rob, but even their armor was stripped and searched, and no trace of entrainment was found.
He also suspected that Zhong Wuregret had no regrets, but this lewd thief lived with the beauty guards and the king of Chu every day, and never left the sight of his soldiers, so Ziyi had no choice but to give up, thinking that he was unlucky.
After coming to the capital ruled by the young master Jia Song, Jia Song personally welcomed Ziyi to the throne, handed over the bronze seal appointed by the king of Chu to Ziyi, and he was willing to assist Ziyi.
In Duyi, Ziyi and Gongzixie arranged the King of Chu and Zhong Wuregret in a compound, and Ziyi's soldiers surrounded the compound. Without the orders of Ziyi and Gongzixie, the king of Chu could not leave half a step, on the surface he was respectful, saying that it was for the safety of the king of Chu, but in fact, the king of Chu had been placed under house arrest.
However, the king of Chu was so good that he didn't care about all this, he just asked them to arrange for beautiful women to accompany him to drink and sing. In a hurry, the palace maids and musicians were all abandoned in the royal city, and now, where to find well-trained kabuki? Ziyi had no choice but to arrange several favorite concubines in the mansion to the King of Chu, including the beautiful concubine who often asked Zhong Wuregret on the road.
Ziyi is now anxious about how to quickly use the king of Chu to order the ministers, so as to gather the troops of each county as soon as possible and counterattack the royal city.
Life is almost gone, and a few women are not yet to the point where it is difficult to give up for Ziyi. Among the beautiful concubines he gave to the king of Chu, there was a concubine named Meizhi, who was sent from Xiguo a year ago, and after a bedtime, Ziyi took her into the room.
Mei Zhi is very good at figuring out the mentality of men, and the bed kung fu is even more of a master among the masters, "blowing, pulling, playing, singing" is all excellent, and every time after Ziyi finishes work, she never feels dirty, and slowly cleans the mixed stains of the two for Ziyi with her tongue.
This time to send her to the King of Chu, it was originally a last resort, but he didn't expect to get an unexpected harvest, every time Meizhi came back, he would tell everyone the interesting things around the King of Chu, so, under Ziyi's earnest inducement, Meizhi would bring back some things Ziyi wanted to hear every time.
As soon as he settled down a little, Ziyi wrote two copies by hand, asking the two county magistrates to mobilize hundreds of military vehicles and thousands of armor soldiers, prepare enough food, grass, ordnance and materials, and come to listen to his dispatch.
After Ziyi stamped the jade seal of the king of Chu on the handwriting, she asked the two teams of government soldiers to send them to the county.
At the same time, Ziyi ordered the city and field taxes in the capital to be increased several times, and forcibly accepted them as military funds for the army to suppress the rebellion. So, "Ziyi scrapes the people, mosquito legs scrape oil, earthworms extract marrow, and bird legs split meat." The nursery rhyme first spread from the mouths of the children in this capital and spread throughout the four fields.
When Zhong Wuregret sang the children's song he made up to Doulan, Xiangui and Qu Rong for the first time, Doulan smiled so hard that even Qu Rong showed a rare smile.
At that time, it happened that Meizhi brought the will of the king of Chu and asked Zhong Wuregret to go to the Duyi market for him to look for wine.
Zhong Wuregret said that he heard a nursery rhyme on the street and told it to Doulan, Xiangui and Qu Rong, and they laughed. After that, Zhong Wuregret took Doulan out to find wine.
Qu Rong was going to guard the King of Chu, so she returned to the King of Chu with Meizhi.
On the way, Meizhi intentionally or unintentionally got close to Qu Rongtao, but Qu Rong always avoided her. This aroused Meizhi's curiosity, Meizhi found that Qu Rong's arm seemed to be different, so she pestered Qu Rong to see what was going on, and under Qu Rong's deliberate evasion, she didn't find a hand crossbow, but she found a crossbow arrow.
The moment the crossbow arrow was discovered, Meizhi just flickered for a moment, and still returned to King Chu quietly.
Despite being held hostage out of the royal city, the King of Chu didn't seem to be worried at all. "There is wine today and drunk today" has become the mantra of the king of Chu, whenever someone quietly comes to persuade the king of Chu to care about the people of Limin, and not to let Ziyi do what he wants, the king of Chu blocked back with this sentence.
Zhong Wuregret is still very cooperative with the King of Chu, and he will find a way to search for fine wine in the market every day. He drove a horse-drawn cart alone to buy fine wine, which seemed to be the only hobby he enjoyed when he arrived in Tuyi.
Ziyi's anxiously waiting soldiers and materials were delayed, and he gritted his teeth with hatred, but he quietly sent an accountable messenger back to report that no one in the county had received the order of the king of Chu, and at the same time, none of the government soldiers he sent to deliver the book returned.
No matter how stupid Ziyi is, she knows that she is being plotted. There was no way, so I had to quietly issue the secret order with the jade seal of the king of Chu again.
However, the difference this time is that on the night after the soldiers who sent the royal order departed, several drunks who were making trouble in the Qinglou were sent to the official mansion. After a while, the drunks came out of the government in pairs and disappeared into the night.
Ziyi is very anxious now, it is said that the people of Wangcheng are boiling, and they have the intention of not arresting Ziyi and asking for the crime, and vowing not to give up. Cheng Jia considered the safety of the king of Chu and did not want to move troops casually, but under the impetus of the boiling people's feelings, he and Pan Chong were forced to have no choice but to prepare to send troops to fight against the rebel minister Ziyi.
Only by taking advantage of the opportunity of the King of Chu in his hands and uniting the forces of other counties and towns can Ziyi fight with Cheng Jia for the last time to decide the winner. In case of defeat, he also prepared a retreat for himself and threw himself into the Jin Kingdom!
In order to cooperate with Ziyi, the young master Jia Song is also actively preparing for war, due to the lack of soldiers, he is ready to set up a slave army, and set up an official document, covered with the jade seal of the king of Chu, solemnly promised, after joining the army, the government will redeem them for them, if they can achieve war merits, they will also be crowned with official positions and share the land.
No one is allowed to stop any slave who comes to join the army, and once the slaves in the government are requisitioned, the government will allocate a sum of silver taels to compensate.
This decree is like adding a spoonful of water to a frying pan, which is too explosive. Far and near, a large number of slaves came to cast every day.
Although the people who want to enlist are very enthusiastic, but this time it is very strange, Young Fu Jia Song said that the government does not have much money, the number of soldiers recruited is very small, and the selection of military personnel is also very strict, when selecting soldiers, few people pay attention, Young Fu Jia Song is around, Xiangui often whispers in his ear, and then determines the qualifications of enlisted soldiers.
At first, as soon as he heard about the establishment of a slave army, Ziyi immediately became wary of Young Fu Jia Song. But later, I heard the young Fu Jia Song explain that the so-called legion was just to scare Cheng Jia and Pan Chong, and promised that after the legion was established, Ziyi would send the generals in the mansion to lead the army, and Ziyi was relieved.
However, when he saw that there were not many soldiers recruited, and he did scare Cheng Jia and them as if he was doing it, Ziyi was also cold-hearted, sent a general over, and weakened his own government soldiers, so he let the young master Jia Song toss by himself.
On this day, Zhong Wuregret, as usual, still drove leisurely to buy wine, but today's luck seemed to be very good, and it didn't take long to find a lot of fine wine, and after Zhong Wuregret bought it, he went back early.
Suddenly, a carriage in front of him, the axle suddenly snapped, the body fell, blocking the road, and in an instant, Zhong Wuregret's heart was alert.
"Whoosh", two arrows swept in Zhong Wuregret's ear, and three more carriages accelerated towards him behind him.
The road ahead is blocked, and there are pursuers behind. Zhong Wuregret immediately turned the horse's head and rushed towards the street on the other side. The pursuers also seemed to be pushing Zhong Wuregret down that road, and they didn't want to kill people on the street.
After rushing into the street on the side, Zhong Wuregret could only drive along this road, he estimated that the comer still had a killing move behind, otherwise he would not be forced to this road.
At this time, he saw a stone beside the road, and he hurriedly pressed the wheel on one side, and the body deviated, and the wine barrels on the car rolled down one after another, just as they were hit by the carriage coming from behind.
Zhong Wuregret only heard the sound of the carriage falling to the ground behind him, he didn't care about looking back, and hurriedly drove wildly, who knows, the quality of the carriage in ancient times was too poor, after the wheel hit the stone, although it was barely pressed from the stone, the wheel had made a sound that it was about to fall apart.
Zhong Wuregret saw that the door of a mansion in front of him was wide open, and he immediately inserted the crossbow arrow of his hand crossbow into the horse's stock, and one turned over, rolled off the carriage, and rushed into the mansion.
The horses neighed and galloped in pain, and not long after, the sound of the carriage falling to the ground was heard.
As soon as Zhong Wuregret entered the gate, he found that in the courtyard of the mansion, there were many armor soldiers standing with swords, and as he entered, the door of the mansion also slammed shut, completely closing the door and beating the dog.
Zhong Wuregret saw it, he didn't dare to stop for a moment, and immediately threw out the iron anchor climbing rope, hooked the small building on the right side of the mansion, and jumped in.
After jumping into the room of the small building, Zhong Wuregret quickly took a look at the environment.
This small building is a typical wooden frame structure of ancient Chinese architecture, that is, the frame of the house is made of wooden columns and beams. The so-called walls only play the role of dividing the space, all of which are wooden walls with hollow patterns, standing outside, you can see the situation in the room clearly, the room is empty, and it is even more difficult to hide.
Connecting the small building is a nine-curved corridor, which seems to lead to the courtyard at the back. Because of the ideology of Chinese feudal society of "the old and the young are orderly, and the inside and outside are different", the building is also a spatial organization that forms one courtyard after another, layer by layer. In the Song Dynasty, Ouyang Xiu said, "How deep is the courtyard?" This is evidenced by the words.
Because I don't know how many courtyards are connected before and after, and what ambush is in the courtyard, Zhong Wuregret didn't dare to make a random indiscriminate incursion.
"Throw yourself into the net!" With the serial set designed by the other party, Zhong Wuregret also felt that the opponent was not easy to deal with.
At this time, I heard someone downstairs speak: "Lord Zhong, it's not easy to invite you, you can show up and say something." ”
Zhong Wuregret is thinking about this proposal in accordance with modern military training: "Damn! As soon as I make a sound, you can arrange the position and line of attack according to the sound positioning. ”
He didn't expect that what the people below said was a real proposal, and he wanted to negotiate with Zhong Wuregret.