Li Rongneng found the secret way and entrusted the blessing of the demon monk Huaiyi. On the same day, Huaiyi came to the Assassin's Mansion and saw the corpses of King Yue and his wife, knowing that it was a trick, and used a secret method of seeing and hearing to explore the traces of King Yue, but he found nothing, so he took people out of the Assassin's Mansion.

In Huaiyi's eyes, Li Zhen is already a lost dog, and it is not worth spending any more effort to track down. Zhang Guangfu and the others were busy chasing down the remnants of King Yue's elite cavalry, and they wanted to settle down in a place, so they didn't wreak havoc on the Assassin's Mansion, so naturally they didn't find the secret way.

"Guard this place, don't let outsiders approach, I'll go down and have a look." Li Rong said, took off his coat, and jumped into the pool with a plop. Under the guidance of Yang Shi, Li Rong found the entrance to the secret passage, which was hidden under the rockery in the pool, about three feet wide, just enough for one person to enter and exit.

Yang Shi's body moved, and he drilled into the secret passage, and Li Rong followed behind.

After walking for a few feet, the waterway gradually opened up, and the space became larger and larger, and the two of them stuck their heads out of the water and carefully studied the movements around them.

Li Rong climbed out of the water and stepped on the ground, he could already see secretly, and with a little water light, he could see the layout of the tunnel clearly.

The whole tunnel is six feet high, and there are oil lamps embedded in the walls on both sides, Li Rong touched the wick, and the oil lamps that have long been extinguished have burned residual grease, which should have been lit recently, presumably Li Zhen and the others escaped from here.

The secret passage is very long, ten miles away, although it is not spacious, the amount of work required is not small, I don't know how Li Zhen built it at that time.

The light in front of them gradually became larger, and it took Li Rong and Yang Shi a quarter of an hour to walk out of the secret passage.

The exit is located at the foot of a hill not far outside the city. The left and right sides of the hill are planted with locust trees, all the size of buckets, and the shade is thick, and it is really difficult to find a few people hiding inside.

When the official army attacked the city of Yuzhou, it didn't take much effort, the soldiers and civilians in the city surrendered, and these trees outside the city were retained and not used to make siege equipment.

"My lord, we're outside the South Gate." Yang Shi got out of the woods and looked at the city wall in the distance and said.

"Okay, let's go back the way we came, and don't make a noise about the secret passage." Li Rong said.

Just when Li Rong was looking for the king of Yue, far away in Langshan County, south of Yuzhou, there was a military camp outside the county seat, in which a battalion of 500 soldiers was stationed, and he was ordered to temporarily garrison Langshan County.

Soon after the end of Yuzhou, most of the 100,000 troops were withdrawn, leaving 10,000 horses to be stationed, and Yuzhou had garrisons in all counties below the prefecture to stabilize the local situation.

Zhu Zhongwu is an adjutant general under Qu Chongyu, the general manager of the Chinese army, and is in charge of this battalion.

In the middle of the night, a group of 50 soldiers in the battalion patrolled back and forth intermittently in front of the camp to prevent accidents.

Looking at whether an army is elite or not, you can see one or two from the arrangement of its night duty, whether it is strict in accordance with military regulations, or lazy and careless, and you can also look at the ability of the commander.

The two figures crossed the night sky like night owls, crossed the fence, easily avoided the route guarded by the soldiers, and went straight to the big tent of the Chinese army.

"Zhu Zhongwu!" One of the shadows entered the tent and whispered.

"Who?" The general in the tent jumped up, picked up the horizontal knife placed on the pillow, and said sharply.

It must not be easy for a soldier who can evade the patrol in the middle of the night to come to his tent.

"Chen Jiayan, An Yuqian, why are you here? Come on in! Zhu Zhongwu said when he saw the two.

Chen Jiayan is the personal disciple of the Heavenly Demon Sect elder Lai Junchen, and An Yuqian is also a disciple of another elder of the Demon Sect, both of whom are the leaders of the younger generation of the Heavenly Demon Sect, of course, Zhu Zhongwu is also a member of the Demon Sect, but he serves in the army.

"We are ordered by the sect master to hunt down and kill the Yue Wang and his wife!" Chen Jiayan entered the tent and said.

"Brother Zhu is really simple here, his life is very hard, and he doesn't even have a female companion." An Yuqian smiled coquettishly, took off her masked black scarf, and revealed a beautiful face that was also delicate and happy.

"The Yue Wang couple are hiding in Langshan County? Just the two of you? Zhu Zhongwu asked.

The news that King Yue was hiding in Langshan County certainly surprised him, and he was even more surprised that the two people came to hunt down King Yue in front of him. How to say that the Yue Wang couple has two seven-rank grandmasters, that is Chen Jiayan and An Yuqian's martial arts six-grade juniors can deal with.

"King Yue and his wife were seriously injured, especially King Yue was first shocked by the sect master and injured his internal organs, and then he was hit by the Heavenly Demon Fist of the master, now it is a question of whether he can move or not, how can we be afraid of him. As for whether it is hidden in Langshan County, you need to search to know. Chen Jiayan said proudly.

Before coming, Huaiyi told the two of them the truth of King Yue's wife, and the two of them came to chase and kill King Yue with confidence.

"Then why did you come to me? I don't know where King Yue is, if I want to use officers and soldiers to search, will it be useful? "Zhu Zhongwu is not a stupid person, he almost guessed Chen Jiayan's intentions. It's just that some don't think so, no matter how you say that the Yue Wang couple are also seven-rank masters, how can ordinary soldiers come in handy? If a lion is injured, it is also a lion, not a flock of sheep to tease with.

"According to the sect master, Li Zhen, the king of Yue, and Zhou Xuan'er, the holy daughter of the Heavenly Witch Sect, have both been hit by the heavenly demon qi of their own sect, and they are deeply injured, and they can't use force with people within three months, and if they want to expel the heavenly demon qi, they need some medicine to cooperate, I want you to come forward to investigate the trading of those specific drugs in Langshan County, and at the same time send soldiers to strictly search the villages and block the four borders, so as not to escape from the king of Yue." Chen Jiayan said.

"Send soldiers to check from village to village?" Zhu Zhongwu pondered for a while and said, "This is okay." Tomorrow I will enter the city to deal with the matter, and send my soldiers to search and investigate. ”

"Okay, we have searched the remaining ten counties in Yuzhou, just Langshan County and Xincai County, I hope we can find Yue Wang and his wife this time." Chen Jiayan said with a little joy.

Zhu Zhongwu's Demon Sect faction is different from Chen Jiayan, he studied under Qu Chongyu, the elder of the Heavenly Demon Sect, and intends to develop his power in the army. Of course, Chen Jiayan's request was not excessive, and Zhu Zhongwu was not easy to refuse.

Finding the secret passage used by Li Zhen, the king of Yue, to abscond, Li Rong instructed his subordinates to keep quiet and keep it a secret. Anyway, Li Zhen had already escaped, and it didn't make much sense to find the secret way.

At this time, the thousand horses sent by Li Rong to inquire about the news in various parts of Yuzhou a few days ago came back.

"Someone is hunting for King Yue, and the garrison has been dispatched to help," a thousand horsemen sent out by Li Rong reported back.

"Who is so stirring up the people? Are they sure that King Yue is still in Yuzhou? Li Rong asked, his fingers lightly tapping on the bookcase.

"It is said to be General Qu's subordinates." The thousand riders replied.

"I see," Li Rong suddenly realized, "keep an eye on them, and report back as soon as there is news." ”

The only people who can know the exact news of King Yue are the people who fought with King Yue that day, except for the people in the Demon Gate, Li Rong can't think of anyone else. Qu Chongyu's matter as an elder of the Heavenly Demon Sect could not be concealed from the well-intentioned people in the court, and Li Rong happened to know about it.

After a while, Di Renjie sent someone to find Li Rong, preparing to ask him to go to Langshan County to inspect together.

"The former county magistrate of Langshan County is the confidant of King Yue, and he has been escorted to Beijing to wait for beheading, and many officials in the county have been arrested and imprisoned, so the chaos of government affairs in the county is the most chaotic in the county, I must go and see it and stabilize the situation there." Di Renjie explained to Li Rong.

After dealing with the affairs of the state and generally settling down, Di Renjie aimed at the counties below, among which the most chaotic counties were Langshan and Xincai, which attracted his attention.

Everyone rode on the war horses borrowed from the army, and a group of more than a dozen people set off early in the morning and headed for Langshan County.

Langshan County is nearly 100 miles away from Yuzhou, and Di Renjie and others rushed to the border of Langshan County in two days.

In this era, communication was inconvenient, and Di Renjie did not notify the chief official before he came, unlike the county officials in later generations, when they heard that their boss was coming, they would run to the county border early to greet them.

"The official road is in disrepair, the fields are barren, and the officials in charge should really be killed!" Di Renjie looked at the dusty, potholed roads and overgrown weeds on both sides, and the fields with sparse grain seedlings and said angrily.

It was the duty of the magistrates, especially the latter, to improve the official roads and urge the people to cultivate the crops. Cultivation is related to the people's livelihood, if you don't plough for a year, you can't eat, and the people have no food, so they will rise up and become chaos, or become refugees, encroach on the Quartet, or become a mob, and destroy everything, which is extremely harmful to the rule of the imperial court.

Di Renjie slowed down the speed of the horse as he spoke, stopped, turned over and dismounted, stepped on the loess that did not reach the top of his boots, walked to the field in a few steps, and bent down to check the growth of the crops.

At this time, the wheat harvest has passed, and the fields are planted with corn, and the seedlings are more than two feet high, and the green is very pleasant. However, the seedlings in this field are quite sparsely planted, and there are a lot of weeds, which grow very densely, and I think it is because of the lack of effort of the landowner.

Li Rong and the others also dismounted and gathered around Di Renjie.

"There are a lot of weeds in the field, it should be a lack of manpower to take care of them," Li Rong stretched out his hand to pull up a weed and said, "The king of Yue raised troops, summoned young and strong people to join the army, and requisitioned people's husbands, which consumed people's labor, so he could take care of the crops." ”

"This matter is available in all counties in Yuzhou, and along the way, only Langshan County has the worst crops and the most barrenness, which has a lot to do with the county officials and cannot be taken lightly." Di Renjie stood up and looked in the direction of the county seat and said.

The county in Yuzhou has suffered from the military disaster, and the loss of young and strong people is greater than that of Langshan County, in terms of the quality of crops alone, Langshan County is really not good, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the worst, and this is the reason why Di Renjie is angry.

After the military disaster, the negligence of the county officials was the main reason.