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"Now, the only enemy of the Taishi is Zhong Wuregret's lewd thief and Dou Yuejiao, I estimate that Zhong Wuregret's lewd thief has been busy taking care of himself for disaster relief, and it is good that he can return to the royal city safely, I think, nine times out of ten, Dou Yuejiao did it behind his back." The fat doorman said from the left.

"If Dou Yue Jiao did it, what does this mean to him? He had just obtained the coveted position of Ling Yin, and he would never take a huge risk to sneak into the palace and rob Concubine Yuan. Zhuo Er, a thin doorman, retorted.

Deng Shi said: "This is reasonable, in my opinion, Zhong Wuregret's command is very likely." The strength of this person should not be underestimated, in order to prevent accidents, the Taishi may wish to send people to closely monitor the places that Zhong Wuregret has often visited in the royal city, if we find the slightest abnormality, we can take advantage of Zhong Wuregret's absence in the royal city, and put away those places even the nest, it is a matter of life and death, even if it is worth killing a few people in vain. ”

"Okay, that's it!" Pan Chong immediately set a strategy and arranged for his subordinates to act.

After these doormen left, General Pan of the forbidden army appeared in Pan Chong's study.

Pan Chong said to him with a gloomy face: "Zhong Wuregret, that lewd thief is obviously intelligent, but he has pretended to be stupid and deceived us for so long, he must have an ulterior conspiracy, and his scheming is so deep that even I am willing to bow down."

However, I have been immersed in the government for decades and already have a strong team, so it is reasonable to say that I want to usurp the throne and seize power. However, the people and courtiers all knew that Zhong Wuxian was also a thief, and it would be completely wishful thinking to say that he had deceived the king into usurping power. So, I was thinking, maybe the king who lived in that palace wanted to take back the royal power that had fallen by.

If you think about it carefully, in the toying of Zhong Wuregret's lewd thief, the enemies of the King of Chu disappeared one after another. Think about it, from the king's master Gongzi Xie and Ziyi, to the original Ling Yin Chengjia, to Jin Eel beside me, which one is not dead or not? By now, I'm afraid I'm the only enemy of the king. The methods of this lewd thief are so terrible that I have to guard against them. ”

Hearing this, General Pan gasped.

Pan Chong said: "This time, I'd rather be responsible for others than for others." Otherwise, the Panfu clan will shed a river of blood. After you go back, carefully check the manpower arranged by Zhong Wuregret in the forbidden army and the palace, and as soon as the thief returns to the royal city, I will immediately hold a banquet to celebrate Zhong Wuregret's achievement, you have to arrange the manpower and try to kill Zhong Wuregret and the king of Chu at the banquet. Then, I will declare to the public that Zhong Wuregret was proud of his achievements, and he clashed with the king of Chu after drinking and killed the king of Chu by mistake.

At the same time as killing Zhong Wufu at the banquet, you must prepare the army to wash the Zhong Mansion in blood, otherwise it will be difficult to solve the hatred in my heart. However, Zhong Wuregret's wives must try to protect them. ”

"Do you want to discuss this matter with Deng Shi and them?" General Pan asked.

Pan Chong shook his head: "It's better not to say about the killing of the king, only the two of us can know about it." The literati have a lot of ideas, and they can only make good use of those who are too smart, so that they know too many secrets, and in the future, they may become our enemies. However, once the power is in hand, they know that they can only cling to us, and if they leave us, they will die without a place to bury, and only at that time will they follow us with all their hearts. ”

After General Pan and Pan Chong discussed in secret, they left Pan's Mansion very late and went back.

It's time to arrest the thieves.

If these robbers are not exterminated and the grain trade is opened, the disaster relief will end in nothing. In Dr. Pan's capital, Zhong Wuregret only brought a team of guards, and then led the troops with Sima to arrest the thieves.

Coming to the mouth of the valley, Zhong Wuregret was a little worried about the terrain when he saw it, the valley was a long and narrow path, with steep cliffs on both sides, that is, throwing a few stones down from the mountain could kill a bunch of people. The bandits' camp was even more difficult to attack, and the path up the hill was only a little more than a foot wide, and when the attackers climbed halfway up the mountain, a single piece of wood could sweep away the soldiers who went up the mountain.

Since it is not easy to attack, and if Wu can't do it, he will write a letter, Zhong Wuregret actually whimsically proposed to go up the mountain alone with Sima and the two to persuade the robbers to surrender.

Hearing Zhong Wuregret's proposal, no one said that he was an idiot, but everyone didn't expect that Sima actually agreed to Zhong Wuregret's strategy, and he and Zhong Wuregret went up the mountain.

After camping at the foot of the mountain for one night, after dawn the next day, Zhong Wuregret and Sima went to the bandits' camp to persuade them to surrender. Zhong Wuregret and Sima walked in front, and they were far behind the killers sent by Pan Chong and a team of Sima's own soldiers. This is Sima's request, saying that if something happens, there will be an answer. Zhong Wuregret agreed without thinking about it.

Sima was secretly overjoyed in his heart, and when he came to the bandit camp, he beckoned the inside and outside to respond, killed Zhong Wuregret on the spot, and then led the team back to report the news, saying that Zhong Wuregret was looking for a dead end, because many leaders heard his suggestion.

Walking to the mountain road in the middle of the mountain, Zhong Wuregret shouted loudly to the mountain: "The robbers on the mountain, you listen well, I am the envoy sent by Wangcheng to provide disaster relief, I know that you are forced to go up the mountain to be thieves, I want to talk to you about the conditions, I can give you a lot of silver taels, as long as you allow the grain to be traded, in order to show our sincerity, only Sima and I go up the mountain, don't kill us." ”

There was no response from the mountains, however, there were no hostilities. In this way, Zhong Wuregret and Sima slowly approached the bandits' camp.

At this time, a group of thieves suddenly stood on the bandits' camp. Looking further back, Sima's personal soldiers and the killers sent by Taishi quickly followed Zhong Wuregret and them.

Sima looked at Zhong Wuregret and said with a cruel smile: "My lord, it's rude." ”

Zhong Wuregret pretended to be puzzled and asked, "Is there something wrong?" ”

Sima saw that there were robbers blocking the way in front of him, and killers and personal soldiers approaching behind, Zhong Wuregret was caught in the middle, and there was nowhere to escape, he pointed at Zhong Wuregret with a knife and said: "It's only to blame you for messing with people who shouldn't be provoked, if you don't die, our Pan family will be finished." ”

Zhong Wuxian drew his sword and pointed at Sima and said, "If you put down your weapon, I can spare your life, otherwise, your Pan clan will have no place to stand in the capital." Figured it out! ”

Sima looked at Zhong Wuregret and the two guards beside him, who actually turned their backs to the bandits' camp.

He secretly said, "This thief is either stupid or stupid." At this time, they dared to threaten me. ”

He looked behind him, and his own soldiers and the killers of the Taishi had already arrived. He sneered and said, "When you are dying, you still say crazy words, kill me ......"

However, before he could say the word killing, suddenly, a cold arrow pierced his throat.

The killers and the soldiers were stunned for a moment, and in an instant, they all fell under the rain of arrows. The door of the robbers' camp was wide open and Zhong Wuregret was welcomed in.

After Zhong Wuregret entered the camp, Yang Youji stepped forward to greet him and said, "My lord, I am fortunate not to disgrace my life. ”

It turned out that Zhong Wuregret went out of the city several times, including taking Kabuki out of the city to play, and used a trick. At night, he would secretly go to the ghost to reconnoiter the terrain and formulate a strategy.

Zhong Wuxian used the guards he brought with him as the main force of attack, and they climbed up the back mountain at night to see the ghosts, and launched an attack at dawn, when the people were most tired, and quickly eliminated the so-called thieves.

The "thieves" who occupy the ghost are all members of the Pan family and the Sima family, and their combat effectiveness is not strong, and they only want to take advantage of the advantages of the terrain to make more money. Because Pan Chong wanted to deal with Zhong Wuregret, they stopped buying road money, cut off the grain route, and wanted to use hunger as a weapon to force the people to rebel.

In the state of Chu, the county Yin and the Yi doctors were both appointed by the king of Chu. The king of Chu and Ling Yin generally used Feng to apologetic to examine the political achievements of officials. Although the king of Chu had no real power, Pan Chong was afraid that if his officials reciprocated with the truth, they might be caught by Cheng Jia, and they would be dismissed from office for some reason and replaced by his own people. Therefore, despite the fact that it was a disaster year, Pan Chong signaled his officials to forcibly expropriate land according to the harvest year.

When the catastrophe came, the people had no food at home, and the government did not open official warehouses. As a result, there was a tragic scene of starvation everywhere, everyone wearing filial piety, and every household crying. Even when burying the dead, people don't have the strength to dig an extra shovel of soil, and cover a few handfuls of soil to bury it, which is called loess to cover the face.

It was not until the disaster was too serious to cover up that there was an urgent report to Wangcheng. However, as soon as Pan Chong saw Zhong Wuregret going to the disaster relief, he secretly ordered to step up the expropriation of land taxes, as long as Zhong Wuregret could be killed, he didn't care how many people's lives were used for burial. If it weren't for Zhong Wuregret's reading of the will of the King of Chu, the tax would be exempted for one year and reduced for two years, and the people would have risen up long ago.

Now that the grain route has been opened, the merchants will naturally transport the grain for sale. Zhong Wuregret left ten members of the special training team behind in Ghost Sorrow, and they led a team adapted from thieves to garrison it, and then rushed back to the capital non-stop.

As soon as he returned to the capital, Zhong Wuregret immediately arrested Dr. Pan, and immediately corrected the law after reading out his crime of colluding with thieves and attempting to rebel. Then, Zhong Wuregret read out the edict of the king of Chu again. Anyone who goes to Chu to sell grain cannot make more than 20 percent of the profit, but as long as he enters the ghost and sees sorrow, Chu will send troops to escort him to protect the legitimate interests of the merchants.

In troubled times, the word peace can be described as a priceless treasure. Zhong Wuregret broke up the soldiers under the command of the former Sima in Duyi and formed several household grain teams, which were led by the guards he brought. In this way, although there is no huge profit, it can make money peacefully, which still attracts many businessmen to come and sell grain.

Zhong Wuregret has seen the ability of Li Gong, he asked Li Gong to temporarily act as the doctor of Yi, and when the bronze seal of Wangcheng is sent, he will officially take office.

When Zhong Wuregret said that "she can also do disaster relief with the edict of the king of Chu", he asked her to open the box to see the edict of the king of Chu, because what Eruirui will see is all the blank edict stamped with the jade seal of the king of Chu. Before Zhong Wuregret left, he quietly discussed with the King of Chu, took some blank edicts, and filled in the content according to the situation.

abolished the harsh government of forcing the people to rebel, killed a number of corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and opened the official warehouse to relieve the urgent task of disaster relief, and at the same time announced that the tax would be exempted for one year and reduced for two years. Zhong's disaster relief trip without regrets can now be described as a successful completion.

Although there are still problems that will take time to resolve, the most difficult phase has passed. As long as the people can survive, they will work with the government to save themselves and work for hope in the coming year.

Zhong Wuregret quickly finished handling the government affairs and entrusted the rest to Duke Qu Ping, and then hurried to the royal city. The surroundings of Chu are now full of smoke, and there is no need to report emergencies everywhere.

The king of Chu has been placed under house arrest, and news from the palace and outside has been cut off. Around Zhongfu, there are many vendors selling things for no reason during the day, and at night, suspicious people are also found to be secretly watching.

Now, Zhong Wuregret already has a lot of strength, and the time has come for him and the King of Chu to rectify the dynasty and make a final decision with Pan Chong, a group of corrupt ministers. The state of Chu can no longer afford internal friction, and if it continues like this, the state of Chu will perish.

It's just that Zhong Wuregret didn't know that Pan Chong had already colluded with the Jin State, concocted a false document of Zhong Wuregret's collusion with the Jin State, and the selected dead soldiers had already determined the fact that Zhong Wuregret had colluded with the Jin State, and only waited for Zhong Wuregret to return to the royal capital, and after killing him and the King of Chu at the banquet, he immediately made his crime of betraying the State of Chu public.

Zhong Wuregret was unexpectedly calm on the way back to the royal city. Pan Chong received the news that Zhong Wuregret was particularly anxious to return, but halfway through, his trip slowed down, because Zhong Wuregret was infected by the plague in the disaster area and became seriously ill, so he had to slow down his trip. (To be continued.) )