Hearing Wu Changqing say two "That's good" in a row, Dayuanjun's heart felt even more uneasy.

He didn't know Concubine Min's whereabouts.

He only knew that it was his wife who lent the sedan chair to Concubine Min so that she could escape. As for where she went, he didn't know and didn't want to know.

Fearing that she might retaliate, the mutinous soldiers had spontaneously searched for her everywhere, which he couldn't stop.

"Although Your Excellency is highly respected and supported by the military and people of your country, you must also understand that among the rebels, there are many people with ill intentions, and they must not be relied on as a dry city." Ding Yuting said, "The bandits who attacked last night played the banner of eliminating violence and peace, supporting His Excellency the royal father to govern, but they wanted to seize the city gate, if our army could not support it last night, let me ask if His Excellency the royal father can live in the palace today?" ”

"Lord Ding is talking about ......" Hearing the implied accusation in Ding Yuting's words, beads of sweat oozed from Dayuanjun's forehead.

"This rebellion is now spreading throughout the country, and Your Excellency Father Wang doesn't know what to do?" Wu Changqing asked again.

Dayuanjun heard that Wu Changqing's tone was not good, and understood that the Qianguo people were likely to depose themselves this time, and helped his son Li Xi to power again, gritted his teeth, and simply decided to throw the current mess directly to the Qianguo people.

"Lord Wu, my country has made Min Ziying's woman a miasma, although I am supported by the army and the people and are in charge of national affairs, and the state affairs are so corrupt, I am really helpless, and I am ashamed of the high hopes of the people!" The courtyard monarch sighed heavily and bowed his head.

Wu Changqing and Ding Yuting immediately understood what Dayuanjun meant, and Wu Changqing glanced at Ding Yuting quietly. Following the words of the courtyard king, he said: "Your Excellency the royal father is very old. Suddenly encountered such a chaotic situation. Unable to clean up, we also understand that in this case, His Excellency the Royal Father will recuperate with peace of mind, and we will patrol the hunt on behalf of the Son of Heaven and try our best to help your country. ”

"This ...... It's good, it's good. The courtyard was taken aback. Of course, he understood what it meant for the Qianguo people to let themselves "recuperate in peace", but at this time, he already understood his situation, so he could only grit his teeth and say this head-on.

On the same day, the cadres took over the defense of Seoul and inside and outside the palace, maintained law and order in the city, and issued a proclamation in the name of Ding Yuting, the commander of the Beiyang Naval Division, to appease the people.

"The change in June this year...... The news was heard, the road was circulated, and it was said that the prince of Erguo (the prince of the courtyard) knew about it. My Emperor Daqian was furious. Since the prince of Nian'er knows what is going on, he will be able to get the name of his master...... Today, Admiral Beiyang Naval Division Ding Junmen and Er Guo Taigong are in harmony. Returned to the king of Zhenger and retired to Yunhyeon Palace. Between the flesh and blood of the people, all the grace and righteousness, my Daqian Emperor has his own rights and balances, and he will not be deeply responsible for the prince of the country, but he acts hastily, and he is afraid that the subjects of Er's subjects will not be informed, and he will be suspicious and fearful, and he will be greatly disappointed by the profundity of the holy will. …… When the heavenly soldiers have arrived, the troublemakers should quickly introspect themselves, and if they are obsessed, they will be punished even if they are far away......"

A month later, when Dayuanjun knew that he had been placed under house arrest in Yunxian Palace, he wanted to make another move, but it was too late.

"What have the people from the Celestial Empire done these days?" Dayuanjun asked a retainer.

"Back to your lordship, the Heavenly Army is helping the capital with military rations. Lord Wu ordered the grain and rice brought by the Heavenly Army to the capital as rice for the soldiers and food for the people. The retainer replied, "The soldiers of the Beijing army went to the camp of the heavenly army to complain, saying that the chaos was caused by the corrupt officials who had been in arrears for too long and lacked food, so Lord Wu ordered the Beijing army to pay rice with all the rations of the heavenly army, and set up a porridge factory to help the poor, so the officials and people in the city were happy, and now the rebellion has stopped, the rebels are in place, the city is in order, and there is no chaos." ”

"Where did they get all this grain?" When Dayuanjun heard the retainer's answer, he couldn't help but be surprised.

The DPRK government owed the five battalions of the Beijing army a total of 13 months, which was not a small number, but Wu Changqing actually used the military rations of the cadres to make up the arrears of rice in full, and quickly quelled the rebellion.

"Back to my lordship, I heard that the rations of the Heavenly Army were all transported by sea by the big steamers of China Merchants, and after being unloaded at Incheon, they were transported to Seoul by small steamers across the river, which was extremely fast." The retainer replied, "The rice of the five battalions of the Beijing army has been paid, and now the rice of officials at all levels is being repaid." ”

"Qianguo is a big country after all, and it is not comparable to Korea and Japan!" Dayuanjun sighed.

He didn't expect that Wu Changqing would play such a move, and quickly and effectively quell the rebellion.

Similar to the situation in Qianguo, the North Koreans "became soldiers" in order to "eat food", because there was no food to eat, so there was this chaos, and with food to eat, no one thought of rebellion.

In fact, not only the common people and ordinary soldiers, after the reissue of Romi, the Korean officials were also grateful to the Celestial Empire, which could be heard from the words of the retainer in front of him.

"Is there any news of that woman?" Dayuanjun asked again.

"Nope." The retainer shook his head.

At this moment, a dull loud noise was suddenly heard in the distance, followed by the sound of an explosion, startling the two of them.

It's the sound of cannons!

"What's going on?" The courtyard gentleman followed the prestige and saw a faint cloud of black smoke.

Another cannon rang out, and after the explosion, a large cloud of smoke rose.

"It should be that there are Tiandao bandits coming over again......" Thinking of the scene of the cadres and soldiers destroying the Dongxue Dao "righteous army" with guns and cannons that day, the retainers' faces turned pale.

"That Yuan Weiting, he is really a powerful character!" Dayuanjun also remembered the scene of corpses strewn across the east gate of Seoul that morning, and he couldn't help but feel chills on his body, and his heart to regain power through the chaos disappeared in an instant.

Dayuanjun didn't know that the cannon fire just now was not because of the Dongxue party disciples, but because Yuan Weiting led the cadres under his command to arrest the leader of the mutiny.

His father, Jin Changsun, walked around the house one hundred and forty-six times with his hands behind his back, and finally stopped. Because Jin Chunyong has already packed his baggage and is ready to go out. Jiang Mingjun stopped at the door and didn't let him go. Yin Shanglong squatted in the corner of the room, still silent.

Jin Chunyong half-bowed his head, a few strands of messy hair scattered across his forehead. Almost covering the eyes. He had a soft bag of furoshiki slanted over his shoulders. The clothes are tightly tied. There is a horned bow and arrow pot hanging from his back, and a long knife is pinned to his waist. He looked at Jiang Mingjun in front of him expressionlessly, "I'll say it again, don't stop me." ”

Jiang Mingjun didn't take a step back, and said firmly, "I won't allow you to go." If you want to leave, you will have to wait until tomorrow morning. In any case, you are not allowed to leave tonight. ”

Jin Chunyong's hand pressed the hilt of the aspen wood. The sword body trembled slightly. The air in the room seemed to freeze, everyone's hands and feet were as heavy as lead, and every slight breath was like the muffled thunder of a spring night, rolling over everyone's hearts. Jin Changsun took out his snuffbox, scooped out a little black powder, took a long breath, and sneezed extremely loudly. Immediately, he shook his head, walked up to the two of them, and pressed their wrists. "All sit down, all sit down."

Jin Chunyong frowned. It was his father, and he felt for no reason that this thin and easy-going old man had suddenly become tall and majestic, and there was a certain weight and indefensible strength in his words. He let go of his wrist, took a few steps back, and sat down against the wine cabinet. Jiang Mingjun also sat down by the door. The living wood floor was slightly damp, and the weather was really cold.

As soon as Zheng Yiji entered Jin Chunyong's house, he felt that something was wrong, and several young people had already packed their bags and looked like they were going out of the house. Before he could ask, Jin Chunyong greeted him and said, "Come with us, Yoshiki." ”

Zheng Yiji was taken aback, "What's wrong?" Do you want to rebel? Didn't all the arrears of rice be distributed to us? ”

Jiang Mingjun said coldly beside him, "That's the poisonous plan of the Qianguo people, so that after everyone disperses, I can arrest the person who is the leader." ”

Zheng Yiji was taken aback, and couldn't help but frown, "How can this be ......?"

Yin Shanglong over there had a stalk in his neck, and his bloodshot eyes were about to explode. Jin Changsun held him down and didn't let him speak, but he turned his face and said calmly, "Yiji, this is the truth, the people of the Qianguo have put the royal father under house arrest, and they have begun to collect the weapons of each battalion again, and they have also sent people to find the demon concubine of the Min family, and they want to welcome her back to the court." You can think about what she will do to the people who are going to kill her when she comes back. ”

Zheng Yiji looked around and sighed, "It seems that I don't have a choice." Forget it, I'll go with you. But let me get ready. ”

"Ready? How to prepare. Jiang Mingjun asked.

"I have to stock up on some goods first, at least go to a neighboring village, and come back with some medicinal herbs."

Jin Chunyong frowned, "When is it, can you still take care of stocking?" ”

Zheng Yiji patiently explained, "I mean, we have to at least do some disguise. Personally, the disguise I can think of is to disguise yourself as a team to deliver smuggled goods," he said, turning to Jiang Mingjun's side, "You'd better come with me, I can't carry those medicinal herbs alone." Also, Mr. Jin, we'll be in the village for a while, you'd better get all your goods ready. There are also seven days of dry food camping equipment, all of which are indispensable. ”

Jin Chunyong and Jiang Mingjun glanced at each other and nodded, "You go with him, I'll prepare some more things." You must come back before noon. ”

Jiang Mingjun answered, and went out with Zheng Yiji.

At noon, the team hit the road on time. Jin Changsun was not with them, and he said that if he was thirty or forty years younger, he would definitely go with them. The four of them carried four pieces of cloth armor, four horned bows, twelve pots of arrows, more than 20 catties of various herbs, and everyone's weapons, armor, dry food, and camp equipment.

Yin Shanglong was very angry. According to his meaning, everyone should set off early in the morning and travel lightly day and night, but unfortunately everyone doesn't care much about his opinion. Not long after he left, he was so tired and sweaty that he couldn't help but complain, "What are we doing? Carrying it like a camel, it walks slower than a bear. didn't wait for the cadres to chase after him, and he died when he left! ”

Jiang Mingjun scolded, "Shut up! Listen to Xiao Zheng. We are dressed like this, so we dare to try our luck on the road, and we can walk much faster. ”

Yin Shanglong said in annoyance, "How do I feel like I'm really making a delivery." When you get on the road, you might as well hire a horse. ”

Zheng Yiji smiled, "Brother Yin is right, I have this intention." ”

Yin Shanglong was so angry that his eyes exploded, but when he saw the faces of Jin Chunyong and Jiang Mingjun, he didn't dare to attack, as long as he had the strength to make it secretly, he almost crushed his teeth.

However, Jin Chunyong also had similar questions in his heart.

Are they on the run, or are they really making deliveries? Carrying a large pile of goods, the team walked really slowly. Among the four people, Yin Shanglong is the thinnest. But he has the strongest temperament. I have to memorize the most. Walked more than ten miles out. He was a little out of breath and gradually fell behind the bottom of the line. Jin Chunyong and Jiang Mingjun had the heart to help him share some of the burden, but knowing his temper, they didn't bother to answer him. Yin Shanglong fell at the back of the team, his steps were heavy, his eyes were weak, he was very annoyed, and he didn't complain. I had to grit my teeth and mutter, "If this is the case, I won't live anymore, I can't live anymore, it's better to fight with the Qianguo people, kill one is enough, kill two to earn one." ”

The journey of two miles, he recited it one hundred and eighty times, Jin Chunyong was so upset that he couldn't help but turn around and scold him. "Shut up! Hurry honestly, and say it when you're tired. Don't fart me. ”

Yin Shanglong stiffened his neck, "It's not me talking nonsense, you can tell me yourself, can we escape at this speed?" ”

Jin Chun said impatiently, "You can do whatever you want, where is so much nonsense." ”

Yin Shanglong lowered his head stupidly, although Jin Chunyong scolded him, he didn't know the bottom of his heart. After thinking about it for a long time, he decided to talk to Zheng Yiji. He stopped a few steps, and when Zheng Yiji walked to his side, he tugged at his sleeve, "Shh," and before he could speak, Jiang Mingjun interrupted him. Jin Chunyong looked back, Jiang Mingjun's expression was solemn and he didn't say a word, and he was listening to any movement with his ears skewed.

The three of them stopped in confusion, carefully watching the movements around them.

Jiang Mingjun suddenly said in a low voice, "Someone is coming, we have to hide." ”

Everyone hadn't heard much of the way, but they did as he instructed, picked a few big trees, and hid them. Yin Shanglong seemed to be complaining, but Jin Chunyong held his head down and couldn't move.

The four of them hid in the dense foliage and waited for a while, but nothing happened. Only a few unnamed insects chirped a few times, and they were not afraid of attracting hungry birds, so they were caught on the spot and made dinner. Zheng Yiji was a little impatient, quietly poked his head out, and looked at Jiang Mingjun on the opposite tree, but after looking at it several times, he couldn't tell where the person was hiding. He muttered in his heart, "It's so good to hide, I can't find anyone else." So he leaned out and called out to him. Suddenly, a figure seemed to flash in the distance, and he was startled and looked fixedly, but there was no trace of him. A hand stretched out from the bushes opposite, with a deerskin bowl, and gestured to him, meaning not to move. He received Jiang Mingjun's signal, naturally he was motionless, and muttered in his heart, "I don't know if he made this bracer himself, or bought it in Incheon City, the workmanship still looks good." ”

Jin Chun on the tree over there could never see the situation here, he pressed Yin Shanglong's head with one hand, and opened the gaps in the leaves in front of him with the other, and looked out.

Sure enough, someone came.

It seemed to be a patrol of cadres, seven or eight veterans, no officers could be seen, and the red uniforms were very neat.

Jiang Mingjun silently counted, in front of him were four spearmen, all carrying rifles, two of them with long knives hanging from their waists, and two with short spears hanging from their waists; The last one was the oldest, with a conspicuous scar on his face, a short gun and a short knife pinned to his waist, a rifle on his shoulder, and a full bullet belt around his waist, and he looked like a veteran leading the team.

The team was apparently an experienced patrol, walking quietly through the woods, hearing only the rustle of footsteps, no more than a deer. The four of them hid in the trees, and they didn't dare to come out, just hoping that this fierce and vicious team would walk over earlier. Even Yin Shanglong, who was under Jin Chunyong's arm, held his breath, as honest as a stone.

Jiang Mingjun watched as the team turned from the south, approaching step by step, and walked under the tree where they were hiding. The team moved forward without pause, and soon crossed their hiding place, and Jiang Mingjun breathed a sigh of relief.

Suddenly, the Scar veteran at the end of the line stopped, stooped down, and stretched out his hand to pull the dry grass in front of him, as if he had found something. Jiang Mingjun's heart suddenly tightened, blood gushed into his eyeballs, and fine beads of sweat oozed from his forehead. The old soldier pressed his left hand on the hilt of his gun, brushed the grass with his right hand, as if calculating something, and then slowly turned his head and glanced at the thick shade of the forest behind him, and there seemed to be a biting cold as far as his eyes could see. The four people on the tree all felt that they had made eye contact with this person, and each one of them had a chill down their spines, their eyelids jumped, and they almost couldn't bear it, and they jumped down from the tree to fight with him.

But after the man looked around, his hand let go of the handle of the gun. Jiang Mingjun clearly looked at his scar, a smile appeared on his face, and he actually whistled easily, turned around and chased after the team.

The eldest grandman let out a long sigh.

After the sound of the patrol's footsteps had completely disappeared into the distance, the four men finally crept down from the trees, packed their goods, and got back on their way. Yin Shanglong didn't dare to make a noise anymore, but just silently followed behind, walking one foot deep and one foot shallow.

In the evening, when they finally reached the river, they also saw the great road that meandered along the river. Zheng Yiji told them that less than a mile further on, they could see the first post station, and they could go to the post station and hire a few horses, and the distance would be much faster. Yin Shanglong's eyes widened when he heard this, "You really want to hire a horse?" They won't recognize us, will they? ”

Zheng Yiji took out a thin, beautifully carved bronze plaque from his bosom and showed it to everyone through the red sunshine in the forest, "This is the customs clearance token issued by the Yamen of the General Manager's Machine, and it will be unimpeded to the road." No matter where you are from, even if it is a dog with a token in your mouth, no one will dare to stop you. (To be continued......)

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