Just after the hour, a gust of wind arose.

In the sandy land north of Jinniu Village, there was a horse team, numbering about thirty people, all of them dressed in brocade clothes and straddled horses, and they were very rich. The horse team stopped sixty zhang outside the north gate of Jinniu Village. One of them untied his sword, bow and arrow, held a bronze medal in his hand, and drove his horse slowly to the front of the gate.

"Someone stop!" The man was still twenty feet away from the gate of the wall, and the guards at the gate found out. Immediately after a shout, an archer shot an arrow.

"Brother, don't get me wrong, we are the people of the Long Wu Army. I was ordered to go out of Beijing on a business trip and wanted to stay in Guizhai for a night. "The Longwu Army is also the forbidden army of the Son of Heaven, although the momentum of the modern world is no longer as good as the Shence Army, but it is still unattainable in the eyes of the soldiers in the border towns. The Long Wujun were relatively low-key, not as aggressive as the Shence Army, and the border guards were actually more willing to deal with them.

"Wait!" The guard gestured to the archers on the tower, turned and ran into the camp to report it. In fact, Park Eun-joon was hidden in the camp not far away, and he could see everything clearly at the door. Thankfully, the person I've been waiting for has finally arrived. But the time is not yet ripe, and he can't show up yet, and this play has to be continued.

After half a cup of tea, a team appeared in front of the gate of the village, he carefully looked at the soldier who called the door, and asked, "Didn't you meet the horse bandits in the middle of the night?" "The boundary of Linzhou is very unstable, it is not safe to travel during the day, and the people who rush in the middle of the night are really suspicious.

"Dude, look at this." The person who came jumped off the horse and walked forward ten zhang with the token held high, stood still, and threw the token in his hand to the team in the walled gate. This is a bronze waist card, surrounded by double dragons on the front, engraved with the three words of dragon and military force, and the name and position of the licensee are engraved in the north side.

"It turned out to be Zhang Teamzheng, who was in the next Korean style. Wait, I'll go back to the captain of the camp. ”

"There's a lot of work." He raised his hand in salute. Then he turned around and waved his hand to his companion fifty feet away: so far nothing suspicious had been found.

In less than a cup of tea, Han Feng rushed back, and there was another person behind him, judging from the official uniform, he should be a brigade commander.

The gatekeeper opened the gate of the village, and the brigade commander greeted him with a smile on his face, returned the token in his hand to Zhang Mu, and said: "It turned out that it was a business trip, and I missed the welcome, please forgive me." Zhang Mu replied: "We were ordered to go out of Beijing on a business trip, and we encountered a group of horse bandits on the way, and we were entangled for a while, but we missed the night. Thinking that the city gate was closed at this time, we didn't want to disturb the local government, so we wanted to rest in Guizhai for one night and feed some forage to the horses, and we paid all the expenses. Please make it easier for you to get a higher price. ”

The brigade marshal smiled: "What are these words?" There are all brothers in the four seas, they are all errands for the imperial court, and they don't need to mention anything that is not costly. Ask a few of the top performers to come along. ”

Zhang Mu was overjoyed when he heard this, so he waved to the horse team behind him, and waved his hand seemingly casually, with four or five movements on his fingers. When the horse team arrived in front of the gate of the village, they all dismounted, and the person at the head claimed to be surnamed Hong Mingyue, and walked side by side with the brigade commander after greeting him. Zhang Mu stayed next to a young man wearing a black gauze hat step by step, and the brigade commander allocated a few houses in the west of the village for everyone to live in, and led Hong Yue to see the captain of the camp.

Hong Yue excused himself for not wanting to go every night, and the brigade commander said: "The captain has already prepared wine and food, if you don't appreciate the light, it's not easy to explain your humble position." Hong Yue was in a dilemma when he heard this, and Zhang Mu persuaded: "It's difficult to be gracious, big brother should go to the banquet." There's a little brother here. Hong Yue was willing to go.

At this time, the soldiers in the village brought a bucket of rice and a pot of tea, and Zhang Mu tried it with a silver needle before he dared to put down the chopsticks. Everyone was eating and eating, and the young man wearing the hat suddenly threw the chopsticks in his hand and shouted, "I want to be respectful." "The hatred made everyone look at each other angrily. Zhang Mu instructed the two people around him: "Xiao Jiu, the third child, you two accompany him to go." ”

The two soldiers dropped the dishes and chopsticks in response, and set up the young man to go to the thatched house in the corner of the village.

After everyone finished eating, they cleaned up the buckets and basins, and in less than a moment everyone felt a pain in their abdomen, and they rushed to the thatched hut one by one. Zhang Mu secretly screamed badly, and shouted in pain: "Don't mess ......around, everyone" Before he finished speaking, he felt unbearable abdominal pain, and had to run out.

As soon as he came out of the room, he bumped into the young man wearing a black veil, and there were two people standing beside him, not Xiao Jiu and Lao San, who he had sent, but Han Feng and the brigade commander.

Zhang Mu covered his stomach and shouted: "Brothers, quick, quickly take down his ......" Before he finished speaking, a foul smell suddenly came from the crotch of his pants......

"Don't move! Don't move! Dozens of crossbowmen rushed out of the tents and surrounded Zhang Mu and the others.

"Yang Hao, you, you are not allowed to disobey orders!" Zhang Mu struggled desperately. The soldier who captured him pressed his shoulder with one hand and pinched his nose with the other.

"Bastard thing!" Guan Suo, who was dressed as a brigade commander, strode forward, kicked Zhang Mu fiercely, and scolded: "Defect to the eunuch party and frame Zhongliang, I will leave you to do anything." "If you swing the knife, you will kill Zhang Mu. Yang Hao shouted, and looked at the foul-smelling Zhang Mu in disgust: "Throw it in the ditch and wash it." He turned around and scolded: "Whose idea is this!" It's really a lack of morality. ”

Yang Hao turned around and just left, Guan Suo scolded Han Feng in a low voice: "What kind of idea, it's really lacking in morality." Han Feng Mu Leng said to himself for a long time: "What does this matter to me, this plan is yours." ”

"Your Excellency has frightened you." Park Eun-joon and the two lieutenants of the Flying Tiger Battalion greeted them out of the tent. The man named Hong Yue was tied to the bundle of immortals in front of the camp gate at this time.

"I'll only ask you once, who sent you."

"Liu, Liu's father-in-law."

"The new privy envoy Liu Hongyi?"

"Yes, yes."

"Kill them all without leaving one. Then send someone to let Li Changlin withdraw. ”

"Yes."

The defenders of Linzhou did not dare to close their eyes for a night, except for a few campfires that had not been extinguished after dawn, and the horse bandits besieging the city were nowhere to be found. Thorn Shi was overjoyed and immediately went to the table to win, and when Lance and returned to Jinniuzhai after eating the celebration banquet, the two battalions of Flying Tiger and Breaking Waves had already returned to Xiaochang'an safely.

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Feng'an Defense Embassy, Huwei Hall.

Zeng Chongyang, wearing a dark brown official uniform, read a holy decree to the principal officials of the Fengzhou Assassin Mansion, the chief officer of the Fifth Division of the Xining Army, and the captain of the 18th Battalion.

Yang Hao, the defense envoy of Fengzhou and the general of the Xining Army, was promoted to the post of deputy envoy of Qianzhou Observation for his merits, Zhang Huchen took over the post of defense envoy of Fengzhou, and Ling Tong took over the post of general of the Xining Army, while he himself supervised the border defense in Fengzhou as a minister of the Qincha.

Everyone was shocked by this change. After dusk last night, the Defense Embassy sent more than a dozen messengers, holding gold lacquer tokens, to summon the commanders of each battalion to Feng'an for discussion. The gold medal herald traveled 800 miles a day, and the person who received the order must be ordered to rush to the embassy office within 12 hours, otherwise it would be a delay in the military plane and would be punished with capital punishment.

All of them were aware that something big was coming, but most of them guessed that a foreign enemy was going to invade the country, or that they were going to use troops abroad. No one thought that Yang Hao, who had a monopoly on power, would leave office suddenly, and the holy decree said that Yang Hao left Fengzhou because of his high merit, but who can say whether this kind of thing is true or false?

The minister who announced the decree was Zeng Chongyang, who was driven away by Yang Hao. It is not difficult for anyone with a little experience of officialdom to see the subtleties of this, and everyone began to predict that there would be an earthquake in Fengzhou officialdom. Which of Fengzhou's civilian and military generals can get rid of Yang Hao? This upcoming earthquake is definitely for everyone, and no one wants to watch the excitement on the sidelines.

Zeng Chongyang could naturally estimate the shock that this holy decree brought to the hearts of Fengzhou officials. He repeatedly explained as a minister of the Qincha that Yang Hao's transfer to Qianzhou at this time was an affirmation and praise by the imperial court and the emperor for his actions in Fengzhou. And to quote the emperor's original words, "The officials of Toyosu are loyal and available". At the same time, to appease the people's hearts, Zeng Chongyang read out a commendation order jointly signed by the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Officials: Officials at all levels of the Fengzhou and Xinning armies will be given a meritorious service and a first-class meritorious service, and Ling Tong, Li Tong, Zhang Huchen, Zhang Yannian, Zhuang Yunqing and others will all be promoted to the first rank.

In this regard, Ling Tong and Li Tong remained silent, Zhang Huchen and Zhuang Yunqing openly expressed their support, but Zhang Yannian asked Zeng Chongyang for leave to recuperate on the grounds of physical discomfort, and Zeng Chongyang also allowed him to invite on the spot.

After appeasing the military and political officials of Fengzhou, Zeng Chongyang explained the original intention of this trip: "Recently, I heard that Wang Shoucheng's remaining party and the Khitans colluded with each other to disturb the people. Fengzhou is the gateway to the Tang Dynasty, and it is also the place where the royal party focuses on penetration. It has been reported that since the end of last year, the Wang Party has sent three groups of backbone cadres to infiltrate Fengzhou to recruit party henchmen, secretly plotting a rebellion, intending to take control of Fengzhou and use it to confront the imperial court. The Holy Secret Decree was to make Zeng Chongyang, the young eunuch of the capital water supervisor, a special envoy, supervise the military administration of Fengzhou, purge the remnants of the royal party, and stabilize the border. ”

Speaking of which, even a fool heard a chilling murderous aura! Wang Shoucheng's henchmen? There are only eunuchs in the world, how can there be any royal party? Who doesn't know that you, Zeng Chongyang, like Yang Hao, are both from the Assassin Horse Battalion, what do you say to purge the remnants of the Wang Party? There is no royal party in the world, how can there be the remnants of the royal party? Isn't this who disobeys your minister, who is the remnant of the royal party?! Fengzhou's officials, who have been in the officialdom for many years, naturally regarded Zeng Chongyang's words as a declaration of Fengzhou's officialdom to change the dynasty.

If that is the case, then there is nothing to be afraid of. The iron-clad officials of the yamen and the flowing water, the sons of heaven and the courtiers, everyone is like this, and it has always been like this. If you don't even have this adaptability in the officialdom, you deserve to be out of the game.

After figuring out this layer, the officials of Fengzhou finally breathed a sigh of relief. Therefore, at the reception banquet led by Zhang Huchen and Ling Tong that night, it seemed to be harmonious, and Yang Hao and everything he did had become a thing of the past, and the officials of Fengzhou sprayed wine and made generous speeches, depicting the new future of Fengzhou.

Everyone misinterpreted the meaning of Zeng Chongyang's words, and no one could have foreseen that a bloody storm had quietly come.

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The news that Yang Hao was suddenly taken away by the envoy, Qing'er only learned about it during dinner, and before that, Cheng Keling sent a team of soldiers to the defense embassy, focusing on guarding the east and west courtyards of the back hall.

When Yang Hao was escorted away, Qing'er, Xiaoyu, Lu Rui and the Li sisters were still playing mahjong in the dark in the main room of the West Courtyard. Somehow, Qing'er, who swept the group of females in the past, did not open a draw three times in a row today, and not only spit out all the money she won yesterday, but even the capital was discounted a lot.

Distraught, she handed the cards to Li Jasmine and asked her to play two laps on her behalf to improve her luck.

"Winter rain palm lamp." The red sun is setting in the west, the sky is dark, and the winter rain usually lights up the lights and candles in the hall at this time. After the Li sisters came, although Dongyu couldn't play full-time like before, she was still one of the main members of the mahjong hall, and she wouldn't go far at this time.

"Winter rain-" Qing'er called out without responding, and raised her voice.

The birds in the courtyard chirped, but still no one responded.

Qing'er walked out of the guest hall, and the door of the west wing where Dong Yu lived was locked.

"This girl must have died over there." Thinking of this, Qing'er was jealous in her heart, and she took a few steps to the east door of the west courtyard, and outside the door was the small garden in front of the inner study where Yang Hao worked. There was no one in the garden. The door to the inner study was closed and a lock was hung on it.

"That's weird." Qing'er secretly wondered, "I didn't hear that he was going out, why did he lock the door." "Yang Hao's inner study is guarded by a special person, and he will never be locked unless he can't come back for a while when he goes out of the door.

"You two come here." Qing'er beckoned to the two guards on duty at the West Corner Gate.

"What does Madame command?" The guard's eyes looked a little flustered as he answered. Qing'er chuckled in her heart, but her face didn't show it.

"Are you out?"

"Ah, yes, it's out. I'll be back very late. This is also very unnatural.

"Oh," Qing'er nodded thoughtfully.

"Madame, please go back." Another soldier hurriedly urged.

"Call the Winter Rain for me." After Qing'er said this, she turned around and went back to the west courtyard.