Chapter 271: The whereabouts of the Wu family

Since the Double Ninth Festival, more than a month of continuous military rectification has given me a feeling on the eve of the war, according to the course of history, there are still nearly two years before the Battle of Xiangyang breaks out, but I can already smell the smell of gunsmoke.

After Lan Yu and Shen Mo left, I seemed to have a feeling that I couldn't wait, I hoped that October 28 would come early, so that Xia Gui's action to recover the south bank of the Huai River would be the beginning of the Song and Mongolian Wars.

The invincible Mongolian iron cavalry in history, you wait, the guns of my Great Song Dynasty will make the descendants of Genghis Khan surrender willingly, thinking about it, I couldn't help but stand up, at this moment, an invincible momentum that reigns over the world vaguely appeared on me, all the Buddhas in the world have surrendered to my feet, I am the guardian of the Chinese family, is the inheritor of the continuation of the prosperous era of China, and is the real emperor of the ages,

"Sword of the Son of Heaven." When Yuan Jian on the side saw me get up, he suddenly thought,

"Hideo Chenlu."

"Minister Zhao Shunsun."

"See Your Majesty." The two bowed in unison,

"Well, two Aiqing, sit down."

"Yes, Your Majesty." After Lu and Zhao sat down, they saluted Yuan Jian, "I've seen Mr. Yuan." ”

Yuan Jian returned the salute: "The two adults are polite. ”

"Zhao Aiqing, Song Rui, how are they going?"

"Back to Your Majesty, the restructuring of Fujian Province is nearing completion, the restructuring of Jiangxi Province is still in progress, and Lord Song can return to Lin'an before the end of the month."

"Well, Song Rui and the four of them have been going to Fujian and Jiangxi provinces for more than a month, and Zhao Aiqing has worked hard during this time."

"Your Majesty, the minister is not hard."

"Hehe, Ai Qingyan can't help it." I smiled and said to Lu Xiufu, "By the way, Junshi, you ask the Dragon Tooth Intelligence Department to find out the details about Langzhong Jiang Yundi of the Ministry of Industry." ”

Lu Xiufu asked, "Jiang Yundi, the nephew of Lord Jiang." ”

"Exactly, after the meeting of the dynasty, Chen Yizhong secretly played in me, saying that Jiang Yundi had embezzlement in the construction of the new site of Lin'an University, and the amount was quite large, I have notified the Criminal Department to conduct a secret investigation with Dali Temple, and the investigation of the Dragon Tooth Intelligence Department also needs to be carried out at the same time, if this is really a big case, I will take it as a typical example, publicize it, and make an example of the monkey."

"Yes, I obey." Lu Xiufu thought for a moment and then asked, "I don't know if Jiang Shangshu will be involved." ”

"I believe in Jiang Wanli, of course, if this matter involves Jiang Wanli, I will still deal with it according to the law."

Lu Xiufu was stunned and said, "Yes, Your Majesty." ”

"Zhao Aiqing."

"The minister is here."

"I plan to set up an audit department under the Government Affairs Yuan, and for the large-scale projects of our DPRK and the large expenditures of the central and local ministries and governments, we will be subject to regular audits by the audit department in the future, and you will sum up this matter after Song Rui returns."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Zhao Shunsun said respectfully, "The Department of Justice has been relocated and will officially open at the end of this month. ”

"Well, the functions of the Government Council will be improved step by step, and it will replace Zhongshu Province as the government affairs center of our dynasty in the future, but what about this Department of Justice, it will read out in the future, that is to say, the legislative power belongs to the Department of Justice, the executive power, that is, the law enforcement power, belongs to the Government Council, and the supervision power will be handed over to the Supervision Office.

Of course, the separation of powers that I want to implement is not to divide the power of the emperor, but the separation of powers under the leadership of the imperial power, which is fundamentally different from the three powers system in later generations.

Zhao Shunsun said: "Your Majesty Shengming." ”

I don't know if Lu and Zhao understand the principle of the separation of powers, and I didn't explain further: "Junshi, tomorrow afternoon, I will go to the Shifeng Trading House with me, and there is an applicant who has not had time to go to the general recruitment office and needs you to go for an interview." ”

Lu Xiufu didn't know where I got the applicants, so he didn't ask much, and replied, "Yes, Your Majesty." ”

I took a sip of hot tea and turned to Yuan Jian and said, "Sir, what has happened to Najia Dao recently?" ”

Yuan Jian said: "Your Majesty, except for the night insect boat, Jia Nidao basically stays in the mansion, according to the inside of the Jia Mansion, that Jia Rudao has recently started to study fighting crickets again." ”

"Fighting crickets, that's his forte."

"Your Majesty." Yuan Jian continued, "The Wu family of the three major martial arts families already has clues. ”

"Yes." I didn't understand for a while, I was asking Jia Rudao, but Yuan Jian suddenly talked about the martial arts family,

"The Wu family in Changsha is likely to be related to Jia Yidao."

"Ahh I was taken aback and said,

"Your Majesty, according to the information that the minister knows, this situation is very likely, Your Majesty, the Ouyang family in Sichuan, the Wu family in Changsha and the Lin family in Fujian have been called the three major families of martial arts for a hundred years, all because these three families have their own core strength, Your Majesty is familiar with the Fujian Lin family is because the family has three elders with strong martial arts, the core strength of the Ouyang family is to have five deacons including the head of the family, and the Wu family is based on one door and four swords as its core."

I nodded and said, "I've heard this gentleman mention it, but what does this have to do with Jia Yidao. ”

"Your Majesty, since the minister left the Valley of the Kings, he is quite interested in the situation in various parts of the martial arts, the last generation of the head of the Wu family is named Wu Xianfeng, who is chivalrous, worried about the country and the people, when the Mongolian invasion was in the south, Wu Xianfeng could not bear to lose his life, organized the people to resist the Mongolian soldiers who invaded Changsha, and later joined the army, and became the personal guard chief under the account of Marshal Meng Hui in the name of Wu Hong."

"Wu Hong, it's him." Lu Xiufu exclaimed,

"Well, Lord Lu also knows about it."

"Sir, Lu has heard Master Li mention this person."

Yuan Jian continued: "Yes, Meng Shuai's core team knows that his guard chief is named Wu Hong, but the only people in the army who know Wu Xianfeng's identity are Marshal Meng Hui and Jia Yidao, this Wu Xianfeng is not smiling, and he acts low-key in the army, others only know that he is the guard next to Meng Shuai, and this Wu Xianfeng has made a great contribution at that time, Your Majesty, in the sixth year of Chunyou (1246), the former general of the Northern Army of Southern Song Dynasty, Fan Yongji, who was then the southern province of Mongolia, secretly asked the court to surrender, there is such a thing. ”

"Well, there is such a thing, but it didn't work out in the end."

In 1246, Fan Yongji, who was the military and political governor of the Henan region of Mongolia, indicated through Meng Shuai the intention of asking the court to surrender. The explanation of the imperial court is that this person is loyal and difficult to distinguish, two-faced and three-sworded, afraid of fraud, so he is unwilling to surrender and rebel, but Song Lizong's imperial pen has a detailed explanation of this, Song Lizong committed the common suspicion of the emperor, afraid that Fan Yongji's submission will increase the power of Meng Heng, who already has more than half of the imperial court's troops, so he became suspicious, so he agreed with the reason that the court "rebellion is not frequent", and rejected Fan Yongji's request, which directly caused Meng Heng to be disheartened, and fell ill, and died in September of the same year,

"Your Majesty, it was precisely because Wu Xianfeng went north alone that he persuaded Fan Yongji, although the matter did not work out, but Wu Xianfeng's credit was great, but only Meng Shuai knew about this matter in the army."

"Well, if you can get Fan Yongji at that time, it will undoubtedly be much more convenient to enter the Central Plains."

My casual remark is tantamount to negating Song Lizong's attitude towards this matter,

"Your Majesty, this Wu Xianfeng has a bad habit, that is, good wine, and after drinking, he beat the prison army who was disrespectful to Meng Shuai, when Meng Shuai was sick, the prison army took the opportunity to make trouble and wanted to kill Wu Xianfeng, but he had to be saved by Jia Yidao desperately, so he was able to escape."

"This Jia seems to have done a good thing."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Yuan Jian continued, "Soon after Meng Shuaixian left, Wu Xianfeng also died of illness due to depression and alcoholism, and when Wu Xianfeng was dying, only Jia Yidao and the next generation of the Wu family head were present, and since then, the four swords of the next generation of the Wu family have never appeared, and with the death of the four swords of the older generation one after another, the Wu family has gradually faded out of the field of vision of martial arts people. ”

"In other words, Jia Rudao is the last person the new head of the Wu family has ever seen."

"Judging by the information we have so far, it should be."

"If the Wu family lives in seclusion in Jia Nidao, it can also explain the phenomenon that the Wu family has been unknown to the public for more than ten years."

"Your Majesty, there is such a possibility, the Wu family may have become Jia Nidao's secret guard in order to repay Jia Nidao's favor to his old master."

I nodded and said, "The good deeds that Jia Rudao did before are worth it in exchange for the Wu family's following." ”

"Your Majesty, with Meng Shuai's immortal gone, the current situation of our dynasty is not as good as before, social turmoil, especially Kublai Khan's southern expedition five or six years ago, if it were not for the internal battle for the throne of the Khan, I am afraid that the words of my dynasty will be more difficult in the past few years, the current situation is like this, the attention of martial arts people to the family is becoming more and more weak, everyone is too busy to take care of themselves, and they have no intention to get to the bottom of it, plus the Wu family has always been low-key, and its mystery is no less than that of the Heavenly Dao League, and Jia Rudao has been in power over the years, Therefore, it is very possible that the Wu family lived in seclusion in Jia Rudao, but there is no definite evidence yet. ”

Lu Xiufu said: "Sir, then let the dragon tooth go to check on the inside line of Jiafu." ”

Yuan Jian shook his head and said: "No, the inside line of my dragon tooth is not enough to detect the core information of Jia Mansion, and besides, the Wu family's four sword martial arts are so strong that if you are not careful, you will show traces." ”

I also agreed: "Mr. is right, even if the Wu family has been in Jiafu, they have never heard of anything bad, from the chivalrous point of view of the old master of the Wu family, the Wu family is not a person who destroys evil, I guess that the Wu family is only to repay the kindness, they walked together with Jia Yidao, and Jia Yidao is very different from the time of Marshal Meng Heng, and the Wu family may not approve of the current Jia Yidao, only because the old family master said something on his deathbed, it has always been like this." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty is wise."

I smiled: "I'm just guessing, sir, Ye Dongsheng and Yao Chaohui have been going south to Guangnan Road for a long time, is there any news coming back?" ”