'Wow! Crash! ’

Chen Zhi walked into a room wearing heavy shackles, his face was gloomy, hatred condensed in his eyes, but he didn't say a word, walked into the room, and looked at the situation in the room coldly.

There were no windows on all sides of the room, and in the room stood a row of Plum Blossom Guard sergeants against the wall, holding steel knives in their hands, all with cold and murderous eyes, as if they were dragging him out and killing him at any time.

There was a large table in the middle, Chen Zhi's gaze fell on the back of the table, his fists were clenched instantly, his eyes spewed with anger, and there was a person sitting behind the table, looking at him with a smile, this person was the heir of the emperor who wanted him to deal with, Huangfu Wujin.

"Chen Zhongcheng, please take a seat!"

Wu Jin waved his hand and politely invited him to sit down.

"Humph!" Chen Zhi snorted heavily, and bluntly reprimanded: "His Royal Highness King Heiliang, I only want to ask you one thing, are you still a courtier of the Daning Dynasty?" ”

"Of course I am, I have always been a courtier of the Daning Dynasty, there is no doubt about it." Wu Jin said lightly.

"Then you ....."

Chen Zhi gritted his teeth, "Then you still dare to intercept and kill the minister, and even the emperor's henchmen and guards around you dare to kill, aren't you rebelling?" ”

Wu Jin snorted disdainfully, "Chen Zhongcheng, we are old friends, I hope your intelligence is the same as the last time I saw you, don't say such childish words again, please sit down!" ”

Chen Zhi restrained the anger in his heart and sat down slowly, he put the shackles on his hand on the table, "If you have the sincerity to talk, please open it and don't insult me." ”

Wu Jin gave the sergeant next to him a look, and a plum blossom guard sergeant came up, and opened the shackles on Chen Zhi's hands and feet, Chen Zhi gently rubbed his already red and swollen wrist, and glanced at Huangfu Wujin coldly.

"If there's anything to talk about, just say it!"

"Actually, what are you doing in Jiangning Mansion, I know very well, I have nothing to talk about with you."

Wu Jin stood up, walked to a map of Chuzhou with his hands, and said with a smile: "Are you willing to fake the holy decree for me, like in Jiangdu County, and cut off the heads of those disobedient military captains for me?" ”

He turned his head to stare at Chen Zhi, "Will you do it for me?" ”

Chen Zhi finally understood the deep meaning of Wang Ping's throwing Shang Fang's sword into the Yangtze River, without Shang Fang's sword, Huangfu Wujin could only rely on him Chen Zhi to falsely pass on the holy decree, and his role was revealed.

"Don't you think about it!" Chen Zhi said viciously.

Wu Jin shook his head, "I know you won't agree, then it's the same if I change to a eunuch, there happened to be a Luo Zhongguo arrived yesterday, in fact, I invited you to come, I just want to catch up with you, I have no interest in you, I am only interested in that Shang Fang sword, where is the sword?" ”

"It's a pity to disappoint you!" Chen Zhi sneered.

"Really?"

A mocking smile appeared at the corner of Wu Jin's mouth, he walked back to his seat, picked up a sword from his chair, a cyan shark skin scabbard inlaid with gold wire and precious stones, Wu Jin gently pulled out the sword, the cold light flashed, and the four words on the sword body 'If you see my face' are clearly recognizable.

Chen Zhi's eyes widened suddenly, "This.... How is this possible? ”

"Chen Zhongcheng, have you forgotten? Under the heavy reward, there will be brave men, I will reward five thousand taels of silver, and there will be a soldier of the navy who will not die to pick up this Shangfang sword from the bottom of the river for me, do you think that if you throw the sword down the river, there will be no one? ”

"Nope! It's impossible to fish it up! ”

Chen Zhi showed a look of fear in his eyes, how could the things thrown into the Yangtze River still be fished up? He stood up, took two steps back, and suddenly shouted hysterically, "Your Shang Fang sword is fake, it must be!" ”

The two soldiers pressed him to sit down, and waited for him to calm down a little, then Wu Jin stroked the hilt of the black jade sword and said slowly: "It doesn't matter whether the sword is fake or not, the key is that you have brought the Shang Fang sword to Chuzhou, and the imperial court has notified the various official and military governments in Chuzhou." ”

Speaking of this, Wu Jin looked at him coldly, "I'll give you one last chance, cooperate with me, in the future, I will give the crown prince Ming, promote you to the secretary of the criminal department, don't care about your betrayal of the prince, if you don't want to, then you will disappear from the world tonight." ”

Chen Zhi bowed his head for a long time and was silent, he was originally the prince's henchman, and he was attracted by the emperor to come to Chuzhou to act, because he saw that the prince was deposed, so his heart was a little shaken, and now he listened to Huangfu Wujin's meaning to let him continue to be loyal to the prince, which made him have a glimmer of hope in his heart, and he looked up at Huangfu Wujin.

Wu Jin understood his thoughts, so he smiled, "Of course I support the crown prince, and I don't hide it from you, the emperor is about to abolish the crown prince, the prince has decided to launch a coup d'état, respect the emperor as the emperor, civil war is likely to break out, I am ordered by the prince to seize Chuzhou, if you cooperate with me, it will be determined that you are meritorious atonement, the prince should have told you that he and I have a secret agreement!" ”

At the beginning, the crown prince did have a secret agreement with Huangfu Jiang, although the content of the secret agreement was unknown, but Chen Zhi knew that there was such a thing, Chen Zhi pondered for a long time, and finally, he sighed, "Let me think about it, okay!" ”

Wu Jin waved his hand, "Take him down, no more shackles, treat him well,"

The soldier led Chen Zhi down, and Wu Jin slowly pulled out the Shang Fang sword, held it in his hand and admired it, and said to himself with a smile: "Your Royal Highness the Prince, I'm sorry." ”

At this time, a soldier reported at the door, "Your Highness, Zhou Changshi is here." ”

Wu Jin immediately got up and said with a smile: "Invite him to the meeting room!" ”

He took Shang Fang's sword, walked out of the door quickly, and walked towards your room, which was his plum blossom guard barracks, where Chen Zhi was imprisoned.

He entered the meeting room, and after a while, the sergeant led Zhou Xin in, who was a little sick on the way back from the last attack on Baisha Society, and lay down for three days after going ashore before gradually recovering.

Seeing that he had lost a lot of weight, Wu Jin couldn't help but ask with concern: "Is Changshi getting better?" ”

"Thank you Your Highness for your concern, it's almost there!"

Zhou Xin sat down and said with a smile: "I came to see the progress of your artillery, to be honest, I was deeply impressed by the ship that sank Li Baisha last time, and I never forgot it while lying on the hospital bed, it was too sharp, and the flintlock pistol you said, I also want to personally understand it." ”

"Now a thousand artillery pieces have been cast, the navy has been equipped with six hundred cannons, and the rest are all equipped with the army, and soldiers are now being trained."

Speaking of this, Wu Jin handed him the sword in his hand, Zhou Xin didn't notice the sword in Wu Jin's hand just now, he saw the black jade sword hilt at a glance, and immediately said in surprise: "Shang Fang sword? ”

The biggest symbol of the Shangfang sword is that the hilt is black jade, which is extremely precious and cannot be seen in the market at all, and the black jade on the hilt is still a tribute from Silla a hundred years ago.

Zhou Xin slowly pulled out the sword, and saw that the sword was engraved with the words 'Rujian Noodles', which was Shang Fang's sword, and he suddenly asked in surprise: "You caught Chen Zhi?" ”

Wu Jin nodded, "They were captured when they crossed the river last night, and Wang Ping, the guard beside the emperor, was killed on the spot, but it's a pity that he was very cunning and threw Shang Fang's sword into the Yangtze River. ”

Zhou Xin was stunned, he looked at the sword, and asked hesitantly, "Has Your Highness scooped it up again?" ”

Wu Jin shook his head, "Only the sword scabbard was found on the surface of the water, the sword body has sunk into the river, and the bottom of the water is full of silt and sediment up to three feet thick. ”

Wu Jin looked at the sword in his hand again and smiled: "Can Changshi see that this sword is fake?" ”

Zhou Xin took a closer look at this sword, there was a pattern of Shang Fang's sword in every metropolitan governor's mansion, this sword was exactly the same as the pattern, he knew that the navy governor's mansion also had a pattern, but where did Wujin get the materials? He frowned and asked, "I think it's true, the key is where did you get this sword hilt black jade?" ”

"Remember the last time we copied Li Baisha's treasure cave? I found a few pieces of black jade from one of his treasure chests, just in time for me to make a sword. ”

"What a coincidence!"

Zhou Xin sighed, handed the sword back to Wu Jin, and asked him, "Then what are you going to do with it?" ”

Wu Jin took the sword, inserted it back into the scabbard, and then smiled slowly: "The role of this sword is extraordinary, Chen Zhi used this sword to win 80,000 Jiangbei Chuzhou soldiers for Huangfu Yingjun, then the remaining 170,000 Chuzhou soldiers will also rely on this sword, plus the assistance of Zhou Changshi, at least the 100,000 soldiers of the six counties in Jiangdong have to be in my hands." ”

Zhou Xin bowed his head and pondered, Chuzhou has a total of 250,000 soldiers and 50,000 sailors, distributed in nearly 50 military offices of all sizes, including 80,000 in Jiangbei, 100,000 in Jiangdong, and 70,000 in Jiangxi.

But since ancient times, the emperor has the supreme right to rule the army, so the military government must also accept the command of the emperor while obeying the orders of the military department, and the Daning Dynasty is no exception, especially after the Jin'an incident forty years ago, the emperor has strengthened his control over the army, so as to cut a back door in the strict military system.

There are two ways for the emperor to control the army, one is to send generals in important areas, such as the handsome general Guangling of the emperor, if a war breaks out, the general can command all the military offices in the area under his jurisdiction, obey the emperor's orders, and no longer obey the orders of the military department.

Another way is that in non-war periods, the emperor will send someone to take the gold medal for troop transfer or the Shang Fang sword and directly mobilize the military government, and the Shang Fang sword in the hand of Wu Jin can indeed transfer troops.

Zhou Xin knew that this was indeed a loophole in the imperial military system, and it was possible to use a fake holy decree or a fake Shang Fang sword to master the government soldiers, and Wu Jin obviously wanted to take advantage of this loophole.

But things are not so simple, just a Shang Fang sword is not enough, Zhou Xin pondered for a long time and asked, "Then Chen Zhi agrees to cooperate with you?" ”

Chen Zhi was a key figure, because the Ministry of War had already notified the military governments in Chuzhou with a pigeon letter, and Chen Zhi came to Chuzhou with Shang Fang's sword in the imperial history to do business, and asked the military governments to cooperate.

Wu Jin smiled and nodded, "I believe that he will definitely cooperate with me, because he is not doing things for me, he is doing things for the crown prince." ”

"Doing things for the Prince?"

Zhou Xin was stunned, "Your Highness means that we will take the road of the crown prince?" ”

Wu Jin smiled faintly: "This is also my last resort, I said that King Liang also wants to win the heir, how many people will support me?" But the prince is different, let's sell dog meat on the head of a sheep, and tear off the tiger skin of the prince to do things, isn't it more convenient? ”

"Your Highness is really smart!" Zhou Xin had to admire Wujin's boldness and carefulness.

At this moment, there was a faint sound of gunfire in the distance, and Wu Jin got up and said with a smile: "It just so happens that the sergeants are training flintlock pistols, let's go and have a look!" ”

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(To be continued)