Wendeng old camp, Dengzhou Town's martial arts is located here. It is not far from Wenden University Hall.

Wendeng is the place where Dengzhou Town made its fortune, and the local grassroots are almost completely controlled by Dengzhou, and the county is nested in the county governance, and the government decree cannot be issued by the county government. It can be said that it is the most powerful place in Dengzhou Town, and even Wang Tingqian and Lu Zhi do not come here to inspect now, and they still come once a year with Chen Xin to watch the flowers.

Wendeng Laoying is now prosperous, although the business is not developed, but the people can live and work here in peace and contentment, it is a happy land at this time, all kinds of workshops run by Tunpu are lined up, showing the momentum of the rise of Dengzhou Town.

But in the principal's office of Dengzhou Martial Arts School, there was a sense of coldness, Lu Chuanzong looked coldly at the situation outside the window, and was about to turn his head back to his desk, when suddenly he turned back to the window and saw a laborer cleaning the road outside the window who was very familiar.

The servant quietly glanced up, Lu Chuanzong stared for a moment, turned to the table and pulled the rattle, the adjutant came in quickly, Lu Chuanzong said coldly to the adjutant transferred from the attendant's room: "Find someone to clean the house." ”

The adjutant looked at the house and said, "My lord, the house was cleaned in the morning. ”

Lu Chuanzong squinted his eyes and said: "Find someone to clean up, I like that there are people moving in the house, I am the principal, and no one has come for ten days and half a month." ”

The adjutant hesitated, and the laborers were not there at this time, and when he saw at the door, there was a road cleaner nearby, so he beckoned him to come in and clean, and after the laborers nodded and came in, the adjutant stood at the door and watched.

Lu Chuanzong closed his eyes to recuperate, and when the labor swept behind him, he used Lu Chuanzong's body to block the adjutant's gaze, and quickly stuffed a paper ball between Lu Chuanzong's back and the back of the chair.

Lu Chuanzong's face was calm, the labor was quickly cleaned, he walked to the door and said to the adjutant: "General, this place is all clean." There's nothing to clean up. ”

The adjutant said to Lu Chuanzong: "My lord, look ......."

Lu Chuanzong nodded, and the adjutant asked the servant to leave, and then brought the door, and the official room fell into the desert again. Lu Chuanzong slowly took out the paper ball from behind, unfolded it and looked at it, writing the words "Anshun Teahouse every day", Lu Chuanzong lit a fire and burned the note, and came to the front and lit a cigarette......

At the end of the second day, Lu Chuanzong assigned an adjutant to help him buy something. got rid of the surveillance and came to the Anshun Teahouse, as soon as he entered the teahouse, he saw Ertun sitting in the corner, and Lu Chuanzong first glanced at the situation in the teahouse. I remembered all the places where I could get out, and then I sat down at the table in Ertun. After he sat down, he looked at Ertun opposite, and Ertun's eyes were already red.

Lu Chuanzong took a sip of tea lightly, sighed and said, "Ertun, you don't need to be like this, no matter how you say it, it's better than you used to." At least the livelihood is not worried. ”

Ertun wiped the tears on his face, "The people from the Department of Industry and Commerce and the Intelligence Bureau came, so they forcibly detained the goods in the shop, and did not return the payment, and the money earned was gone, and I was also arrested together." I spent all these days in the Inspectorate and Intelligence Bureau of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and I did not say anything unfavorable to you, and when I came out, I lived by hard labor. There are still people coming to see it all the time. Today, I also relied on the help of others to come to Wendeng, and I went to enlist for labor before I came in to see you, Brother Donkey, you have to be my master. ”

"How can I call the shots for you, you didn't see that I was also sent to martial arts. In front of this nominal principal, there is only one adjutant under him. This adjutant was transferred from the chamber of attendants, and in fact he only listened to the words of the chamberlain, all the money and personnel in the school had to be signed by Shi Pingli before they took effect, what can I do to help you. ”

Lu Ertun said indignantly: "Brother Donkey, when he was in Tianjin that day, he Chen Xin was just a white Ding, if it weren't for you and Brother Dai to help him, how could he have today's prestige, this blink of an eye will not recognize people, let's sell some cigarettes, and we didn't take the things of the Industrial and Commercial Division for nothing, and they were bought with real money." Not to mention Wang Tingqian and Lu Zhi, Liu Min has Song Wenxian who also gave Xu Congzhi in Jinan low-cost cigarettes, and those people in Jingshi are also, is it possible that you are working hard for him, and you can't compare to a foreign governor. ”

Lu Chuanzong's eyes showed an angry look, he looked at the desktop with a cloudy face, and after a long time, he shook his head and said: "Ertun, I sue you, you may not understand, but I am a person who has followed Chen Xin for a long time, and I know the Tao behind him." If Chen Xin had made up his mind to deal with us, we would have met at the execution ground a long time ago, and they didn't torture you in the Intelligence Bureau, so they would have let us go. Whatever his intentions, this is the final warning, and there will be a next time......"

Ertun cried: "Brother Donkey, are you just so enduring, you have practiced all your skills in fighting all these years, can you end the rest of your life in this empty room, you are willing." ”

Lu Chuanzong looked at the desktop with a gloomy face, and Ertun continued to persuade: "Then Zheng Sanhu, Fan Shouye or something, they are all soldiers under you, Li Donghua only came here in the second year of Chongzhen, and now they have become the director, Brother Donkey, you have become such a martial arts principal, why did he Chen Xin treat you like this." You are still living now, in another two years, those Zhong Laosi and the like will sit in front of you, not to mention anything else, when Chen Xin went to sea, you were the only one to help him, and now he has forgotten all about it......"

Lu Chuanzong glared at Ertun fiercely, "Don't say it, what's the use of saying that there are so many." Now only Dai Zhenggang has soldiers, and he was transferred to the third battalion of Pingdu Prefecture, which is hundreds of miles away from me, and you all know the system of Dengzhou Town, not to mention that Dai Zhenggang is unwilling, even if Dai Zhenggang is really willing to start an incident with us, few soldiers can listen to him. ”

Ertun lowered his voice and said, "We don't have to make trouble. ”

Lu Chuanzong's face was full of doubts, "Then what else can we do?" ”

"Switch to the imperial court!"

"The Imperial Court?" Lu Chuanzong stared intently at Ertun.

Ertun pointed to a person sitting alone at the door, "Yes, Dongchang and Jinyiwei came to Denglai to listen to it, and there was a fan who followed me to Wendeng, and he was there to respond." ”

"What are you doing!" Lu Chuanzong shouted in a low voice, "How did you pick up with them, and were you being followed?" When Zhou Shifa ate dry rice, do you really think that Dengzhou Intelligence will leave you alone if you go back!? ”

Ertun's eyes were red and said: "I know that someone is spying on me on weekdays, and I can't run out by myself, and this time I also relied on Dongchang Fanzi to get rid of the Dengzhou Intelligence Bureau." When Zhou Shifa's people came to my shop to arrest people, they beat my brother and sister-in-law to death, and I didn't share the sky with Chen Xin and Zhou Shifa. ”

Lu Chuanzong leaned back in his chair and was silent for a long time before he said, "What conditions did the imperial court give?" ”

"The person who came was Jiang Yuegui, the head of the East Factory, who was ordered by the Master of Ceremonies Bingbi, Jingying Rongzheng, and Cao Huachun, the Gonggong of the East Factory. said that at least give Brother Donkey a chief military officer of Xuanfu or Shanxi, if you are willing to stay in Beijing, you can also be a general military officer. ”

Lu Chuanzong's eyes rolled, "Then how did they help me get out of Denglai, I know that Chen Xin's many conspiracies are involved, and now they have such a relationship with him." With Chen Xin's person, if the imperial court transfers me to Xuanda as the chief soldier today, I will die of a violent illness tomorrow. ”

"Dongchang will directly find Wang Tingzhuo and ask to sit in Denglai, and the selected ones are Wang Tingchu and you. He said that this was the name of the imperial court, and Chen Xin could not refuse. According to the military system of the imperial court, Brother Donkey, you are the deputy chief soldier of the Dengzhou Right Association. The garrison is in Zhaoyuan, and the generals are not allowed to leave the letter without permission, Chen Xin can only transfer you back to Zhaoyuan to deal with Dongchang soon, and there is an opportunity to get away on the way, even if you can't get off on the road. After arriving in Zhaoyuan, there are many mountains and close to the sea, which is more convenient than escaping from the Wendeng camp. ”

Lu Chuanzong's eyes flashed, and Ertun then persuaded: "It's the family members, you can't take them away, as long as the donkey brother can get out of it." Thinking about it, Chen Xin would not deal with his family. ”

Lu Chuanzong thought for a long time and nodded violently: "It's worth a try, it's better than being under house arrest like now." Most of our people are in Dengzhou, and many of them are idle. These people are very familiar with Chen Xin's divisions, and we will have to rely on them for our own training in the future, so we must take them away. I'll give you a list, these people are all reliable people from Yanggu. I will do everything if you contact them, and I will not be afraid of anyone in the war. Let's go to Xuanda to train a border army, it will not be worse than Chen Xin, Chen Xin's sea trade and cigarette things, I also roughly understand, let's also engage in Tunbao. There will always be a day when Lao Tzu will compete with him on the battlefield. ”

Ertun's eyes lit up, "Yes, we also run a trading company, and we all use our people in Yanggu, Xuanda is what we have in our pocket, and a lot of silver is earned in, and women want as much as they want." ”

Lu Chuanzong said coldly: "Chen Xin is unkind to me, don't blame me for being unjust." But we can't rely on all the people in Dongchang, we have to prepare a way out. ”

"What do you want to do?"

"We need to prepare a boat of our own, let's find a person who Chen Xin doesn't want to move, just say that we want to transport a boatload of grain to Tianjin, get a boat, and then say, you can't do this, let Huang Yuan go to that person." In this way, even if we are discovered, we will be a smuggler at most, and if we drag a new person, he will not dare to kill us, otherwise he will not be able to convince the public. ”

"Well, donkey brother, who are you looking for?" ……

"The head of the Dongchang stall is called Jiang Yuegui, who served as a brocade guard under Luo Sigong in his early years, practiced martial arts since he was a child, and is also very proficient in the rivers and lakes. In the key list sent by Zhang Dahui, it was the last Dongchang stall that was not found, and Tianjin Station lost their traces at the canal wharf. According to the information provided by Lu Zhi, this person went south along the canal, bypassing Gunzhou and entering Qingzhou from Yizhou. ”

Chen Xin nodded and listened to Zhou Shifa's report, interrupting Zhou Shifa and saying, "Kill this person directly." ”

"My lord, I'm afraid this matter is a little difficult now."

"Why?"

Zhou Shifa said cautiously: "This person is quite cunning, when he came out of Lu Zhi, he went directly to the governor's yamen, put out the waist card of the East Factory and the East Factory to find Wang Tingtry, and directly asked to go to Wang Tingtry's house to sit down, this, Wang Tingtry couldn't, and could only agree." It is not impossible to kill the royal court in the palace, but it will implicate the royal court in the trial, and if the court is transferred away from the king because of this, the new governor will have to work hard. ”

Chen Xinleng smiled and said: "There is courage, and from his zha fu, it seems that Jiang Yuegui has been prepared in the Beijing Division, and it belongs to planning and acting." Now that he is living in the royal court's house, there is indeed no safer place than there. This can also be seen that he is not at ease with Lu Zhi, after Lu Zhi's whereabouts were revealed, he simply revealed his identity, but it made it difficult for us to do it. ”

"This person has a bad relationship with other stall heads, and it seems that the information provided by the other stall heads shows that he still has three fanzi companions, all of whom are veterans of Jinyiwei. Judging from his actions, he should have lived in Wang Ting's house to attract our attention, and the other three fanzi acted in the shadows. ”

Chen Xin pondered for a moment and said, "That is to say, if we want to kill this Jiang Yuegui, we can only kill him on the way back to Beijing." ”

"Yes, his subordinates thought that he was most likely to be on a boat, and most likely at night, and that it would be difficult to track him as long as he went out to sea. In addition, he still needs to contact the three fans, we can kill the three people in this dark place first, Jiang Yuegui can only go out to do things by himself, and then he will have the opportunity to kill this person directly, and if he dies outside the palace of Wang Ting, he will not be able to pursue Wang Tingqian. ”

Wu Jianzhong interjected: "The subordinates feel that Jiang Yuegui has entered the palace of the royal court to live in the palace, and it can be traced to the body of the royal court, so we can't do it in Dengzhou, we can only do it after Jiang Yuegui embarks on the way home, otherwise the court can find a reason." ”

Chen Xin thought for a moment and sighed, agreeing with Wu Jianzhong's statement, he turned to Zhou Shifa again, "Then what are the movements of the people inside our Dengzhou Town?" ”

Zhou Shifa said in a low voice: "The Ertun left last time suddenly lost its trace, and the Wendeng Intelligence Station immediately found that Lu Chuanzong met with someone in a tea shop, and based on his height, walking gait and the swing of his left hand, it was inferred that this person was Ertun. ”

Chen Xin squinted his eyes, heard Ertun's left hand, and remembered that Ertun's left hand had been broken, and the swing was abnormal, which was a distinctive feature of him. When he arrived in Tianjin, Ertun fought with someone by the canal and broke his left hand, which was later raised in a small courtyard in Tianjin, and he met Lu Chuanzong and Dai Zhenggang from that fight. Among them, Lu Chuanzong was the first to follow him, and he also went to Japan with Chen Xin, becoming Chen Xin's only team at that time, making the most important contribution to Chen Xin's completion of the original accumulation, in fact, he can be regarded as the most qualified veteran.

Zhou Shifa's voice continued, "The Wendeng Intelligence Station followed Ertun, but finally found that the spy who was tracking was killed in an alley, and the wound was a knife wound, which was in the center of the nest. ”

Chen Xin returned to reality from his memories, shook his head slightly, erased the traces of those memories from his memory, and buried them back in the hard disk of his memory.

"That is to say, Ertun is the person found in Dongchang, and at least one of Jiang Yuegui's subordinates is covering Ertun, and he is also a master of Dongchang or Jinyiwei."

Zhou Shifa nodded, Chen Xin turned his head and smiled at Wu Jianzhong: "Our intelligence bureau has also made a few moves with Jinyiwei in Beijing, but it was a petty fight, and now the people who are killing us in our territory, if they are allowed to return to Beijing, we will lose face in Dengzhou." ”

Wu Jianzhong and Zhou Shifa both bowed down together and said, "Don't worry, you won't let them escape." ”

Chen Xin waved his hand and said: "Jinyiwei is an external thief, it is easy to guard against it, but the most important thing is that it is still the internal thieves in Dengzhou, we must catch them all, this time the official does not care what evidence is not evidenced, and in an emergency, he doesn't care if the royal court tries to explain it or not, just one thing, that is, the internal thief must not be allowed to escape." ”