At the beginning of April of the third year of Xuande, after the situation in Jiaozhi was on the right track, Li Yuntian set off from Taiyuan City to Guilin City, preparing to meet the officials of the Third Division of Guangxi.

As the chief soldier of Guangxi and the governor of Guangxi, Li Yuntian was supposed to inspect the Third Division of Guangxi, but he was delayed due to the busy affairs of Jiaozhi before.

From Taiyuan City to Guilin City, it will cross the entire Guangxi from right west to east, passing through Taipingfu, Nanning, Sienfu, Liuzhou Mansion in Guangxi, and finally arriving at Guilin Mansion.

As in the case of Jiaozhi, this time the Guangxi Baggage Yuntian still used a stand-in, and the supposed general Nan received the officials of the state capitals along the way in his capacity.

Before the decisive battle with the Jiaozhi rebels, Li Yuntian did not plan to reveal his true identity to the public, so as to avoid Li Li's suspicions, and at the same time to investigate and secretly visit and settle the affairs of Jiaozhi and Guangxi.

Along the way, the officials of the state government along the way in Guangxi greeted each other three miles away from the city, and their attitude was very respectful, and no one dared to offend Li Yuntian, who now held the fate of Guangxi officials.

Because Guangxi is adjacent to Jiaozhi, officials in various prefectures in Guangxi have already learned about Li Yuntian's assessment of local officials in Jiaozhi, and they know that a large number of Jiaozhi officials have been dismissed by Li Yuntian, and some of them have been convicted for this.

For this young Dingnan general, no one in Guangxi dared to underestimate the local officials, and the people who were able to force back the rebels from Sanjiang Mansion in the three battles of Jiaozhi and make Li Li dare not act rashly were idle people?

Moreover, Li Yuntian is different from other generals, he is an orthodox two-rank jinshi, and he was able to enter the Hanlin Academy to become a Hanlin attendant, which can be said to be the leader of the Daming scholar and doctor class, and those local officials dare to despise him.

According to Li Yuntian's instructions, the assumed that General Nan would only see the local prefect and the commander of the guard whenever he went, and that he only simply inquired about some local government and military affairs, and did not mean to move the local officials, which made those officials breathe a sigh of relief and feel relieved.

After more than ten days of trekking, Li Yuntian and his entourage finally came to Liuzhou Mansion, where the prefect of Liuzhou Mansion, the Liuzhou Wei Commander and Qin Kun greeted each other outside Liuzhou City.

After Qin Kun led his army into Liuzhou Mansion, with the cooperation of the local garrison, he had cut off the passage for the bandit army of Liuzhou Mansion to enter Qingyuan Mansion to the west, and closely monitored the bandit army of Liuzhou Mansion.

The Liuzhou Mansion bandit army once tentatively harassed the two cities where the Ming army was stationed, but was defeated by the Ming army under Qin Kun and returned.

It was not until this time that the bandit army in Liuzhou Mansion found that the Ming army that came from Jiaozhi was different from the local Ming army in Guangxi, not only well-equipped, but also fierce and brave, killing people without blinking, like chopping melons and vegetables, how did they know that the army transferred by Li Yuntian from Jiaozhi this time was the elite of the Ming army.

In the evening, the prefect of Liuzhou Prefecture held a banquet in the best restaurant in Liuzhou City for Li Yuntian to catch the wind and wash the dust, and the banquet was naturally attended by the supposed southern general.

Li Yuntian's residence in the backyard of the Liuzhou Mansion began to deal with the affairs of Guangxi and Jiaozhi after dinner, and if he wanted to satisfy him with the situation in Guangxi and Jiaozhi, it would not be possible to achieve it overnight, and there would be a lot of things to do.

"Big brother, there is news from General Qin's side, your stand-in was attacked in the restaurant, and a poisoned arrow was hit in the arm!" Just when Li Yuntian was busy in front of the desk, Lei Ting, who was wearing a captain's costume, suddenly hurriedly walked in and said to him in a coquettish voice.

"What?" Li Yuntian was slightly stunned when he heard this, and couldn't help but look up at Lei Ting in surprise, never expecting that someone would attack the supposed general.

"Did you catch the assassin?" Then, his brow furrowed, and he asked in a deep voice.

"Caught, it is said that they are rebels from Jiaozhi, and they have come here to assassinate you on the orders of Li Li." Lei Ting nodded, and after hesitating for a moment, she looked at Li Yuntian with a puzzled expression, "Big brother, Li Li doesn't seem to have a reason to assassinate you at this time!" ”

In the entire Jiaozhi and even Guangxi, there are very few people who know that Li Yuntian and Li Li are negotiating, and they are all the descendants of Li Yuntian, even Zhang Ben, Liang Shaojie and others do not know.

Among those who were in the know, Lei Ting was the only one who knew the whole inside story, and covered Li Yuntian to complete this extremely difficult task, and then reversed the unfavorable situation of the Ming army in Jiaozhi in one fell swoop.

Therefore, Lei Ting felt that this assassination seemed very unreasonable, since Li Li had already negotiated the conditions with Li Yuntian, and both sides were also executed according to the conditions, then Li Li would definitely not rashly break the tacit understanding between the two sides, otherwise it would cause the Ming army to retaliate frantically.

"The order will go down, the whole city will be searched, and all the people who have entered Liuzhou City in the past five days will be brought to the government office!" Li Yuntian also felt that Li Li had no reason to send someone to assassinate him, so he groaned and said to Lei Ting in a deep voice.

"Yes!" Lei Ting bowed her hand to Li Yuntian when she heard this, and left quickly, she is now not only responsible for Li Yuntian's diet and daily life, but also serves as Li Yuntian's herald.

"Who could it be?" After Lei Ting left, Li Yuntian clasped his hands on his chest, frowned and fell into deep thought, feeling that what happened today was too unexpected, and he didn't understand who would be planning to assassinate him in Liuzhou City.

The reason why Li Yuntian wanted to check the people who arrived in Liuzhou City within five days was because since the other party chose to attack here, he must have come to Liuzhou City in advance to step on something, and from the time he left Taiyuan City, those assassins rushed to Liuzhou City five days ago at the earliest, so the outsiders who entered Liuzhou City in the past five days were the most suspicious.

It is assumed that the assassination of General Nan immediately caused an uproar in Liuzhou City, and the Liuzhou Prefecture Government and Liuzhou Wei commanded the Yamen soldiers to all go out and search the city for outsiders who had entered the city for five days.

Not only the people of the government, but also the residents of Liuzhou City were all mobilized, and the whole city was looking for Jiaozhi spies, everyone had already heard that Li Yuntian was trying to turn the tide in Jiaozhi and repelling the Jiaozhi rebels in three wars, and Li Yuntian had already regarded Li Yuntian as a hero who exterminated the Jiaozhi rebels, so naturally he couldn't let go of Jiaozhi spies.

At the same time, the captured assassin was brought into the palace, Qin Kun personally opened the trial, and the Liuzhou prefect and the Liuzhou Wei commander sat pale and listened, looking frightened, if General Dingnan really had something happen in their jurisdiction, the career of the two of them might come to an end.

Li Yuntian participated in the court trial as a guard, and stood quietly on the side of the hall with Lei Ting, secretly observing the progress of the interrogation.

A total of three assassins were arrested, all of them were sturdy men in their twenties, who spoke Jiaozhi and scolded the Ming court in the public court, and let the Ming soldiers and civilians get out of Jiaozhi, with an extremely tough and arrogant attitude.

Because the arrow that hit Li Yuntian's stand-in was smeared with unknown poison, although it did not hit the vital point, the assumed general Nan still fell into a coma and was unconscious, and all the famous doctors in Liuzhou City had been invited to treat him.

Li Yuntian saw that the three assassins looked stubborn, as if they had already put life and death out of the way, so he frowned and pondered for a while, and secretly shook his head slightly to Qin Kun in the lobby, it was obvious that these three assassins had already made up their minds to die, and it was difficult to get anything from them.

"What do you think of this, Lord Chief?" Seeing this, Qin Kun terminated the trial, asked the three assassins to be put in a prison and kept under strict guard, and when he returned to the back hall, he bowed to Li Yuntian and asked.

"This case is complicated, and the top priority is to catch the people in the same case." Li Yuntian groaned for a while, and ordered in a deep voice, "Tomorrow, we will strictly inspect the people and goods entering and leaving the four gates, as long as they are outsiders, all of them are overwhelmed." ”

"Yes!" Hearing this, Qin Kun bowed his hand to Li Yuntian, replied in a loud voice, and then thought of something, and asked tentatively, "Lord Commander, now that the outside world knows that you have been assassinated, in case something happens to your stand-in, how should you deal with it?" ”

"Secrets are not mourned!" Li Yuntian's brows suddenly furrowed when he heard this, and he slowly spit out four words in his mouth, the question that Qin Kun said was really tricky, if he couldn't find the antidote, it would be difficult for General Nan to survive tomorrow.

Now Li Yuntian's life and death will directly affect the situation in Jiaozhi, so Li Yuntian can only hide the death of the supposed general Nan, so as not to cause an accident in Jiaozhi.

At the same time, Li Yuntian also did this to stabilize the assassin's accomplices hiding in the shadows and prevent them from escaping while they were in chaos.

Li Yuntian believed that the assassin's accomplice was still in the city, and that he was the commander of the assassination operation, and that he would not leave until he was certain that he was dead.

The next morning, Li Yuntian received a news that after a city-wide investigation, he found that there were four merchants with foreign accents missing from an inn, and the four merchants disappeared after the officials of the government and the soldiers of the Liuzhou guard searched the streets door to door.

According to the innkeeper's confession, the four merchants came to Liuzhou City three days ago, spoke a Jiangnan accent, and went out to talk about business every day.

In order to find the four missing merchants, Li Yuntian asked the innkeeper and his companions to come to the government prison to identify the foreign merchants who had been arrested to assist in the investigation of the case.

Because of the involvement in the assassination of General Dingnan, none of the foreign merchants who were arrested dared to complain and obediently stayed in the prison.

Although those foreign merchants temporarily lost their freedom, they were not harassed by the jailers, nor were they tortured to extract confessions, and the Xiaowu soldiers who were responsible for interrogating them only made them honestly confess what they had done after coming to Liuzhou City, and they were treated with meat and vegetarian food three times a day, and the good treatment conditions surprised them, which was completely different from the image of the dark prison in their impression.

Therefore, those foreign business travelers also cooperated with the investigation of the Xiaowu Army personnel, after all, the assassination of General Dingnan can be described as a big event tomorrow, and no one wants to be involved.

After the innkeeper and his men went to the prison to identify people, they said that the four missing Jiangnan merchants were not among them, so Li Yuntian asked people to post the physical characteristics of the four Jiangnan merchants on the streets and alleys of the city, and ordered the entire city to search for the four Jiaozhi spies, and those who provided accurate information were rewarded with a thousand taels of silver.

As the saying goes, money can make ghosts grind, with the issuance of this order, the city of Liuzhou suddenly jumped chickens and dogs, whether it was the ordinary people or the official officials, they were all searching around the city for the treacherous spies, all wanting to get the reward of 1,000 taels of silver.