Chapter 63: Poisoning
When he returned to the mansion in the evening, Ji Qingchen sat quietly in the study alone for a long time.
Because in front of Jiang Rou, he can show that he doesn't care about what Jiang Rou says, this is to confuse Jiang Rou. But in fact, he didn't dare to despise Empress Dowager Xiao, who could affect the situation of the country leaving the country. He is very clear that the current departure from the country is dominated by the new monarch Li Changchuan and his teacher Li Qingyi, and the Empress Dowager Xiao and the Empress Dowager Party dominated by relatives to deal with the government together. If Empress Dowager Xiao really wants to deal with herself and Princess Anle, even if the current new monarch Li Changchuan wants to protect his sister, he can't compromise in the face of Empress Dowager Xiao's oppression.
In this case, it's time for you to prepare in advance! You can't sit still! Thinking of this, he thought of the Xiaoqi camp, thought about it for a long time, and then had an idea in his heart.
The next day, he rode a horse and hurried to the Kushan military camp.
Because outside King's Landing, Bai Xiangcheng single-handedly staged a good show of taking the head of the enemy general within a hundred steps, and the training of the soldiers of today's Xiao Cavalry Battalion is unusually hard.
Here, Ji Qingchen had just arrived at the Xiaoshan military camp and summoned Bai Xiangcheng, Li Changzheng, and Wang Yin to the big tent of the Chinese army. Everyone had already known the news that he had been named the king of Northern Liao, and when he arrived at the big tent of the Chinese army, he immediately stepped forward and bowed down to pay respects, "See Your Highness!" ”
"Brothers, don't be polite!" Ji Qingchen said lightly, "Now that you know that this king has been named the king of Northern Liao, you must also understand your father's intentions, right?" ”
Everyone got up and stared at Ji Qingchen's face tightly, with anticipation in their eyes!
"Judging from the meaning of my father, this king guesses that the Xiaocai battalion may have to be stationed in Liaozhou in the future, in order to defend against Beirong in the south." Ji Qingchen said bluntly, "The Eight Banners of Beirong have always had a saying that the Eight Banners are less than 10,000 and 10,000 are invincible. In the battle of Yanmen that year, 100,000 elites of Dayan lost 30,000 Beirong Eight Banners Iron Cavalry, which is enough to show the strength of this barbarian cavalry. And among these 100,000 elites, there is Tie Gewei, whom Dayan is proud of. ”
"What does Brother Nine mean?" Li Changzheng asked as if he couldn't wait.
"What this king means is that when he completes the task of receiving the missions of the three kingdoms, he will ask his father to go north to Liaozhou." Ji Qingchen calmly said his decision last night, "So I want to hear your opinion today?" ”
"Brother Jiu is now the king of Northern Liao, if His Majesty sets up a governor's mansion in Liaozhou, then Brother Jiu will be the rightful governor, so the cavalry battalion should follow Brother Jiu to the north." Wang Yin said without thinking, "When Dayan fought with Beirong, Dayan's most elite 3,000 Tie Gewei troops were wiped out, which made the people of the world think that the horse lance soldiers in 'Dayan's horse lance' have become a shame. Our Xiaocai battalion is the second Tie Ge Guard, and this time we went north to Liaozhou to meet their Beirong Eight Banners, so that the Northern Barbarians would know that the Dao Dayan horse soldiers would never disappear, and it would always be their nightmare. ”
"That's right! Wang Yin is right, this time we will follow the Ninth Brother to the north, and we must revive the military prestige of Tie Gewei back then. Li Changzheng immediately chimed in, "We must avenge the First World War of the year!" Killed the king of Beijung Khan, Modahan. ”
"Baixiang City, I am willing to follow His Highness to the north!" Bai Xiangcheng opened his mouth and said, without too much nonsense, concise and crisp.
"Liu Qingqing is willing to follow Brother Jiu to the north!" Liu Qingqing followed Bai Xiangcheng and said.
And the rest of the people immediately stated that they were willing to go north. This made Ji Qingchen a little moved.
Facing Beirong is equivalent to facing death, which is a mantra that circulates among the people. It means that as long as you arrive at Yanmen Pass, you will only have to wait for death. Moreover, Ji Chengqian, the crown prince of Dayan in front of Yanmen Pass, died in battle, and the Great Khan King of Beirong died in battle three years ago, so the people said that Yanmen Pass was an ominous place. And there is also a name for Yanmen Pass, which is called the dormant place of the king. It means that as long as the prince arrives at Yanmen, his fate is only one death.
But now the nine people in front of him still resolutely want to go north with him, regardless of the reason for going north? If you want to die with him, this loyalty, this follow. How could Ji Qingchen not be moved? It's just that at this moment, he looked at everyone's sincere eyes, didn't say more, just nodded heavily!
Leaving the Kunshan military camp and returning to King's Landing City, when he arrived outside the gate of his house, the plaque on the top of the vermilion lacquer gate had been replaced with four gilded characters of "Northern Liao Palace". looked at these four words in a daze, Ji Qingchen was full of emotion, aren't how many heroes in the world are willing to die all their lives without regrets just for these four words?
Just as he was thinking about it, suddenly there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves in the distance. In an instant, the sound of horses' hooves approached, and I saw a knight riding a horse rushing ten steps in front of him before reining in the war horse, quickly jumped off the horse, and said breathlessly, "Your Highness, there was a poisoning incident in the pavilion where the Lingnan mission was located just now, and the Lingnan people were angry and fighting with the guards in the pavilion. ”
"What?" Ji Qingchen was startled, and before he could think about it, he shouted to the guards beside him, "Quick, you go to the Kunshan military camp and give an order to Baixiang City, just say that he will take the Xiaocai battalion into the city to the Lingnan Mission's pavilion." ”
"No!" The guards took the order and galloped away. He immediately said to the messenger knight, "Let's go, let's go to the pavilion at once!" ”
Along the way, he asked the knights around him in detail about some of the circumstances he didn't know, and only then did he understand the whole story. It turned out that at lunch time today, the entourage in the Lingnan Mission was eating, but I didn't expect that a person suddenly foamed at the mouth and fainted while eating, and he lost his breath on the ground in the middle of the sound. The people in the mission were puzzled, and were wondering why their companions had lost their breath, when they found that many of them began to vomit, and they vomited and vomited and vomited and
This surprised the people of Lingnan, and they immediately reported the matter to Bai Zhiquan, the king of Nanling.
Bai Zhiquan was furious when he heard the return of his entourage, and he immediately rushed to the scene and asked his entourage to check the cause of death, only to find that someone had poisoned the food. didn't ask about questioning the guards sent by Dayan in the pavilion, and wanted to kill the cook who cooked for them to avenge the dead entourage, but the guards in the pavilion naturally did not allow it, so they clashed with the back soldiers around Bai Zhiquan, which led to a wanton fight between the two sides.
Ji Qingchen, who was riding on a horse, listened carefully to the answers of the knights around him, he felt that he only poisoned the food of the entourage in the Lingnan Mission, and only wanted to poison a few entourage, and did not want to endanger the lives of Bai Zhiquan and Bai Shangwu and others. The purpose of this poisoned person is very simple, that is, he wants to deepen the contradiction between Lingnan people and Dayan through poisoning, and then target Honglu Temple and the Ministry of Rites, which is actually directed at himself-
So to speak, their purpose is to deal with themselves!
Thinking like this in his heart, the people had already hurried to the door of the Lingnan people's pavilion. It was found that the entrance of the pavilion had been surrounded by hundreds of Yulin cavalry, and the general who led the army was none other than Li Duo, the captain of the Yulin cavalry who helped Li Changzheng on the street last time.
"Yulin Cavalry Captain Li Duo, see the King of Northern Liao!" When Li Duo saw Ji Qingchen, he immediately dismounted and saluted him.
"What's going on inside?" Ji Qingchen asked coldly.
"Lord Chen and Lord Ye are negotiating with the Lingnan people inside." Li Duo replied.
"Negotiations?" Ji Qingchen frowned.
"Yes, because the Lingnan people have already detained Lord Song of Honglu Temple, saying that if they want Da Yan not to hand over the murderer again, they will put Lord Song on the spot to avenge the death of their companions." Li Duo said briefly. The Lord Song in his mouth is Song Jingxiu, the Cheng of Honglu Temple, and he is Ye Qingchen's confidant trained in Honglu Temple.
"Hmph, a bunch of bastards who don't know the height of the sky!" Ji Qingchen scolded fiercely, ignoring Li Duo on the side, and rushed into the pavilion on horseback.
He rode straight in, and after a while, he arrived at the small school field of the pavilion, and found that more than fifty back-wedged soldiers and more than a hundred Yulin Lang beside Chen Yan and Ye Qingchen were glaring angrily, Chen Yan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Ye Qingchen, the Shaoqing of Honglu Temple, were explaining something to Bai Zhiquan and Bai Shangwu with angry faces, and on the other side of the small school field, the heads of dozens of Dayan soldiers were lying in a pool of blood, and the death was very tragic.
Seeing this scene, Ji Qingchen was very annoyed, he rode a horse and rushed towards Bai Zhiquan, regardless of the back soldiers in front of him, he rushed to Bai Zhiquan, only then did he restrain the war horse, suppressed the anger in his heart, and asked coldly, "Lord Bai, did you kill these soldiers of Dayan?" ”
Bai Zhixing did not return to Ji Qingchen's question, but quietly glanced at Ji Qingchen on the horse, and said sarcastically, "His Royal Highness the Ninth just crowned the king of Northern Liao last night, and today is so majestic!" ”
"Lord Bai, did you kill these soldiers of Dayan?" Ji Qingchen condescendingly questioned again.
"Your Highness the Nine, you only know that we killed Dayan's soldiers, why don't you ask you to poison our entourage?" Bai Shangwu suddenly stepped forward and asked. His gaze was cold and murderous, and he had long lost the graceful bearing in the main hall of Qionglin Yuan last night, but like a bloodthirsty wolf.
"This is Dayan's pavilion, the food you ate was poisoned, this is our responsibility, we will investigate carefully and thoroughly, and we will definitely give an explanation to the dead when the time comes." Ji Qingchen said coldly, "But now that you have killed the chef in the pavilion and killed so many guards, what do you want to do?" Are you still the people of Dayan? Do you still have the law of Dayan in your eyes? Do you still have the kingdom of Dayan in your eyes? ”
"Fuck the people of the Great Swallow, fuck the Law of the Great Swallow, Lao Tzu is the Lingnan Yi people, Lao Tzu only knows that they want to poison the food we eat, want to poison us, shouldn't they kill us?" Bai Zhiquan was also furious and said, "It's also in your Dayan, I, Bai Zhiquan, gave Da Yan a face, and only then did I give them a refreshing feeling, if it was placed in our Lingnan Baiyan Clan, scum like them would have been sent to the tiger cage a long time ago, and the hungry tiger would have been eaten." ”
Boom!
The wolf's blade is still out of its sheath!
Ji Qingchen, who was riding on the horse, glared at Bai Zhiquan angrily and shouted, "Bai Zhiquan, do you dare to say it again? Believe it or not, the king will kill you right now? ”
"Your Highness the Nine, what's wrong with what Lao Tzu said? Am I Bai Zhiquan afraid of you? Today, I will throw away a sentence, if you don't hand over the mastermind before dark, don't blame me Bai Zhixing for not giving face to Dayan. Bai Zhixing looked at him, Ji Qingchen's cold eyes were not afraid.
Seeing that Ji Qingchen and Bai Zhiquan were about to face each other, Chen Yan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Shaoqing of Honglu Temple hurriedly stepped forward to round the field. Chen Yan said with great dignity, "Your Highness the Nine, please calm your anger, and the King of Nanling should be restless." Now that the matter has happened, let's stop arguing, let's sit down and talk slowly! ”
"That's right! In fact, from the old man's point of view, this case is not difficult, the murderer's purpose of poisoning only wants to poison the entourage in the mission, which shows that his motive and purpose have been clearly revealed, that is, he wants to bring the two sides into conflict, and they are good at profiting. Therefore, as long as we can solve it calmly, the old man promises that the murderer and the real mastermind will be found within three days. Ye Qingchen also spoke. He had already seen at a glance that the mastermind behind the scenes was running for his nephew Ji Qingchen, so he did not hesitate to say the cruel words of finding the murderer and the mastermind within three days. It is to stabilize the Lingnan people and stabilize Bai Zhiquan.
But as soon as Ye Qingchen's words were finished, before Bai Zhiquan could speak, he saw a back-backed soldier stumbling in, he was scarred all over his body, and he was already a little dying, but when he saw Bai Zhixing, he seemed to burst out with a force for a moment, and suddenly rushed to Bai Zhiquan's front in a few steps, fell down all of a sudden, and said in a choked voice, "King Nanling, just now, we, just now on the street, Princess Dream was arrested. ”