The gate collapsed, and then a group of people rushed into the city one by one, waving their blades.

Huating City Bosi is just a yamen responsible for tax collection, and there are not a few guards at all, especially in the dead of night, it can be said that nine out of ten people in the entire city are asleep.

All of a sudden, these people had rushed into the city, and they didn't even react to some of the sleeping people.

However, Chen Ku heard the movement for the first time, and almost instinctively opened his mouth to blow out the oil lamp, and jumped out of the window in a daze, and rolled on the spot and hid in a bush of flowers.

Chen Ku is a talent selected by Chu Yi, and he can be the head of the city's shipping department, so he is naturally not incompetent.

It can even be said that before he became the director of the city, Chen had already had a certain psychological preparation for this situation.

Although Chen Ku didn't want to believe that someone dared to stare at Chu Yi's ferocity and attack the city, Chen Ku knew better, the dog jumped over the wall in a hurry, and the rabbit bit when he was in a hurry, not to mention these people who regarded money and family interests as their lives.

The local clan power can be said to be deep-rooted, and there are countless people who despise the royal law in the local area, so there are always a group of people who seem to be very stupid and stupidly run over to send them to death.

But Chen Ku didn't expect that some people would be so blatant, and even sent people to rush directly into the city.

Hiding in a remote corner, Chen Ku could vaguely see at least dozens of people rushing into the city through the dim moonlight.

When Chen Ku vaguely saw the person in charge, he couldn't help but be surprised, obviously Chen Ku saw that Gangmura Guiyi was dressed.

Gangcun Guiyi's dress is unrecognizable to most people, but Chen Ku is also a person with good ability, and he can be regarded as well-informed, especially when he was sent by Chu Yi to be in charge of the affairs of Huating City, so Chen Ku really put a lot of effort into understanding some of the things that the City Department wants to contact and some problems that may be encountered.

Among them, maritime trade is obviously the focus of the city's jurisdiction, and maritime trade is overseas trade in the final analysis, and the closest overseas country to the Ming Dynasty to talk about, many people first think of Dongying Island.

Chen Ku naturally knew about this, although he said that he had never seen the Dongying people, but Chen Ku had also seen some records about the Dongying people.

Wearing clogs at his feet, combing his braids, and wearing a mustache, the most eye-catching thing is the katana in his hand, which is completely different from the style of the Central Plains.

Over the years, the Japanese have attacked and harassed various coastal areas from time to time, and Huating is obviously in the range of the Japanese invaders, even if there are Japanese invaders appearing in Huating, it is not uncommon.

Gangmura kicked the door of a room open one by one, and then he heard an angry roar: "Who ......?"

However, the next moment, there was an exclamation and screams in the room, and soon Kiichi Gangmura walked out of the room with a blood-dripping katana.

As for the other rooms, the would-be robbers who rushed into the room with Gangcun Guiichi were very easy to kill the officials of the Huating City Bo Division who were in a daze and didn't even react to what was going on.

Gangcun Guiyi stood in the courtyard, and soon saw a person walking to Gangcun Guiyi's side and rushing at Gangcun Guiyi: "Gangcun Jun, there are 38 people in Huating City, and 37 people have been killed, but Chen Ku, the director of the City Bureau, is missing!" ”

Gangcun Gui couldn't help frowning when he heard this, and the head of the house opened his eyes wide and shouted, "Everyone will search for me, even if it is three feet into the ground, I will find out the person." ”

In the news that Gangcun Guiyi got before, Chen Ku, who was the head of the City Shipping Division, was in this compound, and it can be said that one of their targets here was Chen Ku, but now that they have been killed, they have not found any trace of Chen Ku, how can this not make Gangcun Guiyi angry.

Suddenly, dozens of fierce and vicious, blood-stained pirates searched in the huge courtyard.

Chen Ku was just hiding in a remote corner, hidden by a bush of flowers, and the officials who had been busy cleaning up the room before, so the attention was not focused on where Chen Ku was hiding.

But at this time, the Japanese invaders began to search the entire courtyard, unless there was a crack in the ground and let Chen Ku drill underground, otherwise once the Japanese invaders became serious, it would be nothing more than a matter of time before Chen Ku was discovered.

"You are so bold that you dare to attack and kill the officials of the imperial court, aren't you afraid that my great soldiers will come and kill you and others?"

Chen Ku's sudden appearance startled the two would-be robbers who had already found Chen Ku's hiding place, after all, a figure suddenly jumped out of the darkness, which was too scary after all.

When Gangcun Guiyi heard this, his eyes fell on Chen Ku, and when he saw Chen Ku's clothes, Gangcun Guiyi's eyes lit up, and he stared at Chen Ku and said in broken Chinese: "Your Excellency is the head of Huating City, Chen Ku?" ”

Chen Ku took a deep breath and looked at Gangcun Guiyi and the others, especially at Gangcun Guiyi: "If this official is not mistaken, you are not my Ming people, but Dongying Wokou!" ”

Gangcun Guiyi's eyes narrowed, and the corners of his mouth curled slightly: "Lord Chen guessed what, today next year will be the adult's death day." ”

While speaking, Gangcun Gui strode towards Chen Ku. Chen Ku's expression showed a little nervousness, but the whole person did not take a step back, nor did he open his mouth to beg for mercy.

As a smart person, Chen Ku saw very clearly, since these would-be robbers killed the entire city up and down, then he would definitely not be left alive, so no matter how he begged for mercy, these people would not let him go.

Seeing that Gangcun Guiyi walked towards him, Chen Ku stared at Gangcun Guiyi and said in a trembling voice: "Today, you are waiting for the officials of the Ming Dynasty to kill me, and the warship of our Ming Dynasty will definitely set foot on the land of Dongying, and use the blood of your others to aven......ge today's revenge."

With a snort, I saw Gangcun Guiyi stabbing into Chen Ku's abdomen one by one, and suddenly Chen Ku snorted, the whole person bowed his body, the green tendons on his forehead burst out, and a mouthful of blood gushed out of his mouth.

I only heard a pop, Chen Ku's body fell to the ground softly, and a large amount of blood suddenly stained the ground, as Chen Ku's body convulsions gradually stopped, it was obvious that Chen Ku was already breathless.

Gangcun Guiyi glanced at Chen Ku, his eyes showed a bit of admiration, but when he raised his head, he said with a hideous color: "Search all the places again, don't miss a living person, and make sure that no chickens and dogs are left!" ”

Soon, a raging fire broke out in the courtyard where the Yamen of the entire Huating City Bosi was located, and a sea of fire burned completely, swallowing up the entire city's Bosi station.

The raging fire naturally alarmed many people in Huating County and gathered around Huating City.

"Oh no, it's ...... water"

"It's on fire, everyone get up and put out the fire!"

It's a pity that when these people spontaneously came out with buckets, the entire Huating City Bosi Yamen was completely engulfed by the fire, and at this time, it was not said that some people spontaneously put out the fire, even if the people of the entire Huating County were dispatched together, they couldn't save the fire that burned completely.

Fortunately, these people controlled the fire in time, but the fire spread to several nearby families, and the movement of the fire was not small, and the people who lived near the compound where the city division was located were naturally awakened and escaped in time.

The fire burned for almost half of the night, and under the raging fire, no one could get close to the city's location.

However, it was not long before the establishment of Huating City, which was engulfed by a fire, which naturally alarmed the county government, and the county order was awakened by the officials in his sleep, and led the officials of the county government to the scene for the first time, but he could only watch the fire burn.

Between the flickering firelight, in the dark corner in the distance, a sedan chair stopped in a remote place, a figure sat in the sedan chair, looking at the raging fire from a distance through the window of the sedan chair, and vaguely could see a face flashing a little excitement and hideous color.

Capital

Chu Yi returned from Tianjin Wei not long ago, and the whole person seemed to be much more low-key, and Chu Yi gradually rarely interfered in the big and small political affairs of the DPRK and the central government, but instead handed over a large number of government affairs to Zhu Houzhao to deal with.

Zhu Houzhao obviously noticed Chu Yi's move, he was very puzzled, and even came to see Chu Yi in person to ask the reason, after all, Zhu Houzhao trusted and relied on Chu Yi very much, and Chu Yi's behavior of obviously taking the initiative to delegate power to him made Zhu Houzhao can't help but think about it too much.

Of course, Zhu Houzhao didn't think that Chu Yi would be unfavorable to him, but thought that Chu Yi deliberately did this in order to avoid danger, but Zhu Houzhao was afraid that this would ruin the relationship between the two of them.

However, Chu Yi explained to Zhu Houzhao that Chu Yi had reached a critical juncture with his cultivation skills, and he needed to focus more on cultivation, which could be regarded as appeasing Zhu Houzhao.

It's also a shame that Zhu Houzhao knows that Chu Yi attaches great importance to cultivation, otherwise, if Chu Yi really uses other excuses, Zhu Houzhao will really have a hard time at that level.

Of course, Chu Yi did put a considerable part of his energy into cultivation, and now Chu Yi's cultivation has reached the peak of innateness.

With the Altar of Luck, Chu Yi worked hard to accumulate the foundation and tried to impact the next realm, but whenever Chu Yi tried to impact the next realm, he felt the existence of an invisible bottleneck, and it was the existence of the invisible bottleneck that made Chu Yi unable to enter the next realm.

In the past few days, more than 1,000 qi luck has been consumed, except for its own accumulation, there is no progress in breaking through the bottleneck.

However, Chu Yi was not in a hurry, the matter of cultivation was not a day or two, so Chu Yi broke through the barrier without much progress after a few days of retreat.

When Chu Yi came out of the secret room, Qi Hu, who was guarding the secret room to protect Chu Yi's Dharma, couldn't help but have a bright light in his eyes, and immediately saluted Chu Yi and said, "Boss, you are finally out of the customs!" ”

Chu Yi heard that there was something wrong with Qi Hu's words, and he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, glanced at Qi Hu and said, "Oh, Qi Hu, is there anything going on in the court during this king's retreat?" ”

Qi Hu smiled bitterly and said: "Chief Administrator, the matter is not clear for a while, the Chief Manager should go and take a look at the urgent report from Huating Jinyi Wei himself." ”

In the study, Chu Yi, who had freshened up, sat there, and in front of him was an urgent report from Huating Jinyiwei.

Looking at the content of the urgent report, Chu Yi's expression was calm, and he couldn't see Chu Yi's inner emotions at all.

Cao Shaoqin, Lin Pingzhi, Qi Hu and others stood there one by one at this time, and they didn't dare to gasp.

Whether it was Cao Shaoqin or Qi Hu, they already knew the content of the urgent report, after all, the case of the destruction of the Bosi in Huating City had spread, and the entire court was shaken.

It was a yamen set up by a serious imperial court, including a fifth-grade official, several sixth-grade and seventh-grade officials, plus some helpers, adding up to dozens of people, but they died in a fire, and dozens of people were not able to escape.

If it is just an ordinary fire, no matter how powerful the fire is, it is impossible for even one person to escape, so as long as you are not a fool, you can see that this fire is not so simple when you see the report presented by the Huating County Order.

Chu Yi looked at the urgent report, looked up at Cao Shaoqin with a calm expression, and said: "Cao Shaoqin, it has been nearly seven days since the case of the destruction of the Bosi in Huating City, and the news has been delayed on the road for about four days, that is to say, it has been three days since the imperial court received the urgent report. ”

Cao Shaoqin, who was directly named by Chu Yi and had almost completely replaced Chu Yi in charge of the entire East Factory, still did not dare to have the slightest transgression and carelessness when facing Chu Yi.

I saw Cao Shaoqin's expression was solemn, and he respectfully saluted Chu Yi and said: "Back to the Grand Governor, Your Majesty has discussed with the cabinet, and the Ministry of Punishment has sent competent people to Huating County to investigate the case of the destruction of the Bosi in Huating City. ”

Chu Yi nodded slightly, it was reasonable for Zhu Houzhao to make such a decision with a group of civil and military personnel, this case was obviously not that simple, if the imperial court did not investigate thoroughly, it would be a strange thing.

However, Chu Yi looked at Cao Shaoqin, Cao Shaoqin took a deep breath and bowed down and said: "The slave maid sent the capable general of the East Factory to lead the best at investigating cases in the East Factory to secretly go to Huating at the first time, and I think I have arrived at Huating at this time. ”