Chapter 657: Take control of Nanyang City
And the hall master, who was most trusted by the king of Nanyang before, took his senior brother in charge to control the entire Nanyang at the fastest speed.
At this time, the hall master occupied the Nanyang Mansion in the name of the new Nanyang King, and ordered the people of the city to start raising Gu worms.
Although the people don't know how to raise Gu worms, they have also heard of it.
"You said that you are the new king of Nanyang, but there is an official letter issued by the imperial court?" In front of the yamen, some people questioned.
As soon as the man's words came out, the people all agreed, and some people said loudly: "Besides, raising Gu worms is harmful to us and not beneficial, why should we listen to you?" ”
"That's it!" The hall master drew the sword at his waist and stabbed the man in the chest, his eyes widened, pointing at the hall master, his face was incredulous, but before he could spit out a word, the whole person fell straight down.
Withdrawing the sword, the hall master swept his cold eyes towards the people around him, "Who else doesn't obey?" ”
The people looked at each other, they were already like this, who would dare not obey?
Since raising Gu worms, the children began to practice worms with blood, and the women were forced to help the senior brother of the head of the family raise Gu worms, and the raised Gu worms were all given to the men in the city.
They didn't know what the use of raising these Gu worms was, and they didn't know why they had to give them to them.
But the children practiced worms with blood, and the process was extremely painful, and the children cried day and night, and the women were in terror all day long.
On the other side, in the capital, Xia Jingnian couldn't help but have some doubts when he looked at the folds sent from all over the country.
The king of Nanyang has not handed over the fold for a long time, and he is now ignorant of Nanyang's movements.
If it's just that he doesn't have any news, it doesn't matter, but even the monthly tax Nanyang King has not submitted it, and there is no movement that needs to be reported to the court every month.
This can't help but make Xia Jingnian a little suspicious.
At that time, he sent spies to Nanyang and asked him to secretly find out the news of Nanyang.
Unexpectedly, as soon as the spies arrived in Nanyang, they were killed, leaving only one to escape.
"All killed, leaving you alone?" Xia Jingnian asked in surprise.
The spy nodded, "The security there is very tight, we worked hard to get in, and before we could investigate, we were discovered, and the other brothers were all dead, leaving only one of our subordinates to come back." The emperor ...... "Before the man finished speaking, he spit out a mouthful of blood, he was seriously injured, and he was able to come back with his last breath, just to report the letter to Xia Jing."
"Fang Ping!" Xia Jingnian was busy asking people to send the spy to the imperial doctor for treatment, and immediately called Fang Ping out.
"You go to Nanyang in person and see what happened." Xia Jingnian always felt that something must be wrong there. Although those spies were carefully selected, they couldn't be compared to Fang Ping in the end.
The people around him, the one he trusted the most and the most outstanding, were Fang Pinghe and Leng Kill.
If the two of them are sent out, it will inevitably attract the attention of Nanyang's side, so it is better to separate the two, one in front of the other, to avoid startling the snake.
Fang Ping received the order and immediately set off for Nanyang.
After dressing up in disguise, after several twists and turns, Fang Ping finally succeeded in sneaking into Nanyang. Today's Nanyang is under martial law, and only fixed merchants are left to and from Nanyang every day for daily supplies in the city. Otherwise, Nanyang would have been locked down.
Fang Ping still entered Nanyang as a merchant, and after the merchant arrived in Nanyang every day to send the supply to the government, he would leave Nanyang immediately, and he was not allowed to stay.
Fang Ping, who wanted to stay in Nanyang all the time, thought about it, but forgot it, first followed the merchants in, and then went out, in a few days, he should be able to find out.
In three days, Fang Ping found out the current situation in Nanyang.
This is no longer the Nanyang before, the king of Nanyang died violently, and now the person who controls the king of Nanyang is a person who was very close to the king of Nanyang before, no one knows his name, only that he and his senior brother are now ordering all the people of Nanyang to raise Gu worms.
Children who are only three years old are training Gu worms with blood, not only that, most of the Nanyang men have been cultivated as dead soldiers, all of them are infinitely powerful, and their eyes are blank.
Not only that, these men will train in the training ground every day, as if they are preparing for something.
The women had to take care of the children who practiced Gu worms with blood, and they also had to cook and deliver food to the men in the training ground.
The men are infinitely powerful, and they practice martial arts tirelessly all day long, but they eat an unusually large amount of food, so they need merchants like them to deliver supplies every day.
These things were connected together, and Fang Ping couldn't help but be shocked. He seemed to have something in mind.
Out of Nanyang Village, Fang Ping hurriedly sent the news of Nanyang City to Xia Jingnian, and when Xia Jingnian saw this, he hurriedly sent Leng Kill to support Fang Ping.
Although he knew the general situation of Nanyang City, he didn't know what the Gu worms practiced by these people were, whether they were what he imagined, and whether there was a way to crack these Gu worms.
He needed a truth.
On this day, Fang Ping was not out of the city.
At this time, the hall master and senior brother had already gathered the men who had been deceived, and the rest of the men who had not been deceived were also registered, Fang Ping had appeared in Nanyang City as a merchant before, so he did not attract their attention.
Now that there was suddenly one more Fang Ping who had not registered, he naturally found out more quickly than them.
It's just that they don't know what Fang Ping is here for. The hall master was the one who had commanded so many killers before, and the means naturally went without saying, he was not in a hurry to arrest Fang Ping, but secretly observed what he wanted to do.
After a few days of observation, he found that Fang Ping actually talked to those women and children, how they raised Gu worms, how those men fell for Gu worms, and what they practiced every day.
These messages were sent to the hall master, and even the senior brother in charge found out that something was wrong.
"We've killed a wave of spies before, so this won't be another spies this time, right?" Senior brother asked.
The hall master snorted coldly, "Need you talk about this?" But let's not kill him directly, arrest him first, and then interrogate him. "There have been two groups of spies, whether it is from the court or not, they don't know yet, if it is from the court, they are afraid that they will have to change their plans at that time.
If not...... That's where something went wrong, someone leaked the news.
"Let's ...... like this first" The hall master and the senior brother whispered for a while, and the senior brother asked suspiciously, "Is this okay?" ”
"No problem." The hall master said confidently, the senior brother nodded, and let people go down to make arrangements.
On this day, Fang Ping got the news that the men who were made Gu were going to go outside for training, this was one of the few good opportunities to blend into their camp, at that time, Fang Ping changed the men's clothes, mixed in with the men who entered the Gu, and followed them to conduct actual combat drills in the city.