Chapter VI: Conspiracy and Instigation
After the curtain came down on the banquet of the monarchs and ministers, the envoys of various countries returned to China one after another, only a young man with a luxurious dress and outstanding temperament jumped out of the horse team of the Dan Chamber, changed into the usual Xiguo costume, and went to the Shegu.
Paper can't hold the fire, and the more people try to hide something, the more they can't hide anything, and the news of the social drum and the brutal suppression of the state civil unrest soon spread.
King Xuan, who guarded Yongning, and King Rui, who guarded Zhangzhou, heard about this, and was heartbroken, and after discussing the letter, the two of them had to take people to Hezhou and Shegu to investigate the truth and collect evidence.
King Xuan was still on his way to Shegu, but it suddenly snowed heavily overnight. When he arrived, the ground was white and clean. And the Drum City is even quieter than this snow.
Originally, it was to find out the civil unrest, but King Xuan did not publicize it, dressed up roughly, and wanted to enter the city, but was stopped outside the city gate by the soldiers guarding the city.
Just as King Xuan was trying to find a way to enter the city to find out, the young man from the Dan room appeared behind him: "You can't get in!" ”
"Who are you?" King Xuan turned around and asked, "How do you know I can't get in?" ”
"You don't care who I am," the young man replied with a smile, "but I know you won't be able to get in, unless you're bigger than the Thorn!" ”
"How?"
"The Shegu Mansion slaughtered the people, of course, no one who might leak the news was allowed to enter or leave the city, unless you were a high-ranking official."
"How much do you know about the slaughter of the people by the Shegu Mansion?" King Xuan suddenly became extremely serious.
The young man smiled: "How much can I know?" It's not all hearsay! ”
"Can you tell me all that hearsay?"
The young man did not answer, and his mind searched again for information about the person in front of him.
King Xuan felt that the way he looked at him was a little strange, and he couldn't help but look at the other party carefully.
The two looked at each other for a moment, and suddenly laughed at each other, and the young man said: "If you find a random person near the drum, you can know a general idea, so why ask me a person who only knows how to spread falsehoods?" ”
"Whether it is true or false, I will tell below. But please advise. ”
The young people no longer refused, and told King Xuan that the people in Shegu City had no food and no clothes to steal public grain and were slaughtered by the government.
The more King Xuan listened, the more solemn his face became, and the young man knew in his heart that although this person was small, he should have left earlier.
King Xuan was still immersed in grief and indignation, and did not notice that the young man had left him.
But he didn't really leave, but quietly followed King Xuan.
King Xuan could not enter the city, and there were almost no shops outside the city, so he had to pack up an uninhabited farmhouse by a few of his subordinates to live in temporarily.
The young man hid for a long time, and finally heard the identity of this person from the conversation of this group of people who were dressed in burlap clothes but were obviously not ordinary people, and his eyes rolled and left.
There were several dilapidated houses thirty miles away from Shegucheng Tower, and the young man came to this place for the last time and distributed the dry food, rice, noodles, and silver that he had bought in advance to a few people living in the dilapidated houses.
These people knelt down as if they had met a living bodhisattva, and cried out "life-saving benefactor".
The young man helped them up one by one, and said with an apologetic face: "Don't be like this, I can't stand you, if I hadn't given you the idea to steal the food from the government, you wouldn't have been killed by the dog official!" ”
Several people were gobbling up, and when they heard these words, they also remembered the tragedy of Chinese New Year's Eve, crying and scolding, "Dog officer, dog official!" ”
After the young man dispersed the silver two, he said to them: "You don't have to worry, I just went to the city gate to find out the news, and when I saw a man who said what King Xuan was, he opened his mouth and asked me about Chinese New Year's Eve, and what else did he say, he wanted to find out the facts and behead these dog officials!" It must be that the imperial court heard about the tragedy and sent someone to investigate, you can go to this lord and avenge him! ”
When the people heard this, they immediately came to King Xuan's temporary residence according to the young man's words.
They staggered and knelt outside the farmhouse, crying about what had happened to them.
The kind-hearted King Xuan himself helped them up, and patiently listened to them tell them what was happening in the city, and found that it was exactly what the young man had said.
After listening to their complaints, King Xuan was furious and promised them that he would report the matter to the emperor, saying that these dog officials would be severely punished!
Several people kowtowed and thanked again, and King Xuan took a lot of effort to persuade them, and promised to take them to the capital to meet the saint.
At dusk, King Xuan sent more than a dozen bags of grain bought by his subordinates to the people, and asked a few people to send the people back to their temporary hiding place, and when he had more evidence, he took the people into Beijing.
The men sent the people back and helped to put the food in place, and then they went back.
After they left, several people dressed very similarly suddenly appeared in the vicinity, with swords and swords, and the people thought it was King Xuan's people and hurried to greet them.
The leader pushed them away and said, "A group of Diao people! King Xuan is just acting with you, do you take it seriously? It's our King Xuan's money, and we King Xuan have to take it back, and you won't get a penny!" ”
The people were frightened and began to flee in all directions. The people behind went up and cut down, and the poor people were already out of breath before they could react.
But one of the men reacted quite quickly, and ran away, and the group did not chase them, and killed the rest of the people, and took all the silver taels without a penny.
The group had looted and come to a remote place, where the young man who had distributed silver taels to the people was standing!
"It's all done?"
The leader replied, "It's done." ”
"Did you stay alive?"
"Left a man behind and ran away!"
"Does he know who did it?"
"It's King Xuan!"
"That's good", the young man looked back and smiled very happily, "Contact our allies to ensure that the man can get to the capital smoothly, and then we don't have to worry about the next things, let's go back to the Dan room." ”
When he returned to the Dan Room, the young man immediately went to see the Dan King, and when the Dan King saw the young man, he invited him to sit beside him.
It turned out that this young man was the younger brother of the king of the Dan family, named Ubehe, and he had the same father and mother as the king of the Dan family.
The old Dan King had more than a dozen sons, but the two brothers, with their strategy, courage and tacit understanding, compared all the other brothers, and the elder brother sat on the throne of the Dan King.
The elder brother became the king, and the younger brother's power rose. The two brothers teamed up to sweep through the nearby small countries and tribes, and even set their sights on the Xi Kingdom, which can be described as ambitious!
It turned out that the reason why the people of Shegu and the state dared to riot together on Chinese New Year's Eve was also because the people sent by his younger brother Ubeh fanned the flames, coupled with the fact that he hated the government and had no hope of survival, and as soon as he was instigated and favored, it aroused anger and hatred in his heart!
It is precisely this point that Ubekh has taken advantage of to provoke contradictions and antagonism between the government and the people, and this is only good for them, not harmful.
At least it will hurt the vitality of the Xi country, and at the worst it will make the Xi country chaotic.