Chapter 37 The Ruyang Palace's Destruction Tragedy (I)

Emperor Yuan Shun to the second year of the Yuan Dynasty, July 16, the beginning of autumn.

A shocking news shocked the entire Dayuan government and the opposition.

The king of Ruyang, the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses, Chahan Temur, was full of more than 500 people, together with the palace guards and guests, and was slaughtered by bloody means!

For a while, rumors were spreading.

Some people say that the king of Ruyang killed too much in the past, and that night the demons and evil spirits rose up and demanded their lives, dragging the entire palace up and down into the underworld.

And such a statement seems to be reasonable, and at first glance it really sounds like that.

After all, the night of the tragedy, July 15, was the Zhongyuan Festival passed down from the old Han Dynasty to the Han Dynasty, that is, the day when the legendary ghost gate was opened and the Yin soldiers crossed the border.

Moreover, according to some rumors from the mansion next door to the Ruyang Palace, they did faintly hear some movement that night.

"I'll tell you...... That night I heard a 'da-da-da' sound next door, and I wondered at the time, what kind of firecrackers are you setting off on this good night? ”

The person who spoke had a deep expression on his face, as if he was afraid of provoking some indescribable existence, so that he would end up with the whole mansion of the King of Ruyang.

"Now that I think about it, it should be to exorcise evil spirits......"

(PS: Firecrackers (firecrackers) appeared at the beginning to ward off evil spirits, and later derived the meaning of celebration.) ）

There is a theoretical basis for this, and there are witnesses to say it, so such rumors are widely circulated in the market.

However, people who really know the inside story don't see it that way.

When the Criminal Department cooperated with the people of the Great Sect Mansion to come to the Ruyang Palace, they saw the corpses all over the place, like a bloody scene like the Shura Field.

Rao is one of those old officials who are used to seeing the scene of a murder, and he also gasped on the spot, and there was a chill behind his head in the scorching heat.

"My lord, after we investigated the scene, we found that most of the people in this palace were killed by a powerful mysterious secret weapon......"

The old official of the criminal department bowed down and said to the Mongolian nobles beside him, while carefully holding the golden bullet casings and deformed warheads picked up from the ground for the other party to inspect.

The Dazong Zhengfu, similar to the Dali Temple of the previous dynasty, is only responsible for the cases of the Mongolian people and the Semu people, while the Criminal Department is responsible for the cases of the Han people.

Normally, like the King of Mengyuan County like Ruyang Wangfu, the Criminal Department is not qualified to interrogate.

But the current matter is too terrifying, just with those masters of the Great Sect Mansion, I am afraid that I will not be able to find anything even if I break through the sky.

We can only temporarily transfer the elite soldiers and strong generals of the Criminal Department to try to find out the truth of the matter in the shortest possible time.

The Mongolian nobleman who was born in the main mansion of the Great Sect looked at the object in the hands of the old official of the criminal department with a pale face, took out a handkerchief to cover his mouth, and frowned.

"How can this little thing kill so many people? You must know that the king of Ruyang has great military achievements, and the guards in his house are all the elite of my people, how can they be slaughtered by this little secret weapon? ”

When the old official of the criminal department heard this, he shook his head helplessly in his heart when he heard the words of the nobleman, but he didn't dare to show it.

can only patiently explain, "Don't underestimate these hidden weapons, according to the official inspection of the palace, some collection, found no less than tens of thousands of fragments of this hidden weapon at the scene, and many of them are deep underground, according to the official sent people to dig deep, found that this thing can shoot to a depth of several meters underground!" It can be seen that the strength of this hidden weapon is strong! If this hits a person directly, it can indeed tear the human body apart in an instant......"

"After such a calculation, it is not surprising that the lower officials think that these people are dying."

The old officer of the criminal department was worthy of being an old official, and after this simple on-site investigation, he could probably deduce the power of the Gatling machine gun.

Just listening to the old official's explanation, the nobleman of the main mansion stretched out his white fingers with great interest, picked up a bullet casing, and said in surprise.

"This thing is made of fine bronze?"

When the old official of the Criminal Department heard this, although he was puzzled, he still replied honestly, "According to the inspection of the lower officials, it is so." ”

"You said you found tens of thousands of them at the scene?"

"Exactly."

The Mongolian nobleman looked a little strange and said, "Huh! What kind of secret weapon is this...... This is clearly stoning people to death with money......"

The bullet used by Gatling is a large-caliber bullet with amazing lethality.

The weight of this bullet plus the warhead is even more than the weight of a few copper coins, so that these tens of thousands of bullets are equivalent to dozens of copper coins, which is enough for ordinary families to save money for several years.

"In this way, go back and carefully collect it and send it to my mansion," the Mongolian nobleman of the Great Sect Mansion said quietly, "The official suddenly became quite interested in these things and wanted to study them carefully. ”

When the old official of the criminal department heard this, he was completely shocked by the shamelessness and greed of the other party.

"Big ...... My lord, this is important physical evidence! ”

But before he finished speaking, he suddenly received a heavy slap in the face.

"Here, I'm in charge!"

The eyes of the noble man suddenly darkened.

After speaking, seeing that the old official lowered his head and didn't dare to say a word, he asked leisurely, "Just now you said that you found a few fish that slipped through the net...... Oh no, the survivors? ”

When the hot old official heard this, he said in a muffled voice, "Back to the adult, there are these people." ”

The Mongolian nobleman finally straightened up and said, "What do they say? ”

The old official of the criminal department hesitated, as if he was considering his words, and after a while, it was the noble man who asked impatiently.

"According to the interrogation of the lower officials, it seems that there was only one assassin from beginning to end last night......"

"What?" The noble man's expression changed, as if he had heard something ridiculous, and he sneered.

"This is the only one person, and the whole house of the king of Ruyang will be exterminated, do you really think that person is a god and ghost? Or do you think that the official is young and easy to fool, so he made up a reason to perfunctory the official? ”

The old official of the criminal department looked at the unkindness in the other party's eyes, and immediately bowed eagerly.

"The lower officials don't dare! These are indeed what those survivors said, and the lower officials have no intention of fooling or perfunctory adults! ”

said, and hurriedly said, "Those people were originally the doormen of the palace for many years, and they were greedy for life and afraid of death, so they hid aside when the incident happened, and they could avoid a catastrophe. ”

"According to what they said, there was a strange young man in a moon-white monk's robe at that time, saying that he came to seek revenge from the Wudang faction on the rivers and lakes, and then, after killing the two disciples of the palace to avenge the revenge, he did not agree with each other, and killed the king of Ruyang and a cadre of guards and doormen!"

"And that strange young man not only has miraculous means, he can conjure the so-called magic weapon out of thin air, but his martial arts are extremely high! Far above the ordinary first-class masters! The two masters from the King Kong Gate of the Western Regions were killed on the spot without even taking a few moves in his hands...... With such strength, judging from the knowledge of the following officials over the years, I am afraid that it is already comparable to the heads of some big factions in the rivers and lakes......"

Listening to the old official of the criminal department, the Mongolian nobleman couldn't help but lose his mind for a while.

After a moment, he muttered to himself, "Is there such a strange person in this world?" ”

After speaking, it seemed to be to verify the old official's words, to prove that he was not so easy to fool.

The nobleman of Nameng asked the survivors to be summoned.

After some interrogation, I secretly took a cool breath, and I was probably convinced of the truth of these people's words.

After a moment of silence, the noble man commanded.

"You continue to investigate here, and if you find anything, report it in time, and the official will go out and return later."

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