Chapter 553: Leave your mind behind and go north
Although the mysterious old monk left, his words kept echoing in Yang Jing's mind, and Yang Jing became more and more unsure whether that kind of thing had really happened between himself and Duan Chuhe.
This night was a little difficult, Yang Jing rarely had this situation, unable to enter the practice and unable to sleep.
Until the next day, Yang Jing entered the palace to bid farewell to Zhao Yun, because he was also preparing to set off for the north.
After coming out of Zhao Yun's Funing Palace, Yang Jing gave Hu Mingqiao a look and secretly stuffed a note for him.
After Yang Jing left, the only people who could protect Duan Chuhe were Hu Mingqiao and Princess Ruiguo.
In terms of Princess Ruiguo, Yang Jing couldn't reveal that she knew Duan Chuhe, so she could only excuse herself by saying that Duan Chuhe and Gao Caizhi had a good relationship, and hoped that Princess Ruiguo could be closer to Duan Chuhe.
Princess Ruiguo is obedient to Yang Jing, plus she feels that she owes Gao Caizhi, and when she is with Duan Chuhe, she can also listen to her talk about Dali and Gao Caizhi, so she is naturally very close to Duan Chuhe.
Princess Ruiguo is Zhao Yun's favorite daughter, this cannot be changed, there is Princess Ruiguo who follows Duan Chuhe every day, and Hu Mingqiao takes care of her from time to time, presumably those concubines dare not do anything black.
Duan Chuhe saw that Duan Chuhe, who had never had any contacts, took the initiative to show affection, and naturally knew that it was Yang Jing who took care of her, and his heart was also warm.
And Yang Jing's most fearful thing is flowers.
Although she didn't know that Duan Chuhe had been involved with Yang Jing, and it was even very likely that she would have a good relationship with Yang Jingyu, Duan Chuhe's pregnancy would definitely affect her status, and it was hard to guarantee that she would not do anything in secret.
Yang Jing can only hope in his heart that this woman will not be too crazy, Princess Ruiguo is enough to deter other concubines, and Hu Mingqiao is Yang Jing's secret weapon to guard against flowers.
It's just that Yang Jing doesn't understand why Zhao Yun still didn't drive Fanhua out of the palace when he knew Fanhua's identity, but continued to spoil her, which made Yang Jing very puzzled.
In any case, things were finally arranged, and even the flowers were full of flowers, and they became the royal team of the palace, and Yang Jing was finally able to go north without distraction.
This time he went north, Yang Jing led Liu Hanchao and Feng Ruochen Lin Jue and other veteran generals, plus veterans of the Imperial City Division like Chen Mi and Li Yu, as well as a hundred forbidden troops equipped by the official family, and the right to be a personal guard, which can be regarded as full of official authority.
Zhao Yun conferred Liu Hanchao a martial arts officer who was a lieutenant of the sixth rank of Zhaowu, as Liu Hanchao, who was only given the background of a martial artist not long ago, it was a very good reward to be able to get the official position of this martial arts officer.
Of course, Zhao Yun also knew that with Liu Hanchao's personal ability, if he wanted to go to the border army to hold an important position and lead the army, it was a very good candidate.
But Liu Hanchao was originally Song Ci's subordinate, which was regarded as a privately hired bodyguard, and then followed Yang Jing, and Yang Jing was born and died, and his loyalty to Yang Jing even exceeded his loyalty to the emperor.
If Liu Hanchao is allowed to enter the army, with his talent and courage, he will soon be promoted, and then Liu Hanchao will have the army in his hands and his heart will be Yang Jing, in case Yang Jing wants to do something big, it will be difficult to control.
And if he deliberately suppressed and did not allow Liu Hanchao to be promoted, why put him in the army and waste such a talent in vain?
The so-called employment is not suspicious and suspicious people are not needed, Liu Hanchao is more appropriate to stay by Yang Jing's side, and not only Liu Hanchao, Lin Jue, Li Yu, Lu Changan and others have also received corresponding idle rewards, and the only one who has not been rewarded should be Feng Ruochen.
Zhao Yun is the king of a country and a traditional man, so he will not hate Feng Ruochen because of his daughter, let alone because Feng Ruochen is by Yang Jing's side, and think that Yang Jing should draw a clear line with Feng Ruochen and keep the chastity of his daughter in advance.
This feudal society is not very realistic, although the horse can no longer take concubines and the like, but many horses will actually have their own way to find fun, women, naturally, are also indispensable.
Zhao Yun is a supporter of feudal thought, and he is also the biggest supporter, so naturally he will not deliberately target Feng Ruochen because of some unclear involvement between Feng Ruochen and Yang Jing.
The reason why Feng Ruochen is not rewarded is because Feng Ruochen has lost her female morality, and women should teach their husbands and children at home.
Zhao Yun doesn't hurt, it doesn't mean that Yang Jing doesn't love it, although His Majesty the Emperor did not commend him, but Yang Jing is even more concerned about Feng Ruochen, after all, Feng Ruochen has followed him for so long, and he has been born and died several times, which is no longer something that ordinary friendship can explain clearly.
Feng Ruochen is not a vulgar woman, and she has nothing to do with money and the like, she just enjoys these things experienced with Yang Jing, free and exciting and exciting, how many women in this world can be as chic as her?
In addition to Feng Ruochen and others, to Yang Jing's surprise, in order to show the importance that the Great Song Dynasty court attached to these Taoists, there were also people from the Daolu Division who followed them to the north, and some Taoists from Longshan Temple also accompanied them.
Although Yang Jing is a disciple of the Nanwu Sect, he is currently an inspection and observation envoy of the Lianghuai Road, and he is also a general of Yunlu, and his Taoist identity cannot be used openly.
Therefore, it became necessary for the Daolu Division and the people of Longshan Temple to accompany him.
It's just the Daolu Division, Yang Jing didn't pay too much attention to these people, but it was the people of Longshan Temple, but Yang Jing was surprised.
This level of task should have been undertaken by Yu Chonglou, after all, Song Yan Zhenren has been born to practice, no longer involved in secular affairs, Yu Chonglou is strong in martial arts, and the Taoism is profound, and he should be the best candidate to contact the Northern Quanzhen Dao and other Taoists.
It's a pity that he has been seriously injured, so Chen Xixian can only be the leader, Dong Zhen and other second-generation disciples have a total of ten people, and together with the people of the Daolu Division, they formed a group to receive the Taoists.
What surprised Yang Jing was that among these disciples, Song Yan actually stuffed Yi Ji's troublesome essence into him!
Chang Shenyue is just that, this stupid big man is thick on the outside and thin on the inside, wise and foolish, and he is very compatible with Liu Hanchao, and it is also a great help to Yang Jing.
Chen Xixian has the intention to learn mathematics from Yang Jing, which is also the previous agreement, and furthermore, Yang Jing also wants to use Chen Xixian to calculate the ballistics of artillery in the future, as well as the mechanics and engineering of many siege equipment, etc., all need talents like Chen Xixian.
Although Chen Xixian is not as proficient in hundreds of schools of knowledge as Ge Changgeng Zongyun, but specializes in mathematics and physics, he has a different kind of involvement with the Mo family, and has his own research on the manufacture of siege equipment, such a talent is also very desired by Yang Jing.
But in addition to causing trouble, Yi Ji is in trouble, impulsive, willful and rude, and has a lot of holidays with Yang Jing, why Yang Miaozhen stuffed Yi Ji's little yellow hair in, Yang Jing is really helpless and incomprehensible.
In any case, the team was finally assembled, and on the second day, May 17, it began to rain in the morning.
Zhao Yun actually braved the rain to see him off, His Majesty the Emperor set an example, and how dare the civil and military officials not come, so everyone was slandered, and they didn't know how many times they scolded Yang Jing in their hearts.
Zhao Yun gave the royal flag in front of the civil and military officials, and allowed Yang Jing to act cheaply, and then he saw Yang Jing's team and left Lin'an.
Although Dong Songchen is still being a shrinking turtle, although Jia Yidao still has no signs of being a traitor, and although the flowers are still like a latent flower poisonous snake, Yang Jing still put all this aside for the time being and focused on this task.
It made Yang Jing regret that according to the days, Song Ci's death was almost coming, but he couldn't go to Guangdong to visit the old man.
If there was no Song Ci's promotion and cultivation of him, there would be no Yang Jing now, coupled with his relationship with Song Fengya, Yang Jing couldn't take a last look at this old man, and he always felt a little guilty.
Of course, after Yang Jing entered this era, many things have changed, and the trajectory of history has also been deflected, and it is difficult to say that Song Ci will live for three or five more years.
Yang Jing also let go of the last worries in his heart and headed north in the rain.
Although it was raining, the team was also crowded, but because of the waterway, the speed was not slow, after all, they were all elites who were selected by thousands of people, and there were not too many burdens, and the time was urgent, so it could not be delayed.
According to the previous plan, this time from the West Lake waterway, into the waterway of Taihu Lake, and then arrived at Jiankang Mansion, that is, Nanjing, to Jiankang Mansion, and then through Luzhou, you can reach Anfeng Army.
It's just that you can't stay on the ship all the time, and you need to rest and replenish some materials along the way, so going to Anfengjun is not an overnight thing.
As for this Jiankang Mansion, in addition to a dozen city gates, there are also three or four water gates for ships to pass, but Yang Jing does not plan to stay in Jiankang Mansion, so as not to delay the trip due to the reception of officials.
Jiankang Mansion is also a big city, the population was as high as two or three hundred thousand, the waterway extends in all directions, because it is located in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River Delta, the land is rich and the population is dense, and the transportation is convenient to promote the highly developed commerce, in many respects even more than Lin'an, has always been regarded as the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty.
As early as the Northern Song Dynasty, Jiankang Mansion is also called Jiangning Mansion, which is the representative of the rich land in the south of the Yangtze River.
It was here that Yue Fei, Han Shizhong and others won classic victories such as the victory of Niushou Mountain, the victory of Huang Tiandang, and the battle of quarrying won by Yu Yunwen and others.
In March of the third year of Jianyan, Zhao Gou, Gaozong of the Southern Song Dynasty, went south, stationed in the Shenxiao Palace next to the Phoenix Terrace in the southwest of the city, which was later known as the Baoning Temple, and with a wave of the imperial pen in the name of Jiankang Gu, Jiangning Mansion was changed to Jiankang Mansion.
Jiankang Mansion was originally subordinate to Liangzhejiang Road, but now not too many people pay attention to this, and its seat is Jiangning County.
Four days later, Yang Jing's fleet came to the south of Jiangning County, but Yang Jing wanted to bypass Jiankang Mansion, so he stopped for the time being, let Chen Mi and others find a guide, and decided to rest in Fangshan Town that night.
Fangshan Town is very close to Jiangning, so the population is also quite a lot, although it is only a town, but it is very lively, because it is named after the back of Fangshan, there is a Geqiao in front, which can be regarded as a famous place.
At this time, it was already afternoon, and the officials of Jiankang Mansion had already known that the Lianghuai Road Inspection and Observation Envoy was going to pass through Jiankang Mansion, so they were paying attention to the entry and exit of the fleet during this time.
Yang Jing's guards were too conspicuous, and their entry into the Jiangning County area had actually attracted the attention of local officials.
The magistrate of Jiangning County led a large number of supplies and personally rushed to Fangshan Town to receive Yang Jing, after all, he was only a magistrate, and Yang Jing's highest title was from the rank of Yunlu General of Sanpin!
Yang Jing didn't want to disturb the place, let alone delay the trip, so he met with Jiangning Zhixian, which was regarded as receiving the heart of Jiankang Mansion and euphemistically expressing his meaning.
Jiangning County is the seat of Jiankang Mansion, and those who can be the magistrates of Jiangning County are naturally not simple people, and the county magistrates also understand it, and hurriedly said that they must bring Yang Jing's meaning.
Yang Jing also settled down with confidence, but he didn't expect that the magistrate made a request that made Yang Jing in a dilemma.
This request may delay some of Yang Jing's trip, but Yang Jing doesn't want to refuse, because he wants to ask Yang Jing to help him solve a serial murder case!
Serial homicide cases cannot be solved in three or two days, sometimes for a year and a half or even several years, and some even become headless cases, or cannot be solved after the statute of limitations.
But Yang Jing didn't have this time at all, and Jiangning Zhixian deduced that the murderer had committed crimes in a row and had killed more than a dozen people, and he heard that Yang Jing was a detective who solved the case, and begged Yang Jing to save those innocent victims.
This made Yang Jing feel very difficult.
"Even if you don't have time, look at the dossier and give them some guidance and detection directions, it can be done, and you can do as much as you can..."