Zhou Qing did hide in Pingliu Town, but not in the town, but in a small village outside Pingliu Town.

At night, Zhou Qing stood behind a big tree and observed the situation in the Bianhe River, the dock in Pingliu Town was full of small boats, many small merchants who came by boat were ashore in Pingliu Town, resulting in a large number of ships stranded immediately, one next to the other, almost occupying half of the river, this is undoubtedly a wonderful place to assassinate King Liang, as long as he hid in a small boat, he could easily get on the boat.

Zhou Qing also has weaknesses, he knows a little about water, but he is not good at water, if he gets on the boat from the water, he is worried that he does not have this ability, and he is also worried that he will miss, but hiding in the boat is different.

Zhou Qing took one last look at the boat, then turned around and ran west.

Ten days later, five Qianshi passenger ships traveled eastward along the Bianhe River, and the first ship was planted with an apricot yellow pennant with the word 'official' on the flag, which was an official ship, and the checkpoints and customs along the way could not be checked, and they had to be released all the way.

This fleet is the team of Zhao Zhongzhen, the king of Liangjun, with the smooth implementation of the change and gradually deepened, Zhao Zhen is more and more satisfied with this emperor's grandson, the holy family Rilong, this time into Beijing to summarize the report, got Zhao Zhen's commendation, was crowned Kaifeng Yin, Zongzheng Siqing.

These are two very sensitive positions, because Song Taizong Zhao Kuangyi served as the Yin of Kaifeng Mansion, so the official position of Yin of Kaifeng Mansion will not be easily granted, even if Bao Zheng is appointed as Kaifeng Mansion, it is also known about Kaifeng Mansion, which is the same as Tang Taizong Li Shimin after serving as Shangshu Ling, Tang Dynasty's Shangshu Order will no longer be given to officials, and the highest official position that Shangshu Province can take office will become Shangshu's left and right servants.

And Zongzheng Siqing is an important position in the management of the imperial family, and it is generally a quasi-imperial heir, before Zhao Zhongzhen's father Zhao Zongshi took office, and now it has been renamed to Zhao Zhongzhen.

But this is still not the last step, that is, the prince has not changed.

However, all the officials of the court know that Zhao Zhongzhen's prince has not changed, that is because his qualifications are still a little shallow, as long as he does not make big mistakes, it is a matter of time before he is promoted to the prince, it can be seen from the number of guards, before it was according to the standard of the county king, with thirty guards, and now although he is still the county king, the number of guards has increased to one hundred, and it has become the standard of the prince, if he is canonized as the prince, it is five hundred, and the son of heaven is three thousand.

At the time of the fourth watch, the fleet passed the tax card of Pingliu Town, a few miles away in front of Pingliu Town, the two sides of the Bianhe River were silent, pitch black, there was no light to see, only the fleet had lights, because it was a night boat, so the ships went very slowly, down the river.

In the cabin, the lights were still on, and it seemed that Zhao Zhongzhen had not slept yet, and was still reading at his desk.

At this time, Zhou Qing, who was lying on a small boat, held a sharp long sword in his hand, staring at the fleet a mile away with hatred, he thought of his innocent and tragic wife and children, and slowly tightened the hilt of the sword.

The fleet was getting closer and closer, and Zhou Qing's eyes locked on the second ship, and in the afternoon he found the target and determined that the second ship was Zhao Zhongzhen's ship.

The fleet finally passed the dock of Pingliu Town, which was full of small boats, and the channel was half occupied, and the fleet was close to several small boats, and when the second boat passed, it was less than five feet away from the small boat where Zhou Qing was hiding, Zhou Qing jumped into the big boat silently, he squatted on the side of the boat, looked at both sides for a moment, and made sure that he was not discovered, then turned around, dipped his finger in some saliva, poked a small hole in the window paper, and looked into the cabin.

I saw two candles lit in the cabin, illuminating the cabin, and a man in a purple robe was sleeping on his desk, judging from the back, he should be a teenager.

Zhou Qing was overjoyed, he no longer hesitated, jumped up, slammed the window with his back, and broke into the cabin, he shouted, "The thief is killed!" ”

A fierce sword slashed the young man's neck, and the human skull fell to the ground.

"That's not right!"

Zhou Qing secretly screamed, his neck was too weak, there were no bones, and when he looked closely, his eyes widened, and it turned out to be a scarecrow in a purple robe, with a face drawn with paper on his head, and a weird smile, as if he was laughing at his stupidity.

Fooled, Zhou Qing wanted to run, the door was kicked open with a 'bang', several guards with high martial arts swung their knives in, and the window seemed to be blocked, he did not hesitate, jumped up, hit a big hole in the top of the boat, climbed to the top of the boat, and saw more than 20 guards appear on the boat, surrounding him.

Zhou Qing had no way to retreat, screamed, and jumped into the river, at this time, more than a dozen arrows were shot in the air, he couldn't dodge, hit three arrows in a row, and fell into the water.

He didn't care to draw his arrows, threw away his long sword, and swam desperately to the shore, just as he climbed ashore, several sharp long swords pressed against his neck and the back of his heart, and then a big man held him down like a mountain, and several big men moved together, strangled his neck with ropes, and tied him up.

At this time, more than a dozen horseback riders came out of the town, and the first two were Zhao Zhongzhen and Fan Ning, who Zhou Qing wanted to assassinate, followed by more than a dozen guards on both sides, and the four big men who caught Zhou Qing were Fan Ning's henchmen and guards, Zhu Hu.

The fleet had docked, and a large group of guards with torches and knives searched the shore in search of their fellow Assassins.

Zhao Zhongzhen's face was a little pale, he never dreamed that someone would assassinate him, Fan Ning said lightly: "Your Highness, it's okay, get on the boat!" ”

"He has been bought by Zhang Yaozuo?" Zhao Zhongzhen asked.

"Zhang Yaozuo did not come forward, it was his adviser Yang Kai who was deployed to assassinate in Yingtianfu, Wang has indeed fully confessed, Li Hanzheng led people to arrest Yang Kai, but I estimate that this matter will not catch the conclusive evidence of Zhang Yaozuo's involvement in the case, if there is no conclusive evidence, Zhang Yaozuo is likely not to be affected by this matter, I hope His Royal Highness understands this."

Zhao Zhongzhen sighed, turned over and dismounted, and walked towards the big ship led by him.

At the same moment when Zhou Qing assassinated Zhao Zhongzhen and missed, in front of a mansion covering an area of about ten acres in the south of Songcheng County, more than 1,000 soldiers surrounded the mansion, and Li Han led 500 elite soldiers to wait opposite the gate. ”

Li Han nodded and waved his hand, "Up!" ”

Five hundred soldiers rushed up to the mansion with ladders, and they climbed over the walls and ran deeper into the mansion.

In the end, Wang did not be able to resist the fear of the leech drill body, and explained everything he knew one by one, this mansion was the mansion that Yang Kai rented half a month ago, and it was also their stronghold in Yingtianfu, the three caves of the cunning rabbit, in addition to this mansion, there was also a private house and another small courtyard outside the city, but the private house and the small courtyard were searched, and no trace of Yang Kai was found, so Li Han led the army to surround this mansion.

This is a small building in the inner courtyard of the mansion, Yang Kai is burning all kinds of documents and letters in the copper incense burner, erasing all traces related to Zhang Yaozuo.

Even the thirty of his subordinates were warriors he had secretly trained in Yingtianfu, and these warriors only knew that their master was in the capital, but they did not know who the master was.

At this time, one of his subordinates rushed up and said, "Master, the soldiers have attacked the back house, and they will be killed immediately, let's go!" ”

Yang Kai smiled bitterly, the outside was already tightly surrounded, where else could he go? Fanning's people were able to find this place, which means that Wang had indeed missed and been arrested.

He sighed and said, "Hold them off, buy me time, I still have a little thing to burn." ”

The subordinates turned around and went downstairs, shouting and killing all around, the soldiers had already killed downstairs, and more than a dozen samurai blocked the staircase to resist desperately.

At this time, Li Han also arrived, and when he saw the black-clothed warriors guarding the staircase, he ordered: "Shoot them with crossbow arrows!" ”

Hundreds of soldiers raised their crossbows, and hundreds of crossbows fired in unison, so dense that the crossbow arrows were shot into the staircase, and suddenly there was a miserable scream, only two rounds of crossbow arrows, and all fifteen samurai were shot.

Dozens of soldiers trampled the corpses and rushed upstairs.

Yang Kai tore up the last letter and threw it into the copper furnace, when there was a rapid sound of running on the stairs, and the soldiers came up.

With trembling hands, he took out a small bottle from his arms, pulled out the stopper, and there was a crimson liquid inside, which was the first of the ten poisons, Yang Kai laughed miserably, drank the poison from the bottle, and the bottle fell to the ground.

'Bang! The door was kicked open, and more than a dozen soldiers rushed in, but Yang Kai slowly fell to the ground holding his stomach, curled up in a ball, his face had turned black, and his breath became weaker and weaker.

The soldiers searched the mansion to the bottom, but could not find a letter or note, Li Han looked at the letters that had been burned to ashes in the copper furnace, and sighed: "No need to search anymore, collect the troops and return to the camp!" ”

Two days later, the news of the assassination of King Liang in Pingliu Town, the easternmost town of Kaifeng Prefecture, reached the capital, and Zhao Zhen was furious and ordered Kaifeng Mansion and Ying Tianfu to investigate the case within three days.

But the next day, Fanning's investigation report was sent to Zhao Zhen's desk, including the confessions of two assassins, although they were the generals of Yingtianfu's Xiang Army, but according to their confessions, they were bribed by Zhang Yaozuo's staff Yang Kai.

It's just that Yang Kai has committed suicide by taking poison, and no evidence of Zhang Yaozuo's involvement in the case has been found.

In the afternoon of the same day, Zhao Zhen made an instruction that the case was a revenge change by the generals of the Xiang Army, and ordered the two assassins to be executed on the spot, allowing Ying Tianfu to close the case, and at the same time adding two hundred guards to Zhao Zhongzhen, and the number of Zhao Zhongzhen's guards reached 500.

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