Chapter Ninety-Eight: Return to Beijing
"Report ......"
On the official road, a horse galloped and went straight to Zhao Yu's horse team.
After Shangguan Yundun's assassination, although they were already very close to the capital, Lu Jianxing and the others no longer dared to be careless.
Therefore, in the next trip, Lu Jianxing sent out six wrestlers as scouts, divided into three groups to explore, and reported one in thirty miles!
The horse in front of him was one of the scouts sent out.
The wrestler who came on a horse came to Zhao Yu's horse, turned over and dismounted, knelt down on one knee and said: "Yu Zhen Fu envoy, there is an unknown horse team running twenty miles away!" ”
"Oh?"
Zhao Yu's eyes lit up, and then he asked, "How many people can be detected?" ”
"Back to the town, there are a total of fifty horsemen, all dressed in winter clothes and black veils, because there is no flag, so the origin is still unknown!"
Lux told the news he had discovered, 1510.
"Is this going to break the net?"
The corners of Zhao Yu's mouth, who was sitting on the horse, curled slightly, and it seemed that An Jianqing was already planning to completely tear his face with him.
Then, Zhao Yu raised his hand.
"Prepare your ordnance, check your birds, and prepare for the enemy!!"
Lu Jianxing immediately changed the horse's head and shouted at the two dozen wrestlers behind him.
"Kill !!"
After inspecting the ordnance, the wrestlers shouted in unison.
……
After a few quarters of an hour, Zhao Yu and the others could clearly hear the sound of thunderous horses' hooves in the distance.
As far as the eye can see, smoke and dust are everywhere.
Zhao Yu narrowed his eyes slightly, and slowly put his hand on the hilt of the blood knife on his waist.
Soon, the fifty horsemen were a hundred paces away.
100 steps ...... For cavalry, this is the best distance to charge.
Zhao Yu slowly drew the blood knife, and the wrestler behind him quickly picked up the bird gun in his hand.
As long as the opposite side starts to charge, the guns in their hands will kill 30% before the opposing cavalry rushes to their side!
"Huh?"
Zhao Yu, who was already preparing to fight, suddenly raised his eyebrows.
The cavalry on the opposite side stopped a hundred paces away, not only did they not mean to rush and kill, but the three men in black who led the way dismounted directly and ran towards him bare hands.
"Subordinates, see the pacification envoy!"
The three of them came to the position ten steps in front of Zhao Yuma and knelt down on one knee.
"Who's coming!!"
Zhao Yu didn't answer, but Shen Lian stepped forward, and the waist knife in his hand pointed directly at the three people kneeling on the ground.
Since someone dares to assassinate Zhao Yu in Beizhili, then there is a first time, and there will be a second and a third time......
"The subordinate is Li Zheng, the confidant of the Governor of Xichang, who came to answer the envoy of the Governor at the order of the Governor!"
The man said, plucking a token from his waist and raising his hands.
Shen Liance immediately stepped forward, picked up the waist card that the man was holding in both hands with the waist knife in his hand, and after taking a look, he turned around and came to Zhao Yu.
"Hui Zhen Fu envoy is a person from Xichang." Shen Lian came to Zhao Yu and handed the waist card to Zhao Yu.
"Get up!"
Zhao Yu took the token, glanced at it, and then said to the man kneeling on the ground, "Why did the Governor send you to bring these men and horses to meet him?" ”
The knife in the wind is full?
At the risk of privately transferring soldiers, send these people here to pick him up?
"If you go back to the town to appease your lordship, the governor received a report from the secret agent of the West Factory, someone gave out 10,000 taels of silver to release dark red, and wanted to be unfavorable to you, the governor was worried about the safety of the adult, and specially ordered me to come and respond!"
After hearing this, Zhao Yu sneered, and then whispered to himself: "Huh...... This head, the price has finally risen. ”
When he was just promoted to the supervisor of Qianhu, Zhao Jingzhong once bid a thousand taels of silver and asked Ding Xiu to attack and kill him outside the Jinyi Guard's yamen.
And in just over a month, this head has increased more than tenfold!
"Okay, since it's the governor's kindness, I'm disrespectful, you follow behind the wrestlers of the prison headquarters, let's go back to Beijing together!"
Zhao Yu nodded, and then said to the man kneeling on the ground.
"Obey!"
The person who came got up, first ripped off the black robe on his body, revealing the soap suit inside, and then turned around and waved at the riders behind him.
The fifty horsemen on the opposite side took off their black robes at the same time and let them stay on both sides of the official road.
Zhao Yuyi reined in the reins of his horse and led the wrestlers from the prison headquarters through the road where the fifty horsemen got out of the way.
After all the people and horses in the headquarters had walked past these horsemen, they looked at Zhao Yu and Lu Jianxing, who were calm on the surface, and then let go of the hand on the hilt.
……
The rest of the road was smooth, and there was no assassination or anything like that.
In Zhao Yu's opinion, it may be because of the fifty horsemen who joined the West Factory, which seems to be a lot more powerful, and those killers dare not come to pick up the tiger's beard.
But in fact, for a master like Shangguan Yundun, these more than 80 horsemen really can't protect them.
As for the reason why they didn't make a move, it is estimated that only they know it in their own hearts.
In the evening, Zhao Yu and his party finally rushed to Xizhi Gate before the curfew closed the city.
After entering the Xizhi Gate, Zhao Yu and his entourage went straight to the Chengtian Gate.
"My lord, my subordinates' errands have been completed, so I have to go back to the governor's office to return the order, and my subordinates will retire!"
After coming to the Chengtian Gate, Li Zheng came to Zhao Yu and bowed to Zhao Yu and hugged his fists.
"Go with the flow!"
Zhao Yu smiled slightly, then glanced at the fifty servants who came with them and said, "You have to go out of the city to greet you......
As he spoke, Zhao Yu took out an ingot of about fifty taels of gold from his arms, threw it to Li Zheng and said, "This is the town's envoy to reward the brothers, and each person will be rewarded with ten taels of silver!" ”
"Huh?!"
Not only Li Zheng was stunned, but even the servants who followed him to meet Zhao Yu were stunned on the spot.
This kind of errand, if you change it to an ordinary official, they can't even get a good job in these small servants.
But now this Beisi town envoy has made a shot of fifty taels of gold.
In Daqian, although the government quotas are ten for one, but in Qianzhuang, many times it can reach twelve for one, or even higher.
In other words, Zhao Yu rewarded them casually, with six or seven hundred taels!
It's no wonder that the guys who went to Anqing Mansion with the envoy of Zhenfu last time didn't have a chance to follow the first time they passed the first time, and they all resented like the girls who were out of breath!
It is equivalent to riding a horse out of the city and sneaking around, and when he came back, the pacification envoy directly rewarded them with almost a year's worth of silver!
This kind of thing will never happen once in eight lifetimes!
"Answering the envoy of pacification is a matter of subordination, this ...... subordinates don't dare to take ...... "Li Zheng is the one who hangs in front of the big man in the end, and he knows that some silver can't be taken."
Hearing this, Zhao Yu just stared at Li Zheng with a smile, and said lightly: "Are you looking down on this town's envoy?" ”
Seeing the smile on Zhao Yu's face, Li Zheng suddenly felt cold on his back for some reason, and then arched his hand and said: "My subordinates don't dare, Xie Zhen Fu will reward your lord!" ”
Zhao Yu waved his hand in satisfaction, and then turned his horse's head and walked towards the Jinyi Guard's yamen.