On March 28, 779 in the imperial calendar, on his journey back to the Far East from Dìdū, the commander of Ge Yingxing was ambushed and attacked by Lei Hong, the former deputy commander of the Far East Army, who was bribed by Yang Minghua, with 30,000 Jīng Rui troops, and after a bloody battle, all 6,000 members of Ge Yingxing's guards were killed. The seriously injured Ge Yingxing was desperately protected by hundreds of guards and returned to the Valen Fortress, where he soon lost his breath.

When the bad news came, Dìdū was shocked. Ge Yingxing is the oldest courtier left in the Zichuan Yuanxing era. He is meritorious but can be humble and self-disciplined, and he is high and powerful but never reckless. As the commander of the Far East, he single-handedly presided over the military and political affairs of the Far East, and every day he handled hundreds of millions of dollars of money, but he was able to be honest and honest, did not take a penny, and had simple food and clothing; (compared with the likes of Dilin Zichuan Xiu, he had to scrape hundreds of thousands of dollars in a battle), he was strict with himself but lenient with others and sympathetic to his subordinates; what was even more touching was that he had been presiding over the family upright, and had worked hard with Yang Minghua for six years with his disabled body, enjoying extremely high prestige among the army and the people!

When Ge Yingxing's body was brought back to dìdū, the mourners waiting on both sides of the long street were black and overwhelmed, and the tears of millions of followers splashed the white marble long street...

The people let out angry voices: "Kill the traitor Lei Hong with a thousand knives!"

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Zichuan Shenxing held a state funeral for Ge Yingxing for three consecutive days, and announced at the memorial meeting that the body of Ge Yingxing's commander will enter the "Holy Spirit Temple", which is the tomb of the chief of the Zichuan family: this is a very high exceptional honor, in the history of the family, not to mention the commander, even the president has almost never had such an honor.

When reading the eulogy, he only read the first few sentences of a long manuscript, and then he couldn't stop crying, and continued to cry and say, "The heroic spirit is back, return to Xi..."

Shirakawa also followed Zichuan Xiu to the funeral, although she had only seen Ge Yingxing once, but when she thought of his life-saving grace, she recalled his gentle eyes and thin body... She was already crying wet with several handkerchiefs in a row. At this time, she noticed a very strange phenomenon:

Zi Chuanxiu, who was next to her, didn't shed a single tear, her face was blushing, and the hatred revealed in her eyes was as deep as ice, which made people shudder. His cold gaze fell on the rostrum of the memorial service, where Zichuan Sanxing was giving a eulogy.

Shirakawa shuddered—she had always thought that this kind of look could only be unique to Dirin.

"My lord, don't be too sad, it's better to cry. ”

“......”

"My lord, the traitor Lei Hong will definitely not end well, you hate the law like this - hurt your own body!"

“......”

"My lord, my lord, how are you?"

Zi Chuanxiu slowly spoke—every word was said murderously: "Lord Ge Yingxing is so wronged, he can't turn a blind eye!"

He stood up, bowed deeply to the portrait of Ge Yingxing, turned around, and walked out of the venue regardless of whether the meeting was not over!

There was a discussion among the people present: "Ungrateful boy! Lord Ge Yingxing saved him several times, but he actually left before the memorial service was over!"

Zichuan Xiu's strange behavior at the memorial service has always been a mystery in Shirakawa's heart: Ge Yingxing was loyal to his family, was sniped by a traitor, and died in battle, how can it be said that he was "wronged"?

This mystery was in her heart for a long time - until many years later she met Tang Chuan, a young historian of the Zichuan family, and the two fell in love at first sight, and she mentioned it to him......

Tang Chuan replied to her without thinking: "That's an obvious thing: Yang Minghua can't hide Luo Minghai's number one henchman from buying Lei Hong, but no one has informed Ge Yingxing to guard against Lei Hong's ambush - this is obviously what Zichuan Sanxing meant." After Yang Minghua's death, the balance of power was broken, and Ge Yingxing, who had a high prestige and integrity, became a thorn in the heart of Zichuan Shenxing. ”

"Ge Yingxing is loyal to his family, and he has done his best, which is equivalent to saying that he died at the hands of the object of his allegiance, and he is not complaining, is this?--you didn't see it at all? No, such an obvious thing..."

Shirakawa was speechless, deeply aware of a truth: history is often confused by the authorities and clear by bystanders

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On the day that he learned of Ge Yingxing's death, the Command Office issued a crusade order, asking the other two deputy commanders of the Far East Army, Lin Bing and Luo Bo, to go and conquer the traitor Lei Hong.

In fact, as early as the crusade order had not yet been issued, on the same day that Ge Yingxing had just lost his breath, the angry general Lin Bing, the deputy commander of the army, had already sent troops to hunt down Lei Hong's troops without waiting for the consent of Luo Bo, the chief of staff of the Far East Army.

Lei Hong's original plan was to kill Ge Yingxing and his guards, so that he could safely accept the appointment of His Excellency Yang Minghua, the "new commander-in-chief," as the commander of the Far East Army -- he had guessed that Yang Minghua's rebellion would definitely succeed. It backfired, not only did Ge Yingxing fail to extinguish his mouth, but Yang Minghua also died in Dìdū - the world is so big now, but there is no place for him to hide his left hand.

In the face of Lin Bing's angry revenge army, he didn't dare to parry at all, and led the army back to his own defense area, Glock Province, and ordered the local garrison to rebel.

On April 2, 779 in the imperial calendar, the army of the twenty-five divisions that originally belonged to Lei Hong's subordinates mutinied and raised the flag of rebellion against the Zichuan family.

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The command office was not alarmed when it heard the news: the just-ended Yang Minghua mutiny, the 200,000 Liufeng army Chen Bing six years ago, and the rebellion of the entire border army fifty years ago -- in contrast, this was just a local rebellion in the border area, and there was no need to make a fuss about it because it was not in danger of the overall situation of the family, as long as it was handed over to Lin Bing and Luo Bo, the two deputy commanders of the Far East, who had an advantage over the rebels in their hands - they might fight a little slower, but they would definitely win in the end.

Only the Inspector General, Di Lin, keenly foresaw the terrible consequences of this rebellion. On the same day, he sent 300,000 troops from the zhōngyāng army or border guards into the Far East, and with the absolute superiority of Mount Tai, he must defeat the Leihong rebels within a week, otherwise, the consequences will be unimaginable.

The president led Luo Minghai to take the book of Di Lin Jian, but he didn't read it, and said, "I just have an upset stomach." "Walk into the toilet in front of everyone in the Command. Fifteen minutes later, he came out empty: the book had been "used" and had been flushed down the toilet by the current.

Di Lin spoke directly to the chief Zichuan Sanxing. As a result, Zichuan Sanxing's response was: "The task of the Supervision Office is to supervise whether the officials of the upper and lower levels of the family have violated the law and committed crimes, favoritism, and dereliction of duty. It is better for your officials not to interfere too much. ”

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While Dìdū was exchanging official documents and traveling between the Inspectorate, the Command, and the Governor's Office, the situation in the Far East changed unnoticed by no one - because it was so not worth mentioning that even the Dìdūrì newspaper did not publish the news.

On April 11, 779 in the imperial calendar, just as a major war between the orthodox Zichuan army and the rebels in the Far East was about to break out, a small village in the Far Eastern province of Shara, whose inhabitants were mostly orcs and a few snakes, declared that it would break away from the Zichuan family and set up a "Racial Union Zìyóu Army" of less than 100 people to defend the homeland.

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