Zhao Ta and Duan Siyan negotiated the matter and bought 10,000 pairs of rattan armor for 100,000 taels of silver, which were handed over in two years, which could only be advanced and could not be postponed.

Then, he stopped Duan Siyan's plan to play in Tokyo, and indifferently used the people of the Broken Jade Building to send Duan Siyan away.

No matter how high Duan Siyan's own martial arts are and how strong the guards around her are, it is impossible for her to continue to stay in Tokyo City, not even in the Great Song Dynasty, there is no room for negotiation in this matter.

Dali is Duan and Gao, the world, at this time the situation in Dali is chaotic, if Princess Zhaoqing has an accident in the Great Song Dynasty, the implication will be great, not only will disrupt his arrangement, and even involve him and Duan Yichang.

The rattan armor must not go wrong, the armor is the heavy weapon of the army, second only to the crossbow, which is also the reason why the past dynasties have not banned weapons against the ban on armor.

Often a few pairs of armor can cause trouble, and this thing is a kind of calling, and with armor, those who follow have confidence.

At present, Liu Suiyun on the right side of Longyou is trying his best to get rid of the armor and weapons in the Longyou army, reporting damage, reporting consumption, and inflating the head, among which the weapons are okay, but the armor is very difficult.

In nearly two years, he only got more than 100 pairs of iron armor, 500 pairs of leather armor, and more than 2,000 pairs of cloth armor.

Among them, the step armor can be ignored, because this thing is really not very useful, and the more than 100 pairs of iron armor and more than 500 pairs of leather armor are too few.

Although the soldiers of the Longyou Capital Protectorate have their own armor, if something happens in the future, it is still unknown how many people can be used by him, and the soldiers and falcons recruited by Liu Suiyun secretly cannot be used without armor.

As for the capital, although he can make a large number of armor on his side, it is difficult to transport it out, Zhao Kai is watching closely, and Emperor Daojun is not at ease with him, the armor is large, no matter how it is transported, it will be difficult to escape the eyes of the Imperial City Division.

At present, we can only count on the rattan armor in Dali and the armor in Fujian.

Fujian has many mountains, not a military battleground, can achieve maximum secrecy, the mountains of Fujian, day and night are building armor weapons, but the problem is ...... These things can't be sent as far away as Longyou.

But Dali is different, although Dali normally has to take the four roads under the jurisdiction of Chengdu Prefecture, as well as Qinfeng and Xihe to get to Longyou, but there is another way to go.

That is the Tibetan Road, the boundary of Tubo is narrow in the east and wide in the west, and the north of Tibet is a plate of scattered sand, and the southeast of Tibet has an opportunity to take advantage of.

After the collapse of the Tubo Dynasty, the remaining forces of the descendants of King Mujian and King Guanghu were all in central or southern Tibet, while King Gesar was in southwest Tibet.

There are no complete big forces in the southeast of Tubo, they are all scattered tribes, and because they are close to the Great Song Dynasty along the way, they are mostly familiar with Tibet.

Although the road is not easy to walk, but it can walk, from the Jianchang Mansion in Dali to go straight to Longyou, the distance is closer.

Since ancient times, this side of Fandong has been traded, and it is possible to use carriages and horses, as long as there are many escorts, it is also safe.

And Zhao Ta once gave Liu Suiyun the same task, that is, to buy the southeast ripe fan, and in the past two years, most of those tribes have contact, so it is safer.

At this moment, although Zhao Ta drove Duan Siyan away, he gave some gifts and specialties, and also wrote a flower of Nanlu to her, which was the reason why Duan Siyan was willing to leave.

Duan Siyan also has a return gift, it is more than a dozen small jars, which are some rare flower seeds in the Great Song Dynasty, including a mandala, before leaving, Siyan smiled and told him, although this thing is beautiful, but the whole body is poisonous, and it is not edible.

Zhao Ta looked at the pile of bottles and cans and couldn't cry and laugh, so she had to take them to the little lady, who couldn't help but be surprised when she saw it, and asked where she got these many rare flowers.

Zhao Ta naturally couldn't tell the truth, but said that it was sent by a friend in the south, and said that the mandala flower was poisonous.

The little lady couldn't help but say softly: "Which lady should give it." ”

Zhao Tan laughed to himself: "It's still Zhenniang who is smart, where can a big man send flower seeds." ”

The little lady looked at the flowers and liked them, and put them away if they got a treasure, saying that they would be planted in the spring after the New Year......

Muzhou, Qingxi County, within the county ya.

Qingxi Zhixian Chen Guang frowned at the moment, he originally heard about Fang La, Wannian Town, what is the Heavenly Book Talisman, Xiying Wang Ying, but he didn't care at first, after all, in rural places, it is more common to worship ghosts and gods.

But at this moment, Fang Shilong, who was in front of him, said that Fang La secretly claimed the emperor, which made him a little shocked and panicked.

This Fang Shilong is the son of Chang in Wannian Town, Fang Youchang is a squire of Wannian Town, with thousands of acres of land, and has five sons, whose name is "Long Xiong Geng Zhencheng", known as the Five Tigers of Impermanence.

The boss Fang Shilong was an official in the Qingxi Yamen, and the second Fang Shixiong was a fast catcher, and Fang Shilong told the news passed from Wannian Town, and took a letter, which was written by Fang Youchang himself.

Chen Guang couldn't help but gasp after reading the letter, it turned out that Fang La's claim to be the emperor was secret, but where in the world is there an impermeable wall, as early as in Wannian Town, it was boiling, and Fang La sent troops to the gentry's house in the town to "borrow food and money", which further confirmed the bad intentions.

After Chen Guang read the letter, he hurriedly wrote the official document himself, used the big seal, and sent the county lieutenant Weng Kai to the Muzhou Mansion to deliver it.

Two days later, Chen Guangzheng was sitting in the morning office, and when he finished the order, he saw Fang Shilong and Fang Shixiong leading a big black man into the court.

The three of them knelt down in front of the public case and cried loudly, Chen Guang was inexplicable, looked at Fang Shichang and asked, "Fang Zhusi, what do you say, why are you three so sad?" ”

Fang Shilong choked up and cried: "The villain's father found out that the thief chief Fang La said that the emperor was rebelling, so he sent the third brother to report to me, and brought a letter, the county respected it the day before yesterday, who knew that the thief was in Wannian Town, and found out about it, and held a grudge, and sent more than 200 thieves to the town that night, killed the forty-eight members of the small official's family, and robbed the money, food and other things, and the third brother Fang Shigeng jumped over the wall to escape with his life, and begged the adults to quickly send patrol archers to arrest him, one to avenge the villain, and the other to eliminate harm for the country. ”

After that, it was another tearful exchange, and the head was pounding on the ground, and Fang Shixiong and Fang Shigeng also cried, grief-stricken.

Chen Guang was shocked when he heard this, but he slapped the shocked wood suddenly, and said angrily: "The three of you are crying and crying, what kind of system have you become, and stop the sorrow, this county has already written a document, just wait for the soldiers and horses of the state capital to arrive, and they will definitely exterminate the rebels, and take Fang La and let your brother slaughter it." ”

Fang Shilong wiped his tears and said, "My lord, everything should be done sooner rather than later. If you don't exterminate it now, when Fang Lakou gathers more and more people, and the momentum grows stronger, it will be difficult to suppress it at that time, when will this revenge be avenged? I'm afraid that he will take Wannian Town and revert to the county. ”

Chen Guang inhaled and said: "This county is not afraid of thieves, it is really a small county in Qingxi, a small county, where there are few soldiers, how to subdue them?" If there is negligence, how can you regret it? If it is defeated, it will fuel the flames of thieves! ”

The officials on both sides also came over to convince together: "Fang Zhisi, it is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years, and he discussed calmly, but now he is just crying, what does it do?" When the three brothers heard this, their expressions softened.

Although Chen Guang looked calm at this time, he knew that things were not good, so he hurriedly wrote two more urgent documents, one sent to the Yamen of Muzhou Zhizhou, and the other to the Zhejiang Xi'an Pacification Division in Hangzhou.

As soon as he sent people out and did not leave the church, there were several urgent documents delivered, all of which were cases of Mingjiao disciples robbing and killing rich gentry, Chen Guang was suddenly confused, and after everyone went back, he didn't think about tea and dinner, and couldn't sleep at night, so he ordered the whole city to take turns patrolling, and the city gate was open and closed day and night, and pedestrians were strictly cross-examined.

Let's say that Dr. Youwendian of the middle doctor revised Zhang Huiyan, the governor of Muzhou, and was surprised when he read the anti-sentiment document submitted by Qingxi County, so he turned to Zhejiang West Road to appease the envoy, and called the chief of the soldiers and horses of Muzhou to inspect the soldiers and plan to arrest them.

But as soon as this matter was completed, the emergency documents of Qingxi County flew like snowflakes, Zhang Huiyan immediately panicked, and hurriedly asked Ye Juzhong, the chief of soldiers and horses, Tong Shu, and Zhang Yuan, the prison to discuss.

Zhang Huiyan looked at a few people: "There are tens of thousands of anti-Kou Fangla gathered tens of thousands of people in Wannian Town, Qingxi County, under the jurisdiction of Benzhou, killing families and destroying mouths, and robbing the squire's assets. ”

Ye Juzhong heard this: "This division has also continuously received documents from Qingxi and other places, saying that Fang La began to confuse the people with demon cults, gather the foolish people in the mountains and fields who dare to die, kill officials and destroy the rich, rob grain and rob money, hateful small people are good for profit, and there are many followers, and now they have recruited tens of thousands of outlaws, these people are hidden in the deep mountains and valleys, if there are few people, I am afraid that it will be difficult to penetrate into their realm." ”

Tong Shu, the chief of soldiers and horses, said hurriedly: "Two adults, there are only a few hundred officers and soldiers in the patrol inspection department under the jurisdiction of Muzhou, and they have to defend the place. ”

Zhang Yuan shook his head and said, "Master Tong is too cowardly, and some little outlaws are powerless to catch them?" If Master Tong replaces the official in prison and prison, Zhang is not talented, and he is willing to raise 500 township soldiers to break the enemy, and he must capture the thief Fang La! ”

Zhang Zhizhou said angrily: "What did Zhang Tixing say, Mr. Tong is proficient in guns and horses and does not dare to arrest him, let alone go?" And the state is all guarded by these soldiers, if Muzhou is here, it is to do its duty, if this city is lost, it is a dereliction of duty, Qingxi anti-thieves are not far from here, if the anti-thieves sneak attack the city, who can defend the city? How can you leave without permission? ”

The general judge Ye Juzhong hurriedly said: "Don't argue with a few adults, it is the duty of the upper government to arrest thieves and arrest criminals, but Muzhou's strength is weak, and it is difficult to send troops. ”

He is a general judgment in one state, so he naturally takes this matter to the heavens, and as for whether there is a report on the side of Zhexi Road, it is a matter of appeasing the envoy.

Zhizhou Zhang Huiyan nodded when he heard this: "Ye Tong's judgment is reasonable, this is the perfect strategy." ”

He immediately asked people to prepare paper and ink, wrote down the chapter, and sent his cronies Yu Marquis Wu Qing with two people from the state capital to send them to Beijing as soon as possible, and asked the prime minister Wang Hao to play an emergency.

This Wu Yuhou Wu Qing selected a fast horse, with two tolerances, Xiaoxing stayed overnight, arrived in Tokyo in one day, and then walked to Nanxun Gate, and then entered the Suzaku Gate, and then went on the river bridge, and went straight to Zhongshu Province.

At this moment, an official sedan chair carried by four people came to the front, Wu Yuhou's horse walked too fast, and he couldn't avoid it, so he strangled and dragged it, and the horse neighed, causing the official sedan chair to stop.

It is said that the surname of the person in this sedan chair is Yu Mingshen, who is one of the ministers of the dynasty, and has also worshiped the prime minister, several ups and downs, and now although he has only appointed a royal envoy and a waiter, he is a young protector and a prince of Fengguo.

Yu Shen opened the sedan curtain at this moment, and saw a Yu Hou outside with a messenger leading the horse, the horse was soaked, sweating, Yu Shen stomped his feet, the sedan chair man fell off the sedan chair, picked up the sedan curtain, and called the attendant to call the Yu Hou who led the horse over.

The attendant said angrily: "You are still an official in the house, you don't know any rules, you dare to block the palanquin of my father-in-law, and the father-in-law is calling you!" ”

Wu Yuhou was taken aback when he heard the word Xianggong, hurriedly handed the horse to the messenger behind, walked to the sedan chair to pick up his clothes and bowed, and said while kowtowing: "The villain is reckless for a while because he has urgent business to send to the door of Zhongshu, and he is reckless for a while, blocking the road of Xianggong, and I hope that Xianggong will forgive his sins!" ”

Yu Shen looked at his dusty appearance and said, "I don't blame you, you only said where you came from, and what business did you do under the Zhongshu Gate?" ”

Wu Yuhou hurriedly said: "Back to Xianggong, the villain is the Marquis of Yu in the Muzhou Mansion on the West Zhejiang Road, recently because there is a rebellion in Wannian Town, Qingxi County, Muzhou Prefecture, and the local government is unable to suppress the arrest, he has gone to appease the envoy to ask for soldiers, and Lord Zhang of Zhizhou sent me to Beijing to deliver the chapter. ”

Yu Shen was taken aback when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "How did Fang La rebel?" ”

Wu Yuhou said: "Back to Xianggong, that Fang La at the beginning of the Ming Sect to bewitch the people to resist rent and tax, and then kill officials, rob the rich gentry, to help the source, Zitong two caves as a nest, recruit troops and buy horses, gather grass and hoard grain, now there are more than 10,000 people, recently and arrogated to be the emperor, the momentum is even greater, the Quartet bandits came to vote, threatened to kill Zhu Mian first, and then seize Kaifeng, the common people can not accept Huagang conscription, do not pay for food, Zhang Daren wrote a handbook for this matter, and sent a villain to ask Prime Minister Wang Huang to turn the official house. ”

Yu Shen frowned when he heard this, and thought secretly, isn't this Huashigang forcing the people to rebel? Look at tomorrow in the court, the king will not play? If he deceived the official family, the old man would impeach him for a copy.

This Yu Shen is a party with Cai Jing, Wang Hao is at odds with Cai Jing for the sake of the phase, Cai Jing had pushed Yu Shen up before, but within a few months, he was replaced by Wang Hao, who was resentful in his heart.

After thinking about it, he said with a straight face: "Since it is your family that is playing, then go to the door of Zhongshu quickly, if the prince is not there, go to the door of the prime minister's house to wait, you can knock in time." ”

"Xie Xianggong!" Wu Yuhou kowtowed a few times and retreated, let go of the sedan chair, and his own family also got on the horse and whipped straight to the door of Zhongshu.

Who knew that he was not there when he went there, so he remembered Yu Shen's words and led people straight to Wang Huang's mansion.

Marquis Wu Yu is a subordinate from the background, so he naturally knows some of the rules of the Prime Minister's Mansion, even if it is a big thing, he must first send the regular rules, and then the porter will introduce him.

Zhang Huiyan had already prepared when he sent him, and the two Zhejiang roads were rich, and there was no shortage of these silver taels.

Wu Yuhou took care of it properly, and it took another half an hour to enter, but Wang Hao was sleepy-eyed at this time, it was last night with Emperor Daojun and Li Bangyan who drank and had fun, and just came back after reluctantly going to the court, he heard the report.

He knew that Zhang Huiyan was originally Cai Jing's subordinate, and he thought that he had sent someone to give gifts and wanted to change the court, so he barely saw it.

Wu Yuhou didn't dare to look up at this moment, knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "The prime minister is above, the villain Wu Qing, the villain of the mansion of Lord Zhang in Muzhou, western Zhejiang, because there is an emergency military situation, the villain is ordered to report and ask the prime minister to turn the official's house." ”

Wu Yuhou took out the fold, and the attendant took it and presented it.

As soon as Wang Hao heard that it was not a gift, he lost half of his spirit, and hastily opened the book on the case to watch.

I saw that the book wrote: Minister Zhang Huiyan played carefully, recently there is Qingxi Wannian Town Fang La, who has lied to get the book of heaven, tandem with the Demon Sect, inciting the people to rebel, and has gathered thousands of people to kill officials and rob money. Fang La proclaimed himself Emperor Shenggong, changed his name to "Yongle", sealed the official position, set up officials in three provinces and six departments, and threatened to kill Zhu Mian first, and then open the seal. The beggar official's family quickly sent elite soldiers to conquer and suppress. The minister was terrified and waited for the holy judgment.

After reading it, Wang Hao looked angry, threw the book to the ground, and sneered: "Your adults don't know anything, this kind of thing has been through a lot, and they will rebel at every turn, and they want the court to send troops and send generals, and the West Zhejiang Road is not without soldiers, and the prime minister remembers that there are 2,000 forbidden troops on West Zhejiang Road, and there are nearly 10,000 soldiers from the Xiang Army, can't it be rehabilitated?" You go back and tell your family Master Zhang that it is a sin to come and disturb the Holy Bow when the end of the year is approaching, and if you don't remember his past labor, you will definitely punish him for a great sin! ”

Marquis Wu Yu was reprimanded, frightened into a cold sweat, left Beijing immediately after leaving the Prime Minister's Mansion, and returned to Muzhou overnight.

However, Emperor Daojun had already been in the Zichen Palace, the ministers of civil and military affairs stood in two shifts, the head of the palace officials sang and asked, and none of the civil and military ministers spoke, Emperor Daojun nodded, flicked his robe sleeves and drove back to the palace.

The civil and military officials withdrew in turn, and Yu Shen secretly thought in the crowd: "Wang Hao dares to bully the king like this, if he hides his anti-feelings in the future, he will definitely be impeached for the crime of misleading the country." ”

After leaving the palace, he pretended to parade around in a sedan chair, and then went straight to Cai Jing's mansion.

In the middle hall of Cai's mansion, Yu Shen recounted the incident of meeting Muzhou Yu Hou yesterday, and Cai Jing was silent when he heard this.

Although he is old at the moment, he smells the rebellion but he doesn't know where it started because of the flower and stone incident, the Zhu family has become bigger in the southeast in recent years, causing the people to complain, the Zhu family was originally carried by him, but now it is earned by Wang Huang, and the profits are all for him.

But now Zhu Jiawei is too big to fall, Wang Hao is powerful, he is old, and after hearing Yu Shen's words, he didn't say a word, so he let people help him back to the rear.

Yu Shen didn't get a countermeasure, he was angry in his heart, and the next morning, the ministers had stopped congratulating, he flashed out of the class, and said: "The official, the minister has something to do." ”

After speaking, he reported that Lu Yu Wu Yuhou learned about Muzhou, and added fuel and vinegar to impeach Wang Huang for concealing military affairs.

Emperor Daojun was taken aback when he heard this, what he was most afraid of at this time was rebellion, Wang Qing's disaster was vivid, and now there was Tian Hu Weiping, and he couldn't hear such rights and wrongs.

Wang Hao hurriedly went out of work at this time: "Official, Yu Zhongcheng's affairs have been heard by Muzhou and understood that because the wild grass people in the mountains and grasses of western Zhejiang suffered from a bit of drought and lacked some food, they gathered together to rob their homes and rob their houses and loot food and clothing, so they alarmed the government, and the minister has severely reprimanded Zhang Huiyan, the governor of Muzhou, to arrest him within a time limit. ”

Hearing this, Emperor Daojun nodded slightly, and breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

Yu Shen saw that he was understated, so he played again: "The official, the minister heard that the people of Qingxi Mountain are cowards, because they suffer from the service of Huagang every year, Your Majesty can send an edict to stop the disturbance of the two Zhejiang flowers and stones, the people are safe, and the robbers will naturally subside." ”

When Wang Hao heard this, he immediately said angrily: "The official family is subject to the tribute of flowers and stones, and it is simply rebellious and rude, Yu Zhongcheng, what are your intentions?" Where are the officials? ”

As soon as Yu Shen was about to argue, he saw that Emperor Daojun's face was unhappy, he looked at him coldly, snorted, and drove back to the palace directly.

Immediately, the ministers dispersed.

(End of chapter)