When Chen Zheng heard the news, he couldn't help frowning slightly when he saw the corpse on the ground.

Although it is an open secret that Concubine Shu is not favored, as the younger brother of the emperor's concubine, he must pay attention to his death here, and he needs to give the emperor an explanation.

No matter who is involved in this matter, the murderer will not be spared now, after all, this matter is already related to the emperor's face.

"When the two of us got up at night, we saw Zhang Heling touching the kitchen, and we guessed that he was ...... He must have thought of stealing food from the kitchen. It's just that we didn't dare to say anything, and then we went back to sleep in the bunk, we really don't know who stabbed him to death! The faces of the two students of the Guozijian were very flustered, and they told what they had seen and heard last night.

"You have been unable to live in peace on this trip, who does Zhang Heling have a grudge with?" Chen Zheng naturally knew that there were constant grievances between these sons and brothers, and immediately lowered his face and asked.

Zhang Lun and Wang Shouren stood here and watched, and the two of them suddenly became the focus of their companions' attention, as they both had a violent conflict with the arrogant Zhang Heling.

Now that Zhang Heling has been killed suddenly, both of them are seriously suspected.

"Where were you two at the third watch last night?" Yu Yuanzan has been paying attention to the reaction of his son's buddies, and immediately looked at Zhang Lun and Wang Shouren and asked in a deep voice.

Zhang Lun and Wang Shouren looked at each other and replied innocently: "At this time...... Naturally, I'm sleeping! ”

"Who testifies?" Yu Yuanzan maintained a skeptical spirit and questioned in a deep voice.

Zhang Cang and Wang Shouren were dumbfounded for a moment, looking around innocently, hoping that someone would stare at them to sleep, but they were afraid that someone would really stare at them to sleep.

It was at this moment that Lin Yuanyang strode in from outside to report: "Lord Qincha, the perpetrator fled the scene directly after committing the crime, and he just followed the bloodstains and traces left by the murderer, the murderer is very familiar with the terrain in this area, and the direction he fled is the location of a tribe of the Aeta people, so I am afraid that this matter was done by the Aeta people!" ”

Call......

Zhang Lun and Wang Shouren thought that they would become the biggest suspects, but they didn't want this sturdy first Wu Kui to find clues, and they couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief.

Lin Yuanyang has grown a lot over the years, and he added with a firm gaze: "Lord Qincha probably doesn't know that since our Luzon guard was stationed here, people from the nearby Aeta tribe often came to steal food, and the items in the camp were also lost. Yesterday, I am afraid that the Aeta people came here to steal food, but they met Zhang Heling, who also went to the kitchen to steal food, and I don't know why the Aeta people stabbed Zhang Heling to death! ”

Although the lack of water is not conducive to human survival, the Aeta people are the island's earliest inhabitants and possess great survival skills.

Da Ming adheres to the principle of not doing evil, although his strength is far superior to that of the other party, but he chooses to get along with the tribes of the Aeta people in the vicinity, and turns a blind eye to the theft of individual people.

In fact, they usually lock the kitchen, but last night everyone had so much fun that many people even drank some wine, so everyone in Aeta went into the kitchen and found the knives they had put in the kitchen.

As a result, I don't know what conflict happened between them, and the Aeta people actually stabbed Zhang Heling to death, and even fled with the bloody knife.

"Lord Qincha, I heard Lin Tongzhi and other soldiers mention this earlier, and since these barbarians don't take much, they ordered not to deal with these people! Now it seems that this matter is indeed a neglect of duty, and here it has caused today's big mistake! Yu Yuanzan knew that if he wanted to serve the public, he had to be responsible, so he immediately took the initiative to take responsibility.

When Chen Zheng learned of the whole story, he immediately took a serious position: "We don't advocate provoking the aborigines of Luzon, but they dare to attack Concubine Shu's own brother, this matter must be explained, and you need to give Your Majesty a satisfactory result!" ”

"Obedience!" Yu Yuanzan and Lin Yuanyang comprehended the intentions of this Lord Qincha, and immediately expressed their positions together with murderous awe.

They can tolerate petty theft by the Aeta people, and they can even provide some help to the Aeta people, but they cannot tolerate their murderous behavior, let alone allow them to blaspheme the imperial power.

Not to mention that what they killed was the younger brother of the concubine, even if it was an ordinary Ming soldier, it would have to make these Aetas pay the price of blood.

The morning sun has risen high, and the golden sun is falling in this mountainous area with complex terrain.

The indigenous people of Luzon were not the Arno people who brought pottery with them, nor the Mayans who later migrated from the Malay Peninsula and Indonesia, but the Aeta people, who started the Stone Civilization.

It's just that the Aeta people are too weak in body and too backward in productivity, so their living space has been squeezed into the corner of Luzon.

Since they did not appear as a state, nor did they have the form of a federation, they all existed in the form of small tribes, and many of them were already on the verge of destruction.

The Chishan tribe is the most powerful tribe in the vicinity, with a population of several hundred, living at the junction of mountains and forests, mainly hunting monkeys for a living.

They have moved away from the rivers and from farming, and their main daily work is hunting, and now they have returned with the morning sun.

"Divide the meat!"

Several monkeys had been captured by the hunting party, and a strong middle-aged man with a short figure was holding a spear and shouting at the people in the cave.

Hundreds of scrawny Aeta people came out of the cave at the news, and most of them stared at the monkeys with eyes that seemed desperate for the meat.

A sharp kitchen knife slashed, and the meat that had to be cut for half a day was magically separated, which shocked the Aeta people who were watching.

"Sure enough, it's a good knife! This Ming Dynasty people are really full of treasures, and I have to bring another one back next time! After a few cuts, the young man who was cutting sighed at a young man as thin as a monkey.

"Why is this the only thing today!"

"The third child in our family was injured just now, which is too little, right?"

"You're the biggest hunter, but you're also getting too much!"

……

The people of the Chishan tribe seem simple, but they can only get a little leftovers in the face of the return of the harvest, and those who stay in the tribe every day get a large piece of good meat, and they can't help but complain.

"No matter how noisy you are, there is no meat at all, let you feed the earth dragon!" A strong man in charge of dividing the flesh controls the stone knife, looking arrogant and threatening.

Shout!

A sharp arrow with a silver light flew from the west and plunged straight into the chest of the brazen man, and blood immediately gushed out like money.

"Ming Dynasty people!"

Roman Roman, the leader of the Chishan tribe, saw the Ming army that appeared, and his eyes flashed with anger.

The Chishan tribe was built mainly in caves, and it was in the low-lying caves that the well-trained Ming army had quietly surrounded the area.

"Ming Dynasty people!"

"It's really from the Ming Dynasty!"

"We are surrounded by the Ming Dynasty!"

……

The people of the Chishan tribe also felt a dangerous aura when they saw that they were already in the encirclement and saw the Ming soldiers who had already drawn their bows and arrows.

As long as these Ming people are willing, in fact, they can slaughter hundreds of people from their Chishan tribe without much effort.

"Rush, fight with them!" Roman Roman, the leader of the Chishan tribe, knew that the Ming Dynasty was not good, but he still commanded his right-hand man.

More than a dozen strong men with short statures were holding stone axes, and immediately rushed fiercely in the direction of Yu Yuanzan, where they often went in and out.

Shout! Shout! Shout!

With a single command, this improved bow and arrow burst into even greater lethality.

Burst! Burst! Burst!

The Aeta people did not even have complete animal skins on their bodies, and they could not resist the flying arrows at all, and they suddenly became live targets, and they fell in a pool of blood.

In front of the powerful and well-armed Ming army, not to mention that they are still in slash-and-burn farming, even the Marani Kingdom is actually vulnerable.

"We surrender!"

In the face of such a powerful Ming army, Roman Roman, the leader of the Chishan tribe, decisively threw away the weapon in his hand and surrendered to the Ming army cleanly.

This time, the sun had risen high, and all the people of the Chishan tribe present were bathed in the sunshine.

Zhang Heling's body was carried out and placed in front of the Chishan tribe and others.

If there is no change in history, this will be the high-ranking uncle of the country, and he will be one of the most favored relatives in the history of the Ming Dynasty. Only now, at a young age, he has become a dead corpse.

When the monkey-skinny Aeta saw the corpse that had been sent out, the whole person suddenly became nervous.

Lin Yuanyang had already found the bloodstained murder weapon, and directly handed over the kitchen knife to Chen Zhengdao: "Lord Qincha, this is the lost kitchen knife last night, and it is also the murder weapon that killed Zhang Heling!" ”

"Who of you infiltrated our Daming camp last night, and who killed this person?" Zhang Zheng saw that the kitchen knife was very similar to the wound, and even pointed to Zhang Heling's corpse and asked in a deep voice.

"What the hell is going on?"

"I heard that the treasure knife was stolen from the Daming camp!"

"Nonsense, that treasure knife must be Da Ming's, I heard that this time it is a murder and a knife!"

"No wonder the people of the Ming Dynasty want to surround us, how can we still kill people by stealing people's things?"

……

The people of the Chishan tribe who came to Xingshi to ask for guilt quickly knew what was going on, but they didn't protect the people, but began to complain about their own recklessness.

If they hadn't killed this time, the situation would have been different.

Roman North, the leader of the Chishan tribe, knew that things were inevitable, so he directly pointed to his young subordinate who was as thin as a monkey: "The knife was brought back by him!" ”

"So, you killed this guy last night, but so?" Zhang Zheng's eyes were like torches, and he immediately pointed to the corpse on the ground and questioned.

The young man who was as thin as a monkey had wandering eyes at this time, but he suddenly pointed to his leader and said, "I...... I obeyed the leader last night! ”

"It doesn't matter who you listen to, what matters is whether you killed him or not?" Zhang Zheng glanced at Roman lightly, and then questioned.

The young man who was as thin as a monkey hesitated for a moment, and then pointed to Zhang Heling's corpse to explain: "He wanted to arrest me, so I stabbed him!" ”

When Chen Zheng got this answer, he knew that the case was solved, but he couldn't be happy anyway.

The murder of the emperor's concubine's own brother is already very tricky in itself, and now it may be difficult to calm the possible pillow wind by handing over the Chishan tribe.

It's just that now that things have happened, then they can only cut through the mess with a quick knife and secretly make a gesture to Yu Yuanzan.

"What are you doing with me?"

The young man who was as thin as a monkey was picked up by Lin Yuanyang like a chicken, but when it was the turn of Roman, the leader of the Chishan tribe, he was strongly protested by Roman.

Burst!

Burst!

The sword light slashed, and the two heads fell to the ground one after another.

Not to mention the people of the Chishan tribe who were onlookers, even the soldiers of the Ming army who surrounded this place were secretly shocked when they saw this neat scene.

Yu Yuanzan is a person who has been on the battlefield, and he seems to be ruthless in the face of the murderer, and the leader who directs the murderer to the camp is naturally not spared.

"Dead?"

"Dead!"

"It's really dead!"

……

The hundreds of people of the Chishan tribe saw that their leader was dealt with on the spot by the powerful Ming Dynasty people, but there was not too much anger on their faces, but there was a kind of confusion in their eyes.

Chen Zheng was wearing a set of Ming official uniforms today, and talked eloquently to the people of the Chishan tribe present: "Our Ming Dynasty is just here to mine gold, if you dare to hurt us again in the future, this will be your fate!" ”

As he spoke, he pointed to the corpse of their leader and admonished everyone present.

The Ming can follow the Confucian system, but if these people don't know how to lift, then he doesn't mind letting them know that the Ming people are sacrosanct through bloodbath.

"Meet the new master!"

After exchanging glances, hundreds of Aetas suddenly knelt down to Chen Zheng and said.

This move made Chen Zheng stunned, Yu Yuanzan and Lin Yuanyang were also puzzled, but they didn't understand how they just killed their leader, how did they become their new masters?

Chen Zheng didn't want to be labeled as a rebel because he had hundreds of more slaves, so he even denied it: "You guys don't want to talk nonsense here, I'm not your master!" ”

"You killed our leader, so you take the place of leader and become our new master!" One of the older Aeta seemed to be very sure.

They don't know how long they've lived here, but they've been there for generations, and they're all going to obey their leaders absolutely.

Now that their leader has been killed by the powerful Ming people, then they need to find a new master, and this Ming Dynasty leader naturally becomes their new master.

Chen Zheng knew that he couldn't give his political opponent a tongue, so he explained seriously: "No, I'm just a messenger of the Ming Dynasty. If you have to talk about your new master, it is our king, the Ming Emperor! ”