Chapter 152: Yesterday's Saint, Today's Thief
Twilight hour.
Heavy snowfall.
Horse-drawn carriages drove into Jinling from the city gate.
You don't even have to look closely, many people are very familiar with those chariots.
Look, the golden-gray twin horses ride side by side, it's the car of the state shepherd!
Also, the pitch-black four-wheeled heavy horseman, the overseer's car!
Those black and white single-rider two-wheeled vans are the cars of the six major commanders!
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Carriages carrying bigwigs from all sides in Jinling drove in from outside the city.
Let the people talk about it.
But they didn't expect it at this time.
The real shock is still to come.
ββAfter the carriage and a group of officials and officers and soldiers, there were board cars, wrapped in white cloth, and drove into Jinling City in the wind and snow.
One-car, two-car, three-car...... One after another, the carts carrying the corpses rushed in one after another.
There are idle and bored counting.
Thousands of corpses were brought in from outside the city!
Everyone was shocked!
Get oneβs dander up!
I don't know what happened.
Thousands of corpses?
They couldn't think of anything other than to fight.
But when you go outside the city, the mountains and rivers are calm, and the smoke is gone, which doesn't look like a war!
Just when everyone was puzzled, some of the most popular officials were talking about it, and others heard it.
"It's miserable! Sanssouci Mountain Thick Soil View...... What a Taoist temple that is! Overnight, the door was destroyed! β
As soon as this news came out, the entire Jinling was shaken!
Sanssouci Mountain's thick soil view, was destroyed?
Jinling Taoist Temple, such as a little star, but among them, the number one is familiar to everyone, but the number of hands!
This view of the thick earth is one of them.
The concept of thick soil, most of them practice the classics of the soil system, and are good at using the power of the thick soil, and are close to the vast earth.
Among them, most of the alchemists are very good at defense, and they are also famous in the entire Jinling alchemy circle.
And because of this, the Qi cultivators of the Houtu Temple are close to the earth, so compared to other Taoist temples, they are not completely closed, and they also operate some businesses.
For example, the mining, processing, and sale of rare earth mines near Jinling.
Even when the government sometimes needs rare earth ores, it will find a thick soil temple to buy.
And the rare earth mine is even more remarkable.
Let's say that whether it is a formation, a magic weapon, or a talisman...... These things that are familiar to the alchemists all require rare earth resources to depict the formation patterns.
Therefore, the Houtu Temple can be squeezed into the top ten of many Taoist temples in Jinling.
That Thick Earth Viewer is even more of a powerful alchemist in the Divine Xue Realm!
Even for the Jinling Mansion, it is a behemoth that should not be underestimated!
But now, this incomparably huge view of the thick earth is gone?
For a while, everyone who knew the news felt like a dream.
-- Including the state pastor and a handful of people who stand at the top of Jinling's power.
An hour later, in the state government, a Jinling bigwig with a serious face.
From top to bottom, there are the state pastor, the superintendent of the land, the inspector, the dean of Hede, and the other six secretaries.
As for Yang Zhen, the superintendent of the land, his face sank like water.
- The destruction of the Houtuguan was the first thing he discovered.
It is true that when I first knew that Houtuguan Damu Zhenren instigated Qiu Zhen and Hu Tian to kill the Zheng family.
Yang Zhen was furious, and even prepared to "If the Houtu View is not handed over, then the Houtu View does not need to exist".
But no matter what the final result is, it should be, and must be, handled by him or by the government.
After all, no matter how you say it, Houtu Temple is also one of the Taoist temples recognized by the imperial court, and the disciples who go up the mountain are even more common people in Daxia.
Even if it is a capital crime of losing his head, it should be cut off by the imperial court.
And not some cat or dog hidden in the dark!
Moreover, among these thousands of disciples, most of them didn't know anything about Damu Zhenren, and they were innocent at all.
Now the door is destroyed.
Can the Jinling government endure it?
So in the end, after a long discussion, many bigwigs in the Jinling government agreed that there was at least an existence or group in the Shenxue realm that had destroyed the Houtu Temple and robbed all the rare earth resources.
At the same time, for this existence or group, Jinling City issued a first-class wanted warrant, and the Wufang City entered a state of "city ban", and the sentry posts were doubled to make every effort to investigate.
Once the murderer is discovered, there is no mercy!
As a result, the thick soil view is gone.
The whole Jinling is full of rumors.
The eight divisions moved in unison, and people from official families were everywhere passing through the streets and alleys.
Under such high pressure, the murderer who slaughtered the door of Houtuguan was not found, and many thieves who stole a lot were caught.
Meanwhile.
Yu Chen didn't know about these changes.
When Zhou Mu and the others came back, he had already patronized the Wanjia Mausoleum with round eyes.
Others are numb.
It's really numb.
Originally, I thought that what Wan Shenglou said about the old man Wensheng that they had was just some minutiae or something.
Yu Chen didn't have much hope that he could get any heavy news from the intelligence.
- After all, about Wen Sheng's death, if Wan Shenglou knew about it, the government would definitely know about it.
But recently, except for the funeral of the Japanese saint, the government has not taken any action on this matter.
This is a saint of literature!
One of the Three Saints of Great Xia!
Characters at the top of the pyramid!
One sentence is enough to make the great existence of Great Xia shock!
Although he has no official qualities, his status is no different from that of the prime minister next to the emperor!
Not to mention that people all over the world regard Wensheng Li Huan as a lifelong belief!
So since the government didn't take action, Yu Chen could only think that they hadn't found any clues.
But after reading the information given by Wan Shenglou, he found out.
- Not the fuck at all!
First of all, Wan Shenglou's information said.
These pieces of information are all secrets that have been tacitly acknowledged by the top echelons of the imperial court, and they are not top-secret information.
Then, he told Yu Chen that if he got the news, don't spread it.
Otherwise, he is unlucky.
These few words, Yu Chen was stunned.
Keep scrolling down.
Looking at it, people are stupid.
First of all, Wen Sheng was indeed killed.
And the people who do it are not impossible to find out.
In other words, there is no need to check it at all.
- Just the Jinling Prefecture Shepherd, the number one of the state capital, Wu Yong.
Wen Sheng's head was indeed cut off by a sword, and he used the sword of the Jinling Mansion.
And Wen Sheng's death was not because of some assassination conspiracy, but because of ...... Holy Decree.
Years ago, that is, the day before Yu Chen and they entered the city.
An urgent decree was transmitted from the capital to Jinling.
Wu Yong, the pastor of Jinling Prefecture, knelt down to receive the order.
The holy decree has words, the former lord of Shushan, the dean of Jixia Academy, and the Wensheng of the three sages of Great Xia stole the secret treasure of Great Xia for his own selfishness, fled to Jinling, refused to repent, and was a thief for the rebellious ministers, and specially ordered Wu Yong, the pastor of Jinling Prefecture, to behead him for treason and recapture the secret treasure.
At the moment of receiving the order, the shepherds of Jinling Prefecture were stupid.
The father-in-law who carried the decree shouted several times before he woke up.
But on the one hand, there is a saint admired by all people, and on the other hand, there is a holy decree that cannot be disobeyed.
What can he do?
Finally, that night, after drinking, he picked up his sword, and walked into Wen Sheng's room.
There was no resistance, no fighting, not even any movement.
A sword slashed down, and the head fell to the ground.
A generation of literary saints died here.
I heard that in the end, Wu Yong, the state pastor, came out crying.
These are the truths of Wen Sheng's death.
- Not killed by traitors, nor assassinated by villains, but died by the supreme holy will far away in the capital.
As for what the secret treasure mentioned in the holy decree was, and whether the state pastor had taken it from Wen Sheng's hands.
Wan Shenglou is unknown.
But what is certain is that the "death of Wensheng" that is rumored in the market is like this.
Similarly, because he was afraid of Wen Sheng's influence, if he rashly declared him a "traitor", he was afraid that it would cause a shock in the entire Great Xia.
Especially those who have a single brain, they may even directly say that it is not necessarily true.
That's why the government deliberately concealed it.
The identities of Yang Qingfeng, Zhao Rusong and others were too low, and they didn't know about it, and they thought that Wen Sheng was really killed by a traitor.
And the reason why the imperial court has not made any movement on the death of such a saint until now is not because they have not found the murderer, but because the imperial court has ...... It's the murderer.
After reading the information of Na Wan Shenglou, Yu Chen sat on the bed, only to feel that his brain was surprisingly messy.
A dignified saint, one of the three saints of Great Xia, he became a chaotic minister and thief in a blink of an eye?
Who wouldn't be confused?
Don't talk about Yu Chen, just the old man Wen Sheng's eyes widened and his jaw dropped in shock.
"What the hell is going on, old man?" Yu Chen turned his head and looked at the old man.
The latter was silent for a while, and then blurted out the same two words.
"Forget."
Yu Chen: "......"
Throwing down the intelligence, he began to prepare the meal.
Never mind.
Now that we've come to this, let's eat first.
Chopping wood, washing rice, and lighting fires......
The old man Wen Sheng looked at Yu Chen, who was busy, leaned over, and asked him: "If the old man is really a chaotic minister and thief as this information says, won't you have a little reaction?" β
Yu Chen was busy working on the stove and didn't look back: "Then what should I do - drag you to see the official?" But the government can't see it. β
"The old man is saying - you are so mixed with the old man, are you afraid that you will also be regarded as a chaotic minister and thief?" Wen Sheng's voice was calm.
"I'm not here to help the court."
Yu Chen shook his head while stuffing the firewood into the stove: "Old man, you can figure it out, you are a dead man, and I am here to help the dead do things." When I find your true wishes, I will judge whether to do it or not. If the real you really deserve death, I'll send you away with my own hands - but not now. β
Wen Sheng's eyes narrowed: "What if the old man's last wish is against the court and the law?" β
"What does that have to do with us?"
With a snap, Yu Chen rubbed the flint.
"There are many criteria for judging whether a deceased's last wish is worth doing to help him fulfill, such as public order and good customs, heavenly principles and human ethics, and even our mood at the time......"
Wow!
The two flints collided, and the sparks shot down on the firewood, crackling and igniting flames.
Blazing.
The young mausoleum keeper finally turned his head, looked at Wen Sheng's ghost, and slowly shook his head,
"But here, by no means includes the law, the court, the holy decree, the emperor."
His eyes were calm and clear.
Behind him, wildfire boiled.
Let's get some monthly pass brothers!
(End of chapter)