Chapter 216: Killing Good and Risking Merit, the Cause of the People's Revolt

The book continued from the above, and the last book said that Li Ying instructed the housekeeper to spread the news that Wang Junkuo wanted to find a killer, and then offered a high bounty, and for a while, people in Youzhou City who thought they had some skills were ready to move, and that night Chu Mofeng was assassinated by a killer in the Qin Cha Xingyuan, but Chu Mofeng had already prepared in order to guard against the change of affairs in Youzhou.

It was a succession of killers who launched an attack on Qincha Xingyuan for the unattainable bounty, except for one who was more fortunate enough to approach the main hall of Xingyuan, the rest of them were all shot by the Tiance army who was ambushed in the courtyard, and the luckier one also turned into Gu Zhen'er's sword ghost.

On the other hand, Wang Junkuo listened to the persuasion of his wife Li, and immediately decided to go to Qin on the second day to take the blame, who knew that on the second day, Chu Mofeng led a large group of men and horses to surround the general's mansion, and after some inquiry, Chu Mofeng learned the true identity of the Li family, and also understood that Wang Junkuo was indeed framed in this matter, for the sake of Li Shimin's great cause, Chu Mofeng had to temporarily let Wang Junkuo go, and arranged for him to monitor Li Ying, and secretly investigate the matter thoroughly.

Then Chu Mofeng and his entourage left Youzhou, according to Li Yuan's instructions, Chu Mofeng needed to inspect a total of nine state capitals this time, including And, Lu, Xiang, Xing, Zhao, Heng, Ding, Yi, and Youzhou, and after leaving Youzhou this time, Chu Mofeng's next stop was Yizhou, which was not far from Youzhou.

At this time, a certain village under the rule of Yizhou was attacked by unknown people, and the entire village was buried in the fire, and the people who escaped raised their heads to the sky and cried, and for a while the crying pierced the sky and seemed to have reached somewhere.

At this time, Chu Mofeng and his entourage were slowly marching towards Yizhou, and Zhao Xince, who was the temporary manager, immediately stepped forward and asked with a smile: "Marshal, has there ever been any famous person in this Yizhou?"

"Yizhou, I said that you definitely know someone. After thinking for a while, Chu Mofeng seemed to think of someone, and immediately smiled slyly and said, "Song Jingang, isn't this kid from Yizhou?" ”

"Song Jingang, Dashuai, you tease me, what kind of celebrity is this?" Hearing Chu Mofeng say this, Zhao Xin hurriedly pursed his lips and said: "If you say so, then Wang Xuba is also a celebrity, the former Sui Daye 11 years (615) uprising, the people grew to more than 100,000 people, self-proclaimed Mantian King, the country name Yan, known as Wang Yan Empire or Mantian Empire, as a result of the fourteenth year of the Great Cause (618), when he led his troops to attack Youzhou, unfortunately he died in the middle of the arrow, and his subordinates were under the command of Wei Dao'er. ”

It seems that the people here are also fierce, and there have been two rebel celebrities Song Jingang and Wang Xuba one after another, I really don't know how the state assassin history here governs these fierce people. Thinking of this, Chu Mofeng nodded and said: "Actually, if the imperial court decree is clear, the officials are united, and the people have enough food and clothing, the fools will rebel." ”

After everyone walked a distance, Liu Feiyan suddenly twitched his nose, and then said to Chu Mofeng vigilantly: "Brother Chu, there should be some place nearby to walk the water, there is so thick smoke and dust in the air." ”

Hearing Liu Feiyan say this, Chu Mofeng frowned and thought about it, and then shouted loudly behind him: "Zhao Xin, with this official as the center, send scouts everywhere to investigate, if you find an abnormality, use the arrow as a signal, go quickly." ”

The Tiance Army behind him instantly divided into four teams and ran out in the four positive directions, while Chu Mofeng ordered the whole army to temporarily stop advancing and stand by.

After about an hour, there was a sudden sound of arrows in the sky, Chu Mofeng carefully identified the direction, pointed to the west with the burning sky in his hand, and then rushed towards the west on his horse, and everyone hurriedly urged the horse to follow when they saw this.

When the group reached the place where the sound came from, they were all angry at the scene before them, the dilapidated houses, the raging fires, the bitter wails everywhere, and the empty eyes, all of which confirmed that this place had been subjected to unimaginable looting.

Looking at all this in front of him, Chu Mofeng clenched his hands into fists fiercely, his nails pierced the skin and he didn't feel it, letting the blood beads slide down drop by drop, and then Chu Mofeng shouted to the Tiance Army present: "Zhao Xin, quickly arrange people to extinguish the fire and treat the injured people on the spot, go quickly, go quickly." ”

Then Chu Mofeng turned over and dismounted, and took Liu Feiyan, Gu Zhen'er and others to take the lead in the rescue work.

Under the command of Zhao Xin, the Tiance army behind him quickly began to act, some of them carried the injured to a safe place to start treatment, while the rest of the people took water from the well to extinguish the fire, after a busy time, the fire has been extinguished, and the people present saw that there were officials and soldiers coming to help, and they all showed surprised eyes.

Seeing that the fire had been extinguished, looking at the houses that had been destroyed, Chu Mofeng hurriedly called Liu Feiyan and others, "Feiyan, you and Zhen'er, Ruolan and Sister Xiu'er took my token, and rushed to Yizhou City with a hundred days of troops, first go to the Ordnance Bureau to allocate marching tents and bedding and other materials, and then go to the Assassin's Mansion in the city, allocate food in my name, and then quickly transport it, if the officials of Yizhou do not agree, you will take out the holy decree appointing me as a Qincha and read it, and then if anyone obstructs it, you know what to do." ”

Liu Feiyan looked at the tragic situation in front of him and nodded, took Chu Mofeng's token and holy decree, and inserted the Shang Fang sword given by the imperial court into the jacket on horseback, and greeted Gu Zhen'er and the others behind him, and the group of people drove towards Yizhou City according to Chu Mofeng's instructions.

At this time, an old man among the people walked to Chu Mofeng's side with the support of a young man, and said to Chu Mofeng: "My lord is really kind-hearted, thanks to my lord's help, Xiao Lao'er kowtowed to the adult on behalf of all the villagers in Huanghua Village." After speaking, the old man trembled and was about to kneel down and kowtow to Chu Mofeng.

Seeing this, Chu Mofeng held him up, and said with a smile: "The old man doesn't have to be polite, even if others see this matter, they will help him, and he just did what he should do." ”

After the reconstruction of Huanghua Village, the little old man will definitely offer the immortal tablet for the adults and pray for the safety of the adults. Seeing that this person was young, the old man couldn't help but be a little surprised in his heart, and always felt that he seemed to have seen this person somewhere, but he couldn't remember it for a while, and then asked: "Little Lao'er always feels that adults are a little familiar, but he can't remember them, and I hope that adults will not hesitate to tell him." ”

"Old man, don't hide it, under Chu Mofeng. After listening to the old man's words, Chu Mofeng thought to himself that it was estimated that when he was crusading against Song Jingang, he had followed Xiao Lizi to fight between these states and counties, so it was not surprising that the old man said that he had seen him.

Who knew that as soon as Chu Mofeng's voice fell, the old man repeated his name several times in his mouth, and immediately shouted excitedly: "Come on, folks, it's His Royal Highness King Xian." ”

When the people present who were still able to move heard the words 'His Royal Highness King Xian', they all stepped forward and knelt down neatly under the leadership of the old man and shouted: "See His Royal Highness King Xian." ”

Seeing this, Chu Mofeng hurriedly raised his hand to let everyone present get up, and kept saying, "What are you doing, please get up quickly." Then he motioned to the Tiance army beside him to help everyone up one by one, and then waved his hand and said: "Everyone, how can Chu be virtuous, he can't afford your worship." ”

The old man stepped forward and said with tears in his eyes: "Your Royal Highness King Xian, you deserve this worship, when you fought in this area with His Royal Highness the King of Qin, and finally exterminated Song Jingang and others, according to the old practice, but all those who rebelled here, the imperial court will not only not exempt this place from taxation due to war, but will increase the tax collection, Xiao Lao'er heard from the people in the village who worked in the capital, it was you who proposed to Your Majesty to exempt the entire Yizhou from taxes for three years, so far we have slowly recovered here." ”

Speaking of this, Chu Mofeng was a little puzzled, since he had recovered, why is this now? Looking at Chu Mofeng's puzzled expression, the old man wiped a handful of tears, and then sighed and said: "Hey, it's also unlucky, since you and His Royal Highness the King of Qin have exterminated rebellions in various places, except for the alien races in the north, our Tang Dynasty is not to say that it is a rebellion, bandits, There are no horse bandits, but recently I don't know where a group of horse bandits came, harassing villages one after another in Yizhou, just Xiao Lao'er knows that there are already four or five villages in distress, I never thought that it was Huanghua Village's turn today. ”

Listening to the old man's words, Chu Mofeng couldn't help frowning and thinking, when did this bandit come out? It stands to reason that if there are Turks coming to attack under the rule of various states and counties, it is normal, as for the horse bandits, since the establishment of the other side flower, how long has it been since the establishment of the other side flower, thinking of this, Chu Mofeng asked with some doubts: "Old man, then according to what you said, since the villages under the rule of Yizhou have been attacked, have the officials in the state not taken countermeasures?"

"Your Highness, what are the countermeasures?" the old man heard Chu Mofeng's official words, and he was still a little incomprehensible for a while. Seeing this, Chu Mofeng scratched his head and said, "Look, it's easy to say, I mean those officials in the state don't care?"

"Don't mention it, I haven't caught anything for more than a month, and the taxes have to be paid normally, you say that people are not angry. The old man stomped his feet angrily, and then said with a look of resentment: "The most hateful thing is that the state assassin history, what is called Hao Sijie, but all the people who were robbed to apply for tax reduction and exemption were blocked by him for various reasons, the garrison general next to him is called Gou Datong, what a vicious dog, I heard that a few days ago, the villagers of Xiaoaozi Village, because they were robbed and went to apply for help, but were sent out of the city by the dog, and their village chief was beaten several military sticks. ”

After listening to the old man's words, Chu Mofeng called Zhao Xin and whispered: "You immediately sneak into Yizhou City with my letter, go to the carriage and horse shop in the city, there are wandering people there, check these changes about Yizhou, and the other Assassin Shi named Hao Sijie and the garrison general Gou Datong, ask if there is any noteworthy news in Yizhou." ”

Zhao Xin nodded when he heard this, and then Chu Mofeng took the pen and paper and wrote a letter, turned around and handed it to Zhao Xin, Zhao Xin took the letter and arched his hand at Chu Mofeng, and then turned over and ran towards Yizhou City.

On the other hand, because Huanghua Village is not far from Yizhou City, Liu Feiyan and others arrived at Yizhou City after running for about an hour, and saw four masked women holding sharp blades and leading nearly a hundred black-armored cavalry behind them.

At the head of the city, a man with a majestic figure but a lewd appearance asked in a male duck voice: "Who is in the city? Why did you bring troops to my Yizhou City? Dare to ask what is going on? If you can't tell me why, don't blame my Yizhou arrows for not having eyes." ”

I saw Liu Feiyan sneering, holding Chu Mofeng's token high and shouting at the city wall: "Listen to the defenders of Yizhou, under the command of His Royal Highness King Xian Chu Mofeng, the demon queen of the flower squad on the other side, behind me is the Tiance Army, the direct combat unit of His Royal Highness King Xian, this time I came to Yizhou City to be appointed by His Royal Highness King Xian to allocate marching tents, bedding and food to relieve the affected people in Huanghua Village, the defenders in the city opened the door quickly, if the matter is urgent, you can't afford this responsibility." As soon as the words fell, his right hand clasped his waist and shook, and the soft sword appeared in his hand, and then he said to the general at the head of the city: "Open the door quickly within ten breaths, if the door is not opened after ten breaths, the next time you come to knock on the door will be His Royal Highness King Xian himself." ”

And the Tiance army behind Liu Feiyan erected the extinguishing flag and shouted in unison: "One, two, three......"

Hearing the words of the people under the city, the generals at the head of the city immediately broke out in a cold sweat, thinking that if this was not really attracted to the killing god, wouldn't it be that the old birthday star ate poison and thought that his life would be long. Thinking of this, the general hurriedly ordered the soldiers guarding the city to open the gate, and the people who had not yet entered the city showed a smile of relief when they saw this.

At this time, Liu Feiyan shouted again: "Open another door, the matter is urgent, we don't have time to follow the people into the city." Seeing this, the general had no choice but to open another city gate, and then saw Liu Feiyan and others passing through the city gate and coming to the city like a gust of wind.

Seeing this, the general hurriedly went down the city wall and came to Liu Feiyan, and before he could speak, he saw Liu Feiyan throw the token in his hand to himself, and then said coldly: "I'm afraid that you won't be at ease, let's talk about it a priori." ”

The general picked up the token and took a closer look, and was suddenly taken aback in his heart, only to see that on the golden token, a lifelike dragon was engraved on the front, and on the back was engraved the eight vigorous and powerful words of 'The Great Tang Dynasty Virtuous King Ru I am coming'.

At this time, the general hurriedly knelt down, held up the token with both hands, handed it to Liu Feiyan, and shouted: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live, long live." Then he stood up and said with a flattering face: "This lord, the lower official is Gou Datong, the general of the garrison in the city, and he didn't know that he was negligent, and I hope that my lord will forgive me." ”

I saw Liu Feiyan wave his hand coldly and said: "It's okay, at this moment, you take us to the Ordnance Bureau to transfer tent bedding, and then lead us to see your assassin history, faster, His Royal Highness King Xian is still waiting for us to reply in Huanghua Village." ”

Hearing this, Gou Datong hurriedly took Liu Feiyan and others to the Ordnance Bureau, and Liu Feiyan didn't say a word when he entered the Ordnance Bureau, threw Chu Mofeng's token into the arms of the oncoming official, and then said loudly: "I want two hundred tents and five hundred sets of bedding now, and I need to see the loaded materials at the door after half an hour, if anyone has any opinions, I don't mind taking you to talk to the owner of the token." After speaking, he looked coldly at the officials of the Ordnance Bureau.

I saw that the official who took the token only glanced at the eight words on the token, and then said tremblingly: "Chu... Clear... Chu Mofeng. Then he also wanted Gou Datong to kneel on the ground and shout loudly: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live." ”

Seeing this, Liu Feiyan copied the token and said, "I also read the token, I don't know why you are still standing here?" Do you really want to talk to His Royal Highness King Xian?"

As soon as they heard the words of His Royal Highness King Xian, everyone seemed to have heard something terrible, and they saw the official from before get up and shout to the people behind him: "Didn't you listen to what this general said? Let's go. The last sentence was directly shouted, and at this time, everyone reacted, and the group of people in front of them were the subordinates who killed the gods, and immediately turned around and ran towards the warehouse.

Then Liu Feiyan did not go through the history of assassination, but under the leadership of Gou Datong, he successfully obtained a large amount of grain through the grain Cao, and half an hour later, Liu Feiyan and others left Yizhou with nearly thirty carts and walked towards Huanghua Village.

After Liu Feiyan and the others left, Gou Datong hurriedly came to the Thorn Mansion and saw Hao Sijie at this time. I saw Hao Sijie sitting in the main hall with a leisurely appearance and sipping tea, seeing Gou Datong coming, he hurriedly got up and motioned for him to come and sit down, but Gou Datong sighed and said: "Oh, my Lord Thorn Shi, you can still sit here, that killing god has come to Yizhou, and now he is in Huanghua Village." ”

"Kill the gods, this official has not offended anyone, what kill gods and kill immortals, what do you want to say?" Listening to Gou Datong's words, Hao Sijie didn't seem to react, looking at him with a blank expression, and then saw Gou Datong stretched out his hand and gestured with the word 'Chu', and immediately squirted out a mouthful of tea, and then coughed a few times and said: "What? Why did he come to Yizhou? He didn't stay well in the capital, what did he do when he ran out? Isn't it that he was assigned by His Majesty on some errand?"

Because before the Tang Dynasty Qincha traveled, it was necessary to notify the state capitals along the way, so that the previous Qincha had not yet left Beijing, and the officials along the way had already known the itinerary, and this time Chu Mofeng was hunting on behalf of the sky, and before leaving Beijing, he begged Li Yuan not to give an order to notify, and before the Bingzhou and Qincha guards were separated, they strictly ordered the Bingzhou City to spread the news to the outside world, so in the nine states of He, Lu, Xiang, Xing, Zhao, Heng, Ding, Yi, and Youjiuzhou, in addition to Bingzhou and Youzhou, the other seven states did not know who the Qincha was.

Hearing Hao Sijie's question, Gou Datong was also a little puzzled, it stands to reason that if this virtuous king was appointed by the imperial court, he would be out of Bingzhou at this moment, and he would definitely not arrive in Yizhou. Then Gou Datong thought about it, Chu Mofeng has a token given by His Majesty, even if it is not a Qincha, just with the weight of that token, the state capitals and roads everywhere he goes must be behaving.

Thinking of this, Gou Datong said worriedly: "Lord Hao, even if he is not a Qincha, do we have to be careful recently, after all, our Royal Highness the Virtuous King is prestigious, if that incident makes him find out something, then you and I will not be as simple as taking off our official uniforms, maybe we won't even be able to save our lives." ”

After getting up and wandering around the house for a few steps, Hao Sijie looked at the somewhat gloomy sky outside the house and said: "Recently, I have ordered to go down and temporarily restrain myself, and then I will talk about it after he leaves, those prisoners in the prison can be watched, if a few people run out and chew their tongues in front of him, he will definitely be able to find out something at that time." ”

Gou Datong nodded, turned around and walked out of the house, while Hao Sijie looked leisurely, picked up the teacup and took a sip, and then slowly muttered: King Xian, interesting. As everyone knows, his hand holding the teacup is shaking all the time.

After inquiring along the way, Zhao Xin came to the carriage and horse shop in Yizhou according to the guidance of passers-by, and handed over Chu Mofeng's handwritten letter to the shopkeeper, and then the shopkeeper led Zhao Xin to a hut, and said to him: "General Zhao, the letter of His Royal Highness King Xian has been read, and the matter about Yizhou City is roughly the same as expected by His Royal Highness King Xian, here is the relevant information that the villain has sorted out, please General Zhao to forward it to His Royal Highness King Xian." ”

I saw the shopkeeper take out a thick pile of letter paper and hand it to Zhao Xin, and then whispered: "As for the last question asked in His Royal Highness King Xian's letter, according to the news that the villain inquired, their last stop today should be Liucun, which is not far from Huanghua Village, which is relatively wealthy compared to Huanghua Village, and I have also written detailed information in it." ”

Zhao Xin tried hard to remember the shopkeeper's words, and then clasped his fists at him and said: "It's hard for you people who have always been in the dark to find out the news, if it weren't for you, it is estimated that what happened in this world, we will never know." ”

"Everything is for the great cause of King Qin and His Royal Highness King Xian, and General Zhao fought on the battlefield with King Xian, even harder than us. I saw the shopkeeper shake his head and said with a smile: "But before that, I hope you take care of each other." ”

Zhao Xin nodded slowly, turned around and left the carriage and horse shop, he knew the importance of this pile of things in his arms, so he quickly turned over and rode towards Huanghua Village despite his exhaustion.

At this time, in Huanghua Village, Chu Mofeng ordered people to distribute tents, bedding and food, and then began to repair the damaged houses with a group of Tiance troops, and the people present saw that high-ranking officials like Chu Mofeng were able to put down their bodies to do things for the people, and hurriedly got up to join the ranks of repairs, and with the efforts of everyone, the damaged houses gradually returned to their original appearance.

Looking at the village that had already recovered its embryonic form, the old man from before gave a big gift to Chu Mofeng and said: "Your Royal Highness, the little old man Huang Dexi is the head of Huanghua Village, and I have led all the villagers here to thank you for your great kindness, and everyone will definitely offer you the immortal tablet in the future, and I hope you and you are safe and healthy." ”

Looking at the simple people in front of him, Chu Mofeng wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and said loudly: "Folks, please rest assured, what happened in Yizhou, this king has roughly made some judgments, this matter will be thoroughly investigated by this king, and when the matter is over, this king will report to His Majesty, and he will definitely apply for a temporary exemption from taxes for Yizhou." ”

When everyone heard this, they knelt down and praised, but Chu Mofeng couldn't bear to see this scene, and immediately ordered Tiance Army to help everyone up, at this time Zhao Xin also returned to Huanghua Village, and after whispering in Chu Mofeng's ear, he handed the things entrusted by the shopkeeper to Chu Mofeng.

Then Chu Mofeng said to Huang De and the others: "Since there is nothing to do here for the time being, this king still needs to go to Liucun to investigate, folks, let's leave it for the time being." After speaking, he shouted to the Tiance army behind him: "All of them got on the horse and hurried to Liucun." Then, in the farewell of the people of Huanghua Village, he galloped towards Liucun with a group of people and horses.

On the way, Chu Mofeng shouted to everyone: "According to reliable information, the group of gangsters who attacked Huanghua Village will attack Liucun today, and when we arrive, we will try to capture as many people as possible, think about the tragedy of Huanghua Village, what to do without me teaching you, right?"

Everyone didn't say much, they just echoed in unison, and then marched towards Liucun at full speed......

As the saying goes, water can carry a boat and can also overturn a boat, and watch the people of Liucun resist to the death, and then watch the people of Tiance capture the culprit, I want to know what will happen next, and listen to the next decomposition......