Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Book of Accounts

After dark, after learning that King Zhenxi had taken down King Yuwen, Wu Zheng, a Lanling guard guarding outside a courtyard in the north of the city, gave an order, and twenty black-clothed people jumped up and crossed into the courtyard from the top of the wall.

This courtyard is the residence of King Yuwen, King Yuwen temporarily lived here after arriving at Xiamaguan, and in addition to him, there were several family members and seven or eight guards who also lived in the courtyard.

The twenty black-clothed men were the internal guards brought by Wu Zheng from the imperial court, all of them were agile and strong in martial arts. After they infiltrated the courtyard, it took less than a pillar of incense to kill all the guards and family members in the courtyard.

After Wu Zheng stood in the middle of the courtyard and looked around, he ordered his subordinates to search each room, and the purpose of the search was to find the two bags of account books brought back by Chen Gengsheng, a subordinate of King Yuwen, some time ago. The real purpose of Wu Zheng's coming to Xiamaguan was to help Lord Huang regain the lost account books.

It turned out that Admiral Huang Kecheng had been profiting from the iron ore industry in the household by controlling it. In particular, he took advantage of the geographical advantages of Jinbei County, an iron ore area, close to the northern region, to smuggle iron materials and iron weapons produced by the imperial court's official mines and weapons factories to Tufan, and obtained huge profits.

Almost all of these products are cost-free, and they are all saved by deducting the quality of the products produced for the imperial court, and in order to obtain orders from Tufan, the quality of the products provided to Tufan is very good.

Tufan used these sophisticated weapons to strengthen the army, unified the northern steppe, and after Tufan launched an attack on the Central Plains, he captured Jinbei County in one fell swoop, and after seizing the iron mines and weapons factories there, he increased production and supply, so that he had an advantage in weapons in the battle with the Central Plains troops.

After Tufan occupied Jinbei County, Admiral Huang was worried that the original smuggling business there would be exposed, so he hurriedly sent people to Jinbei County to retrieve the business account books there, so that he could burn them with his own hands and eliminate his heart disease.

So he secretly sent personnel to Jinbei County to dispose of the original business agents, and took back all the previous transaction books, and entrusted the largest dart bureau in the capital to secretly transport these account books back to the capital.

I don't want this dart to be robbed halfway. What surprised him even more was that he later found out that the mastermind behind the robbery of this dart was actually Yuwen Haotian, and he was so worried that after these account books fell into the hands of King Yuwen, he was so worried that he couldn't sleep well. Once King Yuwen handed over these account books to the imperial court, he would never be able to escape the charge of fornication and betrayal, thinking that he did everything possible to put King Yuwen on the charge of betraying the country, but now his handle fell into the hands of others, and thinking of this made him break out in a cold sweat.

Without further ado, Admiral Huang hurriedly found a few confidants to discuss how to deal with the matter, and in the end, he had to come up with a clever plan for his proud godson Wu Zheng. When Wu Zheng said his plan, everyone was convinced, and they secretly thought that this plan was vicious, it was really unprecedented and unprecedented.

Wu Zheng's strategy is probably like this. In the name of the imperial envoy, he first contacted Tufan and agreed that he would persuade the king of Zhenxi to abandon the city and surrender, and take down King Yuwen, and he would escort him back to the imperial court, on the condition that Tufan would continue to give the king of Zhenxi the treatment of a crown prince and let him enjoy his old age in the Western Regions. After negotiating with Tufan, he went into Xiama Pass to meet the king of Zhenxi, and tried to make the king of Zhenxi believe that the court wanted to save his life and protect him to return to the dynasty, but let him take Yuwen Haotian as a condition for returning to the dynasty, and after he took the king of Yuwen and Wu Zheng got the account book, he could deceive the king of Zhenxi out of the city and hand it over to Tufan for disposal, and he himself would take King Yuwen back to the dynasty according to the conditions negotiated in advance.

After listening to the plan, Admiral Huang was really overjoyed, this can be said to be a unique plan, which can be described as killing three birds with one stone. The first is to take back the account books and end the heart disease; the second is to arrest King Yuwen, which is a great achievement; the third is to clean up the king of Zhenxi by the way, not only did he get angry, but also helped the court clean up a mess. In this way, the two rebel kings who have plagued the emperor for many years have been solved by him at once, what a glorious thing this is, which will greatly improve his status in the emperor's mind, and it can be said to be second to none in the Huang family.

Under the personal auspices of Lord Huang, and after the plan was carefully refined and prepared, Wu Zheng led more than 20 guards to set off.

Deyong quickly accepted the conditions, although the dismount and the city were just around the corner, but it was of course best for the other party to surrender, saving him from continuing to work hard. Another thing that made Deyong more satisfied was that the King of Zhenxi took Yuwen Haotian and handed it over directly to the Dafeng Imperial Court, which avoided the embarrassment of facing King Yuwen directly, and he really didn't think about how to treat Yuwen Haotian, after all, it was his own brother-in-law.

Wu Zheng continued to persuade the king of Zhenxi with his incorruptible tongue. King Zhenxi, who saw the hope of life again, quickly followed his instructions and took down Yuwen Haotian. He was now in the third step of the plan, finding the books.

After a close search of the courtyard for half an hour, two bags of things were finally found under a small bed in a side room. Wu Zheng ordered people to open it, took out a few booklets and looked through them, confirmed that they were exactly what they were looking for, and smiled with satisfaction.

Seeing that the great work was about to be completed, Wu Zheng waved his hand proudly and led the black-clothed guards to withdraw from the courtyard together. He didn't notice that as soon as they stepped out of the courtyard, a dark shadow fell from the roof of the west wing, jumped up the west wall of the courtyard, and then disappeared into the night.

This person is Chen Gengsheng, the deputy guard officer of the Fishing Bureau. It turned out that after Chen Gengsheng sent the target to Xiamaguan City, King Yuwen asked him to continue to take care of this thing, saying that there was a new task entrusted to him in the future. Chen Gengsheng stayed in Xiamaguan City, living in a side room in the residential courtyard of Yuwen Wang, and had nothing else to do all day, which was very boring.

Later, after the war with Tufan, Chen Gengsheng asked King Yuwen for instructions many times, asking to go to the battlefield to fight the Tufan people. King Yuwen did not agree, but just asked him to continue to be optimistic about the bag, saying that there would be heavy responsibilities entrusted to him in the future.

There was no way, Chen Gengsheng had to stay in the yard all day, the bag of things was hidden under the small bed in his room, he went out to walk around the yard, and sometimes he couldn't go anywhere except to help the family do some work.

That night, it was late at night, and King Yuwen had not returned, which made Chen Gengsheng very relieved, and he never slept. So as soon as the black-clothed guards entered the courtyard, he knew it, and he heard that there were about twenty people on the other side, but he didn't understand who these people were and what they were doing, so he didn't make a noise and observed in secret.

The guards on duty that night also found the man in black, but it was quickly solved by the other party on the spot, the man in black rushed into the guard's room, the two sides fought to the death in the house, and when Chen Gengsheng, who was hiding in the room, was about to come to the rescue, he found that these men in black were all peerless masters, and he killed several guards in just a moment, even if he shot again, it would be useless.

Later, he noticed that the men in black had begun to search house to house, and suddenly realized that they had come for the bag. He hurriedly took out the baggage under the bed, but he found that it was impossible to take such a large bag out of the house at this time. In a hurry, he took out a dozen books from the account book and tied them around his waist, and after putting the burden back in its place, he jumped on the roof beam and hid.

In the unfamiliar city of Xiamaguan, Chen Gengsheng didn't know where to find King Yuwen, but he estimated that there might be something wrong with King Yuwen, so he first went to the city gate to lurk, and after dawn, he saw if he could see King Yuwen here, and then make a decision.