As the night faded, the eastern sky had quietly turned out to be fish-white, and then a glimmer of sunset was revealed. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info Zhuang Haoming and Xie Yixiang rode this "flying magpie" with their backs to the rising sun and broke the wind, taking in the entire Yueyang City.

Looking at the house that had become the size of a teacup under him, Xie Yixiang couldn't help but be full of excitement, and couldn't help but ask loudly: "Uncle, who is that girl, who can make such a magical wooden bird? I don't think she looks like a bad person, but why did she use the name Rose Thorn to kill those honest officials?"

Zhuang Haoming looked at the sunrise and sunset in front of him, and the weather was myriad of Dongting Lake, and he was not happy or sad for a while. He raised his voice and said, "Yixiang, you listen, I'll only say this once." That's what happened last night, and you should pretend that you didn't see anything, and don't ask me again. ”

The two of them were in mid-air, their ears were full of the whirring wind, Xie Yixiang didn't hear Zhuang Haoming's words clearly for a while, and asked loudly: "Who is that Mohan Mountain you mentioned just now?"

Zhuang Haoming heard that she was still asking, so he sank into the dantian, used his internal force to suppress the whirring wind beside him, and said: "Yixiang, now I will tell you the true purpose of the trip to the torture room. Haha, I'm afraid you won't believe it, we came to Huguang this time, claiming to the outside world that we wanted to arrest the rose thorn, but the real purpose in private was to arrest Jiang Wangcai! That's right, it was Jiang Wangcai, the bandit leader of Dongting Lake!"

Zhuang Haoming actually wanted to come to Huguang to arrest Jiang Wangcai, the soil emperor of Dongting Lake?

He exhaled these words, and Xie Yixiang naturally heard them clearly. However, to Xie Yixiang's ears, the so-called arrest of Jiang Wangcai is simply nonsense, and it is impossible to do it at all.

Even if all the 20,000 troops and horses stationed in Chengtianfu in Huguangdong were dispatched, it would be impossible to attack Longyue Island, let alone arrest Jiang Wangcai. Even if Cheng Shaotian, Jia Mengchao and Xue Zhiyan are still there, there are only five people in their group, how can they arrest Jiang Wangcai?

Xie Yixiang didn't believe it in her heart, and couldn't help but ask: "Arrest Jiang Wangcai, just the two of us?"

Zhuang Haoming raised his breath and said: "What, are you scared? The reason why I kept silent about this matter and kept it from everyone was that this was one of the reasons, I was afraid that you would be so afraid that you would not dare to come with me." Hmph, your uncle has been in the torture chamber for so many years, doesn't he know the thoughts of you guys? If I hadn't coaxed and deceived me, what would my gang of arrests have been able to accomplish?"

He paused for a moment, and then said: "Besides, this action is very important, and the decision to arrest Jiang Wangcai is extremely confidential, and the less one person knows the truth, the less danger of leakage." Yixiang, it's not that my uncle wants to play tricks, the reason why I have been hiding it from you is also what the court meant. Don't say it's you, even Chaozhong and even your father Xie Fengxuan don't know, otherwise he wouldn't suspect me and ask you to spy on me all the way. ”

Xie Yixiang bit her lip, still unable to believe it in her heart. Compared with Zhuang Haoming's statement, his father suspected that Zhuang Haoming and Jiang Wangcai were secretly colluding, so it was more reasonable to take the opportunity to come to him this time. She couldn't help but say loudly: "With just a few of us, how can we arrest Jiang Wangcai, the number one bandit in the world?

Zhuang Haoming haha, and said loudly: "The reason why the imperial court has allowed this Jiang Wangcai to sit in Huguang over the years is mostly because the civil officials in the court headed by Prime Minister Ning tried their best to cover up and hide the emperor. And what they were most afraid of was that the emperor would make a big move and send soldiers to lead his troops to the battle. You must know that it has only been more than ten years since the founding of our dynasty, and it is natural to emphasize military force over literature, and half of the military generals who founded the country are still alive, and their official positions are far higher than those civilian officials. ”

The unfair treatment of civil and military officials in this dynasty, Xie Yixiang has naturally heard about it. She heard Zhuang Haoming mention the disputes in the court, although she was disgusted, she still said suspiciously: "What a powerful character the emperor is today, not to mention that Jiang Wangcai's name is already known to women and children in the capital, no matter how Prime Minister Ning and those officials hide it, how can they hide it from the emperor?"

Zhuang Haoming stretched out his sleeves to shield the strong wind blowing in front of him, nodded and said: "Yes, it is true that no one can hide from the emperor, unless it is the emperor himself." You have to understand that the people who are worried about those military generals are not only those civil officials, but the emperor himself is also very frightened of this, and he has been mutilating those founding exploits over the years, which is why. Let's ask the emperor now that he is in his throne, this is not enough, if the emperor is a hundred years later, among the sons and grandsons of the emperor who is left behind, who can suppress these generals with high achievements?"

Speaking of this, Zhuang Haoming snorted, spit out a piece of thread blown into his mouth from his long sleeve, and added: "Because of this, the emperor pretended to be kept in the dark by Prime Minister Ning and ignored this Jiang Wang. In this way, not only can the black pot that concealed Jiang Wangcai's big sitting be blamed on Prime Minister Ning Cheng's head, but there is no need to let those generals regain military power. ”

Xie Yixiang's heart was dark, and he couldn't imagine that the intrigue in the court had already far exceeded his imagination, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly: "In this way, the imperial court sent the torture and arrest room to arrest Jiang Wangcai this time, because the 20 million taels of robbed military salaries were very important and affected the safety of Huguang, so they couldn't continue to pretend to be deaf and dumb?"

When she said this, she clearly believed Zhuang Haoming's statement that "Jiang Wangcai was arrested". Zhuang Haoming nodded first, shook his head again, and sneered: "But Prime Minister Ning will not care about the safety of Huguang, this time he reported the robbery of the general's salary to the emperor in front of the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty, but he was planning for himself - he wanted to force the emperor to punish that person according to the crime." ”

Xie Yixiang immediately understood what he meant, and said: "Yes, because the imperial court could not find troops to escort them for a while, this batch of military salaries was escorted by the dart bureau on the rivers and lakes. And it was King Heng who contributed to this, and the surname Ning wanted to bring down King Heng?"

Zhuang Haoming snorted and said, "Although Prime Minister Ning is shrewd, the emperor is even more shrewd. In order to keep King Heng, he abandoned the car to protect the handsome, and actually came up with the idea of asking our criminal department to come forward and arrest the culprit Jiang Wang within ten days. Hehe, he arranged it like this, if my criminal arrest room can really arrest Jiang Wangcai, then it will naturally keep King Heng; if my criminal arrest room can't do this, then the sheep who will be punished and substituted is my Zhuang Haoming, and I can also keep King Heng. The most important thing is that this matter will be handed over to my criminal arrest room, and it can also prevent a cadre of generals led by your father from regaining military power, which is really a good calculation. ”

After listening to Zhuang Haoming's tirade, Xie Yixiang understood the reason for the whole thing, and her heart fluctuated for a while, and her thoughts were full of thoughts. She couldn't stop shaking her head and said, "The emperor is really whimsical, what kind of errand is this? ”

But seeing Zhuang Haoming suddenly look up to the sky and laugh, he raised his voice and said: "Yixiang, could it be that until today, you still think that your uncle, the position of the chief arrester of the criminal arrest room, can be sat by everyone casually? Without diamonds, who would dare to take over the porcelain work? The emperor's will is of course unreasonable, but it is to balance the situation in the court, and you, Uncle Zhuang, and I, how can we wait for idleness? Now that I dare to come to Huguang to arrest Jiang Wangcai, if I am not completely sure, why should I come to die?"

Although Xie Yixiang didn't know where Zhuang Haoming's confidence came from, it seemed that the purpose behind this trip was not as speculated by her father. However, when I thought of Cheng Shaotian, Jia Mengchao and Xue Zhiyan, who died because of this, I couldn't help but have mixed feelings, and I didn't know whether I was happy or sad in my heart.

Zhuang Haoming, who only heard the Feique in front of him, sighed, and said lightly: "As I said, no matter what kind of case, the case itself is not important, what matters is how the case is handled after it happens, because this directly affects the 'gain and loss'." It doesn't really matter what the truth is about the robbery of military salaries, what matters is how we deal with it. ”

After a pause, he raised his voice and said: "What we have to do now is to turn this 'catastrophe' into a 'great confusion', so as to confuse all the people in the world." To do this, we must first arrest Jiang Wangcai!"