Chapter 6: The Burning of Cao's Mansion
On the other side, Tie Fei, Zhuge Qingzi, Zhou Feiyan, Zhuge Xi, and Ximen Dong ran towards Fengyun Tower non-stop, and when they arrived at the gate of Fengyue Tower, they found that there was already a large group of onlookers.
"It's miserable, it's miserable."
"Yes, how did this start, dozens of people in the family and hundreds of people in the family were all killed, from the seventy or eighty-year-old people to the half-month-old baby."
Hearing this, Tie Fei hurriedly entered the building, and found that the entire first floor was full of corpses, and the blood flowed like a river, Tie Fei followed his father to the rivers and lakes, and naturally knew the vast majority of the people in the rivers and lakes, and saw Yue Zhong and Yue Chong when they entered the door, and then saw Sima Shan, and several people followed the traces of the corpse all the way to the back mountain, and soon saw Sima Chang'an, Sima Shu, and several people continued to grit their teeth and continue to walk back, and after a while, they saw Sima Changlong and Sima Hong, Tie Fei angrily clenched his fists, "Grandma's, Cao Ba's blood debt must be repaid"
Tie Fei and the others had arrived a long time late, and they were already on their way back to Luoyang after Cao Ba's massacre.
And Ma Wen turned the horse's head and went straight to Cao's mansion, and saw that at the gate of Cao's mansion, several domestic slaves were beating an old farmer.
The old farmer kept crying, "Give me back my daughter, you animals."
The onlookers all persuaded, "Forget it, forget it, whoever the Cao family wants to die, they want to die"
Ma asked the passer-by next to him the reason, and the passer-by whispered, "This Cao Ba's youngest son bullied men and women and robbed this old man's daughter, what a sin."
Ma Wen clenched his fists angrily, remembering Cao Ba's various deeds, now in Fengyuelou, thinking of Cao Ba's people slaughtering the White Tiger Tang family, the brothers and sisters of the Ma family who died in battle, Ma Wen drew his sword and hacked the house slave to death, which immediately attracted a group of house slaves, Ma asked which to put these people in his eyes, and compared a few swords at will, and a group of people died under the sword.
"There are still people who are not afraid of death"
"This man is overly impulsive"
"That's not how heroes behave, it's not worth it for an irrelevant old man" The onlookers whispered.
Ma asked where to do so much, all the way to the Cao Mansion, suddenly more than a dozen people were killed, Ma asked a set of Ma family swordsmanship, not a dozen moves, most of the house slaves have died, Ma Wen had already prepared to fight with all his strength, and then burned Cao Mansion, I didn't expect Cao Ba to attack Fengyue Tower and take away almost all the troops, now Cao Mansion is some Cao Mansion family members in addition to twenty or thirty people.
"Who dares to make a mistake here, don't you know where this is?" walked out of the same age as Ma Wen.
"Listen, I am the Young Hall Master of the White Tiger Hall, Ma Wen, and I will destroy your Cao Mansion today," Ma Wen said
The young man said, "Ma asked, dare to break into my Cao Mansion, count your fate, today next year is your death day, give it to me"
A group of house slaves attacked Ma Wen again, and Ma Wen killed again, there was no helper in it, there was no same way, who was caught and killed whom, and after a while, another piece died.
At this time, the young man struck, and Ma Wen stabbed with his sword, but the man dodged sideways.
The horse asked, "And who?"
The young man said, "Cao Zhuang, the second son of Cao Mansion"
Ma asked, "You are the one who took the old peasant's daughter."
Cao Zhuang replied, "Which old farmer?"
Ma asked and thought, "Which old farmer, he doesn't know the bad things he has done, it seems that he has done a lot of bad things, and he has occupied a lot of peasant girls, he must be killed today to eliminate harm for the people."
Ma Wen shook his sword and stabbed at Cao Zhuang...... , After a few moves, Ma Wen obviously felt that Cao Zhuang's force was mediocre, and sure enough, Ma Wen slashed a sword qi, Cao Zhuang punched, and suddenly the internal force shook Cao Zhuang back a few steps, Ma Wen stabbed a sword, right in Cao Zhuang's chest, and as Ma Wen drew his sword, Cao Zhuang stopped moving.
Ma Wen swept a sword, the attacking house slave died suddenly, a massacre, the house slave was killed and wounded, Ma Wen had already killed the red eye, raised his foot and kicked open the main hall of Cao Mansion, a group of old and young women and children snuggled up to each other, a child ran over, bit Ma Wen's leg, "Bad guy, you bad guy"
Ma asked angrily, "How many martial arts clans did Cao Ba slaughter, how many sects did he exterminate, how many good girls did Cao Zhuang occupy, and now I say that I am a bad person", he immediately killed the red-eyed man, and slapped the child on the head......
Ma Wen knew that he was wrong in this matter, and he might regret it, after all, Cao Ba was Cao Ba, and his family was innocent, but it was difficult to understand the hatred in his heart, so he screamed, and cut down with his sword, and the people in the room stopped breathing in the scream......
"Ahhh
The more Ma Wen thought about it, the more angry he became, did ordinary people let them bully like this? I must have Cao Ba taste what pain is, so Ma Wen set Cao Fu on fire......
At this time, many of the eyeliners arranged on the street also returned to Cao's mansion, but they were Ma Wen's opponents, all of them were fed with swords, and after a while, the fire had soared to the sky, and there were more and more onlookers, although they didn't dare to applaud in their mouths, their hearts were simply happy, and every Luoyang person was more or less bullied and oppressed by the Cao family for so many years.
Ma Wen didn't want to involve others, I saw him walk to the gate, everyone was terrified when they saw it, seeing Ma Wenjian was stained red with blood, the whole body was stained red with blood, a bloody person alive, Ma Wen said, "Today I am the master of the White Tiger Hall Ma Wen for the people to eliminate harm, destroy Cao Mansion, you folks as a witness, he will be a martial arts success, will kill Cao Ba", after saying that, Ma Wen swaggered down the street, behind Cao Fu burned the crackling sound.
The triumphant Cao Ba and his entourage saw that they were in Luoyang, and someone came to report, "Master, the master of the White Tiger Hall Young Hall, Ma Wen, washed Cao's mansion with blood, and lit a fire"
"What" Cao Ba suddenly fell off the horse, Cao Ba's mother, eldest sister, sister's family, as well as his wife, concubine, and children, Cao Ba spurted out a mouthful of old blood, "Ma asked, I want to punish you nine clans, ah"
Cao Ba immediately ordered to rush back, except for the gate intact, everything was burned, and a smell of burned wood and corpses filled the air, except for the corpses on the ground that could be identified, the corpses in the house had been burned into charcoal, and it could not be confirmed, it could be said that there were no dead bodies.
"Ahh......h
Suddenly, the rivers and lakes were shaken, the martial arts were sensational, Cao Ba destroyed the Fengyue Building, and was killed by Ma Wen, the master of the White Tiger Hall, who was at the bottom of the kettle, and burned Cao Mansion, Ma Wen suddenly became famous in the rivers and lakes, and Cao Ba and his gang wanted to kill Ma Wen and curry favor with Cao Ba, but most of them admired Ma Wen's blood, and for a time Ma Wen's bloody Cao Mansion was much more famous than Cao Ba's destruction of Fengyue Building.
Five days later, Kaifeng, each corner of the wall has been plastered with Ma Wen's portrait and the order of chasing and killing.
Tie Fei and a few people came to Kaifeng, and saw that the avatar and the chase order were written that Ma asked for the fire to burn Cao Mansion, and offered a high reward, Tie Fei asked passers-by, "This person burned Cao Mansion, why is he not afraid of death?"
Passers-by looked at Tie Fei with a sword in his hand, and said with a smile, "You are still a person in the rivers and lakes, I don't know this, Cao Ba destroyed the Fengyue Building Manmen, but was drawn by Ma Wen, the master of the White Tiger Hall, and was killed by Ma Wen, and Cao Mansion was burned."
Tie Fei was surprised and said, "I'll go"
Zhuge Xi, Ximen Dong, and Zhou Feiyan were even more surprised and couldn't close their mouths for a long time, while Zhuge Qingzi was more worried about Ma Wen's safety.
Tie Fei said, "Let's take a break today, tomorrow morning we will go separately to find, we will divide into four roads, I, Brother Zhuge and Brother Ximen will each have one way, Qingzi and Feiyan will take care of them all the way, and we will meet at the restaurant on time in the evening."
"Uh-huh," a few of them nodded in agreement.
After Ma Wen washed Cao's mansion in blood, he disguised himself all the way to Kaifeng, looking for a few days without seeing Tie Fei's people, Tie Fei and a few people were also running around the streets all day long, Zhuge Qingzi was anxious and melancholy every day, but in the dark, it seemed that someone had arranged it, as if they had passed by countless times, and several people never met.
Half a month later, Cao Ba gradually came out of the shadows, he still had to continue his grand hegemony, he ordered to rebuild Cao Mansion, and then wrote to the Hou Mansion, Xianju Gate, Tsing Yi Gate and Tieshou Gate, Cao Ba let Hou Mansion Hou Changlin attack the Yanshan faction, let Xianju Gate Zisu continue to entangle with the Jiangnan Huo family, Murong family, let Tieshoumen Wang Kuan and Dongshan send Zhang Donglai to Sichuan to attack Tang Gate, Tsing Yi Gate Gongsun Aghuo and Wushan sent Wu Zhan south to Lingnan.
Jiangnan Huo family and Murong family formed an alliance, after several years of Cao Ba's encirclement and suppression, the martial arts clan already knew that Cao Ba was Sima Zhao's heart, and passers-by knew it, but they used Cao Jixiang as a backstage to borrow the hand of the imperial court to eliminate the forces of the rivers and lakes, so that they could dominate the rivers and lakes.
And Ma Wen did not meet Tie Fei for a few days, but the danger is increasing day by day, the Central Plains is Cao Ba's world after all, and now I am afraid that it can only be as far away as possible, Ma Wen decided to go to Gongsun Aghuo to ask about his father's whereabouts, and then wander the world and break out of the world.
And the capital of the Ming Dynasty, at the foot of the Son of Heaven, is a piece of prosperity, prosperity is no less than Chang'an, Luoyang, the emperor every day up and down the court, review the approval of the seal, often after the three calls long live, there is nothing to start and retreat from the court, this day Zhu Qizhen is still the same as usual on the morning court, three long live after no one to play, Zhu Qizhen is very happy, presumably after the second accession to the throne after the world is peaceful, but without waiting for the eunuch father-in-law to speak, Cao Jixiang stood up and said" Emperor Qi, Cao Ba of the Luoyang people's clan, since the emperor was reinstated, he used the identity of the rivers and lakes to assist the officials of Huguang and Guangzhou provinces to suppress bandits, and encircled and suppressed the Yueyang bandits and the Baihutang bandits who had been fighting in Huguang for a long time, and the later Jiangnan family Murong Yunhai and the Huo family Huo Shanvain gave the Taizu Emperor and the other two major families in Jiangnan Shangguan and the Bai family for the trouble of Jiangnan, bullying men and women in a vain attempt to take Jiangnan as their own, and Cao Ba assisted the provincial governments in Jiangnan to destroy the Bai family and the Shangguan family, but the Murong family and the Huo family were given by Emperor Taizu, and the provincial governments in Jiangnan had no way"
After hearing this, Zhu Qizhen said, "Is there anything else going on?"
Shi Heng said, "Your Majesty, what Lord Cao said is true, Lord Cao was still hesitant a few days ago, and he didn't know how to tell the emperor, after all, Jiangnan Murong and Jiangnan Huo were gifted by Emperor Taizu, but considering that the coastal areas of Jiangnan are always infested with Japanese invaders, these families use the imperial court as the background to do business, and it is inevitable to collude with Japanese invaders."
Cao Jixiang said, "Your Majesty, Lord Shi is right, please ask the Emperor to strictly investigate the Murong family and the Huo family."
Xu Youzhen, the first assistant of the cabinet, was suspicious, this Cao Jixiang used the emperor's restoration to let dozens of people who had something to do with him get official positions of different sizes, this time it must be to promote Cao Ba, but if the matter is true, it is not easy to object, so Xu Youzhen said, "Enlighten the emperor, the disputes in the rivers and lakes, since ancient times, the rivers and lakes have been handled, and the government has solved the affairs of the government."
Cao Jixiang said, "Lord Xu's words are wrong, the rivers and lakes are also the rivers and lakes of the imperial court, the people of the rivers and lakes are also the people of the imperial court, the emperor's people, how can he have the final say, Cao Ba is a person in the rivers and lakes, the people at the feet of the great tomorrow, should serve the emperor, recently Cao Ba in the Central Plains exterminated the Fengyuelou bandit eunuch was retaliated against, and our family's ancestral home was also burned to the ground."
Zhu Qizhen said, "Okay, I don't understand the rivers and lakes, you Xu Youzhen don't understand the rivers and lakes, you Cao Jixiang Shiheng don't understand the rivers and lakes, you ministers don't understand the rivers and lakes, then I still need a person who understands the rivers and lakes to act for me in the rivers and lakes, so I plan to make him the hereditary commander of Jinyiwei."
Shi Heng Cao Jixiang hurriedly said, "The emperor is wise"
Xu Youzhen could only sigh secretly and shake her head!
On the other side, Ma Wen galloped towards Tsing Yi Gate, Tsing Yi Gate is in Huguang Xiangxi, where the mountains are steep, smoky, and sparsely populated.
On this day, Ma Wen came to Xiangxi, surrounded by steep peaks, strange shapes, put the Buddha to come to Shenlongling, but the scenery here is particularly beautiful than Shenlongling, unlike Shenlongling, which are dense towering trees, I really want to quit the rivers and lakes one day, and Zhuge Qingzi build a thatched hut here, plant some vegetables, raise some chickens and ducks, and live for a long time.
Ma asked really beautifully, and suddenly several black-clothed people flew down from the opposite mountain peak, drew their swords and asked the horse, and one of them said, "Who is here?"
Ma Wen thought that these people were either from Tsing Yi Gate, bandits, or local aborigines, so he said, "I'm here to find Tsing Yi Gate."
Several people looked at each other, and one said, "What are you looking for me, Tsing Yi Gate?"
Ma asked, "It turns out that you are from the Tsing Yi Sect, and I was sent by my master Cao Ba to find the master of the Gongsun Sect."
One of them said, "Why is it the head of Cao again, didn't your master send someone here?"
Ma asked if this person was testing me, so he gambled his luck and said, "My master sent someone, the matter was not explained clearly, I was specially sent, these rabbit cubs ran so fast, they didn't catch up, go, take me to meet your master"
The man said, "I can't hide it, the master of the door received a letter from your master, and he has already set off for Lingnan a few days ago."
Ma Wen was deliberately surprised and said, "Lingnan, isn't it Jiangnan, it's over, it's over, it's over, I'm going to chase it quickly," Ma Wen turned the horse's head and ran away, if he wasn't worried about his father's comfort, he would have to live in Xiangxi, which has a good scenery, for a few days.
On the other side, Cao Ba's eldest son Cao Gang rushed back from the capital, he was the master of Jinyi Wei Qianhu, followed by a large group of Jinyi Wei, all the way through the bustling streets of Luoyang, attracting the envy, dissatisfaction, and hatred of countless people.
When he came to Cao's house, Cao Ba personally came out to greet him, and he began to shout affectionately "Gang'er, Gang'er" all the way to Cao Gang's horse, Cao Gang hurriedly dismounted "Father" also shouted affectionately, and the father and son hugged each other.
Cao Gang said happily, "Father, I brought you a gift"
Cao Ba smiled and said, "What kind of gift to bring, it's good to come back, it's good to come back, I miss you for my father"
Cao Gang said, "My son also misses his father very much, but, father, wait a minute."
Cao Ba could only reluctantly let go of his hand, and saw Cao Gang take out the holy decree from his arms and said
"Luoyang people's Cao Ba received the order" Cao Ba was surprised when he heard this, so he immediately knelt down, and all the Cao family members and the onlookers on the street also knelt down.
Cao Gang then recited again, "Fengtian carrier, the emperor said, Luoyang clan Cao Ba assisted the government to eliminate the Jiangnan bandits, pacified the Huguang bandits, and then pacified the Central Plains bandits, I am very pleased, Cao's mansion was destroyed by the bandits, the family was killed by the bandits, I was very sad, I can order the arrest of the bandits, Cao Ba's deceased family will be paid, the court will allocate funds to rebuild the Cao Mansion, and Cao Ba will be the envoy of the Jinyi Guard, and I will be very sad."
Cao Ba was taken aback after hearing this, his son Cao Gang was sent to Jinyi Weicai Wupin, and he suddenly became a member of the fourth grade, and excitedly shouted "Thank the emperor, long live the emperor, long live, long live, long live" After shouting, he hurriedly took the holy decree and read it over and over again.
"Hahahaha, I didn't expect that I, Cao Ba, would still have today," Cao Ba smiled happily
At this time, Cao Gang knelt down and said excitedly: "Xiaguan Cao Gang, congratulations to Lord Cao."
As soon as the family members and the onlookers got up, they knelt down again and said, "Congratulations to Lord Cao."
The masses suddenly felt that Luoyang was even more dark, God's unfairness, it was clear that Cao Ba was a harm to Luoyang, and the court not only ignored it, but also knighted it.
At this time, Cao Ba ordered "Cao Hu"
Cao Hu replied, "In the master"
Cao Ba said, "In the future, I will call my lord, and all industries related to the Cao family in Luoyang will buy one get one free within two months, and Luohe will be free for half a year, hahahaha"
On the other hand, Xiangxi went down to Lingnan in a few days, Lingnan merchants are the majority, there are quite few martial arts people, and there are fewer masters, one of the best is the legendary Lingnan sword Yan Feng, the head of the first family in Lingnan, Ouyang Zhenhai, the others are small sects that can't get on the table, Ouyang Zhenhai's power in Lingnan is like Cao Ba's power in the Central Plains, if the rivers and lakes are represented today, Cao Ba represents the Central Plains, and the Huo family and Murong divide Jiangnan equally, Jiangdong, Tangmen represents Sichuan, Yanshan faction represents North Zhili, Tsing Yi Gate represents Huguang, Tieshoumen Salt Gang represents South Zhili, and Ouyang family represents Lingnan, the strong are big, this is Wulin, this is Jianghu.