Chapter 101: The Deep State
In the second year of Qianfu, August 14, the sky was clear.
On the official road directly west of Shenzhou, a convoy of more than ten large vehicles rolled forward, which was the Guihe class that left Zhenzhou and went to Shenzhou to celebrate the birthday of the old lady of the Cui family.
The Guihe class set off from Zhenzhou on August 12, lasted three days, and finally arrived in Shenzhou.
Everyone in the Guihe class couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they looked at the Shenzhou city wall from afar.
It's not because the road is difficult and the people in the Guihe class are sleepy, but because the actual ruler of the Guihe class, deputy moderator Yang Fenglou, has been in a pretty bad mood in recent days.
His face sank like water, silent and speechless, since the beginning of the departure of the Guihe class, Yang Fenglou has been like this, which has made the Guihe class very depressed.
Everyone didn't know what happened to Boss Yang, only Zhang Qing vaguely guessed in the account: Boss Yang promised Cui Qigongzi to go to Cui's mansion to celebrate the old lady's birthday before August 19.
Of course Yang Fenglou was not because of this, his mood was so low, it was entirely because he received three pieces of news before leaving.
First, regarding Zhang Hua, the head of the Right Dragon Martial Army, finally replied.
Different from Yang Fenglou and Li Sirui's previous speculations, this shading hand, when he walked thousands of miles to Huainan Town, he did not stop, but plunged headlong into the southwest direction, and went straight to Yongzhou, Hunan, and then disappeared abruptly, until the end of the tenth year of Xiantong, he appeared in Yongzhou again.
Counting the time, it was a full year and ten months.
With such a long span of time, this sky-covering hand actually disappeared from everyone's sight, even the Right Dragon Martial Army, who monitored the world's rivers and lakes, did not even know his whereabouts for nearly two years.
This result made Yang Fenglou very dissatisfied, although he had no clear evidence, but he just felt that there should be a secret on this sky-covering hand, so Yang Fenglou passed the news to the headquarters through Li Sirui, asking to investigate the sky-covering hand Zhang Hua again.
Second, there was a problem in Lulongfang Town, which was close to Chengde Town, and for a while, the situation was chaotic, and finally it was to the extent of changing the Jiedu envoy.
It turned out that the original Lulong Jiedu made Zhang Gongsu, violent temperament, not liked by the sergeants, there was a general named Li Maoxun, originally a Uighur general, because of the meritorious service in the border, given the surname Li, and then the ambition swelled, secretly killed the Youzhou general Chen Gongyan, in the name of Chen Gongyan, sent troops to Jizhou, outside the city of Youzhou, defeated Zhang Gongsu, forced Zhang Gongsu to flee to the capital Chang'an, and he himself, self-established as the Lulong Festival to stay, and in the middle of the second year of Qianfu, was recognized by the imperial court, became the new Lulong Jiedu envoy.
This kind of thing, in the three towns of Heshuo, is not a strange thing, whoever has a big fist, who is reasonable, in the bizarre three towns of Heshuo at the end of the Tang Dynasty, it has become a golden rule, no matter what your background, even if it is just a small captain, as long as you seize the opportunity, you can expel the envoy of the festival and achieve a prince.
And the attitude of the imperial court, that is, whatever!
As long as you admit that you are still a part of Datang, as long as you don't block two taxes and three points, it's okay to toss like this.
This kind of thing is not Yang Fenglou's turn to join the army with a small march, but what annoys him is that this matter is really not at the right time.
There is reliable news from the headquarters of the Right Dragon Martial Army, and there are people in the rivers and lakes of Lulongfang Town, who are dissatisfied with Li Maoxun's barbarian status, and assassinate him, but after failing to do so, he angrily went south and entered Chengde Fang Town, and even people from the rivers and lakes of Lulongfang directly said that they wanted to join Qingyunmen.
Qingyunmen is about to be established, and its final fundamental purpose has been pending in the eyes of Yang Fenglou and others, in such a situation, there are a large number of stragglers from Lulongfang Town to join Qingyunmen, it is difficult to say whether it is a good thing or a bad thing, but one thing is certain, the difficulty of Yang Fenglou and others to explore has increased a lot.
If the above two pieces of news only add a little difficulty to Yang Fenglou's task, then the third piece of news has little to do with the task he is performing now, but it really affects his mood.
Third message:
Wang Xianzhi, Shang Junchang, Huang Chao and others, captured Puzhou, Caozhou, plundered prefectures and counties, rampant in Shandong, there were hungry people Jingcong, Wang Xianzhi did nothing for a few months, and tens of thousands of thieves were reined in.
Tianping Jiedu made Xue Chong send troops to break the thief, but Wang Xianzhi was defeated.
The group of thieves was arrogant, even more arrogant, turned to the southeast, and the soldiers pointed directly at Huainan Town, and attacked more than ten prefectures and counties.
The imperial court has sent Huainan, Zhongwu, Xuanwu, Yicheng, and Tianping Five Armies to encircle and suppress, but to no avail.
On the one hand, he looked forward to the success of the imperial army, defeated the thieves, and returned the Tang Dynasty to a bright future, on the other hand, he also hoped that Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao and others would escape under the heavy encirclement and suppression of the imperial court, so that they could kill the enemy and avenge Yang Lie.
It's just that when I think that Wang Xianzhi is a Jianghu grandmaster, Huang Chao is also a second-grade grandmaster, and Yang Fenglou is a small Jianghu six-grade martial artist, I am quite powerless.
"Hurry up and complete the task, and then please transfer the army, even if you can't kill Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao head-on for the time being, you must get close to them, rely on the Right Dragon Martial Army, and let them all betray their relatives!"
"However, before that, we have to work hard to improve the level of internal strength!"
Under the city of Shenzhou, Yang Fenglou finally walked out of his depressed mood, and after secretly making up his mind, he looked up at Shenzhou.
Shenzhou City has been under the management of Boling Cui's family, it is said that thousands of years later, only when the Xuanzong Dynasty Anshi Rebellion, it was broken once, and in other times, it is still stable, so Shenzhou City, in Chengde Fang Town, the economic development is not bad, and the residents in the city can also be regarded as living and working in peace and contentment, especially near the Mid-Autumn Festival, Shenzhou City is very lively.
After Yang Fenglou briefly looked at it, he said goodbye to Liu Puhe, left the brigade of Guihe's class, and took Chai Fei and Song Yan, the little monk, to enter the city from the north of Shenzhou City.
As for the other horses in Guihe's class, they would naturally contact the Boling Cui clan under the leadership of Liu Puhe, and at the same time prepare for the birthday banquet performance in a few days.
After Yang Fenglou and others entered the city from the north gate of Shenzhou City, according to Li Sirui's instructions before leaving, they found a restaurant in the city, Fulong Restaurant.
This Fulong Restaurant is Li Sirui's private property, and he took it out as the intelligence base of the Right Dragon Martial Army in Shenzhou.
Yang Fenglou and others came to Fulong Restaurant to meet a member of the Right Dragon Martial Army.
As soon as a few people walked to the door of the restaurant, they heard a commotion in the restaurant, but someone was arguing.
Yang Fenglou didn't want to be troublesome, but he didn't want to quarrel and walked to the door, just blocking the entrance of Fulong Restaurant.
In desperation, Yang Fenglou and the others had to stop and listen, but this time he heard a new thing......