Ban Hansheng has been in the officialdom all his life, and he is naturally familiar with the tricks, but he doesn't expect the wandering soul Sang Jian to help him hide anything, but he just hopes that a little consideration of Sang Jian's report is enough.

And Sang Jian is obviously tacit.

In the marching camp of Dongchang, the wandering soul Sang Jian knelt respectfully in front of Jiang Jingzhong.

At this time, the army led by Jiang Jingzhong was less than a day's journey from Fuzhou City, but he did not expect that only two days had passed. Zhang Jingxiu had already been rescued, and the 1,000 royal soldiers led by Ban Hansheng obviously did not play the role Jiang Jingzhong expected.

Jiang Jingzhong smiled and said, "Okay Sang Jian, you get up." ”

Although Jiang Jingzhong said this sentence with a smile, those who were familiar with him knew that this tone was actually a sign of Jiang Jingzhong's anger, if anyone could see the Yuan Qinghua teacup he was holding in his hand, they would find that the delicate tea bowl was already covered with layers of hoarfrost.

The white vapor above the tea bowl also turned from scorching water vapor to a biting cold.

From Emperor Wanli wanting to kill Zhang Jingxiu, to the people of Shuntianfu and more than a dozen ministers asking for Zhang Jingxiu's life.

From Shenzong Zhu Yijun's recognisation of Zhang Jingxiu's assignment to the frontier, to Jiang Jingzhong's secret appointment to spread the news that he wanted to assassinate.

From Fang Baisui, the owner of the Beggar Gang Auditorium, who got the news, led the crowd to rescue Zhang Jingxiu, to Fang Baisui and others were chased and killed by the factory guards sent by Dongchang and fled to Jiangnan.

From the beggar gang auditorium, the hall master Fang Baisui fled with Zhang Jing to Jiangnan in embarrassment to join Gu Youdao, the leader of the beggar gang, and arranged for Zhang Jingxiu to go to sea to avoid Ryukyu.

From Zhang Jingxiu, who boarded the ship and went to sea, was stopped by Ban Hansheng, the prince of Ban, to Ban Hansheng, who trapped Zhang Jingxiu in Kaiyuan Temple, because Gu Youdao and others appeared.

In the eyes of Gu Youdao and others, it seems to be an action after saving Zhongliang, and in Jiang Jingzhong's eyes, it is just an opportunity to get rid of Zhang Jingxiu and Gu Youdao, who dare to compete with Dongchang.

But just as the trap was laid down layer by layer, and he was about to close the net, he was told that not only had the incense bait in the trap been removed, but even the pests that had been lured by the incense bait had also escaped.

Months of hard work were ruined, how could Jiang Jingzhong not be angry, and how could he not hate, but the top priority at the moment was how to exterminate Zhang Jingxiu and Gu Youdao, who were rebels and criminals, otherwise this time the East Factory used thousands of factory guards, and he Jiang Jingzhong personally led the action of the army, I am afraid that it will become the biggest joke in the martial arts.

Even Shenzong Wanli, although Jiang Jingzhong is not afraid, it is not easy to explain after all.

Suppressing the anger in his heart, Jiang Jingzhong calmed down for a while, and then asked lightly: "Sang Jian, what happened in Fuzhou Mansion in the past two days, don't leave anything behind, tell me in detail." ”

Sang Jian said respectfully: "My subordinates understand that Lord Chitose ...... Fuzhou two days ago."

Sang Jian told Jiang Jingzhong what he knew about the situation in Fuzhou, which naturally included the things that Ban Hansheng relayed to him, and there were also those things that Ban Hansheng did not say about what Sang Jian had found out about himself.

Jiang Jingzhong listened to Sang Jian's words, and muttered: "Someone can actually rescue Zhang Jingxiu from Kaiyuan Temple under the guard of more than a thousand royal soldiers?"

Then he said, "Who is that Nan Tianba?"

Sang Jian said respectfully: "Back to Lord Chitose, his subordinates secretly checked several Jinyi guards who were present at the time and the personal soldiers of Ban Wangye, at that time, the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion of Kaiyuan Temple where Zhang Jingxiu was imprisoned was closed from the inside, and there were five Jinyi guards guarded inside, but when Zhang Jingxiu was rescued, the five Jinyi guards were all unconscious, and what is even more strange is that these five people were not gathered together when they were found, but scattered in all corners of the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion......"

Sang Jian said this, secretly raised his head and glanced at Jiang Jingzhong, and then continued: "Since these brocade guards are scattered all over the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, if one person is attacked and the other brocade guards should be alert and send out a warning signal, but from the traces left in the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion of Kaiyuan Temple, it can be seen that the person who rescued Zhang Jingxiu broke the roof and entered the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, and none of the five brocade guards in the pavilion issued a warning signal, so there are only two possibilities. ”

"One is that when the person who rescued Zhang Jingxiu broke through the top, the five brocade guards had already fallen into a coma......"

Sang Jian suddenly stopped when he said this.

The gloom on Jiang Jingzhong's face was getting thicker and thicker, and he said coldly: "What about the other possibility?"

Sang Jian lowered his head and said carefully: "The remaining possibility is that these five Jinyi guards themselves are in collusion with the anti-party, and Zhang Jingxiu is very likely to have run out after they joined forces with each other." ”

Jiang Jingzhong said lightly: "Is it a spy? Even if it is the first possibility, only by outsiders want to charm the five brocade guards in the Hidden Scripture Pavilion at the same time, some of these five brocade guards must be attached to the rebellion, where are these five brocade guards now?"

Sang Jian said: "Returning to Lord Chitose, now these five Jinyi guards have been sent to prison by Ban Han to be promoted to the prince of the class and waiting for Lord Chitose to be released, as for that Nan Tianba, he was originally a 100 households in our East Factory, and he was sent to Lunan Furnace Fort some time ago to supervise the sword family to cast a divine fire qilin. ”

"After the completion of the construction of the fire unicorn, he was favored by the prince of Ban Han's promotion class, and was brought to Fuzhou to obey orders, and the prince of the defense class in the Kaiyuan Temple was given full authority to this person, and even the five brocade guards in the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion were also transferred by this person, and now the prince of Ban has put this person on death row and tortured. ”

Jiang Jingzhong said seemingly casually: "Ban Wangye, this old fox, is really so leaky, there is such a big fork, but he picked himself up in the shortest possible time, and even better is to choose a person from our East Factory to be in front, this seat just wants to blame him for not being able to find an excuse, but he should know how much to pay for such a big basket." ”

After Jiang Jingzhong finished saying this, a pair of unfathomable eyes glanced at Sang Jian who was kneeling in front of him intentionally or unintentionally, Sang Jian's whole person was like falling into an ice cave, and without waiting for Jiang Jingzhong to speak, he took out all the silver tickets that Ban Hansheng gave him before leaving, and said respectfully: "Chitose Lord, this is the silver ticket sent by Ban Hansheng before his subordinates come back, a total of 10,000 taels, please take a look at it." ”

Jiang Jingzhong didn't even look at the silver ticket in Sang Jian's hand, and pretended to be surprised: "Ten thousand taels? ”

Sang Jian said with a straight face: "The subordinates are loyal to the Chitose Lord, and what they said before is true, and they will never dare to deceive in the slightest." ”

Jiang Jingzhong said with a smile: "Okay, Sang Jian, you should know my rules for the longest time you have followed me, if you had half a lie just now, you would have been a corpse now, as for this ten thousand taels of silver, you will keep thirty percent for yourself, and the rest will be distributed to the shadows of your subordinates. ”

Sang Jian said gratefully: "My subordinates have thanked Lord Chitose for their grace, as long as they serve Lord Chitose, my subordinates and all the shadows will die when they go to the soup." ”

Jiang Jingzhong said: "Okay, Sang Jian, you can step down." ”

Sang Jian said: "The subordinates retired. ”

After Sang Jian got out of Jiang Jingzhong's tent, he took out three silver tickets totaling 3,000 taels from the silver tickets sent by Ban Hansheng, and handed the remaining silver tickets to his deputy for him to distribute at his discretion.

Jiang Jingzhong asked Sang Jian to take three thousand taels, so Sang Jian would never dare to take three thousand and one taels, nor would he dare to take two thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine taels, although he commanded the shadow of the supervision force inside the East Factory, but he also knew that in fact, his every move had not escaped Jiang Jingzhong's eyes.

After Sang Jian left, Jiang Jingzhong ordered someone to send the white-haired Li Yonghua.

After Li Yonghua entered the tent, he knelt down and saluted: "My subordinate Li Yonghua has seen a Chitose Adult, a Chitose Adult, a Chitose Adult. ”

Jiang Jingzhong said: "Yonghua, you will give the order now, and the whole army will rush to Fuzhou at full speed, and there is no need to send detectives to explore the road when you are on the road." ”

Li Yonghua didn't know why Jiang Jingzhong suddenly passed on such an order, but he also knew that he didn't need to know the reason, all he had to do was obey.

When the white-haired Li Yonghua was about to exit the tent, Jiang Jingzhong suddenly asked, "Yonghua, how is the interrogation of that Jin Yuliang's righteous daughter?"

Li Yonghua said respectfully: "Returning to Lord Chitose, because the Lord has ordered not to be punished, the progress is very limited, and so far Jin Hanya has not explained the hiding place of the theft obtained by the previous heads of the Liangmen. ”

Jiang Jingzhong smiled: "It's okay, Yonghua has patience." ”

Li Yonghua seemed to hesitate and said: "Chitose Lord ......"

Jiang Jingzhong said lightly: "What's wrong Yonghua?"

Li Yonghua said: "As far as his subordinates know, the secrets of the Liangmen are generally in the hands of the head of the sect and the only personal disciple, although this golden girl is the righteous daughter of the master of the Liangmen Sect, Jin Yuliang, but she may not know the hiding place of those treasures......"

Jiang Jingzhong chuckled and said, "Yonghua, do you think that this seat is only trying to find out the whereabouts of those treasures from her sky?" ”

Li Yonghua had an epiphany: "Chitose-sama, do you mean ......?"

Jiang Jingzhong said mysteriously: "Okay Yonghua, you just need to take a good look at that golden girl, although the big fish of Jin Yuliang has been hooked, maybe there are still some small fish waiting to be sent to death......"

The Dongchang army marched overnight, without sending scouts and cavalry, and it took only half a day to reach the outside of Fuzhou.

Jiang Jingzhong took the white-haired Li Yonghua, the wandering soul Sang Jian and others to personally go to the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion of Kaiyuan Temple and the deserted garden outside the city to investigate.

The west side of Kaiyuan Temple was seriously damaged because of the dry firewood and fire oil that Nantianba ordered people to pile up, and these Nantianba's original intended means of resisting the rebel party became the best cover for Gu Youdao and others at an inappropriate time.

You must know that the Jiangnan heroes led by Gu Youdao are feinting everywhere in order to cover Xiao Yao who sneaked into Kaiyuan Temple, if there is no cover of these raging fires, this kind of thunder and rain is very easy to be seen by the eunuchs in Kaiyuan Temple.

It is precisely because of these fires that Gu Youdao and others have an excuse not to be suspected if they do not go deep into Kaiyuan Temple, and even the pro-soldiers of the palace think that these rebels have not had a large-scale impact for a long time, and they are blocked by these fires.

In this way, it seems to confirm the suspicion of Nan Tianba's collaboration with the enemy, and as for Nan Tianba's personal exploits in leading people to intercept Zhang Jingxiu from the sea, it has quietly evolved into a drama of Ban Wangye's surprise attack on the sea.

Nan Tianba, who was dying on death row in Fuzhou Mansion, obviously had no chance to defend himself, not to mention Nan Tianba himself, even the five Jinyi guards who guarded Zhang Jingxiu in the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion had already been tortured and lost their human form.

And Jiang Jingzhong obviously has no interest in wasting kung fu on these little minions.

Thousands of factory guards were methodically dispatched from Fuzhou Prefecture to search for any clues that the rebels might have left behind.

Even the Daiyun Mountains in the west of Fuzhou City did not let go.

Two days later, the Dongchang factory guards sent by Jiang Jingzhong finally brought back the news he needed.

Traces of a large number of people and horses were found in the Daiyun Mountain Range, and the corpse of a standard military horse in the military station in the south of Fuzhou City was accidentally discovered, confirming the identity of the people and horses staying in this barren mountain.

Half a day later, the factory guards of the East Factory finally found traces of a large number of people traveling south.

The Dongchang army brought by Jiang Jingzhong was assembled again, west to the Daiyun Mountains, east to Fuzhou City, and the troops were divided into six routes to search and arrest in the south.

The white-haired Li Yonghua led a team of 1,000 factory guards.

Mo Yuan, the knife locker, led a thousand-person factory guard.

Shadowless Stick Feng Shaoting led a thousand-person factory guard.

Wandering soul Sang Jian led a factory guard in the East Factory.

Ban Han promoted to lead a thousand royal soldiers under his command.

Jiang Jingzhong himself led a thousand factory guards to walk slowly.

The first five roads each extended one direction to the south.

A team led by Jiang Jingzhong responded in the middle.

The army chased from the Daiyun Mountains to Zhangzhou Mansion, the southernmost part of Fujian Province, but still failed to capture the Jiangnan heroes led by Gu Youdao.

It's just that when he came here, Jiang Jingzhong finally made it difficult.

The reason for Jiang Jingzhong's headache was that only one Dongchang army was stopped, and further south from Zhangzhou Mansion was the border of Guangdong, and the governor of Guangdong at this time was Qi Jiguang, who had been transferred from Shuntianfu to the north to serve as the governor of Guangdong because of Jiang Jingzhong's slander to Shenzong Zhu Yijun, and it was the Qi family army that blocked the advance of Jiang Jingzhong's army on the border of Guangdong.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty was gradually unable to suppress the frontier and coastal barbarians because of political decay and weak military strength, and frequent wars broke out.

Even if Jiang Jingzhong is now in power and the opposition is full of henchmen, and Shenzong Zhu Yijun obeys him, he still does not dare to easily offend a feudal general with a prosperous reputation such as Qi Jiguang.

What's more, although Jiang Jingzhong went south to exterminate the martial arts forces this time, although he had the permission of Shenzong Wanli, it did not conform to the iron law of the Great Ming Law for supervision institutions like Dongchang.

Although the Dongchang factory is the head of the Dongchang factory, he has no right to mobilize and lead the Dongchang army of more than 1,000 people, and the scale of the 5,000 factory guards can only be called when the emperor personally conquers.

Jiang Jingzhong dared to lead the Dongchang army to the south in violation of the ban, one was relying on the favor of Shenzong Wanli, and the other was also accurate, the officials where the army passed, no one dared to challenge him, even if someone dared to make a table for this, he was the eunuch of the Ming Dynasty today, and he was sure to stop the concert, and even Shenzong Wanli would laugh when he read the inscription on the table of others.

Only this Qi Jiguang, who has hundreds of thousands of troops in his hands to shock the four seas, is different, even if Zhang Juzheng died of illness before, Jiang Jingzhong entered the Shenzong Wanli and wanted to transfer Qi Jiguang from the northern Xinjiang, and when Wanli issued the order, he only comforted Qi Jiguang with warm words.

Even at that time, if Qi Jiguang insisted on entrenching in the north, Jiang Jingzhong would not dare to really do anything to him, but Qi Jiguang was loyal to the monarch and patriotic, which gave Jiang Jingzhong an opportunity to take advantage of.

Speaking of which, the 5,000 Dongchang factory guard army led by Jiang Jingzhong has to be said elsewhere to be a terrifying force that makes people talk about it, but in this Guangdong realm, compared to the 200,000 elite Qi family army under Qi Jiguang's command, his so-called 5,000 Dongchang army is really as vulnerable as a local chicken and a dog.

Since he couldn't break through, when Jiang Jingzhong's troops arrived in Zhangzhou, he had to temporarily garrison the army to personally repair a letter and send it to Qi Jiguang, the governor of Guangdong.

The letter stated that Jiang Jingzhong led the Dongchang army to the south this time, in order to follow the secret order of Shenzong Zhu Yijun, in order to exterminate the green forest rebellion entrenched in the south of the Yangtze River, and by the way, to arrest Zhang Jingxiu, a court criminal who was robbed by the rebel party, hoping that Guangdong Governor Qi Jiguang could be accommodating, let go of the border and let the Dongchang army pass, and then wipe out the green forest rebellion that fled to Guangdong.

Jiang Jingzhong's tone in the letter can be said to be very tactful, and there is no arrogance and arrogance in the past.

Within a few days, the reply letter from Qi Jiguang, the governor of Guangdong, was also brought back.

The letter is also very polite, the general content is that there is no green forest rebel party haunted by Jiang Jingzhong's mouth in Guangdong, since Jiang Jingzhong has sealed the secret order of the current saint, he is the messenger of the order, and he has no right to stop it if he wants to come to Guangdong to investigate Qi Jiguang, on the contrary, he will order the Qi family army to fully cooperate with Jiang Jingzhong.

It's just that Qi Jiguang is under the emperor's order to guard the territory of Guangdong to ensure the safety of one party, and if there is a privately assembled army in Guangdong, it will be a rebellion, Qi Jiguang, as the governor of Guangdong, will not sit idly by, and will be the commander of the Qi family army to exterminate the rebellious army in order to repay the king's kindness.

The meaning in the letter is very clear, you Jiang Jingzhong is a messenger, my Qi Jiguang can't control you, you want to come to Guangdong to inspect and follow you, but if you come, you have to be under the surveillance of my Qi family's army, as for the Dongchang army brought by you Jiang Jingzhong, you are still honestly staying in Fujian, if you dare to set foot in Guangdong, it will be like chaos, and Qi Jiguang will be ruthless.

Qi Jiguang has always respected Zhang Juzheng, the former head of the dynasty who died of illness, he was just a small officer back then, thanks to Zhang Juzheng's wise promotion, he had the opportunity to show his ambitions on the battlefield, but Qi Jiguang did not live up to Zhang Juzheng's trust, whether it was the Japanese in the southeast coast, or the Jurchen in the northeast, or the Tatar country in the northwest, seeing the name of the Qi family army led by Qi Jiguang, there was no one who did not retreat.