Zhao Qinghou hurried to the "Half Palace Room", and when he saw Guan Feidu, General Guan's body was already cold. Pinshu.com

The general of Zhenxi, the "Marquis of Anle", Zhao Qinghou, rode a superior horse, just as the wine he drank must be a first-class daughter Hong, and the woman he slept with must be a good virgin.

His riding skills were as high as his drinking, as well as his bedriddenness.

He is a person who knows how to enjoy, and is extremely good at enjoying, and enjoys it in a more timely manner.

Military and political colleagues in the government and the opposition all admit that Marquis Zhao is the one who pays the most attention to food, clothing, housing and transportation and pays the most attention to the quality of life among the four major town border generals.

What's more worth mentioning is that Zhao Qinghou's "King Kong Finger" and "Luohan Boxing" and "Dharma Sword" these three stunts have reached seven or eight points of fire, it is said that Zhao Qinghou's martial arts are no longer under the "big" characters of the "Shaolin School" of the "Four Great Monks".

Zhao Qinghou's wife, Chu Xiaoxiao, was born into a famous family, beautiful and virtuous; his two sons, Zhao Yao and Zhao Shunyun, were eager to learn; his youngest daughter Zhao Yu was intelligent, filial, and possessed both talent and virtue; his subordinates were loyal to him and devoted themselves to him; his colleagues in the officialdom and his teachers and friends admired him very much and held him in high esteem; and his life was rich and beautiful, and his saintly family was prosperous.

He only celebrated his forty-second birthday in the spring and March of this year, and now he is in the most energetic and vigorous maturity period of a man's life.

Like Zhao Qinghou, a "Zhenxi General" who is admired and loved by thousands of people and holds millions of male soldiers, the hereditary "First Class An Le Hou", the "Shaolin" first master of the layman, and a big man with a deep foundation in the court and connections in the rivers and lakes, what else is there to worry about?

Yes!

And there's more than that.

This time, the "Luoyang City" city "general order" will be held, which is presided over by the generalissimo of the whole country and the privy envoy Tong Guantong who is in charge of the six armies of Gyeonggi, and the four border armies of the east, west, south and north and the five elite legions of the central "forbidden army" of the imperial court are all selected to participate in the strongest soldiers, and Zhao Qinghou, who is the commander of the "Zhenxi Army", is naturally among them.

After receiving the order of the Privy Military Office, Zhao Qinghou immediately ordered the Rui Shi pro-army under his tent, and rushed to the "Luoyang" of the tiger and the dragon with his two sons and one daughter to participate in the grand event. As soon as Yuan drove into the city, he was ambushed by the five killers of the "Killer Building", if it were not for Zhao Qinghou's old friend Leng Mo and the "Liangcheng Inn" Leng Ruoqian girl appeared in time, the consequences would be unimaginable. (See Chapters 8 and 9 of The Killer's House)

Another thing that bothered Marquis Zhao was that just this morning, in the private room "half palace room" in the "Boot Tower" mansion arranged by the "Luoyang" soldiers and horses commander Shuxue, the "general of Zhenbei," Guan Feidu, was assassinated.

Guan Feidu is Zhao Qinghou's old military comrade, and both of them served under General Yang Wenguang, the "Generalissimo of the Expedition to the West", when they were young, and they can be regarded as irreversible friends. Later, the two of them either met the support of nobles or accumulated military exploits, and each became the general of the army with a tiger talisman in his hand.

At that time, the military system of the Great Song Dynasty, the prefectures and counties of the southern seven and northern 63 provinces, most of them garrisoned the localities with van soldiers, and the quality of the soldiers was generally not high; and the well-equipped and powerful troops, in addition to the 800,000 forbidden troops called the "Imperial Forest Army of the Son of Heaven" and stationed in the "Beijing Division," should be regarded as the four border army units that defended the four border cities for the imperial court all the year round.

The border army, after years of fighting with the foreign cavalry army, and the local climate is harsh, the environment is barren, the wild beasts are infested, and the rogue invades, in such a long-term training and difficult struggle, the border army generals who have grown up are all brave in style and strong in combat, coupled with the huge number of major border armies, the consumption is amazing, which has to become a major headache for the high-level of the Song dynasty day and night.

The characters who are qualified to sit on the tiger skin chair of the generals of the four major towns are naturally the dragons and phoenixes among the unusual people, who are not famous nobles or military achievements, and can be described as proud and outstanding talents who cannot be seen for a lifetime.

As far as the four major townside generals of this generation are concerned:

After the founding father of Xiahou Haoyue, the "Zhendong General", the distant ancestors of his family have been in the identity of the protector since the Yellow Robe of Long Taizu "Chen Qiaoyi" was added, and the six generations of ancestors and grandchildren have produced a total of 47 generals, of which the military attachés above the seventh grade are more than 300 outside. In Xiahou Haoyue's generation, the Xiahou family was highly respected by Cai Jing, the minister of power who wanted to develop the power in the army, Cai Jing gave Xiahou Haoyue three days to give food, five days to give beautiful maids, and greatly collected, which will eventually make it the head of the nine generals of the "Power Gang", and Cai Jing firmly grasped one-fifth of the regular army of the Great Song Dynasty in his hands, and the power reached an unprecedented peak of the glorious era.

"General Zhennan" Ye Tucheng was born recklessly, his family was poor, and he had great ambitions at a young age, because he was often bullied by the naughty children in the village, but he said angrily: "If I gain power one day, I will wash this village with blood!" At that time, the neighbors in the village only regarded it as childish words, and did not care; when he was a teenager, Ye Tucheng did not say goodbye, ran away from home, and went to join Tong Guan, the marshal of Zhengliao, who was the commander of the guard army at the time, Tong Guan thought that he was young and frail, and did not take him in, Ye Tucheng was straight and upright outside the gate of the prison guards. Kneeling for three days and three nights, Tong Guan admired his ruthlessness, so he changed his mind and included him in the account. Ye Tucheng was ruthless, he would be the first in every battle for Tong Guan, and he would kill all the political enemies of his master, without mercy, and soon won Tong Guan's trust, and united with Ma Yun, Wang Jianlin and other bigwigs to protect him from the south of the town. Soon, Ye Tucheng led the army back to his hometown under the pretext of "suppressing bandits" and slaughtered the villagers.

"Zhenxi General" Zhao Qinghou is a veritable royal noble, and today's saint is the same as Taizong's lineage, although the slaughter of 50,000 nomadic tribesmen of the "party" in that year took the merits, leaving an indelible stain on Zhao Qinghou's career and life, but with the strength of the aunt of the queen mother, coupled with the father-in-law "Prince Taibao" Chu Liangchen almost desperately fought for his life to hit the pillar with his head, Zhao Qinghou fortunately saved his life and military power, and only ended up with a "second-class duke" demoted to a "first-class marquis" painless punishment. Then the prodigal son of Zhao Qinghou turned back, worked hard, and re-established his prestige and glory in the government and the opposition with a lot of achievements.

"General Zhenbei" Guan Feidu can be regarded as accumulating military merits bit by bit from an ordinary lieutenant with a knife and a gun, and then rose step by step to his current position. Of course, in the unpredictable imperial court turmoil, the escort of the left prime minister Li Gang also played an irreplaceable role. Guan Feidu did his best for the country, ran military affairs, fulfilled his duties, and even rarely went home to visit during his tenure, so that his father and young daughter died one after another. (See Chapter 4 of the Acacia Bell and Chapter 1 of the Mandala)

As the "Supreme of the Ninth Five-Year Plan", Zhao Ji of Huizong was 10,000 uneasy about the four border generals who held millions of armor, and he would rather believe in the eunuchs and eunuchs around him, such as Tong Guan, Li Yan, Liang Shicheng, and Wei Chi Twelve, rather than those rude and unwritten military generals; therefore, Huizong Zhao Ji decided to follow Taizu's method of "releasing military power with a cup of wine" and instructed the great eunuch Tong Guan to take advantage of the meeting of the "general order" to wait for an opportunity to remove the military power of the four border generals, and then use his confidants and civil officials or ministers to take charge of the military power on his behalf.

And now, before the martial arts began, Guan Feidu, one of the four townside generals, had already died inexplicably in the "half palace room" of the pavilion.

The personnel at the scene were complicated, the "Luoyang" government was quick to catch and work, the generals and military officials of the "Town Guard Division", the special envoys and soldiers of the "Privy Military Office", and the captains and personal guards of the "Zhenbei Army" were in and out, noisy and chaotic.

There is such a big thing, and the most headache is the "Luoyang" prefect Yu Wenwen and the two local parents of the Soldier and Horse Town Guard, Shu Xue, the text and the martial arts.

-- A first-class official died in the territory under his jurisdiction, and he was a military general with military power in his hands and brilliant military achievements, and after digging deeper, it was not enough for two adults to have a hundred heads to cut off just one charge of "local disgrace causing the death of a minister"!

Those Zhenbei warriors who were guarding in front of General Guan's coffin, holding the hilt of the knife, had a pair of bloodshot eyes, and stared at the Yuwen Prefect and the Shuzhen Guard, who had already been frightened and weak, and almost regarded these two guys as murderers, like volcanoes that are pregnant with anger and hatred, and may erupt anytime and anywhere, with a murderous and domineering aura.

Pity these two magistrates, they are doing it by oppressing the people and deducting military salaries, but they don't know anything about solving the case and arresting the murderer, so they have no choice but to lower their identities and take the initiative to ask the specific person in charge of investigating the case, that is, the chief arrester of the government office.

The head catcher of the class is the old man of the "Six Doors", he is a member of the "Miaoshou" class family, and his name is the head teacher.

After receiving the order, the head teacher immediately took two assistants, the squad leader of the "Dog and Mouse" and the representative of the "Nosy" section, to investigate the scene of the murder.

In the inner hall of the most noble and exquisite core of the "Boots Tower" post house, Tong Guan, An Tianming, Xiahou Haoyue, Ye Tucheng, Zhao Qinghou and other military nobles, just like ants on a hot pot, walked around waiting for news outside.

Two hours later, the head teacher of the old head catcher, who has 40 years of experience in investigating cases, gave the following conclusion:

1. From the perspective of the deceased, General Guan Da died between midnight and midnight.

2. The wound of the deceased was on the chest, and the wound was triangular in shape, and it was initially suspected that it was fatal by a sharp object similar to an iron cone.

3. The "Boot Tower" was well defended, General Guan was not wearing armor, only pajamas, and everything in the "half-palace room" was neatly arranged, and even the cups and chopsticks on the table were not knocked over, so it was inferred that the murderer was most likely an acquaintance of the deceased, not an outsider.

As soon as the conclusion came out, the entire "Jiaodao Office" exploded, and the personal soldiers and guards of the commanders and generals were all arranged to rest in the "Rough Factory" hall and the "Book Shooting Building" guest rooms on the periphery of the "Boots Building".

――The implication of the conclusion is that the murderer is one of Tong Guan, An Tianming, Xiahou Haoyue, Ye Tucheng, and Zhao Qinghou!