Not long after the ship went to sea, it was stopped by the imperial court's warships, and several gangs of the beggars who escorted Zhang Jingxiu were defeated and died tragically at sea, only a little beggar with a very good water nature escaped from the boat to report the news.

It's just that when the little beggar was on the boat, he was injured by the people of Dongchang, although he insisted on running back to the manor where Gu Youdao and the others were, but he couldn't hold on anymore without saying a few words.

Gu Youdao couldn't care about his grief at this time, and said in a deep voice: "Hall Master Li, you take a few brothers in disguise and go to Kaiyuan Temple in Fuzhou City to explore the wind and see if Zhang Gongzi is imprisoned there." ”

Li Jing, the helmsman of the Fuzhou branch, took a few local Fuzhou cleverness and gangsters, and went straight to the direction of Kaiyuan Temple out of the manor.

Kaiyuan Temple, located in Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, is the largest temple in the southeast coastal area.

Kaiyuan Temple was built in the early Tang Dynasty in the second year of the vertical arch, the original name of the Lotus Dojo, the first year of longevity was renamed Xingjiao Temple, and the first year of Shenlong was changed to Longxing Temple.

Until the twenty-sixth year of Tang Xuanzong's Kaiyuan, Tang Xuanzong Li Longji issued an edict to build a temple in each state of the world, and in the name of the year, Longxing Temple was renamed Kaiyuan Temple.

The layout of Kaiyuan Temple, the central axis from south to north in turn: Ziyun Screen, Tianwang Palace, Bai Ting, Daxiong Treasure Palace, Ganlu Ring Altar, Tibetan Scripture Pavilion.

The east and west sides of the worship pavilion in front of the Daxiong Treasure Hall are respectively built with two stone towers of Zhenguo Tower and Renshou Tower, commonly known as the East and West Towers.

The ancient banyan trees on both sides of the worship pavilion are towering to the sky, and there are 24 flying music birds carved between the beams and grooves of the Daxiong Treasure Palace, which is beautiful and rare in the world.

It's just that this Buddhist holy place in the past is filled with a ruthless killing intent everywhere at this time.

None of the monks in the temple in the past can be seen.

Instead, there were soldiers in armor and countless brocade guards dressed in flying fish suits and holding embroidered spring knives.

In the palace of the Heavenly King, Ban Hansheng, the prince of Ban, was admiring the murals in this hall, Nan Tianba suddenly walked in from outside the hall, knelt at the feet of the prince of Ban, and said respectfully: "The last general Nan Tianba has seen the prince. ”

Ban Wangye's eyes were still lingering on the murals around the Heavenly King Palace, and he asked casually: "General Nan, how is the matter that this king has told you to do?" ”

Nantian said domineeringly: "The prince is like a god, those traitors are really ready to send Zhang Jingxiu overseas, and his subordinates are deployed along the coast of Fuzhou in accordance with the instructions of the prince, and this group of traitors is arrested." ”

Ban Wang Ye shouted 'Okay' and then continued: "You have made a lot of contributions to General Nan in this battle, and when this king sees Lord Jiang in the future, he will ask for credit for you." ”

As soon as Nan Tianba heard what the prince said, he hurriedly knelt on the ground again, and thanked him again and again: "This time to exterminate the rebels, it is all thanks to the prince's strategy, and the general will just obey the order, and dare not be greedy." ”

Ban Wang Ye said: "Okay, okay, don't tell these scenes to this king, this king asked you this time in addition to Zhang Jingxiu, the son of the treacherous minister Zhang Juzheng, who else have you caught?"

When Nan Tianba heard what the prince said, he was hesitant.

Ban Wangye frowned.

Nan Tianba saw that Ban Wang Ye frowned, and did not dare to hide it anymore, and confessed: "The subordinates are incompetent, those traitors on the ship are very stubborn, and the subordinates have to ...... them in order to capture Zhang Jingxiu, the son of the criminal minister."

Ban Wang Ye said: "Couldn't General Nan kill them all?"

Nan Tianba said with a look of difficulty: "Back to the prince, those traitors are ruthless if they don't accept the king's methods, if their subordinates hesitate a little, they are only afraid that Zhang Jingxiu will make a mistake, so this is ......."

After hearing the news that Nan Tianba had killed all the traitors who escorted Zhang Jingxiu, he seemed to be very displeased, and frowned: "General Nan, did you really kill all the traitors who escorted Zhang Jingxiu, the son of the traitorous minister?"

Nan Tianba saw that the prince of Ban asked about this matter again and again, obviously there was something hidden in it, gritted his teeth and finally said the truth: "Returning to the prince, I didn't kill all of them......

When Lord Ban heard this, his face turned happy and said, "Oh?"

Nan Tianba looked at the look of the prince of Ban, and then Rarity said uneasily: "At that time, there was a little beggar on the ship, and he jumped off the boat in the chaos, but the prince can rest assured that his subordinates have arranged for people to patrol the coastal area, and that little beggar will definitely not escape from the palm of your hand, Lord Wang." ”

When Ban Wangye heard that a little beggar had escaped, he couldn't stop applauding.

Then he said to Nantian: "General Nan, call back all the subordinates you sent out to patrol, and send an order down so that the local defense forces do not stop them." ”

Nan Tianba was puzzled and said, "Lord Wang, what are you?"

Ban Wang Ye laughed and said: "General Nan, this time this king brought a thousand elites to the south, for more than just one Zhang Jingxiu, do you know why this king asked you to only capture that Zhang Jingxiu but not kill it." ”

Nan Tianba hurriedly said: "The last general is foolish, please also ask the prince to make it clear." ”

Ban Wangye said: "General Nan should know that the Taizu of this dynasty used to stand as a gang, because the imperial court has always been very wary of the endless forces in the rivers and lakes. ”

"At the beginning of this dynasty, these Jianghu forces were dispersed and defeated by Taizu Xiongcai, but in recent years, these martial arts forces have gradually become restless. ”

"Especially those beggars composed of stinky flowers, they are conspiring against the court everywhere, and the court has long had the intention of exterminating them, but these traitors are scattered very widely, and they are very deep and difficult to catch in a net. ”

"This time, Lord Jiang offered a plan to lure the rebels to gather in the Jiangnan area, and now it has begun to work. ”

And Zhang Jingxiu, the son of the treacherous minister, is the poisonous bait that wiped out this gang of traitors. ”

Seeing Nan Tianba's puzzled look, Ban Hansheng said proudly: "Let's put it this way, General Nan, do you really think that Zhang Jingxiu was robbed by that group of stinky flowers?"

Nantianba is in Dongchang, naturally knows some of the hidden secrets, but what he knows is only that Shenzong Wanli intends to send Zhang Jingxiu, the son of the criminal minister, to the frontier, and Jiang Jingzhong, the governor of Dongchang, has a grudge against Zhang Juzheng, taking advantage of Zhang Jingxiu's distribution, he sent a killer to prepare to assassinate Zhang Jingxiu, but before he started, he was discovered by Fang Baisui, the owner of the auditorium of the Shuntianfu beggar gang, and led the auditorium gang and the chivalrous warriors in the area of Shuntianfu to save Zhang Jingxiu, and then fled all the way to the south of the Yangtze River.

However, these news were all found out by Nan Tianba, and at this time, it was inconvenient to say it in front of the prince of Ban.

Ban Hansheng saw Nan Tianba's expression and knew that he didn't dare to say many things, so he simply said it for him: "I'm afraid that General Nan, the news you got is that Lord Jiang and the criminal minister Zhang Juzheng have a grudge, and take advantage of Zhang Juzheng's son Zhang Jingxiu's distribution to prepare a secret killer to get rid of him." ”

At this time, although Jiang Jingzhong, the governor of the East Factory, was arrogant in controlling the government, it was the will of Shenzong Wanli to send Zhang Jingxiu to him, and Jiang Jingzhong was obviously suspected of bullying the monarch by doing this, which was not a small sin.

Although Nan Tianba didn't know how the prince in front of him learned the news, he didn't dare to admit it now, and knelt down on the ground with his knees soft and said: "The last general only heard that Zhang Jingxiu, the son of the criminal minister, was robbed by the rebels on the way to the frontier, and Tianyan was furious, and he didn't know anything else. ”

Ban Hansheng laughed and helped Nan Tianba up, and comforted: "General Nan should not panic, if you think about it, this king can know these things, and how can he hide it from the current saint and the saint tomorrow." ”

When Nan Tianba heard this, he was even more frightened and trembled in a cold sweat, if what the prince in front of him said was true, then even if Shenzong Wanli usually favored Jiang Jingzhong, this time he would also send out a thunderous rage, and the big tree would fall, and a few of them under the tree would be able to retreat.

At this moment, I heard the prince of Ban say: "How can such a shrewd person as Lord Jiang do such a stupid thing." ”

Nan Tian said domineeringly: "What does the prince mean that these are all rumors spread by others in order to frame Lord Jiang?"

Ban Hansheng shook his head and said: "Although these news were deliberately spread by someone, they are not rumors, those killers were indeed sent by Lord Jiang and him. ”

"And those stinky mud legs made the flowers able to learn the news so quickly, and smoothly rescued Zhang Jingxiu, the son of the criminal minister, I am afraid that Lord Jiang will not be less sad about this. ”

Nan Tianba was completely confused at this time, knowing that there were many mistakes in what he said, so he simply kept silent and listened to the prince in front of him confide in the truth.

Fortunately, at this time, the prince of Ban was obviously on the rise, and continued to laugh and said: "Pity those stinky flowers, and think that they can save people from under the noses of Dongchang and Ouchi guards by their own means, but they don't know that these people are not only not saving people, but they are digging their own graves." ”

"From Zhang Jing's revision of the sentence to exile, to Lord Jiang sending people to chase and kill, to Zhang Jingxiu being rescued by the beggars' mud-legged people, and finally these mud-legged people escorting Zhang Jingxiu to the sea, everything is under the noses of Lord Jiang and the current saints. ”

It turned out that when Zhang Juzheng served as an auxiliary country in the early years, although he was dedicated to the country, he was also arbitrary, and Shenzong Wanli was always in the shadow of Zhang Juzheng before he was in power.

After Zhang Juzheng's death, Shenzong Wanli was in power, and naturally he was very resentful of Zhang Juzheng, and not only ordered to recover all the edicts of Zhang Juzheng, but also raided Zhang Juzheng's house.

Even the crazy Divine Sect deliberately pulled out Zhang Juzheng's grave to vent his hatred for his corpse, but he was forced to give up because of the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty and the people in the world.

But the Wanli Emperor did not intend to let go of Zhang Juzheng's descendants, originally Wanli intended to put Zhang Juzheng's eldest son Zhang Jingxiu Ling Chi to death, but was blocked by some loyal people in the court who risked their lives, Shenzong seemed to be persuaded by the officials to withdraw his fate, and sentenced Zhang Juzheng's eldest son Zhang Jingxiu to exile to the frontier, but in fact he still did not intend to let Zhang Jingxiu go.

When Emperor Wanli was thinking hard about countermeasures, the most loyal servant around Emperor Wanli, Jiang Jingzhong, the director of the East Factory, had already thoroughly figured out the emperor's thoughts.

So he decided on such a poisonous plan.

Originally, although Zhang Juzheng had scolded Jiang Jingzhong in public before his death, he was very unable to come to the stage, but Jiang Jingzhong's city government was not a trivial matter.

This time, it was to cater to the wishes of the Divine Sect, so it was logical to say it.