Chapter 224: The Art of the Emperor (Part 2)
Chapter 226 Thunder Method (Class)
Shui Yuanzi muttered and said proudly: "Dare you showing off your skills in front of me, Grandpa? Hey, in order to practice medical skills, I grabbed a buffalo spirit and chopped him dozens of times and cured him, and then broke his bones all over his body. This has been a struggle for more than a hundred years. If you want to talk about medical skills, who can compare with me in the world? Hey, kitten, why are you running? I don't want to practice with you, what are you afraid of?" The footsteps went away, and Shui Yuanzi's muttering continued: "Don't run, this black cat has, you still have to accompany me out of the city to dig a hibernating snake, why are you running?"
The room became quiet for a moment, and Li Feng gradually sank into his dream. Suddenly, he felt someone stepping over the threshold and walking in. He couldn't help but open his eyes and opened his hand and was about to slap it out. Xu Qing quickly shouted softly, "Sir, it's me, Xu Qing." Under the shaking lights, Xu Qing's beautiful face was a little distorted, and his long shadow dragged directly outside the door.
Li Feng said 'oh', got out of bed and sat down in front of the chair. He looked at Xu Qing's expression on his face and seemed to have nothing special. He couldn't help but ask in surprise: "What's the matter? It wouldn't be a trivial matter to ask you to come to me at this time, right?"
Xu Qing smiled, closed the door with his backhand, and whispered: "First, Your Majesty sent the Central Office to come down and ask what the matter was in our Jinyiwei, which made Yingtian Mansion in chaos. I reported to the Central Officer that, because you were seriously injured, all the officials of the Jinyiwei were also lying on the bed. Many spies directly under them were unable to contact the headquarters, so they did not receive any news. In this riot, it seems that Your Majesty is going to find someone to vent his anger. I am afraid that he should think of some better excuses."
He laughed a few times, Li Feng crossed his legs and gently shook his toes. "No need to think of an excuse. As long as he lies on the bed and pretends to be dead, this matter has nothing to do with our Jinyiwei. The bodies of the Tianwu Palace masters and those imperial guards in the body are hidden weapons used by men in the martial arts world, but they have no connection with Jinyiwei and the army... The emperor was really forced to do so, so he just made an excuse, saying that it was the predecessor of Tianwu Palace, the enemy of Cangfeng Castle came to take revenge. I see what excuses the third prince used to protect these guys."
Xu Qing smiled and nodded and said, "This matter is easy. I will go to say this to Ma and Eunuch Ma early in the morning, saying that the news that our Jinyiwei found overnight was better. At that time, I would like to say that because you and Zhou Chu and others were injured, and there was no expert to control the thieves, the thief caught by Jinyiwei bit his tongue and committed suicide by himself. Xu Qing later ordered people to catch a martial arts man from another place and arrange it as if he bit his tongue and commits suicide as evidence."
Seeing Li Feng's admiration, Xu Qing also smiled. He took out a letter from his sleeve and handed it to Li Feng and smiled: "This is a letter sent from Chengdu. There is no beginning name or ending signature, but it means that the name is to be given to you by your master. Please take a look."
Li Feng knew that it was Qin Daozi's letter that had arrived, so he immediately opened the letter and started reading it.
"Senior brother is here, and my junior brother Daozi kowtows. I wish my senior brother good health, promotion and wealth, and prosperity, and a title of the vassal just now." Li Feng smiled and said, "I am already a Hou, so what else should I be named? This old guy has been living in the world for a lifetime, but he doesn't know this. It's a little bit reasonable for me to be named Duke just now, but Duke is not easy to be named. It's difficult to be named without great contributions."
"As soon as my brother told me, I will recruit disciples. Now there are 5,000 believers under my sect, and there are 300 of them that can be created. I am examining my mind and giving them a magical power to me on a date. However, my reputation is getting stronger and stronger, and the bandits in the rivers and lakes are harassed day and night, and my junior brother is unable to bear the trouble. Therefore, I used a lot of money to attract heroes from the rivers and lakes in Sichuan, Yunnan and Guangxi to guard them. Since then, all the bandits have disappeared and are purified day and night. However, these people have greater money than life, and the money and food in the temple are unbearable to deal with, and they cannot kill them all. I hope my senior brother can teach me."
Li Feng frowned and handed the letter to Xu Qing, smiling bitterly: "Remember what I told you about pretending to be a god in Sichuan? My cheap junior brother built such a big Taoist temple and accepted five thousand people. Hehe, now, all the bandits and gangsters are coming to the door. But he was too lazy to do it himself and wanted to retain his fairy demeanor in front of believers, so he found a group of Green Forest Heroes to be thugs and bodyguards, and now he has no money to pay for his wages."
Xu Qing glanced at the letter, suddenly laughed, shook his head and said, "Forget it, this is still a small matter. Among these five thousand believers, except for dozens of good families, the others are either refugees or hooligans. These people live in Taoist temples, and they rely on the money and food of Taoist temples to eat and drink, and they consume a lot of money every day. I am afraid that Qin Daozi will not be able to manage money? Five thousand people, each of them set a fee of fifteen taels of silver a month. God, fifteen taels of silver is comparable to the salary of a second-rank official."
Li Feng whispered and cursed: "What does he give these people? Can a person eat thousands of kilograms of rice and dozens of fat pigs every month? It's really ridiculous and ridiculous. You can't recruit disciples like him... Xu Qing, you, go to Chengdu in person, help me straighten out the matters there before coming back."
After pausing, thinking for a while, Li Feng shook his head and sighed: "Fortunately there is still silver in the private warehouse. Lin Shi and his friends have plundered a lot of silver in the past two months. If you bring two million silver notes, you will ask Qin Daozi to raise those disciples and raise them as if they are raised. But pigs should also be treated as pigs, and they cannot be raised as wolf dogs. If you go over, you will divide them into third-grade and ninth-grade grades. The best ones are to eat, drink, gambling and the lowest ones are to give him two buns of steamed buns."
"I don't care about his character and morality, but I will sort out the grades according to their martial arts progress. Xu Qing, you will bring twenty Huanglongmen's experts to help him, and then bring four skilled account rooms. I think he will be fine if he does this a day, and his millions of furniture will be consumed by him. Please remind him, his old profession is just to cheat and eat and drink, so I will cheat all the wealthy businessmen in Chengdu as disciples, are you afraid that there will be less worship?"
Li Feng muttered dissatisfiedly: "When I left, didn't I teach Shui Yuanzi to have a good show with him? Why is it still so unbearable now?" He blinked twice, and then came up with an idea in his heart: "Tell him that the bandits and tyrants he recruited were also bewitching them as his teacher, which would save the boss a lot of expenses. Are gods? Everyone wants to do it. As long as he shows a few tricks, I am afraid that those people will kneel down on the ground and kowtow to beg him to take his subordinates?"
He cursed in a low voice: "At that time, weren't there many martial arts gangs starting to flatter him? Why did he have to recruit these good Green Forest players because of the harassment of bandits? I think he wanted to show off his might, so he used money to smash people to be his own thug. Forget it, he was so powerful that as long as he did not delay my affairs, he closed the temple gate and called himself emperor, it had nothing to do with me. Hum..."
Xu Qing agreed one by one. Seeing that Li Feng had nothing to say, he asked curiously: "But sir, why are you making such a gimmick in Chengdu?"
After a while, two cold lights scared Xu Qing quickly lowered his head. After a long time, Li Feng said lazyly: "Don't worry about so many things. In short, you just need to see the benefits on the surface. With this Taoist temple, first, you can be the secret stronghold of our Jinyiwei in the first realm of the Tiannan Realm. Second, what's wrong with your elders? If you can't be an emperor, I will start a sect and become a Buddha and an ancestor. What's so strange about this?"
A gentle force gently patted Xu Qing's shoulder, but Li Feng's hand didn't move at all. Li Feng laughed softly, "Xu Qing, help me with things, one day, you will understand why I did this. To be honest, look at those real people who practice Taoism, Immortals, don't you think they are very majestic and arrogant? Hehe, you also have the hope of being such a person, but you must help me with things well. My subordinates cannot be without people who are sober like you."
From the treasure bag around your waist, a flying sword wrapped around water waves was captured. Li Feng smiled and said, "Last time, do you remember the hand seal techniques I taught you? You can use this treasure to sacrifice and refine it, and you will know whether what I said is true or false. Tomorrow you will deal with the people in the palace. After you have dealt with it, you will take care of the package and go south in the afternoon. Just find an excuse and say that you have found a trace of Zhu Yunwen... Well, if you want to hand in the office, you will say that Zhu Yunwen has gone overseas."
Xu Qing looked at Li Feng in shock: "Did Zhu Yunwen go overseas?"
Li Feng nodded and returned to the bed swayingly: "Yes, I'm going overseas. As for which direction it is overseas, let the emperor guess it himself. He has already started building a large ship and is preparing to go to sea. If you say so, he will definitely believe it. Even if Zhu Yunwen appears again in the Central Plains in the future, the emperor will think that it was Zhu Yunwen who ran back by himself."
After saying that, Li Feng closed his eyes, flicked his fingers and turned off the oil lamp. Xu Qing stood in the dark for a while, stuffed the slightly jumping flying sword into his sleeve, carefully folded the letter, and walked out slowly. With a squeak, the door was carefully closed by Xu Qing, and then the footsteps sounded softly, and two big men of Jinyiwei guarded the door.
On the morning court the next day, Zhu Di's face turned black like a moldy eggplant. His right hand unconsciously stretched out and held the cage, clenched and let go, and the joints made a slight "crackling" sound. The civil and military ministers stood there one by one, and none of them dared to say anything. Zhu Li and Zhu Ren were sweating all over his head, kneeling on the ground and unable to speak. Zhu Ren's body was still trembling unconsciously, and the joints on his body were making noises. He was so scared that he was about to die, but under Zhu Di's accumulated power, he did not dare to faint.
"The third brother, that yard is your property under your name? Last time you told your father that there were no one living in your yard, and there were more than a dozen beautiful women I bought, right?" Finally, Zhu Di spoke, pointing out Zhu Ren's mistake in his words.
Zhu Ren was shocked and almost jumped up, then he lay on the ground. He trembled and replied, "Father, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, but those beauties are really too beautiful. The minister was afraid that outsiders would look at it, so he arranged some bodyguards to visit the yard. It was not intentionally deceiving his father."
Zhu Di was furious, and he slapped the Long Case with a palm. The strong desk suddenly 'touched' and the four feet of the desk were sank three inches into the ground. Zhu Di shouted: "Are you a fool to be your father? The father asked the people from the Ministry of Justice to identify the corpse. OK, but they are all famous figures in the world. Cangfeng Castle, hehe, Cangfeng Castle, the father was wondering, Ouyang Zhizun had an association with our Prince Yan Mansion three years ago, but he disappeared after the success of the crisis."
"You have swallowed the Love Cangfeng Castle and turned into your personal guard. OK, it's good... You are in Yingtian Mansion, and you have nearly a thousand martial arts experts, but what do you want to do?"
This was too heavy. Zhu Ren was so scared that he was so horrified that he only kowtowed. He didn't expect to recruit the people from Cangfeng Castle. However, Mr. Qing, the chief official of the Cangfeng Castle, found him first, saying that he wanted to resist the great contributions in the Jingnan Campaign, and was willing to lead all his subordinates to his command. The old castle lord of Cangfeng Castle also came out of seclusion and supported Mr. Qing's approach, which made Zhu Ren's courage become a little bit louder and took over the power of Cangfeng Castle regardless of his own affairs.
If Zhu Ren privately possesses armed forces, Zhu Ren, a playboy who only knows how to play with women and drink, would not have such courage.
Zhu Di swept away Zhu Ren like a kowtower, looked at Zhu Yu who was kneeling on the ground, and sneered: "Okay, I won't talk about your personal support for these people in the martial arts world. Zhu'er, can you tell your father why? The imperial guards you recommended who fought against the enemy and cooperated with your army to attack the imperial city in the Jingnan Campaign were such useless people? One battalion of elite imperial guards, one battalion, was actually killed by bandits in the rivers and lakes. If this was spread, wouldn't our reputation as the Ming Dynasty be ridiculed by the people?"
Zhu Li raised his head suddenly and said loudly: "Father, it's not something that people in the world can do. Cangfeng Fort is the number one fort in the world. They are extremely powerful. Which sect in the Jianghu Sect has such ability to easily annihilate 60% of their masters? What's more, the combat power of the first battalion of imperial guards? How dare people in the Jianghu fight against the army? This is clearly a good thing that people in the imperial court do with their own voluntary troops."
Zhu Xi immediately left the work and shouted injustice: "Father, my second brother said this, wouldn't it be that my son instructed the people to do the ruthless thing last night? Second brother, you said it was my brother who did this, can you identify who did it? Brother, I have been listening to the master's lectures at Master Daoyan's house last night, and there are also Lord Zhang Yuzhang, Lord Li Jinglong and Lord Li. My father also sent Ma and Eunuch Ma to go with me. Eunuch Ma has been with me. When did I give such an order?"
Ma He nodded and whispered to Zhu Di: "Your Majesty, this matter is indeed true. Your Highness has been with us all night listening to Master Daoyan's lectures, and has never had any contact with anyone."
Zhu Xi glanced at Zhu Yu and said with a sneer: "Especially, how many soldiers and horses are needed for a battalion of elite troops to be slaughtered in just a cup of tea? My father and son minister are now subordinates. If only the soldiers and horses are led by Li Hu can be used, but most of the elite troops in the broken camp have been transferred to Yanjing City. There are only three thousand people left outside Yingtian Mansion. Can you ask the masters of the Five City Governor's Office, yesterday you saw any person from the broken camp entering the city?"
Several generals shook their heads, and a governor reported to Zhu Di: "Your Majesty, there were no soldiers and horses in the four gates yesterday. Only after the fire broke out at night, hundreds of people broke through the southern city gate and fled to the point of nowhere."
A minister of the Ministry of War stood up cautiously and said carefully: "After receiving the imperial edict last night, I immediately went to the camp of the broken camp outside the city. Except for two hundred patrol soldiers, the other soldiers were sleeping in peace. All my tents were checked. The soldiers' armor and weapons were placed neatly without any mess. There were 1,000 strong bows and 100,000 crossbows and arrows in the broken camp's armory, and there were many... Oh, by the way, except for the footprints of the patrol soldiers, there were no traces of mobilizing large groups of people."
Zhu Di nodded and looked at the officials of the Ministry of Justice. An official from the Ministry of Justice walked out carefully and said cautiously: "Your Majesty, I have inspected the corpses at the scene, without any traces of bows and arrows. The ones in them are all hidden weapons in the world, with fierce force, but three times more powerful than crossbows. This cannot be done by ordinary soldiers, and I am afraid that a large number of masters in the world can do such a behavior." He flattened his mouth and said with a little fear: "Some hidden weapons penetrated the human body and hit the stone slabs on the streets. The stone slabs were shot through. The skills of these people are very terrible."
Chapter completed!