Fenghou

Chapter 682 Seizing Power
Everyone in the room looked stunned. Although Brother Li Cha was hated by others, it was not so severe that he would be hacked into pieces. Everyone's eyes were on the bag in Xia Jinfeng's hand.

"Why did Xia Shangshu say that?" Li Kan asked impatiently.

Xia Jinfeng sighed and said, "Everyone will know after looking at this."

Xia Jinfeng poured out the contents of the bag, 'Wow! With a sound, they are all bronze medals, twenty or thirty of them.

Everyone leaned forward one after another and recognized at a glance that this was the waist badge of the householder in the mansion. Basically, every mansion has its own waist badge. The imperial historian Bari Zuren suddenly exclaimed, "This is the waist badge of my mansion." Card."

He stared at Xia Jinfeng with wide eyes, "Where did Xia Shangshu get it?"

Xia Jinfeng said slowly: "My brother Xia Jintang gave it to me this afternoon. He left the belongings in his house late, and found hundreds of mutilated corpses on the road. They were all dug out from the ground by wolves. Those corpses were horrible. , He didn’t dare to touch them, so he collected these signs, turned around and ran back immediately in fright, do you understand what I mean?”

Xia Jinfeng made everyone's faces turn pale. There was no news about his belongings being transported to Montenegro. It had been more than half a month, and everyone was worried. They were afraid that the most terrible thing would happen, and they were unwilling to go to Thinking about it that way, I would rather think that it was just a long journey, and now Xia Jinfeng broke through their weakest line of defense in an instant.

Bari Zuren sat down on the ground and burst into tears. Not only was he heartbroken that he had accumulated wealth for most of his life, but also his eldest son, who was responsible for escorting the property to Montenegro, would never return.

There was chaos in the lobby, everyone was terrified, and so were they. They sent their nephews and servants to protect their belongings and go northward. If something happened, it would be unbearable for them.

"Everyone be quiet!"

Li Kan let out a loud roar, and the hall suddenly fell silent, with more than twenty pairs of eyes staring at him.

"Everyone listen to me, there is no way to be anxious now, you need to calm down."

Li Kan asked Xia Jinfeng again, "May I ask Xia Shangshu, where did your brother find these badges?"

"On the Gobi Desert about fifty miles north of Keyimen!"

Keyi Gate is the garrison of the Chaoshun Army Division in the right wing. There were originally [-] troops stationed there. In order to put down Xiao Heda's rebellion, the army was transferred back long ago, and the barracks were abandoned. Located in the middle of Xingqing Prefecture and Montenegro, there is an uninhabited Gobi Desert for more than two hundred miles.

Li Kan turned his head to look at Cao Baozong, Cao Baozong immediately said with a stern face: "Don't doubt that my brother did it, he would not do such a thing that both people and gods are angry with!"

"I'm not doubting Brother Ling, I just want to ask Xiandi Cao to contact him to see how many other teams have arrived in Montenegro?"

Cao Baozong nodded, "Yes, I will send the eagle letter at dawn."

After speaking, he turned his head away, avoiding Li Kan's gaze, and tried his best to hide his uneasiness.

In fact, Cao Baozong knew the result several days ago. He received an eagle letter from his brother Cao Baohui. The team of his family had not arrived in Montenegro. Cao Baozong knew that something had happened, but he dared not say anything. After all, he proposed to go to Montenegro. plan, and his own belongings have not gone north, if he speaks out, he will become a target of public criticism.

Li Kan didn't pay too much attention to the uneasiness in Cao Baozong's eyes, his mind was still on Brother Li Cha, Li Kan turned back to Xia Jinfeng and asked, "Why did Xia Shangshu say that Brother Li Cha did it?"

Everyone looked at Xia Jinfeng, hoping that he could produce concrete evidence.

Xia Jinfeng sneered and said, "I made a special investigation this afternoon. Brother Li Cha's second son, Li Hanzhong, and the Two Thousand Heavenly Lu Army left the capital city two days before our team set off to go north. They haven't come back yet. Where did they go? They What did you do?"

The Two Thousand Heavenly Deer Army is Brother Li Cha's personal guards. The massacre of the Chu Palace was caused by this army disguised as thugs. With a loud voice, "Go to Brother Li Cha and ask for an explanation!"

More than twenty people turned around and walked outside one after another. Li Kan couldn't shout, so he had to follow.

Not long after, more than [-] dignitaries came to Brother Li Cha's mansion, but there were thousands of troops protecting the mansion, each carrying a spear, looking murderous.

The crowd didn't dare to go to thousands of people to make a scene. Li Kan stepped forward and said loudly to the guard at the door: "We have something to ask King Jin, please go and report it!"

Seeing that the other party was a high-ranking official, the two guards didn't dare to be negligent, so they hurried back to report. Not long after, Li Quanzhong, the eldest son of Brother Li Cha, came out and clasped his fists and said, "My lords, my father is currently in the military camp and not in the mansion. If there is something urgent, please go Look for him in the barracks."

Li Kan felt a little bad, actually sitting in the barracks, and there were countless soldiers standing guard around the mansion, did Brother Li Cha want to rebel?

Barry Zuren didn't care about the deep meaning of the other party's words, stepped out and said loudly: "Where is your younger brother Li Hanzhong? I have something to ask him."

Li Quanzhong shook his head, "He's not in the capital right now, and I don't know exactly where he is."

Where is Bari Zuren willing to agree? Just as he was about to speak again, Li Kan stopped him, clasped his fists and said to Li Quanzhong: "Since the prince is not in the mansion, then don't bother me."

He turned his head and said to everyone, "Let's go!"

After leaving Prince Jin's mansion, Li Kan said in a low voice: "The situation is not right. The emperor wants to dismiss King Jin's military power. I'm afraid he will fight against it. In this limelight, everyone bear it for now."

Everyone nodded in agreement. Although Bari Zuren felt resentful, he was also afraid that he would be targeted by Brother Li Cha and become the second king of Chu, so he had no choice but to keep his hatred in his heart.

In the morning of the next day, Emperor Li Qianshun temporarily canceled the military and political affairs, and at the same time decreed that brother Li Cha was removed from the position of Marshal, but he continued to retain his position as the commander of the right wing, and ordered him to lead the army to sit in Dingzhou.

On the same day, Brother Li Cha took [-] large ships and [-] troops to the north. Inside the large ships were all his family wealth accumulated over the years. At the same time, he also took away [-] shi of grain and [-] guan of copper coins.

Just as Brother Li Cha had just left, Emperor Li Qianshun immediately appointed Changping Wang Li Kan as the Marshal of the Army and Horses to lead the [-] troops that Brother Li Cha had withdrawn.

Two days later, Cao Baozong received an eagle letter from Montenegro, which clearly told everyone that no transport team had arrived in Montenegro.

Only then did the dignitaries of the Western Xia Manchu Dynasty realize that all their wealth was intercepted halfway by Brother Li Cha, and all the nephews and nephews they escorted were killed, leaving no one alive.

When the news spread, the entire imperial court was in a state of turmoil. Everyone in the court and the public hated Brother Li Cha very much, and wished to have him skinned and cramped, and his bones burned to ashes.

But hate turned to hate, no one could do anything about him, so he had to go home and curse him with all kinds of witchcraft.

At the same time that Brother Li Cha was dismissed as Generalissimo, a [-] Jurchen iron cavalry left Taiyuan and headed towards Xixia. Yanpuluhun ruled.

The Jurchen court finally agreed to assist Xixia, but the troops in Hedong were not enough. Under Wan Yanchang’s suggestion, the Jin court decided that Wanyan Wushu would send [-] cavalry to rescue Xixia, and at the same time, Hedong would send [-] soldiers to join the army and be responsible for all logistics supplies. .

Although Wanyan Wushu was very reluctant, this was the decision of the court of the Kingdom of Jin, unless he wanted to confront the court, he had to obey.

Now the person in power is Wanyan Chang, Wanyan Wushu had no choice but to agree, and sent his confidant general Wuyan Puluhun to lead [-] cavalry to support Xixia.

At the same time, Marshal Wanyan Yinkeshu of West Road ordered [-] carts and drivers to be confiscated in Taiyuanfu, Fenzhou, Lanzhou, Shizhou, Xizhou and other places to transport [-] shi of grain and supplies as logistics. The team also ordered Han Chang to lead the [-] Xiejun army as a logistics support, and followed Uyan Puluhun to support Xixia.

The [-] army and [-] carts left Taiyuan Mansion, passed through Lanzhou, and traveled for more than [-] miles to Linzhou, preparing to enter the eastern border of Xixia from Linzhou.

(End of this chapter)