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Chapter 221 Seeing Li Qinchai, who is open to money 【Order】
Chapter 221 Seeing Li Qinchai, who is open to money 【Order】
Leaving the government office, Chen Yao turned to Li Huan and said, "Where does your lord plan to choose the imperial envoy?"
Li Huan said calmly: "Let's just go to the yamen of Jinyiwei's thousand households."
Although it seems a bit weird to choose the imperial envoy Xingyuan in the yamen of Qianhusuo, who gave Li Huan another identity as the commander of the Jinyiwei.
Then Jiang Xingyuan's presence at Jinyiwei's Thousand Households will naturally not seem so abrupt.
If it were other civil servants, it is obviously impossible to do this.
Hearing this, Chen Yao yelled at the Jinyi guards: "Have you heard that, go to the yamen of the Thousand Households."
Li Huan came all the way fast enough and in a hurry, he didn't even send anyone to notify the people in Shanxi Jinyiwei Thousand Households Office.
However, with Yue Buqun and Qian Ning coming to power, after cleaning up the confidantes of the former Qianhu official Yuan Ming, they vigorously promoted a large number of lower-level Jinyiwei school lieutenants and fans. Now the strength of Shaanxi Jinyiwei Qianhu Office can be described as All-time powerful.
Because there is no news of Yue Buqun's disappearance, the Jinyiwei Thousand Household Office is temporarily in charge of Qian Ning, the deputy Qianhu Office.
On this day, Qian Ning was sitting there with a sad face, watching all kinds of information reported by the spies of Jin Yiwei, the bottom of the table.
Although it can be regarded as having power in his hands now, Qian Ning doesn't feel at ease at all.
Especially in the current situation in Shaanxi, their Jinyiwei's responsibilities are even heavier, and if there are any omissions, they may suffer.
Even Yue Buqun, the head of the Qianhu Institute, was attacked by people in the Jianghu and disappeared right now. All the burdens were suddenly placed on Qian Ning, which made Qian Ning feel a lot of pressure.
Looking at the news from Jinyiwei in Mizhi County, the county magistrate of Mizhi County received the relief food distributed by the court, not for the first time to help the victims, but instead resold the food to merchants who smuggled food.
That's all right, but the merchant actually transported the grain out of Shaanxi and into the grassland, which is clearly colluding with the Tatars on the grassland.
A sudden slap on the table made Qian Ning look rather ugly. As an official of the Ming Dynasty, he actually sold the relief food from the imperial court to the Tatars outside the pass.
There was a sound of hurried footsteps, and Qian Ning, who had an ugly face, looked up and said, "Why are you so flustered?"
It was Qian Ning's confidants who ran over, and he hurriedly said, "My lord, the commander has entered the city!"
"what!"
Qian Ning was startled when he heard the words, stood up abruptly, looked at his subordinates in astonishment and said, "What did you say, Commander-in-Chief has come to Xi'an Mansion?"
No wonder Qian Ning was so shocked. He really didn't get any news beforehand. If he remembered correctly, it didn't take long for the news about Qianhu Yuebuqun's disappearance and officials from many places in Shaanxi Province to give money and food to the victims. Huan came so soon.
The confidant nodded hurriedly and said: "My lord, just now a brother came to report, and the commander rushed to the government office with the imperial guard of honor."
Qian Ning's complexion changed slightly, and he took a deep breath. Although he said that he was shocked by Li Huan's arrival so quickly, Qian Ning calmed down quickly, and said after a while: "Call a few people, follow me to greet Master Commander."
On the long street, more than a dozen Jinyi guards were running towards the government office behind Qian Ning. Among these people, Gu Yuzhang felt a little heavy in his heart.
He was promoted by Yue Buqun, and now he is also the Chief Banner Officer of Jinyiwei. He went out with Yue Buqun before, but was attacked and killed by Feng Qingyang's gang on the way. Most of the group died, only a dozen or so people escaped back.
Gu Yuzhang also suffered serious injuries. Although he said that his injuries have healed up a lot these days, he has always been brooding about Shangguan Yue Buqun's disappearance.
Following Qian Ning at this time, Gu Yuzhang asked Qian Ning curiously, "My lord, where are we going?"
Qian Ning glanced at Gu Yuzhang, smiled slightly and said, "Master Commander is here, I will go to greet you."
For Gu Yuzhang, Qian Ning naturally admired and valued him very much.
You must know that Gu Yuzhang's cultivation is not inferior to him, and Qian Ning is quite envious of Yue Buqun's ability to discover such a good player as Gu Yuzhang from so many non-staff members of Jinyiwei below.
In Qian Ning's mind, Yue Buqun had been missing for such a long time, and it might be a sign of bad luck, so with his qualifications, it is very likely that he is the top leader of the Shaanxi Thousand Households Office.
Naturally, Qian Ning attached great importance to talents like Gu Yuzhang, so he was always offering an olive branch to Gu Yuzhang.
It's a pity that when Yue Buqun's life and death were uncertain, Gu Yuzhang was obviously not the kind of person who would go on and on and off. Facing Qian Ning's solicitation, Gu Yuzhang didn't show any intention of submitting.
This time when he went to meet Li Huan, Qian Ning brought Gu Yuzhang with him, which was obviously a way to win over and show favor.
If he can get into Li Huan's eyes and get Li Huan's attention, Gu Yuzhang will not say that he will soar into the sky, but the future must be bright.
At that time, no matter what Gu Yuzhang said, he should also remember him, right?
It was Gu Yuzhang who heard the words, a light flashed in his eyes, and subconsciously said: "I heard from Lord Yue that the Commander once severely injured that Feng Qingyang. This time, the Commander will come in person, and he will definitely be able to avenge Lord Yue."
Qian Ning couldn't help laughing, and said lightly: "It's just a mere Feng Qingyang, what's the point? When the lord gives an order, most of his subordinates will serve him. If you kill Feng Qingyang, why do you need to do it yourself?"
On the long street where people come and go, Qian Ning and his party of more than a dozen people are naturally very eye-catching, especially the group of people are dressed in royal uniforms, and the leader Qian Ning even rides a horse. Subconsciously avoided, not daring to provoke.
Amidst the people coming and going, two figures were looking around, whoever it was Feng Qingyang and Feng Buping.
Feng Buping suddenly said in a low voice: "Uncle Feng, he is from the Jinyiwei. You see, that person is the Jinyiwei who was chased and escaped by us with Yue Buqun back then."
Qian Ning, Gu Yuzhang and the others were too eye-catching, so Feng Buping recognized Gu Yuzhang at a glance.
Gu Yuzhang's majesty is extraordinary, and he is also very eye-catching among the dozen or so guards in Jinyi. It is not surprising that Feng Buping recognized Gu Yuzhang.
After all, Gu Yuzhang killed Cong Buqi and Cheng Buyou teamed up to escape with the Xiuchun Saber, which left a deep impression on Feng Buping and the others.
Hearing what Feng Buping said, Feng Qingyang couldn't help raising his eyebrows, and glanced at Gu Yuzhang, Qian Ning and the others, with a hint of disdain flashing in his eyes.
Gu Yuzhang couldn't help saying: "The Feng Qingyang group is extremely powerful..."
Before Gu Yuzhang finished speaking, Qian Ning couldn't help laughing, which attracted many people's attention. Even Feng Qingyang and Feng Buping, who were not far away and covered themselves with the shadows of pedestrians, subconsciously looked at Qian Ning .
Qian Ning didn't care about the eyes of the people around him, and smiled lightly at Gu Yuzhang: "Gu Zongqi, you think too highly of Feng Qingyang, even if you are called a so-called sword master, you are just a gangster." It’s just bandits, the previous one is Yue Qianhu and Gu Zongqi, you have no defense, otherwise, under the heavy crossbow and firecrackers, let alone some shit sword master, even the sword god will have no choice but to die.”
It can be heard that Qian Ning looks down on Feng Qingyang and other people from the rivers and lakes. Even in Qian Ning's heart, Yue Buqun's dignified Jinyiwei Qianhu will be attacked by a group of people from the rivers and lakes, so that his disappearance is uncertain. a joke.
If it were him, Channing, it would definitely not be such a result.
Gu Yuzhang opened his mouth. It is not easy for him to contradict Qian Ning. Although what Qian Ning said made some sense, he didn't want to think about what happened at that time.
They could have imagined that Feng Qingyang and the others were not fools, how could they foolishly prepare the opportunity for Jin Yiwei's men to shoot with crossbows and firecrackers.
Gu Yuzhang sighed softly, and Qian Ning smiled when he saw this, "Don't worry, when I find that old thing Feng Qingyang, I will personally lead Jin Yiwei to kill him, so as to avenge Master Yue..."
Originally, Feng Qingyang didn't intend to do anything to Qian Ning, Gu Yuzhang and others, after all, their main purpose of entering the city was to find Yue Buqun's whereabouts.
But it was a coincidence that Qian Ning's words fell into Feng Qingyang's ears.
Hearing Qian Ning's words that didn't take it seriously, a stern look flashed in Feng Qingyang's eyes, a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he suddenly let out a long laugh: "Really, the old man wants to see it, Just rely on you guys, who can kill this old man."
Feng Qingyang's sudden attack was too abrupt, Qian Ning, Gu Yuzhang and others obviously did not expect someone to make a sudden attack.
Feng Buping had a cold look on his face. Normally, Feng Buping would persuade Feng Qingyang not to act rashly, but who made Qian Ning's words too insane.
Not to mention that people like Feng Qingyang couldn't bear it, even Feng Buping wanted to stab Qian Ning to death after hearing what Qian Ning said.
So when Feng Qingyang made a move, Feng Buping also stabbed Gu Yuzhang with his fast sword.
When Gu Yuzhang heard Feng Qingyang's voice, his complexion changed drastically, and he exclaimed, "Be careful, my lord, this is Feng Qingyang."
At this moment, Qian Ning was madly cursing his mother, he was provoking someone, and he was walking well, but suddenly such a strong and palpitating strong man jumped out and killed him.
Gu Yuzhang's words rang in his ears, and Qian Ning instinctively drew his sword out of its sheath and slashed fiercely at the sword light rolling towards him.
There was only a muffled groan, and Qian Ning flew upside down almost without the slightest resistance.
While the blood was flying, a few pieces of blood-stained clothes fell down, while Qian Ning was covered in blood, staggered back, his eyes were full of horror and anger and shouted: "Stop him, stop him for me!" .”
It was just one move, and Qian Ning's life-and-death moment was almost super-level performance. The knife he slashed was almost comparable to a super-class strongman, but under Feng Qingyang's hands, he collapsed at the touch of a touch, and was immediately blown away.
That is, Qian Ning's potential exploded between life and death, otherwise, Feng Qingyang's sword would definitely kill Qian Ning.
From Gu Yuzhang's shouts, Qian Ning already knew that the one who attacked and killed him was actually Feng Qingyang, whom he didn't care about a moment ago, and Qian Ning was really hated.
He is not a fool, Feng Qingyang made a move against him suddenly, he must have heard what he said just now, otherwise, why didn't he make a move sooner or later, why did he make a move at that time.
Gu Yuzhang originally wanted to save Qian Ning, but Feng Buping stopped Gu Yuzhang as soon as he made a move, and the two of them were fighting together in an instant.
A dozen Jin Yiwei came to their senses, instinctively drew their swords out of their sheaths and rushed towards Feng Qingyang.
But Qian Ning just endured the severe pain in his body, rolling and crawling to avoid Feng Qingyang.
Feng Qingyang held the sword in his hand, looked at Qian Ning's embarrassed appearance, and said with disdain in his eyes: "Officer Dog, don't you look down on the old man? Didn't you say that you can kill the old man by just taking anyone with you?" The old man? Now that the old man is here, you killed the old man."
The people in the surrounding area were terrified by this sudden change, especially Qian Ning and his party, who were Jinyiwei. On this long street, in the important area of Xi'an Mansion, someone dared to attack and kill Jinyiwei officials in the street. This is simply shocking.
All of a sudden, the people around were frightened and fled in all directions, creating chaos.
"Flee, someone killed the official!"
"Run away!"
On the long street in the distance, a group of people and horses were rushing towards the Jinyiwei Qianhu House. Li Huan was riding on the horse, looking around at the appearance of the people in the prefectural city of Xi'an.
At the same time, Li Huan was also looking at the shops on both sides of the long street.
It can only be said that it is worthy of being the capital of a province. Even if natural disasters are raging, there are not many refugees in Xi'an Prefecture, but many people obviously look pale. It is obvious that they are not affected by the disaster. possible.
Chen Yao said in a low voice: "My lord, we have seen a lot of grain shops along the way, but the prices listed are astonishing. A stone of grain costs five taels of silver. This... this is money grabbing."
Du Guang sneered and said: "Normally speaking, during this catastrophe, the first thing the government should do is to help the victims and stabilize the price. Now the price of food is four or five times higher than usual. People in the government are all blind. It would be strange to say that there is nothing tricky about it.”
As he was walking slowly, suddenly a scholar in a blue gown was pushed to the ground by a waiter, and a string of copper coins in his hand fell to the ground.
"Dead and poor, don't come to buy food if you don't have money. Our food is relief food brought in by the imperial court. It is all the best polished rice. What are your hundreds of coppers worth? Don't affect our business. Get out of here soon." ..."
The scholar fell to the ground, looked at the arrogant guy, his eyes were full of unconcealable anger and said: "Profit merchants, you profiteers are hoarding things, driving up prices, and reselling food for the victims of disasters. You profiteers will be punished." ..."
Many passers-by around saw the scholar who had fallen to the ground, and then looked at the guy who was yelling at the scholar arrogantly, with a look of concern on his face.
Just when the scholar was scolding the guy, a steward walked out of the shop with a cold face, and said angrily at the scholar with a stick: "Death is poor, I don't know what the retribution is, I will know, if you don't Get out, I will beat you to death."
The scholar was beaten several times and screamed incessantly. Where did he dare to stay, he grabbed the copper coins that fell on the ground, turned around and ran away.
The steward glared at the guy with a sneer and said with a sneer: "You bastard, keep your mouth shut for me, what kind of relief food, all the food in our store is our own stock, what does it have to do with the government's relief food?"
As he spoke, the steward slapped the guy with a stick and said: "Let me hear your nonsense again, and I will break your dog legs."
Li Huan, who saw this scene clearly from a distance, couldn't help but glanced at the grain shop expressionlessly, while Chen Yao and Du Guang who were beside him had chills in their eyes.
"My lord, do you want to be subordinate..."
A sneer appeared on the corner of Li Huan's mouth, and his words were full of murderous intentions: "There is no rush."
While talking, suddenly there was a commotion in front of him, and a group of people ran over in a panic, shouting: "It's not good, the official was killed, someone killed the official."
Li Huan raised his brows, Chen Yao, Du Guang and the others also showed astonishment on their faces. This is the capital city of Xi'an Prefecture. In order to prevent refugees from entering the city and causing trouble, there are thousands of guards stationed outside the city. If there is chaos, the court soldiers and horses outside the city will seal the four gates and enter the city.
"go!"
Li Huan pulled the reins abruptly, and immediately the horse under him rushed forward. Within a dozen or so breaths, Li Huan saw an extremely embarrassed figure stumbling and fleeing for his life with the crowd, it was not Qian Ning or someone else.
Behind Qian Ning, the old man in Tsing Yi held a sword like a cat catching a mouse and stabbed out from time to time, leaving a wound on Qian Ning's body.
Looking at Qian Ning's miserable appearance, it was clear that Feng Qingyang was intentionally teasing and torturing Qian Ning, and Feng Qingyang was also narrow-minded, obviously trying to get revenge on what Qian Ning said just now.
However, Feng Qingyang looked at Qian Ning's embarrassed appearance, as if the anger in his heart had almost been vented, he sneered and said: "Guan Dog, I will send you on your way right now."
Qian Ning was shocked when he heard the words, his eyes were full of despair.
"Feng Qingyang, you are so courageous!"
At this moment, a voice suddenly sounded like thunder.
Desperate in his heart, Qian Ning suddenly heard this very familiar voice. He was overjoyed, and suddenly raised his head, his eyes burst into infinite surprise. He even couldn't help shouting: "My lord, save me!"
Li Huan was wearing a flying fish suit and a big cloak, riding on a war horse, high above, looking at Feng Qingyang from a distance, about ten feet away from Feng Qingyang.
When the surrounding crowd saw a group of brocade guards facing them, they almost instinctively dodged to the sides, looking at Li Huan and the others in awe.
And Li Huan's cry was like a life-saving straw to Qian Ning, and to Feng Qingyang, it obviously surprised Feng Qingyang.
Feng Qingyang looked towards Li Huan subconsciously, when he saw Li Huan, a murderous intent flashed in Feng Qingyang's eyes.
"Li Huan, it's you!"
For Li Huan Fengqingyang, he has a deep memory. The only time in his life that he suffered a serious injury was because of Li Huan, and even almost lost his life.
So Feng Qingyang could tell Li Huan only by listening to Li Huan's voice, and the moment he saw Li Huan, Feng Qingyang put all his energy on Li Huan.
Just when Feng Qingyang's attention was on Li Huan, Qian Ning, who had walked before the gate of hell, scrambled and crawled behind Li Huan almost immediately.
Two Jinyiwei school captains stepped forward to take Qian Ning down, but from the beginning to the end, Feng Qingyang didn't seem to pay attention to Qian Ning.
But only Feng Qingyang knew that the moment Li Huan appeared in front of him, Li Huan's aura had already locked on him, that is to say, if he dared to attack Qian Ning, then Li Huan's attack would definitely be in front of him. The first time comes.
If it was someone else's words, or if Feng Qingyang hadn't experienced how powerful Li Huan was, Feng Qingyang would definitely kill Qian Ning first before talking about it.
But Feng Qingyang knew Li Huan's strength better than anyone else, he was not sure that he could calmly deal with Li Huan's critical attack while killing Qian Ning.
Therefore, Feng Qingyang could only let Qian Ning escape under his nose.
Li Huan looked at Feng Qingyang and said indifferently: "Feng Qingyang, I didn't expect you to be alive."
Feng Qingyang laughed loudly when he heard the words: "Li Huan, are you very disappointed, that bastard Yue Buqun failed to kill the old man, so today the old man will kill you."
Li Huan just glanced at Feng Qingyang contemptuously, the next moment Du Guang took a step forward and said with a sneer: "Feng Qingyang, you are so bold, if you want to harm your lord, let's pass our test first. "
With a swish, dozens of powerful crossbows were aimed at Feng Qingyang, and those black arrows locked Feng Qingyang's figure.
Feng Qingyang's complexion changed slightly, the hairs all over his body stood up all of a sudden, he clenched the sword in his hand, his eyes narrowed like arrows flying straight towards Li Huan.
Feng Qingyang had already suffered a loss once, so naturally he couldn't suffer the same loss again, so the moment those arrows locked on him, Feng Qingyang rushed towards Li Huan resolutely.
Because Feng Qingyang knew very well that if he was really surrounded by these Jin Yiwei, even if he was unparalleled in swordsmanship, he would definitely not be able to withstand the mass shooting of many arrows.
Just like what Qian Ning said, if Jin Yiwei was given a chance to surround him, and then shoot with a crossbow and firecrackers, he might not be able to withstand it.
It is actually not difficult to break this situation, that is, before being surrounded, get close to Li Huan, and fight Li Huan personally, so Jin Yiwei will never dare to aim at Li Huan with a strong crossbow or a firecracker.
Seeing this, Du Guang shouted almost instantly: "Shoot!"
Arrows shot out one after another, but Feng Qingyang's reputation as a sword master was not for nothing, especially the swordsmanship of the Dugu Nine Swords was exquisite and unparalleled.
The sword lights all over the sky disappeared in a flash, and none of the dozens of arrows fell were blocked by Feng Qingyang with the sword in his hand.
At the same time, Feng Qingyang rushed to Li Huan.
Facing Feng Qingyang who was rushing forward, Li Huan not only did not dodge, but laughed out loud, and punched Feng Qingyang fiercely.
The fist hadn't hit him yet, but an extremely fierce wind was blowing towards his face, making Feng Qingyang couldn't help but recall the situation when he was seriously injured by Li Huan.
Almost instinctively, the sword flashed, and the sword in his hand pierced Li Huan's fist.
Feeling the incomparably sharp sword energy attacking, Li Huan's fist changed suddenly, from fist to palm, and he slapped the sword body with his palm, slapping Feng Qingyang's sword away, and the two of them passed by.
But Feng Qingyang turned around and stabbed with his sword again, Li Huan drew the saber in his hand, and when he slashed down with the saber, there was a clanging sound, and the swords collided together.
Feng Qingyang couldn't help smiling when he saw this, he found this precious sword in vain, as expected no matter how good Li Huanheng's kung fu was, he couldn't really be invulnerable and invulnerable.
As long as he is given an opportunity, he is absolutely sure that he can kill Li Huan with a single blow.
As for the Jin Yiwei and the powerful crossbows around him, Feng Qingyang didn't take it seriously at all. As long as he fought with Li Huan, none of the Jin Yiwei would dare to take the risk of affecting Li Huan.
With such a thought flashing through his mind, Feng Qingyang looked at Li Huan with a bit of sarcasm and murderous intent in his eyes.
Li Huan noticed Feng Qingyang's gaze, couldn't help showing a smile on the corner of his mouth, and said with a bit of disdain: "Feng Qingyang, I don't want to die."
Feng Qingyang was taken aback for a moment, couldn't help but burst out laughing, swiped his sword and slashed at Li Huan, and said disdainfully: "Officer dog, you are the one who suffered the death."
Li Huan suddenly reached out and grabbed Feng Qingyang's arm. Feng Qingyang subconsciously swung his sword at Li Huan's arm. Li Huan suddenly smiled at Feng Qingyang. The smile that appeared between them made Feng Qingyang feel a chill in his heart, and at the same time, a deadly crisis appeared in his heart.
"No, I'm in danger of my life!"
Almost instantly, the hairs on Feng Qingyang's body stood on end, and a warning sign rose in his heart, but at that moment, he couldn't figure out where the crisis came from.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa"
The sound of arrows piercing through the air sounded, Feng Qingyang was shocked immediately, turned his head to look, and saw that at some point, hundreds of Jin Yiwei had surrounded him, and dozens of crossbows were aimed at him There is also Li Huan shooting.
Seeing the flashing arrow piercing through the air, Feng Qingyang felt chills in his heart, he swung his sword to block and tried to break free from Li Huan's grasping hand.
"How dare you, aren't you afraid of shooting your family to death?"
Why did Feng Qingyang know that Jin Yiwei's powerful crossbows were strong, and dared to stay and attack Li Huan? Didn't he just be sure that these Jin Yiweis would not dare to attack them with their crossbows when he was fighting Li Huan?
After all, shooting with force, especially at the same time as fighting, is really indiscriminate between the enemy and the enemy. Maybe he will not be shot at that time, but Li Huan will be shot to death instead.
The crime of attacking and killing the Shangguan, it is expected that no one of these Jinyiwei can bear it.
Before he approached Li Huan to fight Li Huan, the Jinyiwei around him had strong crossbows in their hands but they didn't dare to make a move. Huan's safety was blatantly shot with a strong crossbow.
Just looking at the posture, it is obvious that even Li Huan is covered together. In this case, it is impossible for Feng Qingyang to dodge even if he wants to.
Amidst the tinkling sound, a crossbow arrow was blocked by Feng Qingyang, and Feng Qingyang yelled at Li Huan while blocking the crossbow arrow: "You want to take the old man with you and die together?"
With a puff sound, the arrow entered his body, Feng Qingyang couldn't help turning his face aside, let out a muffled groan, and saw a crossbow arrow submerged into Feng Qingyang's thigh, directly piercing through.
Immediately, another crossbow arrow sank into Feng Qingyang's waist, and Feng Qingyang's body staggered when the strong force hit directly.
At the same time, Li Huan, who was holding onto Feng Qingyang with all his strength, was also submerged by the crossbow arrows without any resistance.
Feng Qingyang was hit by several crossbow arrows, with blood flowing from his mouth, seeing Li Huan who was submerged by the crossbow arrows, he couldn't help laughing and said: "If you accompany me to die together, I will..."
However, the next moment Feng Qingyang opened his eyes wide, with an expression of disbelief on his face, and then his eyes were full of surprise and regret.
The effect of the body protection of the "Thirteen Taibao Henglian Shengong" is absolutely amazing. At the beginning, Li Huan tried to resist the crossbow arrows with his body. Although it was very painful to be shot, it was difficult to break the body protection of the Thirteen Taibao Henglian The effect is not hurt at all.
So what shocked Feng Qingyang was that Li Huan was hit by more than a dozen crossbow arrows, but his whole body was not damaged at all.
"Shoot again!"
Du Guang stopped drinking again, and saw the arrows coming again. Feng Qingyang, who had already been hit by several arrows, couldn't help roaring, "Li Huan is dead."
This time Feng Qingyang didn't care about it, he just gathered all his strength and unleashed a fatal blow.
Li Huan laughed loudly, and the big hand that was holding onto Feng Qingyang's arm suddenly pushed forward, and suddenly a terrifying force swept Feng Qingyang's body.
Feng Qingyang, who was already hit by an arrow in his body, was rushed by this force, stepped back a few steps, and the next moment, the black arrows directly drowned Feng Qingyang.
"Er... the old man is unwilling..."
His whole body was full of arrows, no fewer than dozens of them. Feng Qingyang opened his eyes wide after heaving a sigh of relief, staring at Li Huan with full unwillingness, and as the breath dissipated, his whole body crashed. fall down.
When Li Huan was fighting Feng Qingyang, Feng Buping had already abandoned Gu Yuzhang, watching from afar, his eyes full of worry.
If it were not for Feng Qingyang's absolute confidence in Feng Qingyang's unsurpassed swordsmanship, Feng Buping would have been in despair.
After all, with the hundreds of Jinyi guards behind Li Huan and the powerful crossbows in their hands, Feng Buping couldn't see the slightest hope.
Originally thought that Feng Qingyang and Li Huan would be able to kill Li Huan in a close fight, and then took advantage of the chaos to break out of the encirclement and escape.
Originally, everything went quite smoothly. Feng Qingyang deserved to be a generation of sword masters. His strength could indeed suppress Li Huan. If there were no miracles, Feng Qingyang might actually hurt Li Huan.
But before Feng Buping could breathe a sigh of relief, an unbelievable scene happened to Feng Buping.
The Jinyi guards around didn't care about Li Huan's safety, and directly shot with their powerful crossbows. In an instant, Feng Qingyang was hit by several arrows, but Li Huan was unscathed.
Feng Buping just watched helplessly as the most talented swordsman of their sword sect, the generation of sword masters with the reputation of invincibility was extremely aggrieved after being shot like a hedgehog and fell into a pool of blood.
"Uncle Feng!"
When Feng Qingyang fell, the little hope in Feng Buping's heart of revitalizing the Huashan Sword Sect also collapsed.
Almost instantly, more than a dozen Jin Yiwei and Gu Yuzhang sealed off all of Feng Buping's escape routes, and a strong crossbow locked on Feng Buping.
Gu Yuzhang looked at Feng Buping coldly and said, "Feng Buping, I'll arrest you if you don't let go."
Feng Buping laughed loudly when he heard the words, and glanced at Feng Qingyang, who was lying in a pool of blood not far away, with a look of death, a flicker of madness flashed in Feng Buping's mountain: "As early as decades ago, a certain Feng It's time to go with Jianzong, Uncle Feng, the disciple is here!"
Seeing Feng Buping swinging his sword forward, Du Guang sneered, and shouted without hesitation: "Shoot."
The next moment, Feng Buping just swept away a few crossbow arrows, and then more arrows sank into his body, directly impaling him like a hedgehog.
Gu Yuzhang watched Feng Buping being shot and killed on the spot, and said with a bit of regret: "What a pity, I wanted to capture him alive and ask about Yue Qianhu's whereabouts."
And at this moment, Qian Ning, who had already treated the wound on his body, came over wrapped like a rice dumpling, bowed down to Li Huan and said, "Your Majesty Qian Ning, Deputy Qianhu of Shanxi Jinyiwei, pays my respects to Commander-in-Chief."
Gu Yuzhang, who had reacted, also hurriedly stepped forward with several surviving Jinyiwei from Shaanxi Jinyiwei Qianhu Office to salute Li Huan.
Li Huan glanced at Qian Ning, Gu Yuzhang and the others, nodded slightly and said, "There's no need to be polite, let's all get up."
Qian Ning and the others stood up, resisting the severe pain in their bodies, Qian Ning said to Li Huan: "It is thanks to my lord for killing this thief Feng Qingyang, otherwise, the entire Shanxi Qianhu Institute would be killed by this thief." Kill them all."
This is a bit exaggerated, but if Li Huan hadn't killed them in time, the Shanxi Jinyiwei Qianhu Office would have been wiped out because of the wind.
After all, Qianhu Yue Buqun has disappeared and is still unknown. If Qian Ning and other key executives of the Qianhu Office die, then the Shanxi Jinyiwei Qianhu Office will really be paralyzed.
Li Huan glanced at the corpses of Feng Qingyang and Feng Buping, frowned slightly and said: "Immediately order someone to investigate to see if the two have any accomplices, and if so, they must be wiped out .”
Qian Ning immediately took the order and told Gu Yuzhang: "Gu Zongqi, you have fought against the accomplices of these people before, so you will handle this matter."
Gu Yuzhang said solemnly: "This subordinate takes orders."
Jinyiwei Qianhu Office Yamen
As Li Huan entered the Yamen of the Thousand Households, the entire Yamen of the Thousand Households was filled with a sense of murder.
Sitting in the lobby, Li Huan, who had changed into a black brocade suit, sat there, flipping through the pile of brocade clothes in front of him, looking through all the news collected by the Thousand Households of the Guards over the past few days.
However, Qian Ning and several officials of the Thousand Households Office sat upright with solemn expressions. The hall was quiet, only the slight sound of Li Huan flipping the files.
After an unknown amount of time passed, Li Huan closed the stack of files, and looked up at Qian Ning and the others expressionlessly.
Noticing that Li Huan was looking at them, the group headed by Qian Ning quickly sat up straight and looked at Li Huan respectfully.
Li Huan said indifferently: "Why is there so little money and food from the Xi'an government?"
Qian Ning knew that Li Huan would ask about this, so he couldn't help showing a wry smile and said, "My lord, you don't know, because of Yuan Ming, the former Qianhu official, the manpower of Qianhu's prefecture was almost wiped out..."
Li Huan couldn't help frowning when he heard the words, and immediately understood why Jin Yiwei collected information, many places in Shaanxi were extremely reliable, and even the records of officials involved in corruption were extremely reliable, but some places were very vague.
In the final analysis, he was still influenced by Yuan Ming, the thousand-household official.
Because of Yuan Ming's collusion and collusion with local officials in Shaanxi, after Yue Buqun and Qian Ning took over, they must clean up Yuan Ming's party. It was cut off, although Yue Buqun and Qian Ning also sent additional manpower to relocate Jin Yiwei's spies, but it is obvious that without many years of hard work, it is impossible to have much effect.
And Xi'an Mansion is Yuan Ming's lair. It can be said that Jin Yiwei's manpower and spies in Xi'an Mansion are almost all exposed and cleared. Under such circumstances, it would be strange if Qian Ning and the others could grasp any useful information.
Seeing Li Huan's gloomy face, Qian Ning and several officials quickly knelt down in front of Li Huan and said, "Your subordinates are incompetent, please punish me."
Li Huan took a deep breath, waved his hands and said, "Yuan Ming is guilty of this matter, and has nothing to do with you."
Originally, Li Huan thought that when he arrived in Xi'an Mansion, he would be able to take down these corrupt officials together with the evidence collected by Jin Yiwei that the officials in Xi'an Mansion were corrupt.
After all, even if he is an imperial envoy, if he wants to arrest someone, he still needs to provide evidence. It is impossible to let him arrest people at will.
Perhaps arresting one or two people is no problem, but if large-scale arrests are made, the entire officialdom in Shaanxi may collapse.
If it was other times, Li Huan was really not afraid. Even if it really collapsed, it would take some time to replace all the officials.
However, this is not an option right now, even if many officials in the government office should be killed, without evidence, it is not easy for Li Huan to take down all these people.
Otherwise, there is no evidence to take people at will, and under the panic, Shaanxi, which was originally sitting on the crater of a volcano, might really explode.
No matter how bad these local officials are, at least they can maintain the order of the court and, to a certain extent, ensure the stability of the overall situation in Shaanxi.
There is a saying that no order is better than no order. It is better to be a dog of peace than to be a chaotic person.
Many local officials may be greedy for ink, but these officials still have to do the obvious work. Even the apparent work can keep many refugees alive.
However, once Li Huan arrests people at will without evidence, the entire Shaanxi officials will be in chaos, which means that the situation that originally maintained a certain order will collapse. Li Huan can imagine that such a situation will happen. There will inevitably be flames of war in Shaanxi, and countless people in chaos. At that time, I don't know how many people will die in the chaos.
Resisting the urge in his heart to immediately take down all the officials in the government office for interrogation, Li Huan ordered Qian Ning: "Go, give me all kinds of civilian supplies in the city, such as food, oil, etc. Find out the prices of materials such as , salt, and cloth, including who are the wealthy merchants in Fucheng who control these materials."
Qian Ning took a deep breath and said respectfully, "Your subordinate will do it now."
Watching Qian Ning and the others leave, Chen Yao said to Li Huan, "My lord, why don't you arrest him directly? Does the Jin Yiwei need evidence to arrest someone? When you were in the capital, you just need to arrest someone if you suspect that you are right." Why did you come here with your hands tied..."
He glanced at Chen Yao lightly, but Li Huan didn't explain, the reason for this was that even Chen Yao, a reckless man, might not understand.
Standing up slowly, Li Huan said to Du Guang and Chen Yao, "Come out with me for a walk."
Changed into casual clothes, Li Huan and the others walked on the long street, looking around, especially stopping for a while when passing by some shops.
When walking out of a store, Chen Yao said in a low voice: "My lord, someone has been following us from a distance, do you want your subordinates to arrest him..."
Li Huan shook his head and said, "Since they want to follow, let them follow."
Before they knew it, several people had arrived at the gate of the city.
A large number of refugees gathered just outside the city gate, but it can be seen that the order of the refugees is not bad. Dozens of cauldrons are lined up in a row, and white rice grains are rolling in the cauldrons. It looks like it was distributed by the imperial court. relief food.
Seeing those ragged and pale victims lined up to receive rice porridge, and then shouting "Master Qingtian, Long Live the Son of Heaven", Li Huan couldn't help being silent for a while.
At this time Chen Yao came over quietly, and said to Li Huan in a low voice: "My lord, I have already inquired clearly. These days, the government sent people here to serve porridge here in the morning and evening, and all of them were cooked with the best refined grains. Rice porridge is not mixed with spoiled rice grains."
Speaking of which, Chen Yao wondered: "Could it be that all the officials and gentlemen in Fucheng have changed their temperament one by one, and they are all good officials who are as clean as water and love the people like their sons?"
Hearing this, Li Huan couldn't help sneering: "If that's the case, we're still in the capital right now, and we won't come all the way here for inspections."
Speaking of which, Li Huan took a deep breath and said, "I hope that they are all as clean as water and love the people as sons, but it's a pity that this is obviously not the case."
Thinking of the arrogant words he heard from the grain store clerk in that grain store not long ago, could it be possible that the relief food from the imperial court sold in that grain store was conjured out of thin air?
In the evening, Li Huan and his party returned to the yamen of Jinyiwei's Thousand Households. At this moment, Qian Ning saw Li Huan and hurriedly said, "My lord, not long ago, someone from the yamen sent an account book."
When Li Huan walked into the hall, Qian Ning hurriedly ordered someone to fetch a stack of account books.
Li Huan took a copy casually, then flipped through it, and soon there was a sneer on the corner of his mouth, and he threw it aside.
Seeing this, Du Guang took it and looked it over, but Chen Yao couldn't understand the dense records, but looked at Du Guang curiously and said, "Du Guang, tell me, is there any problem with this account book?"
Du Guang couldn't help rolling his eyes when he heard the words: "If there is a problem, those people in the government office will send the account books, wouldn't they come to the door with all the evidence?"
Chen Yao nodded subconsciously when he heard this, and said, "What you said makes sense, but how can we investigate in this way?"
Because of Yuan Ming, it was impossible to expect the spies placed by Jin Yiwei to get inside information. As for checking the accounts, since they dared to be greedy, the accounts were absolutely leak-free.
If Li Huan is really proficient in accounting, it may take some time to check the account books, and it may not be impossible to find out the problem.
It's a pity that Li Huan is not proficient in accounting. If he really has the time to check the accounts, he might as well follow his own method.
So from the very beginning, Li Huan didn't expect to find out any problems from the account books.
Seeing several people looking at him, Li Huan's eyes shone brightly, and he said with a light smile, "It's nothing more than investigating these people's greed for money and food. In fact, it's difficult to say, and it's not difficult to say."
As he spoke, Li Huan looked at Qian Ning and said, "Qian Ning, how did you do with the information that you were asked to investigate?"
Qian Ning reacted after hearing the words and said quickly: "The subordinate has ordered someone to investigate clearly."
As he spoke, Qian Ning took out a booklet from his cuff and handed it to Li Huan, "My lord, here are all the information on more than a hundred grain merchants, salt merchants, and cloth merchants in the city, as well as the prices of various materials. real-time prices."
Li Huan flipped through the booklet, a smile gradually appeared on the corner of his mouth and said: "Since those people are doing everything well, then Li will ignore them for now, and let's talk about these wealthy businessmen for a while."
The few people were stunned for a moment, and then Qian Ning's face showed a look of surprise. He vaguely guessed Li Huan's intention, and when he looked at Li Huan, his eyes were full of admiration.
Immediately, Qian Ning bowed to Li Huan and said, "Your Excellency's move, the lower officials admire you."
Chen Yao and Du Guang were still in a daze at the moment, and they couldn't help looking at Qian Ning with puzzled eyes when they heard the words.
Qian Ning could see his intentions, so Li Huan was not surprised, he just smiled and said, "In that case, then you, Qian Ning, will come forward and hold a banquet in Tianfanglou, for this official, Hu Xi, Su Xiang, Wei Kun and the others said that the imperial envoy was personally the host and invited them to discuss matters."
Qian Ning heard the words and said, "I'll do it right away."
苏府
Su Xiang is now looking at a secret letter from Cheng Tai, the new chief envoy he attached to not long ago.
Opening the secret letter, Su Xiang read the contents of the secret letter, a smile gradually appeared on the corner of his mouth and said: "It turns out that it is really an imperial envoy of the capital, but even if it is an imperial envoy, what can it do, it is really delusional to want to check the relief food. "
After burning the secret letter to ashes, Su Xiang called the steward and said, "Steward, prepare a gift, remember to make it thicker, and order someone to deliver it to the new imperial envoy."
The housekeeper took the order and retreated.
But soon, the housekeeper came over with a strange expression on his face, holding an invitation card in his hand.
Hearing the sound of footsteps, Su Xiang looked up at the butler, and when his eyes fell on the invitation card in the butler's hand, his face showed a bit of surprise: "This is..."
The housekeeper coughed lightly and said, "Master, this is from the staff of the Jinyiwei Thousand Households Office. They said that they want the master to personally open it."
Su Xiang raised his brows, a trace of surprise and doubt flashed in his eyes, he accepted the invitation and said: "People from Jinyiwei..."
When he opened the invitation to see clearly the content of the invitation, Su Xiang paused his hands slightly, and there was a hint of surprise in his eyes, and then he didn't know what to think of, and suddenly couldn't help laughing: "What an imperial envoy, Mr. Li, The old man wants to see what you want to do."
Hearing this, the housekeeper said doubtfully, "Master!"
Su Xiang glanced at the butler lightly and said: "It's okay, it's the imperial envoy who invited me to Tianfanglou for a banquet tomorrow."
The steward turned pale with shock and said, "Ah, what did the imperial envoy invite the master to do for no reason? Don't you have some malicious intentions?"
Su Xiang, on the other hand, looked quite calm with a bit of sarcasm, as if he had seen through Li Huan's purpose, and said: "It's nothing more than taking advantage of the opportunity to ask for benefits. I've seen such officials and old men a lot, and they're all like dogs."
As he said that, Su Xiang showed a bit of heartache on his face and said: "Go and get the mutton fat jade Buddha that the master treasures."
After a pause, he continued: "Add another 3000 taels of gold, after all, it is an imperial envoy. These should be enough to fill this imperial envoy."
The housekeeper exclaimed: "Master, the Jade Buddha plus gold is worth no less than 5 taels, isn't it..."
Su Xiang waved his hands and said, "Just do as the master tells you."
The same situation also appeared in Hu Xihu's family, Wei Kunwei's family, and several other luxury merchants who almost monopolize various industries.
吴府
Wu Wei sat there with his eyes squinted, looked at one of his servants and said, "You said that the imperial envoy just walked around the street today, and then went to see the porridge shop at the gate of the city?"
The servant nodded and said: "Back to the master, the people I sent were very cautious and followed those people all the way. Those people did go to these few places."
Wu Wei pondered for a while when he heard the words, nodded slightly and said: "Okay, I know, I ordered people to be more careful, so as not to be discovered."
The servant nodded and said: "Master, don't worry, the people who followed were all beggars found in the city. Even if they were found, they would not be able to find us."
While talking, a manager came in a hurry, handed a letter to Wu Wei and said, "Master, this is sent by Wei Kun and Wei Wei."
Wu Wei frowned, took the letter and opened it and couldn't help but frowned.
It turned out that Wei Kun told Wu Wei in the letter that Li Huan invited him to Tianfanglou for a reunion tomorrow.
Wu Wei frowned, his face was full of puzzlement, and he said suspiciously: "It's strange, Li Huan didn't go to the treasury to check, but just wandered around the city, and somehow invited Wei Kun, a salt merchant, what the hell is he doing?" intention?"
Tianfanglou
As one of the best restaurants in the prefectural capital of Xi'an, it was booked out by people from Jinyiwei early this morning.
The owner of the restaurant looked at the captain of Jinyiwei who was guarding all around with fear in his heart, but he had to serve him carefully.
Not long after, several carriages appeared at the gate of Tianfanglou, and several figures walked out of the carriages.
Qian Ning, who was the Deputy Qianhu of Jin Yiwei, stood at the door to greet him even though he was injured all over his body.
Looking at the list of gifts, and seeing the big boxes being carried away by his subordinates, the corners of Qian Ning's mouth could not help twitching.
I was secretly surprised in my heart, these people really deserved to be wealthy businessmen who claimed to be worth millions, and their actions were really extraordinary, and the gifts that any one of them gave were all of great value. The sum of these dozens of companies only gave gifts and gold. Yes, there are as many as 10 taels.
Thinking of this, Qian Ning couldn't help swallowing wildly. He might be able to take tens of thousands of taels of silver calmly, but when he thought of receiving hundreds of thousands of silver in such a short period of time, Qian Ning looked at everyone with strange eyes. .
Hu Xi, Su Xiang, Wei Kun and others were chatting and laughing in the lobby of the restaurant. Every time someone came, the uneasiness and uneasiness in their hearts was reduced a bit.
He even watched from afar the expression change on the face of Qian Ning, the official of thousands of households, who was standing at the door after receiving a gift list.
Seeing Qian Ning's astonished expression, Hu Xi, Su Xiang, and Wei Kun couldn't help but look at each other with disdain in the depths of their eyes.
The world is as black as crows, this is true, the officials in the officialdom are all of the same appearance, even Jin Yiwei can't see anything yellow and white.
I just don't know how Li Huan, the imperial envoy who invited them here, will react if he sees the generous gifts they offer.
Is it like those officials they have met before, they are so open-eyed when they see money, all of them are blinded, they change their superior posture, and treat them extremely kindly and kindly.
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Leaving the government office, Chen Yao turned to Li Huan and said, "Where does your lord plan to choose the imperial envoy?"
Li Huan said calmly: "Let's just go to the yamen of Jinyiwei's thousand households."
Although it seems a bit weird to choose the imperial envoy Xingyuan in the yamen of Qianhusuo, who gave Li Huan another identity as the commander of the Jinyiwei.
Then Jiang Xingyuan's presence at Jinyiwei's Thousand Households will naturally not seem so abrupt.
If it were other civil servants, it is obviously impossible to do this.
Hearing this, Chen Yao yelled at the Jinyi guards: "Have you heard that, go to the yamen of the Thousand Households."
Li Huan came all the way fast enough and in a hurry, he didn't even send anyone to notify the people in Shanxi Jinyiwei Thousand Households Office.
However, with Yue Buqun and Qian Ning coming to power, after cleaning up the confidantes of the former Qianhu official Yuan Ming, they vigorously promoted a large number of lower-level Jinyiwei school lieutenants and fans. Now the strength of Shaanxi Jinyiwei Qianhu Office can be described as All-time powerful.
Because there is no news of Yue Buqun's disappearance, the Jinyiwei Thousand Household Office is temporarily in charge of Qian Ning, the deputy Qianhu Office.
On this day, Qian Ning was sitting there with a sad face, watching all kinds of information reported by the spies of Jin Yiwei, the bottom of the table.
Although it can be regarded as having power in his hands now, Qian Ning doesn't feel at ease at all.
Especially in the current situation in Shaanxi, their Jinyiwei's responsibilities are even heavier, and if there are any omissions, they may suffer.
Even Yue Buqun, the head of the Qianhu Institute, was attacked by people in the Jianghu and disappeared right now. All the burdens were suddenly placed on Qian Ning, which made Qian Ning feel a lot of pressure.
Looking at the news from Jinyiwei in Mizhi County, the county magistrate of Mizhi County received the relief food distributed by the court, not for the first time to help the victims, but instead resold the food to merchants who smuggled food.
That's all right, but the merchant actually transported the grain out of Shaanxi and into the grassland, which is clearly colluding with the Tatars on the grassland.
A sudden slap on the table made Qian Ning look rather ugly. As an official of the Ming Dynasty, he actually sold the relief food from the imperial court to the Tatars outside the pass.
There was a sound of hurried footsteps, and Qian Ning, who had an ugly face, looked up and said, "Why are you so flustered?"
It was Qian Ning's confidants who ran over, and he hurriedly said, "My lord, the commander has entered the city!"
"what!"
Qian Ning was startled when he heard the words, stood up abruptly, looked at his subordinates in astonishment and said, "What did you say, Commander-in-Chief has come to Xi'an Mansion?"
No wonder Qian Ning was so shocked. He really didn't get any news beforehand. If he remembered correctly, it didn't take long for the news about Qianhu Yuebuqun's disappearance and officials from many places in Shaanxi Province to give money and food to the victims. Huan came so soon.
The confidant nodded hurriedly and said: "My lord, just now a brother came to report, and the commander rushed to the government office with the imperial guard of honor."
Qian Ning's complexion changed slightly, and he took a deep breath. Although he said that he was shocked by Li Huan's arrival so quickly, Qian Ning calmed down quickly, and said after a while: "Call a few people, follow me to greet Master Commander."
On the long street, more than a dozen Jinyi guards were running towards the government office behind Qian Ning. Among these people, Gu Yuzhang felt a little heavy in his heart.
He was promoted by Yue Buqun, and now he is also the Chief Banner Officer of Jinyiwei. He went out with Yue Buqun before, but was attacked and killed by Feng Qingyang's gang on the way. Most of the group died, only a dozen or so people escaped back.
Gu Yuzhang also suffered serious injuries. Although he said that his injuries have healed up a lot these days, he has always been brooding about Shangguan Yue Buqun's disappearance.
Following Qian Ning at this time, Gu Yuzhang asked Qian Ning curiously, "My lord, where are we going?"
Qian Ning glanced at Gu Yuzhang, smiled slightly and said, "Master Commander is here, I will go to greet you."
For Gu Yuzhang, Qian Ning naturally admired and valued him very much.
You must know that Gu Yuzhang's cultivation is not inferior to him, and Qian Ning is quite envious of Yue Buqun's ability to discover such a good player as Gu Yuzhang from so many non-staff members of Jinyiwei below.
In Qian Ning's mind, Yue Buqun had been missing for such a long time, and it might be a sign of bad luck, so with his qualifications, it is very likely that he is the top leader of the Shaanxi Thousand Households Office.
Naturally, Qian Ning attached great importance to talents like Gu Yuzhang, so he was always offering an olive branch to Gu Yuzhang.
It's a pity that when Yue Buqun's life and death were uncertain, Gu Yuzhang was obviously not the kind of person who would go on and on and off. Facing Qian Ning's solicitation, Gu Yuzhang didn't show any intention of submitting.
This time when he went to meet Li Huan, Qian Ning brought Gu Yuzhang with him, which was obviously a way to win over and show favor.
If he can get into Li Huan's eyes and get Li Huan's attention, Gu Yuzhang will not say that he will soar into the sky, but the future must be bright.
At that time, no matter what Gu Yuzhang said, he should also remember him, right?
It was Gu Yuzhang who heard the words, a light flashed in his eyes, and subconsciously said: "I heard from Lord Yue that the Commander once severely injured that Feng Qingyang. This time, the Commander will come in person, and he will definitely be able to avenge Lord Yue."
Qian Ning couldn't help laughing, and said lightly: "It's just a mere Feng Qingyang, what's the point? When the lord gives an order, most of his subordinates will serve him. If you kill Feng Qingyang, why do you need to do it yourself?"
On the long street where people come and go, Qian Ning and his party of more than a dozen people are naturally very eye-catching, especially the group of people are dressed in royal uniforms, and the leader Qian Ning even rides a horse. Subconsciously avoided, not daring to provoke.
Amidst the people coming and going, two figures were looking around, whoever it was Feng Qingyang and Feng Buping.
Feng Buping suddenly said in a low voice: "Uncle Feng, he is from the Jinyiwei. You see, that person is the Jinyiwei who was chased and escaped by us with Yue Buqun back then."
Qian Ning, Gu Yuzhang and the others were too eye-catching, so Feng Buping recognized Gu Yuzhang at a glance.
Gu Yuzhang's majesty is extraordinary, and he is also very eye-catching among the dozen or so guards in Jinyi. It is not surprising that Feng Buping recognized Gu Yuzhang.
After all, Gu Yuzhang killed Cong Buqi and Cheng Buyou teamed up to escape with the Xiuchun Saber, which left a deep impression on Feng Buping and the others.
Hearing what Feng Buping said, Feng Qingyang couldn't help raising his eyebrows, and glanced at Gu Yuzhang, Qian Ning and the others, with a hint of disdain flashing in his eyes.
Gu Yuzhang couldn't help saying: "The Feng Qingyang group is extremely powerful..."
Before Gu Yuzhang finished speaking, Qian Ning couldn't help laughing, which attracted many people's attention. Even Feng Qingyang and Feng Buping, who were not far away and covered themselves with the shadows of pedestrians, subconsciously looked at Qian Ning .
Qian Ning didn't care about the eyes of the people around him, and smiled lightly at Gu Yuzhang: "Gu Zongqi, you think too highly of Feng Qingyang, even if you are called a so-called sword master, you are just a gangster." It’s just bandits, the previous one is Yue Qianhu and Gu Zongqi, you have no defense, otherwise, under the heavy crossbow and firecrackers, let alone some shit sword master, even the sword god will have no choice but to die.”
It can be heard that Qian Ning looks down on Feng Qingyang and other people from the rivers and lakes. Even in Qian Ning's heart, Yue Buqun's dignified Jinyiwei Qianhu will be attacked by a group of people from the rivers and lakes, so that his disappearance is uncertain. a joke.
If it were him, Channing, it would definitely not be such a result.
Gu Yuzhang opened his mouth. It is not easy for him to contradict Qian Ning. Although what Qian Ning said made some sense, he didn't want to think about what happened at that time.
They could have imagined that Feng Qingyang and the others were not fools, how could they foolishly prepare the opportunity for Jin Yiwei's men to shoot with crossbows and firecrackers.
Gu Yuzhang sighed softly, and Qian Ning smiled when he saw this, "Don't worry, when I find that old thing Feng Qingyang, I will personally lead Jin Yiwei to kill him, so as to avenge Master Yue..."
Originally, Feng Qingyang didn't intend to do anything to Qian Ning, Gu Yuzhang and others, after all, their main purpose of entering the city was to find Yue Buqun's whereabouts.
But it was a coincidence that Qian Ning's words fell into Feng Qingyang's ears.
Hearing Qian Ning's words that didn't take it seriously, a stern look flashed in Feng Qingyang's eyes, a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he suddenly let out a long laugh: "Really, the old man wants to see it, Just rely on you guys, who can kill this old man."
Feng Qingyang's sudden attack was too abrupt, Qian Ning, Gu Yuzhang and others obviously did not expect someone to make a sudden attack.
Feng Buping had a cold look on his face. Normally, Feng Buping would persuade Feng Qingyang not to act rashly, but who made Qian Ning's words too insane.
Not to mention that people like Feng Qingyang couldn't bear it, even Feng Buping wanted to stab Qian Ning to death after hearing what Qian Ning said.
So when Feng Qingyang made a move, Feng Buping also stabbed Gu Yuzhang with his fast sword.
When Gu Yuzhang heard Feng Qingyang's voice, his complexion changed drastically, and he exclaimed, "Be careful, my lord, this is Feng Qingyang."
At this moment, Qian Ning was madly cursing his mother, he was provoking someone, and he was walking well, but suddenly such a strong and palpitating strong man jumped out and killed him.
Gu Yuzhang's words rang in his ears, and Qian Ning instinctively drew his sword out of its sheath and slashed fiercely at the sword light rolling towards him.
There was only a muffled groan, and Qian Ning flew upside down almost without the slightest resistance.
While the blood was flying, a few pieces of blood-stained clothes fell down, while Qian Ning was covered in blood, staggered back, his eyes were full of horror and anger and shouted: "Stop him, stop him for me!" .”
It was just one move, and Qian Ning's life-and-death moment was almost super-level performance. The knife he slashed was almost comparable to a super-class strongman, but under Feng Qingyang's hands, he collapsed at the touch of a touch, and was immediately blown away.
That is, Qian Ning's potential exploded between life and death, otherwise, Feng Qingyang's sword would definitely kill Qian Ning.
From Gu Yuzhang's shouts, Qian Ning already knew that the one who attacked and killed him was actually Feng Qingyang, whom he didn't care about a moment ago, and Qian Ning was really hated.
He is not a fool, Feng Qingyang made a move against him suddenly, he must have heard what he said just now, otherwise, why didn't he make a move sooner or later, why did he make a move at that time.
Gu Yuzhang originally wanted to save Qian Ning, but Feng Buping stopped Gu Yuzhang as soon as he made a move, and the two of them were fighting together in an instant.
A dozen Jin Yiwei came to their senses, instinctively drew their swords out of their sheaths and rushed towards Feng Qingyang.
But Qian Ning just endured the severe pain in his body, rolling and crawling to avoid Feng Qingyang.
Feng Qingyang held the sword in his hand, looked at Qian Ning's embarrassed appearance, and said with disdain in his eyes: "Officer Dog, don't you look down on the old man? Didn't you say that you can kill the old man by just taking anyone with you?" The old man? Now that the old man is here, you killed the old man."
The people in the surrounding area were terrified by this sudden change, especially Qian Ning and his party, who were Jinyiwei. On this long street, in the important area of Xi'an Mansion, someone dared to attack and kill Jinyiwei officials in the street. This is simply shocking.
All of a sudden, the people around were frightened and fled in all directions, creating chaos.
"Flee, someone killed the official!"
"Run away!"
On the long street in the distance, a group of people and horses were rushing towards the Jinyiwei Qianhu House. Li Huan was riding on the horse, looking around at the appearance of the people in the prefectural city of Xi'an.
At the same time, Li Huan was also looking at the shops on both sides of the long street.
It can only be said that it is worthy of being the capital of a province. Even if natural disasters are raging, there are not many refugees in Xi'an Prefecture, but many people obviously look pale. It is obvious that they are not affected by the disaster. possible.
Chen Yao said in a low voice: "My lord, we have seen a lot of grain shops along the way, but the prices listed are astonishing. A stone of grain costs five taels of silver. This... this is money grabbing."
Du Guang sneered and said: "Normally speaking, during this catastrophe, the first thing the government should do is to help the victims and stabilize the price. Now the price of food is four or five times higher than usual. People in the government are all blind. It would be strange to say that there is nothing tricky about it.”
As he was walking slowly, suddenly a scholar in a blue gown was pushed to the ground by a waiter, and a string of copper coins in his hand fell to the ground.
"Dead and poor, don't come to buy food if you don't have money. Our food is relief food brought in by the imperial court. It is all the best polished rice. What are your hundreds of coppers worth? Don't affect our business. Get out of here soon." ..."
The scholar fell to the ground, looked at the arrogant guy, his eyes were full of unconcealable anger and said: "Profit merchants, you profiteers are hoarding things, driving up prices, and reselling food for the victims of disasters. You profiteers will be punished." ..."
Many passers-by around saw the scholar who had fallen to the ground, and then looked at the guy who was yelling at the scholar arrogantly, with a look of concern on his face.
Just when the scholar was scolding the guy, a steward walked out of the shop with a cold face, and said angrily at the scholar with a stick: "Death is poor, I don't know what the retribution is, I will know, if you don't Get out, I will beat you to death."
The scholar was beaten several times and screamed incessantly. Where did he dare to stay, he grabbed the copper coins that fell on the ground, turned around and ran away.
The steward glared at the guy with a sneer and said with a sneer: "You bastard, keep your mouth shut for me, what kind of relief food, all the food in our store is our own stock, what does it have to do with the government's relief food?"
As he spoke, the steward slapped the guy with a stick and said: "Let me hear your nonsense again, and I will break your dog legs."
Li Huan, who saw this scene clearly from a distance, couldn't help but glanced at the grain shop expressionlessly, while Chen Yao and Du Guang who were beside him had chills in their eyes.
"My lord, do you want to be subordinate..."
A sneer appeared on the corner of Li Huan's mouth, and his words were full of murderous intentions: "There is no rush."
While talking, suddenly there was a commotion in front of him, and a group of people ran over in a panic, shouting: "It's not good, the official was killed, someone killed the official."
Li Huan raised his brows, Chen Yao, Du Guang and the others also showed astonishment on their faces. This is the capital city of Xi'an Prefecture. In order to prevent refugees from entering the city and causing trouble, there are thousands of guards stationed outside the city. If there is chaos, the court soldiers and horses outside the city will seal the four gates and enter the city.
"go!"
Li Huan pulled the reins abruptly, and immediately the horse under him rushed forward. Within a dozen or so breaths, Li Huan saw an extremely embarrassed figure stumbling and fleeing for his life with the crowd, it was not Qian Ning or someone else.
Behind Qian Ning, the old man in Tsing Yi held a sword like a cat catching a mouse and stabbed out from time to time, leaving a wound on Qian Ning's body.
Looking at Qian Ning's miserable appearance, it was clear that Feng Qingyang was intentionally teasing and torturing Qian Ning, and Feng Qingyang was also narrow-minded, obviously trying to get revenge on what Qian Ning said just now.
However, Feng Qingyang looked at Qian Ning's embarrassed appearance, as if the anger in his heart had almost been vented, he sneered and said: "Guan Dog, I will send you on your way right now."
Qian Ning was shocked when he heard the words, his eyes were full of despair.
"Feng Qingyang, you are so courageous!"
At this moment, a voice suddenly sounded like thunder.
Desperate in his heart, Qian Ning suddenly heard this very familiar voice. He was overjoyed, and suddenly raised his head, his eyes burst into infinite surprise. He even couldn't help shouting: "My lord, save me!"
Li Huan was wearing a flying fish suit and a big cloak, riding on a war horse, high above, looking at Feng Qingyang from a distance, about ten feet away from Feng Qingyang.
When the surrounding crowd saw a group of brocade guards facing them, they almost instinctively dodged to the sides, looking at Li Huan and the others in awe.
And Li Huan's cry was like a life-saving straw to Qian Ning, and to Feng Qingyang, it obviously surprised Feng Qingyang.
Feng Qingyang looked towards Li Huan subconsciously, when he saw Li Huan, a murderous intent flashed in Feng Qingyang's eyes.
"Li Huan, it's you!"
For Li Huan Fengqingyang, he has a deep memory. The only time in his life that he suffered a serious injury was because of Li Huan, and even almost lost his life.
So Feng Qingyang could tell Li Huan only by listening to Li Huan's voice, and the moment he saw Li Huan, Feng Qingyang put all his energy on Li Huan.
Just when Feng Qingyang's attention was on Li Huan, Qian Ning, who had walked before the gate of hell, scrambled and crawled behind Li Huan almost immediately.
Two Jinyiwei school captains stepped forward to take Qian Ning down, but from the beginning to the end, Feng Qingyang didn't seem to pay attention to Qian Ning.
But only Feng Qingyang knew that the moment Li Huan appeared in front of him, Li Huan's aura had already locked on him, that is to say, if he dared to attack Qian Ning, then Li Huan's attack would definitely be in front of him. The first time comes.
If it was someone else's words, or if Feng Qingyang hadn't experienced how powerful Li Huan was, Feng Qingyang would definitely kill Qian Ning first before talking about it.
But Feng Qingyang knew Li Huan's strength better than anyone else, he was not sure that he could calmly deal with Li Huan's critical attack while killing Qian Ning.
Therefore, Feng Qingyang could only let Qian Ning escape under his nose.
Li Huan looked at Feng Qingyang and said indifferently: "Feng Qingyang, I didn't expect you to be alive."
Feng Qingyang laughed loudly when he heard the words: "Li Huan, are you very disappointed, that bastard Yue Buqun failed to kill the old man, so today the old man will kill you."
Li Huan just glanced at Feng Qingyang contemptuously, the next moment Du Guang took a step forward and said with a sneer: "Feng Qingyang, you are so bold, if you want to harm your lord, let's pass our test first. "
With a swish, dozens of powerful crossbows were aimed at Feng Qingyang, and those black arrows locked Feng Qingyang's figure.
Feng Qingyang's complexion changed slightly, the hairs all over his body stood up all of a sudden, he clenched the sword in his hand, his eyes narrowed like arrows flying straight towards Li Huan.
Feng Qingyang had already suffered a loss once, so naturally he couldn't suffer the same loss again, so the moment those arrows locked on him, Feng Qingyang rushed towards Li Huan resolutely.
Because Feng Qingyang knew very well that if he was really surrounded by these Jin Yiwei, even if he was unparalleled in swordsmanship, he would definitely not be able to withstand the mass shooting of many arrows.
Just like what Qian Ning said, if Jin Yiwei was given a chance to surround him, and then shoot with a crossbow and firecrackers, he might not be able to withstand it.
It is actually not difficult to break this situation, that is, before being surrounded, get close to Li Huan, and fight Li Huan personally, so Jin Yiwei will never dare to aim at Li Huan with a strong crossbow or a firecracker.
Seeing this, Du Guang shouted almost instantly: "Shoot!"
Arrows shot out one after another, but Feng Qingyang's reputation as a sword master was not for nothing, especially the swordsmanship of the Dugu Nine Swords was exquisite and unparalleled.
The sword lights all over the sky disappeared in a flash, and none of the dozens of arrows fell were blocked by Feng Qingyang with the sword in his hand.
At the same time, Feng Qingyang rushed to Li Huan.
Facing Feng Qingyang who was rushing forward, Li Huan not only did not dodge, but laughed out loud, and punched Feng Qingyang fiercely.
The fist hadn't hit him yet, but an extremely fierce wind was blowing towards his face, making Feng Qingyang couldn't help but recall the situation when he was seriously injured by Li Huan.
Almost instinctively, the sword flashed, and the sword in his hand pierced Li Huan's fist.
Feeling the incomparably sharp sword energy attacking, Li Huan's fist changed suddenly, from fist to palm, and he slapped the sword body with his palm, slapping Feng Qingyang's sword away, and the two of them passed by.
But Feng Qingyang turned around and stabbed with his sword again, Li Huan drew the saber in his hand, and when he slashed down with the saber, there was a clanging sound, and the swords collided together.
Feng Qingyang couldn't help smiling when he saw this, he found this precious sword in vain, as expected no matter how good Li Huanheng's kung fu was, he couldn't really be invulnerable and invulnerable.
As long as he is given an opportunity, he is absolutely sure that he can kill Li Huan with a single blow.
As for the Jin Yiwei and the powerful crossbows around him, Feng Qingyang didn't take it seriously at all. As long as he fought with Li Huan, none of the Jin Yiwei would dare to take the risk of affecting Li Huan.
With such a thought flashing through his mind, Feng Qingyang looked at Li Huan with a bit of sarcasm and murderous intent in his eyes.
Li Huan noticed Feng Qingyang's gaze, couldn't help showing a smile on the corner of his mouth, and said with a bit of disdain: "Feng Qingyang, I don't want to die."
Feng Qingyang was taken aback for a moment, couldn't help but burst out laughing, swiped his sword and slashed at Li Huan, and said disdainfully: "Officer dog, you are the one who suffered the death."
Li Huan suddenly reached out and grabbed Feng Qingyang's arm. Feng Qingyang subconsciously swung his sword at Li Huan's arm. Li Huan suddenly smiled at Feng Qingyang. The smile that appeared between them made Feng Qingyang feel a chill in his heart, and at the same time, a deadly crisis appeared in his heart.
"No, I'm in danger of my life!"
Almost instantly, the hairs on Feng Qingyang's body stood on end, and a warning sign rose in his heart, but at that moment, he couldn't figure out where the crisis came from.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa"
The sound of arrows piercing through the air sounded, Feng Qingyang was shocked immediately, turned his head to look, and saw that at some point, hundreds of Jin Yiwei had surrounded him, and dozens of crossbows were aimed at him There is also Li Huan shooting.
Seeing the flashing arrow piercing through the air, Feng Qingyang felt chills in his heart, he swung his sword to block and tried to break free from Li Huan's grasping hand.
"How dare you, aren't you afraid of shooting your family to death?"
Why did Feng Qingyang know that Jin Yiwei's powerful crossbows were strong, and dared to stay and attack Li Huan? Didn't he just be sure that these Jin Yiweis would not dare to attack them with their crossbows when he was fighting Li Huan?
After all, shooting with force, especially at the same time as fighting, is really indiscriminate between the enemy and the enemy. Maybe he will not be shot at that time, but Li Huan will be shot to death instead.
The crime of attacking and killing the Shangguan, it is expected that no one of these Jinyiwei can bear it.
Before he approached Li Huan to fight Li Huan, the Jinyiwei around him had strong crossbows in their hands but they didn't dare to make a move. Huan's safety was blatantly shot with a strong crossbow.
Just looking at the posture, it is obvious that even Li Huan is covered together. In this case, it is impossible for Feng Qingyang to dodge even if he wants to.
Amidst the tinkling sound, a crossbow arrow was blocked by Feng Qingyang, and Feng Qingyang yelled at Li Huan while blocking the crossbow arrow: "You want to take the old man with you and die together?"
With a puff sound, the arrow entered his body, Feng Qingyang couldn't help turning his face aside, let out a muffled groan, and saw a crossbow arrow submerged into Feng Qingyang's thigh, directly piercing through.
Immediately, another crossbow arrow sank into Feng Qingyang's waist, and Feng Qingyang's body staggered when the strong force hit directly.
At the same time, Li Huan, who was holding onto Feng Qingyang with all his strength, was also submerged by the crossbow arrows without any resistance.
Feng Qingyang was hit by several crossbow arrows, with blood flowing from his mouth, seeing Li Huan who was submerged by the crossbow arrows, he couldn't help laughing and said: "If you accompany me to die together, I will..."
However, the next moment Feng Qingyang opened his eyes wide, with an expression of disbelief on his face, and then his eyes were full of surprise and regret.
The effect of the body protection of the "Thirteen Taibao Henglian Shengong" is absolutely amazing. At the beginning, Li Huan tried to resist the crossbow arrows with his body. Although it was very painful to be shot, it was difficult to break the body protection of the Thirteen Taibao Henglian The effect is not hurt at all.
So what shocked Feng Qingyang was that Li Huan was hit by more than a dozen crossbow arrows, but his whole body was not damaged at all.
"Shoot again!"
Du Guang stopped drinking again, and saw the arrows coming again. Feng Qingyang, who had already been hit by several arrows, couldn't help roaring, "Li Huan is dead."
This time Feng Qingyang didn't care about it, he just gathered all his strength and unleashed a fatal blow.
Li Huan laughed loudly, and the big hand that was holding onto Feng Qingyang's arm suddenly pushed forward, and suddenly a terrifying force swept Feng Qingyang's body.
Feng Qingyang, who was already hit by an arrow in his body, was rushed by this force, stepped back a few steps, and the next moment, the black arrows directly drowned Feng Qingyang.
"Er... the old man is unwilling..."
His whole body was full of arrows, no fewer than dozens of them. Feng Qingyang opened his eyes wide after heaving a sigh of relief, staring at Li Huan with full unwillingness, and as the breath dissipated, his whole body crashed. fall down.
When Li Huan was fighting Feng Qingyang, Feng Buping had already abandoned Gu Yuzhang, watching from afar, his eyes full of worry.
If it were not for Feng Qingyang's absolute confidence in Feng Qingyang's unsurpassed swordsmanship, Feng Buping would have been in despair.
After all, with the hundreds of Jinyi guards behind Li Huan and the powerful crossbows in their hands, Feng Buping couldn't see the slightest hope.
Originally thought that Feng Qingyang and Li Huan would be able to kill Li Huan in a close fight, and then took advantage of the chaos to break out of the encirclement and escape.
Originally, everything went quite smoothly. Feng Qingyang deserved to be a generation of sword masters. His strength could indeed suppress Li Huan. If there were no miracles, Feng Qingyang might actually hurt Li Huan.
But before Feng Buping could breathe a sigh of relief, an unbelievable scene happened to Feng Buping.
The Jinyi guards around didn't care about Li Huan's safety, and directly shot with their powerful crossbows. In an instant, Feng Qingyang was hit by several arrows, but Li Huan was unscathed.
Feng Buping just watched helplessly as the most talented swordsman of their sword sect, the generation of sword masters with the reputation of invincibility was extremely aggrieved after being shot like a hedgehog and fell into a pool of blood.
"Uncle Feng!"
When Feng Qingyang fell, the little hope in Feng Buping's heart of revitalizing the Huashan Sword Sect also collapsed.
Almost instantly, more than a dozen Jin Yiwei and Gu Yuzhang sealed off all of Feng Buping's escape routes, and a strong crossbow locked on Feng Buping.
Gu Yuzhang looked at Feng Buping coldly and said, "Feng Buping, I'll arrest you if you don't let go."
Feng Buping laughed loudly when he heard the words, and glanced at Feng Qingyang, who was lying in a pool of blood not far away, with a look of death, a flicker of madness flashed in Feng Buping's mountain: "As early as decades ago, a certain Feng It's time to go with Jianzong, Uncle Feng, the disciple is here!"
Seeing Feng Buping swinging his sword forward, Du Guang sneered, and shouted without hesitation: "Shoot."
The next moment, Feng Buping just swept away a few crossbow arrows, and then more arrows sank into his body, directly impaling him like a hedgehog.
Gu Yuzhang watched Feng Buping being shot and killed on the spot, and said with a bit of regret: "What a pity, I wanted to capture him alive and ask about Yue Qianhu's whereabouts."
And at this moment, Qian Ning, who had already treated the wound on his body, came over wrapped like a rice dumpling, bowed down to Li Huan and said, "Your Majesty Qian Ning, Deputy Qianhu of Shanxi Jinyiwei, pays my respects to Commander-in-Chief."
Gu Yuzhang, who had reacted, also hurriedly stepped forward with several surviving Jinyiwei from Shaanxi Jinyiwei Qianhu Office to salute Li Huan.
Li Huan glanced at Qian Ning, Gu Yuzhang and the others, nodded slightly and said, "There's no need to be polite, let's all get up."
Qian Ning and the others stood up, resisting the severe pain in their bodies, Qian Ning said to Li Huan: "It is thanks to my lord for killing this thief Feng Qingyang, otherwise, the entire Shanxi Qianhu Institute would be killed by this thief." Kill them all."
This is a bit exaggerated, but if Li Huan hadn't killed them in time, the Shanxi Jinyiwei Qianhu Office would have been wiped out because of the wind.
After all, Qianhu Yue Buqun has disappeared and is still unknown. If Qian Ning and other key executives of the Qianhu Office die, then the Shanxi Jinyiwei Qianhu Office will really be paralyzed.
Li Huan glanced at the corpses of Feng Qingyang and Feng Buping, frowned slightly and said: "Immediately order someone to investigate to see if the two have any accomplices, and if so, they must be wiped out .”
Qian Ning immediately took the order and told Gu Yuzhang: "Gu Zongqi, you have fought against the accomplices of these people before, so you will handle this matter."
Gu Yuzhang said solemnly: "This subordinate takes orders."
Jinyiwei Qianhu Office Yamen
As Li Huan entered the Yamen of the Thousand Households, the entire Yamen of the Thousand Households was filled with a sense of murder.
Sitting in the lobby, Li Huan, who had changed into a black brocade suit, sat there, flipping through the pile of brocade clothes in front of him, looking through all the news collected by the Thousand Households of the Guards over the past few days.
However, Qian Ning and several officials of the Thousand Households Office sat upright with solemn expressions. The hall was quiet, only the slight sound of Li Huan flipping the files.
After an unknown amount of time passed, Li Huan closed the stack of files, and looked up at Qian Ning and the others expressionlessly.
Noticing that Li Huan was looking at them, the group headed by Qian Ning quickly sat up straight and looked at Li Huan respectfully.
Li Huan said indifferently: "Why is there so little money and food from the Xi'an government?"
Qian Ning knew that Li Huan would ask about this, so he couldn't help showing a wry smile and said, "My lord, you don't know, because of Yuan Ming, the former Qianhu official, the manpower of Qianhu's prefecture was almost wiped out..."
Li Huan couldn't help frowning when he heard the words, and immediately understood why Jin Yiwei collected information, many places in Shaanxi were extremely reliable, and even the records of officials involved in corruption were extremely reliable, but some places were very vague.
In the final analysis, he was still influenced by Yuan Ming, the thousand-household official.
Because of Yuan Ming's collusion and collusion with local officials in Shaanxi, after Yue Buqun and Qian Ning took over, they must clean up Yuan Ming's party. It was cut off, although Yue Buqun and Qian Ning also sent additional manpower to relocate Jin Yiwei's spies, but it is obvious that without many years of hard work, it is impossible to have much effect.
And Xi'an Mansion is Yuan Ming's lair. It can be said that Jin Yiwei's manpower and spies in Xi'an Mansion are almost all exposed and cleared. Under such circumstances, it would be strange if Qian Ning and the others could grasp any useful information.
Seeing Li Huan's gloomy face, Qian Ning and several officials quickly knelt down in front of Li Huan and said, "Your subordinates are incompetent, please punish me."
Li Huan took a deep breath, waved his hands and said, "Yuan Ming is guilty of this matter, and has nothing to do with you."
Originally, Li Huan thought that when he arrived in Xi'an Mansion, he would be able to take down these corrupt officials together with the evidence collected by Jin Yiwei that the officials in Xi'an Mansion were corrupt.
After all, even if he is an imperial envoy, if he wants to arrest someone, he still needs to provide evidence. It is impossible to let him arrest people at will.
Perhaps arresting one or two people is no problem, but if large-scale arrests are made, the entire officialdom in Shaanxi may collapse.
If it was other times, Li Huan was really not afraid. Even if it really collapsed, it would take some time to replace all the officials.
However, this is not an option right now, even if many officials in the government office should be killed, without evidence, it is not easy for Li Huan to take down all these people.
Otherwise, there is no evidence to take people at will, and under the panic, Shaanxi, which was originally sitting on the crater of a volcano, might really explode.
No matter how bad these local officials are, at least they can maintain the order of the court and, to a certain extent, ensure the stability of the overall situation in Shaanxi.
There is a saying that no order is better than no order. It is better to be a dog of peace than to be a chaotic person.
Many local officials may be greedy for ink, but these officials still have to do the obvious work. Even the apparent work can keep many refugees alive.
However, once Li Huan arrests people at will without evidence, the entire Shaanxi officials will be in chaos, which means that the situation that originally maintained a certain order will collapse. Li Huan can imagine that such a situation will happen. There will inevitably be flames of war in Shaanxi, and countless people in chaos. At that time, I don't know how many people will die in the chaos.
Resisting the urge in his heart to immediately take down all the officials in the government office for interrogation, Li Huan ordered Qian Ning: "Go, give me all kinds of civilian supplies in the city, such as food, oil, etc. Find out the prices of materials such as , salt, and cloth, including who are the wealthy merchants in Fucheng who control these materials."
Qian Ning took a deep breath and said respectfully, "Your subordinate will do it now."
Watching Qian Ning and the others leave, Chen Yao said to Li Huan, "My lord, why don't you arrest him directly? Does the Jin Yiwei need evidence to arrest someone? When you were in the capital, you just need to arrest someone if you suspect that you are right." Why did you come here with your hands tied..."
He glanced at Chen Yao lightly, but Li Huan didn't explain, the reason for this was that even Chen Yao, a reckless man, might not understand.
Standing up slowly, Li Huan said to Du Guang and Chen Yao, "Come out with me for a walk."
Changed into casual clothes, Li Huan and the others walked on the long street, looking around, especially stopping for a while when passing by some shops.
When walking out of a store, Chen Yao said in a low voice: "My lord, someone has been following us from a distance, do you want your subordinates to arrest him..."
Li Huan shook his head and said, "Since they want to follow, let them follow."
Before they knew it, several people had arrived at the gate of the city.
A large number of refugees gathered just outside the city gate, but it can be seen that the order of the refugees is not bad. Dozens of cauldrons are lined up in a row, and white rice grains are rolling in the cauldrons. It looks like it was distributed by the imperial court. relief food.
Seeing those ragged and pale victims lined up to receive rice porridge, and then shouting "Master Qingtian, Long Live the Son of Heaven", Li Huan couldn't help being silent for a while.
At this time Chen Yao came over quietly, and said to Li Huan in a low voice: "My lord, I have already inquired clearly. These days, the government sent people here to serve porridge here in the morning and evening, and all of them were cooked with the best refined grains. Rice porridge is not mixed with spoiled rice grains."
Speaking of which, Chen Yao wondered: "Could it be that all the officials and gentlemen in Fucheng have changed their temperament one by one, and they are all good officials who are as clean as water and love the people like their sons?"
Hearing this, Li Huan couldn't help sneering: "If that's the case, we're still in the capital right now, and we won't come all the way here for inspections."
Speaking of which, Li Huan took a deep breath and said, "I hope that they are all as clean as water and love the people as sons, but it's a pity that this is obviously not the case."
Thinking of the arrogant words he heard from the grain store clerk in that grain store not long ago, could it be possible that the relief food from the imperial court sold in that grain store was conjured out of thin air?
In the evening, Li Huan and his party returned to the yamen of Jinyiwei's Thousand Households. At this moment, Qian Ning saw Li Huan and hurriedly said, "My lord, not long ago, someone from the yamen sent an account book."
When Li Huan walked into the hall, Qian Ning hurriedly ordered someone to fetch a stack of account books.
Li Huan took a copy casually, then flipped through it, and soon there was a sneer on the corner of his mouth, and he threw it aside.
Seeing this, Du Guang took it and looked it over, but Chen Yao couldn't understand the dense records, but looked at Du Guang curiously and said, "Du Guang, tell me, is there any problem with this account book?"
Du Guang couldn't help rolling his eyes when he heard the words: "If there is a problem, those people in the government office will send the account books, wouldn't they come to the door with all the evidence?"
Chen Yao nodded subconsciously when he heard this, and said, "What you said makes sense, but how can we investigate in this way?"
Because of Yuan Ming, it was impossible to expect the spies placed by Jin Yiwei to get inside information. As for checking the accounts, since they dared to be greedy, the accounts were absolutely leak-free.
If Li Huan is really proficient in accounting, it may take some time to check the account books, and it may not be impossible to find out the problem.
It's a pity that Li Huan is not proficient in accounting. If he really has the time to check the accounts, he might as well follow his own method.
So from the very beginning, Li Huan didn't expect to find out any problems from the account books.
Seeing several people looking at him, Li Huan's eyes shone brightly, and he said with a light smile, "It's nothing more than investigating these people's greed for money and food. In fact, it's difficult to say, and it's not difficult to say."
As he spoke, Li Huan looked at Qian Ning and said, "Qian Ning, how did you do with the information that you were asked to investigate?"
Qian Ning reacted after hearing the words and said quickly: "The subordinate has ordered someone to investigate clearly."
As he spoke, Qian Ning took out a booklet from his cuff and handed it to Li Huan, "My lord, here are all the information on more than a hundred grain merchants, salt merchants, and cloth merchants in the city, as well as the prices of various materials. real-time prices."
Li Huan flipped through the booklet, a smile gradually appeared on the corner of his mouth and said: "Since those people are doing everything well, then Li will ignore them for now, and let's talk about these wealthy businessmen for a while."
The few people were stunned for a moment, and then Qian Ning's face showed a look of surprise. He vaguely guessed Li Huan's intention, and when he looked at Li Huan, his eyes were full of admiration.
Immediately, Qian Ning bowed to Li Huan and said, "Your Excellency's move, the lower officials admire you."
Chen Yao and Du Guang were still in a daze at the moment, and they couldn't help looking at Qian Ning with puzzled eyes when they heard the words.
Qian Ning could see his intentions, so Li Huan was not surprised, he just smiled and said, "In that case, then you, Qian Ning, will come forward and hold a banquet in Tianfanglou, for this official, Hu Xi, Su Xiang, Wei Kun and the others said that the imperial envoy was personally the host and invited them to discuss matters."
Qian Ning heard the words and said, "I'll do it right away."
苏府
Su Xiang is now looking at a secret letter from Cheng Tai, the new chief envoy he attached to not long ago.
Opening the secret letter, Su Xiang read the contents of the secret letter, a smile gradually appeared on the corner of his mouth and said: "It turns out that it is really an imperial envoy of the capital, but even if it is an imperial envoy, what can it do, it is really delusional to want to check the relief food. "
After burning the secret letter to ashes, Su Xiang called the steward and said, "Steward, prepare a gift, remember to make it thicker, and order someone to deliver it to the new imperial envoy."
The housekeeper took the order and retreated.
But soon, the housekeeper came over with a strange expression on his face, holding an invitation card in his hand.
Hearing the sound of footsteps, Su Xiang looked up at the butler, and when his eyes fell on the invitation card in the butler's hand, his face showed a bit of surprise: "This is..."
The housekeeper coughed lightly and said, "Master, this is from the staff of the Jinyiwei Thousand Households Office. They said that they want the master to personally open it."
Su Xiang raised his brows, a trace of surprise and doubt flashed in his eyes, he accepted the invitation and said: "People from Jinyiwei..."
When he opened the invitation to see clearly the content of the invitation, Su Xiang paused his hands slightly, and there was a hint of surprise in his eyes, and then he didn't know what to think of, and suddenly couldn't help laughing: "What an imperial envoy, Mr. Li, The old man wants to see what you want to do."
Hearing this, the housekeeper said doubtfully, "Master!"
Su Xiang glanced at the butler lightly and said: "It's okay, it's the imperial envoy who invited me to Tianfanglou for a banquet tomorrow."
The steward turned pale with shock and said, "Ah, what did the imperial envoy invite the master to do for no reason? Don't you have some malicious intentions?"
Su Xiang, on the other hand, looked quite calm with a bit of sarcasm, as if he had seen through Li Huan's purpose, and said: "It's nothing more than taking advantage of the opportunity to ask for benefits. I've seen such officials and old men a lot, and they're all like dogs."
As he said that, Su Xiang showed a bit of heartache on his face and said: "Go and get the mutton fat jade Buddha that the master treasures."
After a pause, he continued: "Add another 3000 taels of gold, after all, it is an imperial envoy. These should be enough to fill this imperial envoy."
The housekeeper exclaimed: "Master, the Jade Buddha plus gold is worth no less than 5 taels, isn't it..."
Su Xiang waved his hands and said, "Just do as the master tells you."
The same situation also appeared in Hu Xihu's family, Wei Kunwei's family, and several other luxury merchants who almost monopolize various industries.
吴府
Wu Wei sat there with his eyes squinted, looked at one of his servants and said, "You said that the imperial envoy just walked around the street today, and then went to see the porridge shop at the gate of the city?"
The servant nodded and said: "Back to the master, the people I sent were very cautious and followed those people all the way. Those people did go to these few places."
Wu Wei pondered for a while when he heard the words, nodded slightly and said: "Okay, I know, I ordered people to be more careful, so as not to be discovered."
The servant nodded and said: "Master, don't worry, the people who followed were all beggars found in the city. Even if they were found, they would not be able to find us."
While talking, a manager came in a hurry, handed a letter to Wu Wei and said, "Master, this is sent by Wei Kun and Wei Wei."
Wu Wei frowned, took the letter and opened it and couldn't help but frowned.
It turned out that Wei Kun told Wu Wei in the letter that Li Huan invited him to Tianfanglou for a reunion tomorrow.
Wu Wei frowned, his face was full of puzzlement, and he said suspiciously: "It's strange, Li Huan didn't go to the treasury to check, but just wandered around the city, and somehow invited Wei Kun, a salt merchant, what the hell is he doing?" intention?"
Tianfanglou
As one of the best restaurants in the prefectural capital of Xi'an, it was booked out by people from Jinyiwei early this morning.
The owner of the restaurant looked at the captain of Jinyiwei who was guarding all around with fear in his heart, but he had to serve him carefully.
Not long after, several carriages appeared at the gate of Tianfanglou, and several figures walked out of the carriages.
Qian Ning, who was the Deputy Qianhu of Jin Yiwei, stood at the door to greet him even though he was injured all over his body.
Looking at the list of gifts, and seeing the big boxes being carried away by his subordinates, the corners of Qian Ning's mouth could not help twitching.
I was secretly surprised in my heart, these people really deserved to be wealthy businessmen who claimed to be worth millions, and their actions were really extraordinary, and the gifts that any one of them gave were all of great value. The sum of these dozens of companies only gave gifts and gold. Yes, there are as many as 10 taels.
Thinking of this, Qian Ning couldn't help swallowing wildly. He might be able to take tens of thousands of taels of silver calmly, but when he thought of receiving hundreds of thousands of silver in such a short period of time, Qian Ning looked at everyone with strange eyes. .
Hu Xi, Su Xiang, Wei Kun and others were chatting and laughing in the lobby of the restaurant. Every time someone came, the uneasiness and uneasiness in their hearts was reduced a bit.
He even watched from afar the expression change on the face of Qian Ning, the official of thousands of households, who was standing at the door after receiving a gift list.
Seeing Qian Ning's astonished expression, Hu Xi, Su Xiang, and Wei Kun couldn't help but look at each other with disdain in the depths of their eyes.
The world is as black as crows, this is true, the officials in the officialdom are all of the same appearance, even Jin Yiwei can't see anything yellow and white.
I just don't know how Li Huan, the imperial envoy who invited them here, will react if he sees the generous gifts they offer.
Is it like those officials they have met before, they are so open-eyed when they see money, all of them are blinded, they change their superior posture, and treat them extremely kindly and kindly.
[Yesterday I failed to pretend to be coercive, and I was slapped in the face, and I didn't make it the second time. I will never eat barbecue or drink again.Thirteen thousand today is equivalent to being changed four times, please subscribe, monthly pass, tip. 】
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