Thief Emperor

Chapter 542 The whole world is the enemy
"Assassinated?!"

Zhou Bi's voice was quite loud. Du Qian and Li Yun exclaimed almost at the same time. Du Qian strode forward and frowned, "What happened? I was meeting Zhou Chang an hour ago. How did he get assassinated?"

Li Yun narrowed his eyes and asked in a deep voice, "Is Liu Bo in Jinling?"

Zhou Bi shook his head slightly: "Nine... Liu Sizheng is still in Huainan Road, helping to coordinate the various armies."

Li Yun rubbed his temple and said, "I'm so anxious that I'm confused. Zhou Bi, you and Yang Xi take people over there and seal off the scene. No one is allowed to enter or leave. Find the best doctor in Jinling to treat his injuries!"

"No matter what, he can't be allowed to die in Jinling!"

Zhou Bi responded and said quickly: "The doctor has been found. I will go find Brother Yang and seal off the scene!"

After saying that, he turned around and ran away.

Li Yun looked back at Du Qian, and their eyes met. Du Qian touched his beard and said, "Two possibilities."

"One is that it was done by the imperial court."

Du Qian whispered, "The court does not want Jiangdong and Pinglu Army to live in peace, and even less does it want you, Erlang, to dominate the southeast."

Li Yun did not rush out immediately, but pulled Du Qian to sit down again and asked, "What about the second option?"

Du Qian said softly, "Of course it's General Xiao from Fanyang."

"Everywhere is scrambling to occupy territory. If the Fanyang Army wants to move south, the first one they will face is the Pinglu Army. Now the territories of both sides are adjacent to each other."

"The Fanyang Army naturally wants us to keep clashing with the Pinglu Army, even to the point where both sides suffer losses. The Fanyang Army can take the opportunity to move south. At that time, they can not only eat up Qingzhou, but if we also suffer heavy losses, they can even move directly south..."

"Come and take the southeast."

"That makes sense."

Li Yun picked up the teacup, closed his eyes and thought for a while, then said, "I'm thinking, it's time to clean up Jinling inside and outside."

After Li Yun occupied Nanjing, he did not carry out a large-scale cleanup and did not even close the city gates.

Moreover, the Central Plains was in turmoil at that time, and many refugees from the Central Plains fled to Jinling Prefecture to settle down. Jinling Prefecture basically took over. Now there are actually many outsiders in Jinling City.

Originally, this kind of mistake should not have been made, but Li Yun progressed too quickly and his influence expanded too quickly, resulting in many other things to do, so this matter was gradually shelved.

But it was clear that this matter was imminent.

After the two discussed for a while, Li Yun stood up and said, "I'll go take a look at the scene."

Du Qian also stood up and said, "I'll go with Erlang to see if there's anything I can do to help."

Li Yun nodded, and the two of them left Li Garden, one in front and one behind, and got on Li Yun's dark black carriage.

The carriage soon stopped in front of the gate of Jinling Guild Hall. When Li Yun got off the carriage, the area had been taken over by Yang Xi and his men.

At this moment, his injury has healed, but he was originally on vacation and would not return to work until after the Chinese New Year. Under special circumstances, Zhou Bi called him back directly.

After seeing Li Yun, Yang Xi hurried forward and saluted: "Take the seat!"

After coming back, he also learned about this new popular name in Jinling City and started shouting it too.

After saluting, he looked at Du Qian behind Li Yun, smiled and bowed his head, "Mr. Du."

Li Yun looked at him and asked, "What's the situation?"

Yang Xi grinned and said, "Don't worry, sir. The boy is not dead."

"I asked the doctor, and he said that he probably won't die, but his injuries are pretty serious."

Yang Xi looked around and said in a low voice, "He was stabbed in the back and under the ribs. Neither was deep. If it was half an inch deeper, he would have died."

Li Yun closed his eyes and asked, "Has the assassin been caught?"

"There are two assassins."

Yang Xi replied: "Master Zhou also has good fighters around him. He stopped them on the spot. These two were very decisive and killed themselves by slitting their throats."

"We have put the body away."

Du Qian listened, stepped forward silently, and whispered to Li Yun: "To commit suicide like this, he must be someone from the Imperial City Bureau, or a death squad sent out by the Imperial City Bureau."

Li Yun thought for a moment, then said to Yang Xi, "Stay at the door. Brother Du and I will go in and take a look."

The two of them entered the guild hall one after the other. Not long after they entered, they saw Gongsun Hao already sitting on the ground outside Zhou Chang's room.

Li Yun stepped forward, looked at him, and said, "General Gongsun."

Gongsun Hao raised his head and looked at Li Yun, then looked at Du Qian, gritted his teeth and said, "Mr. Li, something like this happened in Jinling. Do you want to give an explanation to Qingzhou and the general?"

Li Yun shook his head slightly: "General Gongsun, no matter how you think about it, it is impossible for me to do this. I don't need any means to kill you."

Gongsun Hao sneered: "Perhaps he did something like this in order to conceal his tracks."

Li Yun shook his head, too lazy to say anything more to him. He just walked to the door of the room, pushed it open and walked in.

As soon as the door was opened, a bloody smell hit him. Du Qian frowned subconsciously, but Li Yun had already gotten used to the smell and walked in without changing his expression.

In the room, Zhou Chang had taken off all his clothes, and his wound was bandaged with gauze, with blood seeping out of the gauze.

Blood-stained scarves could be seen everywhere in the room.

Li Yun put his hands in his sleeves, walked forward, bent down slightly, and looked at Zhou Chang lying on the bed.

At this time, the major general closed his eyes tightly, his face was pale and bloodless.

Li Yun looked at the doctor beside him again, and the doctor said quickly: "Master, the wound has been treated and medicine has been applied. The fever will rise in the next few days. As long as you can hold on for a few days and the fever goes away, there will be nothing to worry about."

Li Yun said "hmm", glanced at Zhou Chang, and sighed slightly: "Major General, can you hear me?"

Zhou Chang tried hard to open his eyes. After seeing Li Yun beside the bed, he opened his mouth and murmured something before saying in a hoarse voice, "Li...Uncle Li."

Seeing that he was struggling to speak, Li Yun shook his head slightly and sighed, "You should take a good rest. I will investigate this matter myself and give you and Qingzhou an explanation."

After that, Li Yun left the room. After he walked out, he looked at Zhou Bi who was following him and said, "I have a task for you."

"During this period of time, you don't have to do anything. Just stay here with Yang Xi to protect Zhou Chang's safety."

Zhou Bi responded and bowed his head deeply: "Yes!"

After arranging some trivial matters, Li Yun and Du Qian left the guild hall together. After walking outside, Li Yun said with his hands behind his back, "Before, I suspected that it was some kind of self-torture to get more benefits from Jinling. After seeing his injuries, I don't think it's possible."

Du Qian also nodded.

"I have read the situation in Qingzhou in detail. Although Zhou Xu has many sons, he is the only one who can do anything at the moment. He will not pay such a high price in exchange for some uncertain benefits."

"Brother Du, don't worry about this."

Li Yun said in a deep voice: "It just so happens that from now until the end of the year, I don't have anything big to do. I will use the Nine Divisions to clean up Jinling City from inside to outside."

"It would be best if we could find any traces of this incident. If we can't, we can just take precautions."

He looked at Du Qian.

"After all, our families are small and both are in Jinling City."

"it is good."

Du Qian nodded first, then whispered: "This kind of murder case is also within the responsibility of Jinling Prefecture. Do you want the yamen runners of Jinling Prefecture to investigate as well?"

"Okay."

Li Yun thought about it and nodded, "All the government offices in Jinling are in great need of experience right now. They can handle this matter on their own."

After a brief discussion, the two separated on the spot. Li Yun returned to Li Garden and Du Qian returned to the Jinling government office.

Not long after returning to Li Garden, Meng Hai, dressed in blue, trotted all the way to Li Yun's study. When he saw Li Yun, he immediately half-knelt on the ground and bowed his head deeply: "Ascend to the throne!"

"Nine officials have failed in their duties. Please punish them!"

"Send a message to Liu Bo, asking him to come back immediately."

"I have sent people to seal the gates of Jinling City. I will give you three days. Not to mention to catch all the demons and monsters in Jinling City, but to clean it up as a whole."

"In the future, if such an important person gets into trouble again."

Li Yun reached out and knocked on the table: "Everyone related to the Nine Departments must be convicted!"

Before this, Jiusi was just an intelligence agency. No matter whether the intelligence work was done well or not, at most there was a difference between merit and no merit, but there was no guilt.

After this incident, the Nine Departments will also have to establish rules to distinguish merits and demerits.

In other words, the intelligence agency that Li Yun had been planning to build for several years was about to be formally established.

Meng Hai lowered his head and said quickly: "I understand!"

After Li Yun gave him a few instructions, he let him leave to do his job.

After Meng Hai left, Li Yun found a pen and ink, picked up the pen himself, and wrote a letter to General Zhou Xu.

Although this matter was not big or small, Li Yun was not afraid of continuing to tangle with the Pinglu Army.

But no matter what, we must not be led by the enemy in the dark.

The letter was written quickly. After Li Yun blew the ink dry, he sealed the letter and asked someone to send it to Qingzhou.

After the letter was sent, it was already dark.

Li Yun put his hands behind his back, looked up at the sky, and couldn't help but sigh.

"Walking down this road, it really is... the whole world is your enemy."

(End of this chapter)