Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 1032

After Liu Jinyuan led the navy to occupy this place, the first thing Kou Zhun did was to establish a household registration system, whether it was the original Luzon natives, the family members of the naval soldiers under Liu Jinyuan, or those who were forcibly removed from the Dai Viet by Liu Jinyuan. The [-] households who migrated were all registered as Qimin households by Kou Zhun. In less than a month, the total number of Jinyuan Islands has already reached [-] households. With this alone, Jinyuan Island has become one of the most important households in the South China Sea. Island, among the many forces, lived up to the name of the overlord.

In this era, household registration means taxation, and it also means strong force. With the army in this area, this is a force that cannot be underestimated.

In short, with the arrival of Kou Zhun, Ye Chen's strategic goal for the South China Sea began to gradually unfold under the impetus of Kou Zhun and Liu Jinyuan.According to Kou Zhun's plan, the South China Sea will be completely controlled within three years, and all human beings on the tens of thousands of islands in the South China Sea will be brought back to their native lands.Of course, to achieve this point, within three years, the [-] navy must be expanded to at least five times to seven, which means that Liu Jinyuan must have an elite navy of [-] to [-].

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The morning light had already emerged, and there were already few pedestrians on the streets of Yingtianfu City.

The former deputy battalion commander of the Assassin Battalion of the Special Brigade of Xiangfu State, now only second to Shangguan Bingyun's deputy commander Zhong Sanhe of the Shadow Guard Department, came to the gambling house, several black-clothed men guarded the door, saw Zhong Sanhe, and shouted: "The casino has not opened yet, so come back later, what's the rush?"

Zhong Sanhe laughed and said, "I'm looking for Wu Zhongtian."

The big man said angrily: "What are you, you dare to call Boss Wu by his name."

Zhong Sanhe said: "I'm nothing but Wu Zhongtian's brother."

Several big men glanced at it, and one of them hurried in.

Although Zhong Sanhe was unwilling to be transferred to the Shadow Guard Division at first, since he had His Majesty's will, he did not dare to disobey, not to mention that he was transferred from the position of deputy battalion commander of the Killer Battalion and directly promoted to the fourth rank. It's not too much to be promoted to two levels, but to be promoted to four levels all of a sudden, even Zhong Sanhe is secretly overjoyed.

After a while, Wu Zhongtian Shi Shiran came out. Although his face looked like he was not awake, his eyes were still burning brightly. He glanced up and down at Zhong Sanhe, and said coldly: "Who is your Excellency? I can’t remember having a brother like your Excellency.”

Zhong Sanhe said: "Last year at the Luoyang Peony Fair, you and I hit it off right away."

Wu Zhongtian was startled, suddenly took his hand, and said with a big laugh: "So the third brother is the most king, brother really deserves to die, but he forgot the appearance of the third brother."

Zhong Sanhe secretly lamented Shangguan Bingyun's cautiousness in doing things, while being led into the backyard by Wu Zhongtian, Shangguan Bingyun dressed as Lin Ruoxi had been waiting here for a long time.

After meeting each other, Shangguan Bingyun asked, "How's the news going?"

Zhong Sanhe immediately said: "Following the clues given by the lord, this subordinate found out that Zheng Yongchun and the other three first-class masters had seen the same person before returning from the top of Mount Tai. Looking at this person, unexpectedly, last night this person sent out another painting."

Shangguan Bingyun lifted his spirits and asked, "Who is this person, and where is he at this time?"

Zhong Sanhe immediately said: "This person is dressed strangely, has a narrow sword, and has first-class strength. He is the left guardian of the Huangshan Sword School in linen."

Shangguan Bingyun suddenly thought of something, and said, "Where is Ma Yike now? Tell me where he is now, or it will be too late."

Zhong Sanhe's expression changed immediately, thinking why Shangguan Bingyun was so nervous, and said: "He is staying in the Fugui Inn in the south of the city."

Before he finished speaking, Shangguan Bingyun had already flashed out, and Shangguan Bingyun's voice came from a distance: "Call the thirteen masters I carefully selected, and hurry up to catch up."

Zhong Sanhe bowed and said yes, and then summoned his staff.

The Fugui Inn is very large, and there are many tourists. Mai Ke lives alone in a small courtyard in Chaoyang.

It's just that when Shangguan Bingyun came, Ma Yike had already gone out early in the morning.

Shangguan Bingyun inquired clearly, turned around twice, and then got rid of the shop assistant who was staring at him like a thief. The shop assistant saw the person in front of him suddenly disappear, thought he had encountered a fox fairy, crawled on the ground and couldn't stop Kowtow, but Shangguan Bingyun has already arrived in the courtyard, and a shadow guard who is in charge of watching here is already waiting here, bowed and said: "My lord, the Maid guest has just left, and the other two of us have followed."

Shangguan Bingyun was going to catch up immediately, but he thought that Cui Xidang would not kill in public, so he didn't leave. This shadow guard is a clever person, and immediately understood what his lord meant, so he quickly took out a copper Si easily unlocked the door.

The sackclothed guest didn't have much luggage, only a gray bundle, which contained a change of underwear, two pairs of pants, and a scroll of yellow silk scriptures.

This volume of scriptures is in the underwear and bound with a silk strip, obviously the linen guest thinks it is very precious, Shangguan Bingyun thought to himself: "Could it be that the painting is hidden in this scripture?"

At this moment, Shangguan Bingyun has deduced that when Cui Xi murdered and took out his heart, the victim was looking at the portrait of Shui'er, and most of them were doing something obscene. killed.

Shangguan Bingyun untied the thread, and a folded painting fell from the scriptures.

Shangguan Bingyun quickly opened the portrait, and it was indeed the portrait of Shui'er, and it was almost exactly the same as the portrait in Zheng Yongchun's room, obviously it was from the same person.

Shangguan Bingyun pondered for a while, then returned the portrait, baggage and other things to their original state.No one could tell that it had been touched.Then he pondered for a while, and told the shadow guard: "I will hide in the house later, you tell Zhong Sanhe to lead someone to hide nearby, but don't get too close, lest the devil find out in advance. If the devil appears later, I will first entangle him and send out a signal, so that after Zhong Sanhe hears the signal, he will quickly bring people over."

The shadow guard bowed and said yes, then turned and left.

After Shangguan Bingyun carefully observed the maid's room, he finally got under the bed.

Not long after, Mai Ke returned to the inn, but to Shangguan Bingyun's disappointment, Mai Ke never took out Shui'er's portrait to look at.According to Shangguan Bingyun's inference, Cui Xi would not do anything if Ma Yike didn't look at the portrait and didn't allow himself to enter the special state of lust and burning his body. Difficult to find its whereabouts.

Through the gap, Shangguan Bingyun saw a skinny swordsman with a black hairpin and high bun come back, instead of going into the bedroom, he sat by the window outside the house, called the inn waiter to make a pot of tea, and began to drink.

But from the direction of Shangguan Bingyun, Mai Ke didn't know what was going on in his heart, there was no tea poured out of the pot, and he didn't realize it, he still held the teapot in his hand and kept pouring tea .

After this process lasted for a long time, Shangguan Bingyun finally felt that something was wrong, got out from under the bed while his complexion changed, strode to the window, looked through the window, and found that there was not no tea in the pot, but that he had The tea was poured dry and flowed all over the table, and then all over him.

Shangguan Bingyun's thought flashed, he got out of the window and patted his shoulder, but he fell straight down, and after falling to the ground, he still bent his legs, maintaining a sitting posture.

Shangguan Bingyun was horrified, when he looked closely, he found that Ma Yike's limbs were already cold, his breathing was cut off, and his chest was covered in blood, he had been tapped on his acupuncture points first, and then his heart had been ripped out to death.

The first-class swordsman of the Huangshan Sword School, who is famous all over the south, was killed without knowing it. The person who killed him took out his heart without even shaking the teapot in his hand.With such means, and under the nose of Shangguan Bingyun, who could accomplish this without anyone noticing, besides Cui Xi, the contemporary demon king.

Shangguan Bingyun couldn't help being horrified, his face was extremely ugly, he searched around, but couldn't find any trace, after thinking about it carefully, he suspected that it was the inn clerk who delivered the tea, because during the whole process, no one except the inn clerk entered courtyard.

But then Shangguan Bingyun thought of another more serious problem. Cui Xi purposely dressed up as an inn clerk and came in to kill people, and he didn't take out his heart when he was burning with lust as Shangguan Bingyun speculated. Does this mean that Cui Xi Xi has already noticed the existence of Shangguan Bingyun and others.

The inn clerk's interrogation went smoothly, because during this period of time, no inn clerk had delivered tea to Mai Ke at all, so the man who delivered tea to Mai Ke was obviously dressed up by Cui Xi.

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At noon, the sun shone brightly on the bluestone streets.

Shangguan Bingyun was walking on the road, although he was smiling, he was extremely depressed in his heart.

The clues that were finally found were broken again, and Shangguan Bingyun could only let people continue to stare at the person with Shui'er's portrait.It's not that Shangguan Bingyun has never thought of taking down the person who owns the portrait of Shui'er, but he was worried that he would find nothing. Instead, he made the vigilant Cui Xi sneak away from this place completely. If he wants to find Cui Xi's whereabouts, then It is even more difficult.

In order to obtain clues quickly, Shangguan Bingyun decided to personally follow the person who had the portrait.

Whether it's Zheng Yongchun, Mai Ke, or the other three first-class masters these days, the portraits of Shui'er in their hands all come from a brothel girl named Tang Shanshan.This Tang Shanshan is not an ordinary brothel girl, but the number one oiran in Yingtianfu's romantic industry.

Tang Shanshan's brothel is called Chunshuiyuan, which is the largest brothel in Yingtian Mansion. There are also shadow guards under Shangguan Bingyun's command sneaking in to watch. Shangguan Bingyun first came to the restaurant opposite Chunshuiyuan and had a full meal. After the stomach is filled with delicious food, I can't help but feel better.

(End of this chapter)