Jinling City has become silent for a rare moment, and even the Qinhuai River, which used to be noisy until dawn, has been shut down under the strong suppression of Jiangnan Camp.
By the way, many troublemaking dudes were knocked over and captured.
Jia Hui didn't have time to take care of them. He would first lock them in prison and starve them for a few days to let them sober up.
Late at night, after Jia Hui drank a bowl of millet and sea cucumber porridge, he ordered his three concubines to wear armor for him.
Xuanhe, who has a pair of long legs, is a dancer, and she can still lift her armor despite regular exercise.
Lined with his own bright red Suzaku woven gold trailing robe, hung up the armbands and iron ring arms, and then put on a gold woven cotton armor battle skirt decorated with Suzaku patterns and a square collar, sleeveless and fish scale leaf waist-length armor.
The main body of the armor was put on, and the crested ibises and egrets that had been waiting for a long time also came over carrying Jia Hui's stone bow and quiver, wild goose feather knife, dagger, fox tail and other small items and put them on the belt, and finally put them on the table. On the iron helmet with a pointed red tassel, the armor is fully worn.
It's not that she doesn't want to use the newly developed full-body cotton armor, but it's because Jia Hui is intolerant to heat and is afraid of sweating while wearing it, leading to dehydration or heat stroke coma.
So I chose a relatively cool and lightweight combination. I stretched my arms and legs, moved my body a bit, and felt where the transmission problem was, and debugged it a few times.
You may have to go out in person to kill people later. The wearing condition of the armor is related to your wealth and life, so you can't be careless!
The last uncomfortable spot was also adjusted by Egret, and the three concubines lined up in a row. They didn't say anything, but just made a blessing ceremony towards Jia Hui.
Jia Hui let out a long sigh and looked back at the three beauties.
"Stay in the room and don't run away. There's going to be a war. It's very dangerous outside. If anything happens, let's talk about it after I come back." After saying that, Jia Hui turned towards the door again and left the assigned building without looking back. own room.
"The master of the house is victorious!"
. . . . . .
In the lobby of the Ministry of War, several people who were in charge of the counter-rebellion were sitting on high chairs with the chamberlain sent to announce the decree. They said nothing but looked down at the map of Jinling City in trance.
As early as half a month ago, the emperor had sent people to Jinling with the imperial edict to endorse Jia Hui's taking over the command of the Jiangnan army.
Although Jia Hui had the discretionary power to mobilize the troops of his own province or even several surrounding provinces when a rebellion broke out during his inspection, none of the governors of the Five Military Governor's Offices in the past dynasties had ever used this power. They all informed the court in advance, and the emperor Then he formally issued a decree to bestow the tiger talisman and so on.
Jia Hui didn't want to cause any trouble, so he still followed the old methods of his predecessors.
The people who came to announce the decree were Dai Ming's friends who entered the palace at the same time. They worshiped Dai Quan together and asked Dai to forget about it.
Although Eunuch Dai has not shown the contents of the imperial edict to everyone for more than ten days, he also informed everyone of his position in advance to facilitate the preparation of battle plans in advance.
The commander-in-chief, Zuojun Commander Jia Hui, the deputy commander-in-chief, Jinling garrison Wuning Marquis Guo Biao, the supervisory eunuch Xia Ming, and Feng Tai will also officially take office as the chief military officer of the Jiangnan camp.
Everything that needs to be done has been done, and we are just waiting for the White Lotus Sect’s first fire.
. . . . . .
The curfew is definitely a bad thing for the White Lotus Sect, which is about to start an uprising.
Cannot be connected in series.
Eighty thousand Daqi field soldiers came to patrol the city. Not to mention a group of servants giving birth to their children, even the frontier soldiers who had undergone rigorous training and had experienced wars could not escape such intensive patrols.
They have received orders that any suspicious person who cannot prove his or her identity or who runs away on the street can be killed on the spot.
For example, everyone in the Qinhuai River patrol team who just changed their shift had a human head in their hands.
. . .
The old Hu family, who lives near Chengen Temple, started out in the cloth business. Later, it grew bigger and bigger, and they also started selling silk. It was also a good time for them to catch up. When Prince Dongping defeated the Japanese and overthrew the Kamakura shogunate, the entire four islands of the Japanese tribe were instantly plunged into war. The Hu family also took advantage of the situation and decisively participated in sea trade and dumped cloth and silk to the four islands.
In the absence of the highest power, careerists across the four islands suddenly rose up, heading towards the position of the world. At the worst, they wanted to take advantage of the chaos in the world to expand their own strength. As a result, the entire four islands suddenly became a mess, and it was very crazy for several years. How can the famous people from all over the world care about maintaining order when they are fighting like crazy? It was only when the daimyo discovered that their economy was facing collapse that they stopped their conquests and restored people's livelihood.
During this period, merchants in Daqi made a lot of money, and the Hu family was no exception. Due to the good quality and good reputation, even if the production of cloth resumed on their own territory, the famous people still liked to order cloth from the Hu family from time to time. By selling cloth and silk, the Hu family's business scale grew rapidly.
Now, the Hu family can be considered one of the top cloth merchants in Jinling City, and their business has even reached the Delhi Sultanate.
In the past sixty years, the Hu family has given birth to a total of two Jinshi and six people. Although the official position is no more than a doctor, in Jinling, which has lost the style of the capital of the previous dynasty, the Hu family can be regarded as an official family.
In order to improve efficiency and production scale, the Hu family decided to abandon the traditional inefficient production methods such as going to the countryside to purchase goods. Instead, they purchased a large amount of land, people and looms, built rows of houses and began to focus on the production of cloth and satin.
The appalling and bloody oppression began. In the information on embroidered clothes, there were even cases of people who were locked in a room and weaved for more than ten years after learning to use a loom at the age of seven until they suddenly died. There are countless such things!
After Jia Hui learned about this, he was also confused as to why the Hu family didn't reduce some pressure and allow these people time to reproduce on their own. Tan Ji settled the accounts for Jia Hui.
The loss incurred from the time a slave girl is pregnant until the child learns to use a loom at the age of six or seven is greater than buying another child of six or seven years old.
Jia Hui was shocked and speechless by the bill.
The Hu family is not a special case, almost all industries that require a lot of repetitive labor are like this!
But even so, the price increase for six- and seven-year-old children on the market is still minimal.
I thought that I, who was responsible for a lot of killings on the battlefield, became a living Bodhisattva who saved the suffering compared with this group of Jiangnan aristocratic families who had no conscience.
The reason turned out to be that if he kills someone, he will kill him with one blow!
If these humanoid creatures are not eliminated, Jia Hui will not let him go!
Regardless of whether there is slavery or not.
In the alley between the Hu family and their neighbor Lu’s family,
Servants' room.
"Fourth brother, seventh brother, why haven't you come back yet?" A young servant asked the big man in front of him with a worried look.
It has been more than an hour. The time to go back and forth from the Hu family to the Holy Cult branch would not take half an hour on weekdays, even during holidays.
"I don't know, I'm afraid it's going to be more serious." The sturdy fourth brother also looked worried. Today, the Yamen suddenly announced a curfew. It would have been fine if the announcement had been made during the day, but it would have been fatal to go door-to-door to announce the announcement as the sun was setting. Especially when a group of military men with helmets and armor and arrogant faces knocked on the door and announced, even their unscrupulous but outgoing The heads of the two Jinshis nodded and bowed in front of them, something must have happened!
When I went to the branch meeting yesterday, I was told to keep in touch at all times. This is good. When I came back from doing errands an hour ago, I took a look at the street. It was really full of military lords!
Could it be that the news that the Holy Cult was about to raise an army was known to the Dog Court?
I'm afraid Lao Qi has been beaten by these soldiers.
The more the fourth brother thought about it, the more uneasy he became. The more uneasy he became, the more he thought about it. The more he thought about it, the more likely it was that he had been "discovered."
"Fourth brother, what should we do now?" A servant wearing a hat seemed to think that the Holy Cult uprising had been discovered by the Dog Court, and he quickly asked Fourth Brother, the backbone of the group of people.
Fourth brother was silent and did not answer.
"Fourth brother, I remember you said it was done at Haishi?"
Someone in the crowd suddenly raised his head and looked at the four of them, and said to the fourth brother as if he suddenly understood.
"Hey, that's right, Fourth Brother, I remember you said that when you came back the day before yesterday."
"Yes, yes, I heard it too. It seems to be saying that the helm will fire a firecracker into the sky at Haishi!" A young man wearing a linen cloth and wiping his forehead came over. He was very smart at first glance.
"Without knowledge and skill, that's called fireworks!" Another servant wearing a net scarf quickly corrected the young man's mistake.
"Shit! That's called a flare!" A big man with a garlic nose next to him couldn't stand it anymore and corrected the two of them.
Ah, is that so?
Why don't I remember?
The fourth brother was a little confused by the firm speeches of several people. He scratched his head and carefully recalled the content of the meeting at the helm the day before yesterday.
"Oh, Fourth Brother, have you forgotten? Didn't you say that the day before yesterday! If you can't contact the sub-rudder, then it depends on when the sub-rudder will light the firecrackers!"
"Firecrackers are nothing, they're called flares!"
"It's just firecrackers!"
"That's called fireworks!"
"You two... Bah! Forget it. Fourth brother, anyway, you said the day before yesterday that you will wait for the rudder to send out a white flare!"
"That seems to be the case"
"Yes, yes, I remember that's the case too!"
When several people saw the confused look on the fourth brother's face, they immediately became anxious. They moved closer to him and began to confirm to him one by one. The confused servants next to them also seemed to suddenly realize what they had thought of. Started to talk to the fourth brother.
it seems to be like this?
Hearing everyone start to say this, the fourth brother also began to vaguely remember that someone had actually said this. Did he really forget it?
Forget it, never mind, since everyone says so, I must have remembered it wrong.
"Ah, yes, that's what happened! By the way, what time is it now?" The fourth brother also acted as if that was what happened, and asked the big man with a garlic nose.
"It's a quarter of an hour to midnight!" the big man with a garlic nose said confidently.
"Yes, I understand, Xiaojiu, you are so light-hearted, you can go up to the roof and look towards Chengen Temple in a moment!"
"Okay." The young servant Xiaojiu responded quickly, but he was not very interested. By now, he had also guessed that Brother Qi might have been raped by the military master outside.
Xiao Jiu became more and more panicked when he thought that he would have to fight with the military masters on the street after killing his master, and also thought that his seventh brother, who was much better than him, was killed by those military masters.
. . . . . .
Outside Chengen Temple.
After Xiu Yi's investigation, the location of the White Lotus Sect's branch in Jinling has been basically determined.
But no one knows whether it was Chengen Temple’s own thoughts, Buddhism’s wishes, or what the White Lotus Sect did to Chengen Temple.
No matter what, let’s clean up the mess in Jinling City first.
Several people wearing black clothes and black scarves came over furtively with three thick cylindrical sticks and hid at the northeast corner of Chengen Temple.
"Boss, the firecrackers are ready!" A man in black whispered to the man holding a knife who was alert to the surroundings.
"That's called a flare," the man holding the knife said to the man in black who was approaching him.
"Yes, yes, the flare, when should we light it?"
The man holding the knife turned to look at Chengen Temple.
"Come on, let's fire off the cannon when the bell rings!" The man holding the knife said in a muffled voice.
"Ring the bell? Do you still ring the bell in a Buddhist temple at night?" The man in black was a little confused.
The Brahma Bell is the big bell placed in the bell tower of the temple.
There are generally two kinds of bells in temples, one is the Sanskrit bell in the bell tower. The other type is the call bell hung indoors, which is used to summon the monks in the temple or to make announcements.
They were outside the temple and naturally heard the bell.
"Our people have sneaked in."
"okay."
The man in black stopped asking questions and sat quietly next to the flare, waiting for the bell to ring.
On the roof of the Hu family's servant room, Xiaojiu also looked nervously in the direction of Chengen Temple. In the house, Fourth Brother and other servants of the Hu family were also very nervous. Hold on to what you have in hand.
Most of them are nursing staff, and the nursing staff who are currently on duty in the Hu family are also with them. The leader is called the third brother among the servants of the Hu family. The two of them are the leaders of the two teams of nursing staff. , the two brothers have already discussed some details, such as who will go to meetings and who will go to meetings.
Just like today, the third brother had already asked someone to open the back door and wait.
In order not to delay the servants' shift change, the Hu family generously placed a chiming clock in the servants' room. Of course, it was the cheapest kind. They also made a separate cabinet and tightly wrapped the chiming clock inside.
As Haishi got closer and closer, everyone began to sweat on their palms and swallowed nervously.
The lobby of the Ministry of War was brightly lit, and all eunuchs, both civil and military, were wearing armor and sitting on high chairs. Some were wandering, some were trembling nervously, some were staring at the self-ringing bell, and some were joking with their friends next to them. .
Jia Hui sat behind the hall table, closing his eyes and waiting for the arrival of Haishi.
As time passed, even the people who were talking shut their mouths and looked uneasily at the long needle on the chime clock that kept moving towards the fixed point.
The sound of a pindrop could be heard throughout the main hall, and apart from the wind, the only sound seemed to be the ticking gears of the chiming clock.
In Chengen Temple, the monk who quietly took off the chiming bell and carried it to the Buddhist bell did not light any fire. He just gently held a firefly that was sent from outside this afternoon and used the weak light source through his sleeves. dial behind illuminated glass
tick tick tick
The servants in the squad room were sweating profusely and their clothes were soaked through, but no one went to wipe the sweat. Instead, they all stared nervously at the long needle of the clock.
The long needle is getting closer and closer to the top.
Click!
It was obviously just a slight mechanical sound in normal times, but now in the eyes of everyone, it was as good as the sound of bells and drums.
Karakala.
Boom, boom, boom.
A series of mechanical sounds reached everyone's ears, Haishi... has arrived.
First update, sorry, the next thing is not easy to write, there are too many things to design, so the writing is very slow...
(End of chapter)
