"We were also afraid at first, but when we saw the powerful people in the capital going to the countryside to collect grain, the farmers were greedy and sold if the price was high."
"If you collect too much, you won't be afraid anymore. The grain merchants have ruined everything in their family. There is no way out."
"Shuntian Prefecture, Yongping Prefecture, Baoding Prefecture, Zhending Prefecture, Hejian Prefecture, Shunde Prefecture, Zhangde Prefecture, Taiyuan Prefecture, Dongchang Prefecture, Daming Prefecture, Huaiqing Prefecture, Kaifeng Prefecture..."
"After the collection is finished in the capital, we will go to the nearby areas to collect. We will collect all the places we can!"
"There is too much grain and there is no place to store it. It is stored in the nearby Changping warehouse, and the grain from Gyeonggi is brought into the capital and stored in Taicang and other warehouses."
"Anyway, no one will check if all the warehouses and warehouses are empty."
"Wei Chen forged household documents and transported grain by canal. It is not troublesome..."
He didn't go into detail about the process of transporting grain. I'm afraid the eunuchs on the boats and the checkpoints weren't clean either.
"Wei Chen did not expect that they would be so crazy. Wei Chen was worried that he could not hold on any longer, so he dragged Deng Liang, a doctor from the Ministry of Household Affairs, into the water. Deng Liang was Cui Gong's confidant. Covering the sky..."
"Wait, who did you say you dragged into the water?"
Hearing this, Zhu Qiyu interrupted.
"Deng Liang, the doctor in the household department, is the matchmaker for the ministers..." Cheng Maozhan answered tremblingly.
"Where's Deng Liang?"
Zhu Qiyu looked around but could not find Deng Liang's shadow.
Deng Liang was Cui Gong's confidant. After Cui Gong joined the household department, he transferred him to the household department as a doctor to manage the warehouse affairs on Cui Gong's behalf. The cabinet approved it.
"Reporting to Your Majesty, Deng Liang has left the palace with Zhang Feng and Cui Gong."
Uh-huh!
Zhu Qiyu jumped up, rushed down the steps with his sword, struck Cheng Mao on the body with his sword, and shouted: "Why didn't you tell me earlier!"
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, you didn't ask...ah!"
Cheng Mao suddenly screamed, and Zhu Qiyu struck Cheng Mao with another sword: "Where is Cui Gong? Was he involved?"
Cheng Mao covered his wound and cried non-stop.
"Don't scream! Answer me!" Zhu Qiyu thought he had a trick, but in the end, he concealed himself and let out the real background!
"Participated, participated!"
Cui Gong!
It's him!
Sure enough, no one in Zhu Qizhen could believe it!
I should have operated on him just now!
It's too late to regret!
"Quick! Send people to chase them! Stop Cui Gong and Deng Liang, hurry up!"
Zhu Qiyu was shocked and asked Xu Gan to go in person with the Emperor's Sword. If he could not be caught, he would be executed on the spot. He must not be allowed to spread the news! be quick!
Suddenly, look back!
"Is there anything else you haven't said?" Zhu Qiyu held the sword with both hands, the tip of the sword pressed against Cheng Mao.
"No, no more!" Cheng Mao grinned and endured the severe pain.
"Who else is your ally in this court? Point it out!"
"ah!"
Cheng Mao's face was distorted and he screamed: "It's really, really gone!"
Zhu Qiyu looked at the inspector Hou Yu. He shook his head desperately and said no more.
Zhu Qiyu pulled out the tip of the sword, wiped the blood on the sword with Hou Yu's official robe, and stared at Cheng Mao: "Go on!"
"I really don't know about the other ministers!" Cheng Mao lay on the ground and screamed.
"I don't know? Why are those grain merchants in such a hurry to meet you? If there are any other secrets that cannot be told, tell them!"
Zhu Qiyu stepped on Cheng Mao's wound so hard that blood spurted out.
It's really dirty. The dragon robe needs to be washed again.
"He, they are worried that something will happen, because the key to the warehouse is in our hands!"
Cheng Mao explained: "We were suddenly summoned to the palace, and they felt uneasy. They thought that His Majesty knew their plot, so they were worried!"
"More than that!"
Zhu Qiyu didn't believe it: "Because of fear, you use such an extreme method? I don't believe it!"
Cheng Mao was dumbfounded. I told the truth. If you don't believe me, what can I do?
"ah!"
Immediately, Cheng Mao answered his question with a shrill scream.
If you can play tricks, the emperor can use the emperor's method to solve the problem.
Zhu Qiyu put his sword on Cheng Mao's neck: "Tell the truth! Hurry!"
"You can't kill me!"
Blood spilled from Cheng Mao's neck.
He suddenly turned ferocious, stared at the emperor, and roared: "If I don't leave the palace, they will burn the food! You can't kill me!"
"Threatening me? Do you think I dare not kill you?" The veins on Zhu Qiyu's forehead throbbed.
Cheng Mao is not afraid, the emperor is nothing, the food is in my hands, I am the emperor!
He tried to get up, but the injury was too severe.
He could only raise his head and smile ferociously: "You try to kill one of them. If you kill me, your throne will no longer be secure!"
Zhu Qiyu suddenly moved the edge of his sword, with a wry smile on his face: "I really don't dare to kill you because you are threatening me. If I kill you, the capital will really run out of food. You are right."
"Hahaha!"
Cheng Mao lay on the ground and smiled ferociously: "Emperor, please issue an imperial edict to let my family go! We are in peace. I will repay you for this injury! How about it?"
He was quite heroic, lying down and bargaining with the emperor.
The ministers in the court were confused. Are all eighth-rank officials so arrogant?
"Where are you going?" Zhu Qiyu asked.
"Get out of the capital, let my family out of the capital!"
Cheng Mao reluctantly sat up, and when he saw the emperor relenting, he smiled foolishly, that's all the emperor did!
In front of me, don't you have to be submissive?
Damn it, I should sit on that throne for a while, it will definitely feel more comfortable!
"What a great official authority it is!"
"Open your mouth and shut it up, I am the one who is in charge of the paperwork. You should be a Jinshi. Why are you acting like a street gangster?"
"It makes me so scared!"
Zhu Qiyu smiled strangely: "I really don't dare to kill you, but I never said that I don't dare to torture you!"
"Get a eunuch and castrate him!"
"Cast it right here!"
"If you want to be my father, all ten of your clans will be damn tired of living!"
Zhu Qiyu suddenly became furious: "I see that you are full of filthy words and look like a gangster in the market. I don't know how you got a job as a supervisor. Are all the household officials blind? How do the police in Beijing do it? I will simply give you melons. Copy them and kill them all."
Cheng Mao's eyes widened in disbelief, and he roared ferociously: "How dare you, Dog Emperor! The food is in my hands, and I can burn all the food and collapse the capital! You..."
"But you are in my hands. If you can make the capital collapse, I can also make you collapse. Isn't that true?"
Zhu Qiyu chuckled, but his face was extremely cold and there was no smile at all.
Cheng Mao seemed to be strangled by the neck and couldn't utter a word.
"Emperor Dog, I will fight with you!" As soon as Cheng Mao got up, he was kicked down by two muscular eunuchs.
His clothes were cut open in half, one person was pulling them, and the other was cutting them with a knife!
Cheng Mao's screams were the only thing left in Fengtian Square.
The key was that the knife was not sharp, because Cheng Mao avoided it, so he cut off half of it.
The two eunuchs stepped on him and pulled him repeatedly.
I pulled the knife once, but it broke, and it felt unclean, so a eunuch scraped it again with a knife.
The harsh sound sent shivers down the spines of all the officials in Fengtian Square.
The key is that Cheng Mao fought hard but refused to die.
"Do you all want a taste of this?"
Zhu Qiyu looked back with a stern face: "Call me a dog emperor? You deserve it!"
"You are using clever means to rob people of their food!"
"For the sake of money, it's enough to cause a famine in the capital. It's enough that I don't cut you to pieces!"
"You actually ask for your family to be released?"
"Do you think I am so weak and can be bullied? Ah?"
Zhu Qiyu stared, his face ferocious.
Suddenly he returned his sword and struck Dong Yun on the body.
Dong Yun screamed, this innocent sword was so unjust.
"I can kill whoever I want!"
"Who dares to stop me? Are you waiting for Xiaoxiao? Or are you waiting for shame?"
"ridiculous!"
"Hmph! Wait, all nine tribes will be lit up with sky lanterns!"
"I ask the people of the capital to order it with their own hands!"
Zhu Qiyu used Hou Yu to wipe the blood on his sword again. Hou Yu was so frightened that he became incontinent, and Zhu Qiyu also slashed him with his sword.
Then he picked up the sword, climbed up the stairs, and sat on the dragon chair, with a sharp light in his eyes.
Shi Pu and all the officials knelt down and shouted long live.
Cheng Mao's thing was cut off, broken into several pieces, and thrown on the ground in front of his eyes for him to look at.
"Your Majesty, even lighting a sky lantern will not dispel the hatred in the hearts of the people in the capital!"
Wang Hong said loudly: "I thought that if Ling Chi was executed, the meat would be distributed to the people of the capital. Otherwise, who could relieve the suffering of the people?"
All the officials were frightened.
Zhu Qiyu nodded: "What Wang Aiqing said is true. Lighting sky lanterns actually gives them an advantage. The people of the capital have nowhere to vent their hatred. I am not qualified to be an emperor!"
"Your Majesty has a heart for all the people, and he is a benevolent king through the ages!" Wang Hong took the lead and knelt on the ground, trying to flatter him.
"Your Majesty is truly a benevolent king!"
All the officials shouted.
Cheng Mao, Dong Yun, Bao Ying and others opened their eyes wide, this, this is Renjun? Do you have any misunderstandings about Renjun?
"Your Majesty!"
At this time, Xu Gan dragged a person and came back to report.
"Where is Cui Gong?" Zhu Qiyu stood up suddenly, and Xu Gan brought someone back!
"Returning to the emperor, Cui Gong ran away..."
Seeing Zhu Qiyu's change of expression, Xu Gan quickly said: "Cui Gong ran back to the palace and did not run out of the palace! I have sent someone to chase him."
"Which direction did you run in?"
"Huijimen!"
Cui Gong was really smart. He knew that if he ran under the noses of Hu Hui and others, he would be easily killed, so he took a detour and ran away from Huiji Gate.
Huiji Gate leads directly to Donghua Gate and has been beaten into pieces by the rebels. Why can't he come and go as he pleases?
"Your Majesty, all the eunuchs in the Imperial Palace have gone after him!" Xu Gan looked nervous.
"Can you catch up? Forget it!"
Zhu Qiyu was disappointed and immediately made a decision: "The nine gates of the Admiral's Mansion and the large and small gates in the city are all closed! No one is allowed to enter or leave! Anyone who disobeys the order will be executed!"
"Call to the Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese Army to impose a city-wide curfew!"
"Everyone in the city is limited to one stick of incense to enter their homes. Anyone who is late will be killed!"
"Send fast horses to announce the situation throughout the city and let the people go home quickly!"
Zhu Qiyu asked Feng Xiao: "Where are the horse-breeding army and the bodyguard army?"
"If you return to the emperor, stay with Eunuch Jin!" Feng Xiao responded.
"Transfer the guards back to the capital!"
"The order was sent to Jin Zhong to block the water transport yamen, and the order was sent to Zhangjiawan to check the customs. No one's ship can dock! The canal protection army can be mobilized by Jin Zhong! No one can restrict it!"
"Send the message to the East Factory again. In accordance with my imperial edict, the military bureau, weapons bureau, armory depot and other important places are sealed off. Strict orders are given, no entry or exit is allowed!"
"Send more people to arrest all the merchants in the city! No matter who they are, arrest them all. If Dongchang doesn't have enough manpower, they can kill them directly. Anyone can be killed! If there are merchants who are disturbing the troublemakers, they can be killed directly. I give Shu Liang the expediency I don’t care whether the merchants in the capital should be killed or retained!”
"Send fast horses out of the capital again to announce Fan Guang's entry into the capital!"
"Send the order to the Henan Guards Station. After receiving the order, enter the capital at starry night!"
Zhu Qiyu issued a series of orders.
All the officials were horrified. The emperor had prepared for the worst. If the hungry people in the capital rebelled, he would suppress it with strong troops.
"Shi Shangshu, do you have anything to add?" Zhu Qiyu looked at Shi Pu.
Shi Pu was shocked. The emperor was forcing him to take sides.
"I thought we could prepare Japanese troops to enter the capital!" Shi Pu was even more ruthless.
"Okay, according to the wishes of the old minister, prepare the Japanese army to enter the capital!"
Zhu Qiyu's eyes flashed with cold light, one Cui Gong and one rat shit destroyed the entire Gyeonggi!
"Somebody come!"
"Lingchi all these people!"
Zhu Qiyu roared and acted like shit.
Just kill them all!
They are really cheap!
He ignored the begging for mercy and glanced at the ministers coldly: "My lords! Do you have any servants at home?"
"The situation has gotten so bad!"
"You should stand on the same front as me, do you understand?"
"I order you to send servants to help Dongchang hunt down the merchants!"
"I don't care what happens tomorrow!"
"But today, the capital is still in my hands, so I will let the capital run into rivers of blood! Blood debts will be repaid with blood!"
Zhu Qiyu roared: "Can it be done?"
"I obey the order!" All the officials in the capital were shocked.
Kill all the merchants, the emperor is really crazy!
However, Shi Pu frowned, thinking about the emperor's deeper intentions.
In fact, the situation is not that bad. There is still one place where food is available, the temple, but the emperor has not touched it.
Besides, if all the troops in Beijing are deployed, they can always save some food. Although the people in Beijing are short of food at home, they are not going to starve to death immediately.
Although there are many refugees outside the city, they can barely hold on.
When grain is transported by water, grain can also be adjusted from Henan, Shanxi and other places.
The situation is not as bad as the emperor said.
But the emperor was so angry that he took such extreme measures and directly hunted and killed the merchants without asking who they were. What was he doing?
money!
The emperor is grabbing money!
Shi Pu couldn't laugh or cry, the emperor actually used the method of killing the chicken to obtain the eggs to steal money!
Simply unheard of.
A great disaster is ahead, and the emperor is not thinking of relieving the people, but robbing money.
What's even more frightening is that the emperor not only robbed it himself, but also pulled all the officials in the capital to rob it together, blocking the world's mouth.
Wait, does that mean Xu Gan let Cui Gong go on purpose?
Is the disaster in Beijing not as serious as the emperor said? Otherwise, why would the emperor be so stable?
The emperor is a king who loves the people and will not sacrifice the lives of the people in the capital.
In other words, everything is controllable, at least in the hands of the emperor.
Shi Pu glanced at Ye Sheng subconsciously. Has Ye Sheng surrendered to the emperor a long time ago?
It was his memorial that caused everything.
"I'll kill this bastard myself!" Zhu Qiyu pointed at the doctor Deng Liang.
Xu Gan knelt on the ground: "How could such an idiot dirty the Emperor's hands? I can just do it myself!"
Zhu Qiyu was so angry that he couldn't calm down and said angrily:
"That's it!"
"My lords, why don't you leave the palace quickly?"
"Take the servants and hunt down the merchants!"
"Any merchant can be killed!"
Zhu Qiyu roared: "I grant you the right to kill without guilt!"
The courtiers all looked happy. What did the merchants have the most? Money. If they were killed, wouldn't the money fall into their own pockets?
What a great opportunity to make a fortune!
"I obey the decree!" The courtiers, who had not been very interested at first, suddenly became excited.
But they didn't think too deeply. If they killed the merchants together with Dongchang, they would become members of the imperial party, and they would never be able to clear their reputations for the rest of their lives.
Shi Pu's eyes flashed, he must not take action. Killing the merchant today is equivalent to handing over the handle with both hands. When one day you are no longer useful, the emperor will definitely take this as a crime and kill his ministers. This is the emperor's intention.
There are so many fine officials in Beijing, and many of them think of this festival.
However, Zhu Qiyu's voice was dark: "Today, I want to see blood, and all the officials also want to see blood. Those who don't kill people are all in the same party as the grain merchants!"
Shi Pu's body softened!
No wonder the emperor sent Hu Hui away because he was waiting here!
It's bullshit acting. In fact, it's just to send Hu Hui away, fearing that Hu Hui will stop him.
Among all the officials in the capital, the only one who could stop the emperor was Hu Hui.
Hu Xi is outside the palace now, how to stop him?
"Get out of the palace! Take action!"
Zhu Qiyu snorted coldly: "I sent Tiqi to supervise, you must see blood today!"
"The grain merchant deceived me for being incompetent! He deceived no one in the court!"
"I will make them pay today!"
"Kill them all!"
Zhu Qiyu waved his hand and asked all officials to leave the palace.
When all the officials left the palace, Xu Gan whispered: "Your Majesty, what should I do if there are officials who refuse to get blood?"
"It must be the umbrella of the grain merchants who confiscates the family and exterminates the clan!" Zhu Qiyu sneered at the corner of his mouth.
That's right.
He is taking this opportunity to force all the officials in the capital to come to his side!
The bad reputation of killing merchants will never be washed away in my lifetime. If you want to continue to serve as a vegetarian in the court and be corrupt, you must obey me and be a glorious imperial party.
Otherwise, if you kill businessmen today, you will be killed tomorrow!
"Send the order to Lu Zhong and supervise the whole process. Merchants can be killed, but the people can't be harmed! Anyone who disobeys the order will be punished by Tiqi! Warn Lu Zhong that Tiqi is not allowed to be tempted by property. If he has any thoughts that he shouldn't have, he will be executed! "
Zhu Qiyu pondered and said: "Send the message to Fang Ying again and see how many people he can mobilize to go to the warehouses and warehouses to protect the food! You all know that the prisoner will also go, it is important to protect the food!"
Fang Ying is the last card in his hand. Play them all and see what the results are. He hopes to keep 50% of the food supply.
If he acts like a thunderbolt, the grain dealer will retaliate with thunder. If jade and stone are all destroyed, it will be great to keep five achievements.
In fact, 50% is an optimistic idea, and it would be good to save 30% of the food supply.
If he hadn't wanted to forcefully win the hearts of all the officials in the capital, he wouldn't have had to carry out this violent killing. He might have been able to save 50% of the food supply.
But time waits not for us.
In the afternoon, Wang Cheng sent a secret report. After the defeat, there was a wailing in Xuanzang. The generals had no fighting spirit, the army had no fighting spirit, and even pessimism infected the soldiers in the capital. If Yu Qian hadn't been shocked, they would have been in chaos.
Wang Cheng was very pessimistic about Xuazhen and believed that he would suffer defeat.
Therefore, he could not wait any longer. He had to rectify the capital and hold the capital firmly in his hands before the second report of the defeat in Xuanzang came.
There must be no more chaos in the capital, and he will never tolerate another flood in Shandong!
Due to Chen Xun's selfish interests, millions of people in Shandong suffered disasters, especially the imperial court, which cost countless money and food, resulting in poor recruitment and poor logistics.
Therefore, Zhu Qiyu must first hold on to the capital and the court, and gather the power of the whole country to deal with Wala and relieve the danger of Xuanzhen.
The defeat of Tumubao must not be repeated.
"My slave obeys the order!" Xu Gan quickly left the palace after accepting the order.
"Your Majesty, you have sent out the governor, who will guard the middle palace?" Feng Xiao was full of worry.
"It doesn't matter, I caught them off guard. They won't jump over the wall in a hurry. Just lock the keys of each door in the palace and keep an eye on them yourself."
Zhu Qiyu's men and horses are really stretched thin, so sending the governor out is definitely a risky move.
Feng Xiao was worried.
"Everyone knows that the eunuchs in charge are strong and strong eunuchs. They can run fast and can deliver imperial edicts for me. I must know the situation in the city in time."
Zhu Qiyu was helpless: "There are still eunuchs from Qianqing Palace. Even if strong men really break into the palace, I can still deal with them while running around in the palace. I am familiar with this palace."
He made a joke: "Show me, Yongshou Palace!"
Feng Xiao was stunned, wondering why the emperor wanted to go to Yongshou Palace?
Zhu Qiyu glanced at the people still alive in the square, frowned and said: "Kill them all, don't waste air."
"My slave obeys the order!"
…
Miaoying Temple (White Pagoda Temple).
"Eunuch Cao."
Zhang Jie, the Prime Minister of Taichang Temple, said calmly: "This is the ancestral temple of the Yuan Dynasty. It is under the control of Taichang Temple. We don't have to worry about the patrol camp."
Miaoying Temple enshrines the portrait of Kublai Khan, the founder of the Yuan Dynasty, and is one of the ten official temples in Beijing.
It was repaired once during the Xuande period. In the past two years, Taichang Temple has been continuously submitting letters requesting repairs.
"Zhang Sicheng, are you an official of the emperor? Or an official of Kublai Khan?" Cao Jixiang asked him.
"I am an official of His Majesty today!"
Snapped!
Cao Jixiang slapped him in the face: "Then do as the emperor wants!"
"How dare you hit me?" Zhang Jie was stunned.
Sonorous!
The waist knife is unsheathed.
"If you keep nagging you, instead of beating you, we will kill you!"
Cao Jixiang had a ferocious look on his face: "Our family is trying to save face for Taichang Temple and we won't kill anyone today, but if you try to show official power to our family again, we will have you stabbed!"
"Let's see what you can do to our family?"
"Eighth-grade Sesame Official, you really treat yourself like a toy!"
"Pooh!"
Cao Jixiang spat on Zhang Jie's face.
Zhang Jie dared not speak out in anger.
"Seal the door! Put the incense at the door. If you use incense in Taichang Temple, you need to buy it!" Cao Jixiang snorted coldly.
Zhang Jie covered his face and murmured to himself: "I'm going against the will of heaven..."
Cao Jixiang was too lazy to pay attention to him and ended the temple incense, which was just for show.
Miaoying Temple is a lamasery. There are not many Buddhist monks in Beijing, and naturally there are not many pilgrims who believe in Buddhist monks.
So to him, Miaoying Temple is just a Qingshui Yamen, which can't make much money.
His next target is Tianshi Taoist Temple and Chaotian Palace.
As soon as I left the temple gate, I heard the sound of fast horses galloping on the street, and the knights shouted curfew.
"Battle Supervisor, I'm afraid something happened in the capital!" Tang Xu ran over to report.
"Call Admiral."
Cao Jixiang was speechless. It was just a name. Why couldn't they understand it? He didn't like the name Yingdu. It sounded like a name from the camp, which was offensive.
He asked dissatisfiedly: "What happened outside?"
"Reporting to the camp governor, I heard from the knight that there is a curfew. I saw that Dongchang was dispatched, and the Tiqi who were secretly training on the outskirts of Beijing also entered the capital. I'm afraid something happened in the palace!"
Tang Xu lowered his voice: "Battle Governor, do you need to go into the palace to report to His Majesty?"
"Admiral, that's all...what are you reporting? Are you reporting that our family can't collect any money?"
Cao Jixiang snorted coldly: "Is there an explicit order from the palace to stop the patrol camp operations?"
"Nothing!"
"Then continue!"
Cao Jixiang gritted his teeth and said: "It is better to implement a curfew, and it will be convenient for our family to do things! Use the banner of the patrol camp, and our family will do things according to the imperial decree. Who dares to stop us?"
"Go to Chaotian Palace!"
He always puts things first and then makes things difficult. Chaotian Palace is where the Taoist Master is located, and he is in charge of Taoism all over the world.
The Ming Dynasty has believed in Taoism since the beginning of Taizu. Taizu made Tianshi Dao the head of the Taoist sect, overwhelming Quanzhen sect and other sects.
After Emperor Taizong's victory in Jingnan, he ascended the throne and became emperor. He attached great importance to the Taoism of the Celestial Masters and often ordered the Celestial Masters to enter the palace to discuss Taoism.
Tianshi Dao advocated the legitimacy of Emperor Taizong to the outside world, claiming that Emperor Taizong was the reincarnation of Emperor Zhenwu, and the two sides hit it off.
Therefore, Emperor Taizong granted Chaotian Palace to Tianshi Dao, and the main altar of Tianshi Dao was located in Chaotian Palace.
Among the temple visitors in Beijing, the most powerful thing is not the Longshan Temple built by the current emperor, but the Tianshi Dao.
The contemporary Celestial Master Zhang Yuanji is not in the capital. The people in charge of things in the capital are Zhang Yuanji's uncles Zhou Yingyu and Li Wenying.
When the previous generation of Heavenly Master Zhang Maocheng passed away, it was these two people who went to Beijing to report, and the Supreme Emperor built the Antarctic Temple to enshrine his body.
This shows the royal family's respect for Tianshi Dao.
The Supreme Emperor ordered these two people to stay in the capital and take charge of Taoist affairs in the capital.
These two people also ascended to heaven because of the emperor's decree.
Cao Jixiang stood in front of Chaotian Palace.
Take a deep breath: "Seal the door!"
He threw off his official robe and strode into Chaotian Palace.
The little Taoist priest who received him asked him to wait for a while, and then went to ask for Li Wenying.
Li Wenying has a slim figure and holds a fly whisk. Her face is tense and serious: "Eunuch Cao, Chaotian Palace is a leader in Taoism, and this is not a place for you to run wild! Please ask a bunch of people to leave Chaotian Palace!"
Li Wenying first gave Cao Jixiang a warning.
"The governor will read the imperial edict, and you all will kneel down to listen to the decree!" Cao Jixiang used this trick again, using the emperor's banner to kill people.
Li Wenying knelt on the ground.
After Cao Jixiang finished reading the oral edict, he stood up and said, "Chaotian Palace to receive the order."
Seeing that Li Wenying was so obedient, Cao Jixiang couldn't be punished.
"Hand over all the incense in the temple!" Cao Jixiang snorted coldly.
"Chaotian Palace accepts the order and thanks!"
Li Wenying actually knelt down in the direction of the Forbidden City to salute and shouted long live.
Cao Jixiang was really confused. Tianshi Dao obediently handed over all the incense?
In the future, you will have to buy incense. Is it true that there are mountains of gold and seas of gold in Tianshi Dao? Not short of this little money?
Or are you afraid of our family? I heard that our family killed people in the temple, so are you afraid?
He glanced at Tang Xu and said stupidly: "Is our family famous?"
Tang Xu rolled his eyes, not knowing how to answer.
Yes, our family is a remnant of the rebellion. The emperor spared our family a dog's life. Even the traffickers and lackeys in the capital scolded our family. Let's see what Pixi of Longshan Temple did to our family?
And this Chaotian Palace is the leader of Taoist sects in the world.
Li Wenying is the uncle of the contemporary Celestial Master. Why is he so easy to talk to?
It's strange.
There's a ghost! There is definitely a ghost inside!
Cao Jixiang sat down instead: "Daozhang Li, are there people in Chaotian Palace who shouldn't be there?"
"Come here! Seal the door and search!"
"No one is allowed to move while standing still!"
There must be a ghost in Chaotian Palace!
Li Wenying's face changed slightly: "Eunuch Cao, what are you doing?"
"You want to close the door, Pindao agrees;"
"You want to collect the incense, and I will do it according to the will of the Holy One. Why are you still making things difficult for me?"
Seeing the suspicious look on Cao Jixiang's face, Li Wenying smiled bitterly: "To be honest with Eunuch Cao, my senior fellow Taoist priest Zhou Yingyu is about to retreat. We are waiting for you, so we don't want to cause trouble. Please understand Eunuch Cao."
"Bingjie? Our family has not seen the Taoist master's army. Li Daozhang, can you do me a favor and let me watch the ceremony?"
Cao Jixiang didn't believe a word of it.
He was sure there was something wrong in Chaotian Palace!
He knew very well who these Taoist priests were. They had always flattered others and disdained others. They were the most snobbish ones. But suddenly they were so easy to talk to. What kind of military solution could a ghost believe?
Taoist priests cut off the world of mortals, what emotions can they express?
He didn't believe how deep the relationship between Li Wenying and Zhou Yingyu was.
If Zhou Yingyu is defeated, he will die, but the others will still be alive?
Maybe Li Wenying was very happy because no one was competing with him for power.
Besides, temples are stingy at best, like Pixiu, you can only go in but not out, so how can you be willing to spend money on incense? If you don’t fight with our family, there will be no ghosts!
Hum, there must be a ghost in this Chaotian Palace!
"Eunuch Cao, how do you observe the ceremony of the dissolution of the army?"
Seeing Cao Jixiang's firm attitude, Li Wenying smiled bitterly and said: "I heard about the severe floods in Shandong and the flood victims everywhere. Chaotian Palace wants to do its part and donate some money and food to Shandong. What do you think?"
"Hey, our family is not an official. We don't care who lives or dies."
Cao Jixiang suddenly pulled out his sword and put it on Li Wenying's neck: "Our family can tell that you are stalling for time!"
"You think our family is a fool! Li Wenying!"
"Come here! Search!"
"Anyone who acts strangely will be killed!"
Cao Jixiang's eyes widened and he stared at Li Wenying: "Tell me, what is hidden in this view?"
"What are you hiding?"
"The clay figurine is still very angry. It's easy for Pindao to negotiate with you, but you just doubt Pindao!"
"Okay, go and search. If you can't find anything, I will go to the Holy Master to seek justice!" Li Wenying was annoyed.
"There is no need to go to the Emperor to seek justice, go to the Lord of Hell!"
Cao Jixiang suddenly sheathed his sword, but suddenly struck back and knocked down the little Taoist priest who was receiving him: "This governor is right here."
"If you find something today, I will kill you!"
"If we can't find him, I will kill him at the head of my neck!"
"Are you, are you a mad dog? Why do you kill people? How can I deserve this poor disciple?" Li Wenying roared as she watched her disciple being hacked to death.
"I have visited hundreds of temples and killed more than a dozen monks. Do you think I am crazy?"
"We can kill this little Taoist priest if we want!"
"It's you. Even if our family kills you, where are you going to reason with me?"
"Today, our home is the sky of your Chaotian Palace!"
Cao Jixiang winked at Tang Xu and told him to search quickly, there must be a ghost in Chaotian Palace!
Outside the palace gate, Tang Xu's scolding voice came: "If nothing is found, the camp governor will die. Before he dies, I will send you all on the road! Let's walk together on the road to hell, do you hear me!"
Li Wenying's body softened. He had already said this, how could he not find anything?
"Eunuch Cao, tell Pindao the truth about what you want. As long as Chaotian Palace has it, Pindao can give it to your father-in-law."
Li Wenying was helpless, Taoist priests were also afraid of guns.
Not to mention a bunch of lunatics.
He could only discuss it with Cao Jixiang: "Your Majesty's imperial edict, Pindao will comply with all of it. If Eunuch Cao is still dissatisfied, please tell me. Pindao will change it, change it, okay?"
"Niubi, you are so talkative today."
Cao Jixiang sneered: "If it were anyone else, you might have fooled me into thinking that a master of the Celestial Master Tao has his own demeanor."
"But who are our family? How many years have our family been in the palace? How many times have we dealt with you? How many times have we dealt with Tianshi Dao?"
"We don't know who you are?"
Li Wenying hurriedly explained: "Eunuch Cao, Brother Pindao's liberation is a top priority. This..."
Seeing that Cao Jixiang was farting, he could only say: "Your Majesty is so kind to Chaotian Palace, what bad things can a poor man do?"
"Maybe someone is forcing you!"
"The fact that you are able to take charge of Chaotian Palace is not due to the emperor. Who is it? We don't need to explain, right?"
Cao Jixiang had a vague guess in his mind: "Gather all the Taoist priests from Chaotian Palace and let us watch them one by one!"
"This!" Li Wenying hesitated.
"What is this? Are you feeling guilty?"
Cao Jixiang pointed the knife at the other Taoist priests: "Don't force our family to kill anyone again!"
"Senior Brother Pindao..."
"That's enough, our family is not interested in when and how your senior brother will die!"
Cao Jixiang shouted sharply: "We ask you to summon all the Taoist priests. If you don't obey, we will order a killing spree, starting from here and killing until someone speaks out!"
"Li Wenying, you don't know yet, right?"
"Who are these people brought to our family? They are all extremely vicious people brought out from prisons and prisons. They have no conscience and just like to kill people!"
"Maybe there are perverts who like delicate little Taoist priests. What if there are more perverts who like old Taoist priests? Hahaha!"
Plop!
Li Wenying's body went limp and fell to the ground.
Cao Jixiang knelt down and patted his cheek: "You can also tell our family. If you say it yourself, our family will report it to the emperor and you will be considered a meritorious service."
"If it had been found by our family, the nature would be different."
"You have to think clearly, Li Wenying!"
Li Wenying opened Cao Jixiang's hand, slowly got up, and said ferociously: "Okay, Cao Jixiang, you are cruel enough to avenge your personal revenge! But in this case, Tianshi Dao will get it back sooner or later!"
But after searching through Chaotian Palace, nothing was found.
Cao Jixiang's eyes flickered, Chaotian Palace was too big, and it was too easy to hide a few people.
Outside the main hall, there were thousands of Taoist priests standing.
If you screen them one by one, it will take several days to complete the investigation.
"Where's Zhou Yingyu?" Cao Jixiang stood at the door.
"Brother Pindao is about to retreat, how can we get out?" Li Wenying was furious and claimed that he would go to the palace to sue Cao Jixiang.
"Bring it out!"
"You!" Li Wenying was furious.
Cao Jixiang put the knife on his neck: "Go!"
Li Wenying did not dare to reason with the knife and asked five people to carry it.
"Everyone in charge stands up!"
Cao Jixiang's eyes flickered, and he called several patrol officers over: "If we point out, you will kill! Whoever we point out, you will kill!"
Upon hearing this, Li Wenying was frightened and repeatedly said that he could not kill anyone.
"go away!"
Cao Jixiang pushed him away, stood on the steps with a knife on his hips, and said loudly: "Let's just ask him once, listen up!"
"Do you think you have taken in a very special stranger? This person has never been seen. I think he will stay in Chaotian Palace for a long time. Some of you must have seen him. Now, we ask you to find him !”
"We count to three, three times will kill one person!"
"Our family doesn't care whether this person is innocent or not, whoever points the finger will be unlucky!"
"Don't blame our family for being accused, just blame the person who didn't tell the truth. When you go to hell, hate your comrades!"
"one!"
Cao Jixiang just counted and pointed to a Taoist priest.
puff!
A patrolman carried a machete and cut off the Taoist priest's head with a slash at an angle. He was still moving his fingers while he was talking loudly. It took a long time before he smashed it to the ground.
"two!"
Cao Jixiang pointed to another person.
puff!
The machete fell, and another Taoist priest fell in a pool of blood.
"Cao Jixiang, if you want revenge, come at me! Don't kill my fellow Celestial Masters!"
Li Wenying exploded, pushing Cao Jixiang and staggering: "Tianshi Dao is the leader of Taoism. You killed my Taoists indiscriminately today. I must give you an explanation!"
"three!"
Cao Jixiang was too lazy to pay attention to him and pointed at another Taoist priest.
The Taoist priest wanted to resist, but two patrolmen came out, held him down, and chopped off his head.
Three counts, three people killed.
Didn’t I just say, count three and kill one!
"Four!"
Cao Jixiang counted again, and another Taoist priest was killed.
What's ridiculous is that thousands of Taoist priests, under the supervision of hundreds of patrolmen, can only cry when they see their fellow Taoists being killed, and they don't even dare to resist.
"Five!" Cao Jixiang counted again.
Another head fell to the ground.
"Can't kill, can't kill anymore!" Li Wenying hugged Cao Jixiang.
"Daozhang Li, why don't you come and kill me?" Cao Jixiang looked at him.
Li Wenying's face turned pale and she burst into tears.
The Tianshi Taoist Scripture records that when Li Wenying was born, the fragrance of chrysanthemums filled the room, and purple clouds covered the house, which dispersed within three days. When he was four years old, he acted as Yu Bu. He felt the faint sound of thunder, and people thought it was accidental. His fate was determined by the step, and there were frequent thunder and earthquakes. He taught the secrets of Confucianism, kept a diary of thousands of words, and his articles and calligraphy were outstanding.
As a result, such an expert will just cry when something happens.
"six!"
Another head fell.
"Don't kill me, I say, I say!"
A Taoist priest rolled out and said, "Under the statue of Sanqing!"
Cao Jixiang winked at Tang Xu and asked to go find him quickly.
He hooked his fingers and asked someone to bring the Taoist priest up and ask him from close range: "How do you know?"
"Pindao gave them food!"
Upon hearing that it was them, Cao Jixiang immediately asked: "How many people are there?"
"Five people!"
Cao Jixiang's face showed joy, big fish! The big fish that the emperor longed for was caught by him!
"Okay, as long as you catch them, we will reward you generously!" Cao Jixiang patted him on the shoulder.
But the Taoist priest begged: "I just ask you not to kill my poor Taoist brother, don't kill me!"
"If you have such a kind heart, our family will help you."
Cao Jixiang turned to look at Li Wenying: "Daozhang Li, if our family finds something they shouldn't have, let alone you, even this Chaotian Palace will collapse!"
Li Wenying lowered her head and said nothing.
Soon, Tang Xu came back and said no, there was indeed a secret room under the Sanqing Statue, but there was no one in it.
Cao Jixiang looked sharply at the Taoist priest who came forward.
The Taoist priest knelt on the ground: "I didn't lie, I didn't lie! My senior brother also saw it, there were indeed five people inside!"
Five people?
Lightning flashed in Cao Jixiang's mind.
Just now when he asked people to carry Zhou Yingyu, it seemed that five Taoist priests were carrying him.
To carry a stretcher, use two or at most three people to help.
How to use five people?
Damn it, those five people were running right under his nose!
"Tang Xu, take people to arrest those five people!"
Cao Jixiang picked up Li Wenying and said, "Tell me! Where did those five people go?"
"What five people, poor Taoist, don't you know?" Li Wenying was confused.
"You still haven't told the truth!"
Cao Jixiang let go of him, took two steps back, picked up a knife and struck him on the arm.
Li Wenying screamed.
Cao Jixiang looked like a madman, he drew out his knife and continued to chop, chop, chop, chop his arm to death!
"Damn it, why do you keep cutting?" Cao Jixiang's face was covered with blood.
He gathered Li Wenying up and asked, "Where is it?"
Li Wenying was also dumbfounded. He didn't expect Cao Jixiang to dare to attack him.
"If you don't say anything, we will kill Chaotian Palace! Everyone will die!" Cao Jixiang took two steps back and continued to chop his arm.
Li Wenying used her other hand to stop him, but was hit on the back of her hand, and half of her palm fell to the ground.
"kill!"
Cao Jixiang is crazy.
If he doesn't catch the big fish, his life will be decided here.
We all have to die anyway, so let’s die together!
Patrolman Ding attacked the Taoist priest.
"Don't! I said!" Li Wenying's heart collapsed.
He thought he was like iron, but he was panicked as he watched his disciples fall in a pool of blood.
"Say it!"
"I'm with Brother Poor!" Li Wenying closed his eyes desperately.
Cao Jixiang grabbed Li Wenying and took people to Zhou Yingyu's cultivation.
But it was all in vain.
Zhou Yingyu was gone.
"Brother Poor Brother has no soldiers, but just as a word." Li Wenying told the truth.
The reason why Zhou Yingyu was solved is to deal with Cao Jixiang.
Because he saw Cao Jixiang leading the patrolling and breaking into the Chaotian Palace, he had to block the door when he entered the palace. They thought they came to those few people.
Therefore, Zhou Yingyu and Li Wenying discussed this strategy.
To say that Zhou Yingyu's soldiers were solved, in fact, Zhou Yingyu died faked. When the wind passed, he secretly returned to Longhu Mountain in Jiangxi, and the matter came to an end.
But I didn't want to, Cao Jixiang's nose was so spiritual.
"Who is these five people?" Cao Jixiang asked.
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