"Ah! Killing!"
"Wen Lou killed someone!"
"Help! There is a thief!"
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Hearing the noise around the building, the diners and travelers who were alerted by the sounds of crossbows and swords fled in all directions. The crowd became more and more noisy, and finally the officers of the Jiankang Yamen who were patrolling the streets in Anyefang were killed. Recruited.
"Ge Tou'er, Ge Tou'er... I heard that someone killed people in Wenlou, and there were many casualties. This is going to cause a big case!" A guard pressed the handle of the knife, with a look of horror on his face, and he was out of breath. Reported with details.
"oh?"
"Can I ask how many people there are?" The person who led the people to Wenlou was a tour guide named Ge who was under the command of Wang Fu of Jiankang. He was responsible for inspecting the fourth square near the Jiankang Yamen Office. He was a low-level official. , the unfashionable kind.
In the Jin Dynasty, there were three types of institutions: township, pavilion and li under the prefectures and counties. The township has positions such as Chefu, Sanlao, and Youyou. Shifu is the chief official of the township, the three elders are responsible for educating the villagers, and Youyou is responsible for the security of the township.
Jiankang was the capital of the Jin Dynasty and the center of the imperial court. Tours were arranged according to the township settings every few squares to calm the people.
"Going back to Ge Tou'er, there are a lot of people, at least a hundred people, and they all have weapons, and they seem to have brought crossbows!"
"Well, Allah understands." You You, whose surname is Ge, is a native of Jiankang and speaks the Wu dialect.
"No, if I bring a crossbow and cause a big trouble, Ala Ge and the others won't be able to eat and carry it away!" Ge Youjiao heard that a crossbow was used, and it was a serious matter. He came back to his senses a little, his eyes suddenly It lit up.
Secretly concealing armor, crossbows and other weapons and armor prohibited by the imperial court will be punished with death according to one of the violations in the "Jin Code". Those with large quantities may even be implicated!
Of course, the prerequisite for the crime of concealing armor, bows and crossbows is that both the person and the person should take the stolen goods.
Although the prestige of the Jin court has dropped greatly since the southern crossing, and the gentry tribes have been amassing armored soldiers privately, but no one with short sight dares to take them out in broad daylight, let alone a group of people armed with bows, crossbows and long knives, sneaking into restaurants and restaurants to commit murders.
The people who gathered in Wenlou to carry out the assassination were really over-the-top. Jiankang was the capital of the Jin Dynasty. At the feet of the emperor, Anyefang in the north of the city was relatively close to Taicheng and the palace city, only three to five hundred paces away!
This is a rebellion!
As soon as he greeted him, more than a dozen officers rushed up behind him: "Listen up, all of you! We are encountering a big event now. If something goes wrong on this mission, we will not be able to live without it! None of the thieves in Wenlou are allowed to escape. , get them all for me!”
"No!" Everyone raised their hands and prepared to draw their swords.
"Don't worry, there are more. We only have less than twenty brothers. There are many thieves and we are outnumbered. I will not let the brothers force you to die in vain even though you know that there is a dead end ahead."
Ge Youyou appointed a few people: "Go and notify Jiankang Beiwei. Tell them that if you don't want to be implicated, send someone over immediately."
After the Jin Dynasty moved to the south, the six divisions of Jiankang in the capital were modeled on the six divisions of Luoyang, namely the east, south, west, north, left and right divisions. Cao Cao served as the northern division of Luoyang at the end of the Han Dynasty.
"promise!"
"Why are you still standing there?" Ge Yougong roared, and immediately asked the officers to rush to Wenlou. When the officers heard that there were people from the Jiankang Northern Wei Yamen Office supporting them, they seemed to be emboldened and showed their faces. Knife, let go and started running.
The people passing by heard the news that the police were dispatched. They all knew that there was a murder ahead, and they did not dare to stop them, so they all got out of the way...
The police officers were dispatched to the market in Anyefang, looking like they were in a hurry. The people heard the sound and started to move. It was a mess! There was even more excitement inside the building. The sound of fighting cries and the sound of metal clashing of swords intertwined and lingered in the building for a while.
"Who are you?"
The guard commander Cao Wu chopped down two men in black with a long knife, and then rushed into the crowd of black men holding crossbows. He rushed left and right, causing so much disturbance that he could hardly defeat any enemies!
He casually snatched two powerful crossbows and pulled the hanging knife towards the men in black who came to kill them. As the crossbow arrows were launched with full momentum, the men in black who came forward to take action were hit by arrows and fell to the ground.
As the number of guards increased, and Cao Wu and Cao Shu worked hard to protect him, the purple-robed boy was also carried on the shoulders of the guards. Everyone was about to retreat, but the man in black was gradually losing ground, and fear began to show in his eyes!
"Bold thief, how dare you kill people in public!" While the men in black and the guards of the young man in purple robes were confronting each other, the patrol officers led by Ge Youjiu roared in and arrived late.
When the men in black saw the guards arriving, they didn't hesitate one after another and jumped out of the window to escape. Some who couldn't escape even took out the poison they had prepared in advance and committed suicide by taking the poison!
"Brothers, come on!" When Ge Youjiao saw the man in black fleeing, he sent people upstairs to support him, and at the same time he had people go out to intercept him. However, his manpower was limited and he couldn't do everything. He couldn't let a few men in black take advantage of him. Fleeed in the night.
Ge Youjiao chopped down two men in black who were ungrateful and wanted to kill him. When he went up to Dewen Tower, he saw that there were many guards around the young man in purple robes. There were dead bodies on the ground on the second floor, and even the wooden boards were stained with blood. It was full and busy, so people surrounded everyone.
Ge Youxiang carefully looked at the group of young people in purple robes. He was about to make further moves and waited for everyone to go to the Jiankang Yamen Office. He even planned that when the prison warden Chen Si took over so many people, he would do a good job. His benefits are indispensable at times...
However, Uncle Cao took out an exquisite wooden sign from his arms, pushed aside the servant, walked up to Ge Youyou, and handed it over.
"Prince Chenliu's Mansion!" Ge Youyou's hands were trembling. He looked at the purple-robed young man not far away and couldn't help but asked out of curiosity: "Who is this one?"
Cao Wu put away the long knife and was checking the purple-robed boy's injuries. He turned around and replied: "This is the heir apparent of our family."
"Your Majesty!" Ge Youjiao swallowed his saliva, "I'll be a good boy!"
King Chenliu was one of the two kings and three kings of the Jin Dynasty, after Cao Huan, the emperor of Wei Yuan who took the Zen throne in the previous dynasty.
The first King Chenliu was Cao Huan, who has been in power for more than a hundred years.
King Chenliu has been passed down to Cao Mai, who is now the third generation. Cao Mai has been King Chenliu for thirty years, but he has not had many children. The five children he gave birth to before all died young, and he only had these ten when he was nearly fifty. Six-year-old Cao Hui was established as the heir apparent at an early age and regarded him as a treasure!
"Which guy without eyes dares to attack and assassinate the Crown Prince? When my master finds out the truth, he will give the Crown Prince a satisfactory explanation!" After all, Ge Youyou is just a small Youyou, and he has a lot of achievements. Kang Liubuwei, the county magistrate, and Jiankang Ling Wangfu.
"Who are you, please?" Uncle Cao asked someone to bandage the young prince in purple robe. Seeing Ge Youyou step forward, he asked.
Ge Youjiu quickened his pace and stepped forward to answer: "The villain is just a small wanderer in Anyefang. Hearing the noise here, he didn't dare to delay, so he brought people here..."
"Who dares to make trouble within the jurisdiction of the headquarters?" Ge Youjiu was talking to Cao's people, and it happened that Northern Lieutenant Liu Zhi also arrived with people after hearing the news.
"I've met Lieutenant Liu!"
"no."
Liu Zhi, the Northern Lieutenant, frowned and went upstairs. He heard some noise on the way and saw the man in black jumping out of the window and escaping. He sent someone to chase him and entered Wenlou first. Although he had been mentally prepared for a long time, when he saw the mess and corpses everywhere, he could no longer calm down. Today's incident was too big!
Liu Zhi knew very well that the security in Jiankang City was difficult to manage, even if he was only in charge of security in the northern part of Jiankang.
Jiankang is the capital of the country, and there are officials, powerful people, and three religions and nine schools. I don’t know who has a certain background, who is above each one, and who is behind them.
Therefore, the position of Beibu Wei may not seem like a big one, but he may cause a lot of trouble in the future, and at the same time, he must maintain the security of the imperial capital.
"When Taizu first entered the Wei House, he repaired the four gates. He made five-color sticks and hung more than ten on each side of the door. Anyone who violated the prohibition would be killed without fear of the powerful."
Although Liu Zhi, the Northern Lieutenant, knew that he had a heavy responsibility and could not slack off, he could not act arbitrarily and follow his own heart like Cao Cao.
Liu Zhi was born in the Liu family of Pengcheng. His grandfather was a member of the Liu Kui clan, Yushi Zhongcheng and Zhenbei General. His father, Liu Gui, was a Guanglu doctor and Tingwei during his lifetime.
During the Wang Dun Rebellion, General Wang Dun listed ten major crimes on the grounds that Liu Wei and others had "treacherous ministers and deceived the emperor" and sided with the Qing emperor. He raised troops from Wuchang, Jiangzhou, and fought all the way along the Yangtze River to Jiankang.
Shangshu ordered Diao Xie to issue an edict, and ordered Liu Wei, the Zhenbei general who was guarding Huaiyin at that time, to rescue him. Dai Yuan, the Zhengxi general who was stationed in Hefei, also led troops to return to protect him. Emperor Sima Rui of the Yuan Dynasty even wore armor to supervise the battle. However, the imperial army was ultimately defeated by Wang's army, and Zhou Zha, the right general who was guarding Stone City, defected and surrendered to Wang Dun. Soon Jiankang fell into Wang Dun's hands.
After that, Emperor Sima Rui of the Yuan Dynasty became seriously ill and Wang Dun killed his dissidents and actively took over the government. Liu Wei fled Shizhao and defected to Emperor Shihu of Shizhao. He was classified as a rebel by Wang Dun. The Liu family in Pengcheng was also severely suppressed. When the Wang family was in charge of the government, the Liu family had no senior officials at the level of Hagong!
Times changed, the Wang family declined, and the Yu family of Yingchuan, the Huan family of Longkang, and the Xie family of Chenjun emerged one after another and took over the government one after another. Only then did the Liu family of Pengcheng regain their breath and gradually re-enter the political center of Jiankang.
After several inquiries and Ge Youyou's supplementary explanation, Liu Zhi roughly understood the whole story.
Even though he was from a noble family, Liu Zhi could not handle this case lightly. After all, it involved the crown prince of Chenliu, and the identity of Prince Chenliu was extremely special in the Jin Dynasty. In order to show the grace and power of the country, Emperor Wu deliberately included him. This bit of blood left over from the previous royal family was inherited by the nobles, and the sacrifices of Cao Wei continued for generations.
Now, someone actually assassinated the Crown Prince of Chenliu. Who knew that King Chenliu, Cao Mai, only had such a single seedling? If something went wrong, wouldn't it be like throwing dirty water on the court's face? To say that the Sima family crossed the river and demolished the bridge, usurped the family's power, and also destroyed the family's descendants, cut off the family's incense, and eliminated the family's ancestral temple sacrifices?
Cao Hui, the eldest son of Chenliu King Cao Mai, was assassinated in Wenlou, Anyefang, north of Jiankang City. This incident will definitely cause an uproar in Jiankang!
"Please ask the prince to move here first." Liu Zhi thought for a long time and didn't know where to place Cao Hui. Then he remembered to ask: "May I ask who the prince came to Jiankang to see and what to do?"
Although Cao Hui fainted from the pain, the housekeeper Cao Shu and the guard commander Cao Wu were very awake, because both of them had experienced a life and death game. Uncle Cao replied in an orderly manner: "Go back to Lieutenant Liu, my lord." The prince was ordered to come and pay homage to General Zhengbei. No, because it was night, I didn’t dare to go and disturb him.”
"That's it!" Liu Zhi heard that Uncle Cao said that King Chenliu wanted to curry favor with Xu Xiao, the general who conquered the North. After all, Xu Xiao was one of the four auxiliary ministers and held military power. Many people were rushing to establish a relationship. , is not a rare thing.
Ge Youjiu, who was on the side, heard that Prince Chenliu was going to meet Xu Xiao. He couldn't help but interjected: "Then it's too unlucky for you to come. General Zhengbei is no longer in the capital!"
"Ah?" Uncle Cao looked surprised, his mouth wide open.
Liu Zhi nodded to express his agreement with Ge Youxi, and he echoed: "Ge Youxi is right. General Zhengbei was ordered to conquer the rebel Sun En. This happened two or three days ago. You are afraid that you will fail."
Cao Wu came closer and asked, "When will the General Zhengbei return?"
"How can we be sure of sending troops to fight? It could be anywhere from three to five months at least, and maybe a year and a half at most." Ge Youjiu was a warm-hearted person, and before his boss Liu Zhi could say anything, he took over the words.
"Go to Guanyi!" Liu Zhi, the Northern Jiankang Lieutenant, suggested: "Although Guanyi is simple, it has not been used for pilgrimage, and there have been no big happy events in the court recently. The place is so free that no one would want to settle the prince. At least there is no problem with safety there. Besides, now that the prince is injured, he should ask a doctor to take a look and take out the crossbow arrow as soon as possible. "
"Then let's do it!" Uncle Cao made a decision and escorted the crown prince Cao Hui out of Wenlou. When the people from the Chenliu Palace left, Wenlou was also ordered to be sealed off by Liu Zhi...
