"Sir, Yun Hanjie from the Yun family and Zhao Yu from the Gongsun family have already arrived in Dongning City. Both families hope to see you immediately..." Qi Dechao walked in In Ye Mingsheng's study, he reported the latest news to Ye Mingsheng.
Ye Mingsheng, who was busy writing notes on the memorial, heard this, nodded slightly and said calmly:
"The Yun family and the Gongsun family can't sit still anymore after all!"
Ye Mingsheng seemed to have discovered something here, and said with some confusion:
I know Yun Hanjie from the Yun family, but who is this Zhao Yu? Why did the Gongsun family send him here? "
Regarding Ye Mingsheng's doubts, Qi Dechao immediately explained:
"Let me tell you, sir, this Zhao Yu is the son-in-law of the Gongsun family. He married Gongsun Huan's biological sister. He is very trusted by Gongsun Huan. Currently, he is mainly responsible for Gongsun's commercial trade in Changqing Mansion and land rent collection."
Qi Dechao's introduction gave Ye Mingsheng some understanding of Zhao Yu. After pondering for a moment, Ye Mingsheng ordered Qi Dechao:
"What's going on with the Cui family?"
Qi Dechao thought for a while and said:
"The Coordination Office said there is news that Cui Shao plans to come to Dongning to meet with adults, but the accuracy of this news has yet to be confirmed... "
Ye Mingsheng heard a sneer at the corner of his mouth. Cui Shao, an old fox, was really tolerant. Regardless of the rejection of those Cui party members, he insisted on promoting them to touch the interests of the Gongsun family and the Yun family, just to provoke the three families. The contradiction caused suspicion between the three families.
Now the Gongsun family and the Yun family have sent people to talk to them just in case and to protect the family's interests. Most of their goals have been achieved, but the Cui family is still as smelly and hard as the stones in the pit. , only this kind of catchy news comes out that is difficult to distinguish between true and false.
Seeing the sneer on Ye Mingsheng's face, Qi Dechao guessed Ye Mingsheng's thoughts and carefully asked:
"Sir, do you want the Coordination Office to confirm this news?"
"Whatever, Cui Shao can come if he wants to. If he doesn't want to come, forget it!"
After speaking, Ye Mingsheng calmly ordered:
"Yun Hanjie and Zhao Yu just ask them to wait. The most important thing at the moment is the military parade. All other things can be postponed for a while!"
After finishing his words, Ye Mingsheng seemed to have recalled something and asked:
"By the way, have Huo San and the others caught the thief named Liu Baoshan that Ye Kui reported before?"
After hearing Ye Mingsheng's inquiry, Qi Dechao thought about his words before starting to say:
"Deputy Director Wang from the Coordination Office sent news yesterday, saying that Director Huo personally led a team to launch a siege against Liu Baoshan. Basically, all the gang assigned to Liu Baoshan by the Supervision Department have been arrested, and ten of them have been killed and captured. Of the two, only Liu Baoshan escaped. The Coordination Office is still continuing to hunt Liu Baoshan..."
After listening to Qi Dechao's words, Ye Mingsheng said dissatisfied:
, "There are still five days until the military parade. No matter what the Coordination Office does, I must kill this Liu Baoshan before the military parade begins. Liu Baoshan must not be allowed to pose even the slightest threat to the military parade ceremony!"
Ye Mingsheng attaches great importance to this victory parade. This is an action that he has been planning for a long time to show his strength to the gentry and people of Liaoyang to stabilize people's hearts, and to show off his force and muscles to the aristocratic families. He will use this as an opportunity to officially launch his own The disarmament plan kicked off a series of reforms in Liaoyang.
Shen Jianzhong naturally had a premonition about Ye Mingsheng's thoughts, so he sent Liu Baoshan to destroy it.
Ye Mingsheng must not let their conspiracy succeed. If Liu Baoshan kills several officials during the ceremony, then the Fengwu Army and Ye Mingsheng will lose their lives. Not only will the military parade not have the effect of calming the people and showing off force, , on the contrary, it will intensify people’s panic and cause social instability...
Listening to Ye Mingsheng's serious tone, Qi Dechao also looked solemn and said quickly:
"Sir, I'm going to go to the Coordination Office to urge you!"
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Maochengzi Town is fifty miles outside Dongning City.
The originally peaceful villages and towns were now in a state of turmoil. All entrances and exits of the town had been blocked by heavily armed Fengwu soldiers. No entry or exit was allowed. In addition, a large number of black-clad guards from the Coordination Office were also searching house to house.
At this time, he was in the Maoji Restaurant in the center of the town. Although Huo San was drinking wine and eating peanuts, his expression was full of solemnity at this time, and he was not at all relaxed and leisurely like when drinking in a pub.
Although he did not know the latest instructions just given by Ye Mingsheng at this time, he also knew the importance of the victory parade to the Fengwu Army, which also made him feel the seriousness of the development of the situation. As a local snake in Liaoyang, Huo Sanzao During my years, I had heard of the name of Liu Baoshan, the "King of Yama", the top killer of the Supervision Department that made people laugh.
This time, after learning from an insider in the Supervision Department that Shen Jianzhong had activated Liu Baoshan, who had already retired, and led a group of capable personnel to sabotage the Victory Parade, Huo San immediately became vigilant and immediately launched an encirclement and suppression campaign. The plan is to eliminate this group of people before they enter Dongning City and ensure the safety of the victory parade...
The plan originally went very smoothly. With the cooperation of insiders in the Supervision Department, Liu Baoshan led twelve men to Maochengzi Town. In the trap carefully designed by Huo San for them, Huo San was delighted to see the arrival of the prey. Yu also closed the net immediately.
Surrounded by the soldiers of Fengwu and the action team of the Coordination Office, these dozen killers of the Supervision Department were killed and captured. However, the only pity was that this Liu Baoshan was much more powerful than Huo San had imagined. , being hit in the arm by a Weiyuan gun, he killed a dozen soldiers and got rid of the pursuit.
After discovering this situation, Huo San felt a little bit lucky despite being angry. Fortunately, he was well prepared just in case, and blocked all the roads in and out of Maochengzi Town early.
If he had not blocked the access roads like this, once Liu Baoshan escaped, the consequences would be disastrous. If Liu Baoshan were allowed to kill several officials during the victory parade, Huo San can imagine that the furious Ye Mingsheng would have killed him. own head.
Although Liu Baoshan has not been caught now, Huo San is sure that Liu Baoshan cannot run far now and should still be hiding in the town!
Although I don’t know where Liu Baoshan is hiding in that corner of the town, it is not a big deal to Huo San. Maochengzi is a small town with a total of 500 households and about 3,000 people. Not big.
After coordinating with the military, Huo San mobilized thousands of soldiers to Maochengzi Town. A thousand soldiers searched all over the place. Even if they had to dig three feet into the ground, they would kill Liu Baoshan!
Liu Baoshan is amazing! It’s awesome! But no matter how powerful and awesome he is! He is also a person!
As the saying goes, two fists cannot defeat four hands, and a good tiger cannot defeat a pack of wolves. There are more than a thousand people on his side. One person can drown Liu Baoshan just by urinating!
Huosan just swallowed the wine in one gulp, and soon he drank up the whole bottle of wine. Just when he was about to ask the waiter to bring a bottle of wine, his confidant, the captain of the action team, Townsend came over and reported:
"Director, several squires in this town are clamoring to see you, saying that we are now blocking the road to prevent the villagers from going out, which is delaying them from serving the crops..."
Huo San, who was not in a good mood after hearing this, waved his hands impatiently and said:
"Tell them all to get lost! How can their crops be compared to Liu Baoshan? If we can't catch Liu Baoshan, our entire coordination office will be in trouble!"
"Understood, sir! I'm going to blast them away!" Townsend nodded and was about to take action, but as soon as he took two steps, he heard Huo San behind him stop him and said:
"Forget it, Lord Governor, we still value the lives of these poor guys. If they file a complaint, they will be scolded even if they say nothing. Just tell them to count the losses in the past two days, and we will coordinate and deal with them. Pay it forward!"
"Yes!" Townsend took the order and left.
Looking at Townsend leaving, the slightly drunk Huo San asked the waiter for a drink and couldn't help but sigh:
"What he has brewed is that the Governor loves the people like his sons and maintains strict military discipline. If only before when Song Wenhui was the governor, it would have been better if the soldiers entered the village and did not plunder property. Now they dare to block the road. Waiwai············”
As soon as he finished speaking, Huo San felt a fierce wind hitting his neck. The wind was so fast that he had no time to think in the lightning flash. However, the muscle memory formed by his many years of martial arts practice made Huo San subconsciously twist. His body rolled. Although he was a little embarrassed, Huo San narrowly escaped the strong wind.
Huo San, who was lying on the ground, was also frightened out of his drunkenness. Dingqing saw a middle-aged man with a strong build and a simple appearance in front of him. If this man wasn't Liu Baoshan, who else could he be?
Seeing Huo San dodge his attack, Liu Baoshan also had a trace of annoyance in his eyes. If it weren't for his arm being injured by the fire blunderbuss, and the attack speed is now slower, or that hand knife just now , enough to stun Huo San!
After fighting his way out of the dragnet set by the Coordination Office, Liu Baoshan wanted to wait for an opportunity to escape from Maochengzi Town, but he soon discovered that all the roads in and out of the town were guarded by Fengwu soldiers, and there were a large number of Taxis entered the village and started searching...
Seeing this scene, Liu Baoshan's hope of escaping was completely shattered. Unwilling to surrender, he immediately came up with a new idea, that is, to capture the thief first, capture the king and the leader of the gang, and then Holding this person hostage, with a hostage in hand, his chances of escaping will be greatly increased.
Liu Baoshan made up his mind and took action. He first confirmed that Huo San was in the restaurant in the center of the town, then killed the guards and sneaked into the restaurant. Now was his best chance to take action. If he missed it, he would undoubtedly be A dead end!
Seeing that Liu Baoshan had already killed him, Huo San was stunned for a moment. Although he didn't know why Liu Baoshan was killed in front of him, he couldn't care about it at this time and immediately shouted:
"Come quickly! Liu Baoshan is here!"
Although Huo San has followed Huo Xiaoli in martial arts since he was a child and is very confident in his own kung fu, he is also self-aware. He is no match for Liu Baoshan, so after shouting this voice, he turned around and wanted to Escape, he finally followed Ye Mingsheng, his life was bright, but he didn't want to lose his life here...
Huo San wants to run away, how can Liu Baoshan fulfill his wish?
It was too late, but it was too soon. I saw Liu Baoshan flipping over and landing directly in front of Huo San, blocking Huo San's escape. Seeing Liu Baoshan appear in front of him, Huo San's face was ashen. However, At this moment, there was a rush of footsteps outside. Hearing the footsteps, Huo San, who knew that his reinforcements were coming, felt reassured and became energetic.
Although he feels that he is not Liu Baoshan's opponent, Huo San has practiced martial arts for many years and is a direct disciple of his master Huo Xiaoli. It should not be a big problem to survive a few rounds under Liu Baoshan. As long as he can survive this time, Then a large number of people will kill him, and Liu Baoshan will die tragically under the knife.
Liu Baoshan, who also heard the footsteps approaching, had completely different reactions from Huo San. Knowing that he was pressed for time, he did not dare to waste time, and immediately hit Huo San with a series of palms. It seems simple but powerful. At this time, Liu Baoshan completely gave up his defense and put on a fierce posture of either capturing Huo San alive or dying with Huo San!
Seeing Liu Baoshan, who was jumping over the wall like a madman, Huo San, who felt extremely bitter in his heart, could only muster up his energy to deal with it.
However, after only receiving two palms, Liu Baoshan's surging internal energy shocked Huo San. His internal organs were topsy-turvy and misaligned, and the pain was unbearable. A trace of blood spilled from the corner of his mouth. He could no longer resist, and could only look at Liu helplessly. Baoshan's big hand will hold his neck and capture him alive...
At this critical moment, a man came out from behind. It was Townsend, the captain of the action team under Huo San. He jumped up high and slashed at the back of Liu Baoshan's head. If Liu Baoshan persisted at this time, If Huo San is captured alive and doesn't turn around to deal with it or run away sideways, then his head will definitely not be able to dodge the blow from Townsend!
Liu Baoshan, who had no choice but to let Huo San go, turned sideways to avoid the fatal blow from Townsend. Townsend, who was holding a steel knife, also blocked Huo San and looked at Liu Baoshan warily. The next second a large number of soldiers arrived and surrounded Liu Baoshan!
