However, for Qiu Moyang, the assassin of Luzhou, who was drinking heavily at the banquet in the private garden, this night was an out-and-out fright. As the chief official of the city, he was originally invited to go to Puyuan in the west of the city to hold private discussions with several close associates of the three ministers and four envoys of the city.
The main topic they want to discuss is about the "Monster Hunting" and "Jiang Patrol Censor" who are new to the Jianghuai area and are very popular and famous. Because wherever it went, it not only destroyed the monsters, but also brought more or less shock to the local officialdom.
During the ten days of being ordered to quell the Yunmeng rebellion, Jiangling Mansion was liquidated and rectified three times in a row. Except for the current Shaoyin of Jiangling Prefecture and the three divisions and four envoys of Jingnan Road, who were not directly implicated, there were few yamen and branches that could stay out of the matter.
The palace envoy assigned to Jiangling was too implicated because of his lax control of his subordinates, and was forced to commit suicide to apologize. I thought that this person would calm down for a while and have a good life in Jiangling Mansion. As a result, the imperial court issued a notice granting him more authority to start patrolling the rivers eastward.
So less than half a month after starting the river patrol, a treason case involving the "Jingjiang Liu Family" secretly communicating with evil spirits broke out in Raozhou. As a result, the governor of Raozhou was blamed and resigned, and high-ranking officials in the state were awarded There are as many as a dozen people who have been punished for their crimes or dismissed for dereliction of duty; there are even more other senior officials and officials who directly report to them.
Although most of them are the results of conclusive evidence, they can't help but affect and influence many big figures in Beijing, and even wealthy families, high officials, and dignitaries, who secretly manage money bags and other sources of income. It even shocked the local governments in surrounding areas or along the river.
Therefore, in the Jiangbei area across the river, Hefei City, Luzhou, the capital of the Huainan West Road, and also close to the water tower, were the first to get some scraps of news about the Raozhou incident. In fact, in order to prevent getting into this big trouble, the governor Qiu Moyang has decided to strengthen the local cleanup.
In fact, there are still many barbaric swamps and Tu ethnic minority mountain barbarians in the territory. Jingnan, Jiangxi, central Guizhou, Hunan and other southwest provinces; the land of the Huaihe River has been developed and cultivated by the ancestors of the Han family for generations. Fertile soil. Therefore, it is not only densely populated, rich in local products, but also a gathering of humanities.
It also has more financial and material resources to maintain local order and peace. Coupled with the relatively flat terrain and convenient water transportation throughout the country. Therefore, among the changes in the world after the celestial changes, Huaixi has more room to deal with it than other counties in other states.
During this period, many animal disasters, disasters, and abnormal incidents broke out. Before they worsened enough to be reported to the court and requested for assistance, the local government spared no effort in manpower and material resources, recruiting and hiring experts from all walks of life to help, and forcibly extinguished or suppressed them. But Qiu Moyang felt that this was not enough.
However, this requires the cooperation and acquiescence of the local government, headed by the three divisions and four envoys in the same city; only then can the wealthy businessmen and aristocratic families gather in the city to solicit donations and request cooperation. Try to calm down the place before the "River Patrol Censor" pays attention.
Of course, in this process, the various interests and powers involved, as well as the terms and prices of compromise and exchange, need to be carefully discussed. Therefore, after initially reaching a verbal agreement with these yamen representatives, Qiu Moyang could not help but relax and drink several glasses of wine.
Then, he was forcibly shaken awake by his chief staff member who had left him in the office. Because someone broke into the Yamen overnight to report to the official, saying that Wang Boxian, a representative of the wealthy merchants in the city and one of the designated candidates for solicitation, was actually assassinated during a banquet at home.
In full view of everyone, the assassin, who was mixed up among the performing dancers, threw a flying blade through his chest; he died of serious injuries on the spot. Because the incident happened suddenly and there were many VIPs at the scene, in the chaos, even though there were many guards and servants, the assassins still took advantage of the chaos and fled.
Therefore, in addition to the officials and officers who have been dispatched to inspect, seal off, and maintain the scene, Qiu Moyang, the governor, also needs to give orders and express his position in order to conduct identity screening of the guests who are restrained at the scene. However, when he got dressed, he got another piece of bad news.
The Honshu Cao Army, which had just been expanded and strengthened in the south of the city, suddenly left the camp and took action in the city on its own without any public orders. What's worse is that the Caoying general in charge of leading the team is Qiu Moyang's brother-in-law, which makes his scalp numb.
His brother-in-law was not a particularly outstanding person, and was even a bit mediocre and mediocre. It was only because of the strong balance of various aspects that he was able to push him to his current position; and he arranged for him an assistant responsible for practical affairs. The deputy is chosen just in case.
Therefore, Qiu Moyang didn't even have time to drink the tea soup to sober up, so he personally led a group of retinues and officials and rode horses along the street to Yunshaofang in the east of the city. While he was sweating profusely while running on horseback, he also ran into the Cao army, which was escaping from the long street.
I saw these Cao soldiers who had participated in the encirclement and suppression of aliens and extinguished small and medium-sized animal disasters, but they were lost and frightened. Most of them did not hesitate to spare the officials and subordinates around Qiu Moyang, who kept scolding and scolding them, and their heads He ran away from both sides of the street without looking back.
This current situation also made Qiu Moyang increasingly frightened and worried. But fortunately, along the way, military officials and Fanghe from other government agencies kept coming to meet him. At the same time, they also brought news that the unity camp in the city had been ordered to be dispatched. Only then did he bite the bullet and decide to move on.
A moment later, Qiu Moyang saw the scene of the incident that led to the defeat of the Cao Army. On the spacious street that was hundreds of paces long, soldiers dressed as Cao army fell to the ground. Most of them were crawling and moaning with their heads bleeding, while the rest were fighting with their heads on the ground.
On the wall on one side, there were dozens of conjoined soldiers in bright silver armor, holding long spears, halberds, axes, hammers and swords, vaguely monitoring and guarding the Cao army. Just the look they suddenly turned around made people feel chilling and suffocating.
They were even more shocked that the dozens of riders who were leading the way suddenly stopped involuntarily, and then they collided with each other and rolled into a ball. When Qiu Moyang saw this scene, his heart shrank violently; he wished he had never come back and wanted to turn around.
However, with the large amount of running and the sound of hooves trampling in the night, more people came from behind and pushed Qiu Moyang to the forefront of the confrontation that was faintly separated from the sky. He had to bite the bullet and asked loudly: "Who are you! Why are you here!"
The next moment, one of the soldiers was seen silently raising a roll of flags, suddenly flying out and nailing it to the ground at the street intersection, and then fluttering in the air with the night wind. Under the firelight on both sides of the street, the words "Xunjiang" and "扉平" were clearly reflected...
In an instant, everyone on the street was in an uproar, and the governor Qiu Moyang had a loud bang in his head. As the saying goes, whatever you fear will come, and the thing he was most worried about happened. The person who was known as "Living Tai Sui" in Beijing actually paid a secret visit to his subordinates.
Moreover, they easily defeated the city's Cao army, which was dispatched for unknown reasons. There were thousands of soldiers in a whole camp. At this moment, Qiu Moyang's back was already dripping with sweat; because he could already predict the fate and outcome of his brother-in-law who sent troops for no reason.
In fact, after seeing this big flag clearly, many people had already moved away amidst the noise behind the street procession. Perhaps from this moment on, no one from the three departments, four envoys and offices in the same city would come to support him, or come forward to share the pressure and responsibility for him.
Although in a sense, the city's Cao Army was more under the control of the Transportation Department; but once the identity of the opponent was confirmed, he was not surprised that the Huaixi Transportation Department would try to distance itself from the relationship. In this way, the governor of the state who insisted on expanding the Cajun army and uniting the armed forces of various departments must bear the first responsibility.
At this moment, even though there was only a street away from him, and there was a bustling Luantai Garden with constant movement, he couldn't care less. How can the life and death of a mere local big businessman compare with the potential implication of being summoned to ruin his family's future, and even his whole family?
Despite this, Qiu Moyang, who was still in a state of confusion, still relied on his many years of experience as an official to try to suppress his fluctuating emotions. After falling off his horse, he stepped forward, raised his hands to the armored soldiers on the wall and said, "But in front of Xunjiang Shangxian, Prefect Qiu Moyang, please see me; I also hope that you can report on your behalf..."
Then, one of the armored soldiers nodded, jumped up from the wall in an instant, and disappeared into the inner courtyard in a blink of an eye, carrying a suit of armor but as light as a swallow. After an excruciating moment, he reappeared and said, "The officer has ordered the state guard to come in and hear the news."
Qiu Moyang couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this. Since he was willing to meet, there was at least a chance. What he was most afraid of was that the other party would secretly find someone else, which would be irreversible. Later, when he crossed the street, he discovered that the soldiers who were lying motionless had just fainted.
As the saying goes, it is the basic principle of "get promoted, get rich, and die of your wife." However, when encountering political crises and risks, it is also necessary to separate and clarify. At least Qiu Moyang was quite satisfied with the wife he had stayed with for more than ten years, so he wanted to try to save her.
For example, can the price of being forced to give up a wife be changed into the result of simply changing a brother-in-law? In any case, to send troops without permission in the state city and attempt to surround and attack the patrolling censor and his party who were making an unannounced visit was a shocking and heinous crime that had not been seen in the court for a long time.
In fact, at the same time as this official began to patrol the Yangtze River and march eastwards, as long as he had some backing, he was more or less warned and informed. And what Qiu Moyang got from his current academic advisor was to cooperate as appropriate within his duties, but he must not get too involved with it.
Qiu Moyang then entered the inner courtyard and immediately saw his brother-in-law tied up under the court and the school captain as his deputy. He was disgraced and had suffered a lot, but at least he was still alive. He couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief again, and said without getting angry: "You bastard, who instigated this!"
"Isn't it you!" My brother-in-law complained, but he broke his guard on the spot: "Brother-in-law, you asked Du Lushi to bring over a signed handwritten letter, and asked me to seal the whole street first, and hide the person behind bars. As for the demon party in Wenfang Garden and the follow-up official documents, I thought of bringing in more manpower."
(End of chapter)
