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Chapter 1083 Chapter [-] The Great Tide of the Times ([-])

When the time passed, the night was darkening to the deepest level, and the breath of the flames near Wenhan Court was suppressed, but teams of lanterns and torches still gathered here, three floors inside and three floors outside, and the atmosphere in the vicinity changed. Got to kill.

The imperial guards in the palace had already set up a tight line of defense along the courtyard wall. Cheng Zhouhai and his deputy got off the carriage and contacted Tie Tianying who had arrived here earlier.

"...Since the fire is almost over, all the people in the yamen are on standby immediately, and no one is allowed to move without an order... Your imperial guards guard the inner circle, and I will send people to watch the surroundings. , let’s all write it down, after today, we will visit each family again..."

"... His Majesty will come over later."

"...Okay." Cheng Zhouhai nodded, "How about the casualties?"

Tie Tianying looked at the deputy beside him: "It's very serious."

"Okay." Cheng Zhouhai nodded again, and then waved his hands with his deputy, "Go, watch the outside, and report any news."

"Yes." The deputy took the order and left.

Not long after, a motorcade followed by imperial guards came from the north and entered the side door outside Wenhan Garden. Jun Wu with a long sword hanging from his waist got out of the car, followed by Zhou Pei.They sniffed the smell in the air, followed by Tie Tianying and Cheng Zhouhai, walked into the courtyard.

In the Wenhan Court, which is a building on the third floor, the fire completely destroyed a house, and most of the main building was also burned.Due to the large-scale arrival of water dragons, the air was full of the unpleasant smell left by half-burned wood, and there was also a faint smell of blood in the air.Since he had to discuss matters with Zuo Wenhuai and others every day, Li Pin, who lived not too far away, had already arrived, so he came out to greet him at this time, and saluted with Jun Wu and Zhou Pei.

"How about Zuo Qing's family and their casualties?" Jun Wu asked first.

"Your Majesty, Princess, please follow me."

As Li Pin said, he led them to Shangxian's intact third building. On the way, he saw figures of some young people. Some of them seemed to be still working in the burnt-out rooms of the main building. what to do.

"Zuo Wenhuai, Xiao Jingyi, are you all right?" Jun Wu asked on the way, suppressing his curiosity and not going to check in the charred building.Li Pin nodded and said in a low voice: "Nothing happened, the fighting was fierce, but both Zuo and Xiao were prepared, and a few people were injured, but luckily nothing major happened, no one was killed, only the two who were seriously injured It’s hard to say for now.”

Hearing such an answer, Jun Wu heaved a sigh of relief, looked at the half-burned building, and said to the side: "What are they doing there?"

"During the fight, a few bandits rushed into the room in the building, trying to resist stubbornly. Several people from here surrounded the room to persuade them to surrender, but their resistance was too fierce, so...throwing a few bombs from the southwest into it, there Now that the head is broken, they... went in to find some clues. But the scene was too tragic, His Majesty should not go and see it."

"Don't look." Looking at the ruined room over there, Jun Wu frowned, and he replied in a low voice, and then said, "A real countryman."

Blowing people to pieces with a bomb is obviously not the criterion for judging a national scholar, but seeing the emperor's joyful look at this violent atmosphere, of course no one questioned it.After all, the emperor has been chasing and fighting all the way since he came to the throne. This kind of scene of being assassinated by bandits and then attracting people to surround the house and blow them to pieces is really to his appetite.

——That's what a good person should be like!
"Are the books and materials transported from the southwest damaged?" At this moment, he looked at the traces of the flames and asked about this.

"After arriving in Fuzhou, the first thing we did was to organize, copy and back up these books and materials. Even if something happened today, the materials would not be damaged. Oh, the scene of the fire that His Majesty saw at this time was caused by us on purpose. Let it burn..."

"Why?"

"Your Majesty wants to do something, and it's an excuse to use it or not. After all, it's just these two houses. In addition, as soon as Mr. Tie came over, he sealed the inner perimeter tightly, and the courtyard was even more tightly sealed. We It is said to the outside world that the loss was heavy tonight, and many people died, so the situation outside is a bit flustered..."

"well done."

Jun Wu couldn't help but praise.

The group of people had arrived in front of the intact wooden building at this time, along the way, Jun Wu also observed some situations.Although some of the defenses on the outer and inner perimeters of the courtyard were in charge of the imperial guards, the cleaning and surveying of the fighting sites was obviously controlled by this Huaxia army team.

This is unusual. Theoretically speaking, Tie Tianying must be responsible for this first-hand information. The reason why he was excluded was that there must have been some differences or even conflicts between the two parties.But facing Zuo Wenhuai and others who had just finished a round of killing, Tie Tianying still didn't force it.

What emerges here is the true strength of this team of more than forty people from the southwest, which is quite different from the respectful and even shyness that Zuo Wenhuai showed in the past.For those in power, of course there are bad signals here, but for Jun Wu, who has been wondering and fantasizing about what the Southwest's powerful combat power is all about, he has figured out a lot of things because of this.

That's right, if it weren't for such an attitude, how could the teacher defeat Zong Han and Xi Yin in the southwest in an upright manner, who were more difficult than the Jurchen East Route Army.

As a young and vigorous emperor in his early thirties, he has struggled for a long time under the shadow of failure and death, and he has also imagined countless times what kind of iron-blooded atmosphere should be in the camp of the Huaxia Army in the southwest.When the Huaxia Army finally defeated Zong Hanxi Yin, he thought about the long-standing failure, the people of the Wu Dynasty were massacred, and there was only guilt in his heart, and he even directly said something like "a man should be like this".

Zuo Wenhuai was a talent trained by the Zuo family in the Southwest. After arriving in Fuzhou, although the front of the court was frank, he seemed too shy and polite. There was still some discrepancy with the Huaxia Army imagined by Junwu. I felt sorry for this: maybe the southwest side considered that Fuzhou was too pedantic, so they sent some slick and sophisticated civilian soldiers over. Of course, it is a good thing to be useful, and he naturally would not complain about it.

At this moment, Tu Qiongdao's familiar side was revealed in front of him.

That's the only way to do it!

Walking to the front of the two floors, a young man from the Huaxia Army from the southwest saluted him nearby. He stretched out his hands to help the other party's blood-stained body up, asked where Zuo Wenhuai was, and learned that Zuo Wenhuai was Looking at the bandit's body and wanting to call him out, Jun Wu waved his hand: "It's okay, let's take a look together, what are they all about!"

At this time, the place where the corpses of the bandits were concentrated was on the left side of the first floor. Before they reached it, Zuo Wenhuai and others, who learned that the emperor was coming, opened the door and came out to greet Jun Wu, who greeted them a few words , Then smiled and walked into the room.

"Your Majesty, over there..."

Zuo Wenhuai also wanted to persuade, but Jun Wu said: "It's okay, I have seen the corpse." He especially liked the feeling of being vigorous and resolute.

This room is quite large, but the smell of blood is strong inside. There are three rows of corpses in front and back. There are about twenty corpses. Some are on the ground, and some are on the table. A layer of cloth was hastily pulled over the few furniture.Jun Wu pulled back the cloth on the table, and saw that the corpses below had been stripped of their clothes, lying there naked, and some of the wounds were even more bloody and ferocious.

"...We have checked and found that most of these corpses have dark and rough skin, with calluses on their hands and feet. From the position, they look like people who have been at sea all year round. During the fight, we also noticed that some people walked nimbly, But the movement of the lower body is very strange, like kung fu on a boat... We cut the stomachs of several people, but we haven't found any obvious clues. Of course, we are new here, and some traces can't be found, and we have to wait for the details Let's do it to test..."

Stomach dissection... Jun Armed Forces looked at the disgusting corpse pretendingly, and nodded again and again: "Is Wu Zuo here?"

"...Because we don't know who's doing it right now, we discussed it with Mr. Li, and we think we can't let other people come in first, so..."

"Done right. How about the martial arts of the bandits?"

"The skills are good. If you put it right in private, the outcome is hard to predict."

"Then why are we so few casualties?...Of course this is a good thing, I'm just a little surprised."

"Returning to Your Majesty, fighting in formations on the battlefield is different from provoking quarrels in the rivers and lakes. There are troops guarding the periphery of Wenhanyuan, but we have carefully planned. If we want to attack this place, what method will be used? We have some plans. When the bandits came, the secret sentry we arranged first discovered the other party, and then temporarily organized a few people to patrol with lanterns, and deliberately led them to one place. After they came in, it was too late to resist... But these People are determined, brave and fearless, we only caught two seriously wounded, we bandaged them, and they will be handed over to Master Tie later..."

"Yeah..." Jun Wu nodded, listening with gusto, and then said solemnly: "The one who has this will may be a private slave of some big family. If you look hard, you should be able to find out."

"Judging from the steps these people took to infiltrate, they are quite familiar with the troops on duty at the outskirts. They just chose the timing of the guard change, and they came in quietly without disturbing them. This shows that the people who come here do have a deep relationship in Fuzhou. .In addition, I haven't been here for a month, and I haven't actually started to do anything. I don't know who made the move. They mobilized so many people to get rid of us... These things are not clear for the time being..."

But Jun Wu smiled: "These things can be investigated slowly. You and Li Qing made a good temporary decision. First, block the news, deliberately burn down the building, and show the enemy weakness. When the news of your damage is released, still From my point of view, those with evil intentions will show up slowly after all. Don't worry, I will definitely find a place for you in today's matter. By the way, where is the injured person? Let me take a look first. In addition, The imperial doctor can let him in first, and after the wound is treated, he will be strictly guarded, and he is absolutely not allowed to reveal the slightest bit of rumors here."

Then everyone went to see the wounded in the room on the other side of the building, and Jun Wu reflected: "In fact, since entering Fuzhou, some people have assassinated me before, but because the army is stationed nearby, there are Tie Qing's family members. Dedicated to guarding, there are very few people in the city who dare to take the risk of assassination and murder. You have only come to Fuzhou, and you have encountered such a thing. It is my negligence. I don't see them working so hard—”

He cursed harshly.

This team from the southwest arrived here, after all, they have not started to participate in large-scale reforms.The first round of guesses in everyone's minds is that those old Confucian scholars who have been thinking about the crime of killing the king by the demons are the most likely to take action. It is a truly generous act to mobilize dozens of people to carry out the assassination in this way.If Zuo Wenhuai and the others took it lightly because they arrived in Fuzhou, the people on the first floor might die tonight.

But looking at the bloodstains on these people and the steel wire armor worn under their coats, Jun Wu understood that these young people were much more vigilant about this fight than other people in Fuzhou.

This kind of thing may mean that they do not trust their own side in normal times, but at the moment, it also really proves that they are correct.

"I want to apologize to you." Jun Wudao, "but I also assure you that such things will never happen again in the future."

"Your Majesty, you don't need to be like this." Zuo Wenhuai bowed his head and saluted, then paused slightly, "Actually...to put it bluntly, before coming here, Mr. Ning from the Southwest told us that as long as there are interests involved, the internal Struggles are more dangerous than external struggles, because many times we don't know where the enemy comes from. Since His Majesty implements reforms, we are His Majesty's pawns. Pawns do not avoid swords and guns, and Your Majesty does not need to see us Too delicate."

Jun Wu looked at him, remained silent for a long time, and then let out a long, long breath of relief.At this moment, he suddenly remembered the meeting he had with the members of the Huaxia Army before Jiang Ning ascended the throne. It was the first time he met the spies of the Huaxia Army. Answer: There is enough to eat, because there are not many people...

At this time, Zuo Wenhuai vaguely overlapped with that figure...

This is the Huaxia Army.

This is the Huaxia Army!

If there were such soldiers by my side back then, mere Jurchen, how could they wreak havoc and massacre in the south of the Yangtze River...

He nodded.

Then, everyone discussed in the room for a while, about how to confuse the outside world, how to find out the mastermind this time... By the time they left the room, the members of the Huaxia Army had already been locked up with some of Tie Tianying's men. Wei made an explanation—they were covered in blood, and even those who could still move seemed seriously injured and miserable.But under this miserable appearance, the people who survived the battle with the Jurchens have begun to accept the challenges of the local snakes and strangers in this strange place...

The sky is not yet bright, the night sky is twinkling with stars, the breath of the fire is still permeating, and the night still looks restless and restless.One force after another is about to show its own posture...

(End of this chapter)