Standalone Northern and Southern Dynasties

Chapter 72 Why me?
Lu Zheng looked at the team following Su Ze, and then at the Yulin people following him, and showed an unwilling expression.

According to Lu Zheng's plan, he would first hunt enough prey to qualify for the questioning based on Manager Lu's map, and then ambush on the way back to the mound to rob Su Ze of his prey.

This kind of thing has happened many times in the previous selections. In order to monopolize the qualifying spots, the Chinese Xianbei Yu Lin would ambush and attack the seeded players of the Han Yu Lin on their way back.

But there were so many Han Yulin following Su Ze, and Lu Zheng looked at the number of Chinese Yulin behind him. The two really met, and it was hard to say who was robbing whom.

They could only wait until Su Ze was alone, or wait until nightfall and attack at night.

Lu Zheng made up his mind that most of the Han Yulin suffered from night blindness, and the night was the hunting ground for these Han Yulin!
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"Coach Li, why me?"

Wang Hui looked at Li Tong, who was dressed as a riding slave, and asked in despair.

Although Li Tong did not serve as a Yulin Lang like Su Ze's father, he served as an instructor in Yulin because of his excellent riding and archery skills. He also taught Wang Hui riding skills.

In the imperial guard system such as Huben and Yulin, the upper-level officers and the middle and lower-level officers are two completely different systems.

The official positions of the Northern Wei Dynasty were inherited from the Han and Jin Dynasties. The General of the Imperial Guards was the commander of the Imperial Guards. The current General of the Imperial Guards was Yuan Ji, a member of the imperial clan. Not to mention the Han people, even the eight Xianbei clans had no chance to get this position. This was a position that only the most trusted members of the imperial clan of the Northern Wei Dynasty could hold, because the Imperial Guards were the imperial guards responsible for the safety of the entire capital Luoyang.

The General of the Imperial Guards is a third-rank official position, which is definitely the highest-level position.

Under the rank of Yu Lin Zhong Lang Jiang was Yu Lin Xiao Wei, which was also a fourth-rank official position in the imperial court. Only the descendants of noble families with the surname Jia and the eight Xianbei surnames could hold this position.

Next is the position of Yulinlang where Su Ze's father once served. This is the Yulin Army responsible for the defense of the Forbidden City. In fact, it is the personal army of the emperor and the empress dowager. This is a position of the sixth rank and can be regarded as a clean and selected position.

These are all serious official positions, and they are all court-appointed officials who receive court salaries and are granted official land.

There are military positions at various levels in the Yulin Army, which are not part of the official system of the imperial court.

Each of the eight colonels of the Yulin Guards led an army. From top to bottom, the army was divided into brigade commanders, centurions, and team leaders. There were also grassroots military positions such as instructors, material officers, military assistants, and secretaries. However, these were just ordinary military positions, not the nine-rank officials of the imperial court. They could only be promoted in the army and could not enjoy the land grants and privileges of officials.

When Emperor Xiaowen just started his reforms, it was still possible to be promoted from a Yulin military rank to a Yulin Lang, and to obtain an official rank from a military rank and enter the officialdom.

However, in recent years, Yulinlang, as an important position among the nobles in the Forbidden City, has gradually been occupied by disciples of aristocratic families, and it has become difficult to transfer the real Yulin military position into the official system.

This is also the reason why the selection of talents to enter the shogunate is becoming increasingly fierce. Those Yulin who hold military positions want to become officials. If they cannot be promoted to Yulin Lang, they can only take a roundabout route. They can first seek to serve as a staff member under the princes and important ministers who founded the government, and then get an official position in the shogunate after making meritorious services. In this way, they can obtain an official position of a certain rank.

Li Tong had once been a coach of cavalry and archery for the Yulin Army, and had also taught Wang Hui, so when he took off the black scarf covering his face, Wang Hui recognized him immediately.

Li Tong pulled the arrow out of the stag's chest. Wang Hui looked at the prey behind him. These were all what Li Tong had just hunted.

According to Li Tong, these would all be counted as Wang Hui's trophies. However, Wang Hui, who had picked up a bunch of prey for free, did not feel excited at all. Instead, he felt cold all over.

"With these, you should be able to enter the final question-and-answer session, right?"

Wang Hui asked again: "Why me?"

Wang Hui had already smelled the danger. He had been bewitched by the Mahayana monks. During that time, he was brainwashed all day long and agreed to the Mahayana evil men to assassinate King Qinghe when they entered the curtain.

The Mahayana demons of Longhua Temple were destroyed overnight, and Wang Hui calmed down. After getting rid of the brainwashing, Wang Hui also felt scared. Although his wife had been killed, there were other relatives in the family. The serious crime of assassinating King Qinghe would also implicate relatives and friends.

So this time when Wang Hui participated in the selection, she just wanted to go through the motions, and when she was eliminated in the end, she would just pretend that the incident at Longhua Temple had never happened.

Unexpectedly, Wang Hui was tied up by a masked man just after he left the shooting range to fish. The masked man who tied him up had amazing archery skills and could accurately hit the heart of the prey from two hundred steps away. Soon, he helped Wang Hui hunt a large number of prey.

But Wang Hui was not happy at all, because Li Tong said directly:
"I need you to be on the list. I need to assassinate the Creepy King at that time."

Wang Hui felt dizzy. Assassinating King Rourun at King Qinghe's banquet was almost the same as assassinating King Qinghe himself. Both were serious crimes that the whole family could not escape.

Wang Hui pleaded, "Why me?"

Li Tong did not answer his question. He wiped the arrow and said:
"The Rouran King Anagui is a powerful ruler of the grasslands. Letting him return to the grasslands will be a serious threat to our Great Wei. We must kill him in Luoyang."

Wang Hui asked desperately: "Why me?"

"Weren't you originally planning to assassinate King Qinghe?"

Wang Hui felt as if someone had poured a bucket of cold water on her. She didn't expect that Li Tong would know her most secretive matters.

Li Tong said: "Now that the Mahayana demon has been destroyed, you don't think you are safe, do you? Assassinating the King of Qinghe is a capital crime, and since you are going to die anyway, let me kill a Rourou King as well."

Wang Hui pleaded, "Master Li, I was bewitched by the demon and I am no longer planning to assassinate King Qinghe. Besides, the Qinghe King's banquet is heavily guarded, and you will not be able to escape even if you kill King Rourou."

Li Tong smiled and said, "Who said I want to run? Isn't it enough to exchange my life for the life of the Ruru King?"

Wang Hui asked again: "Coach Li, aren't you afraid of getting your family into trouble?"

Li Tong thought about it seriously and nodded, saying, "You have thought it through."

After saying this, Li Tong took out a knife from his bosom, scratched his face in front of Wang Hui, applied the prepared ointment, and wrapped his face with a bandage.

Seeing all this, Wang Hui became even more desperate. Li Tong did this in front of him, which clearly showed that he was not going to leave any survivors.

Wang Hui screamed, "Master Li, why did you want to kill the King of Rourou? Does he have any grudge against you?"

Li Tong shook his head and said, "No hatred or grudges."

"why?"

"To kill Hu!"

Wang Hui felt even more crazy, and he shouted: "No, we are the Hu people in the Wei Dynasty. If you want to kill the Hu people, why do you want to kill the King of Rouran? There are so many Hu people in the Imperial Guards. With your skills, can't you just kill them casually?"

(End of this chapter)