Red Mansion: Incense and God Road, starting from the City God of Shenjing

Chapter 80: Killing one person is a sin, killing everyone is a hero!
Jiangnan
Zhenjiang Prefecture

Menghu Academy
The quaint academy is built by the lake, with glazed tiles sparkling in the sun and long corridors winding and staggered.

The setting sun shines down, the lake ripples, the scene is vivid and extremely beautiful.

This is the largest academy in Zhenjiang Prefecture.

There are more than 800 students in the academy and more than 50 teachers, all of whom are Confucian scholars of the second level. In addition, there are also great Confucian scholars from Jiangnan who take turns to give lectures here.

It is a gathering of talented people and can be said to be the most important force in Bailu Academy.

It is well-known throughout the Jiangnan region.

But today, the tranquility of Menghu Academy was completely broken!
With the sound of horse hooves, seven hundred elite cavalrymen broke into the city from outside and headed straight for the academy.

The leader wore a purple robe and rode a white tiger.

They were the elite troops of the Beijing Camp that Jia Cong brought out from the Shenjing City.

The spirit and vitality of an army is nurtured through battle after battle.

Since I came to Jiangnan, I have never fought in a battle.

But they had to watch helplessly as Jia Cong slaughtered the eight major salt merchants step by step and broke the backbone of the White Deer Academy.

I also feel proud of it.

In addition, there are various generous rewards.

The seven hundred elite cavalrymen, with shining armor and sharp swords, looked murderous from afar.

This kind of morale and murderous intent alone is not comparable to that of ordinary elite troops!

"Where did the cavalry come from? They are so murderous!"

"Zi Yi, Bai Hu, it's Marquis Zi Yi who has arrived."

"This Zhenjiang Prefecture is about to change!"

"Oh no, my little master is still in Menghu Academy!"

"Hurry up and follow us!"

Everywhere we went, we felt terrified.

In the distance, the gate of Menghu Academy is already visible.

"Zhenjiang Prefecture Menghu Academy and Bailu Academy are in collusion with the White Lotus Rebellion Party and are planning a rebellion!"

"The evidence is irrefutable. I am following the orders of the Purple-Robed Marquis, the Imperial Envoy who is appointed to inspect Jiangnan."

"The traitors of Menghu Academy will be killed without mercy!"

Hou Jingyun's true energy circulated, and his loud voice spread throughout most of Zhenjiang Prefecture.

In an instant, the entire city seemed to be boiling.

"Marquis Zi Yi, how dare you!"

"Others may be afraid of you, but I, Song Yanfu, am not!"

In Menghu Academy, a majestic literary atmosphere rises.

The wind and clouds are surging, reaching up to the sky.

"Life is what I want, and righteousness is what I want. I cannot have both. I will sacrifice my life for righteousness!"

The great scholar Song Yanfu from the academy spat out three mouthfuls of blood in succession.

The majestic literary aura was immediately mixed with blood.

Transformed into a long river of terrifying literary energy.

She looked like she was determined to fight to the death and die together with Jia Cong.

"Ow!"

At this moment, on a horse beside Jia Cong.

Baochai, wearing a black cloak, flew up.

A dragon body manifested in mid-air.

"Take what is wrong as right, and what is right as wrong. There is no limit to right and wrong!"

"Song Yanfu, your tricks of sophistry are just for deceiving others."

"Nothing can escape my pair of dragon eyes!"

As he spoke, he spat out a mouthful of real water.

It is so cold and gloomy that it seems to be able to freeze a person's soul.

It was exactly the Three Yin True Water Secret that Jia Cong had collected before.

The dragon clan is the overlord of the water, so they can practice all water-related techniques with twice the result with half the effort.

After only two days of teaching Baochai this skill, she was already able to condense the Three Yin True Water and turn it into a means of killing.

Its power far exceeds the "Linglan Heart Technique" he had practiced before.

The real water collides with the long blood-red river transformed by the majestic literary energy.

The long river was directly blasted apart, revealing the shadow of a small boat inside.

The most common cultural treasure in Confucianism and Taoism, "a small boat with a single leaf", is used for traveling and escaping in times of crisis.

"Xue Baochai, do you really want to help the tyrant and make a mortal enemy of Jiangnan Academy?"

Song Yanfu, a great scholar from Jiangnan who happened to be on duty to give lectures at Menghu Academy, was furious when he saw this.

The shocking battle outside Jinling City has now spread throughout Jiangnan!
Those three mouthfuls of essence and blood just now.

It seems that he is fighting to the death with Jia Cong.

In fact, he relied on the Confucian and Taoist magic power of sophistry of the famous scholar to spray all of it on the small boat of the great Confucian cultural treasures he collected.

He was just afraid that Jia Cong would catch up and kill him when he tried to escape.

Unexpectedly, I haven’t found a chance to escape yet.

Xue Baochai's dragon eyes saw through his illusion.

"White Deer Academy, the dead bones in the tomb, so what if we have a mortal enemy!"

Baochai is mentally precocious and dares to love and hate.

It's just that she was under pressure from the survival of her family and the curse of the dragon vein in the past, which gave her the dignified and steady character of a lady from a noble family.

In fact, he is very strong inside, much stronger than most men in the world.

Dragons are naturally aggressive, and after the dragon veins are activated, all pressure disappears.

It was only in the past two days that he had truly regained his original personality, with a kind of carefreeness that ordinary men do not have.

As soon as he finished speaking, another stream of Three Yin True Water spurted out.

Fall into the backyard of Menghu Academy.

"what!"

After a scream, the bloody Haoran Wen Qi suddenly disappeared.

Baochai regained her half-dragon body and stretched out her hand.

A block of cold ice flew out, and inside it was the great scholar from Jiangnan, Song Yanfu, who had just spoken.

"The Xue family's dragon girl!"

"The body of a true dragon is comparable to the top third realm, it is indeed true!"

"Kong Chengxi carries the blood of the Great Saint Master, but he couldn't last even a quarter of an hour under the hands of the Xue family's dragon girl..."

"With this kind of strength, it's a one-step journey to heaven!"

"The rumors are indeed true. The Xue family's dragon girl and the Purple-Robed Marquis fell in love at first sight..."

People nearby also recognized Xue Baochai's identity.

His face was suddenly filled with horror.

In the battle outside Jinling City, the only one who became famous was Jia Cong.

The dragon race has long been extinct, and even the Jiao family has disappeared for a long time.

As expected, Xue Baochai is the only person in the world who possesses dragon blood.

Whoever can marry her home means that there is dragon blood inheritance in the family.

One can imagine the future achievements.

It’s a pity that the fact that Baochai and Jia Cong had a close relationship and were as close as one body was also spread.

I don’t know how many people have envied Jia Cong these past two days!

……

"Cong'er, Song Yanfu was frozen and captured alive by me. There is no other third realm in the academy!"

Using her magic power to lift a huge block of ice, Xue Baochai landed on the horse beside Jia Cong.

"Kill, leave no one behind!"

Jia Cong used the Shinto seal to temporarily capture the frozen great scholar.

A wave of his hand.

"The general has ordered that if Menghu Academy plots treason and rebellion, they will be killed without mercy!"

Hou Jingyun was excited and had been waiting for this moment.

As soon as he received the order, he led his troops directly into the academy.

The two demon gods, Ox-Head and Horse-Faced, appeared after a hundred days, and two martial arts masters were hidden among the soldiers.

The teaching of many second-level Confucian scholars at Menghu Academy did not even cause a splash.

They were directly slaughtered.

Outside the academy, only screams could be heard.

a quarter of an hour later

Hou Jingyun led his troops out with murderous intent, his armor covered in blood.

The spirit is extremely uplifting.

Even his martial arts skills had just broken through to the acquired realm.

Considering his talent, it is at least three years faster than expected.

When practicing martial arts, one should be brave and diligent.

This is the effect of having a clear mind and a smooth year.

"Reporting to the Lord General, all the rebels have been eliminated, and a total of 879 levels have been captured!"

"Leave thirty people behind to take my order and order the prefect of Zhenjiang Prefecture to check the families of all the students in the academy one by one."

"All the property from the gentry's houses will be confiscated!"

"Fifty percent of the money and property collected will be sent to the imperial palace, twenty percent will be sent to the Xue family in Jinling to be checked on my behalf, and the remaining thirty percent will be exchanged for food on the spot and distributed to the people."

"Tell the Zhenjiang prefect that if there is anyone who deceives his superiors and subordinates, lets one family go, frames another family, or embezzles one tael of silver."

"I will come back and kill all his clans!"

"promise!"

Jia Cong spoke briefly and to the point, and after using his divine power to intimidate his men, he led his troops away.

"This……"

"Dream Lake Academy was massacred already?"

"That day outside Jinling City, the Purple-Robed Marquis said that he would never put down his sword unless he slaughtered tens of thousands of people..."

"It's a disaster. I'm afraid the Jiangnan scholars are really going to lose a lot of lives this time."

"Madman, Marquis Zi Yi is really a madman, isn't he afraid of the criticism from scholars all over the world?"

Even after the seven hundred elite cavalrymen had gone far away, the people outside were still in shock.

There are people who keep their promises!
But most of them are done to gain fame and reputation.

Who can be like Jia Cong, who can kill people as he pleases?

Only then did everyone understand.

To massacre tens of thousands of people is not just talk.

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Zhenjiang Prefecture
"This, Marquis Zi Yi actually..."

Jia Cong used his divine power to spread the word, and his voice spread throughout the entire Zhenjiang city.

In the government office, the Zhenjiang prefect was shocked when he heard this.

Among the eight hundred students in Menghu Academy, there are at least five hundred.

He came from a family of gentry and landlords under the jurisdiction of Zhenjiang Prefecture.

Several of them have families watching from other places or even in the court.

On weekdays, even the Zhenjiang prefect had to be treated with sufficient courtesy and not be offended easily.

"What should I do? What should I do?"

The Zhenjiang prefect, who had been an official for many years and usually acted smoothly, was suddenly caught in a dilemma.

"My Lord, I feel that we have no choice."

The legal advisor who was known for his resourcefulness did not smile bitterly at this time.

"Marquis Zi Yi has always acted in a domineering and ruthless manner!"

"From the fact that his property was confiscated alone, we can see his vengeful character."

"If you really disobey me in public, I'm afraid that in the future..."

Before the lawyer finished speaking, the prefect of Zhenjiang understood the meaning of the second half of his sentence.

The eight great salt merchants, the masters of Bailu Academy, the next generation of the Confucius family in Qufu...

They were all broken in his hands.

Some were exterminated, some were killed, and some were captured alive, and their whereabouts are still unknown.

What's the point of being a mere prefect of Zhenjiang?
It is nothing more than fabricating a crime to implicate the entire clan and then executing the person first and reporting later.

"Master, that being said, if we confiscate so many local gentry at once and if they incite civil unrest, I will be held responsible!"

"Inciting civil unrest?"

"Now the White Deer Academy's hundreds of years of heritage have been severely damaged."

"Who in the Jiangnan area dares to incite civil unrest and confront the Purple Robe Marquis?"

"Sir, even though the family property is gone, the people are still here, and we can always find a way to earn it again."

"If those people can't even see this clearly."

"I think that your Excellency's chance to make a contribution has come. If I can become a disciple of Marquis Zi Yi..."

"Master is right!"

The master's words suddenly made the Zhenjiang prefect feel as if he had suddenly been enlightened.

My spirits were suddenly lifted and I felt confident.

"Come here, ask Lord Wang, the garrison commander of Zhenjiang, to come over and tell him that I know one of his relatives is also within the scope of the search."

"But the Purple Marquis's orders are no joke!"

"Let him think clearly, which is more important, his in-laws or his own nine clans!"

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Everyone, I admit my mistake. I thought about it for a long time yesterday but couldn't come up with a chapter name... When I wrote about prehistoric times before, I piled up all kinds of words, and this format of chapter names looked quite cool, but for Red Mansions... I looked back at the ones I had named before, and they were really awkward. I was wasting a lot of brain cells when naming chapters every day... It's better to focus on the content of the novel. I admit my mistake... I'll just use the chapter names that everyone uses... Please don't criticize me... I really can't think of any more.

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