Emperor: When will the Seventh Prince rebel? I will open the city gates to welcome him.

"You've come just in time! Let's go and destroy those blind assassins in black."

Zhao Bencai asked, "Your Majesty! Haven't these assassins in black been cleared out? They are still here!"

"There are definitely more than just a few of them. If my estimate is correct, there are more than a hundred black-clad assassins, which means there are still ninety killers and assassins!"

Sure enough, under the joint efforts of Qinglong team captain Zhao Bencai, Xuanwu team captain Peng Fulai, Suzaku team captain Teng Wanzhi, and White Tiger team captain Zhuang Wenqiang.

The one hundred assassins in black were all killed.

In this operation, Hongxuan obtained 5,000 taels of gold notes, 50,000 taels of silver notes, as well as various weapons including 100 long swords and knives, and 10 pieces of soft armor.

Hongxuan was in a very good mood after obtaining these supplies.

I even look forward to a few more assassinations along the way.

"Each of these killers is worth a lot of money."

Hongxuan needs a lot of silver and gold for his trip to the northern border this time. As long as he has enough money, Hongxuan can recruit more soldiers.

He didn't want to give his hopes to the two generals named Cao on the border.

After going to the northern border, Hongxuan could feel that while he was taking back the military power, the Cao family would definitely rise up in resistance.

If he didn't do this, he would never be able to completely control the border defense power in the north.

Of course, this is something.

"Your Majesty! Assassins usually carry all their belongings on their bodies."

"No wonder!"

It's time.

All the medical teams sent out to look for medicinal herbs have returned.

The team leader Li Donglin brought back exciting good news.

"Your Majesty, we have harvested enough medicinal herbs this time to make enough pain-relieving pills."

"Well done. Go to the butler to collect 500 taels of gold. Ask the medical team to make painkillers."

"Follow the order!"

The medical team members began to make pain-relieving pills.

The process of making painkillers is actually not difficult.

The main reason is that with the allocation of Hongxuan, we now have enough manpower.

Made painkiller pills.

Immediately give it to the soldiers who had undergone surgery.

The wounded soldiers who had taken the medicine no longer felt the pain they had before, and more than 400 veterans regained their previous fighting strength.

Today, the rewards sent by Emperor Dingwen finally arrived at Wutonggang.

Hongxuan met the escort officer, Minister of Rites Deng Pan, and also met the commander-in-chief Wang Jianxiang.

Eunuch Lu read out the imperial edict.

Hongxuan accepted the order and expressed his gratitude.

This was the greatest reward he received after being named King of Zhenbei. He was awarded 10,000 taels of gold, 300,000 taels of silver, 500 young and strong soldiers, and 500 carts of grain.

The reward was even more generous than he had expected.

Hong Xuan looked at the Minister of Rites Deng Pan and the Commander-in-Chief Wang Jianxiang and said, "Why! Are you two disappointed to see that I am still alive?"

After hearing this, the faces of the Minister of Rites and the Chief Commander Wang Jianxiang changed drastically.

"Why did the King of Zhenbei say that?"

Hong Xuan ignored their words and ordered: "Left and right guards!"

"My subordinate is here!"

All the guards of Wutonggang responded in unison!

"Capture the Minister of Rites and the Deputy Commander-in-Chief!"

The Minister of Rites Deng Pan and the Commander-in-Chief Wang Jianxiang were horrified.

Before they could resist,

Hongxuan's personal guards captured the two men.

"King of Zhenbei! What do you mean?"

"Yes! King Zhenbei! Why do you treat me like this?"

Hong Xuan sneered, "You two think that I don't know, right? It takes three days to get here from Kyoto? As escort officers, you two deliberately delayed the time just to see if I can survive the assassination of the black-clad assassin last night, right?"

The two's faces changed drastically. They didn't expect that King Zhenbei discovered that they were deliberately delaying time.

In fact, whether they delay or not, Hongxuan will rest here for a few days so that his personal guards can get treatment.

The reason why Hongxuan said this to the two of them at this time was because he could see at a glance that the escort officer had ill intentions this time.

"Your Highness! It was not my intention, but it was the Crown Prince Hongze who wanted to kill you. We didn't want to do that, but the Crown Prince coerced and bribed me, saying that as long as the King of Zhenbei died, then the rewards from His Majesty would be divided between the two of us."

Minister of Rites Deng Pan confessed directly

Even if he didn't want to confess, there was nothing he could do.

If he didn't tell the truth now, he knew that he would not have the chance to tell the truth later.

As expected! Hong Xuan said to the commander-in-chief with a cold look in his eyes:

"What Minister of Rites Deng Pan said is true."

"Your Highness! I don't know what you mean."

Hongxuan said coldly.

"Commander-in-Chief Wang Jianxiang, you sent assassins in black to assassinate me yesterday. Are you saying that you don't know what I mean?"

Wang Jianxiang, the commander-in-chief, was shocked. He knew that someone would assassinate King Zhenbei last night, but he didn't expect that King Zhenbei was still fine.

"I was not aware of this matter. I hope Your Majesty will release me so that I can go back and report!"

"You two, Minister of Rites Deng Pan, have explained everything clearly, but you still don't take me seriously."

"Guards! Release the Minister of Rites Deng Pan, and drag the deputy commander Wang Jianxiang to the woods to execute him on the spot!"

"King of Zhenbei! You, you dare!" Commander-in-Chief Wang Jianxiang's face turned pale.

"Haha! I dare not? If I don't execute you, who will take me seriously in the future?"

We have just received five hundred strong and young recruits.

There is no guarantee how many of them are Prince Hongze's spies.

Only by making them afraid of him would these five hundred people submit to him.

Zhao Bencai and his team members carried Wang Jianxiang away from Wutonggang.

"Thank you for your hard work, Minister of Rites. Now you can go back and report."

Minister of Rites Deng Pan didn't want to stay any longer and said quickly, "Then I'll take my leave!"

He didn't want to stay for a moment.

Hongxuan took out a thousand gold notes from his subordinates and stuffed them into the hands of Eunuch Lu.

"Eunuch Lu! You know what to say now!"

When Eunuch Lu saw the thousand-gold note, he rolled his eyes at her.

Suddenly, my old face blossomed.

"Prince Zhenbei! Don't worry! I will report this to His Majesty! Let His Majesty know that it was the commander-in-chief, Wang Jianxiang, who was tempted by the money and sent a hundred assassins to assassinate the Prince of Zhenbei, who was eventually killed by the Prince of Zhenbei!"

Eunuch Lu has to do the job after receiving the money.

He said it with a solemn oath.

Hongxuan was very satisfied with what Eunuch Lu said.

All the responsibility was put on the commander-in-chief Wang Jianxiang, rather than on Crown Prince Hongze.

That's because, despite what the Minister of Rites Deng Pan said, it was Crown Prince Hongze who ordered it.

But without any evidence, it is impossible to make Prince Hongze pay any price.

By saying this, Eunuch Lu not only protected himself, but also warned Crown Prince Hongze in a threatening manner that he, the King of Zhenbei, was not someone to be trifled with.

After Eunuch Lu and Minister of Rites Deng Pan returned.

Zhuang Wenqiang of the White Tiger Team came to the King of Zhenbei, knelt on one knee, clasped his fists and said:

"I have something to ask of King Zhenbei!"