Three thousand miles in exile

Liu Zhan was also unable to sleep that night, and the matter of Chen Gong still made him very concerned.

In the wing room on the second floor of the inn, the windows were wide open, and Liu Zhan was sitting on the window sill smoking a cigarette, looking at the night with deep eyes.

Song Fenglin woke up after squinting for a while, he has slept very little recently, the capital city is turbulent, how can he sleep peacefully.

As soon as he felt that there was no one next door, he turned his head and saw the person in front of the window.

"Woke you up?" Liu Zhan smiled.

"Do you want some tea? I'll cook it." Song Fenglin walked slowly, dressed in loose unlined clothing.

"I can also drink cold tea, no need to worry about it." Liu Zhan opened his left arm and pulled him onto the window sill and pulled him into his arms to lean against.

The window sills of this inn are wide, and there are horizontal bars extending outwards. The downstairs is the long street. During the day, you can see vendors hawking and business travelers coming and going.

Song Fenglin clasped his hands and found a comfortable position to lean against in Liu Zhan's arms.

"Thinking about Chen Gong?"

Liu Zhan didn't speak, but the anger all over his body almost turned into substance.

Not to mention anything else, Chen Gong was just a handyman when he first joined Liuji Commercial Bank to work. Liu Cheng saw the young man pitifully picked him up to give him a way out, and then he was promoted many times and made his way to the top.

Even if he had an affair with Liu Yuexin, the Liu family finally married off their daughter. It would not be an exaggeration to say that he reached the sky in one step.

But some people have bad roots in their bones.

"There are so many people around, it's hard to tell the difference between ghosts and snakes." Song Fenglin sighed in a helpless tone.

"We have to rectify this time when we go back." Liu Zhan said.

The shopkeepers who are placed all over the world have to send people to check it out, not afraid that their hands and feet are not clean, but afraid that there will be someone who sells them for glory.

"I know." Song Fenglin agreed.

The case of Chen Gong also served as a warning to the two of them, not only about corruption, but also about the situation in Dijing.

"It's been a day, and grandpa hasn't made an agreement with Mrs. Xu, and there will be many variables if it drags on." Liu Zhan frowned.

The chaotic situation in the imperial capital is not as good as cutting the mess with a sharp knife, but Zhao Hengfu and Xu Muyuan are too worried, and they are afraid that they will not be able to control the situation in the imperial capital and even lose control.

Song Fenglin lowered his head and smiled. "In the world, there are only a handful of people who dare to gamble like a general."

Song Fenglin knew from the very beginning that Zhao Hengfu and Xu Muyuan were undecided.

Liu Zhan was also very helpless.

In the dark night, the imperial capital was silent.

"If there is no matter about Chen Gong, grandpa will procrastinate if he wants to, but after today there will be more changes." Liu Zhan said worriedly, and at the same time he thought of Pei Gongli.

"Pei Gongli can't trust this person, maybe he has other ideas now, and it's just a casual talk if he wants to sell us."

That's why Liu Zhan couldn't sleep.

Song Fenglin's beautiful phoenix eyes were cold and clear. "In that case, let's get ahead of him and mess up the situation."

Liu Zhan immediately regained his spirits.

"The Zhou family, the Zhao family, the Xu family, and the Fang family have their own plans, and they all want to cover everything, how can they be so happy." Song Fenglin's thoughts raced.

"Zhou Sui's relatives were beaten and killed by Zhou Chan. The matter of Zhou Sui's insanity can be used as an article, and it was released in the public, which caused a lot of discussion in the imperial capital, and first ruined Zhou Chan's reputation."

This matter Zhou Chan did was too bad, Zhou Sui worked hard for him and finally ended up with his family ruined, which was enough to shake Zhou's party members.

"At the same time, release the news that Da Situ accepts the surrender of officials. As long as he surrenders, the past will not be blamed."

As soon as Song Fenglin's words fell, Liu Zhan's spirit immediately lifted.

excellent!

Whoever said that Mr. Song can only conspire but not conspire, that is just disdain!

If it was widely spread that Da Situ accepted his surrender, what would everyone think of Zhao Hengfu?He must think that he is sending out a signal to confront Zhou!

What does Zhao Hengfu think of this matter?It must have been leaked!Xiang Shi couldn't get off a tiger, he had to do it if he didn't do it, so he couldn't help hesitating.

As long as Zhao Hengfu takes action, the Zhou family is destroyed, and it doesn't matter if Liu Zhan's entry into the capital is exposed, Pei Gongli will naturally lose his bargaining chip against Liu Zhan.

Mr. Song's two sentences are so wonderful.

Now that the decision has been made, Liu Zhan immediately called Zhang Xiaoman and Cao Ming to make arrangements, and the news must be spread in the morning markets of major teahouses at dawn.

Rumors spread in the imperial capital that day.

At noon, Zhao Hengfu and his son got off the court and got into their own carriage outside the palace gate to go back to the residence. They followed seven or eight carriages not far or near, and followed them all the way to the Emperor's Mansion.

As soon as Zhao Hengfu got out of the car, the officials who followed rushed up. "Emperor Master, we are all here to surrender!"

These officials were all officials working under the Zhou family. Zhao Hengfu and his son turned pale in shock for a moment, some things were not easy to say in the street, so they had to be invited into the mansion.

Soon more officials knocked on the door one after another, and there were more than ten people in total.

"Master Emperor, I beg you to accept me. I have no choice but to work for the Zhou family."

In Zhao Hengfu's study, the officials talked about explaining for themselves.

"The great prime minister killed people when he disagreed with him. He only killed two guests a few days ago. We live in fear every day."

"Also, have you heard about the fact that the great prime minister killed the family members of the general of the northern army?"

"Is this true or false?" Someone asked.

"Of course it's true! I was there that day!" An official shook his head and sighed, talking about the events of that day in detail.

Zhao Hengfu and his son, as well as Lu Lingyuan who arrived later, were stunned. The general held the northern army in his hands, and Zhou Chan allowed the housekeeper to avenge his personal revenge. Now that Zhou Sui has gone crazy, what can the northern army do!

In the afternoon, more officials heard the news and rushed to the Emperor's Mansion, but everyone refused to leave, and all of them begged the Emperor to come forward and put down the rebellious officials.

This matter soon reached Pei Gongli's ears.

He never expected that Zhao Hengfu would take the initiative to release the news to accept his surrender. Fortunately, he had already confessed to the Zhao family, otherwise he would be excluded from the Zhou family's remnant party if he was too late.

Just when Pei Gongli was thinking about whether to go to the Emperor's Mansion to petition, a team of thugs rushed into his house.

"We are ordered by the Prime Minister to invite Mr. Pei to discuss the matter!"

Pei Gongli was shocked, and secretly hated himself for leaving so late!

His heart skipped a beat and he immediately confessed to the valet. "Hurry up and send a letter to Liu Ji Commercial Company, saying that I was kidnapped by the prime minister and entered the mansion. Maybe something will happen today, and I want him to notify the emperor immediately!"

"My lord, take care!" The servant immediately opened the window and left from the backyard.

After calming down, Pei Gongli pretended to be nonchalant and went out.

At that time, the Prime Minister's Mansion gathered officials who were also invited by the thugs. These officials didn't show it on the surface, but in their hearts they secretly hated themselves for being hesitant!

Now being forced by the prime minister to set up Zhou's broken ship, he might die together with Zhou without a place to die.

Although there are many people in the huge hall, it is so quiet that a needle can be heard.

"They're all here?" Zhou Chan's sullen voice came from outside the door, and beside him was his eldest son, Zhou Bin, and guards holding long knives.

"Report to the Prime Minister, there are 21 people missing from the list." A guard replied.

"Okay, okay!" Zhou Chan glanced at the officials in the hall with angry eyes. "If the Prime Minister didn't send someone to invite you, would you have gone to the Emperor's Mansion to surrender?"

The official knelt down and hurriedly said that he didn't dare, and said all kinds of words to show his loyalty.

"Elder Situ can let the past go, and this prime minister can also let the past go." Zhou Chan sat on the main seat, and what he said was completely inconsistent with his murderous eyes.

The officials lowered their heads as much as possible, and no one dared to show any other thoughts.

Xu Zhou Chan was satisfied, he stopped putting pressure, but said something that shocked everyone.

"To tell you the truth, the Prime Minister has fully grasped the plans of the Zhao family and the Xu family, but he just wants to use the bad guys from the Ministry of Punishment to take me down when I'm not prepared."

Speaking of this, Zhou Chan laughed heartily. "It's ridiculous that even that bastard Liu Zhan dared to enter Beijing alone!"

Zhou Chan's smile turned ferocious. "Is this Prime Minister so easy to handle in the eyes of those people? Including you!!"

Who leaked the secret!

Pei Gongli broke out in a cold sweat, but he soon thought that it was the Fang family?

He confided everything to Fang last night, and today Zhou Chan knew all of Zhao's and Xu's plans!It was Fang who leaked the secret!

The Fang family actually sold the Zhao family and the Xu family!

Pei Gong turned away, and soon realized that the Fang family wanted to reap the benefits of the fisherman, let the Zhou family and the Zhao family and the Xu family fight to the death, and took down General Qi Yun who came alone by the way.

Good trick to borrow a knife to kill!

Fang Yuliang was the imperial guard, and he had five thousand palace imperial troops in his hands. Even if the Zhou family finally took down the Zhao family and the Xu family, with the imperial army in hand, the Fang family could quickly reap the mess.

This is the mantis catching the cicada and the oriole behind.

Fang Yuliang and Zhou Chan have a feud against their father, so naturally Zhou Chan will not be the final winner.

More importantly, Fang didn't expose him. Pei Gong's renunciation was stable. In this round, he left behind for all parties. No matter who wins, he will be invincible. Next, he just needs to wait and see.

"Pass down the prime minister's order! Let the guards at the south gate and the west gate immediately raid Zhao's mansion and Xu's mansion!" Zhou Chan smashed the teacup in his hand.

The shattering sound made everyone tremble in shock, Zhou's actually bought the guards of the Imperial Army!I'm afraid there will be chaos in the imperial capital!

At the same time, the Emperor's Mansion.

Zhao Hengfu, his son Lu Lingyuan, and Xu Muyuan were discussing matters in the study.

"We can't wait any longer. Zhou Chan must have already taken action! No matter who leaked the secret, so many old ministers of the Zhou family gathered in Zhao's house today, and Da Situ can't argue with it!" Lu Lingyuan was very anxious.

At this time, Zhao Hengfu was already riding a tiger, so it was better to take action immediately to avoid Zhou Chan's counterattack.

Xu Muyuan said resolutely: "This general will go to the Forbidden Army's camp to mobilize troops, and quickly gather the arresters and soldiers to capture Zhou Chan!"

"No!" Zhao Hengfu stopped Xu Muyuan. "Forbidden troops are not allowed to enter the capital without an edict, this is the ancestral system! If we use the forbidden army, wouldn't we become rebellious officials and thieves, how will the people of the world show us!"

Zhao Hengfu is a great Confucianist in the world, he has been upright in his life, and he absolutely does not allow himself to leave any stains.

"Emperor Master, you..." Xu Muyuan both admired and felt helpless, now that the two of them are in charge of the military and government, who would dare to criticize the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty?As long as the Zhou family is taken down, the authority will be shared by the two in the future.

"How can I be reduced to the generation of the Zhou family!" Zhao Hengfu insisted.

Xu Muyuan took a step back. "My son is the garrison general of the east city gate. He has about a thousand people in his hands. The rest are the garrison generals of the south, west and north gates. I will persuade them."

"So kind!" Zhao Hengfu looked slightly relaxed.

Everyone agrees on this.

"I'm going to the Yamen of the Ministry of Punishment!" Zhao Jizhang strode out with his robe lifted.

Xu Muyuan also went out together.

"Teacher, in case something happens, please immediately call up guards and thugs to defend the Zhao residence." Lu Lingyuan thought clearly.

As the so-called centipede is dead but not stiff, Zhou Chan's party members will definitely rise up. Lu Lingyuan originally wanted to prevent Zhou's remnant party from retaliation, but he didn't think that a rape was brewing.

The Zhou family has been arbitrarily assertive for so many years, and its influence in the imperial capital is also flourishing.

The guards and thugs on the bright side are one of them, and there are also a large number of thugs in various casinos in the dark.

With Zhou Chan's order, all these hidden piles moved.

If Song Fenglin hadn't used tricks to force the Zhao family and the Xu family to act early, Fang's family had informed him, and the Zhou family's counterattack, the Zhao family and the Xu family had no chance of winning.

At this time, both sides are acting at the same time, and it is still unknown who will die.

Today, Liu Ji Commercial Bank's branch in Dijing is closed, and both Liu Zhan and Song Fenglin are in the commercial bank.

Song Fenglin had already written to Liu Cheng, asking him to reassign the shopkeeper and steward to take over, and he had to wait for others to arrive before reopening.

The fifty carts of furs brought from northern Xinjiang have not yet been unloaded. Now that there are no clerks in the firm to do work, the guards can only move them into the warehouse by hand, so as not to be ruined by the sun and rain.

In the backyard, the soldiers were busy unloading and moving goods.

Liu Zhan and Song Fenglin discussed matters in the back hall.

Two of the hidden guards released came back, bringing back the latest developments in the imperial capital.

"Last night at four o'clock, Tian Pei Gong left for a visit to Fangfu, and today Zhou Chan will make some moves." Song Fenglin held the folding fan in his hand and stroked the jade fan bone carved with emerald green bamboo.

Fang's informant, this is intriguing.

Liu Zhan snorted coldly. "The aristocratic family is intriguing, and they all want to be the leader. Grandpa is still careless."

There is not much friendship between Zhao Shi and Fang Shi, just don't know how Xu Muyuan feels.

After becoming the Grand Sima, Xu Muyuan devoted himself to repaying his kindness. Not only did he make an exception to promote Fang Yuliang, who had no experience in leading troops, as a guard, but the Fang family also took good care of him.

As a result, Fang Yuliang repaid virtue with grievances.

The death of Emperor Wen and the death of Fang Shouting ultimately benefited the Zhao family and the Xu family, so naturally the Fang family hated them.

"The Fang family's plan is not small, and the turmoil in the Imperial Capital is not simple." Liu Zhan's eyes were deep.

Song Fenglin frowned. "Pei Gongli was able to go to Fang's to inform you, and he must have fully revealed your whereabouts. Zhou Chan must take action soon."

General Qi Yun went to Beijing alone, how could Zhou Chan let go of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, fortunately the two stayed behind, Pei Gongli only knew that Liu Zhan was coming to Beijing, but he didn't know that Liu Zhan brought someone with him.

"Your man is a killing god who was killed in the sea of ​​blood and corpses. What are a few young soldiers?" Liu Zhan looked at Song Fenglin with piercing eyes, looking straight into the depths of his heart.

"No matter what happened, don't leave my side, and!" Liu Zhan had never spoken to him so seriously. "I will take Zhou Chan's order, you can't act rashly."

No one knew Song Fenglin's inner anxiety better than Liu Zhan. Regardless of his calm appearance, Liu Zhan's eyes fell on the white jade folding fan he was holding tightly, and he didn't let go of it for a long time.

"Zheng Fengtian, you bring 20 people to follow Mr. Song, and you can't leave half a step at any time." Liu Zhan said in a deep voice.

Zheng Fengtian immediately embraced the order.

"Be obedient." Liu Zhan reiterated.

Song Fenglin turned his face away, full of arrogance.

Liu Zhan has nothing to do with him, he can't lock him up, he can only take him with him and take care of him personally. If he could, Liu Zhan should have left him to wait in a safe place.

But Liu Zhan knew that he couldn't wait, and also understood the depression in his heart these years.

"Pass the order, everyone is ready to go!" Liu Zhan finally ordered.

In fact, the most sophisticated equipment of Qi Yunjun was hidden in the fifty carts of goods. This time, Liu Zhan came prepared.

Each of these two hundred personal guards has a military rank of more than a hundred households, and they are all good fighters selected from a thousand miles. They can still fight against the iron cavalry of the Yan army with one enemy and three, but against the soldiers of God's capital who have never been on the battlefield and have never seen blood, how can they be defeated? What are you afraid of.

Liu Zhan personally put on a silver soft armor gown for Song Fenglin, and put it on over the simple civilian clothes. He never thought that he would experience the turmoil in the capital during this trip, and he didn't bring Song Fenglin's armor. It was really a miscalculation.

Who would have expected that the plan to capture Zhou Chan would eventually turn out like this.

"Don't worry about me." Song Fenglin said.

"You promise me, I won't worry about it." Liu Zhan tightened his belt and straightened his soft armor.

In the end, Song Fenglin didn't promise that he would let Liu Zhan avenge himself.

Just as Liu Zhan thought, he had waited too long for this day, the torment in his day and night dreams, and the hatred hidden deep in his heart, how could he let go at the last moment.

There was helplessness in Liu Zhan's eyes.

When stepping into You, the West Street of the Imperial Capital was the first to seep.

Here is the brothel of the biggest casino in the imperial capital. At this time, those thugs composed of local hooligans came out with weapons in their hands. There were thousands of people, and the places they passed were in a mess.

The people fled in terror, and the vendors rushed to close their stalls. Some merchants who couldn't escape were robbed of their money, and their stalls were smashed to pieces.

These local hooligans are usually domineering, and now they have no scruples.

They have a clear goal and fight all the way to the Emperor's Mansion!

This seemed to be a signal, and along the way, thugs under the Zhou's firm gathered, and the number quickly approached [-].

Not only that, the garrison at the west gate changed.

There are thousands of standing garrison troops at each city gate, who are responsible for the four gates and walls in the east, west, south, and north, and are on duty in rotation.

At a quarter of the hour, the garrison general at the west gate led thousands of troops into the imperial capital.

At the same time, the policemen of the Ministry of Criminal Justice came out in full force, about a thousand people, and Xu Muyuan's eldest son, Xu Jingyan, guarded the east gate and led a thousand soldiers. The two sides agreed to encircle the prime minister's mansion!

For a moment, the entire imperial capital fell into panic, and the people rushed to avoid it, making a mess.

In the chaos, some thugs rushed to the inn where Liu Zhan was staying, but they all escaped.

Another group of hands knocked open the door of Liu Ji Firm, and a bloody battle kicked off.

Guo Donghu led people to guard the main entrance, and the thugs who charged in first were decapitated after meeting each other, and a unilateral massacre followed.

There were more than 300 thugs from the prime minister's mansion, who came to arrest Liu Zhan who had come to Beijing alone, but they didn't want to wait for them, all of them were sturdy men with a height of nearly nine feet.

The fighting surrounding Liu Ji's firm quickly calmed down, but seeing corpses strewn all over inside and outside of Liu's firm, the armors of Cao Ming, Guo Donghu and others were covered with bloodstains.

In the middle of the back hall, Liu Zhan was wearing a military uniform and wielding a Mo Dao, beside Song Fenglin who was holding his sword.

"Report, Mister! The Emperor's Mansion is in a hurry!" A hidden guard hurried back.

Liu Zhan ordered in a deep voice. "Let's go to the Emperor's Mansion!"

There are two rows of stables in the backyard of Liuji Trading Company, where two to three hundred stout and hardworking Hanzhong horses are kept, which are used for daily pulling goods from north to south, and all of them are pulled out to serve as war horses at this extraordinary time.

Cargo horses are naturally inferior to real war horses, but this battlefield is not enough for the non-northern battlefield.

At this time, half of the capital was in chaos.

In the end, Zhao Hengfu and Xu Muyuan missed the best time, and the Zhou's forces counterattacked with an astonishing array.