Scholar and old attack

The owner of the swill shop is surnamed Zhang. He looks a little hunchbacked, so he is called Zhang Tuozi.

Zhang Tuozi was busy leading people in the swill shop, when he suddenly received a notice from the superior that he was going to move places, and the speed had to be fast, so it was inevitable that he would be in a hurry.

"Search for me!"

Suddenly hearing an energetic and dignified voice from outside, Zhang Tuozi trembled in fright.

Following this order, there was a sound of uniform footsteps, and the sound of the armor on the soldier's body colliding, which immediately made everyone in the courtyard panic.

Zhang Tuozi's eyelids twitched for several days. He always felt that something was going to happen these days, but he didn't expect it to happen so suddenly.

It's not that there are people in the main house above the court, why, they only heard the order to transfer.

No matter what Zhang Tuozi thought in his heart, the two soldiers had already kicked open the door of the swill shop, and the scene in the courtyard could be seen through the two doors.

Jiang Jingyuan arrived just at this time, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said to Yuan Changjian anxiously, "Master Yuan, hurry up, don't let anyone go back and report the letter."

Ever since Jiang Jingyuan noticed that someone had noticed Xu Shuizhou's movements, there must be someone secretly staring at him. What Jiang Jingyuan grabbed was a time lag, catching them off guard and preventing them from reacting in time.

Yuan Changjian narrowed his eyes slightly, feeling a little uncomfortable with Jiang Jingyuan giving orders to him directly in front of his subordinates, but in the end he didn't say much, he just ordered, "Search for me, find all the things in the courtyard, and everyone else Arrest them."

"It happened."

The two men in black who were following Jiang Jingyuan heard that Yuan Changjian had ordered someone to search the yard, and secretly said sorry.

"We can't let them search out the things in the yard, otherwise everyone is afraid that it will be over."

One of the men in black said with an extremely ugly face.

"It may be too late for the third child to go back and report. We must think of a way to stop them."

The other man in black immediately thought of the crux of the problem, looked at the man in black beside him, and said seriously, "We have to sacrifice now."

The two men in black nodded heavily, and both made a very important decision in their hearts.

Xu Shuizhou cautiously followed behind the two of them, holding his breath, seeing them whispering and discussing something, and making gestures to Jiang Jingyuan from time to time, knowing that they were going to attack A Yuan.

Xu Shuizhou turned around in a hurry, but he didn't dare to make a sound to scare the snake, his eyeballs rolled anxiously in the dark night.

Suddenly he saw a plank on the ground not far away!

Neither Jiang Jingyuan nor Yuan Changjian entered the small courtyard, and only waited for the soldiers to deal with all the people in the small courtyard before entering. Of course, Jiang Jingyuan was also afraid that people who followed him would jump over the wall, so he tried to stay close to Yuan Chang sword.

His self-defense skills are good enough for dealing with peasants, but when he meets this kind of "professional" assassination, it seems a little unsatisfactory.

It's just that Jiang Jingyuan didn't expect that there were more than one person following him.

The two men in black made up their minds to die, and looked at each other, one of them stabbed Yuan Changjian, and the other stabbed Jiang Jingyuan.

Jiang Jingyuan was unprepared, and was stunned for a while. Yuan Changjian reacted quickly enough, but he couldn't beat four punches with both hands.

As expected, the man in black was specially trained to carry out assassination. Once he was determined to die, he would not hesitate to expose his weaknesses and kill his target before he died.

"Shhhh-"

The man in black was very fast, like a champion in the [-]-meter sprint, and he was so fast that even the headwind in the middle of the night couldn't stop his speed.

Yuan Changjian unhurriedly drew out his own long sword, stepped steadily, and headed forward, the dagger and long sword met in the dark alley, making a few whispers.

If you get closer, you can even see electric sparks flickering at the intersection, and a pair of mortal eyes meet a pair of eyes that are so high above that they don't pay attention to the world, and suddenly feel a little weak.

"Where did the little thief come from, and he is also acting wild in front of your ancestors and me." Yuan Changjian sneered, and his flexible arms kept waving the long sword in his hand, interrupting the attack of the man in black.

While Yuan Changjian was concentrating on dealing with the man in black, another man in black appeared from another corner and went straight to Jiang Jingyuan.

Their goal was not on Yuan Changjian from the very beginning, but that was the Minister of War, and those who really came out of the sea of ​​corpses and blood would definitely not be able to win by relying on their indiscriminate methods.

But it doesn't matter, as long as he attracts people away from Jiang Jingyuan, he is taking the opportunity to attack Jiang Jingyuan, and the Minister of the Household Department was assassinated, presumably the soldiers in the courtyard would not dare to act rashly.

When the Lord's family came, their sacrifices would have meaning.

Jiang Jingyuan's eyes were about to be blinded by the light of the dagger, his brain kept urging him to avoid it, but his body seemed to be broken, he didn't listen to the command of his brain, and didn't respond.

"A Yuan, be careful!"

At the critical moment, Xu Shuizhou rushed out faster than the world champion, and blocked Jiang Jingyuan's dagger with the wooden board in his hand.

Seeing that he was about to succeed, the man in black saw that Cheng Yaojin, who came out of nowhere, disrupted all his plans. In a hurry, he kicked Xu Shuizhou hard, and lifted him from beside Jiang Jingyuan. It flew two or three meters and landed heavily on the ground.

"A Zhou!"

When Jiang Jingyuan saw Xu Shuizhou fall to the bottom, his brain seemed to match his body in an instant, and he quickly lifted the man in black's leg joints before he could react, kicking him to the knees.

Picking up the dagger that was blocked by the wooden board just now, he stabbed at the man in black's foot without any explanation.

One stab, two stabs, three stabs, until the man in black kicked Xu Shuizhou's foot just now is beyond recognition, and he still refuses to let him go.

The man in black is also in great pain at the moment, but he still gritted his teeth and didn't cry out from the training since he was a child, but his eyes looked at Jiang Jingyuan like a poisonous snake, as if he wanted to throw Jiang Jingyuan into the snake den and let him have a taste The pain that is piercing the heart of ten thousand snakes.

"Cough cough." Xu Shuizhou coughed twice, spit out two traces of blood from his throat, he was almost kicked unconscious by the man in black just now.

Touching the chest that was lifted by him was fine except for some burning pain. Seeing Jiang Jingyuan stabbing someone's leg like crazy, with blood dripping on his scarlet official robe, it looked a little scary in the dark night.

"A Yuan, I'm fine."

Seeing that A Yuan was going crazy, Xu Shuizhou hurriedly stopped Jiang Jingyuan's crazy behavior regardless of the pain in his chest.

Over there, Yuan Changjian had already taken down another man in black. Seeing Jiang Jingyuan being so ruthless, the contempt in his eyes became a little less, and he joked, "Unexpectedly, Master Jiang is still a little bit bloody."

"Your Majesty Yuan's sword is still young." Jiang Jingyuan had come to his senses at this moment, and when he heard Yuan Changjian's words, he got up and wiped the dagger on his hand with his robe.

He licked his lips, and glanced at the dagger, which was still rumpled and glowing in the dark night, "This knife is not bad, it belongs to me."

Putting the dagger away, Jiang Jingyuan hurried to Xu Shuizhou and helped him up, "Ah Zhou, are you all right, can you still stand up?"

That gentle tone and anxious look were completely different from that hellish Rakshasa just now.

Seeing that Yuan Changjian frowned slightly, it was rumored that Jiang Jingyuan was used to doting on his husband, but he didn't expect that the rumors were true, and even a little more doting than the rumors said.

Yuan Changjian looked at Xu Shuizhou slightly, he was just a handsome brother, but he was not timid, and he was not chaotic in the face of assassins, no wonder Master Jiang was so fond of him.

Yuan Changjian had enough gossip, so he shifted his gaze to the courtyard.

"How did you happen to be here?"

Jiang Jingyuan helped Xu Shuizhou up, and carefully checked his whole body, and he was relieved when he saw that he was indeed not seriously injured.

"I followed all the way."

Xu Shuizhou smiled at Jiang Jingyuan, "It's important for you to get down to business, so I'll explain it to you when I get back."

At this moment, all the people in the courtyard have been taken down by the soldiers. Zhang Tuozi is a coward, but he is not stupid. Seeing that the situation has reached the point where he cannot control it, he immediately asked people to draw out their swords and fight with the soldiers. .

It's a pity that they were all mobs, and the soldiers took down all those two or three times. After confirming that there was no danger in the yard, Jiang Jingyuan and Yuan Changjian stepped into the yard.

Jiang Jingyuan opened a wooden barrel, but what was inside was not gold or silver, but iron!

Pieces of iron were placed in the barrel, and Jiang Jingyuan was out of breath, and ordered, "Open all the barrels!"

The soldiers glanced at Yuan Changjian, and after seeing him nodding in agreement, they stepped forward one after another and opened the barrels.

"My lord, it's all iron."

Leaning in Jiang Jingyuan's arms, Xu Shuizhou suddenly thought of something, and said quickly, "Chen Yiming once told me that he heard the sound of knocking iron tools in this yard, so much iron must be made The ironware, the ironware must still be in the yard, search carefully."

The two men in black who were tied up in all kinds of ways outside couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they saw that they only found iron and nothing else. Zhang Tuozi was quite successful in his work.

It's just that they are very puzzled, why the third child has not come back yet.

As long as the third child comes back, not only will they be fine, but the master will also reward them after returning.

One of the men in black thought about it, and couldn't even take care of the leg injury on his own leg, and his face was very calm.

Zhang Tuozi didn't dare to say anything at this moment, for fear that if he accidentally said something wrong, he would die without a whole body, and hid his figure among his subordinates.

Yuan Changjian raised his sword, and casually glanced sideways at someone, "Tell me, what secrets are you hiding in this courtyard?"

The person chosen by Yuan Changjian, even if the long sword was placed on him, he still refused to speak. Instead, he became ruthless and put his neck on the blade, blood spilled on the spot, and died on the spot.

"Hmph, the bones are still quite hard."

Yuan Changjian didn't care about this person's life or death at all, and wanted to keep looking for another one.

"Wait, Master Yuan, even if these people are killed, they will die in vain. Only the living prisoners have value."

Jiang Jingyuan saw that these people would not be able to tell the truth, even if someone really told the truth, he would have to wait until Mr. Yuan was almost killed.

Thinking about the current household department that is extremely short of money, every criminal is like an animal in Jiang Jingyuan's eyes, especially the hard work of this young man, every bite is very precious.

And it is still the kind that does not need to pay wages. If everyone has 30 years of labor, 300 people will be [-] years.

"If you don't kill, why ask?"

Yuan Changsword God was annoyed by Jiang Jingyuan's grumbling way of handling it, but since Jiang Jingyuan said it, he still stopped the sword in his hand.

Jiang Jingyuan's eyes were dark, he looked at this courtyard, and calculated in his heart, there are people living nearby, if they really hit the iron again, there must be a lot of movement, and there is no guarantee that there will be no sound from the secret room.

"Dig the ground, Mr. Yuan, if it's not what I expected, all the secrets should be buried here."

Jiang Jingyuan thought for a while and thought that the only place that can cover up the sound is underground.

As long as you dig deep, the people above will not hear a sound at all.

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Sure enough, as soon as Jiang Jingyuan's words came out of his mouth, the faces of those who had been fearless in the face of danger just now turned pale, and there were still a lot of people who didn't collapse, showing a little panic.

Yuan Changjian retracted the long sword and ordered his men to dig the ground.

Without much effort, an entrance was found in a corner of the courtyard.

"Now I can spare your life if I confess to you. If you refuse to obey, you can only throw the corpse in the wilderness. Whether you die or live depends on your own choice."

Jiang Jingyuan knew that now was the best time for interrogation. If he wanted to know more secrets of the Xu family from these people, now was the best time.

Sure enough, some people began to waver at this time.

"Hey, Jiang Jingyuan, don't be complacent. Someone from us has already reported back. When my master comes, you won't be able to leave."

At this time, the uninjured man in black saw someone shaken in the courtyard, and immediately dispelled other hesitation.

Sure enough, the people in the courtyard settled down again when they heard the voice of the man in black.

"puff……"

At this moment, Xu Shuizhou couldn't help but sneered, if he didn't say anything, he would have almost forgotten about it.

"The messenger you mentioned is the one who is tall and thin?" Xu Shuizhou asked him gesturing.

The man in black froze for a moment.

"I'm sorry, that person was knocked out by me and tied up on the street. He probably won't go back and inform you. Maybe your master is still at ease at this moment."

As he spoke, Xu Shuizhou couldn't help grinning, his eyebrows and eyes were curved, and the two dimples around his mouth spread out, like a century-old wine, which was intoxicating.

Man in black,"……"

The man in black was so depressed that he spat out a mouthful of blood from his chest. He never thought that the things that were supposed to be exhaustive would be destroyed again and again by this harmless brother in front of him.

The people in the courtyard saw that the men in black were all out of tricks, and one or two began to show up.

It turned out that this was a weapon manufacturing place hidden in the capital city. The blacksmith who made the weapon lived in the gold and silver shop in order to hide the eyes and ears, while the person responsible for transporting this piece lived in the swill shop.

Only in the dead of night will people from the two places gather together to forge weapons together.

Yuan Changjian had already sent people to fetch weapons from the ground, and they were all high-quality prairie swords.

Now there is no need to ask who the knife was sold to.

It turned out that the secret that the Xu family had been trying to hide for so many years turned out to be an enemy!

Everything that is unreasonable is reasonable.

At this time, Jiang Jingyuan dredged up all the threads, why did the few prairie people who obviously didn't know the big characters, every time they came to attack Daming, they fought and won repeatedly.

Why are you able to make such fine weapons in a grassland that doesn't even have a blacksmith?

It turned out that the Xu family was playing tricks behind the scenes.

What's ridiculous is that the frontiers guarded by the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were not defeated by the prairie people, but died by their own swords!

From the mouths of these people, Jiang Jingyuan learned that this stronghold had been hidden in the capital for nearly 30 years.

For 30 years, weapons have been continuously delivered to the grassland, and no one has noticed it. That's because the guards at the four gates of the capital are all members of their Xu family.

After Yuan Changjian learned the truth, he was quite calm at first, and the next moment he drew his sword and split the table in front of him in half, beating his chest and stamping his feet, "I'm so angry!"

"Lord Yuan, calm down."

Yuan Changjian's move successfully frightened Jiang Jingyuan, almost slashing him.

"Calm down, do you know that in the past 30 years, a total of more than 100 million soldiers have died? Do you know that 60 soldiers who died on the battlefield were not over 20 years old!"

Yuan Changjian's eyes turned red, and he was jealous of evil. Every time the Ministry of War received the death list of soldiers, it was like a sharp sword stabbing repeatedly in their hearts.

"How long have they been born, before they have had time to take a good look at the mortals, they died on the dark battlefield, and some even have no bones left. It's ridiculous that they thought they died for the country, but they didn't expect to die for their own people. Under the sword, I can appease my anger, who will appease those more than 100 million heroic souls!"

Yuan Changjian was in tears as he spoke, wishing he could put the sword on his neck and apologize, "It's all my fault, it's all my fault that I didn't discover these tricks earlier, otherwise I wouldn't let people do it under my nose for 30 years. Sin."

"Master Yuan, this is not the time to talk about these things. It is precisely because more than 100 million soldiers have died so aggrievedly that we have to find out these poisonous insects hidden in the dark one by one. The Xu family is still living well. It’s so beautiful, and there’s even the most virtuous family in the capital, Master Yuan doesn’t want to expose their hypocrisy?”

Jiang Jingyuan's eyes were burning, and he said earnestly and kindly.

Yuan Changjian suddenly remembered that the Xu family was not a small family in the capital, and was quite famous in the capital, so it didn't matter if he died, but he couldn't let this group of moths that plucked Daming's body continue to suck blood.

Yuan Changjian regained his sanity in an instant, he would not let the more than 100 million heroic souls on the battlefield die in peace.

"Now that the evidence has been seized, Mr. Yuan please go and get rid of it."

Jiang Jingyuan didn't forget that there was a boatload of transporters on the pier every day, if these people were caught, the Xu family would die if not die.

Jiang Jingyuan acted quickly and tortured these people overnight. Among them, Zhang Tuozi was the most active. Although he was over 50 years old, he still wanted to live another 50 years.

Now that he has been reduced to a prisoner, he might as well talk more about saving his own life, but he didn't see Yuan Changjian's eyes that wanted to eat people.

After collecting the tortured materials and evidence, Jiang Jingyuan and Yuan Changjian entered the palace overnight.

Being a high-ranking official has this advantage. Even if you ask to see the emperor in the middle of the night, the emperor will agree.

In fact, it was not too late for this meeting, and it was almost time to go to court, so when Jiang Jingyuan and Yuan Changjian came together to ask to see the emperor, the emperor's face darkened a bit.

"If you have anything, you can't wait until the morning to talk about it. You have to be so eager."

Eunuch Fu knew that the emperor was speaking in anger, but in fact, he would not do anything to the two lords, and comforted him, "Your Majesty, the two lords are so eager, it must be a very important matter. Your Majesty is the most diligent and the most important thing in my dynasty. The Son of Heaven who is sympathetic to the common people will naturally not care about the two adults."

Everyone likes to listen to flattery, and Eunuch Fu's flattery can be regarded as flattering the emperor's taste. After hearing this, the emperor stopped complaining, put on his clothes and went to the Palace of Qinzheng.

Originally, the emperor was quite disdainful, and the two came together just to ask for money from the Ministry of War. The emperor naturally knew the deal between Jiang Jingyuan and Yuan Changjian before.

They even knew when they would deliver the goods, so one would guess that they might have come here for this matter.

Unexpectedly, when Jiang Jingyuan put the memorial in front of the emperor, the emperor was completely enraged.

"It's unreasonable, it's unreasonable. Under my nose, no one has discovered that even my four city guards, east, west, north, and south, have been bribed. Today they can provide weapons for the enemy. Tomorrow, when the grassland tribes call, they Do you dare to open the door for them!"

The Son of Heaven is different this time, Longyan is really furious!

More than 100 million Haoerlang died in battle, but they died under the sword of their own people, how chilling it must be!

What's even more frightening is that the Xu family who has done evil is still called a family of great kindness in the capital!

At this moment, the emperor felt that the heroes on the battlefield would not die with peace.

"Your Majesty, please calm down. Now that the evidence is solid, please also quickly arrest the Xu family, so that the soldiers who died unjustly on the battlefield can rest in peace as soon as possible."

Of course Yuan Changjian was aware of that kind of anger. He was extremely angry when he learned about it just now, but anger can't solve the problem after all.

"Well, pass me the password and send the Yulin Army to arrest everyone in the Xu family, and lock them up with the Ministry of Punishment, waiting to be released."

Once the Son of Heaven makes a decision, he will not be merciful. Sentencing the country is a serious crime and must not be tolerated.

"Since the two of you discovered this matter, both of you should come forward to handle it, and the Ministry of Punishment can only assist you."

The emperor thought about it, but he still didn't let the people from the Ministry of Punishment come in to intervene. Originally, Jiang Jingyuan and Yuan Changjian discovered this matter.

"Ling, no matter who is found, whether the official position is high or low, they are not allowed to let go."

The emperor shuddered when he thought that even the four guards had been bribed, and what other officials they couldn't bribe, was this Daming his own Daming or someone from the grassland?

"Also, your newspaper office is doing well. I want this matter to be spread across the streets and alleys tomorrow morning, so that everyone in the world can take a good look at the corners of their mouths that they call a good man."

The emperor opened his mouth, and the people below broke their legs.

Xu Shuizhou suddenly received a notice that the report would be sent out early tomorrow morning, so he hurriedly gathered all the big guys together, and 30 people wrote together, quickly and vividly describing how the Xu family colluded with the grassland.

In order to ensure that ordinary people can understand as much as possible, Xu Shuizhou asked them to use ordinary language as much as possible, rather than literary stereotypes or classical Chinese.

As soon as the article is written, it will be typeset and printed immediately.

Here, Jiang Jingyuan and Yuan Changjian also led people into the Xu family, and when everyone in the Xu family was asleep, they all went to kill them all.

Men, women, children, maidservants and servants did not let go. For a while, the Xu family was in a panic, and a group of hidden guards rushed out from nowhere, resisting desperately.

It's a pity that what they faced was not ordinary soldiers, but the Emperor's Imperial Forest Army. They were all masters among masters.

Jiang Jingyuan was not idle either, he kept collecting other evidence, he did not believe that the Xu family's 30-year plan was just for business, there must be other things.

But Ling Jiang Jingyuan never expected that he did not find other evidence first, but found another piece of evidence.

His teeth bit his lip, and blood dripped onto the paper. Jiang Jingyuan's eyes had never been so resentful!

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