Chapter 279 The old man who wants debt
"Concubine Yu and the Marquis of Beikan are brothers and sisters! Marquis of Beikan is the uncle of the third prince."
"It's all like this, do you want to bypass Beikan Hou? Why are you so worried? Or do you have a different relationship with Beikan Hou? No, when he lived in Tongnan Prefecture for a long time, you were still very young?"
"Stop talking nonsense! I am purely afraid of death!"
"Can you say the word "fear of death" so righteously? Your face is really not that thick."
"Bei Kan Hou is a martial arts maniac, a complete martial arts maniac. If you ask about his martial arts talent, it is extremely terrifying. The Dayu Dynasty has been around for nearly a hundred years, but it is wrong. In the past two hundred years, there is no other person who can compare with Bei Kan Hou's maniac."
"Your brother?" Lu Sheng raised his head in surprise.
This is the first time Lu Sheng heard that Chen Ling had another brother. Moreover, since there is still a eldest son in the Nanling Prince's Mansion, how could it be Chen Ling's turn?
"This is not the point. The point is that Beikan Hou is very strong! He is a martial arts fanatic. It seems that he will not care about anything in the world except martial arts. Even if the late emperor revoked the Deep Blue Navy number back then, he would not argue with reason.
He had no objection to the late emperor who gave him his title back then. As long as he could practice martial arts and kill a master, he could ignore anything."
"Wait! Kill a master?" Lu Sheng widened his eyes in surprise, "What does this mean?"
"It means literally! There are martial artists in the world who study hard and practice hard, and there are also martial artists who practice with others. But have you heard that someone who practices martial arts, even if they decide the victory or defeat, they also divide life and death?"
"Even if the winner is decided, life and death are also divided?" Lu Sheng heard this, and for some reason another sentence flashed through his mind, "I am Xu Xu, please give me advice!"
"Not bad! In Beikan Hou's thinking, martial arts is a killing skill. If it is not used to kill people? What is the meaning of practicing martial arts? Since Beikan Hou practiced martial arts, he always fought with people to kill people.
At the beginning, I could use swords without eyes, accidental injuries and other excuses. But later, more and more masters died, and I realized that this was a lunatic.
No one was willing to compete with him, and no one was willing to pay attention to him anymore. But the Beikan Hou used a pseudonym to fight against the world's masters. The masters targeted by Beikan Hou also sacrificed their lives to fight. But every time, he survived, and all his opponents were dead.
At the age of forty, he successfully broke through the innate shackles and entered the Taoist realm. He originally thought that the Beikan Hou who entered the Taoist realm could calm down. But the Beikan Hou could prove the Tao through war.
That year, the Tubo national commander came to Dayu for exchanges. The Beikan Hou heard that the Tubo national commander was the number one master in the Western Regions. He had a cultivation level above the Dao Realm, so he issued a letter of war to fight against the Tubo national commander.
Back then, Taifu Chang said in person that the Tubo national teacher’s cultivation is unfathomable and he cannot be enemies.”
"The Tubo National Master should not know the bad deeds of Beikan Hou, right?"
"What do you know about a monk from the Western Regions? He thought it was the hospitality of the Central Plains, so he agreed happily. However, he did not expect that on the martial arts competition, he fought fiercely for a day and a night. The Tubo national master sighed that he was better than admit defeat and was beaten to death by Beikan Hou with his fist!"
"It's so miserable..." Although Lu Sheng failed to see the scene at that time, he was still scared after thinking about it.
"Yes, I heard about the scene at that time, so I scared a lot of people."
"No!" Lu Sheng suddenly realized the problem, "Since everyone in the court knew the nature of Beikan Hou's urine, why didn't he stop this competition? I heard that Beikan Hou was deposed because he killed the Tubo National Master. But judging from the background that year, it was obvious that the court did it intentionally."
"Of course it was intentional!" Chen Ling took out a bag of melon seeds from somewhere and started knocking in front of Lu Sheng. "There was such a master in the Western Regions, which was enough to threaten Dayu's status.
The countries in the Western Regions can be protected by Dayu peacefully. What should one or two fierce people come out to do if you have nothing to do? Do you want to turn over?"
"Even if you cut off the title of Beikan Hou in order to give Tubo an explanation, there is no need to be confined to the position for twenty years? What is the secret behind this? Moreover, as far as I know, the punishment for Beikan Hou seems to be inappropriate."
"Of course it's not because of killing a Tubo national teacher! What I want to tell you below is the real secret!" Chen Ling suddenly said with an extremely serious expression.
"The main reason why the late emperor wanted to take Beikan Hou was to take action because of the deep blue ocean formation map!"
"Deep Blue Ocean Array Map? What is that?"
"A navy army map!"
"No... Didn't you say before that the imperial court's military formation was built by the imperial court at a high price? Why did it take a formation map? What's special about this formation map?"
"The Deep Blue Sea Formation Map is the only Formation Map in Dayu's Army that was not developed by the imperial court. It is rumored that this Formation Map was circulated in ancient times and has the power to seize the heavens.
It was with the deep blue sea formation that Zhang Wannian was invincible to sweep the Japanese pirates in the East China Sea to establish unparalleled achievements. The deep blue sea army was one of the four invincible troops that would never be defeated by Dayu.
However, the Deep Blue Navy was Dayu's army, and the thunder and rain were all the kindness of the king. Back then, Zhang Wannian got the Deep Blue Ocean Array Map and the court was ecstatic. But later, when the court asked Zhang Wannian to hand over the Deep Blue Ocean Array Map, Zhang Wannian was perfunctory."
Lu Sheng showed a sudden realization on his face, which explained why the Beikan Hou clearly had such a status and meritorious service, but was abandoned by the court.
"A man is innocent, but he is guilty of possessing a treasure. This deep blue sea formation map is not a wealth of gold and silver, but a powerful weapon of the country! Zhang Wannian actually wanted to take it for himself... This is simply..."
"It's nothing. There are hundreds of families in Dayu, and those thousands of years and thousands of years old, which one does not have a inheritance array map? I can actually understand Zhang Wannian's plan.
He hopes that the Zhang family will firmly grasp this deep blue ocean formation map, so that his Zhang family's status will not change and will become a thousand-year-old family and a thousand-year-old family.
The only thing Zhang Wannian didn't understand is that he was not those thousand-year-old families. He shouldn't have put himself in the same position as those thousand-year-old families just because he was enthroned as the duke."
"I understand... If anyone changes, he will not be willing to hand over the treasure that can last the family forever. However, Zhang Wannian was enough to make the court give up the idea of taking over the formation map back then."
"Yes, there are several Dayu Land Battle Formation Map, but the Navy Formation Map is blank. Therefore, the court is determined to win the Deep Blue Sea Formation Map. But Zhang Wannian relied on his military merits and the reputation in the hearts of the people, attempted to threaten the court with this.
Therefore, since his death, he was unable to be honored with his state funeral, and the Zhang family has become the most down-and-out family among the Dayu family. Of course, it won’t be forgotten now.”
"Oh? Is it because the third prince is the one who has the most hope of winning the 195th position?"
"No, because you are at the bottom!"
"..." Lu Sheng felt that there was no way to chat with Shen Ling anymore.
"So, if I get the array map one day in the future, it would be better to take the initiative to hand over?"
"Basically, you should be able to understand this principle. After all, you are not those thousand-year-old families, they have the foundation and confidence. Of course, I think you should not be likely to get the array diagram. This thing is hard to come by."
"Then the late emperor has gone. Why has the current emperor not cancelled the punishment for Beikan Hou after he ascended the throne? I heard that the emperor's favor to Concubine Yu is not ordinary!"
"Are you the lord who is addicted to the harem? How can the lord surrender to such great trouble? Anyway, if the lord of Beikan does not hand over the formation map for one day, he will not think about the lord's favor for a day.
For the emperor, it was just a formation map that was not very urgent, so there was time. But for the Zhang family, it was a torment. The military headquarters removed the number of the Deep Blue Navy, and people still remember it now, but in twenty or thirty years, the Deep Blue Navy would have no trace as if it was a flash in the pan.”
"So that's it..." Lu Sheng suddenly sighed thoughtfully.
It left quietly overnight, and the Department of Justice was still very busy.
When Lu Sheng was staring at the progress of excluding the screening, someone outside the prosecutor's office suddenly rang the drum of injustice.
Although there is something to be busy with serious matters, Lu Sheng cannot ignore it even if someone complains about the wrongdoing. He changed into his official uniform and arranged for Lu Jian to prepare to go to the court.
When Lu Sheng sat on the high hall, a trembling old man was slowly taken to the court by Xuan Tianwei.
The old man's eyes were dodging, and he lowered his head and moved his back little by little to the court. This is a normal fear of ordinary people in the face of the government.
"Old man, what are your grievances?" Lu Sheng tried his best to make his tone more friendly.
"I...I...I..." The old man's voice trembled abnormally, and he couldn't say a nervous sentence.
"Old man, don't be nervous, take a few deep breaths and talk carefully." Lu Sheng asked in a low voice patiently.
"Big... sir... sir... sir... sir... sir... sir... sir is here... sir is here to ask for debts..."
"You need debts? What do you need debts?" Lu Sheng asked with a chuckling.
"This...about half a year ago... the coastal defense force came to our village and ate and drank for five days. Our village had no money at all, and those soldiers had a good appetite and ate more than half of the food in our village.
When they left, they didn't give us money, so they left a token and said they would send the money over for two days.
But it has been half a year since we have not seen anyone come to give money. Our village is small and we don’t grow our own food. When we can go to sea, we can still live.
But we haven't been able to go into the sea for more than half a year, and we can't even get enough for ourselves. Now that the coastal defense force has been slow to pay back the money, our village can't get out of the way. If it weren't for the fact that there was no way, I wouldn't have come to collect the debt..."
The old man said a lot, but Lu Sheng was confused when he heard it.
"Old man, do you mean... The Coast Defense Force went to your village half a year ago, and then after eating and drinking for a few days, he didn't give you a token? He promised you would pay it back, and then they didn't pay it back after you waited for half a year, right?"
"Yes, yes..." The old man pointed his head as if he was pecking rice.
"Then why didn't you go to the coastal defense army camp to ask for debts, but came to me?" Lu Sheng asked in confusion. Since the old man's village is by the sea, there is no reason to come to Tongnan Prefecture with a far distance.
"I was going to the military camp, but I met a blacksmith in a town near the military camp. He told me that if I went to the military camp, I would not only not get the money, but I might not have the life to save me. But the people in one of our villages are hungry, and even if I die, I will go...
Later, the blacksmith pointed me a way out and asked me to come to the Examination Department to find Lord Lu. Are you... Lord Lu?"
Chapter completed!