What is the Golden Arrow?

It's simple to say the least. It's a small piece of gold, carved with exquisite patterns, with the words "As if I were here in person" engraved on the front, and "Anyone who rebels will be killed immediately" engraved on the back.

But to be more complicated, just like the eight words engraved on it, "If I come in person, the rebels will be killed immediately." Anyone who takes this sign represents the imperial power, and basically what the emperor can do with this sign is

It can be done.

The reason why it is said to be "basic" is that there are exceptions: officials of the third and lower ranks can be killed first and then punished, officials of the third and higher ranks can be dismissed on the spot but cannot be killed; the number of soldiers and horses of 3,000 can be adjusted with this token, and the number of soldiers and horses above 3,000 can only recognize the tiger talisman.

Even with the order from the Ministry of War, the gold medal was not recognized.

However, these two special cases cannot be used right now.

Xingqiu, a member of a thousand households in Dongchang, had a lot of effort, but he had no rank in the ninth-grade Zhongzheng system. With the gold medal and arrows, he could kill unless everyone present recognized him.

But others were not knowledgeable, but Xing Qiu was knowledgeable. He recognized the golden medal arrow, and even more recognized the young assassin in front of him holding the gold medal arrow.

"No one is allowed to come near without my order!"

"Master, Coach Zhang..."

"Do you still need me to tell you, sir? Just drag him out, uh, I mean, find a doctor to come over and treat him properly. Alas, my little father-in-law is amazing. Zhang Yuan can bear a palm under my little father-in-law's hand without dying. He is considered capable.

Master, of course I can't blame him. Okay, okay, go down, remember, no one is allowed to come near this study."

After sending the housekeeper away, Xing Qiu gently closed the study door, then turned around and fell to his knees without saying a word.

A painting of Owen and Su's calligraphy could easily cost ten thousand taels of silver on the market. It took Xu Bao a long time to look at it before he finally recognized that the signature was Su Shi: "Aren't you afraid that I'm pretending to be one?"

Xing Qiupai smiled and said: "My little father-in-law is joking, so there is no way it's fake."

"So sure, let me think about it... Before I left the palace, my father asked Liang Fang and Eunuch Liang to ask for a gold medal for me. Shang Ming must know about this. If you know, it must be the news from the capital.

."

Xing Qiu nodded like a chicken pecking at rice: "Yes, yes, yes."

"You must also know that I left the palace on an errand to supervise the use and placement of disaster relief funds."

"Yes Yes Yes Yes."

"You know I have a gold medal command arrow and you still dare to send someone to kill me. Is this Shang Ming's order?"

"Yes, yes...ah! No, no, no, no, little father-in-law! No, no!" Xing Qiu kowtowed as if he was pounding garlic.

"Is that so?" Xu Bao turned around and smiled half-heartedly: "I'll give you five seconds, after which I will kill you directly."

Xing Qiu was confused: "Five seconds? What is five seconds?"

"one!"

"two!"

"three!"

"Four!"

Xing Qiu didn't know what "seconds" meant, but he could count at least. Even if he couldn't count, Xu Bao raised his hand to pat his Tianling Cap, but he could still tell: "Me! Lu! Eunuch Lu! Little Eunuch

! It’s Eunuch Lu!” Xing Qiu was almost bursting into tears, crying and shouting while hugging Xu Bao’s thigh.

"Eunuch Lu? Lu Mingtang?"

Before Xu Bao left the palace, Xu Xiaotian told him that if anything happened, he could go to the Nanjing garrison eunuch Lu Mingtang for help. It was precisely with this sentence that Xu Bao could call Lu Mingtang's name.

"You dare to lie to me? He has no grievances against me, let alone some friendship with my father. Why would he want to kill me? And he is the eunuch guarding Nanjing, not the admiral eunuch of Dongchang. Why can he order you?

?Sigh, I originally wanted to keep your whole body, but now you have earned yourself a quarter."

There was a clang in the warehouse, and Xu Bao pulled out the Tai'a sword from his waist.

"No! I didn't! I didn't lie to you!" Xing Qiu's tears really came down this time, and he even cried and howled, but his words were quite sharp: "Eunuch Lu and the governor have a close friendship. The governor once said to Southeast

The factory boss ordered us to satisfy Eunuch Lu’s request as much as possible. I really acted on orders, I did as I was told! I don’t know why Eunuch Lu wanted to kill you! Besides, I didn’t have any involvement in this matter. It was Chen Su.

That boy is in charge, oh, Chen Su is the one whose skin was pulled out by you..."

Xu Bao frowned. He really couldn't figure out how he provoked Lu Mingtang, but Xing Qiu didn't look like he was talking nonsense, so he had no choice but to take it at his word: "Get up and talk."

"Young ones don't dare."

"Get up when I tell you to!" Xu Bao kicked Xing Qiu away, walked to the big chair behind the desk and sat down, put his feet on the table, pretending to be relaxed: "I will know whether what you said is true or false.

Go check it out. But I came today to ask you something else."

"Little father-in-law, tell me everything you know."

"Eunuch Lu wants to recruit the Sea Dragon King to attack Hangzhou. How much do you know about this matter?"

"Little... little..." Xing Qiu hesitated again.

Xu Bao snorted coldly: "If you don't want to say it, I won't force you. Then I'll change the question. Where is Sea Dragon King now?"

"Little... little... I don't know..."

"Your eyes subconsciously looked to the left just now and you wrinkled your nose, which means you are lying." Xu Bao said quietly, his eyes falling like sharp knives on Xing Qiu's face: "I also tell you clearly, I am here to

For this one question, I don’t care about anything else. If you can answer it, I will turn around and leave. When I return to the palace in the future, I will ask my father to say a few nice words for you in front of Shang Ming. But if you can’t answer it, then it’s okay.

It’s nothing, I’ll kill you with one sword, then turn around and ask the Jin Yiwei again.”

"Little Eunuch, have mercy on me!" Xing Qiu howled again: "Little Eunuch, ask me, if I don't say I am dead, if I do, Eunuch Lu and Eunuch Zhou will not let me go, and neither will the Sea Dragon King.

Me, not just me, my relatives and family members are also dead, the little one, the little one really can’t say it!”

"Oh? Is it so serious? What you said is reasonable and well-founded. I really can't refute it." Xu Bao's index finger tapped lightly on his lips.

"Thank you so much, little father-in-law, thank you so much..."

"Look..." Xu Bao continued: "You have said now that they will kill your whole family later, but if you don't say it now, I will kill you with one sword, and then kill your entire family.

How do you choose this?"

"I...little...I..."

"It's better to do this." Xu Bao suggested with a smile: "You tell me now, and I will turn around and leave. Then you still have some time to send your parents, children, wives, concubines, etc. to the capital.

Then my father will naturally protect your family."

"But..."

"Lu Mingtang has committed such a big crime this time. You don't really think he can clean up, do you? You are involved in a big deal here. What will you ask Shang Ming to do in the future?"

"But..."

"Tell me where the Sea Dragon King is, and I will write you a letter. You can find a way to deliver it to my father in the capital, and I will ensure that nothing happens to you. But if you have to go to the Yama Palace as an errand, then I have no choice but to help.
Chapter completed!