In Shibinxia Village near Zezhou City, villagers gathered on the threshing floor and watched the soldiers enter the big house on the hillside. The noisy sound did not stop for a while. It was the wife of the big landowner who was crying.
"...You are filthy good people...You are filthy--"
"...Shen Ling of the Shen family set up a cover for the Black Flag rebel bandits in a private school, and secretly hid forbidden books. He is clearly involved with the rebel bandits! This family is all suspects, arrest them all, and let's question them carefully——"
The army's action caused large-scale cries. This was not the first similar incident near Zezhou in the past few days. The villagers on the threshing floor were uneasy. However, since the big households were involved, there was no news for a while. Cause too much panic.
"The current situation in Zezhou is unfair! Bad guys have gathered together, and there may be trouble in the past few days. Fellow township party members, don't be afraid. We are arresting people to eliminate evil, just to stabilize the current situation. There may be major events in the past few days, which will cause inconvenience to your lives, but General Sun assures you that once the rebel king Shitong is crowned, the situation will be peaceful!"
The soldier in charge of propaganda spoke loudly in front of the threshing floor, and then cited the evidence of the Shen family's crimes. The son of the Shen family, Shen Ling, was originally in charge of the rural private school in the village. He liked to talk about current affairs and occasionally said a few words about the Black Flag Army. The villagers felt that it was not surprising after hearing the good words. However, recently, the peace in Zezhou has been broken by hungry ghosts. The hungry ghost forces are said to be related to Black Flag. The actions of soldiers to arrest Black Flag shocked everyone. So accept it. Although you may have a good impression of Shen Ling, who told you to be a traitor?
After all, the mentality of the villagers is simple. If they beat the Jurchens, they will beat the Jurchens. But they just want to live their own lives. If the Black Flag Army wants to set fire to this place, then they will naturally be heinous bad guys.
The soldiers escorted the Shen family and pushed them all the way to Zezhou City. The villagers looked at this scene, but no one realized that they might not be able to come back.
Two days later it will be the time when the Ghost King will be beheaded. As long as two days pass, everything will be fine...
In the government office in Zezhou, Lu Anmin walked through the long corridor with a complicated and anxious expression. When he stepped down the steps, he almost fell.
He was holding a rice paper roll in his hand, feeling anxious in his heart. As he walked all the way outside the main hall where Sun Qi worked, he saw many officials waiting in the lobby of the state capital. Some were generals in the army and some were civil servants in the state capital. They were noisy. They were waiting for the general to receive him. Seeing Lu Anmin coming, civilian officials rushed over to talk to him about the affairs of Zezhou at this time.
Sun Qi is now in charge of the state capital, taking charge of all events, but prioritizes recruiting military generals. Civil servants in the state capital have been blocked for a long time, and many urgent matters at hand cannot be dealt with. Among them, there are also many requests. Those who investigate wrong cases and intercede for others often haven't seen Sun Qi here yet, but people in the army over there have already dealt with them, maybe taken to prison, or have been tortured near the military camp - many of these people, two days later , that is to say, beheaded.
When the Wu Dynasty still controlled the Central Plains, civil servants always took the lead in many matters. Lu Anmin was guarding one place and was already the highest civil servant in the area. However, he was still blocked from the gate for a while. He ran back and forth in the past few days, The cold reception he received was not once or twice. Even though the situation was stronger than others, the resentment in his heart was already building up. After a while, he saw several groups of generals leading in and out. He stood up suddenly and walked forward suddenly. The soldiers wanted to I tried to stop him, but he pushed me away.
"Don't stand in my way! I am still the magistrate of Zezhou—even if I want to see the Tiger King! I won't be so despised—"
In the lobby, Sun Qi was discussing with several generals. When he heard the noise, he stopped talking and his face turned cold. He was tall and thin, with long and powerful arms, but his eyes were narrow and sinister. His long military career made this man
The general seemed extremely dangerous, and ordinary people did not dare to approach him. The first time he saw Lu Anmin, he banged the table.
"How outrageous! Now that the army has moved, this is the Chinese army's camp! Mr. Lu, are you so ignorant of the importance!?"
"General Sun, I haven't been dismissed yet, and now I am the chief of Zezhou. I have important matters to see you, and I have informed you again and again. I don't know who I am, but I don't know the importance!"
His eyes were bloodshot, and after several days of suffering, he was so angry that he temporarily ignored the fact that the army was the biggest problem at the moment. Seeing that he was reckless, Sun Qi also waved his hand fiercely: "Get down!"
Before leaving, he looked at Lu Anmin: "Master Lu, this action was ordered by the Tiger King himself. You only need to cooperate with me, and I don't have to explain too much to you!"
"However, after this incident, Zezhou will no longer want it!"
"Lu Anmin, you know what this general is doing now!"
"It doesn't have to go to this far!"
"Who do you think this general is waiting for? An army of 70,000 people! Do you think it's just to wait for those 10,000 dying people outside the city!?"
"It doesn't have to be like this!" Lu Anmin emphasized loudly, "There are so many people, and more than 90% of them are innocent! They have relatives and families behind them - their families are ruined!"
"My 50,000-strong army dispersed 400,000 hungry ghosts! But now there are 70,000! Lu! Big! People!" Sun Qi's voice came over, overpowering the wind under the gloomy sky outside the lobby.
Roar, "You! Do! know! Do! No! Know!? Who are we waiting for -"
Lu Anmin looked at him blankly, and then said word by word: "Home! Broken! People! Destroyed! Ah!"
"Ten years of war! Families have been destroyed and people have been destroyed!" Lu Anmin pointed outside, "How many families have been destroyed and people have been killed. General Sun, I know you have the means. You suppressed and killed the 10,000 refugees outside the city. They couldn't resist.
The people in the city still feel at ease. I am a civil servant, but I know that after everything is done, Zezhou City will collapse and be in chaos. It has been ten years since we finally found such a place. If you want to mess with it,
.”
"I know what you want to do. You think I don't know my priorities, but you don't have to do it to this extent." Lu Anmin waved his hand, "If fewer people die, fewer people will die. If you want to make money, you want to take power.
But if you get to this point, you won’t have anything to take in the future..."
This chapter is not finished yet. Please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "What did you say!" Sun Qi slammed his hand on the table with a bang. His eyes were fixed on Lu Anmin, like a biting cobra,
"Tell me again, what does it mean to make money and gain power!"
Lu Anmin said that at that time, he was already a little scared. He mustered up the courage to face Sun Qi for a while, and his mind was also carried away, but he also said some unspeakable words. Sun Qi stretched out his hand.
:
"Ninety percent innocent? You mean innocent when you say innocent? You vouch for them! Guarantee that they are not Black Flag people!? You are responsible for letting them go, can you afford it!? I thought you would understand if I told you, I
Seventy thousand troops are waiting in Zezhou, but you treat it like a child's play - I think you are out of your mind. Are you 90% innocent? King Tiger said when I came out, I would rather kill Black Flag by mistake! I will never let him go!"
"Hmph! People like you deserve to be the parents of a state! Do you think you are just a petty official? It's a waste of my energy to meet you. Come on! Take him out. Anyone else dares to cause trouble in front of me.
, shoot to death without mercy!"
As soon as Sun Qi said this, the deputy general beside him had already brought people in, held up Lu Anmin's arms and walked out. Lu Anmin looked at Sun Qi, and finally couldn't help struggling and said: "You are making a fuss out of a molehill! General Sun! You -
"
At this time, he was pulled to the door. During the struggle, the two soldiers did not want to hurt him too much. They just held his hands and asked him to retreat. Then, there was a snap and Lu Anmin suddenly staggered.
He retreated and rolled to the ground outside the lobby.
This sound came out of the blue. Many people outside saw it and could not react. The nearby corridors and gardens became quiet for an instant. After a while, people realized that just now, the deputy general of the army had slapped Lu Anmin on the face.
, whipping him so hard that he almost flew out.
Lu Anmin was stunned at this moment. After he fell to the ground and sat up, he felt the burning pain on his face. What was even more embarrassing was probably the large number of people around him.
When all order collapsed, such a thing was actually not surprising. Zezhou had experienced and felt such a period before, but the peace in the past few years had diluted everyone's memory. Only this moment
A slap made people remember it again.
Even in the most stable and peaceful place in the Central Plains for several years, the Tiger King Tian Hu was once just a rebellious hunter. These are troubled times, not the Wu Dynasty...
Lu Anmin sat there, not knowing what thoughts were running through his mind. It took him a long time before he climbed up from the ground with difficulty. His whole body was trembling with humiliation and anger. But he did not look back and get entangled in this land.
At the height of the chaos, no matter how big the official residence was, it was stormed by the mob. Even the family members of the prefect's family were beaten to death by the mob. So what does it matter? The royal family of this country also experienced this.
Because of such a thing, those women who were captured and headed north included queens, concubines, princesses, ministers and noble daughters...
In fact, nothing has changed...
The deputy general returned to the lobby. Sun Qi looked outside and nodded through gritted teeth: "If he can do something, let him do it! If not, take off his hat -"
Most of the people in Zezhou City were in a relatively stable mood. They only thought that the chaos was caused by the plan to kill Wang Shitong, and Sun Qi's control of the situation outside the city also allowed the civilians to temporarily find peace.
A sense of superiority. Some people were running back and forth because their families were affected. In the first days, they did not get sympathy from everyone - when the storm was on the cusp, let's not add to the chaos. Just kill Wang Shitong and things would be fine.
The military camps outside the city, the checkpoints, the streets and high walls inside the city, and the 70,000-strong army guard everything tightly. At the same time, they are constantly clearing out possible traitors inside, waiting for the enemies who may or may not come. But the fact is
Above, most of the cities under the Tiger King have now fallen into such a tense atmosphere. The purge has begun, but the most important ones are Zezhou, where Wang Shitong is to be killed, and Weisheng, where the Tiger King sits.
In the prison, You Hongzhuo sat in the haystack, quietly feeling the chaos around him. With the increasing number of "inmates", it was difficult for him to have much speculation about what would happen next. He could not speculate too much about the situation outside the prison.
He didn't know much. He was just wondering: Did he really see Mr. Zhao that night before? Why did he turn into a doctor and enter this prison? Could he be from the Tiger King? And he
If you come in, why don't you save yourself?
Maybe it's fake...
He finally thought this way. If the fourth brother Kuang Wenbai could extend his tentacles in this prison, and Mr. Zhao and the others could also come in at will, wouldn't this matter be too childish...
The experiences and tragedies he saw in the past few days made him somewhat disheartened. If not, his mind might have moved faster and he would have realized something else.
In the increasingly tense city of Zezhou, green forest people are also gathering in various ways. Some of these people from nearby green forests have found organizations, some are wandering around, and many have been involved in conflicts for several days.
He was surrounded by officers and soldiers or imprisoned. However, in the past few days, there have been more articles written secretly around the prison.
It was already evening, the weather was bad, the wind was blowing but there was no sign of rain for the time being. In the alleyway at the back door of the prison, several figures helped each other out of the prison door. Several carriages were waiting here, and everyone saw people coming out.
, there was also a monk who led a dozen people to greet him.
The people who were released included young and old people, but their clothes all had the aura of warriors. Many of them had even been tortured and were injured. The monks and followers who came to greet them gave them away with the greetings of Jianghu.
——They also brought several doctors with them.
"Tang Yingxiong, Zheng Yingxiong, seniors and brothers, have suffered. This matter was rushed and the officials were cunning. We were unable to rescue them. It was a big mistake..."
The monk spoke respectfully. Among the rescued Green Forest people, an old man waved his hand: "It doesn't need to be said, it doesn't need to be said, there will be a time when this matter will be recovered. We have also remembered the benevolence and righteousness of the Guangming Sect. Everyone.
, This is not a bad thing. We have cleared the way through this prison and feel a little better..."
"What Senior Tang said is absolutely true..." Everyone agreed.
"We'd better leave and talk about this later..."
"Exactly, leave first..."
Amid the discussion, everyone got on the carriage and drove away. The lane became empty, and not long after, another carriage came over, picking up another group of Green Foresters and leaving.
In a quiet small building not far away, masters of the Great Guangming Sect gathered together. You Hongzhuo was one of them when he was waiting for Heshuo Tiandao Tan Zheng, whom he had not seen for several days. He was well-informed and stayed in front of the window to quietly watch through the cracks.
Watching all this, he then turned around and whispered some information to the man in the room who was as broad as Maitreya: "'Soul-inducing knife' Tang Jian, 'Dragon Fist' Zheng Wu, some friends of Chaimen Quan...
…After being rescued, there should be the heroes of the Five Phoenix Swordsmen and the heroes of Raimon soon..."
Due to the arrival of a noble person like Maitreya, this kind of thing has been going on for a while - there were other minions here who originally made records. After hearing Tan Zheng's reports several times, Lin Zongwu put down his teacup, nodded, and gestured out
: "Go." A moment after he finished speaking, someone knocked on the door.
Tan Zheng went to open the door, and after listening to the subordinate's report on the situation, he turned back and said, "Master, we have found out the origins of those people earlier."
"Yeah." Lin Zongwu nodded.
"I heard that he belongs to the group of the 'Eight-Armed Dragon King'. He can't survive in Chifeng Mountain, but he didn't expect to come to Zezhou and want to make things difficult for us. I heard that he plans to go against us at the Heroes' Meeting tomorrow."
"Earlier, he was running Chifeng Mountain. I thought he had some potential, but I didn't expect that he would come back to run in the world again. It's really... limited."
Lin Zongwu said calmly and took a sip of tea. These days, the Great Light Sect is running a big game in Zezhou City and has gathered many green forest heroes, but naturally there are many people who are not willing to go with them.
In the past two days, a group of people have appeared, lobbying all parties in private, and ruining many good things in the Great Light Sect. After finding out, Tan Zheng investigated and found out that it was actually the Eight-Armed Dragon King.
This eight-armed dragon king was originally one of the most popular in the Central Plains in recent years. When the heroes in Chifeng Mountain were at their peak, they gathered hundreds of thousands of heroes. However, in the past six months, news about internal strife in Chifeng Mountain has appeared frequently.
Not long before the hungry ghosts were dispersed by Sun Qi, the forces under Pingdong General Li Xizhi destroyed Chifeng Mountain, and the Eight-Armed Dragon King wandered around the world, but unexpectedly appeared here.
Tan Zheng looked at the collected information: "This 'Eight-Armed Dragon King' Shi Jin is said to have been a Liangshan bandit, his real name was Jiuwenlong. After Liangshan was broken, he lost his trace. In recent years, he has become famous as the Eight-Armed Dragon King.
Privately, he spared no effort in killing the Jin people. I heard from people that his martial arts were quite strong. Some private sources said that when the iron-armed Zhou Dong assassinated Nianhan, Shi Jin was with him, and he also gave enlightenment to Zhou Tong.
Pass on the mantle..."
"Haha..." Listening to Tan Zheng's words, Lin Zongwu laughed. He stood up and walked to the window with his hands behind his back. "Whether it is the Eight-Armed Dragon King or the Nine-Patterned Dragon, I have heard about his martial arts earlier.
I passed. When I was trying out my boxing test in the world, I originally thought about meeting him. I was worried that he was a hero and was afraid of damaging his status in the hearts of his subordinates, so I skipped it. So it’s okay, Zhou Tong’s last teaching... haha
Ha ha……"
Lin Zongwu smiled happily, and Tan Zheng walked up to him: "Would you like to visit him tonight?"
"Why is it so? Why did we come to Zezhou? Even if we can't take it head-on, how can we face the formidable enemy behind this muddy water? Just prepare as usual, and I will be there at the Heroes' Meeting tomorrow.
With both fists, I personally used his octagonal mixed copper stick and pulled out his dragon skin and tendons! Quan did——"
"——An appetizer for this trip!"
The wind blows through the city, and countless different wills are gathering together.
In the eighth year of Wu Jianshuo's reign, on June 28, darkness fell.