Yunxi was traveling very fast. Of course, it was not as fast as the messenger who delivered the message, but it was much faster than when he came here.
But this is natural, because Yunxi handed over all the infantry to the leadership of Cao Zhen and others, and he took those important figures and led the cavalry back to the capital in advance.
When passing through Fengyang, although time was already very tight, Yunxi still stayed here for a few days. Just because this is where the imperial mausoleum is, and because he did not pay homage during the northern expedition, so no matter what happened on his return journey
All have to pay homage.
However, Yunxi really didn't know what to say to the mausoleum that was supposed to be his great-grandfather's, so he knelt for a while and then came back.
But after he came back, there was another conversation waiting for him, and it was an important conversation.
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"Fourth uncle? Why are you here today? Why didn't you agree to follow your nephew to visit the imperial mausoleum yesterday?" Yunxi asked with some surprise at the uninvited guest. At the same time, Yunxi also signaled the remaining guards with his eyes,
After the guard gave him a clear look, Yunxi continued: "Why don't Fourth Uncle sit down?"
Although Zhu Di didn't know what the guard's eyes meant, he could guess what it meant, so he very considerately sat down about a foot away from Yunxi's seat.
Zhu Di said to Yunxi: "I am here today because I have something very important to tell you."
"In the past, officials and civil servants took the initiative to join me and help me march smoothly within Hebei."
Yunxi just raised his eyebrows. It was not strange for some officials to see something, but they were greedy for life and feared death and turned to Zhu Di instead. But he believed that Zhu Di would not entertain him with ordinary things, so he continued to listen.
"There are two civil servants like this. One of them is from Suzhou Prefecture, and the other is from an ordinary small place in Shandong."
"Your Majesty probably guessed it, because one of them is from Shandong, and it is easy to associate it with the rebels in Shandong. Besides, both of them are not from Shandong, so people will not be too suspicious."
"But I still felt something was wrong, so I asked someone to check this man's past carefully. Finally, I found out that although he is from Shandong and his wife is from Henan, his father actually died young when he was a child, and his tribe will
The mother and son were driven out of the family."
"His mother remarried a man from Hangzhou who went to Shandong to do business. But before this Hangzhou businessman returned to the south after staying here for half a year, he showed extraordinary reading material."
"His tribesmen immediately brought him back to the tribe after they found out about it, and spent all the efforts of the tribe to support him in his education. Finally, he passed the imperial examination and became an official."
"Actually, his tribe only ignored him for less than half a year. After that, they all treated him very well. Whatever happened to the patriarch's family, they would think of him first and then his own son."
"But he just doesn't like his own people. After his mother passed away, he regarded the man who had only been his stepfather for half a year as his father."
Yunxi was silent for a moment and then said: "Did you investigate these?"
Zhu Di shook his head: "Only the fact that his mother was married to a businessman from Hangzhou was found out. The rest were found out after I captured him and interrogated him."
"Although the five prefectures of Jiangsu and Zhejiang are not in the same province, they have always been called together because they are very close and have been connected by blood since ancient times. When my father was still alive, he strictly guarded against people from the five prefectures of Jiangsu and Zhejiang."
"And I heard before that His Majesty also made some discoveries in the capital."
Zhu Di didn't finish his words, he knew Yunxi would understand.
Yunxi remained silent for a moment and then said, "Where are these two people?"
Zhu Di said: "They are all dead. There was some chaos in the camp when they surrendered. They died because they were not taken care of."
Yunxi didn't know whether Zhu Di's words were true or false, but naturally he would not continue to ask questions about how he died, just like he would not ask why he only told him this matter now.
Yunxi just stayed in his seat for a while and then said: "Uncle Fourth, if you have nothing else to do, please come back."
Zhu Di stood up, bowed and left.
After he left, Yunxi suddenly lost his temper, dropped the tea bowl in his hand to the ground, and said to Wang Xi: "Go and call Yang Shiqi and Guo Hongtao!"
But before the two of them came here, a six hundred mile urgent letter came to Yunxi. Yunxi just looked at it casually at first, but after reading only a few lines of words, he was stunned.
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Henan, Henan Prefecture, the outskirts of Luoyang City.
There is a lake here with a circle of trees growing around it. Unfortunately, it is winter now, all the trees are withered, and there are no lotus flowers in the middle of the lake. Otherwise, the scenery should be very beautiful.
However, the people next to the lake at this time do not imagine the beautiful scenery here in summer. All they care about is promotion and getting rich.
A general bannerman said to his own Baihu: "Zhang Baihu, these people are so fucking serious. They knew they couldn't escape and committed suicide by throwing themselves into the lake. We have to fish their bodies out of the lake, otherwise There is no way to calculate the merit."
Another general commander also said: "That is, he not only threw himself into the lake, but also ran all the way from Dongchang Prefecture in Shandong to Luoyang, causing us to chase him from Shandong to here. It is really cheap."
Zhang Baihu said: "Stop complaining, it won't be good if Master Qianhu hears it. But I do know the reason why they came here from Shandong."
"One of them is a Shanseren. He knows that Shanselin is very mountainous. If he can run to Shanselen, he might be able to escape. Anyway, they are just an inconspicuous remnant, and there is no important person. , they ran a few times but no one cared. So they kept running westward, trying to get to Shanselenium. But they didn’t succeed.”
Just as he was talking, several boatmen came over under the leadership of the local government and began to salvage the bodies. Naturally, they, soldiers, would not salvage the bodies themselves.
One body after another was fished out. After a while, the boatman said something to the people from the government who brought them over. The people from the government then said to them: "All the bodies in the lake have been fished out. "
The person who led the troops to suppress them this time was Chu Zhi, the commander of the Xuzhou Guard. His large-scale counterinsurgency campaign ended up not winning a battle, and he had no chance of promotion, so he was very depressed.
Fortunately, Cao Zhen also understood his frustration, and although Chu Zhi was not Cao Zhen's old subordinate, Cao Zhen still asked him to lead troops to recover the remaining troops. This allowed him to make some meritorious deeds.
'This pursuit is finally coming to an end.' Chu Zhi thought. Then he waved his hand, and the soldiers rushed up and started cleaning up the corpses to identify whether they were soldiers or generals.
