Chapter 342
Li Jing also gave a greeting immediately, "I want to say sorry to the Grand Marshal. Yesterday, the wedding was very good. Xiaguan and Lord Wang were going to visit their houses for congratulations. However, a few days ago, with Lord Wang, he came to visit friends in the mountain village. However, I didn't expect that I had a few more drinks at once yesterday and competed to return to the city. I'm so sorry!"
When Chen Kefu heard this, he thought about it. There were many guests yesterday, and he really didn't notice that Li Jing and Wang Rengong did not come. However, after they said this, Chen Kefu suddenly made a little clue. He reached out to the bodies of the black-clad soldiers who were lying on the ground and pointed at the bodies of "Brother Wang and Brother Li know what those people on the ground are?"
Wang Rengong shook his head, "Brother is just strange, Po Jun said that he has only been in Kyoto for more than two months. This is the third assassination he encountered? Do you know who did it?"
Hearing Wang Rengong's words, Chen Kefu couldn't help but smile. Sure enough, things were as he guessed.
Because Li Jing and Wang Rengong visited friends outside the city these days, they didn't know that he had rebelled against the court and were being hunted by the court. They just went down the mountain and probably happened to encounter their fight when they were going back to the city. As a result, because those people were all black-clothed, less than a hundred people were left running away.
Wang Rengong and Li Jing must have thought that the man in black who had assassinated him earlier came to assassinate him again, so they killed him like this.
When Chen Kefu thought of this result, he was happy.
Pointing to the corpses on the ground, Chen Kefu said lightly, "They are all sent by the imperial court, and they are personally sent by the emperor."
Wang Rengong's face changed, "Po Junfu, don't say anything nonsense. How could the court and the emperor send someone to kill you? Don't say this again. Being listened to by outsiders is a serious crime." Although he also felt that only those major families in Kyoto could assassinate Chen Kefu one after another, the emperor was of course more capable, but he did not dare to think so.
Chen Kefu jumped off his horse, walked to the corpses on the ground and searched for a while. After a while, he found some things from the most expensive corpses with accessories on his body.
"Dugu Ming, deputy commander of the Iron Guards Battalion of the Iron Guards", "Yu Chaoyang, deputy commander of the Iron Guards Battalion of the Iron Guards Battalion of the Iron Guards", Chen Kefu recited two of the waist signs and handed them to Wang Rengong.
Wang Rengong took the waist card with a trembling hand. After just a look, he believed it was true. Although he had never heard of the Iron Guard of the Iron Guard of the Iron Guard of the Iron Guard of the Imperial Guard, the Xiaoguo Army knew that it was the Shiwei Army, the most closest guard around the emperor. Knowing that he had accidentally gotten into the emperor's affairs and ruined the emperor's good things, Wang Rengong couldn't help but frown. He had fought for the Great Sui Dynasty for many years and made countless military achievements, but last time he only dated Yang Xuangan because of his nephew.
In the end, he was demoted to the border Mayi and became the prefect of a remote place. Now that he was involved in this secret matter, what would be waiting for him?
Looking at Wang Rengong's god, Chen Ke paused for a moment, and continued to speak without shockingly.
"Why are Brother Wang and Brother Li not suspicious? I just got married yesterday, why did I appear here today and be chased by the Imperial Guards?"
“Why?”
"Because the emperor's instructions were ordered by the emperor, and I also received the exact news. Emperor Yang Guang originally planned to ambush me in the palace this afternoon. After receiving the news last night, I ran away urgently this morning. But unexpectedly, Yang Guang soon learned the news, and now hundreds of thousands of people are chasing me."
Wang Rengong and Li Jing looked at each other again, their eyes full of shock.
"Two sirs, your kindness to you has caused you the disaster of killing yourself and destroying your clan!
Even if I hide this for the two of you, I guess it will not be able to hide it. I think you might as well go with me. As long as you arrive in Liaodong, everything will be easy." Chen Kefu had originally hoped to accept Li Jing and win over his subordinates, but although Li Jing had a low position, he was also from a noble family and was still very loyal to the Sui Dynasty and Yang Guang.
However, when this accident happened, Chen Kefu saw hope. Li Jing and Wang Rengong were both famous generals for a while. Wang Rengong had fought against the Turks for many years. Although there was no big battle, he was still unbeaten. He was a veteran of the Sui Dynasty who had been famous for many years. Li Jing is not famous now, but Chen Kefu knew that this was a rare handsome man, a late-achieving coach. If he was pulled into Liaodong now, it would be a marshal who could stand alone for Liaodong.
Li Jing and Wang Rengong looked at each other speechlessly. No one expected that helping someone would have such a problem. They all understood how serious the one who helped was just now. But the situation is clear now. Chen Kefu has clearly returned to Liaodong to rebel. If they don’t go, they still have some hope to clear it. If they really go, they will really rebel.
The bearded man who had not spoken on the side suddenly interrupted, "Brother Wang and Brother Li, don't hesitate, what's there to hesitate? I don't think Yang Guang is a good emperor. If Marshal Chen had pacified Liaodong, maybe the Sui Dynasty had changed dynasties now. I have been traveling here for several years, but I really didn't find Yang Guang's goodness. A man and a real man do what he does. Why not take this opportunity to go to Liaodong together. Marshal Chen becomes the emperor in the future, and you two will not lose the position of a minister."
Hearing such straightforward words, Chen Kefu couldn't help but look at this beardless man with admiration. People in this era will be very cautious in their hearts about major events such as rebellion. It is really hard to find that they can be as open-minded as this brother.
"Who is this brother?"
Li Jing said, "This is Zhang Zhongjian and Zhang. When I met my Lord Wang and I were in Mayi, I met Brother Zhang. The three of us were considered close friends."
The bearded man was only about forty years old. Compared with Li Jing's early fifties and Wang Rengong's early sixties, he was considered to be the middle-aged and youngest of these three. Chen Kefu couldn't help but wonder that these three people who are so different in age can actually become good friends.
Chen Kefu bowed to the bearded man, but he always felt that the name sounded familiar. When he looked at his big curly beard on his face, he suddenly remembered a name.
"Could Brother Zhang be the one Zhang Zhongjian, known as the bearded guest?"
Not only did Zhang Zhongjian be stunned for a moment, but Li Jing and Wang Rengong were also stunned for a moment.
"How did the marshal know that he is named? Although I have been traveling in the Central Plains for several years, few people know me?" Zhang Zhongjian said in confusion.
Chen Kefu smiled mysteriously, "I not only know Brother Zhang's name is the Gun Guest, but also know Brother Zhang's identity. Although Brother Zhang travels around, his family has hundreds of thousands of dollars in wealth. There are industrial shops and manors under his name in the Central Plains."
Wang Rengong said suspiciously, "I only know that Brother Zhang is a rich man from all over the world, but I never knew that Brother Zhang was so rich. What surprised me even more was that the fact that I, a friend who had been dating Brother Zhang for several years, had never known that the Grand Marshal had never seen Brother Zhang before."
Chen Kefu smiled, "I not only know that Brother Zhang's family has hundreds of thousands of wealth, but also know that Brother Zhang is a strong man at sea. In the coastal areas of the south of the Yangtze River, Brother Zhang also has several large fleets, hundreds of large ships. Hundreds of large ships are rampant on the sea, and trade between the four seas is more profitable than taking the Silk Road in the Western Regions."
After saying that, Chen Kefu exchanged eyes at Zhang Zhongjian, and just that moment, Zhang Zhongjian's face changed a lot. The meaning of Chen Kefu's eyes was very simple. His meaning to Zhang Zhongjian was that he knew more.
In fact, this is true. Chen Kefu knew that many things about Zhang Zhongjian were not because of the Three Heroes of the Later generations. But because of the contribution of the Special Service Department, when he ordered the secret creation of ships, he had secretly brought back many craftsmen. Some were brought back from the coastal areas of the Central Plains, while others were taken away from those islands. The islands were all pirates, and the craftsmen were also pirates.
It was from the mouths of these pirates that the Special Service learned that there was a powerful pirate fleet along the coast. After taking a lot of strength from the Special Service, the Special Service dug out the owner of the pirate. The owner of this pirate was Zhang Zhongjian, a bearded guest. Zhang Zhongjian's apparent identity was a coastal maritime merchant, who specially transported silk tea and porcelain from the Central Plains to various places on the sea to exchange for materials, gold, ivory, gems and other rare items in the Central Plains.
But in fact, behind him was the head of the "Crossing Bearded Pirate Fleet, which was traversing the coast of Jiangnan. An unexpected discovery made Chen Kefu know that the head of the Crossing Bearded Pirate Fleet was not Zhang Zhongjian's true identity. Zhang Zhongjian's true identity was the Prince of the Ryukyu King and Prince of the East China Sea, and this Ryukyu Kingdom was the Taiwan of later generations, including the Ryukyu Islands annexed by the Japanese. Ryukyu lives on the East China Sea, and there was no much exchange between the original and the Central Plains.
In the third year of Daye, Yang Guang ordered the Yuqiu lieutenant Zhu Kuan to go to the sea to seek foreign customs and arrive at Liuqiu. Because he was not in tune with each other, he grabbed one person and took his armor and returned. The next year, Emperor Yang sent Zhu Kuan to Liuqiu to surrender, but Liuqiu refused to obey. So he sent Benlang General Chen Ling and the court to ask the doctor Zhang Zhenzhou to send more than 10,000 troops from Dongyang to attack Liuqiu. Liuqiu King Huansi sent troops to fight against the Sui army, but was frequently defeated by Zhang Zhenzhou. Chen Ling led the main force to the low-famous cave, and Liuqiu Xiao Wang Huansi's old model led the army to fight, but was defeated by Chen Ling and killed Huansi's old model.
The Sui Dynasty army was divided into five armies and attacked the capital of Liuqiu. The king of Liuqiu, Huansi, was forced to fight in person and was defeated by the Sui army. The Sui army then attacked Liuqiu's capital, and took advantage of the victory to pursue Liuqiu's army and attacked him. The Sui army killed Liuqiu's king of Liuqiu, captured his son Huansi, and destroyed Liuqiu's palace.
Chapter completed!