Chapter 144: The ruthless man (Part 2)

Zhang Deqing, the commander of the Thirteen City Gate Department, was the third rank. His personnel files were in the Privy Council, his mansion was in the Nancheng, and his servants were selected by the Supervision Council and his salary was received by the inner court. He never went to the Privy Council for a meeting. Even the old military headquarters did not step in. Nominally, he was a soldier, but his relationship with the Qing State military was like a widow and his father-in-law, and he didn't dare to get too close to him when he was beaten to death.

His family, his colleagues, and his friends were all allowed by His Majesty to date. The reason for this is that His Majesty has always pinned the keys of the nine gates in Kyoto on his belt, so His Majesty the Emperor of Qing Kingdom must tie his head to his belt.

If Zhang Deqing dared to rebel, His Majesty the Emperor had too many ways to make him die without a place to bury him. However, no one has ever thought that Zhang Deqing would rebel, not only because his family has been loyal for generations, but not just because even the wife he married was a loyal minister for generations, but over the years, people have become accustomed to Zhang Deqing's style of doing things.

Eat Your Majesty's meal and listen to Your Majesty's words.

Lord Zhang would not wish His Majesty a wise mind when he was having a meal, nor would he find some excuses to come to the palace to flatter His Majesty from time to time, but he was extremely determined to implement any of His Majesty's decrees, including the night when Kyoto was bleeding many years ago.

By the way, this Lord Zhang Deqing, like Ye Chong of Dingzhou, has been an old man who has managed this Kyoto for nearly twenty years.

For such a person who is as white as tofu, and his management responsibilities are too sensitive, no force dares to contact him, even the second prince who fought for power with the prince back then did not dare to contact Zhang Deqing. Because he went to contact Zhang Deqing, he would just touch his father's crotch.

Therefore, Zhang Deqing is a bit like an invisible person in the officialdom. No one can remember him until now at such a critical moment. When His Majesty Qing Kingdom sacrificed heroically on Dadong Mountain, the loyalty of Lord Zhang Deqing was transferred to the empress dowager extremely accurately and quickly. His figure suddenly appeared, and it was particularly dazzling.

The loyalty to the Empress Dowager was not because the Empress Dowager was the biological mother of His Majesty. It was because His Majesty once declared the world before offering sacrifices to heaven that the Qing Kingdom is now governed by the Empress Dowager from behind the curtain.

After reading the surveillance report of the Supervisory Director for a long time, Fan Xian thought that Mr. Zhang was really a rare "fool and loyal minister", and Bingyun also gave the same judgment. Of course, these two young officials in the Supervisory Directorate could guess that Your Majesty must have other ways to control Zhang Deqing, but Your Majesty is gone, and they have no idea how to start, so they can only start from the word "Zhengyi".

Tonight, Yan Bingyun is coming to take Zhang Deqing's hand and dance the word "Loyal" that moves the world.

Zhang Deqing is already old, and the bags under his eyes are a little thick. Perhaps it is because he has been worried these days and has not had a good rest. At this time, sadness, anger and many emotions are shining in the pupils above the pair of eyes.

At this time, Yan Bingyun came alone in the yamen of the Thirteen City Gate Division. After handing over the copied will, he quietly waited for Zhang Deqing's choice.

The ability to copy Emperor Qing’s will in a very short time proves that the craftsmanship of the Supervision Bureau has made a qualitative leap after successfully forging the will of the old master Ming. It also proves that Fan Xian’s spirit of revolutionary rebellion is not afraid of boiling water and scalding the ground. It also proves that although Lord Xiaoyan is loyal to the emperor and patriotic, he does not adhere to mechanical bureaucracy in details.

The so-called will is actually just an extremely calm and silenceful tone of the emperor at night when he was surrounded by Dadongshan. He wrote a letter to the empress dowager. In the letter, he mentioned the deposed prince and the sinister role played by the prince and the eldest princess in the siege of Dadongshan. At the same time, he clearly pointed out that when Fan Xian returned to Kyoto, the power of the state was transferred to him, and everyone was incredibly granted Fan Xian the power to select the next generation of the monarch of the Qing Kingdom.

Two lines of old tears flowed from Zhang Deqing's eyes. Although he had known that His Majesty had died on Dadong Mountain, he saw His Majesty's handwriting at this time. The third-rank commander of the City Gate Office could not stop his inner emotions.

"Have the Empress Dowager seen this will?" Zhang Deqing suddenly raised his head and stared at Yan Bingyun's eyes.

Mr. Xiaoyan became more and more convinced at this time that the strategy he and Fan Xian should be successful. No matter from any perspective, this commander, who is famous for his loyalty, stands on his side.

He whispered: "The Empress has seen it."

"What happened to the fireworks and arrows in the palace before?" Zhang Deqing glared at Yan Bingyun.

"The will of the will of the Lord Fan ordered the Empress Dowager to help the Queen Mother get rid of the rebellion." Yan Bingyun was not panicked. As long as Fan Xian Tu Palace's action was successful and he captured the prince and the eldest princess, there was no reason for the city gate to make a mistake. "The fireworks have already begun."

"I cannot trust you with just a will." Zhang Deqing said: "I want to meet the Queen Mother."

"This is for granted." Yan Bingyun's face was frosty and his answer was neat. In fact, he didn't know the situation in the palace at this time, and he didn't know whether the empress dowager was dead or alive, but at the moment, he had to answer with confidence.

"The general has been loyal and kind for generations. When Daqing is in danger, he should follow the will of the late emperor."

Yan Bingyun never forgets every word he wrote on His Majesty's will. I remember that he was traveling around Northern Qi by a pseudonym, and was good at dancing. He was also a powerful character who was accustomed to cheating people without paying his life. However, he only worked in the yard for many years and was separated from this dangerous work for too long. He persuaded the Kyoto Prefecture tonight, and at this time, he persuaded the commander of the Thirteen City Gate to the Guns of Rulin, which was only considered to be a return to his old business.

"There is chaos in the palace." Zhang Deqing said after a moment of silence: "I will enter the palace immediately at this time."

Yan Bingyun frowned, and Zhang Deqing's eyes condensed, as if he had noticed something. At this moment, Yan Bingyun scolded coldly: "Mr. Zhang, don't forget that Your Majesty will entrust these nine city gates to you, and it is your duty to firmly guard the gates for Kyoto!"

As soon as this statement came out, Zhang Deqing became silent again, as if he was considering something. After a while, he said, "Master Yan will give me some time."

Drag? Yan Bingyun faintly noticed a strange thing. Could it be that Zhang Deqing was not convinced by this will and wanted to look at the situation in Kyoto again? But at this time he did not know that the eldest princess and the prince had escaped from the palace. In order to ensure Fan Xian's palace attack, if the Thirteen City Gate Division was temporarily neutral, it would not be a result that he could not accept. It was even better than he expected.

Since you should drag it, then drag it. Yan Bingyun sat down in the city gate and yamen leisurely, and sat down as calm as the spears of the generals.

Looking at his expression, Zhang Deqing couldn't help but be stunned, as if he didn't expect him to be so confident.

However, no one expected that the delay would have been delayed for so long. Yan Bingyun was placed under house arrest in disguise in the yamen of the City Gate. There was no hot tea to drink or a small song to listen to. It was really uncomfortable to bear it. Of course, the most uncomfortable thing was the ubiquitous pressure.

He drank the northwest wind. He heard the sound of fighting in Kyoto from time to time, and sometimes he could even smell a faint burnt smell. Someone should have been ignited.

Zhang Deqing didn't have so much time to sit with him. As the commander of the City Gate Division, he had too many important things to deal with. At this time, he held the sword by his waist and walked on the city wall in the night. The glasses under his eyes miraculously disappeared, and the light of the eagle-like falcon shone in his pupils, staring at every move in Kyoto. At the same time, he issued orders from time to time, suppressing his subordinates, and strictly prohibiting them from participating in the coup in Kyoto. Only three thousand officers and soldiers were allowed to watch the nine city gates in Kyoto tightly.

Yes, in his eyes, the so-called righteous force led by Fan Xian was actually a coup. Although after reading the will, he had to admit that Fan Xian had a great reputation, he still subconsciously believed that all those who attacked the palace were bad people.

Compared with the Northern Qi Shangjing City, Kyoto of Qing Kingdom, there is no heavy history. It has more military traces, so although this city wall is not mottled, it is extremely thick. Although it is not as high as the imperial city, if it is really used for defense, various configurations will be much stronger.

Standing on the city wall, Zhang Deqing was like drawing endless power from this thick mixed stone brick wall, allowing him to make certain choices bravely.

At a lookout, he stood up and looked far away in the direction of the imperial city. The riots in Kyoto gradually subsided. It seemed that Kyoto Prefecture had been subdued by Fan Xian, and yamen runners began to take to the streets to yell gongs to appease the people.

He didn't know that the two masterminds of the Kyoto Palace Transformation, the eldest prince and Fan Xian, were also standing on the imperial wall and looking into the distance in the direction of the city gate. A faint feeling of worry flashed in his eyes. If things really evolved like this, he could only accept the will.

Perhaps this was a good choice, but Zhang Deqing heard the sound of the carriage wheels crushing the stone road. The sound was very clear in his ears.

"It's a triangular stone road, close to the city gate."

Zhang Deqing was extremely familiar with the city gate where he had been managing for nearly twenty years. He could even tell whether the carriage wheels were rolling over the ground was bluestone road or triangular stone road. He was silent for a moment, then walked down the high city wall and walked into the yamen of the city gate department.

When the sound of the carriage sounded at the city gate, Yan Bingyun stood up with a calm face. The soldiers around him who were responsible for guarding him became nervous and pulled out their weapons to surround him.

Yan Bingyun's heart sank, not because he was surrounded by soldiers, but because of the sound of carriages. In Kyoto late at night, who would have taken a carriage to the city gate? The people of Kyoto have been stolen for a long time, and the movements like tonight would not scare them to flee. Moreover, the people were not so stupid, sitting in a carriage, waiting to be tortured by the soldiers who were jealous of the red-eyed.

At this time, there was only one type of person who wanted to leave Beijing by carriage.

At this moment, Zhang Deqing walked in, looked at Yan Bingyun with a calm face and said, "I offended you, Lord Yan."

He then shouted, "Take me this imperial prisoner!"

Yan Bingyun's pupils shrank slightly. He didn't know why Zhang Deqing's attitude changed so drastically. Could it be that Fan Xian's failure in Tugong's actions?

The soldiers surrounded him, but Yan Bingyun did not resist. Everyone knows that the biggest difference between this young master Yan and Xiao Fan is that his martial arts value is a bit low and he has no lethality when he starts to take action.

Bingyun would not take risks with his life. Zhang Deqing just wanted to take him down. If he resisted, these dozen spears would not feel that it would be too good to kill him.

The City Gate Department does not have the steel finger condoms like the Supervision Bureau, but it has a small shackle. After holding on to the wrist joints of people and the ground, it cannot break free. After Yan Bingyun was tightly tied up, Zhang Deqing breathed a sigh of relief. He looked at the darkness outside with some confusion.

"I didn't expect you to be here alone." Zhang Deqing frowned very tightly, "I don't know if it should be said that Mr. Xiao Fan is stupid or that you are too bold."

Yan Bingyun was kicked to the ground and made a rare joke: "Actually, this is just a matter of manpower." He paused and said: "I can't imagine that I would misread someone."

After a moment of silence, Zhang Deqing said, "The reason is very simple. If you win, I will naturally obey the imperial edict, but if you lose, what are the benefits of my obey the imperial edict?"

Yan Bingyun frowned, sighed after a while and said, "Loyal ministers, loyal ministers, how loyal."

"I am loyal to Your Majesty, but I will not be loyal to this uncharacteristic decree." Zhang Deqing looked a little ugly, as if he was disobeying His Majesty's uncharacteristic decree.

The commander of the City Gate Commander thought in his heart that if His Majesty is still there, of course he will be a loyal minister for the rest of his life, but His Majesty is no longer there. Who would be willing to guard these nine broken city gates for the rest of his life?

Yan Bingyun was silent. He was originally a risky person when he came to the City Gate, but based on his judgment on Zhang Deqing, he still could not convince himself. Why did such a commander choose to stand against the opposite of the will?

Is Fan Xian defeated? Yan Bingyun's brows were still frowning, as if he was thinking about an extremely difficult question.

At this time, Zhang Deqing was only three steps away from him.

Yan Bingyun's eyebrows suddenly stretched out, but a drop of cold sweat slid down from the corner of his eyebrows.

However, Zhang Deqing clearly heard a cracking sound, as if the legs of the table were broken.

Yan Bingyun suddenly raised his head and said word by word: "Zhang Deqing, the commander of the Thirteen City Gate, rebelled against the orders and assisted the chaos. All the people of the Qing Kingdom should be punished according to Your Majesty's will."

Zhang Deqing's eyes moved slightly, and he didn't know who Yan Bingyun was saying this to. At this time, all of the yamen were his confidants, and no one would be so stupid that he would come out to take action. But he felt a little strange in his heart, and he subconsciously retreated, thinking that he would be farther away from Yan Bingyun who was tied tightly.

Someone moved, but the person who moved was not Yan Bingyun, but a person among Zhang Deqing's personal soldiers. After hearing Yan Bingyun's words, the man gritted his teeth, raised the knife in his hand, and slashed the back of Zhang Deqing's head!

As mentioned earlier, Emperor Qing was relieved that Zhang Deqing was loyal and would always be full of eyeliners in the city gate department, and most of these eyeliners were naturally scattered by the Supervision Bureau. Fan Xian and Yan Bingyun could not touch these nails, but Yan Bingyun was using the will to bet on the blood of these nails at this time. Even if one of them was one, it would be effective!

The sword wind slashed down!

Zhang Deqing had a calm face and never turned around. He raised his sword and whispered a crisp sound. His man was shocked and took a step forward, and the sword of the inspector's secret agent behind him was blocked.

The spear stabbed at the same time, and the spy was stained with blood in an instant, and he died.

However, Yan Bingyun also moved at this moment.

When the cold sweat dripped from his forehead, he was already moving! He gritted his teeth and broke his left wrist from it! He was not an ordinary official or general, but a deputy officer from the Supervision Bureau. He dared to come to the City Gate Office in person, so he was naturally confident.

The Supervision Bureau did not know how thorough the instruments of the city gate jailing people were studied, and finally discovered the problem of this jail. As long as someone could remove the joints of the entire wrist in a short time and endure the pain of severe cracking, he could pull out his wrist.

Yan Bingyun could bear the pain and was willing to take ruthless measures against him, so when Zhang Deqing approached him, he rushed up like a cheetah, holding a shackle in one hand and smashed him hard on Zhang Deqing's head!

A trace of fear flashed in Zhang Deqing's eyes. Perhaps betrayal of His Majesty made him feel unstable, so he did not dare to take on this shackles and retreated in a hurry.

At this time, the personal soldiers behind him stabbed the inspector's secret spy to death, blocking his retreat, so he had to rush to the door of the yatang in a mess, intending to avoid the killing for a while.

Yan Bingyun floated up and chased after him like a cloud. On the way, he flipped his wrist and snatched the sword in Zhang Deqing's hand. A green light flashed and cut off the arm of a school official who wanted to rescue him.

Like a maggot with bones, like a cloud of greedy heaven, Yan Bingyun has not fallen in a single step, and he comes to the gate of the yatang with his body close to Zhang Deqing's body.

Feeling the sinister sword energy behind him, Zhang Deqing was frightened and he never expected that Yan Bingyun would have such a pretty and ruthless sword technique!

Yes, Yan Bingyun is not good at martial arts, but that is compared with the monster Fan Xian. But once a murder breaks out, this most famous spy figure in the history of the Supervision Bureau is not something that Zhang Deqing, who has been guarding the city gate for twenty years, can resist!

The lightning-like pursuit did not give the City Gate's personal soldiers any chance to react. The two had already rushed to the Yatang Gate, and Zhang Dejiang's bloody mouth had appeared. If Yan Bingyun had not intended to control him to control the City Gate Gate, he would have been killed at this time.

At this moment, two sharp energy suddenly rushed straight into Yan Bingyun's body, extremely powerful and extremely abrupt!

Yan Bingyun groaned, closed the sword around his chest, blocked his move, and blood oozed from his mouth and nose. However, the fierce attack finally ended, and Zhang Deqing rolled to the feet of a man in a mess, and the light-colored palace skirt hidden in ordinary clothes could be seen.

His Highness Li Yunrui, who had a calm face, looked at Yan Bingyun with a smile and said, "Let me tell Mr. Xiaoyan that the reason why Deqing rebelled was because... he was originally from this palace."

A trace of unbelievable shock flashed in Yan Bingyun's pupils, and then turned to a decadent look. His left hand was abandoned, and he stood in the yamen hall of the city gate department, standing in front of the brave spy's pool of blood, looking so lonely.
Chapter completed!