The Reborn Lao Tzu Is the Emperor

Chapter 72 Arriving at Xiulin Castle
After two quarters of an hour, Zhao Dongting and the guards still failed to catch up with Sha Wanli.

Sha Wanli was tall and well-trained, with four arrows stuck in his body, and he was hit by the palm, but he never fell off his horse.

While galloping, the archers could no longer hit him with arrows.

In this way, unknowingly, he rushed to the front of a continuous walled city.The houses in the stockade are towering and row upon row.

Zhao Dongting and the others rode their horses to the front of the city wall, but Sha Wanli was nowhere to be seen.At the gate of the village, there were quite a few people holding weapons and torches waiting in battle.

Judging by the posture of these people, they are all Lianjiazi.

Yue Peng shouted immediately: "Did someone break into your village just now?"

Zhao Dongting looked up at the plaque on the walled city, but he was thoughtful.

Xiulin Castle...

How could Savanli come here?
None of the guards answered.

Yue Peng drove his horse forward a few meters, and asked: "The general asked you, did someone break into your stronghold just now?"

A man who looked like a leader replied, "He broke in."

Yue Peng immediately raised his gun and shouted, "Follow me and go in and get someone."

After all, at least rush to the stockade.

But I didn't expect that those city guards would not let me go, and they still blocked the door tightly.

Yue Peng said angrily: "I'll go in and arrest the important criminal, but you dare to stop me?"

"Don't bother the general."

Just at this moment, a hearty laughter came from inside.Then a dozen or so people came out of the walled city.

The leader was a vigorous old man with a strand of white hair in the middle of his forehead.He was holding something in one hand, which turned out to be Sha Wanli.

At this time, Sha Wanli was completely out of breath.

The old man walked out of the gate of the walled city, and threw Sha Wanli's body in front of Yue Peng's horse, "Is he the one the general is looking for?"

Sha Wanli's body rolled several times on the ground, finally facing upwards.The eyes turned out to be staring round.

Yue Peng couldn't help being a little surprised. Although Sha Wanli was injured, but after all, he was very skillful. He was killed in such a short time after breaking into the city?
But at this moment, the people in the walled city had thrown Sha Wanli's body out, so he could only cup his hands and say, "Thank you!"

The old man in charge said: "You are welcome, General. I, Xiulinbao, should serve for the imperial court."

What he said was outrageous.Immediately, he glanced at Zhao Dongting and Li Yuanxiu.

Zhao Dongting looked deeply at the "Xilin Fort" plaque hanging high, and said to Yue Peng: "Bring Sha Wanli's head back, let's go!"

Yue Peng cut off Sha Wanli's head with a gun and held it in his hand. A group of horsemen guarded Zhao Dongting and left quickly.

Along the way, Zhao Dongting kept frowning.

He wondered why Sha Wanli galloped to Xiulin Castle, was it a coincidence?

After walking not far, suddenly there were more than ten people rushing towards the road ahead in the darkness, their running speed was not much slower than that of a horse, their lightness kung fu was amazing.

Yue Peng was shocked and stopped in front of him.

When those people approached and stopped, they turned out to be beggars in ragged clothes.The leader is Hong Wutian.

Zhao Dongting was slightly surprised, and shouted: "Senior Hong, why are you here?"

Hong Wutian suddenly knelt on the ground with one knee, and then said to Zhao Dongting: "The beggars help Hong Wutian, bring the elders of the beggars to kowtow to the Holy One!"

The beggars behind him also knelt down, "Kowtow to the emperor!"

The old beggar who was held hostage by Sha Wanli and injured Sha Wanli unexpectedly was also among them.

Zhao Dongting smelled something unusual, and asked in doubt, "Senior Hong, who are you?"

Hong Wutian stood up and explained with a smile: "I also ask the emperor to forgive me. After I found Sha Wanli, I deliberately asked a few elders to dress up as ordinary beggars and guard him. I was held hostage by him in the mountain temple. It’s just doing it on purpose.”

Zhao Dongting was startled, and suddenly said: "Senior Hong, is this trying to test me?"

Hong Wutian smiled embarrassingly, and then said: "The emperor cares about the common people in the world, and he is willing to let Sha Wanli go for my disciples of the beggar gang. Are you willing to include my Beggar Sect disciples into the army?"

Zhao Dongting was overjoyed and hurriedly asked, "How many disciples does the Beggar Gang have?"

Hong Wutian said: "There are more than ten thousand people in Leizhou who are able to join the army in good health!"

"it is good!"

Zhao Dongting was even more overjoyed, "I specially set up... the God Beggar Army! Tomorrow, I will arrange for the generals to recruit the children of the Beggar Clan into the army!"

The elders of the Beggar Clan beside Hong Wutian were overjoyed when they heard the news.

Ordinary disciples of the Beggar Gang are not like them. Most of them join the Beggar Gang because they are forced by life and displaced.The leader of this trip brought tens of thousands of disciples to Leizhou, survival is already a problem, if he can't join the army, he might be scattered everywhere again.Now that Zhao Dongting personally promised, and set up a special beggar army, the disciples of the beggar sect will finally be able to live comfortably in the future.

Furthermore, saving the country and saving the people has always been the mission of the Beggar Gang.

Hong Wutian also bowed and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty."

After testing Zhao Dongting, he recognized Zhao Dongting, and naturally he was no longer as arrogant as before.

Zhao Dongting asked with a smile: "Then senior Hong and the other elders, did they also join the army?"

Of course he was looking forward to it.Hong Wutian's kung fu is not inferior to Li Yuanxiu's, and if these elders of the Beggar Clan join in, the imperial court will not be so weak in dealing with people in the martial arts in the future.

However, Hong Wutian declined politely, saying: "I'm used to laziness, it's better to stay in the rivers and lakes and lead the disciples to continue resisting the Yuan army."

The rest of the elders also meant the same thing, and no one expressed that they wanted to join the army.

Zhao Dongting had some expectations in his heart, but he didn't feel too disappointed after hearing it.He just had a little hope.

Usually, these people from the rivers and lakes are unwilling to join the imperial court. After all, they don't know how to manage politics, and they are too difficult to lead troops to fight.Otherwise, there would not be so few masters in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Zhao Dongting cupped his hands, "That's fine, senior is righteous."

Hong Wutian also arched his hands freely, "Your Majesty, let's say goodbye to that old man for now."

As he spoke, he smiled and left with all the elders.

Zhao Dongting looked at their unrestrained appearance, and murmured with emotion in his heart, "This is the people in the rivers and lakes..."

For a moment, he felt a little envious of the freedom and freedom of these people in the rivers and lakes.

This night, he had to go out of the mountain to Dongyang, kill thousands of miles of sand, and gain more than ten thousand children from the Beggar Clan. Finally, Zhao Dongting's depression was relieved a lot.

After returning to the palace, he practiced internal skills and intercourse skills, and then fell into a deep sleep.

It had been a long time since he fell asleep so easily.

In the early morning of the next day, before the morning court, he took Li Yuanxiu away from Zhizhou Mansion, and personally went to Xiang Dongyang's house to invite Xiang Dongyang to go to the morning court.

Li Yuanxiu is holding the official uniform with both hands, which is the official uniform of Xuanhe Hall.

When he got to the door of Xiang Dongyang's house, Zhao Dongting knocked on the door himself, saw Xiang Dongyang and said, "Senior, please appoint me as a scholar of Xuanhe Palace to assist in political affairs."

"This……"

Xiang Dongyang looked at Zhao Dongting in shock, then knelt down on the ground, gratefully said: "I thank the emperor for his kindness."

He really did not expect that Zhao Dongting would give him an official position so easily, and he was a Bachelor of Xuanhe Palace.Although a bachelor is not an official with real power, he is the third grade of the "Eight Classics". In the Southern Song Dynasty, only the emperor's favorite ministers could win this honor.

Li Yuanxiu handed the official uniform to Xiang Dongyang with a smile, and said, "Congratulations to Bachelor Xiang."

Zhao Dongting said: "Mr. is talented, but this empty job is naturally a grievance. I will reward you separately when the land distribution system is implemented."

Xiang Dongyang kowtowed again, "Thank you, Your Majesty."

Fortunately, it was dark and early at this time, and there were no pedestrians on the road, otherwise I was afraid that the scene would be kneeling all over the street again.

Zhao Dongting helped Xiang Dongyang up, and after Xiang Dongyang closed the door, he went to the Yizheng Hall in Zhizhou Mansion.

When all the officials arrived, they all showed doubts when they saw Xiang Dongyang, who was wearing the scholar's official robe of Xuanhe Hall.

Zhao Dongting sat on the dragon couch and said, "I would like to introduce a colleague to all my dear friends."

He pointed to Xiang Dongyang, "This is the old Mr. Xiang Dongyang. Mr. Xiang is a great talent. I invite him to go out to assist in political affairs. For the time being, he will take the post of Bachelor of Xuanhe Palace. Although it is a vain position, Bachelor Xiang has the right to discuss state affairs Regarding the affairs of the various ministries and departments of the province, you must not neglect the proposals made by the bachelors."

All the ministers were even more surprised, they didn't know where this old man Xiang Dongyang came from, and he was so trusted by the emperor.

But Zhao Dongting had already said this, and they all had to respond: "I will obey your orders."

Zhao Dongting nodded, looked at Su Quandang, and said: "General Su, more than ten thousand children of the Beggar Clan will enlist in the army in the near future, and I have agreed to set up a special army of beggars and beggars. After you go to set up a recruiting camp for the army of beggars and beggars, you will All the disciples of the Beggar Clan have been registered, and you will be in command of the God Beggar Army for the time being. Everything you need in the army will be provided by Master Liu, Minister of the Military Aircraft Logistics Department."

Su Quandang was overjoyed, and he should be at the same time as Liu Shangshu of the Military Aircraft Logistics Department.

Zhao Dongting looked at Mu Kangxun, the magistrate of Leizhou, and said, "Mu Zhizhou, the murderer Sha Wanli was beheaded last night, you should remove the arrest warrant for Sha Wanli today!"

"This!"

But Mu Kangxun asked in surprise with a bitter face: "Has the thief Sha Wanli been put to death?"

Zhao Dongting wondered, "What's wrong?"

Mu Kangxun stammered: "Yesterday... yesterday evening, some local nobles and gentry gathered in front of the mansion to make trouble. The Empress Dowager suspects that they are related to the assassins at the foot of Wuliang Palace, and has ordered the officials to imprison them all... "

"what?"

Zhao Dongting's face instantly became a little ugly, "How many people are there?"

Mu Kangxun tremblingly replied: "There are dozens of people, all of whom are famous people in Leizhou Mansion."

Zhao Dongting was stunned, suffering from the heart.

Originally thought that according to Xiang Dongyang's method, the land distribution system should be implemented smoothly, but now it seems that there will be more troubles.

Those nobles were arrested and imprisoned, I'm afraid they will complain to the court...

(End of this chapter)