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Chapter 339 Dead People Can't Talk

Hearing Xu Lin's words, everyone was stunned for a while, and then they showed a bit of understanding. Obviously, they had a different understanding of life and death in Xu Lin's order.

"Good regards, my lord!"

"What your lord said is true. The Chen family is cruel. Once discovered, life and death are irrelevant!"

Hearing the compliments from the crowd around him, Xu Lin stroked his beard and waved his hands, "Hurry up and send an order. We shall cooperate with the Jin Yiwei to capture the remnants of the Chen family. We will not allow a member of the Chen family to leave Yangzhou City alive."

Seeming to be a little worried, Xu Lin specifically warned: "Tell Xu Tongpan, you must get rid of the evil and don't let anyone get away, otherwise I will be ashamed of the countless people in Yangzhou who have been persecuted by the Chen family!"

Everyone bowed to Xu Lin and said: "Your Excellency is dedicated to the people, I am ashamed, Xu Tong will definitely not let you down."

The atmosphere suddenly became much more relaxed. After giving these orders, Xu Lin went back to the hall and took a seat. At this moment, the co-presbyterian Jia Yuan coughed lightly and glanced at the outside of the government office: "My lord, the Jinyiwei from the capital Qianhu is coming to visit your lord, shall we go..."

At this time, some officials had already cleaned up the hall and changed the tea for everyone, but Xu Lin took a sip of tea, glanced at Jia Yuan with a light smile and said with a light smile: "It's just a thousand households of Jinyiwei, why should I bother myself?" Welcome, I have lost my identity for nothing!"

As he glanced at him, Xu Lin turned to Tang Wei, who was sitting in the hall, and said, "Tang Jing, I'll let you go and meet that thousand household official on my behalf."

Everyone has no objection to Xu Lin's arrangement. After all, Xu Lin is also a civil servant of the fourth rank, and can be regarded as an upper-middle-level official in the civil official group.

However, one of Lin Ping's Jie Jinyiwei Qianhu is only a fifth rank, and there is a difference of two ranks between the two. What's more, Lin Pingzhi's Jinyiwei Qianhu is a military officer. If Xu Lin, a civil servant of the fourth rank, went to meet the fifth If he is a high-quality military officer, I am afraid that Xu Lin will be ashamed by the civil official group afterwards.

Yangzhou is a prosperous place, and the streets are naturally very spacious. There are many large and small shops on both sides, and the prosperity of business can be seen from the people coming and going.

Riding on the horse, Lin Pingzhi looked down at the bustling scene around him, and couldn't help recalling what Li Huan had said to him.

Li Huan once said that the flourishing commerce in the south of the Yangtze River is a great thing, but there is no benefit for Yuguo.

Song Ting, which used to occupy half of the country, relied on its prosperous business to collect astronomical taxes to support the national fortune of the Song Dynasty for hundreds of years.

The tax of tens of millions of dollars every year made Da Song rely on his huge wealth to raise such disadvantages as redundant officials and soldiers.

However, the commercial tax collected by the Ming Dynasty from the south of the Yangtze River is only tens of thousands of taels a year. If people in the former Song Dynasty knew about this, they would be stunned.

Walking all the way, Lin Pingzhi murmured softly: "Brother Huan is right at all. If the imperial court can really raise the business tax, this Yangzhou prefecture alone will charge tens of thousands of taels every year." many."

On the long street, many people saw Lin Pingzhi and his group approaching from a distance, and immediately dodged to the sides like snakes and scorpions.

It is true that Lin Pingzhi and his group came here with a bloody evil spirit all over their bodies, and not long ago, they fought with the members of the Chen family in the Chen mansion, and many of them had blood stains on their bodies. In his eyes, he was naturally taken aback and avoided it.

Ignoring these, Lin Pingzhi turned his eyes to Zhu Chang and said, "Zhu Qianhu, how far is it from the magistrate's yamen?"

Zhu Chang had already tidied up a lot at this time, with one arm wrapped in a cloth bandage across his chest, he hurriedly said, "Go back to your lord, you can see the magistrate's office just one block ahead."

Lin Pingzhi nodded slightly.

However, at this moment, an angry voice suddenly came from the front: "Officer dog, take your life!"

Accompanied by that roar, sparse arrows shot out from the surrounding shops, and figures with knives and guns came towards the Jin Yiwei guards.

"Protect adults!"

Mao Qing, the official of Hundred Households, shouted loudly, and drew his sword to protect Lin Pingzhi. At the same time, some Jinyi guards were guarding around Lin Pingzhi, while the other part jumped out to meet the invading enemy. .

Lin Pingzhi drew his sword and slashed a few arrows aimed at him. With a glance, he saw more than a hundred strong and strong men rushing out from all around, led by a man in armor.

When the arrow pierced through the air, Lin Pingzhi was still quite worried. After all, he fought against the dead soldiers raised by the Chen family in the Chen residence, and Jin Yiwei died under the crossbow arrows of the Chen family. There are dozens of people.

If the opponent had shot with a strong crossbow, Jin Yiwei would have suffered heavy casualties this time.

But looking at the sparseness of the arrows, it is obvious that even with the methods and abilities of the Chen family, it is impossible to produce too many military weapons such as the crossbow at once.

In other words, it is impossible for the Chen family to hide so many crossbows and armors in Yangzhou City. Being able to take out so many crossbows and armors at one time before has already emptied all the possessions of the Chen family.

Because of this, when Chen Yuan led people to attack Lin Pingzhi and others this time, he could only use ordinary bows and arrows to attack. Compared with the strong crossbow, almost everyone can use it. Bows and arrows seem ordinary, but they have extremely high requirements for archery skills. , the result was that the arrows shot were sparse, and only a few guards in Jinyi were unable to dodge the arrows and fell to the ground.

Chen Yuan rushed to the front, staring at Lin Pingzhi who was riding on the horse, showing his murderous intentions, he swung his saber, and directly cut off a Jin Yiwei standing in front of him.

"Lin Pingzhi, come here and die!"

Under the impact of Chen Yuan and others, the dozen or so Jinyiwei who survived from the Yangzhou Jinyiwei Qianhu who had led the way were killed and injured almost in the blink of an eye.

Nearly a hundred desperadoes surrounded the emperor's personal army Jinyiwei on the long street in broad daylight and in a bright and bright environment.

Almost at the moment when Chen Yuan led his people out, the crowd on the long street disappeared, leaving only a mess.

I don't know how many people and merchants are hiding in the shops on both sides of the street, looking out through the gaps in the closed doors and windows in fear and excitement.

For many years, they have never seen such a scene from birth to now.

As the most prominent patriarch of the Chen clan in Yangzhou City, Chen Yuan was recognized by countless people as soon as he appeared. After all, Chen Yuan often appeared in front of the common people, doing such things as building bridges and paving roads, and publicizing the reputation of the Chen clan.

The name of the Chen family can be said to be well known to women and children in Yangzhou Prefecture. Now seeing Chen Yuan leading a group of ferocious desperadoes to attack and kill the emperor's personal army Jinyiwei who represents the emperor, such a terrifying scene is even in a dream. They never thought about it.

In an antique tea shop, several scholars in green shirts were lying on the closed door and looking out through the crack of the door.

A young scholar holding a folding fan opened his eyes wide, looking at the two sides fighting together more than ten meters away, blood and stumps flew all over the place, the scene was extremely bloody.

With a sound of wow, the scholar finally couldn't bear it anymore, lay there and vomited.

The scholar's vomiting was like a start, but all the scholars who saw the bloody scene outside couldn't help vomiting.

For a while, the tea shop was filled with a sour smell, but everyone couldn't care less about it. The screams and shouts of killing on the long street just across the door were too shocking.

A pale-faced scholar said tremblingly: "Then... is that really the head of the Chen family? He, he dared to attack Jin Yiwei, this... this is to punish the nine clans, is he crazy?"

In the hearts of these traditional scholars, no matter how much they look down on Jin Yiwei in their hearts on weekdays, and even regard him as the eagle dog of the emperor, they also know that Jin Yiwei represents the emperor.

Now that Chen Yuan actually led people to attack and kill Jin Yiwei, they were deeply shocked and at the same time realized that Chen Yuan's actions were outrageous and he wanted to exterminate the nine clans.

Yamen of the Prefect of Yangzhou Prefecture

After hearing the news that Jin Yiwei was going to visit, Xu Lin and other officials made preparations, and even thought about how to deal with Lin Pingzhi and others when they arrived.

I just waited and waited but no one came. Finally, my fellow acquaintance, Jia Yuan, couldn't help but stood up and shouted to the outside of the hall: "Come on, hurry up and take a look. What's going on with the Jinyiwei people? Haven't arrived yet, don't you know that the adults have official duties, so it's impossible to wait here for them all the time?"

Xu Lin smiled lightly and said, "Maybe it's delayed because of something, Jia Tongzhi don't worry, let's just wait."

Jia Yuan said as if apologizing for Xu Lin's grievances: "The lower official just thinks that Lin Pingzhi is a little too crazy to ask me to wait here for him for so long."

As soon as Jia Yuan's words came out, some officials in the hall couldn't help showing a look of displeasure.

After all, in their view, Lin Pingzhi is just a military officer, and his rank is not even higher than most of them. Now that so many of them are waiting for him here, they have to wait so long.

While he was talking, he heard a rush of footsteps outside, it was the servant Lu Wu.

With a look of horror on Lu Wuyi's face, he staggered and rushed into the hall and said, "My lord, it's a disaster."

Everyone was stunned by Lu Wu's words. Even Xu Lin, the magistrate who was joking with Jia Yuan just now, couldn't help frowning and staring at Lu Wu: "What's going on?"

Lu Wu hurriedly said: "My lord, Chen Yuan, Chen Yuan led a group of desperadoes to attack and kill Jin Yiwei on the long street, and now the two sides are fighting on Changning Street..."

With a grunt, many people couldn't help swallowing saliva when they heard such news. Even if they knew that the Chen family was fighting against the Jinyiwei and even killed many Jinyiwei, they didn't expect that Chen Yuan, the son of the Chen family, would The patriarch is actually so crazy.

In broad daylight, on the Long Street of Yangzhou Mansion, openly attacking and killing Jinyiwei in front of countless Yangzhou people.

"Crazy, are all the members of the Chen family crazy!"

An official couldn't help but said.

In the eyes of these people, the members of the Chen family are really a bunch of lunatics. Such an act of openly attacking and killing Jin Yiwei has never been heard of since the founding of the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years.

Some people may have done it, but they did it quietly, and then blamed it on some bandits and bandits, but like the Chen family, they attacked Jinyiwei in public, which is really the first time since the founding of the Ming Dynasty. once.

Xu Lin, Jia Yuan and the others could even imagine that what happened today will surely spread throughout the world, and the court will definitely be shaken by it.

Not to mention how the Son of Heaven reacted, even those important ministers above the court would be furious. If the Chen clan were not completely wiped out, it would be difficult to appease the anger of the princes of the court.

This is no longer just about the killing of Jin Yiwei, but it is related to the face and dignity of the imperial court. If the imperial court is going to kill chickens and monkeys in a thunderous manner, who knows if anyone will follow Chen's example in the future.

If such incidents happen so often, the prestige of the imperial court will inevitably be lost. This is absolutely not allowed to happen in the imperial court.

Jia Yuan looked at Xu Lin solemnly and said, "My lord, this matter is very important, what should we do?"

There was a flash of light in Xu Lin's eyes, and he glanced at everyone and said with a sneer, "Wouldn't it be better for Jin Yiwei to fight with the Chen family, just let them bite the dog."

Everyone couldn't help being stunned for a moment when they heard the words, and then they realized that a smile appeared on their worried faces.

Yes, just like what Xu Lin said, this calamity was caused by Jin Yiwei. Under the fury of the imperial court, Jin Yiwei should be the first to be unlucky. At that time, Li Huan, who is the commander of Jin Yiwei, must give to the court. Gong Zhugong made an explanation.

Thinking of this, everyone couldn't help looking at Xu Lin, and Jia Yuan even said, "Then, in my lord's opinion, what should I do right?"

Xu Lin stroked his beard and said with a smile: "This matter is simple, let them both go desperately first, and let's mobilize our troops to find opportunities to make a move."

Squinting his eyes, Jia Yuan seemed to understand the meaning of Xu Lin's words and said: "My lord means that we sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight, and reap the benefits of the fisherman. It would be great if Jin Yiwei killed Chen Yuan and others. However, if the members of Jin Yiwei are killed by Chen Yuan and those lunatics, we will take the opportunity to kill Chen Yuan and others in one fell swoop."

Xu Lin glanced at Jia Yuan with satisfaction, nodded slightly and at the same time cupped his hands in the direction of the capital, and said with a respectful look: "I have killed the rebels for the imperial court. Everything is pushed to Jin Yiwei's head."

Thinking that if what Xu Lin said is true, one of the Jinyiwei or the Chen family must be dead or injured, then they can calmly come out and clean up everything. At that time, no matter how much the emperor favors the Jinyiwei, he has to admit that they belong to the Yangzhou government. credit.

"Hahaha, my lord is far-sighted, and the lower officials are far inferior!"

Here, the Yangzhou government government is playing with its own wishful thinking, while on Changning Street, Chen Yuan, relying on the large number of people, forcibly suppressed dozens of people from Jinyiwei at the corner of the street.

The two sides fought for a cup of tea, but dozens of people fell down. In comparison, Jin Yiwei's casualties were no less than those of the desperadoes brought by Chen Yuan.

Fortunately, most of the people who died in Jinyiwei were Zhu Chang's men. As for the Jinyiwei brought by Lin Pingzhi from the capital, although there were casualties, the number was not too many, and it was still within the acceptable range.

But at this moment, Mao Qing, who was covered in blood, was following Lin Pingzhi and said to Lin Pingzhi: "My lord, the thief is very powerful, why don't you go first..."

Although there is no shortage of support for the time being, Mao Qing is still worried about Lin Pingzhi's safety. If something goes wrong, even if they are not questioned by Li Huan, they will have no future to speak of.

Hearing the words, Lin Pingzhi shook his head at Mao Qing, and looked around, as if to make sure if there were any remnants of the Chen family.

Immediately, Lin Pingzhi took out a flare from his bosom, and there was a "swoosh" and an explosion in the air. Even in the clear sky and broad daylight, the flare that exploded from the sky could be clearly seen within a radius of several miles.

At the same time, in Yangzhou City, a group of Jinyi Guards' eyes lit up when they saw the signal flare. The leader was none other than Chen Yao, who was going to transfer the salt envoy Si Yamen to the Lianghuai capital.

After Chen Yao took the man, he led them into Yangzhou City quietly, and got in touch with Lin Pingzhi.

According to Lin Pingzhi's calculation, Chen Yao's team quietly hid in case of accidents, and waited for the signal from Lin Pingzhi at any time.

Seeing the signal, Chen Yao immediately laughed and said, "Brothers, Lin Qianhu is in trouble, follow me to help."

In the blink of an eye, more than a hundred Jin Yiwei got on their horses and rushed out from their hiding places.

The sound of horseshoes was like thunder, and the distance of several miles was less than half a cup of tea under the mad back of the war horse.

Lin Pingzhi's sudden action naturally made everyone stunned. Mao Qing seemed to have thought of something, his eyes lit up and he couldn't help but said to Lin Pingzhi in surprise: "My lord, could it be that Chen Qianhu and the others have already returned?" ?”

Lin Ping slashed a big man flying towards him, and said with a smile: "Chen Yao will bring people to kill him at the most with a cup of tea."

On the contrary, Chen Yuan had a bad feeling in his heart when he saw the fireworks exploding in the air.

However, looking at Lin Pingzhi and others who were forced into a corner by them, and looking at his own son whose arm was cut off and who was wearing shackles, Chen Yuan couldn't help shouting at the subordinates beside him. : "Kill me, whoever kills one person will be rewarded with a hundred taels of silver, and a Yangzhou skinny horse!"

The Chen family has money, and some are stunning beauties, and for these desperadoes, money and beauty are the biggest temptations.

As for what would happen to them if they followed Chen Yuan in killing officials like this, to be honest, these people really didn't think about it.

And it's not like they haven't done things like killing officials.He even slaughtered all the officials and blamed them on bandits, and in the end nothing happened.

In the eyes of these people, there is nothing the Chen family can't do because the Chen family's means are so powerful. Therefore, under Chen Yuan's reward, the morale that had fallen due to the death and injury of his companions suddenly skyrocketed, and each of them seemed to be beaten with chicken blood. , unexpectedly forced Jin Yiwei into danger.

Chen Yuan slashed at Lin Pingzhi with a big knife in his hand, Lin Pingzhi met him without fear, the two had already fought several times, although Chen Yuan was said to be slightly inferior to Lin Pingzhi in strength, but Chen Yuan was fully armored, relying on Armor and Lin Pingzhi were evenly matched.

Time passed quickly, on the long street in the distance, a group of troops could be vaguely seen approaching at the corner, but it was still some distance away from where Lin Pingzhi and the others were. The horse, just looking at its actions, obviously didn't intend to rush over to join the battle immediately.

But at this moment, the ground was shaking slightly, and the sound of a horse neighing could be vaguely heard.

Suddenly, a group of Jinyiwei galloped out of the corner, and the leader was Jinyiwei Qianhu Chen Yao.

From a distance, Chen Yao saw Jin Yiwei, who was suppressed by a group of people and struggling to support himself in a corner, and couldn't help roaring angrily, "Brothers, follow me to kill."

Jinyiwei Tiqi rode extremely fast. These are all the elite Jinyiwei who followed Lin Pingzhi and Chen Yao from the capital. Seeing that his family was besieged by a group of local desperadoes and private salt dealers, he suddenly became furious .

As the distance got closer and closer, before Chen Yuan and the others could react, they saw strong crossbows shooting out one by one.

Suddenly there was a shrill scream, and after a wave of crossbow arrows, most of the seventy or eighty fierce people fell down.

The strong crossbow is indeed a sharp weapon in the army. After shooting, many people even had more than one arrow stuck in their bodies. Some died directly on the spot, while others screamed while holding their wounds.

Following Chen Yao and more than a hundred Jin Yiwei's attack, in the blink of an eye, the remaining dozens of thieves were killed, leaving only Chen Yuan and a few core members of the Chen family gathered around Chen Yuan.

A crossbow arrow was aimed at Chen Yuan and the others, and just as Chen Yao was about to order to kill Chen Yuan and the others, Lin Pingzhi said, "Brother Chen wait a moment, this person is Chen Yuan, the head of the Chen family, be sure to kill him." Capture alive."

Chen Yao was taken aback when he heard the words, then his eyes lit up, he laughed loudly and said, "Okay, brother Lin, wait a moment, see brother, I will help you take this Chen Yuan."

Chen Yuan sneered, even though he was in a desperate situation, he said to Chen Yao without a trace of fear: "Your grandfather is here, come and take my life if you have the ability."

Seeing this, Chen Yao waved his knife and wanted to step forward, but he shouted: "Shoot!"

The next moment, several crossbow arrows pierced the air and shot at Chen Yuan. In an instant, Chen Yao's limbs were hit by arrows, and the four arrows accurately hit Chen Yuan's wrist and ankle. There was severe pain, and Chen Yuan fell to the ground involuntarily. .

At the same time, several core members of the Chen family were also shot in the vitals, screaming and being surrounded by Jin Yiwei and captured them alive.

Seeing Chen Yao and others appearing in the distance, the government soldiers and horses who rushed over suddenly rushed to see Chen Yuan and other core members of the Chen family being captured alive by Jin Yiwei.

Surrounded by a group of soldiers and horses, several sedan chairs landed, and it was Xu Lin, the magistrate of Yangzhou, who walked out first.

Jia Yuan, Xu Wei and other officials followed Xu Lin and watched from a distance the blood-stained Chen Yuan who was still yelling at him. They couldn't help but look very gloomy with his lively and energetic appearance.

"Damn it, people like Chen Yuan were captured alive by Jin Yiwei!"

Originally, in their calculations, no matter what, Chen Yuan and the others would only become dead people and could no longer speak, so they could feel completely at ease.

But they didn't count that Lin Pingzhi actually had Chen Yao as a dark hand, and their calculations went awry, so that Chen Yuan and others fell into the hands of Jin Yiwei alive.

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