The legend of the king of crossing

Chapter 271 The Whereabouts of the Wu Family

Since the Jiujiu Chongyang Conference, more than a month of continuous military rectification has given me the feeling of the eve of the Great War. According to the progress of history, there are still nearly two years before the Battle of Xiangyang will break out, but I have already smelled the smoke the taste of.

After Lan Yu and Shen Mo left, I seemed to have a feeling that I couldn't wait. I hoped that October 28 would come earlier, so that Xia Gui's action to recover the south bank of the Huaihe River would become the beginning of the Song-Meng war.

The invincible Mongolian iron cavalry in history, you just wait, the guns of my Song Dynasty will surely make the descendants of Genghis Khan surrender willingly. Thinking about it, I stood up involuntarily. Time appeared on me again, and all the Buddhas in the world have surrendered under my feet. I am the guardian of the Huaxia clan, the inheritor who continues the prosperity of China, and the true emperor through the ages.

"Sword of the Son of Heaven," Yuan Ji thought suddenly when he saw me stand up.

"Minister Lu Xiufu,"

"Minister Zhao Shunsun,"

"See Your Majesty," the two saluted in unison.

"Well, two lovers, sit down,"

"Yes, Your Majesty," Lu and Zhao saluted Yuan Ji after sitting down, "I have met Mr. Yuan."

Yuan Ji returned the courtesy and said, "You two are very polite."

"Zhao Aiqing, how is Song Rui doing?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, the restructuring of Fujian Province is nearing completion, and the restructuring of Jiangxi Province is still in progress. Mr. Song can return to Lin'an before the end of the month."

"Well, Song Rui and the others have been going to Fujian and Jiangxi provinces for more than a month. During this time, Zhao Aiqing has worked hard,"

"Your Majesty, I don't have to work hard,"

"Hehe, Aiqing's words are insincere." I smiled and said to Lu Xiufu, "By the way, Junshi, you ask the Longya Intelligence Department to check the details about Jiang Yundi, a doctor from the Ministry of Industry."

Lu Xiufu asked, "Master Jiang's nephew, Jiang Yundi,"

"Exactly, Chen Yizhong, the censor after today's court meeting, told me secretly that Jiang Yundi had committed corruption in the construction of the new site of Lin'an University, and the amount of money was quite large. I have notified the Ministry of Criminal Affairs and Dali Temple for a secret investigation, and the investigation by the Longya Intelligence Department also It needs to be carried out at the same time. If this is really a big case, I will use it as a model, publicize it, and kill chickens and monkeys,"

"Yes, I obey the order," Lu Xiufu thought for a while and then asked, "I don't know if Jiang Shangshu will be involved."

"I believe in Jiang Wanli. Of course, if this matter involves Jiang Wanli, I will still deal with it according to the law,"

Lu Xiufu froze for a moment and said, "Yes, Your Majesty,"

"Zhao Aiqing,"

"The minister is here,"

"I plan to set up an audit department under the Government Affairs Council. For the large-scale projects of our dynasty and the large expenditures of the central government and local ministries and governments, we will be subject to regular audits by the audit department in the future. After Song Rui returns, you will add up. ,"

"Yes, Your Majesty," Zhao Shunsun said respectfully, "The Department of Justice has been relocated and will officially open at the end of this month."

"Well, the functions of the Government Affairs Council will be improved step by step. In the future, it will replace the Zhongshu Ministry as the government affairs center of our dynasty, but the Department of Justice will become independent in the future. That is to say, the legislative power belongs to the Department of Justice and the executive power That is to say, the power of law enforcement belongs to the Government Council, while the power of supervision is handed over to the Office of the Supervisory Office. The three major agencies exercise their powers independently and check and balance each other to avoid the excessive concentration of power and the abuse of power."

The separation of powers I want to implement is of course not to divide the power of my emperor, but the separation of powers under the leadership of the imperial power, which is fundamentally different from the three powers system of later generations.

Zhao Shunsun said: "Your Majesty is wise."

I don't know if Lu and Zhao understand the principle of the separation of powers, and they didn't explain further: "Junshi, follow me to Shifeng Commercial Firm tomorrow afternoon, there is an applicant who is too late to come to the general recruitment office and needs you to interview, "

Lu Xiufu didn't know where I found the applicant, so he didn't ask any more questions, and replied: "Yes, Your Majesty."

I took a sip of hot tea and turned to Yuan Ji and said, "Sir, what's going on with Jia Sidao recently?"

Yuan Ji said: "Your Majesty, Jia Sidao basically stays in the mansion except for going on the worm boat at night. According to the insider in Jia's mansion, Jia Sidao has started to study crickets again recently."

"Cricket fighting, that's his forte,"

"Your Majesty," Yuan Ji continued, "the Wu family of the three great martial arts families already have clues."

"Really?" I didn't understand for a while, I was asking Jia Sidao, but Yuan Ji suddenly mentioned the martial arts family.

"The Wu family in Changsha is likely to be related to Jia Sidao,"

"Ah," I said in surprise.

"Your Majesty, according to the information I have learned, this situation is very likely. Your Majesty, the Ouyang family in central Sichuan, the Wu family in Changsha and the Lin family in Fujian have been called the three major martial arts families for a hundred years. It is all because of these three families. Each has its own core strength. The Fujian Lin family that His Majesty is familiar with is because there are three elders with strong martial arts in the family. The core strength of the Ouyang family is five deacons including the head of the family. The four swords are at its core,"

I nodded and said, "Mr. Zhen has mentioned this, but what does it have to do with Jia Sidao?"

"Your Majesty, since I left the Valley of the Kings, I have been very interested in the situation in Wulin. The previous Patriarch of the Wu family was named Wu Xianfeng. The Mongolian soldiers who invaded Changsha later joined the army and became Marshal Meng Gong’s personal bodyguard in the name of Wu Hong.”

"Wu Hong, it's him," Lu Xiufu said in surprise.

"Well, Mr. Lu also knows about him,"

"Sir, Mr. Lu once heard Mr. Li mention this person,"

Yuan Ji continued: "That's right, Meng Shuai's core team all know that the head of the guard is named Wu Hong, but the only ones in the army who know Wu Xianfeng's identity are Marshal Meng Gong and Jia Sidao. Acting in a low-key manner, other people only know that he is Meng Shuai's bodyguard. Moreover, Wu Xianfeng made a great contribution at that time. Fan Yongji from the Henan Province of Mongolia secretly asked the court to surrender, so there must be such a thing."

"Well, there was such a thing, but it didn't work out in the end,"

In 1246, Fan Yongji, who was the military and political chief of the Henan region of Mongolia, expressed his intention to surrender to the court through Meng Shuai. Do not obey." The court's explanation is that this person is loyal and traitorous, and he is duplicitous, fearing fraud, so he is unwilling to surrender and accept rebellion. However, Song Lizong's imperial pen explained this in detail. Song Lizong committed a common suspicion of emperors. Fearing that Fan Yongji's surrender would increase the power of Meng Gong, who already had more than half of the imperial army, he became suspicious, so he agreed with the imperial court's reason that "rebellion is not common" and rejected Fan Yongji's request. Meng Gong was disheartened and fell ill, and died in September of the same year.

"Your Majesty, it was precisely because Wu Xianfeng went north alone and persuaded Fan Yongji. Although the matter failed, Wu Xianfeng made a great contribution, but only Meng Shuai in the army knew about it."

"Well, if Fan Yongji could be obtained at that time, it would undoubtedly be much easier to enter the Central Plains,"

My casual sentence is tantamount to negating Song Lizong's attitude towards this matter.

"Your Majesty, this Wu Xianfeng has a bad habit, that is, drinking heavily. After drinking, he beat the supervisor who disrespected Meng Shuai. When Meng Shuai was sick, the supervisor took the opportunity to attack Wu Xianfeng, but Jia It was like Dao who tried his best to save him, so he was able to escape."

"This Jia Sidao has also done a good thing."

"Yes, Your Majesty," Yuan Ji continued, "shortly after Meng Shuaixian left, Wu Xianfeng also died of illness due to depression and excessive drinking. When Wu Xianfeng was dying, only Jia Sidao and the next head of the Wu family were present. Since then, The Four Swords of the next generation of the Wu family never appeared again, and as the Four Swords of the older generation passed away one after another, the Wu family gradually faded out of the field of vision of martial arts people."

"In other words, Jia Sidao is the last person the new Patriarch of the Wu family has seen,"

"Judging from the information currently available, it should be,"

"If it is said that the Wu family lives in seclusion in Jia Sidao's place, it can also explain the phenomenon that the Wu family has been unknown for more than ten years,"

"Your Majesty, there is a possibility that the Wu family may have become Jia Sidao's secret guards in order to repay Jia Sidao's kindness to his old Patriarch,"

I nodded and said: "Jia Sidao's good deeds in the past, in exchange for the Wu family's followers, are worth the money."

"Your Majesty, with the death of Meng Shuai, the current situation in our dynasty is not as good as before, and the society is in turmoil, especially Kublai Khan's Southern Expedition five or six years ago. I am afraid that my life in the court will be even more difficult in the past few years. With the current situation, the attention of the martial arts people to the aristocratic family is getting weaker and weaker. It is low-key, and its mystery is no less than that of the Tiandao League. Jia Sidao has been in power these years, so it is very possible for the Wu family to live in seclusion in Jia Sidao's place. However, there is no definite confirmation yet. evidence,"

Lu Xiufu said: "Sir, then let Longya go to the inside line of Jia's house to check?"

Yuan Ji shook his head and said, "No need, my Longya's inside information is not enough to detect the core information of Jia's mansion, besides, the Wu family's four-sword martial arts are very strong, if you don't pay attention, you will show traces."

I also agreed: "Sir, you are right. Even though the Wu family has been in the Jia residence, they have never heard of any bad things. Judging from the chivalry of the old Patriarch of the Wu family, the Wu family is not a villainous person. I guess, The Wu family walked together with Jia Sidao just to repay their kindness. Moreover, Jia Sidao is very different from when he was Marshal Meng Gong. The Wu family may not approve of Jia Sidao now, just because his hometown What the Lord said at the end of his life, so it has always been,"

"Yes, Your Majesty is wise,"

I smiled: "I'm just guessing, sir, Ye Dongsheng and Yao Chaohui have been going south to Guangnan Road for quite a while, is there any news?"