People in the Ming Dynasty are lawless

Chapter 479 The so-called assassin is so funny!

After seeing that the king was bewitched by Xia Yuanji, many ministers felt hatred and anxiety in their hearts, but they did not dare to say it out loud.

Just as Xia Yuanji said, the reason why those pirates dared to bully the surrounding countries was because they were strong, and the reason why their people were bullied was because their national strength was weak.

The pirates took advantage of the situation and killed them without them having any chance to fight back.

It is precisely because of this that they are now trying their best to rely on the Ming Dynasty’s navy.

But once the Ming Navy had stationed in their country, gave them enough confidence, and expelled the pirates, they no longer thought so.

What they thought was that since your Ming Navy has driven away the pirates, you should also leave quickly so that we can take control of the country.

We can even reuse the country's resources in exchange for more benefits. This is our country's internal affairs and has nothing to do with your Ming Dynasty now.

And you have clearly used your influence to control our country of Annan once again. What is the difference between this and pirates?
But what they didn't expect was that this time the king also stood on the side of the Ming Dynasty and gave a very plausible reason.

If the Ming Dynasty had not been protecting Annan, how could Annan be what it is today?

Even because he had been bullied by pirates before and the pirates had brought him great torture, the king hated those pirates very much, and he also hated those ministers who wanted to join forces with those pirates to deal with the Ming Dynasty.

So much so that now, even though they have repeatedly promoted the Ming threat theory, the king does not take it seriously at all.

The king even thought that if he could use the Ming Dynasty to make Annan stronger and stronger, the people would be grateful to him.

He even thought of a very cunning way, which was that he didn't have to do anything, but he could make great contributions to the Kingdom of Annan.

In the future, the people will remember the contributions of the Ming Dynasty and also his contributions.

When he thought of this, he suddenly felt like he had gotten a huge bargain.

So even though those ministers kept telling him how much of a threat the Ming Dynasty posed now, or that if the Ming Dynasty really wanted to attack Annan in the future, we would have no power to fight back, etc., he didn't believe it at all.

Even though these are ministers from his own country, he should have been frightened by them.

He was even annoyed by what these ministers said and simply refused to listen to them.

After coming down from the court, Xia Yuanji told the people around him, "Even though we have become strong enough, we should not take it lightly.

These civil servants will not give up the benefits that are almost within their grasp so easily. The benefits are so huge that they will not let go easily. "

The person next to him was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously asked, "Sir, we have stationed so many troops in Annan, do they still dare to take risks?"

Xia Yuanji waved his hand: "Don't think like that. When the benefits are huge enough, it's normal for them to do anything."

Just as Xia Yuanji had thought, after Xia Yuanji returned to the inn, those civil servants who had been humiliated by him gathered together again.

They planned a very secret and ambitious plan, which was to assassinate Xia Yuanji.

In fact, Xia Yuanji has seen all kinds of scenes over the years following Chen Han's reforms, so what could an assassination do?

When his companion died in front of him, he was already very clear that assassination would accompany him throughout his life.

However, faced with such a plan, not everyone dares to act easily, even though they were humiliated so much by Xia Yuanji's words in the court this time.

And it was made clear secretly that the reason these people stood up to oppose was not for the sake of the court or the people, but for their own interests.

But these people immediately felt that Xia Yuanji had exposed their plans, and even felt very frightened.

They didn't know how much Xia Yuanji knew. If the king believed everything Xia Yuanji said, then they would have no good life.

So these people are prepared to take risks.

But some people hesitated. "Isn't this plan too bold? We can all see how powerful the Ming Dynasty is now. If we assassinate their governor, once they retaliate, others will say that we are going to die, and our families may also be killed. This is a ripple effect, so we still have to plan carefully."

"Plan carefully?" An official stood up and snorted, "Haven't you heard that he is passing through our Annan country and is going to Sanfuqi to be the governor. Do we have time to plan carefully?
If he came to Annan to be the governor, we would have time to plan carefully, but we don't have time, and he won't give us time. Besides, this matter must be dealt with severely. Isn't he going to be the governor of Sanfuqi? Isn't he passing by us? Didn't our king personally welcome him? Well then! Let's kill him and make the king have a bad relationship with the Ming Dynasty. "

Some officials were confused again: "We forced His Majesty to issue laws and let us do all the grain trading, mainly for the sake of profit. If the governor of Ming died in Annan, Ming would retaliate against Annan or even send troops to destroy Annan. Wouldn't we all sink with the ship? What kind of explanation is this?"

The official who came up with the idea chuckled and said, "That's why we say you are all frogs in a well. Do you think the relationship between countries will become tense because of the life and death of one person?

Didn't I hear Xia Yuanji clearly say in the court that the Ming Dynasty is short of food in the north, and they need the countries in Indochina to provide food, so they are working so hard to build bridges and roads for us, so they will not give up this plan because of the life and death of one person, as long as they are still implementing this plan, we have a chance. "

At this point, another official who shared the same aspirations as him stood up and said, "Master Ruan is right. The Ming Dynasty will not cut off grain trade with the countries of Indochina just because a governor died in Annan. Instead, it will order the king to conduct a strict investigation.

By then we can come up with a few scapegoats to cover up the matter. The king has a bad relationship with the Ming Dynasty, and he will be able to see that the Ming Dynasty is just using him. Guarding against the Ming Dynasty will be our national policy that must be implemented.

By then, the king will have no choice but to issue a decree to let us handle the grain trade so that we can better guard against the Ming Dynasty. We are just trying to save Zhao from Wei."

After the explanation, these people finally understood what to do and suddenly felt that this seemed to be a feasible solution.

So they acted separately. First, they bribed the yamen runners in the inn to have them secretly open the door in the middle of the night, so that it would be easier for the assassins they sent out to enter Xia Yuanji's room smoothly.

They even knew exactly which room Xia Yuanji lived in through these yamen runners.

They made a double plan.

The first is to send assassins accurately.

Xia Yuanji’s second move was to burn down the entire inn.

In this way, all evidence can be destroyed, and even after the bodies are burned, even if the Ming Dynasty investigates, they can just use the excuse of a fire.

This group of people planned very well and had strong execution capabilities. On the day of the plan, when Xia Yuanji was going to inspect the Ming Dynasty naval base, they started to act. Although Xia Yuanji went to Sanfuqi to serve as the governor, his status in the entire Ming Dynasty was relatively transcendent, similar to Chen Han.

As pioneers of reform, the two of them completed the reform despite countless oppositions and the pessimism of countless people.

After demonstrating the benefits of reforms in recent years, many people worship them like idols.

Now Xia Yuanji has become the governor of a region at such a young age, which makes many navy officers admire him.

In order to welcome Xia Yuanji, many naval generals and earls and marquises also returned to the base in person to welcome Xia Yuanji.

After Xia Yuanji finished greeting these naval generals and toured the naval base before returning to the inn to rest, the civil servants of Annan began to take action.

After Xia Yuanji returned to the inn, his guards immediately found him and said, "Sir, we found something unusual."

Xia Yuanji smiled and said, "I told you, these people are not simple. Although their brains are not very good, their execution ability is still quite strong."

Hearing Xia Yuanji's ridicule, the guards also laughed: "You are right, sir. These people think they have done it perfectly, but I don't know if they are missing a string in their brains. They bribed the yamen runners of the post station and actually wanted to control us.

But what they don't know is that we had already replaced the yamen runners before we moved in. Didn't their city patrol officers inform us?"

It turned out that before Xia Yuanji moved into the inn, he felt that if he argued with those people in the court and put an end to the civil servants' idea of ​​getting a piece of the pie, he would definitely offend those people.

These civil servants will definitely retaliate, and Xia Yuanji doesn't know what they will do, but personal safety is the most important thing, especially in Guangyi. If someone in Guangyi poisons or burns the inn, it will be easy to do so. If they even cooperate with the officials of the inn to assassinate him, then he must be on guard first.

So as soon as they arrived, they replaced all the yamen runners in the inn with people they brought with them.

So when those civil officials used silver to bribe the yamen runners in Guangyi, the yamen runners in Guangyi were stunned for a moment. They never thought that these people were so stupid. Wasn't this telling them the plan in advance?
After the yamen runner took the money calmly, he informed Xia Yuanji's guards of their plan.

Xia Yuanji's guards did not want to alert the enemy, so it would be best if they could capture all of them alive in the middle of the night.

"Sir, please hide in another room first. We will capture these assassins alive in the middle of the night and bring them directly to their king. Let him know what dirty things these people have done to achieve their goals."

At midnight.

More than thirty assassins, led by the "insider", sneaked into Guangyi and then quietly came to the room where Xia Yuanji was.

Those assassins were quite professional. They first used bamboo tubes to poke open the paper window and blew the sleeping drug inside.

After the drug had taken effect, he took out a dagger, pried open the bolt, and then carefully entered the room where Xia Yuanji was.

After entering, he went straight to Xia Yuanji's bed and stabbed the bed with his knife.

However, after stabbing a few times, they realized something was wrong. After lifting the quilt, they found that there was no living person inside except for a few pillows.

"Oh no! We've been tricked!" the assassin yelled, and just as he was about to escape, he heard screams one after another from outside.

The assassins in the room jumped out of the window from the second floor without thinking.

Falling to the ground, they thought they had escaped, and wanted to use the light of the lanterns to quickly reach the courtyard wall.

However, they were startled by a few bangs in the dark night. They were the sounds of muskets firing.

A deep voice came from the darkness, "I don't believe you can run faster than a musket. If you don't want to die, kneel on the ground and surrender."

There was an assassin who didn't want to accept his fate, and with a whoosh, he shot out a hidden arrow.

However, in the darkness, someone suddenly raised his hand and fired a shot.

The assassin who had just fired the hidden arrow was shot in the middle of his eyebrows and fell straight down.

The remaining seven assassins dared not move anymore. They threw their weapons to the ground and shouted, "Everyone, we surrender. We surrender. Don't shoot. Don't shoot."

After they shouted, lanterns were lit in the darkness, and then the assassins made a desperate discovery.

It turned out that there were as many as fifty people surrounding them. They had long anticipated that they might fall down from the second floor, so they set up an ambush early.

Then guards came from other places and carried out the remaining assassins who were not dead.

This time, the Ming army won a complete victory with no casualties, killing eleven assassins and capturing nineteen alive.

After being captured, the nineteen assassins knelt on the ground with their heads pressed down.

Xia Yuanji walked out from the crowd.

The leader of the guards stepped forward and said, "Sir, the dead are on the left, and the living are on the right. Do you want to interrogate them?"

Xia Yuanji smiled, "I'm a little tired today, so I'm going to sleep first. You guys can interrogate me overnight and get all the confessions. I'll need them."

After saying that, he leisurely went upstairs to rest.

As for the guards, they began to interrogate the nineteen assassins.

It was called an interrogation, but in fact it was just a beating.

There are sixty guards in total, and all of them are masters. Not to mention that they are holding elite firearms, even if they are bare-handed, how can these monkey-like assassins be their opponents?

The guards ate it as a midnight snack to help digest the food, and they beat the assassins so badly that their faces were bruised and their bones were almost broken.

The assassin was not a tough guy. After being caught and beaten, he immediately confessed everything...

(End of this chapter)