Late Tang

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It was dawn, and before the door-opening drum of Penglai City sounded, a group of panic-stricken people had already appeared outside the urn at the east gate.The leading one with white hair and a cane is the head of Du Village in Beiguan Village. Their village is in the southeast of the city.Early in the morning, the two young men got up early to go to the port to carry the work, but they found a tragic scene on the way.On Hama Slope, solidified black blood was everywhere, and on the side of the road, dozens of heads were piled up to form a Jingguan.On the other side, it can be seen that dozens of headless corpses that were originally piled up in a pile were scattered all over the place dragged and chewed by wild animals.When they found out, there were more than a dozen wild dogs having a feast of eating corpses there. When they saw them, they just looked up at them and then continued. They found that the eyes of those wild dogs were all red up.

The scalps of the two young adults were numb, and they almost fainted from fright.Stumbling all the way back to the village, he called the old village chief and other strong men in the village.Everyone couldn't help vomiting after hearing this tragic scene.In the end, everyone didn't dare to delay, and rushed directly to Penglai City to report.When the sergeant guarding the gate heard the old village chief's description of the victim's appearance, more than 20 people, two carriages and other information, he quickly thought of Uncle Feng Shi, who left the city after the city gate was closed last night.Thinking that Chang Shi might fall to his death outside the city last night, the man's face turned pale, and he hurriedly led several villagers to report to Han Zhong, the old prison envoy of Zhizhou soldiers in the city.

Han Zhong was the town general of a thousand state soldiers stationed in Penglai City, Dengzhou, and also served as the prison city envoy for the defense of Penglai City.As soon as he heard that such a big thing happened, he didn't dare to make decisions alone, and quickly sent his own soldiers to report to Cui Jieshi, Song Du Yuhou, Bie Jia and others.

Hearing the news, every official in Penglai City who received the news did not dare to be careless, and quickly gathered in the Governor's Mansion.Soon Han Zhong dispatched 300 troops to escort Cui Yunqing, Li Rui, Song Wen and other officials to Hamapo.Looking at the pile of heads piled up in Jingguan, and the messy, headless corpses torn apart by wild beasts, more than half of the people, including Cui Yunqing and other officials, vomited on the spot.

Among the crowd, only Song Wen and Han Zhong were generals who had been on the battlefield. At this time, their faces were frosty, but they still maintained the appearance of officers.Song Wen even stepped forward in person, commanding a dozen soldiers to remove the pile of heads one by one to identify them one by one.

After looking at seven or eight heads, Song Wen finally saw a familiar face. It was the face of Feng Yanqing who died with regret.

"Cui Shijun, Li Biejia, you all come over to identify and see if this is Feng Changshi." Song Wen asked Cui and Li, holding Feng Yanqing's head.The two of them only took one look, and they immediately recognized the head. Although it was a bit scary after a night, it was indeed Feng Yanqing's. "It's him." Song Wen asked again: "Are you sure?" "Yes, this is indeed Feng Changshi." Song Wen said: "It's good if you can confirm it. Come here, find Feng Changshi's body immediately, and put it in a good funeral Get up. In addition, the heads of other people will be identified immediately, and then their bodies will be collected and buried."

Soon Feng Liang's head was also recognized, and the rest were basically confirmed to be the two coachmen and twenty Goguryeo warrior guards who accompanied Feng Yanqing out of the city last night.

After the identity of the corpse was confirmed, the expressions on everyone's faces became more and more serious.Feng Yanqing is the long history of Dengzhou, as the official of the state, a scarlet robe official from the fifth rank, was killed outside the city of Dengzhou and then dumped in the wilderness, and even his head was chopped off up.Not only that, all the valuables were taken from the unseemly corpses that were eaten by wolves and wild dogs successively, money, weapons, and even clothes were taken away, and everyone left only a pair of shorts.

"Can you know who did it?" Cui Yunqing asked with a frosty face. When he heard that Feng Yanqing's uncle and nephew had died, his first reaction was to be happy, and then he kept guessing in his mind who killed it. .On the way here, he had two thoughts in his mind. Ordinarily, the one who was most on the wrong path with Feng Yanqing was him, Li Rui, Yu Guan and others in the past.But he knew that although they were on the wrong side of Feng, they would never use assassination methods.Apart from themselves, among the people he could think of who would kill Feng Yanqing, there were only two suspects. The first was Song Wen, and the second was Li Jing.

Song Wen came to Dengzhou as the confidant of Jieshuai, and it is absolutely impossible for him to be satisfied with the position of Yuhou, a small united capital.If it is blocked, it will definitely be a good thing for Song.What's more, as a warrior returning from the frontier, Song Ye is indeed capable and suspicious.As for doubting Li Jing, he felt that Li Jing had clashed with the Feng family several times, especially Feng Yanqing's attitude towards Li Jing when he was in the restaurant yesterday.Although the possibility of Li Jing doing something is very small, but Li Jing has 100 people under his command, this possibility cannot be completely ruled out.

But when Cui Yunqing actually arrived at the scene and saw the tragic scene, he immediately denied his previous thoughts. All 24 people were killed, even their heads were beheaded and piled up in Jingguan, and their bodies were stripped clean.All these behaviors were very similar to the methods of a bandit he had heard about.

Cui Yunqing and Li Rui looked at each other, and they both saw some doubts in each other's eyes.Although on the surface, all the methods are very similar to the big pirate town Donghai near Dengzhou.But the more this is the case, the more they feel confused. Although Zhendonghai's group is powerful, they are pirates and rarely go ashore.Not to mention going to Penglai to ambush a dignified court official like Governor Deng Deng.

Just because they saw this, although both of them thought of Zhen Donghai, neither of them opened their mouths.

Prison City Envoy Han Zhong said at the side: "Looking at the way Feng Changshi and other people were killed, the method is very similar to that of the sea pirates Zhendonghai. It is said that Zhendonghai sometimes kills his opponents for revenge. Then cut off their heads and set up a Beijing temple!"

"Zhendonghai?" Although Song Wen is new to Dengzhou, he has heard a little about this famous pirate gang.

"Look around carefully to see if there is a black post left. If the legend is true, then as long as Feng Changshi is really done by Zhen Donghai, a slap-sized post will definitely be left on the scene." Posts." Han Zhong explained.

Hundreds of soldiers began to search around, and after a while, someone shouted: "Found it!"

Everyone ran over, but a state soldier was asked to find a piece of wood the size of a tile at the previous Jingguan.Everyone didn't know it existed just now, so even though it was put there, it was stepped on the ground by the soldiers who moved the head.Han Zhong took the wooden sign, wiped it carefully, and finally showed its true colors.In the middle of the wooden sign, there is indeed a blood-red word 'town'.

A lot of people have already started shouting: "It's really Zhen Donghai's Zhenzi kill post, this is what Zhendonghai did." Han Zhong frowned slightly at the scarlet town word on it, and looked at Cui Yunqing quietly. He glanced at Li Rui, then turned his head to look at Song Wen.In the end, nothing was said.

Soon everyone agreed that Feng Changshi was indeed killed by the pirates in Zhendong Sea.In particular, Feng Changshi and the others were stripped naked, and there were still stickers on the scene, as well as the head of the Jingguan, all of which made everyone firmly believe that this was what Zhen Donghai did.Some people said that some time ago, the second master of Zhendonghai was captured by the Chishan town army, and later was robbed by the thieves of Zhendonghai.Someone even mentioned that when Li Jing, Cui Shishi's protégé, was on his way to Dengzhou, the bandit he killed was the one Zhen Donghai invited to rescue Huangbeard.Later, Li Jing personally met the red beard and other Zhendong sea pirates.This shows that Zhendonghai has been active in the vicinity of Dengzhou for a while, and I don't know whether these people just ran into each other or came here for Feng Changshi. In short, they are right to do this thing. up.

After transporting the bodies of Feng Yanqing and others back to the city, Cui Yunqing and others immediately reported the matter to Qingzhou Jieshuai Mansion and the capital Chang'an.

On the other hand, Song Wen began to work hard for the funeral of Feng Yanqing and others.He not only personally organized Feng Yanqing's funeral, but also took good care of the Feng family's family members. Not only did he give a large sum of money to the Feng family, but he also promised in public that he would definitely destroy Zhendonghai for the Feng family and avenge Feng Yanqing. .The girls of the Feng family who were moved were so excited that they saluted repeatedly.Even the other members of the Feng family who rushed over were overwhelmed by Song Wen's loyalty and thanked them one after another.

On the surface, Feng Yanqing was originally the third official in Dengzhou, after the governor and Bie Jia.As usual, Cui Yunqing originally planned that the prefect would be in charge of Feng's funeral, but the Feng family didn't appreciate it.Although Feng Yanqing died at the hands of bandits, everyone knew that Feng Cui had disagreements in the past.In this way, Cui Yunqing didn't bother to warm her face but stick to her cold ass. Song Wen was willing to take on the matter, so he simply handed it over to Song Wen and ignored it.

Cui Yunqing actually knew Song Wen's intention of working so hard. She did this just to show her favor in front of Feng Yanqing's people, and wanted to take the opportunity to take over the power under Feng Yanqing's name.Although Cui Yunqing knew it in her heart, Feng Yanqing's death was a little unclear at first, and he was also a little vigilant now.Second, Song Wen was originally the confidant of Jiedushi. In the past, he and Feng Liang wanted to fight, and Song watched from the side.Now that it is sealed, Song will come up naturally.The third Song Dynasty showed affection to Feng Yuanyuan's forces, even if those people could not win over Feng Yuan, they would not reconcile with him, he might as well just sit back and watch the changes.

One thing that Cui Yunqing is more concerned about now is that Feng Yanqing died immediately after Yu Yu left office.Song Wen is so active. Could it be that Dengzhou's rights are about to face another major reshuffle?Did Feng Yanqing really die at the hands of pirates, or did he die at the hands of other people?Song Wen is so active, is he only planning to close in on Yuanfeng's old department, or does he have greater ambitions?