Horse on the World

Chapter 694 Trouble
In the seaport of Lianyun Island, a battleship of 14 materials is ready to go. This is the warship of the westward fleet escorting the two sons of King Zhou to Zheng Zhiyuan. Since Li Qing has made up his mind, it is impossible for the two sons of King Zhou to go Then stop at Lianyun Island, on the pier, the two sons bid farewell to King Zhou with tears streaming down their faces, and the [-]-year-old Princess Yanran's eyes were red from crying. She grew up with her two elder brothers since childhood, and they have never been separated She, after the explanation from her parents, also knew that the two elder brothers had no hope of returning after they left, and could only die of old age overseas, and she would never see these two elder brothers who loved her and protected her again. .

"Brother!" Princess Yanran held a brother's hand and cried, "I can't bear you, please don't leave!"

The eldest brother Zhou Shuguang smiled wryly, and gently rubbed his sister's head, whether to go or not, is it up to him?If I go here, the place I will go to may be an unspeakably miserable wild land, but for the sake of their father and sister, they have to go, have to go, and staying here is a dead end, and the current road I have to thank Li Qing, the commander of Dingzhou who is thousands of miles away, for letting me go.Born in the royal family, he had no choice but to choose his own path. Zhou Shuguang was extremely envious when he saw the survivors of Taiwan Island who came to see him off in the harbor.

"Sister, I won't have the care of my brothers in the future, and my father and mother are getting older. You have to learn to take care of yourself. When you marry Marshal Li, you must remember the virtuous and virtuous, and be the wife of Marshal Li wholeheartedly. Don't be unruly and self-willed. There, no one will tolerate you and tolerate you like the older brothers, even a small mistake will destroy you and ruin your father, do you remember clearly?"

"I remember, brother!" Yan Ran sobbed.

The second child, Zhou Hong, sighed, "Sister, brother will miss you, you like chrysanthemums the most, and when brother gets there, he will definitely plant chrysanthemums all over his house. Seeing them is like seeing you, take good care of yourself." Take care, if one day you become a queen, maybe we will meet again, but it may be decades later, when we all have gray hair, it will be possible!"

Yanran cried and threw herself into the arms of her second brother, stroking her sister's hair, Zhou Hong whispered in her ear, "Wei Gang told me that Li Qing has a very beloved woman named Qingfeng, this woman is not only intelligent Zhuo Jue, who also holds great power, is a figure in the core of Dingzhou. Remember, even if you are Li Qing's wife, you must not offend this woman. If you can make a good relationship with her, you can be at ease on Mount Tai .”

"Sister remembers!"

Gently pushing away the younger sister, the Zhou brothers bid farewell to their parents, strode onto the springboard, and boarded the battleship. They were accompanied by a group of Zhou's loyal bodyguards who voluntarily accompanied the two princes to go overseas .

The warship weighed anchor and slowly slid away from the shore. On board and off the ship, there were tears and parting.The king of Zhou couldn't bear to see his son getting farther and farther away from him. As soon as the ship left the port, he turned and left, while Princess Yanran stood on the harbor and waved her arms desperately until the battleship disappeared from the sea level. sad to leave.

Not long after the two Zhou brothers left, another warship of [-] materials sailed away from the harbor under the protection of frigates. It was Yan Nanfei and Wei Gang who set off to return to Dingzhou.

After that, Lianshan Island immediately entered a state of war, and all the warships docked in the harbor lifted anchor and left the shore, and began to patrol the vicinity on a large scale.At the same time, relying on the first batch of carrier pigeons trained by the Black Hawk, all the islands belonging to Dingzhou on the outer island chain have entered the first-level alert, and the warships that were originally scattered on the islands began to concentrate.

In Dingzhou, outside the gate of the Overwatch Council, special agents in black uniforms stood upright with their knives on their faces, and all of them looked solemn. Outside the gate, a group of senior officials from the Statistics and Investigation Department wore neat official uniforms and lined up in two rows. Today, they will usher in a new dean, which is actually not new, because Qingfeng has always been the nominal dean of the Overwatch Council.

The main street where the Overwatch Council is located has been cleared. At this moment, no passer-by can be seen. The Overwatch Council is in Dingzhou, and it has always been shrouded in a mysterious aura. Except for a few people, most of the people in Dingzhou do not know about this Yamen. What exactly does it do? I only know that this mysterious and mysterious yamen has a lot of power.Now in the world, all the yamen's gates open to the south, but the Dingzhou Supervisory Court is a special case, its gates open to the north.This adds to the world's speculation about it.

There was a crisp sound of horseshoes, and the horseshoes wrapped in horseshoes knocked on the stone slab. Hearing this sound, everyone turned to the direction of the sound. Some people were happy, some people were panicked, and some people didn't care.

One of the only two specially-made carriages in Dingzhou appeared in everyone's sight. On the shaft of the black carriage, two women sat obliquely on the left and the right. It was after Qingfeng regained power that he specially asked Li Qing to take the Qiuxue and Xia Ping were transferred back from Shiwei. As for Wang Yan, Qingfeng naturally wisely did not mention it.These two women have been serving as Qingfeng's personal bodyguards since Zhong Jing left, but they don't have the privilege of Zhong Jing, they can sit in the carriage with Qingfeng, but can only serve as guards on both sides of the carriage. job.

The carriage stopped at the black gate of the Investigation Division, Qiu Xue and Xia Ping jumped out of the carriage, one stood with a knife, and the other stretched out his hand to open the carriage door.

"See the dean!" Outside the investigation department, all the officials bowed and saluted.

When the car door opened, Qingfeng first half-body leaned out of the car door, looking at the familiar gate of the yamen and the unfamiliar three characters of Overwatch Council on the lintel, feeling deeply moved.Previously, the Department of Statistics and Investigation was hung on it, which was written by Li Qing himself, but now these three words are obviously not written by Li Qing.

After several ups and downs, now, I am back again.

With the help of Qiu Xue, Qingfeng got off the carriage, looked at the subordinates who were either familiar or unfamiliar to him, and said with a smile: "Everyone will work together again in the future. We didn't have these rules before, what should everyone do?" Go, stay here just to meet me, isn't this a waste of time? Time is not waiting for me, every minute and every second is precious."

Most of the subordinates were stunned for a while before they remembered that they had changed bosses, and each boss had different habits, but the old man from the statistics department suddenly returned to the past. In the past, Qingfeng was never allowed to appear. In this case.

Most of the people left, but there were still two people who bowed and did not leave. They were the other two big bosses of the Overwatch Council, Mingyan and Ji Sichen.

Qingfeng walked over with a smile, and helped Mingyan first, "Sister Mingyan, I can't stand you like this. You are the vice president of the Overwatch Council, and you should set an example for your subordinates!"

Mingyan raised her head, not knowing whether it was joy or sadness in her heart, after going around several times, she finally returned to Qingfeng's subordinates. Thinking back, in the past, in order to check and balance Qingfeng, Dingzhou established a military intelligence investigation department, and she was appointed as the director, but now , the Military Intelligence Department was merged into the Overwatch Council, and he became Qingfeng's direct subordinate again.Looking at Qingfeng's smiling face, Mingyan couldn't help worrying secretly, wondering if life would be better in the future?

Ji Sichen was even more terrified. As Qingfeng's old subordinate, he was the only one who was not affected by the last purge, but this was because of his status as an inner guard. You can still pretend to be ignorant if you haven't found out, but now that your identity has been revealed, it will inevitably be more embarrassing to get along with each other in the future.

"Sichen, you are my old subordinate, why are you so polite?" He reached out and patted Ji Sichen's shoulder, Qingfeng walked by his side, seeming to have completely forgotten the past, "Let's go, we still have a lot to do today There are important things to discuss. Don't delay here."

Walking into the gate of the Overwatch Council, Qingfeng walked towards the place where he used to work. In the yard, the acacia trees were in full bloom. Qingfeng suddenly stopped and looked at the pink flowers. , startled.

"Miss, the room you used to work in has been cleaned up, and the items are arranged according to the previous format. You will not be unaccustomed to it." Ji Sichen subconsciously resumed the previous address for Qingfeng.

"Yeah!" Qingfeng nodded, "Very good!" I don't know if Qingfeng heard clearly, but after a moment of stunned, Qingfeng took another step and went straight to the wing where he used to work.

"Some time ago we messed up our errand, which caused Dingzhou to suffer great losses." Qingfeng glanced at the two of them, and the two who had just sat down immediately stood up again, lowering their heads in shame.

Qingfeng lowered his hands and motioned for the two of them to sit down, "I said this not to pursue responsibility, nor did I mean to blame you, but to remind you that we must always remember this failure and turn shame into motivation. Find the field back in the battle."

"Yes!" The two said in unison.

"Next, we have a few more imminent things to do. The first is to find out the whereabouts of Dean Li Zonghua. According to your previous analysis, Dean Li should be in the hands of Zhong Ziqi in the south. Manpower, be sure to check clearly so that we can try to rescue them!"

"Of course!" Mingyan nodded, never expecting that Qingfeng's first order after coming to power was to search and rescue Dean Li.

"Secondly, spread the news that the general has found the remnants of the former Zhou family and their emperor, handed down jade seals and other things, and is going to welcome the emperor of the Zhou Dynasty in Dingzhou." Qingfeng said.

Ji Sichen responded.

"The time to spread this news should be appropriate. It can't even make the opponent suspicious. It must make them think that they discovered it by themselves. This is related to the outcome of a battle, do you understand?"

"I understand, I will do this with my heart!" Ji Sichen said.

"The third thing is that Dingzhou welcomes back the emperor of the Zhou Dynasty and rebuilds the imperial line of the Great Zhou Dynasty. It will definitely suffer immediately from Luoyang and even the joint counterattack of King Ning in the south. Therefore, in the next time, all branches of the Overwatch Council must Let's all take action and spy on this information."

"The fourth thing is that the Luoyang branch has suffered heavy losses in this assassination operation, and urgently needs to rebuild the network. I will handle this matter personally."

At this time, in Ningzhou far to the south, it was the scorching summer season. The fiery sun was hanging in the sky, scorching the earth with scorching flames. On the road and in the fields, there were hardly any people to be seen. Even the dogs stretched out their tongues and gasped. Roughly, he found a shady place and lay down there, refusing to move again.

It was extremely hot outside, but in Prince Ning's mansion, it was a small pavilion facing the water, but it was a different scene. Huge ice cubes were placed all around, making the pavilion extremely cool, and the iced sour plum soup was drunk in the mouth. The coolness goes from the throat all the way down to the stomach, how comfortable and comfortable it is.

King Ning was leaning on the cool chair, and behind him stood a girl with bright eyes and bright teeth gently fanning him. Opposite him, Zhong Ziqi was sitting at the bottom, handing over the finished bowl of sour plum soup. For the girl who waits by her side.

"Ziqi, you won't be able to hide that Li Zonghua here for long. Sooner or later, this person will become a hot potato. It's better to deal with it as soon as possible!" King Ning looked at Zhong Ziqi, and for Zhong Ziqi He was also quite dissatisfied with what he did this time, it was too much for meng lang.

Zhong Ziqi said: "Your Highness, I captured Li Zonghua originally because I wanted to know that Li Qing launched the Weizhou War to contain the Pang Army Navy, and what the Dingzhou Navy Zheng Zhiyuan was doing. Such a large military operation, It's just to cover up another matter, so this matter must be shocking, but unfortunately, although Li Zonghua was caught, he would not be soft and hard, and I tried my best, but I couldn't pry his mouth open."

King Ning said with a smile: "Isn't there some charlatan under your command who knows how to hypnotize opponents and make them reveal the truth unconsciously? Didn't you use it to try?"

"Why haven't you tried it?" Zhong Ziqi smiled wryly, "It's just that people like Li Zonghua have received extremely strict training since childhood, and this method doesn't work for them at all. If you ask ordinary trifles, he will answer every question. , but once it comes to secrets, no matter what, don’t open your mouth!”

"Actually, this matter doesn't need to be so thought-provoking. No matter what Li Qing wants to do, after a long time, his tail will always show up. Knowing about it earlier is just to buy us more time. Now the mainland and the mainland should do it in a short time. The conflict will not intensify, we have time to deal with it!" King Ning laughed.

Zhong Ziqi looked solemn, "This time Yuan Fang kidnapped Shang Haibo, and Shang Haibo served as the chief assistant of Luoyang. Li Qing may be able to do something earth-shattering after being stimulated this time. Your Highness, we want Get ready for the contingency!"

King Ning nodded, "Of course I know this. I have already informed Mata in Qingzhou that before, Lan Shan, Hu Zequan and others were ready to fight, but even if Li Qing wants to spread fire, the goal should be Apocalypse. Just in case, by the way, I didn’t expect Xiao Aihe to be pierced by the Dingzhou Army so easily. In the battle of Xiao Aihe, the one-armed general’s tricks and tricks are amazing. If we were not on the sidelines, the onlookers would be bewildered by him, and in this regard, I really envy Li Qing, there are many famous generals under his command!"

Zhong Ziqi smiled and said: "Isn't it the same for your Highness, Lan Shan, Hu Zequan, Xu Siyu, none of them are worse than them, even the prince, after these years of tempering, he is not what he used to be."

King Ning shook his head and said, "By the way, how many of the alliance signals from Luoyang do you think are true and how many are false?"

Zhong Ziqi pondered for a moment, "His Royal Highness, after Shang Haibo became the chief assistant in Luoyang, the administration of Luoyang will inevitably undergo a major change, so this time the alliance between the two parties is led by Shang Haibo, it may really be for convenience, you also pay attention Now, after Shang Haibo took office, Lord Qiu Zhiqiu, who had previously suppressed Xiao Yuanshan, suddenly withdrew for a hundred miles, giving Xiao Yuanshan a lot of breathing space, and recently they actually released Xiao Haoran, It took me by surprise.”

"My elder brother is really amazing!" King Ning sighed in admiration, "If Xiao Haoran is released, it is natural to ask him to go back and stabilize Youyan, so that Li Qing can't get involved. I never thought he would have such a heart."

"This is probably due to Shang Haibo's work!" Zhong Ziqi said, "Since we gave up on pulling out You Yan, it is no surprise that we will join forces with us to deal with Li Qing. Shang Haibo was born in Dingzhou, so he knows the reality of Dingzhou the most. , obviously, now Luoyang's strategy is to deal with Li Qing first no matter what."

"It's better to talk about it first." Ning Wang said: "Let's get to know their bottom first and then talk!"

The two were discussing, but they saw Xu Siyu rushing over like flying, "Something happened!" Apparently he rushed from outside in a hurry, Xu Siyu's clothes were soaked from the inside to the outside, and his face was even more bruised. Beads of sweat all over his face.

"What's the matter?" Both of them were shocked, the thing that moved Xu Siyu so much was of course a big deal.

"A quick report came from Dingzhou. Li Qing in Dingzhou found the remnants of the former Zhou Dynasty and their emperor! They are going to welcome them to Dingzhou and rebuild the imperial line of the Great Zhou Dynasty. It was renovated, and the style was built to imitate the style of the Luoyang Palace."

King Ning and Zhong Ziqi looked at each other, "Whether this is true or not, how is it possible? The Zhou Dynasty has been destroyed for hundreds of years, how could they be found again? Could it be that Li Qing was so mad at Shang Haibo's betrayal that he casually Found some people and claimed to be the emperor of the Zhou Dynasty, a survivor of the previous dynasty?"

Xu Siyu took a breath, "The key is that they found the handed down jade seal at the same time!"

"Handed down jade seal!" King Ning stood up abruptly, accidentally knocked over Emperor Shen's teacup, and it shattered to the ground.

Zhong Ziqi also stood up in amazement, "Handed down jade seal?"

"Yes!" Xu Siyu nodded affirmatively.

"This is troublesome!" King Ning could no longer calm down, "If the handed down jade seal is real, then even if Li Qing finds someone casually and says that he is of the blood of the royal family of the Zhou Dynasty, he can deceive the world. Where did they find it? ?”

Xu Siyu said: "Your Highness, according to what we found out, a Dingzhou navy lost its way by a storm while cruising, and accidentally found a remnant of the former dynasty on an island. Later, Dingzhou sent sailors. Division Fleet, welcome back the Zhou Emperor!"

"That's right!" Zhong Ziqi snapped his palms together, "That's right!" Turning to look at King Ning, "Your Highness, it's no wonder that Li Qing did not hesitate to launch the Battle of Weizhou, dragging Pang Jun's power, It allowed the Dingzhou navy to escape easily and go to the far sea, if it wasn't for such an important thing, how could Li Qing be willing to pay such a high price!"

King Ning panted heavily, "So, this handed down jade seal is real!"

Zhong Ziqi's face was also very ugly: "Nine out of ten!"
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On the first day of the new year, congratulations on the new year, happy new year!

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