Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 125 The Emperor's Fury

Then, Shangguan Bingyun left with more than 40 monks, and asked the remaining monks to surround Yu Daoxiang.Sure enough, as Shangguan Bingyun said, these monks will not move if the fragrance of the jade Taoism does not move.Yu Daoxiang knew that Shangguan Bingyun was going to meet Ye Chen, so how could she not move, but whenever she wanted to rush out, those monks surrounded her desperately to stop her, not letting her go.Yu Daoxiang was seriously injured, and killed dozens of monks in one go. Finally, unable to hold back her injuries, she stopped and sat under a tree to heal her injuries. Fortunately, these monks only surrounded her and did not besiege her again.

After a while, Shiwa and Qian Ning rushed over, and the monks ignored them, allowing them to step over them, and even stepped on them to Yu Daoxiang's side.However, when the two of them wanted to protect Yu Daoxiang and leave, these monks started to intercept like lunatics.Therefore, there is the current situation.

Shiwa and Qian Ning were tired from killing, so they stopped to rest, and these monks would also stop at this time.

If there were no accidents, the final result would only be Shiwa and Qian Ning killing most of the monks, and then protecting Yu Daoxiang and rushing out of the monk's encirclement.

Just when Shiwa and Qian Ning were resting for a while, and were about to kill another round, Li Siyan hurried over with the burly man with a livid face.After seeing the situation in the field, especially Yu Daoxiang's pale face, his expression changed drastically. If something happened to the saint while she was with her, even if she fled to the ends of the earth, she would be caught by the temple and sent to the ancestors , was brutally killed by him.Even this is not enough, the lineage of their Li family in the holy hall might be completely wiped out by the ancestors.

Li Siyan suppressed the panic in his heart, carefully observed these monks who lost their minds for a while, took out the pipa and started playing.

After playing the strange tune for more than ten breaths, the bodies of these monks began to tremble, as if their minds were caught in some kind of weird struggle in the spiritual realm.

Qian Ning and Shi Wa quickly protected Yu Daoxiang and took the opportunity to escape from the monk's encirclement.Shiwa asked a few words to the burly man, took leave immediately with an ugly face, and ran outside Puzhaowang Temple.

At the end of Li Siyan's song, these monks still had distorted expressions and struggled.It doesn't look like it's going to be long before things get back to normal.

"This subordinate deserves to die. Uncle Xiangfu was hijacked by Xiao Ming Wang Shangguan Bingyun." Li Siyan knelt down to Yu Daoxiang holding the pipa.The burly man next to him knelt down even earlier.

Yu Daoxiang seemed to have expected this result, and said for a long time without saying a word, "It's just a robbery, it's fine if you don't kill him."

Seeing that Yu Daoxiang didn't intend to anger her, Li Siyan couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, but what Yu Daoxiang said immediately gave her a chill in her heart and her whole body.

"These monks should be damned, kill them all." Yu Daoxiang gritted his teeth, murderous intent in his eyes.

Li Siyan, the burly man, and Qian Ning dared not obey, and immediately began to massacre the monks of Puzhaowang Temple.After the killing, many monks returned to normal, but they were still no match for these three masters.He couldn't run even if he wanted to, because the two exits leading to other places from this area were locked by Qian Ning and the burly man.

Dou Shihai knew that it was difficult to snatch the two housekeepers from Hu Zheng's hands or kill them, so he led people away in a hurry and called Wang Hongtao to find other ways.Hu Zhengyi first sent people to Chuzhou to report Ye Chen's kidnapping to the King of Wei, and at the same time, he further reported the discovery of a large amount of food hoarding and the witnesses he had obtained.

Then, he let more than 100 imperial guards guard the small courtyard, and he led a group of Kaifeng government officers into the cellar. While asking for further counting of grain, he began to interrogate the two housekeepers.

As for the faint screams coming from the direction of the main hall of Puzhaowang Temple, Hu Zhengyi didn't care about the weirdness and horror of those monks just now?And also gave an order, if a monk approaches, shoot to kill.

The news of Ye Chen's kidnapping spread to Chuzhou overnight. Wei Wang Zhao Dezhao immediately dispatched a six-hundred-mile horse to send the news to the capital. Checkpoints were set up at road sections and city gates, especially monks.For a while, the monks in the Jianghuai territory were unlucky, especially some flower monks, thief monks, and fake monks were caught in a large number.The prisons in various states and counties were overcrowded for a while.

The next day, another news spread from Puzhaowang Temple in Sizhou that one of the 530 monks in the temple survived, and the rest were all slaughtered.Such a horrific massacre happened for the first time since the founding of the Song Dynasty. The government and the public were shocked for a while, and there was even more news that the thieves who massacred the monk of Puzhaowang Temple and the thieves who hijacked Xiangfu Bo Yechen were the same group, and they were the same day happens.

These two incidents were linked together, causing a sensation all over Jianghuai for a while, and for ordinary people in Jianghuai, the repercussions were more extensive and serious.

But Dou Shihai, the prefect of Sizhou, was busy how to get rid of the crime of hoarding food. After lamenting his unlucky luck, he handed over the matter to Wu Gang, the governor of Sizhou.Wu Gang has the right to directly report to the emperor and the court when there is a major event.Therefore, they sent a fast horse to report the matter to the capital as soon as possible.

Three days later, the two incidents spread to the capital one after the other. The emperor was furious and the court was shaken.

In the Chongzheng Hall, all the important officials from the Political Affairs Hall and the Privy Council and Zhao Guangyi were present. Looking at the Emperor on the throne with a livid face and endless anger in his eyes, everyone was silent and even held their breath. Dare to make a slight change, so as not to arouse the anger of the emperor's thunder.

How many years, since the founding of the country, the emperor has never been so angry.Zhao Pu, Zhao Guangyi, Cao Bin and other founding officials sighed in their hearts, and at the same time they were wondering whether the emperor was so angry because Ye Chen was kidnapped, or because of the heinous murder of more than 500 monks in Puzhaowang Temple.

If it is the former, then it can be seen Ye Chen's position in the heart of the emperor.However, most people in the court are more inclined to the latter. In their opinion, it is normal for the emperor to be so angry that such a big murder happened in one of the five famous temples of the Song Dynasty.

I don't know how long it took for the anger in Zhao Kuangyin's heart to calm down, and he gradually regained his composure, and said: "I will pass on my order that the person concerned, Hu Zhengyi, the governor of Kaifeng Prefecture, and Dou Shihai, the prefect of Sizhou, will come to Beijing immediately, and I will inquire about what happened face to face."

No one among the important officials below made a sound, Zhao Guangyi's heart skipped a beat, and Zhao Pu's face changed slightly.The two had already learned from the messenger sent by King Wei Zhao Dezhao through their respective channels that there was a basement where 60 shi of grain was stored at the scene of this great event. With their minds, they had already guessed that Hu Zhengyi Evidence of private hoarding of food has been found, and it may still be stolen.At present, although there is no news that the prefect of Sizhou has participated in colluding with the local grain gentry to hoard grain, the two of them have already seen that it will happen sooner or later.

Xiao Huangmen, who was in charge of drafting the decree, responded and drafted the decree on the spot.

Zhao Kuangyin said again: "I will pass on my will again, and the political affairs hall will announce it to the world. Anyone who can provide accurate information about the thief will be rewarded with a thousand guan, and every person who catches one of the culprit's party will be rewarded with a thousand guan. Those who are promoted to three ranks, and those who serve the people are rewarded with a rank of seven ranks."

The important ministers of the two governments below and Zhao Guangyi were in a commotion. Zhao Pu and the two political advisers moved their feet, opening their mouths to say something, but seeing the expression on the emperor's face, they could only say: "Your servant will obey the order."

The emperor's two orders came from the palace and the political affairs hall. The first one went south to Jianghuai at the fastest speed, while the second one spread quickly all over the world.

At the same time, another piece of news also spread, that it was Maitreya Sect Xiaoming King Shangguan Bingyun who hijacked Xiangfu Bo Yechen.For a while, all the monks who went from the Song Dynasty to the Southern Tang Dynasty suffered disasters and disappeared countless times. Many of them were arrested and tortured by heroes from all walks of life in the rivers and lakes and officials from various states and counties, trying to force out a fellow of the Maitreya sect.

But Xiangfu Bo Ye Chen and Shangguan Bingyun seem to have disappeared, and no accurate news has been released.

As early as half a month ago, Qingliang Temple in the Southern Tang Dynasty presided over it. After the death of Zen Master Fayan, the most eminent Buddhist monk in the Southern Tang Dynasty, the leader of the Maitreya Sect, Lou Yanming, known as the Great Ming King, entered the palace to give lectures. The Emperor Li Yu of the Southern Tang Dynasty was moved by his Buddhism. Feng Lou Yanming was the national teacher, and Maitreya religion was the national religion.

Therefore, the news that Maitreya taught Xiao Ming Wang Shangguan Bingyun hijacked Ye Chen reached Zhao Kuangyin's ears, and the Emperor Song, who was enraged, directly sent someone to write a letter of credence to the Southern Tang Dynasty, the content of which was extremely domineering. And the dignitaries of Southern Tang, if Southern Tang could not rescue Ye Chen from the Maitreya Sect and send it safely to Song Dynasty, the Great Song army would enter the territory of Southern Tang to destroy Maitreya Cult for Southern Tang and rescue Ye Chen.

Of course, it will take at least half a month for the letter of credence to be sent from Kaifeng to Jinling, and this half month is enough time for many things to happen.

Ever since Ye Chen was hijacked, many people have gone crazy. Apart from the Emperor Song who went crazy and mobilized the government to rescue Ye Chen, there are also some people who are also crazy to find King Xiao Ming Shangguan Bingyun, and take Ye Chen away. rescued.

For example, Yu Daoxiang, she was crazy, which directly led to the full operation of the forces in the south of Kaifeng, especially in the Jianghuai area.The Cao Gang, which has tens of thousands of gang members, began to pay attention to all suspicious persons on the waterways. Under Li Siyan's contact and leadership, at least one-seventh of Jianghuai's commercial firms mobilized tens of thousands of people and began to look for people everywhere and inquire about news.There are more than a dozen gangs in the Jianghuai area, whether they took other people's money, or for generous rewards, or directly received orders from the forces behind them, and started looking for Shangguan Bingyun and Ye Chen like crazy.

Li Junhao and Li Zhong led more than a dozen guards and looked for someone like a lunatic.Ma Gangzi took the remaining guards from Ye's mansion, together with the people sent by Luo Yaoshun and Cao Bin, a total of more than 120 masters, left Kaifeng, and rode fast horses to the south day and night.

(End of this chapter)