Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 238 Much better
In fact, this plague-like spread speed is something that Ye Chen himself did not expect. He originally wanted to open the Central Plains Third Road and the transportation lines to Guanzhong by water and land, and first concentrate on finding out the whereabouts of Yu Daoxiang, and start to work for him. The next step is to prepare for the sanctuary.Then take advantage of the situation to fully expand the sphere of influence of Huaxia Weifu.

However, Li Junhao's method of leading the Southern Gang as the core, selecting some beggars in various districts and states to organize them, and developing them into peripheral members is surprisingly good.At the same time, Wu Zhiyuan, Zhou Xin and Feng Gang's ability in business is much better than Ye Chen expected.

Therefore, under the covert help of the intelligence department and the protection of force, the establishment of strongholds in various places has been extremely smooth. Although the annexation of the car and horse dealers has encountered a lot of resistance, it has progressed quite smoothly under the use of both hard and soft tactics and killing everyone.

Jia Xian analyzed and calculated the data sent back by the people he sent out to accompany the three deputy ministers of internal affairs, and came up with a result that surprised Ye Chen and was extremely happy.In half a year at most, all investments will be doubled.

After hearing this, Ye Chen said to Jia Xian with emotion: "Mr. Jia only needs to manage the finances and supervise well, and Wu Zhiyuan, Zhou Xin, and Feng Gang will take care of the outside business!"

After three months of special training, the Operations Department of the Huaxia Weifu finally came to an end today.After more than 600 elite soldiers passed the assessment, only 11 of them achieved excellent results in all items and became Huaxia Golden Guards. All the 170 nine players were above good in all items and became the Huaxia Silver Guard. In 940, the scores of both of them were above pass, but at least one item was not above good, so they became Huaxia Bronze Guards.The remaining people failed at least one grade and became Huaxia Tiewei.

The huge disparity in salaries among the four levels of Huaxia Guards had been publicized as early as the beginning of the special training.Now Ye Chen deliberately further distinguished the differences between the four levels of Huaxia Wei in terms of residence, clothes, and power.It is even clear that in the execution of some tasks, in some cases, the high-ranking Huaxia Guards have the power to command the low-ranking Huaxia Guards.

Afterwards, they were divided into groups according to each person's characteristics and strengths. Each Jianghu master led a group with 12 people in each group. There were 120 seven groups in total. The remaining 100 people became Ye Chen's group. personal soldier.

Ye Chen's [-] soldiers were personally selected by Ye Chen. None of the Huaxia Golden Guards, but each of them has achieved excellence in one subject, that is to say, everyone is good at one.

But when Ye Chen just finished his special training, a big event happened in Da Song.

The 80 military pay sent to the northwest imperial army was lost along with the [-] imperial troops responsible for escorting them.Why is it lost, because these people and money disappeared without a trace as if they had evaporated from the world.

Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, no one has dared to rob the government's money, let alone military pay.After the incident, the emperor was furious, the court was shaken, and the whole country was in an uproar.

But only Zhao Kuangyin, the important ministers of the two governments and Jin Wang Zhao Guangyi guessed at the first time that this was the holy church's revenge against the Song Dynasty's extermination of Kaifeng and the Central Plains Sanlu Holy Church forces years ago.Because in the world, except for the holy hall, there is no force that has the guts to rob the Great Song army's salary and kill the guards who escorted the army's salary, let alone the strength.

This is the first important task after the opening of the Huaxia Weifu and the construction of the Yamen. Without accident, Ye Chen was called into the palace by the emperor. After some secret talks, the emperor ordered Ye Chen to lead the Huaxia Weifu to recover within half a month. Military pay, find the culprit, and kill him.

In fact, Ye Chen had already received the news from the Northwest Pass from the Northwest Pass as early as the morning and the night before the night before the urgent information was sent to the palace at Babaili, including the place where the 80 military pay disappeared.

Moreover, Ye Chen had already deployed overnight to let the Intelligence Department further investigate, and at the same time sent ten action teams to the Northwest Pass overnight to conduct investigations.

Northwest, Guanzhong, Loess Plateau.

Black Spring Town is on this plateau.The rolling loess on the plateau looks like rolls of golden sand from a distance.

There are many peculiarities in Heiquan Town, for example, there is a spring water, but the water is black.Black Spring Town is also named after this.For example, the nearest township and village to Heiquan Town is hundreds of miles away.

However, Heiquan Town is the only place where the short-circuit from Chang'an to the Northwest Forbidden Army camp must pass.

In this small town, there has always been a legend that the town is the gateway to the nether world. There is a magical door in a certain place. Every few years, the ghosts and gods of the nether world will pass through this door. Daomen came to the town and captured some human beings to the Nether World as sacrifices.

Such an outrageous legend is definitely not believed by many people in the whole world, but it is said that the people who live in the town firmly believe it.Because according to legend, they have seen many miraculous things.

But unfortunately, no one can find this magical door, and no one can see what the so-called nether world is like. Except for the black spring water, people only see it is always rolling and flowing in the wind. yellow dust.

Because the town is located in a remote place, and the place has been dry for many years, except for the military households who come and go, few other people come here, so the town is gradually desolate. To be precise, the town has never been very prosperous.

The town covers an area of ​​more than 100 mu, with more than 400 households and 210 people. Half a month ago, when the convoy escorting the military pay passed by here, it must have been dusk.According to the people in the town, the convoy escorting the military pay stayed in the town for one night, and left early the next morning, but they didn't even see a single person in Huangfengzhai, the next must pass.That is to say, 80 coins and [-] escort troops disappeared on the road between Heiquan Town and Huangfeng Village.

This is one of the information sent by the Intelligence Department on the way Ye Chen led the five hundred Huaxia Guards to Heiquan Town.

Any outsider coming to a small town will bring some benefits to the small town and bring some income to the people in the small town.Because as long as you are a person, you have to eat, sleep, buy daily necessities, and even find a woman to accompany you.So as long as it is a town, there is no one who doesn't like travelers.

Naturally, Heiquan Town is no exception, so when the people of Heiquan Town saw a group of strange visitors from afar, they felt very happy and excited.

Ye Chen has been very disappointed and dignified these days, because the people from the intelligence department have used all their strength, even Li Junhao and Xu Fangyi have personally led the elites and a large number of people from the intelligence department to come here, and searched almost all of Heiquan Town and Huangfengzhai In every place in between, they even questioned and even tortured everyone who could be found in these places.But there are still no clues, any clues that are not here, including the body or clothing or weapons of any soldier guarding the army's salary.The eighty carts containing money were not found, nor were any parts of the carts found.

It seems that the 80 coins and the [-] guards really disappeared out of thin air.

Ye Chen remembered the legend about Heiquan Town that he had heard before, sneered, and said to himself: "Huh! Could it be that he was really captured by the ghosts and gods of the Netherworld and taken to the Netherworld?" Naturally, he would never believe such absurdity things.

Before setting off from Kaifeng, Ye Chen had already dispatched forty groups of Huaxia Guards, totaling 480 people.But these 480 people did not come to Heiquan Town and the vicinity of Huangfeng Village, but half went to Chang'an, and half went to Qinling Mountains.Because Ye Chen believed that the matter must be done by the Holy Church, and the Holy Church's nest is likely to be in Chang'an or in the deep mountains of the Qinling Mountains. Of course, even if the old nest is not in Chang'an, at least many of the Holy Church's strongholds must be in Chang'an.It was Ye Chen's selfish intention to send twenty groups of Huaxia Guards to Qinling, and he never stopped worrying about Yu Daoxiang.

But half a month has passed since the 80 groups of Huaxia Guards, apart from further confirming that there is absolutely no [-] huge sums of money brought in in the entire Guanzhong, there is also no clue.

However, Ye Chen is very confident in the other two groups of Huaxia Guards who went to Jinyang.When he captured Jinyang, the restaurant where Ye Chen saved Yang Jiye with a single arrow was bought by a mysterious businessman and named it "Shenjian Restaurant". They went with Wang Chao, Luo Yaoshun and Jia Xian.When he left, the boss gave him 200 taels of gold.Ye Chen didn't know it at the time, but when he thought about it recently and recalled the whole process, he found many loopholes and strange things.He even suspected that the hotel was a stronghold of the church.He sent two groups of Huaxia Guards not to destroy this stronghold, but to follow up secretly, especially those who went to Guanzhong in this restaurant to keep an eye on them, trying to find the stronghold of Chang'an through this line.

After summarizing and analyzing the information inquired by the intelligence department, Ye Chen set his sights on Heiquan Town.His reason is very simple. If you want to make 80 coins and [-] guards disappear, no matter what means you use, you need people to do it, and you need a lot of people.And there are only people in Heiquan Town and Huangfeng Village nearby.

Huangfeng Village is a military village, half of the people in it are soldiers of the Northwest Forbidden Army, and most of the other half are military members. Obviously, the thieves can't be people from Heifeng Village.Then the only ones left are the people in Heiquan Town.

This matter is too weird and difficult, and the time given by the emperor is very tight.Therefore, Ye Chen planned to personally bring people to investigate the case near the incident site.

It was a team of escort vehicles that came to Heiquan Town, and they did not come from the direction of the Central Plains, but from the direction of Chang'an.

The people in Heiquan Town saw the dart flag tied to the first escort cart from a distance, and the four characters "Guanzhong Escort Bureau" written on the dart flag were naturally seen by them.

Anyone who has been to Chang'an recently knows that Chang'an recently opened a new bodyguard agency. For this reason, it also had conflicts with three old bodyguard agencies. More than ten people died on both sides. The dart line stood firm.

This Escort is called Guanzhong Escort.The name is vulgar, but the strength is not vulgar.It's hard to say whether the darts escorted by a powerful bodyguard agency are expensive or not, but if you can hire a hundred bodyguards to escort the darts, and the head of the bodyguard personally dispatches the bodyguards, the owner of the bodyguard must have paid a lot of money.

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