Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 394 The Rat Army
While waiting for the arrival of the wedding team, Ye Chen listened to the information that Feng Zhiyuan sent at any time.

At this time, Feng Zhiyuan came to Ye Chen and whispered a piece of news --- a case of disrupting a wedding that the governor of Hangzhou had just cracked.

The protagonists of this case are five scholars in Hangzhou who have not been ranked for many years. The reason why they are not candidates is that these five people have passed the examination for many years and have not yet broken through a single examination.However, the patriotism of the five people is very strong, and they are more or less wise, and some clues can be seen from the news that has been secretly and intentionally spread in the Huaxia Weifu and the palace these days.But this clue is not enough for them to truly understand the whole truth of the whole matter, but it is enough for them to do something with pride under the provocation of someone with a heart.For example, destroying the marriage between Song State and Wu Yue State, so as to prevent Song State from annexing Wu Yue State's wolf ambition.And they saw this as an opportunity to set things right for the entire Wuyue Kingdom, and wanted to persuade the prince face to face by destroying the marriage, and find a shortcut for themselves to ascend to heaven.

However, this conspiracy of the five scholars is really no different from a child's play, without any secrecy measures, and without any preparations for escape. Ci, and then wanted to destroy the marriage between the two countries and persuade the prince.In their view, as long as they tell the prince face to face with the speech they have prepared, they should be able to wake him up with a blow and entrust them with important responsibilities.

In the end, he was first sued by the second child of the inn where the five scholars were staying, and then led by the governor of Hangzhou.

From the beginning to the end of the whole incident, it can be said that there was a lot of fuss. After all, these five scholars had almost no preparations, and they could be easily tied up and sent to Hangzhou Mansion as long as a few policemen came to the door.

If a scholar rebels, he will fail in ten years. Believe what he said.

After Ye Chen heard Feng Zhiyuan's report, he felt amused at first. It seemed that there was nothing to investigate about this matter. Although the nature was very serious, the process was ridiculous.

However, after the governor of Hangzhou cracked more than a dozen similar cases within a short period of time, Ye Chen faintly felt something was wrong.But after thinking about it, I can't figure out where the problem lies.It can only make the spies led by Hu Sanguang more attentive.Send someone to send a message to Gao Chengxiang to make him vigilant.

"Are these just smoke bombs made by Lou Yanming?" Ye Chen muttered to himself.

The afternoon sun in early autumn in the south of the Yangtze River is still considered to be scorching sun. At this time, when the head is illuminated, everything in front of you, including roads, houses, and even the armor on the soldiers, is shining with dazzling white light.

On both sides of the road, two columns of Hangzhou city defense troops lined up from the main gate of the palace.Behind the city defense army, there was another double curtain, which blocked the scholars and common people who came to watch the ceremony.

But the curtain can't block the smoke brought by the burning incense, gusts of wind blowing, steaming, like a cage.It can be seen that the prestige of the Wuyue royal family among the common people and scholars is extraordinary.

Qian Zhiyin sits on a special jade-shaped chariot with a cover on his head, which can play a role in shading.The most important thing is this dedicated jade car, which is designed with extremely comprehensive considerations. There is an ice box on the roof of the car, and copper pipes are used to connect the four walls of the car. Ice water flows in the walls of the car. The coolness sinks down again, and sitting inside in hot weather is more pleasant than early spring and late autumn.

Therefore, although the clothes on Qian Zhiyin's body were layer upon layer, thick and heavy, and he was sweating slightly, they were not soaked in sweat.

Of course he knew that today's wedding would not go so smoothly, and the Maitreya Church would definitely do something, so as the protagonist of today's wedding, he was more vigilant than anyone else.

It's just that no one knows what the Maitreya Sect will do.Therefore, he still couldn't help feeling a little apprehensive.

The welcoming team suddenly turned away from the main street in front of the palace, like a rushing flood, finding a gap in the embankment.

Surrounded by the army, the car turned into a side street that was several times narrower than the main street in front of the palace.The team that had been walking on the main street a hundred paces wide suddenly had to tighten up.

The narrowing of the road made the palace guards and city guards beside the car visibly nervous.Almost at the same time, everyone straightened their waists, put their hands on the handle of the knife at their waists, and looked around sharply.

On both sides of the road are still two columns of city defense troops, with double curtains, and behind the curtains are the crowds watching the ceremony.But at the top of the curtain, a continuous high wall was exposed.

The square adjacent to the main street of the palace is full of dignitaries, and the Hang Garden is interrupted in this square.But if you want to assassinate scholars, create chaos, and destroy the marriage between the two countries, this place is far more suitable than the main street in front of the palace, which is as wide as a square.

Therefore, the guards here are even stricter than the main street in front of the palace.

On the top of the walls on both sides, and on the roof behind the walls, there are many soldiers standing high and low.No matter which family's dignitaries, under the righteousness of protecting the safety of the future lord, they dare not refuse at all.

In fact, it is not difficult to guess that the houses along the way have been requisitioned by the governor of Hangzhou and the city defense army in the past few days, and they are full of soldiers.

Ye Chen didn't need to remind and suggest all of this, it was the means of Gao Chengxiang and Hangzhou governor, there was no gap at all, it was like a dam locking the river in the river.

Qian Zhiyin's handsome and unparalleled face also became serious, and the six sword servants who were driving next to him also put their right hands on the hilt of their swords at some point, and kept shooting around with ice-cold faces under their sword-like eyes.Six first-class swordsmen, even if Lou Yanming suddenly appeared in front of Qian Zhiyin's chariot and joined forces under the six-member sword formation, they would be able to withstand a few blows.

As a matter of fact, Gao Chengxiang and the governor of Hangzhou are well prepared these days. Unless they dispatch a large army, they will not be able to break their control over the entire city of Hangzhou.And these days, under Qian Yuechan's personal intervention, Wu Yueguo has been extremely ruthless in both the civil service system and the military. Based on the principle of one person who would rather kill by mistake than let it go, basically wiped out the Maitreya Sect. Nian concealed the personnel lurking in Wuyue Kingdom.Therefore, no matter how powerful Lou Yanming's personal force is, how powerful his supernatural powers are, and with a small group of first-class experts, it is still difficult to get close to Qian Zhiyin's car driver.

The car finally stopped.

Qian Zhiyin also saw Ye Chen, the envoy who presided over the wedding ceremony at Hangyuan.I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Ye Chen seemed to have been waiting for a long time, wearing the five-beam Jinxian crown on his head, and Diao Chan's cage scarf, standing upright.There was a sincere smile on the calm face, with a sense of celebration, but Qian Zhiyin and Gao Chengxiang could see that the latter was worried from the eyes cast by Ye Chen.

That's right, it really went too smoothly.It feels a little strange and a little uncomfortable to go smoothly.On the contrary, I am very worried.

At this moment, a sudden change occurred.

To be precise, this change occurred almost simultaneously in various places in the entire city of Hangzhou.Therefore, screams resounded without warning from all over the city of Hangzhou, and the sound was endless panic.

Rats, countless rats, black patches of rats, suddenly popped out from corners invisible to human eyesight, they were extremely unafraid of humans, they ran in groups on the street and climbed on high walls , ran amok across the city.

Humans are naturally not afraid of one mouse, and a dozen mice are nothing, but if there are hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of mice, or even the mice in the entire city of Hangzhou suddenly come out and gather together, then that will be a big problem. Ordinary scenes are enough to scare anyone.Enough to cause everyone to panic.

Panic spread across the city of Hangzhou very quickly, but what was strange was that all of this panic flocked to the main gate of Hangyuan.At this time, the welcoming team of Qian Zhiyin, the former son of Hangyuan's main gate, had just arrived.

Mice from all directions frantically rushed over like this, and the thousands of city defense troops, palace guards, and Hangzhou governor's government soldiers all around the welcoming team panicked.But fortunately, they didn't run around screaming like ordinary people.It's just that many soldiers couldn't help the panic in their hearts, and hacked many mice to death with knives, making the ground blood red, making the wedding scene even more weird and terrifying.

The faces of Ye Chen, Qian Zhiyin, Gao Chengxiang and others changed drastically, and they all thought of the real purpose and means of the Maitreya Sect.

Although there were many of these mice, it was impossible to drive the mice to compete with the human army and kill Qian Zhiyin or Princess Yongqing.However, in this feudal era, such a weird and miraculous scene would naturally be regarded as a punishment from God, or a warning from heaven.To put it simply, the Maitreya Sect wants to use this bizarre method to make people in the entire Hangzhou city and even the entire Wuyue Kingdom think that God does not allow the Wuyue Kingdom to marry the Song Kingdom, and naturally they also do not agree with the Wuyue Kingdom's merger into the Song Kingdom.

Sure enough, in the restaurants and teahouses on both sides of the street not far away, someone had already stuck his head out of the window, shouting words like divine punishment with a terrified expression.Some people even looked at Hang Yuan and the welcoming team after panic, without the kindness and blessing just now.

After Ye Chen was horrified, he quickly calmed down, his eyes were like lightning, and he scanned his surroundings, his ears pricked up, his nose twitched, and all his senses were fully activated, looking for clues.

Including Gao Chengxiang, Qian Zhiyin, Hu Sanguang, Lian Jicheng and others, they may regard the scene in front of them as the sorcery of the Maitreya Sect, but Ye Chen quickly judged that there must be something at the main gate of the Hangyuan that will kill them. The rats in Hangzhou city were attracted.Ye Chen recalled that some studies in later generations have proved that the special smell released by a certain special object can make a certain animal go crazy instantly, desperately chasing after it.

Thinking of this, Ye Chen closed his eyes slightly, and his nose kept twitching.

(End of this chapter)