Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 481 Ye Chen Returned to Kyoto
Pan Mei clasped her fists politely, and said: "My lord, you are welcome. Your lord, please let me go. I have to let most of the two hundred soldiers return to the camp before they can return to Kaifeng's home. I will take the first step."

When Ye Chen clasped his fists in return, Pan Mei got on her horse and gradually left with two hundred cavalry at a leisurely pace.At a distance of two hundred steps from Ye Chen, a cavalryman beside Pan Mei opened his mouth to say something, Pan Mei's expression changed, she suddenly flicked her whip, and shouted: "Drive!" go back.

Pan Mei speeded up, and all the soldiers stepped up one after another and followed.After running out of a hidden hillside a mile away in one breath, Pan Mei and the others stopped.

At this moment, Pan Mei glared fiercely at the cavalryman who was about to speak just now. The latter turned pale and was dripping with cold sweat. Commander, please punish me."

Pan Mei said with some fear: "If you had said that sentence just now, all of us would have turned into corpses."

In the valley, when Pan Mei and his party got on their horses and left, Ye Chen waved his hand to stop what Xu Fangyi was going to say, and gently took off the eight-stone bow on his back with his right hand, and Lian Jicheng had already prepared more than 30 killers. Ready to shoot out at any time.

Ye Chen quietly watched the backs of Pan Mei's group with his ears up. He didn't hear or see anything until the end.

Watching Pan Mei and the others disappear, Ye Chen turned his head and waved his hands, Lian Jicheng and the others relaxed, Xu Fangyi and his group stood up, and asked, "Is everything okay in Beijing?"

In fact, the moment he saw Xu Fangyi entering the valley, Ye Chen relaxed. Xu Fangyi was able to bring two hundred Huaxia Guards here at this time, indicating that there should be no trouble in the capital.You must know that if something really happened in the capital, Zhao Guangyi would send a large army to surround the Huaxia Weifu as soon as he controlled the [-] troops outside Kaifeng City. take a step.

Xu Fangyi also knew that Jin Wang Zhao Guangyi would rebel, so he understood what Ye Chen was worried about, shook his head and said, "My lord, the capital is calm and calm."

Ye Chen lowered his head and said, "Then... that's really strange."

Xu Fangyi understood what he said, if the capital is calm... who would dare to risk the emperor's wrath to assassinate the current Ye Chen.

Ye Chen briefly told Xu Fangyi what happened just now, and Xu Fangyi was terrified when he heard it. He knelt down on one knee again with a face of panic, and said, "The intelligence department failed to detect these people in advance, please punish them severely." Subordinate."

Ye Chen didn't let him get up this time, but said lightly: "Tell me! This is a valley so close to the capital. How do you explain that such a strong soldier is buried?"

Xu Fangyi said: "My lord! Three days ago, four black crows from the holy hall sneaked into Lord Kaifeng's house, killed five guards and seven servants in the mansion, and almost injured his wife and the little princess. The whole mansion was furious, and the senior ghost doctor has returned When he went to sit in the master's house, Bai Sishi personally led a group of murderers to hunt them down in four directions. Unexpectedly, he lost them when he was a hundred miles away from the city. His subordinates sent all the spies out to look for the four black crows. As a result, within a hundred miles of Kaifeng City, it became blank, allowing these people to take advantage of the loophole. Now it seems that these four crows may be trying to lure our people away, in order to cooperate with the assassination of the adults today."

Ye Chen frowned and thought for a while, then waved Xu Fangyi to get up, and said: "If there is no major event in the future, at least one spy should be left in every stronghold near Kaifeng City, otherwise if there is a big change in Kaifeng City at this time, Didn't our Huaxia Weifu become blind?"

At the end of Ye Chen's speech, his tone was already extremely serious. With his current status and power, he seldom spoke like this to an envoy like Xu Fangyi. Xu Fangyi knew what kind of anger was hidden under Ye Chen's calm face at this moment. Well, besides what the two of them said now, the most important thing about this anger is the corpses of those companions who are being collected by the people in Huaxia Weifu next door.You must know that even when facing the encirclement and suppression of [-] to [-] Southern Tang troops in the Southern Tang Dynasty a few days ago, and when they attacked the Southern Han Kingdom at the beginning of the year, the Huaxia Weifu did not suffer such a big loss just now.

At this time, Xu Fangyi's forehead was already covered with fine beads of sweat, and he said respectfully: "This subordinate will follow the teachings of the adults, and will not make the same mistake next time."

Ye Chen looked at Xu Fangyi, his expression softened, and he said, "Okay, I can't blame you for this matter, after all, you also dismissed the government because of my family's private affairs."

Without Ye Chen's instructions, the two envoys, Feng Zhiyuan and Zhang Dawei, had already directed the crowd to sort out and carry out the corpses of more than 50 people who died in Huaxia Weifu.From the mountains and forests on both sides, they carefully searched for all traces, and did not let go of all the evidence, evidence and other clues, and then gathered the bodies of the dead snipers in one place.

Ye Chen looked at the cold corpses of his subordinates, tilted his head slightly, and glanced at the corpses of those ambushers, and said softly: "My brother's corpses have to be taken care of, and why are these people dragging so many corpses? Cut them all off and take them back to Beijing."

Lian Jicheng loudly took orders from the side.

After everything was cleaned up, the remaining bloody corpses in the valley, horse corpses and broken carts, naturally had follow-up personnel from the imperial court to deal with them.

"My lord, this subordinate is about to report to my lord. Your majesty has already announced to the world that your lord is still alive an hour ago today, and at the same time let the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty welcome you at the south gate." Xu Fangyi suddenly remembered this matter, and hurriedly Said.

Ye Chen looked a little surprised, and said: "In this case, let's go back early! It's such a cold weather, don't keep so many people waiting."

The [-] spies led by Xu Fangyi vacated half of their horses, and carefully helped the bodies of the dead companions to the horses, and at the same time let those who were injured sit on the horses.

In front of the south gate of Kaifeng, not only the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty gathered, but also most of the nobles who did not hold real positions in Kaifeng city were all driven over by the emperor's decree.There are still many people watching the excitement on both sides.

Originally, there was still a lot of excitement, but following the news brought by Pan Mei who came back from the south to report on her duties, the crowd suddenly fell silent, and then they all exclaimed.Originally, more than an hour ago, the emperor suddenly announced to the world that the chief envoy of the Huaxia Weifu, and the newly appointed King of Xiangfu County, Ye Chen, was still alive. This incident itself was enough to cause an uproar and shock to tens of thousands of people in Kaifeng City.But after more than an hour, people have gradually accepted this rather bizarre fact after being shocked.

However, the news at this time once again horrified everyone and made them feel unbelievable.

With Ye Chen's current status, with the great things Ye Chen has done, and the power of those enemies, it is very normal for someone to assassinate them.

However, if someone dared to assassinate Ye Chen more than 40 miles away from Kaifeng City, then this incident is unusual.And if the assassin also used the army, and used a powerful device like the city defense crossbow that is absolutely impossible to appear at the assassination point outside the city, then this matter is enough to surprise everyone.
At this time, there were three to four hundred people in front of the city gate, including civil and military officials and nobles of the Manchu Dynasty, plus soldiers, petty officials, and officials' honorable guards, but at this time the city gate was deserted or dead silent.

The other side of the city gate had already been emptied out, and the people of Kyoto were stopped outside the cordon. They were shocked to see the line of troops coming from the south, the blood on their bodies, and those who were lying down immediately. The corpse, looking at the young county king who had died a few days ago and was crowned king, and now appeared alive, was riding on the first tall horse with his back straight.

I just heard about it before, but now I saw the corpse, blood and human head with my own eyes, and everyone was in an uproar!
After leaving the capital for half a year, he used his own power to take down the kingdom of Wuyue. The King Xiangfu, who was said to be dead, finally returned to the capital, but no one expected that so many people would come back with him. Corpses and blood stains, and a dilapidated, all-black Huaxia Weifu carriage that seemed likely to fall apart at any time.

The people watching from afar were whispering and discussing, they were extremely shocked. Looking at the scene in front of them, they all guessed that something dangerous must have happened to King Xiangfu on his way back to the capital. No one thought that the so-called danger actually happened near the peaceful and prosperous capital.

After Pan Mei came back and told the shocking story of Ye Chen's assassination, the Kyoto defense sent [-] soldiers to meet him, so at this time there were [-] soldiers on both sides of the team silently leading the horses and guarding them.

The people looked at it with panic, and confirmed that the ceremony in front of the city gate was to welcome the return of the triumphant heroes, not the drama of the storytelling and singing opera, thus confirming that it was not the imperial court who arrested King Xiangfu, and then Then they began to guess.

As the Supervision Department of the Huaxia Weifu has supervised hundreds of officials in the past six months, and successively investigated more than 20 officials, the corruption of the Song Dynasty government has been greatly reduced, and the people have really felt the benefits. His illustrious military exploits, especially his single-handed victory over Wuyue Kingdom, made Ye Chen's prestige among the common people unparalleled for a while.

Therefore, at this time, the common people stand on their own point of view and start to use their imagination. Many people think that it must be some corrupt officials in the imperial court. They are worried that after King Xiangfu returns, their illegal activities will be found out. , and sent him to prison, that's why he wanted to harm King Xiangfu and sent someone to assassinate him.People in Kyoto have seen many high-ranking officials and are always bold. Thinking of this, some people shouted and scolded some corrupt officials.

(End of this chapter)