Staring at Chen Cang coldly, Liu Jin sneered and said, "How dare you, Chen Cang, to refuse to plead guilty. It seems that I am too merciful."
Liu Jin then said: "Chen Cang, if you plead guilty quickly, I may spare your life. Otherwise, I will send you to prison today, which means you will be executed as a queen."
It’s not impossible.”
Chen Cang couldn't help frowning when he heard this. He first glanced at Hou Qiang and Bao Qing who were standing aside. As the chief of the Ministry of Revenue, at this time, the two of them should stand up and speak for him.
But it was Hou Qiang who disappointed Chen Cang, while Bao Qing and Bao Qing just stood there with no intention of speaking.
Obviously, what Chen Cang can realize, Hou Qiang, and Bao Qing also know in their hearts, if they stand up to confront Liu Jin at this time, they will cause trouble for themselves.
Even in the eyes of Bao Qing and Hou Qiang, it would not be unacceptable if Liu Jin only used Chen Cang to vent his inner anger.
Chen Cang calmly turned his eyes away from Hou Qiang and Bao Qing and looked at Liu Jin.
Chen Cang bowed his hands to Liu Jin and said, "Eunuch Liu, I have something I want to talk to Eunuch Liu in private."
Hearing this, Liu Jin sneered and said: "Chen Cang, even if you want to beg me for mercy at this time, it is too late. I will ask you whether you plead guilty or not."
Chen Cang sighed softly and said, "How can Eunuch Liu be so considerate of a person's face that he doesn't have the same level of experience as the lower officials?"
Liu Jin burst out laughing immediately. While laughing, he glanced at Chen Cang with disdain and said, "Chen Cang, I always thought you were a smart person, but I didn't expect you to be so stupid at times. Who do you think can save you at this time?"
, Even in front of Yang Tinghe, I will kill you today. Besides, do you think Yang Tinghe will have a grudge with me because of a little doctor like you?"
After hearing this, everyone around looked at Chen Cang with sympathy and pity.
Obviously, Chen Cang was really in trouble this time. It was only because Chen Cang didn't give Liu Jin face in the past that he was now being targeted by Liu Jin. Who really saved Chen Cang this time.
However, to everyone's surprise, Chen Cang seemed to be confident and remained calm and said to Liu Jin: "Then can Eunuch Liu take the Taifu's face into account and not argue with the subordinates?"
Liu Jin said subconsciously: "This is simply delusional. I said that no one can protect you Chen Cang..."
However, Liu Jin's expression soon changed, with a look of astonishment and surprise on his face. His eyes fell on Chen Cang's face. He took a step forward and said with a gloomy face: "Who are you talking about, the Grand Tutor?"
Many people around were also stunned, some looked astonished, and others looked puzzled. They seemed to not understand who the Taifu mentioned by Chen Cang was, and why Liu Jin's expression and attitude changed so much.
Chen Cang was actually a little scared. Although he also knew that Li Huan was powerful and was definitely the most favored person in front of the emperor at the moment.
But Liu Jin was not bad either. He was really worried that Liu Jin would not show off to Li Huan.
At this moment, seeing Liu Jin's expression in his eyes, Chen Cang breathed a sigh of relief. Hearing this, he turned to Liu Jin and said seriously: "Apart from Mr. Li Huan and Mr. Li, who else can be called a Taifu today?
"
"It's indeed Li Huan!"
"Strange, why did Chen Cang hug Li Huan's lap?"
"Oh, I forgot. Chen Cang is from Fuzhou, Fujian. He is from the same hometown as Li Huan. I just don't know when Chen Cang surrendered to Li Huan..."
"With Li Huan protecting Chen Cang, I think Liu Jin will also give Li Huan some thin noodles!"
For a moment, everyone came to their senses, and the expressions they looked at Chen Cang became extremely complicated and weird.
Liu Jin took a deep breath, looked straight at Chen Cang, and said in a deep voice: "If you dare to deceive me, I will let you know what it means to be unable to survive and to die!"
Chen Cang said sternly: "I have the courage to deceive Eunuch Liu with such things. Or does Eunuch Liu think that I dare to deceive people under the guise of Taifu?"
After taking a deep look at Chen Cang, Liu Jin suddenly waved his sleeves and snorted: "Huh, since you are Brother Li's, I will spare you this time."
As he spoke, Liu Jin's eyes narrowed and he scanned the surrounding officials of the Ministry of Household Affairs.
Previously, when these officials saw Liu Jin's trouble with Chen Cang, although some felt some sympathy and pity in their hearts, others also felt a bit excited about watching a show.
As the saying goes, it's none of their business. In their opinion, as long as Liu Jin doesn't cause trouble for them, it's fine. As for the life and death of other people, it's not as important as their own.
It's just that now Chen Cang is actually protected by Li Huan, but Liu Jin has no choice but to ignore Chen Cang, or in other words, even Liu Jin has to give Li Huan face.
I don't know how many people secretly envied Chen Cang in their hearts, but they were also thinking in their hearts that since Chen Cang can hug Li Huan's lap, then they can too.
At this time, Liu Jin screamed at a doctor: "Gao Xia, I would like to ask you what happened to the tax statistics for the first half of the year. You..."
With a pop, Gao Xia, the doctor from the Ministry of Finance who was named by Liu Jin, suddenly became weak. Before Liu Jin could ask for his guilt, he was so frightened that he collapsed on the ground.
Liu Jin was always looking for trouble and looking for people to establish his authority. Gao Xia knew very well that unless he could move Li Huan out like Chen Cang did, no matter how hard he tried to defend himself, it would be useless.
But he, Gao Xia, simply does not have the ability of Chen Cang to climb up to Li Huan's high branch. In this case, he seems to have no other choice but to accept his fate.
Suddenly, Gao Xia looked towards Bao Qing and Hou Qiang, and said anxiously at the same time: "Master Hou, Master Bao, you must make the decision for me..."
He didn't have Chen Cang's confidence, so he could only place his hopes on Hou Qiang and Bao Qing, the two ministers of the household department, hoping that they could help him intercede. Even if he didn't have much hope in his heart, it was better than having no hope at all.
Be okay.
It's a pity that Gao Xia is obviously going to be disappointed. If Hou Qiang and Bao Qing could save him, then they wouldn't just sit back and watch Liu Jin target Chen Cang without saying a word.
At this time, Hou Qiang snorted coldly at Gao Xia and said: "Gao Xia, when Eunuch Liu asked you, you might as well tell the truth."
After hearing Hou Qiang's words, Gao Xia suddenly showed a look of despair on his face, and looked at Liu Jin with a miserable expression.
Liu Jin's eyes were filled with ferocious looks. It was obvious that he was being targeted by Liu Jin this time and was destined to be doomed.
Not to mention that he himself is not clean, even if he is as clean as water, he cannot escape Liu Jin's frame-up.
Gao Xia couldn't help but shudder when he thought about the wealth he had embezzled in the Household Department over the years once Liu Jin ordered him to be investigated closely.
Over the years, he has taken advantage of his position to embezzle property worth no less than hundreds of thousands taels. If this was thoroughly discovered, it would probably be enough to confiscate his home.
Thinking of this, Gao Xia felt completely desperate. He suddenly raised his head and shouted angrily at Liu Jin: "Eunuch, you framed a loyal minister of the imperial court. Even if I die, I will never let you get your wish."
As he spoke, Gao Xia suddenly stood up. He didn't know where the strength came from, and crashed directly into the corner of the lobby's steps.
This time it was real. Gao Xia bumped into it with determination to die, and a bloody hole was made in his head on the spot, with blood flowing gurglingly.
Many officials turned pale after seeing Gao Xia's actions. They looked at the convulsing Gao Xia in horror, and then looked at Liu Jin, who had a cold expression on his face, as silent as a chill.
Liu Jin just glanced at Gao Xia's body and sneered: "I didn't expect that you are not afraid of death. It's just that this matter won't be over after you die. I will definitely investigate you. After all these years,
What have you done, and then tell the world about it, otherwise, others will think that I really framed Zhongliang."
As he spoke, Liu Jin's cold eyes swept over Hou Qiang, Bao Qing and other officials, then he waved his sleeves and screamed at the servants behind him: "Let's go!"
Immediately, a crowd of people surrounded Liu Jin and left the Hubu Yamen, while the Hubu officials watched Liu Jin and others go away, leaving a mess behind.
In the lobby, Gao Xia had completely lost his breath. Even the blood flowing from his head dyed the ground red. A strong smell of blood filled the yamen.
Taking a deep breath, Bao Qing's eyes fell on Gao Xia's body, and he sighed softly: "Go and notify Gao Xia's family and ask them to collect the body."
Everyone knows that when Gao Xia dies, the Gao family must be doomed as well.
Just because of what Liu Jin said before leaving, someone from Dongchang or Jinyiwei will definitely investigate Gao Xia and the Gao family.
As for Gao Xia's situation, even if they don't know the inside story, they know it better than anyone else because the Gao family has gone through countless investigations.
Once something is found out, the consequences waiting for the Gao family will inevitably be confiscated.
Looking at Chen Cang standing there at this time, many people felt endless emotions in their hearts.
If nothing unexpected happened, it should have been Chen Cang who was lying on the ground as a corpse now, but because Chen Cang hugged Li Huan's lap, even Liu Jin had to give Li Huan face.
There is no choice but to Chen Cang.
If Gao Xia had a big backer like Li Huan like Chen Cang, why would he be like this?
Suddenly, many people had the idea that since Chen Cang could seek refuge with Li Huan, why couldn't they?
Although many of them had tried their best to impeach Li Huan before, and even cursed Li Huan for massacring officials, and would not die a good death.
But they seemed to have forgotten all of this subconsciously, and all they thought about was how to hug Li Huan's lap.
Chen Cang glanced at Bao Qing indifferently, Hou Qiang and others glanced at each other, bowed their hands to everyone, and then turned around and went back to the side hall, leaving only a group of people looking at Chen Cang's back with complicated expressions.
There was a look of envy and jealousy in some people's eyes.
Some people looked with disdain on their faces and whispered softly: "If you take refuge in Li Huan, you will be reviled by the world's scholars and will be infamy for thousands of years!"
Not long after, Liu Jin made a big fuss in the Hubu Yamen and forced Gao Xia, the Hubu doctor, to death. The news spread throughout the Yamen.
Many people seemed to have seen with their own eyes how Liu Jin intimidated Chen Cang, but Chen Cang moved him away from Li Huan as a backer. Liu Jin had to give Li Huan face, abandoned Chen Cang, and turned to target Gao Xia, so that Gao Xia He was forced to death by Liu Jin.
As soon as the news spread, all the officials were shocked. Many people were frightened by Liu Jin's ruthlessness. Although they guessed that Liu Jin would definitely kill the chickens and scare the monkeys when he returned to the ceremonial office, they didn't expect it to happen so quickly.
The officials were more or less mentally prepared for Liu Jin's retaliatory move. Even if Gao Xia was forced to die, the officials could accept it. After all, there were not a few officials killed by Liu Jin in the past few years, and he was not the only high-ranking official. summer.
But what really surprised the officials was that among the civil and military officials, some officials chose to take refuge with Li Huan. This was definitely not a good sign in the eyes of many officials who wanted to cut Li Huan into pieces.
Similarly, when many officials learned that Chen Cang had taken refuge with Li Huan, their first thought was that since Chen Cang could take refuge with Li Huan, why couldn't they.
Just like Liu Jingang was rejected by the officials at first and regarded as a castrated traitor, but later Jiao Fang, Zhang Cai, Liu Yu and others joined him and became Liu Jin's lackeys.
Many people did not want to be known as eunuchs, and were worried about being targeted by Liu Jin like Gao Xia. Now that Chen Cang had taken the lead, many people immediately had the idea of seeking refuge with Li Huan.
Jinyiwei Yamen
At this time, Li Huan put on the official uniform of the Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese Military Governor's Mansion, led Chen Yao and others out of the Jinyiwei Yamen, got on his horse and ran towards the capital camp.
The Jingying garrison is located on the outskirts of Beijing.
It is impossible for hundreds of thousands of troops to be stationed in the capital. Even the Tengxiang Fourth Guards Camp is actually located outside the capital. As for the Tengxiang Fourth Guards Camp in the city, there is usually only one battalion in the city. Just keep it.
Riding on war horses, Li Huan and his party galloped past the long street.
Just when Li Huan and his party left the Jinyiwei Yamen, dozens of feet away from the Jinyiwei Yamen, in a corner, a man in ragged clothes was taking a nap while leaning in the shade. Suddenly, the man opened his eyes and looked Scanning the retreating figures of Li Huan and his group, he stood up.
Judging from his clean and neat posture, he is obviously not a beggar on the roadside.
This man got up and walked around begging like a beggar. However, this man was obviously watching to see if he was being targeted. One look showed that he had a strong sense of precaution.
Not long after, the man came to a remote courtyard.
No one else could be seen in the secluded alley, but the man knocked lightly on the door a few times.
Soon the door opened and the man ducked into the yard.
Around the yard, the weapons in the hands of several figures that were originally clenched slowly relaxed after seeing the man's face.
The former young man and scribe were looking at the man expectantly.
The scribe said to the big man who came forward: "Cui Wu, how are you? Have you found out about Li Huan's whereabouts?"
Cui Wu took a bowl of tea, drank it down, wiped the water stains from the corners of his mouth, and then said to the scribe: "Sir, I have been squatting near the Jinyiwei Yamen for most of the day, and the traitor Li Huan finally
I reluctantly left the Jinyiwei Yamen, and looking at the direction, I seemed to be heading towards the city gate."
Hearing this, the young master couldn't help frowning and said: "Strange, what is Li Huan doing out of the city at this time? Ordinarily, as the commander of the Jinyi Guards and the emperor's most trusted confidant, shouldn't he be sitting in the capital and supervising the rebellion?"
The scribe stroked his beard, with a strange look in his eyes, and suddenly said to the young man: "Sir, do you still remember the official position that Li Huan was granted by the emperor?"
Hearing this, the young man immediately said: "Of course I remember that the emperor made Li Huan the commander of the Jinyi Guards and in charge of the Jinyi Guards. He also made him the Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese Army, the Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Guard, and the Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Guard. He even made him a Grand Tutor to show his merits. It can be said to be the ultimate favor and trust.
, it is rare in ancient times for someone of this grade to receive this honor.”
There was a hint of jealousy in the young man's words.
The scribe nodded and said, "If my subordinate's guess is correct, Li Huan will most likely go to the capital when he leaves the city."
The young man couldn't help but was stunned, and suddenly a look of surprise appeared on his face and said: "Yes, sir, you are right. Since Li Huan has the responsibility of admiral of the capital camp, he must go to the capital camp to inspect, otherwise there will be another military chaos. Zhang Mao
This is a lesson learned from his mistakes.”
As he spoke, the young man didn't know what he was thinking of, and suddenly smiled and said: "Sir, if I remember correctly, the emperor seems to be intending to order Li Huan to rectify the capital camp. Do you think that with Li Huan's methods, will he use thunderous means to abolish it?"
Among them, the old and the weak, investigate the situation of empty pay in the capital camp?"
The scribe raised his brows and said: "What you said is true. Judging from Li Huan's words and deeds in the past, since Li Huan is in charge of the capital camp, he will definitely use thunderous means to clear out all the moths in the capital camp. It is impossible to say
Beijing Camp is about to undergo a major purge, and someone might lose their head by then."
The young man suddenly laughed and said: "Thunder Cleansing is good. If he doesn't use Thunder methods to clean up the Beijing camp, I can't think of a way to trick him Li Huan. Now it seems that there is a chance to trick him Li Huan.
If we're lucky, maybe we can kill him Li Huan without us taking action."
The scribe was stunned and looked at the young man in surprise.
The young man waved his hand, and Cui Wu and others immediately retreated to a distance, leaving only the young man and the scribes.
The scribe looked at the young man and heard a flash of murderous intention in the young man's eyes, and said slowly: "Sir, you said that if we secretly order people to spread the news in the capital camp, Li Huan will use thunderous means to clean up the capital camp.
The old and weak, strictly investigate the news of empty pay, what do you think the reaction of the old and weak in the Beijing camp and the generals will be?"
The scribe was stunned for a moment, and a look of horror flashed across his eyes, apparently realizing the young man's purpose.
Taking a deep breath, the scribe whispered: "Isn't it possible that the young master wants to provoke a mutiny among the soldiers in the capital? If that is the case, it might really be a big chaos. I don't know how many people there will be."
He lost his life."
The young man sneered and said: "So what, Li Huan will definitely die! What do you think, sir?"
The scribe took a deep breath and said slowly: "The master's plan is very clever. In fact, we need to send people to publicize it. We only need to let some people know that Li Huan is going to clean up the capital, and those people will join forces to seek help.
Self-protection. Unless Li Huan is willing to compromise, otherwise, the two sides will inevitably conflict."
As he spoke, the scribe looked at the young man and said, "In that case, can our arrangement continue?"
The young master pondered for a moment and said, "We still have to prepare what we need to do. I will send people to do the operations in the capital camp. Here in the capital, I will also arrange the arrangements according to what we have discussed before."
As he spoke, the young man showed a bit of confidence and pride on his face and said: "This time, even if Li Huan has the power to reach heaven, I will take his life."
Beijing camp
The Ming Dynasty had been in peace for a long time, and there had been no war for a long time. The last time the Tatars invaded was decades ago, and decades would be enough to erase everything.
It’s easy to imagine how much strength the Beijing camp still has today.
If the Beijing camp is really an elite division, I am afraid that Feng Hai led a battalion of thousands of troops to Beijing not long ago, and it is impossible for Zhu Houzhao and his group to successfully escape into the Tengyang Fourth Guards Camp.
The road was filled with dust, and the location of the Beijing Camp could be seen in the distance.
A continuous camp appeared in sight. Normally, such a place should be heavily guarded, but Li Huan found that there were only a few veterans in twos and threes at the entrance of the capital camp, wearing tattered clothes, standing there and taking a nap.
There was a rumble and the sound of horse hooves, and several veterans guarding the entrance of the camp were like frightened mice. They jumped up, took one look, and ran into the camp in fright.
Even the camp gate was not closed, and Li Huan was dumbfounded when he saw this scene, and was messy in the wind.
If he hadn't been sure that this was where the Beijing camp was stationed, Li Huan would have wondered whether he had come to the wrong place. Did the Ming Dynasty's hundreds of thousands of soldiers actually look like this?
Looking at Li Huan's ugly face, Chen Yao whispered: "Sir, since the time of the late emperor, Jingying has gradually declined and lost its combat effectiveness. In more than ten years, the emperor has only reviewed the Jingying two or three times.
The soldiers have long been outlasted."
Li Huan couldn't help but smile bitterly when he heard this. He finally understood why Zhang Mao led the Four Yong Battalions into Beijing not long ago. It was supposed that the four Yong Battalions in total should have at least 40,000 to 50,000 troops, but in the end there were only a few thousand soldiers and horses.
Now it seems that those thousands of soldiers and horses are probably the last elite of the 40,000 to 50,000 troops of the Si Yong Battalion.
If calculated according to this proportion, the Beijing camp's hundreds of thousands of troops may still be able to fight a war, but only ten or twenty thousand people can fight at full strength.
Originally, Li Huan had also seen the combat effectiveness of the rebels led by Feng Hai. Although it was not very good, he could barely see through it.
Later, I also saw Zhang Mao leading the soldiers of the Four Yong Battalion to suppress the rebellion, and their combat effectiveness was quite good.
Therefore, Li Huan believed that the soldiers in the Beijing camp still had a certain fighting capacity, but now Li Huan suddenly realized that he seemed to be a little too optimistic.
There is still some fighting strength left in the Beijing camp, but now Li Huan has given up hope.
In fact, if you think about it, based on history, why did Zhu Houzhao leave hundreds of thousands of troops in the capital unused? In the end, he followed Jiang Bin's suggestion and sent elite soldiers and horses from the border army to Beijing to form the famous Four Foreign Families.
After all, there was a precedent of Dong Zhuo entering Beijing and causing trouble for the capital. Generally speaking, any emperor with a normal mind would not easily mobilize border troops to Beijing, but Zhu Houzhao did just that.
Thinking about it now, Li Huan felt that the reason why Zhu Houzhao left the Beijing camp unused and would rather take the risk of recruiting border troops to Beijing was that the civil servant group had penetrated the Beijing camp so powerfully that even the emperor could not believe that he had
The Beijing camp still had some control, but on the other hand, the combat effectiveness of the Beijing camp was probably really worrying, so Zhu Houzhao simply gave up hope on the Beijing camp and simply started anew and established four foreign armies as border troops.
While these thoughts flashed through his mind, Li Huan also drove his horse into the camp.
Immediately, a sour smell hit my face. Looking around, I saw that the camp was in a mess. Not to mention the mess of the barracks, even the school grounds in the distance were turned into bedding hanging like flags.
The place.
At this moment, a general and several soldiers came in a hurry. When they saw Li Huan and his party from a distance, their expressions couldn't help but change.
Li Huan's eyes also fell on these people.
The general manager saw Li Huan's official uniform at a glance and was shocked because he still didn't know Li Huan's identity.
In the Beijing camp, the soldiers at the bottom were confused all day long and naturally did not know the news about Li Huan's appointment as the commander-in-chief of the Chinese Army's Governor's Palace to oversee the affairs of the Beijing camp.
However, as a low-level official in the army, he still knew the news. After all, the Xiaoyong camp next door rebelled and was killed. Zhang Mao led the elite of the Siyong camp to Beijing to quell the rebellion. This news had already spread throughout the Beijing camp in the past few days.
Already.
Naturally, the news about Li Huan also reached the ears of them, the generals in the Beijing camp.
Ma Kui recognized Li Huan, his legs went weak, he knelt down in front of Li Huan, and said in a trembling voice: "Ma Kui, the commander of Zhenwei Camp under Siwei Camp, pays homage to the Governor."
Li Huan stood down from a high position and glanced at General Ma Kui indifferently. His eyes swept across the entire camp. Looking around, the camp was noisy. In the distance, many soldiers could be seen taking a nap in the shade.
There were still faint noises coming from the barracks.
Li Huan frowned, glanced at Ma Kui and said, "Get up."
As he said this, Li Huan turned over and dismounted, and Chen Yao and others quickly dismounted and followed Li Huan.
Ma Kui's face turned quite pale when he saw this situation, and he followed Li Huan cautiously. Especially when he noticed that Li Huan was walking towards the barracks with the loudest noise, cold sweat even broke out on his forehead.
Li Huan seemed not to notice the change in Ma Kui's expression, and just ran towards the barracks in the direction of the noise.
The door of the barracks was open, and before reaching the door, an excited shout came over.
"Come on, come on, the pressure is almost over, I must turn it up this time..."
A powerful voice came. Needless to say, just by hearing that voice, you could tell what the people in the barracks were doing.
Gambling has always been prohibited in the military, as anyone with some basic common sense knows.
Li Huan looked extremely calm when he heard the shouts coming from the barracks, and slowly walked into the barracks under Ma Kui's panicked eyes.
Immediately, a wave of heat hit my face, and I saw dozens of figures, almost all shirtless, gathered in front of a large square table in the spacious barracks.
A burly man with Mr. Qian's official uniform draped over his shoulders was currently standing with one foot on the table, holding a sieve in one hand and a wine jar in the other. He took a few sips of strong liquor.
On the other hand, he shouted loudly at the people around him with a bright red face.
"It's time to place your bet. Let's buy it and leave..."
Following Mr. Qian's shouts, many people began to place bets one after another. Li Huan stood aside and watched. He just glanced at them and found that there were more than a dozen people among them, Mr. Qian, and there were probably four of them.
Five people, almost all the middle and low-level generals of this battalion are here.
Mr. Qian, who was sitting in the bank, was obviously very lucky. There was already a pile of copper coins and scattered silver piled in front of him. He was extremely excited at this time. Because he was standing at a high place, he glanced around and happened to see the person standing in the crowd.
Li Huan.
The moment Mr. Qian saw Li Huan, he felt that Li Huan was unfamiliar, but under the influence of alcohol, he subconsciously shouted to Li Huan: "Hey, brother, which battalion are you from? What about me, Song Guang?"
I’ve never met you, but since you’re here, are you interested in giving me a try..."
Ma Kui, the general manager on the side, heard that his boss actually asked Li Huan to gamble with him. His legs went weak and he almost fell to the ground.
Song Guang's greeting attracted many people to look at Li Huan, obviously wanting to see who else was coming.
Many people were stunned when they first saw Li Huan, and then their expressions changed drastically, with a look of horror on their faces.
Even if they didn't know Li Huan, it didn't stop them from recognizing the official uniform of the Commander-in-Chief of the Central Military Governor's Mansion that Li Huan was wearing.
Coupled with the dozen or so fierce-looking imperial guards following Li Huan, many people immediately reacted and guessed Li Huan's identity.
Only a handful of people didn't pay much attention to what happened in the capital. They didn't know Li Huan's identity, but they couldn't help but inform the colleagues around him about Li Huan's identity in a low voice. Immediately, all of them looked shocked.
He looked at Li Huan.
Li Huan walked forward, and the people around him who already knew Li Huan's identity stepped out of the way in awe and fear.
On the contrary, Mr. Qian Song Guang, who looked drunk, stood at a high place, laughed at Li Huan and said: "Good brother, come and place your bet..."
Li Huan had already arrived in front of the long table. He looked at the piles of copper coins and scattered silver on the table, as well as the wine jars on the table, and glanced at the rest of the people.
Whenever Li Huan glanced at them, these people couldn't help but lower their heads, not daring to look at Li Huan at all.
Gambling and drinking in the military are taboos in the military.
At this moment, the governor Li Huan was actually caught in the act. Many people felt uneasy and extremely frightened.
Li Huan took a step forward and sat directly on the long table. He looked at Song Guang calmly and said, "I have made a bet with you. This bet will be on your head!"
While they were talking, everyone felt a sudden chill all around them. On this hot day, many people felt as if they had fallen into an ice cave, and cold sweat could not help but break out on their foreheads.
"Hahaha"
The drunken Song Guang couldn't help laughing when he heard the words. He pointed at Li Huan swayingly and said: "You are really interesting. It's true that we bet money, but if we don't bet our heads, how can we calculate this thing if we lose?"
Li Huan looked at Song Guang and shouted in a deep voice: "Let's shake the dice. If I guess the right number, I win, and then your head will be mine."
Even though Song Guang was drunk at this time, he still had a sense of clarity. Hearing that something was wrong, he shook his head violently to wake himself up a little.
Looking at Li Huan and others, his eyes narrowed, and then he seemed to remember something. His face turned cold, his legs softened, and he sat down on the chair with a thud.
"The Great...The Great Governor!"
Apparently Song Guang had recognized Li Huan's identity at this time.
Li Huan sneered and said: "Now that you have recognized me, you should know that whether you can save your head depends on you."
As he spoke, Li Huandan said: "Shake the dice!"
Song Guang trembled, his face was pale, and the alcoholism in his body had long been frightened away. He lay trembling on the ground, kowtowed to Li Huan and said: "Grand Governor, please forgive me, Grand Governor, please have mercy, general..."
I will never dare to do it again."
Everyone around him also knelt down. Only Li Huan sat there, looking at Song Guang coldly. Behind him, Chen Yao and others placed their hands on the embroidered spring knife. All it took was Li Huan's order.
If you press it, you can chop off these people's heads in an instant.
Song Guang was shirtless, sweating profusely, and in the blink of an eye there was a bright red patch of blood oozing out of his forehead.
How dare he shake dice again?
However, Li Huan's voice rang in his ears, and he said calmly and indifferently: "Didn't you hear what I said?"
Song Guang felt a murderous intent coming towards him, like falling into an ice cave, and slowly raised his head and looked towards Li Huan.
Just seeing Li Huan's cold eyes without a trace of emotion, Song Guang's heart sank, and he suddenly said to Li Huan: "Since the Governor wants to bet with his subordinates, then the subordinates will ask the Governor, if
So what if my subordinate wins?"
The soldiers and soldiers from the Beijing camp who were kneeling around him obviously did not expect that Song Guang would be bold enough to negotiate terms with Li Huan, and they all looked at Song Guang with disbelief.
But now Song Guang was obviously willing to give up. Since begging for mercy was useless, he might as well fight for it. However, he was still a bit smart and knew to stop Li Huan with words first.
Li Huan glanced at Song Guang, as if he didn't notice the look of expectation in Song Guang's eyes, and just sneered: "Don't say that I didn't give you a chance to live. As long as you can defeat me, then today
I will pretend that this incident never happened."
Song Guang was overjoyed when he heard this and said: "Okay, a gentleman's words are hard to catch up with, so the general will believe in the governor."
While speaking, Song Guang stood up, took the sieve cup in his hand, threw several sieves into the sieve cup, and then shook them in front of Li Huan.
Hearing Peng's sound, the sieve cup fell on the long table. Song Guang looked at Li Huan and said directly: "Captain, please guess whether this one is big or small."
It can be seen that the veins in Song Guang's hand pressing the sieve cup are bulging, and cold sweat is breaking out on his forehead. It is obvious how nervous and scared Song Guang is in his heart.
Li Huan gently knocked on the long table with one hand and said indifferently: "I guess you don't have any in this sieve cup, but if there is a little in it, you win."
Song Guang was stunned at first, then he was overjoyed and burst into laughter. While laughing, he opened the sieve cup and said: "How is this possible? Even if it is worse, it is still a little bit worse, so in this round, you lose, Governor...
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He just thought that he was a false alarm and Li Huan had no intention of killing him, so he said that specifically to give him a step down.
While Song Guang was secretly happy, he couldn't help but have a good impression of Li Huan's knowledge and interest. He only felt that Li Huan, the admiral of the capital camp, was definitely more suitable than the British Duke Zhang Mao.
The kneeling soldiers and generals all around looked at Song Guang when he lifted the sieve cup. They also heard Li Huan's words, and some of them also had the same thoughts as Song Guang.
But when they saw the situation in the sieve cup, each one of them showed a look of astonishment. Then everyone's eyes fell on Song Guang.
Song Guang only felt that everyone was looking at him a little strangely, and he couldn't help but thought in his heart. Could it be that there was some accident?
Subconsciously, he lowered his head and looked at the long table. He saw that in the sieve cup, the original sieves had all turned into powder. They were completely broken into powder, let alone a little bit. This was simply
Just not at all.
With a pop, Song Guang fell to the ground and looked at Li Huan with blank eyes.
Li Huan stood up slowly, looked down at the crowd, and then shouted to Chen Yao and others beside him: "Let me take it down for the governor."
Two Jinyi guards immediately stepped forward and lifted Song Guang up. Song Guang's expression changed drastically, he struggled repeatedly, and shouted: "Spare your life, Commander-in-Chief, spare your life, my subordinates will never dare to do it again!"
Li Huan strode out of the barracks with his hands behind his back, as if he didn't hear Song Guang's shout.
Chen Yao and other Jinyi guards quickly followed, while the officers and soldiers of the Beijing camp in the barracks let out a sigh of relief one by one. Look at me, I look at you, their eyes are filled with horror.
Looking at Li Huan's retreating figure, these people then looked at Mr. Qian Song Guang, whose mouth was gagged and carried away by the Jin Yiwei, and then looked at each other, with frightened and worried expressions on their faces.
Li Huan left the barracks and strode towards the depths of the camp.
Although the camps of the 12th Regiment Camp were in one place, they were not completely connected. They were divided into four camps and were connected together. The first place Li Huan came to was the Siwei Camp.
As you can imagine, the camp was large enough to accommodate tens of thousands of people. As Li Huan and his party walked in the camp, they naturally saw more and more scenes.
It didn't matter that a large number of soldiers gathered together to chat and fight. He only saw small groups gathering to fight crickets, cocks, and even dogs. Such a scene actually appeared here in a grand manner.
In the camp.
Although Li Huan knew that Zhang Mao had no longer been in charge of the affairs of the Beijing Camp a few years ago, and most of the affairs of the Beijing Camp were managed by the nobles who were in charge of each battalion, but because of the Ministry of War, the 12th Regiment Battalion was actually managed by nobles.
It's only about half.
About half of the remaining regiments and camps are not led by nobles, but are led by commanders sent by the Ministry of War.
Just like the four Wei camps, Zhenwei, Yangwei, Liwei and Extensionwei. Among them, Zhenwei and Yangwei are under the jurisdiction of the commanders and admirals sent by the Ministry of War. Only the Liwei and Extensionwei camps are commanded by nobles.
According to Li Huan's understanding, the admiral of Zhenwei Camp was Pei Yong sent by the Ministry of War.
Ma Kui, the commander who had been following Li Huan, was already numb at this time. Naturally, he also saw what Li Huan saw.
He was very familiar with the situation in the camp. At this moment, Ma Kui's heart was already on edge. He was full of worry, fearing that Li Huan would suddenly get angry at him and chop off his head.
At this moment, Li Huan suddenly stopped and said, "Where is Pei Yong, the admiral of your Zhenwei Camp?"
Although he had known for a long time that Li Huan would definitely ask about the whereabouts of his admiral, when he heard Li Huan speak, Ma Kui couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief for some reason.
If the sky falls, there will be tall people holding it up. Isn't there still the Admiral?
My admiral is a big shot sent by the Ministry of War, and he has great connections. If anything happens, the admiral will naturally take care of it, right?
With such thoughts flashing through his mind, Ma Kui said quickly: "Back to your lord, the admiral should usually be in the tent at this time."
Li Huan raised his eyebrows and said: "Oh, I didn't expect that your admiral is actually a good officer who is diligent in military affairs."
Ma Kui couldn't help but look embarrassed. He hesitated and said, "The Governor will find out when he meets the Admiral later."
It is said to be a large tent, but it is actually a house that is obviously very different from other barracks.
In this military camp, it would be bad if the barracks were too out of the ordinary, so this barracks was obviously prepared for the admiral. Judging from the appearance, it seemed to be taller than the other barracks.
Under Ma Kui's guidance, Li Huan and his party quickly arrived at the tallest barracks.
From a distance, I saw several burly soldiers guarding the entrance of the barracks.
These soldiers were strong and energetic, with a faint bloody evil aura about them. They looked more like soldiers than the soldiers Li Huan had seen before entering the camp.
One of the leading soldiers stepped forward to stop Li Huan and the others and shouted loudly: "Who are you and what are you doing here?"
Li Huan glanced at the soldier indifferently, and at this moment Chen Yao stepped forward and snorted coldly: "How brave, how dare you be so rude in front of the Governor, do you want to die?"
When several soldiers heard this, they couldn't help but were stunned. They looked at Li Huan, and then they realized what they were doing. Their expressions changed, and they bowed to Li Huan with a thud and said, "I'll pay my respects to the Governor later."
Li Huan looked quite ugly at this time, because standing at the door of the barracks, Li Huan vaguely heard the charming sounds of warblers and swallows coming from the barracks.
Just listening to the overwhelming sound, even a fool can realize what is going on inside.
Li Huan took a deep breath, suppressed the anger in his heart, and strode forward, ready to push the door open, but the soldiers immediately stood up and blocked Li Huan.
"No, Governor!"
A soldier looked at Li Huan and gritted his teeth and said to Li Huan.
Li Huan looked at the soldiers and said slowly: "Do you know what you are doing?"
Under Li Huan's pressure, several soldiers had cold sweat on their foreheads, but they still insisted: "The admiral has an order that no one is allowed to disturb him while he is handling military affairs."
Chen Yao snorted coldly and said, "Isn't it possible that the Grand Governor doesn't do it too?"
However, several soldiers shook their heads and insisted: "Not even the Grand Governor can do it."
As the personal soldiers of Admiral Pei Yong, they naturally knew what was going on inside and how they were willing to let Li Huan break in, even if they offended Li Huan for it.
"How brave!"
Chen Yao shouted, and a soldier winked at the other people and immediately pushed the door open. Then he heard the screams of several women and the roar of one man's filial piety coming from the barracks.
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"You bastard, who let you in..."
Li Huan and others standing at the door could clearly hear the noise coming from the barracks.
In the barracks, a burly man was surrounded by several white bodies. He was screaming and pulling on the quilt to cover up the leaking spring light.
The soldier who broke into the barracks lay on the ground and trembled: "Sir, the Governor is here."
Pei Yong was disturbed, and his heart was full of anger. He suddenly couldn't help but froze when he heard the words. He stared at the soldier with a look of astonishment on his face and shouted: "What did you say? Who is coming?"
The soldier said in a low voice: "Sir, it's the Governor-General Li Huan who is here."
With a grunt, Pei Yong swallowed hard, suddenly jumped up, and hurriedly put on his clothes. At the same time, he growled at the women who had leaked their love, "What are you doing here? Why don't you get dressed quickly."
Outside the barracks, with Li Huan's ears, he could clearly hear the movements in the barracks. He glanced at the soldiers and took a step forward. He heard several muffled groans and several attempts to stop Li Huan.
A soldier was directly knocked out by Li Huan.
One person even hit the door of the barracks directly and rolled into the barracks like a gourd.
The bright sunshine suddenly shone into the barracks. This sudden change surprised everyone in the barracks, and then a woman's scream was heard.
Pei Yong, who was holding up his pants, looked up and happened to see a figure standing at the door, dressed in fine clothes, looking at him coldly, covering most of Yang Guang and casting a long shadow.
If not Li Huan, who is he?
Under Li Huan's gaze, Pei Yong put on his shirt, stepped forward and bowed to Li Huan and said: "Your Majesty, Pei Yong, pays homage to the Governor."
The women were shrinking back now, looking at this scene with horror on their faces.
Li Huan just glanced at Pei Yong indifferently, without saying a word, turned around and left under Pei Yong's stunned eyes.
Li Huan took a few steps and shouted to Ma Kui, whose legs were a little weak: "Ma Kui, right? Give me my order, beat the drum and gather the troops!"
Ma Kui couldn't help but be startled when he heard this, and subconsciously glanced at Pei Yong, who was still in disheveled clothes and kneeling there without having time to get up. However, he quickly came to his senses and hurriedly said in a deep voice, "The general will take your orders."
Li Huan stood still in front of the big tent, with his hands behind his back.
The sunlight fell on Li Huan, but it cast a long shadow. I don't know why, seeing this scene, Pei Yong, who was looking at Li Huan from behind, felt a strange and ominous feeling in his heart.
Ma Kui glanced at Li Huan secretly, took a deep breath, and ran away in the direction of the war drum.
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