Cheng Wu was originally hesitant, worried that not pursuing the murder of his corps commander with the Jing Mansion would cause him to lose his prestige in the Forbidden Army in the future.
At this time, envoys from foreign countries jumped out and made a fuss, saying that they would go to the Jinluan Palace to question the emperor. Cheng Wu gritted his teeth, narrowed his eyes, and looked in the direction of everyone in the Jing Mansion.
Jing Mansion has a brand name and a special status. As long as you don't rebel, you will be fine.
However, the Jing Mansion now has no successors and its reputation is in decline. There is only one man left who is weak and may not even live for a few years. This means that the Jing Mansion will not be able to turn around in the future.
There is a saying that it is better to bully a white-headed man than to bully a poor young man! That is to say, when a person is old and has no chance to turn over, you bully him without fear of revenge in the future.
Although the young man is relatively poor now, who can guarantee that he will not become famous in the future?
It is precisely because of uncertainty that young people should not be bullied into poverty.
Now in Cheng Wu's eyes, Jingfu is a twilight old man with no future.
Furthermore, in addition to maintaining his own prestige, the old emperor was old and sick and could not survive a few more years, but the current prince saw Jingfu as a thorn in his side!
As long as he makes his attitude clear today and suppresses the momentum of Xia Jingfu, he may be lucky enough to be in the eyes of the prince. If he can get the prince's praise and secretly win over him, the prince will succeed to the throne when the old emperor dies.
, is he still afraid that he will not be reused by the prince in the future?
Cheng Wu is now the deputy commander of the South Camp of the Forbidden Army Infantry Yamen. He has thousands of people under his command, and is also called the Captain of Thousands.
There are three deputy commanders under the orthodox leader.
Throughout the ages, for ministers, the greatest achievement is nothing more than serving the dragon.
It refers to assisting the new emperor to ascend or succeed the throne. Now that the old emperor is dying, Cheng Wu naturally does not want to miss this great opportunity to assist the prince to ascend the throne.
The prerequisite for establishing the merit of following the dragon is that you must join the prince's camp before the death of the old emperor. Today's attack on the Jing Mansion is a good opportunity.
Although Jingfu has always behaved fiercely and like bandits, civil servants and military generals are different in nature.
Civil servants have no power to restrain a chicken, they only bicker.
If you win the war of words, you can also kill people.
Military generals can only achieve meritorious service and promotion if they go into battle and kill the enemy. What can they do if they don't have bloody courage?
Although there are also timid military generals, Cheng Wu was an ambitious man who never lacked courage and courage.
In order to join the prince's army and strive for a prosperous and prosperous future, Cheng Wu's eyes flashed and he made up his mind in an instant.
"Who hurt the envoy's entourage earlier?"
Although he was asking, Cheng Wu's eyes were already fixed on Guan Shihao.
"It's me!" Guan Shihao's chest puffed up, not showing any timidity, he stared at Cheng Wu, took a step forward and shouted.
He was still resenting Cheng Wu for throwing a hidden weapon behind his back.
"Someone, take it down!"
Cheng Wu didn't have any unnecessary nonsense and directly waved his hand and issued the order.
In the small courtyard, two ten-man forbidden army squads immediately held spears in their hands and pressed towards Guan Shihao.
Naturally, Guan Shihao would not just keep his hands tied. He held a steel knife in his hand and stared at the approaching imperial army with a pair of big copper bell-like eyes.
Chen Tai, the captain of Jingfu's guard, glanced at Mrs. Jing at this moment.
Seeing that Mrs. Jing did not speak, she just waved her hand, and more than twenty guards immediately pulled out their weapons, stood side by side with Guan Shihao, and faced off against the imperial army.
"Bold, I am Cheng Wu, the deputy commander of the south camp of the Forbidden Army Infantry Yamen. If you don't retreat immediately!"
Cheng Wu suddenly took a step forward and shouted loudly at the Jingfu guards.
It's just that although his voice was loud, the Jingfu guards ignored him at all.
He was just a deputy commander of the imperial army, but they were not even afraid of Xiao Jing, the dignified second-rank Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Etiquette.
The indifference of everyone in the Jing Mansion made Cheng Wu's face darken immediately, "Are you going to rebel?"
"The Forbidden Army has a very bad temper, and it is easy to say that others are going to rebel."
Mrs. Jing, who had always been calm and composed, finally spoke.
"This must be the old lady of Jing Mansion, right?" Cheng Wu cast his gloomy eyes on Old Madam Jing and hummed softly.
Mrs. Jing glanced at Cheng Wu lightly, nodded and said, "Not bad."
"Back then, the Jing family was also the residence of the Marquis. I guess Mrs. Jing was not that ignorant woman who had never seen the world. Now this guard of your house not only killed a corps commander in the imperial army at the gate of the temple, but also
Moreover, she also cut off the arm of an entourage of a foreign envoy in this small courtyard, so should the old lady hand this person over to my officer and take him back for disposal?"
Cheng Wu asked in a deep voice.
"It was the captain of the imperial army who made the first move before he was beheaded by the guards at his residence, so it should be considered self-defense."
Mrs. Jing said calmly: "As for this follower with a broken arm..."
Having said this, Mrs. Jing looked around, her eyes flickering across the faces of many foreign envoys, and suddenly sneered: "He's just a foreigner from the frontier, not to mention just cutting off one arm, just taking off his neck on the spot.
Heads, what’s the big deal?”
As soon as these words came out, everyone in the small courtyard changed their colors!
Especially those envoys from foreign countries started shouting one after another.
This is not treating them as human beings!
Some of the grumpy ones even drew out their sabers and tried to pounce on everyone in the Jing Mansion.
However, they were blocked by the Imperial Guards holding long spears, so they could only jump on the spot angrily.
After hearing this, Jiang Long's eyes widened and he secretly praised in his heart.
Mrs. Jing is really powerful and domineering!
The situation of the Daqi Dynasty was similar to that of ancient China before he traveled over. The dynasty had a huge territory and was surrounded by dozens of small countries.
Because of the lack of resources, once these small countries encounter natural disasters and have no surplus food, they will invade the borders of Daqi, burn, kill, loot and steal food from the people. And because the two countries often fight against each other, these aliens treat the people of Daqi.
Extremely cruel and bloody.
Villages and cities are often bloodbathed, and once they are captured, no one will be left alive!
Any soldier who has served on the frontiers of the dynasty and has been on the battlefield will be very angry towards foreigners.
Madam Jing followed the old Marquis to southern Xinjiang, so she knew very well about the ruthlessness and cruelty of the aliens. She also knew that it was precisely because of this that the old Marquis used iron-blooded means to suppress all those who dared to invade the dynasty's territory or
They are local aliens who dare to rebel.
Mr. Jing Laohou has a conflicting and reckless temperament, but he is not really stupid.
But he knew clearly that the civil servants in the court would definitely criticize him if he wanted to kill foreigners, but why didn't he change his mind?
Over and over again, he beheaded the prisoners in the street, staining the streets with blood, thus earning him the nickname "Decapitator General".
The reason is very simple, that is, Mr. Jing Laohou has seen countless kind and innocent people of Qi being killed, and he has a deep hatred for foreign races!
After following Mr. Jing for a long time, he naturally influenced Mrs. Jing.
That's why Mrs. Jing said such words.
In the eyes of Mrs. Jing, the lives of these foreigners are indeed worthless.
What a arrogant old woman!
Cheng Wu was also filled with anger after hearing this, and naturally he would not let Mrs. Jing offend the guard so easily, "Whether the guard in the house killed the captain of the imperial army in self-defense needs to be carefully investigated.
Only then can we figure it out.
And although this entourage is from a foreign race, he is the confidant of a distinguished guest sent by a foreign king to our Daqi Dynasty as an envoy. How can you allow you to kill him at your request?
Okay, I won't talk nonsense to you, you just need to hand over the guard and let me take him away."
"Who do you think you are? How dare you talk to me like this?"
Mrs. Jing, however, straightened her back and looked at Cheng Wu with disdain in her eyes, "Not to mention you, a small deputy commander of the imperial army, even the general of South Camp would not dare to be so presumptuous when he saw me!
If you want to take away the people in my house, do you have the ability?"
As soon as these words came out, Cheng Wu's eyes widened and his lungs almost exploded with anger!
This was naked contempt and a slap in the face in front of so many people.
If he can't give everyone in Jing Mansion a good look, he won't be able to go out anymore.
However, just as he was about to give the order to let his forbidden troops take action, he was stopped by Xiao Jing who rushed forward.
Xiao Jing pulled Cheng Wu's sleeves hard and pulled him aside.
Cheng Wu's face turned blue and white with anger at this time. If he was not a reckless person, how could he, a general, be dragged away by Xiao Jing?
Forcibly suppressing the anger in his heart, he wanted to hear what Xiao Jing had to say. If there was not enough reason for him to stop, he would definitely have a fight with the Jing family today.
Xiao Jing was also complaining secretly in his heart at this time. He had already hinted in his words not to cause trouble to Jing Mansion.
But I don’t know if Cheng Wu didn’t hear it or if he still insisted on seeking justice for the dead corps leader.
As for the envoy's entourage who lost an arm, this is not a big deal.
After all, their identities are there. As long as nothing happens to the envoys, even if these people go to the Jinluan Palace to complain to the emperor, the emperor will not take it seriously. At most, they will reprimand Xiao Jing and others and pay some compensation for the soup and medicine.
In this era, not everyone is equal, followers are slaves without human rights, and their lives are like straw.
"Sir Cheng, I advise you to take a step back to open up the world." After Xiao Jingyi took Cheng Wu out of the courtyard and found a deserted place, he said directly without going around in circles.
At this time, Cheng Wu no longer cared that Xiao Jing's official rank was higher than his own, and there was no respect in his expression. He asked with a straight face, "Why?"
Xiao Jing did not explain directly, but gave a few examples, which shocked Cheng Wu so much that his face turned pale and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
"Back then, several major nomadic tribes in northern Xinjiang united with an army of more than 300,000 to invade our border. After learning that the reinforcements would not arrive on time, Mr. Jing Xiaohou led his soldiers to kill more than 10,000 heads of border people in our Daqi Dynasty.
The bloody head pretended to surrender.
After gaining trust, he cooperated with the arriving reinforcements inside and outside, launched a sneak attack at night, and killed most of the more than 300,000 invading enemy troops!
Our army also paid tens of thousands of soldiers.
It was a real river of blood!
It is said that the grass on the battlefield was extremely lush the following year.
Marquis Jing Xiao died in the battle that night. Afterwards, an army lieutenant general investigated and learned that the reason why the reinforcements failed to arrive at the border on time for support was because some ministers had secretly acted and held back the reinforcements."
"Do you know who did it?"
Xiao Jing opened his mouth to ask.
Cheng Wu frowned and shook his head.
Cheng Wu had heard of Jing Xiaohou Ye Jingxian. They were of the same age and both served in the army.
But compared to Jing Xian, Cheng Wu is nothing.
When Jingxian died in the battle, Cheng Wu had not yet been promoted to deputy commander, so he naturally knew nothing about some of the secrets of the court.
"It's the prince and tutor back then!"
Cheng Wu's heart trembled, and he asked urgently, "What about the result?"
"The Crown Prince and Tutor was dismissed from office in anger by the Emperor, and then on his way home, he was robbed and killed by a group of masked men!"
Drops of cold sweat seeped out along Cheng Wu's forehead, then gathered into water and flowed down his face.