"Chen Peijun, do you think it was Chen Quan who told us the location of the secret passage?"
The company commander of the bodyguard looked at King Xiang with a dumbfounded look.
"Isn't it?" King Xiang asked.
"Of course not," the escort company commander shook his head: "We found out by asking the people!"
"Nonsense, the people who built the secret tunnel were all executed by my father. There is no way any people know about it!" King Xiang said angrily.
The previous generation of King Xiang recruited thousands of people to secretly build this secret passage in the name of renovating the back garden.
After the secret tunnel was completed, King Lao Xiang sent these people together with the soldiers who oversaw the construction to build the dam. Bayi Chinese website
Then, as expected, something happened to these people, and all the civilians and soldiers were swallowed up by the flood.
"Chen Peijun, do you think all the people drowned at that time?"
The company commander of the escort sneered: "You are wrong, some of them survived."
Among the thousands of people, there are always those who are good at water. However, the surviving civilians did not dare to expose King Xiang, or even went home. Instead, they hid incognito.
The land of Shu was the closest to King Xiang's territory, so it became the first choice target of the surviving civilians.
The grandson of one of the civilian husbands joined the Zhenyuan Escort Agency and reported this information.
Then this ambush took place.
"Who betrayed me?" King Xiang asked with red eyes.
"Why, do you still want to take revenge?" The company commander of the escort sneered: "Don't say I won't tell you, so what if I tell you? I advise you to save your worries and think about yourself first!"
He said so, but the escort company commander never said who that person was.
After all, Prince Xiang's family has a complex root system and has cultivated many confidants over the years. There is no guarantee that someone will die to avenge Prince Xiang.
Therefore, Han Feng implemented the strictest protection for the escort who provided information. In fact, the escort company commander himself did not know who he was.
What I said just now was just to attack King Xiang's psychological defense.
Sure enough, when he heard what the escort company commander said, Prince Xiang sat down on the deck as if his strength had been drained from his body.
Originally, he thought that Chen Quan had colluded with the Zhenyuan Escort Bureau in order to succeed to the throne as soon as possible, or that the Zhenyuan Escort Bureau had threatened Chen Quan.
But when he saw Chen Quan being tied up like a pig and being lowered from the airship, King Xiang vaguely understood that he might have wrongly blamed Chen Quan.
Although he hated Jin Feng, he had to admit that Jin Feng was not a treacherous person.
If Chen Quan really hooked up with the Zhenyuan Escort Bureau, it would be impossible for the escorts to treat him like this.
The words of the current escort company commander also prove this point.
Seeing Chen Quan's ferocious face on the shore, glaring at him angrily, King Xiang felt ashamed and angry, filled with grief and anger.
"Quan'er, my father blamed you wrongly!"
Xiang Dynasty waved his left hand to Chen Quan. He held the dagger in his right hand and exerted force, causing the dagger to sink deeply into his neck!
"His Majesty!"
The great eunuch rushed out of the cabin, hugged King Xiang and cried out in grief.
Chen Quan, who was cursing, also collapsed on the ground, his face pale.
King Xiang had many wives and concubines, dozens of sons and daughters, and Chen Quan was just one of them.
In fact, Chen Quan didn't have much affection for King Xiang. Especially when he learned that King Xiang ran away without him and his mother, and even asked the bodyguard to capture him, Chen Quan wanted to bite King Xiang to death.
But when King Xiang committed suicide in front of him, Chen Quan suddenly no longer hated him. Instead, he lay on the ground and turned to glare at the escort company commander.
"What are you looking at? You can't bear to see your father?"
The company commander of the escort sneered and took out his musket and pointed it at Chen Quan's head: "Then I will send you to see him!"
"you dare!"
The chief eunuch roared angrily on the boat: "Jin Feng never kills prisoners, and His Highness the Crown Prince is Chen Wen'er's cousin. If you dare to hurt His Highness the Crown Prince, Chen Wen'er will not spare you!"
"Yeah?"
The escort company commander grinned, and then directly pulled the trigger!
Chen Quan's head was shot at close range and exploded on the spot like a watermelon!
While filling up gunpowder and iron sand, the company commander of the escort ordered in a cold voice: "Kill them!"
For a moment, there was loud gunfire from the shore.
The heavy crossbows aimed at the wooden boats were also fired one after another.
In just ten seconds, the walls and roof of the cabin were riddled with holes.
The imperial guardsmen hiding among them were also wiped out.
The eunuch holding Prince Xiang was also hit by the iron sand, but he was not dead yet.
Even so, the company commander of the escort did not dare to be careless. He asked two fishing boats to be dragged from the side and moved over to finish the damage.
"Did Chen Wen'er...ask you...to silence you?"
The eldest eunuch stared at the escort commander and asked with all his strength.
He had called out the name of Ninth Princess before, just to threaten the escort company commander, hoping that the escort company commander would care about the relationship between Ninth Princess and Chen Quan and save Chen Quan's life.
But the company commander of the escort didn't care at all, which made the great eunuch understand instantly - Princess Ninth wanted to eradicate the root cause!
As for family ties?
There is no family affection at all in the struggle for imperial power!
Not to mention that Prince Xiang is just the cousin of the Ninth Princess, even if he is a biological uncle, the Ninth Princess will not be merciful!
The escort company commander did not answer the eunuch, but aimed at his head and pulled the trigger!
After confirming that King Xiang and all his followers were dead, the escort company commander summoned the escorts who were hiding in the dark.
From the beginning to the end, the escort company commander did not show any worried expression.
Because the eunuch guessed correctly, the order given by the Ninth Princess to the escort company commander was not only to capture King Xiang alive, but also to kill all the direct relatives and supporters of King Xiang.
If Jin Feng asked, the escort would say that these people were stubbornly resisting and they had no choice but to take action.
At the same time, the bombing in the city also ended.
Only the special operations team continues to hunt down King Xiang's direct relatives and supporters.
Airships and hot air balloons dropped a large number of leaflets from the sky according to plans that had been made long ago.
There were two paragraphs of announcements printed on the leaflet. The first paragraph stated that Jin Feng had defeated Dang Xiang's southern expeditionary army and the King of Qin's army at Zhuzhuanggou, and would soon come to Xiangdi to warn the powerful and powerful landlords in Xiangdi that they should not continue to levy and oppress wantonly in the future.
People, otherwise the Zhenyuan Escort Bureau will kill them and they will be liquidated!
The second paragraph is aimed at the common people. The main content is to explain the policies formulated by Jin Feng to attack the local tyrants and divide their fields, as well as to lighten the corvee and reduce the tax.
At the end of the second paragraph, Chen Wenyuan also called on the people of Xiangdi to visit Shu and learn new knowledge in the name of Jin Feng.
As long as they graduate from the school set up by the Zhenyuan Escort Bureau, they can return to their hometowns to establish worker-peasant cooperatives and take the initiative to fight against the rich and powerful. When the Zhenyuan Escort Bureau comes over, these people will have priority in selecting land, and the best ones can even become officials.
In a large mansion in the royal city, an old man picked up the flyer on the ground and remained silent for a long time after reading it.
After a long time, he sighed with emotion: "Jin Feng and Chen Wen'er not only want to capture the king, but they also want to kill him!"
The leaflet was written by Chen Wenyuan, and the content is still straightforward and easy to understand, and ordinary people can understand it.
It's just that the old man once served as an official and can see further.
He knew that the influence of this leaflet would definitely be more profound and terrifying than the murder of King Xiang!