Chapter 344 Making a feint to the east and attacking in the west
Zhou Ya was a bookseller with a shop not far from the vegetable market, where he sold classics, current affairs and the like, and his income was mediocre.
Most people don’t buy books early in the morning, so Zhou Ya would get up relatively late.
After getting up, the sun was already high in the sky. The guy opened the door downstairs and listened to the sound lazily.
After washing up, Zhou Ya asked the waiter to put the latest articles in a conspicuous place.
"Boss, didn't His Majesty order that there won't be an imperial examination next year? I'm afraid contemporary essays won't sell well." The clerk looked lazy.
"What do you know? There will be no imperial examination next year. It will be even harder to pass the exam after two years of accumulation of scholars. The only way to break through is to work harder. This year's essays will definitely sell better."
Zhou Ya walked out of the house with his hands behind his back, looked around, and stretched comfortably.
A vendor carrying a bamboo basket and selling pancakes passed by and shouted, "Meat buns, big meat buns!"
"Give me two!" Zhou Ya stopped the vendor and bought two meat buns. He ate one and a half in one go, used the remaining half to tease the neighbor's dog, and finally gave it to a passing stray dog.
"Woof woof!" The teased dog growled at him for a while, then raised its hind legs and urinated at the door of the bookstore.
"Haha!" Zhou Ya clapped his hands, went to the back to lead his horse out, and ordered: "I won't be back at noon, take care of the store."
After he left, the waiter saw that there were no customers, so he went to the toilet at the back to urinate.
The toilet was not far from the stable. When the man passed by, he accidentally noticed something, "Hey! Why is this horse having diarrhea?"
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Zhou Ya felt that his horse was a little weak, and there was something wrong with its look around.
The road was wide and he walked slowly along the right side.
There is a horse and carriage shop in front of the right. The owner recently got a few good horses that have not been castrated. He shows them off to people all day long. On this day, he was training the horses outside the gate, and there were many people watching.
The area outside the carriage house was spacious enough to accommodate large carriages, and there were many stone pillars for tying horses, and some people had tied ropes between the stone pillars, making it a good place to hang clothes.
There was something wrong with Zhou Ya's horse as soon as it arrived here. At first, it just shook its head. Zhou Ya shouted a few times nonchalantly, his mind full of how Xu Wei had been so anxious in recent days.
When his horse saw the stallions, it immediately ran away.
"Shut up!"
Zhou Ya was suddenly startled and just wanted to control the horse, but a line flashed before his eyes.
The line just passed over his neck.
Then he shrank back like lightning.
Sun Chonglou took the rope, and Xu Wei, who pretended to be watching the fun, got out of the crowd, and the two of them quickly disappeared.
The owner of the carriage and horse shop who was showing off his fine horse had just demonstrated the majesty of the horse. After getting off the horse, he bowed and said, "If anyone wants to breed with you later, just let me know."
Everyone knows that this guy wants to make money through breeding, but these horses are indeed majestic and exciting.
"Where did this horse come from?" someone asked.
Not far away, Zhou Ya, who was lying on the ground, twitched the corners of his mouth, and his horse rushed into the crowd.
"This is a good horse from the grassland." said the shopkeeper proudly.
Since the opening of the trade route, stallions, which were strictly prohibited from being sold by Altan Khan's tribe, continued to flow into the Ming Dynasty.
Yilulu!
The mare rushed into the crowd, causing immediate chaos.
"There's a guy there...so much blood!"
Everyone ran over in astonishment.
Zhou Ya covered his throat and smiled bitterly, his hands falling limply. There was a thin cut on his neck, and blood was gushing out.
"died!"
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"Old Xu, you are too sinister."
Sun Chonglou grumbled, and after returning home, Fucheng asked him to cook for him.
Today's special dish is a big pancake.
"Beef?" Sun Chonglou looked disdainful. The Jiang family was short of everything except beef.
"Uncle said that it's good for you to eat more beef so that you can build muscles." Fucheng squatted beside him and watched him eat with big mouthfuls, his eyes kind.
"Oh, Master, yesterday Xu Wei asked me to drug a bookseller's horse, and today he asked me to pull a line. When I saw the bookseller coming, I pulled the line. My goodness, Master, the line almost cut off the man's head."
Fu Cheng listened for a while, then said with a smile: "Eat yours, don't worry about it."
"Oh!" Sun Chonglou ate the pancake and left. Fu Cheng coughed dryly and then went to see Jiang Qingzhi.
"I think the medicine can probably make mares aroused. The owner of the carriage and horse shop has put those good horses outside the gate these days, hoping to let those people see them and attract some breeding business. But the timing must be very good. I admire Mr. Xu's methods... I have been talking for a long time, and I have something else to do. I will take my leave."
After Fucheng left, Jiang Qingzhi smiled.
"This Xu Wei!"
Xu Wei asked Sun Chonglou to do it, and he didn't plan to hide it from Jiang Qingzhi.
In the afternoon, he took the initiative to find Jiang Qingzhi and told him about this matter.
"That Zhou Ya is probably from that side, leaving me too busy to take care of myself. He must want to make sure that Lord Bo has one less helper in the purge of the Beijing Guards." Xu Wei said sarcastically, "It's a pity that the person who took action was a little stupid, and Zhou Ya was even more stupid."
"Why?"
"The drug that can make horses aroused has a disadvantage. It can cause diarrhea. If he notices something unusual, my plan today will definitely fail."
"Given your temper, if you fail this time, how are you going to deal with him next time?" Jiang Qingzhi was a little curious.
Xu Wei said: "Zhou Ya likes a prostitute. The prostitute seems to be deeply in love with him, but in fact she has a lover. The two have always wanted to leave the capital, but they lack the money.
If I fail this time, I will send someone to Zhou Ya's bookstore to do a big deal with him, giving him a deposit of two or three hundred strings of silver in advance... and then pretend to be careless and leak the news to the lover of the prostitute. I think it will be very lively."
There are many people who want to get something for free these days, so there has to be someone protecting prostitutes.
Her lover is this kind of character
This kind of person can even push his own woman into the fire pit, kill a person, and rob money...
Jiang Qingzhi felt a chill down his spine.
He was naturally not moved by Zhou Ya's death, but felt that he had underestimated the ancients.
Touching the pistol at his waist, Jiang Qingzhi felt more confident.
After dinner, Xu Wei went to the vegetable market again.
The people buying vegetables at this moment are all people who have just finished work and look exhausted.
Yang Zhaodi's voice was particularly cheerful, "It's the last leg. Who wants to give me two bunches of green onions?"
A bit stingy! Xu Wei stood by with a smile, watching the female butcher raise the butcher knife and easily cut a pig's front leg.
After selling one leg, Yang Zhaodi clapped her hands and looked up happily.
Xu Wei smiled at her.
It looked a bit dazed.
"Why is this guy so stupid?" said a woman who was buying groceries.
……
Yulin Zuowei.
"Most of the guards in Beijing have been contacted." Qian Lin's voice echoed softly in the lobby, "Except for a few who want to wait and see, everyone else said they will support us. If Jiang Qingzhi takes action in the Left Guard of the Imperial Guards, they will submit a petition..."
"Good!" Chen Bin said to the generals with a smile: "This is an opportunity to suppress Jiang Qingzhi, and everything in the Beijing Guard will remain the same!"
All the generals breathed a sigh of relief.
"It would be best to kill that bastard!"
"We'll just have to take this opportunity to make him lose face. Kill him... He's your Majesty's cousin. If we kill him, we'll all die."
"But what we did..."
"Shut up!"
Qian Lin stopped the generals. Chen Bin glanced at him, a little afraid of his prestige in the army, and waved his hand, "Go! By the way, you all need to be more serious in training these days, and don't give Jiang Qingzhi a chance to find fault."
"Leader!"
The generals took their leave.
Qian Lin didn't leave. Chen Bin remained silent for a long time and asked, "What did those people say?"
"They say everything depends on the court." Qian Lin said with a smile.
"That is to say, they won't show up." Chen Bin was somewhat dissatisfied.
"Why would they show up?" Qian Lin felt that Chen Bin was indeed stupid.
"Got it." Chen Bin waved his hand and Qian Lin left.
Chen Bin looked at his deputy with a complicated look as he left. He said softly, "Do you think I don't know you are colluding? You want to suppress Jiang Qingzhi from inside and outside... But Jiang Qingzhi is a famous general. How can you make him return in defeat?"
After Qian Lin went out, he called a few trusted generals.
"The people you are waiting for should be alert and prepare to take action in the next two days."
"Move?"
"Yes, move." Qian Lin's eyes were full of coldness, "Let Yulin Zuowei and Jingwei become a big pit and bury Jiang Qingzhi."
He thought of what the man had said to him, and couldn't help but get excited, "No, it's to bury that Mohist master!"
Just as Jiang Qingzhi said, there is no simple political struggle. Behind every political struggle there are respective interests.
The next day, Jiang Qingzhi's memorial was submitted to the imperial court in accordance with the procedures.
"Dad." Yan Shifan held up Jiang Qingzhi's memorial and said, "Jiang Qingzhi impeached the generals of the Yulin Left Guard for dereliction of duty."
Yan Song took the memorial and said, "He seemed to have stopped his actions in the past few days. It seems that he was waiting for the other party to make a move. However, the Yulin Zuowei did not make any move..."
"Nothing happens, but most of the time there is nothing." Yan Shifan said, "I think it's a little early for Jiang Qingzhi to take action now. He forgot one thing..."
"what?"
"This is not a purge of the Beijing Guards, but a counterattack by the Mohists against the Confucians!" Yan Shifan said coldly: "Jiang Qingzhi underestimated those people. Dad, just wait and see, the fun is about to begin."
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"The Yu Lin Zuo Wei has been quite uneasy these days. Chen Bin and others have been contacting the generals of the Beijing Guard frequently. It seems that they are preparing to join forces to deal with it. The Yu Lin Zuo Wei is training very seriously..."
Xu Wei said, "The Beijing guards have been training well these past few days. Lord, the time has come for us to take action."
"Capture the Left Guard of the Imperial Guards and intimidate the Beijing Guards." Hu Zongxian said, "But I think we should severely punish the main culprit and let the rest of the generals go..."
"Are you worried that they will form a group?" Jiang Qingzhi looked at the setting sun outside, "We will go to Yulin Zuowei tomorrow."
He left Yulin Zuowei still, waiting for the other party to make a move.
But there has been no movement in the court in the past two days. Jiang Qingzhi wondered if those people were worried about being dragged into the vortex of corruption in the Beijing Guards and getting into trouble.
After completing the purge of the Beijing Guards, even if Altan Khan really went south, Jiang Qingzhi would be able to defeat him.
“This is redemption!”
Jiang Qingzhi lay on the bed, calculating how much national fortune he could gain this time.
I don't know how long it was before someone knocked on the door.
Jiang Qingzhi suddenly opened his eyes.
"Master, the two gentlemen in the front yard said there was an emergency."
Jiang Qingzhi's mind suddenly became clear, "I'll be right there."
"Husband." Li Tian also woke up.
"Go to sleep." Jiang Qingzhi put on his clothes and said, "I think something happened in the court. I'll be back soon."
What could happen so late at night?
Don’t be the Taoist priest… Jiang Qingzhi frowned.
In the front yard, Xu Wei and Hu Zongxian looked serious as the guards gathered together.
"What's the matter?" Jiang Qingzhi asked.
"My Lord, just now there was a sudden commotion in the Right Guard of the Palace Army, and a general was killed!"
Jiang Qingzhi was startled for a moment, then he understood.
"Found in the east and attack in the west!"
Hu Zongxian said in a deep voice: "They used the Yulin Left Guard to hold us back, but it was the Fujun Right Guard who was actually causing the trouble."
This was a carefully prepared raid.
In the darkness of night, Jiang Qingzhi looked up.
"What a trick!"
(End of this chapter)
