Chapter 249 Determining the target
The world of blood rain, the imperial capital.
A seemingly ordinary restaurant, but its business was very good. Xu Jingming came to the second floor of the restaurant and ordered a few signature dishes.
"Mess Qiu Tong is really a gourmet. The recommended place is really good." Xu Jingming ate a piece of fish that was served. The fish meat was tender and smooth, and the natural fish fragrance made Xu Jingming a little intoxicated.
“I’ve been in the imperial capital for so long, and this restaurant ranks first in terms of cooking fish.” Xu Jingming approved, enjoying the delicious food.
A large plate of pastries, Xu Jingming took one bite.
Xu Jingming also enjoyed the fragrant fruit wine.
"Have you heard? The empire's Western Region army was defeated! The main force of the army was 500,000 people, but they were all top-notch masters. They were completely defeated in the first battle... and were chased for hundreds of miles by King Wei's cavalry army in the Western Regions. , the Western Region Army is completely finished.”
“The news came out from the palace today. I heard that Your Majesty is here. Several officials were imprisoned on the spot! The whole family of Meng Xu, the leader of the Western Region Army, was arrested and put into prison!"
"Yes, over there in Beicheng, over there with the Meng family! The cries were so loud that everyone in the Meng family was taken to the prison, even the baby was not spared. The Meng family was completely ruined.”
There are people talking about real things in the restaurant.
Xu Jingming's ears suddenly stood up and he was shocked: "The army of the Western Regions was defeated?"
He, a Blood Rain Guard, only heard this because he only went to the Nanfu headquarters occasionally and ate in a restaurant. This news.
“The main force of the Western Region army is gone?” Xu Jingming immediately realized something was wrong, “The Western Region of the Empire has been completely corrupted in recent years, and it is already very rare to be able to assemble an army of half a million top-notch masters. This battle is defeated! The entire Western Region is completely out of control."
"Once the Western Region is out of control, the rebel army can directly attack the imperial capital!" Xu Jingming said secretly.
It was said before that the northwest was corrupt.
But there are still imperial troops in the Western and Northern Regions! The Western Region Army can at least ensure that the rebels cannot threaten the imperial capital.
"The Western Region collapsed! The Northern Region is equally dangerous, and the Southern Region barely maintains itself. As for the Eastern Region...the Eastern Region has the best order relatively speaking, and the Blood Rain Guards are strong enough." Xu Jingming said secretly. , "The troops from the Eastern Region should be mobilized to enter the Western Region."
The restaurant was noisy, and some people were panicked.
“The Western Region is defeated, if the rebels enter the imperial capital...”
"There is no army in the Western Region to stop the rebels. We have to think about it early."
"The walls of the imperial capital are towering, and there are also Blood Rain Guards and auxiliary troops. Defending the city is still no problem."
"You can't say for sure about the war."
Those who can eat on the second floor of the restaurant are not ordinary people. They are all very concerned about the future fate of the imperial capital, because it is also related to their own fate and the fate of the family behind them. .
Xu Jingming finished eating, paid the bill, and left the restaurant.
...
He walked around some prosperous places in the city, and also heard other places talking about the 'Defeat of the Western Regions'. The imperial capital is such a big place, and the explosive news can spread throughout the whole country in one day. city.
"The situation in the imperial capital is becoming more and more dangerous. I have to determine the target as soon as possible." Xu Jingming went to various alternative target places to investigate on the spot.
"The Yang family is considered a big family in the imperial capital. At least my team can still crack this hard nut." Xu Jingming came to a street where the Yang family was located, such as Shen Gong's family, Feng Yu's family, etc. In the family, the most I can deal with is an ordinary child.
Those families were so terrifying that even the emperor did not dare to fall out with them.
A second-rate big family like the Yang family is the most suitable target. Take one bite and run away! After taking one bite, I was very satisfied.
“This street belongs to the Yang family.” Xu Jingming looked at it, “The Yang family’s mansion occupies half of the street, and many of the residences outside the mansion...are branches of the Yang family and some guard servants. "
Xu Jingming glanced at the mansion.
It’s so luxurious!
The courtyard wall of this huge mansion is half a mile long and three feet high. This is the residence of the real wealthy families in the imperial capital.
Xu Jingming walked past the mansion and came to some residential areas.
"Qiao San! The outside world calls you Mr. Qiao, but you have to understand that you are a dog of the Yang family! Your father, grandfather, and even your great-grandfather all ate from the Yang family. You Qiao The Yang family has been a dog for generations. How dare you, a dog, disobey your master’s orders?” A group of people gathered in front of a house, and the leader, a middle-aged man, shouted angrily, “I really rebelled against you!”
In front of a house, a man in civilian clothes was kneeling there. Holding her dead daughter in her arms, her eyes turned red: "Butler Bai, just because I declined the second young master this morning, you will kill my child?"
"A dog that doesn't obey its master should naturally die. "Headed by a middle-aged man He said indifferently, "Today I will kill one of your daughters. If you don't obey me, your two brothers, three sisters, and your mother... your whole family will die!"
"Third brother."
"Third brother." There were other people around who pulled Qiao San and persuaded him.
Qiao San looked at her daughter in her arms with tears in her eyes.
He wants to risk his life for revenge! But hitting an egg against a stone has no hope at all. Moreover, his mother, his brothers and sisters, and their children... will all be implicated by him.
"I understand, I will set off with the second young master." Qiao San whispered.
"That's right. If you had agreed earlier, wouldn't there be so much trouble? Speaking of which, it was you who harmed your daughter." The middle-aged man in the lead glanced around and spoke in a louder voice. points, "Don't think that you have lived in the imperial capital for a couple of years. For hundreds of years, I feel like I am a member of the Yang family! You should do whatever the Yang family asks you to do. If a dog is disobedient, the owner does not need to keep it anymore, he can just kill it and eat it! br>
After the middle-aged man finished speaking, he left with his men. As he left, he glanced coldly at Xu Jingming, a passing outsider. Even if he noticed Xu Jingming's bloody guard uniform under his blue robe, he didn't pay attention to it. .
How could the dignified Yang family care about an ordinary Blood Rain Guard?
"Qiao San, you are stupid. The second young master asked you, who is willing to go with you? I asked you what you think, do you really honestly say that you want to stay in the imperial capital?"
" Remember from now on, do whatever the Yang family tells you to do.”
“This is to scare the monkey.”
People around him whispered.
Xu Jingming watched from the side, looking at the dead girl. There was a bloody whip mark on her chest. The whip was very hard, and the girl was whipped to death with one whip.
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That night.
Butler Bai hurriedly walked out of the Yang Mansion and walked towards his residence.
"I have to find a way to escape from the team and hide before leaving the city. By then, the Yang family will have no time to look for me in the vast imperial capital." Butler Bai thought, "If we follow the Yang family's team out of the imperial capital, there will be tens of thousands of "How many people will die on this road?"
Butler Bai usually works in the Yang Mansion and only returns to his residence occasionally. It is rare for him to come out today.
"Huh?"
Xu Jingming, who was investigating the terrain on the spot, noticed Butler Bai, who was the leader during the day.
Huh.
The spear came through the air silently.
"Not good." Butler Bai can be a housekeeper and is also a second-rate master. He sensed the fluctuation in the air flow and immediately drew a sharp sword from his waist.
But the spear was like a swimming dragon. When it touched the sword, under the strange rotation force, the spear was not blocked at all, and naturally passed by the back of Butler Bai's head.
Chi~~~
The barrel of the gun gently grazed the back of Butler Bai's head. Butler Bai felt his brain shake and fainted.
Xu Jingming stepped forward, held Butler Bai in one hand, and left quietly.
*******
In an uninhabited residential woodshed.
Butler Bai woke up and saw a masked man standing in front of him.
"Who are you?" Butler Bai was about to move when he found that the joints of his hands and legs were dislocated. He was sitting there unable to stand up. "This hero, are you? Wrong person? ”
"Butler Bai of the Yang Mansion, I want to ask you something." Xu Jingming's voice was hoarse, "Speak honestly and I will spare your life. If you dare to lie, you should know the consequences."
Butler Bai's heart was trembling.
Capturing himself alive in an instant, his strength is obviously far superior to his.
"Hero, just ask." Butler Bai was also timid and flattered, "I know everything I know, and I will tell you everything."
"The Yang family is leaving the imperial capital?" Xu Jingming whispered softly road.
"Yes! The war situation in the Western Region is getting worse. Many wealthy families in the imperial capital are arranging some branches to leave the city." Butler Bai explained, "We are just worried that the imperial capital will be breached and the wealthy families will not be able to escape even if they want to."
Xu Jingming listened: "What's going on with the Yang family?"
"The Yang family has a great influence around the hometown of Xuecheng in the eastern region, and the Yang family controls thousands of miles around. But the main branch of the Yang family is mostly in the imperial capital. This time, some of the Yang family members of the main branch brought many Master, and some gold and silver accumulated over the years are ready to leave the imperial capital," said Butler Bai.
“Leave with the gold and silver?” Xu Jingming asked.
“Yes.”
Butler Bai said, "The situation in the world is getting worse and worse. Once the imperial capital is breached, government banks will definitely not be able to withdraw money, and those banknotes will become waste paper! Even some banks of big families... When the world is completely in chaos, The big family can't protect itself, and the banknotes are even more useless, so they must exchange for a lot of gold and silver." "How much did the Yang family exchange?" Xu Jingming asked.
“I don’t know.”
Butler Bai said, “I have been secretly converting silver notes into gold and silver for a long time. At least the second master asked me to change them. Tens of thousands of taels of silver. The entire Yang family must have exchanged it for at least one million taels of silver! To the Yang family, one million taels of silver is nothing."
Xu Jingming said softly: "They are not afraid of being robbed. ?”
"Now that the situation in the world is bad, the Yang family will also divide into teams, disguised as caravans and escort teams." Bai Guanjia said, "They are divided into so many teams, even if some teams are robbed, the impact will not be big. ”
Xu Jingming understood.
The world is in chaos, and there are rebels in some places.
No matter how powerful the Yang family is! If a large team acts together... it will only cause large-scale rebels to deal with it, and there is a high probability that they will be defeated in one fell swoop.
“It’s tens of thousands of miles to the Xuecheng area in the Eastern Region, and I’m afraid many people will die.” Xu Jingming said.
"Isn't that true?" Butler Bai said, "Actually, many of us don't want to go with us. It's a long way, so it would be good if half of us can reach Xuecheng alive. How good would it be to stay in the imperial capital? What if the rebels come in? ? It doesn’t matter who is the emperor, we are all obedient subjects. It is always safer in the imperial capital than out of the city. ”
"But the Yang family is different. When the rebels come in, they will first plunder these big families." Butler Bai said, "They will definitely have to force many members of the clan to leave. Alas, we servants can only act as bodyguards for them. Fight hard."
"The Yang family is divided into teams, which one are you following?" Xu Jingming asked.
“Second Young Master’s team.” Butler Bai said.
“When will we set off?” Xu Jingming asked.
"I don't know." Butler Bai shook his head, "Second Young Master said he would take me with him. As for how the team will be allocated, when to set off, and what kind of disguise it will be? These are all secrets."
"Oh. "Xu Jingming understood, and then said, "Do you remember the whip you got today?"
"That whip?"
Butler Bai was stunned and thought of himself during the day. The thing about whipping Qiao San's daughter to death.
Bang!
A gun shadow swept over, Butler Bai's eyes widened, and the gun shadow hit him on the chest.
Butler Bai's body trembled, and his chest was torn open. The impact of the gunshot made him vomit blood. He looked at Xu Jingming, with fear and unwillingness in his eyes: "You said you would spare my life."
Xu Jingming looked at him indifferently without saying a word.
Butler Bai died quickly and lay in the woodshed. His injuries were almost exactly the same as the girl's.
"The Yang family exchanged their silver notes for a lot of gold and silver? Where are their gold and silver hidden?" Xu Jingming thought, and suddenly he was inspired, "Yes, once the imperial capital is breached, the bank may close down. All the banknotes will become waste paper. I have to be careful not to turn my banknotes into waste paper.”
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In the next few days, Xu Jingming went to the Criminal Division of Blood Rain Guard to find out all the information about the Yang family. Also collect information about the Yang family from the Virtual World Network.
Before taking action, you must have sufficient information!
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Night, Fei Mansion.
Fei Qing was alone in the study. Under the candlelight, he looked at the pieces of information indifferently.
"Your Majesty ordered that three armies from the Eastern Region be mobilized to join together to form a large army to conquer the rebels in the Western Region." Fei Qing looked up at the darkness outside the window, "I personally selected, trained, and tempered the Eastern Region army in actual combat. out of me! It is most suitable to serve as the commander-in-chief of the army. I know the strengths of every general in the army."
"But Your Majesty rejected me." >
Fei Qing sneered.
“In this situation, you don’t even trust me?”
"Perhaps it's because the Blood Rain Guard army in the Eastern Region is the strongest army in your hands now. It's really suspicious!" Fei Qing said silently, "You were so wise and powerful back then, how could you become an emperor? Everyone is so suspicious. Suspicion, no one believes it?"
"If the Eastern Region's conquest army is also ruined, then the future of the entire empire will be lost." Fei Qing knew this very well, but there was nothing he could do. I can only watch everything happen.
He is even more obedient, extremely loyal and obedient.
He knows very well...
If the emperor feels that you are not loyal enough, death is not far away.
"I can only stay in the imperial capital. With the current situation, His Majesty will eventually beg me." Fei Qing sat in the study. He could only wait patiently for the opportunity. Perhaps, I will never wait for this opportunity. (End of this chapter)