After Zheng Yuming's assassination, he asked Ma Ren to block the news before he went into a coma, so that only a limited number of people in Ulsan knew about it, such as Yu Kui, Wei Ci and Wu Da. Yang He and Fu Chou, who were present at the time, were under surveillance, while Wei Kou stayed in the county residence with Huo Si Hua.
Tian Hu and Tian Bao, the two brothers who had robbed Wu Da, are now officials in charge of public security, one in Nangbu as the director of the Nangbu Public Security Bureau, and the other in Dacheng as the chief of public security. The two men were the first to sense that a storm was coming to Ulsan. They were ordered to stop their vacations, put all the members of the Security Bureau on duty, and quickly deal with any irregularities they found, putting the Security Bureau on a state of first-degree alert.
The other people who smelled it were the merchants, who felt that the roads and rivers were heavily inspected and there were more security checkpoints. When the merchants heard that King Oh Sung and Gong Zi Myung were in Ulsan, they thought that they were on the alert for security reasons and did not think anything bad about it.
Except for a small number of people who felt something strange, the vast majority of the people of Ulsan were ignorant and still lived their lives as normal until after Kang Kyu's diagnosis and treatment of Jung Yuming.
"Extra! Extra! His Excellency has been assassinated and is critically injured!" The voice of the teenage newsboy on the streets of Dacheng was high and urgent.
"Nonsense, how could the Duke be in critical condition!" Tian Bao, who was on duty on the street, grabbed the newsboy by the shoulders.
"Sir, it's true, this is a message from the county government!" The newsboy's eyes are red, this newsboy's family is poor, originally the life of farming in the field, but because of the establishment of primary and secondary schools, the newsboy into the school literacy. In addition to free lunch at noon, the school also provided work-study opportunities for students from poor families, so that the paperboy had the conditions to study in the school. The paperboy knew who he was benefiting from, and he loved Jung Yoo Ming from the bottom of his heart.
"Let me see!" Tian Bao stuffed the paperboy with silver coins and snatched a newspaper and read it; Tian Bao had furthered his education in night school for four years and had no problem reading.
As the newsboy's voice spread, people quickly gathered around, those who could read buying the paper to read the news, and those who couldn't anxious to have it read to him.
"King Yong is abominable!" A middle-aged man in decent clothes gritted his teeth, this middle-aged man was a merchant, and his days were exactly red-hot these years.
"This proprietor, what's going on? What happened to the son?" The old woman selling tea eggs tugged at the middle-aged vendor's sleeve, the expression on her face was quite anxious, the old woman hadn't seen the god-dog come to her for a few days to eat the tea eggs, and was hanging on for dear life.
"King Yong of Tang sent assassins to Ulsan to assassinate His Excellency, who was seriously injured and unconscious. Oh! The assassins also stabbed the Prince of Zhao who came to visit the Duke." The middle-aged vendor told the old woman the contents of the newspaper.
"The mediocre king of a thousand cuts!" After hearing this, the old woman cursed hatefully and closed her eyes and closed her palms again to pray with the heavens.
"The heavens have blessed my son in law with peace and safety! For this year's great festival, the old woman will offer five sacrifices in thanks!" The old woman was only focused on praying for Zheng Yuming's safety, and had no feelings about the Prince of Zhao also having an accident.
Newspaper boy's newspaper will be snatched up in a while, newspaper boy newspaper sold out, scattered legs to the newspaper office, today, the number of copies of the newspaper of the South Newspaper, each newspaper boy has to sell a few times in order to sell out.
Zheng Yuming was half sitting on the bed, holding the Chinese medicine in one hand, he took a sip and then looked towards the wood in front of the bed. In front of the wooden head there was a pot of the same Chinese medicine, seeing his master looking at him, the wooden head grunted and lowered his head, reluctantly licked a mouthful, and after licking it, he looked up at his master, indicating that he had drunk the Chinese medicine and hoped that his master would let it go.
Zheng Yuming seemed as if he didn't see Woody's pitiful eyes as he took another sip of the Chinese medicine from the bowl before looking at Woody again, the meaning was clear, he wanted Woody to lick the Chinese medicine again.
"Oooooh!" Woody agonized, the black water in the dog bowl in front of him was too bitter, why did his master force Woody to drink this.
"Not bad, Woody is just well-behaved!" Zheng Yuming finished the herbal medicine in the bowl in his own hand, and Woody was also forced to drink most of the dog bowl of herbal medicine.
When Woody saw his master put down the bowl of medicine, he hurriedly ran away from his own dog bowl, just in case his master would force him to drink the rest of it.
Busy half a day to get a little free Chu Chao Hui walked into the bedroom, just to see the wood's small action, before the eyes of a person and a dog have been restored to life, Chu Chao Hui brow stretching.
"Have you gotten up and gone around the circle today?" Chu Chao Hui sat on the side of Zheng Yuming's bed and touched Zheng Yuming's forehead, and Zheng Yuming's temperature had returned to normal.
"It's been a dozen times around." Jung Yuming followed Kang Kyu's instructions and got out of bed to walk around the room every day.
"Don't walk too tired!" Chu Chao Hui lightly embraced Zheng Yuming and kissed his lips, tasting the bitter flavor in Zheng Yuming's mouth.
Warmth filled the room as the two kissed more and more.
"Woo-hoo!"
Woody's impatient voice sounded at the side of the two. Chu Chao Hui stopped and turned his head, only to see Woody resting on the edge of the bed with his front paws that were still wrapped in gauze, and his two dark dog eyes were staring at the two.
"Wood, why don't you go to bed after drinking the medicine!" The corners of Chu Chao Hui's mouth pulled downward, the German Shepherd, in addition to guarding his master, had also been insisting on moonlighting as a light bulb.
Wood didn't understand and looked at Chu Chao Hui stubbornly with his dark eyes.
"Chao Hui, you haven't touched it today." Zheng Yuming laughed softly, the wood was very pampered after the injury, Chu Chao Hui came in and ignored the wood, the wood was very dissatisfied.
"Woody good boy, go to bed to recuperate ha!" Chu Chao Hui rubbed the wood, the wood was caressed, and really looked satisfied, obediently lying down on the ground and closing his eyes.
"What's that noise outside?" Zheng Yuming held his breath and sidelined his ears as a cacophony of noises came from outside the high walls of the courtyard.
Chu Chao Hui gazed and listened, and said faintly, "The matter of your assassination is in the newspaper, and now the people of Dacheng know about it, and they are talking about it."
"Oh! I hope it doesn't cause a panic." Jung Yu-ming relaxed. "Have you gone to see Sheng yet?"
"I've met you, Sheng made a fuss about coming to Dacheng to see you, I told him to come back in two more days." After Jiang Gui made sure that Zheng Yuming's life was not in danger, Chu Chaohui first went to Nambu to pay his respects to Wu Wangsheng and his wife, and then went to the post house to meet with Zhao Xuan, with whom he reached an agreement to jointly crusade against the Tang.
"Has Zhao Xuan left yet?" After Zheng Yuming lay down, all matters were handled by Chu Chaohui, who only concentrated on recuperating from his injuries and was unaware of outside matters.
"Not gone yet, drag him for two days." Chu Chao Hui's eyes were smiling, Zheng Yuming not taking the initiative to meet Zhao Xuan satisfied him.
"Drag him for two days?" Zheng Yuming was skeptical.
Chu Chao Hui took Zheng Yuming's right hand in his hand and rubbed it. "I want to use troops against Tang in August."
"Is it to take Tang before the river freezes?" Zheng Yuming immediately guessed why Chu Chao Hui chose August to use his army against Tang.
The original plan for the Northern Expedition and annexation was to act at the beginning of spring next year. For the Wu army to utilize the waterways to transport troops and military supplies, they had to avoid the freezing of large rivers. With the high latitude of the Great River, the river would freeze during the coldest part of the winter and the ships could not navigate. Every year from the end of November to the end of February of the next year was the period when the long river froze and froze.
Because of the assassination of Zheng Yuming, Chu Chao Hui decided to advance the Northern Expedition, it is now the middle of June, the army mobilization and raise supplies at least one and a half months, hastily set the schedule of the Northern Expedition in August, is in order to rush to take the Tang in November, before the big river freezes.
"Not bad!" The smile in Chu Chao Hui's eyes deepened, they knew each other best, often when one person said the first half of the sentence, the other would guess the second half.
"Holding Zhao Xuan back is making him go back later to raise the army?" Zheng Yuming pointed out Chu Chao Hui's intention.
"Yes!" Chu Chaohui's voice trailed off. "There's another reason, Huang Zhong has already gone to Chu to move around with Wei Shuqing, I have to buy more time for Gongzi Shi." Chu Chao Hui hoped that Gongzi Yi, with Huang Zhong's help, would be able to rush to borrow the Chu army before Zhao Xuan led the attack on the Tang Kingdom.
Zheng Yuming sighed slightly, thinking that Zhao Xuan was still dreaming of dividing up the Tang Kingdom at the stagecoach.
"Don't drag it out too long, it's not good to arouse Zhao Xuan's suspicion."
Chu Chao Hui pondered for a while, code counting the time it would take for all parties to operate. "Then let him come to say goodbye to you tomorrow."
Zhao Xuan heart anxious to return to the country, but waited for three days, Chu Chaohui only have a reply, Zheng Yuming injury is better, tomorrow can receive Zhao Xuan monarchs and ministers.
The next day, Zhao Xuan Junxian packed his traveling bag early in the morning, ready to leave directly for his home country after visiting Zheng Yuming.
Zhao Xuan's juniors and ministers, under the protection of Dacheng's guards, rode in four-wheeled carriages from the post house to the county residence. Along the way, Zhao Xuan saw loud crowds gathered everywhere on Dacheng's streets, everyone's face with grief and indignation, many of them complaining bitterly about Tang's ruler, and the crowd's cries of wanting to avenge the death of Duke Ming undulated continuously.
"Your Highness! Duke Ming is very popular na!" Wu Mou, who was riding on the side of Zhao Xuan's four-wheeled carriage, lamented.
Zhao Xuan silently observed the facial expressions of the people of Dacheng, secretly comparing in his heart, if his assassination injury was as serious as Zheng Yuming's, would the people of the King of Zhao's capital be as emotional as the people of Dacheng?
"Your Highness, the fact that Duke Ming has such popular support is not favorable to Zhao." Bo Yao steered his horse close to the window of Zhao Xuan's car and spoke his worries in a low voice.
Zhao Xuan's lips were pursed and his brows were slightly furrowed. Bo Yao muttered lowly again, "Then it would be good if Duke Ming was really as sick as the newspapers said."
When Zhao Xuan sniffed, his eyes quickly scanned the surroundings, realizing that no one but him was paying attention to this muttering from Bo Yao, before he gave Bo Yao a reassuringly hard glare.
"Bo Yao, be careful what you say outside!"
Bo Yao and Zhao Xuan grew up together, talking in front of Zhao Xuan is not as scrupulous as others, Zhao Xuan never minded because of the recklessness of Bo Yao's speech, because Bo Yao's loyalty to Zhao Xuan is unparalleled.
Passing through the crowds of righteous indignation, Zhao's ruler and ministers arrived at the county residence, and the guards of the county residence led Zhao Xuan to see Zheng Yuming.
Zheng Yuming's bedroom in the backyard, the front yard is the council office, the council office people come and go, in and out of the officials dense, there are military officials, there are also civil officials. Through the front yard, walking people become scarce, walked to the back yard Zheng Yuming residence, it is even more cold and quiet. Apart from the elite guards, it was surprising that there were no attendants or maids of honor to be seen. Zhao Xuan saw this scene, the bottom of his heart can not help but guess, is Zheng Yuming really hurt very seriously? Heavy to be unable to deal with political affairs?
In Zhao Xuan's consciousness, Zheng Yuming, as the real power of Wu, even if he was seriously injured and couldn't get up, he couldn't let the power fall away, and the group of ministers should be guarding in front of Zheng Yuming's bedroom waiting for orders. The scene that Zhao Xuan saw when he entered the mansion was too much like Zheng Yuming's serious injury causing the power to fall away.
It wasn't just Zhao Xuan who was searching like this, but Bo Yao and Wu Mou also guessed the same.
Zheng Yuming's courtyard was too secluded, outside the courtyard door there were numerous elite guards on the contrary, inside the courtyard there was only Da Niu standing under the room corridor holding his chest. Inside the bedroom on the bed lying Zheng Yuming, the bed lying in front of the wood, in addition to this, only a young soldier in the bedroom outside the waiting. Such a scene, looking in the eyes of Zhao Xuan juniors and ministers, a good deal of bleakness.