Yu Kui, a porcelain merchant, is writing a secret letter in the mansion of a new tycoon in Wu Wangdu. The words on the secret letter are densely packed with more than a hundred, but only a dozen words are useful, this densely packed secret letter will be carried back to the valley by carrier pigeons, with a special space covered with white paper to read, Yu Kui want to express the meaning of the space will be shown in the space. Because of this decryption method, even if the carrier pigeon has an accident in the middle of the way and someone sees the secret letter, what that person gets is just a piece of ordinary correspondence.
Yu Kui is afraid of the secret message transmission there is a failure, it used two carrier pigeons to pass the message, watching the flight to the southwest of the carrier pigeons have no trace, Yu Kui only turned back to the study with a candle flame.
"Donger! There is a situation!" Yu Kui's men who had been trained in King Wu's capital hurriedly knocked on the door and reported.
"Where is the situation?" Yu Kui was shocked, he just sent a letter to the valley saying that there will be a strange movement in the capital in the next few days, and the carrier pigeon has just been released, and there is a situation here in the capital, could it be that Ripple Ji is ready to make a move?
"The Crown Prince's residence was summoned by an attendant, and shortly after the Crown Prince followed the attendant into the palace, a large group of people surrounded the Crown Prince's residence, and by the time my subordinate came back, they were already raiding the residence." This underling was specialized in monitoring the movements near the Crown Prince's residence.
Upon hearing this, Yu Kui immediately changed into his nightclothes and put on a deep coat over his nightclothes in preparation for going out to spy on the situation.
Just as Yu Kui was about to leave the residence, the men sent in front of Wen Zai's residence sent back the exact same message. Immediately following that, the henchman who was responsible for keeping an eye on the Hussar General's residence also sent a letter back.
"Proprietor, an attendant went to the Hussar General's residence; the attendant took six Huben into the residence and never came out."
"How long has it been?"
"I waited there for an hour, but I didn't see the attendant come out, but the Hussar General's residence continuously had people riding out, so I thought it was odd, so I came back to report it first." Yu Kui's people at the surveillance point had two, one came back to report, and one continued to monitor.
Yu Kuei gets this information and is analyzing it when Da Jang rushes in from outside covered in blood.
"Dongjia! There's a change in the capital city, the north city gate has been taken over by Dr. Jiang's housekeeper, and now the streets are filled with soldiers patrolling, and when they see someone walking around, they all shoot indiscriminately." Da Zhuang status is Yu Kui's butler, he follows the others in the mansion to address Yu Kui as 'Master'.
"They're moving too fast!" Yu Kui was shocked, he originally thought that Yi Ji would wait for a few more days to make his move, after all, the Wu army that rushed to the border had only traveled for five days, and according to the time projection, they had not yet arrived at the border. "Is the injury on your body important?"
"It doesn't matter, it's all someone else's blood." Da Zhuang shook his head, he only had two scratches on his body, because when he saw that the patrolling soldiers opened their bows whenever they saw someone, Da Zhuang carried a civilian corpse on his back to ward off stray arrows.
"You go and bandage the wound first." Yu Kui waved his hand and told Dajiang to go and meet with the government herbalist, Dajiang had become a father last month, Ge Erniu had given birth to a son for him, Yu Kui didn't want Dajiang to lose his life due to an infected wound before he had even met his son.
"No, proprietor, this small injury of Big Strong is fine, what should we do now?" Da Zhuang felt himself to be fine and refused to go wasting time, he knew that now was the most crucial moment.
"You go change your clothes and gather all the dead soldiers in the residence, we'll go to the Hussar General's residence."
Yu Kui has a plan in his mind, according to the intelligence, the people who have entered the palace are basically dead, only the Hussar General still has to fall into the trap, now he is ready to go to see the Hussar General and convince the Hussar General to go to Dacheng.
Da Zhuang went to change clothes to gather the dead soldiers, Yu Kui first went to the study to write a secret letter to Zheng Chu and the two men, today he has to bring the hussar general back to Dacheng, the identity of the merchant may be exposed, the king's capital can not stay any longer, and this mansion stronghold is no longer useful. The three carrier pigeons left in the residence were all released by Yu Kui with the secret message.
Yu Kui secretly recruited and trained more than thirty dead soldiers in the capital of King Wu, plus a dozen of his beloved men, a total of fifty people, these people under the convening of Dazhuang, standing neatly in the compound waiting for Yu Kui to give orders.
"Everyone! Raising a soldier for a thousand days is not enough to use him for a moment, today, Yu needs all of you to serve." The dead soldiers Yu Kui raised were all wandering martial artists, and when the lord who defected raised them, they served with their lives.
"We are supposed to serve the East."
"The proprietor has treated us well, our lives are entrusted to the proprietor, and what the proprietor needs us to do is at his command."
The dead soldiers spoke up to show their loyalty.
"Tonight, there is a change in the royal court, that Yi Ji has killed the crown prince by imperial edict, and now she is going to kill the important ministers of the royal court, you and Yu Mou will go to rescue the loyal and good people, and highlight the royal capital to join the Duke of Ulsan, Ziguang, and follow him to crush the treacherous princess later on. Yu Mou here to guarantee, alive out of the king's capital will be increased in the future, dead people, the shade of the descendants, you will be willing to Yu Mou to do this great cause?"
Yu Kui stood on the steps, his eyes gleaming.
As soon as Yu Kui's words fell, the dead soldiers looked agitated, the wandering martial artists of Da Qin had the status of commoners and were not of high status, they would sell their lives for whoever fed them with brocade clothes and food. The martial artists would be very dedicated, but the loyalty could not be talked about much.
Yu Kui now this paragraph is actually talking to them about the deal, the dead soldier as long as the death of the effort to help Yu Kui into the matter, live will be able to change the identity to become a small nobleman, die with offspring or family members can be benefited as well, so that the reward's very tempting. As long as Gong Ziguang to accomplish things, they are all meritorious ministers, the future has a wife and children count on, this is the highest pursuit of the goal of the martial arts people, these people heard how of course very excited.
Ripple Ji is just a favorite concubine, plotting to kill the crown prince to let his son to the throne is not righteous, is treason, will be spurned for the world of scholars, martial arts themselves believe in the word of righteousness, of course, are very ashamed of what Ripple Ji, followed by the Yu Kui to raise the matter, is the act of righteousness, martial arts another pursuit is to maintain justice.
It is both an act of justice, but also for themselves and their family Bo future, the dead soldiers of course, rubbing their fists, full of courage, Yu Kui led this group of people who were encouraged by their own blood boiling on the street, straight to the hussar general's mansion.
This night, the sky above the capital of the king of Wu is lit up by fire, Jiang Dafu's private soldiers everywhere to hunt down the crown prince's clique and support the crown prince's noble family, Yu Kui led the dead soldiers through the alleys and alleyways, difficult to march, surrounded by the cries and cries and the sound of fighting everywhere. When they meet a large group of people, they will hide, and when they meet a small group of people, they will kill them cleanly. Has been to turn to the hussar general's residence of the avenue, Yu Kui had to stop, because the avenue cross street there are four or five hundred private soldiers in the handle, the face of such a large group of soldiers and horses, Yu Kui with his men and dead even if forced to break through, casualties are bound to be quite a lot.
"What should we do, proprietor? Do we break in or not?" Da Zhuang gasped and asked Yu Kui. The fight along the way was physically exhausting.
Yu Kui narrowed his eyes and surveyed the situation, instructing his dead soldiers and men to straighten up their clothes a little and hide their weapons if they could, before leading the crowd a few steps towards the open space on the street.
"Who? Stop right there and don't move, any further and you'll be killed without pardon!" The head of the private soldiers riding on his horse shouted a warning.
Yu Kui waved his hand for those around him to stop, and continued a few steps forward alone, exposing his face to the torches.
"Supervisor Meng, Yu Mou here is polite!" Yu Kui greeted the horseback riding leader in a loud voice, this leader's surname is Meng, he is the purchasing supervisor in Dr. Jiang's residence, Yu Kui has dealt with him several times and has a good personal relationship.
When Steward Meng saw that it was Yu Kui, he hurriedly told the private soldiers to put down the bows and arrows in their hands, "Master Yu, there is a disturbance in the royal capital today, we are under orders to be on guard, Master Yu quickly return to his residence to take shelter."
"Steward Meng, may I borrow a step to speak, there is something that I, Yu, would like to ask for Steward's help." Yu Kui arched his hand towards Steward Meng.
Yu Kui is very generous to the people in the Jiang Mansion, from the doorman to the stewards, housekeepers and domestic servants, each of them has received generous filial piety from Yu Kui, Yu Kui can be said to be a generous businessman who is unanimously praised by the entire Jiang Mansion, from the top to the bottom. Steward Meng had more dealings with Yu Kui, and had received more benefits than others, so of course his favor towards Yu Kui was deeper than others.
"What does East Master Yu need from Meng?" Steward Meng spurred his horse and ran to Yu Kui's side.
"Steward Meng, there is a big chaos in the city today, Yu Mou's store on the street in front of him is inviting people to loot it, the store steward is desperately returning to the house to ask for help, Yu Mou is bringing people to guard the store." Yu Kui said while using one hand to grab the reins of Steward Meng's mount, the other hand quickly raced an object into Steward Meng's hand. Not far from the Hussar General indeed there is one of Yu Kui's stores, as long as there are stores near the mansions that Yu Kui is concerned about.
"But His Excellency gave a deadly order that no one is allowed to enter this avenue." Steward Meng looked towards his palm, in his hand was a colorful glazed bead, at first glance it was an extremely rare treasure, he hastily clenched his fingers tightly.
"Yu mou that store has a set of glazed wine cups ordered by Dr. Jiang, is just arrived this morning goods, have not yet had time to send to Dr. Jiang, if the robbers take away, or by the robbers enter to break, Yu mou can not explain to Dr. Jiang Zuo ah." Yu Kui was bitter. "Yu Mou has no choice but to bring the entire household to protect it."
"This way," Steward Meng couldn't help but look hesitant when he heard that Yu Kui had gone to his store to protect the luxuries that Dr. Jiang had ordered.
"This time, along with the glazed cup, there is also a celadon vase that Yu would like to gift to Steward Meng." Yu Kui saw that the other party's attitude was loosening up and hurriedly whispered to deliver the favor.
Steward Meng couldn't help but move his butt on the horse when he heard the benefits Yu Kui was going to give away, a celadon vase could be sold for more than 10,000 gold, it was too hard for him not to be moved in the face of such a valuable item.
"Since we are going to protect your lord's goods, Mister Meng has to help each other out as well, let's do it this way, Master Yu, you carry this lantern inside, our men and horses won't attack when they see this lantern, but when they encounter the messy soldiers" Steward Meng looked towards his men, searching for a good guy to do the right thing and send a small team of men and horses to escort Yu Kui to the store.
"When encountering the chaotic soldiers, Yu Mou's family members are brave and will not be afraid of them, if they are unable to defeat them, Yu Mou will avoid them." Yu Kui didn't want Steward Meng to be too kind to send people to protect him.
Steward Meng looked at the household servants behind Yu Kui and realized that there were quite a few of them, so he nodded and asked his men to send a lantern with the word Jiang on it to hand over to Yu Kui. "Proprietor Yu be careful along the way, when you arrive at the store hang the lantern outside the store, don't walk outside the store again, by tomorrow, the big deal will be accomplished, you and I will have a good fortune!"
"Thank you for taking care of the steward, if Mister Yu has any riches, I will be sure to thank the steward profusely."
Yu Kui received the lantern and bowed heavily to Steward Meng to express his gratitude before leading his men through the alert guards and onto the avenue leading to the Hussar General's residence.
The closer to the Hussar General's residence, the more private soldiers on shuttle patrol, the private soldiers saw the lanterns and treated Yu Kui's group as one of their own, not only did they not come forward to check, but they would also greet each other in a loud voice. Above the street, there are many men and women, young and old corpses, the corpses are dressed decently, there are many people's clothes are damask and silk, obviously these people's status is not low. However, Yu Kui felt that the Hussar General was not among them, for Dr. Jiang's private soldiers were still shouting to apprehend the old thief, and from time to time there came the sound of not being allowed to let one go.
"Master Dong, there are sounds of fighting in that alley over there." One of Yu Kui's dead soldiers pointed to a dark alley to his side and softly called out, his martial arts skills were the best and his ears were the most sensitive. "There are also cries of killing old thieves."
Yu Kuei led the drill.