In the evening, Zheng Fan woke up a little late the next day because he was delayed for some time in the tent discussing with Siniang about the needlework techniques for soft armor.
However, waking up early is not as good as waking up late. Just as Zheng Fan was squatting by the wellhead with a toothbrush to brush his teeth, he saw two people riding horses on the horse road in the distance.
"Hey~~~Back off!"
Zheng Fan reached out and took the hot towel handed by Siniang to wipe his face and stood up,
said:< /p>
"People are coming."
People are indeed coming.
Two people, a man and a woman. The man is dressed in black and has an unattractive appearance. The woman has a beauty mark at the corner of her mouth, youthful eyebrows and looks to be in her twenties.
However, what caught Zheng Fan’s attention the most was the woman’s feet.
The other three countries all have the custom of foot binding for women. Both the literati of Qian and the nobles of Chu are extremely obsessed with the three-inch golden lotus;
But because several generations of emperors of Yan had The decree prohibits foot binding for women in the country. If there is foot binding for women in the palace or nobles, the family will be punished;
So although there are people who secretly imitate the foot binding in the Yan country, it has not become a fashion in the Yan country.
This woman is wearing a pair of green embroidered shoes.
But this style made Zheng Fan feel that it was somewhat similar to the assassin who was hiding in the coffin and used the Rainstorm Pear Blossom Needle that he saw in the mourning hall yesterday.
Zheng Fan is not sure whether they are the same person. In fact, there is no need to confirm.
"Du Juan, the left leader of Yinlang County in the Secret Intelligence Department, on the order of the Marquis, asked Zheng Shoubei to send troops to help capture the academy rebels."
This woman named Du Juan is very polite. Showed his identity token to Zheng Fan.
Then he put away the token and saluted Zheng Fan with clasped fists:
"I have seen the Lord Guard in my humble position."
"Miss Du, you are polite."< /p>
Zheng Fan didn't take it seriously, so he had better be polite to the people of "Jinyiwei".
I find it very interesting. There is a high probability that yesterday's assassin and myself who killed the assassin yesterday are standing face to face and saying hello.
"Master Zheng, I don't know when we can set off."
"We can set off now."
"Okay."
Zheng Fan glanced at Liang Cheng who was standing next to him, and Liang Cheng understood.
Soon, a barbarian cavalry team of four hundred people was ready to go.
"Miss Du, please lead the way."
"Master Zheng, you are very polite."
Zheng Fan and Du Juan rode in front, and the man who accompanied Du Juan came The man followed Liang Cheng, and behind him were nearly 400 barbarian cavalry.
Cuiliu Fort has been abandoned for a long time, and there are many farmlands nearby, so the road conditions in and out are not suitable for large groups of people to gallop around, and everyone must control their horse speed.
However, the blind man said yesterday that when Cuiliu Fort is rebuilt, this road will also be widened and repaired. As for road construction,Whether it will occupy farmers' land is not under consideration, because a large part of the fields near Cuiliu Fort were originally farmland belonging to Cuiliu Fort. After Cuiliu Fort was abandoned, the nearby fields were occupied by farmers. .
So, legally, these lands are state-owned.
"Master Zheng, is your Cuiliu Fort about to start construction?"
Du Juan obviously discovered something.
"Miss Du has also seen that the current castle is only suitable for raising chickens. Without renovation and renovation, people will not be able to live in it."
"But my subordinates didn't see it on the copy. Master Zheng submitted a request to rebuild the fort, and the garrison masters from other forts all submitted their instructions to the superiors."
Zheng Fan was heartbroken.
Oh, I actually forgot about this, and so did Blind Bei.
Perhaps the concept of independence and self-reliance is too strong.
Neither Zheng Fan nor the blind man expected that the Xiubao Village would have to report to the superiors.
Zheng Fan started his own business. He recruited his own soldiers. He also bought his armor and war horses with his own money. He used to play with his own habits.
Of course, the most important reason is that Cuiliu Fort is too dilapidated. It is obvious that the superiors do not pay attention to it, so I feel that reporting to the superiors is a very unnecessary thing.
"When I was in the north, I started a small business and saved a little money. I thought I could solve things myself, so I didn't want to cause trouble to the court."
"Master Zheng Gao Yi , the little girl admires her.”
“You’re welcome, Miss Du, you’re welcome.”
Actually, if Du Juan really wanted to investigate, Zheng Fan felt that she would probably do it. Find out which firm hired these craftsmen and who purchased and transported the materials.
But you can’t hide this even if you want to, and the Sixth Prince generously funded himself through the channels of the company. Even if he was eventually discovered, the Sixth Prince would probably be able to use the money he had saved to save himself. He was trying to explain it by returning the favor after saving his life.
Anyway, the sixth prince is not a simple character. No matter how useless the prince is, he is still a dragon. He should have his own solution, and Zheng Fan is too lazy to worry and cover up for him.
After passing Liulinzi, the road became wider, and Zheng Fan ordered the cavalry to speed up.
It took more than three hours of riding, and the sun was just noon when everyone arrived at the foot of a mountain.
The terrain of Yandi is mainly plains, with few mountains. Even if there are mountains, they seem a bit small.
For example, the Qingming Mountain in front of you means the blue bird waiting to sing;
It is already considered a "famous mountain" in Yinlang County, but Zheng Fan visually inspected the mountain. The vertical height is just over a hundred meters.
There is an archway at the mountain gate, and there is a stone tablet under the archway, which reads:
Huaiya Academy.
It was founded seventy years ago. The founder was Huaiyazi, who went to the East as a Yan native.Fang traveled to three major countries and created a huge civilization.
For the Yan people, who have extremely low self-esteem in terms of culture, their excitement is no less than the top scorer in the college entrance examination in their own valley.
Nowadays, Huai Yazi is long gone, but the academy he founded is still full of vitality.
Nowadays, the literary style of Yan State is the most prosperous in Yinlang, and Yinlang literary style began in Huaiya.
Outside the academy, there is a small village, which is a bit like a slightly larger inn, with inns and restaurants.
When four hundred barbarian cavalry were displayed at this moment, they brought with them the howling north wind blowing from the north.
Du Juan was curiously looking at these barbarian soldiers under Zheng Fan's command along the way. She was curious about the quality of these barbarian soldiers, and also curious about the extremely sophisticated armor on these barbarian soldiers, and even the appearance of these barbarian soldiers. The war horse under his crotch is also top-notch in Yandi, where there are many racecourses!
In Du Juan's view, even the cavalry in the Jingnan Army were outclassed in terms of equipment by these barbarians.
You must know that the soldiers in these forts are essentially the same as the guards in the cities of Beifeng County. They are somewhat similar to the security regiments. However, this Cuiliu Fort is quite different.
But she was curious, so she kept these questions in her heart and did not ask them out.
The midday sun was shining warmly on my body, making my armor a little hot.
The mountains and rivers here are beautiful, and Zheng Fan really has the urge to camp here and take a nap.
"Miss Du, what should I do next?"
Zheng Fan yawned and looked at Du Juan beside him.
Jingnan Hou made it very clear yesterday that he was only responsible for cooperating and... taking the blame.
The specific operation is decided by the people in the Secret Service.
"Master Zheng, please wait a moment."
Du Juan handed a document behind him. The man who had been following him got off his horse and took the document from Du Juan's hand. .
"Go and ask the academy to hand over the person himself."
"Yes."
The man walked towards the mountain gate.
Qingming Mountain is indeed not high, but the forest is dense. After the secret agent's subordinate entered the mountain gate, his figure quickly disappeared into the dense forest.
Du Juan looked at Zheng Fan and said with a smile:
"Master Zheng, you can order your men to take a rest."
After that,
Du Juan turned around and looked at the group of barbarian soldiers behind her,
and actually said a barbarian language:
"Dismount and rest!"
However, ,
Nearly four hundred barbarian cavalry were all sitting upright on their horses, and no one dismounted.
The four hundred cavalry were completely silent except for the occasional hooves and snorts of their horses.
Liang Cheng is in charge of training troops, and Blind Bei is in charge of ideological and political work. If these barbarian soldiers don’t know whose orders they should obey, they will have spent so much money to advance.Zheng Fan could really go find a piece of tofu and kill him.
Du Juan's face showed some embarrassment, and she lowered her head to Zheng Fan and said:
"Master Zheng, it's the little girl who is being abrupt."
Zheng Fansa Ran smiled and said: "It's okay, it's okay. The sun is just right. Once you get off your horse, you can't help but feel sleepy. The most important thing is that since you are here to arrest someone, you can't let your momentum slip."
"The little girl has learned a lesson."
Du Juan is a smart woman, she knows when to call herself a humble person and when to call herself a little girl.
"Miss Du, have you ever stayed in the north before?"
"Yes, she was transferred to Yinlang County the year before last."
"Then we are destined to be together. ."
"Yes, Mr. Zheng's skill in training is an eye-opener for the little girl."
"It's nothing more than learning how to walk against the Zhenbei Army Handan, by the way, Miss Du. , This academy is so good, why are there hidden thieves?”
“The academy often receives scholars from the Qian Kingdom to give lectures, and also receives tourists from the Qian Kingdom. Some people are indeed. They come here to learn, but some people actually have other purposes, and the academy is the best cover for their activities and hiding places.”
“Oh,” Zheng Fan understood. It's a bit like the embassy of later generations.
The Secret Intelligence Department of Yan State should have known about what happened here for a long time, but it is similar to Xiao Dahai and his gang, including Fei Chi’s fortress system. Previously, the imperial court had always turned a blind eye. , just maintain the status quo.
Now that Xiao Dahai and his gang have been purged, all the abandoned fortresses have also received newly appointed guards and are ready to restart. It is time for the spy strongholds in the academy to be removed.
At this time, there was a noise from the mountain gate.
Zheng Fan saw the secret agent brother who had gone in to deliver the list come down with a bloody head and torn marks on his body. Behind him, there was a group of angry people wearing white shirts. College students.
This group of students, some are older and some are younger, but all of them are very excited at this moment.
The little brother from the Secret Service was walking in front. From time to time, bricks and stones came from behind and hit him. He just swayed, did not look back, did not reply, and just continued silently. Go down.
As long as you are not blind, you can probably see that it is not easy to send in the arrest list.
Finally, the secret agent brother walked up to Zheng Fan and Du Juan, bowed respectfully to Du Juan and Zheng Fan, and apologized:
"Subordinate Incompetent."
After saying that, the young man fainted and fell to the ground.
Zheng Fan felt that the reason why Du Juan brought this subordinate here was to prepare him to deliver the message and get beaten at the same time.
Otherwise, with hundreds of barbarian cavalry on her side, would she need to lead her men?
This unlucky guy couldn’t be spying on women at night.Si was caught taking a bath and now he has some shoes to wear, right?
Zheng Fan waved his hand,
The two barbarian cavalry dismounted and walked to the front, carrying the poor secret agent brother to the back.
Du Juan solemnly held her fist towards Zheng Fan and said:
"Master Zheng, there is nothing I can do now."
Putting the blame aside,
Throw the blame completely.
Zheng Fan nodded. Fortunately, he was mentally prepared. Why did Zuo Jiqian hesitate to take this job?
Because this kind of thing that offends the Dayan Literary Group has too much to do with it.
However, Zuo Jiqian can't see it, but Zheng Fan can see it. Look at the lucky paths of those sycophants. Most of them are willing to serve as white gloves for the superiors and get them dirty without caring about themselves. Only by understanding yourself can you pave the way for your own progress.
Zheng Fan doesn’t care about reputation, and has never thought about being liquidated in the future. First of all, he must have a future. Secondly, no matter what the future holds, he, Zheng Fan, will not wholeheartedly do anything. Yue Wumu.
Hundreds of college students gathered under the house number and completely blocked the mountain gate, filled with righteous indignation.
"Confucius said Chengren, Mencius said Yiyi! Classmates, today we cannot let these imperial hawks enter our academy under any circumstances!"
"Yes, this is a big university How can we allow these thieves to run amok in this place where Yan culture gathers?"
"The integrity of the Yan literati must be protected by us today!"
"Come on, If you want to enter the academy and take someone away, if you want to insult the lintel of my academy, just step over our corpses!"
"What we are protecting today is Dayan's literary spirit and the right path of Dayan!"
“Ten years from now, a hundred years from now, when future generations of literati enter the mountain gate, they will definitely write articles to commemorate us!”
“Look, those soldiers and horses are actually barbarians. What!”
“How dare you let barbarians come to the entrance of the academy? This is simply a blasphemy against poetry and articles!”
Hundreds of people in white shirts were blocked under the door sign, one by one. The saliva flew everywhere and the voice was loud.
Zheng Fan stretched out his left little finger, picked out his ear, then put it to his mouth and blew on it.
The people in this academy should know the purpose of the officers and soldiers coming here. The guy from the Secret Service had already gone in and submitted the arrest list, so he should have made the whole story clear.
But they beat him out.
Zheng Fan couldn't help but feel a little funny as he watched the crowd over there yelling and scolding in anger, and students and even teachers from the academy came down from the mountain and gathered under the archway to increase their prestige.
He turned his head sideways and said to Liang Cheng, who was riding beside him on horseback:
"Is this considered a cultural invasion by the Qian Kingdom?"
Liang Cheng thought for a moment and nodded. head.
A hundred years ago, the first generation of Zhenbei Hou broke the backbone of the Qian Kingdom’s military movement, but what continued to be beaten was the Qian Kingdom’s cultural export to the Yan Kingdom for a hundred years.
Qinqi, calligraphy and painting, etiquette and morality became a weapon for Qian Guo to fight back against Dayan.
In fact, Zheng Fan, who has lived in the north, also knows clearly that it is not to blame that the literary style of Yan State cannot prosper. To the north are the vicious barbarians, and to the south are the Three Kingdoms who are eyeing it.
In the past few years, as the Zhenbei Hou Mansion suppressed the desert barbarians, the Yan Kingdom has been able to live in peace for several decades.
In the past, Yan Dierlang would either ride to the desert to fight the barbarians or go to the south to fight the Three Kingdoms. How could he have time to stop and recite poems and compose poems?
If that were true, this Dayan would have died long ago.
The most ridiculous thing is that there is probably a deep-seated reason why this group of academy students are so excited, and even so proactive.
Especially, when Zheng Fan saw old men who looked like great Confucians coming down from the mountain one after another, he was even more sure of his guess.
The literati in the academy are taking advantage of this opportunity to put pressure on the court and force it to make concessions.
They long for Dayan to become a paradise for literati like Qian Country.
Zheng Fan looked at Du Juan curiously and asked:
"Isn't this the first time you have come to fetch someone?"
"Many times , but couldn't get in." Dujuan answered honestly.
“Why?”
“They won’t let you.”
“Are you secret agents so civilized?”
"Master Zheng, what does civilization mean?"
"It means being kind to others."
At this time, several more students came down from the mountain, holding a large plaque. .
The plaque reads: There is no limit to the sea of learning.
"The Prime Minister of the dynasty wrote an inscription here. I would like to see who dares to act so arrogantly at the entrance of the academy!"
An old Confucian shouted while holding up his crutch.
Next,
A college student began:
“The academy’s foster scholar, who is a scholar for a year, will die for justice, today!”
< p>"The Day of Loyalty and Death is today!""The Day of Loyalty and Death is today!"
"…………"
" Ha, it's really neat, just like a choir."
Zheng Fan had a smile on his face.
"Master Zheng, every time we came here before, it was always like this." Du Juan said.
"You all helped them train. Actually, it's all the fault of Zhenbeihou."
"Why?" Du Juan was puzzled.
"It makes their life so comfortable."
"So, Mr. Zheng, what are you going to do?"
Du Juan looked at Zheng Fan asked again.
Zheng Fan suddenly felt like he was being tested. However, he and Blind Bei had already reached a consensus on the answers to the test questions last night.
To be exact, since yesterdayWhen I received the military order in front of Marquis Jingnan, I had already made a decision in my heart.
Zheng Fan raised his left hand and spurred his horse forward.
Liang Cheng also rode forward, and the four hundred barbarian cavalry behind him also rode forward together.
Hundreds of well-equipped cavalry are slowly advancing towards you. This sense of oppression is enough to make ordinary people tremble.
Especially these cavalry, all of them have the faces of barbarians!
The academy students under the archway began to retreat subconsciously. In the past six months, people from the imperial espionage department and the local garrison have come several times, but never once did they have something like this. momentum!
Seeing this scene, an old Confucian shouted:
“Don’t be afraid, they don’t dare, they don’t dare!”
“Yes. , classmates, don’t be afraid, if they dare to use weapons in the academy, thousands of righteous people in this world will definitely not let them go!”
“Confucius said to be benevolent, Mencius said to be righteous and to die righteously! The festival is today!"
"Where is the pride of my fellow Dayan scholars?"
"The style of Dayan literature is immortal!"
Emotions are contagious. Yes, every shot of chicken blood was given, and the academy students under the archway were once again ignited with passion.
Zheng Fan is getting closer and closer to them, and the barbarian cavalry behind him are also getting closer and closer to them.
At this time,
A middle-aged man in white shirt took the initiative to run out from the crowd under the archway,
pointing at Zheng Fan,
< p>scolded:"Eagle Dog, I am Sanshi Huang Zichong. Do you know where this is?"
First come up with the sentence "Eagle Dog",
In the report The name of your place of origin,
You need to be famous early, and you need to be lucky to get hype.
Routines, routines, all routines.
If Zheng Fan leaves now, he will become famous in the future.
Zheng Fan ignored him and continued to ride forward.
Seeing this, Huang Zichong pointed at his neck and roared:
"Eagle Dog, do you know that the blood of people with lofty ideals can never be shed!"
Zheng Fan's horse came to Huang Zichong.
"Eagle dog, our literati may die, but our character will last forever!"
Zheng Fan drew out his knife,
"Come on, chop here, chop here , if you have the guts, cut it, I see if you dare..."
Zheng Fan swung the knife,
"Pfft!"
Huang Zichong's The head was separated from his body and spinning around in the air. His eyes were full of disbelief.
"Plop!"
Huang Zichong's head fell to the ground.
The headless corpse began to spurt out blood.
The next moment,
the whole place was dead silent.
All students and teaching scholars in the academyEveryone was frightened.
The one who broke the dead silence was Zheng Fan.
He started to move his horse forward again.
When the horse's hoofs moved again, The moment he lifted it up,
the hundreds of people in the academy who were originally agitated and agitated, and the pride of the hundreds of Yan scholars, completely collapsed.
They began to run away crazily, and the old teacher and scholar were pushed to the ground by the crowd and trampled on, screaming in agony. The scene was extremely chaotic.
A student who had previously taken the lead in shouting "Today is the Day of the Righteous Death"
At this time, his face was full of panic,
while pushing away The classmates ran desperately towards the back hill and screamed:
"Mom, they really dare to kill people, they really dare to kill people..."